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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 Paul Gascoigne, by
grabbing his testicles. He has played for Wimbledon, Leeds United,
Sheffield United, Chelsea, and Queens Park Rangers. Internationally, he
played for Wales, qualifying for that nationality through his
grandparents. He made his first acting appearance in the British
comedy/thriller,
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998),
at age 33, although he had previous presented a video on football's
hard men (for which he was censured by the Football Association).
He starred in the blockbuster,
X-Men: The Last Stand (2006),
as "Cain Marko", also known as "The Juggernaut". Prior to that, he
played the scowling soccer coach illustrating both his likability and
comedic side in Dreamworks'
She's the Man (2006), with
Amanda Bynes. Other projects include a lead
role in Johnny Was (2006), starring
Roger Daltrey,
Eriq La Salle and
Lennox Lewis, and he also appears in the
independent feature,
The Riddle (2007), starring
Vanessa Redgrave and
Derek Jacobi.
Over the years, he has received a number of prestigious awards, which
showcase his accomplishments as a talented actor. In 1997, he won
Satellite TV's "Personality of the Year", from Satellite TV Europe
Magazine. In 1998, GQ Magazine named Jones "Man of the Year". He was
awarded Best Actor for
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
at the Odeon Audience Awards and also won the award for Outstanding New
Talent from the Sir James Carreras Award
Variety Club of GB. Jones won Best Debut in 1999 for
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
at Empire Magazine's "The Awards 1999" and was titled the Male Cigar
Personality of the Year at the Millennium Cigar Awards. In 2001, he was
named Best British Actor for Empire Magazine's "The Awards 2001". In
2002, Jones received the award for Best Supporting Actor for
Night at the Golden Eagle (2001)
at the New York Film Festival and, in 2005, he was honored with Best
Newcomer for Slipstream (2005) at
London's Sci-Fi Film Festival.- Actor
- Producer
- Director
Bradley Charles Cooper was born on January 5, 1975 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His mother, Gloria (Campano), is of Italian descent, and worked for a local NBC station. His father, Charles John Cooper, who was of Irish descent, was a stockbroker. Immediately after Bradley graduated from the Honors English program at Georgetown University in 1997, he moved to New York City to enroll in the Masters of Fine Arts program at the Actors Studio Drama School at New School University. There, he developed his stage work, culminating with his thesis performance as John Merrick in Bernard Pomerance's "The Elephant Man", performed in New York's Circle in the Square.
While still in school, Bradley began his professional career, appearing opposite Sarah Jessica Parker on Sex and the City (1998) and on the drama series The Beat (2000). His weekends were spent with LEAP (Learning through the Expanded Arts Program), a non-profit organization that teaches acting and movement to inner city school children. The summers took him all across the globe, from kayaking in British Columbia with Orca Whales to ice-climbing in the Peruvian Andes, while hosting Lonely Planet's Treks in a Wild World (2000) for the Discovery Channel. Bradley had to miss his graduation ceremony from the Actors Studio in order to star in his first feature Wet Hot American Summer (2001). After finishing his second feature Bending All the Rules (2002), his plans to relocate to Los Angeles were delayed when Darren Star hired him to star on the drama series The $treet (2000).
Bradley went on to win the role of young law student Gordon Pinella in Changing Lanes (2002), starring Ben Affleck and Samuel L. Jackson, and also played Travis Paterson in My Little Eye (2002). He finally decided that it was time to forgo his other New York projects and move to Los Angeles when he was cast on Alias (2001). After supporting roles in Wedding Crashers (2005), Failure to Launch (2006), The Comebacks (2007), The Rocker (2008) and Yes Man (2008), Cooper broke out with major roles in He's Just Not That Into You (2009), The Hangover (2009) and Valentine's Day (2010). He co-starred in the action film The A-Team (2010) and headlined the thriller film Limitless (2011).
Cooper received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor after starring opposite Jennifer Lawrence in David O. Russell's Silver Linings Playbook (2012). He then received two more consecutive Oscar nominations, Best Supporting Actor for playing Richie DiMaso in Russell's American Hustle (2013) (again opposite Lawrence, though their characters shared no significant screen time), and Best Actor for playing Navy SEAL Chris Kyle in Clint Eastwood's American Sniper (2014), the highest grossing film of 2014. During this time period, Cooper also reprised his role in The Hangover Part II (2011) and The Hangover Part III (2013), turned in another strong dramatic turn in The Place Beyond the Pines (2012), and voiced Rocket Raccoon in the third highest grossing film of 2014, Guardians of the Galaxy (2014).
In 2015, Bradley headlined two comedies, Cameron Crowe's Aloha (2015), set in Hawaii, and John Wells' Burnt (2015), set in London, and starred opposite Jennifer Lawrence again in David O. Russell's Joy (2015).
Bradley has a daughter (born 2017) with his former partner, model Irina Shayk.- Actor
- Producer
- Soundtrack
A tall, wavy-haired US actor with a deep, resonant voice, Clancy Brown has proven himself a versatile performer with first-class contributions to theatre, feature films, television series and even animation.
Clarence J. Brown III was born in 1959 in Urbana, Ohio, to Joyce Helen (Eldridge), a concert pianist, conductor, and composer, and Clarence J. "Bud" Brown, Jr., who helped manage the Brown Publishing Company, the family-owned newspaper started by Clancy's grandfather, Clarence J. Brown. Clancy's father and grandfather were also Republican congressmen from the same Ohio district, and Clancy spent much of his youth in close proximity to Washington, D.C. He plied his dramatic talents in the Chicago theatre scene before moving onto feature film with a sinister debut performance bullying Sean Penn inside a youth reformatory in Bad Boys (1983). He portrayed Viktor the Monster in the unusual spin on the classic Frankenstein story in The Bride (1985), before scoring one of his best roles to date as the evil Kurgan hunting fellow immortals Christopher Lambert and Sean Connery across four centuries of time in Highlander (1986).
Brown played a corrupt American soldier in the Walter Hill-directed hyper-violent action film Extreme Prejudice (1987), another deranged killer in Shoot to Kill (1988) and a brutal prison guard, who eventually somewhat "befriends" wrongfully convicted banker Tim Robbins, in the moving The Shawshank Redemption (1994). His superb vocal talents were in demand, and he contributed voices to animated series, including Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm (1995), Street Sharks (1994), Gargoyles (1994) and Superman: The Animated Series (1996). Brown then landed two more plum roles, one as a "tough-as-nails" drill sergeant in the science fiction thriller Starship Troopers (1997), and the other alongside Robin Williams in the Disney comedy Flubber (1997).
