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Annette Bening was born on May 29, 1958 in Topeka, Kansas, the youngest of four children. Her family moved to California when she was young, and she grew up there. She graduated from San Francisco State University and began her acting career with the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, eventually moving to New York where she acted on the stage (including a Tony-award nomination in 1987 for her work in the Broadway play "Coastal Disturbances") and got her first film roles, in a few TV movies.
As is so often the case, her first big-screen role was in a forgettable movie, this one The Great Outdoors (1988), in which she had little screen time. However, her next work onscreen was in Milos Forman's Valmont (1989), a film adaptation of Choderlos de Laclos' "Les Liaisons Dangereuses". Unfortunately, de Laclos' story had also just served as the source of a more Hollywoodized and successful movie version, Dangerous Liaisons (1988), which had been released the previous year, and Foreman's treatment went little noticed. Bening's career turned an important corner the following year when she co-starred with Anjelica Huston and John Cusack in Stephen Frears's powerful, entertaining screen adaptation of Jim Thompson's novel The Grifters (1990), and her artful turn as a con artist gained her the first of several Academy award nominations. On the strength of this performance Warren Beatty cast Bening as Virginia Hill, Bugsy Siegel's fiery actress moll, in his Bugsy (1991), the story of Siegel's founding of Las Vegas. Although the movie itself did not fare well, it resulted in a relationship with Beatty which led to Bening's pregnancy and then her marriage to Beatty in 1992 - it was the second marriage for Bening, who had been separated from her first husband since 1986 but did not finalize her divorce until 1991. The couple then collaborated on the extravagant flop Love Affair (1994), though the next year her career rebounded with her turn as Queen Elizabeth in the highly-regarded 1995 production of Richard III (1995). Notable performances have since included an obsessive, pushy real estate agent in American Beauty (1999), and as the eponymous character in István Szabó's screen adaptation of the W. Somerset Maugham novel Being Julia (2004) - both were duly noted by the Academy, with Oscar nominations.
Bening has great poise and screen presence and, at her best, can turn in a very strong performance. Although her resume often features long stretches of mediocre productions before the next good part turns up, when it does, it proves worth the wait. Bening has four children with Beatty.- Music Department
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Giancarlo Giuseppe Alessandro Esposito was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, to an Italian carpenter/stagehand father from Naples, Italy, and an African-American opera singer mother from Alabama. His parents, working in Europe at the time of his birth, settled in Manhattan by the time he was 6, and that's where he grew up.
Coming from a theatrical background, it was, perhaps, inevitable that young Giancarlo would appear on stage sooner or later, and he did, at age 8, appearing on Broadway as a slave child in "Maggie Flynn" in 1966.
More Broadway work followed through the 1960s and early '70s, followed by some small roles in movies. TV work followed in the 1980s, with increasingly significant parts in a string of high-profile series until he became well-established as a character player both on TV and in a number of movies.
He came very much to the public's attention playing Agent Mike Giardello in the TV series Homicide: Life on the Street (1993) in 1998 and since then has rarely been off our screens.- Actor
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Gary Oldman is a talented English movie star and character actor, renowned for his expressive acting style. One of the most celebrated thespians of his generation, with a diverse career encompassing theatre, film and television, he is known for his roles as Sid Vicious in Sid and Nancy (1986), Drexl in True Romance (1993), George Smiley in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), and Winston Churchill in Darkest Hour (2017), among many others. For much of his career, he was best-known for playing over-the-top antagonists, such as terrorist Egor Korshunov in the 1997 blockbuster Air Force One (1997), though he has reached a new audience with heroic roles in the Harry Potter and Dark Knight franchises. He is also a filmmaker, musician, and author.
Gary Leonard Oldman was born on March 21, 1958 in New Cross, London, England, to Kathleen (Cheriton), a homemaker, and Leonard Bertram Oldman, a welder. He won a scholarship to Britain's Rose Bruford Drama College, in Sidcup, Kent, where he received a B.A. in theatre arts in 1979. He subsequently studied with the Greenwich Young People's Theatre and went on to appear in a number of plays throughout the early '80s, including "The Pope's Wedding," for which he received Time Out's Fringe Award for Best Newcomer of 1985-1986 and the British Theatre Association's Drama Magazine Award as Best Actor for 1985. Before fame, he was employed as a worker in assembly lines and as a porter in an operating theater. He also had jobs selling shoes and beheading pigs while supporting his early acting career.
His film debut was Remembrance (1982), though his most-memorable early role came when he played Sex Pistol Sid Vicious in the biopic Sid and Nancy (1986) picking up the Evening Standard Film Award as Best Newcomer. He then received a Best Actor nomination from BAFTA for his portrayal of '60s playwright Joe Orton in Prick Up Your Ears (1987).
In the 1990s, Oldman brought to life a series of iconic real-world and fictional villains including Lee Harvey Oswald in JFK (1991), the title character in Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), Drexl Spivey in True Romance (1993), Stansfield in Léon: The Professional (1994), Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg in The Fifth Element (1997) and Ivan Korshunov in Air Force One (1997). That decade also saw Oldman portraying Ludwig van Beethoven in biopic Immortal Beloved (1994).
Oldman played the coveted role of Sirius Black in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004), giving him a key part in one of the highest-grossing franchises ever. He reprised that role in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007). Oldman also took on the iconic role of Detective James Gordon in writer-director Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins (2005), a role he played again in The Dark Knight (2008) and The Dark Knight Rises (2012). Prominent film critic Mark Kermode, in reviewing The Dark Knight, wrote, "the best performance in the film, by a mile, is Gary Oldman's ... it would be lovely to see him get a[n Academy Award] nomination because actually, he's the guy who gets kind of overlooked in all of this."
Oldman co-starred with Jim Carrey in the 2009 version of A Christmas Carol in which Oldman played three roles. He had a starring role in David Goyer's supernatural thriller The Unborn, released in 2009. In 2010, Oldman co-starred with Denzel Washington in The Book of Eli. He also played a lead role in Catherine Hardwicke's Red Riding Hood. Oldman voiced the role of villain Lord Shen and was nominated for an Annie Award for his performance in Kung Fu Panda 2.
In 2011, Oldman portrayed master spy George Smiley in the adaptation of John le Carré's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), and the role scored Oldman his first Academy Award nomination. In 2014, he played one of the lead humans in the science fiction action film Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014) alongside Jason Clarke and Keri Russell. Also in 2014, Oldman starred alongside Joel Kinnaman, Abbie Cornish, Michael Keaton, and Samuel L. Jackson in the remake of RoboCop (2014), as Norton, the scientist who creates RoboCop.
Aside from acting, Oldman tried his hand at writing and directing for Nil by Mouth (1997). The movie opened the Cannes Film Festival in 1997, and won Kathy Burke a Best Actress prize at the festival.
Oldman has three children, Alfie, with first wife, actress Lesley Manville, and Gulliver and Charlie with his third wife, Donya Fiorentino. In 2017, he married writer and art curator Gisele Schmidt.
In 2018 he won an Oscar for best actor for his work on Darkest Hour (2017).- Actress
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Captivating, gifted, and sensational, Angela Bassett's presence has been felt in theaters and on stages and television screens throughout the world. Angela Evelyn Bassett was born on August 16, 1958 in New York City, to Betty Jane (Gilbert), a social worker, and Daniel Benjamin Bassett, a preacher's son. Bassett and her sister D'nette grew up in St. Petersburg, Florida with their mother. As a single mother, Betty stressed the importance of education for her children. With the assistance of an academic scholarship, Bassett matriculated into Yale University. In 1980, she received her B.A. in African-American studies from Yale University. In 1983, she earned a Master of Fine Arts Degree from the Yale School of Drama. It was at Yale that Bassett met her husband, Courtney B. Vance, a 1986 graduate of the Drama School.
Bassett first appeared in small roles on The Cosby Show (1984) and Spenser: For Hire (1985), but it was not until 1990 that a spate of television roles brought her notice. Her breakthrough role, though, was playing Tina Turner, whom she had never seen perform before taking the role, in What's Love Got to Do with It (1993). Bassett's performance earned her an Academy Award nomination and a Golded Globe Award for Best Actress.- Actress
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Holly Hunter was born in Conyers, Georgia, to Opal Marguerite (Catledge), a homemaker, and Charles Edwin Hunter, a part-time sporting goods company representative and farmer with a 250 acre farm. She is the youngest of seven children. Her parents encouraged her talent at an early age, and her first acting part was as Helen Keller in a fifth-grade play.
In 1976 she went to Pittsburgh to pursue a degree in drama from Carnegie Mellon University. After graduating in 1980, she went to New York City, where she met playwright Beth Henley in a stalled elevator.
Hunter went on to get roles in a number of Henley's southern Gothic plays, including Crimes of the Heart and The Miss Firecracker Contest. In 1982 the actress went to Los Angeles. She landed her first starring role in the movies in the Coen brothers' Raising Arizona (1987), a part that is said to have been written with her in mind. She gained stardom in 1987 when she played the driven TV news producer Jane Craig in James L. Brooks' Broadcast News (1987). In 1993 she earned an Academy Award and worldwide acclaim with her performance as a mute bride to a New Zealand planter in The Piano (1993).- Producer
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Timothy Walter Burton was born in Burbank, California, to Jean Rae (Erickson), who owned a cat-themed gift shop, and William Reed Burton, who worked for the Burbank Park and Recreation Department. He spent most of his childhood as a recluse, drawing cartoons, and watching old movies (he was especially fond of films with Vincent Price). When he was in the ninth grade, his artistic talent was recognized by a local garbage company, when he won a prize for an anti-litter poster he designed. The company placed this poster on all of their garbage trucks for a year. After graduating from high school, he attended California Institute of the Arts. Like so many others who graduated from that school, Burton's first job was as an animator for Disney.
His early film career was fueled by almost unbelievable good luck, but
it's his talent and originality that have kept him at the top of the
Hollywood tree. He worked on such films as The Fox and the Hound (1981) and The Black Cauldron (1985), but had some creative differences with his colleagues. Nevertheless, Disney recognized his talent, and gave him the green light to make Vincent (1982), an animated short about a boy who wanted to be just like Vincent Price. Narrated by Price himself, the short was a critical success and won several awards. Burton made a few other short films, including his first live-action film, Frankenweenie (1984). A half-hour long twist on the tale of Frankenstein, it was deemed inappropriate for children and wasn't released. But actor Paul Reubens (aka Pee-Wee Herman) saw Frankenweenie (1984), and believed that Burton would be the right man to direct him in his first full-length feature film, Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985). The film was a surprise success, and Burton instantly became popular. However, many of the scripts that were offered to him after this were essentially just spin-offs of the film, and Burton wanted to do something new.
