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- Gaïa Weiss is a French actress known for her roles in TV shows 'Vikings', 'Marie-Antoinette', or multi awarded sci-fi feature film 'Meander'.
Born in Paris to a Polish mother and French father, and later raised between Paris and London, Gaïa is strong from her multi-cultural background.
She discovered her love for the stage at the age of 4 with ballet, and went on to take drama classes at 7 years old.
She later trained at the Cours Florent in Paris, followed by the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts.
Gaïa is the niece of political journalist Andrzej Koraszewski. - Christine Bermas was born on 30 August 2001 in Manila, Philippines. She is an actress, known for Beyond the Sky (2022), Batang Quiapo (2023) and Island of Desire (2022).
- Actress
- Writer
- Director
Jessica Yu Li Henwick is an English actress. She is best known for her roles as Nymeria Sand in the HBO series Game of Thrones (2011), X-wing pilot Jessika Pava in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and Colleen Wing in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, making her debut in the Netflix television series Iron Fist. Her film debut was St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold (2009). She was the first actress of East Asian descent to play the lead role in a British television series, the children's show Spirit Warriors.
Henwick was born and raised in Surrey, the daughter of Pearlyn Goh Kun Shan and Mark Henwick, author of the Bite Back series of novels. Her father, who was born in Zambia, is English, and her mother is Singaporean Chinese. She trained at Redroofs Theatre School and the National Youth Theatre. In June 2009, it was announced that Henwick had been cast in the lead role of Bo for the BBC show Spirit Warriors, making her the first actress of East Asian descent to play the lead role in a British television series. For the role, Henwick trained in wushu with martial arts choreographer Jude Poyer. The show was nominated for several awards, including the Broadcast Awards 2011. In early 2013, Henwick made her professional theatre debut in the international premiere of Running on the Cracks, based on the book by Julia Donaldson. Allan Radcliffe of The Times praised her "excellent" and "understated" performance, while the Guardian wrote, "with tremendous physical presence, Henwick captures the sense of adolescent righteousness, passion and confusion of a girl trying to create order in an unfair universe." Theatre critic Joyce McMillan wrote that Henwick was "outstanding as Leo".
Later that year she was cast as Jane Jeong Trenka in the drama Obsession: Dark Desires, which aired January 2014. The adaptation details Trenka's stalking in Minnesota, 1991, which she details in her book The Language of Blood. Henwick also joined the cast of Silk as new barrister pupil Amy. The series brought in an average of 5 million viewers per episode. She reprised her role for the spin-off radio series Silk: The Clerks' Room and later that year went on to play a young Oxford University student in Inspector Lewis. In 2015 Henwick joined the cast of the HBO series Game of Thrones in Season 5 as Nymeria Sand, with Oscar-nominee Keisha Castle-Hughes and Rosabell Laurenti Sellers playing her sisters. The process included six months of training to use a traditional bullwhip. She continued performing the role until Season 7.
Henwick played the X-wing pilot Jess Pava in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. The character's full name is established as Jessika "Testor" Pava in the spin-off novel The Weapon of a Jedi: A Luke Skywalker Adventure, which establishes her as an admirer of Luke Skywalker. Despite her limited screen time, the character of Pava has become a fan favorite. Since the release of the film, Pava has appeared as a supporting character in the comic book series Star Wars: Poe Dameron. In 2017, Henwick appeared in the second season of drama series Fortitude, as well as Colleen Wing in the Netflix television series Iron Fist. Although critical reception of Iron Fist was generally negative, Henwick's performance in the series was well received. She reprises the role for the series The Defenders. At the end of 2017, Henwick was listed as one of Variety's Top Breakout Stars of 2017. In 2020, she co-starred in the Fox feature film Underwater.- Actress
- Producer
- Soundtrack
Cameron Diaz, an American actress, was born in 1972 in San Diego, the daughter of a Cuban-American father and a German mother. Self described as "adventurous, independent and a tough kid," Cameron left home at 16 and for the next 5 years lived in such varied locales as Japan, Australia, Mexico, Morocco, and Paris. Returning to California at the age of 21, she was working as a model when she auditioned for a big part in The Mask (1994). To her amazement and despite having no previous acting experience, she was cast as the female lead in the film opposite Jim Carrey. Over the next 3 years, she honed her acting skills in such low budget independent films as The Last Supper (1995); Feeling Minnesota (1996); and Head Above Water (1996). She returned to main stream films in My Best Friend's Wedding (1997), in which she held her own against veteran actress Julia Roberts. She earned full fledged star status in 1998 for her performance in the box office smash There's Something About Mary (1998). Cameron Diaz appears to possess everything necessary to become one of the super stars of the new century.- Actress
- Soundtrack
Marin Ireland was born in Camarillo, California, USA. She is an actress, known for Hell or High Water (2016), Glass Chin (2014) and Homeland (2011).- Actress
- Soundtrack
She was a groovy and sexy icon of the late hippie era. To millions of TV viewers she became familiar as the reformed juvenile delinquent, turned undercover cop, Julie Barnes. With her expressive brown eyes and trademark long blonde hair, sylphlike Peggy Lipton was one third of a streetwise urban trio who - at least to baby boomers in the 60s - represented a more anti-authoritarian point of view. As a police drama with a difference, Mod Squad (1968) was a counterculture trend-setter which addressed previously neglected (or taboo) issues such as the Vietnam War, child abuse, police brutality, racism and drugs. Along with Star Trek (1966), I Spy (1965), Mannix (1967) and Mission: Impossible (1966), it was also among the first shows to feature an interracial cast.
