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Lou Taylor Pucci emerged as one of the most promising young actors of his generation when Mike Mills' Thumbsucker premiered at Sundance Film Festival. For his performance as 'Justin Cobb,' a compulsive 17-year-old thumbsucker, Pucci received both a Sundance Special Jury Prize for acting and the Best Actor Award at the Berlin Film Festival.
Pucci made his feature film debut as a young hitchhiker in Rebecca Miller's Personal Velocity, which earned the Sundance Grand Jury Prize for Dramatic Film. His motion picture credits also include Evil Dead, the fourth installment in the franchise produced by Sam Raimi; Beginners, re-teaming with Mike Mills, The Music Never Stopped with Oscar winner J.K. Simmons; The Answer Man, opposite Jeff Daniels; Carriers, alongside Chris Pine; Richard Linklater's Fast Food Nation; and Will Canon's Brotherhood (Best Narrative Feature, SXSW).
The actor has also made a notable impression on the small screen, starring in memorable, recurring roles on "American Horror Story," "You're The Worst," "Falling Water," and as the tortured hipster Benji in the Netflix hit "You." Additional television credits include the HBO miniseries "Empire Falls," working opposite Paul Newman and Ed Harris for director Fred Schepisi, an appearance on "Halt and Catch Fire," a crossover role between "Chicago PD" and "Law and Order: SVU," and as an indie rock icon in Green Day's music video "Jesus of Suburbia."
Pucci grew up in central New Jersey and had little interest in acting until his aunt bribed him to try out for community theater at age 10. Two years later, he appeared on Broadway as Friedrich in "The Sound of Music."- Actress
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Hannah Marks is an actress and filmmaker who was named one of Rolling Stone's 25 under 25 Artists Changing the World in 2017. Her first feature After Everything (2018) FKA Shotgun as co-writer/director premiered to rave reviews at the 2018 SXSW Film Festival where Hannah was also nominated for the Game Changer award. As an actress, Marks has four films slated for 2019 release, including Banana Split (2018) which she stars in, co-wrote, and produced. She was the female lead of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (2016) for BBC America/AMC Studios opposite Elijah Wood. Seasons one and two recently premiered on Hulu. Prior film credits The Runaways (2010) and Dawn (2014) which both premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, and The Amazing Spider-Man (2012). Her other notable television work includes three seasons on the Golden Globe nominated series Necessary Roughness (2011) and a two-season arc on the Emmy nominated series Weeds (2005). In addition to her 2018/2019 filmmaking credits, her short film BearGirl (2017) was a finalist for 2018 Sundance Ignite, highlighting filmmakers ages 18-24. Her previous shorts have played at numerous festivals, including Two Dollar Bill (2016), winning Best Short at the CineYouth program of Chicago International Film Festival, highlighting filmmakers under the age of 22. Marks resides in Los Angeles and New York.- Actor
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Davey Johnson was born on 8 December 1978 in Grand Island, Nebraska, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for The Art of Self-Defense (2019), Father Stu (2022) and Gabby! (2020).- Actor
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Toby Huss was born on 9 December 1966 in Marshalltown, Iowa, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Copshop (2021), Halt and Catch Fire (2014) and King of the Hill (1997).- Actor
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Robert Longstreet was born in the USA. Robert is an actor and producer, known for Sorry to Bother You (2018), I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore (2017) and The Haunting of Hill House (2018).- Actor
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John Robert Magaro was born in 1983 in Akron, Ohio, to Wendy and James Magaro, and was raised in the local suburb Munroe Falls. He began appearing in local theatre productions in and around Cleveland and Akron.
In film, Magaro has starred in Paramount's Overlord (2018), directed by Julius Avery. He was also seen in Reginald Hudlin's "Marshall," alongside Chadwick Boseman, in Netflix's "War Machine," starring Brad Pitt, and also in Paramount's award winning "The Big Short." "The Big Short" was awarded Best Ensemble by the National Board of Review for 2015 and received the Ensemble Performance Award at the Palm Springs Film Festival, as well as being nominated for a Critics' Choice Award for Best Acting Ensemble and a SAG award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. Additionally, Magaro earned a Hollywood Spotlight Award from the Hollywood Film Awards for his performance in 2012's Not Fade Away (2012).
