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- Katy O'Brian is an actress and martial artist from Indianapolis, IN. Her love for acting began with local theater productions at a young age, but her true passion was always in film. After working on several local projects, in 2016, Katy moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in Film and Television. She landed her first TV role as a savior on AMC's, "The Walking Dead" followed by small parts on, "Halt and Catch Fire" and "How to Get Away with Murder," before landing her first series regular role as George on the Syfy zombie apocalypse series, "Z Nation."
Katy continues to teach and train martial arts and loves to incorporate that passion into her acting career whenever possible. - Actor
- Producer
- Director
Rugged features and a natural charm have worked for Josh Brolin, the son of actor James Brolin. He has played roles as a policeman, a hunter, and the President of the United States.
Brolin was born February 12, 1968 in Santa Monica, California, to Jane Cameron (Agee), a Texas-born wildlife activist, and James Brolin. Josh was not interested at first in the lifestyle of the entertainment business, in light of his parents' divorce, and both of them being actors. However,
during junior year in high school, he took an acting class to see what it was like. He played Stanley in "A Streetcar Named Desire" and became hooked. His first major screen role was as the older brother in the film The Goonies (1985), based on a story by Steven Spielberg. He then immediately moved on to work on television, taking roles on such series as Pilot (1987) and The Young Riders (1989). "Private Eye" was a chance for Brolin to play a detective. "The Young Riders" was set just before the Civil War, and was co-directed by Brolin's father, James Brolin.
After The Young Riders (1989), Brolin moved back to the big screen, with mediocre success. He played a supporting role in The Road Killers (1994), but the film was not a success. He followed up with the crime film Gang in Blue (1996), the romantic film Bed of Roses (1996), the thriller film Nightwatch (1997), and appeared with his father in My Brother's War (1997).
However, nothing truly stuck out, especially not the box office flop The Mod Squad (1999). The 2000s initially brought no significant change in Brolin's career. He appeared in the independent film Slow Burn (2000), the sci-if thriller Hollow Man (2000) and starred on the television series Mister Sterling (2003). In 2004, he married actress Diane Lane but later divorced in 2013.
It was not until 2007 that Brolin received much acclaim for his films. He took a supporting role in the Quentin Tarantino-written Grindhouse (2007) which was a two-part film accounting two horror stories. He also played two policemen that year: corrupt officer Nick Trupo in the crime epic American Gangster (2007), and an honest police chief in the emotional drama In the Valley of Elah (2007) which starred Tommy Lee Jones and was directed by Paul Haggis. However, it was his involvement in No Country for Old Men (2007) that truly pushed him into the limelight. The film, directed by the Coen brothers, was about a man (Brolin) who finds a satchel containing two million dollars in cash. He is pursued by an unstoppable assassin (Javier Bardem, who won an Oscar for his work) and his friend, a local sheriff (Tommy Lee Jones). The film won four Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director.
Brolin found high-profile work the next year, being cast as Supervisor Dan White in the film Milk (2008). His performance as the weak and bitter politician earned him an Oscar nomination, and Brolin received more praise for his fascinating portrayal of George W. Bush in the Oliver Stone film W. (2008). Despite the mediocre success of W. (2008), he was recognized as the best part of the film, and Milk (2008) was another triumph, critically and commercially.
Brolin then acted in the smaller comedy Women in Trouble (2009) before landing a number of large roles in 2010. The first of these was the film based on the comic book figure Jonah Hex (2010). The film was a box office flop and critically panned, but Brolin also forged a second collaboration with legendary director Oliver Stone for Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010). Brolin played a large role alongside such young stars as Carey Mulligan and Shia LaBeouf, and older thespians such as Michael Douglas, Eli Wallach, and Frank Langella. Brolin's character was Bretton James, a top banker in the film, and also the film's chief antagonist. Brolin also appeared in Woody Allen's London-based film You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010) and a second collaboration with the Coen Brothers, which was a remake of True Grit (1969).
Despite his earlier mediocre success and fame, Brolin has maintained a choosiness in his films and, recently, these choices have paid off profoundly. Hopefully, he continues this streak of good fortune that his talents have finally given him.- Actress
- Producer
- Soundtrack
Precocious, outspoken child-teen starlet of the 1990s, Christina Ricci
was born on February 12, 1980 in Santa Monica, California, the youngest of four
children of Sarah (Murdoch), a realtor, and Ralph Ricci, a lawyer and
therapist. She is of Italian (from her paternal grandfather), Irish,
and Scots-Irish descent. She made her screen debut at the age of 9 in
Mermaids (1990), in which she worked
with Winona Ryder and
Cher. Her breakthrough adult role was in
The Ice Storm (1997), in which she
plays a nymphet who skillfully seduces two brothers. She worked with
Johnny Depp and
Casper Van Dien in the
Tim Burton film
Sleepy Hollow (1999).- Actor
- Soundtrack
Jesse Gordon Spencer is an Australian actor and musician. He is best known for his roles as Billy Kennedy on the Australian soap opera Neighbours (1994-2000, 2005, 2022), Dr. Robert Chase on the American medical drama House (2004-2012) and Captain Matthew Casey on the American drama Chicago Fire (2012-2021).- Paul Anderson is an English actor of film and stage. He is best known for portraying Arthur Shelby in the BBC series Peaky Blinders.
Anderson began his acting career by appearing in plays written by friend Gregory Burke. His first leading role in a film was in The Firm (2009).
He also has appeared in many major films including Legend (2015), and The Revenant (2015). - Actor
- Producer
- Writer
Michael Ironside has made a strong and indelible impression with his
often incredibly intense and explosive portrayals of fearsome villains
throughout the years. He was born as Frederick Reginald Ironside on
February 12, 1950 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Ironside was a
successful arm wrestler in his teenage years. His initial ambition was
to be a writer. At age fifteen, Michael wrote a play called "The
Shelter" that won first prize in a Canada-wide university contest; He
used the prize money to mount a production of this play. Ironside
attended the Ontario College of Art, took acting lessons from Janine
Manatis, and studied for three years at the Canadian National Film
Board. Ironside worked in construction as a roofer prior to embarking
on an acting career.
Ironside first began acting in movies in the late 1970s. He received
plenty of recognition with his frightening turn as deadly and powerful
psychic Darryl Revok in
David Cronenberg's
Scanners (1981). He was likewise very
chilling as vicious misogynistic psychopath Colt Hawker in the
underrated Visiting Hours (1982).
Other memorable film roles include weary Detective Roersch in the sadly
forgotten thriller
Cross Country (1983), the crazed
Overdog in the immensely enjoyable
Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone (1983),
the hard-nosed Jester in the blockbuster smash
Top Gun (1986), ramrod Major Paul Hackett
in Extreme Prejudice (1987),
loner Vietnam veteran "Ben" in
Nowhere to Hide (1987), the
ferocious Lem Johnson in
Watchers (1988), and lethal immortal
General Katana in
Highlander II: The Quickening (1991).
Moreover, Ironside has appeared in two highly entertaining science
fiction features for
Paul Verhoeven: At his savage
best as the evil Richter in
Total Recall (1990) and typically
excellent as the rugged Lieutenant Jean Rasczak in
Starship Troopers (1997).
Ironside showed a more tender and thoughtful side with his lovely and
touching performance as a hardened convict who befriends a disabled man
in the poignant indie drama gem
Chaindance (1991); he also co-wrote
the script and served as an executive producer for this beautiful
sleeper. Michael was terrific as tough mercenary Ham Tyler on the epic
miniseries V (1984), its follow up
V: The Final Battle (1984),
and subsequent short-lived spin-off series.
