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Mckenna Grace is an American actress and singer from Grapevine, Texas who is known for playing Phoebe Spengler from Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Jasmine from Crash & Bernstein, Faith Newman from The Young and the Restless and Mary Adler from Gifted. She also acted in I, Tonya, Amityville: The Awakening, The Handmaid's Tale, Spirit Untamed and Scoob.- Actress
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Linda Edna Cardellini was born in Redwood City, California, to Lorraine (Hernan) and Wayne David Cardellini, a businessman. She is of Italian (from her paternal grandfather), Irish (from her mother), German, English, and Scottish descent. Linda grew
up in the San Francisco Bay area, California, the youngest of four children. She became interested in acting at age ten, when she performed
a singing role in a school Christmas play. She continued to do school
productions and community theater.
Linda attended Saint Francis High School in Mountain View, California.
After graduating, she had to decide whether to go to New York to pursue
theater or Los Angeles to pursue film and television. She chose LA. Linda was cast in her first role, on the series Bone Chillers (1996). Her
breakthrough part came when she was cast in Freaks and Geeks (1999). She played academic decathlete Lindsay Weir on the celebrated series, which won an Emmy Award in the Category of "Outstanding Casting for a Comedy Series".
Cardellini captured the hearts of young girls, boys and teenagers, worldwide, for her portrayal of Velma in Warner Bros.'s Scooby-Doo (2002). She also co-starred in 'Brian Robbins'' Good Burger (1997), Legally Blonde (2001), with Reese Witherspoon, and Tom McLoughlin's The Unsaid (2001) with Andy Garcia, as well as in the Adam Sandler-produced comedy, Grandma's Boy (2006).
In 2005, Cardellini starred in the ensemble film, American Gun (2005), for IFC Films, alongside Donald Sutherland, Forest Whitaker and Marcia Gay Harden. "American Gun" was the debut feature of director/co-writer Aric Avelino, which has earned a Best Picture nomination at the Independent Spirit Awards in 2007. In the same year, Cardellini delivered a heartfelt performance as a jilted lover in Ang Lee's highly-acclaimed drama, Brokeback Mountain (2005), which garnered major accolades from critics, including an Academy Award nomination and Golden Globe win for Best Picture and Outstanding Ensemble in a Motion Picture Drama by the Screen Actor's Guild.
It was upon working with Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana on this film, that they later cast her in CBS's Hallmark Hall of Fame mini-series Comanche Moon (2008), a testament to their trust in Cardellini's talent and presence on screen. Cardellini starred alongside Val Kilmer and Steve Zahn in the six-hour, epic mini-series in 2008, written by McMurtry (based on McMurtry's novel of the same name), directed by Simon Wincer and executive-produced by Ossana. This western, which was the prequel to "Lonesome Dove," (the television series created in 1989 by McMurtry) aired on three consecutive evenings for two hours each night.
In 2008, Cardellini portrayed the lead role of 'Julie Ingram' in the feature film "The Lazarus Project" starring alongside 'Paul Walker'. Directed by John Glenn, this thriller tells the story of a former criminal who is drawn into an illicit endeavor and subsequently finds himself living an inexplicable new life working at a psychiatric facility.
In 2011, Cardellini co-starred in Jonathan Hensleigh's independent feature film "Kill the Irishman," alongside Christopher Walken, Ray Stevenson and Val Kilmer. The film was based on the true story of Danny Greene, a tough Irish thug working for mobsters in Cleveland during the 1970s. In February 2012, Cardellini starred as 'Kelli' in the independent film "Return," opposite Michael Shannon and John Slattery which earned Cardellini an Independent Spirit Award nomination for "Best Female Lead." "Return" was featured in the Director's Fortnight section at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival and was an official entry at The Deauville, London and Palm Springs International Film Festivals. "Return" follows 'Kelli' as she returns home from war and learns how to adjust to a slower, normal life.
In 2013, Cardellini was almost unrecognizable, but turned heads, for her provocative portrayal of 'Sylvia Rosen,' 'Don Draper's' married mistress, in a guest arc in the sixth season of the critically acclaimed AMC series, "Mad Men." She received her first Emmy nomination for "Outstanding Guest Actress in A Drama Series" for her portrayal.
Working in both film and television, Linda is well-known for her portrayal of 'Nurse Samantha Taggart' on NBC's highly-rated, critically acclaimed series, "ER". She will next be seen as 'Meg Rayburn' in Netflix's new untitled family drama series created by Glenn Kessler, Daniel Zelman and Todd Kessler. Cardellini also has a co-starring role in the indie comedy Welcome to Me (2014), opposite an all-star cast that includes Kristen Wiig, Tim Robbins, Joan Cusack, James Marsden and Wes Bentley. The film is directed by Shira Piven. "Welcome to Me" was produced by Will Ferrell and Adam McKay and premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.
On the small screen, Cardellini was a guest star, playing 'Dr. Megan Tillman', in CBS' Person of Interest (2011). The crime drama show was created by Jonathan Nolan and stars Jim Caviezel, Taraji P. Henson and Michael Emerson. Cardellini also lends her voice to a diverse group of animated series including Nickelodeon's "Sanjay & Craig" wherein she plays 'Megan,' IFC's "Out There" wherein she voices 'Starla,' and Disney's "Gravity Falls," in which she is 'Wendy.' Cardellini's past voiceover work includes the role of 'Bliss,' the family daughter in the ABC animated television program, The Goode Family (2009).
Linda has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Theatre from Loyola Marymount University, and completed a summer study program at the National Theatre in London. She resides in Los Angeles.- Actress
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Busy was born Elizabeth Jean Philipps in Illinois, US. She became interested in acting when she was in fourth grade and was always starring in school productions. In the summer, she would attend theater camp.
She is more commonly known as a television actress, getting her first break on Freaks and Geeks (1999), She joined Dawson's Creek (1998) and ER (1994), but her breakthrough role has been Laurie Keller on Cougar Town (2009).- Actress
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Hong Chau was born on 25 June 1979 in Thailand. She is an actress and writer, known for The Whale (2022), Downsizing (2017) and The Menu (2022).- Writer
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Ricky Dene Gervais was born in a suburb of Reading, Berkshire, to Eva
Sophia (House) and Lawrence Raymond Gervais, who was a hod carrier and
labourer. His father was born in Ontario, Canada, of French-Canadian
descent, and his mother was English. He was educated at Ashmead
Comprehensive School and went on to study at University College,
London, where he gained a degree in Philosophy.
After university, Gervais attempted to pursue a pop career with Seona
Dancing, a duo he formed with a fellow student. Similar to many groups
in the early 1980s, they were a synth-pop act with a somewhat
pretentious name and exhibiting a strong musical influence by
David Bowie. Gervais adopted a
vocal style that has often been compared to Bowie; comedian
Paul Merton would later joke
that Bowie nicked their music. Seona Dancing were briefly signed to a
recording contract and released two singles, "More to Lose" and "Bitter
Heart". The latter was slightly reminiscent of
Queen's "Body Language" from a year
earlier, featuring a similar synthesizer riff. The act failed to breach
the UK top 75 and earn a place in the Guinness Book of British Hit
Singles, but clips have survived and they have been frequently used to
tease Gervais in interviews. Despite his own lack of success, Gervais
stayed within the music industry for a while and even spent time as the
manager of Suede.
