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Brian J. Smith was born on October 12, 1981, in Dallas, Texas, USA, as Brian Jacob Smith. He is an actor who is known forStargate Universe (2009), Red Faction: Origins (2011), and Hate Crime (2005). During June 2015, he played Will Gorski, one of the lead characters on the Netflix original series Sense8 (2015), which was created by the Wachowskis.- Actor
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Adam Rich was born on 12 October 1968 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Code Red (1981), Eight Is Enough (1977) and Dungeons & Dragons (1983). He died on 8 January 2023 in Brentwood, Los Angeles, California, USA.- Advent Bangun was born on 12 October 1952 in Kabanjahe, North Sumatra, Indonesia. He was an actor, known for Langganan (1986), Pembalasan si mata elang (1989) and Elang laut (1984). He was married to Lois Riani Amalia Sinulingga. He died on 10 February 2018 in Jakarta, Indonesia.
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Alexandra Smothers was born at Stanford Hospital in Palo Alto. Her father was a third generation Cardinal at Stanford. She jokes that she must have been a "smart baby" to be born at such a prestigious school. Her Dad became a well-respected attorney and her mom was a waitress at their family restaurant for 50 years known as the "Rainbow Hut" on the Central Coast. She moved a lot as a child, between her biker mom and protective sister, her intellectual giant of a Dad, and ultimately the two who had a great impact on her life, her grandparents. She is grateful to them for raising her, with the help of her great aunt and uncle from Palo Alto for taking her from foster care and providing her with a boarding school education. Alexandra experienced living at every economic level and had a myriad of life experiences that give her a rich well to draw from as an actress.
Academy Award Nominated Actress Carrie Snodgress befriended Smothers in line for a ride at Magic Mountain and mentored her in her journey to becoming a working actress and a mom. She stressed the value of volunteering one's time to worthy causes. Smothers studied with Mr. Cochran, former Yale professor who taught Meryl Streep and Danny Glover. Smothers credits Oliver Stone for inspiring her to come to Los Angeles to work as an actress in films after meeting him at the Fiesta Five Movie Theater in Santa Barbara, where Alexandra gave him a tiny little slide that a photographer nearby just happened to have on him. She had just finished her first film, "The Legend of Shokar" that premiered at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival in 1992. He encouraged her to come to LA. She moved from Santa Barbara where she was attending school and living on a boat to Los Angeles.
Her Dad came into her life again after a ten-year absence. He was a resident at the Betty Ford Center. His roommate was unit publicist, Thomas Gray, who took Alexandra under his wing and taught her what he new about the business of show. By 1996, she was getting hundreds of auditions and a few small roles that ended up mostly on the cutting room floor. Her film and TV credits include Will Smith's breakthrough series "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" which she was fired from for trying a different accent each take, "I was green!" she laughs, red-faced.
Her first agent was Joel Tappis. They met while she sat alone waiting for a man for whom she had decided to buy some teeth so that he could look for a job. (He didn't have any in the front)
Smothers agreed to travel to see about a picture and was brought in on Tim Burton's "Mars Attacks!" (in which the film pioneer cast her as a Cleopatra cocktail waitress) by Marilee Lear. She had her own trailer and was on set for a week with Tim Burton, Danny DeVito and Annette Bening. Smothers couldn't help but be inspired by them, and the cinematographer Peter Suschitzky taught her about creating meaningful moments on film.
She flew from the set in Vegas to see her Dad marry his wife Heidi at the Little Chapel in Yosemite Valley. Two months later, Alexandra's son, Isaac, was conceived to her free-spirited globetrotting new boyfriend. She moved back to the Central Coast to raise her newborn son, Isaac, and to help her sister, Tasha who was sick. She changed her name from Brandy to Alexandra. In contemplating the naming of her son, she realized the importance of a name and its meaning. " 'Brandy' means 'conqueror.' 'Alexandra' means 'helper of mankind'. Smothers wanted to devote her time to her son. Two years later, while on a good-will ambassador trip to aid an orphanage in Mexico, a producer took notice of her. Three months later, Smothers, living in a small country town of 282 people, received a phone call. She was hired to fly to Belize as an on-screen narrator to make the case for the conservation of the rainforests, providing clean drinking water to the world and building safe homes for "Target Earth" and "Eden Conservancy". When she got back, she met the disciplined and compelling director Patti Kane, who created a theatre in Paso Robles that debuted with Smothers' performance as Cherie in 'Bus Stop' in the year 2000, Classic American Theatre was born. For the next five years Smothers worked closely with artist-in-residence Jeffrey Schultz and Director Patti Kane bringing powerful leading ladies to life to packed houses and standing ovations. She played Maggie in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" which was produced by Rob Stevens who was known to the Los Angeles theatre community for producing the awards show "The Robbies."
Alexandra missed out on knowing her father as a child. She and her son spent every Christmas with him and his wife Heidi in Ahwahnee, just outside of Yosemite. While Smothers and her dad didn't enjoy the close-knit relationship she longed for, her dad told her that he was her biggest fan after seeing Smothers in "Bus Stop" as Cherie, a role brought to the screen by the late Marilyn Monroe.
The desire to share her work with a larger audience led her back to Los Angeles. Her first appearance on stage in Los Angeles was as Blanche DuBois in "Streetcar Named Desire," and at the Improv Comedy Lab as Mrs. Brown in "National Velvet. " Again, with the audience limited to those who could make it to the theatre, Smothers set out in search of a wider audience.
In 2007, Alexandra represented Lucky Jeans and Liz Claiborne as a model in Sri Lanka, and had a very emotional journey down the coast hosted by Hidiramani Corporation, the clothing manufacturer. They took her to the village built for the survivors who had lost family members in the tsunami following the magnitude 9.1 earthquake in 2004. When she got there, they held a town hall meeting to tell her of their desire for peacekeeping, language education, and technology. Smothers would still like to establish aide to the region.
After hearing Producer Ralph Winter speak about the importance of making movies and not just dreaming about it, Smothers engaged the help of a very talented cinematographer Paolo Cascio to create a short film about her sister's recent death at 37 in a head- on collision. The story was originally titled "Illa Ensis" but at the last second was changed to "Broken" It was a very personal journey that premiered at the Alex Theatre on April 4, 2009. WGA writer Jeff Wilber wrote the non-linear script.
In 2010, on their third collaboration with Smothers, Directors Roberto Fernando Canuto and Xiaoxi Xu wrote a feature script with Alexandra in mind to play one of the leads in an ensemble piece, and asked Alexandra to join them.
The first day of filming for her first feature film, Smothers learned her father was dying of Pancreatic cancer. "Desire Street" with Alejandra Walker, Ellen Clifford, Javier Lopez and Alexandra Smothers, first screened a rough cut on November 13, 2009 In Theatre 3 on the Universal Studios lot. Her father passed away on May 4, 2010 and she doesn't know if he ever saw that film. She hastily married someone she hadn't dated five days later in her grief.
In the summer of 2010 Alexandra Smothers played Margie the waitress in "Silent Crossroads" set in the 60's in rural Echo, Utah and directed by her husband. She won the "Best Performance in an Acting Role" award from 'Action on Film' Film Festival WithOutaBox Award in 2012, and was nominated for Best Actress from the Movieville Film Festival in Sarasota Florida. They created another short film shortly thereafter where she plays a spy. Their relationship ended upon its completion and separation was a rocky one. Smothers delved into volunteering to keep her life in perspective.
She worked worked briefly on the mob comedy feature "Pizza With Bullets" starring Talia Shire, Vincent Pastore, Ronnie Marmo, Tony Amendola, Tony Devon and directed by Robert Rothbard.- Writer
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Alice Childress was born on 12 October 1916 in Charleston, South Carolina, USA. She was a writer and actress, known for Uptight (1968), A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich (1977) and Wedding Band (1974). She was married to Nathan Woodard and Alvin Childress. She died on 14 August 1994 in New York City, New York, USA.- Actress
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Angela Rippon was born on 12 October 1944 in Redruth, Cornwall, England, UK. She is an actress and writer, known for Wire in the Blood (2002), Chiller (1995) and House of Cards (1990).- Actress
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Antonia Rey was born on 12 October 1926 in Havana, Cuba. She was an actress, known for Hair (1979), Klute (1971) and Jacob's Ladder (1990). She was married to Andres Castro. She died on 21 February 2019 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.- Director
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Art Clokey was born on 12 October 1921 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He was a director and writer, known for Gumby: The Movie (1995), Gumby Adventures (1988) and The Gumby Show (1956). He was married to Gloria Clokey and Ruth Clokey. He died on 8 January 2010 in Los Osos, California, USA.- Arthur Space was born on 12 October 1908 in New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA. He was an actor, known for The Big Noise (1944), The Bat People (1974) and Terror at Red Wolf Inn (1972). He was married to Mary (Mollie) Campbell. He died on 13 January 1983 in Hollywood, California, USA.
