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- Ester Expósito is a Spanish actress and model. She is most widely known for her starring role as Carla Rosón Caleruega in the Spanish drama series Elite, broadcast on Netflix.
Ester Expósito was born in Madrid. She was interested in the artistic world from a very young age. When she finished her studies at the age of 16, she took acting courses. Expósito won the Madrid Theater Awards in the category of Best Actress in 2013 and 2015. She acted for the first time in 2016, playing Fernando's daughter in Vis a Vis on Antena 3. In the same year, she appeared in the documentary Medical Center with the role of Rosa Martín.
Her first recurring role in a television series was on TVE's Estoy vivo, where she played Ruth in the series' first season, which aired in 2017. She gained international fame for her role in the 2018 Netflix series Elite, where she portrayed Carla Rosón until 2020. After the success of the series, she signed for two films distributed by Netflix: When the angels sleep and Your son, with a leading role in both.
At the beginning of 2019, she appeared in the TVE series La caza. Monteperdido, where she played Lucía Castán Grau, one of the disappeared girls. Also in 2019, her participation in the new Netflix series Someone Has to Die was announced. The series was released in October 2020, where she portrayed Cayetana Aldama. In 2020, she also had a special role in Veneno on Atresplayer Premium, playing Machús Osinaga, a journalist from the talk show Esta noche cruzamos el Mississippi. Moreover, in December 2020 she premiered the film Mom or Dad, under the direction of Dani de la Orden, together with Paco León and Miren Ibarguren. - Actor
- Soundtrack
Joseph Quinn was born on 26 January 1994. He is an actor, known for Stranger Things (2016), Overlord (2018) and Dickensian (2015).- Actor
- Producer
- Director
Screen legend, superstar, and the man with the most famous blue eyes in movie history, Paul Leonard Newman was born on January 26, 1925, in Cleveland, Ohio, the second son of Arthur Sigmund Newman (died 1950) and Theresa Fetsko (died 1982). His elder brother was Arthur S. Newman Jr., named for their father, a Jewish businessman who owned a successful sporting goods store and was the son of emigrants from Poland and Hungary. Newman's mother (born Terézia Fecková, daughter of Stefan Fecko and Mária Polenak) was a Roman Catholic Slovak from Homonna, Pticie (former Austro-Hungarian Empire), who became a practicing Christian Scientist. She and her brother, Newman's uncle Joe, had an interest in the creative arts, and it rubbed off on him. He acted in grade school and high school plays. The Newmans were well-to-do and Paul Newman grew up in affluent Shaker Heights. Before he became an actor, Newman ran the family sporting goods store in Cleveland, Ohio.
By 1950, the 25-year-old Newman had been kicked out of Ohio University, where he belonged to the Phi Kappa Tau fraternity, for unruly behavior (denting the college president's car with a beer keg), served three years in the United States Navy during World War II as a radio operator, graduated from Ohio's Kenyon College, married his first wife, Jacqueline "Jackie" Witte (born 1929), and had his first child, Scott. That same year, his father died. When he became successful in later years, Newman said if he had any regrets it would be that his father was not around to witness his success. He brought Jackie back to Shaker Heights and he ran his father's store for a short period. Then, knowing that wasn't the career path he wanted to take, he moved Jackie and Scott to New Haven, Connecticut, where he attended Yale University's School of Drama.
While doing a play there, Newman was spotted by two agents, who invited him to come to New York City to pursue a career as a professional actor. After moving to New York, he acted in guest spots for various television series and in 1953 came a big break. He got the part of understudy of the lead role in the successful Broadway play "Picnic". Through this play, he met actress Joanne Woodward (born 1930), who was also an understudy in the play. While they got on very well and there was a strong attraction, Newman was married and his second child, Susan, was born that year. During this time, Newman was accepted into the much admired and popular New York Actors Studio, although he did not actually audition.
In 1954, a film Newman was very reluctant to do was released, The Silver Chalice (1954). He considered his performance in this costume epic to be so bad that he took out a full-page ad in a trade paper apologizing for it to anyone who might have seen it. He had always been embarrassed about the film and reveled in making fun of it. He immediately wanted to return to the stage, and performed in "The Desperate Hours". In 1956, he got the chance to redeem himself in the film world by portraying boxer Rocky Graziano in Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956), and critics praised his performance. In 1957, with a handful of films to his credit, he was cast in The Long, Hot Summer (1958), co-starring Joanne Woodward.
During the shooting of this film, they realized they were meant to be together and by now, so did his then-wife Jackie, who gave Newman a divorce. He and Woodward wed in Las Vegas in January 1958. They went on to have three daughters together and raised them in Westport, Connecticut. In 1959, Newman received his first Academy Award nomination for Best Actor, in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958). The 1960s would bring Newman into superstar status, as he became one of the most popular actors of the decade, and garnered three more Best Actor Oscar nominations, for The Hustler (1961), Hud (1963) and Cool Hand Luke (1967). In 1968, his debut directorial effort Rachel, Rachel (1968) was given good marks, and although the film and Woodward were nominated for Oscars, Newman was not nominated for Best Director. However, he did win a Golden Globe Award for his direction.
1969 brought the popular screen duo of Newman and Robert Redford together for the first time when Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) was released. It was a box office smash. Through the 1970s, Newman had hits and misses from such popular films as The Sting (1973) and The Towering Inferno (1974) to lesser known films as The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972) to a cult classic Slap Shot (1977). After the death of his only son, Scott, in 1978, Newman's personal life and film choices moved in a different direction. His acting work in the 1980s and on is what is often most praised by critics today. He became more at ease with himself and it was evident in The Verdict (1982) for which he received his sixth Best Actor Oscar nomination and, in 1987, finally received his first Oscar for The Color of Money (1986), almost thirty years after Woodward had won hers. Friend and director of Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956), Robert Wise accepted the award on Newman's behalf as the actor did not attend the ceremony.
Films were not the only thing on his mind during this period. A passionate race car driver since the early 1970s (despite being color-blind), he was co-founder of Newman-Haas racing in 1982, and also founded "Newman's Own", a successful line of food products that has earned in excess of $100 million, every penny of which Newman donated to charity. He also started The Hole in the Wall Gang Camps, an organization for children with serious illness. He was as well known for his philanthropic ways and highly successful business ventures as he was for his legendary actor status.
Newman's marriage to Woodward lasted a half-century. Connecticut was their primary residence after leaving Hollywood and moving East in 1960. Renowned for his sense of humor, in 1998 he quipped that he was a little embarrassed to see his salad dressing grossing more than his movies. During his later years, he still attended races, was much involved in his charitable organizations, and in 2006, he opened a restaurant called Dressing Room, which helps out the Westport Country Playhouse, a place in which Newman took great pride. In 2007, while the public was largely unaware of the serious illness from which he was suffering, Newman made some headlines when he said he was losing his invention and confidence in his acting abilities and that acting was "pretty much a closed book for me". A smoker for many years, Newman died on September 26, 2008, aged 83, from lung cancer.- Writer
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Cord Jefferson was born on 26 January 1982 in Tucson, Arizona, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for American Fiction (2023), The Good Place (2016) and Watchmen (2019).- Actress
- Producer
- Writer
Sara Rue was born in New York City, New York. She is an actress and producer, known for Popular (1999), Less Than Perfect (2002), The Ring (2002), The Big Bang Theory (2007), Rules of Engagement (2007), Malibu Country (2012), and Pearl Harbor (2001). She stars in the upcoming TV Land comedy, Impastor (2015) (summer 2015) as "Dora Winston", alongside Mircea Monroe, Mike Kosinski, David Rasche and Michael Rosenbaum. She currently resides in Los Angeles, with her husband, Kevin Price, and daughter, Talulah Rue Price.- Gilles Marini exploded onto the scene as "Dante", the Casanova living
in the beach house next door to
Kim Cattrall's "Samantha" on the
Sex and the City (2008) movie, a
role which has earned him international recognition. Though people went
to the theatres to see Carrie, Samantha, Miranda and Charlotte, they
left with one thing on their mind....Gilles's shower scene.
