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Domhnall Gleeson is an Irish actor and writer.
He is best known for his portrayal of Bill Weasley in the Harry Potter film franchise (2010-2011), About Time (2013), Ex Machina (2015) and The Revenant (2015).
He is the son of actor Brendan Gleeson, alongside whom he has appeared in several films and theatre projects.
Gleeson starred in Anna Karenina (2012), Frank (2014), Goodbye Christopher Robin (2017).
He also portrayed the First Order's General Hux in Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) and Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017).
In 2013 he starred in the Black Mirror episode Be Right Back.
His film debut was Boy Eats Girl (2005).- Actress
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Emily Irene VanCamp (born May 12, 1986) is a Canadian actress, known for her lead roles on the WB series Everwood (2002), the ABC dramas Brothers & Sisters (2006) and Revenge (2011), and as Sharon Carter / Agent 13 in Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) and Captain America: Civil War (2016). VanCamp stars as the female lead in the Fox medical drama series The Resident (2018), which debuted in January 2018 as a midseason entry in the 2017-18 US television season.
VanCamp was born in Port Perry, Ontario. She is the third of four daughters born to Cindy and Robert VanCamp. Her father is an animal nutritionist and her first job was working for her father, delivering food to clients in and around her hometown.
VanCamp started studying dance at age three, and wanting to become a professional dancer, at the age of 11 convinced her parents to let her attend a summer training program in Montreal. At 12, she was accepted at the École supérieure de ballet du Québec, the training program of Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, and moved in with a local French Canadian family.
In 1998, VanCamp became interested in acting after visiting her sister Katie on the set of the film Ladies Room (1999). She started taking acting classes on Saturday afternoons, found an agent and, after working on a few commercials, was cast in the second part of the three-part season-seven premiere of the Canadian children's horror anthology television series Are You Afraid of the Dark? (1990)Her character was present in one scene and spoke no dialogue, playing opposite a 17-year-old Elisha Cuthbert.- Actress
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Malin was born in Stockholm, Sweden and raised in Toronto, Canada. Her
mother, Pia (Sundström), is a model and aerobics instructor, and her
father, Magnus Åkerman, is an insurance broker. They moved to Toronto
when she was age 2. At age 5, she began appearing in TV commercials.
Her parents divorced when she was 6 and her father returned to Sweden.
At age 17, she won the Canadian title of Ford Supermodel. This enabled
her to spend 3 years as a catwalk model in Europe. She decided to
become a child psychologist and enrolled in York University but she was
offered a guest role in
Earth: Final Conflict (1997)
so she turned her attention back to acting. She moved to Los Angeles in
2001 and won roles in both TV and film. Her breakthrough role came when
she was cast as Silk Spectre II in
Watchmen (2009).- Actor
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Rami Said Malek (born May 12, 1981) is an American actor. He won a Critics' Choice Award and the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for his lead role as Elliot Alderson in the USA Network television series Mr. Robot. He also received Golden Globe Award, Screen Actors Guild Award, and TCA Award nominations.
Malek has acted in supporting roles for other film and television series such as Night at the Museum trilogy, Fox comedy series The War at Home (2005-2007), HBO miniseries The Pacific (2010), Larry Crowne (2011), Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master (2012), The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 (2012), the independent film Ain't Them Bodies Saints (2013) and the dramatic film Short Term 12 (2013). He was also in the video-game Until Dawn (2015) as Joshua "Josh" Washington. Malek is set to portray musician Freddie Mercury in the upcoming biographical drama Bohemian Rhapsody (2018).
Rami Said Malek was born in Los Angeles, to an Egyptian Coptic Orthodox family. His late father was a tour guide in Cairo who later sold insurance. His mother is an accountant. Malek was raised in the Coptic faith. He has an identical twin brother named Sami, younger by four minutes, who is a teacher, and an older sister, Yasmine, who is a medical doctor. Malek attended Notre Dame High School in Sherman Oaks, California, where he graduated in 1999 along with actress Rachel Bilson. He attended high school with Kirsten Dunst, who was a grade below and shared a musical theater class with him. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 2003 from the University of Evansville in Evansville, Indiana.
In 2004, Malek began his acting career with a guest-starring role on the TV series Gilmore Girls. That same year he voiced "additional characters" for the video game Halo 2, for which he was uncredited. In 2005, he got his Screen Actors Guild card for his work on the Steven Bochco war drama Over There, in which he appeared in two episodes. That same year, he appeared in an episode of Medium and was cast in the prominent recurring role of Kenny, on the Fox comedy series The War at Home. In 2006, Malek made his feature film debut as Pharaoh Ahkmenrah in the comedy Night at the Museum and reprised his role in the sequels Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009) and Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (2014). In the spring of 2007, he appeared on-stage as "Jamie" in the Vitality Productions theatrical presentation of Keith Bunin's The Credeaux Canvas at the Elephant Theatre in Los Angeles.
Since 2015 he has played the lead role in the USA Network computer-hacker, psychological drama Mr. Robot. His performance earned him nominations for the Dorian Award, Satellite Award, Golden Globe Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award, as well as wins in the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actor in a Drama Series and Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series.
In September 2016, Buster's Mal Heart, the first movie in which Malek plays a starring role, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival to positive reviews. In it, Malek plays one man with two lives, Jonah and Buster. In August 2016, it was announced that Malek will co-star with Charlie Hunnam as Louis Dega in a contemporary remake of the 1973 film Papillon. Papillon premiered September 2017 at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival. In November 2016, it was announced that Malek will star as Freddie Mercury in the upcoming Queen biopic, Bohemian Rhapsody, to be released on November 2, 2018. In February 2017, Malek won the Young Alumnus Award from his alma mater, University of Evansville. In 2017, he was invited to become a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.- Actress
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Rhea Seehorn studied painting and drawing from a young age, following
in the footsteps of her father and grandmother. Although she continued
in the visual arts, she also had a growing passion for the movies and
theatre and secretly wanted to become an actor.
Not knowing how to pursue the profession, she was fortunate to be
introduced to contemporary theatre in college and learned that acting
classes were being offered. But she was hesitant to sign on - not sure
if this was the right course to take in life.
While she was still in college, her father passed away, leaving her
with the message that she must do everything she wants to do in this
life. Taking his advice, Rhea signed up for the acting classes and has
never looked back.
Her film credits include roles in the independent features Riders (2001) and Floating (1997), and the independent shorts The Pitch (1999), The Gentleman (2000) and A Case Against Karen (1998). On television, she guest-starred on Homicide: Life on the Street (1993). She will soon be seen in the ABC telefilm Romy and Michele: In the Beginning (2005).
Her theatre credits include the Broadway production of "45 Seconds from
Broadway", as well as roles in "The World Over", "All My Sons", "Stop Kiss",
"How I Learned to Drive", "Freedomland" and "Marat/Sade".
Although she grew up in such diverse places as Japan, Arizona, Virginia
Beach and Washington, DC, Rhea now makes her home in New York.- Actor
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Emilio Estevez was born on May 12, 1962, in New York City. He is the
eldest son of actor Martin Sheen, who at
the time was just breaking into the business. His mother,
Janet Sheen (née Templeton), was a former
New York art student who had met Emilio's father right after he had
moved to Manhattan. Martin and Janet had three other children,
Charlie Sheen,
Renée Estevez, and
Ramon Estevez, all of whom became actors.
His father is of half Spanish and half Irish descent, and his mother,
whose family is from Kentucky, has English and Scottish ancestry.
He lived on Manhattan's Upper West Side until his family relocated to
Malibu in 1968. Before graduating from Santa Monica High School in
1980, Estevez had already had a small role as a messenger boy in
Apocalypse Now (1979), that was
ultimately cut from the film.
Though his father had opted to use the stage name "Sheen" over his more
ethnic birth name "Estevez," Emilio chose to retain the family name,
hoping to avoid riding his father's coattails. He also thought the
double "E" set of initials was "pretty."
