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Born on February 1, 1965 to Bruce Lee (Martial Arts idol) and Linda Lee Cadwell. Brother to Shannon Lee. In 1970-71, they moved to Hong Kong, where Brandon lived until age eight, becoming fluent in Cantonese. By the time he was able to walk, he was already involved in learning about martial arts from his father.
Brandon attended high school in Los Angeles, where he realized that he had also inherited acting ability along with his martial arts skills. In 1983, he was expelled from school because of misbehavior, but received his diploma at Miraleste High School. He continued his education and interest in acting at Emerson College in Massachusetts, where he majored in theatre. Having chosen an acting career, he studied at the Strasberg Academy, with Eric Morris in New York and in Los Angeles, and in Lynette Katselas' class in Los Angeles.
His first professional job as an actor came at age twenty, when casting director Lynn Stalmaster asked him to read for a CBS television film, Kung Fu: The Movie (1986). Lee's first role in a feature film was Legacy of Rage (1986) (aka "Legacy of Rage" (1986)) for D.M. Films of Hong Kong, followed by a co-starring role in Showdown in Little Tokyo (1991). He was also in Rapid Fire (1992), and The Crow (1994). He turned down offers to be in Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (1993).
Brandon died (while filming) at the age of 28, of what is to be believed, a brain hemorrhage on the set of The Crow (1994). The film crew shot a scene in which it was decided to use a gun without consent from the weapons coordinator, who had been sent home early that night. They handed Michael Massee the gun loaded with full power blanks and shot the scene, unaware that a bullet had become dislodged from a previous shot and had lodged itself in the barrel. Upon shooting of the scene the blank round forced the bullet out the barrel striking Brandon Lee. The crew only noticed when Lee was slow getting up. The doctors worked desperately for five hours, but it was no use. The bullet had lodged itself in Mr Lee's lower spine. He was pronounced dead at 1:04 P.M. the next day. He was supposed to marry Eliza Hutton on April 17, 1993. His body was flown to Seattle to be buried beside his father in Lake View Cemetery.- Actor
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Christopher Jacob Abbott is an American actor. Abbott made his feature film debut in Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011). Abbott's other notable films include Hello I Must Be Going (2012) and The Sleepwalker (2014). In 2015, Abbott starred as the titular character in the critically acclaimed film James White. In 2017, he starred opposite Joel Edgerton in the psychological horror film It Comes at Night. In 2018, he portrayed astronaut David Scott in the film First Man, and a reporter in Vox Lux. Abbott portrayed John Yossarian as the lead role in the 2019 miniseries Catch-22 based on the Joseph Heller novel of the same name, for which he was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Miniseries or Television Film. In 2020, he co-starred in the films Black Bear, Possessor and The World to Come.- Actress
- Producer
Julia Garner is an American actress and model. She has appeared in the films Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011), The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012), Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014), and played leading roles in Electrick Children (2012), We Are What We Are (2013) and Grandma (2015). She also plays Ruth Langmore in the Netflix original series Ozark (2017) and in several episodes of the television series The Americans (2013).
Garner was born in the Riverdale neighborhood of the Bronx, New York. Her mother, Tami Gingold, a therapist, had a successful career in Israel as a comedian. Her father, Thomas Garner, is a painter and an art teacher, originally from Shaker Heights, Ohio. She has an older sister, Anna (Ani), who is a writer, producer and an artist. Garner is Jewish. Garner resides with her parents in their house in New York City. She considers Italian actress Monica Vitti and especially Bette Davis to be major influences on her acting style, having cited Davis's performance in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) She started taking acting lessons at the age of 15 to overcome her shyness. She had her theatrical debut at the age of 17 in Sean Durkin's Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011), playing the role of Sarah. In 2012, director David Chase invited her to play a small role which he wrote specifically for her in Not Fade Away (2012). Her first starring role was in the 2012 movie, Electrick Children (2012).
In 2013, she starred alongside Ashley Bell in the horror film The Last Exorcism Part II (2013), and played the lead in the American remake of the Mexican horror film We Are What We Are (2013). Garner co-starred in Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014) as new character Marcy, a young stripper who crosses paths with another new character, Johnny (Joseph Gordon-Levitt). This marked the first time she acted against a green screen. In 2015, Garner had a recurring role on the third season of FX's The Americans (2013). She continued the role on a recurring basis periodically through seasons 4 through 6. She was to have made her off-Broadway debut in Noah Haidle's play Smokefall at MCC Theater in 2016, but had to drop out during rehearsals because of scheduling conflicts.
In 2017, she began starring in the Netflix series Ozark (2017) as Ruth Langmore opposite Jason Bateman and Laura Linney.- Actress
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The sultry, versatile, petite (5' 4") beauty Sherilyn Fenn was born Sheryl Ann Fenn in Detroit, Michigan, into a family of musicians. The youngest of three children, her mother, Arlene Quatro, played keyboard in rock bands, her aunt is rock-star Suzi Quatro, and her grandfather, Art Quatro, was a jazz musician. Her father, Leo Fenn, was the manager of such bands as The Pleasure Seekers (the all-girl band formed by the Quatro sisters), Alice Cooper, and The Billion Dollar Babies. Sherilyn's ancestry includes Irish, Italian, Hungarian, German, and Bohemian Czech.
Sherilyn traveled a lot with her divorced mother and two older brothers before the family settled in Los Angeles when she was seventeen. Fenn, who says herself she's demure didn't want to start with a new school again and soon enrolled at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute.
Fenn began her career with a number of B-movies including The Wild Life (1984) (alongside Chris Penn), skater film Thrashin' (1986) (opposite Josh Brolin) and teen-fantasy movie The Wraith (1986) (opposite Charlie Sheen). She had a memorable part in the cult teen-comedy Just One of the Guys (1985) in which she tries to seduce a teenage girl disguised as a boy, played by Joyce Hyser. Fenn landed her first starring role, as an engaged heiress to an old Southern family experiencing her sexual awakening in Zalman King's erotic drama film Two Moon Junction (1988), after which she said she wanted to hide for a year. Fenn won her most outstanding role and made an indelible impression on the public when she was cast by David Lynch and Mark Frost as the tantalizing Audrey Horne, the high-school femme fatale from the critically acclaimed TV series Twin Peaks (1990). The series ran from 1990 to 1991, and the character of Audrey was one of the most popular with fans, in particular for her unrequited love for FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper (played by Kyle MacLachlan) and her style from the '50s (with her saddle shoes, plaid skirts and tight sweaters). Sherilyn made a memorable impression as the cherry stem-twisting siren. This was her breakout role; even now she says of her Twin Peaks (1990) experience: "It still makes me feel kind of proud and special to be part of something like that". In the show's second season, when the idea of pairing Audrey and Cooper was abandoned, Audrey was paired with other characters like Bobby Briggs (Dana Ashbrook) and John Justice Wheeler (Billy Zane). Sherilyn hit cult status when Lynch filmed her dancing on Angelo Badalamenti's music and with another memorable scene in which her character knotted a cherry stem with her tongue.
Shortly after shooting Twin Peaks' pilot episode, David Lynch gave her a small but impressive part in Wild at Heart (1990), as a girl injured in a car wreck, obsessed by the contents of her purse, opposite Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern. According to Fenn, the turning point in her career was when she met veteran acting coach Roy London in 1990. She credits him with instilling confidence and newfound enthusiasm.
