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- Hannah Love Lanier is an American actress who began acting as a child artist. During her career, she has been cast in a variety of projects such as The Tiny Mighty Club, A Black Lady Sketch Show, The Audition Frenzy and Special Ops: Lioness. Hannah uses her pronouns. She started acting at a young age. In 2019, Hannah Love Lanier began starring as Hannah in the family television miniseries The Tiny Mighty Club. She brought the character Jennifer to life in the 2022 short film The Audition Frenzy. In April 2022, Hannah Love Lanier was seen as Young Haddassah in an episode titled Save My Edges, I'm a Donor! from the television comedy series A Black Lady Sketch Show. She played the role of Kate (the teenage daughter of Joe and Neil) in the spy television series Special Ops: Lioness in 2023. Hannah Love Lanier starred in the series alongside Zoe Saldaña, Laysla De Oliveira, Dave Annable , Jill Wagner, LaMonica Garrett, James Jordan, Austin Hebert, Jonah Wharton, Stephanie Nur, Nicole Kidman and Morgan Freeman.
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Sea Shimooka is an American actress/writer/director of Japanese, Native Hawaiian and French descent born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. Shortly after graduating from New York University Tisch, Sea was chosen in a nationwide search for the ABC Discovers showcase and went on to book a series regular role on Arrow. She recently wrapped Netflix's 3 Body Problem from Game of Thrones writers Dan Weiss and David Benioff. She now resides in New York.- Actress
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Kate Mara is an American actress. She starred in the Netflix political drama House of Cards (2013) as Zoe Barnes and appeared in the Fox TV series 24 (2001) as computer analyst Shari Rothenberg. She appeared in Brokeback Mountain (2005), We Are Marshall (2006), Shooter (2007), Transsiberian (2008), Stone of Destiny (2008), The Open Road (2009), Transcendence (2014), and Fantastic Four (2015) as the Invisible Woman. She also appeared in the FX horror mini-series American Horror Story (2011) as Hayden McClaine. Mara's film debut was in Random Hearts (1999), with Harrison Ford in 1999, directed by Sydney Pollack. In 2015, she also had a supporting role as astronaut "Beth Johanssen" in director Ridley Scott's film The Martian (2015). In the same year, she also starred as Ashley Smith in the movie Captive (2015).
Mara also starred in Morgan (2016), Megan Leavey (2017) and My Days of Mercy (2017).
Kate was born in Bedford, New York. She is one of four children of Kathleen McNulty (Rooney) and NFL football team New York Giants executive Timothy Christopher Mara. Her younger sister is actress Rooney Mara.
Her grandfathers were Wellington Mara, co-owner of the Giants, and Timothy Rooney, owner of Yonkers Raceway, and her grand-uncle is Steelers Chairman Dan Rooney, the former US Ambassador to Ireland. She is the great-granddaughter of Art Rooney Sr., the founder of the Pittsburgh Steelers football franchise. She often sings the national anthem at Giants home games. Her father has Irish, German, and French-Canadian ancestry, and her mother is of Irish and Italian descent.
Mara graduated from high school a year early. She was accepted at the prestigious NYU Tisch School of the Arts but deferred her admission for three consecutive years.- Actress
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As one of the most popular up-and-coming Latina actresses in the business, Lindsey Morgan has built an extensive resume between her on-screen work in television and film. She is well known for her work on The CW's popular Sci-Fi Drama, "The 100", starring as Raven Reyes (and appearing in all seven seasons).
Half-Irish, half-Mexican in descent, Lindsey was born in Georgia and raised in Texas. She discovered her love of theatre at a young age. After starring in numerous high school productions such as Little Shop of Horrors and Footloose, Lindsey knew that acting was her passion.
After high school, Lindsey was accepted to The University of Texas (Austin) where she pursued a degree in Fine Arts with a specialization in Theater Arts in order to continue learning the craft of acting. Within her first year of college, Morgan began continuously booking commercials and print ads. It wasn't long before casting agents took notice of her natural talent and she was soon cast for small guest roles in some of television's critically acclaimed series, "My Generation" and "Friday Night Lights."
Lindsey made the decision to move to Los Angeles to continue her work as a full-time film and TV actress after seeing her career building to fruition at a swift pace. The risk was soon rewarded when she landed a role in the indie film "Detention" alongside Josh Hutcherson and Dane Cook. The film premiered at SXSW and was later released to select theaters by Sony Pictures to rave reviews. She later booked the lead in MTV's original movie "DISconnected,", which was part of their "A Thin Line" campaign. "A Thin Line" was developed in order to empower young people to identify, respond to, and stop the spread of digital abuse in their lives. The film premiered to much acclaim for its message to youth. Linsey went on to co-star in the upcoming horror-comedy film "Chastity Bites" alongside Allison Scagliotti and Francia Raisa.
Lindsey's television work has included appearances on "How I Met Your Mother," "Happy Endings," "Supah Ninjas," and "A Think Line." She is still widely recognized for her work as a series regular in the ABC soap "General Hospital", which garnered her a Daytime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series.
Morgan's television work has included appearances on "How I Met Your Mother," "Happy Endings,": Supah Ninjas," and "A Think Line." She is still widely recognized for her work as a series regular in the ABC soap opera "General Hospital," which garnered her a Daytime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series.
In addition to her most television roles, Lindsey starred as a leading role in the Pixl television movie "Casa Vita." She recently wrapped production in the Edward Burns coming-of-age film, "Summer Days, Summer Nights."- Actor
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Timothy Leonard Spall is an award-winning classical character actor who was born on February 27, 1957, and raised in London. The son of blue-collar parents, Joseph L. Spall, a postal worker, and Sylvia R. (Leonard), a hairdresser, his interest in acting happened early and Spall auditioned and earned a spot with the National Youth Theatre.
The young actor showed great promise at RADA where he portrayed the title roles in "Macbeth" and "Othello." In 1979 he joined the Royal
Shakespeare Company and stayed for approximately two years performing in such plays as "The Merry Wives of Windsor," "Cymbeline," "The Three Sisters," "Nicholas Nickleby" and "The Knight of the Burning Pestle." With other rep companies, he appeared in, among others, "The Merchant" and "St. Joan."
Making his minor debut in a filmed version of the play The Life Story of Baal (1978), Tim went on to play featured roles in offbeat films such as Quadrophenia (1979), Remembrance (1982), The Missionary (1982), The Bride (1985), Body Contact (1987), Crusoe (1988), To Kill A Priest (1988), Dream Demon (1988) and 1871 (1990)
In the 1990's, Timothy surged forward largely through his association with prolific writer/director Mike Leigh, appearing in a number of his award-winning, working-class features. Those included his doomed chef Aubrey in Life Is Sweet (1990); brother/uncle Maurice in Secrets & Lies (1996) (BAFTA Award nomination); the vulnerable performer Richard Temple in the Gilbert & Sullivan biopic Topsy-Turvy (1999) (another BAFTA nomination); and the benign taxi driver Phil in All or Nothing (2002). He also worked for other noted directors including Ken Russell in
Gothic (1986),
Clint Eastwood in
White Hunter Black Heart (1990),
Bernardo Bertolucci in
The Sheltering Sky (1990), and
Kenneth Branagh in
Hamlet (1996) (as Rosenkrantz).
Tim impressed on the small screen as well during this time, accentuated by his starring work on series TV as the luckless Frank Stubbs Promotes (1993) as well as the comedies Nice Day at the Office (1994) and Outside Edge (1994), and his BAFTA-nominated TV roles in Our Mutual Friend (1998), Shooting the Past (1999) and Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise (2001).
