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Milana Vayntrub is an Uzbekistan-born American actress, writer and stand-up comedian. She began her career making YouTube videos amounting over 11 million views, then turned her web content into an MTV pilot. In 2016 she was recognized by Adweek on the cover of their Creative 100 issue for her activism, documentary work, and her role as Lily Adams in AT&T commercials. She is most recognized as an actress for her role as Sloane on the NBC dramatic series This Is Us and as a writer for Adult Swim's Robot Chicken Robot Chicken (2001) .- Actor
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Montana Jordan is an American actor. He made his acting debut with his role as Jaden in the film The Legacy of a Whitetail Deer Hunter (2018), which starred Josh Brolin and Danny McBride.
Though Montana had no previous acting experience, his funny, outgoing personality prompted many in his small, east Texas town of Ore City, TX, to suggest that he respond to a local casting call for the movie. After receiving final word that he had been chosen for the role, Montana was able to travel back home from North Carolina, where casting took place, for one day to say goodbye to his friends and family before traveling with his mother back to North Carolina to begin rehearsing and filming.
Montana was born in Longview, TX, to Kelli Pieratt Smith, a first-grade teacher, and Tony Jordan. He is the youngest of three children and has two older sisters, Katelli Jordan and Jaden Jordan. He spent most of his youth racing dirt bikes and playing for the Ore City Rebels National team. Montana is an avid hunter and loves Motocross racing. He learned to play the acoustic guitar in preparation for his role as Jaden.- Actor
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Aidan Quinn was born on 8 March 1959 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Benny & Joon (1993), Practical Magic (1998) and Flipped (2010). He has been married to Elizabeth Bracco since 1 September 1987. They have two children.- Ewan Robert Mitchell is an English actor (born in Derby). He is known for his roles in the ITV period drama The Halcyon (2017), the medieval drama The Last Kingdom (2017-2022), the BBC World War II series World on Fire (2019-) and the HBO fantasy series House of the Dragon (2022-).
Mitchell began his acting career in 2015, starring in the short films Stereotype and Fire. He later starred in the films Just Charlie (2017) by Rebekah Fortune, High Life by Claire Denis (2018) and the series Trigger Point (2022). In 2022, he was attached to star in the Amazon Prime Video original film by Emerald Fennell Saltburn.
On television, Mitchell made his debut in the 2017 ITV period drama The Halcyon as Billy Taylor. He had his breakout role in the BBC Two and Netflix historical drama The Last Kingdom as Osferth, a role he would play from the second to fifth series. In 2019, he starred as Tom Bennett in the BBC One World War II drama World on Fire. In 2022, he appeared in the crime drama Trigger Point. Later that year, Mitchell began playing Prince Aemond Targaryen in the HBO fantasy series House of the Dragon, a Game of Thrones prequel and adaptation of George R. R. Martin's companion book Fire and Blood. His performance in the series has received critical acclaim. - Actress
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Anna Madeley is an English actress. She has been described by the British Theatre Guide's Philip Fisher as one of the United Kingdom's "brightest and most versatile young actresses". She grew up in London and started her career as a child actress. She performed for three seasons with the Royal Shakespeare Company and has appeared in three off-West End productions. She has starred in BBC TV films and on Channel 4. Anna has also done work in radio and film.
Madeley grew up in London, attending North London Collegiate School, and began her career as a child actress. She then trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama.
Madeley has performed three seasons with the Royal Shakespeare Company: 2001-2002; and 2003-2004. She appeared in The Roman Actor opposite Sir Antony Sher.
In 2005 she appeared in three off-West End productions (Laura Wade's Colder Than Here, as well as The Philanthropist (directed by David Grindley) and The Cosmonaut's Last Message..., both at the Donmar Warehouse), and rounded off the year starring as both Aaron and Young Alexander Ashbrook in the original Royal National Theatre production of Helen Edmundson's Coram Boy.
In 2006, Madeley starred in two BBC TV films - as the title character in The Secret Life of Mrs Beeton, and in the original drama Aftersun - and the high-profile ITV drama The Outsiders.
In 2007, Madeley appeared in Channel 4's Consent, which combined a dramatised vignette about an alleged date rape with a "real life" sequence in which lawyers and a jury made up of members of the public participated in a trial. In February 2007, Madeley played Nina in a production of The Seagull for a time, when the main actress fell ill.
She was the only cast member to reprise her role in Grindley's 2009 Broadway production of The Philanthropist.
In 2010 she appeared The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister, based on a script by Jane English, and starring Maxine Peake as Anne Lister, a 19th-century industrialist who was Britain's "first modern lesbian" and who kept a detailed journal. The film was shown on the opening night at the Frameline Film Festival at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco in June 2010.
In January 2013 Madeley starred in Hammer Films' first live theatre play, a new stage adaptation of The Turn of the Screw.
In 2016, she played the role of Clarissa Eden in the Netflix series The Crown.- Actor
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Freddie Prinze, Jr. was born on March 8, 1976, in Los Angeles, California, to Kathy Prinze (née Kathy Elaine Barber) and comedian/actor Freddie Prinze. He is of Puerto Rican, German, English, and Irish descent. Freddie lived in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in his early life. He attended three different schools during his childhood: Eldorado, Sandia, and La Cueva. After graduating in 1994, Freddie moved to L.A. to focus on an acting career. He immediately garnered featured roles on several episodic series, one of which was an episode of The Gun (1995), in which Freddie had a four-line part playing a punk kid who brought a gun to school. "That was my big break, and I thought it was huge," says Freddie. He then went on to appear in a few after-school specials, including Too Soon for Jeff (1996) and Detention: The Siege at Johnson High (1997) co-starring Ricky Schroder and Henry Winkler.
Freddie is married to actress Sarah Michelle Gellar, with whom he has two children.- Actor
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Born in Nutley, NJ, Nick Zano's passion for the movies began when he
first watched Goodfellas (1990) at the
age of 12. He had long dreamed of becoming a Navy Seal, but all that
changed in one afternoon at the cinema. Shortly after that, Zano and
his family moved south to West Palm Beach, Florida, where he finished
his high school education. Throughout his high school years, he was
active in both the drama and TV production departments. In his junior
year, Zano and his closest friends produced a weekly television program
at Wellington High School. The wildly humorous and offbeat skit comedy
show landed Zano in detention quite often, where he would kill time by
writing a series of short films. Those shorts, which he starred in and
helped to direct, made their way to the JVC Universal Film Competition
semifinals 3 years in a row.
Shortly after high school, he was offered a position with "Prelude
Pictures" (Lost in Space (1998),
Black Dog (1998)) in Television and
Feature Film Development. During that time, he also acted as Associate
Producer on the World AIDS Day TV special, Living Positive, hosted by
Lou Diamond Phillips. In June 2001,
Zano made the move to LA, where he began the daily grind of
auditioning. His quick wit and charming sense of humor immediately made
him a favorite among casting directors, who would call him in for reads
even when the character description was totally opposite to his looks.
Zano has a mental Rolodex overflowing with movie knowledge, which
helped him land the hosting gig on MTV's
Movie House (2002), which
premiered on the cable channel in May 2002. After his move to LA, Zano
remained close with his sisters and his Mom, who always supported and
inspired him. Zano resides in Los Angeles.- Andrea Alexis Parker learned to walk on the sand in Newport Beach, California. Andrea's natural grace led her beloved mother Karen Macaulay to enroll Andrea in ballet lessons at 5 years old, soon turning to serious classical training by the age of 8. By the time she was 11, Andrea's passion for dance was so strong that she began to leave home each summer to continue her formal ballet training in NYC and San Francisco. At 15, it was the thrill of her very young life to be invited to train full time with the San Francisco Ballet School and perform year-round with The San Francisco Ballet Company. Moving away from home to dance at The War Memorial Opera House while also touring with SFB was a dream come true, but life had other plans for Andrea.