No stranger to the small screen, Magaro is known for his work in "Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan," Woody Allen's "Crisis in Six Scenes," and for his memorable recurring role on Netflix's "Orange is the New Black."
A stage actor as well, Magaro starred in the Public Theatre's premiere of "Illyria," playing the Public's founder Joseph Papp. He also had a flashy supporting role in Scott Rudin's revival of "The Front Page," directed by Jack O'Brien, opposite Nathan Lane, John Slattery and John Goodman. Magaro also played the male lead in the critically acclaimed production of "Tigers Be Still," written by Kimberly Rosenstock and directed by Sam Gold for the Roundabout Theatre Company.- Actor
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Damon Gupton was born on 4 January 1973 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Bates Motel (2013), The Divide (2014) and Whiplash (2014).- Actor
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Character actor David Jensen born in DuQuoin, Illinois. Studied theater at LSU with John Dennis and worked the early film work of Steven Soderbergh culminating with Schizopolis a low budget comedy in the spirit of Richard Lester and Bunuel. Known for The Mist, Midnight Special, Benjamin Buttons, Love Song for Bobby Long.- Paul W. Sparks is an American actor. He is known for his roles as gangster Mickey Doyle in the HBO period drama series Boardwalk Empire, writer Thomas Yates in the Netflix political drama series House of Cards, attorney David Tellis in the Starz anthology drama series The Girlfriend Experience, and a recurring role in the limited series The Night Of. Sparks has also starred in the films Deception (2008), Afterschool (2008), The Missing Person (2008), Mud (2012), Parkland (2013), Stealing Cars (2015), Thoroughbreds (2017), and The Greatest Showman (2017).
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Sean Bridgers was born on 3 March 1968 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA. He is an actor and director, known for Room (2015), The Woman (2011) and Free State of Jones (2016). He has been married to Rachel York since 25 March 1998. They have three children.- Actor
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Christopher Denham was born in Blue Island, Cook County, Illinois, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Argo (2012), Shutter Island (2010) and Billions (2016).- Actress
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Rachel Brosnahan was born in in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1990 and is an American actress. She is best known for her role as 'Midge' Maisel in the Amazon Prime Video series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2017) for which she has won two Golden Globes for Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series - Musical or Comedy (2019, 2018), one Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series (2018), and one Critics' Choice Award for Best Actress in a Comedy Series (2018).
She is also known for her previous roles in the film Beautiful Creatures (2013) as Genevieve Duchannes, in the Netflix original series House of Cards (2013) as Rachel Posner, and in the TV series Manhattan (2014) as Abby Isaacs.
Rachel is the daughter of Carol (Best) and Earl Brosnahan, who worked in children's publishing. Her mother is English. Her father is an American, of mostly Irish descent. From the age of four, she was raised in Highland Park, Illinois. She has a younger brother and sister. Rachel is the niece of the late handbag designer Kate Spade, who was her father's sister.
She attended Wayne Thomas Elementary School, and then Northwood Junior High School. She performed in musical theater during junior high school and high school. At Highland Park High School, she was on the wrestling team for two years and was a snowboarding instructor. When Brosnahan was 16, she took a class with Carole Dibo, the director of Wilmette's Actors' Training Center, and now Brosnahan's manager. She graduated in 2008, and graduated from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in 2012.
Brosnahan was cast in her first movie role as Lisa in the Michael Bay-produced horror movie The Unborn (2009) while she was still in high school. During college, she performed in single episodes of TV series such as Gossip Girl (2007), The Good Wife (2009), Grey's Anatomy (2005), and In Treatment (2008). After college, she began landing recurring roles in series such as The Blacklist (2013), the short-lived Black Box (2014)), and "House of Cards" (2013-15), which brought her career prominence that included an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series in 2015. Initially booked for two episodes and five lines, she caught Beau Willimon's eye; soon, she was developed into a major character. She also played Abby Isaacs for two seasons on the TV drama series "Manhattan."
She first appeared on stage in 2009 in "Up" at the Steppenwolf Theater, which was followed by her Broadway debut in "The Big Knife" with the Roundabout Theater Company in 2013. In 2016 she played Desdemona in "Othello" at New York Theater Workshop opposite David Oyelowo and Daniel Craig.