After two nominations (Emmy and Golden Globe) and covers for Rolling Stone and Playboy magazines, Fenn was propelled to stardom and became a major sex symbol. She was chosen as one of People magazine's "50 Most Beautiful People in the World", was named one of the "10 Most Beautiful Women in the World" by Us magazine, and one of the "100 Sexiest Women in the World" by FHM magazine. Fenn's classic looks - with her lily-white skin, vertiginous boomerang eyebrows, beauty mark next to her left eye and topaz eyes - were highlighted by renowned photographers like George Hurrell Sr., Steven Meisel, and Bettina Rheims, and led her to be compared to the ones like Marilyn Monroe and Ava Gardner. Fenn has had an eclectic career with a significant body of work following Twin Peaks (1990). She chose to focus on widening her range of roles and was determined to avoid typecasting. She turned down the Audrey Horne spin-off series that was offered to her, and unlike most of the cast, chose not to return for the 1992 prequel movie Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992), as she was then shooting Of Mice and Men (1992). She proved her mettle as an actress with varied roles in neo-noir black comedy Desire and Hell at Sunset Motel (1991) (as a sultry femme fatale, opposite Whip Hubley and David Hewlett), huis-clos Diary of a Hitman (1991) (the directorial debut of her acting coach Roy London, in which she plays a fragile mother who confronts hitman Forest Whitaker), John Mackenzie's fictionalized biopic Ruby (1992), (as stripper Sheryl Ann DuJean, a Marilyn Monroe look-alike fictional character, who is a composite of several real-life women from Jack Ruby and president John Kennedy's entourage; opposite 'Danny Aiello' and Arliss Howard), romantic comedy Three of Hearts (1993) (as Kelly Lynch and William Baldwin's love interest), Carl Reiner's 1940s detective parody Fatal Instinct (1993) (as Armand Assante's lovesick secretary and Sean Young and Kate Nelligan's rival) and Showtime's biblical Slave of Dreams (1995), directed by Robert M. Young (as Potiphar's seductive wife Zulaikha, opposite Adrian Pasdar and Edward James Olmos, and produced by Dino De Laurentiis).
A highlight of Fenn's film career is Gary Sinise's film adaptation of Of Mice and Men (1992), in which she brought nuance to the role of a seductive and lonely country wife, desperately in need to talk to somebody, opposite Sinise and John Malkovich. In 1993, Fenn teamed up with David Lynch's daughter Jennifer Lynch and starred in her directorial debut Boxing Helena (1993) as a haughty seductress forced to live in a box after her limbs were amputated by love-obsessed surgeon Julian Sands in an effort to possess her (a role Kim Basinger backed out of). Both Lynch and Fenn were proud of their work in it but the film - which was overshadowed by the lawsuits against Kim Basinger after she dropped out - ultimately was a critical and commercial failure. Another outstanding performance was in NBC's miniseries Liz: The Elizabeth Taylor Story (1995). During the shooting, Fenn fought to keep integrity in the script. Her priority was to respectfully and accurately portray Taylor, and she supported the original screenwriter's effort to concentrate on Taylor the person, not the legend. The same year she starred in an episode of Tales from the Crypt (1989) directed by Robert Zemeckis, alongside Isabella Rossellini and John Lithgow, as the lover of Humphrey Bogart, who appeared in the episode via CGI special effects. She went on to star in independent films that have been well received on the festival circuit like Jon Harmon Feldman's Lovelife (1997) (as a low self-esteemed waitress, along with Bruce Davison, Jon Tenney, Carla Gugino and Saffron Burrows), romantic comedy Just Write (1997) (as the dream actress of Hollywood tour bus driver Jeremy Piven, who mistakes him for a famous screenwriter) and Adrian Pasdar's neo-noir directorial debut Cement (2000), a contemporary re-telling of "Othello", in which she played a tempting but imprudent femme fatale, alongside Chris Penn, Jeffrey Wright and Henry Czerny.
Tired of Hollywood, Fenn contemplated starting a European career when she starred opposite Ray Winstone in the British psychological drama and huis-clos Darkness Falls (1999) (as a wealthy, neglected wife, sequestered with her husband by a man determined to understand the events that led to his wife ending up in a coma). She eventually decided to return to the United-States and gained newfound enthusiasm with the lead role in Showtime's dark comedy Rude Awakening (1998) as Billie Frank, an alcoholic ex-soap actress who struggles with her self-destructive habits. Based upon creator/executive producer Claudia Lonow's experience, the series ran from 1998 to 2001 and co-starred Lynn Redgrave, Jonathan Penner and Mario Van Peebles. Following Rude Awakening (1998), Fenn's film and television credits have included Showtime's family comedy Off Season (2001), directed by Bruce Davison (along with Hume Cronyn, Rory Culkin, Adam Arkin and Davison; as a singer who takes care of her orphaned nephew), Matthew Ryan Hoge's The United States of Leland (2003) (as a woman who represents happiness and joie de vivre to Ryan Gosling), Showtime's Cavedweller (2004) (2004, along with Kyra Sedgwick and directed by Lisa Cholodenko), Geretta Geretta's Whitepaddy (2006) (opposite Lisa Bonet and Hill Harper, as a woman who struggles with her dysfunctional family after she reluctantly returned home and tries to fit in with her new neighborhood that has become predominantly black), Emily Skopov's Novel Romance (2006) (as a pregnancy shop owner, opposite Traci Lords and Paul Johansson), psychological thriller Presumed Dead (2006) (as a female detective working on a missing person case, who has to outwit crime novelist Duncan Regehr in order to get to the truth), and The Dukes of Hazzard: The Beginning (2007) (as a flirtatious version of Lulu Hogg).
Fenn has appeared along with Rob Estes and Milo Ventimiglia in a 2003 episode of Amy Sherman-Palladino's Gilmore Girls (2000), which was the pilot for a California-set spin-off, eventually dropped by the network. Sherman-Palladino brought her back in the series with a different part as Scott Patterson's ex-girlfriend and protective mother to his daughter (2006-2007). Fenn had previously had recurring parts on Dawson's Creek (1998), (2002, as Joshua Jackson's seductive boss) and Boston Public (2000) (2003-2004, as a porn star turned tutor). Other notable guest appearances have included 21 Jump Street (1987) (opposite her then-fiancé Johnny Depp), Friends (1994) (1997, as Matthew Perry's wooden-legged girlfriend), The Outer Limits (1995) (2001, as a duplicated scientist), Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999) (2002, as a manipulative actress), and The 4400 (2004) (2005, as Jean DeLynn Baker, a 4400 who has the ability to grow deadly toxin-emitting spores on her hands).
Fenn's interest in directing and children led her to step behind the camera to direct in 2006 a documentary film about the child enrichment program CosmiKids and Judy Julin, the program's founder. She subsequently joined its executive team as executive director of the film and television division.
On set, Sherilyn is noted for having a quirky sense of humor and a joie de vivre. Off-screen, Sherilyn is proud of the friendship she has maintained with her ex-hubby Toulouse Holliday, a musician and film technician. Sherilyn lives with her son, Myles, and two cats: Ophelia and Redmond. Sherilyn practices meditative kundalini yoga, and every room in her house has feng shui elements-- crystals in one corner, water in another. Sherilyn enjoys biking, swimming and cooking, and of course being a mom: "After I had my son, I found life much funnier and brighter".- Actor
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Michael C. Hall was born in Raleigh, North Carolina, to Janice (Styons), a guidance counselor, and William Carlyle Hall, who worked for IBM. Michael is a graduate of NYU's Master of Fine Arts program in acting. He is known for the titular character "Dexter" in Dexter (2006) and as mortician "David Fisher" in Six Feet Under (2001). His most recent performance on Broadway was as "Hedwig" in "Hedwig and the Angry Inch". Previously, Hall portrayed the emcee in "Cabaret", "Billy Flynn" in "Chicago" and "John Jones" in "The Realistic Joneses". Hall has starred in nearly a dozen major off-Broadway plays, including "Macbeth" for the New York Shakespeare Festival, "Cymbeline" for the New York Shakespeare Festival at Central Park's Delacorte Theater, "Timon of Athens" and "Henry V" at the Public, "The English Teachers" for Manhattan Class Company, "Corpus Christi" at the Manhattan Theatre Club, "Mr. Marmalade" with the Roundabout Theatre Company and "Skylight" at the Mark Taper Forum. Michael C. Hall is
performing in independent motion pictures, such as Cold in July (2014) and Kill Your Darlings (2013).- Actress
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Rachelle Lefevre was born in Canada. While waiting tables, Lefevre was discovered by a Canadian film producer who, in turn, helped the aspiring actress land her first acting gig. Lefevre then moved to Los Angeles and earned a recurring role on the television show What About Brian (2006). When Lefevre was working at a Montreal sushi restaurant as a teen, a regular customer heard about her acting aspirations and put her in touch with a casting director. This eventually led to a role on a Canadian sitcom.