Gilles has been seen on television on
Ugly Betty (2006),
Dirty Sexy Money (2007),
Criminal Minds (2005),
Windfall (2006) and in several soap
operas, including
The Bold and the Beautiful (1987)
and Passions (1999). His recent film
credits include "One and the Other"
(L'Une et L'Autre (2007)),
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007)
and
The Boys & Girls Guide to Getting Down (2006).
Gilles has appeared in many television commercials and print ads for
companies like Budweiser, Clairol, Coca Cola, Ross, Chrysler, Fila,
GNC, Infiniti, Mervins, Avon, Lord and Taylor, Robinsons May, etc.
Gilles was born in Grasse, France. After working as a baker in his
father's bakery since he was 8-years-old and graduating from high
school, Gilles joined the French army and was stationed in Paris, where
he acted as a fireman for the famous Brigade des Sapeurs Pompiers de
Paris. It was in Paris where Gilles met Fred Goudon, a famous
photographer who introduced Gilles to the world of modeling. After
fulfilling his military duties, Gilles decided to go to the United
States to learn English while working as a model.
In his spare time, Gilles enjoys playing soccer as part of a
neighborhood team. He also teaches martial arts to his son, Georges
Marini.
Gilles currently resides in California with his wife Carole, son
Georges, and daughter Juliana. - Actor
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- Stunts
Scott Glenn was born January 26, 1939, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Hope Elizabeth and Theodore Glenn, a salesman. As he grew up in Appalachia, his health was poor; he was bedridden for a year and doctors predicted he would limp for the rest of his life. During long periods of illness, Glenn was reading a lot and "dreaming of becoming Lord Byron". He challenged his illness by intense training programs and eventually got rid of his limp.
After graduating high school, Glenn entered William and Mary College where he majored in English. He spent three years in the Marines and then tried to combine his passion for storytelling with his passion for adventures by working for five months as a criminal reporter at the Kenosha Evening News. Glenn planned to become an author but found out he had "problems with dialogues", so he decided to overcome it by studying acting. In 1966, he headed to New York where he joined George Morrison acting class. He helped in directing student plays to pay for his studies and appeared onstage in La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club productions. Soon after arriving in New York, Glenn became a fan of martial arts. In 1968, he joined The Actors Studio and began working in professional theater and TV. In 1970, James Bridges offered him his first movie work in The Baby Maker (1970).
Glenn left for L.A., where he spent seven of the "most miserable years of [his] life". He couldn't find interesting film roles and, doing brief TV stints, he felt "like a person who had to paint the Sistine Chapel with a house-painter's brush". On a brighter side, he worked episodically with Jonathan Demme (Angels Hard as They Come (1971), Fighting Mad (1976)), Robert Altman (Nashville (1975)) and Francis Ford Coppola (Apocalypse Now (1979)). In 1978, Glenn got tired of Hollywood and moved his family to Ketchum, Idaho, where he worked as a barman, huntsman and mountain ranger for two years (occasionally acting in Seattle stage productions). James Bridges once more changed the course of Glenn's life in 1980 when he offered him the role of John Travolta's rival in Urban Cowboy (1980) and made him a star. Glenn's acting abilities and physical presence helped him to excel both in action (Silverado (1985), The Challenge (1982)) and drama (The Right Stuff (1983), Countdown to Looking Glass (1984), The River (1984)) as he alternately played good guys and bad guys.
In the beginning of the '90s, his career was at its peak - he appeared in such indisputable masterpieces as The Silence of the Lambs (1991), and The Hunt for Red October (1990). Established as one of Hollywood's most solid and respected character actors he has appeared in a wide variety of films, such as the black Freudian farce Reckless (1995), the tragicomedy Edie & Pen (1996) and Ken Loach's socio-political declaration Carla's Song (1996), alternating mainstream (Courage Under Fire (1996), Absolute Power (1997)) with independent projects (Lesser Prophets (1997) and Larga distancia (1997)), written by his daughter Dakota Glenn), and TV (Naked City: A Killer Christmas (1998)). Continuing into the 21st century, Glenn has also appeared in Training Day (2001), W. (2008) (as Donald Rumsfeld), Secretariat (2010), Sucker Punch (2011), The Paperboy (2012), and two of the Bourne films: The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) and The Bourne Legacy (2012).- Actress
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Kelly Michelle Stables was born in St. Louis, Missouri where she performed at The Muny Opera. She graduated cum laude from The University of Missouri, Columbia with a BA in Communications and Theater. Upon moving to Los Angeles she quickly got involved in theater arts, acting and choreographing in over 2 dozen plays and musical productions including The Little Foxes, Brady Bunch: The Musical, Peter Pan at the Thousand Oaks Civic Light Opera and 7 title roles in LA's award winning Storybook Theatre. While continuing to study improvisation at The Groundlings and becoming a company member of Theatre West, Kelly also started landing roles on television and in film. Her unique voice and petite stature has allowed her to take on a wide variety of colorful characters. She is known for her work alongside Naomi Watts, taking over the role as the evil Samara in The Ring 2, but is also more commonly recognized as the bubbly, bright receptionist on Two and a Half Men. From 2011-2015 Kelly played a paralegal at-day/party hopper at-night, as a Series Regular on the TV Land sitcom The Exes. She was also a Regular as the sassy sexpert little sister to Alyssa Milano on ABC's Romantically Challenged, as well as the stressed out suburban mom on the CW's No Tomorrow. She has lent her soprano singing voice to several cartoons including Doc McStuffins, Tom & Jerry and Sofia the First. Most recently she can be seen as the dim but lovable Cloud 9 employee on NBC's hit comedy Superstore. She lives a quiet, private life with her husband and two young children and enjoys sewing, writing and volunteering at school activities.- Actor
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David Russell Strathairn was born on January 26, 1949 in San Francisco, California. He is the son of Mary Frances (Frazier), a nurse, and Thomas Scott Strathairn, Jr., a physician. He has two siblings, Tom and Anne. His ancestry includes English, Scottish, Irish, Portuguese, Hawaiian, and one sixteenth Chinese (the latter three from his paternal grandmother).
Strathairn attended Williams College, where he demonstrated great interest in the theatre, and first befriended John Sayles, with whom he would later frequently collaborate. Strathairn graduated college and traveled to Florida to visit with his grandfather, but the grandfather died while Strathairn was en route. Strathairn, finding himself freshly arrived and without friends in Florida, decided instead to join the Ringling Brothers Clown College and subsequently worked as a clown for six months in a traveling circus.