She was cast as the lead role and title character of the Amazon Video series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2017), which premiered in 2017. Her performance earned her a Golden Globe and a Critics' Choice award for Best Actress in a Television Series--Musical or Comedy.- Actress
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Indigo Rael is known for Polly Mermaid, The Luck of Tarah Cartwright (2010) and The Next Kill (2018).- Actor
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John Robinson made his acting debut in the Palm d'Or winning film Elephant 2003 directed by Gus van Sant, following this film Stacy Peralta personally selected John to play himself in Lords Of Dogtown 2005 directed by Catherine Hardwicke. John has acted in 40 plus films to include Asia Argento's The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things 2004, Seraphim Falls 2006 starring opposite Pierce Brosnan and Liam Neeson, Michael Bay's Transformers 2007, Wendy and Lucy 08' starring opposite Michelle Williams, John most recent work includes: BIG SUR 2013 directed by Michael Polish and starring opposite Kate Bosworth, Josh Lucas, Rhada Mitchell and Jean mar Barr which premiered at Sundance, Looking 2014 pilot for HBO starring opposite Jonathan Groff dped by Reed Morano, She's Funny That Way 2014 written and directed by Peter Bogdanovich and starring opposite Owen Wilson, Jennifer Aniston and Imogen Poots. John is also attached to Larry moss' directorial debut Relative Insanity starring opposite Helen Hunt, David Duchovny, Maggie Grace and Joan Chen.
In 2015 John moved to Europe where he began working with refugees in Calais France as a volunteer. He then went on to DP and co wrote and directed the short film Terre Ferme as an experiment in writing and collaborating with Refugee non actors and filmmakers in France and Germany and started a production company out of Berlin to regain his thirst for storytelling and collaborate with like minded filmmakers.
John is currently producing and in development with five TV shows and three features and is also adapting the comic book The Red Monkey by Joe Daily with his friend collaborator and director Sebastien Auger that he will star in. His latest film The AmityVille Murders 2018 he stars as Butch Defeo.- Actress
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There is nothing mysterious about Karla, she functions best when caffeinated.
Her love for coffee inspired her to trek to Guatemala for a month in 2006 to participate in an intensive Spanish immersion program.
Karla's passion for traveling has led her to swim in the Dead Sea (you really do float!), hike bamboo forests and swim waterfalls in Hawaii, barter her way through the open markets of Carthage and eat every last gyro on the island of Crete. If you've been to Crete since her stay, she sends her apologies.
And if you really want to be her friend for life, or at least the next 15 minutes, show up with any concoction from Cold Stone Creamery as long as it contains peanut butter.- Actor
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Jim Gaffigan is a six-time Grammy nominated comedian, actor, writer, producer, two-time New York Times best-selling author, three-time Emmy winning top touring performer, and multi-platinum-selling recording artist. He is known around the world for his unique brand of humor, which largely revolves around his observations on life. A top ten earning comedian according to Forbes' 2019 comedy list, Jim recently released his 9th stand-up special, Comedy Monster, on Netflix. He was also recently awarded for being the first comedian to reach one billion streams on Pandora.
Up next, Gaffigan will be seen as the lead in the Sci-Fi drama Linoleum, which will premiere at SXSW in 2022, and will star as Mr. Smee in Disney's Peter Pan and Wendy, opposite Jude Law's Captain Hook He was also recently heard in Disney/Pixar's highly anticipated film, Luca, opposite Jacob Tremblay and Maya Rudolph.
On the silver screen, his many credits include Three Kings, Super Troopers 1 & 2, and Chappaquiddick. 2019 was Gaffigan's biggest year to date with an astonishing eight films releasing, three which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival including Troop Zero with Viola Davis and Alison Janney, Them That Follow and Light From Light - with many festival goers and press calling Gaffigan the "King of Sundance." Gaffigan also had two films recently in which he debuted as the lead. The comedic film Being Frank, and American Dreamer, a dark thriller which was the grand finale of 2019 for Jim and features him as a ride share driver who moonlights as a private driver for a drug dealer. Both films are now available for download. Gaffigan can also be seen opposite Ethan Hawke in IFC Films Tesla, as well as opposite Josh Hartnett in Saban Films Most Wanted.
