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Jeremy Allen White (born 1991) is an American film and television actor. He is best known for his long-running role as Phillip "Lip" Gallagher on the Showtime dreamed series Shameless (2011-2021). He has also appeared in the first season of the thriller series Homecoming (2018) and in several films including Afterschool, Twelve, After Everything, and The Rental.- Actress
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Denise Richards was born in Downers Grove, Illinois, the older of two
daughters of Joni Lee, who owned a coffee shop, and Irv Richards, a
telephone engineer. She has German, French-Canadian, Irish, English,
and Welsh ancestry. She grew up in the Chicago area, until the family
relocated to Oceanside, CA when Denise was 15. She began working as a
model, and moved to L.A. after she graduated from high school. She
landed parts in both TV and movies, and gave breakthrough performances
in Starship Troopers (1997)
with Casper Van Dien,
Wild Things (1998) and
The World Is Not Enough (1999),
in which she plays a Bond Girl. She also was in
Undercover Brother (2002) with
Eddie Griffin and appeared in
Scary Movie 3 (2003) with her now
ex-husband, Charlie Sheen.- Actress
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- Soundtrack
Brooke D'Orsay was born on 17 February 1982 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She is an actress, known for Royal Pains (2009), Drop Dead Diva (2009) and Two and a Half Men (2003).- Actor
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Joseph Leonard Gordon-Levitt was born February 17, 1981 in Los Angeles, California, to Jane Gordon and Dennis Levitt. Joseph was raised in a Jewish family with his late older brother, Dan Gordon-Levitt, who passed away in October 2010. His parents worked for the Pacifica Radio station KPFK-FM and his maternal grandfather, Michael Gordon, had been a well-known movie director. Joseph first became well known for his starring role on NBC's award-winning comedy series 3rd Rock from the Sun (1996). During his six seasons on the show, he won two YoungStar Awards and also shared in three Screen Actors Guild Award® nominations for Outstanding Performance by a Comedy Series Ensemble.
Prior to his success on television, Joseph had already worked steadily in feature films. Early in his career, he won a Young Artist Award for his first major role, in Robert Redford's drama A River Runs Through It (1992). During the 1990s, he also co-starred in the films Angels in the Outfield (1994), The Juror (1996), Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998), a well-reviewed slasher sequel, and 10 Things I Hate About You (1999), opposite Heath Ledger, which has become a teen comedy classic.
Following his work on 3rd Rock, Joseph took time off from acting to attend Columbia University. In the early 2000s, he broke from the mold of his television and film comedy supporting roles by appearing in a string of intense dramatic parts, mostly in smaller, independent films, such as Manic (2001), with Don Cheadle; Mysterious Skin (2004), for writer/director Gregg Araki; Rian Johnson's award-winning debut, dramatic thriller Brick (2005) (2005); Lee Daniels' Shadowboxer (2005); the crime drama The Lookout (2007), which marked Scott Frank's directorial debut; John Madden's Killshot (2008), with Diane Lane and Mickey Rourke; Spike Lee's World War II film Miracle at St. Anna (2008); and the controversial drama Stop-Loss (2008), in which he starred with Ryan Phillippe, under the direction of Kimberly Peirce. By 2009, Joseph was officially established as one a new generation of leading men with his Golden Globe-nominated role in Marc Webb's comedy-drama 500 Days of Summer (2009), also starring Zooey Deschanel , for which he received Golden Globe, Independent Spirit Award and People's Choice Award nominations. He also adapted the Elmore Leonard short story Sparks (2009) into a 24-minute short film that he directed, which screened at the Sundance Film Festival.
Beginning the new decade, he headlined the indie drama Hesher (2010) and established himself as an action star in Christopher Nolan's Inception (2010), also starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Marion Cotillard and Elliot Page. Balancing both independent and Hollywood film, Joseph scored another Golden Globe nod for the cancer drama 50/50 (2011), directed by Jonathan Levine and also starring Seth Rogen, Anna Kendrick, and Bryce Dallas Howard. He worked again with director Nolan on The Dark Knight Rises (2012), the third and final installment in the director's Batman series, for which he received a People's Choice Award nomination for Favorite Movie Actor; and snagged leading roles in both Premium Rush (2012), directed by David Koepp, and Looper (2012), reuniting with his Brick director, Rian Johnson, opposite Bruce Willis and Emily Blunt. Rounding out the year, he played Abraham Lincoln's son Robert in Steven Spielberg's Oscar-nominated Lincoln (2012), with Daniel Day-Lewis and Sally Field.
In 2013, Gordon-Levitt starred in his critically-acclaimed feature film directorial debut, Don Jon (2013), from a script he wrote, opposite Scarlett Johansson and Julianne Moore. He was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for "Best First Screenplay" for the film. He also provided the voice of Jiro Horikoshi in the 2014 English-language version of Hayao Miyazaki's Academy Award-nominated animated feature The Wind Rises (2013), and appeared in Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller's Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014), in which he played Johnny, a character Miller created for the film. In 2015, he starred in The Walk (2015), directed by Robert Zemeckis, and in which he portrayed Philippe Pettit, and in 2016 headlined Oliver Stone's Snowden (2016).
Joseph has completed production on Project Power (2020), Henry Joost/Ariel Schulman sci-fi film for Netflix, in which he stars opposite Jamie Foxx, and on the independent thriller, 7500 (2019), written and directed by Patrick Vollarth. Among his other projects, he will play attorney Richard Schultz in Aaron Sorkin's The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020), and is in development on a variety of feature films including Fraggle Rock.
Joseph has also founded and directs hitRECord, an open collaborative production. hitRECord creates and develops art and media collectively using their website where anyone with an internet connection can upload their records, download and remix others' records, and work on projects together. When the results of these RECords are produced and make a profit, hitRECord splits the profits 50/50 with everybody who contributed to the final production. hitRECord has published books, put out records, gone on tour and has screened their work at major festivals including Sundance and TIFF. The half-hour variety program, "Hit Record on TV with Joseph Gordon-Levitt," which includes short films, live performances, music, animation, conversation and more, earned an Emmy Award for Creative Achievement in Interactive Media - Social TV Experience. hitRECord's project, "Band Together with Logic," is a one-hour YouTube Originals special that sees Grammy-nominated rapper Logic open up his creative process like never before, inviting the world to collaborate with him on an original song and music video.
In 2016, the ACLU honored Gordon-Levitt with their annual Bill of Rights Award for furthering diversity efforts, promoting free speech, empowering women and otherwise supporting civil rights and liberties for all Americans.- Actor
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Jerry O'Connell was born in New York City, to Linda (Witkowski), an art teacher, and Michael O'Connell, a British-born advertising agency art director. He spent his early years in Manhattan, with his parents and younger brother, Charlie O'Connell, who is also an actor. He is of one half Irish, one quarter Italian, and one quarter Polish, descent. Jerry began his acting career at a very young age. He did commercial work and TV work before getting the role of "Vern Tessio" in the popular film Stand by Me (1986) opposite River Phoenix and Corey Feldman. After that, he worked on several TV-Movies and TV-series and had a starring role in My Secret Identity (1988). From 1991 to 1994, Jerry attended New York University where he majored in film, but he didn't graduate.
In 1993, he starred in the film Calendar Girl (1993) opposite Jason Priestley. In 1995, he starred in the TV-movie western The Ranger, the Cook and a Hole in the Sky (1995) and, in 1996, he landed the role of "Frank Cushman" in the successful film Jerry Maguire (1996) opposite Tom Cruise. Over the next few years, he starred in Scream 2 (1997), had a small uncredited role in Can't Hardly Wait (1998), as well as appearing in several TV-movies and having starring roles in the TV-series Sliders (1995) and the film Body Shots (1999) opposite Sean Patrick Flanery and Tara Reid.