Relocating to New York State, he spent several years hitch-hiking across America to work in local theaters during the summers. During one of these summers Strathairn reunited with Sayles, and this eventually resulted in his role in the highly regarded Return of the Secaucus Seven (1980), Sayles' directorial debut. Thereafter Strathairn developed an extensive resume of supporting roles, which became increasingly substantial as his stature in the industry grew; notable films include Lovesick (1983), Silkwood (1983), L.A. Confidential (1997), and A Map of the World (1999). Sayles frequently casts Strathairn, whose performances can be seen in Sayles' The Brother from Another Planet (1984), Matewan (1987), Eight Men Out (1988), City of Hope (1991), and Passion Fish (1992). Perhaps most notable of his collaborations with Sayles is his superb performance co-starring with Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio in Limbo (1999).
After a string of successful supporting roles in the early 2000s, Strathairn found himself thrust into the role of leading man with his performance as Edward R. Murrow in George Clooney's Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005) Taking on the role of the iconic newsman in the black-and-white drama, Strathairn garnered numerous award mentions including an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. Following the success of that film, Strathairn traveled easily between low-budget independent films - The Notorious Bettie Page (2005), The Sensation of Sight (2006), My Blueberry Nights (2007), and Howl (2010) among them - and big-budget Hollywood productions, including We Are Marshall (2006), The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008), both The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) and The Bourne Legacy (2012), and Steven Spielberg's biopic Lincoln (2012), in which he plays Secretary of State William Seward.
Strathairn has also worked extensively in television, and first became familiar to television viewers as the title character's boss in the series
The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd (1987). In addition to narration work for many PBS shows, Strathairn has appeared in the TV series Big Apple (2001), The Sopranos (1999), Monk (2002), and headed the cast of the science-fiction series Alphas (2011). His work in television films has brought him an Emmy Award for Temple Grandin (2010) and an Emmy nominations for Hemingway & Gellhorn (2012).
Strathairn married nurse Logan Goodman in 1980, and the couple have two children.- Taylor was born in Sevenoaks England on 26th January 1980.
Between the years of 1980-1986, he lived with his family in South Africa, before returning back to the Uk for schooling.
In 2000 Taylor was awarded a scholarship at the London Studio Center, where he studied for a 3 years.
Taylor began his career working on the West end stage, performing in the musical productions of Guys and Dolls, Mamma Mia, and Footloose. He went on to perform in Piaf, (for the Donmar) Danton's Death, (at the National theatre) The Little dog laughed, (at the Garrick) and The Duchess of Malfi at the Old Vic. Taylors' most recent theatre work was under the directorship of Sir Kenneth Branagh's theatre company, where he performed in The Winters Tale and Romeo and Juliet.
Although he gained numerous TV and Film credits in and around his theatre experience, Taylors' breakout film role was in 2018 starring as Samson in Pure Flixs' production 'Samson'
In 2021 and 2022, Taylor filmed season 2 & 3 of Netflix's Vikings: Valhalla and most recently he worked on The Beekeeper, directed by David Ayer, set for release Jan 12th 2024.
Taylor is represented by Charlie at Insight Managment. - Actor
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O'Donoghue was born and raised in Drogheda, County Louth, Ireland, in a Roman
Catholic family. He initially attended Dundalk Grammar School, and then
The Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin. At age 16, O'Donoghue went to
Paris, France, for a month to learn the French language. Colin's early
career was mainly split between theatre and television work in Ireland
and the UK. In 2003, Colin won the Irish Film and Television Award for
"Best New Talent" for his role as Norman in "Home For Christmas.- Actress
- Producer
Addison Riecke was born January 26, 2004, in Covington, Louisiana (a New Orleans suburb). She discovered her love for acting, singing, and playing musical instruments at age four. By the age of 8, she appeared in ABC's How to Live with Your Parents (for the Rest of Your Life), and in national commercials for Lunchables and Playstation. Shortly after, she booked a pilot and became a series regular on Nickelodeon's hit show, The Thundermans, spanning 103 episodes over 4 seasons. The Thundermans was a multi-cam, live action, half-hour sitcom series about a family of Superheroes trying to live a normal life, despite their super-human powers. Addison played Nora Thunderman, who caused mischief with her laser-vision and spirited personality. The show premiered in November 2013 to an average of 2.1 million viewers and in 2016, won Favorite TV Show at the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards.
Addison will soon begin production on the third season of A Girl Named Jo. She stars as Cathy, alongside Annie LeBlanc as Jo. Set in 1963, a decade after a factory fire had ruined a small town; Cathy and Jo become unlikely friends from opposite sides of the tracks and uncover the community's complex history. The series airs on the digital network, Brat. It aired its first season in summer 2018, debuting at over 5 million viewers.
Addison's film debut was The Beguiled, an adaptation of the Thomas Cullinan novel of the same name. Set in 1864, The Beguiled tells the story of a wounded union soldier who is taken into The Miss Martha Farnsworth Seminary for Young Ladies to be cared for. Addison plays academy resident, Marie, alongside Nicole Kidman, Kirsten Dunst, Elle Fanning, and Colin Farrell. The film, written and directed by Sofia Coppola, premiered at Cannes Film Festival where Coppola received the prestigious award of Best Director. The film was released in theaters on June 23, 2017 by Focus Features.
She recently co-starred with Hannah Marks, Liana Liberato, and Dylan Sprouse in Banana Split, which premiered September 22nd at the 2018 Los Angeles Film Festival. Banana Split, an American High produced film, is a film about an unexpected female friendship during the pivotal transition between high school and college. Addison plays Agnes, the saucy 13 year old sister to Hannah Marks character, April.
Addison has a big heart and enjoys giving back. In 2013 she raised over four thousand dollars for the Red Cross, benefiting the victims of the Oklahoma tornadoes. Always thinking of others, in 2014 she donated her birthday gifts to the children at L.A. Children's Hospital, and in 2015 she requested pet supplies instead of birthday gifts and donated the supplies to the St. Tammany Humane Society. An avid supporter of ant-bullying, Addison presented an award at the 2015 NO BULL Teen Video Awards in August. Additionally, Addison participated in Custom Ink's 5th annual "Be Good to Each Other" campaign to support PACER's National Bullying Prevention Center by designing an exclusive Celebri-tee for CustomInk with 100% of the profits from the shirts go to PACER. She has also been involved in local charities including Holidays for Kids, Hartley's Heart Foundation, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, STARC of St. Tammany, St. Tammany Hospital Foundation, and The Food Bank of Covington. She is passionate about supporting not only through funding, but donating her time as well.
In keeping with her love of philanthropy, Addison recently raised over ten thousand dollars for Write Brain Gives, the philanthropic initiative of Write Brain Books that gives undeserved children and underfunded organizations the opportunity for self-expression, improved literacy, and inventive storytelling. Her passion for reading and writing inspired her involvement, keeping in mind the importance of putting pen to paper and using your imagination.