Ironside also had a recurring role on the television series
SeaQuest 2032 (1993). Among the
television series he has done guest spots on are
The A-Team (1983),
Hill Street Blues (1981),
The New Mike Hammer (1984),
The Hitchhiker (1983),
Tales from the Crypt (1989),
Superman: The Animated Series (1996),
Walker, Texas Ranger (1993),
The Outer Limits (1995),
ER (1994),
Smallville (2001),
ER (1994),
Desperate Housewives (2004),
Justice League (2001) and
Masters of Horror (2005).
More recently, Ironside garnered a slew of plaudits and a Gemini Award
nomination for his outstanding portrayal of shrewd biker gang leader
Bob Durelle in the acclaimed Canadian miniseries
The Last Chapter II: The War Continues (2003).
In addition to his substantial film and television work, Ironside has
also lent his distinctive deep voice to TV commercials and video games.- Actor
- Producer
- Soundtrack
Lochlyn Munro started his acting career after a serious sports injury
ended his dream of playing professional hockey. A talented musician,
Lochlyn turned his attention to the performing arts. While playing
music in various clubs around Vancouver, British Columbia, Lochlyn
studied drama and improvisational comedy with many of the industry's
top professionals, including the late Susan Strasberg. Having done a lot of
stage work, Lochlyn then jumped into the television and film world with
instant success. Lochlyn landed roles on various American projects such
as, 21 Jump Street (1987), Wiseguy (1987), and others.
After numerous guest roles and leads on TV shows and Films, Lochlyn
landed a role in Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven (1992). He has gone on to show tremendous
range throughout his acting career by creating memorable characters in
such films as Dead Man on Campus (1998), A Night at the Roxbury (1998), and Scary Movie (2000). Lochlyn will always remain
one to watch in Hollywood as his career continues to follow a bright
path.- Producer
- Writer
- Director
Darren Aronofsky was born February 12, 1969, in Brooklyn, New York.
Growing up, Darren was always artistic: he loved classic movies and, as
a teenager, he even spent time doing graffiti art. After high school,
Darren went to Harvard University to study film (both live-action and
animation). He won several film awards after completing his senior
thesis film, "Supermarket Sweep", starring
Sean Gullette, which went on to becoming a
National Student Academy Award finalist. Aronofsky didn't make a
feature film until five years later, in February 1996, where he began
creating the concept for Pi (1998). After
Darren's script for Pi (1998) received great
reactions from friends, he began production. The film re-teamed
Aronofsky with Gullette, who played the lead. This went on to further
successes, such as
Requiem for a Dream (2000), The Wrestler (2008) and Black Swan (2010). Most recently, he completed the films Noah (2014) and Mother! (2017).- Actress
- Music Department
- Producer
Tara Strong began her acting career at the age of 13 in Toronto, Canada. She landed several TV, film, and musical theater roles as well as her first lead in an animated series as the title role of "Hello Kitty." After a short run at Toronto's Second City theater company, she moved to Los Angeles with an extensive resume that included her own sit-com and well over 20 animated series. Upon arriving in Hollywood, she quickly made her mark in several TV and Film projects, such as "Party of Five," "National Lampoon's Senior Trip," "Sabrina the Teenage Witch," and more. She has an iconic voice-over career, including roles such as Bubbles in "The Powerpuff Girls," Timmy Turner in "The Fairly OddParents," Dil Pickles in "Rugrats," Raven in "Teen Titans," "Batgirl," "Family Guy," "Drawn Together," "Ben 10," Melody in "The Little Mermaid 2," "Spirited Away," etc. She is Miss Collins on Nickelodeon's "Big Time Rush" and the current voice of "Harley Quinn." She is Emmy nominated, a Shorty Award winner, Twilight Sparkle in "My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic" and currently playing "Unikitty" in the new hit series. She appeared in the Hallmark Christmas movie, "A Very Merry Toy Store." She has 350,000 Twitter followers (@tarastrong) and has used her social media to raise several hundred thousand dollars for kids with cancer and animal rescue groups, as well as using her commanding voices for her anti-bullying platform. She lives in Los Angeles. From between 2000 and 2019 she was married to former actor and real estate agent Craig Strong. However, the couple went their separate ways in July 2019 and, eventually, they formally divorced in January 2022. They have two sons together.- Actor
- Writer
- Director
Enver Leif Gjokaj is an American film and television actor. He is known for his roles as Victor in Joss Whedon's science fiction television series Dollhouse and as Agent Daniel Sousa on Agent Carter (2015). Gjokaj was born in Orange County, California. His father is Albanian, and his mother is American. Gjokaj has an older brother named Bekim and an identical twin brother named Demir. Both Gjokaj and his brother attended Amador High School, in Sutter Creek, California, where Gjokaj participated in multiple plays and variety shows. Gjokaj graduated with a Master of Fine Arts from New York University's Graduate Acting Program at the Tisch School of the Arts. While at NYU, he was a semi-finalist for Tisch's Vilar Global Fellows Program, a Rhodes Scholar-style program in the Arts. In 2002, he received a Bachelor of Arts in English from UC Berkeley.- Actress
- Director
- Writer
Katherine (Kat) Barrell is best known for her work as Officer Nicole Haught on Wynonna Earp (2016) (Syfy) and Alicia Rutherford on Workin' Moms (2017) (Netflix/CBC). Most recently she joined the series cast of Good Witch (2015) (Hallmark) and played the notorious Stella Grimes on Star Trek: Discovery (2017) (CBS).
Katherine has worked as both a director and producer on 7 short films of which Issues (2013), Cannonball (2016), Dissecting Gwen (2017), and Mature Young Adults (2015) have screened at film festivals across North America.
She is a graduate of George Brown Classical Theatre School and trained at the Groundlings School of Comedy in Los Angeles. When not on set, Kat can be found picking fruit on her family farm and cuddling a notorious pooch named Bernie.
Awards and Notable Nominations:
2020 Canadian Screen Award Winner- Audience Choice, Katherine Barrell
2018 People's Choice Award Winner- Wynonna Earp
TV Line Performer of the Week - Katherine Barrell
Spoiler TV Performer of the Month - Katherine Barrell
2018 International Emmy Nominee - Workin Moms- Actress
- Writer
- Producer
Christine Elise McCarthy was born in Boston, Massachusetts - the daughter of artists. She has been acting professionally since 1988 and is recognized primarily for her roles as U4EA-popping bad girl, Emily Valentine, on Beverly Hills, 90210. She returned to the 90210 zip code in the Fox 2019 summer hit BH90210 playing a heightened version of herself in 5 of the 6 episodes. She is also known for Harper Tracy on ER, and as Kyle, the gal who killed Chucky in Child's Play 2. She returned as Kyle in the 7th installment of the franchise - Cult of Chucky and is rumored to be attached to the 2020 SYFY Chucky series, in development. She has also appeared in recurring roles on China Beach, In the Heat of the Night, and Tell Me You Love Me. Among her other film roles are Abel Ferrara's Body Snatchers and two films starring Viggo Mortensen: Vanishing Point and Boiling Point. She appeared in the TV movie Vanishing Point with Viggo Mortensen, who requested she play the role. They met on another project, Boiling Point, though her role was largely written out. She had a recurring role on In the Heat of the Night and also appeared in an episode of "Charmed". She was featured in the punk rock documentaries American Hardcore and All Ages: The Boston Hardcore Film.