In 2000, he appeared in the Brian De Palma film Mission to Mars (2000) with Gary Sinise, among others. He has also appeared in movies such as Tomcats (2001), Buying the Cow (2002), Kangaroo Jack (2003), Yours, Mine & Ours (2005), Man About Town (2006) and Room 6 (2006). In 2007, he married actress/model Rebecca Romijn, and they have twin girls.- Actor
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Louis Diamond Phillips is an American actor and film director. His breakthrough came when he starred as Ritchie Valens in the biographical drama film La Bamba (1987). For Stand and Deliver (1988), Phillips was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and won an Independent Spirit Award. Phillips made his Broadway debut with the 1996 revival of The King and I, earning a Tony Award nomination for his portrayal of King Mongkut of Siam. Phillips' other notable films include Young Guns (1988), Young Guns II (1990), Courage Under Fire (1996), The Big Hit (1998), Brokedown Palace (1999), Che (2008), and The 33 (2015). In the television series Longmire, he played a main character named Henry Standing Bear. He played New York City Police Lieutenant Gil Arroyo on Prodigal Son on FOX from 2019 to 2021.- Kayla Cromer, star of "Everything's Gonna Be Okay," is the first person with autism spectrum disorder to play a lead character with autism on American television. She hit the PR trail for both Freeform and Disney, like a breakout star. She is voicing Generation 3 Twyla for Nickelodeon's new animated TV series, "Monster High," which has propelled her and the character to build a global fan base. Kayla has an internationally acclaimed production company working on a movie with her as the lead. Also, a horror movie in the works that will push the elements/levels of horror.
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Rene Russo was born in Burbank, California, to Shirley (Balocca), a
barmaid and factory laborer, and Nino Russo. Her father, a sculptor and mechanic, left the
family when Rene was just two, and thus her mother raised Rene and her
sister, Toni, as a single mom. Her father was of Italian descent, and
her mother was of Italian and German-English-Irish ancestry.
In junior high school, Rene was plagued with scoliosis and had to wear
a full-torso brace. She was already a tall girl, which earned her the
nickname "Jolly Green Giant" from her classmates. She entered Burroughs
High School, along with classmate
Ron Howard, and even though her brace
had been removed, she was still somewhat of a loner. Unable to deal
with academics and the school social scene, Rene dropped out of school
in the tenth grade. Since money was tight, she began to take a variety
of part-time jobs over the next 18 months, many for the free benefits.
She sold refreshments at a movie theater, where she could see free
movies; worked as a restaurant hostess, where her meals were free; and
worked as a store cashier at Disneyland, where she had free admission.
She often had two jobs at one time. Her last job, which was solely for
the paycheck, was a full-time job at an eyeglass factory, inspecting
contact lenses.
In 1972, the 17-year-old was attending a Rolling Stones concert when
she was approached by John Crosby, a scout and manager from
International Creative Management. He told her she should be a model
and had test photos made of her. Within a few months, Rene signed a
contract with Ford Modeling Agency and within a year had become a
successful print and photographers model. Soon her modeling
breakthrough came when she graced the cover of Vogue. By 1975, she had
appeared on numerous magazine covers, was one of the most successful
models in America, and was also starting to be seen in several TV
commercials through the 1980s. She would define what a top fashion
model was for years to come.
By her 30th birthday, demand for her began to dwindle, as it did for
most models at that age. She did a few more commercials and then turned
her back on modeling and show business for a while. Financially secure
for the next several years, she began an intense period of literature
and Christian theology. She also began to study theater and acting, and
began appearing in theater roles at small regional theaters in Los
Angeles and elsewhere in California.
Her television series debut came in 1987 with a supporting part on the
short-lived TV series Sable (1987). In
1989 she made her motion picture debut with the part of the lead
characters girlfriend in the film
Major League (1989). Her subsequent
roles were that of girlfriends and supportive wives in a few films,
until her breakthrough as an Internal Affairs detective in
Lethal Weapon 3 (1992). Rene
Russo has been praised for her ability to hold her own against her
major male co-stars, who have included
Mel Gibson,
Clint Eastwood,
Kevin Costner and
Pierce Brosnan. Two of her performances
within the last few years have gotten her recognition as both a major
dramatic actress and a talented character actress. One was as the
mother of a kidnapped son in
Ransom (1996). The other was as the
cartoon femme fatale foreign spy in
The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle (2000).
Although the latter received mixed reviews among moviegoers and
critics, Russo was praised for her performance of a role originally
slated for Meryl Streep in 1992. Rene Russo
has been married to screenwriter
Dan Gilroy since 1992, and they have
one daughter, named Rose. They reside in Brentwood, California.- Producer
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A graduate of Wesleyan University, Michael Bay spent his 20s working on
advertisements and music videos. His first projects after film school
were in the music video business. He created music videos for
Tina Turner,
Meat Loaf,
Lionel Richie,
Wilson Phillips,
Donny Osmond and
Divinyls. His work won him recognition
and a number of MTV award nominations. He also filmed advertisements
for Nike, Reebok, Coca-Cola, Budweiser and Miller Lite. He won the
Grand Prix Clio for Commercial of the Year for his "Got Milk/Aaron
Burr" commercial. At Cannes, he has won the Gold Lion for The Best Beer
campaign for Miller Lite, as well as the Silver for "Got Milk". In
1995, Bay was honored by the Directors Guild of America as Commercial
Director of the Year. That same year, he also directed his first
feature film, Bad Boys (1995), starring
Will Smith and
Martin Lawrence, which grossed
more than $160 million, worldwide. His follow-up film,
The Rock (1996), starring
Sean Connery and
Nicolas Cage, was also hugely successful,
making Bay the director du jour.- Actress
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Bonnie Francesca Wright was born on February 17, 1991 to jewelers Gary
Wright and Sheila Teague. Her debut performance was in
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001)
as Ron Weasley's little sister Ginny Weasley. Bonnie tried out for the
film due to her older brother Lewis mentioning she reminded him of
Ginny. Her role in the first film was a small cameo like role as Ginny,
having bigger part in the second film
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002).
After shooting the first Potter film, in 2002 Bonnie did the Hallmark
television film
Stranded (2002) playing Young
Sarah Robinson. Then in 2004 after doing the
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
Bonnie was cast in
Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures (2004)
, a BBC TV film as Young Agatha. Then Bonnie was back as Ginny Weasley
for
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005),
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)
and for
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)
where her role turned supporting as Harry's love interest.
In 2007 she guest-voiced for Disney's TV series
The Replacements (2006) as
Vanessa. Also that time she voiced Ginny for
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)
as well for
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)
in 2009.
While shooting for
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010),
Bonnie was cast as Mia for
Geography of the Heart (2014)
a feature-length film shot in five international locations about the
complexity of love. Bonnie's segment was shot in December 2009 in
London. Also during that time and shooting for
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011)
Bonnie was attending London College of Communication to study film.
In 2011 Bonnie starred in
After the Dark (2013), with
James D'Arcy,
Daryl Sabara and with Harry Potter co-star
Freddie Stroma.
Bonnie also wrote and directed a short film for school called
Separate We Come, Separate We Go (2012)
starring Potter co-star David Thewlis.- Actress
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- Writer
Jennifer Lee Taylor is an American actress who is known for her voice acting contributions to video games and cartoons. She voiced Cortana and Dr. Catherine Halsey in the Halo franchise and voiced Princess Peach, Toad and Toadette in Nintendo's Super Mario franchise. She also provided voice work for the Microsoft Cortana artificial intelligence.- Actor
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- Soundtrack
Jason will next be seen starring in MATLOCK for CBS opposite Kathy Bates, and he can mostly recently be seen in ACCUSED for FOX. He also starred in Netflix's RAISING DION and CANDY on Hulu. Previous television credits include starring in ABC's KEVIN SAVES THE WORLD as well as Comedy Central's ANOTHER PERIOD. OTher work includes a run as a recurring guest star on ABC's A MILLION LITTLE THINGS, GOLIATH, DRUNK HISTORY, GIRLS and PARENTHOOD, for which he received an Emmy nomination. Jason's film credits are the Emmy-nominated HBO film THE TALE opposite Laura Dern, BITCH, THE INTERVENTION directed by Clea Duvall, and THE MEDDLER opposite Rose Byrne and Susan Sarandon. Jason also voiced the lead role of "Dipper Pines" in Disney's GRAVITY FALLS and the supporting role of "Fox Dad" in SLUMBERKINS for Apple TV. Jason will next be heard voicing the lead role of "Jonathan Fall" in Netflix's animated series, CAPTAIN FALL.- Originally from Bloomington, Minnesota, Kelly attended school in
Richfield, Minnesota at the Academy of Holy Angels. She is the daughter
of a hair dresser mother and a late father who was a high school
basketball coach. Kelly went on to start acting in theater before making
the step into screen performances. She first appeared in
3000 Miles to Graceland (2001)
in a minor role. She got her first notable television role on the
series Nip/Tuck (2003) and gained
quick popularity for her character eventually becoming a regular cast
member. Her feature film roles include supporting cast work in the
direct-to-video sequel
Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation (2004)
and the WWE-produced action film
The Marine (2006) as the kidnapped
wife of wrestling star John Cena. Kelly has
established an obvious and noticeable collection of work in television
across several series including
Everwood (2002),
Monk (2002),
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000),
Melrose Place (2009),
CSI: Miami (2002),
Castle (2009),
Supernatural (2005) and
Ghostfacers (2010). Outside of
acting, Kelly is a member of the Smile Network, a humanitarian
organization based in her home state that provides reconstructive
surgeries and related health care services to impoverished children and
young adults in developing countries. In 2010, in keeping with her love
of horses, Kelly lobbied for a bill to prevent the inhumane transport
of American horses to slaughterhouses in Mexico and Canada as well as
roundups of wild horses by government authorities. Kelly also has been
a model, working in company ad projects with Miller Lite, Rembrandt,
and Oliver Peoples sunglasses. She has appeared in magazine
publications including the August 2004 issue of Maxim and the October
issue cover of Stuff. - Actress
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Sasha Pieterse was born in Johannesburg, South Africa.