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Aurore Clement was born in Soissons, France. Her parents were farmers, and after the death of her father, she left for Paris where she found work with a modeling agency. She quickly made a name for herself, preferring a natural style and refusing to wear make-up. In the seventies,Louis Malle, searching for a new face and look, discovered Aurore on the cover of the French magazine Elle and cast her in the role of France, a young Jewish woman in love with a collaborator in the controversial Lacombe, Lucien (1974). She then met Chantal Akerman and soon became one of her favorite comedians (from The Meetings of Anna (1978) in which she plays a lonely movie director traveling all over Europe, to Tomorrow We Move (2004) in which she portrays an intrusive and eccentric mother). In 1978 Aurore left for the Philippines to begin filming Apocalypse Now (1979), by Francis Ford Coppola, in which she was cast as the enigmatic and drug-addicted Roxanne who represented the typical 'femme fatale' for all French former colonists still dreaming of Indochina. However, the sequence, dubbed the 'Plantation', was unfortunately cut from the film and not seen again until the release of the Redux version in 2001. She met her husband, production designer Dean Tavoularis, while filming with Coppola. After several movies in Italy (Mario Monicelli, Dino Risi, Elio Petri) Aurore Clement was featured in two films shown in Cannes the same year. Portraying a loose woman for Claude Chabrol (The Hatter's Ghost (1982)) she totally reinvented herself and played a mysterious woman lost in the rain for Peter Del Monte "L'invitation au Voyage"). Two years later, she was cast by Wim Wenders as Dean Stockwell's wife in Paris, Texas (1984) which won the French Cannes Festival Palme d'Or. Excelling in playing both dramatic and lunatic characters, she reconnected with the 'cinéma d'auteur', notably in Anne-Marie Miéville's Nous sommes tous encore ici (1997) in which she played the wife of Jean Luc Godard; in Laetitia Masson's distressing world (For Sale (1998) , Only You (1994), La repentie (2002)), and in Serge Gainsbourg's nefarious and ultimate film, Stan the Flasher (1990). Aurore appeared also in well received and widely distributed movies such as Tanguy (2001), Bon Voyage (2003), and Jet Set (2000) before being directed again by Claude Chabrol as a cute hairdresser (The Bridesmaid (2004)) and by Sofia Coppola as the Duchess de Chartres in Marie Antoinette (2006). She has also been cast in numerous high quality films made for television such as Une péniche nommée 'Réalité' (1985) directed by Paul Seban (1982) in which she reconnects with her farming routes; Deux amies d'enfance (1983) with Ludmila Mikaël, directed by Nina Companeez (1983); "Quidam" (1984) in which director Gérard Marx casts her against type; Le regard dans le miroir (1985) directed by Jean Chapot (1985), in which she portrays a former camp survivor next to Bruno Cremer and Michel Bouquet; Les Alsaciens: ou les deux Mathilde (1996), directed by Michel Favart, a film shown in two parts in which she plays a woman struggling and suffering throughout two world wars and "Maigret et le corps sans tête" (1991) in which she offers a stunning performance as a bar keeper in the mid-fifties rural France. She has also been recently seen in the series Zodiaque (2004) and Zodiaque (2004). In addition to her film and television careers, Aurore has been a successful stage actress having first been seen in "La Vie singulière d'Albert Nobbs" (1988), directed by Simone Benmussa in which she portrays a young woman forced to disguise herself as a man in order to make a living in Victorian England. For this premiere on stage, she won an acting prize given by the French theater critics association. Ms. Clement was also seen in Anton Chekhov's "La Mouette", Marguerite Duras' "Les Eaux et Forets" and Alexandre Dumas fils' "La Dame aux Camelias", alongside Isabelle Adjani, for which she has been nominated for the Molieres (the equivalent of the American Tony's).- Actress
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Brigitte Lahaie was born on October 12, 1955 in Tourcoing, Nord, France. Her father was a banker and her mother was an accountant. Brigitte also has two brothers and a sister. Lahaie moved with her sister to Paris, France in 1975 and worked in a shoe store prior to getting her first film job through a newspaper advert. Brigitte began performing in explicit hardcore movies in 1976 just a year following the legalization of hardcore pornography in France. After establishing herself as a star attraction in adult fare, Brigitte played a small role in the horror picture The Grapes of Death (1978) for cult cinema director Jean Rollin. Lahaie went on to tackle a lead role in Fascination (1979) for Rollin. Moreover, in the early 1980's Brigitte decided to stop doing porn and made a concentrated effort to appear in more traditional mainstream films under the alias Brigitte Simonin. (She has small parts in such mainstream movies as Diva (1981) and Henry & June (1990).) In addition, Lahaie published an autobiography in 1987, recorded and released a pop single, and even did a successful one-woman stage show about her life and career before going on to become the hostess of her own daily talk radio show that largely centers on issues concerning sexuality and relationships. Brigitte was inducted into the XRCO Hall of Fame as a Film Pioneer in 2014.- Carla Borelli was born on 12 October 1942 in San Francisco, California, USA. She is an actress, known for Falcon Crest (1981), Mannix (1967) and American Playhouse (1980). She was previously married to John Powell Demorest and Donald May.
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Carlos Bernard spent his formative years in Mexico City and Chicago. He attended New Trier High School and majored in Fine Art at Illinois State University. It was after college that Carlos began his acting career - performing at such Chicago theaters as The Second City, Victory Gardens and Pegasus Players. He later made the move to San Francisco to train at the prestigious American Conservatory Theater masters program. While at A.C.T., he appeared in the classic plays Hamlet, As You Like It, The Cherry Orchard, Heartbreak House and Good.
Carlos has starred in various films and television series, including The Lincoln Lawyer, The Orville, Madame Secretary, Supergirl, Castle, CSI Miami and Dallas; however, he is probably best known for his portrayal of Tony Almeida on Fox's Golden Globe and Emmy Award winning series 24 - for which he received two Screen Actors Guild Award nominations, two Alma Award nominations and three Imagen Award nominations.
Carlos has written and directed for the stage and screen. He received an LA Weekly Theater Award nomination (Best Director) for his staging of Vaclav Havel's play The Memorandum. His first film Your Father's Daughter, which he wrote and directed, premiered at The Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival. He has directed episodes of FBI, Law & Order, FBI Most Wanted, Chicago Fire, BULL, Ciminal Minds, Hawaii Five-0, MacGyver, Magnum P.I. and The Inspectors.
Carlos was selected to participate in the Warner Bros. Directors' Workshop and the Sony Pictures Television Diverse Directors Program. He was one of the founding members of the Ashbury Actors Group theater company in Los Angeles.
Carlos is a life long Cubs fan.- Director
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Carolee Schneemann was born on 12 October 1939 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. She was a director and actress, known for Infinity Kisses: The Movie (2009), Fuses (1967) and Body Collage (1967). She was married to James Tenney and Anthony McCall. She died on 6 March 2019 in New Paltz, New York, USA.- Caroline Ellis was born on 12 October 1950 in Whetstone, London, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Confessions from a Holiday Camp (1977), Only Fools and Horses (1981) and Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson (1980).
- Pelli was born in San Miguel de Tucumán in Argentina in 1926. He went to the US to study in 1952, becoming a citizen in 1964. Before establishing his own practice he worked for the Finnish modernist Eero Saarinen on projects including the famous TWA terminal at JFK airport in New York.
In the 1980s, he expanded the Museum of Modern Art (Moma) in Manhattan. Among other US projects were the Connecticut Science Center in Hartford, the Aria Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, a chapel at Xavier University in New Orleans and the BOK Center arena in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Among projects abroad, he designed One Canada Square at Canary Wharf in London's Docklands, which opened in 1991. The Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur were completed in 1997.
Pelli's works included the cluster of towers making up the World Financial Center (now called Brookfield Place) at Battery Park City in New York, famous for the glass-roofed Winter Garden at its center, designed the United States Embassy in Tokyo, the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in Miami and the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar.
Known as the Blue Whale, an immense exhibition hall, the Crystal Palace of the west coast, Pacific Design Center, a huge, glass-clad 1976 project which assimilated into the local folklore of Los Angeles quicker than any building in recent memory, because it is so violently at odds with its flat suburban context. semi-translucent blue glass, which glitters and disappears and re-forms against the dusty blue sky.
One of Pelli's best-known projects is the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, twin 1,483ft skyscrapers that were once the tallest buildings in the world. He also designed the Salesforce Tower in San Francisco and the World Financial Center, now known as Brookfield Place, in downtown Manhattan.
Pelli was a former dean of the Yale University School of Architecture and a lecturer at the school, where he received an honorary degree. He won hundreds of architecture awards, including the 1995 gold medal of the American Institute of Architects, its highest honor. - Actor
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Cody Cameron is an American voice actor, animator and storyboard artist from California who is known for his work at DreamWorks Animation and Sony Pictures Animation. He voiced Pinocchio and the Three Little Pigs in the Shrek franchise and Mr. Weenie in the Open Season franchise. He voiced Pinocchio in various Shrek video games.- Actor
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Colton Ford was born on 12 October 1962 in Pasadena, California, USA. He is an actor, known for The Lair (2007).- Actress
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Stylish, slender-framed, raven-haired Daliah Lavi was made for alluring, exotic types and princess roles with her mesmerizing beauty, chiseled cheek bones and long, flowing mane. The Israeli actress first became a star in Europe before making a dent in Hollywood as part of a wave of knockout foreign star imports that flooded Hollywood during the mid 1960s -- Claudia Cardinale, Julie Christie, Jeanne Moreau, Liv Ullmann, Melina Mercouri, Ursula Andress, Jacqueline Bisset, Romy Schneider, Elke Sommer, Senta Berger, Rosanna Schiaffino, Geneviève Bujold, Capucine, Shirley Eaton, Sylva Koscina, Barbara Bouchet, Susannah York, Rita Tushingham, Monica Vitti, Vanessa Redgrave and her sister Lynn Redgrave, and Catherine Deneuve and her sister Françoise Dorléac. Like most of the others, Daliah was to be viewed as a viable sex symbol contender. In her case, she found decorative, second-tier notice via tongue-in-cheek spy spoofs, crime mysteries, erotic thrillers and rugged adventures. In retrospect, she may have fallen short of the illustrious Hollywood pedestal, but she did create a fine, if brief, stir.
She was born Daliah Levenbuch in the Moshav Shavey Zion, in the British Mandate of Palestine on October 12, 1942. The daughter of Reuben and Ruth Lewinbuk (or Levenbuch), who were of German-Jewish and Polish-Jewish descent, she was sent as a child to Stockholm, Sweden in the early 1950s to train in dance. She made her first film there at age 13 in the drama Hemsöborna (1955) playing the daughter of a professor. Her start in films was interrupted when she returned to Israeli following her father's death and joined the Israeli Army.