Peggy Lipton was born into a well-to-do upper middle-class family of Russian-Jewish ancestry. Her father was a corporate lawyer, her mother an artist. Her upbringing was strict, her childhood lonely. According to her co-authored autobiography "Breathing Out", she was abused by an uncle. An introverted child of self-confessed 'morbid and gloomy' disposition, she became prone to a debilitating nervous stutter which began to disappear when she left home and struck out on her own at the age of 15. With her dad's assistance she obtained her first job as a model for the Eileen Ford agency in New York. Her mother then prompted her to take drama classes with Uta Hagen at the Herbert Berghof studio in Greenwich Village, Manhattan. At age 19, Lipton got her first gigs on TV, mostly small guest spots, albeit in popular cult shows like Bewitched (1964), The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962) and The Invaders (1967). She also co-starred (opposite a very young Kurt Russell) in Disney's Mosby's Marauders (1967), set during the Civil War. In between acting, Lipton enjoyed a brief, but moderately successful, singing career. Three of her singles made it to the Billboard charts. At the same time, her private life was punctuated by unhappy or abusive romantic dalliances and experimentation with drugs, including cocaine and peyote.
In 1968, Lipton's career as a TV star was properly inaugurated with Mod Squad. Success led to four Emmy nominations and a Golden Globe Award in 1971. Four years into the show she was asked by an interviewer whether she was bored with her character. She replied: "Creatively I'm bored, yes, but I'm certainly not bored with the success of it, not at all. I know what I'm doing isn't 'Medea,' or even necessarily very good TV, but it's exciting to be famous".
Fame might have been exciting, but there was a flipside. After five years of Mod Squad ("we were always working"), she was burnt out. Uncomfortable with attention from the press, Lipton became more and more withdrawn and insecure. Her subsequent marriage to music legend Quincy Jones (1974-1989) settled her down to raising a family but also led to a lengthy hiatus from acting. However, in 1988, somewhat rehabilitated from a miasma of personal problems, she made her screen comeback and a year later co-starred opposite Charles Bronson in the tough action thriller Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects (1989). Her most high profile role during the following years was that of Norma Jennings, proprietor of the Double R Diner, in David Lynch's bizarre supernatural drama Twin Peaks (1990) (a role she reprised in a later cinematic prequel, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992), as well as in the 2017 re-launch). Other sporadic appearances included a role as an antagonist in J.J. Abrams's spy series Alias (2001).
Peggy Lipton was diagnosed with cancer in 2004. The disease eventually claimed her life on May 11 2019 at the age of 72. She left two daughters from her marriage to Quincy Jones, Rashida and Kidada, who have also become actresses.- Elden Henson (formerly billed as Elden Ratliff and Elden Ryan Ratliff)
got his start in the business at age two, as a baby model. By the time
he was six, he was appearing in numerous commercials; by age ten, he
was on his way to becoming a successful child actor. By the time he
started high school, John Burroughs High School in Burbank, California,
he got his big break, starring in the three
The Mighty Ducks (1992) movies
as enforcer Fulton Reed. From there, he went on to get rave reviews as
Max Kane, the seemingly slow-witted giant in Miramax's
The Mighty (1998). Elden has since
starred in Idle Hands (1999),
She's All That (1999), and
Showtime's
Gift of Love: The Daniel Huffman Story (1999). - Johanna is known for her work in Greek (2007), Video Game High School (2012) and
Paranormal Activity 3 (2011). Born in Atlanta, Georgia, she began her career in the arts, working with The Atlanta Workshop Players, a performing arts company. Classically-trained singer Braddy initially planned to pursue
a career in opera. After booking recurring roles on Avatar: The Last Airbender (2005) and The Riches (2007), Braddy made the move out to Los Angeles. - Actor
- Producer
- Writer
Best known for his portrayal of adman Paul Kinsey on Mad Men, Michael began his career in the New York theater and has also played a wide range of characters in film and television.