She immigrated over to the United States with her professional dancer parents in 2000.
She started acting at the age of four in modeling and commercials and moved to theatrical work starring as "Buffy" in her first TV show, Family Affair (2002) alongside Tim Curry and Gary Cole at the age of six. She went on to star in movies such as The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl 3-D (2005), X-Men: First Class (2011) and Good Luck Chuck (2007) and also starred in shows such as House (2004) and Heroes (2006) before landing the role as Alison Dilaurentis in the TV show Pretty Little Liars (2010).
While filming her TV show she also starred in movies such as G.B.F. (2013) and as "Japonica Fenway" in Paul Thomas Anderson's G.B.F. (2013) alongside Joaquin Phoenix and Martin Short.
The TV series Pretty Little Liars (2010) finished after 7 seasons and since then she continues pursuing her passion for movies and television.- Writer
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Alejandro Jodorowsky was born in Tocopilla, Chile on February 17, 1929. In
1939 he moved to Santiago where he attended university, was a circus
clown and a puppeteer. In 1953 he went to Paris and studied mime with
Marcel Marceau. He worked with
Maurice Chevalier there and
made a short film, La cravate (1957).
He also befriended the surrealists
Roland Topor and
Fernando Arrabal, and in 1962 these
three created the "Panic Movement" in homage to the mythical god Pan.
As part of this group Jodorowsky wrote several books and theatrical
pieces. In the later 1960s he directed avant-garde theater in Paris and
Mexico City, created the comic strip "Fabulas Panicas", and made his
first "real" film, the surrealist love story
Fando and Lis (1968), based on a play
by Arrabal. In 1971, El Topo (1970) was
released and became a cult classic, as did
The Holy Mountain (1973). In
1975 he returned to France to begin work on a film that was never made:
a colossal adaptation of Frank Herbert's "Dune", which was to star
Orson Welles,
Salvador Dalí and others, was to be scored
by Pink Floyd, and which brought together the
visionary talents of H.R. Giger,
Dan O'Bannon, and
'Jean "Moebius' Giraud' (Giger and
O'Bannon later collaborated on
Alien (1979).) The project's financiers
backed out, and "Dune" was eventually filmed by
David Lynch. Jodorowsky's next film
was 1979's Tusk (1980), a story of a young
girl's friendship with an elephant, which quickly faded into obscurity.
In the early 1980s he began working with Moebius and other artists on
various comic strips, graphic novels and cartoons, and wrote several
more books. He returned to film with 1989's
Santa Sangre (1989), which was
critically acclaimed and widely distributed. In 1990 he directed
Omar Sharif and
Peter O'Toole in the fantasy film
The Rainbow Thief (1990).
Throughout the 1990s he continued to produce cartoons with a variety of
graphic artists and is reportedly to begin work on another film, the
long-awaited "Sons Of El Topo", sometime in 2002 or 2003. Jodorowsky's
wife Valerie and sons Brontis, Axel and Adan have all at times appeared
in his films.- Actor
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Dominic was born in England, to a Norwegian father and Irish mother. At the age of two, Dominic and his family moved from England to Sydney's Bondi and then moved to the Western Suburbs. After trying his hand at landscape gardening he decided to become an actor whilst watching the war movie Platoon (1986). Due to his working-class background, acting seemed a very unlikely choice of career, so he didn't pursue it until some time later. He studied at The Australian Theatre for Young People (ATYP) and then later enrolled at the Western Australian Academy of Performing arts where he met his future wife Rebecca and studied with Hugh Jackman. In 1997, Dominic scored a role in the TV series Raw FM (1997) and then landed a part in Mission: Impossible II (2000), which was filmed in Australia. He became a TV star. In 2000, he won the Green Card lottery and now lives in Los Angeles with his family. He was spotted by a US talent scout and has been working constantly with roles in the movie Equilibrium (2002), the TV show John Doe (2002), Blade: Trinity (2004), and in the upcoming thriller Three Way (2004) and a new police television drama, Strut.- Eva Cela was born on 17 February 1995 in Durrës, Albania. She is an actress, known for Esterno notte (2022), Supersex (2024) and Palazzina Laf (2023).
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Lucy Clare Davis is an English actress best known for playing Dawn Tinsley in the BBC comedy The Office (2001-2003). She is also known for her roles as Hilda Spellman in the Netflix series The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (2018-2020), Dianne in the horror-comedy Shaun of the Dead (2004), and Etta Candy in Wonder Woman (2017).- Actor
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Rory Michael Kinnear is an English actor and playwright who has worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal National Theatre. In 2014, he won the Olivier Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Shakespeare's villain Iago in the National Theatre production of Othello.
He is known for playing Bill Tanner in the James Bond films Quantum of Solace, Skyfall, and Spectre, and in various video games of the franchise. He is the youngest actor to play the role of Bill Tanner. He also won a Laurence Olivier Award for portraying Sir Fopling Flutter in a 2008 version of The Man of Mode by George Etherege, and a British Independent Film Award for his performance in the 2012 film Broken. On TV, he is known for playing Michael on the BBC comedy Count Arthur Strong (2013-), Lord Lucan in the two-part ITV series Lucan, and the lead role of Prime Minister Michael Callow in The National Anthem, the first episode of the anthology series Black Mirror.
Kinnear was born in Hammersmith, London, England, the son of the actor Roy Kinnear and actress Carmel Cryan. He has two sisters, Kirsty and Karina. He is the grandson of the international rugby union and rugby league player Roy Kinnear and the godson of actor Michael Williams, late husband of Judi Dench. Educated at Tower House School and St Paul's School, London, London, he read English at Balliol College, Oxford, and then studied acting at London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.
Kinnear's performances in Phyllida Lloyd's production of Mary Stuart and Trevor Nunn's Hamlet, in which he played Laertes, met with acclaim. He also achieved recognition as the outrageous Sir Fopling Flutter in The Man of Mode at the National Theatre, winning a Laurence Olivier Award and Ian Charleson Award. Other notable theatre work includes the lead in Thomas Middleton's The Revenger's Tragedy, the role of Pyotr in Gorky's Philistines and the role of Mitia in a stage adaptation of the Nikita Mikhalkov film Burnt by the Sun, all for the National Theatre.
In 2010, he played Angelo in Measure for Measure at the Almeida Theatre. Later in 2010 he played the title role in Hamlet at the National Theatre. The two portrayals won him the best actor award in the Evening Standard drama awards for 2010.
Kinnear appeared in The Last of the Haussmans by Stephen Beresford at the Royal National Theatre during the summer of 2012. The production was broadcast to cinemas around the world on 11 October 2012 through the National Theatre Live programme.
He starred as Iago opposite Adrian Lester in the title role of Othello in 2013 at the National Theatre throughout the summer of 2013. Both actors won the Best Actor award in the Evening Standard Theatre Awards for their roles; the award is traditionally given to only one actor, but the judges were unable to choose between the pair.
From September 2013 the Bush Theatre in London staged Kinnear's debut play The Herd, directed by Howard Davies. The play ran at the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago beginning 2 April 2015. In October 2017 he appeared in the title role of Young Marx, the premiere production at the Bridge Theatre. He returned to the Olivier Theatre at the National Theatre to star as the title role in Macbeth opposite Anne-Marie Duff from February 2018.
