Actors or directors i've seen/met in real life
by valbrazon | created - 24 Sep 2011 | updated - 23 Jan 2013 | PublicAll actors or directors i've met in my life. Mostly during a projection of a film in the presence of the film crew.
1. Rutger Hauer
Actor | Hobo with a Shotgun
Blond, blue-eyed, tall and handsome Dutch actor Rutger Hauer enjoyed an international reputation for playing everything from romantic leads to action heroes to sinister villains. Hauer was born in Breukelen, a Dutch town and former municipality in the province of Utrecht.
He was the son of Teunke ...
@ Etrange Festival, Paris September 2011
2. Koen Mortier
Director | Ex Drummer
Koen Mortier was born on November 4, 1965 in Beernem, Flanders, Belgium. He is a director and producer, known for Ex Drummer (2007), 22nd of May (2010) and Angel (2018).
@ Etrange Festival, Montreuil September 2011 for his film "22 mei"
3. Jean-Pierre Mocky
Director | Litan
As an actor he became popular as Albert de Morcerf in a version of The Count of Monte Cristo (1954), fame and adulation followed with his Francois in Head Against the Wall (1959). As a director he became famous with anarcho-pictures, brilliant cynic comedies. His preferred actors in all decades were...
@ Etrange Festival, Montreuil September 2011, he presented Viva La Muerte.
4. Christophe Gans
Director | Le pacte des loups
Born in 1960 in Antibes (in the South of France), Christophe Gans became crazy about movies at an early stage. As a teenager, he made a lot of samurai and kung fu super-8 films with his friends. At the end of the seventies, he founded the fanzine "Rhesus Zero" about B-movies. In 1980, he studied at...
@ A shop for dedications in Paris 25/02/2012
5. Paco Plaza
Director | [Rec]
Paco Plaza was born in 1973 in València, València, Comunitat Valenciana, Spain. He is a director and writer, known for REC (2007), Veronica (2017) and [Rec]² (2009). He is married to Leticia Dolera.
@ European Premiere of Rec 3, Paris 07/03/2012
6. Leticia Dolera
Actress | [Rec]³: Génesis
Leticia Dolera was born on October 23, 1981 in Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. She is an actress and writer, known for [REC] 3: Genesis (2012), Vida perfecta (2019) and Requirements to Be a Normal Person (2015).
@ European Premiere of Rec 3, Paris 07/03/2012
7. Diego Martín
Actor | Tres metros sobre el cielo
Diego Martín was born on September 21, 1974 in Madrid, Madrid, Spain. He is an actor, known for Three Steps Above Heaven (2010), Hermanos & detectives (2007) and [REC] 3: Genesis (2012).
@ European Premiere of Rec 3, Paris 07/03/2012
8. Claire Baschet
Actress | [Rec]³: Génesis
Claire Baschet is known for [REC] 3: Genesis (2012), Delicacy (2011) and [REC]³ Génesis: preparativos de una boda sangrienta (2012).
@ European Premiere of Rec 3, Paris 07/03/2012
9. Ismael Martínez
Stunts | Todo sobre mi madre
Ismael Martínez is known for All About My Mother (1999), Talk to Her (2002) and [REC] 3: Genesis (2012).
@ European Premiere of Rec 3, Paris 07/03/2012
10. David Cronenberg
Actor | The Fly
David Cronenberg, also known as the King of Venereal Horror or the Baron of Blood, was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in 1943. His father, Milton Cronenberg, was a journalist and editor, and his mother, Esther (Sumberg), was a piano player. After showing an inclination for literature at an early...
@ Special Session of Cosmopolis, Paris 30/05/2012
11. Robert Pattinson
Actor | Twilight
Robert Douglas Thomas Pattinson was born May 13, 1986 in London, England, to Richard Pattinson, a car dealer importing vintage cars, and Clare Pattinson (née Charlton), who worked as a booker at a model agency. He grew up in Barnes, southwest London with two older sisters. Robert discovered his ...