Forced to retire from ballet at 18 when her 5'10" height (6'3" on point!) proved problematic for the lesser stature of the male ballet dancers, Andrea moved home to Los Angeles, where she studied and transitioned to contemporary dance. Andrea found herself a dance agent and began to book countless commercials, industrials, videos and dance gigs including MARRIED WITH CHILDREN. Her talent took her from LA to New York to Europe as a professional dancer, until she returned to Hollywood to study acting.
While continuing her studies, Andrea performed in several plays in Los Angeles where her talent was recognized by the legendary Susan Smith, eponymous head of what was then the hottest boutique talent agency in town. Andrea soon had her very first acting audition, and booked the role in what would become the classic Emmy-award winning SEINFELD episode "The Contest" and she never looked back as her acting took center stage.
Andrea's acting career took off when she was cast as George Clooney's love interest for the first two seasons of the global phenomenon hit series E.R. Next, she was set as the co-lead opposite David James Elliott in J.A.G. but faced a devastating disappointment when the network decided to go in another direction, replacing her after the pilot episode. Never one to quit anything, Andrea faced down those same network executives the very next season, landing her iconic starring role as Miss Parker in THE PRETENDER.
Andrea took the opportunity to learn fight choreography from some of the world's best stunt women, and learned how to handle firearms and shoot by the LAPD, bringing maximum authenticity to the boss lady roles she so often plays. She trained in stunt driving with world renowned stunt driving coach Bobby Ore, and held her own in the Toyota Celebrity Long Beach Grand Prix.
Andrea showed her incredible versatility as an actress when she shifted from drama to comedy, starring for 4 seasons as the gorgeous Lydia Weston in the underrated ABC ensemble comedy LESS THAN PERFECT, alongside such stars as Zachary Levi, Eric Roberts, Patrick Warburton, Sherry Shepherd, Will Sasso and Andy Dick.
Andrea was thrilled to join the cast of long running hit series DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES in its final season, and most recently held dual roles as twin sisters Mary Drake and Jessica DiLaurentis in the wildly popular Freeform series PRETTY LITTLE LIARS.
Andrea lives in Los Angeles and is married to the man of her dreams, film producer Michael Birnbaum. - Actor
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Rising British actor, Kit Connor landed his first film role aged eight in the lead role of "Tom" in Warner Bros. Pictures' GET SANTA (2014).
Since then, he has had roles in THE GUERNSEY LITERARY AND POTATO PEEL PIE SOCIETY (2018), THE MERCY (2018) and SLAUGHTERHOUSE RULEZ (2018).
Most recently and notably, he played "Older Reggie" in ROCKETMAN (2019), taking on the role of young Elton John. He also appeared in LITTLE JOE (2019) as "Joe".
Kit is well-known for voicing "Pantalaimon" in HIS DARK MATERIALS (2019 -2020). His TV work also includes WAR & PEACE (2016) and GRANDPA'S GREAT ESCAPE (2018).
His theatre credits include WELCOME HOME, CAPTAIN FOX! at the Donmar Warehouse, and FANNY & ALEXANDER, where he played "Alexander" at The Old Vic.
Played Nick Nelson in Season 1 of HEARTSTOPPER in April 2022. Will play Nick Nelson again in seasons 2 and 3 of Heartstopper.- Actress
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Cynthia Rothrock is a martial arts expert and athlete, who went on to become a film actress, starring in a number of highly successful B action movies. She first made a name as an action actress in Hong Kong before going on to wow audiences in her home turf. At the time of her popularity, she was well-known as the "Queen of Martial Arts films".
Cynthia Rothrock is the World Champion in martial arts Forms and Weapons (1981-1985). Her goal was to be undefeated and retire after five years. With over 100 competitions, she holds the undefeated worldwide record in martial arts Forms competition. In weapons competition, Cynthia is the first and only woman to win number one in North America against the men-at that time, women had to compete with the men. She holds five Black Belts with a rank of 8th Dan Grandmaster.
Upon completing her goal of being undefeated in competition, she began her martial arts acting career starring in movies produced and filmed in Hong Kong. Her first movie, Yes, Madam alongside Michelle Yeoh, broke box office records making her a massive star in Hong Kong. After three years of living in Hong Kong, finishing seven films, she returned to the United States to continue her acting career. Today she has starred in over 60 movies.
Cynthia has been a role model for women in martial arts and film. In 1983, she became the first woman to grace the cover of Karate Illustrated. Cynthia is a proud inductee into the prestigious Black Belt Hall of Fame, along with Bruce Lee and Chuck Norris. In 2016 she was the first martial artist (male or female) to be inducted into the prestigious International Sports Hall of Fame by Arnold Schwarzenegger and Dr. Robert Goldman.- Stephanie Arcila was born in Miami, Florida, USA. She is an actress, known for Fire Country (2022), Don't Breathe 2 (2021) and Penny Dreadful: City of Angels (2020).
- Devon Werkheiser is an actor known for his starring role as Ned Bigby in Nickelodeon's hit TV series Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide (2004). The show has continued fan base all over the world. Moving to Los Angeles from Atlanta at a young age, Devon has over 20 years of acting experience. More recent credits include Where's The Money (2017) Where's the Money (2017), Santa Girl (2019) Santa Girl (2019), and Sundown (2016), Sundown (2016). He is also seen in Crown Vic (2019) Crown Vic (2019), opposite Thomas Jane, produced by Alec Baldwin. Devon is also an independent musician with years of released music.
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Forrie J. Smith was born on 8 March 1959. He is an actor, known for Rambo III (1988), 2 Guns (2013) and Hell or High Water (2016).- Actress
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Camryn grew up in Peoria, Illinois before moving to Long Beach California for middle school. She went on to receive a B.F.A. from U.C. Santa Cruz and then went on to earn a M.F.A from New York University in 1987. Her mother, Sylvia (Nuchow), was a schoolteacher, and her father, Jerry, was a math professor.
She developed an interest in acting at an early age. While studying at New York University, Camryn learned sign language and worked as an interpreter and job coach while pursuing her acting career. In her early years in New York City she met and worked with Tony Kushner, Michael Mayer, and long list of theater luminaries. Her first play in New York was Hydriotaphia, written and directed by Tony Kushner. She went on to work at such renowned theaters as The New York Shakespeare Festival, Lincoln Center, Yale Repertory, New York Theater Workshop, The Atlantic Theater, Classic Stage Company, & Second Stage.
In 1994 she won an OBIE Award for her portrayal of Gemma in Craig Lucas' Missing Persons, directed by Michael Mayer. In 1995 she wrote and starred in her one-woman show, Wake Up, I'm Fat!, which played to sold out audiences at The Public Theater. She played the "Nurse" in Romeo and Juliet, directed by Michael Greif at the New York Shakespeare Festival and just completed a spectacular run of the Tony nominated rock musical, Spring Awakening on Broadway.
Manheim spent eight years playing defense attorney "Ellenor Frutt" on the Emmy Award winning drama, The Practice. Her portrayal of the feisty attorney garnered her an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series, Manheim was nominated once again for an Emmy and Golden Globe for her portrayal of "Gladys Presley" in the CBS miniseries Elvis.