Bathing & the Single Girl, inspired by the short film, is her debut novel available in paperback on Amazon & digitally on Amazon and I-tunes. (www.bathingbook.com) . Her directorial debut, Bathing & the Single Girl, was accepted into over 100 film festivals and won 20 awards. It can be viewed from the book's site.
She hosts a plant-based cooking channel on Youtube called - Delightful Delicious Delovely & Video Vegan (www.VideoVegan.com). She also maintains an irreverent food porn blog called WWW.DelightfulDeliciousDelovely.com for which she provides recipes, photographs and sometimes shares details of the triumphs and, more frequently, the humiliations of her own life. She has a great passion for photography (http://www.redbubble.com/people/jdempsey/portfolio) and has shown her pin-up and decaying Americana imagery in the United States & Paris. She was on the selection committee of Michigan's Waterfront Film Festival since its inception in 1999, she was co-director of the Victoria Texas Independent Film Festival, programmed for the Self-Medicated Film Festival and The Lady Filmmakers Film Festival, and consults & judges for many others.
She made her directorial debut with an award winning short film she also wrote, produced, and starred in: Bathing and the Single Girl. Since December 2010, Bathing and the Single Girl has been screened at more than 100 festivals and has won 20 awards. Dystel & Goderich Literary Management represents her full-length novel of the same name, Bathing and the Single Girl, released in January 2014.
As a producer, she has worked as a story producer on multiple reality shows including Hellevator with the Soska Twins, Cold Justice & Best Bars in America.
As a writer, she has written three episodes of Beverly Hills, 90210 as well as characters and story lines for the series, a pilot that was optioned by Aaron Spelling, and comical true-life essays that she performed at the Upright Citizens Brigade and Naked Angels theaters in LA.
She has a large following on Instagram @ChristineEliseMcCarthy.- Actress
- Producer
Alexandra "Alex" Meneses, the ALMA Award-nominated actress known for her smoldering bombshell characters and philanthropic commitment to a wide variety of causes, recently starred on The CW's critically acclaimed series Jane the Virgin (2014). She also recently starred as Isabella, the over-the-top diva actress on NBC's comedy series Telenovela, for which she received an Imagen Award nomination. Eva Longoria produced and starred in it.
Alex first became embraced by audiences playing Teresa Morales in Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman. Her role as Stefania Fogagnolo, Brad Garrett's luscious Italian girlfriend on Everybody Loves Raymond, earned her an ALMA Award and American Comedy Award nominations. Other TV roles include Cookie, Joey Tribiani's sister, on Friends; Sofia on The Goldbergs; and roles on CSI, CSI Miami, Prison Break, NCIS, Psych, Austi & Ally, and The Cleveland Show. She recently starred in the TV movie Unorganized Crime opposite Chazz Palminteri.
On film, the Chicago native and former model has also appeared in Selena, Boyle Heights, Ripped, The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas, and the New York Film Critics Circle Award-winning Auto Focus opposite Greg Kinnear. Alex was Mistress of Ceremonies for Ischia Global Film Festival in Italy.
As president and founder of her own production company (Oo La La Productions/L.A.D.S. Entertainment), Alex produced the Sundance Channel hit documentary Damned To Heaven, a gripping look at life inside the FLDS (Fundamental Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints) pluralistic community of Colorado City, Arizona.
She also executive-produced Australians Hit Hollywood, an honest look at Australians and New Zealanders who have turned themselves into prominent players in the Hollywood entertainment scenes.
While still in high school in Chicago, Alex was inspired to pursue an acting career after seeing Rita Moreno's performance in West Side Story and enrolled in the famed Second City Improv program. Following high school, Alex landed a modeling contract and moved to Europe, where she worked regularly in Italy, France and Greece. Upon her return to the US, she entered The Lee Strasberg Theater Institute to hone her acting skills.
She has received acclaim in the Geffen Playhouse's production of Oscar and Felix: A New Look at the Odd Couple by Neil Simon. An adapted revival of The Odd Couple, Simon altered the ethnicity of Oscar & Felix's neighboring sisters to Spanish, which fit Meneses, who is half Mexican-American. Alex has appeared in numerous stage productions, including Hortensia and the Museum of Dreams at Chicago's Victory Gardens Theater.
In her ongoing commitment to philanthropy and volunteerism, Alex has served on the Board of Trustees at Children's Hospital of Los Angeles for ten years and has helped to raise tens of millions of dollars for the hospital. She also serves on the boards for United Hope for Animals and The Chicago Symphony and is a member of The Chicago Historical Society.
A proud alumna of Chicago's Mother McAuley Liberal Arts High School, Alex frequently returns to campus and meets with students to share her insights and commitment to a McAuley education. In 2005 she established the Alexandra Meneses Endowed Scholarship to help ensure a new generation of young women are given the best possible career and life opportunities.
Alex is a devoted mother to her young daughter and divides her time between Los Angeles and Chicago.
Awards:
American Comedy Award - Everybody Loves Raymond
Alma Award - Everybody Loves Raymond
Imagen Award for Best Actress - Telenovela
Imagen Award for Best Comedy - Telenovela
Latina of Influence - Hispanic Lifestyle 2018 (Won)
Idyllwild Film Festival for Best Actress 2018
Idyllwild Film Festival for Best Ensemble Cast 2018 (Won)- Actor
- Writer
- Director
Angus Sampson is an Australian filmmaker and actor. He has starred in the Insidious film series, the critically acclaimed crime drama The Mule (2014), Oscar winner Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) and the Peabody recipient season of Fargo (2015), amongst many others. Sampson was born in Sydney, Australia, and was educated at Trinity Grammar School in Summer Hill and at The Armidale School in northern New South Wales. He graduated from the Award School in 2002- Actress
- Director
- Writer
Born in Overland Park, Kansas, Sarah moved to Mission Viejo, California, when she was 10 years old. In 1994, she secured her first role, as a
series regular on Saved by the Bell: The New Class (1993). She then gained attention for her recurring role as "Madison Kellner" on the critically-acclaimed Warner Bros. series, Everwood (2002). She went on to star in Dr. Vegas (2004), for CBS from 2004-2006. Followed by ABC's What About Brian (2006), from 2006-2007. Sarah is perhaps best known for her lovable portrayal of "Ellie Bartowski" on NBC's long-running series, Chuck (2007). In 2014, Lancaster can be seen, alongside Robert Downey Jr., in The Judge (2014), for
Warner Bros. Lancaster resides in Los Angeles with her husband, attorney Matt Jacobs, and their son, Oliver Jacobs.- Actress
- Producer
- Writer
Lisa Brenner started her career in the New York soap world on Guiding Light, All My Children and then as the infamous Maggie Cory on Another World. She then appeared on the big screen as Anne Howard in the Revolutionary War Drama, The Patriot. Since then, she has gone on to star in many films such as Cesar Chavez, Finding Home, What Boys Want, Bad Samaritan and The Remains. Lisa also guest starred in numerous television shows such as all three CSI's, Criminal Minds, The Mentalist, Leverage, Perception, Rizzoli & Isles and The Ark. She produced and starred in the romantic comedy, Say My Name and the apocalyptic, sci-fi film, The Deal. Lisa also wrote and directed the award-winning comedy The Good Guys.- Actress
- Producer
Curry grew up as the youngest of three children in Orange County,
California. She graduated from Sonora High School in La Habra,
California in 2004. She attended California State University Fullerton,
receiving a degree in theater. She has worked with The Second City,
Phantom Projects theater groups, performing roles as Jennie Mae in The
Diviners, Monique in Out, Out, Brief Candle!, Oklahoma!, Bus Stop, How
to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, and The Diary of Anne
Frank.- Actor
- Producer
- Music Department
John Michael Higgins was born on 12 February 1963 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for A Mighty Wind (2003), Pitch Perfect (2012) and Bad Teacher (2011). He has been married to Margaret Welsh since 1 February 2003. They have two children.- Odelya Halevi was born on 12 February 1987 in Rosh HaAyin, Israel. She is an actress, known for Black Adam (2022), Law & Order (1990) and Why Women Kill (2019).
