Swordfish 2001 premiere

1. John Travolta

Actor | Pulp Fiction

John Joseph Travolta was born in Englewood, New Jersey, one of six children of Helen Travolta (née Helen Cecilia Burke) and Salvatore/Samuel J. Travolta. His father was of Italian descent and his mother was of Irish ancestry. His father owned a tire repair shop called Travolta Tires in Hillsdale, ...

2. Robert Shapiro

Actor | Havoc

Internationally renowned litigator Robert Shapiro is a senior name partner at Glaser Weil and was named one of the 100 most influential attorneys in America by the prestigious National Law Journal. He has consistently been named to Southern California Super Lawyers, has been recognized in The Best ...

3. Linell Shapiro

Actress | An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn

Linell Shapiro is known for An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn (1997), The Hollywood Moment (2010) and Ok! TV (2013). She has been married to Robert Shapiro since March 8, 1970. They have two children.

4. Gerald Levin

Gerald (Jerry) Levin was the chairman of Elation Media, Inc. Levin had earlier been the chairman/CEO of Time Warner Inc. He was the prime mover in the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications in 1990, Time Warner's merger with Turner Broadcasting and CNN in 1996, and with AOL in 2001. Before ...

5. Kylie Bax

Actress | Boys and Girls

Kylie Bax was born on January 5, 1975 in Thames, New Zealand. She is an actress, known for Boys and Girls (2000), Storm Catcher (1999) and Get Over It (2001). She was previously married to Spiros Poros.

6. Hugh Jackman

Actor | Les Misérables

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 ...

7. Jonathan D. Krane

Producer | Battlefield Earth

Jonathan D. Krane has been a force for change in the film industry. A graduate of both St. John's College and Yale University School of Law, his background in classical studies and law paved the way for him to identify five fundamental principles as its foundation. Implementing theories based on ...

8. Sally Kellerman

Actress | MASH

Sally Kellerman arrived quite young on the late 1950s film and television scene with a fresh and distinctively weird, misfit presence. It is this same uniqueness that continued to make her such an attractively offbeat performer. The willowy, swan-necked, flaxen-haired actress shot to film comedy ...

9. Milos Forman

Director | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Milos Forman was born Jan Tomas Forman in Caslav, Czechoslovakia, to Anna (Svabova), who ran a summer hotel, and Rudolf Forman, a professor. During World War II, his parents were taken away by the Nazis, after being accused of participating in the underground resistance. His father died in ...

10. Kelly Preston

Actress | Battlefield Earth

Kelly Preston was born on October 13, 1962 in Honolulu, Hawaii. A talented and captivating performer, she first garnered international attention with her role as "Marnie Mason" in Ivan Reitman's Twins (1988), starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito. With her diverse character portrayals in ...

11. Tara Reid

Actress | American Pie

Born in Wyckoff, New Jersey, USA on November 8, 1975. She got her career start at six, when she appeared on a children's game show called Child's Play (1982). Later, she appeared in commercials for Jell-O, McDonald's, and Crayola. She attended the Professional Children's School in New York City. Her...

12. Carson Daly

Actor | Josie and the Pussycats

Carson Daly was born on June 22, 1973 in Santa Monica, California, USA. He is a producer and actor, known for Josie and the Pussycats (2001), Session 9 (2001) and The Voice (2011). He has been married to Siri Pinter since December 23, 2015. They have three children.

13. Rob Morrow

Actor | Maze

As an Emmy and Golden Globe nominee, Rob Morrow is a critically acclaimed actor, writer, and director with an established career in television spanning over three decades.

Morrow starred in The Whole Truth (2010) opposite Maura Tierney. Produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, the legal drama chronicles how a...

14. Joel Silver

Producer | The Nice Guys

As flamboyant as any character in his movies, Joel Silver can be credited along with Jerry Bruckheimer as practically reinventing the action film genre in the 1980s. Born in New Jersey, he attended the New York University Film School. After college, he worked at Lawrence Gordon Pictures, earning ...