Gervais had to wait a long time before achieving the fame he had hoped
would come with a pop career. In the 1990s he formed a writing
partnership with Stephen Merchant. In
2000, he landed his own comedy chat show on Channel 4,
Meet Ricky Gervais (2000),
which attracted legendary guests such as
Jimmy Savile,
Michael Winner,
Paul Daniels,
Peter Purves,
Stefanie Powers,
Jim Bowen and
Midge Ure. The series only ran for six
episodes but a year later greater stardom came for Gervais with the
debut of BBC comedy
The Office (2001). Although it was
not initially received to great acclaim or viewing figures, it is now
often cited as one of the greatest comedy series of all time and has
been credited with reinventing the sitcom. Gervais starred as the
obnoxious and embarrassing office manager David Brent, who has since
been voted in various polls one of the greatest comic characters. It
also prompted an American remake,
The Office (2005). Gervais had
further success with another sitcom,
Extras (2005), which attracted a
series of celebrity guests, including
Ben Stiller,
Samuel L. Jackson and his musical idol
David Bowie. It served as a
satire on the entertainment industry and leading stars were happy to
play along by performing exaggerated versions of themselves.
Gervais has become one of the most popular and omnipresent comedy
performers of the 21st century, hosting the Golden Globe awards,
lending his talent to films, becoming a voice artist and appearing on
numerous talk shows. He has become one of the best known British comedy
figures in America. He is also regularly the subject of controversy due
to his dark comedy. Some critics have called him insensitive and
outrageous. Gervais has responded by saying "offense is the collateral
damage of free speech", he has said that he doesn't aim for a mass
audience, he's just pleased he's managed to get one, and he has
compared his style of comedy and the audience he has acquired with
being Iggy Pop in preference to being
Phil Collins.- Actress
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Offbeat leading lady Chloe Webb began her acting career as a member of the satirical Off-Broadway revue, Forbidden Broadway. She entered motion pictures starring opposite Gary Oldman in the romantic tragedy Sid and Nancy (1986). Her performance in the film won a number of awards. Several interesting film and television characters followed.
Fan picks: Sid and Nancy (1986), Tales of the City (1993) and Shameless (2011).- Actress
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Sheridan Smith was born on 25 June 1981 and grew up in Epworth. While Sheridan was growing up, her parents, Colin and
Marilyn, performed as a Country and Western duo called The Daltons and
it wasn't long before Sheridan got into it. She was dancing from the
age of 4 and singing with her parents when she was about 7. At 14 she
made her professional debut in the production of Annie, playing the
lead role. She then went on to star in many big stage roles such as:
The Go-Between, Little Red Riding Hood in the 1998 Donmar Warehouse
production of Into The Woods, Talullah in National Youth Theatre's
production of Bugsy Malone, Doll the Moll in Tin Pan Ali, Mrs
Hardcastle in The Kissing Dance or She Stoops To Conquer, Pendragon and
Dorothy in The Wizard Of Oz.
Sheridan appeared on Blue Peter, Newsround, Children in Need, Olivier
Awards and Theatreland with the NYMT (National Youth Music Theatre) of
which she was a member.
Sheridan's first TV appearance came in 1999 when she played Matilda in
ITV's Dark Ages (1999). Since then Sheridan has made many guest appearances,
including roles in Wives and Daughters, Anchor Me, Peaches, Hawk,
Heartbeat, Doctors, Where the Heart Is (1997), Holby City, Blood Strangers,
Fat Friends, The Royal, Mile High and The Bill.
She is perhaps best known for her roles in The Royle Family (1998) from
1999-2000 were she played Emma, Anthony Royle's (Ralf Little)
girlfriend, Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps (2001), again playing Ralf's girlfriend, and
Rudi in three series of Gavin & Stacey (2007).
Sheridan lives in London with flatmate Jason. Her brother Damien is a
member of the band Indie Manned.- Director
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Sidney Lumet was a master of cinema, best known for his technical
knowledge and his skill at getting first-rate performances from his
actors -- and for shooting most of his films in his beloved New York.
He made over 40 movies, often complex and emotional, but seldom overly
sentimental. Although his politics were somewhat left-leaning and he
often treated socially relevant themes in his films, Lumet didn't want
to make political movies in the first place. Born on June 25, 1924, in
Philadelphia, the son of actor Baruch Lumet
and dancer Eugenia Wermus Lumet, he made his stage debut at age four at
the Yiddish Art Theater in New York. He played many roles on Broadway
in the 1930s and also in the film
...One Third of a Nation... (1939).
After starting an off-Broadway acting troupe in the late 1940s, he
became the director of many television shows in the 1950s. Lumet made
his feature film directing debut with
12 Angry Men (1957), which won the
Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival and earned three Academy Award
nominations. The courtroom drama, which takes place almost entirely in
a jury room, is justly regarded as one of the most auspicious
directorial debuts in film history. Lumet got the chance to direct
Marlon Brando in
The Fugitive Kind (1960), an
imperfect, but powerful adaptation of
Tennessee Williams' "Orpheus
Descending". The first half of the 1960s was one of Lumet's most
artistically successful periods.
Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962),
a masterful, brilliantly photographed adaptation of the Eugene O'Neill
play, is one of several Lumet films about families. It earned
Katharine Hepburn,
Ralph Richardson,
Dean Stockwell and
Jason Robards deserved acting awards in
Cannes and Hepburn an Oscar nomination. The alarming Cold War thriller
Fail Safe (1964) unfairly suffered from
comparison to Stanley Kubrick's
equally great satire
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964),
which was released shortly before.
The Pawnbroker (1964), arguably
the most outstanding of the great movies Lumet made in this phase,
tells the story of a Holocaust survivor who lives in New York and can't
overcome his experiences in the Nazi concentration camps.
Rod Steiger's unforgettable performance in
the title role earned an Academy Award nomination. Lumet's intense
character study The Hill (1965) about
inhumanity in a military prison camp was the first of five films he did
with Sean Connery. After the overly talky
but rewarding drama The Group (1966)
about young upper-class women in the 1930s, and the stylish spy
thriller
The Deadly Affair (1967), the
late 1960s turned out to be a lesser phase in Lumet's career. He had a
strong comeback with the box-office hit
The Anderson Tapes (1971).
The Offence (1973) was commercially
less successful, but artistically brilliant - with Connery in one of
his most impressive performances. The terrific cop thriller
Serpico (1973), the first of his films
about police corruption in New York City, became one of his biggest
critical and financial successes. Al Pacino's
fascinating portrayal of the real-life cop Frank Serpico earned a
Golden Globe and the movie earned two Academy Award nominations (it is
worth noting that Lumet's feature films of the 1970s alone earned 30
Oscar nominations, winning six times). The love triangle
Lovin' Molly (1974) was not always
convincing in its atmospheric details, but Lumet's fine sense of
emotional truth and a good Blythe Danner
keep it interesting. The adaptation of
Agatha Christie's
Murder on the Orient Express (1974),
an exquisitely photographed murder mystery with an all-star cast, was a
big success again. Lumet's complex crime thriller
Dog Day Afternoon (1975), which
Pauline Kael called "one of the best "New
York" movies ever made", gave Al Pacino the
opportunity for a breathtaking, three-dimensional portrayal of a
bisexual man who tries to rob a bank to finance his lover's sex-change
operation. Lumet's next masterpiece,
Network (1976), was a prophetic satire on
media and society. The film version of
Peter Shaffer's stage play
Equus (1977) about a doctor and his
mentally confused patient was also powerful, not least because of the
energetic acting by
Richard Burton and
Peter Firth. After the enjoyable
musical The Wiz (1978) and the
interesting but not easily accessible comedy
Just Tell Me What You Want (1980),
Sidney Lumet won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for his
outstanding direction of
Prince of the City (1981), one
of his best and most typical films. It's about police corruption, but
hardly a remake of Serpico (1973).