In 1999 Manheim fulfilled a lifelong dream and became a New York Times best-selling author when her book Wake Up, I'm Fat! was published by Broadway Books. Camryn teaches and lectures all over the United States and abroad.- Actor
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James David Van Der Beek was born on March 8, 1977 in Cheshire, Connecticut, as the oldest of three children of Melinda (Weber), a gymnastics studio owner and Broadway dancer, and Jim Van Der Beek, a cell phone company executive. He has a brother named Jared who was born in 1979, and a sister named Juliana who was born in 1981. James started acting at 13 after suffering a concussion playing football that prevented him from playing for a year on doctor's orders. He landed the role of Danny Zuko in his school production of "Grease." After that, the acting bug sank in and the next three years he spent time doing local theater. Around 16, he and his mother went to New York City to find an agent and possible auditions. A year later, he was cast in an off-Broadway play called "Finding the Sun." After doing another play called "Shenandoah" in 1994, James received an academic scholarship to Drew University in NJ, where he was working towards obtaining a major in English with a minor in sociology and also at that time he won the role of Rick Sanford in the movie Angus (1995). In 1996, he won a very small supporting role in I Love You, I Love You Not (1996) which starred Claire Danes. After that film his acting career was at a dead end and he decided to continue with his schooling and eventually made the Dean's list. The college experience soon became old for James, so he took some time off to travel and when he returned he auditioned for a role in Dawson's Creek (1998). He won the lead in the show, and his life changed forever. Though James has taken a hiatus from his college studies to shoot the series, he still plans to finish his degree. He has starred in several hit films over the past couple of years, like Varsity Blues (1999) andTexas Rangers (2001).- Actor
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John Kapelos was born on 8 March 1956 in London, Ontario, Canada. He is an actor and writer, known for Big Sky (2020), The Umbrella Academy (2019) and The Shape of Water (2017).- Actress
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Perky American actress with a sexy style and a flair for comedy. Born
in New Jersey, she was raised by her singer mother in New York,
Michigan, and Oregon. She began acting as a child, in school and local
productions. After college at North Texas State and the University of
Idaho, she went to New York and landed work as a singer at the Radio
City Music Hall and then as a performer in Broadway musicals. She went
to Las Vegas as part of a comedy act and, there, she met
Jack Emrek, who introduced her to film and
television executives in Los Angeles. She made numerous appearances on
television in both comic and dramatic roles and, by the 1960s, was a
familiar and popular personality in movies. She specialized in spunky
types of great humor, innocent sexiness. Although she was off the
screen for much of the late 1970s, she reappeared in a few roles in the
1980s.- Actress
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Award-winning Canadian actress Susan Clark, born on March 8, 1943, took
up acting at an early age (12) in her hometown of Sarnia, Ontario. Her
family moved to Toronto around that period of time and she joined the
Toronto Children's Players Theatre. Her first professional curtain call
took place on the musical stage in a 1955 production of "Silk
Stockings" which starred veteran actor
Don Ameche.
The "acting bug" bit hard and a very determined Susan pressed her
family to allow her to study at London's prestigious Royal Academy of
Dramatic Arts. She gained valuable experience in repertory, making her
London debut in "Poor Bitos" in the early 1960s. She even got a taste
of on-camera work when she won multiple roles on a 1965 episode of
The Benny Hill Show (1957).
Returning to Canada, however, due to the illness of her father, she
subsequently decided to trek, instead, to Los Angeles to continue her
professional career. In search of on-camera work, she attracted notice
in some guest roles on TV and this eventually led to a Universal
contract. The ten-year contract was one of the last of its kind as
Hollywood was witnessing the demise of the studio contract system.
After gaining some exposure on episodes of
The Virginian (1962) and
Run for Your Life (1965),
Susan's first screen assignment for Universal was as the second female
lead in the soap-styled drama
Banning (1967) starring
Robert Wagner, in one of his
typical jet-setting playboy parts, and the scintillating
Jill St. John, who would wed her "Banning"
leading man two decades later. From there, Susan only grew in stature.
Playing the second female lead again in the critically-praised crimer
Madigan (1968) starring
Richard Widmark and
Inger Stevens, she finally earned top
female billing opposite Clint Eastwood in
Coogan's Bluff (1968) playing a
sexy parole officer and enjoying romantic clinches with the
up-and-coming film icon on film.
Tall and willowy with incandescent blue eyes, Susan continued to
impress on celluloid with roles in
Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here (1969),
Valdez Is Coming (1971) and, in
particular, Skin Game (1971). It was
70s TV-movies, however, that would take full advantage of Susan's
vibrant, intelligent acting talents. First came the tender-hearted
mini-movie
Something for a Lonely Man (1968).
While a vehicle for Bonanza's Dan Blocker,
co-star Susan made a strong, spunky impression as his small-town
romantic interest. This was followed by choice roles in
The Challengers (1970)
and The Astronaut (1972).
1975 was a banner year for Susan who not only provided a couple of
excellent scenes as Gene Hackman's wife in
the film-noir Night Moves (1975) but,
made a resounding, Emmy-winning impression on TV audiences as feminist
track-and-field Olympian-turned-golf star
Babe Didrikson Zaharias, who is
later felled by cancer, in the TV mini-bio
Babe (1975). This was a pronounced
victory for Susan both professionally and personally for it was on this
set that she met her second husband, co-star
Alex Karras, who played Babe's spouse
George. Susan was in immediate demand and was quickly cast as another
feisty, ill-fated heroine, this time in the form of famed aviatrix
Amelia Earhart (1976).
Predictably, Susan was wonderful and earned a second Emmy nomination
for her efforts (she didn't win).
She and Karras (who had a child, Katie, in 1980) went on to jointly act
in and/or produce various film and TV projects, including the TV movies
Jimmy B. & André (1980),
and
Maid in America (1982),
and the films
Nobody's Perfekt (1981) and
Porky's (1981). This culminated in their
biggest collaborative effort with the sitcom series
Webster (1983) wherein both were
unmercifully upstaged by the hopelessly cute antics of its tyke star
Emmanuel Lewis. While the series hardly
tested the couple's acting mettle and the plot was pretty much a
"Diff'rent Strokes" rehash, the show proved quite popular on its own
and put Clark and Karras firmly on the TV map between 1983 to 1988.
Susan, herself, earned a Golden Globe nomination for "Best Actress in a
Comedy Series".
Following the sitcom' demise, Susan relinquished the limelight a bit
and found contentment on the local Southern California stage. Relishing
acting challenges in such wide-ranging plays as "Meetin's on the Porch"
(1990) with Patty Duke and
Carrie Snodgress, "Afterplay" (1998),
"Bicoastal Women" (2003) and "The Importance of Being Earnest" (2004)
(as Lady Bracknell), she eventually became a dedicated member of the
Rubicon Theater Company in Los Angeles, gracing such plays there as
"The Glass Menagerie", "Dancing at Lughnasa", "The Devil's Disciple"
and, most recently, "A Delicate Balance."
Featured in the TV movies Snowbound: The Jim and Jennifer Stolpa Story (1994), Tonya & Nancy: The Inside Story (1994) and Toe Tags (1996), she was last seen on camera co-starring in the dramatic TV series Emily of New Moon (1998) as ever-rigid Aunt Elizabeth, who assists in raising her orphaned niece.
Susan has a daughter, Katie, by husband Karras who died of kidney failure in 2012.- Actor
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Boris Frederic Cecil Tay-Natey Ofuatey-Kodjoe, better known as Boris Kodjoe, is a German actor known for his roles as Jason in the 2000 film Love & Basketball (2000), and the sports-courier agent Damon Carter on the Showtime drama series Soul Food (2000).