Following this period, she returned to acting and, being fluent in many European languages, began to figure in prominently with a host of French, Italian, German and English productions, often as a co-star. Such early films include a starring role in the German/Israeli co-production Brennender Sand (1960); the classic Voltaire comedy Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century (1960) co-starring as Cunegonde alongside Jean-Pierre Cassel in the title role; and the Martine Carol drama Un soir sur la plage (1961). She continued to build up a strong European film reputation with the war drama No Time for Ecstasy (1961) co-starring Peter van Eyck; the mystery crime The Return of Dr. Mabuse (1961) starring Gert Fröbe and post-Tarzan Lex Barker; and made her American movie debut (earning a Golden Globe "Newcomer" Award in the process) as the second femme lead in the Kirk Douglas starer Two Weeks in Another Town (1962), directed by Vincente Minnelli.
Daliah gained considerable ground enhancing and beautifying such foreign movie product as the ensemble French crime mystery Le jeu de la vérité (1961) (aka The Game of Truth); the German comedy satire Das schwarz-weiß-rote Himmelbett (1962); the title role of a sultry peasant girl accused of being a witch in the Italian/French co-production Il demonio (1963) (aka The Demon); the European western action film Old Shatterhand (1964) starring U.S. imports Lex Barker and Guy Madison; the continental costumed adventure Cyrano et d'Artagnan (1964) starring José Ferrer and Jean-Pierre Cassel as Cyrano and D'Artagnan; the German comedy thriller They're Too Much (1965) starring Curd Jürgens, and the one of the ensemble suspects in the internationally cast whodunit Ten Little Indians (1965).
The actress hit her height of international popularity with four popular English/US-based films: as "The Girl" in the epic adventure Lord Jim (1965) starring Peter O'Toole and James Mason; as Princess Natasha in the spy comedy The Spy with a Cold Nose (1966) opposite Laurence Harvey; an alluring double agent in the first Matt Helm entry The Silencers (1966) starring Dean Martin; and as a sexy enemy weapon in the phantasmagorical Bondian spoof Casino Royale (1967), starring Peter Sellers and an all-star international cast. The last-mentioned film, in particular, had American male audiences taking major notice.
Decked out in tight mini-skirts, thigh-high go-go boots and a helmet of black hair, Daliah fit in perfectly with the times, a swinging, gorgeous chick of the psychedelic 60s. She quickly lost momentum, however, cast in such overlooked films as Those Fantastic Flying Fools (1967), The High Commissioner (1968) and Some Girls Do (1969). Her final film would be in the western comedy Catlow (1971) starring Yul Brynner.
In the 1970s Daliah pursued a singing career in Germany after being discovered by record producer Jimmy Bowien. A popular draw, she had a few hit songs and covered many international songwriters and artists. She was also glimpsed again on German television in the 90s for a brief spell. Daliah died on May 3, 2017, in North Carolina. Her fourth husband of 40 years, Charles Gans, survived her, along with four children, including her son Alex Gans who follow in her footsteps in film as a film editor, producer and director.- Danielle Proulx was born on 12 October 1952 in Montréal, Québec, Canada. She is an actress, known for C.R.A.Z.Y. (2005), Portion d'éternité (1988) and Amoureux fou (1991). She has been married to Raymond Cloutier since 1973. They have one child.
- A twin fisted existentialist, whose post-Nietzschian sensibilities reject the lantern of the cynic in a quest for a sun that leaves no shadow. He attended Dr Challoners Grammar School where he achieved 8 'o' levels, he then elected to work on demolition sites rather than continue his education to University level. He studied performing arts in his twenties then became a professional wrestler and then secured the role of John in Snatch. Other film and TV work followed including appearances in Eastenders,the Bill and Emmerdale as well as parts in major motion pictures such as Batman begins and Elizabeth the Golden age and when work was quiet he decided to become a professional cage fighter securing wins over LA street fighting legend Kimo Leopoldo and ex UFC heavyweight champion Dan Severn. His fight and acting career however began to clash and when he was offered a role in Steven Berkoff's On The Waterfront he had to regrettably decline due to fight commitments. Instead Berkoff attended Legeno's fight at Wembley arena where he defeated Herb Dean. When Dave was cast as Fenrir Greyback in the Harry Potter series he put his fight career on hold.
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David Threlfall was born on 12 October 1953 in Burnage, Manchester, England, UK. He is an actor and producer, known for Shameless (2004), Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) and Hot Fuzz (2007). He has been married to Brana Bajic since 1995. They have two children.- Deborah Foreman won the prestigious "Most Promising New Star" award from Sho West in 1986, following her starring roles in the critically acclaimed Valley Girl (1983) and the award-winning My Chauffeur (1986). Subsequently, she had the lead (actually the two leads!) in April Fool's Day (1986) which continues to be a video favorite. She is a hard-working actress, equally at home with comedy and drama, who has earned the respect of colleagues and press alike. She has also been a successful model for Maybelline. Her father was a Marine Corps pilot and her mother is an executive assistant. She has one brother who is in the music industry.
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Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Debra Chasnoff is a nationally recognized champion of using film as an organizing tool for social justice campaigns, and a pioneering leader in the international movement working to create safe and welcoming schools and communities. Debra's highly acclaimed documentaries addressing youth and bias issues are widely hailed by educators and advocates as among the best tools available today to help open up dialogue and activism around many of the most challenging issues affecting young people's lives and school environments.
Her films include Straightlaced-How Gender's Got Us All Tied Up, about the gender and sexuality pressures that teens and young adults face today. Her other award-winning films include It's Elementary-Talking About Gay Issues in School, Let's Get Real (about bias and bullying) That's a Family! (supporting youth growing up in diverse family structures) and the Academy Award-winning Deadly Deception-General Electric, Nuclear Weapons and Our Environment. Her first film, Choosing Children, explored the once unheard of idea that lesbians and gay men could become parents after coming out.
In addition to dozens of film festival awards, Debra is the recipient of the Wallace A. Gerbode Foundation Fellowship for outstanding non-profit leadership, the Pathfinder Award from the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, and the first-ever alumnae achievement award in documentary filmmaking from Wellesley College. Debra has been a featured speaker at dozens of colleges and conferences, and was recently named a Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow. She is the founder of GroundSpark and co-creator of our renowned Respect For All Project. She has served the organization in a directing capacity since 1982.- Actor
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Dick Gregory was born on 12 October 1932 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for The Hot Chick (2002), The Leisure Seeker (2017) and Reno 911! (2003). He was married to Lillian Gregory. He died on 19 August 2017 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA.- Actor
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Dion Johnstone was born on 12 October 1975 in Montréal, Québec, Canada. He is an actor and producer, known for Sweet Magnolias (2020), The Core (2003) and The Tempest (2010).- Actor
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Guitarist and songwriter Donnie Dacus was born October 12, 1951 in Galena Park, Texas. He's noted for his work with Stephen Stills in the early 70s, and a controversial stint with the jazz-rock group Chicago from 1978-1980 (he also had a brief fling with acting, starring in "Hair" in 1979).
His career started in a teenage band called The Shux (so named because Jimi Hendrix often ended shows by saying, "Aw shucks"). Reports indicate that The Shux had Go-Go girls, and that Dacus often dressed up as Hendrix. In 1966, the band played at a Mardi Gras in Fort Worth, Texas (the Doors played at there as well). After graduating from Cleburne High, Dacus left to record with a band called the "Yellow Payges."
According to various sources, Dacus worked on Crosby, Stills, and Nash's "CSN" album, doing background vocals and playing rhythm guitar. A few years later he teamed up with Stephen Stills for several projects (on "Stills" Dacus has two writing credits, and on "Illegal Stills" he is featured prominently).
Stills and Dacus suffered a bitter falling out when Dacus accidentally landed a part in the movie version of "Hair" (he accompanied a friend to auditions and got the part when Milos Forman spotted him). His long blond locks and bland good looks made him a natural for the character of Woof. He also sang some background vocals on Billy Joel's classic "52nd Street." However, fate would soon guide him to his most infamous gig.
In January of 1978, bearish Terry Kath - legendary guitarist of "Chicago" - fatally shot himself. Not wanting a Kath clone, the band decided to look for a replacement who could boost their sex appeal. Dacus auditioned between takes on Forman's film almost as an afterthought. "I knew most of the songs," Dacus has said. "I used to do 'Dialogue' in Top-Forty bands. I knew every hit song those guys ever did. They let me play five songs and by the third song, "25 or 6 to 4," I could tell everyone was looking around. I wasn't nervous. I went in there with the attitude, 'Hey, I'm gonna play with Chicago; they may hate me but I'm gonna have some fun.'"
It's been said that Chicago auditioned nearly 50 guitarists before hiring Dacus. Bassist Peter Cetera has disputed this, saying Chicago "interviewed about 20 different guitarists," and were just about at the end of their rope. Then Dacus came in and played their stuff with a lot of fire. According to trombonist Jimmy Pankow, what impressed Chicago was that Dacus "was somebody who believed in himself. He came in and said, 'I'm Donnie Dacus.' The kid had a lot of balls. Most of those [other] guys couldn't sing and play 'Little One' at the same time." Cetera, noticing Dacus had long, Frampton-ish hair (and, thus, 70's sex appeal), supposedly stated, "My God, he has long hair! Let's go!" Keyboardist Robert Lamm said, "He just blew us away. The kid's an original."
Dacus' debut with Chicago ("Hot Streets") went top-12 and platinum, but the controversy over the new guitar player began right away. No Terry Kath in looks (a plus), in voice, in soloing, or in composition (all minuses), Dacus faced an impossible task - to replace a fan favorite who had died tragically at the height of his popularity. To be fair to Dacus, Jimmy Page couldn't have effectively replaced Kath under these circumstances. In retrospect, Dacus gets mixed reviews. Some of his soloing is great, some bad ("Alive Again"). As a singer he's effective in ensemble ("Alive Again"), but sounds like a baritone trying to stretch it to tenor on leads ("Ain't It Time," "Take A Chance"). As a composer he pens a decent guitar riff ("Ain't It Time"), but has trouble rhyming. That Dacus entered Chicago at a time when their first wave of success was ending is not his fault, but he couldn't do much to pull them out of the tailspin, either.