Starring a powerful Treat Williams, it's
an extraordinarily multi-layered film. In his highly informative book
"Making Movies" (1995), Lumet describes the film in the following way:
"When we try to control everything, everything winds up controlling us.
Nothing is what it seems." It's also a movie about values, friendship
and drug addiction and, like "Serpico", is based on a true story. In
Deathtrap (1982), Lumet successfully
blended suspense and black humor.
The Verdict (1982) was voted the
fourth greatest courtroom drama of all time by the American Film
Institute in 2008. A few minor inaccuracies in legal details do not mar
this study of an alcoholic lawyer (superbly embodied by
Paul Newman) aiming to regain his
self-respect through a malpractice case. The expertly directed movie
received five Academy Award nominations. Lumet's controversial drama
Daniel (1983) with
Timothy Hutton, an adaptation of
E.L. Doctorow's "The Book of Daniel" about
two young people whose parents were executed during the McCarthy Red
Scare hysteria in the 1950s for alleged espionage, is one of his
underrated achievements. His later masterpiece
Running on Empty (1988) has a
similar theme, portraying a family which has been on the run from the
FBI since the parents (played by
Christine Lahti and
Judd Hirsch) committed a bomb attack on a
napalm laboratory in 1971 to protest the war in Vietnam. The son
(played by River Phoenix in an
extraordinarily moving, Oscar-nominated performance) falls in love with
a girl and wishes to stay with her and study music.
Naomi Foner's screenplay won the Golden
Globe. Other Lumet movies of the 1980s are the melancholic comedy drama
Garbo Talks (1984); the occasionally
clichéd Power (1986) about election
campaigns; the all too slow thriller
The Morning After (1986) and
the amusing gangster comedy
Family Business (1989). With
Q&A (1990) Lumet returned to the genre of
the New York cop thriller. Nick Nolte shines
in the role of a corrupt and racist detective in this multi-layered,
strangely underrated film. Sadly, with the exception of
Night Falls on Manhattan (1996),
an imperfect but fascinating crime drama in the tradition of his own
previous genre works, almost none of Lumet's works of the 1990s did
quite get the attention they deserved. The crime drama
A Stranger Among Us (1992)
blended genres in a way that did not seem to match most viewers'
expectations, but its contemplations about life arouse interest. The
intelligent hospital satire
Critical Care (1997) was unfairly
neglected as well. The courtroom thriller
Guilty as Sin (1993) was cold but
intriguing. Lumet's Gloria (1999) remake
seemed unnecessary, but he returned impressively with the
underestimated courtroom comedy
Find Me Guilty (2006) and the
justly acclaimed crime thriller
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007).
In 2005, Sidney Lumet received a well-deserved honorary Academy Award
for his outstanding contribution to filmmaking. Sidney Lumet tragically
died of cancer in 2011.- Actress
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Red-haired Jacqueline Sue Scott began her career in show biz as a three-year-old by winning a tap-dancing contest. Though she once self-deprecatingly described herself as "the worst child tap dancer ever to haunt an audience" she made the successful transition from juvenile performer in tent shows to accomplished leading and character actress with an impressive number of screen credits to her resume.
The daughter of John D. Scott and Maxine Finley, Jackie was born in the small town of Sikeston, Missouri. She began acting professionally from the age of 17 with a small St. Louis community theatre company. She then moved to New York, graduated from New York's Hunter College, did some admin work for David Sarnoff at RCA and eventually studied acting under Uta Hagen. Her breakthrough came when she was chosen by the distinguished thespian Louis Calhern to play the part of his granddaughter in The Wooden Dish on Broadway. Mentored by Calhern (who undoubtedly taught her many tricks of the trade) Jackie was cast that same year opposite Paul Muni in Inherit the Wind, playing a young lass in love with the hapless teacher at the center of the infamous 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial.
On the strength of some early television work in live anthology drama, Jacqueline was brought to Hollywood by William Castle, well-known as a producer of gimmicky low-budget horror movies. Her debut big screen appearance was to be in Macabre (1958), a picture shot in just seven days for a reputed investment of around $90,000. No audience members 'died of fright', nor were any of the $1000 life insurance policies handed out to audiences as part of the publicity campaign cashed in. While certainly no critical masterpiece, the enterprise managed to gross a cool $5 million. More importantly for Jacqueline was meeting on the set of Macabre her future husband (screenwriter and photographer Gene Lesser who also became her agent). Their marriage lasted an impressive (especially by Hollywood standards) 62 years.
Jacqueline's prolific output during the succeeding three decades consisted primarily of TV guest spots. Very much 'a working actress, she could always be counted upon to portray strength and give quietly effective performances, even in relatively passive roles like those many sympathetic wives and girlfriends in assorted Quinn Martin productions of the 60s and 70s. Among her better-known roles were Donna Kimble Taft, sister of David Janssen's man-on-the-run in five installments of The Fugitive (1963), the wife of an astronaut stranded in an alternate universe in The Parallel (1963) and the chimpanzee physician Dr. Kira (Roddy McDowall's friend) in Planet of the Apes (1974) (for which she had to undergo a three-hour make-up session). She later quipped in an interview: "When some of the crew said how pretty I looked, I knew they had been on the show too long!"
In films, Jacqueline was also frequently cast as supportive spouses: Walter Matthau's in Charley Varrick (1973) (her own personal favorite), Dennis Weaver's in Steven Spielberg's directorial debut picture Duel (1971) and James Stewart's in the western Firecreek (1968). A sturdier outdoorsy part came her way via the monster flick Empire of the Ants (1977) in which she found herself pitted against giant killer insects, along with co-stars Robert Lansing and (a less glamorous than usual) Joan Collins. Jackie's frequent forays into the Wild West included repeat appearances in Have Gun - Will Travel (1957), Laramie (1959), Bonanza (1959) and Gunsmoke (1955).- Actress
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Angela is an American actress. She was born in Louisiana, but raised from the age of 2 in Jakarta, Indonesia. Her father was working as a drilling engineer. During her time there, she attended the Jakarta International English School and learned to speak Indonesian. When she was age 14, her family returned to America and settled in Texas; where her parents were originally from.
Angela attended Baylor University in Waco, Texas. She studied English and graduated in 1993. During her time there, she also participated in the Baylor in London program, which allowed her to experience theater in London, UK. She had been involved in theater throughout her schooling.
After college, she gained an internship on the Conan O'Brien show. She took acting classes in New York, and then moved on to LA. She got involved with The Groundlings and Improv Olympic.
She started out in commercials and got her first TV job on Step by Step (1991). Her breakthrough role came when she was cast as Angela in The Office (2005).- Actress
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Born in New York City on June 25, 1925, the daughter of actors
Gene Lockhart and
Kathleen Lockhart, June Lockhart made
her professional debut at age eight in a Metropolitan Opera production
of "Peter Ibbetson", playing Mimsey in the dream sequence. In the
mid-1930s, the Lockharts relocated to California, where father Gene
enjoyed a long career as one of the screen's great character actors.