She appeared on several episodes of David E. Kelley's Boston Legal (2004), which led to a lead role in his 2008 U.S. adaptation of BBC hit Life on Mars (2008).
Her father's family is French, though Lefevre grew up speaking mostly English; she eventually moved to Los Angeles in 2004 due to a lack of English-speaking parts in Montreal.
Landed her biggest film role to date in Catherine Hardwicke's adaptation of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight, the first in a series of popular teen novels about vampires.- Lee Thompson Young was born as the son of Velma Love and Tommy Scott
Young. When he was in second grade his parents split up and he went to
live with his mother. At age ten, he portrayed Dr. Martin Luther King
in a play called "A Night of Stars and Dreams". That's when Lee decided
he wanted to be an actor. After doing community theater for a while, he
traveled to New York during the spring break of 1996 and got himself an
agent. He moved to NY in June but it wasn't until next year that he got
to audition for the part of Jett Jackson. Lee filmed the pilot. He
found out in June 1998 from Disney that the show had been picked
up. - Music Artist
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Harry Edward Styles was born on February 1, 1994 in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, England, the son of Anne Twist (née Selley) and Desmond "Des" Styles, who worked in finance. Harry made his acting debut in "Dunkirk." The critically acclaimed film topped the US box office in its first weekend and was one of the top-grossing films of the summer.
Styles also made his solo music debut with his self-titled debut album, released in May 2017. The 10-track album featured the lead single "Sign of the Times," which topped the iTunes charts in over 84 countries upon release day. The album made history with the biggest debut sales week for a UK male artist's first full-length album since Nielsen Music began tracking sales in 1991, and it topped official charts at #1 in more than 55 countries. In support of the new music, he made acclaimed appearances on "Saturday Night Live," including performing in multiple comedy sketches; "The Graham Norton Show"; and a week-long residency on "The Late Late Show with James Corden." Styles embarked on a sold-out world tour in Fall 2017. Harry Styles Live on Tour began with intimate venues and continued to arenas in 2018. But due to COVID he had to postpone his shows and began Love on Tour September 4, 2021 in Las Vegas.
Styles' second album, Fine Line (2019), debuted atop the US Billboard 200 with the biggest first-week sales by an English male artist in history, and was listed among Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums of All Time" in 2020. Its fourth single, "Watermelon Sugar", topped the US Billboard Hot 100.
Throughout his career, Styles has earned several accolades, including a Brit Award, an American Music Award, two ARIA Music Awards, and a Billboard Music Award. Aside from music, he is also known for his flamboyant fashion, and is the first man to appear solo on the cover of Vogue magazine.
Styles found fame as the star of the global phenomenon One Direction, a group that was assembled by Simon Cowell in the boot camp stage of The X Factor UK 2010 and made it all the way to the final before finishing 3rd. In five years together, they impressively sold more than 70 million records worldwide, achieved a total of 137 number ones, and won five Billboard Music Awards, four MTV Video Music Awards, five American Music Awards and six BRIT Awards. One Direction was the first band in history to have its first four albums debut at number one on the Billboard 200 charts, with the fifth album topping UK charts selling 3.5 million copies worldwide. On December 13, 2015 the band performed "Infinity" and "History" on The X Factor UK Finale before embarking on a hiatus in 2016.- Actress
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Tasya Teles is a Canadian actress. She is known for her role as Echo in The CW's The 100. Teles has also played Kendra in DirecTV's Rogue, Nat in the Crave series Shoresy, and Daniella in BBC America's Intruders. Teles was born in Toronto, Ontario. Her mother was born in Edmonton, Alberta, while her father is Brazilian from Minas Gerais state. She and her family moved to Vancouver, British Columbia, when she was five years old. Teles studied theatre at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec.- Actor
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Linus Roache began his acting career with a two-week appearance as a
young Barlow on
Coronation Street (1960) at
the age of 11. He also played a boy with the bubonic plague in
The Onedin Line (1971). He
spent much of the next two decades on stage. In 1986 he had brief
appearances in a few films, including
Link (1986). He was brought to attention in
1994 after appearing in the BBC TV series
Seaforth (1994).- Actress
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- Writer
Heather Elizabeth Morris is an American actress born in Thousand Oaks, CA. Daughter to Jeannie and Stan Morris, Heather grew up in Scottsdale, AZ, and started her love for dancing when she was merely still in diapers. Growing up, she spent her days dreaming of becoming a star, recording herself on her parents old tape recorder and performing Britney Spears at her middle school talent show; she was never not performing. In 2003, Heather booked it to Los Angeles and competed with her dance group on the Arsenio Hall Variety Show, Star Search, and in 2006, Heather's talent landed her in the top 40 on FOX's So You Think You Can Dance.
After spending only two semesters at Arizona State University, in 2006 Heather officially moved out to Los Angeles and began auditioning, landing her first dance job as Beyoncé's back up dancer on 'The Beyonce Experience' World Tour nearly 6 months after making her big decision.
In 2009, Heather began studying at the Meisner school for Acting "Playhouse West" in Los Angeles. She was given the opportunity by choreographer Zach Woodlee to audition for Ryan Murphy in the upcoming Fox comedy Glee, and after two failed attempts...Heather learned she landed the role of "Brittany S. Pierce" strictly because of her incredible dancing capabilities. Heather has worked on productions like the Blue Sky franchise Ice Age and Harmony Korrine's feature Spring Breakers. She is an Executive Producer for The Bystanders Podcast, starring Jane Lynch, Kristin Chenoweth, Oscar Nunez and Michael Hitchcock.- Director
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- Actor
John Ford came to Hollywood following one of his brothers, an actor. Asked what brought him to Hollywood, he replied "the train". He became one of the most respected directors in the business, in spite of being known for his westerns, which were not considered "serious" film. He won six Oscars, counting (he always did) the two that he won for his WWII documentary work. He had one wife; a son and daughter; and a grandson, Dan Ford who wrote a biography on his famous grandfather.- Actor
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William Clark Gable was born on February 1, 1901 in Cadiz, Ohio, to Adeline (Hershelman) and William Henry Gable, an oil-well driller. He was of German, Irish, and Swiss-German descent. When he was seven months old, his mother died, and his father sent him to live with his maternal aunt and uncle in Pennsylvania, where he stayed until he was two. His father then returned to take him back to Cadiz. At 16, he quit high school, went to work in an Akron, Ohio, tire factory, and decided
to become an actor after seeing the play "The Bird of Paradise". He
toured in stock companies, worked oil fields and sold ties. On December 13, 1924, he married Josephine Dillon, his acting coach and 15 years his senior. Around that time, they moved to Hollywood, so that Clark could concentrate on his acting career. In April 1930, they divorced and a year later, he married Maria Langham (a.k.a. Maria Franklin Gable), also about 17 years older than him.
While Gable acted on stage, he became a lifelong friend of Lionel Barrymore. After several failed screen
tests (for Barrymore and Darryl F. Zanuck), Gable was signed in 1930 by MGM's
Irving Thalberg. He had a small part in The Painted Desert (1931) which starred William Boyd. Joan Crawford asked for him as co-star in Dance, Fools, Dance (1931) and the public
loved him manhandling Norma Shearer in A Free Soul (1931) the same year. His unshaven
lovemaking with bra-less Jean Harlow in Red Dust (1932) made him MGM's most
important star.
His acting career then flourished. At one point, he refused an assignment, and the studio
punished him by loaning him out to (at the time) low-rent Columbia
Pictures, which put him in Frank Capra's It Happened One Night (1934), which won him an Academy Award for his performance. The next year saw a starring role in Call of the Wild (1935) with Loretta Young, with whom he had an affair (resulting in the birth of a daughter, Judy Lewis).