Addison also enjoys playing the ukulele, cooking/baking, reading, and practicing screenwriting. She loves animals and has two rescue cats named Maddie and Hannah, two rescue dogs named Scout and Pippa, and a boxer named Coco.- Actor
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Deep Roy was born on 26 January 1949 in Nairobi, Kenya. He is an actor and producer, known for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and The NeverEnding Story (1984).- Cameron was born in Victoria, British Columbia, on January 26, 1993. He resides in
Vancouver, British Columbia. At the age of 6, he was filming his first commercial. In 2002, at only 9 years of age, he worked in his first lead role in the movie Godsend (2004), alongside Academy award-winner Robert De Niro. One month after completing Godsend (2004), Cameron was filming his next lead in Birth (2004), playing the reincarnated husband of Academy award-winner Nicole Kidman. The role of "Sean" in Birth (2004) would land Cameron his first nomination for a major award. Since landing his first lead at the age of 9, he has carried 13 lead roles in major movies, and appeared in numerous TV series as a guest star. He has been a guest presenter at the Breakthrough of the Year, BC Leo and Gemini awards, as well as being nominated for 8 major awards. - Actor
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- Producer
Born in Manila, Philippines, Bryan Callen made his television debut as
a series regular on Mad TV (1995) and
the HBO prison series Oz (1997). He was
recently seen as Kirstie Alley's
wisecracking assistant on Showtime's comedy series
Fat Actress (2005). Callen has
appeared on several television series including
Sex and the City (1998),
7th Heaven (1996),
Stacked (2005),
The King of Queens (1998),
Las Vegas (2003),
Significant Others (1998),
The West Wing (1999),
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000),
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999),
NYPD Blue (1993),
Suddenly Susan (1996),
Frasier (1993) and
NewsRadio (1995), among others. In
addition, Callen has appeared in such feature films as
Bad Santa (2003) and
Old School (2003) and has performed
stand up comedy on several TV shows.- Actor
- Director
- Writer
Paul Johansson was born on 26 January 1964 in Spokane, Washington, USA. He is an actor and director, known for One Tree Hill (2003), The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day (2009) and Atlas Shrugged: Part I (2011). He was previously married to Gabriela Oltean.- Mercedes Kaestner-Varnado is an American professional wrestler and actress who also known as her ring names Sasha Banks (in WWE) and Mercedes Monè (in other promotions). Varnado made her acting debut in season 2 of the acclaimed show The Mandalorian (2019) in the role of Koska Reeves. As a pioneer of WWE's women's Wrestling, she is regarded as one of the greatest women's wrestler of all time.
She previously wrestled on the independent circuit, most notably for Chaotic Wrestling, where she once held the Chaotic Wrestling Women's Championship. Between WWE and their developmental brand NXT, Banks has had eight championship reigns-being a former NXT Women's Champion, 5-time Raw Women's Champion and inaugural and 3-time WWE Women's tag team champions and 1 time SmackDown Women's Champion. Varnado made her NJPW debut in 2023 where she is 1 time IWGP Women's Champion.
Her match against Bayley at NXT Takeover: Respect (2015) on October 7, 2015 was the first women's match to ever headline a major WWE event, the first women's Iron Man match. In 2016, she and Charlotte Flair became the first women to headline a WWE pay-per-view event and the first to compete in a Hell in a Cell match (both at WWE Hell in a Cell (2016) in October 2016), the first women to main event WWE Monday Night RAW in a women's match since 2004. In 2021 at WrestleMania 37 Banks and her opponent Bianca Belair became first African born performers to headlining WrestleMania. Banks is also first 1990s born wrestler to headlining WrestleMania. - Actress
- Producer
Tracy Middendorf was born on 26 January 1970 in Miami Beach, Florida, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for New Nightmare (1994), Mission: Impossible III (2006) and Scream: The TV Series (2015). She has been married to Franz Wisner since 2 January 2005. They have one child.- Producer
- Director
- Writer
Nuri Bilge Ceylan was born in Istanbul on January 26th, 1959. In 1976, he began studying chemical engineering at Istanbul Technical University, in a context of strong student unrest, boycotts and political polarization. In 1978, he switched courses to Electrical Engineering at Bogazici University. There, he developed a strong interest in image, entering the photography club at the university. This is also where he fed his taste for visual arts and classical music, by means of the vast resources of the faculty librarians. He also began to take film classes and attend screenings at the Film Society, which reinforced his love of cinema, born years earlier in the dark rooms of the Istanbul Cinematheque. After his 1985 Graduation, he traveled to London and Kathmandu, which allowed him to take the opportunity to reflect upon his future. He returned to Turkey for his 18 months military service and at that moment decided to dedicate his life to cinema. Thereafter, he studied film at the University Mimar Sinan, and worked as a professional photographer to make a living. After 2 years, he decided to abandon his studies to practice. He started with acting, in a short film directed by his friend Mehmet Eryilmaz, while helping with the technical production process. In late 1993, he began shooting his first short film, Koza. The film was screened at Cannes in May 1995 and became the first Turkish short film to be selected for competition. Three full-length feature films followed -the "provincial trilogy": Kasaba (1997), Mayis Sikintisi (1999) and Uzak (2002). In all of these films, Ceylan took on just about every technical role himself: the cinematography, sound design, production, editing, writing and direction. Uzak won the Grand Prix and Best Actor (for the two main actors) in Cannes in 2003, making Ceylan an internationally recognized director. Continuing his tour of festivals after Cannes, Uzak won no less than 47 awards, including 23 international prizes, and thus became the most awarded film in the history of Turkish cinema. His subsequent films were all awarded at Cannes : Iklimler won the FIPRESCI Prize in 2006, Üç Maymun won Best Director in 2008 and Bir Zamanlar Anadolu'da won the Grand Prix in 2011. In 2014, his seventh feature film Kis Uykusu won the Palme d'Or as well as the FIPRESCI prize.- María Pedraza (born 26 January 1996) is a Spanish actress and Ballerina best known for portraying Alison Parker in the Spanish series Money Heist. She also starred in the Netflix series Élite, playing the role of Marina.
Pedraza was discovered through her Instagram account by film director Esteban Crespo who invited her to attend an audition for the lead role of his debut opera AMAR. - Actor
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William Hopper was born on 26 January 1915 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Perry Mason (1957), 20 Million Miles to Earth (1957) and Rebel Without a Cause (1955). He was married to Jeanette Juanita Ward and Jane Gilbert. He died on 6 March 1970 in Palm Springs, California, USA.- Actor
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- Writer
Wes Brown was born on 26 January 1982 in Fort Worth, Texas, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for We Are Marshall (2006), Glory Road (2006) and Now and at the Hour. He has been married to Amanda Moye Brown since 2008. They have one child.- Actor
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With his dark features and having spent much of his early years in
Naples, Italy, Vito Scotti was understandably typecast as Italian
waiters, government functionaries, policemen, maitre d's and barbers.
When Vito was seven, the Scottis moved back to the U.S. where his
mother became a diva in the Italian theatre in New York. It was in that
theatre that Scotti developed his gift for farce, which he modeled on
the style found in the Commedia dell'Arte. He worked the night club
circuit doing pantomime and broke into movies and television during the
early 1950s. Vito loved cooking, especially the recipes of his beloved
mother and grandmother.- Rachel DiPillo was born on 26 January 1991 in Flint, Michigan, USA. She is an actress, known for Hello, My Name Is Frank (2015), Cuckoo (2015) and Chicago Med (2015).
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Nico Mirallegro was born in Manchester, England, to an Italian father and Anglo-Irish mother. He attended The Manchester school of Acting for 3 years. He is BAFTA nominated for playing Joe Middleton in The Village and is known for his role as Finn in My Mad Fat
Diary, Timothy Evans in Rillington Place, Jonjo in Common, Dodge in Spike Island and as John Bagguelly in Mike Leigh's Peterloo.