A battle with myeloid leukemia sharply curtailed Tim's momentum for a time, but he returned healthy into the millennium in superb lead and support form to create arguably his most hissable cinematic character. As the cowardly, half-blooded wizard Peter Pettigrew, Tim inhabited the role in several of the nine "Harry Potter" blockbusters from Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) to Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011). He also earned superb notices as: one of the charitable Cheeryble brothers in Nicholas Nickleby (2002); gullible banker Mr. Poe in the wild Jim Carrey adventure comedy A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004); humorous Simon Graham in the Tom Cruise starrer The Last Samurai (2003); evil queen henchman Nathaniel in the delightful Disney film Enchanted (2007); the villainous Beadle in the dark musical Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007); the over-anxious lawyer starring role in the family dramedy Reuniting the Rubins (2010); Sir Winston Churchill in The King's Speech (2010); werewolf hunter Sid in the horror comedy Love Bite (2012); eccentric painter J.M.W. Turner portrait in Mike Leigh's Mr. Turner (2014) (Cannes, London Critics Circle, New York Critics Circle and National Society of Film Critics winner); the co-lead with Juno Temple in the social drama Away (2016); legal combatant David Irving in the Holocaust-themed Denial (2016); part of an upper-class couple (opposite Kristin Scott Thomas in the dark social comedy The Party (2017); a syndicated boss in The Corrupted (2019); and as artist L.S. Lowry opposite Vanessa Redgrave playing his mother in the biopic Mrs Lowry & Son (2019).
Tim's more recent notable TV outings have included his Fagin in the mini-series version of the Dickens classic Oliver Twist (2007), the title role in the TV-movie The Fattest Man in Britain (2009), and as Eddie in the series The Street (2006), Lord Blandings in the comedy Blandings (2013) and Lord Wallington in the dramatic mini-series Summer of Rockets (2019).
The father of three children, one of his children, Rafe Spall, is a prolific actor in his own right.- Actress
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Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor was considered one of the last, if not the last, major star to have come out of the old Hollywood studio system. She was known internationally for her beauty, especially for her violet eyes, with which she captured audiences early in her youth and kept the world hooked with ever after.
Taylor was born on February 27, 1932 in London, England. Although she was born an English subject, her parents, Sara Taylor (née Sara Viola Warmbrodt) and Francis Taylor, were Americans, art dealers from St. Louis, Missouri. Her father had moved to London to set up a gallery prior to Elizabeth's birth. Her mother had been an actress on the stage, but gave up that vocation when she married. Elizabeth lived in London until the age of seven, when the family left for the US when the clouds of war began brewing in Europe in 1939. They sailed without her father, who stayed behind to wrap up the loose ends of the art business.
The family relocated to Los Angeles, where Mrs. Taylor's own family had moved. Mr. Taylor followed not long afterward. A family friend noticed the strikingly beautiful little Elizabeth and suggested that she be taken for a screen test. Her test impressed executives at Universal Pictures enough to sign her to a contract. Her first foray onto the screen was in There's One Born Every Minute (1942), released when she was ten. Universal dropped her contract after that one film, but Elizabeth was soon picked up by MGM.
The first production she made with that studio was Lassie Come Home (1943), and on the strength of that one film, MGM signed her for a full year. She had minuscule parts in her next two films, The White Cliffs of Dover (1944) and Jane Eyre (1943) (the former made while she was on loan to 20th Century-Fox). Then came the picture that made Elizabeth a star: MGM's National Velvet (1944). She played Velvet Brown opposite Mickey Rooney. The film was a smash hit, grossing over $4 million. Elizabeth now had a long-term contract with MGM and was its top child star. She made no films in 1945, but returned in 1946 in Courage of Lassie (1946), another success. In 1947, when she was 15, she starred in Life with Father (1947) with such heavyweights as William Powell, Irene Dunne and Zasu Pitts, which was one of the biggest box office hits of the year. She also co-starred in the ensemble film Little Women (1949), which was also a box office huge success.
Throughout the 1950s, Elizabeth appeared in film after film with mostly good results, starting with her role in the George Stevens film A Place in the Sun (1951), co-starring her good friend Montgomery Clift. The following year, she co-starred in Ivanhoe (1952), one of the biggest box office hits of the year. Her busiest year was 1954. She had a supporting role in the box office flop Beau Brummell (1954), but later that year starred in the hits The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954) and Elephant Walk (1954). She was 22 now, and even at that young age was considered one of the world's great beauties. In 1955 she appeared in the hit Giant (1956) with James Dean.
Sadly, Dean never saw the release of the film, as he died in a car accident in 1955. The next year saw Elizabeth co-star with Montgomery Clift in Raintree County (1957), an overblown epic made, partially, in Kentucky. Critics called it dry as dust. In addition, Clift was seriously injured during the film, with Taylor helping save his life. Despite the film's shortcomings and off-camera tragedy, Elizabeth was nominated for an Academy Award for her portrayal of Southern belle Susanna Drake. However, on Oscar night the honor went to Joanne Woodward for The Three Faces of Eve (1957).
In 1958 Elizabeth starred as Maggie Pollitt in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958). The film received rave reviews from the critics and Elizabeth was nominated again for an Academy Award for best actress, but this time she lost to Susan Hayward in I Want to Live! (1958). She was still a hot commodity in the film world, though. In 1959 she appeared in another mega-hit and received yet another Oscar nomination for Suddenly, Last Summer (1959). Once again, however, she lost out, this time to Simone Signoret for Room at the Top (1958). Her Oscar drought ended in 1960 when she brought home the coveted statue for her performance in BUtterfield 8 (1960) as Gloria Wandrous, a call girl who is involved with a married man. Some critics blasted the movie but they couldn't ignore her performance. There were no more films for Elizabeth for three years. She left MGM after her contract ran out, but would do projects for the studio later down the road. In 1963 she starred in Cleopatra (1963), which was one of the most expensive productions up to that time--as was her salary, a whopping $1,000,000. The film took years to complete, due in part to a serious illness during which she nearly died.
This was the film where she met her future and fifth husband, Richard Burton (the previous four were Conrad Hilton, Michael Wilding, Mike Todd--who died in a plane crash--and Eddie Fisher). Her next films, The V.I.P.s (1963) and The Sandpiper (1965), were lackluster at best. Elizabeth was to return to fine form, however, with the role of Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966). Her performance as the loudmouthed, shrewish, unkempt, yet still alluring Martha was easily her finest to date. For this she would win her second Oscar and one that was more than well-deserved. The following year, she and Burton co-starred in The Taming of The Shrew (1967), again giving winning performances. However, her films afterward were box office failures, including Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967), The Comedians (1967), Boom! (1968) (again co-starring with Burton), Secret Ceremony (1968), The Only Game in Town (1970), X, Y and Zee (1972), Hammersmith Is Out (1972) (with Burton again), Ash Wednesday (1973), Night Watch (1973), The Driver's Seat (1974), The Blue Bird (1976) (considered by many to be her worst), A Little Night Music (1977), and Winter Kills (1979) (a controversial film which was never given a full release and in which she only had a small role). She later appeared in some movies, both theatrical and made-for-television, and a number of television programs. In February 1997, Elizabeth entered the hospital for the removal of a brain tumor. The operation was successful. As for her private life, she divorced Burton in 1974, only to remarry him in 1975 and divorce him, permanently, in 1976. She had two more husbands, U.S. Senator John Warner and construction worker Larry Fortensky, whom she met in rehab.
In 1959, Taylor converted to Judaism, and continued to identify herself as Jewish throughout her life, being active in Jewish causes. Upon the death of her friend, actor Rock Hudson, in 1985, she began her crusade on behalf of AIDS sufferers. In the 1990s, she also developed a successful series of scents. In her later years, her acting career was relegated to the occasional TV-movie or TV guest appearance.
Elizabeth Taylor died on March 23, 2011 in Los Angeles, from congestive heart failure. Her final resting place is Forest Lawn Memorial Park, in Glendale, California.- Actor
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Adam Baldwin is an American actor who is from Illinois. He is known for playing Jayne Cobb from Firefly and Serenity, Hal Jordan in various DC cartoons and games and Animal Mother from Full Metal Jacket. He also acted in Independence Day, The Patriot, Predator 2, American Underdog, Superman: Doomsday and Halo 3: ODST. He is married to Ami Julius and has three children.- Actor
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Donal Logue's versatility and talent makes him one of the most well
respected and beloved actors today. Born in Ottawa, Canada, Logue moved
all over the United States, from the Boston area as an infant to
various towns on the Mexican border. He returned to Boston to attend
Harvard University, where he majored in Intellectual History and
discovered his love for the performing arts. While in college, he
appeared in over thirty plays, worked for two summers in the American
Repertory Theatre's Harvard/Radcliffe Summer Stock Company, and spent a
short time doing theatre in England. After graduating, Logue joined the
Cornerstone Theatre Company which developed community theatre in rural
parts of the United States. From then on Logue dedicated himself to
pursuing his passion for acting. In his 20 plus years in the industry,
Logue has starred in films such as, The Tao of Steve, the story of a
larger-than-life, philosophizing lothario, which debuted at the
Sundance Film Festival, and won him a Special Jury Prize for
Outstanding Performance. His other film credits include Sneakers,
Gettysburg, Blade, Runaway Bride, Reindeer Games, The Million Dollar
Hotel, Comic Book Villains with Michael Rapaport, Confidence, Just Like
Heaven, and The Groomsmen with Ed Burns. Recently, Donal co-starred in
Max Payne with Mark Wahlberg, as well as Charlie St. Cloud with Zac
Ephron. He also appeared in Zodiac, directed by David Fincher, based on
the Robert Graysmith books about the notorious Zodiac serial killer.