He portrays Bill Tanner in the Daniel Craig era James Bond film series after taking over from Michael Kitchen. He is the fourth person to play the character. He has appeared in Quantum of Solace (2008), Skyfall (2012) and Spectre (2015). As well as the films, Kinnear also lends his voice and likeness to the Bond video games; GoldenEye 007 (2010), James Bond 007: Blood Stone (2010) and 007 Legends (2012). In 2014, he played the fictional character, Detective Nock, in The Imitation Game based loosely on the biography Alan Turing:The Enigma by Andrew Hodges. In January 2017 he portrayed Ellmann in the Netflix film iBoy.
Further to his theatre work he received particularly positive reviews for his sympathetic portrayal of Denis Thatcher in The Long Walk to Finchley (2008), a BBC dramatisation of the early years of Margaret Thatcher's political career, which also starred Andrea Riseborough and Samuel West.
He also starred alongside Lucy Punch and Toby Stephens in the BBC Two series Vexed. Broadcast on 19 October 2010, he was the co-lead in the BBC4 TV drama, The First Men in the Moon written by and co-starring Mark Gatiss.
In 2011, he provided narration during the BBC Proms production of 'Henry V - suite' arranged by Muir Mathieson during their Film Music Prom.[15] He appeared in the lead role of Prime Minister Michael Callow in "The National Anthem", the first episode of the anthology series Black Mirror.
In July 2012, Kinnear appeared as Bolingbroke in Richard II, a BBC Two adaptation of the play of the same name, with Ben Whishaw as King Richard and Patrick Stewart as John of Gaunt.
From 2013 onwards, he has starred in the BBC series Count Arthur Strong as Michael. He has also appeared in the Channel 4 drama Southcliffe.
In December 2013 he appeared as British peer and suspected murderer Lord Lucan in the two-part ITV series Lucan.
He also appeared as Frankenstein's monster in the Showtime television series Penny Dreadful, which premiered 11 May 2014.
In 2017 he appeared in the British miniseries Guerrilla as a Chief Inspector in the Special Branches.
In 2017 he starred as Robert Lessing in the BBC Two comedy series Quacks, which ridicules the early days of medicine in England.
In 2018 he appeared in the first episode of the fourth series of the BBC One comedy series Inside No. 9, Zanzibar, which being a Shakespearean parody, was written in mainly rhyming couplets, with Rory Kinnear playing identical twins and long-lost sons.- Actor
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Hal Holbrook was an Emmy and Tony Award-winning actor who was one of the great craftsmen of stage and screen. He was best known for his performance as Mark Twain, for which he won a Tony and the first of his ten Emmy Award nominations. Aside from the stage, Holbrook made his reputation primarily on television, and was memorable as Abraham Lincoln, as Senator Hays Stowe on The Bold Ones: The Senator (1970) and as Capt. Lloyd Bucher on Pueblo (1973). All of these roles brought him Emmy Awards, with Pueblo (1973) bringing him two, as Best Lead Actor in a Drama and Actor of the Year - Special. On January 22, 2008, he became the oldest male performer ever nominated for an Academy Award, for his supporting turn in Into the Wild (2007).
He was born Harold Rowe Holbrook, Jr. on February 17, 1925 in Cleveland, Ohio, to Eileen (Davenport), a vaudeville dancer, and Harold Rowe Holbrook, Sr. Raised primarily in South Weymouth, Massachusetts by his paternal grandparents, Holbrook attended the Culver Academies. During World War II, Holbrook served in the Army in Newfoundland. After the war, he attended Denison University, graduating in 1948. While at Denison, Holbrook's senior honors project concerned Mark Twain.
He later developed "Mark Twain Tonight!," the one-man show in which he impersonates the great American writer Mark Twain, aka Samuel Clemens. Holbrook learned his craft on the boards and by appearing in the TV soap opera The Brighter Day (1954). He first played Mark Twain as a solo act in 1954, at Lock Haven State Teachers College in Pennsylvania. The show was a success that created a buzz. After seeing the performance, Ed Sullivan, the host of TV's premier variety show, featured him on The Ed Sullivan Show (1948) on February 12, 1956. This lead to an international tour sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, which included appearances in Iron Curtain countries. Holbrook brought the show to Off-Broadway in 1959. He even played Mark Twain for President Dwight D. Eisenhower. The 1966 "Mark Twain Tonight" Broadway production brought Holbrook even more acclaim, and the Tony Award. The show was taped and Holbrook won an Emmy nomination. He reprised the show on Broadway in 1977 and in 2005. By that time, he had played Samuel Clemens on stage over 2,000 times.
Among Holbrook's more famous roles was "The Major" in the original Broadway production of Arthur Miller's "Incident at Vichy", as Martin Sheen's significant other in the controversial and acclaimed TV movie That Certain Summer (1972), the first TV movie to sympathetically portray homosexuality, and as Abraham Lincoln in Carl Sandburg's acclaimed TV biography of the 16th President Lincoln (1974), a role he also portrayed in excellent performances too in North & South: Book 1, North & South (1985) and North & South: Book 2, Love & War (1986). He also is known for his portrayal of the enigmatic "Deep Throat" in All the President's Men (1976), one of the major cinema events of the mid-'70s. In the 1990s, he had a regular supporting role in the TV series Evening Shade (1990), playing Burt Reynolds' character's father-in-law.
Hal Holbrook died on January 23, 2021, at 95 years, in Beverly Hills. He was buried in McLemoresville Cemetery in Tennessee with his wife Dixie Carter.- Actor
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Chord Overstreet was born in Nashville, Tennessee, to Julie (Miller), a
make-up artist, and Paul Overstreet, a
country musician and songwriter whose own father was a pastor. Chord
and his five siblings were raised in a creative and music-filled
environment, with their father highly involved in the music industry.
His brother, Nash Overstreet, is in the
band Hot Chelle Rae.
After Chord graduated from high school in 2007, he decided to pursue
performing as a career from the encouragement and support of his
parents, and from his talent of singing, acting, and playing
instruments. Unfortunately, the first two to three years after high
school were unsuccessful for Chord; only making small guest appearances
on various television shows such as
iCarly (2007) and
Private (2009).
In early 2010, Chord received a call from his manager, urging him to
audition for an open casting call for the FOX television series
Glee (2009). After several callbacks and
audition performances, Chord got the role of quarterback turned glee
club member, Sam Evans, for the hit show. Since Chord's debut
performance on the season premiere of the 2nd season of
Glee (2009), he has received critical
and commercial praise and success for his performance on the show,
along with a large following of dedicated and loving fans.- Born in Albany, New York, Ashton Holmes was struck by the magic of
theater and film at age 4 when his mother took him to see "Peter Pan",
and it was clinched by a desire to play Luke Skywalker when he saw
Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977). He subsequently took
acting lessons at age 6 and began appearing in community theater. He
also attended the Albany Academy. - Actor
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Born by the Atlantic Ocean, Jeremy Slate also had a Pacific Ocean view
when he lived in Malibu, California. In between oceans he has traveled
the world.
He attended a military academy, joined the US Navy at 16 and was barely
18 when his destroyer joined the invasion of Normandy on D-Day (June 6,
1944). Aboard that destroyer at Omaha Beach that day, he vowed if he
survived the attack he would make his life a never-ending series of
adventures. He has lived up to that promise with adventures as a
lifeguard, a swimming instructor, the first person to swim across the
Long Island Sound after the war, college graduate with honors in
English, writer, songwriter, screenwriter, a radio announcer, actor and
director.
After the war he attended St. Lawrence University, graduating with
honors. He was president of the student body, editor of the college
literary magazine, a football player and backfield coach of the only
undefeated freshman team in the school's history. A campus radio
personality in his senior year, he married the queen of his
fraternity's ball. Chosen for the school's honor society, he was a big
man on campus. After graduating, he became a professional radio
sportscaster and DJ for CBS and ABC affiliates while beginning a family
that ultimately included three sons and two daughters, but
unfortunately the marriage ended in divorce.
As a young man with a growing family, he had a promising career as a
public relations executive with W.R. Grace and Co. For six years he
worked for Grace as travel manager for its president,
Peter Grace. He then joined the
Grace Steamship Line and moved with his family to Lima, Peru.