Nico was selected in the 2012 Screen stars of tomorrow. He was awarded best actor for his role in Mirko Pincelli's The Habit Of Beauty at the Gallio film festival.- Actress
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She was born of Irish ancestry as Joan Agnes Theresa Brodel, the daughter of an accountant and a pianist. She was educated at Catholic schools in Toronto, Montreal and Detroit. There were three sisters, her older siblings being Mary and Betty. Together, they made up a successful vaudeville act, the Brodel Sisters. Trained in singing, dancing and dramatics from early childhood, Joan began on stage at the age of nine. The Brodel's entry into in show biz at such a tender age had much to do with supporting their impoverished parents during the Depression years. With her sisters, Joan performed on radio and in nightclubs. The most talented of the trio, she excelled at impersonations, her repertoire including Katharine Hepburn, Greta Garbo, Jimmy Durante and Maurice Chevalier. While Mary played the saxophone and Betty the piano, Joan was a wiz on the accordion and the banjo. One night, during a performance at the Paradise Club in New York, she was singled out by an MGM talent scout and promptly signed for six months with a salary of $200 a week. Her first role of note was as Robert Taylor's young sister in the period drama Camille (1936). She did not last long at MGM, but, in 1940, was signed by Warner Brothers. Voice coaching smoothed her Midwestern accent and Joan Brodel became Joan Leslie, ostensibly 'to avoid confusion' with Warner's star comedienne Joan Blondell.
Little Joan was all but 14 years old when her movie career began in earnest. Her ability to cry on cue proved instrumental in her selection for the pivotal role of Velma, the club-footed girl helped by gangster Roy Earle (Humphrey Bogart) in High Sierra (1940). This role, by her own account, put her on the map. In between working as a photographers model, Joan flourished in A-grade productions, playing Gary Cooper's sweetheart in Sergeant York (1941) (despite a 24-years age difference), co-starring and dancing with James Cagney in Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) and featuring in the top half of the bill in the aptly named, star-studded musical extravaganza Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943). She did her bit for the war effort too, dancing with servicemen in Hollywood Canteen (1944) and being featured in the movie along with her sister Betty. By 1942, Joan had acquired a wholesome reputation as the all-American girl-next-door. Life Magazine described her as "looking every inch the schoolgirl she is" and her greatest asset being "a manner of projecting sweet innocence without seeming too sugary". Before long, however, the relationship between Joan and her studio began to sour.
By 1945, the quality of her roles had begun to deteriorate. She made a couple of so-so pictures with Robert Alda, Rhapsody in Blue (1945) (an entertaining, but highly fictionalised biopic of George Gershwin) and Cinderella Jones (1946). After appearing in Two Guys from Milwaukee (1946), Joan, demanding more mature roles, took Warner Brothers to court. Having made her point, her contract was dropped. Between 1947 and 1954, Joan freelanced, often for Poverty Row outfits like Eagle-Lion, Lippert and Republic. She became yet another fatality of Hollywood typecasting, another example of an attractive ingenue, a promising starlet and a potential major star who ended up as a low budget western lead. Still, later interviews suggested that she rather enjoyed acting in her handful of second-string westerns and they earned Joan a Golden Boot Award in 2006 for contributions to the genre. She finally had another co-starring turn, billed behind Jane Russell and Richard Egan in The Revolt of Mamie Stover (1956), thereafter restricting her appearances to the small screen. Joan has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Vine Street.
In her later private life, Joan was devoted to various Catholic charities and to raising her identical twin daughters. As Joan Caldwell, an obstetrician's widow, she founded a Chair in Gynecologic Oncology at the University of Louisville. Joan died in October 2017 at the age of 90.
She quit her acting career to raise her identical twin daughters Patrice and Ellen. Both daughters are now Doctors, teaching at universities.- Actress
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Hannah Arterton was born in Gravesend, Kent, England, UK. She is an actress and director, known for The Peripheral (2022), Safe (2018) and The Five (2016). She has been married to Chris Hyson since 23 September 2022.- Actor
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Edwin Hodge can currently be seen on Kurt Sutter's new FX series, "Mayans Mc." He is also in the upcoming Paramount feature, "Bumblebee" and "If Not Now, When?" opposite Mekia Cox. Most recently, he could be seen in the second season of The History Channel's hit series, Six, opposite Olivia Munn, Walton Goggins and Barry Sloane. Edwin Hodge also recurred last season as 'Benjamin Banneker' on Fox's "Sleepy Hollow."
His film credits include the popular Purge franchise of films, including "The Purge: Election Year", "The Purge: Anarchy" and "The Purge. He can also be seen opposite James Caan in "The Good Neighbor", which premiered at South by Southwest, and in "Red Dawn" with Chris Hemsworth and Josh Hutcherson.
On the small screen he has worked on "Chicago Fire," "As Above, So Below," "Boston Public" and "NCIS: Los Angeles," and guest starred as 'Kai Ashe' in "NCIS: Red," a two-episode spin off pilot of NCIS: Los Angeles. Edwin recurred as 'Wade' on the hit TBS comedy Cougar Town and has had roles on many other television shows including The Mentalist, Heroes, Ghost Whisperer and One Tree Hill.
Edwin currently resides in Los Angeles. In his spare time, he is an avid sportsman with interests specifically in basketball and golf.
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Kelli was born in Virginia Beach Virginia and raised by her single working mother and grandmother. She grew up singing in the church
choir and going to after-school performing arts programs, including the Governor's School for the Arts. She went on to attend the University of the Arts in Philadelphia where she received the presidential scholarship. She has been working in TV and film since the age of 15 and has originated many musical roles on Broadway. Her Broadway debut was with the Manhattan Theater Club in the play "The Royal Family" opposite Jan Maxwell and Rosemary Harris. Her first TV jobs included everything from TLC reenactment movies to replacing the Emmy nominated role of Maddie Coleman on "As the World Turns". She can be heard on numerous original Broadway albums as well as FX's Emmy Nominated "Fosse/Verson", and is an award winning cabaret artist. She is a member of the Marvel Universe.- YaYa Gosselin is an American actress from Dallas, TX. She is of Mexican, French, Native American and English descent. YaYa started her acting journey at the The Clutts Agency in Dallas at the age of 5 when she was cast in a National Elmo commercial for Hasbro.
She worked consistently in commercials till the age of 7 when she enrolled in acting classes at DTV Studios Acting for Film & Television where she still trains today. It didn't take long for YaYa to start contending for major roles. By 9 she had appeared in her first studio film, Peppermint, and co-starred on The Purge and 13 Reasons Why. She was cast to play Tali LaCroix in the planted FBI: Most Wanted pilot for CBS, was eventually upped to series regular, and appeared in 40 episodes along side Julian McMahon, stealing hearts along the way.
At 10 years old she won the coveted lead role of Missy Moreno in Robert Rodriguez's new kids franchise We Can Be Heroes for Netflix, playing opposite Pedro Pascal and Priyanka Chopra-Jonas. The film had massive success becoming one of the most streamed films in 2021. A sequel is in development.
In the fall of 2021, YaYa landed the lead role of Sam Torres in Apple TV+ new kids and family series Surfside Girls, based on the best selling graphic novel series of the same name.