The video gaming industry took notice of Clancy's vocal abilities, too, and he has contributed voices to several top selling video games, including Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex (2001), Lands of Lore III (1999), Star Wars: Bounty Hunter (2002) and Crash Nitro Kart (2003). His voice is also the character of cranky crustacean Mr. Eugene H. Krabs in the highly successful SpongeBob SquarePants (1999) animated series and films, and he contributed voices to The Batman (2004), Jackie Chan Adventures (2000) and Justice League (2001) animated series. A popular and friendly personality, Clancy Brown continues to remain busy both through his vocal and acting talents in Hollywood.- Animation Department
- Writer
- Art Department
Hayao Miyazaki is one of Japan's greatest animation directors. The entertaining plots, compelling characters, and breathtaking visuals in his films have earned him international renown from critics as well as public recognition within Japan.
Miyazaki started his career in 1963 as an animator at the studio Toei Douga studio, and was subsequently involved in many early classics of Japanese animation. From the beginning, he commanded attention with his incredible drawing ability and the seemingly endless stream of movie ideas he proposed.
In 1971, he moved to the A Pro studio with Isao Takahata. In 1973, he moved to Nippon Animation, where he was heavily involved in the World Masterpiece Theater TV animation series for the next 5 years. In 1978, he directed his first TV series, Future Boy Conan (1978). Then, he moved to Tokyo Movie Shinsha in 1979 to direct his first movie, the classic Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro (1979). In 1984, he released Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984), which was based on the manga of the same title he had started 2 years before. The success of the film led to the establishment of a new animation studio, Studio Ghibli. Since then, he has since directed, written, and produced many other films with Takahata. More recently, he has produced with Toshio Suzuki. All enjoyed critical and box office success, in particular Princess Mononoke (1997). It received the Japanese equivalent of the Academy Award for Best Film and was the highest-grossing (about USD $150 million) domestic film in Japan's history at the time of its release.
In addition to animation, he also draws manga. His major work was Nausicaä, an epic tale he worked on intermittently from 1982 to 1984 while he was busy making animated films. Another manga Hikotei Jidai, later evolved into Porco Rosso (1992).- Actor
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Veteran actor and director Robert Selden Duvall was born on January 5, 1931, in San Diego, CA, to Mildred Virginia (Hart), an amateur actress, and William Howard Duvall, a career military officer who later became an admiral. Duvall majored in drama at Principia College (Elsah, IL), then served a two-year hitch in the army after graduating in 1953. He began attending The Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre In New York City on the G.I. Bill in 1955, studying under Sanford Meisner along with Dustin Hoffman, with whom Duvall shared an apartment. Both were close to another struggling young actor named Gene Hackman. Meisner cast Duvall in the play "The Midnight Caller" by Horton Foote, a link that would prove critical to his career, as it was Foote who recommended Duvall to play the mentally disabled "Boo Radley" in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962). This was his first "major" role since his 1956 motion picture debut as an MP in Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956), starring Paul Newman.
Duvall began making a name for himself as a stage actor in New York, winning an Obie Award in 1965 playing incest-minded longshoreman "Eddie Carbone" in the off-Broadway revival of Arthur Miller's "A View from the Bridge", a production for which his old roommate Hoffman was assistant director. He found steady work in episodic TV and appeared as a modestly billed character actor in films, such as Arthur Penn's The Chase (1966) with Marlon Brando and in Robert Altman's Countdown (1967) and Francis Ford Coppola's The Rain People (1969), in both of which he co-starred with James Caan.
He was also memorable as the heavy who is shot by John Wayne at the climax of True Grit (1969) and was the first "Maj. Frank Burns", creating the character in Altman's Korean War comedy M*A*S*H (1970). He also appeared as the eponymous lead in George Lucas' directorial debut, THX 1138 (1971). It was Francis Ford Coppola, casting The Godfather (1972), who reunited Duvall with Brando and Caan and provided him with his career breakthrough as mob lawyer "Tom Hagen". He received the first of his six Academy Award nominations for the role.
Thereafter, Duvall had steady work in featured roles in such films as The Godfather Part II (1974), The Killer Elite (1975), Network (1976), The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976) and
The Eagle Has Landed (1976). Occasionally this actor's actor got the chance to assay a lead role, most notably in Tomorrow (1972), in which he was brilliant as William Faulkner's inarticulate backwoods farmer. He was less impressive as the lead in Badge 373 (1973), in which he played a character based on real-life NYPD detective Eddie Egan, the same man his old friend Gene Hackman had won an Oscar for playing, in fictionalized form as "Popeye Doyle" in The French Connection (1971).
It was his appearance as "Lt. Col. Kilgore" in another Coppola picture, Apocalypse Now (1979), that solidified Duvall's reputation as a great actor. He got his second Academy Award nomination for the role, and was named by the Guinness Book of World Records as the most versatile actor in the world. Duvall created one of the most memorable characters ever assayed on film, and gave the world the memorable phrase, "I love the smell of napalm in the morning!"
Subsequently, Duvall proved one of the few established character actors to move from supporting to leading roles, with his Oscar-nominated turns in The Great Santini (1979) and Tender Mercies (1983), the latter of which won him the Academy Award for Best Actor. Now at the summit of his career, Duvall seemed to be afflicted with the fabled "Oscar curse" that had overwhelmed the careers of fellow Academy Award winners Luise Rainer, Rod Steiger and Cliff Robertson. He could not find work equal to his talents, either due to his post-Oscar salary demands or a lack of perception in the industry that he truly was leading man material. He did not appear in The Godfather Part III (1990), as the studio would not give in to his demands for a salary commensurate with that of Al Pacino, who was receiving $5 million to reprise Michael Corleone.
His greatest achievement in his immediate post-Oscar period was his triumphant characterization of grizzled Texas Ranger Gus McCrae in the TV mini-series Lonesome Dove (1989), for which he received an Emmy nomination. He received a second Emmy nomination and a Golden Globe for his portrayal of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin in Stalin (1992), and a third Emmy nomination playing Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in The Man Who Captured Eichmann (1996).
The shakeout of his career doldrums was that Duvall eventually settled back into his status as one of the premier character actors in the industry, rivaled only by his old friend Gene Hackman. Duvall, unlike Hackman, also has directed pictures, including the documentary We're Not the Jet Set (1974), Angelo My Love (1983) and Assassination Tango (2002). As a writer-director, Duvall gave himself one of his most memorable roles, that of the preacher on the run from the law in The Apostle (1997), a brilliant performance for which he received his third Best Actor nomination and fifth Oscar nomination overall. The film brought Duvall back to the front ranks of great actors, and was followed by a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nod for A Civil Action (1998).