Following the US release of Zodiac, he co-starred in Mark Steven
Johnson's Ghost Rider with Nicolas Cage and Eva Mendes. Logue made his
directorial debut with the independent film Tennis, Anyone?, which
appeared at the US Comedy Arts Festival. He wrote, starred, and
directed the film about two Hollywood has-beens who try and find
meaning in their lives through a series of celebrity tennis
tournaments. In television, Logue joined the cast of the NBC series
"LIFE" about a former police officer who returns to the force after
having been wrongly imprisoned for years. In 2007, he headlined the
critically lauded ABC comedy "The Knights of Prosperity" in which a
group of blue collar guys band together to plan a heist of Mick
Jagger's New York City apartment. Prior to "The Knights of Prosperity"
Logue starred in the Carsey-Warner produced show, "Grounded for Life"
which aired for five seasons. He was also featured in a recurring role
on "ER" as Sherry Stringfield's love interest. In 2010, Logue finished
a critically acclaimed season on "Terriers," a television series
created by Ted Griffin and Shawn Ryan for FX. He begins production on
the Marc Cherry pilot "Hallelujah" for ABC in March of 2011. Logue
lives in Los Angeles and has two children.- Blue-eyed, red-haired American character actress, often seen as resolute, strong-willed women. Though born in Kansas, Barbara Babcock spent much of her early childhood in Japan, where her father, U.S. Army Major General Conrad Stanton Babcock Jr., was posted (he was also a noted equestrian, who competed at the 1936 Summer Olympics). Her mother was Chilean-born Jadwiga Florence Noskowiak (1903-2000), a former stage actress and singer.
Babcock attended universities in Lausanne and Milan and later graduated from Wellesley College in Massachusetts. She initially interviewed for a job with the State Department, aiming at a diplomatic career. When this fell through, she turned to acting, debuting on screen in 1956. From the early 60s, Babcock made guest appearances in numerous television series. She ultimately became best known for her Emmy Award-winning performance as the over-amorous Grace Gardner in NBC's Hill Street Blues (1981) and as pioneer newspaper editor Dorothy Jennings in Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (1993) (a regular role, lasting from 1993 to 1998).
Babcock featured several times on Star Trek (1966), though it was more often her voice that was utilized for assorted alien background characters. She also played a member of the 'underground' in episodes of Hogan's Heroes (1965) and Pam Ewing's fashion boss in Dallas (1978). Babcock was one of the leads in Alan Alda's sitcom The Four Seasons (1984), about four middle-aged couples who vacation together four times annually, once per season. In this, she played the orthopedist wife of Allan Arbus (of M*A*S*H (1972) fame). Babcock subsequently starred in her own right as a demure attorney, counterpoint to Jerry Orbach's vociferous, seedy 'old school' gumshoe, in the short-lived CBS mystery drama The Law and Harry McGraw (1987). One might also remember her as one of the (ill-fated) residents of Salem's Lot (1979) and as a repeat guest star on Mannix (1967) and (alternating between murder victim and villainess of the week) in Murder, She Wrote (1984).
Her occasional forays to the big screen tended to be in smaller supporting roles, first up as an Apache kidnap victim in the Glenn Ford western Day of the Evil Gun (1968). More recently in maternal roles, she portrayed an Irish immigrant, the mother of Nicole Kidman's character, in Ron Howard's big budget western Far and Away (1992). Her last motion picture appearance was as the wife of test pilot and would-be-astronaut Frank Corvin (Clint Eastwood) in Space Cowboys (2000).
Barbara Babcock retired from acting in 2004, the year she was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. In her private life, she has had a lifelong interest in travel and exploration and has dabbled in writing. She is known as an avid crusader for animal rights. - Actor
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John Pyper-Ferguson was born in Mordiallic, Australia. He is an actor and producer, known for Suits (2011), The 100 (2014) and The Last Ship (2014).- Actor
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Noah Emmerich was born and raised in New York City, to Constance, a concert pianist, and André Emmerich, an art dealer and gallery owner.
He attended Yale University, where he sang with the a capella group the Yale Spizzwinks. He attended NYU Film School where he wrote and
directed an award winning short film called "The Painter." Emmerich came to prominence with starring roles in the cult hit Beautiful Girls (1996) and the Jim Carrey blockbuster The Truman Show (1998). His production company, Sandbox Entertainment, has a first-look production deal with New Line Cinema. His older brother is Toby Emmerich.- Actor
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Richard Coyle was born and raised in Sheffield, in the UK with his four
brothers. He began his career when, studying languages and the history of art at
York University (1992 - 1995), he got interested in student drama
and traveled to the Edinburgh festival twice.
A decision to raise funds to study at the prestigious Bristol Old Vic
Theatre School resulted in an extra's job on a new film adaptation of
the classic novel Jane Eyre. When director
Franco Zeffirelli heard Richard was
about to start drama school he gave him a line, his first on screen:
"Mr. Rochester, Mr. Rochester, your house sir!"
After graduating drama school he took a number of small roles in television and film before
landing a larger role in the 1998 ITV drama
Episode #1.1 (1998)
and a super cameo turn in Justin Kerrigan's
Human Traffic (1999) as "Andy" - a
party goer engaged in some seriously "deep" debate on Star Wars and
drugs culture with Danny Dyer's
character "Moff".
In 2000 Richard landed the two roles that would launch him into the
limelight: "Jeff" in BBC2's inspired comedy series
Coupling (2000) and "John Ridd" in
the BBC's Christmas production of
Lorna Doone (2000). Richard
has trodden the boards in the West End, firstly at The Royal Court
Theatre in Peter Gill's "The York
Realist" and then alongside
Gwyneth Paltrow in "Proof" at the Donmar
Warehouse. Also "Don Carlos" in 2005 and "The Lover/The Collection" in
2008. Polar Bears at the Donmar Warehouse in 2010, Macbeth in New York in 2014, and Ink at the Almeida and West End in 2017/2018.- Actor
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Howard Hesseman was a leading counter-culture figure since the late 1960s. He was a member of the improv group, "The Committee", for a decade in the 1960s/1970s. A character actor for many years on different television shows since the 1960s, he took small parts in The Andy Griffith Show (1960), Dragnet 1967 (1967), Soap (1977), and Sanford and Son (1972). The role that brought him to prominence was Howard Johnson in the cult classic Billy Jack (1971).
He was a frequent guest star on The Bob Newhart Show (1972) but would become best-known for his role on the classic series WKRP in Cincinnati (1978), as anti-disco hipster DJ "Dr. Johnny Fever". Also in the 1970s, he appeared in The Sunshine Boys (1975), Tunnel Vision (1976), Silent Movie (1976) and The Big Bus (1976). After the cancellation of WKRP in Cincinnati (1978), he went on to star as the husband of Ann Romano in One Day at a Time (1975). After that series was cancelled, Hesseman starred in This Is Spinal Tap (1984), Doctor Detroit (1983), Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment (1985), Clue (1985), and Flight of the Navigator (1986).