That tailspin hit hard with "Chicago 13" featuring the Dacus single "Must Have Been Crazy." Neither the album nor the song went anywhere as Chicago failed to make platinum status for the first time (far better was a re-recorded, Chicago-ized version of the Dacus/Stills "Closer to You," strangely released only as a B-side single). Strained relationships between Dacus and the other band members added to the problems, and Dacus was fired after the Christmas tour of 1979.
What exactly happened between Dacus and Chicago may never be known. Collected hints over the years indicate that Dacus' ego got too big, and that his rolling and yelping stage style didn't fit in with the rest of the band. Dacus has remained publicly silent since the split and, in fact, it's difficult to find virtually any information about him from that time onward.
He surfaced in 1982, joining Badfinger for a tour, and sources say some Badfinger fans think he was one of Badfinger's best. He did some session work in New York and L.A during various times in the 80s, and filled in one night in 1987 as the guitarist of David Letterman's band. In 1987 and 1988, he is supposed to have had a leading role in "Cats" on Broadway. Reports indicate that Dacus is married with kids living in Austin, Texas, though he also allegedly maintains a second home in North Hollywood.
However, in recent years, Dacus sightings have been scarce. Former Chicago drummer Danny Serpaphine has this to say about the situation: "Donnie Dacus did disappear from the face of the earth. He was let go because he really didn't fit into the band, [and] never did; it was a mistake in the first place. It wasn't his fault either; he was a good guy. He just didn't fit in with the mix. I know it really hurt him to be let go like that, believe me now, I know how that feels."- Script and Continuity Department
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Doris Grau was born on 12 October 1924 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for No Way Out (1987), Babe (1995) and Clue (1985). She died on 30 December 1995 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Producer
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Eleanor Columbus was born on 12 October 1989 in Washington, USA. She is a producer and actress, known for Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) and Rent (2005).- Actor
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Eli Danker was born on 12 October 1948 in Tel Aviv, Israel. He is an actor, known for Undisputed 2: Last Man Standing (2006), My Mom's New Boyfriend (2008) and 24: Legacy (2016).- Eliana Guercio is known for Son de Fierro (2007), Todos contra Juan (2008) and Casados con hijos (2005). She has been married to Sergio Romero since 16 October 2008. They have three children.
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Emilio Vieyra was born on 12 October 1920 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was a director and writer, known for Comandos azules (1980), The Curious Dr. Humpp (1969) and Los irrompibles (1975). He died on 25 January 2010 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.- He was born and raised in Ankara . He graduated from Ankara University Department of History.
His first TV series was Yabanci Damat. It is first Turkish series exported to Greece. Yabanci damat is first important success for Turkish series export. It's about love of a Greek man and a Turkish woman. After increasing the number of his fans by this series he shot his first movie "Kader" in 2006. With "Cevat" role in this movie, he won the Modern Cinema Actors and Actresses Association (Casod) "Most Promising Actor", and Cinema Writers Association (Siyad) "Most Promising Actor" Awards in 2006.
His next project was TV Series "Karayilan" which was directed by Cem Akyoldas. This series was about the French occupation in Gaziantep and it had the second highest budget for TV Series in Turkey.
His first leading role was in TV Series "Bir Bulut Olsam",which was written by Meral Okay and directed by Ulas Inac. His character was "Mustafa Bulut" who gave the series its name.
In 2011, he played the male romantic lead Kerim in TV series "What is Fatmagul's Fault?" which was written by Vedat Türkali and directed by Hilal Saral, Hüseyin Tunç, and Ayhan Özen. His performance in this series brought him many awards and he became one of the most popular actors in Turkey. This role also made him one of the most recognized and loved Turkish actors in the Middle East and Latin America.
In 2014, he played a character named Tekin in a movie called "A Small September Affair" written and directed by Kerem Deren. In the same year, he came back to the TV screens with Omer character in "Black Money Love" TV series written by Eylem Canbolat and Sema Ergenekon and directed by Ahmet Katiksiz. With this role, he won the Best Actor Award in Seoul International Drama Awards and nominated for the Best Actor category at the International Emmy Awards in 2015. - Cinematographer
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Ennio Guarnieri was born on 12 October 1930 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was a cinematographer, known for La Dolce Vita (1960), La Traviata (1982) and Brother Sun, Sister Moon (1972). He died on 1 July 2019 in Licata, Sicily, Italy.- Director
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Enrique Cahen Salaberry was born on 12 October 1911 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was a director and assistant director, known for El día que me quieras (1969), El bote, el río y la gente (1960) and El caradura y la millonaria (1971). He died on 29 June 1991 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.- Writer
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Ernesto Schoó was born on 12 October 1925 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was a writer and actor, known for New Hope (1996), Cuatro caras para Victoria (1992) and Cuentos y novelas: A sangre fría (1984). He died on 15 July 2013 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.- He had a relationship with actress Connie Nielsen when she lived and worked in Italy. The couple had a son, Sebastian Sartor, born on November 26, 1989. After the transfer of the actress to the United States, the two were on good terms and the actor has continued to see his son, going back and forth between the two continents.
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Ferdia Walsh-Peelo was born on 12 October 1999 in Ashford, County Wicklow, Ireland. He is an actor, known for Sing Street (2016), CODA (2021) and Love Gets a Room (2021).- Actor
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Francisco Gattorno was born on 12 October 1964 in Santa Clara, Cuba. He is an actor and producer, known for Before Night Falls (2000), Italian Bride (2014) and Mabel Valdez, periodista (1979). He is married to Belmaris González Suazo. They have two children. He was previously married to Cynthia Klitbo.- Gawn Grainger was born on 12 October 1937 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. He is an actor and writer, known for The March of the Peasants (1952), Doctor Who (1963) and The Raggedy Rawney (1988). He has been married to Zoë Wanamaker since November 1994. He was previously married to Janet Key and Janet McIntire.
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Geoff Murphy was born on 12 October 1938 in Wellington, New Zealand. He was a director and actor, known for The Quiet Earth (1985), Dante's Peak (1997) and Under Siege 2: Dark Territory (1995). He was married to Merata Mita, Pat Robins and Diane Kearns. He died on 3 December 2018 in Wellington, New Zealand.- Actress
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Gillian Welch was born on 12 October 1967 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA. She is an actress, known for O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018) and Hell or High Water (2016).- Actress
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Grace Johnston was born on 12 October 1980 in the USA. She is an actress, known for Beaches (1988), ABC Afterschool Specials (1972) and Absolute Killers (2011).- Guillermo Coppola is known for I Married a Dumbass (2016), Graduates (2012) and Son amores (2002). He has been married to Corina Juárez since 7 April 2016. They have one child. He was previously married to Sonia Brucki and Isabel Ferri.
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Hiroyuki Sanada was born on October 12, 1960 in Tokyo. He made his film debut when he was 5 in Rokyoku komori-uta (1965) (Shin'ichi Chiba played the lead role.) His father died when he was 11. He joined Japan Action Club, organized & run by Sonny Chiba, when he was 12. He 1st became famous as an action star for his role in Yagyu Clan Conspiracy (1978) but is now known as one of the most talented actors in Japan. From 1999-2000, he played the fool in an English-language production of "King Lear" w/ members of the Royal Shakespeare Co as the 1st Japanese actor to act w/ the RSC. He received an honorary MBE (Member of the British Empire) for this work. He & Satomi Tezuka split after 7 years in 1997.- Actor
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Hugh Michael Jackman is an Australian actor, singer, multi-instrumentalist, dancer and producer. Jackman has won international recognition for his roles in major films, notably as superhero, period, and romance characters. He is best known for his long-running role as Wolverine in the X-Men film series, as well as for his lead roles in the romantic-comedy fantasy Kate & Leopold (2001), the action-horror film Van Helsing (2004), the drama The Prestige and The Fountain (2006), the epic historical romantic drama Australia (2008), the film version of Les Misérables (2012), and the thriller Prisoners (2013). His work in Les Misérables earned him his first Academy Award nomination for Best Actor and his first Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy in 2013. In Broadway theatre, Jackman won a Tony Award for his role in The Boy from Oz. A four-time host of the Tony Awards themselves, he won an Emmy Award for one of these appearances. Jackman also hosted the 81st Academy Awards on 22 February 2009.
Jackman was born in Sydney, New South Wales, to Grace McNeil (Greenwood) and Christopher John Jackman, an accountant. He is the youngest of five children. His parents, both English, moved to Australia shortly before his birth. He also has Greek (from a great-grandfather) and Scottish (from a grandmother) ancestry.
Jackman has a communications degree with a journalism major from the University of Technology Sydney. After graduating, he pursued drama at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, immediately after which he was offered a starring role in the ABC-TV prison drama Correlli (1995), opposite his future wife Deborra-Lee Furness. Several TV guest roles followed, as an actor and variety compere. An accomplished singer, Jackman has starred as Gaston in the Australian production of "Beauty and the Beast." He appeared as Joe Gillis in the Australian production of "Sunset Boulevard." In 1998, he was cast as Curly in the Royal National Theatre's production of Trevor Nunn's Oklahoma. Jackman has made two feature films, the second of which, Erskineville Kings (1999), garnered him an Australian Film Institute nomination for Best Actor in 1999. Recently, he won the part of Logan/Wolverine in the Bryan Singer- directed comic-book movie X-Men (2000). In his spare time, Jackman plays piano, golf, and guitar, and likes to windsurf.- Jim MacKrell's broadcast career has spanned decades and has included every aspect of communications, from local and network commercials to hosting specials to guest-starring in popular series and features. For the four years of its run, Jim was the star of the hit NBC game-show, Celebrity Sweepstakes (1974). He also hosted The Game Game (1969) (CBS), Quiz Kids (1978) (Columbia Pictures TV), plus numerous other shows. Jim's career has taken him to all areas of television and movies. His theatrical credits include such memorable films as Woody Allen's Annie Hall (1977), Albert Brooks' Defending Your Life (1991), Semi-Tough (1977), Gremlins (1984) and Teen Wolf (1985) with Michael J. Fox. He has had guest-starring roles on television in Dallas (1978), Soap (1977), Moonlighting (1985) and The Golden Girls (1985), amongst over 40 others. His made-for-TV movies include Christmas Miracle in Caufield, U.S.A. (1977), Run, Don't Walk (1981) and A Reason to Live (1985). Jim was also a regular on General Hospital (1963), Capitol (1982) and Days of Our Lives (1965).