Robert Duvall will long be remembered as one of the great naturalistic American screen actors in the mode of Spencer Tracy and his frequent co-star Marlon Brando. His performances as "Boo Radley" in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), "Jackson Fentry" in Tomorrow (1972), "Tom Hagen" in the first two "Godfather" movies, "Frank Hackett" in Network (1976), "Lt. Col. Kilgore" in Apocalypse Now (1979), "Bull Meechum" in The Great Santini (1979), "Mac Sledge" in Tender Mercies (1983), "Gus McCrae" in Lonesome Dove (1989) and "Sonny Dewey" in The Apostle (1997) rank as some of the finest acting ever put on film. It's a body of work that few actors can equal, let alone surpass.- Actress
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- Director
Diane Keaton was born Diane Hall in Los Angeles, California, to Dorothy Deanne (Keaton), an amateur photographer, and John Newton Ignatius "Jack" Hall, a civil engineer and real estate broker. She studied Drama at Santa Ana College, before dropping out in favor of the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York. After appearing in summer stock for several months, she got her first major stage role in the Broadway rock musical "Hair". As understudy to the lead, she gained attention by not removing any of her clothing. In 1968, Woody Allen cast her in his Broadway play "Play It Again, Sam," which had a successful run. It was during this time that she became involved with Allen and appeared in a number of his films. The first one was Play It Again, Sam (1972), the screen adaptation of the stage play. That same year Francis Ford Coppola cast her as Kay in the Oscar-winning The Godfather (1972), and she was on her way to stardom. She reprized that role in the film's first sequel, The Godfather Part II (1974). She then appeared with Allen again in Sleeper (1973) and Love and Death (1975).
In 1977, she broke away from her comedy image to appear in the chilling Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977), which won her a Golden Globe nomination. It was the same year that she appeared in what many regard as her best performance, in the title role of Annie Hall (1977), which Allen wrote specifically for her (her real last name is Hall, and her nickname is Annie), and what an impact she made. She won the Oscar and the British Award for Best Actress, and Allen won the Directors Award from the DGA. She started a fashion trend with her unisex clothes and was the poster girl for a lot of young males. Her mannerisms and awkward speech became almost a national craze. The question being asked, though, was, "Is she just a lightweight playing herself, or is there more depth to her personality?" For whatever reason, she appeared in but one film a year for the next two years and those films were by Allen. When they broke up she was next involved with Warren Beatty and appeared in his film Reds (1981), as the bohemian female journalist Louise Bryant. For her performance, she received nominations for the Academy Award and the Golden Globe. For the rest of the 1980s she appeared infrequently in films but won nominations in three of them. Attempting to break the typecasting she had fallen into, she took on the role of a confused, somewhat naive woman who becomes involved with Middle Eastern terrorists in The Little Drummer Girl (1984). To offset her lack of movie work, Diane began directing. She directed the documentary Heaven (1987), as well as some music videos. For television she directed an episode of the popular, but strange, Twin Peaks (1990).
In the 1990s, she began to get more mature roles, though she reprized the role of Kay Corleone in the third "Godfather" epic, The Godfather Part III (1990). She appeared as the wife of Steve Martin in the hit Father of the Bride (1991) and again in Father of the Bride Part II (1995). In 1993 she once again teamed with Woody Allen in Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993), which was well received. In 1995 she received high marks for Unstrung Heroes (1995), her first major feature as a director.- Actress
- Soundtrack
January Jones was born on January 5, 1978 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. She is the daughter of Karen Sue (née Cox), a sporting goods store manager, and Marvin Roger Jones, a gym teacher and fitness director. She is of Czech, Danish, English, Welsh, and German ancestry. She was named after the character January Wayne in Jacqueline Susann's potboiler novel turned film, Once Is Not Enough (1975). She has two sisters, Jacey Jones and Jina Jones].
Her family moved to the small town of Hecla, South Dakota, with a population of just some 400 souls in 1979, when she was one year old; they moved back to Sioux Falls in 1986. After graduating from Roosevelt High School, she moved to New York City to become a model. Despite her stature (5'6", which is short for a fashion model), she got modeling gigs, including Abercrombie & Fitch ads. However, modeling was just a means to an end, to get out of South Dakota and avoid going to college.
She got her first taste of acting from TV commercials and found that she had flair for it, even though she did not act in high school and
had no training. January appeared in a couple of television pilots and a cable television series before making her big screen debut in
All the Rage (1999), an indie that never got a real release. She followed it up with a small role in the teen thriller The Glass House (2001). Her actual debut in the sense of attracting attention was in the near silent role of the beauty who entices Jane Fonda's son, Troy Garity, in the Bruce Willis-Cate Blanchett-Billy Bob Thornton comedy Bandits (2001). It was not a career-making part. At the time the movie was released, she was ending a three-year relationship with Ashton Kutcher.
Small roles followed, including a "don't blink or you won't see me" part in the Adam Sandler-Jack Nicholson comedy Anger Management (2003). She gained some career traction with a good role in another comedy, American Wedding (2003), a sequel to American Pie (1999). Until she landed the part on Mad Men (2007), which made its debut on AMC in 2007, her career was steady but undistinguished. "I choose
roles that are not me", January has said. The role of Betty Draper has garnered her two Golden Globe nominations and an Emmy nomination as Best Actress. Her cool, Grace Kelly-ish blonde ice queen looks -- counterpointed by her soul burning in her bright blue eyes -- have established her as a retro icon of the 21st Century.- Actress
- Producer
- Soundtrack
Alice Suki Waterhouse (born 5 January 1992) is an English actress, model and entrepreneur.
She was born in Hammersmith, London and was raised in Chiswick, London, the daughter of Elizabeth, a cancer care nurse, and Norman Waterhouse, a plastic surgeon. She has a brother named Charlie, and two younger sisters Madeleine and Imogen Waterhouse, known as Immy, who is also a model.
Waterhouse began her modeling career after being discovered in a pub in London when she was 16. She became the face of the Burberry Brit Rhythm Fragrance and later Amo by Salvatore Ferragamo. Waterhouse walked the runway for brands such as Balenciaga, Vivienne Westwood, and Burberry, where she opened at closed there SS'15 show, and Balenciaga. Waterhouse has appeared on the cover of British, Korean, Thai, Taiwanese and Turkish Vogue, Tatler, British and Korean Elle as well as Lucky, L'Officiel, American Marie Claire, French Grazia and 1883 Magazine. Waterhouse has also shot editorials for American, Chinese, Russian, and Japanese Vogue Love Magazine, American Elle, Velour, and Stylist Magazine among others. In April 2017, Waterhouse was chosen as the "Mercier Muse" for the makeup brand Laura Mercier.