While in Peru he joined a professional theater group and became
involved with the production of "The Rainmaker" at the Professional
English Language Theater in Lima. He was awarded the Tiahuanacothe, the
Peruvian equivalent of the Tony award, for his portrayal of the
character Starbuck. After a year of training, he left W.R. Grace to
pursue a theatrical career and was cast in a small, significant role in
the Pulitzer Prize-winning play, "Look Homeward, Angel" on Broadway and
did 254 performances.
Known as one of the more talented members of Hollywood's beach boy set
of the 1960s, Slate sent feminine hearts aflutter as the star of the
1960 TV series
The Aquanauts (1960). His
career included numerous guest-starring roles in popular television
programs of the 1950s and 1960s. He guest-starred in nearly 100
television shows as well as appearing in 20 feature films.
While about half of his portrayals have been heavies, Jeremy is equally
adept at comedy and has worked with some of Hollywood's best. He was
punched out by Elvis Presley in
Girls! Girls! Girls! (1962),
Frankie Avalon broke a guitar over his
head in I'll Take Sweden (1965),
he was knocked silly by Van Johnson
in Wives and Lovers (1963), was
shot by John Wayne in
True Grit (1969), died spectacularly
while trying to save the Duke's life in
The Sons of Katie Elder (1965),
was shot between the eyes by Billy Jack
(Tom Laughlin in
The Born Losers (1967) and went
up in flames in
The Lawnmower Man (1992).
Jeremy wrote the screen story for
Hell's Angels '69 (1969).
During the filming of this biker film (which he described as a "western
on wheels") he broke his leg, and never rode a motorcycle again.
An accomplished country-and-western songwriter and a BMI member, Jeremy
wrote the lyrics to the Tex Ritter top-ten
song "Just Beyond the Moon" and also wrote the lyrics for "Every Time I
Itch (I Wind Up Scratchin' You)" recorded by
Glen Campbell on Capitol Records.
Jeremy Slate died on November 19, 2006, from complications following
surgery for esophageal cancer.- Actress
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One of today's most recognizable entrepreneurs and international influencers, Paris Hilton is a pioneer in reality television and an innovator in social media and celebrity branding.
Since starring in "The Simple Life," Hilton has built a global empire as an influencer, DJ, designer, recording artist, philanthropist, host, actress, model and New York Times best-selling author. In 2006, she created Paris Hilton Entertainment, a multi-billion-dollar company consisting of 45 branded stores, 19 product lines and 27 fragrances, which have surpassed over $4 billion in revenue. In 2001, Variety declared Paris Hilton as a "Billion Dollar Entrepreneur" in recognition of her successful business and global brand.
Hilton debuted "This Is Paris," her critically acclaimed YouTube Originals documentary on her life, which has garnered nearly 20 million views to date. Hilton has used her voice and dedicated her platform and resources to supporting Breaking Code Silence, the organization created to affect change in the industry, and eradicate the abuse of children in systemically abusive institutions.
Hilton recently partnered with iHeartRadio to launch her "This is Paris" podcast and will continue to expand podcast production through her company London Audio. As an investor, she is committed to supporting and investing in the next generation of entrepreneurs positively impacting the world at companies such as Daily Harvest, R3SET, Good Catch, Zen Water, Podz, among others. In addition, Hilton launched her new production banner Slivington Manor Entertainment, which will develop long-form content for television, streaming services, and emerging platforms. She has signed an exclusive two-year overall deal with Warner Bros. Unscripted Television to develop, executive produce and star in original unscripted television programming on behalf of the studio.- Shun Sugata was born on 17 February 1955 in Yamanashi, Japan. He is an actor, known for Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003), The Last Samurai (2003) and Bunraku (2010).
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Kathleen Freeman's introduction to show business came very early in
life. Her parents were vaudevillians, and she made her debut at age 2
in their act. Later she attended UCLA with intentions of becoming a
pianist, but was bitten by the acting bug and never looked back. She
gained experience on stage in various stock and repertory companies,
and made her film debut in 1948. One of the most memorable character
actresses in recent memory, her stocky build, incredibly expressive
face and hearty laugh have kept audiences convulsed for decades,
playing a variety of neighborhood gossips, busybodies and eccentrics.
Memorable as Sister Mary Stigmata ("The Penguin"),
Dan Aykroyd's and
John Belushi's nemesis, in
The Blues Brothers (1980). She
was used as a comic foil by
Jerry Lewis in many of his films,
always to great advantage. She did much television work, playing in
everything from
The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961)
to Gomer Pyle: USMC (1964)
to Hogan's Heroes (1965) to
Married... with Children (1987),
where she was the voice of Peg's monstrous but never-seen mother, Al
Bundy's nemesis. She was working on Broadway in a production of "The
Full Monty" when she died of lung cancer in 2001.- Actress
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Carole Raphaelle Davis was born in London, England on February 17, 1958
to a French mother and an American father. She is trilingual and a
citizen of the United States and the European Union. She grew up in
England, Scotland, Hawaii, France, Italy and Thailand and moved to New
York City as a teenager. Carole went to City University of New York and
majored in Chinese Studies and Political Science. After University, she
attended the two-year program at the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute.
Carole modeled for Playboy Magazine, was Pet of the month in 1980
(under the name Tamara) and Pet of the Year runner-up for Penthouse
Magazine in 1981. During that time, Carole sang in nightclubs and was a
lingerie and bathing suit model for LaPerla and Playtex bras. Carole
modeled for hundreds of covers of romance novels as well as appearing
and singing for commercials for Pepsi and Miller Beer.
As a singer/songwriter and recording artist, Carole was signed to
Warner Brother records in 1989. Her record "Heart of Gold" was produced
by Nile Rodgers. Her single "Serious Money" was a dance hit and the
video was number one on BET. She toured Europe and Asia and performed
in clubs throughout the United States. Carole wrote the song "Slow
Love" for Prince on his Grammy Award winning album "Sign O' the Times."
She recorded her own version of the song for Warner Brothers records.
She subsequently left Warner Brothers in 1993 and moved to Atlantic
Records, where she self-produced and wrote the album "I'm No Angel." As
a songwriter, Carole made a publishing deal, signing with MCA Records.
She was signed to Sony France for Europe.
Davis is also a writer. Her script "Amnesia of the Heart" was bought by
DreamWorks. She also co-wrote animated series for Klasky-Scupo "Mean
Girls." Carole wrote a series of articles on anti-Semitism in Europe
for the Jewish Journal. As a novelist, she is the author of critically
acclaimed "The Diary of Jinky, Dog of a Hollywood Wife," a non-fiction
humor book about Hollywood excess and human status anxiety written from
the point of view of a death-row dog. She is an investigative
journalist for American Dog Magazine for which she has written a series
of articles about cruelty in the pet trade. She is a contributor to
Animal Wellness Magazine, FetchDog.com, Fido Friendly Magazine and has
appeared numerous times on CNN as an animal welfare contributor. Carole
has an animal welfare column on Newsvine.com and is the author of a
popular Hollywood Dog blog.
Carole is the West Coast Director of the Companion Animal Protection
Society, a national non-profit organization that investigates puppy
mills and pet stores. She leads the anti-puppy mill movement in Los
Angeles, California.
Carole Davis was married to Emmy Award winning comedy writer Kevin
Rooney and lived in Los Angeles, California and Nice, France with their
four pound dogs prior to his death.- Actress
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Martin was born on February 17, 1992, in Las Vegas, Nevada. A fan of
musical theater, she performed in several community theater productions
in Las Vegas. She began modeling at the age of five. As a child, she
worked consistently in a variety of national and international
commercials, including Barbie and Cabbage Patch Dolls.
She starred in the sequel, "Mean Girls 2", as the lead character,
Johanna 'Jo' Mitchell, an outsider trying to fit in the social scene of
high school. Alloy hired her for the lead role in the series "Wendy", a
contemporary fantasy take on Peter Pan told from Wendy's point of view.
Martin is best known for her lead role in "10 Things I Hate About You,"
she played the role of Bianca Stratford, a girl who knows how to
strategize, put a plan in motion and navigate the minefield that is
high school.
Martin's first TV film was her role as the beautiful yet bossy Tess
Tyler, queen bee of the hottest clique in camp, in Disney Channel's
Original Movie "Camp Rock." Martin reprised her role of Tess in the
successful "Camp Rock 2." Recently, she filmed "Geography Club",
"Senior Project", "Safelight" and "The Good Mother" which premiered on
Lifetime. Meaghan's other film projects include the lead role as Megan
in the independent film "Dear Lemon Lima" and Aubrey in "Sironia."