As a musician he enjoys playing acoustic guitar, clawhammer banjo, and ukulele.
He also loves to work with horses, both in the saddle and on the ground. He recently adopted a Percheron draft horse named Rosie, and volunteers for a program that provides equine therapy for veterans and children with disabilities.
An avid chess player since childhood, he also enjoys camping, off-roading, and fishing. He can also often be found tinkering and making stuff in his garage workshop.
These days he most enjoys getting to know his newborn daughter, Emma George Gladis.
Also a writer and producer, Michael has multiple projects in development.- Actor
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- Director
Michael Chiklis has been working professionally as an actor since he was thirteen. He started in the theater and after receiving his BFA in acting from Boston University's College Of Fine Arts, Michael moved to New York City where he continued acting on the stage until he got his big break playing the late, great John Belushi in the controversial bio-pic Wired. Since then, Michael has spent the last 30 plus years starring in historic television, celebrated films and stage productions as well as directing and recording music. The first 30 years of his career have been extremely rewarding and he's even more excited about the next 30!
Michael lives in Los Angeles with his wife Michelle Chiklis. They have two daughters together, Autumn and Odessa Chiklis.- Actress
- Soundtrack
With blonde hair, big blue eyes and a big smile, Joan Blondell was usually cast as the wisecracking working girl who was the lead's best friend.
Joan was born Rose Blondell in Manhattan, New York, the daughter of Katie and Eddie Blondell, who were vaudeville performers. Her father was a Polish Jewish immigrant, and her mother was of Irish heritage. Joan was on the stage when she was three years old. For years, she toured the circuit with her parents and joined a stock company when she was 17. She made her New York debut with the Ziegfeld Follies and appeared in several Broadway productions.
She was starring with James Cagney on Broadway in "Penny Arcade" (1929) when Warner Brothers decided to film the play as Sinners' Holiday (1930). Both Cagney and Joan were given the leads, and the film was a success. She would be teamed with Cagney again in The Public Enemy (1931) and
Blonde Crazy (1931) among others. In The Office Wife (1930), she stole the scene when she was dressing for work. While Warner Brothers made Cagney a star, Joan never rose to that level. In gangster movies or musicals, her performances were good enough for second leads, but not first lead. In the 1930s, she made a career playing gold-diggers and happy-go-lucky girlfriends. She would be paired with Dick Powell in ten musicals during these years, and they were married for ten years. By 1939, Joan had left Warner Brothers to become an independent actress, but by then, the blonde role was being defined by actresses like Veronica Lake. Her work slowed greatly as she went into straight comedy or dramatic roles. Three of her better roles were in Topper Returns (1941), Cry 'Havoc' (1943), and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945). By the 50s, Joan would garner an Academy Award nomination for The Blue Veil (1951), but her biggest career successes would be on the stage, including a musical version of "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn."
In 1957, Joan would again appear on the screen as a drunk in Lizzie (1957) and as mature companion to Jayne Mansfield in Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957). While she would appear in a number of television shows during the 50s and 60s, she had the regular role of Winifred on The Real McCoys (1957) during the 1963 season. Her role in the drama The Cincinnati Kid (1965) was well received, but most of her remaining films would be comedies such as Waterhole #3 (1967) and Support Your Local Gunfighter (1971). Still in demand for TV, she was cast as Lottie on Here Come the Brides (1968) and as Peggy on Banyon (1971).- Award-winning actress Elizabeth Ashley can always be counted on to give her all. Grand in style, exotic in looks, divinely outgoing in personality and an engaging interpreter of Tennessee Williams' florid Southern-belles on stage, she was born Elizabeth Ann Cole on August 30,
1939, in Ocala, Florida. The daughter of Arthur Kingman and Lucille (Ayer) Cole, the family moved to Louisiana where Elizabeth graduated from Louisiana State University Laboratory School (University High) in Baton Rouge in 1957.
The liberal-minded Elizabeth immediately embarked upon an acting career following her education and relocated to New York. Briefly using her real name, her big breakthrough year occurred in 1959 when she made her off-Broadway debut with "Dirty Hands", played "Esmeralda" in the
Neighborhood Playhouse production of "Camino Real" and took on Broadway with Dore Schary's "The Highest Tree". Now
using the marquee name of Elizabeth Ashley, the 1960s proved to be even better, taking her to trophy-winning heights. After understudying the
lead roles in Broadway's "Roman Candle" and "Mary, Mary", she won the role of Mollie in the delightful comedy "Take Her, She's Mine" and
won both the "supporting actress" Tony and Theatre World Awards for it. Neil Simon was quite taken by the new star and created especially for her the role of Corie Bratter in 1963's "Barefoot in the Park" opposite Robert Redford. She received another Tony nomination, this time for Best Actress. In addition to these theatrical pinnacles, Elizabeth also found happiness in her
private life when she met and married (in 1962) actor James Farentino, who was also on his way
up. This happiness, however, was short-lived...the marriage lasted only three years. The attention she earned from Broadway led directly to film offers and she made a highly emotive debut in
Harold Robbins glossy soaper The Carpetbaggers (1964),
headlining handsome George Peppard. The critics trashed the movie but Elizabeth sailed ahead...temporarily.