He then starred as history teacher Charlie Moore in Head of the Class (1986). He left that show in 1990 and appeared in a steady stream of television guest roles. In 1987, he appeared in Amazon Women on the Moon (1987). In 1991, he starred in Rubin and Ed (1991). Afterward, he appeared in other films, including Gridlock'd (1997) (with Tupac Shakur). His work in later years concentrated mostly on television, where he took mostly small guest roles, in such shows as That '70s Show (1998), Touched by an Angel (1994), The Practice (1997), and Crossing Jordan (2001).- Actress
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Joanne Gignilliat Trimmier Woodward was born on February 27, 1930, in
Thomasville, Georgia, to Wade Woodward and Elinor Gignilliat Trimmier
Woodward in a modest household. Her one older brother, Wade Jr., who
was the favorite of her father, eventually became an architect. Elinor
Woodward was a quite a movie buff and enjoyed going to picture shows
often. Joanne claims she was nearly born in the middle of a
Joan Crawford movie
(Our Modern Maidens (1929)).
Her mother wanted to name her Joan, but being Southern, she changed it
to Joanne.
Thomasville was a typical small town in southern Georgia, around ten
miles from the Florida border. Joanne was born right into the Great
Depression. Her father was an administrator in the Thomasville school
system, and her family was raised Episcopalian. Joanne's mother being
an avid movie lover, it wasn't a surprise that Joanne wanted to go into
the acting profession. Her father wasn't too keen on the idea, but her
mother saw it coming and was thrilled. Joanne and her mother both
adored the movie
Wuthering Heights (1939)
starring Laurence Olivier, and in 1939
Elinor took her daughter to the premiere of
Gone with the Wind (1939) in
Atlanta. Pulling up in a limo with the love of his life,
Vivien Leigh (who starred in
Gone with the Wind (1939)),
Laurence Olivier was shocked when
9-year-old Joanne hopped right into the limo and sat in his lap without
any warning. Years later when Joanne was famous, Olivier keenly
remembered this incident. She later worked with Olivier in
Come Back, Little Sheba (1977).
In her teens, Joanne entered and won many Georgia beauty contests. Her
mother said that "she was the prettiest girl in town". But all Joanne
wanted to do was act, and she saw beauty contests as the first step
toward her dream. When she was of age, she enrolled in Louisiana State
University, majoring in drama. After graduation and doing small plays,
Joanne headed to New York and studied acting with
Sanford Meisner. The first thing he
tackled was Joanne's southern drawl.
Soon, Joanne was starring in television productions and theater. One
day, she was introduced by her agent to another young actor at her
level by the then-unknown name of
Paul Newman. Paul's first reaction
was, "Jeez, what an extraordinarily pretty girl". Joanne, while
admitting that he was very good-looking, didn't like him at first
sight, but she couldn't resist him. Soon they were working closely
together as understudies for the Broadway production of "Picnic" and
got along very well. They would have long conversations about anything
and everything. Then both their movie careers took off: Joanne with
Count Three and Pray (1955)
and Paul with
The Silver Chalice (1954).
Also adding to the tension was Paul's wife, Jackie, who refused to get
a divorce when Paul asked her for one. He wanted to marry Joanne;
Jackie would simply not have it. Eventually, Jackie saw the anguish
this was causing Paul and agreed to a divorce. Less than a week after
the divorce was final, Paul married Joanne in Las Vegas on January 29,
1958, just months before Joanne won her Best Actress Oscar for
The Three Faces of Eve (1957),
in which she plays a woman with multiple personality disorder.
On April 8, 1959, Joanne gave birth to their first child, Elinor Teresa
Newman, named after her and Paul's mothers. They both continued on with
their careers, doing movies both together and apart. Two more children
followed: Melissa Steward Newman on September 17, 1961, and Claire
Olivia Newman on April 21, 1965. Since then, Joanne has been extremely
busy in theater, film and television as well as ballet performances and
very involved with charities and taking care of her family. In 2003,
Joanne starred in a movie with Paul on HBO.- Actress
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Brittany Ashton Holmes was born on 27 February 1989 in California, USA. She is an actress, known for The Little Rascals (1994), Ellen (1994) and We Hate Paul Revere (2014).- Carmela Zumbado is a first-generation American actress of Cuban and Colombian descent. She is the sister of actresses Marisela Zumbado and Gigi Zumbado, and the daughter of acclaimed photojournalist, Tony Zumbado and Lilliam Zumbado. She is most widely known for her breakout role as Delilah Alves in the Netflix thriller "You", where she starred opposite Penn Badgley and Victoria Pedretti.
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Born February 27, 1971 in Washington, DC and raised in Hawaii, Charles has lived
a life most people write books about. The son of an army colonel, whose
father was written up in the Los Angeles Times in 1994 by Robin Wright,
Charles traveled the world by the time he was 17. He's lived in
England, Israel, and all over the US. He went to high school for a
short time in Fort Worth (Southwest) then to London Central (High
Wycombe, England). Charles had a vocal scholarship at Tarrant County
Junior College and then attended the University of Texas at Arlington.
Originally a music major, Charles took up theatre as a means to improve
his singing career. Shortly thereafter, the acting bug took over.
Charles began his professional career on stage, working at some of the
best theatres in Dallas/Fort Worth - Circle Theatre, Stage West, and
The Hip Pocket Theatre - where he met and performed with his soon-to-be
wife, Rachel.- Actress
- Producer
- Visual Effects
Li Bingbing (born 27 February 1973) is a Chinese actress and singer. She rose to fame with her role in Seventeen Years (1999) and since then received critical acclaim for her roles in A World Without Thieves (2004), Waiting Alone (2005), The Knot (2006), The Forbidden Kingdom (2008), The Message (2009), Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame (2010), and Zhong Kui: Snow Girl and the Dark Crystal (2015). Li has also starred in Hollywood blockbusters Resident Evil: Retribution (2012) and Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014).
Li was born in Wuchang, Heilongjiang. She had no intention of becoming an actress initially and she enrolled specifically in a high school for prospective school teachers. However, upon graduation, she discovered her interest in acting and was eventually persuaded by a friend to join the Shanghai Theatre Academy in 1993.
Li rose to fame after starring in Zhang Yuan's Seventeen Years (1999), which won her the Best Actress Award in the 1999 Singapore Film Festival. In 2001, Li starred in the television series Young Justice Bao, which propelled her to become one of the most famous actresses in China.
Li was subsequently labelled as an "action actress" as she starred in a number of wuxia television series, such as Taiji Prodigy and Eight Heroes.
Li achieved breakthrough with her performance in Feng Xiaogang's A World Without Thieves. She then starred in Dayyan Eng's romantic comedy film Waiting Alone, for which she received her first Best Actress nomination at the Golden Rooster Awards.
In 2006, Li starred in romance film The Knot, directed by Yin Li. The film was China's entry for the Best Foreign Film award at the 2008 Academy Awards. Li won Best Actress awards at the 2007 Huabiao Awards and at the 2008 Hundred Flowers Awards. In 2008, she co-starred with Jet Li and Jackie Chan in the 2008 blockbuster The Forbidden Kingdom as the White-Haired Witch. The film was her first appearance in an international film, and gave her a solid international following.
In 2009, Li won Best Actress at the 46th Golden Horse Film Awards for her performance in The Message, about Japanese invaders in China who try to ferret out a spy among their Chinese collaborators.
Li then starred in Tsui Hark's 2010 action-mystery film Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame. She played Shangguan Jing'er, a fictional character based off Shangguan Wan'er, a prestigious politician during the Tang Dynasty. She established her studio in the same year, co-starring and co-producing the film 1911 with Jackie Chan, which was released in September 2011 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Xinhai Revolution.
Li's first-time in an English-language film is Wayne Wang's Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, adapted from Lisa See's 2005 novel of the same title. The film premiered at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. Li started to gain recognition in Hollywood after starring in Resident Evil: Retribution, playing Ada Wong. The same year, she was cast in action fantasy film 400 Boys, directed by British director Alastair Paton.
In 2013, Li attended the 4th Annual US-China Film Summit and received the East-West Talent Award. Hollywood magazine Variety also named her Asian Star of the Year. The following year, Li featured in Transformers: Age of Extinction, the fourth installment of the film franchise. This helped solidify her success overseas.
In 2015, she was cast in 3D science fiction thriller Nest (also known as Guardians of the Tomb), a Chinese-Australian co-production that was finally released in January 2018. The same year, it was announced that Li would play China's first female superhero in upcoming film Realm, written by Stan Lee.
In 2016, Li joined the cast of Meg, an American shark film based on Steve Alten's 1997 novel.