Kodjoe was born in Vienna, Austria, the son of Ursula, a German psychologist of partially Jewish descent, and Eric Kodjoe, a Ghanaian physician who is of the Nzema people. He was named after Russian poet and writer Boris Pasternak. Kodjoe's great-grandmother was Jewish and died in the Holocaust; his maternal grandmother survived the war in hiding. Kodjoe's parents divorced when he was six years old. Kodjoe is fluent in German, English, and French, and speaks some Spanish. He has a brother named Patrick and two sisters named Nadja and Lara.- Actress
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Cyd Charisse was born Tula Ellice Finklea on March 8, 1922, in Amarillo,
Texas. Born to be a dancer, she spent her early childhood taking ballet
lessons and joined the Ballet Russe at age 13. In 1939, she married
Nico Charisse, her former dance teacher.
In 1943, she appeared in her first film,
Something to Shout About (1943),
billed as Lily Norwood. The same year, she played a Russian dancer in
Mission to Moscow (1943),
directed by Michael Curtiz. In 1945, she
was hired to dance with Fred Astaire in
Ziegfeld Follies (1945), and
that uncredited appearance got her a seven-year contract with MGM. She
appeared in a number of musicals over the next few years, but it was
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
with Gene Kelly that made her a star.
That was quickly followed by her great performance in
The Band Wagon (1953). As the
1960s dawned, musicals faded from the screen, as did her career. She
made appearances on television and performed in a nightclub revue with
her second husband, singer
Tony Martin. Cyd Charisse died at
age 86 of a heart attack on June 17, 2008 in Los Angeles, California.- Actress
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Alison Helene Becker was born in Allamuchy, New Jersey. After
graduating from high school by the age of 16, she attended Georgetown
University and because of her fascination with grammar and reading
literature, she decided to get a degree in English and eventually
graduated cum laude. She then began pursuing a career in the performing
arts, mainly focusing on writing and doing sketch comedies and
developing a wide array of original characters/personalities. She has
gotten a variety of acting stints in venues all over New York City,
where she moved after graduation. She's a regular player in the Upright
Citizens Brigade, a theatre improv comedy group, and has performed on
stage in Hopscoth: A New York Sex Comedy, Caroline's on Broadway, and
several other comedy clubs. Alison has also made her way in the
commercial world for Subway, Mastercard, and Hershey and appeared in a
few independent films including the critically acclaimed "Four Dead
Batteries." These past two years, the New Jersey native has continuously
added credentials to her name, this time on TV, by quirkily hosting the
shows "AV Squad" and "Comedy Academy" in the small, yet growing
National Lampoon Network and as a cast member of MTV's hidden camera
show "Boiling Points," where she uses her improv acting skills to play
pranks on unsuspecting people/contestants. Aside from these projects,
she has had bit parts in more TV programs as well.- Actor
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Robert Gene "Red" West was a close friend of Elvis Presley and a member of Presley's inner circle, known as "The Memphis Mafia". He first met Elvis in high school, where he was a year behind him. West played football for the Memphis Tigers high school football team, boxed in the Golden Gloves and played football for the Jones County Junior College Bobcats playing center.
West lived with his mother, Lois West, in the Hurt Housing project in Memphis. West became Elvis's personal driver in driving Elvis and band members Scotty Moore, Bill Black and later D.J. Fontana to different Southern cities for live appearances from 1955 to 1956. West served in the US Marine Corps from 1956 to late 1958 and was stationed in Norfolk, Virginia, which allowed him to stay in contact with Elvis. On August 14, 1958, West's estranged father, Newton Thomas West, died, the same day as Elvis' mother, Gladys Presley.
After Elvis' discharge from the US Army in 1960, West was employed as one of the star's bodyguards. Over the years, Elvis bought West a number of vehicles as he became a world-famous celebrity. West also became a movie stuntman and appeared in 16 of Elvis' films in the 1960s, usually playing extras or bit and supporting parts. West married one of Elvis' secretaries, Pat West, on July 1, 1961. West became a songwriter for songs that Elvis, Pat Boone, Ricky Nelson and Johnny Rivers recorded, including the classic tune "Separate Ways" for Elvis, which won a BMI Award. In addition to the Elvis movies, West appeared in three Robert Conrad TV series The Wild Wild West (1965), Black Sheep Squadron (1976) and The Duke (1979). During the 1970s West, his cousin Del 'Sonny' West, and Dave Hebler served as Elvis' bodyguards, in charge of his daily transportation and keeping weirdo or potentially dangerous fans away from him. On July 13, 1976, Vernon Presley, Elvis' father, fired all three bodyguards, criticizing what he believed to be their heavy-handed tactics. The three later collaborated on a book about their lives as Elvis' bodyguards, which was published just two weeks before Elvis' death in 1977.
West continued his acting and songwriting careers, the former until 2015, two years before his death.- Christiane Paul, an Emmy-Award-winning actress known for "In July," "Counterpart," "Parliament," and "FBI International" was born behind the Berlin wall in East Berlin. At the age of 28, she already was a medical doctor, had a little daughter and had starred in more than 20 movies including the national top-sellers "In July" and "Life is all you get." As the only daughter of a surgeon and a anesthetist, she was initially headed for an academic life. Acting caught her when she had already developed a successful modeling career. In order to unfold her full potential she decided to dedicate herself completely to acting. Since she has starred in more than 80 movie and television productions and is one of the most celebrated and sought-after actresses in Germany. She has won a number of awards including the international Emmy Award in 2016 and was nominated for numerous awards including the Germany Academy Award in 2017. Recently she has worked in English and French productions along side J.K. Simmons, Olivia Williams and Olivier Marchall. Christiane is married to an internationally renown physicist since 2017.
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Nora-Jane Noone was born on 8 March 1984 in Galway, Ireland. She is an actress and writer, known for The Descent (2005), The Magdalene Sisters (2002) and Brooklyn (2015).- Actor
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The son of the great character actor (and Errol Flynn sidekick) Alan Hale, Alan Hale Jr. (he dropped the Jr. after his father passed away) was literally born into the movies. Hale did his first movie as a baby and continued to act until his death. Unlike other child actors, Hale made a smooth transition in the movies and starred in several classics like Up Periscope (1959), The Lady Takes a Flyer (1958) and The West Point Story (1950), as well as many westerns. He did many television guest appearances as well before getting his role as Skipper Jonas Grumby on the cult comedy Gilligan's Island (1964). After the sitcom went off the air, Hale continued to act and even teamed up with Gilligan co-star Bob Denver in The Good Guys (1968), a CBS-TV comedy that lasted only two years. After that ended, Hale keep busy acting in guest appearances and maintained his business interests which included a restaurant and travel agency. On January 2, 1990, Alan Hale Jr. died at age 68 of thymus cancer at St. Vincent Medical Center (SVMC) in Los Angeles, California. Upon his death, his remains were cremated and his ashes were scattered into the Pacific Ocean.- Actress
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Laura was born on March 8 1981. A native of Aberdeen she began
performing as a child in local productions of 'The Sound of Music' and
'Annie'. She read history at Aberdeen University where she was part of a
drama group called Treading the Boards, and on graduation she came to
London to study acting at the Webber Douglas Academy. She has
performed on stage with the Royal Shakespeare Company and, after a
series of small roles in television series, in 2011 became an original
cast member of the popular show 'Call the Midwife'.- Actress
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Claire Trevor was born Claire Wemlinger in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn, New York, the only child of Fifth Avenue merchant-tailor Noel Wemlinger, an immigrant Frenchman from Paris who lost his business during the Depression, and his Belfast-born wife, Benjamina, known as "Betty". Young Claire's interest in acting began when she was 11 years old. She attended high school in Mamaroneck, Westchester County, New York. After starting classes at Columbia University, she spent six months at the American Academy of Dramatic
Arts, also in New York. Her adult acting experience began in the late 1920s in several stock productions; she appeared
with Robert Henderson's Repertory Players in Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1930. That same year, aged 20, she signed with Warner Bros. Not too far from her home haunts was Vitagraph Studios in Brooklyn, the last and best of the early sound process studios, which had been acquired by Warner Bros. in 1925 to become Vitaphone. Trevor appeared in several of the nearly 2000 shorts cranked out by the studio between 1926 and 1930. Then she was sent west to do ten weeks of stock productions with other contract players in St. Louis. In 1931 she did summer stock with the Hampton Players in Southampton, Long Island. Finally, she debuted on Broadway in 1932 in "Whistling in the Dark".