Following intense roles in the superb all-star film epic Ship of Fools (1965) and the psychological crime drama The Third Day (1965), which again starred Peppard, the still-married Elizabeth divorced her husband and wed Peppard in 1966, taking a hiatus to focus on domestic life. The couple went on to have son Christian Peppard (born 1968), who would later become a writer.
The Peppard-Ashley marriage was a volatile one, however, and the twosome ultimately divorced in 1972. Wasting no time, Elizabeth returned to the stage and also went out for TV roles. Abandoning a film career that had just gotten out of the starting gate proved detrimental and she never did recapture the momentum she once had. Broadway,
however, was a different story. The dusky-toned actress pulled out all the stops as Maggie the Cat in Tennessee Williams's "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" (1974) co-starring Keir Dullea and as Sabina in Thornton Wilder's "The Skin of Our Teeth" the following year, and she was back on top. Other
heralded work on the live stage would include "Caesar and Cleopatra" opposite Rex Harrison, "Vanities" and, notably, "Agnes of God", for which she received the Albert Einstein Award for "excellence in
the performing arts".
Following "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" for which she won a third Tony nomination, Elizabeth struck up a close friendship with author Williams. Over time, she would play and come to define three of his
(and the theater's) finest female roles: Mrs. Venable in "Suddenly, Last Summer" (1995), Alexandra Del Lago in "Sweet Bird of Youth"
(1998), and Amanda Wingfield in "The Glass Menagerie" (2001). In addition, she also appeared in Williams' "Eight by Tenn" (a series of his one-act plays), "Out Cry", "The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore" and "The Red Devil Battery Sign". In 2005, 31 years after playing Maggie, she was again a success in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof", this time as Big Mama.
Elizabeth went on to sink her teeth into a number of other famous plays as well, all peppered with her inimitable trademark flourish: Martha in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf", Isadora Duncan in "When She Danced", Maria Callas in "Master Class" and the scheming Regina in "The Little Foxes", to name a few. On '90s TV, she found daytime soaps to her liking with eye-catching parts on Another World (1964) and All My Children (1970). She also appeared in the ensemble cast of Burt Reynolds' series Evening Shade (1990). Occasional serious film supports in Rancho Deluxe (1975) and Coma (1978) were often intertwined with campier, over-the-top ones such as her psychotic lesbian in Windows (1980).
Overcoming a series of tragic, personal setbacks - a third divorce, a boating accident, a NY apartment fire, and a rape incident - the still-lovely Elizabeth continues to demonstrate her mettle and maintain
a busy acting schedule on stage ("Enchanted April", "Ann & Debbie"); film (Happiness (1998), Labor Pains (2000), The Cake Eaters (2007), Ocean's Eight (2018)); and TV ("Caroline in the City," "Law & Order," "Treme," "Russian Doll").
Elsewhere, her memoir "Actress: Postcards from the Road" (1978) became a best seller. She was also a founding member of the Board of Directors
of the American Film Institute while serving on the first National Council of the Arts during the administrations of Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, and has also served on the President's Committee for the Kennedy Center Lifetime Achievement Awards. - Actress
- Producer
Michael is the eldest of two daughters. Her white father, Jerry, is an
entrepreneur. Her African American mother, Thersa, is a corporate
manager. In high school she played volleyball, basketball, and ran
track. After high school, she moved to New York and quickly got
commercial work. This led to a role in Eddie Murphy's 1989 film Harlem Nights (1989). But
that role dissolved when she spurned his advances and she filed a
sexual harassment suit against him. The suit was ultimately settled
out of court. She went to work at The Gap to make ends meet. That ended
in 1991, when she got her break in New Jack City (1991) and followed with a role on
"1st & Ten". Regular TV roles followed. On the set of ER (1994), she is
known for shooting baskets between takes.- Yasmin Finney was born on 30 August 2003 in Manchester, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Heartstopper (2022), Mars (2022) and Doctor Who (2023).