He appeared in a few TV movies, the first of which was
17 Going on Nowhere (1980),
before making his big-screen debut opposite
Matt Dillon in 1982's
Tex (1982). A part in
The Outsiders (1983) followed, and
Estevez made his first big splash as the punk rocker Otto in the cult
classic Repo Man (1984).
Originally cast as Bender (The Criminal) in the seminal
John Hughes flick
The Breakfast Club (1985),
Estevez took the part of Andrew (The Athlete) instead after Hughes
could find no one else to fill the role. Another ensemble film,
St. Elmo's Fire (1985) came next.
Then Estevez made his screen-writing debut with
That Was Then... This Is Now (1985),
a film in which he also starred.
He then starred in the Stephen King
thriller and cult hit
Maximum Overdrive (1986), . The ambitious young actor added directing to
his palette with Wisdom (1986) in 1986. Estevez went on to write, direct and star in the film Men at Work , Men at Work (1990) alongside his brother Charlie Sheen in 1989 . Originally written as an environmental comedy that follows two slacker garbage men who find a dead politician in a trash barrel,''Men at Work'' went on to be a moderate success and enjoys a "cult" status.
Estevez jumped back into making studio films with hits like
Stakeout (1987) and
Young Guns (1988), as well as their
subsequent sequels.
In 1992, Emilio took on one of his most iconic and famous roles as Coach Gordon Bombay in
The Mighty Ducks (1992). The
enormously popular Disney film spawned two sequels and an NHL hockey team
of the same name, but Estevez was interested in making more dramatic films.
In 1995, he agreed to make a brief appearance in
D3: The Mighty Ducks (1996)
in exchange for Disney helping him finance and distribute another
effort as actor-director,
The War at Home (1996). Though
smiled on by critics,
The War at Home (1996) received a very limited distribution by Disney and thus went largely unseen.
The War at Home, filmed in Austin, Texas, is an exploration of the
effects of PTSD on a Vietnam veteran who has
returned to his Texas family's home in 1972.
The film co-stars Oscar winner, Kathy Bates,
Estevez ' s father Martin Sheen and Kimberly Williams . The film premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in
1996 as an Official Selection.
Estevez continued to work in films, both behind and in front of the camera, including a fourth effort as director and
star, Rated X (2000), which
co-starred brother Charlie Sheen and was a
selection at the Sundance Film Festival in 2000.
In 2006, Emilio made the motion picture Bobby.
Bobby (2006), a "day in the life" film.
Robert F. Kennedy Estevez wrote,
directed, and acted in the picture, which, follows 22 characters in the Ambassador Hotel on June 4th, 1968 on the day Senator Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated following his win in the California
primary. The film remains one of the starriest ensemble cast ever assembled with Anthony Hopkins,
Sharon Stone, William H. Macy, Demi Moore, Ashton Kutcher, Laurence Fishburne, Harry Belafonte, Lindsay Lohan, Helen Hunt, Martin Sheen and many others in
the cast. Distributed by The Weinstein Company,
"Bobby" went on to be nominated for two Golden
Globes, Best Original Song and Best Picture (Drama), as well as a Screen Actors Guild Best Ensemble
nomination in 2006. He won a Hollywood Film Best
Ensemble Award and received a 7-minute standing
ovation at the Venice Film Festival following his
nomination for the prestigious Golden Lion for
directing the film .
The film had its North American premiere at the Toronto Film Festival where it was an Official Selection.
In 2009 Estevez filmed a new project which he wrote, produced and directed called, The Way, in Spain starring his father, Martin Sheen, in a story about a man who decides to make the Camino de Santiago after the death of his son in the French Pyrénées. It was released in the United States on October 7, 2011, following the premiere at the Toronto Film Festival in 2010.
In 2019, Estevez released another feature film, The Public, starring Alec Baldwin, Christian Slater, Jena Malone, Jeffrey Wright, Taylor Shilling, Michael K. Williams and Estevez himself, which he also wrote, directed and produced. The movie was shot entirely inside the downtown Cincinnati Public Library during the winter of 2017. Once again, The Public enjoyed it's world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival in 2018. The film was released in 2019 by Greenwich Entertainment and Universal Pictures.
In 2021, Emilio returns as Coach Gordon Bombay in the new Disney + series, The Mighty Ducks: Gamechangers.- Actress
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Samantha Mathis was born in 1970 in New York, to Donald Mathis and
Austrian-born Bibi Besch, an aspiring actress
at the time. Her maternal grandmother was actress
Gusti Huber. Her first acting job was in a
commercial for baby products with her mother. Since her parents
divorced when she was only three years old, Samantha was very exposed
to the acting industry from a very young age, which made her almost
destined to become an actress. Samantha's first feature film was
Pump Up the Volume (1990)
opposite her on- and off-screen love at the time,
Christian Slater.- Actress
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Odeya Rush was born and raised in Haifa, Israel with her six brothers. Her first role was Larry David's childhood friend in an episode of "Curb Your Enthusiasm." Shortly after that, she starred in "The Odd Life of Timothy Green," then went on to do "The Giver" alongside Jeff Bridges and Meryl Streep, and "Goosebumps" opposite Jack Black. At age 18, she wrote, directed, and starred in her own short film, "Thanks." Odeya recently starred in the Oscar-nominated "Lady Bird" directed by Greta Gerwig, and played a leading role in "Dumplin" alongside Jennifer Aniston. Odeya became a US citizen in 2018. This past year, she's written and directed two short-film-style music videos, and she hopes to continue to work behind the camera.- Actress
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Deborah Kara Unger was the first Canadian accepted into the prestigious
Australian National Institute of Dramatic Art. She made her feature
film debut in Blood Oath (1990), followed by roles in Christopher Crowe's Whispers in the Dark (1992), Till There Was You (1991),
and Highlander: The Final Dimension (1994). She acted in the award-winning television drama Bangkok Hilton (1989)
with Nicole Kidman and Denholm Elliott, as well as HBO's Hotel Room (1993), directed by
James Signorelli, and Showtime's ensemble medical drama State of Emergency (1994).- Actor
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Strikingly featured and muscular American actor Ving Rhames was born Irving Rameses Rhames in Harlem, New York, to Reather, a homemaker, and Ernest Rhames, an auto mechanic. A good student, Ving entered the New York High
School of Performing Arts, where he discovered his love of acting. He
studied at the Juilliard School of Drama, and began his career in New
York theater and in Shakespeare in the Park productions. He first appeared on Broadway in the play "The Winter
Boys", in 1984. Also that year, he appeared in front of the cameras for the first time in the TV movie Go Tell It on the Mountain (1985), and was then quickly cast in minor roles in several popular TV shows, including Miami Vice (1984), Tour of Duty (1987) and Crime Story (1986). Ving continued his rise to fame through his work in soap
operas.
His big break came in 1994 when Quentin Tarantino cast him as the merciless drug dealer Marsellus Wallace in the mega hit Pulp Fiction (1994). Not long after, director Brian De Palma cast Rhames alongside Tom Cruise as the ace computer hacker Luther Stickell in Mission: Impossible (1996). With solid performances in both these highly popular productions, his face was now well known to moviegoers and the work offers began rolling in more frequently. His next career highlight was playing the lead role in the HBO production of Don King: Only in America (1997). Rhames' performance as the world's most infamous boxing promoter was nothing short of brilliant, and at the 1998 Golden Globe Awards he picked up the award for Best Actor in a Miniseries. However, in an incredible display of compassion, he handed over the award to fellow nominee Jack Lemmon, as he felt Lemmon was a more deserving winner. Rhames then made an attention-grabbing performance in Bringing Out the Dead (1999), reprised his role as Luther Stickell in Mission: Impossible II (2000), contributed his deep bass voice for the character of Cobra Bubbles in Lilo & Stitch (2002), and played a burly cop fighting cannibal zombie hordes in Dawn of the Dead (2004). A keen fitness and weightlifting enthusiast, Rhames is also well known for his strong spiritual beliefs and benevolent attitude towards other people.