15. Martha Plimpton

Actress | The Goonies

She has show biz in her blood. Martha Plimpton was born November 16, 1970, in New York City to two actors: Keith Carradine and Shelley Plimpton. Martha began her career at age 8, when her mom had a friend of hers, composer Elizabeth Swados, enroll her in an actors' workshop. At age 10, she got a ...

16. Halle Berry

Actress | Catwoman

Halle Maria Berry was born Maria Halle Berry on August 14, 1966 in Cleveland, Ohio and raised in Oakwood, Ohio to Judith Ann Berry (née Hawkins), a psychiatric nurse & Jerome Jesse Berry, a hospital attendant. Her father was African-American and her mother is of mostly English and German descent. ...

17. Izabella Miko

Actress | Coyote Ugly

Born in Poland to accomplished thespian parents, Grazyna Dylag and Aleksander Mikolajczak, Izabella Miko could dance before she could walk. She began to pursue her dream career as a ballerina as soon as the opportunity was available to her at the age of 10. Izabella was accepted at the National ...

18. Breckin Meyer

Actor | Rat Race

Breckin Meyer was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Dorothy, a travel agent, and Christopher Meyer, a management consultant. He was raised in Los Angeles, went to grade school with Drew Barrymore, and attended Beverly Hills High School with Joshua John Miller and Branden Williams. It was Barrymore...

19. Anthony LaPaglia

Actor | Without a Trace

Anthony wanted to be a soccer player but he didn't have the skills so he taught in a school for 10 months until he realized that it wasn't his vocation and then spent some years working in a shoe store before moving to New York where he spent time as a barman and a sprinkler system installer to ...

20. Tristine Skyler

Producer | The Man Who Knew Infinity

Tristine Skyler's first play, "The Moonlight Room," was named one of the 'Top Ten Plays of the Year' by The New York Times. She was since hired by Scarlett Johansson to adapt Truman Capote's novella "Summer Crossing," based on her adaptation of Sylvia Plath's "The Bell Jar." Skyler studied English ...

21. Molly Sims

Actress | Fired Up!

Molly Sims was born on May 25, 1973 in Murray, Kentucky to James and Dottie Sims. Following her graduation from high school, Molly attended Vanderbilt University with hopes of pursuing a law career. Two years into college, she submitted a few photographs of herself to a modeling agency at the ...

22. Deborra-Lee Furness

Actress | Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole

Deborra-Lee Furness was born on November 30, 1955 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. She is an actress and producer, known for Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole (2010), Shame (1988) and Jindabyne (2006). She has been married to Hugh Jackman since April 11, 1996. They have two ...

23. Karyn Fields

Producer | Executive Decision

Karyn Fields is known for Executive Decision (1996), Assassins (1995) and The Shadow (1994). She has been married to Joel Silver since July 10, 1999.

24. Don Cheadle

Actor | Crash

Donald Frank Cheadle was born in Kansas City, Missouri, on November 29, 1964. His childhood found him moving from city to city with his family: mother Bettye (née North), a teacher; father Donald Frank Cheadle Sr., a clinical psychologist; sister Cindy; and brother Colin. After graduating from high...

25. Sam Shepard

Actor | August: Osage County

Sam Shepard was born Samuel Shepard Rogers in Fort Sheridan, IL, to Jane Elaine (Schook), a teacher, and Samuel Shepard Rogers, a teacher and farmer who was also in the army. As the eldest son of a US Army officer (and WWII bomber pilot), Shepard spent his early childhood moving from base to base ...

26. Vinnie Jones

Actor | Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

Vincent Peter Jones was born on January 5, 1965 in Watford, England. He first came to public notice as a professional footballer, playing in the English Football League. Noted as one of football's hard men, he leaped to fame when a photographer, at a match, snapped him "marking" Newcastle United's ...