June made her screen debut in MGM's version of
A Christmas Carol (1938),
playing--appropriately enough the daughter of stars
Gene Lockhart and
Kathleen Lockhart. June appeared in a
dozen or more movies before 1947, when she made her Broadway bow
playing the ingénue in the comedy "For Love or Money" with
John Loder. She got a standing ovation on
opening night; one critic compared her debut to the first big hits of
Helen Hayes and
Margaret Sullavan. The overnight toast
of Broadway, she went on to win a Tony Award, the Donaldson Award, the
Theatre World Award and the Associated Press citation for Woman of the
Year for Drama for her work in that play. On television, she has
co-starred in popular series like
Lassie (1954) and
Lost in Space (1965).- Legal
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Jeff Cohen was born on 25 June 1974 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is a legal representative and actor.- Jason Lewis has been entertaining audiences on stage and screen for over 20 years.
Jason is recognized globally for his iconic role as 'Smith Jerrod' Samantha's (Kim Cattrall) lovable, kind, boyfriend on HBO's groundbreaking comedy series, Sex and the City. He reprised his role in both feature films, Sex and The City and Sex and the City 2, directed by Michael Patrick King. The series continues to air in syndication and on streaming platforms in hundreds of countries around the world.
Since his breakout role on Sex and the City, Jason has successfully parlayed his stardom into a series of quality film and television roles.
Most recently, Jason starred for two seasons as 'Joe Strong', an angel tattoo artist with a strong moral compass, on NBC's supernatural drama series Midnight, Texas. The series is adapted from the best selling books by True Blood author Charlaine Harris, and centers around the residents of a small Texas town who also have supernatural abilities.
Some of his television work includes recurring and guest star roles on ABC's family drama series Brothers & Sisters opposite Matthew Rhys. House M.D. with Hugh Laurie and Kal Penn, as well as Animal Kingdom, The Evidence, Six Degrees, CSI, CSI: Miami, How I Met Your Mother and Charmed.
In 2018 Jason starred in the independent features Half Magic co-starring Heather Graham and Angela Kinsey and the western, Running Wild with Sharon Stone.
Some of his other feature work includes: MGM's psychological thriller Mr. Brooks (Demi Moore and Kevin Costner); the independent film, The Pardon (John Hawkes and Jamie King); Warner Bros. drama The Jacket, (Adrian Brody); Nu Image Films' The Death and Life of Bobby Z, (Paul Walker and Laurence Fishburne); and the independent thriller The Attic (Elizabeth Moss).
Additionally, Jason also starred as the lead in Kenneth Lonergan's world-renowned stage play This Is Our Youth, for director Woody Harrelson in Toronto.
Born and raised in Southern California, Jason's first major break in entertainment was in fashion, as a model. Jason quickly became one of the top male models and modeled in campaigns and on runways worldwide for some of the most luxurious houses, including Versace, Dolce and Gabbana, Calvin Klein, Hugo Boss, Tommy Hilfiger, Michael Kors, and GUESS.
In addition to acting, Jason is a passionate philanthropist and has supported many charities over the years. Currently, he is very active with the charity Best Buddies, a non-profit organization founded by Anthony Kennedy Shriver. The charity works to foster friendships and opportunities for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Most recently, Jason has begun working with Habitat for Humanity and plans to grow his involvement with this organization as well.
Jason splits his time between Los Angeles and New York City. - Actress
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Shannon Lucio received her BA in theater from the University of Southern California. Shortly thereafter, she landed her breakout role on the Fox show "The O.C." Most recently, she reprised her character Caroline Compton on the last season of "True Blood." Past notable credits include "Fireflies in the Garden," with Julia Roberts and Ryan Reynolds, "Feast of Love," directed by Robert Benton, and recurring arcs on "Prison Break" and "Grey's Anatomy." A founding member and Creative Executive of Filament Features, Shannon is involved in all aspects of production, simultaneously acting in and producing many of Filament's projects. Shannon has also ventured into screenwriting with "The Eternity of Energy."- Actress
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Born into Bombay filmdom's legendary Kapoor clan,
Karisma Kapoor made her film debut with
Prem Qaidi (1991) opposite
Harish. Her next big hit was
Anari (1993) and during this time she made
news with a fight with her
Andaz Apna Apna (1994) co-star,
actress Raveena Tandon. She had a series
of hit comedies between 1994 and 1997 starting with
Raja Babu (1994) and ending with
Hero No. 1 (1997) with
Govinda and director
David Dhawan. She hit the big time with the
super success of
Raja Hindustani (1996) and
further consolidated her career with
Dil To Pagal Hai (1997). Today
she is the reigning mega-star of Hindi cinema leaving her
contemporaries like Manisha Koirala and
Raveena Tandon far behind. In
Fiza (2000) she surprised many with an
excellent performance showing great emotional range and depth.- Actress
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Annaleigh Ashford won the Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, and Outer Critics Circle Award for her portrayal of Essie in You Can't Take It With You on Broadway. She starred opposite Jake Gyllenhaal as Dot in Stephen Sondheim's Sunday in the Park With George, and played Betty on Showtime's critically acclaimed Masters of Sex. Other Broadway credits include Sylvia in Sylvia, the original Lauren in Kinky Boots (Clarence Derwent Award, Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle nominations), Glinda in Wicked, Jeannie in Hair, and the original Margot in Legally Blonde the Musical. Off Broadway credits include Dot in Sunday in the Park with George at Encores!, Helena in Midsummer Night's Dream at the Delecorte Theatre for the Public Theatre's Shakespeare in the Park, Maureen in Rent, and Marcie in Dogfight. Other television and film credits include American Crime Story: Versace, Columbia in The Rocky Horror Picture Show on Fox, Nurse Jackie, The Big C, Law&Order SVU, Smash, Unicorn Store, Sex and the City, Better Off Single, Top Five, Rachel Getting Married, Frozen. Her critically acclaimed solo show, Annaleigh Ashford: Lost in the Stars Live at 54 Below was released by Broadway Records in 2016.- Actress
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La La Anthony is an actress and producer, known for her roles in Think Like a Man (2012) and Think Like a Man Too (2014), in which she starred alongside Kevin Hart and Taraji P. Henson, Spike Lee's Chi-Raq (2015), and television shows Unforgettable on A&E with Poppy Montgomery and Starz' hit show Power, executive produced by 50 Cent and starring Omari Hardwick.
La La is also co-producer of "Eclipsed" on Broadway starring Oscar winner Lupita Nyong'o.- Actress
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Erica Gimpel rose to international prominence in her debut role of "Coco Hernandez" on the groundbreaking hit series FAME. Erica was born in Manhattan, New York, to Phyllis Bash, a concert singer and Joseph Gimpel, an actor, singer and writer. Her parents met and fell in love at their singing teacher's studio and got married in 1963 when interracial marriage was a revolutionary act. Music and singing were a big part of Erica's family life. In their later years, she and her parents would perform what became their signature song, Gershwin's "Our Love is Here to Stay", reflecting the love they shared, while also bringing joy to the many people who heard them.