As a performer/writer/producer, Jim has made advertising a major focal point of his career. He has been corporate spokesman for giants such as Chevrolet and Disney. He has starred in spots for household names such as Whirlpool, Fiber Con, Serta, Goodyear, Mattel, Oster, Radio Shack, Exxon, Entex, and more. He also has appeared as a spokesman for industrials and corporate films for Toyota, Exxon, Xerox, Shell, Coca Cola, and more. For 14 years, Jim was the corporate host for the National Easter Seals Telethon and he wrote and produced several projects for ACTA Communications in Chicago.
A veteran of radio, his credits include some of the top radio stations in the nation, including KMPC Los Angeles, KFI Los Angeles, WMEX Boston, WNOE New Orleans, WFUN Miami. In recent years, he hosted a top-rated talk show in Houston, Texas, on 97 Talk.
With acting, hosting, writing and producing highly-motivating sales films and to having most of his life laid out in Video Rental Stores across the country, there is not an avenue of entertainment or marketing in which Jim MacKrell has not excelled. - Actress
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Teenage fashion model and Earl Carroll showgirl Jean Wallace failed in her first bid to break into movies, after MGM discovered that she was only 17, not 19 years old - as she had claimed. Being underage meant that she could only work four hours a day (and with an official tutor) and so her bit in Ziegfeld Girl (1941) was all there was. At Paramount, her luck improved. Signed to a six months contract (plus complimentary tutor) the platinum blonde insurance salesman's daughter made her first motion picture appearance in a credited part in Louisiana Purchase (1941). Her next stop was 20th Century Fox where she spent five years under contract, but had very little to do after refusing to appear in Kiss of Death (1947), not a good career move, as it turned out. For the next few years, Jean's screen career was overshadowed by her turbulent private life.
A chance meeting in July 1941 between Jean and the actor Franchot Tone, formerly Joan Crawford partner and twice her age, had led to a whirlwind romance, seven years of rocky marriage and, ultimately, divorce. Jean twice attempted suicide, the first with sleeping pills in 1946, the second by stabbing herself in the abdomen in 1949. During the acrimonious divorce proceedings that followed, Jean alleged extreme jealousy and an affair with peroxide blond siren Barbara Payton, while Tone claimed that his wife had been involved with gangster Johnny Stompanato, bodyguard of infamous L.A. mobster Mickey Cohen (Stompanato later came to grief at the hands of Lana Turner's daughter, Cheryl Crane, in 1958). In 1950, Jean married soldier James Randall in San Diego, but this union was annulled after just five months. Having lost custody of her two children to Tone, she then lost her driver's license, following a charge of drunk driving. Things could only get better.
In September 1951, Jean got married for the third time. From here on, her career became inextricably linked to that of her husband, actor and director Cornel Wilde, who assumed a 'Svengali'-like role in attempting to mould her into an actress of stature. She was featured opposite him in a number of mostly routine B-movies, made by his production company Theadora. Best among those was a lesser film noir, The Big Combo (1955), where she played a self-destructive gangster's moll torn between evil crime boss Richard Conte and nice police lieutenant, Wilde. In the colourful Maracaibo (1958),which was largely shot on location, she was an icy journalist, one third of a love triangle, involving Wilde as a 'Red' Adair-type action hero, dousing oil fires in Venezuela (featuring in the cast a young Michael Landon of Bonanza (1959) fame). Jean sang in the soundtrack, which she also did for both Star of India (1954), and Beach Red (1967) (though her acting part in this war picture was somewhat perfunctory). In Sword of Lancelot (1963), she was Guinevere to Wilde's Lancelot, who also co-produced and directed. Her last starring role was in Wilde's No Blade of Grass (1970), in which a family escapes from a post-apocalyptic world, not unlike I Am Legend (2007)(or its earlier incarnation, The Omega Man (1971)).
After divorcing Wilde in 1980, Jean lived with a menagerie of pets (including two snakes and a tarantula) in Beverly Hills until her death in February 1990.- Writer
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Jeff Nathanson was born on 12 October 1965 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997), Catch Me If You Can (2002) and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017).- Actress
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JoAnn Willette was born on 12 October 1963 in Lewiston, Maine, USA. She is an actress, known for Just the Ten of Us (1987), A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge (1985) and Real Genius (1985). She was previously married to Mark Amato.- Actor
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Jonathan Crombie was born on Wednesday, October 12th, 1966, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He was the baby of the family (he had two older sisters). His parents are David and Shirley Ann. Jonathan never intended on becoming an actor but he was spotted in a high school production of "The Wizard of Oz" by casting director Diane Polley. She suggested casting him as Gilbert Blythe in both A Judgment in Stone (1986), Anne of Green Gables (1985) & its sequel, Anne of Avonlea (1987) (it was titled "Anne of Avonlea" when it was first released on VHS). It is the role that won him recognition and is the role for which he is best remembered and loved.
Jonathan graduated from the University of Toronto's Victoria College in 1995. He had numerous performances at the prestigious Stratford Festival Theatre to his credit. His performance in the role of Valentine Coverly at the Canadian Stage Company's Arcadia earned Crombie a 1997 Dora Mavor Moore Award nomination for Outstanding Performance, a well deserved honor.
Jonathan Crombie's life ended unexpectedly on Wednesday, April 15th, 2015, from a brain hemorrhage. His life-time was 17,717 days, equaling 2,531 weeks evenly.- Music Department
José Bragato was born on 12 October 1915 in Udine, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy. He is known for The Official Story (1985) and Tango (1998). He was married to Herminia Domínguez. He died on 18 July 2017 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.- Director
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Joseph Kahn was born on 12 October 1972. He is a director and cinematographer, known for Bodied (2017), Detention (2011) and Torque (2004).- Actress
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As a child she studied at Seattle's Cornish School. Still in her early twenties, after several years of stock work in New York, she joined Eva Le Gallienne's Civic Repertory Theater where she won critical praise for her title role in "Alice in Wonderland." She came to Hollywood in 1934 under contract with Warners, debuting in Happiness Ahead (1934). She co-starred with Paul Muni in The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936) and played in many small roles, both in films - e.g., the phony U.N. ambassador's wife in North by Northwest (1959) - and television: The Twilight Zone (1959), Gunsmoke (1955), and Perry Mason (1957) in the fifties and sixties. She died at Manhattan's Florence Nightingale Nursing Home, aged 94.- Actor
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Joshua Ryan Hutcherson was born on October 12, 1992 in Union, Kentucky to Michelle Fightmaster, who worked for Delta Air Lines, and Chris Hutcherson, an EPA analyst. He has one younger brother, Connor Hutcherson. From the age of four, Josh knew that he wanted to be an actor. In order to pursue his goal, Josh and his family moved to Los Angeles when he was nine-years-old.
In 2002, Josh landed his first acting role in the TV film, House Blend (2002), with Amy Yasbeck, Dan Cortese and Sean Faris. The same year, Josh was cast in the pilot, Becoming Glen (2002), but Fox did not order it to series (though, several years later, it was reconfigured as the short-lived series, The Winner (2007), starring Rob Corddry, and co-written/produced by Seth MacFarlane). Toward the end of 2002, Josh appeared on an episode of ER (1994).
Josh made his big-screen debut, in 2003, with a bit part in the Oscar-nominated American Splendor (2003). His career began its measured ascent in 2005 with a supporting slot as one of Will Ferrell's kids in Kicking & Screaming (2005), a co-starring role in the indie hit Little Manhattan (2005), and another co-starring role in Zathura: A Space Adventure (2005), which was originally conceived as a sequel to Jumanji (1995). Despite underperforming at the box office, "Zathura" helped earned for Josh his first Young Artist Award for "Leading Young Actor".
2006 saw bigger returns for Josh's burgeoning film career with a role as one of Robin Williams' sons in the modest hit, RV (2006). The following year, he landed his first breakthrough role in Bridge to Terabithia (2007), the kid-approved adaptation of Katherine Paterson's novel that co-starred AnnaSophia Robb, whose career was also taking off at this time.
Josh starred as Brendan Fraser's nephew in another family-film hit, Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008), and he had a smaller role in the Crash-like drama, Fragments (2008), though by now his face and name were being used in movie-marketing materials. Though it wasn't a hit, Josh's character in Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (2009) served as a major plot device early in the story.
In 2010, Josh co-starred in the critically-acclaimed film, The Kids Are All Right (2010), alongside Annette Bening, Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, and Mia Wasikowska. The film received several awards and four Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture. Josh's performance as the youngest child in a family, led by two mothers, earned him acclaim from audiences and the industry, alike. Josh followed up with an expanded role in Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2012), which saw Dwayne Johnson take over as the main character from Brendan Fraser. Between the star power and the allure of 3D, the sequel was a worldwide hit and a third installment is in development.
With the announcement that he would portray the beloved "Peeta Mellark" in The Hunger Games (2012), the film adaptation of the best-selling novel written by Suzanne Collins, Josh became an instant celebrity. In the wake of the movie's massive worldwide success, Detention (2011), a horror/comedy that Josh made before "The Hunger Games", was released. Josh was also an executive producer on that feature.
Before Josh reprises his role as "Peeta" in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013), we will see him in the long-delayed remake of Red Dawn (2012); the omnibus 7 Days in Havana (2011) (aka "7 Days in Havana") (Josh's segment was directed by Benicio Del Toro); The Forger (2012) opposite Lauren Bacall, Alfred Molina, and Hayden Panettiere; and the animated Epic (2013) from Ice Age (2002) co-director (and voice of "Scrat"), Chris Wedge.- Jovita Díaz was born in General Pinedo, Chaco, Argentina. She was an actress, known for Cosquín, amor y folklore (1965), La carpa del amor (1979) and Margarito Tereré (1978). She died on 28 April 2015 in Resistencia, Chaco, Argentina.