She is also one of the members of China Zhi Gong Party.- One of three children, Charlotte Stewart was born in Yuba City,
California, USA on 27 February 1941. In the 1950s, she studied acting
in Pasadena. She is famous for portraying the role of beloved
schoolteacher "Miss Beadle" in the popular television series
Little House on the Prairie (1974).
She was with the show from 1974 - 1978. Charlotte Stewart has also
worked with controversial filmmaker
David Lynch on two occasions, in the
cult classic Eraserhead (1977) and the
TV series Twin Peaks (1990).
Charlotte Stewart was once married to actor
Tim Considine. They divorced, and she
married David Banks (whom she had
met years before, when she studied the craft of acting) in 1992. - Actor
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Only son of Ed and Kathleen Show. Raised in San Jose, California with
older sister, Kelly Show. He studied acting at Samuel Ayer High School,
and then majored in theater arts at UCLA. His first professional role
was "Rick Hyde" in
Ryan's Hope (1975) from 1984 to
1987. He then took a year sabbatical to study at the London Academy of
Music and Dramatic Arts. After returning to America, he worked in the
theater, whilst starring in the occasional television show. In 1992, he
was cast as "Jake Hanson" in the television hit,
Melrose Place (1992). Since
then, he has starred in numerous shows, including
Swingtown (2008),
Private Practice (2007) and
HBO's Big Love (2006).- Amuka-Bird was born in Nigeria, but grew up in the UK and in Antigua.
She abandoned her dancing aspirations after suffering a back injury.
After attending LAMDA, she joined the Royal Shakespeare Company. Whilst
on tour with the RSC in Japan, she met her husband, actor Geoffrey
Streatfield. In addition to her numerous television roles and the RSC,
she has performed onstage with the National Theatre and the Oxford
Stage Company, amongst others. - Actress
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Joan Geraldine Bennett was born on February 27, 1910, in Palisades, New
Jersey. Her parents were both successful stage actors, especially her
father, Richard Bennett, and often toured the country for weeks at a time. In
fact, Joan came from a long line of actors, dating back to the 18th
century. Often, when her parents were on tour, Joan and her two older
sisters, Constance Bennett, who later became an actress, and Barbara were left in
the care of close friends. At the age of four, Joan made her first
stage appearance. She debuted in films a year later in The Valley of Decision (1916), in
which her father was the star and the entire Bennett clan participated.
In 1923 she again appeared in a film which starred her father, playing
a pageboy in The Eternal City (1923). It would be five more years before Joan appeared
again on the screen. In between, she married Jack Marion Fox, who was
26 compared to her young age of 16. The union was anything but happy,
in great part because of Fox's heavy drinking. In February of 1928 Joan
and Jack had a baby girl they named Adrienne. The new arrival did
little to help the marriage, though, and in the summer of 1928 they
divorced. Now with a baby to support, Joan did something she had no
intention of doing--she turned to acting. She appeared in Power (1928) with
Alan Hale and Carole Lombard, a small role but a start. The next year she
starred in Bulldog Drummond (1929), sharing top billing with Ronald Colman. Before the year
was out she was in three more films--Disraeli (1929), The Mississippi Gambler (1929) and Three Live Ghosts (1929). Not
only did audiences like her, but so did the critics. Between 1930 and
1931, Joan appeared in nine more movies. In 1932 she starred opposite
Spencer Tracy in She Wanted a Millionaire (1932), but it wasn't one she liked to remember, partly
because Tracy couldn't stand the fact that everyone was paying more
attention to her than to him. Joan was to remain busy and popular
throughout the rest of the 1930s and into the 1940s. By the 1950s Joan
was well into her 40s and began to lessen her film appearances. She
made only eight pictures, in addition to appearing in two television
series. After Desire in the Dust (1960), Joan would be absent from the movie scene for
the next ten years, resurfacing in House of Dark Shadows (1970), reprising her role from the
Dark Shadows (1966) TV series as Elizabeth Collins Stoddard. Joan's final screen
appearance was in the Italian thriller Suspiria (1977). Her final public
performance was in the TV movie Divorce Wars: A Love Story (1982). On December 7, 1990, Joan died
of a heart attack in Scarsdale, New York. She was 80 years
old.- Actress
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Alba Rohrwacher was born on 27 February 1979 in Florence, Tuscany, Italy. She is an actress, known for Hungry Hearts (2014), The Wonders (2014) and I Am Love (2009).- Susan Yeagley had a lead role in Christopher Guest's latest feature, Mascots. The film is a parody set amidst world of professional mascots; Susan and Parker Posey play competitive sisters who are both mascots themselves.
She is often known for her role playing "Jessica Wicks" in NBC's comedy Parks and Rec. Prior to that she recurred in the FOX comedy Til Death for several seasons.
Born and raised in Nashville, Tennessee, at a young age Susan realized she didn't have the voice to become a country singer, so she opted to become an actress. At the age of ten she won an acting role in an Amy Grant music video. For compensation she was paid twenty-five dollars (cash) plus an Amy Grant album. She still has that twenty-five dollars but they are not the original bills.
Susan graduated from USC Film School with honors and went on to become a member of the prestigious 'Sunday Company - Groundlings Improv Group.' It was during that stint that a casting director saw her perform and cast her in her first film role, Cameron Crowe's Almost Famous. Her list of other film credits include the Coen brother's Intolerable Cruelty, Coyote Ugly, Neil Berger's The Lucky Ones and Blended (Adam Sandler).
Susan was voted one of "Ten Comedians to Watch" by the Daily Variety and they honored her with a trophy and a chicken dinner.
Susan resides in Los Angeles with her husband and son, although her heart will always be in Nashville. - Frequently appearing for or alongside her actor/writer husband of 50
years, noted stage, screen and TV heavy and writer
Leo Gordon, actress Lynn Cartwright
is probably best remembered for one of her early screen roles as the
brusque, Brooklyn-accented switchboard operator in the cult horror
The Wasp Woman (1959), and for her
touching final screen appearance as the older, sweet-faced WWII-era
baseball player Dottie Hinson (played throughout most the film by
Geena Davis)) in the final scenes of the
Penny Marshall-helmed comedy
A League of Their Own (1992).
The willowy, auburn-haired performer with the highly distinctive cheek
bones was born on February 27, 1927, in McAlester, Oklahoma, the
daughter of U.S. Congressman Wilburn and his wife Carrie (née Staggs)
Cartwright. Lynn's younger sister, Wilburta, born a year later, went on
to become an artist. Other politically-minded Oklahomans from her
family tree include Legislator Buck Cartwright and former Attorney
General Jan-Eric Cartwright.
Lynn enrolled in acting lessons at the American Academy of Dramatic
Arts in New York in the late 1940s. Here is where she met Gordon, an
ex-con who was trying to turn his life around as an actor. The couple
married in February of 1950 and began married life touring together on
the Borscht Belt stages. They went on to have a daughter together, Tara
Gordon.
Leo's career took off after he landed an agent and moved the family
West to Los Angeles. His brutally hard looks and massive brick-wall
presence easily took on evil dimensions and after a chilling
breakthough perf in
City of Bad Men (1953), cemented
his screen infamy with the powerful role of the psychotic prisoner in
director Don Siegel's
Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954).
Lynn (using her real first name Doralyn before condensing it to Lynn)
found a couple of meager TV assignments ("Rin Tin Tin," etc.) during
this early time, but began finding more roles once Leo managed to
parlay his acting career into a successful writing one as well. Lynn,
in fact, made her film debut in the very first film script Leo sold,
Black Patch (1957), which included
parts for the two of them.
Lynn also appeared in her writer/husband's script
The Cry Baby Killer (1958)
which was produced by Roger Corman and
introduced Jack Nicholson to film
audiences, and can be spotted as one of
Zsa Zsa Gabor's Venusian sirens in the
campy cult opus
Queen of Outer Space (1958).
She ended the decade with minor TV drama work in "Target," "Alfred
Hitchcock Presents," "Peter Gunn," "Bat Masterson" and "Highway
Patrol".