- Actress
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- Producer
Andrea was born in West Hills, California to an Austrian-Jewish father and a Greek mother. She started taking piano lessons when she turned five, but she knew that her true passion lay in acting from a very early age. She eventually made her stage debut at age 9 as Snoopy in "You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown". She started acting and singing lessons when she turned eleven, and continued doing theatre through her school years, picking up a few other instruments along the way. She turned her focus from theater to film, but ended up back on stage in the national tours of the 50 Shades of Grey parody musicals of "Spank! The 50 Shades Parody", and the sequel, "Spank Harder". She has starred in many videos for popular YouTube channels, plays and films.- Music Artist
- Actress
- Composer
Bleta "Bebe" Rexha was born on August 30, 1989 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York and raised in Staten Island, New York City, New York to Bukurije Rexha (née Isai) & Flamur Rexha. Her dad immigrated to the U.S. at the age of 21. In the Albanian language, bletë means "bee"; and she explained "My parents are Albanian and people started calling me Bebe for short."
After signing with Warner Bros. Records in 2013, Rexha received songwriting credits on Eminem and Rihanna's single "The Monster" (which later received the Grammy Award for Best Rap/Sung Performance) and has also contributed songwriting to songs recorded by Selena Gomez and Nick Jonas. Rexha released her debut extended play in 2015, I Don't Wanna Grow Up, which saw the moderate commercial success of the single "I'm Gonna Show You Crazy".
Rexha released two additional extended plays in 2017, All Your Fault: Pt. 1 and All Your Fault: Pt. 2, which again saw the moderate success of the singles "I Got You" and "The Way I Are (Dance With Somebody)". Rexha has also seen success with several collaborations including "Me, Myself & I" with G-Eazy, "In the Name of Love" with Martin Garrix, and "Meant to Be" with Florida Georgia Line, the latter of which seeing large success as a country crossover single, peaking at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the United States. Rexha's debut studio album Expectations (2018) reached number 13 on the Billboard 200 chart in the United States and saw the success of its lead single "I'm a Mess", and brought Rexha a nomination for the Grammy Award for Best New Artist.
Rexha played trumpet and taught herself to play guitar and piano. Rexha attended Tottenville High School on Staten Island, where she took part in a variety of musicals. She also joined the choir, while still in high school. After joining the choir, she discovered that her voice was a coloratura soprano. Rexha lists Coldplay, the Cranberries, Lauryn Hill, Alanis Morissette, and Kanye West as musical influences.
As a teenager, Rexha submitted a song to be performed at the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences' annual "Grammy Day" event. Rexha earned the "Best Teen Songwriter" award, beating around 700 other entrants. As a result, she signed a contract with talent scout Samantha Cox, who encouraged Rexha to enroll in songwriting classes in Manhattan.
Rexha is a vocal supporter of the LGBTQ+ community, and has described her own sexuality as "fluid".- Producer
- Actor
- Writer
Michael Terry was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is
the son of Will Terry, an English teacher at the Germantown Friends
School. He studied cinematography and drama at Emerson College in
Boston. He is a Germantown Friends School graduate. In the summer of
2002, Michael was an apprentice at the prestigious Williamstown Theatre
Festival, where he worked on many main stage productions. Shortly
thereafter, he moved to Los Angeles where he worked with Noah Wyle's
The Blank Theatre Company.- Actor
- Producer
- Soundtrack
Fred MacMurray was likely the most underrated actor of his generation. True, his earliest work is mostly dismissed as pedestrian, but no other actor working in the 1940s and 50s was able to score so supremely whenever cast against type.
Frederick Martin MacMurray was born in Kankakee, Illinois, to Maleta Martin and Frederick MacMurray. His father had Scottish ancestry and his mother's family was German. His father's sister was vaudeville performer and actress Fay Holderness. When MacMurray was five years old, the family moved to Beaver Dam in Wisconsin, his parents' birth state. He graduated from Beaver Dam High School (later the site of Beaver Dam Middle School), where he was a three-sport star in football, baseball, and basketball. Fred retained a special place in his heart for his small-town Wisconsin upbringing, referring at any opportunity in magazine articles or interviews to the lifelong friends and cherished memories of Beaver Dam, even including mementos of his childhood in several of his films. In "Pardon my Past", Fred and fellow GI William Demarest are moving to Beaver Dam, WI to start a mink farm.
MacMurray earned a full scholarship to attend Carroll College in Waukesha, Wisconsin and had ambitions to become a musician. In college, MacMurray participated in numerous local bands, playing the saxophone. In 1930, he played saxophone in the Gus Arnheim and his Coconut Grove Orchestra when Bing Crosby was the lead vocalist and Russ Columbo was in the violin section. MacMurray recorded a vocal with Arnheim's orchestra "All I Want Is Just One Girl" -- Victor 22384, 3/20/30. He appeared on Broadway in the 1930 hit production of "Three's a Crowd" starring Sydney Greenstreet, Clifton Webb and Libby Holman. He next worked alongside Bob Hope in the 1933 production of "Roberta" before he signed on with Paramount Pictures in 1934 for the then-standard 7-year contract (the hit show made Bob Hope a star and he was also signed by Paramount). MacMurray married Lillian Lamont (D: June 22, 1953) on June 20, 1936, and they adopted two children.