Waterhouse played Marlene in the sequel The Divergent Series: Insurgent (2015), based on the book of the same name. In March 2015 it was announced that Waterhouse had been cast in the role of Arlen in Ana Lily Amirpour's romance thriller film The Bad Batch. In June 2016, it was announced that Waterhouse will play Cecily of York in the Starz miniseries adaptation of the novel The White Princess by Philippa Gregory. She played the leading female role "The Girl", in the 2017 drama movie The Girl Who Invented Kissing, released April 29, 2017, written and directed by Tom Sierchio. Waterhouse cast in Sam Levinsons 'Assasination Nation' and in 2018 was cast as 'Ms Norman' in 'Detective Pikachu'. In 2019, she played 'Camille' in the Simon Barett directed 'Seance'. In 2020 she has been cast in Amazon's 'Daisy Jones and the Six' playing Karen Sirko.
Waterhouse has a accessories company 'Pop and Suki'. Pop & Suki is a direct-to-consumer, millennial fashion accessories brand. which has been worn by Lady Gaga, Pippa Middleton and Emma Stone.- Actor
- Producer
Born in Florida, educated at the State University of New York-Purchase, and coming from the NYC based theatre scene, Shea Whigham's big break came when director Joel Schumacher cast him opposite Colin Farrell in Tigerland (2000). He
has worked opposite Robert DeNiro, Anthony Hopkins, Christian Bale, Sean Penn and many others; and continues his role as "Eli Thompson" on HBO's award-winning series Boardwalk Empire (2010). Married with four children, Whigham and his family divide their time between New York and Los Angeles.- Born into a military family, Walker has lived all over from sunny California to the mountains of Colorado. Walker learned to love acting in elementary school drama class and through his wonderful experience in a middle school play. After a trip to California, he decided to pursue a career in acting and started working on his craft right then and there. Walker has always done everything he can to make people laugh and developed quite the imagination - going so far as to surprise everyone on a class trip by suddenly emerging in a full Spider-Man costume! A huge fan of superhero movies, his favorites include Deadpool and Avengers: Endgame. When he isn't performing, Walker takes great joy in some of the more extreme sports such as snowboarding, skateboarding, and parkour!
- Máiréad Tyers was born on 5 January 1998. She is an actress, known for Belfast (2021), Extraordinary (2023) and Dead Shot (2023).
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Mike Faist, is a Tony Nominated actor from Columbus, Ohio. He moved to New York at 17 to pursue acting. Mike dropped out of the conservatory he was attending after two semester and was selling tickets for Off Broadway plays. Now he is a working actor in the Broadway show Dear Evan Hansen.- Actress
- Producer
- Soundtrack
Deepika Padukone, born 5 January 1986 in Copenhagen, Denmark, is an
Indian model and actress. She is the daughter of former badminton
champion Prakash Padukone. Her mother tongue is Konkani. Deepika has a
younger sister named Anisha.
She has been modeling appearances in print and television advertising
campaigns for Liril, Close-Up toothpaste and Limca, receiving many
prestigious modeling offers, including brand ambassadorship of the
Jewels of India, an annual jewelry exhibition. She hit the
international scene when Maybelline made her their new international
cover-girl face.
At the fifth annual Kingfisher Fashion Awards, for Indian models and
designers, she was awarded the title of Model of the Year. Shortly
after wards, she was chosen as one of the models for the Kingfisher
Swimsuit Calendar for 2006, thus cementing her reputation as a
supermodel. She also bagged two trophies at the Idea Zee F Awards in
2006 - female Model of the year (Commercial Assignments) and Fresh Face
of the year.- Joe Flanigan started his career in politics working as an advance man at the White House. That was followed by a stint at Andy Warhol's Interview magazine until finally settling At Sanford Meisner's Neighborhood Playhouse in New York. He was quickly cast in several NBC projects and eventually put under contract there as a series regular for NBC 'Sisters' alongside Sela Ward and Swoosie Kurtz. This was followed with another series regular role...... Don Bellisario's First Monday on CBS starring Charles Durning & Joe Mantegna. He was then cast on Garry Marshal's The Other Sister alongside Diane Keaton, Juliette Lewis, and Giovanni Ribisi...... Some of Joe's other TV credits include multiple recurring roles on Dawson's Creek, Cupid, Providence, Profiler, and Women's Murder Club, and was the star of Stargate Atlantis playing the role of Colonel John Sheppard which went into international syndication with 100 episodes.
Joe just finished multiple episodes on the second and third season of Apple's TV show SEE starring Jason Momoa. - Katie Parker was born on 5 January 1986 in Virginia, USA. She is an actress, known for The Fall of the House of Usher (2023), Next Exit (2022) and The Haunting of Hill House (2018).
- Actress
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- Writer
America Athene Olivo is an American actress and singer best known as a member of the band Soluna, for her roles in the films Bitch Slap (2009), Friday the 13th (2009) and Maniac (2012), as well as starring in the Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark. Born in Van Nuys, California, she has dual citizenship to the United States and Canada. She is married to actor Christian Campbell.- Actress
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Born on January 5, 1962 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Susan Elizabeth
"Suzy" Amis first worked as a Ford model before she began acting in the
1980s. She made her film debut in the comedy film
Fandango (1985), opposite
Kevin Costner. After that, Amis next had
roles in
Rocket Gibraltar (1988),
Where the Heart Is (1990),
Rich in Love (1992) and
The Ballad of Little Jo (1993).
She later appeared in
Blown Away (1994),
The Usual Suspects (1995) and
Titanic (1997) in which she played Rose
DeWitt Bukater's granddaughter Lizzy Calvert. That same year, she
starred opposite Tom Selleck in the
television Western
Last Stand at Saber River (1997)
and appeared in the horror film
Nadja (1994). Amis retired from acting
after her last appearance in the science fiction action film
Judgment Day (1999).
In 2005, Amis founded Muse Elementary, a Reggio-inspired, independent,
non-profit school in the Topanga, California area of Los Angeles.- Actress
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- Producer
Pamela Sue Martin attended public schools in Westport, Connecticut and
graduated from Staples High School in February 1971. Before she
graduated, Pamela was working in a hamburger stand for $1.45 per hour
when a friend told her that she was earning $60 per hour modeling in
New York. Liking the wages and being of an ambitious nature, Pamela Sue
decided to emulate her friend and soon was earning a good living as a
teenage model for print ads and television commercials. Although she
was completely innocent of dramatic training, experience or even
ambitions, when Pamela Sue heard that Columbia Pictures was auditioning
girls for a film called
To Find a Man (1972), she decided
to try. It took the producers three months to make up their minds, but
in the end Pamela Sue had the female starring role. Pamela returned to
Staples High School in Westport, Connecticut to finish high school. On
the basis of her performance in
To Find a Man (1972), producer
Irwin Allen cast her to co-star with
five Academy Award winners in
The Poseidon Adventure (1972).