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Kate Beahan was born on 12 October 1974 in Perth, Western Australia, Australia. She is an actress and assistant director, known for The Wicker Man (2006), Flightplan (2005) and The Matrix Revolutions (2003).- Katherine Sigismund was born on 12 October 1979 in Half Moon Bay, California, USA. She is an actress, known for The Taking of Pelham 123 (2009), Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011) and No Reservations (2007).
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Kelly Siegler is a former Harris County, State of Texas prosecutor. She has been the Bureau Chief of the Special Crimes Bureau, which included the Major Offenders Division, the Major Fraud Division, the Identity Theft Division, the Asset Forfeiture Division and the Consumer Fraud Division.
Siegler, has lectured all over the U.S. on topics such as, "Final Arguments," "Jury Presentation," "Arguing Effectively for a Death Sentence" and "How to Pick a Jury."
Nicknamed the "Giant Killer," Siegler tried 20 death penalty cases and secured the death penalty in 19.
Siegler graduated from the University of Texas in Austin with a BBA in International Business (1984) and she earned her JD from South Texas College of Law (1987).
Her natural abilities as a public speaker translate well to the small screen on _Cold Justice_.
Has tried 68 murder cases - and has never lost
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Kenneth went to a grammar school in South Wales where the English literary teacher had the class read out parts in plays, which was the one thing he enjoyed; as a result, he was put in a play about Richard II. A local critic wrote, 'If this boy chooses to make the stage a career he should do well,' which gave Kenneth the idea of acting despite never having seen an actor or a theatre up to then. He left school at 15 with no idea of what to do apart from joining the army which would provide him with a uniform and food and possibly send him to India. Instead he went to Cambridge at 15½ to work in an ironmongers. He went to the stage door of the Cambridge Theatre with some of his notices and asked for the producer, who gave him a job at £3 a week. Despite having had no formal theatre training he made 70+ films, as well as researching and directing two of his own documentaries.- Actor
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Kirk Thomas Cameron was born in Panorama City, California, to Barbara Cameron (née Barbara Jeanne Bausmith), a homemaker, and Robert Cameron, a teacher. Though his parents initially did not project show business aspirations onto their children, a family friend in the business noted to Barbara that both Kirk and his sister, Candace Cameron Bure, were cute enough that they could easily pick up lucrative work in commercials. After Cameron began appearing in TV ads for "Polaroid", "McDonald's" and "Count Chocula" cereal, he found himself wound up in Hollywood's notorious child-star mill, netting minor cute-kid parts in a handful of TV movies, including a couple of Disney projects and two ABC Afterschool Specials (1972) (1972-95). In 1983, he landed a regular gig, as a precocious kid, in ABC's Two Marriages (1983), a show that remained on the air less than a month. He found a more winning formula in 1985 with Growing Pains (1985), playing the oldest son of a family headed by a psychiatrist (Alan Thicke) and a journalist (Joanna Kerns), one in a sequence of family network sitcoms characterized by with-it parents and mischievous-but-squeaky-clean kids. On the show, Cameron played the incorrigible but dumb "Mike Seaver" and his winning portrayal won over a large number of teen fans. In spite of scathing critical notices, "Growing Pains" ranked among Nielsen's top 20 network shows for its first four seasons, rising to No. 5 in its 1987-88 year. On the heels of his sitcom success, Cameron appeared in his first feature film in 1986, the Robin Williams/Kurt Russell glory-days comedy, The Best of Times (1986).
ABC would pump up Cameron as its "It" boy, and his trademark smirk in coming years would grace covers of a raft of teen magazines. Meanwhile, job offers cropped up to exploit his proverbial 15 minutes; he played the son/father of Dudley Moore in Like Father Like Son (1987), one of Hollywood's periodic flavor-du-jour retreads of the mystical parent/sibling body-switch comedies; netted the starring role in a high-profile Pepsi Super Bowl XXIV commercial; rated top-billing in Listen to Me (1989), an overwrought, widely-panned college drama about debate team wonks arguing against Roe v. Wade; and did a guest-shot, alongside sister Candace, on her ABC sister sitcom, Full House (1987) (1987-1995). Firmly established as the resident star of "Growing Pains", Cameron saw his pay jump to $50,000 a week and his fans sending him some 10,000 letters a week. But his coming-of-age took an unexpected turn, at least for everyone who worked with him. As he would later recall it in his autobiography, "Still Growing", the family of his first girlfriend initially exposed the 17-year-old to evangelical Christianity. Cameron experienced what he would later describe as a "life-changing encounter with Jesus" and declared himself "born again".- Actress
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Lala Sloatman was born Lala Cassandra Sloatman in Winterpark, Florida on October 12, 1970. The name Lala is Hawiian for Laura and Lala is named after her grandmother, Laura who was born in Hawaii, and still lives there. She has one younger brother, John Sloatman IV, who is 12 years her junior.- Writer
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Lawrence J. Cohen was born on 12 October 1935 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for Empire (1984), Start the Revolution Without Me (1970) and The Big Bus (1976). He was married to Evelyn. He died on 17 December 2017 in the USA.- Director
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Leo Fleider was born on 12 October 1913 in Hermanowa, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Hermanowa, Podkarpackie, Poland]. Leo was a director and writer, known for Siempre te amaré (1971), Operación rosa rosa (1974) and Piloto de pruebas (1972). Leo died on 5 August 1977 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.- Actress
Leore Hayon was born in Los Angeles, California. She is an only child to her Moroccan father (from Israel) and her Italian and Swedish mother (from Rolling Hills, CA). She grew up as a competitive figure skater in North Hollywood, CA. After graduating from California State University Northridge with a degree in Journalism (emphasis in public relations), she started modeling full time, appearing in campaigns and magazine editorials. During this time she decided to pursue acting. Her first acting role was in a short film called Eden. A year later she went on to play the same role in the feature length film Eden.- Actor
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Les Dennis was born on 12 October 1954 in Liverpool, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Coronation Street (1960), Family Fortunes (1980) and Extras (2005). He has been married to Claire Nicholson since 23 November 2009. They have one child. He was previously married to Amanda Holden and Lynne Heseltine.- Actress
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Lidia Vitale was born on 12 October 1972 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. She is an actress and director, known for The Grand Bolero (2021), The Best of Youth (2003) and Burning Hearts (2022).- Actress
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Lin attended the University of Michigan, where she was an Art History major, although acting in as many University productions as possible, including "Bye Bye Birdie" and "On The Town". After U of M, she attended Columbia University School of the Arts, and acquired a Master of Fine Arts degree in Acting. She stayed in New York upon graduation and worked in numerous off- and off-off- Broadway productions, as well as Lincoln Center and Broadway. She has studied with some of the finest: Uta Hagen, Stella Adler and Lee Strasberg. Lin is a lifetime member of the Actors Studio.- One of the tallest actors ever, he held various odd jobs before his debut on the silver screen. He worked for Spike Jones and his City Slickers, Ardens Dairy (in California,) as a Cowboy for Public Relations and at Knotts Berry Farm, (in California) also as a Cowboy. It was while he was working as a doorman at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood that his height was noticed and because of it he was chosen for the role of Gort. He also hosted a children's TV show in the Los Angeles area in the 50s called 'The Gentle Giant'. He was not a very strong man for his size. He was buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Hollywood Hills, California.
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Luciano Pavarotti was a best-selling classical singer and humanitarian known for his most original and popular performances with the 'Three Tenors' and 'Pavarotti & Friends'.
He was born on October 12, 1935, in Modena, Emilia-Romagna, in Northern Italy. He was the first child and only son of two children in the family of a baker. His father, Fernando Pavarotti, was a gifted amateur tenor, who instilled a love for music and singing in young Luciano. His mother, Adele Venturi, worked at the local cigar factory. Young Pavarotti showed many talents. He first sang with his father in the Corale Rossi, a male choir in Modena, and won the first prize in an international choir competition in Wales, UK. He also played soccer as a goalkeeper for his town's junior team.
In 1954, at the age of 19, Pavarotti decided to make a career as a professional opera singer. He took serious study with professional tenor Arrio Pola, who discovered that Pavarotti had perfect pitch, and offered to teach him for free. After six years of studies, he had only a few performances in small towns without pay. At that time Pavarotti supported himself working as a part-time school teacher and later an insurance salesman. In 1961 he married his girlfriend, singer Adua Veroni, and the couple had three daughters.
Pavarotti made his operatic debut on April 29, 1961, as Rodolfo in La Boheme by Giacomo Puccini, at the opera house in Reggio Emilia. In the following years he relied on the professional advise from tenor Giuseppe Di Stefano, who prevented Pavarotti from appearances when his voice was not ready yet. Eventually Pavarotti stepped in for Di Stefano in 1963, at the Royal Opera House in London as 'Rodolfo' in La Boheme by Giacomo Puccini, making his international debut. That same year he met soprano Joan Sutherland and the two began one of the most legendary partnerships in vocal history; Pavarotti made his American debut opposite Sutherland in February of 1965, at the Miami Opera.
Pavarotti was blessed with a voice of rare range, beauty and clarity, which was best during the 60s, 70s and 80s. In 1966 he became the first opera tenor to hit all nine "high C's" with his full voice in the aria 'Quel destin' in 'La Fille du Regiment' (aka.. The Daughter of the Regiment) by Gaetano Donizetti. He repeated this feat in his legendary 1972 Met performance and was nicknamed "King of the High C's" in rave reviews. Pavarotti's popularity was arguably bigger than that of any other living tenor in the world. His 1993 live performance in New York's Central Park was attended by 500,000 fans while millions watched it on television. During the 1990s and 2000s Pavarotti was still showing the ability to deliver his clear ringing tone in the higher register, albeit in fewer performances.