In addition to two seasons of the critically acclaimed semi-autobiographical The Jim Gaffigan Show, which he wrote and produced with his wife Jeannie, and his widely popular stand-up comedy specials, Gaffigan has guest starred on many television comedies and dramas, ranging from Portlandia and Bob's Burgers to the HBO cult hits Flight of the Concords to dramatic roles in Law & Order. Gaffigan regularly does humorous commentaries on CBS Sunday Morning for which he has won 3 Emmys. In 2018 Jim served as master of ceremony at The Al Smith Memorial dinner. In 2015, Gaffigan had the great honor of performing for Pope Francis and over 1 million festival attendees at the Festival of Families in Philadelphia. Gaffigan starred on Broadway with Brian Cox, Kieffer Sutherland, Chris Noth and Jason Patric in That Championship Season.
Gaffigan and his wife currently live in Manhattan with their five loud and expensive children.- Actor
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Colin Lewes Hanks is an American actor. He was born in Sacramento, California, to actors Samantha Lewes and Tom Hanks. Colin is best-known for his work as "Jack Bailey" in the series, The Good Guys (2010) and as "Alex Whitman" in Roswell (1999). Hanks' best-known film role may be in the teen movie, Orange County (2002), with Jack Black and John Lithgow. His best-known television role was "Alex Whitman", the love interest of Katherine Heigl in the science fiction series, Roswell (1999) between 1999 and 2001. Hanks also made an appearance in an episode of The O.C. (2003). He appeared in part eight of the HBO mini-series, Band of Brothers (2001).- Actor
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Michael Eklund was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. He is known for The Call (2013), Errors of the Human Body (2012) and Eadweard (2015). He was previously married to Megan Bennett.- Actor
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Frank Mosley is an actor and filmmaker from Texas living in Los Angeles. He's a fellow of the 2015 Berlinale Talents, 2017 NYFF Artist Academy, and 2016 Workshop for Auteurs led by Abbas Kiarostami.
As a director, he's had two retrospectives of his work: The Spectacle Theater, NYC (2018) and online on Kinoscope (2020), where his films were called "miracles of economy... by a major cinematic voice" (Vague Visages). They include Good Condition (Fantasia 2023), Parthenon (Slamdance 2018), Casa De Mi Madre (Champs-Elysees 2017), and The Event (Fantastic Fest 2022), which debuted as a Vimeo Staff Pick and was named a "Top 12 Film of 2023" on NoBudge. His experimental, interactive feature film Her Wilderness has been called "a beguiling experience" (The Playlist) and "a mesmerizing film by a superb actor and filmmaker" (RogerEbert.com).
As an actor, his starring role in Freeland (SXSW 2020, MUBI) opposite Lily Gladstone and Krisha Fairchild was called "excellent... compellingly slippery" (The Hollywood Reporter) and that he's "a dependably fantastic American indie mainstay" (Filmmaker Magazine). Other notable films include Upstream Color (Sundance jury winner, Berlinale 2013), Collective Unconscious (SXSW 2016, The Criterion Channel), Chained for Life (NYTimes Critics Pick 2018, Kino Lorber), Rent Free (Tribeca 2024), Love and Work (Slamdance 2024), Americana (Fantasia, SIFF 2016), The Ghost Who Walks (Netflix Top Ten Film 2020), Thunder Road (SXSW 2018 winner, ACID Cannes), Person to Person (Magnolia Pictures), The Procedure (Sundance 2016 winner, Adult Swim), Don't Ever Change (Vimeo Staff Pick 2017, Alter), and alongside David Arquette in Quantum Cowboys (Fantastic Fest 2022, Factory 25), for which they were called "a divinely sinister duo" (Variety). For his leading role in Some Beasts, he received a Special Jury Prize for Outstanding Performance at the 2016 Sarasota Film Festival and was declared "one of the best performances of 2017" by Film Pulse.- Actor
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Bill Cobbs was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, where his parents were hard-working people, who instilled in him a sense of self-reliance and humility. As an amateur actor in the city's Karamu House Theater, he starred in the Ossie Davis play "Purlie Victorious". Cobbs was an Air Force radar technician for eight years; he also worked in office products at IBM and sold cars in Cleveland. In 1970, at the age of 36, he left for New York to seek work as an actor. There he turned down a job in the NBC sales department in order to have time for auditions. He supported himself by driving a cab, repairing office equipment, selling toys, and performing odd jobs. His first professional acting role was in "Ride a Black Horse" at the Negro Ensemble Company. From there, he appeared in small theater productions, street theater, regional theater and at the Eugene O'Neill Theater. His first television credit was in Vegetable Soup (1975), a New York public television educational series, and he made his feature film debut in The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974). In his free time, Cobbs enjoys music, reading, and playing his drums. He lives in New York City and Los Angeles, California and continues acting.- Actor