In a remarkable turn of events whilst filming The Saint of Fort Washington (1993) in New York, he was introduced to a homeless man who turned out to be his long-lost older brother, Junior, who had lost contact with the family after serving in Vietnam. The thrilled Rhames immediately assisted his disheveled brother in getting proper food and clothing and moved him into his own apartment.- Actress
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Katharine Houghton Hepburn was born on May 12, 1907 in Hartford, Connecticut to a suffragist, Katharine Martha (Houghton), and a doctor, Thomas Norval Hepburn, who both always encouraged her to speak her mind, develop it fully, and exercise her body to its full potential. An athletic tomboy as a child, she was very close to her brother Tom; at 14 she was devastated to find him dead, the apparent result of accidentally hanging himself while practicing a hanging trick their father had taught them. For many years afterward, she used his November 8 birth date as her own. She became shy around girls her age and was largely schooled at home. She did attend Bryn Mawr College, where she decided to become an actress, appearing in many of their productions.
After graduating, she began getting small roles in plays on Broadway and elsewhere. She always attracted attention, especially for her role in "Art and Mrs. Bottle" (1931). She finally broke into stardom when she took the starring role of the Amazon princess Antiope in "A Warrior's Husband" (1932). The inevitable film offers followed; after making a few screen tests, she was cast in A Bill of Divorcement (1932), opposite John Barrymore. The film was a hit, and after agreeing to her salary demands, RKO signed her to a contract. She made five films between 1932 and 1934. For her third, Morning Glory (1933), she won her first Academy Award. Her fourth, Little Women (1933), was the most successful picture of its day.
But stories were beginning to leak out, of her haughty behavior off- screen and her refusal to play the Hollywood Game, always wearing slacks and no makeup, never posing for pictures or giving interviews. Audiences were shocked at her unconventional behavior instead of applauding it, and so when she returned to Broadway in 1934 to star in "The Lake", the critics panned her, and the audiences, who at first bought up tickets, soon deserted her. When she returned to Hollywood, things didn't get much better. From 1935-1938, she had only two hits: Alice Adams (1935), which brought her her second Oscar nomination, and Stage Door (1937); the many flops included Break of Hearts (1935), Sylvia Scarlett (1935), Mary of Scotland (1936), Quality Street (1937), and the now-classic Bringing Up Baby (1938).
With so many flops, she came to be labeled "box-office poison". She decided to go back to Broadway to star in "The Philadelphia Story" (1938) and was rewarded with a smash. She quickly bought the film rights and so was able to negotiate her way back to Hollywood on her own terms, including her choice of director and co-stars. The Philadelphia Story (1940) was a box-office hit, and Hepburn, who won her third Oscar nomination for the film, was bankable again. For her next film, Woman of the Year (1942), she was paired with Spencer Tracy, and the chemistry between them lasted for eight more films, spanning the course of 25 years, and a romance that lasted that long off-screen. (She received her fourth Oscar nomination for the film.) Their films included the very successful Adam's Rib (1949), Pat and Mike (1952), and Desk Set (1957).
With The African Queen (1951), Hepburn moved into middle-aged spinster roles, receiving her fifth Oscar nomination for the film. She played more of these types of roles throughout the 1950s, and won more Oscar nominations for many of them, including her roles in Summertime (1955), The Rainmaker (1956), and Suddenly, Last Summer (1959). Her film roles became fewer and farther between in the 1960s, as she devoted her time to the ailing Tracy. For one of her film appearances in this decade, in Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962), she received her ninth Oscar nomination. After a five-year absence from films, she then made Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), her last film with Tracy and the last film Tracy ever made; he died just weeks after finishing it. It garnered Hepburn her tenth Oscar nomination and her second win. The next year, she did The Lion in Winter (1968), which brought her her eleventh Oscar nomination and third win.
In the 1970s, she turned to making made-for-TV films, with The Glass Menagerie (1973), Love Among the Ruins (1975), and The Corn Is Green (1979). She still continued to make an occasional appearance in feature films, such as Rooster Cogburn (1975) with John Wayne and On Golden Pond (1981) with Henry Fonda. This last brought her her twelfth Oscar nomination and fourth win - the latter still the record.
She made more TV-films in the 1980s and wrote her autobiography, 'Me', in 1991. Her last feature film was Love Affair (1994), with Warren Beatty and Annette Bening, and her last TV- film was One Christmas (1994). With her health declining, she retired from public life in the mid-1990s. She died at 96 at her home in Old Saybrook, Connecticut.- Actor
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Byrne was the eldest of six children born to a family in Dublin, Ireland. His father was a cooper and his mother a hospital worker. He was raised Catholic and educated by the Irish Christian Brothers. He spent five years of his childhood in a seminary training to be a Catholic priest. He later said, "I spent five years in the seminary and I suppose it was assumed that you had a vocation. I have realized subsequently that I didn't have one at all. I don't believe in God. But I did believe at the time in this notion that you were being called." He attended University College Dublin, where he studied archaeology and linguistics, and became proficient in Irish. He played football (soccer) in Dublin with the Stella Maris Football Club.
Byrne worked in archaeology after he left UCD but maintained his love of the Irish language, eventually writing Draíocht (Magic), the first drama in Irish on Ireland's national Irish television station, TG4, in 1996.
He discovered his acting ability as a young adult. Before that he worked at several occupations: archaeologist, cook, bullfighter, schoolteacher of Spanish. He began acting when he was 29 - at first on stage at the Focus Theatre and the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, later joining the Royal Court Theatre and the Royal National Theatre in London.
Byrne came to prominence in the final season of the Irish television show The Riordans, later starring in the spin-off series, Bracken. He made his film debut in 1981 as Lord Uther Pendragon in John Boorman's King Arthur epic, Excalibur.
Byrne was featured as therapist Dr. Paul Weston in the critically acclaimed HBO series In Treatment (2008).
In his return to theater in 2008, he appeared as King Arthur in Lerner and Loewe's Camelot with the New York Philharmonic, which was featured in a PBS broadcast in the Live From Lincoln Center series in May of 2008.
Byrne did not visit America until he was 37. In 1988, Byrne married actress Ellen Barkin with whom he has two children. The couple
separated amicably in 1993 and divorced in 1999. Byrne resides in Brooklyn, New York.
In November 2004, Byrne was appointed a UNICEF Ireland Ambassador.
In 2007 Byrne was presented with the first of the newly created Volta awards at the 5th Jameson Dublin International Film Festival. This was for lifetime achievement in acting. He also received the Honorary Patronage of the University Philosophical Society, of Trinity College, Dublin, on February 20, 2007. He was awarded an honorary degree in late 2007 by the National University of Ireland, Galway, in recognition of his "outstanding contribution to Irish and international film".- Actor
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As one of Hollywood's leading men, Bruce Boxleitner has starred in a major motion picture franchise, numerous feature films, and several popular television series, produced a major network film and TV series, performed on Broadway, and authored two science fiction novels.
Boxleitner received his formal acting training on stage. A native mid-westerner, he is an alumnus of Chicago's prestigious Goodman Theatre. In 1972, he starred in the Broadway production of Status Quo Vadis with Ted Danson. He then relocated to Los Angeles and quickly landed a guest spot on the legendary TV series The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970) as well as numerous guest roles on series, including Hawaii Five-O (1968), Baretta (1975), Police Woman (1974), and Gunsmoke (1955).
Boxleitner's big break occurred when he was cast opposite James Arness in the pilot for the epic TV series How the West Was Won (1976). He went on to star in the CBS series Bring 'Em Back Alive (1982); mini-series East of Eden (1981); and TV movie The Last Convertible (1979).