Although his early film work is largely overlooked by film historians and critics today, he rose steadily within the ranks of Paramount's contract stars, working with some of Hollywood's greatest talents, including wunderkind writer-director Preston Sturges (whom he intensely disliked) and actors Humphrey Bogart and Marlene Dietrich. Although the majority of his films of the 30's can largely be dismissed as standard fare there are exceptions: he played opposite Claudette Colbert in seven films, beginning with The Gilded Lily (1935). He also co-starred with Katharine Hepburn in the classic, Alice Adams (1935), and with Carole Lombard in Hands Across the Table (1935), The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1936) -- an ambitious early outdoor 3-strip Technicolor hit, co-starring with Henry Fonda and Sylvia Sidney directed by Henry Hathaway -- The Princess Comes Across (1936), and True Confession (1937). MacMurray spent the decade learning his craft and developing a reputation as a solid actor. In an interesting sidebar, artist C.C. Beck used MacMurray as the initial model for a superhero character who would become Fawcett Comics' Captain Marvel in 1939.
The 1940s gave him his chance to shine. He proved himself in melodramas such as Above Suspicion (1943) and musicals (Where Do We Go from Here? (1945)), somewhat ironically becoming one of Hollywood's highest-paid actors by 1943, when his salary reached $420,000. He scored a huge hit with the thoroughly entertaining The Egg and I (1947), again teamed with Ms. Colbert and today largely remembered for launching the long-running Ma and Pa Kettle franchise. In 1941, MacMurray purchased a large parcel of land in Sonoma County, California and began a winery/cattle ranch. He raised his family on the ranch and it became the home to his second wife, June Haver after their marriage in 1954. The winery remains in operation today in the capable hands of their daughter, Kate MacMurray. Despite being habitually typecast as a "nice guy", MacMurray often said that his best roles were when he was cast against type by Billy Wilder. In 1944, he played the role of "Walter Neff", an insurance salesman (numerous other actors had turned the role down) who plots with a greedy wife Barbara Stanwyck to murder her husband in Double Indemnity (1944) -- inarguably the greatest role of his entire career. Indeed, anyone today having any doubts as to his potential depth as an actor should watch this film. He did another stellar turn in the "not so nice" category, playing the cynical, spineless "Lieutenant Thomas Keefer" in the 1954 production of The Caine Mutiny (1954), directed by Edward Dmytryk. He gave another superb dramatic performance cast against type as a hard-boiled crooked cop in Pushover (1954).
Despite these and other successes, his career waned considerably by the late 1950s and he finished out the decade working in a handful of non-descript westerns. MacMurray's career got its second wind beginning in 1959 when he was cast as the dog-hating father figure (well, he was a retired mailman) in the first Walt Disney live-action comedy, The Shaggy Dog (1959). The film was an enormous hit and Uncle Walt green lighted several projects around his middle-aged star. Billy Wilder came calling again and he did a masterful turn in the role of Jeff Sheldrake, a two-timing corporate executive in Wilder's Oscar-winning comedy-drama The Apartment (1960), with Shirley MacLaine and Jack Lemmon -- arguably his second greatest role and the last one to really challenge him as an actor. Although this role would ultimately be remembered as his last great performance, he continued with the lightweight Disney comedies while pulling double duty, thanks to an exceptionally generous contract, on TV.
MacMurray was cast in 1961 as Professor Ned Brainerd in Disney's The Absent Minded Professor (1961) and in its superior sequel, Son of Flubber (1962). These hit Disney comedies raised his late-career profile considerably and producer Don Fedderson beckoned with My Three Sons (1960) debuting in 1960 on ABC. The gentle sitcom staple remained on the air for 12 seasons (380 episodes). Concerned about his work load and time away from his ranch and family, Fred played hardball with his series contract. In addition to his generous salary, the "Sons" contract was written so that all the scenes requiring his presence to be shot first, requiring him to work only 65 days per season on the show (the contract was reportedly used as an example by Dean Martin when negotiating the wildly generous terms contained in his later variety show contract). This requirement meant the series actors had to work with stand-ins and posed wardrobe continuity issues. The series moved without a hitch to CBS in the fall of 1965 in color after ABC, then still an also-ran network with its eyes peeled on the bottom line, refused to increase the budget required for color production (color became a U.S. industry standard in the 1968 season). This freed him to pursue his film work, family, ranch, and his principal hobby, golf.