She is recurring on MTV's, critically acclaimed "Awkward", and "Melissa
and Joey." She has also guest starred on TBS's "Wedding Band", Fox's
"House," CBS' "Close to Home," Disney Channel's "The Suite Life of Zack
& Cody," and Nickelodeon's "Just Jordan." She did her first
professional theater debut in the Los Angeles production of the Jason
Robert Brown musical, "13." Martin also sang a version of "When You
Wish Upon a Star" for the 2009 DVD/Blu Ray release of Disney's
"Pinocchio."
She has attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London,
completing courses in both Contemporary Drama and Shakespeare.- Actor
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Alan Bates decided to be an actor at age 11. After grammar school in
Derbyshire, he earned a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic
Arts in London. Following two years in the Royal Air Force, he joined
the new English Stage Company at the Royal Court Theatre. His West End
debut in 1956, at 22, was also the company's first production. In the
same year Bates appeared in
John Osborne's "Look Back in
Anger," a play that gave a name to a generation of postwar "angry young
men." It made Bates a star and launched a lifetime of his performing in
works written by great modern playwrights --
Harold Pinter,
Simon Gray, Storey, Bennett,
Peter Shaffer and
Tom Stoppard (as well as such classic
playwrights as Anton Chekhov,
Henrik Ibsen,
August Strindberg and
William Shakespeare). Four
years later Bates appeared in his first film, a classic:
The Entertainer (1960), in
which he plays one of
Laurence Olivier's sons. More than 50
film roles have followed, one of which,
The Fixer (1968) (from a novel by
Bernard Malamud) earned an Academy Award
nomination for Bates. He married Victoria Ward in 1970. Their twin
sons, Benedick and Tristan, were born in 1971. Tristan died during an
asthma attack in 1990; Ward died in 1992. Bates threw himself into his
work to get through these tragedies, and spoke movingly about the
effects of his losses in interviews. He was the Patron of the Actors
Centre in Covent Garden, London; Bates and his family endowed a theatre
there in memory of Tristan Bates, who, like his father and brother, was
an actor. With few exceptions, Bates performed in premium works, guided
by intuition rather than by box office. For each role he created a
three-dimensional, unique person; there is no stereotypical Alan Bates
character. Women appreciate the sensitivity he brought to his romantic
roles; gay fans appreciate his well-rounded, unstereotyped gay
characters; and the intelligence, humor and detail - the smile that
started in the eyes, the extra pat or squeeze, the subtle nuances he
gave to his lines, his beautiful, flexible voice - are Bates hallmarks
that made him special to all his admirers. The rumpled charm of his
youth weathered into a softer but still attractive (and still rumpled)
maturity. In his 60s Alan Bates continued to divide his time among
films, theatre and television. His 1997 stage portrayal of a travel
writer facing life's big questions at the bedside of his comatose wife
in Simon Gray's "Life Support" was called "a magnificent performance,
one of the finest of his career" (Charles Spencer, Sunday Telegraph, 10
August 97). His last two roles in New York earned critical praise and
all the Best Actor awards Broadway can bestow. He was knighted in
January 2003, and only a few weeks later began treatment for pancreatic
cancer. He was positive that he would beat the disease, and continued
to work during its course, only admitting to being "a bit tired." His
courage and strength were remarkable, and even in his final days his
humor remained intact. After his death, there was an outpouring of
affection and respect. As
Ken Russell said in his Evening
Standard tribute, "The airwaves have been heavy with unstinted praise
for Alan Bates since his untimely death . . . All the tributes were
more than justified for one of the great actors ever to grace the
screen and stage."- Irish character actress Brenda Fricker was born in Dublin, and gained experience in Irish theatre and with the National Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company, and the Court Theatre Company in Great Britain. Brenda received great acclaim for her Oscar-winning supporting performance as the determined mother of a son afflicted with cerebral palsy in My Left Foot (1989). Venturing to Hollywood in the 1990s, she played a homeless woman befriended by kid-on-the-loose Macaulay Culkin in the sequel Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992) and followed up with a more zany mother role in the little-seen So I Married an Axe Murderer (1993). Having acted on English TV on the BBC series Casualty (1986), Fricker began conquering US TV with roles in the American Playhouse (1980) presentation Lethal Innocence (1991) and the miniseries Alexander Graham Bell: The Sound and the Silence (1991). Fricker offered memorable support as Albert Finney's exasperated sister in A Man of No Importance (1994) (1994) and appeared in support of Robin Wright in Pen Densham's Moll Flanders (1996) and as Matthew McConaughey's secretary in Joel Schumacher's A Time to Kill (1996) (both 1996).
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Hailing from an English theatrical family, Christina Pickles is a beloved stage-trained actress who has enjoyed a rich and varied career that has allowed her to show her incredible range and great depth of character in her performances. She sets the bar for all at an entirely new height with this year's "Outstanding Actress, Short Form, Comedy or Drama, Short Form" for her critically lauded performance in "Break a Hip" earning a remarkable seventh Emmy nomination for a superior performance. Earlier, Christina earned an Emmy nod for her hilarious role on "Friends" as 'Ross' and 'Monica Geller's' mom adding to five nominations for her historic role on precedent-setting "St. Elsewhere."
Probably best known for her portrayal of "Nurse Helen Rosenthal" on the NBC hit hospital drama "St. Elsewhere" and "Judy Geller," the dysfunctional mother of Monica (Courtney Cox) and Ross (David Schwimmer), on the NBC smash comedy hit "Friends," Christina was Emmy-nominated five times for "St. Elsewhere" and once for her indelible role on "Friends."
Christina just added her seventh Emmy nomination this summer for her hilarious and touching performance as "Biz" in the short-form comedy series "Break A Hip." Guest stars and riveting performances surround her indelible character including those from Oscar winners Allison Janey, Octavia Spencer and Jim Rash as well as a laugh-out-loud turn from Peri Giipin. It was Christina five years ago that learned about the infectious storyline of "Break A Hip" and its protagonist, 'Biz,' insisting producer/director Cameron Watson turn this into the Short Form hit series you see today. It's the best in its space at a time when all of us are living longer and know a 'Biz' in our lives.
Christina trained at The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London before moving to New York where she was a member of The APA Repertory Company and enjoyed a luminous career starring on and Off-Broadway. After moving to Los Angeles for "St. Elsewhere," she worked consistently in film and television establishing herself as a versatile actress able to perform both comedy and drama deftly. Film credits include "The Wedding Singer," Baz Luhrmann's "Romeo + Juliet," "Grace of My Heart," and "Legends of the Fall." As a voice-over artist, Christina can be heard in classic episodes of "The Family Guy" and as the spokesperson for Pavilions supermarket.- Actor
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CONRAD RICAMORA is an award-winning actor-singer-writer. He will next be seen as a series regular in the Hulu comedy "How To Die Alone," created and co-starring Natasha Rothwell. He was a series regular for six seasons opposite Viola Davis on ABC's "How To Get Away With Murder." He was also a recurring on FOX's "The Resident."
On the film side, he most recently portrayed Will (aka 'Mr. Darcy') in the Emmy nominated, Gotham Award-winning film "Fire Island" with Bowen Yang and Joel Kim Booster
Conrad is also a Grammy-nominated Broadway singer/actor. He is currently starring in the critically acclaimed Off-Broadway hit "Oh, Mary!" at the Lucille Lortel Theater. Before that he starred in Broadway's "Here Lies Love'' written by David Byrne and FatBoy Slim. Additional credits include Seymour in "The Little Shop of Horrors" at the West Side Theater and "The King and I" at Lincoln Center.
As an activist, Conrad has won the Visibility Award from the Human Rights Campaign and Equality California.- Actress
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Becky Ann Baker was born on 17 February 1953 in Fort Knox, Kentucky, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for A Simple Plan (1998), Men in Black (1997) and Spider-Man 3 (2007). She has been married to Dylan Baker since 6 September 1987. They have one child.- Kristen Doute was born on 17 February 1983 in Dearborn, Michigan, USA. She is an actress, known for Blood on Canvas (2013), Behind Your Eyes (2011) and 23 Minutes to Sunrise (2012).