For three years, he made no more films, until he was presented with the script for Beetlejuice (1988). The script was wild and wasn't really about anything, but was filled with such artistic and quirky opportunities, Burton couldn't say no. Beetlejuice (1988) was another big hit, and Burton's name in Hollywood was solidified. It was also his first film with actor Michael Keaton. Warner Bros. then entrusted him with Batman (1989), a film based on the immensely popular comic book series of the same name. Starring Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson, the film was the most financially successful film of the year and Burton's biggest box-office hit to date. Due to the fantastic success of his first three films, he was given the green light to make his next film, any kind of film he wanted. That film was Edward Scissorhands (1990), one of his most emotional, esteemed and artistic films to date. Edward Scissorhands (1990) was also Burton's first film with actor Johnny Depp. Burton's next film was Batman Returns (1992), and was darker and quirkier than the first one, and, while by no means a financial flop, many people felt somewhat disappointed by it. While working on Batman Returns (1992), he also produced the popular The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), directed by former fellow Disney Animator Henry Selick. Burton reunited with Johnny Depp on the film Ed Wood (1994), a film showered with critical acclaim, Martin Landau won an academy award for his performance in it, and it is very popular now, but flopped during its initial release. Burton's subsequent film, Mars Attacks! (1996), had much more vibrant colors than his other films. Despite being directed by Burton and featuring all-star actors including Jack Nicholson, Glenn Close, Pierce Brosnan and Michael J. Fox, it received mediocre reviews and wasn't immensely popular at the box office, either.
Burton returned to his darker and more artistic form with the film Sleepy Hollow (1999), starring Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci and Casper Van Dien. The film was praised for its art direction and was financially successful, redeeming Burton of the disappointment many had felt by Mars Attacks! (1996). His next film was Planet of the Apes (2001), a remake of the classic of the same name. The film was panned by many critics but was still financially successful. While on the set of Planet of the Apes (2001), Burton met Helena Bonham Carter, with whom he has two children. Burton directed the film Big Fish (2003) - a much more conventional film than most of his others, it received a good deal of critical praise, although it disappointed some of his long-time fans who preferred the quirkiness of his other, earlier films. Despite the fluctuations in his career, Burton proved himself to be one of the most popular directors of the late 20th century. He directed Johnny Depp once again in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), a film as quirky anything he's ever done.- Actress
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Sharon Stone was born and raised in Meadville, a small town in Pennsylvania. Her strict father was a factory worker, and her mother was a homemaker. She was the second of four children. At the age of 15, she studied in Saegertown High School, Pennsylvania, and at that same age, entered Edinboro State University of Pennsylvania, and graduated with a degree in creative writing and fine arts. She was a very smart girl (with an IQ of 154), became a bookworm, and once was told that a suitable job for her (and her brains) was to become a lawyer. However, her first love was still the black-and-white movies, especially those featuring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. So, the 17-year-old Sharon got herself into the Miss Crawford County and won the beauty contest.
From working part-time as a McDonald's counter girl, she worked her way up to become a successful Ford model, both in TV commercials and print ads. In 1980, she made her acting debut in Woody Allen's Stardust Memories (1980) as "pretty girl in train". Her
first speaking part, though, was in Wes Craven's horror movie, Deadly Blessing (1981). She struggled through many parts in B-movies, notably King Solomon's Mines (1985) and Action Jackson (1988). She was also married in 1984 to Michael Greenburg, the producer of MacGyver (1985), but they divorced two years later.
She finally got her big break with Arnold Schwarzenegger in Total Recall (1990) and also posed nude for Playboy, a daring move for a 32-year-old actress. But it worked; she landed the breakthrough role as a sociopath novelist, "Catherine Tramell", in Basic Instinct (1992). Her interrogation scene has become a classic in film history and her performance captivated everyone, from MTV viewers, who honored her with Most Desirable Female and Best Female Performance Awards, to a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress. After she got famous, she didn't want to be typecast, so she played a victim in Sliver (1993), and, in Intersection (1994), she was the aloof, estranged wife of Richard Gere. These movies didn't "work," so she got herself again into more aggressive roles , such as The Specialist (1994) with
Sylvester Stallone and The Quick and the Dead (1995) with Gene Hackman.
But it wasn't until she played a beautiful but drug-crazy wife of Robert De Niro in Casino (1995) that she got far more than just fame and fortune--she also received the acknowledgment of the movie industry for her acting ability. She received her first Golden
Globe and an Oscar nomination. She did a couple of films afterwards, teaming up with Isabelle Adjani in Diabolique (1996), and as a woman waiting for her death penalty in Last Dance (1996). In 1998, she married a newspaper editor,Phil Bronstein but they divorced later in 2004. She received her third Golden Globe nomination for The Mighty (1998), a film that her company, "Chaos", also co-executive produced. The next year, she played the title role in Gloria (1999) and entered her first comedic role in The Muse (1999), which
gave her another Golden Globe nomination.
Sharon Stone, a diva who thoroughly enjoys her hard-won stardom, is now a mother of three children: Roan, Laird and Quinn.- Widely respected among peers for his fearless commitment, Michael Anthony Claudio Wincott was born to an English father and Italian mother in Scarborough, a working class suburb of Toronto. His career began fortuitously in 1976 at the CBC, cast by Deidre Bowen, Clare Walker and director Mike Newell as the troubled protagonist, Cole Buckley, opposite Kate Reid in writer Rochelle Kosar's Earthbound. He continued his novitiate in the city's leading contemporary theaters, working with Ken Gass at Factory Theatre Lab, Bill Glassco at The Tarragon Theatre and William Lane at Toronto Free Theatre. Supported by grants from The Ontario Arts Council and The Canada Council of The Arts, he moved to New York City to study on a full scholarship at The Juilliard School where he performed, among other roles, Teddy in Mark Medoff's When You Comin' Back Red Ryder?, Flute in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Soranzo in John Ford's T'is Pity She's A Whore and Tilden in the school's much-lauded first production of a Sam Shepard play, Buried Child. In the spring following graduation, he began a rewarding relationship with Joseph Papp's Public Theater both on and off Broadway with his creation of the role of Kent in Eric Bogosian's Talk Radio. He last appeared onstage in New York opposite John Malkovich, originating the role of Stubbs in Shepard's States of Shock. He has worked with some of cinema's most gifted reprobates, including Anthony Hopkins, Gary Oldman, Julian Schnabel, Gerard Depardieu, Jim Jarmusch, Ridley Scott, Richard Burton, Robert Mitchum, Dennis Hopper, Michael Cimino, Robert De Niro, Sean Penn, John Hurt, Javier Bardem, Benicio Del Toro, Terrence Malick and Oliver Stone. Among those he hasn't, he has expressed a wish to work with the great French actress, Isabelle Huppert.
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion"
Albert Camus - Actor
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Since his screen debut as a young Amish farmer in Peter Weir's Witness (1985), Viggo Mortensen's career has been marked by a steady string of well-rounded performances.
Mortensen was born in New York City, to Grace Gamble (Atkinson) and Viggo Peter Mortensen, Sr. His father was Danish, his mother was American, and his maternal grandfather was Canadian. His parents met in Norway. They wed and moved to New York, where Viggo, Jr. was born, before moving to South America, where Viggo, Sr. managed chicken farms and ranches in Venezuela and Argentina. Two more sons were born, Charles and Walter, before the marriage grew increasingly unhappy. When Viggo was seven, his parents sent him to the St. Paul's boarding school, in the Córdoba Sierras, in Argentina. Then, at age eleven, his parents divorced. His mother moved herself and the children back to her home state of New York.
Viggo attended Watertown High School, and became a very good student and athlete. He graduated in 1976 and went on to St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York. After graduation, he moved to Denmark - driven by the need for a defining purpose in life. He began writing poetry and short stories while working many odd jobs, from dock worker to flower seller. In 1982, he fell in love and followed his girlfriend back to New York City, hoping for a long romance and a writing career. He got neither. In New York, Viggo found work waiting tables and tending bar and began taking acting classes, studying with Warren Robertson. He appeared in several plays and movies, and eventually moved to Los Angeles, where his performance in "Bent" at the Coast Playhouse earned him a Drama-logue Critic's Award.
He made his film debut with a small part in Witness (1985). He appeared in Salvation! (1987) and married his co-star, Exene Cervenka. The two had a son, Henry Mortensen. But after nearly eleven years of marriage, the couple divorced.
In 1999, Viggo got a phone call about a movie he did not know anything about: "The Lord of the Rings." At first, he didn't want to do it, because it would mean time away from his son. But Henry, a big fan of the books, told his father he shouldn't turn down the role. Viggo accepted the part and immediately began work on the project, which was already underway. Eventually, the success of "The Lord of the Rings" made him a household name - a difficult consequence for the ever private and introspective Viggo.
Critics have continually recognized his work in over thirty movies, including such diverse projects as Jane Campion's The Portrait of a Lady (1996), Sean Penn's The Indian Runner (1991), Brian De Palma's Carlito's Way (1993), Ridley Scott's G.I. Jane (1997), Tony Scott's Crimson Tide (1995), Andrew Davis's A Perfect Murder (1998), Ray Loriga's My Brother's Gun (1997), Tony Goldwyn's A Walk on the Moon (1999), and Peter Farrelly's Green Book (2018).
Mortensen is also an accomplished poet, photographer and painter.- Actress
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Jamie Lee Curtis was born on November 22, 1958 in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of legendary actors Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis. She got her big break at acting in 1978 when she won the role of Laurie Strode in Halloween (1978). After that, she became famous for roles in movies like Trading Places (1983), Perfect (1985) and A Fish Called Wanda (1988). She starred in one of the biggest action films ever, True Lies (1994), for which she won a Golden Globe Award for her performance. Curtis also appeared on Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979), and starred in Death of a Centerfold: The Dorothy Stratten Story (1981) as the title role. Her first starring role was opposite Richard Lewis on the ABC situation comedy Anything But Love (1989). In 1998, she starred in Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998) in which she reprised her role that made her famous back in 1978.