YaYa is passionate about playing non-stereotypical Latina characters. Outside of acting she is a dancer and an avid horse girl. She also plays the ukulele, guitar and piano proficiently. Her most sacred role is that of big sister to her sisters Pippa and Nico. - Actress
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Lucy Loken was born in Burbank, California, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for My Teacher, My Obsession (2018) and Teen Wolf (2011).- Producer
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Emmy-winning talk show host Ellen Lee DeGeneres was born in Metairie, Louisiana, a New Orleans suburb. She is the daughter of Betty DeGeneres (née Elizabeth Jane Pfeffer), a speech therapist, and Elliott Everett DeGeneres, Jr., an insurance agent. Her brother is musician and producer Vance DeGeneres. Her parents divorced when she was 16 years old. Her mother remarried, and her new husband, salesman Roy Gruessendorf, moved the family to Atlanta, Texas.
After graduating from Atlanta High School in 1976, Ellen attended the University of New Orleans as a communications major, but she dropped out after one semester. She held a wide variety of jobs until she turned to stand-up comedy, making her bones at small clubs and coffeehouses before working her way up to emcee Clyde's Comedy Club by 1981. Her comedy was described as a distaff version of Bob Newhart. Beginning in the early 1980s, she toured nationally and was named the funniest person in America
after winning a competition sponsored by the cable network Showtime. This led to better gigs, including her first appearance on
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962) in 1986.
Though DeGeneres's early forays into series television were not successful (she appeared as a supporting player in two short-lived TV situation comedies in the period 1989-92, Open House (1989) and Laurie Hill (1992)), she scored a hit headlining her own 1994 sitcom on ABC "These Friends of Mine" (renamed Ellen (1994) after its first season). She made TV history in April 1997, when her character, and DeGeneres personally, revealed that she was a lesbian. However, the show was canceled the following season due to declining ratings, after which DeGeneres returned to the stand-up circuit. In 2001, DeGeneres launched a new series, The Ellen Show (2001), on CBS, but it suffered from poor ratings and was canceled.
Redemption as a television artist came in 2003, when DeGeneres's daytime talk show, The Ellen DeGeneres Show (2003), proved to be both a critical hit and a commercial success. Along with good ratings, the show has won unprecedented kudos from the industry, winning 15 Emmy Awards in its first three seasons on the air and becoming the first talk show in TV history to win the Emmy Award for Outstanding Talk Show in its first three seasons.
DeGeneres has also made a name for herself as a host of awards shows. She hosted the Grammy Awards in 1996 and 1997, as well as the Primetime Emmy Awards in 2001 and 2005. In February 2007, she had the ultimate TV awards show gig, hosting the Oscars, which she hosted again in 2014.- Jacqueline Ray was born on 26 January 1945 in Burbank, California, USA. She is an actress, known for Magnum, P.I. (1980), The Killings at Outpost Zeta (1980) and In Like Flint (1967). She has been married to Clarence Barry Witmer since 21 March 1992. She was previously married to Tom Selleck and Tom Shepard.
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Hemky was born Hemky Louis Madera on January 26, 1977 in Queens, New York, to Dominican parents Luis and Gisela Madera. Moved to Santiago, Dominican Republic at the age of two months. Graduated from Santiago Christian School and after a series of different jobs, Hemky decided to give his long standing desire to act a go. His first move forward came to much acclaim on the widely known television production of "Grandes Series Dominicanas". He then garnered the lead for the mini-series "En La Olla", followed by "Trio en Alta Mar" *; both directed by renowned Dominican director and producer Alfonso Rodriguez. After a short stay in New York City, where he worked on the film production of "Bookies Lament", Hemky returned to the Dominican Republic to star in the mini-series "Asalto en la Lincoln". Immediately after, became a part of the Primetime television series production and cast member of both hit sitcoms "Los Electrolocos"(lead) and "Ciudad Nueva". His first theatrical performance was in "Pantallas", produced and staged at Santo Domingo's Great National Theatre. Then back to New York to be in the Inverse Theatre's production of "Icarus and Aria". After workshops and internships at The Actor's Studio and Gene Frankel Theatre, he was cast in "Life is a Dream", "The Mistress of the Inn" (reviewed by The New York Times), "Chronicles of a Death Foretold", "Blood Weddings",
"Midnight Brainwash Revival", Feast of the Goat", ( a New York Spanish Repertoire's production), "Burning the Bridges", and "Belisa's Capriciousness". Television credits in renowned Primetime shows like "The Shield" and "Law and Order: Criminal Intent". His recurring role as Ignacio on SHOWTIME's "Weeds" and HBO's "Luck", with Dustin Hoffman. Movie roles include performances with actors such as Harvey Kietel, Gael Garcia Bernal and Diana Bracho in the film "Dreaming of Julia", where he portrayed a young human rights crusader in 1950s Cuba. "The Lost City" with Andy Garcia, Dustin Hoffman and Bill Murray. The Gore Verbinski film "Rango" with Johnny Depp and Ray Winstone.- Actor
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Christopher Massey was born on 26 January 1990 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. He is an actor, known for Zoey 101 (2005), Mary and Max (2009) and Bling (2016).- Actress
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Kathryn Leigh Scott was born on 26 January 1943 in Robbinsdale, Minnesota, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for Dark Shadows (1966), The Great Gatsby (1974) and House of Dark Shadows (1970). She was previously married to Geoff Miller and Ben Martin.- Cyia Batten was born on 26 January 1972 in Locust Valley, New York, USA. She is an actress, known for Charlie Wilson's War (2007), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006) and Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003).
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Rick Hill is the author of the New York Times' #1 Best-Seller: "Pete Rose, My Prison Without Bars". He appeared in more than 50 episodes of network television, including Today's F.B.I. (1981). Hill directed multiple episodes of Born Free (1998) and Hollywood Safari (1998). He served as a "script doctor" or ghost-writer on several successful film and book projects. While starring in Today's F.B.I. (1981), Hill was invited on a tour of the White House during the Reagan Administration.- Actor
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Ravi Teja, also known as Bhupatiraju Ravi Shankar Raju, is a well-known Indian film actor and producer. He is widely known as the "King of Action Comedies" and has earned the title of "Mass Maharaja." His stellar performance and dance moves have many young fans across India.
His father was a pharmacist, while his mother was a homemaker. Both of his brothers, Raghu and Bharath also pursued careers in acting.
Teja, who is proficient in speaking Hindi and Telugu, spent his childhood in various parts of northern India due to his father's job. He received his education in cities such as Delhi, Mumbai, Bhopal, and Jaipur and completed his studies at Siddhartha Degree College in Vijayawada. In 1988, he relocated to Madras to start his career in the film industry.
Teja's journey in the film industry began as a director's assistant, working on various Telugu and Bollywood films. He made his acting debut with a small role in the popular 1996 movie Ninne Pelladatha (1996), which was directed by Krishna Vamsi. He also served as the assistant director for the film.
As his career progressed, he appeared in supporting roles in films such as Annayya (2000), Manasichi Choodu (2020), and Idiot (2002). He landed his first leading role in the 1999 film Nee Kosam (1999), which earned him a Special Jury Award Nandi despite being an average box office performer.
Today, Teja is considered one of the highest-paid actors in the Telugu film industry. He has won several awards, including a Filmfare Award South, and three state Nandi Awards for his performance in the film "Khadgam." He was also nominated for a Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Throughout his career, Teja has been a part of several notable films, including Vikramarkudu (2006), Kick (2009), Venky (2004), Dubai Seenu (2007), Krishna: The Power of Indrakeeladri (2008), Neninthe (2008), and Bengal Tiger (2015).- This actress' two-decade career produced only one single stand-out film
role but that one role as the "good girl" who redeems "bad boy"
Marlon Brando's tough biker in the cult
flick The Wild One (1953) put Mary
Murphy at the head of the acting class for one brief shining moment. In
others, she proved a lovely distraction amid the male action
surrounding her and also, given the right material, displayed obvious
talent in both Grade "A" and "B" drama as the feminine co-star or
second lead.