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Lean, tall American character actor Arthur Hunnicutt was known for
playing humorously wise rural roles. He attended Arkansas State
Teachers College in his native state, but was forced to drop out in his
third year due to lack of funds. He joined a theatre company in
Massachusetts, then migrated to New York, where he began to find acting
roles on Broadway and on tour. He played in numerous productions,
including the leading role in "Tobacco Road", a part his rangy country
persona was made for. He took a few roles in small films in the early
1940s, then returned to stage work. In 1949 he came back to Hollywood
permanently and began a long career as a reliable supporting player.
His wonderfully written and vibrantly played role in the
Howard Hawks Western
The Big Sky (1952) won him acclaim
and an Oscar nomination for Supporting Actor. He continued playing
similar characters, almost always sympathetic, for the remainder of his
career. He was stricken with cancer of the tongue and died in 1979.- Actress
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Daughter of Catherine and Isaac Routledge. Her father was a
haberdasher, and, during WWII, the family lived weeks at a time in the
basement of her father's shop. She attended Birkenhead High School,
where she sang in the choir and ran the Sunday School. She studied
English at Liverpool University, and, after graduation, worked without
pay at the Liverpool Playhouse. She was asked to join the company, and
she later studied at Old Vic Theatre School in Bristol. She then moved
to London, where she built an impressive stage career over the next
several years, also appearing on Broadway 1966-1968. Patricia has
worked in TV since the early 1950s, most recently in
Keeping Up Appearances (1990).
She also recorded an album, "Presenting Patricia Routledge", and worked
in film and radio. She has never married or had children, has said that
she will not retire, and lives in Kensington and Surrey when not
working.- Actress
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Taylor is a Los Angeles based actor with a BFA in Acting from Ithaca College. Taylor is most known for starring as Ally Wernick in 'DAVE' on FXX. Taylor also starred in "Pillow Talking" alongside Dave Burd (Lil Dicky) and John C Riley. Other television credits include Paramount Plus Original 'Players', Netflix's 'American Vandal', and NBC's 'I Feel Bad'.- Actress
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Ellie Haddington was born on 17 February 1955 in Aberdeen, Scotland, UK. She is an actress, known for Enola Holmes (2020), Spies of Warsaw (2013) and Operation Mincemeat (2021).- Actress
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- Writer
Julia McKenzie was born on 17 February 1941 in Enfield, Middlesex, England, UK. She is an actress and writer, known for Notes on a Scandal (2006), Bright Young Things (2003) and Cranford (2007). She was previously married to Jerry Harte.- Actor
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His father was a well-to-do builder. Barry was a highly
intelligent boy who attended Melbourne University. There, he began acting in
revues and doing impersonations. He moved to London in 1959
and began his professional performing career on the West End and Broadway stages as Mr Sowerby in Oliver!, and in Peter Cook's Establishment nightclub. He has created numerous characters including Dame Edna Everage and Sir Les Patterson.- Actor
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Richard Karn was born on February 17, 1956, in Seattle, Washington, the son of Gene and Louise Wilson. He has a sister named Sue. His birth name was Richard Karn Wilson, but he shortened it to Richard Karn because there was already a Richard Wilson registered with the Screen Actors Guild. He did his first acting in the fifth grade and was very active in drama in high school. He spent six months in England and attended the University of Washington, graduating in 1979 with a degree in drama. During his career, Richard has performed in many off-Broadway
productions. His filmography includes 11 feature films and several made-for-TV movies and television series, including 8 years as Al Borland on Home Improvement with Tim Allen.- Music Artist
- Actor
- Composer
Ed Sheeran is a British singer-songwriter from West Yorkshire known for his many compositions. For film soundtracks, he had performed "I See Fire" for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. He acted in Game of Thrones, Bridget Jones' Baby, The Simpsons, Popstar: Never Stop Popping and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.- Actor
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Jackson Hurst was born in Houston, Texas, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for The Mist (2007), Cleaner (2007) and A Bird of the Air (2011). He has been married to Stacy Stas Hurst since 6 June 2014. They have two children.- Actor
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- Writer
Larry the Cable Guy was born in Pawnee City, Nebraska, as Daniel Lawrence Whitney. He is an actor and producer, known for Cars (2006), Cars 2 (2011) and Cars 3 (2017). He is also an original member of the Blue Collar Comedy Tour.
He has been married to Cara Whitney since July 3, 2005. They have two children.- Actor
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Often mentioned as the greatest player in NFL history, this ruggedly
handsome African American fullback for the Cleveland Browns first
appeared on movie screens in the western Rio Conchos (1964), followed by a strong
supporting role as convict commando "Jefferson" in the terrific WWII
action film The Dirty Dozen (1967). He was kept busy with additional on screen
appearances in other fast paced films including Ice Station Zebra (1968), 100 Rifles (1969) and
El Condor (1970).
Brown's popularity grew during the boom of "blaxploitation" cinema in
the early 1970s portraying tough "no nonsense" characters in Slaughter (1972),
Black Gunn (1972) and Three the Hard Way (1974). His on-screen work in the latter part of the 1970s
and 1980s was primarily centered around guest spots on popular TV shows
such as CHiPs (1977) and Knight Rider (1982). However, Brown then resurfaced in better
quality films beginning with his role as a fiery assassin in The Running Man (1987),
he parodied the blaxploitation genre along with many other
African-American actors in the comedy I'm Gonna Git You Sucka (1988), played an ex-heavyweight
boxer in the sci-fi comedy Mars Attacks! (1996) and ironically played an ex-football
legend in the Oliver Stone directed sports film Any Given Sunday (1999).
Additionally, Jim Brown was a ringside commentator for the first six
events of the Ultimate Fighting Championships from 1993 through to
1996. A bona fide legend in American sports and a successful actor, he
continues to remain busy in front of the camera with recent appearances
in various sports shows & TV productions.- Actor
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- Sound Department
Garry Chalk was born on 17 February 1952 in Southampton, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Cold Squad (1998), Beast Wars: Transformers (1996) and Freddy vs. Jason (2003). He has been married to Colleen Nystedt since August 2013.- Actress
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Born on February 17, 1937 in Biloxi, Mississippi, Mary Ann Mobley is one of the few Miss Americas to have true success as an actress or television personality (the others are Barnaby Jones (1973) beauty Lee Meriwether, television hostess Phyllis George, Consumer advocate/game show panelist Bess Myerson and Eraser (1996) heroine Vanessa Williams). After serving as Miss America 1959, Mobley soon became a sought-after guest star in episodic television of the 1960s, appearing on many hit series of that era - Perry Mason (1957), Mission: Impossible (1966), The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964), The Virginian (1962), to name a few. Her most important contribution to 1960s popular culture, though, was appearing opposite Elvis Presley in two films - Harum Scarum (1965) and Girl Happy (1965). Her success in film led to a 1965 Golden Globe for Most Promising Newcomer, an award she shared with Mia Farrow and Celia Milius. She also starred in a number of other B-movies of the 1960s, such as Get Yourself a College Girl (1964) and For Singles Only (1968).
Her television and film output decreased in the 1970s as she raised her daughter, Clancy Collins White, with her husband, Gary Collins. During that decade, her television appearances were mostly guest roles on series such as the iconic series Love, American Style (1969), Fantasy Island (1977), The Love Boat (1977) and the game show Match Game (1973), on which she was a frequent panelist alongside such other famous wiseacres as Betty White, Brett Somers, Patti Deutsch and Charles Nelson Reilly. She and Collins also appeared a number of times performing death-defying high-wire acts and other athletic, outrageous stunts on the annual television event Circus of the Stars (1977).
In the 1980s, she starred as stepmother "Maggie McKinney" in the final season of Diff'rent Strokes (1978), appeared in a recurring role as alcoholism counselor "Dr. Beth Everdene" on the prime-time soap opera Falcon Crest (1981) and continued to pop-up as a guest star on series like Hotel (1983) and Matt Houston (1982) and game shows like The Hollywood Squares (Daytime) (1965) and Body Language (1983). She also acted as her husband's frequent guest co-host on his successful talk shows
Hour Magazine (1980) and The Home Show (1988), as well as on installments of the Miss America Pageant. In the 1990s, she made guest appearances on the sitcoms Designing Women (1986), Hearts Afire (1992), Hardball (1994) and Sabrina the Teenage Witch (1996). She and Collins were also hosts of an oft-run late 1990s television infomercial for "SelectComfort", a specialty bed product. Also during the 1990s, she toured in the popular play, "Love Letters", with her husband, and performed a cabaret act at the Cinegrill in Hollywood.