@ Special Session of Cosmopolis, Paris 30/05/2012
12. Sylvester Stallone
Actor | Rocky
Sylvester Stallone is an athletically built, dark-haired American actor/screenwriter/director/producer, the movie fans worldwide have been flocking to see Stallone's films for over 40 years, making "Sly" one of Hollywood's biggest-ever box office draws.
Sylvester Stallone was born on July 6, 1946, ...
@ French premiere of The Expendables 2, Paris 09/08/2012
13. Jason Statham
Actor | Crank
Jason Statham was born in Shirebrook, Derbyshire, to Eileen (Yates), a dancer, and Barry Statham, a street merchant and lounge singer. He was a Diver on the British National Diving Team and finished twelfth in the World Championships in 1992. He has also been a fashion model, black market salesman ...
@ French premiere of The Expendables 2, Paris 09/08/2012
14. Jean-Claude Van Damme
Actor | Double Impact
Van Damme was born Jean-Claude Camille François Van Varenberg in Berchem-Sainte-Agathe, Brussels, Belgium, to Eliana and Eugène Van Varenberg, an accountant. "The Muscles from Brussels" started martial arts at the age of eleven. His father introduced him to martial arts when he saw his son was ...
@ French premiere of The Expendables 2, Paris 09/08/2012
15. Arnold Schwarzenegger
Actor | Terminator 2: Judgment Day
With an almost unpronounceable surname and a thick Austrian accent, who would have ever believed that a brash, quick talking bodybuilder from a small European village would become one of Hollywood's biggest stars, marry into the prestigious Kennedy family, amass a fortune via shrewd investments and...
@ French premiere of The Expendables 2, Paris 09/08/2012
16. Dolph Lundgren
Actor | Rocky IV
Dolph Lundgren was born as Hans Lundgren in Stockholm, Sweden, to Sigrid Birgitta (Tjerneld), a language teacher, and Karl Johan Hugo Lundgren, an engineer and economist for the Swedish government. He lived in Stockholm until the age of 13, when he moved in with his grandparents in Nyland, ...
@ French premiere of The Expendables 2, Paris 09/08/2012
17. Quentin Tarantino
Writer | Reservoir Dogs
Quentin Jerome Tarantino was born in Knoxville, Tennessee. His father, Tony Tarantino, is an Italian-American actor and musician from New York, and his mother, Connie (McHugh), is a nurse from Tennessee. Quentin moved with his mother to Torrance, California, when he was four years old.
In January of...
@ French premiere of Django Unchained, Paris 07/01/2013
18. Christoph Waltz
Actor | Django Unchained
Christoph Waltz is an Austrian-German actor. He is known for his work with American filmmaker Quentin Tarantino, receiving acclaim for portraying SS-Standartenführer Hans Landa in Inglourious Basterds (2009) and bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz in Django Unchained (2012). For each performance, he won...
@ French premiere of Django Unchained, Paris 07/01/2013
19. Kerry Washington
Actress | Scandal
Kerry Washington is an African-American actress, television show producer and film director who is known for her roles in Scandal, Ray, the Tim Story Fantastic Four film series, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Confirmation, Django Unchained, Little Fires Everywhere, Cars 3 and The Last King of Scotland. She ...
@ French premiere of Django Unchained, Paris 07/01/2013
20. Jamie Foxx
Actor | Collateral
Jamie Foxx is an American actor, singer and comedian. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor, BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, and Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy, for his work in the biographical film Ray (2004). The same year, he was nominated for the Academy...
@ French premiere of Django Unchained, Paris 07/01/2013
21. Samuel L. Jackson
Actor | Pulp Fiction
Samuel L. Jackson is an American producer and highly prolific actor, having appeared in over 100 films, including Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995), Unbreakable (2000), Shaft (2000), Formula 51 (2001), Black Snake Moan (2006), Snakes on a Plane (2006), and the Star Wars prequel trilogy (1999-2005), ...
@ French premiere of Django Unchained, Paris 07/01/2013
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