In 1982, Boxleitner was cast as the title role in Disney's cult film Tron (1982) which garnered him science fiction fans worldwide. However, it was in Boxleitner's four-year run for CBS's Scarecrow and Mrs. King (1983), starring opposite Kate Jackson, which endeared him to fans everywhere and made him a household name. In 1994, Boxleitner joined the cast of the popular TV series Babylon 5 (1993) as John Sheridan, President of the Interstellar Alliance, a war hero-turned-diplomat at the helm of Earth Alliance Space Station in the year 2259. The show aired for five seasons.
Boxleitner most recently starred with Jeff Bridges in Tron: Legacy (2010), the popular motion picture sequel to TRON. The cast includes Garrett Hedlund and Olivia Wilde. In addition, Boxleitner reprised his role in Tron: Uprising (2012) on Disney's XD TV network, his first animated TV series. The multi-talented cast includes Elijah Wood, Mandy Moore, Lance Henriksen, and Paul Reubens. The original TRON recently celebrated its 30th anniversary.
Several motion pictures include Gods and Generals (2003) with Robert Duvall, Jeff Daniels, Stephen Lang and Mira Sorvino; The Babe (1992) with John Goodman and Kelly McGillis; Kuffs (1992) with Christian Slater; and The Baltimore Bullet (1980) with James Coburn.
Numerous TV movie credits include The Secret (1992) with Kirk Douglas; Perfect Family (1992) with Jennifer O'Neill and Joanna Cassidy; Double Jeopardy (1992) with Rachel Ward, Sally Kirkland and Sela Ward; Passion Flower (1986) with Barbara Hershey and Nicol Williamson; and Hallmark Channel movies, Love's Everlasting Courage (2011) and Falling in Love with the Girl Next Door (2006); among many others. The veteran actor has appeared in numerous recurring roles on TV series including GCB (2012) and Heroes (2006), and has guest-starred on NCIS (2003) and Chuck (2007), among others.
A skilled horseman, Boxleitner utilized his talents in numerous western TV series and films including The Gambler television movie
series that aired on CBS and NBC, starring opposite Kenny Rogers; Gunsmoke: One Man's Justice (1994) with James Arness (Arness' final film); CBS' remake of Red River with Gregory Harrison, James Arness and Laura Johnson; Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone (1994) with Hugh O'Brian; and Louis L'Amour's Down the Long Hills (1986), based on legendary western author Louis L'Amour's novel of the same name.
Boxleitner was inducted into the Hall of Great Western Performers at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City in April 2012 honoring him for his illustrious career in western films. He is a two-time recipient of the Wrangler Award.
In 2013, Boxleitner co-starred with Andie MacDowell and Dylan Neal in Hallmark Channel's first-ever prime-time series, Debbie Macomber's Cedar Cove (2013) to rave reviews and an average of 2 million viewers. The #1 rated cable program was renewed for a third season and is scheduled to premiere in the summer of 2015.
In 1999, Boxleitner authored "Frontier Earth" and in 2001, its sequel "Frontier Earth: Searcher", published by The Berkley Publishing Group. Boxleitner resides in Los Angeles with his wife, publicist Verena King, and has three sons: Sam, Lee and Michael.- Actress
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Emily Beecham was born on 12 May 1984 in Wythenshawe, Manchester, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Daphne (2017), Hail, Caesar! (2016) and The Pursuit of Love (2021).- Actor
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Luke began his acting career at the age of
five, appearing as Mel Gibson's son in "We Were Soldiers." Not knowing
how to read yet, he simply recited the pledge of allegiance-a move that
would land him the role. He was also cast as "Stevie Dewberry" in the
family film "Because of Winn-Dixie" at age eight, after choosing to
audition with a toothpick in his mouth. The choice set him apart from
the hundreds of boys vying for the role. The director, Wayne Wang,
loved the idea and even used it in the film. In 2006, Luke was cast in
Walden Media's "How to Eat Fried Worms" as the main character of "Billy
Forrester." However, it wasn't until he was a freshman in high school
that Luke realized that acting was what he wanted to do for the rest of
his life, so in 2012 the family permanently moved to Los Angeles.
His past TV credits include the television pilots "Life on the Water,"
the WB's revival of "Family Affair" starring Tim Curry and Gary Cole,
and the Disney Channel pilots "Madison High" and "Zombies and
Cheerleaders." Other credits include starring in the Disney Channel's
original movies "Minutemen" and "Girl vs. Monster." Luke's other past
motion picture credits include playing the role of autistic teen "Alan
Wheddon" in "Dear John." As well as a vast collection of failed pilots, including Amazon's "Point of Honor", helmed by Carlton Cuse.
Benward was born in Franklin, Tennessee, to
Kenda Benward (née Wilkerson), an actress/coach, and Aaron Benward, a singer/ songwriter. His grandfather,
Jeoffrey Benward, was a Contemporary Christian music singer. Part of an entertainment family, Luke got his acting bug by tagging
along to auditions with his mother, actress, acting coach and CMT's
first on-air personality, Kenda Benward. He got his musical heritage
from his father, Aaron Benward, an award-winning producer, songwriter
and recording artist. Luke is truly a triple threat. He studied dance
with hip hop choreographer, Nick Bass (Britney Spears, Chris Brown,
Christina Aguilera, and Michael Jackson) for four years. He also
recorded his first five-song EP called Let Your Love Out in 2008 and
supported that effort with a fall and spring 50 city tour.
Benward resides in Los Angeles, California .- Actor
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Stephen Baldwin was born on 12 May 1966 in Massapequa, Long Island, New York, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for The Usual Suspects (1995), Bio-Dome (1996) and The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas (2000). He has been married to Kennya Baldwin since 10 June 1990. They have two children.- Writer
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- Producer
Nathan Fielder is a writer, director and comedian from Vancouver, British Columbia. He is best known for his hit television series Nathan for You which debuted in 2013 on Comedy Central.
His other credits include The Simpsons, Transparent, Bob's Burgers, Kroll Show, Rick and Morty, Jon Benjamin Has A Van, and the CBC series This Hour Has 22 Minutes.- Writer
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- Producer
Scott Ryan was born on 12 May 1973. He is a writer and actor, known for The Magician (2005), Mr Inbetween (2018) and 9th AACTA Awards (2019).- Actor
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Mackenzie Astin was born on 12 May 1973 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is an actor, known for The Magicians (2015), Scandal (2012) and Iron Will (1994). He has been married to Jennifer Bautz since 11 April 2011.- Actor
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Jason Matthew Biggs was born on May 12, 1978, in Pompton Plains, New
Jersey, to Angela (Zocco), a nurse, and Gary Biggs, a shipping company
manager. Jason has two sisters, Heather, a tax specialist born in 1971,
and Chiara, born in 1980. He was raised Catholic, and is of English and mostly Italian descent. Jason started acting at age five, appearing in several
national commercials. In 1991, at 13 he won a part on the FOX sitcom
Drexell's Class (1991), but
the show was canceled after one season. Also during that year, he made
his Broadway debut opposite Judd Hirsch in
the play, Conversations With My Father. The play helped earn him a spot
on
As the World Turns (1956),
as the rebellious Pete Wendall. The role earned him a nomination for
Best Younger Actor in a Drama Series at the Daytime Emmy's. After
graduating high school in 1996, he studied briefly at New York
University and Montclair State University in New Jersey but dropped out
to pursue acting again. In 1997, he costarred in the short lived
television series
Camp Stories (1996). In 1999 came
his breakthrough role in the teen sex comedy
American Pie (1999). His performance
shocked yet wooed audiences, critics, and casting agents to bring him
for the first time the chance to choose new roles and scripts. He chose
such roles in Loser (2000) and
Boys and Girls (2000).- Actress
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Lindsay Crouse was born on 12 May 1948 in New York City, New York, USA. She is an actress, known for The Arrival (1996), Slap Shot (1977) and The Insider (1999). She has been married to Rick Blue since 1998. She was previously married to David Mamet.- Actress
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Jamie Michelle Luner was born on Wednesday, May 12, 1971 to Stuart and
Susan Luner in Palo Alto, California. She
grew up with her older brother, David Luner,
and her mom Susan in California. Before landing her roles on
Just the Ten of Us (1987)
as dizzy "Cindy Lubbock", Jamie began her career in front of the
cameras at the tender age of three doing TV commercials. At 15
she won the L.A. Shakespeare Festival in the category of
monologues. She was still working on
Just the Ten of Us (1987),
while attending Beverly Hills High School, from which she graduated
in 1989. She took a break from acting, attended culinary school, and
was a chef at French restaurant Drai's after
Just the Ten of Us (1987)
was canceled in 1991.