The 1960's proved to be lean years. Other than a couple of unbilled
film parts in The Apartment (1960),
which won Oscar's "Best Picture" that year and the totally obscure
The Girls on the Beach (1965)
in which Lynn and Leo were glimpsed as waiters, acting offers were few
and far between. By the end of the decade she was appearing in her
husband's soft-erotica scripts, including
All the Loving Couples (1969),
which focused on wife swappers, and in
The Erotic Adventures of Robin Hood (1969),
which is self-explanatory, as the villainous Lady Sallyforth. The
former was based on Leo's own written novel.
Lynn appeared without Leo in the sex-minded teaser film
Gabriella, Gabriella (1970)
and in
The Lucifer Complex (1978)
starring Robert Vaughn. She also
worked (with and without Leo) from time to time in association with
writer/director/producer Rod Amateau in such
frisky movie vehicles as
Where Does It Hurt? (1972)
starring Peter Sellers and
The Seniors (1978) starring
Dennis Quaid and
Priscilla Barnes, as well as Amateau's
Nazi-themed lowbudget
Son of Hitler (1979) with 'Bud
Cort' in the unlikely title role, the teen-oriented
Lovelines (1984), and the bizarre and
controversial
The Garbage Pail Kids Movie (1987).
On the small screen Lynn could occasionally be found on such 70s and
80s shows as "Adam 12," "Little House on the Prairie," "Dynasty" and
"Knot's Landing," some of which were scripted by her husband. In the
1970s Leo and Lynn joined the Group Repertory Theatre company in North
Hollywood, California, which was founded by actor
Lonny Chapman, where Leo tested and wrote
(while Lynn appeared in) several of his stage plays.
Lynn ended her career on a sentimental high note after being cast as
the senior version of Geena Davis' character
who revisits her baseball-playing alumni at the end of the comedy hit
film
A League of Their Own (1992)
starring Davis and Tom Hanks. The facial
resemblance between the two actresses is so extraordinary that people
often assume it is Geena herself wearing old-age makeup. Part of this
mistaken belief has to to do with the confusion over Lynn's voice --
which was not used in the movie but dubbed in by Geena herself.
Illness dogged Leo's last years and he died in 2000 of cardiovascular
disease at age 78, after 50 years of marriage. Lynn was never able to
overcome her grief and her health quickly declined following his death
with the advancement of dementia. She died four years later after a
fall resulted in a hip fracture. She was interred at the Hollywood
Forever Cemetery. - Actress
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Debra Monk was born in Middletown, Ohio, USA. Debra is an actor and producer, known for One for the Money (2012), The Devil's Advocate (1997) and NYPD Blue (1993).- Mary Frann was born Mary Frances Luecke on February 27, 1943 in St. Louis, Missouri. She became a child model and acted in television commercials. At the age of eighteen she won the title of America's Junior Miss. She attended Northwestern University where she studied drama. She dropped out of college in 1964 and moved to Chicago. She hosted a morning talk show and acted in local theater. In 1966 she made her film debut in Nashville Rebel (1966), starring Waylon Jennings. Then she moved to Los Angeles to star on My Friend Tony (1969). She became best friends and roommates with actress Joan Van Ark. Mary married T.J. Escott, an actor and talent agent, on August 11, 1973.
She had a starring roles on Days Of Our Lives from 1974-79. She guest-starred in numerous televisions shows including Fantasy Island (1977), The Rockford Files (1974), WKRP in Cincinnati (1978), Hotel (1983), Hawaii Five-O (1968), and The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970). She and Escott separated in 1982. That same year she beat out two hundred other actresses for the role of Joanna Louden on Newhart (1982). The series was a huge success and made her a popular television star and personality.
Soon after her divorce she fell in love with John E. Cookman Jr., an insurance executive. As Mary got older she became obsessed with her weight. She took diet pills, counted calories, and exercised every day. After eight seasons Newhart (1982) came to an end in 1990. Three years later, she was diagnosed with a heart arrhythmia. She continued to act, making guest appearances on Diagnosis Murder (1993) and Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (1993). In her spare time she enjoyed gardening, reading, and going to garage sales. Mary and John decided to get married in late 1998. She went on a strict diet so she would be thin on her wedding day.
On September 22, 1998, she attended a charity event for the Los Angeles mission. That night she died in her sleep from a heart attack, aged 55. Her recent diet apparently had put too much pressure on her heart. Her fiancé said, "I wanted to spend the rest of my life with her. She was a wonderful woman." She was buried at Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, California. - The English native P.H. Moriarty began acting late in life, having worked for many years in other professions, including as a boxer and a
longshoresman. While a film crew was shooting a scene on the English docks one day, the production crew discovered Moriarty working there,
and they asked him to act in the film. Thus began his acting career.
Moriarty's film credits include Guy Ritchie's feature film Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998), in which he starred as Hatchet Harry. Moriarty also has had parts in Chaplin (1992), Patriot Games (1992), Jaws 3-D (1983), The Long Good Friday (1980) and the Western-inspired sci-fi film Outland (1981). He also has starred in various British television programs. - Jenny Boyd was born in Sion, Switzerland and holds dual English and U.S. citizenship. She trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) graduating with an honors degree in Acting. She is best known for her portrayal of Lizzie Saltzman in Legacies (2018-2022). She was raised in Oregon and now lives between Los Angeles and London.
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Josh Whitehouse was born on 27 February 1990 in Chester, Cheshire, England, UK. He is an actor, known for The Knight Before Christmas (2019), Daisy Jones & The Six (2023) and Valley Girl (2020).- Writer
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- Director
Christopher Landon was born on 27 February 1975 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Freaky (2020), Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones (2014) and We Have a Ghost (2023).- Actress
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Rebecca Hanssen is a London based Scottish actor. Born in Stavanger, Norway to Italian-Irish mother and Norwegian father, she was 4 when her family moved to Scotland and Rebecca grew up in Glasgow before moving to London on her own to further her acting career.
After establishing herself as an actor, Rebecca's first professional role was in the feature film, The Drowning of Arthur Braxton (2021) directed by Luke Cutforth , starring alongside Johnny Vegas. She then went on to play leading roles in two CBBC shows; Dixi (2014) and Creeped Out (2017) before landing a role in the Scottish feature film Tell It to the Bees (2018) starring alongside Anna Paquin. After that she went on to star as Jemima West 's daughter in The Unfamiliar (2020) and Amy Carven in Lore (2017) before landing the part of Queen Meve in Season 2 of The Witcher (2019) .- Heléne Yorke was born on 27 February 1985 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. She is an actress, known for The Other Two (2019), High Maintenance (2016) and Graves (2016). She has been married to Bary Dunn since 3 September 2021. They have one child.
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Josh Groban was born on 27 February 1981 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is a music artist and actor, known for Troy (2004), The Polar Express (2004) and Beauty and the Beast (2017).- Actor
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You could probably shoehorn actor Van Williams right in there with the other dark-haired, impossibly handsome film and TV heartthrobs Tom Tryon, Robert Logan, Gardner McKay, Brian Kelly, Adam West, Roger Smith and
John Gavin of the late 1950s/early 1960s who were saddled with colorless heroic leads to play on film and/or TV -- roles that
played off their photogenic prowess, manly charisma and charm but seldom tested their dramatic mettle.
Born on February 27, 1934 as Van Zandt Jarvis Williams, he was the son
of a cattle rancher. He majored in animal husbandry and business at
Texas Christian University but moved to Hawaii which changed the course
of his life. While operating a salvage company and a skin-diving school
during the mid-1950s, he was approached by
Elizabeth Taylor and
husband/producer Mike Todd, who were
filming there. Encouraged by Todd to try his luck, Van arrived in
Hollywood with no experience. Todd perished in a plane crash before he
was able to help Van, but the young hopeful ventured on anyway, taking
some acting/voice lessons, and was almost immediately cast in dramatic
TV roles.
Warner Brothers had a keen eye for camera-loving hunks and
smartly signed Van up. Fitting in perfectly, he was soon showing just how
irresistible he was as a clean-cut private eye on the series
Bourbon Street Beat (1959).
Although the show lasted only one season, Warners carried his Kenny
Madison character into the more popular adventure drama
Surfside 6 (1960) opposite fellow
pin-up / blond beefcake bookend
Troy Donahue. Series-wise, Van tried comedy
next opposite Walter Brennan in
The Tycoon (1964) . After his
contract expired at Warners, 20th Century-Fox handed him his most
vividly recalled role, that of the emerald-suited superhero
The Green Hornet (1966) with
the late Bruce Lee as his partner Kato. The show, inspired by the huge cult hit
Batman (1966) enjoyed a fast start
but, like its predecessor, met an equally untimely finish.