- Tanaya Beatty was born on 12 February 1991 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. She is an actress, known for Yellowstone (2018), Through Black Spruce (2018) and Hostiles (2017).
- Actor
- Producer
- Stunts
Iko Uwais was born in Jakarta, Indonesia, to Maisyaroh and Mustapha Kamaluddin. His grandfather, H. Achmad Bunawar, was a master of silat, an Indonesian
traditional martial art, and founded a silat school. Iko himself has been learning silat since he was 10 years old. He became
National Champion in 2005 in Silat Demonstration category. Iko's talent
as a martial arts actor was discovered by Welsh film Director, Gareth
Evans, who visited Iko's Silat school for a documentary in 2007. Evans
then asked Iko to quit his daytime job as a driver in a
telecommunications company and join Evans' movie production company as
the leading actor in his movies.- Actress
- Director
- Producer
Joanna Kerns was born on 12 February 1953 in San Francisco, California, USA. She is an actress and director, known for Girl, Interrupted (1999), Knocked Up (2007) and Growing Pains (1985). She has been married to Marc Appleton since 30 September 1994. She was previously married to Richard M. Kerns.- Actress
- Director
- Writer
Anna Hopkins was born in Montréal, Quebec to artists Tom Hopkins and Rita Markovits. She is of Jewish Romanian and Hungarian descent from her mother's side, and Scottish, Welsh descent on her father's side. Fluent in French and English, she works in film and television in both languages. Anna's feature film debut was in Barney's Version opposite Paul Giamatti, which launched her into an extensive in television career portraying fan favorite regular roles in shows like The Expanse, Arrow, The Flash and Shadowhunters. The latter earning her a Teen Choice Award nomination for choice TV Villain. In addition to performing, Anna is a screenwriter and director, and her work has been recognized and awarded by public funding bodies such as the Canada Council for the Arts and Bell Media's Bravofact!, and film festivals such as Austin Film Festival, Nashville Film Festival, Cinequest, and St.John's International Women's Film Festival to name a few.- Actor
- Producer
- Director
Raphael Sbarge has been a working actor for more than five decades. Growing up in New York City's Lower East Side, Raphael began working on Sesame Street (1969) at the age of four. His did his first Broadway show at 16, opposite Faye Dunaway and his first big film, Risky Business (1983) starring Tom Cruise, as he was graduating high school at 18. His mother, Jeanne Button, was a Broadway costume designer and his father, Stephen Sbarge, was an artist, photographer, and documentary filmmaker.
He has performed in theaters all over the country, including at Yale Rep, Long Wharf, Mark Taper, and Kennedy Center. He has performed on stage with Al Pacino, Frank Langella, Gwyneth Paltrow, as well Jason Robards and Colleen Dewhurst in the Bway revival of Ah, Wilderness.
He has been in many successful films, including Independence Day (1996) with Will Smith, Pearl Harbor (2001) with Ben Affleck and the cult classic Carnosaur (1993) for Roger Corman. He will be in the new Universal/Blumhouse film, The Exorcist: Believer (2023), with Ellen Burstyn, Jennifer Nettles, Leslie Odom Jr. and Ann Dowd which opens on Friday, October 13th, 2023.
Raphael's resume includes more than 100 guest appearances and series regular roles on network television shows, including the long-running ABC hit Once Upon a Time (2011) as Dr Hopper, Stephen Bochco's Murder in the First (2014) for TNT, and The Guardian with Simon Baker, for CBS. He has recurred on many series including Star Trek: Voyager (1995), Dexter (2006), Prison Break (2005), Longmire (2012), 24 (2001), among many others. He has done extensive voice work in video games including lead roles in Mass Effect - The New York Times Game of the Year - and its two sequels, as well Knights of the Old Republic, a popular Star Wars game.
As a director, Raphael received his first Emmy nomination for LA Foodways (2019), for PBS. His recent feature film, Only in Theaters (2022), opened in Los Angeles and NYC to critical acclaim, played 80 theaters around the country and is now available on Amazon and on DVD, distributed by Kino Lorber. Other films and series Raphael has directed include The Bird Who Could Fly (2017), The Tricky Part (2019), A Concrete River: Reviving the Waters of Los Angeles (2015), 10 Days in Watts (2023), and more.- Actress
- Director
Stunning Swedish born ex-model who broke into film in 1970, and quickly
appeared in several high profile films including playing the ex-wife of
James Caan in the futuristic
Rollerball (1975) and the ill-fated
lover of super-assassin Francisco Scaramanga played by
Christopher Lee in
The Man with the Golden Gun (1974).
To date, the beautiful Maud Adams has appeared in three James Bond
films... the other two performances were as one of the lead villains in
Octopussy (1983) and as an extra in
A View to a Kill (1985). She has
appeared in numerous television specials on the Bond series of films,
and also played the love interest of crazy
Bruce Dern in
Tattoo (1981). In the late 1990s, Adams
had a regular role on a Swedish soap opera; however, she has not been
seen on cinema screens since late 1996.- Actress
- Soundtrack
Georgina Frances Reilly is a British Canadian actress born in Guildford, United Kingdom, to songwriter/composer David Reilly and business administrator Frances Reilly. She comes from a long line of performers, her grandfather being Tommy Reilly, the world's first classical harmonica player. Growing up in an artistic household, she soon took to the family business, performing in musical theatre productions throughout her schooling. She met Philip Bateman (musical director of Billy Elliot, London production), who became a great mentor and supporter of her singing and acting. At the age of 16, she and her family made the move to Toronto, Canada, where Georgina finished her formal education. While attending Havergal College, she took a break from performing to focus on school. She was soon discovered by celebrated independent filmmaker Bruce McDonald, who cast her in the critically acclaimed 'Pontypool', which premiered at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival. It wasn't very long before Georgina became a household name in Canada. She is best known for her role as the feisty young coroner Dr. Emily Grace on Canada's acclaimed Victorian series Murdoch Mysteries and as the cynical Sabrina Reynolds on The CW's The L.A Complex. She married actor and filmmaker Mark O'Brien January 6, 2013, after meeting him on set. They reside in Los Angeles.- Actor
- Additional Crew
- Sound Department
Scott Menville is an American voice actor known for voicing Robin in the Teen Titans, Teen Titans Go and associated DC franchises. He also voiced Rick Courage from Evil Con Carne, Shaggy Rogers from Scooby-Doo, Fred Flintstone from The Flintstone Kids, Rocket the Sloth from Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, Samwise Gamgee from The Lord of the Rings video game and Yaibal in Final Fantasy X-2.- Actress
- Producer
- Writer
Born in a suburb in Texas, Jennifer started doing theatre at the age of six. Her favorite place to be was on the stage doing musicals and serious stage productions, even at a young age. This quickly transitioned to work in local Texas commercials, TV, and film work. Her most notable work in Texas was a film starring Michael Caine and Robert Duvall. As Jennifer grew older, she broadened her horizons to Los Angeles. She did a myriad of different jobs in television and movies, ranging from drama and comedy. Then after pounding the pavement auditioning and working on and off, she booked her most notable role, to date, as Harper on Disney's "Wizards of Waverly Place". She spent years playing the lovable, loyal, and eccentric best friend to Selena Gomez's Alex Russo. She followed up the show with film collaborations with Slash, from Guns N Roses, and many other unique endeavors. She continues to act, teach, and pursue her bachelors of science.