As a child, Erica would go on tour with her mother who was singing the role of Bess in the opera Porgy and Bess. As a member of the chorus, Erica had her first acting experience, and at eight-years-old decided to become an actor. Later, she got accepted into the High School of the Performing Arts' Drama Department, and in her junior year auditioned and got the role of "Coco Hernandez" in the TV series "Fame."
Since then, Erica has gone on to star in numerous prime time and streaming shows including: 9-1-1, NCIS: New Orleans, Chicago Med, Grey's Anatomy, Shut Eye, True Blood, Criminal Minds, Nikita, Rizzoli & Isles, House, ER, Profiler, and Veronica Mars. One of Erica's favorite projects was playing "Trish" on the CBS drama God Friended Me for two seasons. Most recently Erica played "Ellie Fielding" in Anne Rice's Mayfair Witches for AMC, and "Brittany Arrington" on the Netflix hit, The Night Agent.
Film credits include: "Tuesday Morning Ride" with Ruby Dee, Wayne Wang's "Smoke" opposite Forest Whitaker, Abel Ferrara's cult classic "The King of New York" with Christopher Walken, Hal Hartely's "No Such Thing" with Helen Mirren, "Freaky Friday" opposite Jaime Lee Curtis, "Romeo and Juliet in Harlem", with Harry Lennix and Aunjanue Ellis. Erica was also in the critically acclaimed "Sylvie's Love" opposite Tessa Thompson. Next, she will be seen in the independent feature "Bang Bang" opposite Tim Blake Nelson.
Off-Broadway and Regional credits include: originating the roles of "Mayme" in Lynn Nottages's award-winning "Intimate Apparel", "Glory Bee" in Sam Shepard's "States of Shock" opposite John Malkovich, and "Nelly" in Jose Rivera's "Each Day Dies with Sleep." Erica received the Los Angeles Stage Raw Award for Best Solo-Performance, for her dynamic portrayal of multiple characters in the one-woman play "Sister" by Michael Phillip Edwards.
Having earned gold and platinum records for her singing on "Fame." Erica began producing her own music as a singer-songwriter. The title track from her debut album "Spread Your Wings and Fly" is featured in the indie film "Hill and Gully" an Official Selection at Pan African de Cannes.
As a filmmaker, Erica is developing several projects through her company Womans Paradise Productions. Erica's directorial debut short film "Have a Heart" was developed in the Sundance Collab Directing: Core Elements Course. Erica is preparing to direct and act in her screenplay "Rise" which will shoot in New York and Martha's Vineyard.
Erica is the recipient of the LA Femme Film Festival's "Innovative Award", and is also an active member of the world peace organization, the SGI-USA dedicated to pursuing the values of peace, culture and education.
Over the years Erica has used her talents to highlight different causes near to her heart by creating and producing benefit concerts focusing on women's rights, unhoused families, and the rise of racially motivated acts of violence against people of color. Knowing firsthand the transformative power the performing arts has on young people's lives Erica teaches and mentors young artists whenever her schedule permits.- Actor
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Rain was born in Seoul, South Korea on June 25, 1982 as Jung Jihoon. He
was extremely shy in elementary school; in interviews he's stated that he
barely spoke. He caught the desire to become a dancer at a school talent
show in sixth grade; when nobody from his school stepped forward to dance,
he gave it a try, imitating the moves he saw on TV. The applause was extremely
gratifying, and he decided right then to become a professional dancer. To
learn, he sought out older street dancers who sometimes helped him--and
other times bullied and beat him up. Rain and his younger sister Hana enjoyed
a comfortable life until the Korean recession of 1997, when his father's mill
and bakery businesses failed. Bankrupt, his father left for Brazil to pursue
economic opportunities, leaving Rain's mother to try to support the family
as a food vendor.
Rain got a start in the entertainment business as part of a 6-member boy band,
Fanclub. Revealing abuses in the Korean entertainment industry, Rain described
the Fanclub members as "caged animals" locked in the rehearsal room for up to
10 hours without food. After Fanclub released only two CDs, the company
promoting them failed and Rain was back to square one. During his junior year
of high school, he lived with some of his dance-group members, subsisting
mostly on cups of ramen noodles. He auditioned 18 times for entertainment
companies but was told that, although he was talented, he was too ugly
to become a star. He was told that he should have plastic surgery to create
"double eyelids", a common Korean practice to obtain more western-looking
eyes. Finally, in 2000 he was accepted by JYP Entertainment as a trainee. CEO
Park Jin Young, who put Rain through a grueling 3-4-hour audition, described
him as "desperate" and "like a tiger who was about to starve to death" (2008
Discovery Channel documentary "Hip Korea"). JYP stipulated that Rain had to
attend college, so after studying "ferociously," Rain got accepted to Kyunghee
University and became a music major. He spent three years as a trainee and
back-up dancer for JYP, who has stated that he was particularly critical of Rain
in order to push him to be the best and keep him from getting a "swelled
head."
During Rain's time as a trainee, his family lived in poverty and his
mother became increasingly ill with diabetes as she lacked money for
insulin or medical care. Rain drove himself hard to prove that he was
ready to make his debut, but he didn't achieve success in time to save
her life; she died of complications from diabetes a year before his
debut. This had a huge impact on him; he has said in interviews that he
regrets having had conflict with her over skipping school to go to dance
practice, and that he believes she is in heaven where she can see him. He says
that a major motivation in his life is to make her proud and he visits her
grave before embarking on each new project. Another motivation he has
mentioned is remembering what being hungry was like. He is a self-professed
workaholic, and after acting alongside him in Speed Racer, John Goodman
called him "the hardest working man in show business."- Actor
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John Benjamin Hickey was born on 25 June 1963 in Plano, Texas, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009), Flags of Our Fathers (2006) and The Taking of Pelham 123 (2009).- Actor
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Tom Lipinski is an actor and documentary producer best known for his role as Trevor in the hit television show Suits. He is also the recipient of an Edward R. Murrow Award for his work producing Gone South, an investigative journalism podcast about crime in the deep south.
Born and raised in Massachusetts, Tom attended Concord Public High school where he was an All-American athlete and later went to Brown University where he majored in history. In New York, he started his career as an actor working in experimental theater for Obie Award winning Theater of a Two-Headed Calf. Other theater credits include leading roles in plays by A.R. Gurney and Christopher Shinn.
For film and television, he has worked with acclaimed directors like Steven Soderbergh in The Knick, Jason Reitman in Labor Day and Paolo Sorrentino in Youth. In addition to his recurring role as Trevor in the hit USA/Netflix show Suits, Tom has also recurred across multiple series including Billions and the recent television adaptation of Bong Joon Ho's Snowpiercer.
As a producer, Tom co-created the Edward R Murrow Award winning podcast Gone South. Over three seasons, the show has investigated the unsolved murder of a prominent Assistant District Attorney in New Orleans, a loose-knit group of traveling criminals known as the Dixie Mafia, and the serial killing of four sex workers in the border town of Laredo, Texas.- Actor
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Michael McShane is an American actor and comedian from Boston, Massachusetts. He is known for playing Friar Tuck from Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and voice over work in cartoons and video games such as Final Fantasy X, A Bug's Life, Spawn, Castle in the Sky, Treasure Planet and Happily N'Ever After.- Actress
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Eve Gordon was born on 25 June 1960 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. She is an actress and director, known for The Circle (2017), The Grudge 2 (2006) and Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves! (1997). She has been married to Todd Waring since 14 November 1987. They have two children.- Director
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Michael Lembeck was born in Brooklyn, New York, USA to Harvey Lembeck and
Caroline Lembeck, both in show business. He graduated from Beverly
Hills High School in 1966 and his classmates in a drama course included
Rob Reiner, Albert Brooks and Richard Dreyfuss.