He returned to far more substantial roles at MGM, such as Fletcher
Christian in Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) and Rhett Butler in Gone with the Wind (1939).
After divorcing Maria Langham, in March 1939 Clark married Carole Lombard, but tragedy struck in January 1942 when the plane in which Carole and her mother were flying crashed into Table Rock Mountain, Nevada, killing them both. A grief-stricken Gable joined the US Army Air Force and was off the screen for three years, flying combat missions in Europe. When he returned the studio regarded his salary as excessive and did not renew
his contract. He freelanced, but his films didn't do well at the box
office. He married Sylvia Ashley, the widow of Douglas Fairbanks, in 1949. Unfortunately this marriage was short-lived and they divorced in 1952. In July 1955 he married a former sweetheart, Kathleen Williams Spreckles (a.k.a. Kay Williams) and became stepfather to her two children, Joan and Adolph ("Bunker") Spreckels III.
On November 16, 1959, Gable became a grandfather when Judy Lewis, his daughter with Loretta Young, gave birth to a daughter, Maria. In 1960, Gable's wife Kay discovered that she was expecting their first child. In early November 1960, he had just completed filming The Misfits (1961), when he suffered a heart attack, and died later that month, on November 16, 1960. Gable was buried shortly afterwards in the shrine that he had built for Carole Lombard and her mother when they died, at Forest Lawn
Cemetery.
In March 1961, Kay Gable gave birth to a boy, whom she named John Clark Gable after his father.- Rebecca Creskoff was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is the daughter of Betty Jane Creskoff, a home maker, and Howard Creskoff a lawyer, and has an older sister. Her father is of Russian Jewish decent and her mother is of mostly English and German ancestry--a true Midwestern protestant.
The New Yorker Magazine describes Creskoff as "immensely gifted, with formidable technique" and named her one of the best performers of 2010.
Creskoff studied English literature at the University of Pennsylvania and then, following the advice of her friend and mentor Debra Messing, chose to hone her craft more seriously at the prestigious MFA acting training program at New York University. Classmates included David Costible, Victor Williams, Sean P. Thomas, Glenn Fleshler and Aunjanue Ellis.
Her first job after graduating was the long running Steve Martin play "Picasso At The Lapin Agile" at the Promenade Theater in New York City with Gabriel Macht and Jason Antoon. During this time she supported her theater habit by doing national commercials for products such as Massengill Douche, Budweiser with co-star Cara Buono (Stranger Things) Puff tissues, Olive Garden, Joy dish washing detergent, and Pampers diapers.
Her first television role was playing a waitress on Law and Order: SVU. Later that year she guest starred 0n the original Law and Order and then returned to Law and Order twelve years later in the role of public defender Veronica Masters in season 20.
Her theater credits include the Broadway play Lousing Louie at Manhattan Theater Club, The All-American at Lincoln Center 3, multiple productions playing Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream as well as numerous plays at the Williamstown Theater Festival (most notably playing Luca in Arms and the Man opposite Christopher Evan Welch) and the Berkshire Theater Festival in Miss Julie opposite Mark Feuerstein and Marin Hinkle. She later starred opposite Feuerstein in the movie Knucklehead and with Hinkle in the play Measure for Measure.
She made her way out west after being cast in Love's Labor Lost at the Old Globe Theater in San Diego directed by Roger Reese. She made a side trip to Los Angeles and her first audition was for E.R. which she did not get. But producer John Wells brought her back in the next day to read for Aaron Sorkin's new show The West Wing. Creskoff was cast in a large guest starring role opposite Rob Lowe with Jamie Denton on the first episode of the second season of the acclaimed hit show. Numerous guest starring and substantial recurring roles followed on The Practice, Justified, Bates Motel, Parenthood, Mad Men, The New Adventures of Old Christine, Girlfriends, Desperate Housewives, Party Down, How I Met Your Mother, Justified, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and the mother of the Jonas Brothers, among others.
Her series regular roles include a fiery Irish Catholic mother of two on the WB series Greetings From Tuscon, a fiery Irish Catholic mother of five on the Fox sitcom Quintuplets opposite Andy Richter and then as the fiery pimp Lenore on the HBO series Hung opposite Thomas Jane, Jane Adams and Anne Heche. She most recently played a non-fiery Irish Catholic mother of three on the NBC pilot Where I'm From and on the CBS pilot Taxi-22 opposite John Leguizamo.
Shortly after the cancellation of her last series, Creskoff met her husband Dr. Michael Glassner on a blind date arranged by her sister and was married in 2012 by the ocean in Tulum surrounded by close friends and family.
She gave birth to their first daughter Sadie Edith Glassner on November 15th, 2012, their second daughter Isla Rose Glassner on November 18th, 2016 and their third daughter Goldie Sy was born on August 28th, 2019. She is also the mother of four step-children: Max Joseph, David Miles, Ilana Paige and Mackenzie Nicole Glassner.
The family divide their time between Gladwyne, Pennsylvania, Longport New Jersey and New York City. They have four dogs, two cats and a fish named fish. - Actor
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Stand-up comic Pauly Shore (né Paul Montgomery Shore) tasted super-stardom in 1990 when his precedent-setting MTV show Totally Pauly (1990) hit the airwaves to major fan approval. The show ran for four years, opening the door wide for him for television and film roles. In 1993, he wrote and starred in a one-hour HBO television special, Pauly Does Dallas (1992), which drew in even more loyal fans.
He had roles in films from 1988, providing supporting comedy relief, but it was the wildly popular Encino Man (1992), partnered with Sean Astin and Brendan Fraser, that put Pauly squarely on the map. Manic showcases followed, including Son in Law (1993), In the Army Now (1994), Jury Duty (1995), Bio-Dome (1996) and The Curse of Inferno (1997). However, Shore was met with an increasingly hostile reception and his lunacy was dismissed as crude, tasteless, dumb and, for the most part, unfunny and his film career quickly tanked.
This downhill spiral was not helped by the abrupt cancellation of his failed Fox sitcom Pauly (1997). A bust with both critics and media, he was forced to lie low and ride out the storm. Shore didn't completely abandon the spotlight, however, as he provided voices in animated features such as Casper: A Spirited Beginning (1997) and An Extremely Goofy Movie (2000).
At the beginning, Pauly's first comedy album, "The Future of America," was named Best Comedy Album by the college music journalists in 1991, while the National Association of Record Merchandisers nominated his second album, "Scraps from the Future," for a Best Sellers Award. His third album, "Pink Diggly Diggly," was taped live at his mother Mitzi Shore's famed Los Angeles improv club The Comedy Store, where Pauly received his stand-up comedy initiation.
Pauly has been a recurring guest on Howard Stern's late-night show, as well as David Letterman's and Craig Kilborn's talk shows and has toured most the country with his stand-up act. He's been surrounded by show business all his life. In addition to mother Mitzi, father Sammy Shore was a well-known comedian who once opened for Elvis Presley during the Vegas years, while older brother Peter Shore has delved into producing/directing TV endeavors.
In a career that skyrocketed quickly only to make a serious crash landing, never-say-die Pauly's latest bid for a comeback is the self-mockumentary Pauly Shore Is Dead (2003), which he directed and co-wrote. Other millennium film credits include a bit in Dr. Dre/Snoop Dogg comedy The Wash (2001); a top role in the comedy Opposite Day (2009); another bit part in the comedy Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star (2011); another vanity satire with Pauly playing himself in Adopted (2009) that he wrote and directed; another bit in the Adam Sandler comedy Sandy Wexler (2017); and a more recent top role in the comedy Guest House (2020). He also has found occasional guest shots on TV shows including "Entourage" (as himself), "Cubed" and "Hawaii Five-0."- Actress
- Producer
- Writer
Ronda Rousey burst onto the women's MMA scene in August of 2010. Born
in Riverside County, California on February 1, 1987 to parents Ron
Rousey and AnnMaria DeMars, little Ronda
was born with an umbilical cord wrapped around her neck that damaged
her vocal cords. She didn't speak coherently until the age of six.