Luciano Pavarotti was also known for his humanitarian work. He was the founder and host of the 'Pavarotti & Friends' annual charity concerts and related activities in Modena, Italy. There he sang with international stars of all styles to raise funds for several worthy UN causes. Pavarotti sang with Bono and U2 in the 1995 song Miss Sarajevo and raised $1,500,000 in his charity project 'Concert for Bosnia'. He also established and financed the Pavarotti Music Center in Bosnia, and raised funds in charity concerts for refugees from Afghanistan and Kosovo. Pavarotti made two Guinness World Records: one was for receiving the most curtain calls at 165; and the other was for the best selling classical album of 'The Three Tenors in Concert' with Plácido Domingo and José Carreras.
In March 2004 Pavarotti gave his last performance in an opera as the painter Mario Cavaradossi in Giacomo Puccini's 'Tosca' at the New York Metropolitan Opera. In 2005 Luciano Pavarotti started a 40 city farewell tour. He sang his signature aria 'Nessun Dorma' from 'Turandot' by Giacomo Puccini, at the 2006 Winter Olympics opening ceremony in Turin, Italy, on February 10, 2006. Pavarotti survived an emergency surgery for pancreatic cancer. His remaining appearances for 2006 had to be canceled. However, his management anticipated that his farewell tour would resume in 2007.
Luciano Pavarotti died of kidney failure on September 6, 2007, at his home in Modena, Italy, surrounded by his family. He was laid to rest with his parents in the family tomb in Montale Rangone cemetery near Modena. His funeral ceremony was an international event attended by celebrities and over fifty thousand music lovers from all over the world.- Lyman Chen is an American Born Film and Television actor of Chinese heritage.
Lyman's break came when he was cast in Martin Scorsese's, The Departed as Jack Nicholson's Chinese Interpreter. The film premiered in October 2006 and went on to win 4 Academy Awards including Martin Scorsese's sole Best Director Academy Award.
Since then, Lyman has enjoyed working on various film and television projects with diversity in both dramatic and comedic venues. Roles such as William Zhai on Fox's neXt, Mr. Liang on Season 2 of Mr. Mercedes, Xun of The Dark Army on the Golden Globe Award Winning Mr. Robot, MSS Agent Joseph Yun on CBS' Rush Hour show Lyman's versatility in dramatic roles and showcase his language skills, while conversely, comedies like It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia show Lyman's comedic ability. Lyman can next be seen on AppleTV+'s WeCrashed and Amazon's Something From Tiffany's. - Actor
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Marcus Terrell Paulk was born on October 12, 1986 in the sunny city of Los Angeles, California. With all the buzz of Hollywood glamour and celebrity stardom it seems Paulk felt right at home so early in life "street performing" in California's ever popular Venice Beach, at the impressionable age of 3. But Paulk's parents seeing the passion and skill he possessed performing at such a small scale, knew that their son was destined for greatness, and decided to take more leadership roles in preparing his career for the future.
It seemed casting was no hard task for Paulk in the start of his career. Seemingly so, the 90s played a pivotal role in the awakening of the talents the Paulk possessed. In 1991 Paulk was cast to do voice over work for the Saturday morning animated show "Hammerman" created by hip hop legend MC Hammer. This was the beginning of a new chapter in Paulk's life.
After Hammerman, Paulk began guest appearing on some of network TV's most notable and talked about prime time shows. Shows like "Me and the Boys", "Thea", "Grace Under Fire", "Martin", "The Fresh Prince of Bel Air", and many more. In 1996 Paulk heightened his career as alter ego Myles Mitchell alongside R&B songstress Brandy playing his older sister "Moesha". What seemed like such a small role matriculated into 6 seasons of pranks, laughter, joy and sorrow for Paulk. So much so, that Hollywood had to stop and take notice to this child prodigy.
With Paulk's ambition on the rise, he not only continued to do more and more TV appearances, but began to make his mark on the big screen, with supporting roles in Disney's "Safety Patrol", the feature film "Nothing to loose", and "One Night Stand", starring Wesley Snipes. In 2005 Paulk co-starred in the blockbuster hit "Rollbounce" next to hip hop artist and fellow actor Bow Wow. The following year, Paulk costarred in another blockbuster film, "Take the Lead" starring Antonio Banderas where he had to train in the art of ballroom dancing to execute such a technical roll. In 2007, Paulk has two must see films out "Parental Guidance Suggested" and "Taking 5". Look for him in Another Cinderella Story and on the sound track.
With a whole host of acting nominations under his belt Marcus maintains his sanity by being a well rounded individual. He has won numerous championships with his NBAE League Basketball Team, and is in the process of releasing his first LP as a hip hop artist under the stage name "MP".- Actress
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Marie Wilson was born in Athens, Greece. She is an actress and producer, known for As the World Turns (1956), General Hospital (1963) and Ladies of the Lake: Return to Avalon (2018). She was previously married to Michael D. Wilson.- Actor
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Mark Donovan was born on 12 October 1968 in Aberdare, Glamorgan, Wales, UK. He is an actor, known for Shaun of the Dead (2004), Les Misérables (2012) and In Bruges (2008). He has been married to Lea Ann Hays since 12 February 2005.- Actress
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Martie Seidel, born Martha Elenor Erwin in York, Pennsylvania on October 12th 1969, began her musical career before the The Chicks were formed in 1989. She began playing classical violin at age 5. As teens, Martie & her sister, Emily Strayer, were in a Bluegrass band named "Blue Night Express". She has 2 sisters - older sister Julia Erwin and younger sister Emily Strayer (who's married to singer-songwriter Charlie Robison). Martie and Emily began the The Chicks, along with former members Robin Lynn Macy (vocals, guitar) & Laura Lynch (vocals, bass) before current singer Natalie Maines joined in 1995. The current The Chicks lineup were recently featured in a TV movie, Dixie Chicks on the Fly (2000). It was mainly a concert show showcasing Martie, Emily & Natalie's incredible vocal & instrumental talents. Martie and the other The Chicks have 2 songs featured in the 1999 Julia Roberts/Richard Gere film Runaway Bride (1999). One of the tunes, "Ready To Run", was co-written by Martie. Her hobbies include shopping, golfing and bowling.- Actress
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Mary Jane Saunders was born on 12 October 1942 in Pasadena, California, USA. She was an actress, known for Sorrowful Jones (1949), A Woman of Distinction (1950) and The Girl Next Door (1953). She was married to Jay Johnstone. She died on 20 January 2021 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Actor
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Matt has been acting professionally since the age of 17 when he appeared in a Disney Movie of the Week in 1986. Since then Matt has made his living appearing in numerous television shows, feature films, commercials and in live venues across the country. At 19 he was cast as a series regular on the ABC drama Supercarrier starring Wendie Malick and Paul Gleason . Co starring roles soon followed in the feature films, Halloween 5 and Child's Play 3 and established Matt in the horror movie sequel genre.
Bouncing around Hollywood as a young man, Matt has worked with such notable actors as Kate Hudson, Melanie Griffith, John Goodman, Lea Thompson, Andy Dick, Tony Danza, Martin Mull, Donald Pleasance, Willford Brimley, John Ritter, and the great George C. Scott, and such directors as Tobe Hooper, James Burrows, and Garry Marshall to name drop a few. In 1995, Matt was cast as a series regular in the Fox situation comedy, The Preston Episodes with David Allen Grier, and as the star of a CBS pilot called Shock Treatment. The heat from these two shows landed Matt with the William Morris Talent Agency. Also in 1995 Matt accepted a job as the director of a TBS cable television show, Dinner And A Movie. That gig turned into more directing for TBS including the shows, Movies For Guys Who Like Movies, The Man Made Movie, Movie & A Makeover and Big Playstation Saturday. Six years and over 200 episodes later Matt had worked with more of Hollywood's top shelf talent including Kelsey Grammer, Joan Cusack, Jon Cryer, Beverly D'Angelo, John C. McGinnley, John Travolta, Bridget Fonda, Danny Devito, Morgan Freeman, Ray Liotta and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
During his stint as a director and while he was still represented by WMA, Matt decided to run away and join the Circus. So in 1997 he left Los Angeles and was accepted into Ringling Bros. and Barnun & Bailey's Clown College on a full scholarship. For three months, seven days a week 14 hours a day Matt was trained in the circus arts including; clowning, acrobatics, stilt walking, make-up, mime, dance, prop building and juggling. This led to a contract as a clown with The Greatest Show on Earth. Travelling across the country on the circus train, Matt performed in venues including, The Cotton Bowl at the Texas State Fair, The United Center in Chicago and The L.A. Sports Arena.
After the circus, Matt was more committed than ever to bringing a purely physical, musical and improvisational style of theater to Los Angeles. Having studied previously with Second City Improvisation, The San Francisco Mime Troupe and renowned clown, Bill Irwin, Matt assembled a multi talented group of actors, musicians, writers and acrobats, and the Troubadour Theater Company was born. Having recently celebrated its 15th year, Troubadour has evolved into one of Los Angeles' most critically acclaimed comic troupes, winning the 2007 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Sustained Excellence in Theater, and in 2009 The "Troubies" were honored with the LA Stage Alliance's Ovation Award for Best Season, beating out the Geffen Playhouse and The Music Center. Troubie has received its second commission to produce theater at The Getty Villa in Malibu in 2010.
Matt is currently an adjutant professor of clowning and advanced movement for the MFA acting program at USC, and has taught clowning/Commedia Del Arte at the University of California at San Diego. Other fun stuff includes writing and directing, Disaster! for Universal Studios, Orlando, which received the award for best Rehab Attraction 2008. Matt also served as the original director for the first two premiere productions of, Million Dollar Quartet, at Daytona's Seaside Music Theater, and Issaquah's Village Theater. And in 2009 Matt was the resident director for the 1st National tour of Garry Marshall's Happy Days the Musical.