Trevor moved to the silver screen, debuting in the western Life in the Raw (1933). There would be three more films (one more western) that year and six or more through the 1930s. Although she had been typed playing gun molls and hard-case women of the world, she displayed her already considerable versatility in these early films, often playing competent, take-charge professional women as well as "shady" ladies. There was a disappointed-pout-vulnerability in her face and that famous slightly New York-burred voice that cracked with a little cry when heightened by emotion that quickly revealed an unusual and sensitive performer. Many of her early films were "B" potboilers, but she worked with Spencer Tracy on several occasions, notably Dante's Inferno (1935).
Hollywood finally took notice of her talents by nominating her for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her standout performance as a slum girl forced by poverty into prostitution in Dead End (1937), opposite Humphrey Bogart. That same year she did the radio drama "Big Town" with Edward G. Robinson, then teamed with he and Bogart again for the slightly hokey but entertaining The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938). Director John Ford tapped her for his first big sound Western film, Stagecoach (1939), the film that made a star of John Wayne. All her abilities to bring complexity to a character showed in her kicked-around dance hall girl "Dallas", one of the great early female roles. She and Wayne were electric, and they were paired in three more films during their careers.
In the 1940s, Trevor began appearing in the genre that brought her to true stardom: "film noir". She started in a big way as killer Ruth Dillon in Street of Chance (1942) with Burgess Meredith. She was equally convincing as the more complex but nonetheless two-faced Mrs. Grayle in the Philip Marlowe vehicle Murder, My Sweet (1944). However, she was something very different and quite extraordinary as
washed-up, hopelessly alcoholic former nightclub singer and moll Gaye Dawn in Key Largo (1948), for which she won an Academy Award as Best Supporting Actress, again working with Bogart and Robinson. Her pitiful rendition of the torch song "Moanin' Low", which her character was forced to sing, humiliatingly, for the sadistic crime boss played by Robinson (to whom she is, figuratively speaking, permanently tethered) in exchange for a desperately needed drink. There were more quality movies and an additional Academy nomination (The High and the Mighty (1954)) into the 1950s,, but she also was doing work on stage and in television.
She was enthusiastic about live TV and appeared on several famous shows by the mid-1950s. She won an Emmy for Best Live Television Performance by an Actress as the flighty wife of Fredric March in NBC's Dodsworth (1956). She alternated her career among film, stage and TV roles. As she aged she easily transitioned into "distinguished matron" and mother roles, one of her most unusual ones being the murderous Ma Barker in Ma Barker and Her Boys (1959). Her final film role was as Sally Field's mother in Kiss Me Goodbye (1982).
Trevor and her third husband, producer Milton H. Bren, had long been residents of tony Newport Beach, California, to which they returned when she finally retired from screen work. However, she did maintain an active interest in stage work, and became associated with the University of California-Irvine's School of Arts. She and her husband contributed some $10 million to further its development for the visual and performing arts (that included three endowed professorships). After her passing in April 2000 at 90 years of age, the University renamed the school The Claire Trevor School of the Arts. Her presence on the UCI campus is in more than spirit alone. She donated her Oscar and her Emmy to UCI; both are on display in the arts plaza at the campus theatre that bears her name.- Actress
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Actress of both the English and American stage and screen, Lynn Redgrave was born in Marylebone, London, England, into one of the world's most famous
acting dynasties. As the daughter of Rachel Kempson and Sir
Michael Redgrave, sister of
Vanessa Redgrave and
Corin Redgrave, and granddaughter of Roy Redgrave and Margaret Scudamore, all of whom were actors, her early
aspirations were surprisingly to become an equestrienne or a chef. It was not until the age of 15 that she became more and more involved in acting
and her father's stage performances.
Attending London's Central School of Music and Drama, she made her
stage debut in 1962 and began film work a year later. It wasn't until
her lovable role as the ugly-duckling in
Georgy Girl (1966), that she was
taken notice and, as a result, won both the Golden Globe, New York Film
Critics Circle Award and a nomination for the coveted Best Actress at
the 1967 Academy Awards. Despite this promising performance, Lynn
struggled to find promising follow-up work, she played the lead in the
fluffy Smashing Time (1967) and
The Virgin Soldiers (1969),
low-key films that were relevant at the time of London's swinging 60s,
but very quickly became largely forgotten. She married stage
actor/director John Clark and her
sister, Vanessa Redgrave, who
was also Oscar-nominated the same year for
Morgan! (1966),
was also gaining exposure and critical success if not surpassing Lynn,
on both the British stage and films and was largely considered the
leading face of England's breakout actresses of the
'60s, alongside Julie Christie and other high-profile actresses.
Becoming the label of
Vanessa Redgrave's
younger and chubbier sister "that did that film a few years ago" didn't
sit well with Lynn and, as a result, she lost considerable weight and
permanently settled in the U.S. in 1974 to distance herself from this.
Primarily based in southern California, she regularly commuted to New
York and became notable particularly on the Broadway stage, and had
successful runs in "Black Comedy/White Lies" (1967), "My Fat Friend"
(1974), "Mrs. Warren's Profession" (1976), "Knock Knock" (1976), "Saint
Joan" (1977-1978), "Aren't We All" (1985) and "Sweet Sue" (1987). She
was prolifically hired by major networks to appear on a variety of TV
talk and game shows and held the position of co-host for a few seasons
of
Not for Women Only (1968),
while acting on prime-time TV, whether it was guest spots, mini-series
or short-lived TV series. For over 20 years, Redgrave's film career was
infrequent and admittedly "terrible" by the actress herself, she
notoriously played the title character in the critically-bashed,
The Happy Hooker (1975), and the
all-star cast misfire,
The Big Bus (1976), and, in the
1980s, she focused in a different direction, becoming a spokesperson
and commercial actress for "Weight Watchers". This coincided with the
release of her well- received book: "This Is Living: How I Found Health
and Happiness", that detailed her weight issues and eating binges, it
was also revealed that for years she suffered bulimia. In the
mid-to-late '90s, Redgrave had somewhat of a resurgence in her career,
from 1993-1994, she spent over 8 months on Broadway, as well as touring
across the world, performing her own personally written show of
"Shakespeare for My Father", that explored the bisexuality, aloof
persona and intimidating resume of her father. In 1996,
Scott Hicks reignited her film
career after many years of inactivity by casting her in the Australian
Oscar-winning hit, Shine (1996), in which
she gave a short yet tender performance as "Gillian", the woman
Geoffrey Rush's character falls in love
with. Another Golden Globe win/Oscar nomination followed (this time in
the supporting category) for her role as the Hungarian housekeeper in
Gods and Monsters (1998). Her
marriage abruptly ended in 1999, when infidelity was discovered on her
husband's behalf and a nasty divorced followed, they produced three
children Benjamin, Kelly Clark and
Annabel Clark.