Politically very conservative, MacMurray was a staunch supporter of the Republican Party; he joined his old friend Bob Hope and James Stewart in campaigning for Richard Nixon in 1968. He was also widely known one of the most -- to be polite -- frugal actors in the business. Stories floated around the industry in the 60s regarding famous hard-boiled egg brown bag lunches and stingy tips. After the cancellation of My Three Sons in 1972, MacMurray made only a few more film appearances before retiring to his ranch in 1978. As a result of a long battle with leukemia, MacMurray died of pneumonia at the age of eighty-three in Santa Monica on November 5, 1991. He was buried in the Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City.- Actor
- Soundtrack
Julian Richings was born in Oxford, England, and has become a familiar
figure to Canadian cinema and television audiences, appearing in over
50 films and 20 separate television series.
After training in drama at the University of Exeter and touring North
America with a British stage production, Mr. Richings moved to Toronto,
Canada in 1984. Within five years, he had become a regular on the
second season of the Canadian
War of the Worlds (1988) TV
series. Other roles followed, and he gained critical acclaim as the
bitter, aging punk rock legend Bucky Haight in
Bruce McDonald's mock-documentary
Hard Core Logo (1996). His
appearance in Vincenzo Natali's
Cube (1997) was brief, but definitely
memorable. In 2000, Mr. Richings appeared as Francis Bellanger, an
itinerant railroad worker who falls in love with a prostitute (played
by Shirley Henderson), in
The Claim (2000), and the role earned
him a Genie Award nomination for best supporting actor. His performance
as the nearly-blind security guard Otto in
Stephen King's
Kingdom Hospital (2004) was
considered especially impressive by many critics. A busy stage actor as
well, Mr. Richings was presented with two Dora Awards in the late 1980s
and continues to perform professionally in the Toronto area. He tends
to appear in small, experimental theaters and has been known to work
for free if he thinks the material is interesting enough. In addition
to acting, Mr. Richings has taught seminars and classes on acting and
on movement for actors in the Toronto area for nearly twenty years. Mr.
Richings is married and has two children. He resides with his family in
Toronto.- An Anglo-French actor, Cara was born in 2005 and raised in London. She first gained attention in the popular series ''Deep State'' (Fox/Epix) before featuring in the biographical film ''Radioactive'' (Amazon Studios). She is known for her bilingual roles.
Musical, Cara initially trained in ballet at DIBA and Danceworks Studios performing with members of the Bolshoi and at RADA. Making her professional debut in 2018 alongside Mark Strong and Joe Dempsie in the 8 episodes of the launch season of the espionage drama ''Deep State'', landing the role of Strong's eldest daughter Chlöe Easton. She went on to appear in Marjane Satrapi's 2020 ''Radioactive'' as Ève, Marie Curie's younger daughter, starring Rosamund Pike and Anya Taylor-Joy, with StudioCanal and Working Title producing.
Fluent in French and Italian, Cara is largely classically trained to diploma level at Trinity Guildhall, tackling varied roles in productions as diverse as Euripides to A.A.Milne, Shakespeare to Arthur Miller. She has recently taken up a place at the National Youth Theatre. Cara is currently filming "Monsieur Spade" with Clive Owen in France, written and directed by Scott Frank (The Queen's Gambit). - Actor
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Paul Kiernan is a proud member of Actor's Equity Association. He received his MFA in acting/directing from Brandeis University in Boston. He is an actor, writer, director with over 30 years experience. He has worked in regional theaters and classical theater companies all over the country as well as film, television, radio, theme parks, (writer, performer, director for Walt Disney World for ten years). He has taught acting and stage combat at Yale University, Boston College, Harvard University, Brandeis University, The University of Utah and the University of Las Vegas, Reno.- Actor
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One of modern TV and moviedom's most sturdy and reliable character
actors, David Paymer dreamed of being an actor from early childhood.
Although he came from a traditional middle-class Jewish family that
urged him to become a doctor or lawyer, Paymer felt more at home in the
world of the thespian. At 14, he used a fake I.D. to see The Graduate,
which starred a young Dustin Hoffman. He grew up in Oceanside, New
York, where his father was in the scrap metal business. His mother, a
homemaker, had fled Belgium with her family to escape the Nazis. When
his father quit the scrap metal business to pursue music, it inspired
young Paymer to give his acting dream a try. His aborted big break came
when he was cast in the TV series, St. Elsewhere, as "Dr. Wayne Fiscus"- then promptly dumped and replaced by Howie Mandel. Luckily, his real
the Billy Crystal vehicle, City Slickers. Crystal was so pleased with
Paymer's work that he wrote the part of "Stan Yankelman", beleaguered
brother of the titular character in the movie, Mr. Saturday Night,
especially for Paymer. The part earned Paymer an Oscar nomination in
1993.