Jamie Lee served as an honorary chairperson for the Building Resilience for Young Children Dealing with Trauma program held at the Shakespeare Theatre - Harman Center for the Arts in Washington, D.C. She was an inspiration for the youth that were celebrated. Curtis was also given an award from US Department of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius and National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Rocco Landesman for her work on behalf of children through her charities and children's books.- Actress
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Michelle Pfeiffer was born in Santa Ana, California to Dick and Donna Pfeiffer. She has an older brother and two younger sisters - Dedee Pfeiffer, and Lori Pfeiffer, who both dabbled in acting and modeling but decided against making it their lives' work. She graduated from Fountain Valley High School in 1976, and attended one year at the Golden West College, where she studied to become a court reporter. But it was while working as a supermarket checker at Vons, a large Southern California grocery chain, that she realized her true calling. She was married to actor/director Peter Horton ("Gary" of Thirtysomething (1987)) in 1981. They were later divorced, and she then had a three year relationship with actor Fisher Stevens. When that didn't work out, Pfeiffer decided she didn't want to wait any longer before having her own family, and in March of 1993, she adopted a baby girl, Claudia Rose. On November 13th of the same year, she married lawyer-turned-writer/producer David E. Kelley, creator of Picket Fences (1992), Chicago Hope (1994), The Practice (1997), and Boston Public (2000). On August 5, 1994 their son, John Henry was born.- Actor
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Kevin Norwood Bacon was born on July 8, 1958 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to
Ruth Hilda (Holmes), an elementary school teacher, and Edmund Norwood
Bacon, a prominent architect who was on the cover of Time Magazine in
November 1964.
Kevin's early training as an actor came from The Manning Street. His
debut as the strict Chip Diller in
National Lampoon's Animal House (1978) almost seems
like an inside joke, but he managed to escape almost unnoticed from
that role. Diner (1982) became the turning
point after a couple of television series and a number of
less-than-memorable movie roles. In a cast of soon-to-be stars, he more
than held his end up, and we saw a glimpse of the real lunatic image of
The Bacon. He also starred in
Footloose (1984),
She's Having a Baby (1988),
Tremors (1990) with
Fred Ward,
Flatliners (1990), and
Apollo 13 (1995).
Bacon is married to actress Kyra Sedgwick,
with whom he has 2 children.- Actor
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Robert Hammond Patrick was born on November 5, 1958 in Marietta, Georgia, raised there and Boston, Mass., Dayton, Ohio, Detroit, Michigan, and Cleveland, Ohio. The eldest of five children. He attended the Bowling Green State University in Ohio, but dropped out after he took a drama course and became interested in acting. After leaving college, he took a job as a house painter and continued as such until a boating accident in Lake Erie in 1984. He swam for three hours in order to save the others still stranded on the accident site, while he nearly drowned in his attempt. After the accident, he moved from Ohio to Los Angeles, California. He worked in a bar to supplement his income and even lived in his own car.
After arriving in Hollywood, Patrick had the good fortune to do many movies for Filmmaker Roger Corman. Patrick starred in various direct-to-video television movies, and had a short appearance in Die Hard 2 (1990). His breakthrough role came as the liquid-metal, shape-shifting T-1000 in James Cameron's blockbuster Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991). After that, he landed roles in various feature films such as Last Action Hero (1993), Fire in the Sky (1993) and Striptease (1996). His performance in Fire in the Sky caught the attention of Chris Carter, creator of the television series The X-Files (1993). After David Duchovny distanced himself from the series during its seventh season, Patrick was cast as FBI Special Agent John Doggett.
Robert found his way to the small screen when David Chase offered him the role of David Scatino in his award-winning The Sopranos (1999). Robert was a series regular on Season Six of HBO's True Blood (2008) and also appeared in the final season. He had a memorable role in the final season of Sons of Anarchy (2008), did a cameo role on the sitcom Community (2009), and had a supporting role in Season One on Robert Rodriguez's From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series (2014) for the El Rey Network. In Spring 2017, it was announced that Robert would have a featured role in Gale Anne Hurd's highly anticipated Amazon series Lore (2017), based on the popular horror podcast. Recent film credits include Universal Pictures' Identity Thief (2013) with Melissa McCarthy and Jason Bateman, Warner Brothers' Gangster Squad (2013) in which he played Josh Brolin's squad member going up against Sean Penn as Mickey Cohan, Trouble with the Curve (2012) opposite Clint Eastwood, Lovelace (2013) opposite Sharon Stone and Amanda Seyfried, Universal's remake of Endless Love (2014) with Alex Pettyfer and Gabriella Wilde, Focus Features' Kill the Messenger (2014) opposite Jeremy Renner, and The Road Within (2014) with Kyra Sedgwick and Zoë Kravitz and James Gunn's Peacemaker (2022) with John Cena. In 2022, it was announced Robert would be joining Taylor Sheridan's Yellowstone (2018) prequel 1923 (2022) with Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren.
In addition to his acting success, Patrick is a lifelong supporter of the military and the USO. The grandson of an Army veteran who served during World Wars I and II and the Korean War, Patrick grew up with a profound respect for troops. Devoted to giving back, he regularly goes on USO hospital visits and has participated in four USO tours in seven countries since 2008, visiting more than 8,100 service members and military families. He is a passionate Harley-Davidson enthusiast and is co-owner of Harley-Davidson of Santa Clarita. He currently resides in Los Angeles, California with his wife, Barbara and their two children.- Actor
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Alec Baldwin is the oldest, and best-known, of the four Baldwin brothers in the acting business (the others are Stephen Baldwin, William Baldwin and Daniel Baldwin). Alexander Rae Baldwin III was born on April 3, 1958 in Massapequa, New York, the son of Carol Newcomb (Martineau) and Alexander Rae Baldwin Jr., a high school teacher and football coach at Massapequa High School. He is of Irish, as well as English, French, Scottish, and German, descent.
Alec Baldwin burst onto the TV scene in the early 1980s with appearances on several series, including The Doctors (1963) and Knots Landing (1979), before scoring feature film roles in Forever, Lulu (1986), Beetlejuice (1988), Working Girl (1988), Married to the Mob (1988) and Talk Radio (1988). In 1990, Baldwin appeared in the first on-screen adaptation of the "Jack Ryan" character created by mega-selling espionage author, Tom Clancy. The film, The Hunt for Red October (1990), was a box office and critical success, with Baldwin appearing alongside icy Sean Connery. Unfortunately, Baldwin fell out with Paramount Studios over future scripts for "Jack Ryan", and subsequent Ryan roles went to Harrison Ford.
Baldwin instead went to Broadway to perform "A Streetcar Named Desire", garnering a Tony nomination for his portrayal of "Stanley Kowalski" (he would reprise the role in a 1995 TV adaptation). Baldwin won over critics as a lowlife thief pursued by dogged cop Fred Ward in Miami Blues (1990), met his future wife Kim Basinger while filming the Neil Simon comedy, The Marrying Man (1991), starred in the film adaptation of the play, Prelude to a Kiss (1992) (in which he starred off-Broadway), and made an indelible ten-minute cameo as a hard-nosed real estate executive laying down the law in Glengarry Glen Ross (1992). He also made a similar tour-de-force monologue in the thriller, Malice (1993), as a doctor defending his practices, in which he stated, "Let me tell you something: I am God".
Demand for Baldwin's talents in the 1990s saw more scripts swiftly come his way, and he starred alongside his then-wife, Kim Basinger, in a remake of the Steve McQueen action flick, The Getaway (1994), brought to life the famous comic strip character, The Shadow (1994), and starred as an assistant district attorney in the civil rights drama, Ghosts of Mississippi (1996). Baldwin's distinctive vocal talents then saw him voice US-aired episodes of the highly popular UK children's show, Thomas & Friends (1984), plus later voice-only contributions to other animated/children's shows, including Clerks (2000), Cats & Dogs (2001), Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001) and The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004).
In the early 2000s, Baldwin and Basinger endured an acrimonious break-up that quickly became tabloid fodder but, while his divorce was high-profile, Baldwin excelled in a number of lower-profile supporting roles in a variety of films, including State and Main (2000), Pearl Harbor (2001), The Cooler (2003) (for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor), The Aviator (2004), Along Came Polly (2004) and The Departed (2006). As he was excelling as a consummate character actor, Baldwin found a second career in television comedy. Already known for his comedic turns hosting Saturday Night Live (1975), he essayed an extended guest role on Will & Grace (1998) in 2005 before taking on what would arguably become his most famous role, that of network executive "Jack Donaghy", opposite Tina Fey in the highly-acclaimed sitcom, 30 Rock (2006). The role brought Baldwin two Emmy Awards, three Golden Globes, and an unprecedented six Screen Actors Guild Awards (not including cast wins).
Continuing to appear in films as 30 Rock (2006) wrapped up its final season, Baldwin was engaged in 2012 to wed Hilaria Baldwin (aka Hilaria Lynn Thomas); the couple married on June 30, 2012.- Actress
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Linda Fiorentino is an American actress. She has starred in the films Vision Quest (1985), Gotcha! (1985), After Hours (1985), Jade (1995), Men in Black (1997) and Dogma (1999). For her performance in The Last Seduction (1994), she won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress, the London Film Critics' Circle Award for Actress of the Year, and was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role.- Actress
- Producer
- Writer
Andie MacDowell was born Rosalie Anderson MacDowell on April 21, 1958 in Gaffney, South Carolina, to Pauline Johnston (Oswald), a music teacher, and Marion St. Pierre MacDowell, a lumber executive. She was enrolled at Winthrop College
located in Rock Hill, South Carolina. Initially discovered by a rep
from Wilhelmina Models while on a trip to Los Angeles. Later signed on
with Elite Model Management in New York City in 1978. Made debut film
appearance in
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984).
Went on to study method acting at the Actors Studio. Had commercial
success with performances in Harold Ramis's
Groundhog Day (1993) and
Mike Newell's
Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994).- Actress
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Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio was born in Lombard, Illinois, to Mary D.
(Pagone) and Frank A. Mastrantonio, who ran a bronze foundry. Her
parents were of Italian descent. She was raised in Oak Park, IL, and
began her career in school plays as a teenager. Mary attended the
University of Illinois and got bitten by the acting bug, starring in
"Guys and Dolls".
Leaving for New York, she took part in "West Side Story" in 1981. She
also made it into movies, starring alongside
Al Pacino in
Scarface (1983). In 1985, she starred in
The Color of Money (1986),
which earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting
Actress.
Around 1990, a string of movies came about that really gave her a lot
of attention: important roles in
The Abyss (1989),
Class Action (1991), and
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991).
At this time she married
The January Man (1989) director
Pat O'Connor. Mastrantonio is also a renowned cabaret-style singer, and
her singing is showcased in
John Sayles's
Limbo (1999).