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It isn't hard to make James Le Gros bust a gut laughing. Just call him Brad Pitt. Okay, so he doesn't get $6 million a film or have his photo air-kissed by legions of swooning schoolgirls during recess. But if you've caught Le Gros' quirky personality, you may wonder why he's still toiling away. But this Minnesota native, despite being tight-lipped on Pitt, Le Gros will happily chitchat about his career. Le Gros says he isn't very "LA", although he did live there for a short while.- Actor
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A blond-haired, fair-complexioned actor with a toothy grin and capable of an unsettling glint in his eyes, Gary Busey was born in Goose Creek, Texas, and was raised in Oklahoma. He is the son of Sadie Virginia (Arnett), a homemaker, and Delmar Lloyd Busey, a construction design manager. He has English, as well as Irish, Scottish, and German, ancestry. He graduated from Nathan Hale High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1962 and for a while was a professional musician. A talented drummer, he played in several bands, including those of country-and-western legends Leon Russell, Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson.
Busey's first film appearance was as a biker in the low-budget Angels Hard as They Come (1971) and, over the next few years, he landed several film roles generally as a country hick/redneck or surly, rebellious types. His real breakthrough came in the dynamic film The Buddy Holly Story (1978), with Busey taking the lead role as Buddy Holly, in addition to playing guitar and singing all the vocals! His stellar performance scored him a Best Actor nomination and the attention of Hollywood taking overcasting agents. Next up, he joined fellow young actors William Katt and Jan-Michael Vincent as surfing buddies growing up together in the cult surf film Big Wednesday (1978), directed by John Milius. However, a string of appearances in somewhat mediocre films took him out of the spotlight for several years, until he played the brutal assassin Mr. Joshua trying to kill Los Angeles cops Mel Gibson and Danny Glover in the runaway mega-hit Lethal Weapon (1987). Further strong roles followed, including alongside Danny Glover once again in Predator 2 (1990). He was back on the beaches, this time tracking bank robbers with FBI agent Keanu Reeves, in Point Break (1991) and nearly stole the show as a psychotic Navy officer in league with terrorists led by Tommy Lee Jones taking over the USS Missouri in the highly popular Under Siege (1992).
The entertaining Busey has continued to remain busy in front of the cameras and has certainly developed a minor cult following among many film fans. Plus, he's also the proud father of accomplished young actor Jake Busey, whose looks make him almost a dead ringer for his famous father.- Actor
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Gary Michael Cole is an American television, film and voice actor. Cole began his professional acting career on stage at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company in 1985. On television, he has had starring roles in the TV series Midnight Caller, American Gothic, The West Wing, Crusade, The Good Wife, The Good Fight, Veep, Chicago Fire, and Mixed. In film, he has appeared in The Brady Bunch Movie, One Hour Photo, Office Space, Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, Breach, and Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby. He is also known for voicing the title character on the Adult Swim series Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law, Principal Shepherd on Family Guy, and James Timothy Possible on Kim Possible. As of season 19, Cole joined NCIS, taking over from Mark Harmon, who left the show, as FBI Special Agent, and new head of Gibbs' team, Alden Parker.- Larry Pine was born on 3 March 1945 in Tucson, Arizona, USA. He is an actor, known for The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), The French Dispatch (2021) and Maid in Manhattan (2002).
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Arielle Goldman is known for The Knick (2014) and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2017).