After continuing his drama studies at Los Angeles City College and Cal
State, he added singing and dancing lessons, and performed in summer
stock productions. He toured with the original National company of the
Broadway hit, "Grease", with John Travolta as his roommate.- Actress
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Jackie Swanson was born on 25 June 1963 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA. She is an actress, known for Cheers (1982) and Lethal Weapon (1987).- Actor
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Mason Cotton was born on 25 June 2002 in San Diego, California, USA. He is an actor, known for Hey Arnold: The Jungle Movie (2017), Mad Men (2007) and Desperate Housewives (2004).- Producer
- Director
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Timur Bekmambetov is a Kazakh-Russian film director known for vampire
franchise Night Watch (2004) and
Day Watch (2006).
He was born Timur Nuruakhitovich Bekmambetov on June 25, 1961, in
Guryev, Soviet Union (now Atyrau, Kazakhstan). His father, Nuruakhit
Bekmambetov, is a manager at Guryev Energy company; his mother, Mira
Bogoslavskaya, was a journalist. Young Bekmambetov was raised along the
Ural river in Kazakhstan, Soviet Union.
In 1978, aged 17, he moved to Moscow. There from 1978 to 1980 he
attended the Moscow Energy Institute, but he was more interested in art
and movies. Eventually, he dropped out of college, and joined the
cultural milieu around such artists as Anatoli Zverev and Oskar Rabin.
Then, from 1982 to 1987 he studied painting at Tashkent Theatrical Art
Institute, graduating in 1987 as artist of theatre and film. From 1987
to 1988 he served in the Red Army stationed at artillery division near
Ashkhabad, Turkmenistan. Then he worked as set designer at "Ilkhom"
Drama Theatre in Tashkent, and at Uzbek Film Studio.
Since 1989 he has been directing commercials. In 1992 Bekmambetov made
his directorial and writing debut with
Peshawar Waltz (1994), a
film about the Soviet war in Afghanistan which received awards at
several festivals in Europe. From 1992 to 1997 he made 18 commercials
for the Russian bank "Imperial" and was named best young director of
1997 by Russian Film Academy. In 1999 he started his own film company,
Bazelevs Production.
His big break came with the success of the vampire franchise
Night Watch (2004) and
Day Watch (2006), which he
directed during 2003 - 2005. Both films became international
blockbusters, and received several awards and nominations. The third
installment,
Twilight Watch (2009), is slated
for release in 2009.
Since 2005, Bekmambetov has been working in Hollywood, writing,
directing and producing several flicks, such as
Wanted (2008),
9 (2009), and
The Red Star. Back in
Russia, he made another success directing
The Irony of Fate 2 (2007),
a romantic comedy based on the Soviet era characters and capitalizing
on nostalgia among some of the post-Soviet audiences.
Timur Bekmambetov established himself as a master of dense narrative.
His films often surprise the viewers with eerie details, hectic pace
and unusual twists and turns, and remain a challenge even for
experienced audiences.- Actor
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Philippe Lacheau was born on 25 June 1980 in Fontenay-sous-Bois, Val-de-Marne, France. He is an actor and writer, known for Babysitting (2014), Superwho? (2021) and City Hunter (2018).- Editor
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Tricia Cooke was born on 25 June 1965 in the USA. She is an editor and producer, known for O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), Where the Girls Are (2003) and Barton Fink (1991). She has been married to Ethan Coen since 2 October 1993. They have two children.- Actor
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Scott Terra was born on 25 June 1987 in Connecticut, USA. He is an actor, known for Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star (2003), Eight Legged Freaks (2002) and Daredevil (2003).- Actor
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- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
The former child actor Paris Themmen was born on June 25th, 1959 in
Boston, Massachusetts, the self-proclaimed "Hub" of the Universe, to
classical musicians. Young Paris first appeared on stage in 1965, while
his parents were performing in summer stock in Michigan. After the
family returned to New York, NY after the summer season closed,
Themmen's mother sought an agent for the tyro actor. His on-screen
career began with a TV commercial for bubble bath, the first of over
two score TV and radio commercials and voice overs.
On stage in New York City in the late
'60s, Themmen appeared in the
classic Euripides
play "Iphegenia in Aulis" at the Circle in the Square Theatre in the
1967-68 season with Irene Papas, and was a
replacement in the long-running Broadway musical "Mame" in 1968,
appearing in support of Ann Miller in the title role. In 1970, he
appeared in the first version of Roald Dahl's
"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", as "Mike Tee Vee" in
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971).
He subsequently appeared on Broadway in the musical "The Rothschilds",
as a replacement in the role of Young Jacob Rothschild, and continued
on in the role for the national your.
After entering adolescence, Themmen abandoned his child acting career
when he was 14. He went to New York University, where he received his
Bacherlor of Fine Arts degree. In business he has worked at a variety
of jobs including Real Estate Broker, Walt Disney Imagineer and
Financial Advisor and in Los Angeles running commerical casting
sessions.- Actor
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He symbolized the 70s American dream of success -- the former kid from
the ghetto who rose to wisecracking TV superstardom. While in his
element as the broadly strutting, gleamy-toothed J.J. Evans of the
popular urban-styled sitcom
Good Times (1974), Jimmie Walker
lived the extremely good life. Following the series' demise, however,
reality again checked in. Still and all, he has not self-destructed as
others before him have and continues to enjoy a comedy career now
approaching four decades.
Jimmie was born on June 25, 1947, in New York's tough South Bronx
neighborhood. His ambitions were not originally to entertain.
Basketball was his prime interest but the idea that a gawky,
stringbean-framed teenager could become a hoop star did not seem
realistic. Instead he abruptly quit school and worked an odd assortment
of jobs until wisely returning to night classes at Theodore Roosevelt
High School and redeeming himself with a diploma. The federally-funded
Search for Education, Evaluation and Knowledge (SEEK) next came through
for Jimmie as he was able to learn a trade: radio
engineering/announcing. Within a year he was hired as an engineer for a
small radio station, but gained a minor reputation on the sly as a
funny guy and good writer. This side interest is what motivated Jimmie
to try comedy performance.
He made his stand-up debut as an opening act on New Year's Eve in 1967
for "The Last Poets," a militant poetry group, and was such a hit that
he stayed with the group for a year and a half building and polishing
his jive-styled act. At one point Jimmie was seen at a Manhattan club
by comedian David Brenner who
referred him and others (such as
Freddie Prinze) to Budd Friedman and his
Improv stage in New York. Jimmie eventually became a regular. His debut
shot on TV variety came with
Jack Paar's show and his successful
1972 appearance propelled him to main attraction billing.
He was quickly checked out by the
Norman Lear team and practically handed
stardom on a silver platter with
Good Times (1974), a spin-off of
Esther Rolle's domestic character on the
popular Maude (1972) series. Skinny,
energetic and youthful-looking with plenty of harmless sass and
attitude, Jimmie and the show were instant cross-over hits despite the
fact that he was a 27-year-old playing the teenage son of Rolle. His
catchphrase "Dyn-o-mite!" became a popular item in the American
vernacular. Jimmie became such a major celebrity that Time Magazine
named him "Comedian of the Decade." Clothing, belts, and even a talking
doll that blurted out his familiar phrase were soon on the open market.