Careerwise, she took the decision to pick roles she liked instead of
roles that would attract attention. Also, she took time off to be with
her family. As of 2001, she lives with her husband and two children in
London, England, UK.- Actress
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An actress who always attracts audiences' attention, Jennifer Tilly is by turns funny, sexy, compassionate, compelling and often all at once. She has been playing unforgettable characters ever since she started her career as an actress.
Jennifer Tilly was born Jennifer Ellen Chan in Harbor City, Los Angeles, to Harry Chan, a used car salesman, who was of Chinese origin, and Patricia (née Tilly), a schoolteacher and stage actress. Her sister is actress Meg Tilly. They were raised on rural Texada Island, British Columbia, by her mother and stepfather, John Ward.
Jennifer successfully cultivated another fan base with the revitalization of the "Child's Play" horror comedy franchise. For Ronny Yu's Bride of Chucky (1998), the filmmakers turned to Jennifer to create the character who would spark the series in a new direction. She met the challenge and established a new horror icon in Tiffany. In Rogue Pictures' Seed of Chucky (2004), written and directed by series creator Don Mancini, Jennifer again took the popular series to the next level; starring as Tiffany and as herself, the deadly doll's favorite actress, who soon becomes an unwitting hostess in more ways than one.
Jennifer's pitch-perfect voiceover work as Tiffany is not the only instance of her being able to incarnate a character from the vocal chords out. Families know her distinctive cadences from the Disney hits Home on the Range (2004), directed by Will Finn and John Sanford; The Haunted Mansion (2003) (in which Jennifer acted from the neck up only), directed by Rob Minkoff; and the Pixar blockbuster Monsters, Inc. (2001) (voicing Mike's love interest Celia), directed by Pete Docter, David Silverman and Lee Unkrich. She began her acting career as a teenager, putting herself through the theater program at Stephens College in Missouri by winning writing competitions. She then headed to Los Angeles, California. While she continued to act on the stage (earning a Dramalogue Award for her performance in "Vanities"), movies and television immediately came calling for the actress with the unique voice and visage.
In 2001, she starred in the Broadway revival of "The Women" with Cynthia Nixon and Kristen Johnson, which was later taped for, and broadcast on, PBS. In 2008, she appeared with Miranda Richardson in the critically acclaimed production of Wallace Shawn's play "Grasses of a Thousand Colors" at the Royal Court Theatre in London. Other plays include "Tartuffe" (LAAT) "Boy's Life" (LAAT) "Baby with the Bathwater" (LAPT) and others too numerous to mention. In 2005, Jennifer met her boyfriend, professional poker player Phil Laak (also known as the Unabomber). That summer at the World Series of Poker, she bested a field of 601 to take down the Ladies Event and win a coveted gold bracelet. She followed this up by winning the WPT Ladies Invitational, making her one of a small but elite group holding both a WSOP bracelet, and a WPT title. In summer 2010, she also won the Bellagio Cup 5k tournament.- Actress
- Director
- Writer
Madeleine Stowe was born in Los Angeles, California, to Mireya Maria (Mora Steinvorth) and Robert Alfred Stowe, a civil engineer. Her mother was a from a prominent political family in Costa Rica. Stowe grew up in Eagle Rock, a working-class neighborhood of Los Angeles. At age ten she started practicing for a career as a concert pianist and trained every day for hours. However, when her instructor died in 1976 she more or less quit playing.
She went to University of Southern California and studied cinema and journalism before taking up acting at Beverly Hills' Solaris Theater. She made a few appearances in TV and on film but her breakthrough came in 1987 with Stakeout (1987). Other major credits include
The Last of the Mohicans (1992) and Short Cuts (1993).
When not filming, she spends her time at her ranch in Texas, which she shares with her husband Brian Benben.- Actress
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- Soundtrack
Shaw was already an accomplished theater actress when director Jim Sheridan awarded her a role in his film, My Left Foot (1989). The film is a telling of Christy Brown (Daniel Day-Lewis), an Irishman disgruntled with his confinement to a body horribly crippled by cerebral palsy but who found incredible success as an artist and writer. Shaw portrayed Eileen Cole, the doctor largely responsible for Christy's education and physical rehabilitation. Since, Shaw has received several accolades for her film and television performances.- Actor
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Born in West Covina, California, but raised in New York City, Tim
Robbins is the son of former
The Highwaymen singer
Gil Robbins and actress
Mary Robbins (née Bledsoe). Robbins
studied drama at UCLA, where he graduated with honors in 1981. That
same year, he formed the Actors' Gang theater group, an experimental
ensemble that expressed radical political observations through the
European avant-garde form of theater. He started film work in
television movies in 1983, but hit the big time in 1988 with his
portrayal of dimwitted fastball pitcher "Nuke" Laloosh in
Bull Durham (1988). Tall with
baby-faced looks, he has the ability to play naive and obtuse
(Cadillac Man (1990) and
The Hudsucker Proxy (1994))
or slick and shrewd (The Player (1992)
and Bob Roberts (1992)).- Marg Helgenberger is an established dramatic actress whose prominence
has been steadily increasing. Her work has been noted on stage, film
and TV. Most of her career has been spent in dramatic roles on
television, but she has also had a noteworthy presence in feature
films.
Helgenberger earned a degree in drama at Northwestern University. A
talent scout recruited her from there to work on the soap opera Ryan's Hope (1975)
where she appeared over the course of the next four years.
Throughout the 1990s Helgenberger took on numerous roles in made-for-TV
movies and as a guest star on many TV series. In particular she
appeared in many movies made specifically for the Lifetime cable
network and also for Showtime. She won critical acclaim for In Sickness and in Health (1992),
Thanks of a Grateful Nation (1998) and Perfect Murder, Perfect Town: JonBenét and the City of Boulder (2000).
In TV series she won an Emmy for her portrayal of a hard-bitten
prostitute who catered to Vietnam War soldiers, in the series China Beach (1988).
She also was George Clooney's love interest in a multi-episode arc of the
monumentally successful TV series ER (1994).
In feature films, Helgenberger has appeared in Tootsie (1982), Steven Spielberg's
Always (1989), Species (1995) and In Good Company (2004).
Her greatest claim to fame on the silver screen may be when she played
opposite Julia Roberts as a chemical exposure victim in the popular movie
Erin Brockovich (2000).
Helgenberger is most known for her TV role as a crime scene
investigator in CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000). She shared in CSI's 2005 Screen Actors Guild
award for outstanding performance by an ensemble in a drama series.
In her personal life, Helgenberger is the daughter of a cancer survivor
and is very active in supporting research for breast
cancer. - Actress
- Director
- Additional Crew
Beatrice "Bebe" Neuwirth is the daughter of Sydney Anne, an artist, and
Lee Paul Neuwirth, a mathematician. Born and raised in Princeton, New
Jersey, she started out as a dancer. Her New York career started out in
"A Chorus Line". She won a Tony Award for her part in "Sweet Charity"
and two Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series
for playing Lilith Sternin Crane of
Cheers (1982).- Actor
- Composer
- Soundtrack
Richard Ridings was born on 19 September 1958 in Henley-on-Thames, England, UK. He is an actor and composer, known for Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), The Pianist (2002) and Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011). He has been married to Catherine Jensen since 1984. They have two children.- Actress
- Producer
- Writer
Megan is an only child born in Los Angeles, California. Her mother,
Martha, was a model, and her father, Carter Mullally Jr., was a contract player
for Paramount. Megan first entered Northwestern University intending to
study acting, but switched to English literature. However, she still
ended up starring in several campus musicals, which gained attention
from producers and prompted her to drop out of school. In 1985, she
moved to Los Angeles with no particular success. But, in 1994, she
co-starred in "Grease" on Broadway with Rosie O'Donnell and, in 1995, in "How To Succeed In
Business" with Matthew Broderick. Her star has been rising ever
since. Her band Nancy and Beth have recorded two albums and tour extensively. She has directed four music videos for Nancy and Beth, which can be found at nancyandbeth.com.- Actor
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- Producer
Peter Capaldi was born in Glasgow, Scotland, to Nancy (Soutar) and Gerald John Capaldi. His parents owned an ice cream business. He is of Italian (from his paternal grandfather), Scottish, and Irish descent. Capaldi attended drama classes and was accepted into the Glasgow School of Art. After graduating he secured his breakthrough role in Local Hero (1983). Prior to becoming an actor he also worked as a graphic designer for BBC Scotland TV.
Peter was announced as the Twelfth Doctor in Doctor Who (2005) on 4th August 2013 on a BBC special programme. He had to hide it from his daughter who remarked to him why it is his name never came up during the buzz. It was a huge relief not to have to keep the secret anymore. His agent called and said "Hello Doctor" when informing him he had gotten the part.- Actress
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Miranda Richardson was born in Southport, Lancashire, England on March
3, 1958, to Marian Georgina (Townsend) and William Alan Richardson, a
marketing executive. She has one sister, eight years her senior. Her
parents and sister are not involved in the performing arts. At an early
age she performed in school plays, having shown a talent and desire to
"turn herself into" other people. She has referred to it as "an
emotional fusion; you think yourself into them". This mimicry could be
of school friends or film stars.
She left school (Southport High School
for Girls) at the age of 17, and originally intended becoming a vet.
She also considered studying English literature in college, but decided
to concentrate on drama and enrolled at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre
School (as did many well-known British actors). After three years she
graduated and moved into repertory theatre. She became affiliated with
the Library Theatre in Manchester in 1979, where she became an
assistant stage manager. She obtained her Equity card, and after
several regional productions, first appeared on the London stage
(Moving at Queens Theatre) in 1981. British television roles soon
followed, and then film.
Since then, Miranda has moved into the
international arena, and has made films in America, France and Spain.
Television work (on both sides of the Atlantic) continues, as does some
stage work. Her roles are diverse, but powerful and engaging. She has
been quoted as stating "what I basically like is doing things I haven't
done before" and this continually comes through in the variety of roles
she has played in her career. She is also selective in the roles she
takes, being uninterested in performing in the standard Hollywood fare,
and preferring more offbeat roles. She was approached to play the
Glenn Close role in
Fatal Attraction (1987), but
found it "regressive in its attitudes". Her attitude is summed up by a
quote from an interview that appeared in the New York Times (Dec 27
1992): "I would rather do many small roles on TV, stage or film than
one blockbuster that made me rich but had no acting. And if that's the
choice I have to make, I think I've already made it".
According to
"1994 Current Biography Yearbook", she resides in South London with her
two Siamese cats, Otis and Waldo. She has now moved to West London. Her
hobbies include drawing, walking, gardening, fashion, falconry, and
music. She, by her own admission, is a loner and lives rather modestly.