Never a strong draw in films, Van revealed quite a bit of himself
(literally) in his debut in
Tall Story (1960) coming out of a
shower. Although handed a typically staid second lead in the drama
The Caretakers (1963), he focused strictly on the TV medium. Continuing
well into the 1970s to guest sporadically on such TV classics as
The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961),
Love, American Style (1969),
Mission: Impossible (1966),
The Big Valley (1965)",
Nanny and the Professor (1970),
Barnaby Jones (1973), and
The Rockford Files (1974).
Another starring series attempt with
Westwind (1975) failed to make the
grade and he soon let his career go.
Van let his career subside and went quite successfully into
business with telecommunications, real estate and law enforcement
supplies among his lucrative ventures. With his glossy, pretty-boy years far
behind him, he had no need to look back at his show biz success with the exception of an
occasional autograph convention. He died of renal failure in Scottsdale, Arizona, on November 28, 2016, at age 82.- Actor
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President of the Dramatic Club at Cornell University, Franchot Tone
gave up the family business for acting, making his Broadway debut in
"The Age of Innocence".
Tone then went into movies for MGM, making his film debut (at Paramount Pictures) in The Wiser Sex (1932).
With his theatrical background, Tone became one of the most talented
movie actors in Hollywood.- Actor
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A stocky, serious-looking character, Carl William Demarest started off in vaudeville in 1905 along with two older brothers. At one time he also performed in a stage act with his wife Estelle Collette (billed as 'Demarest and Collette') and then moved on to Broadway. He entered movies in 1926 and first appeared in Vitaphone one-reelers and in films for Warner Brothers, which included the first sound picture, The Jazz Singer (1927). In his later years, he became a household name on TV as retired sea captain Uncle Charley, replacing a seriously ill William Frawley in My Three Sons (1960). However, Demarest was truly at his best during the 1940s as a member of Preston Sturges's unofficial stock company of players, noted for his trademark deadpan or exasperated expressions. He made his reputation in eccentric comic supporting roles, invariably seen as pushy, wary or droll cops, business guys or wisecracking, jaundiced friends of the hero with names like Mugsy, Kockenlocker or Heffelfinger. The Great McGinty (1940), Sullivan's Travels (1941) and The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1943) are often cited as his best films. When movie offers began to diminish, Demarest segued into television work with many guest spots and a regular co-starring role as a ranch foreman in the western series Tales of Wells Fargo (1957). As a character actor, his quiet intensity and comic timing kept him in demand well into his eighties. Nominated just once for an Oscar as Best Supporting Actor in the biopic The Jolson Story (1946), he lost out to Harold Russell for his performance in The Best Years of Our Lives (1946).- Wichita, Kansas-born Alan Fudge was an American actor with scores of television credits, including, notably Man from Atlantis (1977), Eischied (1979), Paper Dolls (1984), and Bodies of Evidence (1992). He made guest appearances on such shows as Banacek, Kojak, Marcus Welby, M.D., Little House on the Prairie, The Streets of San Francisco, Hawaii Five-O, M*A*S*H, Starsky and Hutch, Charlie's Angels, Wonder Woman, Lou Grant, Knots Landing, Magnum, P.I., Cagney & Lacey, The A-Team, St. Elsewhere, Highway to Heaven, Dallas, MacGyver, Dynasty, Matlock, Falcon Crest, L.A. Law, The Wonder Years, Murder, She Wrote, Northern Exposure, Home Improvement, Beverly Hills, 90210, Baywatch, Dawson's Creek, and 7th Heaven.
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Baltasar Kormákur is an actor, producer and director whose work spans theater, movies and television. Born in Reykjavik, Iceland, he
graduated as an actor from Iceland's National Academy of Fine Arts in 1990. He was immediately signed on by the National Theatre of Iceland,
where he worked as one of the leading young performing artists until 1997. During the last two years of his assignment, he also directed
several ambitious works, after having produced and directed highly popular, independent stage productions alongside his projects with the
National Theatre. In 2000, he wrote, directed, acted in and produced the feature film "101 Reykjavik," which became an international hit and
earned the Discovery Award at the Toronto International Film Festival. Subsequently, Variety selected him as one of the "10 Directors to
Watch," along with Alejandro González Iñárritu, Lukas Moodysson, Christopher Nolan and other newcomers at the time.
Soon after, Kormákur started Blueeyes Productions and since then has maintained his focus on feature film writing, producing, and directing. His films "The Sea," "A Little Trip To Heaven," "Jar City" and "White Night Wedding" have all been very successful in Iceland, and won numerous international awards. Kormákur's "The Deep," which eerily captures the tragic real-life story of the lone survivor of a capsized fishing boat off the frigid Icelandic coast, premiered at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival and went on to become Iceland's Oscar nominee and was
shortlisted for the foreign language Academy Award. It opened in Iceland on September 21, 2012 and took in over 50% of the country's
box office receipts that weekend and earned a record number of Edda Awards, 11 in all, including Best Film of the Year, Best Director and
Best Actor in a Leading Role.
Kormákur has also directed features in the United States, including "Inhale," an independent film produced by the LA based 26 Films, starring Dermot Mulroney, Diane Kruger and Sam Shepard and "Contraband," starring Mark Wahlberg, Ben Foster, and Kate Beckinsale, which took first place at the US box office during its opening weekend, early January 2012. Universal Pictures released "Contraband," which was a remake of Oskar Johansson's "Reykjavik Rotterdam," that starred Kormákur and he produced with Agnes Johansen through his Blueeyes Productions, along with Working Title Films.
Kormákur's next film was the thriller "2 Guns," starring Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg, which Universal Pictures will release in August 2013. Other projects include the HBO pilot "The Missionary," a spy thriller he will direct and Mark Wahlberg, Steve Levinson and Malcolm Gladwell will produce; "Everest," the cautionary tale and real life adventure on the mountain in 1996 when eight climbers died in the span of two days, due to a series of horrific mishaps and bad decisions. Working Title Films and Emmett/Furla Productions will produce "Everest" with Kormákur. Also, "Viking," a big budget action adventure set in the world of the famed Norse warriors, which will film in Iceland. Kormákur optioned Iceland's beloved, Nobel Prize-winning book Independent People to develop as a feature film and will produce the American remake of "Jar City" along with CEO of Lava Bear Films, David Linde. He is also producing the Icelandic drama "Rocketman," which acclaimed Icelandic filmmaker Dagur Kari is directing.- Stephen Wight was born on 27 February 1980 in Romford, Essex, England, UK. He is an actor and writer, known for Men in Black: International (2019), I May Destroy You (2020) and In Too Deep (2023).
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Demi Singleton (born February 27, 2007) is an actress, singer and dancer originally from New Orleans, LA. She moved to New York City at the age of three and began training in the arts with New York's finest teachers in music, dance and acting. She has studied classical ballet since the age of three and began playing the cello when she was four. Demi studied at a rigorous music conservatory for children in Brooklyn, NY for 6 years where she learned to play instruments by ear through the Suzuki Method.
At nine, she attended a Broadway musical featuring child performers and decided that she also wanted to pursue a career as a stage performer. At ten years old, she joined the cast of Andrew Lloyd Webber's "School of Rock- The Musical" on Broadway for nearly a year before joining Disney's "The Lion King" on Broadway as Young Nala. Before leaving "The Lion King", Demi joined the cast of "Godfather of Harlem", led by Academy Award winner Forest Whitaker, as his character's granddaughter (Margaret Johnson).
Demi was recently cast as Serena Williams in the Will Smith led Warner Bros. biopic "King Richard" which tells the story of how tennis super stars Serena and Venus Williams rose to success from the planning and coaching of their father, Richard Williams.