Ronda was a self-professed tomboy and swam from the ages of 6 to 10.
She competed on the Jr. Olympic swim team where she placed in the state
level.
Because of her mother, a 7th degree black belt and 1984 World Judo
Champion, Ronda took up the sport. She had a hard time socializing with
other kids and found that Judo gave her confidence. She holds a 4th
degree black belt in the martial art.
Ronda's Judo career is a storied one. At 17 she became the youngest
judoka in the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. That same year she won a
gold medal at the World Junior Judo Championships in Budapest, and in
2006 she became the first U.S. female in almost 10 years to win an
A-Level tournament going 5-0 to clench the gold at the World Cup in
Great Britain. At 19 she won the bronze medal at the Junior World
Championships. She is the first U.S. athlete to win two Junior World
Medals. In 2007 she added a silver at the World Judo Championships and
a gold at the Pan American Games. The pinnacle of her Judo career was a
bronze at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. Rousey became the first
American to win an Olympic medal in women's Judo since it became an
Olympic sport in 1992.
After medaling in the Olympics, Ronda's career hit a dead end. She did
some bartending to make ends meet and tried to find a better paying
job, but it was tough finding anyone that needed her particular skill
set. Throwing people down and putting them in armbars aren't really
something you can put on a resume. By chance Ronda caught the
Gina Carano vs.
Julie Kedzie fight on television and things
changed.
She made her mixed martial arts debut as an amateur in 2010. Since then
she has never lost a fight, winning the majority in the first round by
armbar submission. Ronda took it upon herself to chase after and demand
attention so that the UFC could no longer ignore women fighters. UFC
President Dana White had publicly
stated that women would never be allowed to fight in the UFC, but on
February 23, 2013, Ronda did just that. She won the fight against
Liz Carmouche in the first round with her
signature armbar and became the first UFC Women's Bantamweight
Champion.
In 2014, Ronda appeared in her first motion picture -
The Expendables 3 (2014). Other
projects are
Furious 7 (2015) and
The Athena Project as
well as Entourage (2015).- Actress
- Producer
- Writer
Abbi Jacobson is an American comedian, actress, writer, and illustrator. She is best known for co-creating and co-starring in the Comedy Central series Broad City (2014) alongside Ilana Glazer, which was based on a web series of the same name that the two have created three years prior. Jacobson is also known for voicing Katie Mitchell in The Mitchells vs. the Machines (2021) and Princess Bean in Disenchantment (2018), and would later go on to co-create and star in the series A League of Their Own (2022), which was based on the 1992 film of the same name.- Actor
- Producer
- Writer
Along with his most impressive list of television/film credits, Bill is
also a very talented well-known musician, songwriter, recording artist,
as well as writer. He plays guitar, bass, keyboards, banjo, mandolin,
harmonica, percussion and sings. He has released three solo CDs,
1997's
"Dying To Be Heard", 1999's "In The Current" and the 2000 release of
his third solo album, "Pandora's Box". All three released on
Renaissance Records. In 1978, Bill and his partner, Robert Haimer,
officially formed the infamous "quirky-rock duo" Barnes and Barnes.
They are known worldwide, and have recorded 9 albums on Rhino and CBS
Record labels. They also released a feature length home video titled
"Zabagabee" featuring a Collaboration of Barnes and Barnes short films.
Their infamous "Fish Heads" song placed #57 in Rolling Stones Top 100
Videos of All Time. In 2000, Ogio Records released the 24 song "Yeah:
The Essential Barnes & Barnes" CD. Bill was nominated for an Emmy in
1991/1992 for his original song composition for Adventures in
Wonderland for Disney which he wrote 105 songs for 100 episodes. He
also scored three episodes of the award winning PBS series The
Universe and I and contributed songs and themes to Santa Barbara,
TV Guide Looks At, Hard to Hold (1984), Plain Clothes (1988), Archie,
Sunshine (1975), Bless the Beasts & Children (1971), The Simpsons (1989), and many
other film and television projects. Bill and Miguel Ferrer are
in a rock and roll band called the Jenerators. Their first CD
and cassette titled the "Jenerators" was released in 1994 on Asil
Records. Their second CD produced by Frank Wolf titled "Hitting The
Silk" was released in November of 1998 on Wildcat Records. They
perform in the Los Angeles area when possible. If that is not
enough, Bill has also worked on various children albums as well. "The
Yogi Bear Environmental Album: This Land Is Our Land" a 1993 release on
Rhino Records/Hanna Barbera, "The Dinosaur Album" also a 1993 release
on Rhino Records, and his album "Kiss My Boo Boo" which has
been released on the Infinite Visions label.
In addition to his many other talents, Bill co-created the popular
children television series,
Space Cases (1996) with Peter
David which he also co-wrote, produced, composed music for, and guest
starred in as well. It was nominated for the 1996 Ace Award for
"Outstanding Children's Series." The series has run globally in over
sixty countries. Peter and Bill have written the screenplay to the
feature film, "Overload" which Bill is also starring in. Bill has
written as well as co-created many comic books, stories, and television
series. He has written for Marvel Comics, Dark Horse Comics, DC Comics
and Pocket Books. The stories he co-wrote include well-known titles as
"Spider-Man", "The Hulk", and "Clive Barker's Hellraiser." He co-wrote
a Star Trek trilogy "Return of the Worthy", and was a creative
consultant and writer to the Lost In Space Innovation monthly comic. He
also has written for DC comics, "Aquaman", "The Spectre" and "Star
Trek". His writing projects include the feature film,
_Overload_ and a fantasy novel co-written with Angela Cartwright,
"Realms Of Majik: The Pocket in Reality". His short stories, "The Black
'59" and "The Undeadliest Game" appeared in Pocket Books "Shock Rock"
Volumes 1 and 2. Both have been printed globally in many languages. He
has also written for animation, most recently an episode of the sci fi
series, "Roswell Conspiracies". He has also written episodics for NBC's
series, "Sunshine", USA network's Swamp Thing, as well as scripting
an unfilmed episode of Babylon 5 (1993). He co-created and wrote the Marvel
Comics series' "The Comet Man", "The Dreamwalker" graphic novel, and
Dark Horse Comics' "Trypto, The Acid Dog" with Miguel Ferrer.
Included in his various multi-talent accomplishments, he is also a
prolific voice over actor and can be heard narrating several of the
prestigious "A&E: Biographies" as well as many other documentaries and
specials. Some of his commercial work in that arena includes McDonalds,
Mattel, Bud Ice, Amtrak, Blockbuster, Ford, KFC, Wal Mart, and
Nickelodeon - just to name a few. He is presently doing all the
television and radio spots for Farmers Insurance. His voice over work
in animation includes The Ren & Stimpy Show (1991), Batman: The Animated Series (1992),
Animaniacs (1993), Little Wizard Adventures, and Buzz Lightyear of Star Command (2000).- Actor
- Producer
- Director
A native of Orange County, California, Brian Krause is best known for
his portrayal of Whitelighter Leo Wyatt on
Aaron Spelling's popular program
Charmed (1998) [1998-2006/The WB]
opposite Alyssa Milano,
Rose McGowan,
Holly Marie Combs and
Shannen Doherty. He starred on the
popular program for eight seasons and appeared in 154 episodes.
Since wrapping Charmed (1998), Krause
has starred in numerous TV programs, including
The Closer (2005) (TNT),
Ties That Bind (2006)
(Lifetime),
Devil's Diary (2007)
(Lifetime),
Beyond Loch Ness (2008)
(Sci Fi Channel),
Warbirds (2008) (Sci Fi
Channel) and CSI: Miami (2002)
(CBS).