An actor who studied with Ms Richardson at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre
in the late 1970s described her as "a strong minded, specially gifted,
rather pretty young woman who enjoys wearing jewelry. She wore toe
rings, which in the late 1970s and especially in England, were a rarity
and considered rather racy." He also remarked on her drive, even then,
to be an actress of the highest caliber.- Suzie Plakson (born June 3, 1958) is an American actress, singer, writer and artist. Born in Buffalo, New York, she grew up in Kingston, Pennsylvania and went to college at Northwestern University. She began her career on the stage/theater, and played four characters opposite Anthony Newley in a revival tour of "Stop the World, I Want to Get Off". She also played "Marquise Theresa Du Parc" in the Broadway incarnation of the play "La Bête".
Plakson has played a wide range of characters throughout her career. Her regular role in a television series was playing hard-bitten sportswriter "Meg Tynan" in the sitcom Love & War (1992); she did several voices on Dinosaurs (1991) and ultimately played four characters on various "Star Trek" series. There were other guest spots and recurring roles in sitcoms such as Mad About You (1992) and Everybody Loves Raymond (1996), while she was also acting in movies such as Disclosure (1994), Red Eye (2005) and Wag the Dog (1997). She wrote and performed an allegorical solo show, "An Evening with Eve".
As a singer/songwriter, Plakson released the alternative country rock album "DidnWannaDoIt!" produced by Jay Ferguson. She also sculpts and writes -- samples of both are viewable and readable on her website. - Actress
- Soundtrack
Frances Barber has worked in a string of
award-winning productions for the National Theatre and the Royal
Shakespeare Company, taking roles as diverse as Eliza in Pygmalion and
Lady Macbeth in Macbeth. Among her film appearances are roles in
Stephen Frears'
Prick Up Your Ears (1987) and
Sammy and Rosie Get Laid (1987),
Dennis Potter's
Secret Friends (1991) and
John Irvine's
Shiner (2000) with
Michael Caine,
Peter Greenaway's
A Zed & Two Noughts (1985),
Peter Capaldi's
Soft Top Hard Shoulder (1992),
and Still Crazy (1998). Most recently
she has appeared in
The Escort (1999) (The Escort)
with Daniel Auteuil and
Esther Kahn (2000). Frances made her
television breakthrough in Mike Leigh's
Home Sweet Home (1982).
Subsequent TV work includes
Kenneth Branagh's
Twelfth Night, or What You Will (1988)
as Viola, a role she reprised for Branagh on stage, BBC's Annie Besant,
Inspector Morse (1987),
Spitting Image (1984) and the
BBC's adaptation of the Nancy Mitford classic
Love in a Cold Climate (2001).
On stage, Frances won the 1984 Olivier award for Most Promising
Newcomer as Marguerite in the RSC production of Camille. She has worked
in some of the UK's most prestigious theatres, including the Royal
National Theatre, the RSC, Hull Truck, Oxford Playhouse, the Royal
Exchange, the Donmar Warehouse and the Royal Court. Frances was most
recently seen on stage in
Patrick Marber's production of Closer at
The Lyric, Hammersmith. She attended Bangor university.- Actress
- Producer
- Executive
While studying acting in New York with drama teacher William Esper, Heaton made her Broadway debut in the gospel musical "Don't Get God Started." She and her fellow students then formed Stage Three, an acting company that produced plays Off-Broadway. They took one production, "The
Johnstown Vindicator," to Los Angeles, where Heaton's performance
caught the eyes of casting directors. Consequently, Heaton portrayed
the producer/daughter in the television series Room for Two (1992). Her additional television credits include a starring role in the series Someone Like Me (1994), a regular role in Women of the House (1995), and a recurring role on Thirtysomething (1987). She also starred in the highly rated television movie Miracle in the Woods (1997), with
Della Reese. Her feature film credits include Memoirs of an Invisible Man (1992), Beethoven (1992), The New Age (1994) and Space Jam (1996).
For her role in Everybody Loves Raymond (1996), Heaton won 2 Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series. She was nominated for a 1999 Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series and won the 1998-99 Viewers for Quality Television Best Actress in a Quality Comedy Award.
Heaton was born in Cleveland and lives with her husband, David Hunt, and their four sons in Los Angeles.- Actor
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Steve Guttenberg was born on August 24, 1958 to Ann Newman and Stanley Guttenberg in Boropark, Brooklyn.The family moved from Brooklyn, to Queens, and then to N. Massapequa, where Steve graduated Plainedge High School in 1976.
He studied acting both on Long Island and in N.Y.City, moving to L.A. to pursue a film career.
His work has ranged from broad comedy to suspense and drama, including number one box office hits and The AFI's chosen 100.
Guttenberg made his acting debut in The Boys From Brazil with Laurence Olivier and Gregory Peck. From that recognition, he attracted a variety of leading roles including the film classic Diner(1983), which was chosen by Vanity Fair as the Best Film of the Last Thirty Years, and the broad comedy, Police Academy(1984) which continues to be one of the highest earning film franchises ever.
in 1985 Guttenberg's fame increased with Cocoon, a life affirming film of the highest order. The science fiction genre continued with Short Circuit(1986), John Badham's ground breaking artificial intelligence film. Steve worked opposite Isabelle Hupert in Curtis Hansen's Bedroom Window(1986), the heralded Hitchcockian thriller,
In 1987, Disney released Three Men and a Baby, Leonard Nimoys popular movie about bachelors raising a child. The film went on to announce itself as the number one grossing film of the year ,and provided a successful sequel.
On the legitimate stage, Guttenberg appeared in The Boys Next Door(1993) in London's West End, Prelude to a Kiss (1995) on Broadway, and Furthest From The Sun (2000) at the june Lune Theatre in Minneapolis animist recently playing Henry Percy in (20150 The Hudson Warehouse Theatre's production of Henry IV.
He has produced an Emmy nominated television special, Gangs, performed in the original Miracle On Ice, and also ABC's The Day After, still one of the most watched television events of this century.
Steve has written The Guttenberg Bible, a comedic account of his first ten years in the film industry, and The Kids from DISCO, a superhero children's book relating a story about his nieces and nephews.
He guested on Veronica Mars, Party Down, Community and Law and Order,(as every N.Y. actor should).
Guttenberg has the record for most original films to go to franchises in film history, and appearing in the most films in The Screen Actors Guild from 1980-1990 tying Gene Hackman.
He received a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and continues to learn and study his beloved craft.
In 2016 Emily Smith and he became happily engaged.- Actor
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- Producer
Matt Frewer has been travelling all over North America in recent months filming recurring roles. Most recently, he worked in Los Angeles for HBO's Perry Mason and in Austin for AMC's Fear The Walking Dead. In Vancouver portrayed Carnage in Netflix's sci-fi drama Altered Carbon (2018); in Montreal (opposite Dennis Quaid) as Anthony Bruhl in NBC's Timeless (2016); in Toronto as Paul Rice in Crackle's The Art of More (2015), and also in Toronto as Dr. Leekie on BBC America's award-winning Orphan Black (2013); and in Brooklyn, New York as Dr. J. M. Christiansen in Steven Soderbergh's gritty early-20th century hospital drama The Knick (2014).
Frewer's film credits include Steven Spielberg's The BFG (2016), 20th Century Fox's Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (2014), 50/50 (2011) (with Seth Rogen and Joseph Gordon-Levitt), Foreverland (2011), Frankie & Alice (2010) (with Halle Berry), and as Moloch in Zack Snyder's Watchmen (2009). He appeared in Snyder's 2004 film, Dawn of the Dead (2004). He filmed Attack on Darfur (2009) in South Africa and played the lead in the action/adventure film Wushu Warrior (2011), which was filmed in China. Other work on the big screen includes playing "Big Russ Thompson" in Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989), and Jobe Smith, the nefarious computer genius in Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace (1995). Frewer starred in four Sherlock Holmes films for Muse Entertainment, CTV and the Odyssey Channel.
He performed leading roles in numerous television movies & miniseries, including Nick Willing's Alice (2009) (as the White Knight; for which he was nominated for a Gemini Award). He reunited with Nick Willing to play Daedalus in 13 episodes of Olympus (2015). Frewer starred in the television miniseries Delete (2013) for Brightlight Pictures, A&E's miniseries Bag of Bones (2011) with Pierce Brosnan, Hallmark's Battle of the Bulbs (2010), and in Spielberg's Taken (2002). He played an arsonist known as the " Trashcan Man" in the Stephen King-scripted ABC miniseries, The Stand (1994).
In addition to his recent television work, Cable Ace and Gemini award-winning Frewer is a familiar face on the Emmy-nominated DreamWorks/TNT Falling Skies (2011) as well as Eureka (Sci-Fi), Intelligence (CBC), and Doctor, Doctor (CBS). He made guest appearances on such prime time network television series as St. Elsewhere, Miami Vice, and Star Trek: The Next Generation. Other notable turns on television include portraying such real-life notable individuals as U.S. Ambassador Edwin O. Reischauer in American Playhouse's Long Shadows (1994) (PBS), Alexander Haig in Kissinger and Nixon (1995) (TNT), and Gene Kranz in the made-for-television movie Apollo 11 (1996).- Actress
- Additional Crew
Julia Nickson was born on the beautiful island city of Singapore. Her early years were spent in the vales of Wiltshire, England, followed by the red rock canyons of the Zambezi river in Africa, but she returned to Singapore after her father's death, when she was six. From the age of seven to seventeen, she watched Singapore transition from an unsophisticated British colony to a prosperous independent nation. After her Chinese mother remarried an American, she attended the Singapore American School.
Excelling in both studies as well as athletics, she competed in field hockey and track. Other pursuits included equestrian activities: dressage, show- jumping, cross country, and polo as well as gaining her license at 15 as an amateur jockey which entitled her to race at Pro Am Meets in both Singapore and Malaysia. She was a top competitor in all events, winning numerous three day shows and lower division polo tournaments. At 14, she even received a first place trophy from Sir Run Run Shaw, a most unexpected and rewarding moment of victory, having been raised on Shaw Brother epics; However, her greatest satisfaction came during her last two outs as a jockey in 1976, when at 17, she placed and then won her final two races at the Singapore Turf Club.
Graduating early from school, Nickson left a modeling career in Singapore to attend the University of Hawaii. Although intending to study Hotel Management, while passing the Drama Department, she gate crashed an audition, and won a role in her first play, Shakespeare's, "Winter's Tale." All desire to be in the hotel industry made a prompt departure, and Nickson's stage debut was followed with voice, dance and acting classes and attendant small roles in community theater and on Magnum PI.