Then came a starring role in the ABC Movie of the Week
The Girls of Huntington House (1973)
and a co-starring role with
Jan-Michael Vincent in
Buster and Billie (1974). She
is particularly proud of her portrayal in the production,
The Hemingway Play (1976).
She has played the character Celia Grey in the television movie,
Strong Medicine (1986)
and has hosted "Saturday Night Live." Pamela enjoys athletic pursuits,
especially scuba diving, tennis and skiing.- Music Artist
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Marilyn Manson was born Brian Hugh Warner on January 5, 1969 in Canton, Ohio, to Barbara Jo (Wyer) and Hugh Angus Warner. He has German and English ancestry. During his childhood, one of his neighbors molested him several times until the young Brian broke down one day and told his mother what happened. As an only child, he would often get into mischievous activities such as adventure through his grandfather Jack Warner's sex toys, shoot his BB gun with his cousin Chad, and create sex magazines to sell to his classmates. His parents raised him as an Episcopalian, and he attended the religious private Heritage Christian School. It was there that he became fueled with hate towards Christanity. During his tenth grade year, he convinced his parents to let him attend a public school.
After he graduated from high school, he and his parents moved to Fort Lauderdale, Florida because his father got a better job there. He studied journalism and theater at the local community college called Broward, and being some place new and feeling lonely, he wrote poems and short stories. After being fired from his last job at a record store, he became entertainment journalist for a local magazine. He interviewed several famous musicians including Trent Reznor from the band "Nine Inch Nails". Along with his job and writing, he would also frequently go to rock clubs. He soon decided to create his own band.
With musical influences from Ozzy Osbourne and KISS, he recruited other musicians with the same interests and started the band called "Marilyn Manson and the Spooky Kids". He got the name Marilyn Manson as a combination from the names of the movie star Marilyn Monroe and the psycho killer Charles Manson. The band's name would later officially change to just Marilyn Manson, and most of the original band members would leave and be replaced, too. Manson reunited with Trent Reznor and had his band tour with "Nine Inch Nails". Reznor would also produce Marilyn Manson's first three albums (Portrait of an American Family, AntiChrist Superstar, and Mechanical Animals) and an E.P. (Smells like Children). "Mechanical Animals" is Marilyn Manson's most successful album to date. With the success, Manson became a controversial celebrity, because the anti-Christian message in his songs, and Satanist 'Anton Szandor LaVey' deemed Manson a Reverend for the Church of Satan. Also with fame, Manson started to mingle with other celebrities, and began a romantic relationship with the actress Rose McGowan. They became engaged, but broke off the relationship in 2001.
He then fell in love with the burlesque dancer Dita Von Teese, and soon became engaged. They had a fairy tale, non-denominational wedding in a castle in Ireland. Meanwhile, Manson came out with two more albums (Holy Wood, and the Golden Age of Grotesque), and a best of album (Lest We Forget: The Best Of...). He also dabbled into acting by being in such movies as Jawbreaker (1999), Party Monster (2003) and The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things (2004). He continues to make music and act in movies.- Actress
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- Producer
Jane Wyman was born Sarah Jane Mayfield on January 5, 1917, in St.
Joseph, Missouri (she was also known later as Sarah Jane Fulks). When
she was only eight years old, and after her parents filed for divorce,
she lost her father prematurely. After graduating high school she
attempted, with the help of her mother, to break into films, but to no
avail. In 1935, after attending the University of Missouri, she began a
career as a radio singer, which led to her first name change to Jane
Durrell. In 1936 she signed a contract with Warner Bros. Pictures and
that led to another name change, the more familiar one of Jane Wyman.
Under that name she appeared in "A" and "B" pictures at Warners,
including two with her future husband,
Ronald Reagan:
Brother Rat (1938) and its sequel,
Brother Rat and a Baby (1940).
In the early 1940s she moved into comedies and melodramas and gained
attention for her role as Ray Milland's
long-suffering girlfriend in
The Lost Weekend (1945). The
following year she was nominated for a Best Actress Oscar for her role
as Ma Baxter in The Yearling (1946),
and won the coveted prize in 1949 as deaf-mute rape victim Belinda
MacDonald in
Johnny Belinda (1948). She
followed that with a number of appearances in more prestigious films,
such as Alfred Hitchcock's
Stage Fright (1950),
Frank Capra's
Here Comes the Groom (1951),
Michael Curtiz's
The Story of Will Rogers (1952)
and the first movie version of
The Glass Menagerie (1950).
She starred opposite Bing Crosby in the
musical Just for You (1952). She was
Oscar-nominated for her performances in
The Blue Veil (1951) and
Magnificent Obsession (1954).
She also starred in the immensely popular
So Big (1953),
Lucy Gallant (1955),
All That Heaven Allows (1955)
and
Miracle in the Rain (1956).
In addition to her extensive film career, she hosted TV's
Jane Wyman Presents the Fireside Theatre (1955)
and starred in most of the episodes of the show, which ran for three
seasons. She came back to the big screen in
Holiday for Lovers (1959),
Pollyanna (1960) and her final film,
How to Commit Marriage (1969).
Although off the big screen, she became a presence on the small screen
and starred in two made-for-TV movies, including
The Incredible Journey of Doctor Meg Laurel (1979).
In early 1981, in the 49th year of her career, she won the role of
conniving matriarch Angela Channing Erikson Stavros Agretti in the
movie "The Vintage Years", which was the unaired pilot for the
prime-time soap opera
Falcon Crest (1981), later in
the year. For nine seasons she played that character in a way that
virtually no other actress could have done, and became the moral center
of the show. The show was a ratings winner from its debut in 1981, and
made stars out of her fellow cast members
Robert Foxworth,
Lorenzo Lamas,
Abby Dalton and
Susan Sullivan. At the end of the
first season the story line had her being informed that her evil son,
played by David Selby, had inherited 50% of
a California newspaper company, and the conflicts inherent in that
situation led to even bigger ratings over the next five years. Wyman
was nominated six times for a Soap Opera Digest Award, and in 1984 she
won the Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actress in a TV Series
Drama. By the show's eighth season, however, she was emotionally
drained and the strain of constantly working to keep up the quality of
a hit show took its toll on her. In addition, there was friction on the
set among cast members. All of these events culminated in her departure
from the show after the first two episodes of the ninth season (her
character was hospitalized and slipped into a coma) for health reasons.
After a period of recuperation, she believed that she had recovered
enough to guest-star in the last three episodes of the season (her
doctor disagreed, but she did it anyway). She then guest-starred as
Jane Seymour's mother on
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (1993)
and three years later appeared in
Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick (1995).