Continually working her way through film, television and stage
performances in the '00s, recently awarded the OBE, Lynn Redgrave was
shocked to discover lumps on her body and was diagnosed with breast
cancer. As a result, she took time to write "Journal: A Mother and
Daughter's Recovery from Breast Cancer" with her youngest daughter,
Annabel Clark, in 2003 and tragically lost
her 7-year battle on 2 May 2010 (aged 67) in her family home,
surrounded by her loved ones. Her diagnosis led her to realize the
beauty and simplicities of life, and she was quoted as saying: "there
isn't any such thing as a bad day. Yes, bad things happen. But any day
that I'm still here, able to feel and think and share things with
people, then how could that possibly be a bad day?".- Actor
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After several years of training in New York, Jed Rees began his acting
career on various film and television productions shooting in his
hometown of Vancouver, some of which included The X-Files (1993), The Outer Limits (1995), and the movie Fear (1996), starring Mark Wahlberg and Reese Witherspoon. Jed returned to New York for the theatrical production of "Two Pianos, Four Hands", at the Promenade Theater. In 1999, he drove his
beat up old convertible down to L.A. looking for measurable work and
landed a job off his first audition for his role in Galaxy Quest (1999). Since
then, Jed has continued to work on both sides of the border. His more
notable credits include The Chris Isaak Show (2001) (for Showtime), The Ringer (2005), Elizabethtown (2005), Men with Brooms (2002), and guest stars on Chuck (2007), CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000), Ghost Whisperer (2005), and Pretty Little Liars (2010).
Jed resides with his family in Topanga, California.- Jessica Ann Collins was born on 8 March 1983 in San Antonio, Texas, USA. She is an actress, known for Zero Dark Thirty (2012), Revolution (2012) and Person of Interest (2011).
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Matthew "Matty" Nable is a former Rugby League footballer turned actor.
After playing in the Winfield Cup Premiership for the Manly-Warringah
Sea Eagles and South Sydney Rabbitohs during the 1990s, he wrote and
starred in the rugby league-centered drama The Final Winter in 2007. He
is a good friend and frequent collaborator of former Newcastle
Five-Eighth turned actor Matthew Johns in television as well. Nable
grew up on the Northern Beaches of Sydney and also, as a young boy,
spent two years at Portsea, Victoria when his father, a soldier, was
stationed there. His father had also worked as a trainer for the
Australian national rugby league team and his brother, Adam Nable,
would become a professional player as well. Matt rose through the junior
ranks at the Manly-Warringah club and made half-a-dozen appearances for
the first-grade team, later switching to the South Sydney Rabbitohs for
a stint. After another season in England where he played for Carlisle
before moving to the London Broncos.- Actor
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2022 is shaping up to be another breakout year for Leon! Leon is starring in the action movie
"A Day to Die" opposite Bruce Willis and Frank Grillo in theaters March 2022. Leon can be seen in the Show:me Drama "City on A Hill". In 2020 Leon starred in Hallmark's #1 movie of the year, "Time for Us to Come Home for Christmas"! In 2019 Leon starred in the move "Her Only Choice", an International Press Academy nominee for Best Movie Made for TV, streaming on Netflix.
Leon also co-starred and executive produced the award-winning, international TV series "40 & Single".
Leon is one of the stars of the provocative series "A Luv Tale" and "Games Peoples Play" both premiered in 2021
as well as re-occurring role on CBS' "Blue Bloods."
Leon has played a wide variety of memorable roles from his debut in Madonna's most famous video "Like a Prayer," to the lead role of Disney's blockbuster hit "Cool Runnings". He was the hero in New Line's urban sports drama "Above the Rim," the ruthless villain in Tri-Star's action hit "Cliffhanger," and is his most love-hate role, Russell in 20th Fox hit "Waiting to Exhale". He starred in the NAACP Best Picture Award winning "Once Upon A Time When We Were Colored," and HBO's first original series "OZ". Leon continued to shine in musical roles such as Robert Townsend's "The Five Heartbeats" (voted the #1 African American film by AOL), the Emmy Winning mini-series "The Temptations," as lead singer, David Ruffin and the NBC authorized biography of "Little Richard" both earning him NAACP Best Actor nominations. AOL named Leon as one of sexiest black actors of all :mes. Other credits include BAFTA Winner Leila Djansi's films, "And Then There Was You", and "Where Children Play,"as well as , "Cover" directed by Bill Duke.
Leon's band, "Leon & The Peoples" released the band's second album, "Love Is A Beautiful Thing" on Spectra Music label with two top 20 Billboard singles and rave reviews. The groups music can be heard on all music streaming platforms and make sure to catch them live as they perform their reggae soul sound around the country! Leon works behind the scenes as well, producing music videos as well as films with his New York based production company Motion Mob Films. He is extremely proud of his PSA "We Will Thrive" and his band's "World's Gonna Come Around" music video which is an example of Leon's activism thru art.- Actor
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Sean McClory was born in Dublin, Ireland, but spent his early life in
Galway. He was the son of Hugh Patrick, an architect and civil
engineer, and Mary Margaret Ball, who had been a model. Sean decided to
become an actor and joined Dublin's renowned Abbey Theater (also known
as the National Theater of Ireland, opened in 1904). He rose through
the ranks playing in productions of the works of such authors as
William Butler Yeats and
George Bernard Shaw, and soon began
to play leads mostly in comedies (popular through most of the 1940s and
into the 1950s). When comedies began to fade from the theater after
World War II, McClory with turned an eye toward film. In early 1947 he
decided to make the jump to America and break into Hollywood. His first
roles were that of a staple in American films: the Irish cop, which he
played in two of the "Dick Tracy" series in 1947. In 1949 he signed a
short contract with 20th Century-Fox. By 1950 he was showing up in more
notable films - though uncredited, particularly in
The Glass Menagerie (1950).
Within a year McClory's talents were being showcased in various small
feature roles. John Ford finally began
casting - a painstaking process for the finicky director -- for his
long conceived The Quiet Man (1952)
and chose McClory for a small but showy part, in which he was seen
throughout the film feature with
Charles B. Fitzsimons, the younger
brother of the film's star, Maureen O'Hara,
playing an Irish villager. Although some of the cast were familiar
members of the "John Ford Stock Company", many roles were filled by
actual Irish villagers (the film was shot on location) and included a
generous helping of Abbey Theater alumni: the Shields brothers
(Barry Fitzgerald and
Arthur Shields) and
Jack MacGowran, in addition to O'Hara
McClory. Ford wanted him for roles in several of his subsequent films,
however McClory's busy film and TV schedule only allowed him to accept
roles in two other Ford films, The Long Gray Line and Cheyenne Autumn.
In 1953 McClory played one of his standout roles as menacing, shady
archaeologist Jefferson in
Plunder of the Sun (1953), a
good adventure thriller helped along by location shooting in Mexico.
McClory, with a white-tinted crewcut and dark glasses (very effective),
had the opportunity to reveal the depth of his talent and really stole
the picture from star Glenn Ford, who
couldn't get away from his usual mumbling delivery.