In 1984, a search was conducted in New York, Los Angeles and Hawaii for a key role in an upcoming Sylvester Stallone film. After numerous auditions, Ms. Nickson was flown to LA for an old fashioned Hollywood screen test, resulting in her first international film, Rambo: First Blood, Part II, which became the second largest grossing film of 1985. To this day, Rambo, First Blood, Part II is still the most widely viewed action film nationwide on US television and the most successful and popular of all the Rambo sequels.
Following Rambo, Julia moved to Los Angeles. She became known for portraying beautiful, glamorous women starring in numerous television and film productions in the 1980s and '90s. She was cast in Harry's Hong Kong by Aaron Spelling, guest-starring opposite David Soul, whom she later married, But it was James Clavell's Noble House that caused audiences and particularly NBC to take note. Nickson played Orlanda Ramos, the seductive Eurasian mistress, with such beauty, grace and glamour that she was given a second starring role on NBC opposite Pierce Brosnan, in Around the World in 80 Days. Merely a month after the birth of her child, China Alexandra Soul, Nickson packed a suitcase of disposable diapers and trekked from the crystal caves in Serbia to the jungles of Thailand, playing the Indian Princess Aouda to Brosnan's, Phileas Fogg. When they reached Hong Kong, Julia stood awe struck as the company filmed on the famous Shaw Brothers lot.
After that, Nickson traveled fast, and in 1990 starred in China Cry, the true story of evangelist, Nora Lam, the young girl who risked her life to defend her faith during the Communist Revolution. By the time China Cry was released in 1990, along with critical acclaim, she was considered one of the top Asian American actors in the U.S.
Nickson then co-starred in Paramount's adventure film, K-2 with Michael Biehn and New Line's, Sidekicks, with Chuck Norris, and Beau Bridges. In 1994, she played Bortei, first and most beloved wife to Genghis Khan, and mother of the Mongol Empire. Aging from 18 to 55, and filming in the desolate regions of Central Asia, a year after the coup in the Soviet Union, became a life changing experience for Nickson.
Over the course of her career, Nickson has appeared on numerous television productions including Babylon 5, Walker, Texas Ranger, Nash Bridges, One West Waikiki, The Marshall, Seaquest, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Chicago Hope and more recently Castle and Rex is Not Your Lawyer.
Over the years, Nickson guested on talk shows with David Letterman, Regis Philbin, Good Morning America, as well as affiliate news and entertainment shows, both in the US and abroad. Julia has been a huge supporter of independent film makers and two of her films, Life Tastes Good, and Half Life, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Her recent films, Dim Sum Funeral, which played the Singapore Film Festival in 2009, and Half Life, winner of numerous festival awards, have just been released on DVD. Nickson has just completed filming the feature, One Kine Day, filmed
on the windward side of Oahu.
Nickson took some time off from her career to focus on her daughter, China Soul,who has just graduated with honors from the University of London, Royal Holloway, where in 2009, Ms. Soul received a first in play writing. Ms. Soul is also a singer songwriter, and her first album is available on Amazon UK presently. Her are available on ITunes.- Margaret Colin was born in Brooklyn, New York and raised on Long
Island. She graduated from Baldwin Senior High School in 1976. Margaret
began acting in
The Edge of Night (1956)
(her character was a heiress and former terrorist, with seven murder
attempts), and was employed next on
As the World Turns (1956),
portraying character Margo Montgomery. Margaret's first film appearance
were as a teacher in John Hughes's
Pretty in Pink (1986), followed by
a role in Jonathan Demme's
Something Wild (1986), where she
played Irene, girlfriend to Ray Liotta's
character. The following year, she had supporting roles in
Like Father Like Son (1987),
and Three Men and a Baby (1987). In
film, Margaret either had minor, or supporting, roles; it's her work in
television that perhaps makes her most memorable. Ms Colin continued
acting with parts in
Chicago Hope (1994), and
The Wright Verdicts (1995).
In 2000, Margaret earned a Saturn Award for Best Genre TV Actress for
her role as Lisa Wiseman in the series
Now and Again (1999). From 2007
to 2013, she played Eleanor Waldorf in the series
Gossip Girl (2007). - Actor
- Producer
- Director
In 1979 with his Detroit friends, Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert, Bruce Campbell raised $350,000 for a low-budget film, The Evil Dead (1981), in which he starred and co-executive produced. Completed piecemeal over four years, the film first gained notoriety in England where it became the best-selling video of 1983, beating out The Shining (1980). After its appearance at Cannes, where Stephen King dubbed it "the most ferociously original horror film of the year", New Line Cinema stepped forward to release "Evil Dead" in the U.S.
After co-producing Crimewave (1985), a cross-genre comedy written by Sam Raimi, Ethan and Joel Coen, Campbell moved to Los Angeles and quickly gained a foothold producing or starring in genre films such as the Maniac Cop (1988) series, Lunatics: A Love Story (1991), Moontrap (1988), and Mindwarp (1991), a post-apocalyptic "Jeremiah Johnson", during which he met his wife-to-be, filmmaker, Ida Gearon.
Campbell then rejoined his Detroit colleagues to star and co-produce the second and third films in the Evil Dead trilogy (Evil Dead II (1987) & Army of Darkness (1992)), completing 12 years of work on the cult favorite.
This rough-and-tumble background was a plus as Campbell made his foray into television, first starring in the highly touted Fox series The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. (1993), then as a recurring guest-star on the hit show Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (1993).
With these under his belt, Campbell easily made the transition to director, helming numerous episodes and recurring as the King of Thieves in the #1 syndicated Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (1995), and its follow-up phenomenon, Xena: Warrior Princess (1995).
Bruce has since expanded his range on television, appearing in anything from Disney's update of The Love Bug (1997), to decidedly dramatic turns on the acclaimed series Homicide: Life on the Street (1993) and The X-Files (1993). At the invitation of ABC, Campbell ventured into the world of sitcoms with a recurring role on ABC's Emmy-nominated Ellen (1994), participating in one of the three touted "out" episodes.
But Campbell didn't abandon his film roots. During that time, he had featured roles in the blockbuster Congo (1995), John Carpenter's Escape from L.A. (1996), and the award-winning independent crime drama, Running Time (1997). He followed these up with roles in Paramount's romantic comedy, Serving Sara (2002), Jim Carrey's The Majestic (2001), and all three of Sam Raimi's blockbuster Spider-Man movies.
After a return to episodic television in the swashbuckling series, Jack of All Trades (2000), Campbell took the title role in MGM's cult sleeper Bubba Ho-Tep (2002). His directorial debut, Man with the Screaming Brain (2005) premiered on the Sci Fi Channel, and Dark Horse Comics published the comic adaptation.
Campbell then directed and starred as himself in My Name Is Bruce (2007), a spoof of his B-movie career, then re-teamed with Disney for their fun-filled hit, Sky High (2005).
Campbell has since made the leap into other forms of entertainment, and is enjoying his role as an author with back-to-back New York Times bestsellers: a memoir entitled "If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor", and his first novel, "Make Love the Bruce Campbell Way".
In the multi-media industry, Bruce has enjoyed voicing characters for Disney's animated TV series The Legend of Tarzan (2001) and the Warner Brothers feature The Ant Bully (2006). He also portrayed the character of "Mayor Shelbourne" in the animated hit film, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009). Recently, Campbell voiced the role of "Rod Torque Redline" in Cars 2 (2011), the sequel to the smash Disney animated feature and for the immensely popular game, "Call of Duty".
In 2013, Bruce co-produced the hit remake of Evil Dead (2013), joined his filmmaking pal Sam Raimi on Oz the Great and Powerful (2013), and completed an impressive seven-year run on the spy show, Burn Notice (2007) (2007-2013), USA's #1 show on cable.
More than two decades after the release of Army of Darkness (1992), Bruce returned to his most iconic role for Ash vs Evil Dead (2015), a highly-anticipated series premiering on the Starz network on Halloween 2015.- Actor
- Producer
- Stunts
Ken Olandt, an American actor, producer, and co-founder of Unified Film Organization, LLC. Olandt is best known for starring roles in Summer School (1987), Leprechaun (1992), and April Fool's Day (1986).
Olandt was born on April 22, 1958 in Richmond California. The second son of Robert H. Olandt, an oil executive, and Beverly Olandt who is a polio survivor. Olandt's childhood and formative years were spent in Vancouver, British Columbia where his love for ice-hockey was born.
Olandt attended the Art Center College of Design, studying advertising and illustration. While meeting friends at a Hollywood restaurant, Olandt was approached by talent agent Harry Gold to consider acting. This chance meeting led to a flurry of auditions. Within the first month, Olandt had received a test option for a role on One Life to Live (1968), guest starring role on Matt Houston (1982), and a screen test with John Milius and cast for the lead role Red Dawn (1984).
Olandt's acting career was now in gear and led to being a regularly hired performer on Aaron Spelling, Stephen J. Cannell, and Glen A. Larson, television productions. 1985 was a pivotal point for Olandt. He was cast in a regular role as Dooley on Riptide (1984), and he married dancer, Janine Sabih Olandt. For their honeymoon, Spelling gave Olandt a guest role on The Love Boat (1977) - French Riviera Cruise - Movie of the Week.
The opportunity to enter into the realm of Feature Film actor came along in his role as Larry Kazimias in the Paramount Production, Summer School directed by Carl Reiner.
A succession of starring roles in both feature films and as regular on series television followed. In 1995 Olandt co-founded an independent feature film licensing company (UFO), which specialized in special effect driven action and adventure films. The company was the pioneer in desk-top level computer effects and independent action movie making.
Olandt suspended his acting pursuits to focus on the duties of producing, finance, and foreign licensing. The company produced three movies a year and eventually was sold in 2000 to a publicly-held German distribution company. The sale took the company to Bulgaria at which point, Olandt sold his operational and transitioned to financing.
In 2015, at the request of his eldest daughter Charlie Taylor, a singer/song writer and actress, Olandt auditioned for and was booked on a Sprint National Commercial.