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Tall, broad shouldered character actor with Texan drawl first appeared
in support in several Western vehicles both on TV and the cinema in the
mid 1960s. Got himself noticed playing Steve McQueen's younger brother
in Junior Bonner (1972), and then scored the lead role of Buford Pusser (!) in the
unexpected hit Walking Tall (1973), an allegedly true tale about a Southern sheriff
confronting corruption & gangsters with a large wooden club and a mean
attitude. Followed it up by playing a sadistic hit man called Molly, in
Don Siegel's bank heist drama Charley Varrick (1973). Joe Don Baker's next few films
were rather forgettable until he landed the role of police detective
Earl Eischied in To Kill a Cop (1978)....which led him into reprising the same
character in the short lived TV series Eischied (1979). Since then he has
proved he is also quite adept at taking on comedy roles, as well as
picking up plenty of work playing lawmen, military men, politicians
etc. Keep your eye open for him as a nosy police chief in Fletch (1985), a
meglomanical general in The Living Daylights (1987), as a redneck father in Mars Attacks! (1996), and as
intelligence operative Jack Wade in the 007 films Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) and
GoldenEye (1995).- Actor
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Richard Hugh Lynch was born on February 12, 1940 in Brooklyn, New York
City, to Irish immigrant parents. He was one of seven children. Before starting a career as an
actor, he joined the United States Marine Corps in 1958. He served for
four years where he made Corporal, and did a tour of the Middle East
with the Sixth Fleet. He began his training with
Herbert Berghof and
Uta Hagen at H.B. Studios in New York's
Greenwich Village, and later went on to train extensively with
Lee Strasberg at Carnegie Hall. In 1970,
he became a lifetime member of the Actors Studio and spent years in the
New York theater community playing in dozens of on- and off-Broadway
productions. The more notable plays were: "The Basic Training of Pavlo
Hummel", "The Lion in Winter", "The Devils", "The Lady from the Sea",
"Action", "Live Like Pigs", "Richard III", "Offi on a Tangerine", "A
View from the Bridge", "The Man with the Flower in His Mouth", and
Shelley Winters' "One Night Stands of a
Noisy Passenger".
Lynch made his film debut in the classic film
Scarecrow (1973), winner of the Grand
Prix Award at the Cannes Film Festival. His performance in Scarecrow
launched his film career and brought him to Hollywood, where he has
worked in film and television for over twenty years. His more prominent
film work has been in:
The Seven-Ups (1973),
Open Season (1974),
The Formula (1980),
Invasion U.S.A. (1985),
Bad Dreams (1988),
Little Nikita (1988), Dostoyevsky's
Crime and Punishment (2002),
and William Peter Blatty's
The Ninth Configuration (1980).
His performance as the evil King Cromwell, in the successful fantasy
film
The Sword and the Sorcerer (1982),
won him the Saturn Award for Best Actor from the Academy of Science
Fiction and Fantasy. Although best known for playing villains, he was
cast as the President of the United States in
Mil Mascaras vs. the Aztec Mummy (2007).
He also starred in numerous television series and Movies of the Week,
such as
Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story (1980),
Sizzle (1981),
Vampire (1979),
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979),
Battlestar Galactica (1978),
and the
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)
two-part episode "Gambit". His work in a variety of independent films
has won him a high profile internationally. He has also worked in
China, where he played in the first joint production between the Screen
Actors' Guild and the People's Republic of China, The Korean Project.
In his spare time, Richard enjoys fishing, the arts, architecture,
music and poetry. He is also fluent in several languages including
German and Italian.- Hermione Norris was born on 12 February 1967 in Paddington, London, England, UK. She is an actress, known for MI-5 (2002), Wire in the Blood (2002) and Cold Feet (1997). She has been married to Simon Wheeler since December 2002. They have two children.
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Michael Ray Bower has established himself over the past decade as an
actor of considerable talent and accomplishment. His diverse and
eclectic resume ranges from hilarious roles in such comedies as "Dude
Where's My Car" and "Evolution," to hauntingly dramatic performances in
intense Television Shows such as "Dark Angel", "CSI" and His
breakthrough performance as a young Soldier Of A futuristic War in
James Cameron's "Dark Angel" was Submitted For A possible Emmy
Nomination.Michael Has Won Numerous Awards Through Out His Career.
Young Artist Award, Teen People's Choice, ACE Award Nominee
Born and raised in Los Angeles, Bower landed his first role at the age
of eleven on the popular motion picture Moonwalker alongside World idol
Michael Jackson. He soon recurred on the award-winning "The Wonder
Years" For 3 seasons. Bower soon turned recurring roles into series
regulars on 3 Primetime shows. With his fan following and critical
acclaim he led "Nickelodeons Best Comedy Show "Salute Your Shorts"
(cult-like following now). Michael has guest-starred on over 30
Primetime Television shows .
He made his Lead feature film debut in DreamWorks Summer Hit
"Evolution" For director Ivan Reitman He Starred alongside such heavy
weights as David Duchovney, Sean William Scott, Orlando Jones, Dan
Akroyd, and academy award winner Julianne Moore. Rumor is Michael beat
out the likes of Jack Black, and Dane Cook for the role...More recent
credits include "Marilyn Hotchkiss Ballroom Dancing and Charm School"
again he starred along greats john Goodman, Sean Astin, Marissa Tomei,
Mary Steenburgen & Danny Devito.
Bower showcased his impressive acting chops in many indie & festival
shorts that have showed many in Hollywood that he is not only a comedy
genius but a very powerful dramatic actor. He has aspirations of
directing as well and is soon to start directing his first short. Bower
leads a cast of comedians in a mock musical show touring nationwide
with network interest.
For the big screen, Michael will next be seen starring in "Two Dudes &
a Dream", and he recently completed work for Jersey Films "Community
College" In his spare time, Bower enjoys writing, technology, and film
and TV watching with a new found passion for Tournament Poker.- Born in Plano, Texas, Christopher Pettiet began career as a child
actor making appearances in television series, made-for-television
movies and films. He starred in two hit flicks, Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead (1991) and Point Break (1991), and then joined the cast of the
Western TV series The Young Riders (1989) as a young Jesse James. After the
cancellation of The Young Riders, his acting career began to wane.