McClory had a cultured, neutral Irish brogue that fit well in small- or
big-screen performances, unlike such Irish actors as Barry Fitzgerald
who, though very effective and beloved, had a thick brogue that kept
him forever cast as an Irishman. As a result, McClory was much more at
home in American TV and had many memorable roles from 1953 onward,
appearing in a gamut of episodic TV in addition to his feature film
work. However, it was his frequent appearances on the small screen that
enabled McClory to stand out in viewers' memories, especially in a
range of western and adventure series (in which he played a good
sprinkling of Irish characters) well into the 1970s. Though not as busy
in the 1980s as he was in the '70s, one role in which he truly stood
out was in an adaptation by
John Huston of Irish writer
James Joyce's famous 1907 short
story "The Dead" made in 1987
(The Dead (1987)), his final film
appearance. McClory's role as Mr. Grace was not a character in the
original story but was created by Huston and his son
Tony Huston to provide McClory with
a reading of the medieval Irish poem "Young Donal", which was very
effective to the mood of this look at Irish family remembrance.- Actress
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Miia Harris was born on 8 March 2003. She is an actress, known for Monster High 2 (2023), Monster High: The Movie (2022) and That Girl Lay Lay (2021).- Actor
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Kendrick Sampson was born on 8 March 1988 in Houston, Texas, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Insecure (2016), How to Get Away with Murder (2014) and The Vampire Diaries (2009).- Actress
- Producer
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Meredith Scott Lynn was born on 8 March 1970 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Hollywood Homicide (2003), Legally Blonde (2001) and Forces of Nature (1999).- Actress
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The youngest of four siblings, Reagan Pasternak is an actress and singer who has won numerous awards and scholarships for her music. In 2003 she was nominated for a Gemini (the Canadian equivalent of the Emmy award) for her performance as writer F. Scott Fitzgerald's wife, Zelda Fitzgerald, in Hemingway vs. Callaghan (2003). In 2009 she was again nominated for a Gemini, this time for her role on the acclaimed series Being Erica (2009).- Actor
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Devon Graye was born on 8 March 1987 in Mountain View, California, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Nope (2022), I See You (2019) and 13 Sins (2014).- Actress
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Charlotte Ray Rosenberg was born and raised in New York City. She booked her first ever audition in a nation-wide open call, making her feature film debut in Little Manhattan (2005), starring alongside Josh Hutcherson, Cynthia Nixon and Bradley Whitford. She graduated magna cum laude from Northwestern University with a BA in Theatre. Other credits include Sneaky Pete (2015), FBI: Most Wanted (2020) and Inside Amy Schumer (2013).- Actor
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Micky Dolenz was born in Los Angeles on March 8, 1945. His dad, George,
had starred in a number of films, and played the title character in the
mid-1950s television series The Count of Monte Cristo.
Micky first established himself as a performer at age ten when, under
the stage name of 'Mickey Braddock,' he starred in his first TV series,
Circus Boy, which aired from 1956 to 1958. In his teens, Micky
guest-starred on a number of television shows. He also learned to play
guitar and performed with a number of rock 'n roll bands, including one
called The Missing Links.
In autumn 1965, Micky was one of 400 applicants who responded to a
trade ad announcing auditions for a new TV show about a rock band.
Micky auditioned for The Monkees TV show playing Chuck Berry's "Johnny
B. Goode," and was chosen along with three other actors - Davy Jones,
Michael Nesmith, and Peter Tork.
The Monkees' debut single, "Last Train to Clarksville," featuring Micky
on lead vocals, hit the charts September 10, 1966 and rocketed to
number one. Two days later,
The television show debuted on NBC to great success. The TV ratings
remained high for two seasons and Micky and the band starred in their
own feature film, Head, a 1968 psychedelic romp co-written by a young
Jack Nicholson. The movie is now considered a cult classic.
Ultimately, The Monkees achieved their greatest success as recording
artists selling in excess of 65 million units and achieving worldwide
success.
Their first four albums-The Monkees (1966); More of the Monkees (1967);
Headquarters (1967); and Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones, Ltd.
(1967) reached number one on the charts and launched three number-one
singles: "Last Train to Clarksville," "I'm a Believer" (with lead
vocals by Micky), and "Daydream Believer." The group's first five
albums also went gold.
In 1977, Micky flew to London to star in Harry Nilsson's West End
Musical, The Point! He planned to stay three months but remained for
twelve years. During that time, Micky honed his behind-the-camera
skills (which he first practiced by directing several TV episodes of
The Monkees) as producer-director for the BBC and London Weekend
Television. He also directed a short feature film, The Box, written by
Michael Palin and Terry Jones of Monty Python, and helmed numerous
music videos.
In 1986, MTV broadcast episodes of The Monkees show and exposed a whole
new generation to 'Monkeemania.' Micky and Peter Tork recorded new
tracks for Arista Records and the single, "That Was Then, This Is Now,"
became their first Top 20 record since 1968. Micky, Peter and Davy
Jones subsequently reunited for a 1986 summer tour that was so
successful it sparked the reissue of all The Monkees' classic LPs as
well as Pool It! on Rhino Records. At one point in 1987, there were
seven Monkees' albums on Billboard's Top 200 LP's Chart. In 1996, The
Monkees again joined together, this time for a "30 Year Reunion" summer
tour around America. The response was so great that they also toured
the following year, this time finishing up in England.
When Micky returned to the United States, he went out on the road with
the National Touring Company of Grease. Micky enjoyed musical theater
so much that he accepted the lead role in a Canadian production of A
Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum in 1993, and in 2004 he
starred in Elton John's Broadway musical Aida, as Zoser.
In 1993, Micky's autobiography I'm A Believer; My Life Of Monkees,
Music, And Madness (Hyperion/Disney) was released. In addition to
writing, Micky has divided his time between acting (The Drew Carey
Show, Days Of Our Lives, and General Hospital); directing (Boy Meets
World for ABC/Disney and Pacific Blue for USA Networks); and touring
with his own band featuring his sister, Coco Dolenz.
In 2005 Dolenz was also on WCBS FM as an on-air personality, and
released his first children's book Gakky Two-Feet (Penguin), as well as
Micky Dolenz' Rock & Riollin' Trivia (Square One Publishers). He also
appeared in the revival of Pippin'.
In March 2007, it was announced that Micky would appear in Rob Zombie's
Halloween remake as 'Derek Allen' - a gun-shop owner.
Also, Micky was featured in VH1's recent Rock Doc Monterey Pop At 40,
and in CMT's Gone Country, alongside George Clinton; Taylor Dane; and,
Sheila E.
Micky began 2010 with a run in the West End production of the play
Hairspray; playing the character of 'Wilbur Turnblad.'
Micky's album, King For A Day; is a tribute to the songs of Carole King
(Gigatone Records) was released August 31 2010.
The three Monkees (Micky, Davy and Peter) re-group for a worldwide tour
beginning in June of 2011. Spanning both England and the U.S., the
group garnered some of their best reviews ever - even from Rolling
Stone magazine. The reviews on Dolenz were particularly impressive- the
review in the Huffington Post compared his voice to a brilliant-cross
between Roy Orbison and Freddie Mercury. The close of the tour, held at
L.A.'s Greek Theatre was especially joyous; as fans and friends turned
out for the event. They also appeared in August on the nationally
broadcast talkfest The View, with Dolenz's old compatriot Whoopi
Goldberg as one of the hosts.