Most recently Matt served as on set writer for New Line Cinema's, Valentines Day, as well as appearing on-screen opposite Jamie Fox and Taylor Swift as reporter 'Greg Gilkins'.- Actor
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Michael Bofshever was born on 12 October 1950 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for A Dog's Purpose (2017), United 93 (2006) and Breaking Bad (2008). He has been married to Celia D. Lee since 23 November 1979. They have two children.- Actor
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Born in Fridley, Minnesota, Sielaff grew up with parents Brad and Dorrie, his older brother Mark, and a fluffy bichon frise named Ozzie (RIP). After graduating from Fridley High School, he attended Gustavus Adolphus College and majored in Religious Studies, minored in Theatre, co-hosted a radio show, performed/wrote with the social justice theatre troupe I Am We Are, and studied a semester in India. In the fall of 2009, Michael moved to Los Angeles to pursue storytelling as a career. Besides acting in over 100 TV, film, commercial, and internet productions, he performs children's theater with Story Pirates and adult-children's theater on various improv teams. Sielaff is the founder and an active teacher/member of Rogue Improv and Laughtivism LA. He also plays alto sax, writes spoken word poetry, and considers himself the best 6' 7" freelance dancer in town.- Born in New York as Solomon Shapiro. Later relocated to Miami Beach, Florida and changed his name to Mickey Manners. Married and had two sons. During the early 1960s appeared in numerous TV shows such as Get Smart with Don Adams. Had small parts in a number of Jerry Lewis films. Born around 1925.
- Mike Shouhed was born on 12 October 1978 in Tehran, Iran. He was previously married to Jessica Parido.
- Natalia Fava was born on 12 October 1973 in Mar del Plata, Argentina. She is an actress, known for Casados con hijos (2005), Sentí el verano (2002) and Enamorarte (2001). She has been married to Santiago Almeyda since 2002.
- On October 12, 1972, Neriah Davis was born in Southern California to two fun- loving "hippie" parents from the 60's. Raised in a simple lifestyle in Northern California until the age of 18, Neriah did not have a TV in the town of 300 where she grew up. A simple farming life with no electricity was the way of Neriah's youth, until she left for LA once she turned 18-years-old. After arriving in LA, Neriah moved quickly into the modeling and acting scene. She shot The Bikini Carwash Company (1992) while turning 19, and then started right into modeling swimsuit and some work with Playboy Book of Lingerie. Neriah was discovered by Playboy Magazine at the age of 20 and was busy shooting her centerfold on her 21st birthday. After a wild ride as a playmate, Neriah decided she needed a break from the fast-paced LA life, so she moved back to the country for two years. The country was needed rest but eventually Neriah got the modeling/acting bug, again, and had to move back to LA. And boy did things take off when she came back... Almost instantaneously Neriah was smothered with requests from top name companies such as "Fredericks of Hollywood", "Shirleys of Hollywood", and practically ever other lingerie catalog in LA. Soon-to-follow were national commercials for the likes of Miller, Nintendo, JC Penney's, and national print ads for Camel Cigarettes, Wellbody Skincare, BodyGlove, and Inside Sports. Neriah had the opportunity to travel to such exotic and rare places as Hong Kong, Acapulco, France, London, and all over the states for the Playboy agency.
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Oryan Landa (pronounced "O'Ryan") is a Theater-trained, New York City based actor with over 80 professional credits spanning TV, Film, Theater, Commercials, and Voice-overs; with recent roles on such series as The Blacklist (2013), Walker (2021), and Chicago Fire (2012), as well as the film The Devil's Candy (2015) (which premiered at TIFF) and the viral music video Maren Morris: My Church (2016).
In addition to working in TV and film, Oryan recently appeared on stage in The Laramie Project and Stories We Tell to Night at the Times Square Arts Center and Hudson Theater in New York City.
Outside of NY, Oryan has lived in Asia, Europe, and Mexico, as well as the Southwest and the Pacific Northwest.
He first started acting while in high school doing commercials and voice overs, and then went on to study Theater at Arizona State University and graduated Summa Cum Laude in Drama and Film/Media Studies, with a minor in Philosophy.
After graduation he moved to Austin, Texas and immersed himself in the independent film scene. While there, he also worked with director Sean Byrne on the popular horror film The Devil's Candy (2015) which premiered at The Toronto International Film Festival, made several appearances on From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series (2014), and interned for director Terrence Malick. But after a summer program at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Manhattan he decided to make New York City his home.
Outside of acting he's also taught English in China, spent time volunteering in India, ran an acting workshop in Austin, TX, went to school in French-speaking Belgium, and traveled through 26 countries and all 50 states. His ancestry is Spanish-Mexican (mother's side) and Scottish/Mixed European (father's side).Oryan Landa- Actor
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Pat DiNizio was born on 12 October 1955 in Plainfield, New Jersey, USA. He was an actor and composer, known for Backdraft (1991), Bull Durham (1988) and Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (1997). He died on 12 December 2017 in Summit, New Jersey, USA.- Penny Tration
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Pilar Castro was born on 12 October 1970 in Madrid, Madrid, Spain. She is an actress and assistant director, known for El premio (2010), Julieta (2016) and Fat People (2009).- Actor
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Pino Caruso was born on 12 October 1934 in Palermo, Sicily, Italy. He was an actor and writer, known for Ride bene... chi ride ultimo (1977), Lei è colpevole, si fidi! (1985) and La governante (1974). He was married to Marilisa Ferzetti. He died on 7 March 2019 in Sacrofano, Lazio, Italy.- Prince Randian was born in the Demarara district, British Guyana in 1871, the child of British Indian slaves. Born with tetra-amelia syndrome (the lacking of all four limbs), little is known about his early life or how he was discovered, but it seems his incredible adaptability did not go unnoticed. Reputedly, he was brought to the United States by P.T. Barnum in 1889 at the age of 18, performing as an "oddity" or "freak" at dime shows, museums and primarily at Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York
For his act, Randian was billed as "the human caterpillar who crawls on his belly like a reptile." He wore a one-piece wool garment that fit tightly over his body, giving him the appearance of a caterpillar, snake or potato. He was efficient at moving from place to place by wriggling his hips and shoulders in a snake-like motion. He would demonstrate his astonishing ability to fend for himself regardless of his handicap. He would shave himself by securing a razor in a wooden block, paint with a brush or write with a pen by using his lips, and most famously, roll and light his own cigarette in his only film appearance, Freaks (1932) (1932). Randian was also said to have been a skilled carpenter, using his mouth and shoulders to manipulate his tools, and he kept all of the props and materials used in his act in a wooden box that he reportedly constructed, painted and installed a lock by himself using a saw, knife and hammer. "Someday," he used to say, "I'll build myself a house."
Randian could speak English, German and French in addition to Hindi, his native language. He married early in life to a Hindu woman known only as Princess Sarah, who remained devoted to him throughout his long 45-year career in the sideshow. The couple had four daughters, plus a son who later became his manager. They settled at 174 Water Street in Paterson, New Jersey.
Prince Randian died of a heart attack at 7:00 PM on December 19, 1934, shortly after his comeback performance at Sam Wagner's 14th Street Museum in New York. He was 63 years old. - Actress
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The daughter of husband-and-wife vaudevillians, Randy Stuart was born in southeastern Iola, Kansas and traveled throughout the South and Midwest with her itinerant parents before making her own stage debut with them at the ripe old age of three. The family eventually settled in California where Randy attended college, acted in school plays and caught the eye of Hollywood talent scouts; she enacted a scene from the play "The Women" in a screen test which impressed 20th Century-Fox executives enough to put her under contract. She made her film debut with an uncredited part in The Foxes of Harrow (1947) starring Maureen O'Hara (I) and Rex Harrison.
In 1950, the blonde, smoky-voiced actress made a brief impression as the calculating telephone roommate of Eve Harrington (played by Anne Baxter (I) in the classic backstage film All About Eve (1950). She then moved up front and center as the distaff part of a husband-and-wife spy team in "Biff Baker, U.S.A." (1952) which also starred Alan Hale Jr. (I). Randy later was given her best-remembered role in the cult sci-fi The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957). as Louise Carey, the concerned wife of tiny Scott Carey, played by Grant Williams (I).
The next year she was cast as Nancy Dawson in the western film Man from God's Country (1958) opposite George Montgomery which was followed by a guest-star appearance in Montgomery's short-lived television western series "Cimarron City" (1958). She also had a one-season (1959-60) regular role on the western series "The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp" (1955).
After this she would remain focused on 1960s' TV, wherein she sporadically appeared in a number of popular series, mostly crime dramas and westerns, such as "Bonanza," "Maverick," "Peter Gunn," "Cheyenne" and "77 Sunset Strip." Retiring by the mid 1960s, she was spotted only a couple of times after that. In the series "Dragnet" she appeared a couple of times as co-star Harry Morgan (I)' and she made a single appearance in a mid 70s "Marcus Welby" episode.
She died in 1996 at age 71.- Actor
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Ochoa began acting professionally at 4 1/2 years old after landing a national commercial for JC Penny with 2 of his older brothers Ryan, who is a series regular on the Disney XD show "Pair of Kings" and Robert.
Soon after he was booked in a recurring role on the TBS show "10 Items Or Less" and then as a series regular on the ABC show "American Family. At 5 1/2 years old he lent his vocal skills to multiple roles in Robert Zemeckis' film "A Christmas Carol and to date is one of the youngest children to perform in a motion capture technology film. He since has had twenty-three national commercials and numerous film and television roles including another Robert Zemeckis produced movie "Mars Needs Moms" directed by Simon Wells, where he played martians alongside his brothers again.
Most recently he filmed the short film "Candybar" and the feature film "Lovesick" and "Charlie: Toy Story" in the lead role. He has also done many voice overs which include feature films and the voice of Dash in the video game Disney-Pixar Rush for X-Box Kinect.
He was born in San Diego, California, and resides in Los Angeles with his parents and three older brothers Rick, Ryan, and Robert and younger sister Destiny.- Actor
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Rémi Laurent was born on 12 October 1957 in Suresnes, France. He was an actor and composer, known for La Cage aux Folles (1978), The Plouffe Family (1981) and Tous vedettes! (1980). He was married to Emöke Masznyik. He died on 14 November 1989 in Paris, France.