Among the actor's previous television credits are:
Highway to Heaven (1984),
Tales from the Crypt (1989),
The Bandit Series (e.g.,
Bandit: Bandit's Silver Angel (1994)),
Family Album (1994),
Walker, Texas Ranger (1993),
High Tide (1994) and
Return to Cabin by the Lake (2001).
Krause's film credits include:
Desertion (2008),
Jack Rio (2008),
Return to the Blue Lagoon (1991)
with Milla Jovovich,
An American Summer (1990) with
Brian Austin Green,
December (1991) with
Balthazar Getty and Jason London,
Stephen King's
Sleepwalkers (1992) with Alice Krige
and Mädchen Amick,
The Liars' Club (1994) with
Wil Wheaton, Breaking Free (1995) with
Christine Taylor and
Jeremy London,
Mind Games (1996) with
Soleil Moon Frye,
Trash (1999) with
Jaime Pressly and
Jeremy Sisto, The Mission (2005) with
Jacklyn Zeman and
Alex Hyde-White and
Protecting the King (2007)
with Tom Sizemore and
Peter Dobson.
Krause was born in 1969 in El Toro, California. He graduated in 1987
from El Toro High School. He has an older brother, Patrick. He resides
in the San Fernando Valley. Away from the studios, he enjoys golfing,
surfing and jogging. Prior to making his mark as an actor, he juggled
various part-time jobs -- including driving a pie truck and hanging
drywall.- Music Artist
- Actress
- Composer
Lisa Marie Presley was born on 1 February 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee, USA. She was a music artist and actress, known for Lisa Marie Presley: Idiot (2005), Michael Jackson: You Are Not Alone (1995) and Lisa Marie Presley: Dirty Laundry (2005). She was married to Michael Lockwood, Nicolas Cage, Michael Jackson and Danny Keough. She died on 12 January 2023 in West Hills, California, USA.- Actress
- Writer
- Producer
Kimia Behpoornia was born in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for Atypical (2017), Hacks (2021) and Abby's (2019).- Sara Malakul Lane is a successful Thai model and actress. She began modeling at the age of 14, and has also been in a number of big screen movies including Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse (2015). Sara is a model of Thai-Scottish descent. Her father is a Scottish businessman named Alistair Lane. Her mother is named Madam Tuptim Malakul Na Ayuthaya.
- Actor
- Writer
- Producer
Garrett Morris was born on 1 February 1937 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Coneheads (1993), Saturday Night Live (1975) and How High (2001). He has been married to Freda Morris since 20 September 1996.- Kelli Goss was born on 1 February 1992 in Valencia, California, USA. She is an actress, known for Grey's Anatomy (2005), United States of Tara (2009) and My Name Is Earl (2005). She has been married to Justin Wilmers since 30 April 2021. They have two children.
- Bibi Besch was born in Vienna, Austria, to race car driver Gotfrid
Köchert and actress Gusti Huber. She was a
very busy supporting actress who had worked in television for over
twenty years before being nominated for an Emmy Award as a supporting actress for
Doing Time on Maple Drive (1992)
and another in 1993 for a guest appearance on
Northern Exposure (1990). A veteran of dozens of television movies from 1976 to
1995, Besch also appeared in several feature films, most notably as Dr. Carol Marcus
in
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982). Other notable feature film roles were in
Steel Magnolias (1989), Tremors (1990) and Who's That Girl (1987). Her stage
work included the plays "Fame," "The Chinese Prime Minister," "Here
Lies Jeremy Troy" and "Once for the Asking." Other television credits
include guest roles on popular network shows such as
ER (1994) and
Murder, She Wrote (1984).
Besch's television series and miniseries roles ranged from the soap opera
Somerset (1970) to
Backstairs at the White House (1979)
to The Hamptons (1983). Bibi
Besch died of breast cancer at age 54 on September 7, 1996. - Actor
- Soundtrack
Leo appeared in thirty-seven films, thirty-two television appearances
and nine Broadway plays. He just completed a part on M. O. N. Y.
directed by Spike Lee for NBC, and the revival of The Fantasticks off
Broadway. He was nominated for Best Actor in
Robert Altman's
Rattlesnake in a Cooler (1982)
and won the New York Fanny award for Best supporting actor in Ah
Wilderness at New York's Lincoln Center.
Leo produced concerts for Save The Lakes, an environmental effort to
protect New York City's water supply and along with his wife
Lora Lee Ecobelli, produced Calm The
Storm a concert to benefit the victims of Hurricane Katrina with over
one hundred volunteers, and one hundred bands on five stages both
indoor and out.
Leo's Art work is featured in the documentary: Leo Burmester and The
Literature of Junk, which won best documentary at the Westchester Film
Festival, and he is featured in the May 2007 issue of Hudson Valley
Magazine.- Writer
- Actor
- Producer
Terry Jones was born in Colwyn Bay, North Wales, the son of Dilys Louisa (Newnes), a homemaker, and Alick George Parry Jones, a bank clerk. His older brother is production designer Nigel Jones. His grandparents were involved in the entertainment business, having managed the local Amateur Operatic Society and staged Gilbert and Sullivan concerts. Jones studied at St. Edmund Hall College, Oxford University, read English but graduated with a degree in History. He was variously captain of boxing, captain of the Rugby Team and School Captain. At about this time, he befriended Michael Palin. Both performed comedy together as part of the Oxford Revue. In 1965, he again partnered Palin in The Late Show (1966) and worked in the dual capacity of writer/actor on Do Not Adjust Your Set (1967) with Palin, Eric Idle and David Jason. Another noteworthy television credit was Complete and Utter History of Britain (1969) (again with Palin) in which fun was poked at famous historical personae, Jones essaying Oliver Cromwell, Sir Walter Raleigh and Henry VIII (among others).
Needless to say that Jones found his greatest success as a founding member of the anarchic and irreverent Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969), along with Palin, Idle, Graham Chapman, John Cleese and Terry Gilliam. Jones not only provided much of the written comic input, but also portrayed many of the classic characters: the implausibly obese Mr. Creosote in The Meaning of Life (1983) (who explodes after one more little wafer), the inept Detective Superintendent Harry "Snapper" Organs in the Piranha Brothers sketch (a take on the Kray Twins), the tobacconist in the Dirty Hungarian Phrasebook sketch and numerous assorted shrill-voiced, slovenly 'rat-bag women' (Mrs. Equator comes to mind).
The Pythons were unconventional, controversial, certainly groundbreaking and invariably inspired, at their best in their unrelenting satirical attacks on established British institutions, ruling hierarchies and the class structure. Jones later said "The thing is we never thought Python was a success when it was actually happening, it was only with the benefit of hindsight". In addition to writing and acting, Jones also co-directed Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) (with Terry Gilliam) and took solo directing credit for Life of Brian (1979) and The Meaning of Life. Post-Python, he rejoined Palin as co-writer for some of the very best episodes of Ripping Yarns (1976), including Whinfrey's Last Case, Tompkinson's Schooldays, Murder at Moorstone Manor, The Curse of the Claw and The Testing of Eric Oldthwaite. Jones later scripted Labyrinth (1986) from a story by Jim Henson and Dennis Lee and wrote, as well as directed, Erik the Viking (1989) and Absolutely Anything (2015), a science fiction comedy with Simon Pegg and Kate Beckinsale.
On a more serious note, Jones sidelined as a newspaper columnist and was an outspoken social and political commentator (a staunch critic of the Iraq War). His lifelong fascination with medieval and ancient history (and Geoffrey Chaucer in particular) led to presenting a series of television documentaries (Medieval Lives (2004) and Barbarians (2006))) as well as publishing several well researched, if sometimes controversial, books including Chaucer's Knight: The Portrait of a Medieval Mercenary and Who Murdered Chaucer?: A Medieval Mystery.