She returned to TV in
Moment of Truth: Why My Daughter? (1993)
in 1993 with a few small parts in shows such as
Married... with Children (1987),
Diagnosis Murder (1993).
Then, she got her first break as Southern seductress "Peyton Richards"
in Savannah (1996). After the prime-time soap
was canceled, Jamie and her then-boyfriend
Johnny Braz traveled around the US in an
Airstream motor home before she landed the role of "Lexi" in
Melrose Place (1992). After the
Fox soap ended in 1999, so did her four-year-romance. Then
after Ally Walker left, Jamie joined the cast of
Profiler (1996)
as "Rachel Burke".
Later she was in ABC's short-lived
10-8: Officers on Duty (2003).
Then, in 2005, she had lead roles in Lifetime's,
Blind Injustice (2005),
Stranger in My Bed (2005)
and, in 2006, The Suspect (2006),
The Perfect Marriage (2006)
and a guest spot on
The War at Home (2005).
Jamie has also done theater work in Santa Monica in "Black &
Bluestein", Other Space, Santa Monica and The Young Playwrites Festival
in Los Angeles.- Actor
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Richard Riehle was born in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, to Mary Margaret (Walsh), a nurse, and Herbert John Riehle, an assistant postmaster. He is of German and Irish descent. Richard attended the University of
Notre Dame, where he became heavily involved with the University
Theatre. Appearing in such productions as "Luther", "Antigone",
"Rhinoceros", "Romeo and Juliet", and "How To Succeed In Business
Without Really Trying", he also took on the task of stage manager on
many of these productions, and it was not unusual to find him helping
to build the sets or manage the costumes during this period. Graduating
with a B.A. (cum laude) in 1970, Richard traveled to Salzburg and
Innsbruck to study German, a language in which he is fluent.
Progressing to Academy of Dramatic Art in Rochester, Michigan, Richard
has had extensive experience as a stage actor, as well as teaching
acting, and made his Broadway debut in 1986 with "Execution of
Justice". One of his major triumphs in the theatre has been alongside
Kevin Spacey in the acclaimed 1999 revival of O'Neill's "The Iceman
Cometh", in which he played the drunken, corrupt ex-cop Pat McGloin.
Brief appearances in Rooster Cogburn, The Duchess and Dirtwater Fox,
Joy Ride, and Twice in a Lifetime, as well as in such TV fare as Escape
From Hell (1977), Joe Kennedy: The Forgotten Kennedy (1977), and the
NBC series "Hot Pursuit" (1984) have disguised an expanding repertory
theatre portfolio. Richard has also contributed to such diverse
undertakings as Bay Area Radio's Eugene O'Neill Project (playing
Smithers to Joe Morton's Brutis Jones in "The Emperor Jones") and the
Adams-Jefferson Project of Carleton College, participating in a series
of recordings of the correspondence between the two US Presidents. To
this day, Richard has maintained his involvement in theatre workshops
and encouraging the dramatic arts under the auspices of the Mark Taper
Forum and A.S.K. However, since his scene-stealing cameo as the
Quartermaster in 1989's Glory, with his trademark bushy mustache and
heavyset frame, Richard has acquitted himself as one of the best, and
busiest, character players on TV and in the movies.- Hiroto Kanai was born in Japan. He is an actor, known for Shōgun (2024), Shômonai bokura no renai-ron (2023) and Labyrinth of Cinema (2019).
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Karen Pittman is an award winning actress, who has starred on Broadway, in American television and cinema. She was born in Mississippi and raised in Nashville, Tennessee. She received her Bachelor of Science in Voice and Opera at Northwestern University and a Masters of Fine Arts from NYU's Graduate Acting Program. Karen starred in the TONY nominated Pulitzer Prize winning Broadway play "Disgraced," and the critically acclaimed play "Pipeline," at Live at Lincoln Center. She has had memorable character roles on "The Americans," "Luke Cage" and "Yellowstone." In 2021, Karen reprises the role of "Mia Jordan" in Season 2 of on Apple TV Golden Globe nominated "The Morning Show," and in stars as Sandy James in the film, "What We Do Next."
Karen lives in New York with her two children, Jake and Lena.- Actress
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Brunette Millie Perkins began her career as a New York photographer's model and one-time receptionist at an advertising agency. Her waif-like images in fashion magazines seemed to project both innocence and shyness and made such an impression on the director George Stevens, that he invited her to audition for the lead role in The Diary of Anne Frank (1959). Despite her total lack of acting experience, Perkins won out over 10,000 other hopefuls and went on to star in, what would become, her most famous role. An overnight sensation, she received numerous plaudits for her performance but never subsequently succeeded to parlay this into a more enduring stardom.
She was born as Mildred Frances Perkins in Newark, New Jersey. Her mother, Catherine Louise, was of Irish and French-Canadian extraction. Her father, Adolph Perkins, was a captain in the merchant marine, born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Millie was schooled in Fair Lawn, New Jersey. After relocating to New York, she studied drama under Jeff Corey. Following her role as diarist and holocaust victim Anne Frank, she was signed by 20th Century Fox. However, her tenure at the studio turned out to be brief, prematurely ending in her suspension for refusing to play the lead in the bucolic drama Tess of the Storm Country (1960), which she viewed as a retrograde step in her career. Diane Baker went on to star in the role, while Millie's sole credit for Fox was a supporting part in the lacklustre Elvis Presley vehicle Wild in the Country (1961).
Free-lancing, she next appeared in Joshua Logan's box-office flop Ensign Pulver (1964) and as the female lead in two modestly budgeted, off-beat westerns, The Shooting (1966) and Ride in the Whirlwind (1966) (both starring Jack Nicholson, who also co-produced). None of these would have been particularly career enhancing and may have contributed to Millie's six-year long hiatus from screen acting. She made a comeback as a character actress from the mid-70s, latterly in maternal roles (notably in At Close Range (1986), Wall Street (1987) and The Lost City (2005)). On TV, she played Presley's mother Gladys in Elvis (1990), a biopic of the star's early life. She also had recurring roles in the soap Knots Landing (1979), and, as a grandmother, in the drama series Any Day Now (1998). She has taught drama classes at Southern Oregon University at some point in the early 80s, as well as addressing high school drama groups in and around Jacksonville, her adopted home town since 1976.
Millie Perkins retired from screen acting in 2006. She divorced her first husband, the actor Dean Stockwell, after two years of marriage in 1962. She was separated from her second husband, writer-director Robert Thom, with whom she had two daughters.- Actress
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Kim Fields was born on 12 May 1969 in New York City, New York, USA. She is an actress and director, known for The Facts of Life (1979), Living Single (1993) and What to Expect When You're Expecting (2012). She has been married to Christopher Morgan since 23 July 2007. They have two children. She was previously married to Johnathon Franklin Freeman.- Jennifer Hetrick is a veteran character actor. Working steadily for
over 30 years (1979 to present), mostly in Television.
She is probably most well-known in the Sci-Fi genre for the character
"Vash" on
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)
and
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993).
She was also on Sliders (1995) for
two separate roles.
She has only been in 5 movies over the years. Her first movie was also
her first major acting role, in 1979, titled
Squeeze Play (1979). She had second
billing. Her most recent movie was an uncredited part in
500 Days of Summer (2009)
in 2009.