The beautiful blue-eyed brunet stunner was born on January 26, 1931, in
Washington D.C. but quickly moved with her family six months later to
Cleveland, Ohio. Her father, James, a businessman, died there in 1940,
and her mother eventually moved Mary and her two brothers and sister
(she was the youngest of the four) West to Southern California where
Mary went on to attend University High School in the Los Angeles area,
graduating in 1949. A one-time employee of Saks Fifth Avenue in Beverly
Hills, the fresh-faced beauty was "discovered" at a café and signed by
Paramount Studios.
Following insignificant bit/extra work in such movies as the
Bob Hope's vehicles
The Lemon Drop Kid (1951) and
My Favorite Spy (1951), the
sci-fi feature
When Worlds Collide (1951),
and "Best Picture"
The Greatest Show on Earth (1952),
Mary won the female lead opposite relative newcomer
Tommy Morton in the show business drama
Main Street to Broadway (1953).
The film was ill-received and both stars were rather dwarfed by the
huge names that surrounded them --
Tallulah Bankhead,
Lionel Barrymore,
Ethel Barrymore,
Shirley Booth,
Mary Martin and even Rodgers and
Hammerstein. Her second lead in a film was a different story. the
legendary The Wild One (1953)
opposite Marlon Brando. Mary managed to
hold her own in this biker classic but it did not, however, necessarily
lead to better films. She continued in the demure ingénue mode in the
Vincent Price sub-horror
The Mad Magician (1954) and the
routine western Sitting Bull (1954)
which starred future husband
Dale Robertson. The June 1956
marriage to Robertson was very short-lived; it was annulled by
Christmas time.
Mary went on, however, to give earnest leading lady perfs opposite
Tony Curtis in
Beachhead (1954),
Ray Milland's debut as a director,
A Man Alone (1955) and
Hell's Island (1955) with
John Payne. She also appeared to good
advantage in
The Desperate Hours (1955)
but was slightly overshadowed by powerhouse star cast of
Humphrey Bogart,
Fredric March,
Arthur Kennedy,
Gig Young and
Martha Scott. From then on it was fairly
dismal for Mary in such lesser features as
The Maverick Queen (1956),
The Electronic Monster (1958) and
Live Fast, Die Young (1958),
a lowbudget "Wild Ones" delinquent crimer as a girl who tries to save
her sister from a life of crime.
Mary left the screen for a time but resumed her career in the 60s and
early 70s primarily on TV with a number of episodics and mini-movies
playing matronly wives and mothers and had a small but noticeable role
in the film Junior Bonner (1972).
Remarried in 1962, Mary retired completely by the late 70s and turned
to environmental causes. She also worked in a Los Angeles art gallery
for a time and has been seen on occasion in nostalgia conventions. She died on May 4, 2011, of heart disease, in Beverly Hills. - Actor
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If you want to meet a real-life super hero, Michael O'Hearn is the
closest human alive that fits that description.. A Four-time Mr.
Universe, O'Hearn has graced the covers of over 470 magazines worldwide
earning him the title of 7-time Fitness Male Model of the Year and
putting that title in retirement.
O'Hearn is a champion with a resume a mile long. You can see him as
Team Captain Titan in American Gladiators. In addition to 4-time Mr.
Natural Universe titles, O'Hearn is also a 4-time Power Lifting
Champion, and Iron Warrior: Decathlon of Strength Strongman Champion.
He is a well-rounded athlete with a background in natural bodybuilding,
strongman, power lifting, and martial arts. Women around the world will
recognize O'Hearn as the cover model for Topaz romance novels.
A life-long proponent of the natural approach to bodybuilding and life,
O'Hearn authored "Proven Techniques for Drug-Free Bodybuilders" to
inspire and teach the next generation of weightlifters and bodybuilders
that you can achieve success without the use of enhancers such as
steroids or growth hormones.
Known as an unquestionably qualified fitness expert, O'Hearn trains high profile clients from
Hollywood executives to heavy hitters nationwide.
O'Hearn grew up on a farm in Kirkland, WA, and comes from a large
family of 9 siblings of which he is the youngest of 5 boys. He began
competing in bodybuilding at the age of 15 when he won the Teenage
Washington State competition. In college, O'Hearn was a 3-time All-State
Defensive Tackle and All American football player.
O'Hearn is tackling writing, producing, and directing his own movie
about a character who discovers he is a superhero. O'Hearn has a
leading role in National Lampoon's TV-The Movie. Other films include
Barbarian and Keeper of Time. Upcoming film projects due to be released
in Spring 2008 include Tumblers and Captain Ultimate.- Actress
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Celia Keenan-Bolger was born on 26 January 1978 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. She is an actress, known for The Visit (2015), The Gilded Age (2022) and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999). She has been married to John Ellison Conlee since 2010. They have one child.- Actress
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Alix Wilton Regan was born in London, England, UK. She is an actress and director, known for The Wife (2017), The Brave (2017) and Assassin's Creed: Origins (2017). She has been married to Adam Lannon since 28 October 2023.- Actress
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Jennifer Crystal Foley was born on 26 January 1973 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is an actress, known for Parental Guidance (2012), The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (2015) and Fathers' Day (1997). She has been married to Michael Foley since September 2000. They have two children.- Actor
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Mean, miserly and miserable-looking, they didn't come packaged with a
more annoying and irksome bow than Charles Lane. Glimpsing even a bent
smile from this unending sourpuss was extremely rare, unless one
perhaps caught him in a moment of insidious glee after carrying out one
of his many nefarious schemes. Certainly not a man's man on film or TV
by any stretch, Lane was a character's character. An omnipresent face
in hundreds of movies and TV sitcoms, the scrawny, scowling,
beady-eyed, beak-nosed killjoy who usually could be found peering
disdainfully over a pair of specs, brought out many a comic moment
simply by dampening the spirit of his nemesis. Whether a Grinch-like
rent collector, IRS agent, judge, doctor, salesman, reporter, inspector
or neighbor from hell, Lane made a comfortable acting niche for himself
making life wretched for someone somewhere.
He was born Charles Gerstle Levison on January 26, 1905 in San
Francisco and was actually one of the last survivors of that city's
famous 1906 earthquake. He started out his working-class existence
selling insurance but that soon changed. After dabbling here and there
in various theatre shows, he was prodded by a friend, director
Irving Pichel, to consider acting as a
profession. In 1928 he joined the Pasadena Playhouse company, which, at
the time, had built up a solid reputation for training stage actors for
the cinema. While there he performed in scores of classical and
contemporary plays. He made his film debut anonymously as a hotel clerk
in Smart Money (1931) starring
Edward G. Robinson and
James Cagney and was one of the first to
join the Screen Actor's Guild. He typically performed many of his early
atmospheric roles without screen credit and at a cost of $35 per day,
but he always managed to seize the moment with whatever brief bit he
happened to be in. People always remembered that face and raspy drone
of a voice. He appeared in so many pictures (in 1933 alone he made 23
films!), that he would occasionally go out and treat himself to a movie
only to find himself on screen, forgetting completely that he had done
a role in the film. By 1947 the popular character actor was making $750
a week.