Jones died at the age of 77 on 21 January 2020 from complications of dementia, at his home in Highgate, North London.- Actor
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Bryan Dick was born on 1 February 1978 in Denton Holme, Carlisle, Cumbria, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003), Blackpool (2004) and Blood and Chocolate (2007).- Actor
- Additional Crew
- Soundtrack
American leading man Stuart Maxwell Whitman was known for his rugged roles. He was born in San Francisco, California, the elder of two sons of Cecilia (Gold) and Joseph Whitman, a realtor. His mother was a Russian Jewish immigrant, while his paternal grandparents were Polish Jews. His family moved often. He graduated from high school in Los Angeles and spent three post-war years with the Army Corps of Engineers. In the army, he won 32 fights as a light-heavyweight boxer.
Upon his discharge from service, he attended Los Angeles City College, where his interest in acting emerged. He studied at the Los Angeles Academy of Dramatic Art and with Michael Chekhov and Ben Bard. He toured the U.S. in a stage company of "Here Comes Mr. Jordan" and began to get small roles in television and film. Eventually, his athleticism, his handsome features, and his talent for portraying either tough or vulnerable characters led him to a level of stardom. He earned an Academy Award nomination for his leading role of a child molester in The Mark (1961), and starred in the television series Cimarron Strip (1967). A shrewd investor, he amassed a substantial fortune while continuing his career even after its peak in the mid-Sixties.- Actor
- Producer
- Soundtrack
Paul Carr was born on 1 February 1934 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. He was an actor and producer, known for Akira (1988), Star Trek (1966) and The Time Tunnel (1966). He was married to Merrily M Hirsch and Evan MacNeil. He died on 17 February 2006 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Actress
- Producer
- Director
Daisy Betts is an Australian actress. She was born in Sydney, Australia. She is best known for her role as Lieutenant Grace Shepard in ABC's 2012 TV series Last Resort. She also starred as firefighter, Rebecca Jones, in Chicago Fire. She worked alongside Kathy Bates, Alfred Molina and Jean Smart in NBC's Harry's Law. Betts also had roles in Girlfriend's Guide to Divorce, The Castle and Person's Unknown.- Actress
- Producer
- Director
Isabel Cueva was born on 1 February 1980 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Angel Baby (2023), The Lady Killers (2017) and Aztec Warrior (2016). She has been married to Douglas Tait since 8 March 2003.- Actress
- Writer
- Producer
Ana is a big fan of comic books. She started reading them when she was
just a little girl. When she was little her favorite comics
were: The Phantom, Batman, Superman, The Crow, Prince
Valiant, and Sandman.
Quit working on the series Chemistry (2011) right after the first season
due to the excessive nudity that was required for her character.- Actor
- Director
- Additional Crew
Bart Braverman was born on 1 February 1946 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is an actor and director, known for 20 Million Miles to Earth (1957), Mowgli: The New Adventures of the Jungle Book (1998) and Good vs Evil (1999). He has been married to Sharon Diane Dornfeld since 9 February 1982. They have one child. He was previously married to Patricia Lynn Arey.- Actress
- Writer
Elisabeth Sladen was born in Liverpool, England. She attended drama
school for two years before joining the local repertory theatre in her
home town of Liverpool. She met actor
Brian Miller during her first
production there and they were later married after meeting again in
Manchester, three years later. Early television work included
appearances on
Coronation Street (1960),
Doomwatch (1970),
Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em (1973),
Public Eye (1965) and
Z Cars (1962). Between 1974 and 1976,
she had a regular role on
Doctor Who (1963) as Sarah Jane
Smith, a part she has since reprised in
K-9 and Company: A Girl's Best Friend (1981);
The Five Doctors (1983);
the Doctor Who radio serials The Paradise of Death (1993) & Doctor Who
and the Ghosts of N-Space" (1996); the Children In Need skit
Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time (1993);
the spin-off video drama
Downtime (1995) and, most
recently, in the new
Doctor Who (2005) series.
Other work on television has included "Stepping Stones" (1977),
Send in the Girls (1978),
Take My Wife... (1979),
Gulliver in Lilliput (1982),
Alice in Wonderland (1986)
and
Dempsey and Makepeace (1985).
In 1980, Sladen appeared in the cinema film
Silver Dream Racer (1980).
Since the birth of her daughter Sadie in 1985, she has spent most of
her time being a mother and housewife, but has made occasional
television appearances, including in
The Bill (1984) and
Peak Practice (1993).
Fan reaction of her reappearance as Sarah Jane Smith on
Doctor Who (2005) resulted in the
production of a second Doctor Who spin-off just for her,
The Sarah Jane Adventures (2007).- Actor
- Composer
- Music Department
Jason Isbell was born on 1 February 1979. He is an actor and composer, known for A Star Is Born (2018), Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) and The Ice Road (2021). He has been married to Amanda Shires since 23 February 2013. They have one child.- Actress
- Producer
- Writer
Marta Dusseldorp was born on 1 February 1973 in Australia. She is an actress and producer, known for A Place to Call Home (2013), Janet King (2014) and Jack Irish (2016). She is married to Ben Winspear. They have two children.- Actress
- Producer
- Soundtrack
Kaitlin Hopkins was born on 1 February 1964 in New York City, New York, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles (2001), As Good as It Gets (1997) and Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009). She has been married to Jim Price since September 2007. She was previously married to Daniel Passer.- Actress
- Music Department
- Writer
Hynden Walch was born on February 1, 1971 in Davenport, Iowa. She is an actress and writer known primarily for her work in Adventure Time, Teen Titans, Groundhog Day, and Batman Assault on Arkham. She started her professional acting career on stage at age 11. At 16 she attended the North Carolina School of the Arts, majoring in voice. As a high school senior, she was awarded as a Presidential Scholar in the Arts in drama. Hynden won the Outer Critics Circle Award for her performance as Little Voice in The Rise and Fall of Little Voice on Broadway. In 2005 she graduated summa cum laude from UCLA with a B.A. in American Literature and founded the Hillside Produce Cooperative, a free exchange of local, organically grown food, for which she was named runner up Citizen Entrepreneur of the Year by Global Green USA. Hynden has been married to Sean McDermott since 1999.- Actress
- Soundtrack
Nancy Gates was born February 1, 1926 in Dallas, Texas. She entered
show business, at an early age, when she was signed to a contract with
RKO Studios when she was 15. Her first production with that studio was
in 1942's
Hitler's Children (1943). Nancy
was also in two more films that year, those being
The Great Gildersleeve (1942)
and
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942).
The young actress was equally busy the following year with appearances
in
Gildersleeve's Bad Day (1943),
Behind the Rising Sun (1943)
and This Land Is Mine (1943).
However, after 1949, Nancy didn't appear in another film until she was
26 years old. In 1952, Nancy appeared in five films, beginning with
Target Hong Kong (1953). Up to
this point, the beautiful actress appeared mostly in character roles.
Two of her finest performances did come in the Fifties. In 1954, Nancy
played "Ellen Benson", a woman whose home was commandeered by a
would-be assassin (Frank Sinatra) of the
President of the U.S., in
Suddenly (1954). The other was as "Edith
Barclay", the secretary to a small-town jeweler, in 1958's
Some Came Running (1958). After
the production of
Comanche Station (1960), Nancy
left film acting to be with her family but continued off and on with guest spots on television shows up to her swan song in an episode of The Mod Squad in 1969.. She had 34 films on her dossier,
along with a host of television appearances.- Actor
- Additional Crew
- Soundtrack
Sherman Hemsley played characters known to be wise-cracking, "Weezy"
loving, boisterous fools which America and the entire
world laughed with kindheartedly. Sherman Alexander Hemsley, Air Force
veteran and actor, was born on Feb. 1, 1938 in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. His father, William Hemsley, worked at a printing press
while his mother worked at various factories during the war. As a
child, Hemsley was introduced to acting during school where the
teachers would ask students to play different characters. The first
play he did as a kid in school was about fire prevention and Hemsley
played the fire. He eventually ended up dropping out of school and
joined the Air Force. During his adolescence he never considered acting
as a profession until after he served in the military. Hemsley then
moved from south Philadelphia where he had spent most of his life to
New York City. He worked graveyard shift as a post office clerk during the night and
actor during the day. He considered New York the best place to be as
it had several acting workshops and theater companies such as The Negro
Ensemble Company (NEC)founded by Robert Hooks which helped
actors/actresses obtain roles on theater, television and movies. His
former co-star, Roxie Roker, was also part
of the NEC alumni. Hemsley made his professional acting debut on the
Broadway play, Purlie, and toured with the show for a year. In 1971,
while on tour for Purlie, he received a call from
producer/creator/writer Norman Lear. Lear
wanted Hemsley to audition for a role which was going to be part of his
sitcom
All in the Family (1971).