She has mostly played authoritative and independent figures. - Actor
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Aaron Abrams is a Canadian actor and writer who has appeared in several regular and reoccurring roles for television, including including Masters of Sex, The L.A. Complex, Longmire, The Oath, Rookie Blue, Slings & Arrows, Blindspot and Hannibal where he played Brian Zeller.
Aaron Abrams has also written and produced several films.
He is a graduate of The Goodman Theatre School in Chicago.- Sawyer Sweeten was born on 12 May 1995 in Brownwood, Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for Everybody Loves Raymond (1996), Frank McKlusky, C.I. (2002) and Even Stevens (2000). He died on 23 April 2015 in Austin, Texas, USA.
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George Denis Patrick Carlin was born and raised in Manhattan, New York City, to Mary (Bearey), a secretary, and Patrick John Carlin, an advertising manager for The Sun; they had met while working in marketing. His father was from Donegal, Ireland, and his mother was Irish-American. His parents divorced when he was two months old, and he was raised by his mother. The long hours the mother worked left the young George by himself for long hours every day, providing him (in his own words), the time he needed to think about various subjects, listen to radio, and practice his impersonations, that where acclaimed by his mother and coworkers since an early age. Carlin started out as a conventional comedian and had achieved a fair degree of success as a Bill Cosby style raconteur in nightclubs and on TV until the late 1960s, when he radically overhauled his persona. His routines became more insightful, introducing more serious subjects. As he aged, he became more cynic and bitter, unintentionally changing his stage persona again in a radical way throughout the '90s. This new George Carlin, usually referred to as the late George Carlin, is one of the most acclaimed and enjoyed by the public and critics. Carlin's forte is Lenny Bruce-style social and political commentary, spiced with nihilistic observations about people and religion peppered with black humor. He is also noted for his masterful knowledge and use of the English language. Carlin's notorious "Seven Dirty Words" comedy routine was part of a radio censorship case that made its way to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1978.- Actress
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Connecticut native Kim Greist spent her late teen years in Europe as a
professional model. She returned to the US at age 20 and launched an
acting career in the off-Broadway comedy "Second Prize: Two Months in
Leningrad"; her later stage credits included appearances in the New
York Shakespeare Festival. In 1984, Greist made her movie bow in the
scuzzy horror epic C.H.U.D. (1984); the following year, she was cast in what
remains her best film role, the elusive blonde fantasy girl of
futuristic bureaucrat Jonathan Pryce in director Terry Gilliam's Brazil (1985). Greist has
continued to appear in films and television into the 1990s, with
substantial roles in such productions as Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey (1993) and
Roswell (1994).- Actress
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Trisha started her career as a professional ballet dancer, actress and choreographer. As a child, she choreographed her first show, a community theater production of Annie. Her love of choreography eventually transitioned to directing for theater, where she directed numerous live productions in New York and Los Angeles.
She has coached and taught actors including Lenny Kravitz, Glen Powell, Julianne Hough, Kathryn Morris, Suki Waterhouse, David Hornsby and comedians Pete Davidson and Sebastian Maniscalco.
She began directing for film and television in 2017. Her short films 6 Angry Cubans (2019), Roommates (2019) and her series pilot So Foreign (2019) have received multiple festival nominations since submissions began in April 2019, with 6 Angry Cubans taking home top honors at the Austin Short Film Comedy Festival, the San Diego Short Film Comedy Festival, the Atlanta Comedy Festival, and the Dominican Film Festival in New York City.- Varada Sethu was born on 12 May 1992 in Kerala, India. She is an actress, known for Jurassic World Dominion (2022), Andor (2022) and Now You See Me 2 (2016).
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Vanessa Estelle Williams (Actress, Singer, Writer, Director) born and raised in Brooklyn, NY, is a talented force that came to Hollywood in the 90's with passion purpose and staying power. This highly sought-after creative artist wrapped "A Rich Christmas" a feature film for BET this past December 2020 and most recently completed the film "Christmas Family Reunion" with The Ninth House production company.
Vanessa stars in Sidra Smith's six-part miniseries "A Luv Tale" coming soon to the Essence Magazine digital platform. Off the coast of East Africa in the middle of the Indian Ocean, Vanessa jetted to luscious Mauritius to shoot the indie comedy feature "Singleholic" opposite Erica Ash, Rotimi, Stephen Bishop and Tyson Beckford. Coming soon Vanessa will reprise her role as Anna Marie in the Candyman sequel "Say My Name," directed by Nia DaCosta, written and produced by Jordan Peele.
Williams made her film debut playing as the gun toting head of security "Keisha" in the urban classic film "New Jack City." Other film credits include "Thriller" streaming now on Netflix, "Raising Izzie, Imagine That", "Like Mike," "Punks, Mother," "Candyman."
Williams earned an Emmy Nomination for her work in the Showtime original film "Our America." After six consecutive nominations in the category Vanessa won the 2003 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series for her brilliant portrayal of Maxine Chadway in the hit Showtime series "Soul Food." Her star turn in "Raising Izzie" earned GMCTV its highest world premiere television rating and received a 2013 NAACP Image Award nomination for best Television Movie or Mini-Series. Television credits include NBC's long running daytime soap "Days of Our Lives," Freeform network's "Famous in Love." "The Flash, Ward of the State, the Bay series, "Sugar Mommas," "Lincoln Heights," "Everybody Hates Chris," "Knight Riders," "Flirting with Forty," "Ice Spiders," "Cold Case," "Soul Food" TV series (5 seasons), "Our America," "The Steve Harvey Show," "Chicago Hope," "Murder One," "Living Single," "NYPD Blue," "Melrose Place," "The Cosby Show" and "Law & Order."
Vanessa debuted on Broadway in Lincoln Center Theatre's production of "Sarafina." In 2012 Ms. Williams garnered rave reviews for her role as Esther in the critically acclaimed production of Lynn Nottage's "Intimate Apparel" at the Pasadena Playhouse. Her other Broadway and theatre credits include "Mule Bone," "Death and the Kings Horseman" and regional productions of "The Vagina Monologues, Issues, Abyssinia" and a European tour of the musical "HAIR."
An excerpt from her book "Shine," published in the June 2004 Essence Magazine became the basis for her solo show "Feet On the Ceiling!" a coming-of-age story. "Feet On the Ceiling" premiered at the "National Black Theatre Festival" in 2011 and plays regular engagements in cities and colleges throughout the US and the Caribbean.
Serving as Vice Chair on the Executive Board of Directors of The Black Aids Institute, Williams is also Chair of BAI's Hollywood Task Force on Aids. Recruiting and directing her colleagues in a series of Celebrity PSAs on HIV Awareness / AIDS Prevention.
An internationally recognized star, Williams' global brand appeal is authentic, energetic, and thoroughly relatable. An artist and mother of two creatively talented boys, Omar and Haile Wiseman, Vanessa blends passion and youthful exuberance with timeless charm and soulfulness that deeply connects with people. She is a talent audiences love, trust and admire.- Actor
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British character actor of wry charm, equally at home in amused or
strait-laced characters. A native of Bourton-on-the-Water in
Gloucestershire, he attended Marlborough College and the Royal Academy
of Dramatic Arts. His stage debut came in 1922, and by 1925 he was a
busy London actor. He married actress Blanche Glynne (real name:
Blanche Hope Aitken) and in 1932 toured South Africa in plays. Alleged
to have been spotted by George Cukor during a performance in Aldritch,
Hyde-White (with or without Cukor's help) made his film debut in 1934.
He often appeared under the name Hyde White in these early films. He
continued to act upon the stage, playing opposite Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh
in "Caesar and Cleopatra" and "Antony and Cleopatra" in 1951. With
scores of films to his credit, he will always be remembered for one,
My Fair Lady (1964), in which he played Colonel Pickering.
Active into his ninth decade, Hyde-White died six days before his 88th
birthday. He was survived by his second wife, Ethel, and three
children.- Actor
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Scott Schwartz was born in Sacramento, CA however he grew up in Sommerville & Brigewater, NJ.