According to his manager, Bob Villard, Chris was just about
"impoverished", living on "small residual check(s)". He went to a couple of AA meetings and never admitted to a drug
problem. Sadly, he died of an accidental drug overdose, just two months
after his 24th birthday. - Actress
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Chynna Phillips was born on February 12, 1968 in Los Angeles, California, USA as Gilliam Chynna Phillips. She is an actress, known for Bridesmaids (2011), Striptease (1996) and Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (2004). She has been married to William Baldwin since September 9, 1995. They have three children.- Actor
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Zach Grenier was born in Englewood, New Jersey, USA. Zach is an actor, known for Devs (2020), Fight Club (1999) and Ray Donovan (2013).- Actor
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Jesse Hutch was born in the same location as the Marvel hero Wolverine. This could be nothing more then a fun fact, however, it does not excuse why Mr. Hutch is immune to Tylenol and Novocaine(most commonly used in dental practice). He drowned when he was 19 years old. Fell from a 25 foot rock quarry while free climbing in high school. Had his stomach cut open by a barbed wire fence when he was 10, and he moved across the country(solo) when he was 21 to pursue acting. This was the first time he was ever on an airplane. Now, after 22 years of being an actor, Jesse Hutch says he is still working on his: "22 year overnight success story". You may have seen him in classics such as Freddy vs Jason or The Butterfly Effect. Maybe you saw him in the 60's as Jimmy Riley on Dick Clark's American Bandstand(American Dreams). Dark Angel, Kyle XY, Smallville, Arrow, Almost Human, Supernatural, Batwoman and Project Blue Book are but a few of his television roles. Keep an eye out for his latest roles, one being "Savage Lands", an historical fiction about Davey Crockett, Jesse plays the villain known as spike. Now over to the romantic comedy zone Jesse stars in "B&B Merry" along side actress Jen Lilly. The list goes on with Supernatural, Wu Assassins and Coffee & Kareem(theatrical release). Mr Hutch recently Directed, wrote and acted in a proof of concept for a new television series he's developing. When asked what his best role has been to date, his response: "My best role of all time is that of husband and father. I believe that giving your life for others is one of the greatest gifts you can strive for. Turns out this is also the best acting class you will ever take...life".
Keep an eye out for Mr.Hutch. His performances range from Drama, to action, to comedy and back again. We are always in a state of mystery as to what his next role will be. His ability to be extremely grounded allow depth, yet he can be funny, charming, dangerous and even scary at times. He can play many roles with utmost believability. His stunt ability is backed by a Navy Seal regiment of training. One of the unique aspects of Mr. Hutch's acting is his ability to listen. We feel this may be a lost art these days. However, Hutch commands the screen regardless of wether he is speaking or listening.
And as a final note, His social media presence is fun, genuine, respectable and real. Hutch is our favourite!!!- Actress
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Standing at 5'9", Heather Doerksen (pronounced Dirk-sin) was born in Manitoba, Canada. Heading into college, her goal was to study Biological Sciences, but it took one influential acting class to convince her to switch her major. She graduated with her BFA in Theatre from Simon Fraser University in British Columbia. After primarily acting in theatre productions, Heather landed her first screen roles on 'Smallville' and 'Battlestar Galactica' in 2005, before being cast in Academy Award winner Guillermo del Toro's 'Pacific Rim' in 2013. She is also a prolific voiceover actress and has voiced many advertising campaigns and cartoon characters, including Princess Leia in 'Lego Star Wars', and Xee in Dreamworks' 'Dinotrux'.- Actor
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Clifford Tobin De Young was born on February 12, 1945 in Los Angeles,
California. He was the lead singer of the late-1960s rock band Clear
Light, which played with such artists as
The Doors,
Jimi Hendrix and
Janis Joplin. He went to New York City in
1970 after the band broke up, starred in the Broadway production of
"Hair" and the Tony Award-winning "Sticks and Bones". After four years
in New York, he came back to California and starred in the television
movie Sunshine (1973) and the
subsequent series of the same name
(Sunshine (1975)). He has made more
than 80 films and television series, including
Harry and Tonto (1974),
The 3, 000 Mile Chase (1977),
Centennial (1978),
Shock Treatment (1981),
Flight of the Navigator (1986)
and Glory (1989). After 25 years and
countless performances in films, television and theater, he is still
going strong in such projects as the ABC drama series
Relativity (1996), and the films
The Substitute (1996) and
Suicide Kings (1997).- Actor
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Lorne Greene was born Lyon Himan "Chaim" Green on February 12, 1915, in
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. He began acting while attending Canada's
Queen's University, and after graduation got a job in radio
broadcasting. His rich, deep, authoritarian voice quickly propelled him
to prominence as Canada's top newscaster. He left Canada in the early
1950s for a film career in Hollywood, and soon began
appearing regularly in television, films and on radio. His greatest
successes came in two television series, the long-running Western
Bonanza (1959), in which he played
the patriarch of a wealthy frontier family, and the science-fiction
series
Battlestar Galactica (1978). In 1969 he was awarded Officer of the Order of Canada for his services
to the performing arts and community.
Lorne Greene died at age 72 of pneumonia following heart surgery on September 11, 1987, in Santa Monica, CA.- Park Bo-Yeong (Bo-Yeong Park), whose father is Sergeant Major of the Army, was born in Jeungpyeong in Chungcheong Province of South Korea. She started acting when she was in middle school as a member of video production club. She entered Dankook University, Department of Theater and Film. Her official television drama debut is 'Bimil-eui gyo-jeong' from EBS and her official debut film is 'If You Were Me 4'.
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Born in Ely, Cambridgeshire, England, the light-haired,
aristocratically handsome Simon MacCorkindale's first career choice was
to follow in his Air Force pilot father Peter's bootsteps by joining
the Air Training Corps., but his deteriorating eyesight forced him to
choose an alternative vocation. Taking drama classes following high
school graduation, he attended the highly prestigious Haileybury and
Imperial Service College in Hertfordshire in the late 60s. He
subsequently put in much time on the repertory theatre stage, which
culminated in a West End debut appearance in the highly acclaimed
production of "Pygmalion" with Alec McCowen
and Diana Rigg in 1974. Simon later appeared
in several heralded TV miniseries productions such as
I, Claudius (1976) and
Jesus of Nazareth (1977).
His major breakthrough in film came with the role of the charming and
cunning shipboard suspect in the all-star whodunnit
Death on the Nile (1978), with
similar shady roles in such films as
The Riddle of the Sands (1979)
keeping the momentum going. Hollywood became an option for him in the
80s and he found his patrician good looks well suited for TV, with
series roles ranging from soap operas
(Falcon Crest (1981)) to
adventures (Manimal (1983)). Since
then, Simon has delved into stage projects featuring him as both
director and actor, more notably in "Macbeth" and "The Merchant of
Venice". Much of the last decade was spent starring as a doctor in the
British TV series Casualty (1999).
Divorced during his early career from actress
Fiona Fullerton, he subsequently married
Brit actress Susan George and
produced a few of her films. They also raised Arabian horses together.
He focused for a time as a producer/director/writer on a variety of
personal projects, but has since concentrated again on performing.
Simon lost his over four-year-old battle with bowel cancer in October 2010.- H.M. Wynant's many-faceted career began at age 19 when he left his
hometown of Detroit, Michigan, after having attended Wayne State
University for just two years. He arrived in New York City with only
$125 in his pocket and a lot of ambition.
Jerome Robbins hired him on the spot at
Wynant's first audition, an open call for the Broadway musical "High
Button Shoes" starring Eddie Foy. H.M. was
working as a draftsman and told Robbins that he had to go to work the
next day, Robbins said, "Then quit!" Thus began a career in theater
which included productions such as "As You Like It" with
Katharine Hepburn, "Love of Four
Colonels" starring Rex Harrison and
Lilli Palmer, "Venus Observed" directed by
Laurence Olivier, "The Sound of Music"
with Shirley Jones and "Teahouse
of the August Moon" starring
David Wayne and
John Forsythe. These performances
garnered him many outstanding reviews and led to a prolific motion
picture and television career. In 1956, RKO Pictures cast Wynant, based
on his theatrical reputation, sight unseen, in a co-starring role of
"Crazy Wolf" in the western,
Run of the Arrow (1957). In
those days, he was known as Haim Weiner, which was his given name. In
New York, he had changed his name to Haim Winant, and the film's
director, Samuel Fuller, changed it again
to H.M. Wynant, and he's been known by that name ever since. Wynant was
true to form as a wild Indian and performed many of his own stunts. A
budding film career ensued. In addition to his theatrical career in New
York and his film career in Hollywood, he became part of television
history by appearing in many live, dramatic television shows. Recently,
Wynant's Los Angeles stage performances included playing the lead role
in "Karlaboy", a suspense ghost story written by screenwriter
Steven Peros. Jules Aaron directed him in
"The Sisters Rosensweig" and in "Philadelphia Story" and he continues
his work in film, television, commercials, radio and voice-overs. H.M.
is the proud father of three grown boys who also have successful show
business careers: William Winant, a
professor and avant-garde percussionist;
Scott Winant, an Emmy-winning
producer and director; and Bruce Winant, an
actor and singer on Broadway as well as film and television. H.M. lives
in Southern California with his wife, Paula, and their young daughter,
Pasha (born in 2000). - Actress
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An icon of the Australian screen, Sigrid Thornton has starred in many
of the films now regarded as classics of the Australian cinema. They
include George Miller's box office hit The Man From Snowy River (Fox
Classics), The Lighthorsemen (RKO), directed by Simon Wincer, Slate Wyn
And Me (Hemdale) and The Man From Snowy River II (Disney - Touchstone).