To the dismay of other actors on the show, his exaggerated character
stole prime focus and shifted the well-intentioned direction of a
positive black family image into a much broader and stereotyped
caricature. This caused dissension in the troops and both adult leads,
Ms. Rolle and John Amos, departed the
series (Rolle came back later). Nevertheless, the series managed to
last six seasons.
During that time Jimmie made use of his ever-surging popularity with
lightweight appearances elsewhere on primetime ("The Love Boat,"
"Fantasy Island") and on game shows ("The Match Game," "Tattletales").
He became a hot item in Las Vegas and even churned out a best-selling
comedy album entitled, of course, "Dyn-o-mite!" His attempt at film
stardom came with a top supporting role in
Let's Do It Again (1975)
starring Sidney Poitier and
Bill Cosby, a comedy that also featured his
TV dad John Amos. Jimmie was featured
as a highly unlikely, scrawny-framed boxer promoted by Poitier and
Cosby. As enjoyable as he was, it did not lead to other major film
offers. Most of his later movies have been self-mocking guest parts or
cameo bits in spoofs such as in
Airplane! (1980), the Frankenstein
take-off
Monster Mash: The Movie (1995)
and the slasher movie parody
Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the Thirteenth (2000).
Upon the series' demise in 1979, Jimmie returned to the stand-up stage
while looking for a sophomore TV hit. Unable to capitalize on his TV
stardom, he instead found himself extremely pigeon-holed by the J.J.
character. The short-lived
B.A.D. Cats (1980), which had him
playing a support role as a comic car thief-cum-repossessor, lasted
only a month. The military comedy
At Ease (1983) had Jimmie starring as
a Sergeant Bilko-like conman. It too came and went quickly. Hoping the
third time would be a charm, Jimmie was a bust again in the syndicated
show Bustin' Loose (1987),
based loosely on Richard Pryor's 1981
movie, with the comedian playing another of his genial con artists.
Jimmie's main focus has remained the stand-up circuit, touring an
average of 25-30 weeks a year. The rubbery-faced, tunnel-mouthed comic
continues to pop up occasionally on the late night talk show forum. In
his spare time he writes scripts for TV and films.- Actress
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Stunningly comely and slinky brunette Lina Romay rates highly as one of
the boldest, most sensuous, and enticing actresses to have appeared
with tremendous frequency in a large volume of European horror and
exploitation features made from the early 1970s to the early 21st
century.
Romay was born Rosa Maria Almirall on June 25, 1954, in Barcelona,
Cataluna, Spain. Her cinematic pseudonym was taken from Lina Romay, a
singer/actress in mambo king Xavier Cugat's
band in the 1940s. Following graduation from high school, Romay studied
the arts, married actor/photographer
Raymond Hardy (they later
divorced), and began acting in stage productions. Lina first met
infamous and prolific maverick Spanish independent filmmaker
Jesús Franco in the early 1970s. Romay and
Franco eventually became a couple. Lina for a long time was Franco's
common law wife until they officially wed on April 23, 2008.
Lina made her film debut as a gypsy girl in
The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein (1973).
She had small parts in a few other Franco films before playing more
substantial lead and co-starring roles (she acted in over 100 Franco
films). Despite her lack of formal training, Lina nonetheless naturally
projected an extremely brazen, earthy, and uninhibited screen presence
that was both alluring and captivating in equal measure. In fact, her
open, unabashed, and downright aggressive sexuality even led to her
willing and enthusiastic participation in explicit scenes in hardcore
porno fare. Lina's most memorable roles include the voracious Countess
Irina Karlstein in
Female Vampire (1973), brutalized
innocent Maria in the sensationally sleazy
Barbed Wire Dolls (1976), vicious
top con Juana in the similarly scuzzy
Ilsa, the Wicked Warden (1977),
especially inspired in a dual part in
Die Marquise von Sade (1976)
and bawdy prostitute Marika in the gloomy
Jack the Ripper (1976).
Moreover, Romay posed for nude pictorials in such men's magazines as
"Cinema X" and "Sex Stars System." In addition to acting, Lina also
worked on a handful of films as a writer, director, producer, and
assistant editor. In real life Lina was the total radical opposite of
her wild and outrageous screen persona: she was a very quiet,
soft-spoken, and self-effacing woman who usually dressed in frumpy
clothes. Romay died from cancer at age 57 on February 15, 2012 in
Malaga, Spain.- Director
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George Sluizer was born on 25 June 1932 in Paris, France. He was a director and producer, known for The Vanishing (1988), La balsa de piedra (2002) and Dying to Go Home (1996). He was married to Anne Sluizer. He died on 20 September 2014 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.- Producer
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Anthony Bourdain was born in New York City, to Gladys (Sacksman), an NYT staff editor, and Pierre Bourdain, a Columbia Records executive. He attended The Englewood School for Boys in New Jersey and Vassar College (for two years), and was a graduate of The Culinary Institute of America. He began his career in the food industry as a dishwasher, gradually working his way up through preparation, to line cook, sous chef, and chef. He was executive chef of Manhattan's Brasserie Les Halles, which meant, in his words, that he got to "swan around the kitchen, taking credit for others' work." Bourdain lived in New York City, and had a daughter Ariane, with his wife Ottavia.- Actress
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Sunetra Sarker was born on 25 June 1973 in Liverpool, England, UK. She is an actress and producer, known for Casualty (1986), Ackley Bridge (2017) and The Smoking Room (2004). She has been married to Scott Carey since November 2018. She was previously married to Nick Corfield.- Merve Dizdar was born on 25 June 1986 in Izmir, Turkey. She is an actress, known for About Dry Grasses (2023), Snow and the Bear (2022) and Organic Love Stories (2017). She was previously married to Gürhan Altundasar.
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George Michael was born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou in Finchley, north
London, in the United Kingdom, to Lesley Angold (Harrison), a dancer,
and Kyriacos Panayiotou, a restaurateur. His father was a Greek
Cypriot, and his mother was of English background. He first discovered
fame as a musician when he and school friend,
Andrew Ridgeley, formed the pop group
Wham!. Success came fast and furious with their
first album,
'Fantastic' (1983) hitting the UK number one spot. Wham!
survived for five years and during that time the group notched up four
number one singles and two number one albums. Most of their other
releases made top three. George also contributed to the
Band Aid Single
'Do They Know It's Christmas' (1984), and scored two further solo
number one hits with 'Careless Whisper' and 'A Different Corner'.
Following the break-up of Wham!,
George went on to have a hugely successful career as a solo artist, his
debut album 'Faith' (1987) - and the single of the same name - both
achieving instant and international success. The album has since been
certified Diamond.
Over the last four decades George has notched up 8 number one albums in
the and 13 number one singles in the UK (including
Wham!, Band Aid, and the
'Five Live' EP). In the U.S. he has achieved 2 number one albums and 10
number one singles, with numerous other number one hits throughout the
rest of the world.