Demi enjoys listening to pop, jazz, and hip-hop, traveling the world and learning about different cultures and languages. She is studying Mandarin, learning Spanish and looks forward to learning many more languages. Her family is from the Central American country of Honduras and the West Indian island of Dominica. She hopes to one day become a philanthropist to aid in world hunger, poverty and childhood education in the arts. She most enjoys spending time with her family and friends.- Producer
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Jim is a multiple Emmy Award nominee who is equally adept at both
comedy and drama. He has directed a vast array of cable and broadcast
series, from ABC's Desperate Housewives to HBO's groundbreaking series
The Sopranos. Jim has also been the Executive Producing Director for
two long-running dramatic series: ABC's Ugly Betty and CBS's Judging
Amy. He has directed nine pilots in his career, of which six have been
picked up to series.
After graduating from New York University Graduate Film School with a
Masters of Fine Arts Jim worked as a cinematographer in New York.
He won the Hong Kong award for best cinematography for his work on An
Autumn's Tale. He also photographed the 1988 film Tokyo Pop and the
feature film version of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. As a cinematographer
on the acclaimed television show Northern Exposure, Jim got his first
directing gig, for which he earned a DGA award nomination for the
episode "Jules & Joel".
In the fifteen years since, Jim has directed numerous pilots including
Dangerous Minds, and To Have and To Hold, as well as numerous episodics
such as The Sopranos, ER, Law & Order, House, and Desperate Housewives,
to name a few.
In addition to directing, Jim has also worked as an Executive Producer
on Judging Amy, Joan of Arcadia, Ugly Betty, To Have and To Hold, and
Dangerous Minds several of which have garnered various awards,
including 2 Emmy nods and 1 Golden Globe win.
Jim is also a well known documentary film maker. He helped make the
film The Man From Hope which followed Bill and Hilary Clinton through
the 1992 campaign and was showcased at the Democratic Convention that
year and later heralded as a strategic aspect of Bill Clinton's victory
in the election. This past November, Jim traveled to central India to
document the 50th anniversary of the East West Gathering.
He is married to actress Annie Potts with whom he has 3 children, Clay,
Doc and Harry.- Angela Aames grew up in Pierre, South Dakota. She acted in high school
and attended the University of South Dakota before coming to Hollywood
in 1978 to begin her acting career. Her first film role was as Little
Bo Peep in the film Fairy Tales (1978). She followed that up by playing Linda
"Boom-Boom" Bang in H.O.T.S. (1979). Other film roles included ...All the Marbles (1981),
Scarface (1983), Bachelor Party (1984), The Lost Empire (1984), Basic Training (1985), and Chopping Mall (1986). She did guest
appearances on several television shows, including Cheers (1982) and Night Court (1984).
Her last role was as Penny, a fitness instructor, on The Dom DeLuise Show (1987). Angela
was found dead at a friend's home in West Hills in the San Fernando
Valley on November 27, 1988. The coroner later ruled that her death was
a result of a deterioration of the heart muscle, probably caused by a
virus. She was 32 at the time. - Actress
- Soundtrack
Violet Brinson was born on 27 February 2002 in Austin, Texas, USA. She is an actress, known for Sharp Objects (2018), The Comey Rule (2020) and Walker (2021).- Make-Up Department
- Special Effects
- Actor
Gary J. Tunnicliffe has been working in the film industry since 1990, primarily designing and creating special make up effects on over 130 feature films including entries in many of the most well known 'horror genre' franchises (Hellraiser, Halloween, Candyman, Scream, Exorcist, Blade, Feast, The Collector etc)
He is especially known for crafting elaborate and shocking death sequences which earned him the moniker 'The Hollywood Assassin'
He has also written and directed several feature films (working with actors including Christopher Lloyd, Chevy Chase, Dakota Fanning, Chloe Grace Moretz, Lynne Redgrave, Howie Mandel etc)
Semi retired he still continues to design effects for occasional projects, for Patrick Lussier (a relationship spanning 23 years and 8 Films) and for Vincent Van Dyke as a part of his make up effects team.- Actor
- Additional Crew
- Casting Director
Michael Fox first "trod the boards" in grade school plays in his
hometown of Yonkers, New York. After toying with the idea of becoming a
history teacher, Fox did "something as foreign to my nature as one
could think of", becoming a "boomer" (a migratory railroad worker) and
taking jobs as a brakeman with various lines. His interest in acting
was rekindled in the
mid-'40s and he appeared in several "little
theater" plays in Los Angeles. An acting-directing stint in a Players
Ring production of "Home of the Brave" caught the eye of
Harry Sauber,
an associate of exploitation mogul "Jungle Sam"
Sam Katzman, and Fox landed his first film
role
(A Yank in Indo-China (1952)).
He appeared in dozens of movies (and innumerable TV episodes) in the
decades since; one of his regular TV roles was as the coroner in the
courtroom drama
Perry Mason (1957).- Born Kwak Tae Gun on February 27, 1977 he landed his debuting role in 1999 SBS Television Drama KAIST. It was through the suggestion of is then-manager that he took on the the stage name Chae Ji-sung and subsequently known as simply Ji Sung. His participating in following TV dramas such as All In(2003) and Save the Last Dance for Me(2004) as well as is first film Whistling Princess(2002) further launched his acting career. Ji Sung enlisted into mandatory military service in June 2005 as a soldier and later transferred and served as a public ambassador of military affairs until his discharge June of 2007. Following his discharge that same year he made is comeback in TV Drama New Heart(2007) as once again began to capture the attention of his audiences and continued to do so in later television dramas. He then signed with new management agency, Namoo Actors in February of 2010. From there, Ji Sung continued to add to his extensive resumé playing parts in TV Dramas such as The Great Seer(2012) and in adult rom-com film Whatcha Wearin'?(2012). He then stole the hearts of audiences again in 2013 KBS melodrama Secret. In the same year, Ji Sung announced and tied the knot with South Korean actress and Save the Last Dance for Me co-star Lee Bo-young. On November 24, 2014 Namoo Actors Agency revealed Ji Sung and Lee Bo-young to be expecting their first child mid-June to early July of 2015. He then continued the capture audiences reuniting with Secret co-star Hwang Jung-eum in 2015 MBC Television Drama Kill Me, Heal Me for which Ji Sung received much praise for his outstanding acting skills.
- Actor
- Composer
- Music Department
Steve Harley was born on 27 February 1951 in Deptford, London, England, UK. He was an actor and composer, known for The Full Monty (1997), Velvet Goldmine (1998) and Threesome (1994). He was married to Dorothy Crombie. He died on 17 March 2024 in Suffolk, England, UK.- Actress
- Soundtrack
Seo Hyun-Jin is a South Korean actress and singer. Seo debuted as the main vocalist of the South Korean girl group M.I.L.K. in 2001 and continued until the group disbanded in 2003. She contributed songs as a solo artist after the group's disbandment before she transitioned into acting in 2006.
Seo made her acting debut in the musical The Sound of Music (2006) then followed by appearances in several television series and films. She is best known for her leading role as Oh Hae-young in the romantic comedy TV series Another Miss Oh (2016), which gained her wider recognition. Seo has since gone on to have main cast billing in medical melodrama Dr. Romantic (2016-2017), romance dramas Temperature of Love (2017), The Beauty Inside (2018), and You Are My Spring (2021), and legal drama Why Her (2022).- Jayne grew up in St. Paul, Minnesota with her mother, father, one older brother, and one younger sister. As a young girl, she was involved with gymnastics as her main sport with secondary sports being: dance, diving, and track and field. Jayne then advanced to coaching and judging gymnastic meets after her competitive days were over, to stay involved in the sport. After high school, she went on to get a degree in Graphic Communications at Dakota County Technical Institute. Working in this field until 1991. After moving to San Diego, California in 1986, she took up weight training. By 1988 she began competing in local bodybuilding shows, placing in the top of her division. She is still competing to this day at a national level. In 1991, Jayne began a career as a postal carrier in the San Diego, California area. In 1996, she started personal training at some of the local gyms part time. In 1998, Jayne quit her full time job as a government employee and became a certified personal trainer at NCSF (National Council of Strength & Fitness), going on to train clients with weights, help them with their nutrition, and do guest appearances at the local bodybuilding shows. With this, she was able to turn her hobby into a career. Perfecting her craft led others to notice her skills; eventually landing her the classic role of Miss Mann in the 2000 comedy film, Scary Movie. The success of Scary Movie led to other gigs such as performing on Whose Line Is It Anyway and appearing in Lady Gaga's music-video for Telephone. Jayne later studied acting with instructor Shawn Nelson, and at San Diego City College.