Her stellar television career highlights include the Australian
landmark series Seachange for ABC TV, The Boy In The Bush for UK's
Channel 4 opposite Kenneth Brannagh and BBC - ABC Co Pro The Far
Country opposite Michael York. Sigrid's miniseries 1915 for BBC - ABC
was followed by HBO's highly acclaimed All The Rivers Run and Paradise
(Guns Of Paradise) for CBS in the US. Ratings winner Little Oberon and
Nine's smash hit Underbelly - The Golden Mile continue to consolidate
her unique position in the Australian film and television landscape.
All The Rivers Run proved a hugely popular mini-series throughout the
USA, China, Eastern and Western Europe (Sigrid was awarded top foreign
personality in Sweden). Veteran producer of Dallas and Knots Landing
David Jacobs created the female lead Amelia Lawson in his CBS series
Paradise (Guns Of Paradise) specifically for Sigrid. She was the first
Australian actress in a starring role in a US network series. The show
ran for several seasons and Sigrid was awarded the highly prestigious
Cowboy Hall of Fame award for best T.V. contribution to Western
Heritage.
Sigrid has received multiple awards, award nominations, honors and
medals for her work in front of and behind the cameras as well as
onstage. Sigrid's stage awards include Best Actress for the sell out
Australian tour of The Blue Room. Sigrid toured nationally co-starring
with Oscar winner Brenda Blethyn in Alan Bennett's Talking Heads. Her
most recent stage performance as Desiree in Sondheim's A Little Night
Music with co star Anthony Warlow at the Sydney Opera House garnered
rave reviews.
The comedy drama Seachange, with Sigrid in the central role as Laura,
became an Australian sociological phenomenon and an unprecedented
ratings success for the National broadcaster. The term 'SeaChange'
became part of the cultural vernacular and the show's content and
characters were dissected around the water cooler and in the national
press. Sigrid received numerous awards and nominations for her
performance. Sigrid received widespread praise for her work in Nine's
smash hit drama Underbelly - The Golden Mile playing 'hardball' federal
investigator, Gerry Lloyd. Australian audiences also recently
discovered Sigrid's pioneering roots in the highly regarded
biographical series, Who Do You Think You Are?
From the outset of her career as a child actor, Sigrid has been warmly
embraced by audiences and critics. They have supported her forays into
an unusually diverse range of formats and genres, with the national
press coining the phrase 'The Sigrid Factor'.
Sigrid has acted as MC for Australian appearances by international
luminaries including Nelson Mandela and the Dalai Lama and was MC for
the Centenary of Federation joint sittings of the Australian
Parliament. In 2003 Sigrid was honored as one of the top 100 Australian
Entertainers of the century by the Variety Club and she is depicted in
an honorary mural in central Melbourne's 'Walk of the Stars'.
Sigrid has also worked extensively behind the cameras on behalf of the
film and television industry, the arts and various charities. She has
served several terms as a director of both the Australian Film
Institute and Film Victoria and was patron of Women in Film and
Television. Sigrid was appointed to the Federal Government's Commercial
Television Production Fund in 1995. In 1999 she was invited by the
Premier of Victoria to chair the Victorian Film & Television Taskforce,
whose recommendations revitalized the Victorian film and television
industry. Sigrid continues her extensive work with charities including
World Vision, Reach Foundation and Vision Australia's Braille reading
program for children. She serves as a director of Malthouse Theatre.
Most recently Sigrid has completed a US publicity tour of Michael
Rymer's feature Face to Face that won numerous awards. She is in post
production on independent US feature Heads We Do, which has an
anticipated release in 2013.- Actor
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Forrest Tucker, best known to the Baby Boom generation as Sergeant
O'Rourke on the classic TV sitcom
F Troop (1965), was born on February
12, 1919, in Plainfield, Indiana. He began his performing career at age
14 at the 1933 Chicago "Century of Progress" World's Fair, pushing big
wicker tourists' chairs by day and singing at night. His family moved
to Arlington, Virginia, where he attended Washington-Lee High School in
1938.
Big for his age, as a youth Tucker was hired by the Old Gayety
Burlesque Theater in Washington, DC, to serve as a Master of Ceremonies
for the burly-cue after consecutively winning Saturday night amateur
contests. He was fired when it was found out that he was underage. When
he turned 18, he was rehired by the Old Gayety.
After graduating from high school in 1938, the 6'4", 200-lb. Tucker
played semi-pro football in the Washington, DC, area. He also enlisted
in the National Guard and was assigned to a cavalry unit in Ft. Myers,
Virginia. He started at the top when he entered the movies, in a
supporting role in William Wyler's
The Westerner (1940) opposite
Gary Cooper and
Walter Brennan, who won his third Oscar
for portraying Judge Roy Bean in the picture. He got the role during
his 1939 vacation from the Old Gayety, which shut down due to the
District of Columbia's horrible summers in the days before air
conditioning was common.He was signed to the part in the Wyler picture,
which required a big fellow with enough presence for a fight scene with
the
6'3" superstar Cooper.
Tucker moved to California and began auditioning for parts in films. After "The Westerner", it was off to Poverty Row, where he appeared in
William Beaudine's
Emergency Landing (1941) at
rock-bottom PRC (Producers Releasing Corp.). He was soon signed by
Columbia and assigned to the B-pictures unit, though he was lent to MGM
for the
Spencer Tracy-Katharine Hepburn
vehicle
Keeper of the Flame (1942),
his last film before going off to World War II.
Tucker served as an enlisted man in the Army during the war, being
discharged as a second lieutenant in 1945. He returned to Columbia and
resumed his acting career with an appearance in the classic film
The Yearling (1946). He signed with
Republic Pictures in 1948, which brought him one of his greatest roles,
that of the Marine corporal bearing a grudge against gung-ho sergeant
John Wayne in
Sands of Iwo Jima (1949). At
Republic Tucker was top-billed in many of the "B' pictures in the
action and western genres the studio was famous for, such as
Rock Island Trail (1950),
California Passage (1950) and
Ride the Man Down (1952), among
many others. In 1958 he broke out of action / western pictures and
played Beauregard Burnside to
Rosalind Russell's
Auntie Mame (1958), the highest
grossing US film of the year. It showed that Tucker was capable of
performing in light comedy.