Attended Professional Children's School in NY, 83/84 & 84/85.
Started in the biz March, 1977
Marion Adler of the Carson/Adler agency was his agent for 10 years.
Landed the role in The Toy after 10 auditions & 2 screen tests.
Shot "Kidco" in Tuscon, AZ in 8 weeks.
His part in "A Christmas Story" was filmed in Cleveland, Ohio & St. Catherine's, Ontario, Canada over 6 weeks.
Became President of "A Minor Consideration" in mid 2014. AMC as it's called is for the protection of children in the entertainment industry and has passed child labor laws in several states.- Actor
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A US, Canadian and UK citizen, Christian was born in Toronto Ontario to Marnie Neve, an Amsterdam-born psychologist and yoga instructor, and Gerry Campbell, a Glasgow-born english and drama teacher. He is an actor, producer and director known for the Showtime Emmy Award winning movie Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical (2005) with Kristen Bell, the gay romantic comedy Trick (1999) with Tori Spelling, as well as the HBO series True Detective (2014) and Big Love (2006). He has been married to America Olivo since 2009.- Actress
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Years before landing the iconic role of Scarlett O'Connor on the CMT/HULU TV series Nashville (2012) and launching her career as a singer/songwriter, Clare Bowen, a pediatric cancer survivor, was growing up in Dharawal Country on the Minnamurra River, Australia.
Bowen heard her first broadcast of the Grand Ole Opry on the wireless in her granddad's kitchen. Soon after, her classical vocal coach paused one of their lessons to comment on the country lilt that had naturally crept into Bowen's voice.
It would be another decade or so before she'd duet with heavyweights like Zac Brown and Vince Gill, recording with Grammy-winning producers such as T Bone Burnett and Buddy Miller, but those early experiences helped plant the seed, pushing Bowen toward Nashville. NASHVILLE ran for six seasons, with 20+ soundtracks, selling over one million album units and over five million single downloads to date. Bowen, a lead in the series, continues to reunite for international live tours.
A sought after actor on both sides of the Atlantic, Bowen earned critical praise in the controversial Australian film The Combination, directed by David Field, and in the leading role of Wendla in the Sydney Theatre Company's musical production of Spring Awakening. It was during this time that Bowen took the advice of the STC's artistic director, Oscar winner, Cate Blanchett, and headed to Los Angeles in 2012. During her first year in America, she caught the bus to her Nashville (2012) audition and landed NASHVILLE. When asked whether she could play the banjo, Bowen replied "probably" and learned.
After the series wrap of Nashville (2012) in 2018, Bowen and her singer / songwriter husband, Brandon Robert Young joined Grammy winning duo SUGARLAND on their Still The Same reunion tour, opening for the country heavyweights in arenas across the US, and afterwards returned to Australia to star alongside one of her heroes, film veteran, Bryan Brown (Cocktail (1988) Australia (2008), Along Came Polly (2004)) in the award winning horror series Hungry Ghosts (2020).
In 2019, Clare set out on a 16 month long headline tour in support of the international release of her highly anticipated eponymous album, which sold out across the UK, US, Germany and Australia.
2020 saw Bowen and Brandon Robert Young form Cinematic Americana duo BOWEN * YOUNG. The duo, signed to UK label Snakefarm Records, made a splash opening for Billy Joel in London, followed by their own sold out shows across the globe. BOWEN * YOUNG's debut album is set for release in May, 2024.- Actor
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Aaron Yoo was born on 12 May 1979 in New Jersey, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for 21 (2008), Disturbia (2007) and Friday the 13th (2009).- Actor
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The entertainment industry isn't new to young Malcolm David Kelley, a show business veteran from the age of five. He is known for his role as young "Walt" on the TV series "Lost" and "Finn" on TeenNick's "Gigantic" in 2010-11.
His motion picture credits include roles in Antwone Fisher (2002) and You Got Served (2004). On television he guest-starred in the series Judging Amy (1999), Malcolm in the Middle (2000), For Your Love (1998), Girlfriends (2000) and Eve (2003). He was also featured in numerous commercials, including Cap'n Crunch, Kool Aid, Disney and Kohl's department store. Recently, he was seen in a Snoop Dog video and completed a voice over for the Nickelodeon cartoon Fatherhood.
In 2010, Malcolm teamed with his former "Gigantic" co-star Tony Oller to create great music together and subsequently formed the pop/rap music duo MKTO. In March 2012 they proudly signed with Columbia Records and have completed their first album. Their debut song "Thank You" and music video was released worldwide on January 4, 2013. They will begin their U.S. tour in early 2013.
Malcolm spent the first eleven months of his life in foster care before being adopted by the Kelleys. His sister, Sydney, was adopted by the family two months later. He enjoys playing soccer and basketball, despite his small stature. He keeps up with his favorite basketball team, the Lakers, and politics, even getting involved as class Treasurer at his middle school. His leadership earned him the role of Student Ambassador with People to People Student Ambassadors, with whom he traveled to the United Kingdom to represent the United States.- Sullivan Sweeten was born on 12 May 1995 in Brownwood, Texas, USA. He is an actor, known for Everybody Loves Raymond (1996), Frank McKlusky, C.I. (2002) and Casting (2017).
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Susan Hampshire, the English actress who has won three Emmy Awards, was
born in Kensington, London on May 12, 1937. Her original ambition was
to be a nurse, but she could not pass her O-Level exam in Latin. (She
found out when she was 30 years old that she was dyslexic, and her work
on dyslexia subsequently brought her the Officer of the British Empire
award.) She decided to become an actress and gained training in the
theater. She made her movie debut, at 10 years old, in
The Woman in the Hall (1947)
but her proper debut was in the
Laurence Harvey picture,
Expresso Bongo (1959), in 1958.
Her career has never faltered.
Hampshire made a name for herself in her native Britain, appearing in
Katy (1962) on TV in 1962 for the BBC.
Walt Disney signed her to star in the 1964
family picture,
The Three Lives of Thomasina (1963),
but it was her role in the 1967 BBC mini-series,
The Forsyte Saga (1967),
that made her famous and won her the first of her three Emmy Awards.
Shown in the United States on the precursor to PBS, the great
popularity of the series led the new PBS to create
Masterpiece (1971).
The First Churchills (1969),
in which Hampshire played "Sarah Churchill", was the first series
offered on "Masterpiece Theater" and brought her her second Emmy. In
1973, she won her third, playing "Becky Sharp" in
Vanity Fair (1967), for a
mini-series that had been released in the UK in 1967.
Susan Hampshire has continued to be active on television and in the
theater. She has been married to her second husband, the theatrical
impresario, Sir Eddie Kulukundis, since 1981.- Actress
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Born Luana Margo Anderson on 12 May, 1938, Luana Anders began her career as a bike messenger at MGM, along with fellow actors, Jack Nicholson, Sandra Knight and future film producers George Edwards, and Fred Roos. She convinced Nicholson to join her in her improv class with legendary teacher and veteran character actor Jeff Corey. Luana began in such B-films as Reform School Girl (1957) (alongside her lifelong friend Sally Kellerman) and Life Begins at 17 (1958), in which she costarred with actor (and future producer) Mark Damon.
Luan also worked with Damon in Roger Corman's The Young Racers (1963). The sound man on The Young Racers (1963) asked her if she wanted to star in his first directing effort. The sound man was Francis Ford Coppola, and Anders played the conniving and duplicitous Louise Haloran, in Coppola's debut feature, Dementia 13 (1963).
She played Vincent Price's sister, Catherine Medina in Corman's The Pit and the Pendulum (1961).
Anders acted opposite Charles Grodin, in Sex and the College Girl (1964). Luana appeared in 3 films for director Curtis Harrington; ingenue Ellen Sands, in Night Tide (1961), a cameo as a party guest in Games (1967), and repressed librarian Louise in the perverse The Killing Kind (1973).