He has performed duets with artists including
Aretha Franklin,
Elton John,
Queen, and
Lisa Stansfield, and actively
participates in charitable causes, Live Aid and the
Freddie Mercury concert for AIDS
being just two of the more prominent examples. According to a BBC
documentary, George donated more than five million pounds towards
various charities. Whilst with Wham!, he donated all the proceeds of
'Last Christmas' (1984) to charity. The single reached number two in
the UK and George also performed simultaneously on the number one
charity record 'Do They Know It's Christmas?'.
George released the single 'December Song' in 2008 as a free download: his hope was that purchasers would donate money to charity.
He remained in contact with his Wham! partner and long-time friend Andrew Ridgeley until his death in 2016.- Mauricio Umansky was born on 25 June 1970 in Mexico. He is a producer, known for Buying Beverly Hills (2022), Newlyweds: Nick & Jessica (2003) and I Want to Be a Hilton (2005). He has been married to Kyle Richards since 20 January 1996. They have three children.
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Megan Burns is a British actress best known for her role in 28 Days Later. She was born in Liverpool, England. When Burns was 11 her grandmother sent her to a drama class. From there Burns received a part in Stephen Frear's film Liam. She won the Marcello Mastroianni Award at the Venice International Film Festival for her performance. Danny Boyle saw this and cast her in his film 28 Days Later, in which she played Hannah, one of the survivors of a deadly epidemic. Burns has since worked as a singer under the pseudonym Betty Curse, having signed to Island Records. Burns has been cast as Whistler Silkwood in In2ruders (2018), an upcoming psychological thriller from award winning filmmaker Naeem Mahmood.- Actress
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Kylie Cantrall was born on 25 June 2005. She is an actress, known for Ron's Gone Wrong (2021), Descendants: The Rise of Red (2024) and Gabby Duran and the Unsittables: Baby Sitting 101 (2020).- George Murdock was born on 25 June 1930 in Salina, Kansas, USA. He was an actor, known for Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989), Orange County (2002) and Breaker! Breaker! (1977). He was married to Catherine A. Miller. He died on 30 April 2012 in Burbank, California, USA.
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Charlie Carrick was born on 25 June 1986. He is an actor, known for Deep Water (2019), Cobra (2020) and Hidden Assets (2021).- Iman Benson was born on 25 June 2000 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. She is an actress, known for #BlackAF (2020), Uncle Buck (2016) and Alexa & Katie (2018).
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Renee Herbert is an Australian Actor born on June 25, 1999 in NSW, Australia. She is known for work on Divinity (2023) as a "purity protector" and When Love Springs (2023) as "Cleo Richards". Her acting career started out by starring in multiple music videos and short films. She was then discovered by Jason Newman who is her current manager.- Turkish actress who is known for her roles Melek Camoglu Cevher in the 2016 series Hayat Sarkisi. She then gained further recognition in 2009 when she landed a recurring spot as Kucuk Zarife in the hit period series Elveda Rumeli. She was cast in family comedies "Gonul Dagi", "Zengin Kiz Fakir Oglan"
Her acting career first started in 2007 when she played the character of Idil in the TV series Havalimani. She is also known for having studied at Maltepe University within the Radio and Television Department. - Marsden's credits are numerous and span a half century of widely, and wildly, different genres and character types. Not the least is his portrayal of the mysterious and mystical character John Stockton in the long-running ITV series The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (1991) starring Jeremy Brett. In The Last Vampyre (1993) Marsden brings, literally to life, Sir Conan Doyle's take on the ages' old, indeed historic, legend most known to modern viewers through Bram Stoker's 1897 Gothic horror novel "Dracula."
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Caroline Boulton is a English actress born in London. She initially trained as a classical ballet dancer from the age of 5 and her early performing skills were honed as a regular dance performer in theaters. Caroline attended St Mary's School in London and soon developed an interest in film going on to achieve a Masters Degree in Conceptual Film Art from art school KIAD, now called UCA. Caroline's acting potential was soon spotted by a film director and she was encouraged to pursue formal drama training, upon audition she accepted an offer from London's Academy Drama school.
TV work includes Sylvia in the SAG nominated TV series Houdini, Sister Elizabeth in the Emmy nominated mini series World Without End produced by Ridley Scott, The Last Kingdom, Fleming for BBC America, BBC TV series Robin Hood, Sister Channels for ITV and Time Trumpet comedy series for the BBC.
Feature Film credits include Hercules, The Boat That Rocked, Anaphylaxis and Swedish Horror Toothache.
Comedy work includes the TV series The Napoleon Complex numerous sketch shows and regular stand up comedy.- Kene Holiday was born on 25 June 1949 in New York City, New York, USA. He is an actor, known for The Philadelphia Experiment (1984), Bulworth (1998) and Everybody's Fine (2009). He has been married to Linda Copling since 6 April 1996. He was previously married to Janifer Baker Holloway and Dolly Holiday.
- Veteran character actress Anne Revere became another in the long line
of talented artists whose careers would crash under the weight of the
"Red Scare" hysteria that tore through Hollywood in the 1940s and
1950s. Born in Manhattan and a direct descendant of Revolutionary War
figure Paul Revere, Anne graduated from Wellesley College, then trained
for the stage at the American Laboratory Theatre.
She made her Broadway bow in 1931 with "The Great Barrington" and her
film debut in a version of another Broadway play, Double Door (1934). Returning to
Broadway after receiving no other film offers, she would not make
another movie until 1940...then she stayed. She went on to epitomize
the warm, wise and invariably stoic mother to a number of great "golden
age" stars, her understated power and intensity capturing the hearts of
critics and war-torn audiences alike. Her plain, freckled, careworn
looks appeared equally at home on the frontier or in a tenement
setting. Anne was nominated three times for an Oscar for her strong,
matriarchal figures -- as Jennifer Jones' mother in The Song of Bernadette (1943), Elizabeth Taylor's in
National Velvet (1944) and Gregory Peck's in Gentleman's Agreement (1947), winning the Oscar on her second try
for National Velvet (1944).
A versatile talent, she extended her range to include a number of
brittle, neurotic and even crazy ladies. This all ended abruptly in
1951 when her name appeared as one of 300 on the infamous "Hollywood
blacklist". She had just completed a major role as Montgomery Clift's Salvation
Army mom in A Place in the Sun (1951). She stood on her Fifth Amendment rights before the
Communist-obsessed House Un-American Activities Committee and, as a
result, her part in that film was reduced to a glorified cameo. She did
not appear in another film for nearly 20 years (a starring role in a
new TV series was also taken from her).
In the interim, she and husband Samuel Rosen, a stage actor, writer and
director, ran an acting school in Los Angeles before relocating to New
York, where she managed to find employment in stock productions and
under the Broadway lights. She received the Tony Award during the
1960-1961 season for her fine portrayal of a spinster sister in
Lillian Hellman's "Toys in the Attic," a part that went to British actress
Wendy Hiller when it transferred to film. TV jobs began coming her way again
in the mid-1960s, and by 1970 she was working sporadically on such
daytime soaps as Search for Tomorrow (1951) and Ryan's Hope (1975). She appeared briefly in Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon (1970)
starring Liza Minnelli, and then earned a showier part in Birch Interval (1976).
Anne passed away after contracting pneumonia at age 87 and was survived
by a sister. She had no children. Although a victim of "Cold War"
paranoia, she always persevered, showing the same kind of grit and
courage that embodied her gallery of characters on film.