In the late 1990s she purchased a home in Rancho Mirage, California,
where she lived in retirement. Her daughter,
Maureen Reagan (who died in August 2001),
was a writer who also involved herself in political issues and
organized a powerful foundation. Also, she placed her 3200-sq.-ft.
Rancho Mirage condominium on the market. Jane Wyman died at the age of
90, at her Palm Springs, California home, on September 10, 2007, having
long suffered from arthritis and diabetes. It was reported that Wyman
died in her sleep of natural causes at the Rancho Mirage Country Club.- Actor
- Camera and Electrical Department
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Derek Cecil was born on January 15, 1973 in Amarillo, Texas. He
graduated from the University of Houston and the American
Conservatory's Advanced Theater Training Program in San Francisco,
California. He is a founding member of New York's Rude Mechanicals
Theater Company and has acted and directed as a member of the company.
Cecil gained national exposure when he starred opposite Mark Ruffalo in
UPN's short-lived TV series The Beat (2000). The series dealt with the lives of
two uniform police officers in New York City and was from Homicide: Life on the Street (1993)
executive producers Barry Levinson and Tom Fontana. Following a recurring role on
the Fox series Pasadena (2001), Cecil took on another starring television role
with ABC's experimental Push, Nevada (2002). Cecil played IRS agent Jim Prufrock on
the show, which offered viewers a cash prize for solving its fictional
mystery. Derek Cecil continues to divide his time between theater,
television, and film.- Actor
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Jason Mitchell is an American actor. He had roles in the films Contraband (2012) and Broken City (2013), both of which starred Mark Wahlberg. In 2015, Mitchell played Compton rapper Eazy-E in the biopic Straight Outta Compton (2015), with his performance being met with significant praise by critics. In 2016 he appeared in Keanu (2016), which starred Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele.- Actor
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George Reeves was born George Keefer Brewer in Woolstock, Iowa, to Helen Roberta (Lescher) and Donald C. Brewer. He was of German, English, and Scottish descent. Following his parents' divorce and his mother's remarriage to Frank J. Bessolo, Reeves was raised in Pasadena, California, and educated at Pasadena Junior College.
He was a skilled amateur boxer and musician.
He interned as an actor at the famed Pasadena Playhouse, performed in dozens of plays, and was
discovered there by casting director Maxwell Arnow. He was cast as Stuart Tarleton in Gone with the Wind (1939). While shooting the film, he appeared in another play at the Pasadena Playhouse and was seen there and signed by Warner Bros. studios.
Over the next ten years he was contracted to Warners, Fox and Paramount.
He achieved near-stardom as the male lead in So Proudly We Hail! (1943), but war service
interrupted his career, and after he returned it never regained the same level. While in the Army Air Corps he appeared on Broadway in "Winged Victory," then made training films.
Career difficulties after the war led him to move to New York for live television.
It was television where he achieved the kind of fame that had eluded him in films, as he was cast in the lead of the now-iconic Adventures of Superman (1952).
He got a few film roles in the early 1950s, but he was mostly typecast as Superman, and other acting jobs soon dried up.
His career had slid to the point where he was considering an attempt at exhibition wrestling when he committed suicide by shooting himself.
Controversy still surrounds his death, due mainly to the fact of his longtime affair with Toni Mannix (aka Toni Mannix), the wife of MGM executive E.J. Mannix. Many of Reeves' friends and colleagues didn't believe that he had committed suicide but that his death was related to the Mannix situation.
However, no credible evidence has ever been produced to support that contention.- Actress
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A blue-eyed blonde with a bubbly personality, aptly dubbed 'the Champagne Girl' by studio publicists, she was born Cynthia Robichaux, one of five siblings, in Hammond, Louisiana. Her father was Louis Robichaux. Her mother ran a dancing school in Pascagoula, Mississippi. Cynthia began dancing in public under her mum's tutelage at the age of five, occasionally taking part in entertaining American soldiers who were stationed in the area. During her school years, she switched to acting in amateur dramatics.
At the age of eleven, Cynthia performed on Ken Murray's 'Blackouts' variety show in Los Angeles. At that time, she began to adopt the name 'Cindy Robbins' as her stage moniker. Several years later, the acclaimed character actress Shirley Booth saw potential in her and picked Cynthia for a part in her 1954 Broadway show 'By the Beautiful Sea', set on early 1900s Coney Island. The play was a hit and ran for 270 performances. On the strength of this success, Booth took Cynthia back to California to be cast in the lead role of another play, 'The Vacant Lot', at the La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego. Soon after, Universal-International signed her under contract.
Cynthia made her screen debut as a Native American girl in the early western series Brave Eagle (1955). Credited as Cindy Robbins, she went on to play supporting roles in a few second features, including in I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957), and one A-grader, the big budget melodrama This Earth Is Mine (1959), starring Rock Hudson. The studio publicity machine reinforced her 'champagne girl' image with fanzine articles about Cynthia using champagne as a supplement to shampoo. She was also said to own a champagne-coloured toy poodle named Chu-Chu. In interviews, Cynthia named her favorite activities as being tennis, riding, surfing and skin diving.
For all the hype, Cynthia never progressed beyond the status of starlet. She guest-starred in many TV sitcoms (The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1952), Leave It to Beaver (1957), McHale's Navy (1962)), occasional westerns (Wagon Train (1957), Outlaws (1960), The Tall Man (1960)) and crime dramas (Dragnet (1951), Markham (1959), Tightrope (1959), Perry Mason (1957)). Her most popular role was as the star's eldest daughter (Carol Porter) in the comedy series The Tom Ewell Show (1960) (Cynthia, then 23, playing a 15 year-old). The main storyline revolved around a maladroit realtor, struggling to cope with life in a household dominated entirely by females.
Long after her retirement from screen acting, Cynthia penned several teleplays for a TV youth anthology series, for which she also received associate producer credit. She had a daughter (Kimberly Beck) by her first husband William Howard Beck. Her second husband was singer-songwriter Tommy Leonetti , with whom she resided in Sydney, Australia, for many years until his death in 1979. Her third husband (whose surname she adopted in her later credits) was the producer, director and writer Robert Chenault who died in 2009.- Actress
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Lived with her parents in Colorado, until her parents divorced. Her dad
moved to Laguna Beach, California with her brother, and she moved to
Illinois with her mother. She also has a stepfather and stepbrother
there. She acted out while there to get attention and, after her mother
couldn't handle it anymore, Kristin moved to Laguna Beach to be with
her dad and brother. Her freshman year, she attended a Catholic school
with the uniforms to boot. But that year, she took Driver's Ed at
Laguna High.. where she met Alex Murrel (aka
Alex M.) and soon the rest of the
Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County (2004)
crew. She convinced her Dad to let her switch to the public school
starting her sophomore year.- Actor
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The sixth of seven children, Paul's family emigrated to Canada from
Paisley, Scotland when he was just 2 years old. He returned to Scotland
during his early teens for a few years before heading back to Canada.