Olandt and his wife have 5 children.- Music Artist
- Actress
- Composer
The remarkable, hyper-ambitious Material Girl who never stops reinventing herself, Madonna is a seven-time Grammy Award-winner who has sold over three hundred million records and CDs to adoring fans worldwide. Her film career, however, is another story. Her performances have consistently drawn scathing or laughable reviews from film critics, and the films have usually had tepid, if any, success at the box office. Born Madonna Louise Ciccone in August 1958 in Bay City, Michigan, she moved to New York in 1978 and studied with renowned choreographer Alvin Ailey, joined up with the Patrick Hernandez Revue, formed a pop/dance band called Breakfast Club and began working with then-boyfriend Stephen Bray on recording several disco-oriented songs. New York producer/D.J. Mark Kamins passed her demo tapes to Sire Records in early 1982 and the rest is history. The 1980s was Madonna's boom decade, and she dominated the music charts with a succession of multimillion-selling albums, and her musical and fashion influence on young women was felt around the globe. Madonna first appeared on screen in two low-budget films marketed to an adolescent audience: A Certain Sacrifice (1979) and Vision Quest (1985). However, she scored a minor cult hit with Desperately Seeking Susan (1985) starring alongside spunky Rosanna Arquette. Madonna's next effort with then husband Sean Penn, Shanghai Surprise (1986), was savaged by critics, although the resilient star managed to somewhat improve her standing with her next two films, the off-beat Who's That Girl (1987) (although she did receive decidedly mixed reviews, they weren't as negative as those of her previous effort) and the quirky Damon Runyon-inspired Bloodhounds of Broadway (1989). The big-budget and star-filled Dick Tracy (1990) had her playing bad girl "Breathless Mahoney" flirting with Warren Beatty, but the epic failed to catch fire at the box office. Taking an earthier role, Madonna was much more entertaining alongside Tom Hanks and Geena Davis in A League of Their Own (1992), a story about female baseball players during W.W.II. However, she again drew the wrath of critics with the whodunit Body of Evidence (1992). Several other minor screen roles followed, then Madonna starred as Eva Perón in Evita (1996), a fairly well received screen adaptation of the hugely successful Broadway musical, for which she received a Golden Globe for Best Actress. The Material Girl stayed away from the movie cameras for several years, returning to co-star in the lukewarm romantic comedy The Next Best Thing (2000), followed by the painful Swept Away (2002). If those films weren't bad enough, she was woefully miscast as a vampish fencing instructor in the James Bond adventure Die Another Day (2002). After finally admitting that her acting days were over, Madonna began a directing career in 2008 with the barely remembered Filth and Wisdom (2008) and a year later she reunited with Madonna: Truth or Dare (1991) director Alek Keshishian to develop a script about the relationship between the Duke of Windsor and the Duchess of Windsor that led to his abdication in 1936: the result, a movie named W.E. (2011), starring James D'Arcy and Andrea Riseborough as the infernal but still royal couple, was released in 2011 to lukewarm critics but it gathered one Oscar nomination for costumes and won the Golden Globe for Best Original Song for "Masterpiece".- Actor
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Soundtrack
Tall, gaunt, and particularly effective in horror and drama films, British actor Julian Sands was born in Otley, Leeds, West Yorkshire, to Brenda and William Sands. He came to the attention of NBC when the network cast him in the TV miniseries The Sun Also Rises (1984) and then with Anthony Hopkins in the television film A Married Man (1983). Sands also got noticed for his very small roles in Privates on Parade (1983) and The Killing Fields (1984). It wasn't until his funny and romantic role opposite Denholm Elliott in A Room with a View (1985) and then his unusual role in Gothic (1986) that he garnered audience acclaim.
He continued work on screen in Vibes (1988), Impromptu (1991) and Steven Spielberg's Arachnophobia (1990), until his most remembered role as Warlock (1989), directed by Steve Miner. The film was a major success and he returned for the sequel, Warlock: The Armageddon (1993).
Other credits include Naked Lunch (1991), Tale of a Vampire (1992) and the title role in Dario Argento's The Phantom of the Opera (1998).
Sands has more recently been in Stephen King's Rose Red (2002) and was occasionally seen on the English stage.
Sands disappeared on January 13, 2023 after going for a hike near the Mount Baldy area of California's San Bernardino Mountains. Local authorities and search and rescue teams conducted over six weeks of multiple ground and aerial searches, which were unsuccessful. On June 24, 2023, hikers near Mount Baldy discovered human remains. On June 27, 2023, local authorities confirmed the remains to be those of Sands. He was 65 years old.- Actor
- Producer
- Soundtrack
Theodore Martin 'Ted' McGinley was born on May 30, 1958 in Newport
Beach, California. He is perhaps best known for his long-running roles
in the television series
Happy Days (1974),
The Love Boat (1977),
Dynasty (1981),
Married... with Children (1987)
and The West Wing (1999).
Formerly a model, McGinley was spotted by a casting director after
appearing in the magazine 'GQ', and was subsequently offered the role of
Roger Phillips in
Happy Days (1974). However, the
veteran television star is no stranger to film either, having appeared
in a string of features including
Young Doctors in Love (1982),
Revenge of the Nerds (1984),
Wayne's World 2 (1993),
Major League: Back to the Minors (1998)
and Pearl Harbor (2001).- Writer
- Producer
- Additional Crew
Avid reader Charlie Kaufman wrote plays and made short films as a young
student. He moved from Massapequa, New York to West Hartford,
Connecticut in 1972 where he attended high school. As a comedic actor,
he performed in school plays and, after graduation, he enrolled at
Boston University but soon transferred NYU to study film. Charlie
worked in the circulation department of the Star Tribune, in
Minneapolis, in the late 1980s and moved to Los Angeles in 1991, where
he was hired to write for the TV sitcom Get a Life (1990). He went on to write
comedy sketches and a variety of TV show episodes. Between writing
assignments, he wrote the inventive screenplay Being John Malkovich (1999), which created
Hollywood interest and the attention of producer Steve Golin. Charlie works
at home in Pasadena, California, where he lives with his wife Denise
and children.- Actress
- Additional Crew
One tough cookie who can definitely hold her own next to the boys on
film and TV, lovely, dark-haired Rachel Ticotin has stepped up to the
plate many times in strong-armed femme roles, playing everything from
cops and bodyguards to military corporals.
Born on November 1, 1958, and raised in the Bronx, Rachel is of Puerto Rican, Russian-Jewish descent and learned the fine art of discipline at a young age with ballet training at age 8. She made her first stage appearance at age 10
as a Siamese princess in a production of "The King and I" at NYC's City
Center Theatre. At age twelve she joined the Ballet Hispanico of New
York and went on to work with such famed choreographers as Alvin Ailey,
Geoffrey Holder and Anna Sokolow.
Rachel made her film debut at age 20 in a bit role as
a gypsy dancer in the King of the Gypsies (1978) starring Eric Roberts. She gained valuable
experience in off-Broadway shows and on the other side of the camera as
a production assistant for such films as The Wanderers (1979), Dressed to Kill (1980) and Raging Bull (1980).
Rachel earned her big break after being handed the top female role
opposite Paul Newman and Edward Asner in the brutal police film Fort Apache the Bronx (1981).
Television became a viable forum with the TV pilot For Love and Honor (1983) as Corporal
Grace Pavlik. The pilot introduced her to up-and-coming actor David Caruso.
They married later that year. Rachel went on to appear in the
short-lived series version of For Love and Honor (1983) without Caruso. Other television
projects included assertive roles in Prison Stories: Women on the Inside (1991), Aftershock: Earthquake in New York (1999) and Warden of Red Rock (2001). On
the big screen she played tough in Critical Condition (1987), Where the Day Takes You (1992), and Falling Down (1993).
Her best known role is probably the Arnold Schwarzenegger sci-fi blockbuster Total Recall (1990)
in which the athletic Rachel has a memorable fisticuffs scene with
Sharon Stone. In 1997, Rachel earned an ALMA award for her role as a prison
guard in Con Air (1997). Divorced from Caruso after six years in 1989, she
later met actor Peter Strauss on the set of the TV movie Thicker Than Blood: The Larry McLinden Story (1994). They
married in 1998. In series drama she joined the cast of Ohara (1987) as a
U.S. attorney and played detective in the police drama Crime & Punishment (1993).
A proven talent who is as alluring as she is enduring, Rachel's work has included the
popular films Something's Gotta Give (2003) starring Jack Nicholson and Oscar-nominated Diane Keaton,
Man on Fire (2004) with Denzel Washington, as well as the recent The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2005) and its sequel The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 (2008). She also was part of the critically acclaimed bi-cultural series American Family (2002).
Although gracing such recent films as horror opus The Eye (2008), the romantic crimer The Burning Plain (2008) and the dramatic thriller América (2011), Rachel has focused on TV as of late with guest roles on the revamped "The Outer Limits," as well as "Lost," "Law & Order: LA," "NCIS: Los Angeles," "Homeland," "Grey's Anatomy" and "The Act."- Actor
- Producer
Kim's film career began in 1991 with The Last Boy Scout. Two Warner
Brothers' hits followed: Innocent Blood and The Client. Since that time
he has starred in over forty films, including Academy Award winners
Black Hawk Down directed by Ridley Scott, and Pearl Harbor directed by
Michael Bay. Other films include Waterworld and Open Range with Kevin
Costner, Grilled with Ray Romano, Silent Hill opposite Sean Bean,
Hostage with Bruce Willis, Assault on Precinct 13, Unforgettable,
Skinwalkers, and Hero Wanted.
Kim returned to Entourage for it's final season as Carl Ertz, the
sleazy movie Producer. His performance garnered so much attention in
previous seasons that Ertz's return was a direct request. He appeared
in a recurring role on CSI Miami. Other prominent guest starring
television roles include CSI, CSI NY, Cold Case, and Prison Break. He
has had roles in more than 20 MOW's including the NBC miniseries
Hercules, and Disney's Scream Team. These dramatic turns on television
have earned him Gemini nominations for Best Actor in a Featured
Supporting Role for HBO's Dead Silence and Best Performance in a Guest
Role Dramatic Series for The Outer Limits.
In 2008 Kim starred in and executive produced the film The Poet. Before
its wide release it won best picture and best director (Damian Lee) at
the New York Staten Island Film festival.
At the AOF International Film Festival in Pasadena, Kim received the
Half Life Achievement Award for acting in 2009. Kim also won best actor
for playing Steve Sorrano in King of Sorrow.
Kim starred on Broadway as Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named
Desire, as the title role in Macbeth at the legendary Stratford
Theatre, and has appeared in over fifty plays in North America.
In the fall of 2010 Kim starred in the blockbuster 3D movie Resident
Evil Afterlife, with Mila Jovovich.
In 2011, Kim starred in Sacrifice, with Cuba Gooding Jr., A Little
Help, with Jenna Fisher, Sinners and Saints and Robosapien.