Due to his commitment to the Purlie project, Hemsley declined the role.
Norman Lear said he would have the role open for him and Hemsley joined
the cast two years later. Hemsley and co-star,
Isabel Sanford were chosen to do a spin
off of the show All In The Family called
The Jeffersons (1975). Despite
the age difference between Hemsley and Sanford (twenty years apart),
many described their on-screen marriage as truly hilarious. Hemsley was
nominated for a Golden Globe for his outstanding performance as George
Jefferson. The Jeffersons turned out to be a success spanning eleven
seasons ending in 1985. After The Jeffersons, Hemsley steadily started
working on other projects and in 1986 joined the NBC sitcom
Amen (1986) where he played religious
deacon Ernest Frye. The show ran for five seasons until 1991. Hemsley
then made his debut as a voice actor as part of the ABC live
action-puppet series,
Dinosaurs (1991). Hemsley played
Bradley P. Richfield, Earl's cruel boss. The show ran successfully for
four seasons. In 1997, the remaining cast of The Jeffersons had a
reunion on the Rolonda (1994) talk
show, still having the same charm they did decades ago. Isabel Sanford
and Sherman Hemsley made television guest appearances together on
well-known television programs such as
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1990)
and were in commercials for The Gap, Old Navy and Denny's. Hemsley and
Marla Gibbs guest starred on the TBS show
House of Payne (2006) in 2011.
Sherman Hemsley will be remembered as an actor who was on shows that
addressed serious issues but also one who brought laughter into homes
every week.- Heather DeLoach was born on 1 February 1983 in Orange County, California, USA. She is an actress, known for A Little Princess (1995), Balls of Fury (2007) and The Beautician and the Beast (1997). She has been married to Matthew Greiner since 7 October 2017. They have three children.
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John Gemberling was born on 1 February 1981 in New York City, New York, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Fat Guy Stuck in Internet (2007), Human Giant (2007) and Making History (2017).- Producer
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Andrew Upton was born on 1 February 1966 in Australia. He is a producer and writer, known for Carol (2015), Stories of Lost Souls (2005) and Babe (1995). He has been married to Cate Blanchett since 29 December 1997. They have four children.- Actor
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Peter started off as a junior bank clerk but he had always been interested in the theatre and went every week to the Intimate Theatre in Palmers Green in London which was run by actor John Clements. Serving in the RAF as a radio instructor one of his pupils was Peter Bridge (now a theatre impresario) who later asked him to play David Bliss in his production of 'Hay Fever', He enjoyed the experience so much that he decided to make the theatre his profession.- Gabrielle Fitzpatrick was born on 1 February 1967 in Brisbane, Australia. She is an actress, known for Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (1995), Mr. Nice Guy (1997) and Farewell, My Love (2000). She has been married to Shaun Sewter since 10 September 2008.
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Sharone Meir was born on 1 February 1965 in Israel. He is a cinematographer and actor, known for Whiplash (2014), Coach Carter (2005) and Mean Creek (2004).- Actress
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Candace Smith was born and raised in Dayton, Ohio where she began performing at a young age at the Dayton Playhouse. She is an actress known for My Father Die (2016), End of Watch (2012) and Gimme Shelter (2013).
Throughout high school and college, she participated in Drama as well as athletics. While attending the University of Dayton on a full academic scholarship, Candace studied media and communications for a summer at the University of London, where her love for theatre grew on the West End. She returned from London and graduated from the University of Dayton with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and a minor in Communications.
Candace went on to attend Northwestern University School of Law. While studying in Chicago, Candace immersed herself in the experience by volunteering for an outreach program at the juvenile detention center and traveling to Cuba as a group leader for a research project. Upon graduating, Candace returned to Ohio to be close to her family. She was admitted to the Ohio Supreme Court and began practicing commercial real estate. While practicing, Candace won the prestigious title of Miss Ohio USA 2003. Once she concluded her duties as Miss Ohio USA 2003, she made the move to Los Angeles to pursue a career in entertainment while continuing to coach clients in life & love.
Most recently, Candace appears in ABC's Same Time, Next Christmas (2019) starring Lea Michele, as the sister to Charles Michael Davis. In the soon to be released Netflix comedy, The Wrong Missy (2020) Candace shares the screen with David Spade as the wife to Joe Anoa'i.
In the feature action film My Father Die (2016) produced by Pierce Brosnan, Candace stars as Nana, the heroine of this gritty action thriller set in the South, alongside Joe Anderson. Candace appeared as a West African social worker in the independent film Gimme Shelter (2013) alongside Rosario Dawson and Vanessa Hudgens. In David Ayer's film End of Watch (2012), Candace plays a distraught mother opposite Jake Gyllenhaal, which debuted No. 1 opening weekend.
Candace's lifelong passion for comedy led her to perform stand-up at the world famous Comedy Store on Sunset Blvd. She studied at Upright Citizens Brigade in Los Angeles as a member of their diversity class. She has appeared in three of the comedy troupe, Broken Lizard's films; including her film debut as Naomi in Warner Brothers' Beerfest (2006), The Slammin' Salmon (2009) as Michael Clarke Duncan's sister and the The Babymakers (2012).
In television, Candace has appeared on CBS's Hawaii Five-0 (2010), NBC's Heroes (2006), TBS's Conan (2010), and Joey (2004), HBO's Entourage (2004) and Fox's Method & Red (2004).
As a TV Personality specializing as a lifestyle expert & love expert, Candace has appeared on Bravo's The Millionaire Matchmaker (2008), E!'s The Platinum Life (2017), the Hallmark Channel's Home & Family (2012) and WE TV's Million Dollar Matchmaker (2016).
As a producer, Candace has worked as an associate producer on several network shows. She is developing both unscripted and scripted projects.- Casting Director
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Sarah Finn was born on 1 February 1965 in New York City, New York, USA. She is a casting director and producer, known for Crash (2004), Avengers: Endgame (2019) and Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022).- Actor
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Included in Variety's 2018 "Young Hollywood Impact Report" of talent poised for break-through, Myles Truitt was seen as the lead in the Lionsgate feature film Kin (2018). He portrays Eli, an adopted teenager searching for connection. The film begins as Eli is reunited with his step-brother, and details his cross-country journey of self-exploration. He stars opposite Dennis Quaid and James Franco. Earlier this year, Truitt co-starred in a pivotal flashback episode of the Emmy-winning FX comedy "Atlanta," which focused on middle-school bullying. Truitt also co-stars on OWN's "Queen Sugar" and the CW's "Black Lightning."
In 2017, Truitt co-starred as young Ronnie DeVoe in the BET mini-series "New Edition." The three-night television event chronicling the legendary music group set an all-time ratings record for the network. Also that year, Truitt appeared as Arlo Hastings in the Syfy original series "Superstition." Additionally, he completed production on the film "Dragged Across Concrete" alongside Mel Gibson and Vince Vaughn, which is set to be released soon.
Since 2014, Truitt has worked with The Youth Ensemble of Atlanta, performing a powerful solo during the presentation of "Soweto." A lover of the arts, and with aspirations to write, direct and produce original content, he has toured across HBCU campuses for a variety of youth presentations. When not singing or acting, Truitt enjoys playing basketball and spending time with his family. He lives in Atlanta. His slogan "Tru2itt" is the motivating force behind his upcoming t-shirt and apparel line.