Paul has a degree in Teaching and while studying at University, got
involved in various sports including wrestling. After graduating the
actor began his career teaching theatre in Toronto, squeezing in time
to attend auditions, finally making the move to Vancouver.
Paul has worked extensively in film, TV and the theatre for the last 12
years, as well as teaching scene study in 1998 & 1999 at the respected
Vancouver Film School.- Actress
- Music Department
- Producer
Heather Dubrow was born on 5 January 1969 in Bronx, New York, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Stark Raving Mad (1999), Hawaii Five-0 (2010) and That's Life (2000). She has been married to Terry J. Dubrow since 5 June 1999. They have four children.- Actor
- Director
- Writer
Ted Lange is a graduate of London's Royal Academy with a career as a prolific director, writer, and actor since the 1980's. This classical background as well as his years before the camera have enabled him to become known as an actor's director inspiring not only emotional but also comedic scenes.
His four-camera directing expertise includes sixty episodes for Entertainment Studios', The First Family and Mr. Box Office, and twelve episodes of Are We There Yet?, for Executive Producer, Ali Leroi.
His one-camera directing experience is showcased in the independent films, Othello and For Love of Amy as well as the one-camera television comedies, The New Gidget and The Brothers Garcia for Universal.
The Fall Guy and Mike Hammer exemplify his directorial work in action shows.- Actress
- Writer
- Producer
Jessica Chaffin was born on 5 January 1974 in Newton, Massachusetts, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for The Heat (2013), Hacks (2021) and Spy (2015).- Michael Fox was born on 5 January 1989 in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Downton Abbey (2019), Downton Abbey (2010) and Dunkirk (2017).
- Actress
- Director
- Producer
Brooklyn Sudano was born on 5 January 1981 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is an actress and director, known for Cruel Summer (2021), Taken (2017) and 11.22.63 (2016). She has been married to Mike McGlaflin since 8 October 2006. They have one child.- Mandip Gill studied BA Hons Acting at the University of Central
Lancashire (UCLan) in Preston, Lancashire. Whilst there, she
met with different directors and practitioners. She later graduated and
became a regular on the program Hollyoaks, set in Chester, UK. - Franz Alhusaine Drameh was born on 5 January, 1993 in London, England, UK. He is a Gambian British actor. His film debut was in Clint Eastwood's fantasy drama, Hereafter (2010). He also appeared in British film Attack the Block (2011) and the blockbuster Edge of Tomorrow (2014). He stars as Jefferson "Jax" Jackson on CW's The Flash (2014) and in its spinoff, DC's Legends of Tomorrow (2016).
- Jayne Middlemiss was born on 5 January 1971 in Northumberland, England, UK.
- Actor
- Director
- Camera and Electrical Department
Garette Henson grew up in Los Angeles working as a child actor. From ages 8-18 Garette appeared in over 30 films and television shows, as well as countless commercials. Garette received a B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College, and an M.F.A. from Columbia University in Directing/Screenwriting. Garette currently lives in New York City where he works in film and television production.- Actor
- Writer
- Composer
Maxim Baldry was born in 1996 in Surrey South Eastern, Surrey, to an English father and a Russian-born mother. He lived in Moscow and Warsaw for the first seven years of his life, and moved back to England in 2003. He became interested in acting from a very young age. He was involved in many independent stage productions one of which was 'Peter and the Wolf' performing in the V&A before joining Jacke Palmer Stage School in 2005.
Maxim's first breakthrough was in 2007 when he got the part of 'Stepen' opposite Rowan Atkinson in 'Mr Bean's Holiday.' This role brought Maxim a nomination at the Young Artists Awards in the category of Best Performance in a Feature Film. He then went on to do 'Rome' a highly acclaimed HBO/BBC T.V. Series where he played the role of Caesarion. He had an experience of being on stage of the National Theatre in 2008 in the production of 'The Rose Tattoo'. Maxim was selected to be part of the National Youth Theatre (2010). He had a few voice overs such 'Little Polar Bear 2' and 'The Kinematograph' by Tomek Baginski. Max also took part in a BBC Radio 4 adaptation of John Irvine's 'A Prayer For Owen Meany' where he played the character of Johnny opposite Toby Jones.
Maxim had a memorable supporting role in the early scenes of Last Christmas (2019).- Cisse Cameron was born on 5 January 1954 in the USA. Cisse is an actor, known for Space Mutiny (1988), The Prize Fighter (1979) and Porky's II: The Next Day (1983). Cisse has been married to Reb Brown since 8 September 1979.
- Actress
Angela Morena was born on 5 January 1999. She is an actress, known for Hunter, Ahasss (2023) and Kabit (2024).- Actress
- Producer
- Director
Elizabeth Masucci was born on 5 January 1986 in Tottenville, Staten Island, New York City, New York, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Shame (2011), Second Act (2018) and The Americans (2013). She has been married to Efrem Kamen since 26 March 2013. They have one child.- Jeep Swenson was born on 5 January 1957 in San Antonio, Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for Batman & Robin (1997), Bulletproof (1996) and WCW Monday Nitro (1995). He was married to Erin Hillsman. He died on 18 August 1997 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Actor
- Soundtrack
David Ryall was born on 5 January 1935 in Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Around the World in 80 Days (2004), Automata (2014) and City of Ember (2008). He was married to Penny England, Cathy Buchwald and Gillian Eddison. He died on 25 December 2014 in London, England, UK.- Director
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A dual citizen of Canada and the USA, David DeCoteau has worked
professionally in the movie business since he was 18 years old. He got
his start through a generous offer from movie legend
Roger Corman, who hired him in 1980 as a
production assistant at New World Pictures. In 1986, DeCoteau directed
and produced his first feature film for another generous film legend,
Charles Band. DeCoteau has gone on to
produce and direct more than 170 motion pictures over the past forty
years. His passion lies in the creation of popular genre programming
made for world consumption. DeCoteau's experience in creating content
in countries all over the world makes him a proven choice for
exceptionally challenging movie projects. He resides in British
Columbia, Canada and Hollywood, California.- Actor
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- Writer
Wen Jiang was born on 5 January 1963 in Tangshan, China. He is an actor and director, known for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016), Let the Bullets Fly (2010) and Devils on the Doorstep (2000). He has been married to Yun Zhou since 2005. They have two children. He was previously married to Sandrine Chenivisse.- Actor
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Joe Sims, a Bristol actor, trained in both the UK and the US. Best known for playing plumber Nigel Carter in 3 series of ITV's BAFTA winning Broadchurch. Winner of an Offie for his performance as an accused killer in "As We Forgive Them," at the Arcola Theatre in London. In addition to his appearances on TV, in the theatre, and in films, Sims has more than 100 radio credits to his name, including a run on the British radio drama "The Archers." Joe was nominated for both Best Actor for his portrayal of Charlie Hammond in Oliver Park: Easter Riots & Best Supporting Actor at the BBC Audio Drama Awards for his portrayal of a suicidal boxer in Al Smith's award winning drama "Lifelines".- Actress
- Producer
Born in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico exotically beautiful,
raven-haired Blanca Soto nurtures a flourishing career that surpasses
beyond her career of international model and reign as Miss Mexico.