In 2012, word leaked out that Micky was beginning (or, finishing) a
yet, untitled solo album. The only concept revealed was that each of
the songs was to represent a particular moment in Dolenz's life. The
album Remember (Robo Records-Universal) will be released on September
25, 2012. Then, while in New York, preparing for a possible new role in
a musical called Garage Band, Davy Jones unexpectedly passed away. With
a series of tributes scheduled, one done in early April at B.B. King's
in New York, Micky spent the summer of 2012 on a series of solo shows
with his band and as part of the 2012 Happy Together Tour. Micky will
also record a live album on October 19, 2012, at B.B. King's in NYC;
and, will re-group in November with mates Micahel Nesmith and Peter
Tork for a series of Monkee-reunion shows.- Barbara Eve Harris was born in Tobago to Jamaican parents and moved to Canada at the age of 6 with her family. Raised and
educated in Ottawa, the national capital, she graduated from the University of Ottawa with a B.A. (concentration in Theatre and
Philosophy). The initial plan was for Law School, but despite offers of admission, including scholarships, she followed her heart to be a performer instead.
Although trained mainly as an actor, her professional career began with a dance role in New York City in "Follies de Paris", a Vegas style review. It was dancing that led to her film debut in "Night Magic", a fantasy musical shot in Montreal, Quebec. This first movie role also meant a return to acting, and led to a thriving film and television career of 25 years (to date). A recipient of several regional Canadian awards for acting, and a Gemini nomination for Best Actress In A Continuing Leading Dramatic Role (as Wanda Gibbs in "Side Effects"), she chose to expand her horizons and relocated to Los Angeles in 1998.
Barbara's many starring roles span the range from tough U.S. Army Ranger Drill Instructor Sgt. Rhodes (Dead Men Can't Dance (1997)) to grief-stricken widow and mother Janice Crosby, opposite Louis Gossett Jr. (In His Father's Shoes (1997)). Her credits include some 9 theatrical features, 20 television features, and more than 100 episodic television appearances, including the role of FBI Agent Felicia Lang in the final 3 seasons of the hit series Prison Break (2005). Aside from numerous locations within North America, she has also filmed in the Philippines (Dead Men Can't Dance (1997)), New Zealand (Nightmare Man (1999)), Hawaii (ER (1994)) and Bogotá, Colombia (Mental (2009)). - Producer
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Cass Warner was a third-generation filmmaker. Her grandfather, Harry M. Warner, was the original President and one of the founders of Warner Bros. studio. She began her career sitting in on story meetings with her award-winning writer/producer father, Milton Sperling, and wandering the Warner Bros. lot observing the magic of movie making. After studying acting with the acclaimed Milton Katselas, and learning screenwriting under the mentor-ship of her father and Howard Koch of Casablanca fame, her production company, Warner Sisters, was born. She carried on the original Warner Bros. motto -- making films that "educate, entertain and enlighten". After years of research, she wrote "The Brothers Warner" book, the definitive family biography and intimate portrait of the four legendary Warner brothers, who founded Warner Bros. studio.
Warner Sisters had on its slate all of Howard Koch's un-produced screenplays, plays, short stories and novels to develop into a library, as well as individual projects. She wrote, produced and directed a documentary on Dennis Hopper called HOPPER: In His Own Words (2012). In 2008, she completed a feature documentary, The Brothers Warner (2007), that she directed, wrote, produced and narrated. The film is an intimate portrait of the family and a tribute to their legacy. The PBS American Masters series aired the 60-minute version for two years. The film has won numerous awards, and Cass won the prestigious HBO Films Producer Award, and was on the Emmy's nomination list as a Director in 2009.
A favorite on-going project was a series of thoughtful, one-on-one conversations that capture the passion of people's journey to success like: Matthew McConaughey, Chick Corea, and many others including her actor son, Cole Hauser (who plays Rip in the Yellowstone tv series.) These interviews are forming an inspirational library for her non-profit, "The Dream Factory." Excerpts from the series have been aired on The Starz cable channel.
She had four children.- Actor
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Robert Stanton was born on 8 March 1963 in San Antonio, Texas, USA. He is an actor, known for Mercury Rising (1998), The Stepford Wives (2004) and A League of Their Own (1992).- Paddi Edwards was born on 8 March 1931 in Bristol, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Hercules (1997), The Little Mermaid (1989) and Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982). She died on 18 October 1999 in Encino, California, USA.
- George Innes was born on 8 March 1938 in London, England, UK. He is an actor, known for The Italian Job (1969), Stardust (2007) and Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003). He was previously married to Sherri.
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- Writer
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Kapil Talwalkar is an Indian-American actor. He was raised in the Bay Area by Umesh and Uma Talwalkar, tech industry professionals, and he has a sister, Mira, who is also an actor. While studying acting at the University of Southern California, his professional stage debut came during school when he was cast in a lead role alongside C.S. Lee of Dexter fame in East West Players' critically acclaimed production of Animals Out of Paper. After graduation he remained in LA to start his film and television career.- Actress
- Producer
- Soundtrack
Janet Wright was born in 1945 in England and grew up in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. She was raised in a family of theatre actors. Her
siblings are: Anne Wright, John Wright and Susan Wright. Janet had the chance to work with her two sisters, Susan and Anne, in the theater play "Les Belles Soeurs". Besides from her work on television and cinema, Janet has also been involved in several theater projects like:
Memoir, The Club, Miss Margarida's Way, Hedda Gabler, The Seahorse, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, A Lie of the Mind, Not Wanted on the
Voyage, Uncle Vanya, Shirley Valentine, King John, In the Ring, Hamlet, The Bacchae, Glengarry Glen Ross, Mabel Leaves Forever and Fool
For Love, Dancing at Lughnasa and Wrong for Each Other among others.
Janet Wright was married to Brian Richmond and had a son with him named Jacob Richmond who is a playwright, She has a daughter named Celine Richmond. She was later married to Bruce Davis. In 29 December 1991, her 44-year-old sister Susan and her parents, Jack and Ruth, died in a house fire.- Actor
- Producer
- Cinematographer
Peter Paul and his twin brother David, were born in Hartford, Connecticut, in the U.S. They are both professional body builders and have been known as "The Barbarian Brothers". He and David are both actors and producers, known for Twin Sitters (1994), The Barbarians (1987), Think Big (1989) and Natural Born Killers (1994).- Director
- Writer
- Editor
Born in 1974, Sebastián Lelio is one of the leading figures (along with
Pablo Larraín,
Andrés Wood and a few others) of the
post-dictatorship Chilean cinema. After graduating from the "Escuela de
Cine de Chile" in Santiago, Lelio started by making shorts (he made
five from 1995 to 2003, as well as a documentary). From 2005 on, he
directed four remarkable feature films, the first three very dark, the
fourth one somewhat lighter, which all garnered awards in the festival
circuit.
The Sacred Family (2005) is
kind of Chilean version of
Pier Paolo Pasolini's
Teorema (1968). It was followed by
Navidad (2009), a drama of uncommon
intensity focusing on three teenagers alienated from their families and
The Year of the Tiger (2011),
recounting the escape of an inmate during Chile's 2010 earthquake.
Coming after this taught triptych,
Gloria (2013) surprises by its
peaceful tone. The amorous adventures of Gloria, a sixty-year-old
office worker in Santiago, although not without tensions and
bitterness, are less upsetting than what Lelio had filmed before. But
whether dark or rosy, Lelio's cinema explores the Chilean society of
today with the same acuteness.- Ashley Spencer was born on 8 March 1985 in Canton, Ohio, USA. She is an actress, known for The Last Five Years (2014), Avenue Q(uarantine) (2020) and I Wish... (2011). She has been married to Jeremy Jordan since 8 September 2012. They have one child.