In 2012, Kim starred in the sports comedy Goon along side Seann William
Scott, Liev Schreiber and Jay Baruchel, for which Kim is nominated for
Best Performance By An Actor In A Supporting Role at the 2013 Canadian
Screen Awards. Goon was much lauded by international audiences and
critics alike.
The FX hit series Sons of Anarchy is going into its 6th season. Kim
Coates is Tig Trager, the motorcycle club's sergeant at arms. Tig fears
nothing, much like Kim throughout his career.
Kim has 3 feature films opening in 2013; Rufus, Ferocious, The Dark
Truth which Kim co-produced and starred in along side Forrest Whitaker
and Andy Garcia,
Kim is currently filming Crossing Lines in Prague with William Fichtner
and Donald Sutherland.
Kim currently resides in Los Angeles with his wife and their two
children.- Actor
- Producer
- Director
Kevin spent 3 years traveling around the world, modeling for print ads
and appearing in over 150 commercials, before landing in his breakout
series
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (1995).
Kevin David Sorbo was born in Mound, Minnesota, on September 24, 1958,
to Ardis (Thompson), a nurse, and Lynn Nain Sorbo, a high school
teacher. His father was of Norwegian descent and his mother's ancestry
was English, Scottish, and German. In high school, he excelled at
football, baseball and basketball; in college, he played these 3
sports, plus hockey. Kevin was also in a number of plays. After leaving
college, Kevin joined an actors theater group, and traveled to Europe,
then to Sydney, Australia appearing in commercials. At the end of 1986,
he settled in Los Angeles. Kevin began to make guest appearances on
such popular shows as
Murder, She Wrote (1984).
At 6' 3" and very muscular, Kevin was a natural for the title role in
what would become his signature series
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (1995).
Kevin became internationally famous, and he learned the craft of
film-making well enough to direct and co-write some of the episodes.
Kevin even studied martial arts in order to do many of his own stunts.
In real life, Kevin's heart is as big as Hercules'-- he leads "A World
Fit for Kids!" as the chair and spokesperson. Kevin devotes much of his
time to "A World Fit For Kids!" which is a successful mentoring model
that trains inner-city teens to use school, fitness, sports and
positive role models for themselves, and then become the coaches and
mentors for younger children. In 1998, Kevin married lovely actress
Sam Sorbo, best known for her dual
role on
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (1995)
as Serena/the Golden Hind ("Hind" is a female red deer).- Actor
- Producer
- Additional Crew
Jeffrey Weissman has been performing as an actor since taking to the
stage in 1972. He started in film in 1977, Jeffrey has co-starred in
dozens of film and television productions. He had been screen testing
for leads in various films during the early
1980's, and landed his first co-star role in 1982 in George Miller's "Nightmare at 30,000 Feet" episode of Twilight Zone the Movie. Jeffrey is best known for playing Teddy Conway in Clint Eastwood's Pale
Rider (1985) and taking over the George McFly role in the "Back to the
Future" sequels. His recent working indie films have garnered
him raves from his comedic turn in "corked!" as an ocd wine maker, and
his dramatic work in several features.
Jeffrey guest starred on many television shows, such as Scarecrow and
Mrs King, Max Headroom, Dallas, Wallace and Ladmo, Saved By The Bell,
Diagnosis Murder (1993) and
the Man Show.
Jeffrey has continued in theater and film while venturing into theme
parks, trade shows, improv and sketch shows with a great deal of
success.
He has developed characters and shows at renaissance fairs since 1973.
In 1987 he became "Stan Laurel" for Universal Studios, Hollywood. While
at Universal, he wrote shows for the parks, and promotional copy for
hundreds of appearances. Jeffrey developed accurate portrayals of
Chaplin's "Little Tramp", Groucho Marx and other characters. He's
entertained at Six Flags, Disneyland, conventions, trade shows,
television and radio appearances around the world (he can greet in over
a dozen different languages).
In 2000, Jeffrey directed three shows for the billion dollar Universal
Theme Park in Osaka. He also trained the "walk around" entertainers to
meeting the challenges of directing a multinational cast for an
international audience. Jeffrey is writing, directing and producing
film. He mentors writers for their scripts to resonate truth and
Jeffrey has taught classes, seminars and lectures on "the art of making
it as an actor" at universities, city colleges, high schools and
fine-arts schools. He coaches and trains professionals and
non-professionals in the art of improvisation, clowning, developing
characters, stage, television, film and environmental acting and
entertainment.
Jeffrey was founder and artistic director of the Flying Penguins
(formerly the Comedy Omelet) improv troupe, and he helped develop Los
Angeles Theater Sports, now known as "Impro Theater" in its 21th year.
He performed in the Second City Alumni jams at the Ashgrove, and
performed for a year with the Laugh Factory All-star Improv Jam (aka
"Wrought Irony").
He was a varsity member of Los Angeles Theater Sports, performing and
directing with LATS and KIDPROV. Jeffrey co-wrote and directed the
Laurel and Hardy Music and Magic Show that had an extensive run on the
Star Cruise Line in the South China Sea, et all. He is an honorary
member of four international "Sons of the Desert" tents, the official
Laurel & Hardy fan club. He has become the #1 Chaplin for the Niles
Essenay Studios Museum's "Chaplin Days", where Chaplin made a handful
of films early in his career.- Actor
- Director
- Soundtrack
A native of Houston raised on Lookout Mountain outside of Golden,
Colorado, Greg Germann was exposed to the performing arts at an early
age, particularly through his father, an award-winning children's
playwright and theater professor. As a Theater major at the University
of Northern Colorado, a constant stream of plays led him to the gradual
realization that acting would be his professional future. Buckling down
at UNC, he graduated in two years and moved to New York. He became a
member of Circle Repertory Company and Ensemble Studio Theatre,
accumulating credits in such off-Broadway and Broadway plays as Steven
Sondheim musical "Assassins", "The Person I Once Was" opposite Holly Hunter,
and David Mamet's "War Games", among others. He has distinguished himself
on the big screen portraying roles in various films. In addition to
acting he also devotes himself to writing. His short film, Pete's Garden (1998), for
which he also served as director and star, premiered in competition at
the 1998 Sundance Film Festival and went on to air on The Sundance
Channel in January 1999. He also wrote "The Observatory" a play
performed at New York's Ensemble Studio Theatre.- Writer
- Producer
- Actor
Brad Hall was born on 21 March 1958 in Santa Barbara, California, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Brooklyn Bridge (1991), Picture Paris (2011) and Picture Paris. He has been married to Julia Louis-Dreyfus since 25 June 1987. They have two children.- Actress
- Producer
Kim Delaney was born on November 29, 1958, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
and was raised in Roxborough. She is the daughter of Joan and Jack
Delaney, who retired from Delphi Automotive, where he served as a
committeeman for the United Auto Workers. She has four brothers: Ed Delaney and John Delaney, who are older than her, and Keith
and Patrick Delaney, who are younger. As a cheerleader at John W. Hallahan Catholic Girls High School in Philadelphia, she dreamed of being a
court reporter and settling close to home. Kim began her modeling
career working for the Elite agency while still in high school. After graduation, Kim
continued to model in Philadelphia and then headed for New York City,
quickly winning commercials. She studied acting in New York with
William Esper. She auditioned for
Dynasty (1981) and
Dallas (1978) , but lost out. When she
auditioned for
All My Children (1970),
however, she got the part of Jenny Gardner, and in August 1981 her acting
career took off. In
the spring of 1983, she made her busy schedule even busier by
performing in an off-Broadway play directed by
Dorothy Lyman. She has been nominated for
many acting awards, winning an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting
Actress in a Drama Series for playing Diane Russell on
NYPD Blue (1993). She has continued
to star in both television and theater, as well as in films such as Rules of Engagement (1997)
and Mission to Mars (2000). Kim Delaney lives in Los Angeles,
California.- Kozlowski is a Juilliard graduate with Broadway play experience, who found movie success in the billabongs of Australia with frequent co-star Paul Hogan. The film romance with her Crocodile Dundee (1986) costar grew into a real-life relationship during the filming of the first two movies. Linda married Paul Hogan in 1990 and they lived in California and have one son, named Chance. In 2001, Linda and Paul returned to their popular on-screen romance roles to complete the Crocodile Dundee trilogy. Linda and Paul divorced in 2014.
- Actor
- Producer
- Director
Lorenzo Fernando Lamas was born in Santa Monica, California, the son of actors Arlene Dahl and Fernando Lamas. His father was Argentinian and his mother was American, of Norwegian descent. Lorenzo was raised
in Pacific Palisades, California. In 1968, his family moved to New York.
He attended private school, graduating from Admiral Farragut Academy in
1975. He then moved back to California. With encouragement from his
father, he enrolled in Tony Barr's Film Actors Workshop and began his
career with a small role in a television show in 1976. He also began to
study karate and tae kwon do in 1979. He has starred in five television
series and in over fifty movies. He is most known for his roles on
television, notably as Lance Cumson on CBS' Falcon Crest (1981) and Reno
Raines in the syndicated hit show Renegade (1992). Lorenzo also sustained a
professional racing career while working successfully as a TV and Film
actor in the 80's and 90's. He acts on stage and has a cabaret show
that he tours with across the country. Some of the roles he has played
onstage include the king in the musical The King and I as well as Zach
in the musical A Chorus Line. He is an avid motorcyclist for over
thirty years and has participated in the Love Ride, to benefit MDA and
various charities since its inception in 1983. He is also on the board
of directors. Lorenzo is a commercial helicopter and airplane pilot and
he often flies disadvantaged children to summer camps and people too
sick or financially challenged to travel normally on domestic flights.
He just recently received his certification to become a helicopter
flight instructor.- Actor
- Director
- Producer
Michael Kevin Paré was born on October 9, 1958 in Brooklyn, New York City, to Joan (Moroney) and Francis Paré, who owned print shops. His father died of leukemia when Paré was five, leaving his mother to raise their large family of children. Paré was working as a chef in New York City when an agent, Yvette Bikoff, convinced him to try acting. Paré's first starring role was as high school student Tony Villcana on the television series The Greatest American Hero (1981). His well-known film roles were as 1960s rock icon Eddie Wilson in Eddie and the Cruisers (1983) and its sequel Eddie and the Cruisers II: Eddie Lives! (1989), as well as Streets of Fire (1984) and The Philadelphia Experiment (1984). Other films include Moon 44 (1990), Village of the Damned (1995), Bad Moon (1996), Hope Floats (1998) and The Virgin Suicides (1999). On television, Paré starred with Michael Beck on the CBS police drama Houston Knights (1987), as well as the short-lived sci-fi series Starhunter (2000).