Blanca Soto thus represented her country in the Miss World pageant and
the following year won the crown for her country in the international
beauty contest "Vina Del Mar" in Chile. Since breaking from pageantry
and modeling and thus entering the film world, Soto starred in and
co-produced with Jack Hartnett, the award winning short film "La Vida
Blanca", of which she received a best actress award. Thereafter she has
appeared in supporting roles opposite Chris Pratt, Tracy Morgan and
Scott Caan in "Deep in the Valley" (2009) and Paul Rudd in "Dinner For
Schmucks" (2010). Later in 2010 she was sought out by Academy Award
nominated actress/director Adriana Barraza to star in "Eva Luna" the
record breaking TV series from Spanish language media giant Univision.
Here Soto captivates audiences worldwide not only by her beauty but by
her engaging visceral performances. Eva Luna (2010-2011) (TV), the
first ever television series for Soto and first ever produced for
Univision and Venevision has eclipsed the top ten of all time list in
the genre.- Actress
- Director
- Writer
Luciana Pedraza was born on 5 January 1972 in Salta, Argentina. She is an actress and director, known for Assassination Tango (2002), Portrait of Billy Joe (2004) and Wild Horses (2015). She has been married to Robert Duvall since 6 October 2004.- Saffron Hocking was born on 5 January 1992 in Greenwich, London, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Top Boy (2011), Moon Knight (2022) and White Gold (2017).
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- Additional Crew
- Producer
Carrie Ann Inaba was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. She is
of Japanese, Chinese, and Irish ancestry, and is the youngest of two
children. Carrie Ann grew up dancing the hula (native Hawaiian dance)
and other dance forms. She also played the piano and violin and sang in
the choir. She attended Hanahaouli School and then Punahou School.
Carrie Ann played volleyball for a little while but found her true love
in performing.
At the age of 16, she and her closest friend
Tina Horii won the Hawaii statewide
competition, "Search for Talent", dancing a piece that they had
choreographed together. While still sixteen, Carrie Ann was scouted to
go to Japan to become a "Teen Idol".
However, she waited until she finished high school and then left Hawaii
to pursue her career as a musical artist in Japan. During her time in
Japan, Carrie Ann released three singles with Pony Canyon Records while
attending Sophia University, a Jesuit university in Tokyo. In the
two-year period spent living in Tokyo, Japan, she learned a great deal
about the entertainment industry, performing, as well as the Japanese
language. She also made great friends from all over the world, which
later became a theme in her life as a documentarian.
After realizing that the Tokyo lifestyle wasn't for her at the time,
Carrie Ann returned to the United States, relocating to California. She
began to study choreography at the University of California, Irvine. It
wasn't long till she got the bug to dance in Los Angeles and moved up
to study with Alex Magno at the
Debbie Reynolds Studios in North
Hollywood, California. One day in dance class, Carrie Ann was
approached by a producer who asked her to be in a music video for an
artist named Terry Lin. She met the
choreographer and booked the job. She was ready to start working.
One of her first jobs was as a dancer for the Emmy Award-winning
television show,
In Living Color (1990). Her
next big gig was performing with Madonna, being
featured as the "Pole Girl" on The Girlie Show tour. For this tour,
Carrie Ann had to shave her head and also train with circus trainers
and a stripper. She later went on to dance with
Ricky Martin,
David Copperfield,
Chayanne, and did a lot of appearances on shows
such as The Creative Arts Emmys, The SAG Awards, The NAACP Awards, The
MTV Awards,
The Oprah Winfrey Show (1986),
and so much more. To this day, she still loves to dance. In her heart
of hearts, it is the movement and the music that will always inspire
her as an artist. In fact, even as an actress, she likes to incorporate
dance and movement.
When Carrie Ann began her acting career, her main interest was in
action roles. She studied tae kwon do with
Billy Blanks, the creator Taebo,
and continues her education in martial arts. She also practices hatha
yoga. Carrie Ann always looks for ways to include her background in
movement (choreography and martial arts) into her career.
Besides performing, Carrie Ann has many credits behind the scenes as
well. Besides her choreography, she opened up her own digital video
production company, EnterMediArts, Inc., which produced two of her
documentaries and her short film. She hopes that EnterMediArts, Inc.
will soon produce more reality/education television programming,
behind-the-scenes DVD productions as well as lower-end film projects.
She is the president and CEO for the company and has directed and
edited most of her own projects. She loves the entertainment industry
and loves the accessibility that DV (Digital Video) provides. She
invested in a few edit bays and a few cameras and produces projects for
fellow artists and "creatives." As her company's name implies, Carrie
Ann likes to break down barriers and combine elements, creating hybrids
just like she, herself, is a combination of cultures. Her production
company, EnterMediArts, Inc., gets its name from Entertainment, Media,
and the Arts -- all rolled into one.
Carrie Ann has also modeled here and there and has been on the cover of
European magazines and Japanese magazines. She was the national
spokesmodel for an AT&T Asian Campaign and has been in many commercials
throughout her career.
At the time of this writing, Carrie Ann is in the limelight once more
for her participation in the hit show,
Dancing with the Stars (2005)
and
Dance War: Bruno vs. Carrie Ann (2008).- With numerous commercials under his belt, including spots for American
Online, MTV, Time Warner Cable and Domino's, Allen Evangelista is a
promising up-and-comer. Evangelista was offered a holding agreement to
possibly star in a Fox series. Since then he has co-starred on ABC's
"Once and Again" and "Alias", shot a lead role in "Mozart and the
Whale" with Josh Hartnett ". Evangelista was a regular guest on
Nickelodeon's "Zoey 101", and spent 5 seasons on ABC Family's "The
Secret Life of the American Teenager". - Daisy Bates was born in Hammersmith, London, England, UK. She is an actress and producer, known for Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002).