Among his scores of cookie-cutter crank roles, Lane was in top form as
the stage manager in
Twentieth Century (1934); the
Internal Revenue Service agent in
You Can't Take It with You (1938);
the newsman in
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939);
the rent collector in
It's a Wonderful Life (1946);
the recurring role of Doc Jed Prouty, in the "Ellery Queen" film series
of the 1940s, and as the draft board driver in
No Time for Sergeants (1958).
A minor mainstay for Frank Capra, the famed
director utilized the actor's services for nine of his finest films,
including a few of the aforementioned plus
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936),
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
and State of the Union (1948).
Lane's career was interrupted for a time serving in the Coast Guard
during WWII. In post-war years, he found TV quite welcoming, settling
there as well for well over four decades. Practically every week during
the 1950s and 1960s, one could find him displaying somewhere his
patented "slow burn" on a popular sitcom -
Topper (1953),
The Real McCoys (1957),
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (1959),
Mister Ed (1961),
Bewitched (1964),
Get Smart (1965),
Gomer Pyle: USMC (1964),
The Munsters (1964),
Green Acres (1965),
The Flying Nun (1967) and
Maude (1972). He hassled the best
sitcom stars of the day, notably
Lucille Ball (an old friend from the RKO
days with whom he worked multiple times),
Andy Griffith and
Danny Thomas. Recurring roles on
Dennis the Menace (1959),
The Beverly Hillbillies (1962)
and Soap (1977) made him just as
familiar to young and old alike. Tops on the list had to be his crusty
railroad exec Homer Bedloe who periodically caused bucolic bedlam with
his nefarious schemes to shut down the Hooterville Cannonball on
Petticoat Junction (1963).
He could also play it straightforward and serious as demonstrated by
his work in
The Twilight Zone (1959),
Perry Mason (1957),
Little House on the Prairie (1974)
and L.A. Law (1986).
A benevolent gent in real life, Lane was seen less and less as time
went by. One memorable role in his twilight years was as the rueful
child pediatrician who chose to overlook the warning signs of child
abuse in the excellent TV movie
Sybil (1976). One of Lane's last
on-screen roles was in the TV-movie remake of
The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1995)
at age 90. Just before his death he was working on a documentary on his
long career entitled "You Know the Face".
Cinematically speaking, perhaps the good ones do die young, for the
irascible Lane lived to be 102 years old. He died peacefully at his
Brentwood, California home, outliving his wife of 71 years, former
actress Ruth Covell, who died in 2002. A daughter, a son and a
granddaughter all survived him.- Actor
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Melvil Poupaud was born on 26 January 1973 in Paris, France. He is an actor and director, known for Laurence Anyways (2012), Speed Racer (2008) and Time to Leave (2005).- Actor
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Björn Andrésen was born on 26 January 1955 in Stockholm, Sweden. He is an actor, known for Midsommar (2019), Gentlemen & Gangsters (2016) and A Love Story (1970).- Actress
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The ever-lovely, poised and vivacious blonde Anne Jeffreys was born Annie Jeffreys Carmichael in 1923 in Goldsboro, North Carolina. Firmly managed by her mother, she trained in voice at a fairly early age and received her first break in the entertainment field after signing with the John Robert Powers agency in New York as a junior model. In the interim, she prepared herself for an operatic
career and made her debut in a production of "La Boheme" in 1940. The following year, however, Anne won a role in the musical review, "Fun for the Money", that was to be staged in Hollywood. This, in turn, led to her first movie role in the tuneful Rodgers & Hart adaptation of I Married an Angel (1942), starring her singing idols, Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald, in their last cinematic pairing.
Put under contract respectively by Republic then RKO studios, Anne was utilized as a plucky heroine in a flux of 40s "B" westerns and crimers, opposite such stalwarts as Robert Mitchum and Randolph Scott. Also among her roles was the part of "Tess Trueheart" in the "Dick Tracy" series with Morgan Conway as the steel-jawed hero, and a co-star role opposite Frank Sinatra in the war-era musical, Step Lively (1944). None of these, however, were able to propel her into the "A" ranks and her film career quickly dissipated by the end of the 40s. In the meantime, Anne continued to prod her vocal skills with symphonic and stage appearances, including "Tosca" at the Brooklyn Opera House, Kurt Weill's "Street Scene" and the Broadway musical, "My Romance".
After her first marriage was annulled in 1949, Anne met handsome actor Robert Sterling during an extended run (887 performances) of "Kiss Me Kate" on Broadway. She and Sterling married in 1951 and had three sons. In an attempt to revive their flagging careers, the singing couple toured nighteries and hotels in the early 1950s with a highly successful club act. This led to them being cast as sly, engagingly cavalier spirits in the classic Topper (1953) sitcom. Anne played "Marion Kirby" ("the ghostess with the mostest"), alongside Sterling's dapper husband, George Kirby. Successfully, undertaking the ectoplasmic roles originated on film by Constance Bennett and Cary Grant, the two were an absolute hit as the party-hearty ghosts who reclaim their home, to the dismay of current owner Leo G. Carroll.
Anne and Robert weren't able to recreate that same kind of magic when they subsequently co-starred in the short-lived series,
Love That Jill (1958). In the 1960s, Anne semi-retired to raise her family, but occasionally took on musical leads ("Camelot", "The King and I") both on Broadway and in regional productions. She later returned full-time to TV and became known for her chic, gregarious, sometimes double-dealing matrons on soap operas (Bright Promise (1969) and General Hospital (1972)). She was nominated for a Golden Globe award for her supporting work in The Delphi Bureau (1972) adventure series, and appeared, occasionally, as the mother of David Hasselhoff on Baywatch (1989). Unlike her husband, who retired decades ago (he died in 2006), Anne remained a tireless performer past age 80. She was recognized over the years for her civic and humanitarian efforts and remained a vibrant presence of "Golden Age" Hollywood society until her death at age 94 on September 27, 2017 in Los Angeles.- Known for his breakout role as Nate Macauley in Peacock/Netflix's hit series One Of Us Is Lying, Cooper has been in the industry since a young age.
Gaining his start on ABC series The Legend of Gavin Tanner, van Grootel enjoyed back to back key roles on major projects including ABC series Mystery Road with Oscar Nominee Judy Davis. He then went on to play bad boy 'Dean' in feature film Go Karts, continuing his run of delivering stand out performances and playing characters with an edge. Directed by multi-award-winning Owen Trevor, van Grootel played opposite Golden-Globe nominee Frances O'Conor and Moulin Rouge star Richard Roxburgh.
He has since gone on to be cast in Snow Valley and One True Loves (starring Luke Bracey and Simu Liu).
An actor with a grounded nature who is firmly focused on the craft, Cooper often comments that his acting interest was sparked by fascination with animated films, such as 'Coraline' and 'Toy Story' to name a few. Inspired by many actors who came before him, van Grootel points to how Heath Ledger is an inspiration. Ledger's journey from Perth boy to Hollywood star was one that Cooper always admired and believed if Heath could do it, so could he.
Although based in LA Cooper looks forward to continuing working on exciting Australian projects like Savage River. - Producer
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Mimi Leder was born on 26 January 1952 in New York City, New York, USA. She is a producer and director, known for The Morning Show (2019), On the Basis of Sex (2018) and Deep Impact (1998). She has been married to Gary Werntz since 26 January 1986. They have one child. She was previously married to Allen Garfield.