Morton DaCosta, his director on "Auntie
Mame", cast Tucker as "Professor" Harold Hill in the national touring
production of The Music Man (1962),
and he was a more than credible substitute for the great Broadway star
Robert Preston, who originated
the role. Tucker made 2,008 appearances in The Music Man over the next
five years, then starred in "Fair Game for Lovers" on Broadway in 1964.
However, it was television that provided Tucker with his most famous
role: scheming cavalry sergeant Morgan O'Rourke in "F Troop", which ran
from 1965 to 1967 on ABC. Ably supported by
Larry Storch,
Ken Berry and
James Hampton, Tucker showed a
flair for comedy and he and Storch had great chemistry, but the series
was canceled after only two seasons. It has, however, remained in
syndication ever since.
Following "F Troop", Tucker returned to films in supporting parts
(having a good turn as the villain in the John Wayne western
Chisum (1970)) and character leads
(The Wild McCullochs (1975)).
On television he was a regular on three series:
Dusty's Trail (1973) with
Bob Denver;
The Ghost Busters (1975),
which reunited him with Larry Storch; and
Filthy Rich (1982). Tucker was
also a frequent guest star on TV, with many appearances on
Gunsmoke (1955) and in the recurring
role of Jarvis Castleberry, Flo's estranged father, on
Alice (1976) and its spin-off,
Flo (1980). He continued to be active on
stage as well, starring in the national productions of
Plaza Suite (1971),
Show Boat (1936), and
That Championship Season (1982).
He also toured with Roy Radin's Vaudeville
Revue, a variety show in which, as a headliner, he told Irish stories
and jokes and sang Irish songs.
Tucker returned to the big screen after an absence of several years in
1986, playing hero trucker Charlie Morrison in the action film
Thunder Run (1985). His comeback to
features was short-lived, however, as he died on October 25, 1986, in
the Los Angeles suburb of Woodland Hills, of complications from lung
cancer and emphysema. He was 67 years old. Tucker was buried in Forest
Lawn-Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles.- Actor
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Josef Altin was born on 12 February 1983 in London, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Eastern Promises (2007), Game of Thrones (2011) and Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker (2019).- Actress
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Clare-Hope Ashitey was born on 12 February 1987 in Enfield, Middlesex, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Children of Men (2006), Doctor Foster: A Woman Scorned (2015) and Shooting Dogs (2005).- Crosbie was born in Gorebridge, Midlothian, Scotland, to Presbyterian parents who disapproved of her becoming an actress. Nevertheless, she joined the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School while still in her teens. Her big break came in 1970 when she was cast as Catherine of Aragon in the BBC television series The Six Wives of Henry VIII, for which she won the 1971 BAFTA Television Award for Best Actress. In 1973, she starred alongside Vanessa Redgrave in the BBC serial, A Picture of Katherine Mansfield.
In 1975, Crosbie made a similar impact as another Queen, Queen Victoria, in the ITV period drama Edward the Seventh, for which she won the 1976 BAFTA Television Award for Best Actress. She played Cinderella's fairy godmother in The Slipper and the Rose, which was chosen as the Royal Film Première for 1976. In that film, Crosbie sang the Sherman Brothers' song, "Suddenly It Happens". In Ralph Bakshi's animated movie, The Lord of the Rings, filmed in 1978, Crosbie voiced the character of Galadriel, Lady of the Elves. In 1980, she played the abbess in Hawk the Slayer. In 1986, she appeared as the vicar's wife in Paradise Postponed.
After appearing in the BBC1 drama Take Me Home, Crosbie's next major role was as Margaret Meldrew, the long-suffering wife of Victor Meldrew (Richard Wilson) in the BBC sitcom One Foot in the Grave (1990-2000) for which she is best known. She also played Janet, the housekeeper to Dr. Finlay, in the 1993 revival of A.J. Cronin's popular stories. She also had a poignant role in the thriller The Debt Collector (1999).
Crosbie's other roles include playing the monkey-lover Ingrid Strange in an episode of Jonathan Creek (1997), Edith Sparshott in An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1997-2001), and Jessie in the film Calendar Girls (2003). In 2004, Crosbie appeared alongside Sam Kelly in an episode of the third series of Black Books, as the mother of the character Manny Bianco. In the series six and seven of the BBC Radio 4 comedy series Old Harry's Game, she played a recently deceased historian named Edith.
In 2008 she appeared in the BBC adaptation of Charles Dickens's Little Dorrit and an AXA Sun Life television advertisement for the over-50s. In 2009, she portrayed Sadie Cairncross in the BBC television series Hope Springs. In 2010 Crosbie appeared in the Doctor Who episode "The Eleventh Hour" and in the New Tricks episode "Coming Out Ball". In 2014 Crosbie appeared in the movies What We Did on Our Holiday and Into the Woods. In 2015 she appeared in a BBC adaptation of the novel Cider with Rosie. In 2016 she appeared in the new film version of Dad's Army .
Crosbie was awarded an OBE in 1998 for services to drama.
Crosbie is divorced from Michael Griffiths, the father of both her children, Owen and Selina (also an actress).
She is a campaigner for greyhound welfare. Since 2003, she has been President of the League Against Cruel Sports. She has also fronted commercials for Sun Life Direct insurance. - Actor
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Naidu's first professional acting job, which he won from an open call, was a leading role opposite Michael Keaton in the 1986 film Touch and Go (1986). This was followed by an ABC Afterschool Specials (1972) episode, No Greater Gift (1985), where he played Nick Santana, a 12-year-old boy with a terminal illness. Naidu then appeared in the MacGyver (1985) TV series' first-season episode, To Be a Man (1986) in 1986.
Other early film credits include Where the River Runs Black (1986) opposite Charles Durning and Vice Versa (1988). Between 1988 and 1995 he worked extensively in classical theatre.
Naidu returned to film acting in 1996 with Richard Linklater's SubUrbia (1996), for which he was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male and competed against the likes of Samuel L. Jackson, Roy Scheider and Jason Lee.
On screen, Naidu starred in the cult film Office Space (1999), as well as appearing in such films as K-PAX (2001), SUBWAYStories: Tales from the Underground (1997), Requiem for a Dream (2000), Bad Santa (2003), The War Within (2005), The Guru (2002), Waterborne (2005), and Loins of Punjab Presents (2007). He co-starred as a series regular in the sitcom LateLine (1998) and had guest starring roles on the television dramas The Sopranos (1999), The West Wing (1999), and Bored to Death (2009).
Naidu has been working extensively with musicians from the Asian underground music movement for many years as a breakdancer and an M.C. His vocals have appeared on many records, most notably Talvin Singh's mercury award winner "OK".
In 2006, Naidu directed his first feature film Ashes (2010) which had its release in 2010 and for which he won Best Actor accolades from the MIACC Film Festival in New York and the London Asian Film Festival.
Naidu's most recent theatre credits include The Kid Stays in the Picture at the Royal Court Theatre, The Master and Margarita with Complicite, a world tour of Shakespeare's Measure for Measure with Complicite, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui alongside Al Pacino, directed by Simon McBurney and The Little Flower of East Orange alongside Ellen Burstyn at New York's Public Theater directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman. In 2001 Naidu's solo theatre piece Darwaza was a sold-out hit at New York's Labyrinth Theatre.- Actress
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Brioni Farrell was born on 12 February 1940 in Athens, Greece. She was an actress and executive, known for Star Trek (1966), General Hospital (1963) and Fantasy Island (1977). She was married to Eugene Robert Glazer. She died on 8 August 2018 in California, USA.- Producer
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Arsenio Hall was born on 12 February 1956 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He is a producer and actor, known for Coming to America (1988), Harlem Nights (1989) and Coming 2 America (2021).