27. Drea de Matteo

Actress | The Sopranos

Andrea Donna de Matteo, called Drea (pronounced "dray"), was born on January 19, 1972 in Queens, New York, into an affluent family, the youngest of three children and the only girl. She is the daughter of Donna, a playwright and playwriting teacher at HB Studio in New York, and Albert A. De Matteo,...

28. Rudolf Martin

Actor | Ford v Ferrari

Born and raised in West Berlin, Rudolf moved with his family from Berlin to Paris to Italy, arriving in the United States a short time after his high school graduation from the Universite de Paris. While studying at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, he landed his first professional role in the ...

29. Zach Grenier

Actor | Devs

Zach Grenier was born in Englewood, New Jersey, USA. Zach is an actor, known for Devs (2020), Fight Club (1999) and Ray Donovan (2013).

30. Camryn Grimes

Actress | The Young and the Restless

Camryn Grimes was born on January 7, 1990 in Van Nuys, California, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for The Young and the Restless (1973), Swordfish (2001) and Magic Mike (2012).

31. Angelo Pagán

Actor | Bosch: Legacy

Angelo Pagán is known for Bosch: Legacy (2022), Swordfish (2001) and 24 (2001). He has been married to Leah Remini since July 19, 2003. They have one child.

32. Kirk B.R. Woller

Actor | The Chosen

Kirk is a classically trained actor and has the distinction of being "a true chameleon," with over 30 on-stage performances and more than 170 film & television credits, including star turns in the indie features Woodlawn (2015), Like Dandelion Dust (2009), Midnight Clear (2006), Hometown Legend (...

33. Carmen Argenziano

Actor | Identity

Carmen Argenziano was born on October 27, 1943 in Sharpsville, Pennsylvania. He was an actor. known for his work on hundreds of films and TV series throughout his fifty year career. He was in The Accused (1988), Stand and Deliver (1988), The Godfather Part II (1974), Identity (2003), and many more,...

34. Tim DeKay

Actor | White Collar

Timothy Robert DeKay was born in Ithaca, New York on June 12, 1963. Athletic in high school, he played both basketball and baseball. In his senior year, he starred in his high school's production of Oliver! After high school he attended Le Moyne College, graduating with a BS in Business ...

35. Laura Lane

Actress | Swordfish

Laura Lane was born on November 29, 1974 in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, USA. She is an actress, known for Swordfish (2001), V.I.P. (1998) and Gloria (1999).

36. Dominic Sena

Director | Kalifornia

Dominic Sena was born on April 26, 1949 in Niles, Ohio, USA. He is a director and cinematographer, known for Kalifornia (1993), Whiteout (2009) and Swordfish (2001).

37. Skip Woods

Writer | Thursday

Skip Woods is an American screenwriter and producer. He is best known for writing the screenplay for "Swordfish", the film adaptation of the Hitman video game series, and the 5th installment of the Die Hard franchise, "A Good Day to Die Hard". He lives in Los Angeles, CA. Woods is also a partner in...

38. Christopher Young

Composer | Sinister

Composer Christopher Young was born in Red Bank, New Jersey. After graduating from Hampshire College in Massachusetts with a Bachelor of Arts degree in music, Young went on to pursue his post-graduate studies at North Texas State University. After college Christopher moved to Los Angeles, ...

39. Paul Oakenfold

Soundtrack | Swordfish

Paul Oakenfold was born on August 30, 1961 in Stepney, London, England, UK. He is a composer and actor, known for Swordfish (2001), Planet of the Apes (2001) and The Bourne Identity (2002).

40. Paul Cameron

Cinematographer | Collateral

Paul Cameron, ASC's visually groundbreaking work as a director and a director of photography has helped shape the craft of cinematography in the 21st century. Cameron recently directed multiple episodes of "Special Ops: Lioness", created by Taylor Sheridan for Paramount+, as well as multiple ...

41. Stephen E. Rivkin

Editor | Avatar

Stephen E. Rivkin is known for Avatar (2009), Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) and Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003).