Anders achieved cult status as groovy hippie commune dweller Lisa in Easy Rider (1969). Robert Altman frequently credited Luana with getting his career started. She appeared as a streetwalker Sandy Dennis picks up in Altman's That Cold Day in the Park (1969).
Friend Jack Nicholson made a point of seeing and commenting on the movie during the Cannes film festival where Easy Rider (1969) won the Palme D'or; the subsequent publicity gave Altman the notoriety to launch his career.
She frequently acted in films with good friend Nicholson; she was especially memorable as a Buddhist chanting party girl in The Last Detail (1973). Luana was terrorized by a deranged Mickey Rooney on an abandoned studio back-lot in the unreleased gonzo oddity The Manipulator (1971) and starred in Robert Downey Sr.'s Greaser's Palace (1972).
Anders appeared in Shampoo (1975), a film reportedly based on her romance with hairdresser Richard Alcala; the picture was written by her friend and fellow Corey classmate Robert Towne.
She had a recurring part on the daytime soap opera, Santa Barbara (1984).
Amongst the series Luana appeared on, are Hunter (1984), Ben Casey (1961) and
The Rifleman (1958).
Anders co-wrote the comedy Limit Up (1989), and was uncredited in scripting the action/adventure romp Fire on the Amazon (1993), which was Sandra Bullock's debut film for Corman. She appeared in a number of movies with collaborator Richard Martini, including You Can't Hurry Love (1988), about which Variety declared, "It's about time we see the great Luana Anders back on the screen".
She was a member of the improvisational comedy stage group, The Committee.
A lifelong Buddhist and supporter of the American chapter of Soka Gakkai International, Luana Anders died on
July 21, 1996.- Actress
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Polish actress Alicja Bachleda-Curus was born in Mexico, where her father was working at the time. She started performing on stage at a tender age of 6. She studied at the National Ballet Academy in Kraków from 1989-1998 and at the National Academy of Music's vocal department in Kraków. Her silver screen debut was in Pan Tadeusz (1999), the biggest box office success in Polish history. Other notable roles include Ondine in Neil Jordan's film Ondine (2009) (2009), Veronica in Trade (2007) opposite Kevin Kline, Zosia in Pan Tadeusz (1999), Anke in Summer Storm (2004) or Signe in the Spike Lee production The Girl Is in Trouble (2015) (2012).- Actor
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- Additional Crew
For over thirty years Ron Rubin has been one of the busiest animation actors in the country. His voice can be heard on countless iconic cartoon series - including original productions by Marvel Comics, Warner Bros. and Disney. Ron worked with Stan Lee on the original X-Men (Morph) and Avengers (Vision) television series, as well as with Tim Burton on the Emmy Award winning Beetlejuice cartoon (Doom Buggy, Announcer). Other notable credits include lead roles in C.O.P.S. (Dr. Badvibes), Police Academy (Lt. Mahoney), DiGata Defenders (Flinch), Angela Anaconda (Uncle Nicky), Totally Spies (Manny), SideKick (Master XOX), Stickin' Around (Mr. Lederhosen), Captain Flamingo (Quantum Vigilante), Turbo Dogs (Sergeant Gruff), Care Bears (Messy Bear), Mad Magazine TV and Tales from the Cryptkeeper.
Ron's also been a force in the world of Anime, appearing in a multitude of shows including Bakugan and Beyblade among others, but he's probably best known for originating the voice of Artemis in Sailor Moon, a role he performed for the entire run of the North American TV series.
Ron is a two time ACTRA Award nominee and finalist for Best Performance in Voice (Erky-Perky). He studied acting at The Neighbourhood Playhouse in New York and has performed with Second City as well as having toured North America as a featured Stand Up performer. Ron has lived and worked in Los Angeles and New York - he currently resides in Toronto.- Writer
- Director
- Actor
He was only six years old when he started composing music under the
protection of his brother Enrique. After the Spanish Civil War he was
able to continue his studies at the Real Conservatorio de Madrid, where
he finished piano and harmony. Being a Bachelor of Law and an easy-read
novel writer (under the pseudonym David Khume), he signed on to enter
the Instituto de Investigaciones y Experiencias Cinematográicas (IIEC),
where he stayed for only two years, while he worked simultaneously as a
director and theater actor. Later he went to Paris to study directing
techniques at the I.D.H.E.C. (University of Sorbonne), where he used to
go into seclusion for hours to watch films at the film archive. Back in
Spain he began rted his huge cinematographic work as a composer, with
Cómicos (1954) and
El hombre que viajaba despacito (1957),
and later worked as an assistant director to
Juan Antonio Bardem,
León Klimovsky,
Luis Saslavsky,
Julio Bracho,
Fernando Soler and
Joaquín Luis Romero Marchent,
among others. He also worked at Ágata Films S.A. as production manager
and writer. His first works as a director were industrial and cultural
short films. However, he soon applied all his knowledge and experience
to his feature directorial debut,
Tenemos 18 años (1959). From that
moment on all his work was supported by co-production. His
Succubus (1968)
was nominated for the Festival of Berlin, and this event gave him an
international reputation. His career got more and more consolidated in
the following years, and his endless creativity enabled him to tackle
films in all genres, from "B" horror films to pure hardcore sex films.
His productions have always been low-budget, but he nevertheless
managed to work extraordinarily quickly, often releasing several titles
at the same time, using the same shots in more than one film. Some of
his actors relate how they they were hired for one film and later saw
their name in two or more different ones. As the Spanish cinema
evolved, Jesús managed to adapt to the new circumstances and always
maintained a constant activity, activity that gave a place in his films
to a whole filming crew. Apart from his own production company, Manacoa
Films, he also worked for companies like Auster Films S.L.
(Paul Auster), Cinematográfica Fénix Films
(Arturo Marcos), the French
Comptoir Français du Film
(Robert de Nesle), Eurociné
(Daniel Lesoeur and
Marius Lesoeur), Elite Films Productions
(Erwin C. Dietrich), Spain's Fervi
Films (Fernando Vidal Campos) or Golden Films Internacional S.A. He
acted in almost all of his films, playing musicians, lawyers, porters
and others, all of them sinister, manic and comic characters. Among the
aliases he used--apart from Jesús Franco, Jess Franco or Franco
Manera--were Jess Frank, Robert Zimmerman, Frank Hollman, Clifford
Brown, David Khune, Frarik Hollman, Toni Falt, James P. Johnson,
Charlie Christian, David Tough, Cady Coster, Lennie Hayden, Lulú
Laverne and Betty Carter.
Lina Romay has been almost a
constant in his films, and it's very probable that in some of them she
has been credited as the director instead of him. In many of the more
than 180 films he's directed he has also worked as composer, writer,
cinematographer and editor. His influence has been notable all over
Europe (he even contacted producer
Roger Corman in the US). From his huge body
of work we can deduce that Jesús Franco is one of the most restless
directors of Spanish cinema. Many of his films have had problems in
getting released, and others have been made directly for video. His
work is often a do-it-yourself effort. More than once his staunchest
supporters have found his "new" films to contain much footage from one
or more of his older ones. Jesús Franco is a survivor in a time when
most of his colleagues tried to please the government censors. He broke
with all that and got the independence he was seeking. He always went
upstream in an ephemeral industry that fed opportunists and curbed the
activity of many professionals. Jess Franco died in Malaga, Spain, on
April 2, 2013, of a stroke.- Actress
- Producer
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Rachel Wilson was born on 12 May 1977 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. She is an actress and producer, known for In the Tall Grass (2019), The Glass House (2001) and Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999).- Actress
- Writer
- Make-Up Department
Amy Sloan was born on 12 May 1978 in Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada. She is an actress and writer, known for The Day After Tomorrow (2004), The Aviator (2004) and The Heartbreak Kid (2007).- Actor
- Writer
- Director
Bruce McCulloch was born on 12 May 1961 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He is an actor and writer, known for The Kids in the Hall (1988), Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy (1996) and Dog Park (1998). He has been married to Tracy Ryan since 2003. They have two children.