Mary Ann and other "Match Game"/"Hollywood Squares" regulars of the 1970s and 1980s (such as Charo, Nipsey Russell,
Paul Lynde and Jo Anne Worley) were riotously spoofed on Saturday Night Live (1975) in a 2002 game show sketch called "Super Buzzers" with Tina Fey playing Mary Ann. Mary Ann and her husband soon got a chance to demonstrate their own good humor, appearing as themselves in a satiric infomercial parody on the Showtime series Dead Like Me (2003) in 2003 (the fake infomercial was for a no-effort body-toning contraption - which spontaneously combusts!).- Actress
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Erin Cardillo was raised in Greenwich, CT and has a Bachelor of Science in Performance Studies from Northwestern University, where she studied acting, writing, and literary adaptation. In addition, she spent a year in London studying Shakespeare through Marymount College and a summer at The Public Theater's Shakespeare Lab in NYC. After college, Erin moved to New York and worked extensively on stage, but a decision to pursue a career in film and television brought her to Los Angeles. Since living in LA, Erin has appeared in leading and supporting roles in feature films and in guest starring, recurring, and regular roles on ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, CW, NICK, ABC Family, Lifetime, Directv, FX, and Disney Channel. She returned to the stage in 2012, originating the leading role of Melody Dent in Under My Skin at the Pasadena Playhouse. Erin's background as an actress (and as an acting teacher at Warner Loughlin Studios in Hollywood for many years) fostered her desire to create projects of her own. In 2009, she began writing romantic comedy features as a solo writer with various producers. In 2012, she was the writer/producer for an improvisational romantic dramedy developed at Warner Loughlin Studios (WLS) called Speak Now (Audience Award: Austin Film Festival 2013/now available on Amazon). Additionally in 2012, she partnered with fellow WLS member Richard Keith to create original projects for television. In 2013, Cardillo & Keith won the New York Television Festival's comedy pilot competition, receiving their first development deal at FOX. Shortly thereafter, they partnered with Alloy Entertainment to develop Significant Mother for CW Seed, which was picked up to series by the network and premiered on the CW on August 3, 2015. In 2015, Cardillo & Keith sold an original pilot script to the CW called The I Do Crew with Little Engine Productions and Warner Brothers Television. In 2016, Cardillo & Keith were hired as Co-Executive Producers for Fuller House season 2 on Netflix and sold another original pilot to the CW called Life Sentence, which they developed with Doozer Productions and Warner Brothers Television. Life Sentence was picked up to series and premiered on the CW on Wednesday, March 7, 2018 (now available on Netflix). In 2018, Erin also completed a solo feature project for Disney titled Cursed, which she developed with Mandeville Entertainment. After Life Sentence, Cardillo & Keith went on to be described by Deadline as "the most prolific writers in broadcast television" for the 2018 season, after selling three pilot scripts in the span of a few months: The Family Practice at FOX, developed with Jason Winer's Small Dog Picture Company and 20th; 3000 Hours at NBC, developed with Berlanti Productions and Warner Brothers Television; and Nobody's Princess at the CW, developed with James Cordon's Fulwell 73 and CBS Studios. In 2019, Cardillo & Keith began a multi-year overall deal at Warner Brothers Television, where they continue to develop, write, and produce original TV series for broadcast and cable under their In Good Company banner. In Spring 2019, Cardillo's first feature film, Isn't It Romantic, starring Rebel Wilson and Liam Hemsworth, was released in theaters by New Line and Warner Brothers (now available on multiple streaming platforms). In the last two years, Cardillo & Keith have continued to build In Good Company on both the feature film and television sides of the business. With the addition of Creative Executive Rachel Borders, they've developed four pilots: the TV adaptation of The Five People You Meet in Heaven at FOX with Mitch Albom; the supernatural comedic procedural Pandora's Box and Ship at the CW with Spondoolie producing; the family dramedy Love Me at ABC with Brownstone Productions producing; and the YA soap The Beach at HBOMax with Alloy, Julie Plec, and Jenna Dewan producing. In addition, the duo has developed their first feature film, Fall, produced by Little Engine Productions, which they also plan to co-direct. Erin lives in Los Angeles with her husband, Joe Towne, founder of The Performers Mindset, and their son, Lucas, a future "astronaut/writer."- Actor
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Michael Jeffrey Jordan was born in Brooklyn, New York on February 17,
1963. He was the fourth of five children born to James and Deloris.
James Jordan was a mechanic and
Deloris Jordan was a bank teller. Soon
after Michael's birth, James and Deloris felt that the streets of
Brooklyn were unsafe to raise a family, so they moved the family to
Wilmington, North Carolina.
As a youngster, Michael immediately became interested in sports.
However, it was baseball not basketball that was his first love. He
would play catch in the yard with his father, who loved baseball. He
soon started to play basketball to try and follow in the footsteps of
his older brother, Larry, whom he idolized growing up.
At Laney High School, as a sophomore, he decided to try out for the
varsity team but was cut because he was raw and undersized. The
following summer, he grew four inches and practiced tirelessly. The
hard work paid off as he averaged 25 points per game in his last two
years and was selected to the McDonald's All-American Team as a senior.
Following high school, he earned a basketball scholarship from North
Carolina University where he would play under legendary coach Dean
Smith. In his first year, he was named ACC Freshman of the Year. He
would help lead the Tarheels to the 1982 NCAA Championship, making the
game-winning shot.
After winning the Naismith College Player of the Year award in 1984,
Jordan decided to leave North Carolina to enter the NBA draft. Although
he decided to leave college early, he would later return to the
university in 1986 to complete his degree in geography.
In the 1984 NBA draft, he was selected with the third overall pick by
the Chicago Bulls. As a rookie for the Bulls, he made an immediate
impact, averaging an amazing 28.2 points a game, including six games
where he scored 40+ points. He was selected to the NBA All-Star Game
and named Rookie of the Year. This would just be the beginning of a
career filled with awards and accolades. In the upcoming years, he
would go on to win five regular season MVP awards, six NBA
championships, six NBA finals MVP awards, three All-Star game MVP
awards, and a defensive player of the year award.
In 1993, tragedy struck Jordan's seemingly perfect life. On July 23,
1993, his father, James, was murdered off Interstate 95 in North
Carolina. Two locals had robbed him, shot him in the chest and threw
his body in a swamp.
Three months later on October 6, 1993, following a run of three
consecutive NBA championships, Jordan announced his retirement from
basketball citing that "he no longer had the desire to play." Now
"retired" at age 33, it was uncertain what Jordan would do next. Would
he take a year off out of the public eye to grieve and then come back
to the Bulls? Would he go out and look for a white collar job in the
field of geography, his college major? Or would he take up a completely
different hobby like golf?
In early 1994, Jordan decided to take up a new hobby alright. However,
it wasn't golf. It was baseball. Despite not playing baseball since
high school some 13 years ago, he signed a minor league contract with
the Chicago White Sox in 1994. He played one unspectacular season for
the Double-A Birmingham Barons.
On March 18, 1995, Jordan, a man of few words since his retirement,
sent two important words to media sources everywhere: "I'm Back". He
celebrated his return to the NBA by doing what he always did best:
winning. Although the Bulls would lose in the playoffs to the Orlando
Magic, it was obvious that Jordan was still the same superstar player.
He would go on to lead the Bulls to three more consecutive NBA
championships and etch his place in the history as the "NBA's greatest
player of all-time".
On January 13, 1999, Jordan re-announced his retirement, saying that
"he was 99.9 percent sure that he would never play again". Soon after,
Jordan became part owner of the Washington Wizards.
Near the start of the 2001-02 season, there were hints that Jordan may
try another comeback to the NBA. On September 25, 2001, Jordan
confirmed those rumors, announcing that he would once again return to
the NBA as a member of the Wizards. His two seasons in Washington were
mediocre at best. His statistics were solid and he showed some flashes
of his old self but he could not lead the Wizards to the playoffs and
missed several games due to injury. He retired for good following the
2002-03 season and was subsequently dismissed as president of the
Washington Wizards.
In June 2006, he became part owner of the Charlotte Bobcats. Later that
year, he filed for divorce from Juanita, his wife of 17 years. They
have three children together.- Director
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Don Scardino was born on 17 February 1949 in New York City, New York, USA. He is a director and producer, known for The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013), 30 Rock (2006) and 2 Broke Girls (2011). He has been married to Dana L. Williams since 1995. They have one child. He was previously married to Pamela Blair.