"That was like getting my passport stamped", said Paymer and he was
quickly in demand by directors such as Spielberg ("Amistad"), Redford
("Quiz Show"), Oliver Stone ("Nixon"), David Mamet ("State & Main"),
Steven Soderbergh ("Ocean's 13"), and Sam Raimi ("Drag me to Hell").
Chameleon-like in his portrayals, Paymer has since starred in hundreds
of roles in film & television, notably "The American President", "Get
Shorty", "Payback", "The Hurricane", "In Good Company", Francis Ford
Coppola's "Twixt" and Kenneth Branagh's "Jack Ryan: Shadow One".
Paymer received Golden Globe nominations for "Mr. Saturday Night" and
for HBO's "Crime of the Century". Paymer became a hyphenate in 2002,
directing the acclaimed comedy short "Candor City Hospital" for
Showtime. He has since directed over 60 episodes for broadcast
television, including such hits as "Grey's Anatomy", "The Mentalist",
"Brothers & Sisters", "Medium" & "The Unit". He is also a producer and
director on the CW series "Hart of Dixie". Paymer resides in Santa
Monica, CA with his wife and two daughters.- Actor
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From a talented acting generation of four brothers, Timothy Bottoms was the closest to achieving out-and-out super-stardom in the 1970s. The eldest of four siblings, he was followed in birth by Joseph Bottoms, Sam Bottoms and Ben Bottoms.
All four boys were born and raised in Santa Barbara, California, with Timothy James birth date being August 30, 1951. As the children of James "Bud" Bottoms, a sculptor and high school art teacher, and his wife Betty, artistic expression was certainly
encouraged in this family and Timothy expressed an avid interest, even
during his preschool years, of wanting to perform. He was a local member of the Youth Theater Productions at school and
in 1967 toured Europe along with the Santa Barbara Madrigal Society,
which sealed his aspirations.
Following high school, Timothy was spotted by Universal in a stage
production of "Romeo and Juliet" and chosen (with no prior film
experience) for a lead part in director
Dalton Trumbo's
Johnny Got His Gun (1971). As
Joe, a young American soldier who is shelled and left armless and
legless on the last day of World War I, Timothy received excellent
reviews and earned a Golden Globe nomination as "Most Promising
Newcomer." His next starring role propelled him into the top leagues.
Cast as aimless Texas-boy "Sonny," the sensitive, mournful-eyed,
youthful focus of Peter Bogdanovich's
downbeat Oscar winner
The Last Picture Show (1971),
the film went on to make full-fledged stars not only of Timothy, but of
Jeff Bridges and
Cybill Shepherd. Younger brother Sam,
who frequently visited the set, wound up touchingly cast as simple, naive, ill-fated character.
The early 1970s was a time of great personal accomplishments for
Timothy in film. Engagingly maladroit and looking slightly
uncomfortable in his own skin, he proved that his first reviews were no
flukes. He appeared to great advantage in the touching drama
Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing (1973)
opposite British acting doyenne
Maggie Smith and as the
tousle-haired college protagonist in the coming-of-age box-office hit
The Paper Chase (1973). In an
effort to break free of his sensitive prototype, he delved into
stranger, darker characters with
The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder (1974)
and Rollercoaster (1977). These
efforts were less successful, however, and he quickly began to discover
his film career slipping away at the early age of 26.
Outgrowing his awkward adorableness, he shifted to the smaller screen
in order to secure challenging roles, such as the biblical lead in
The Story of David (1976);
his ex-convict in
A Small Town in Texas (1976);
his bank teller in
Arthur Hailey's the Moneychangers (1976);
his fatally-stricken track runner in
A Shining Season (1979),
and the Raymond Massey role (in
which he aged 30 years) in the ambitious mini-series
East of Eden (1981), with
brother Sam recreating the James Dean
part.
Timothy's success certainly encouraged his younger siblings. By this
time Joseph, Sam and Ben were were all experiencing significant lifts
in their own respective careers. As a group, the four brothers hooked
up together for the TV movie
Island Sons (1987), in
which they all played brothers and used their real first names. The
movie was promoted as a pilot for an upcoming weekly series, but it
failed to make the grade. While Timothy continued to work steadily
throughout the 1980s and 1990s, the quality of material he was given
grew more standard. Roles in such films as
Invaders from Mars (1986),
The Drifter (1988) and the
foreign-made Istanbul (1989) did little
to reignite his earlier success. A sequel to his famous "The Last
Picture Show", entitled
Texasville (1990), could have had
heads turning but the movie decided instead to focus instead on
Jeff Bridges (who at this juncture
was a big name star) while Timothy's character was given short shrift
with what was essentially a cameo.
Into the millennium Timothy had a slight taste of his former glory
while showing a keen talent for parody with his uncanny impersonation
of president George W. Bush. Who would
have thought? Bottoms' dead-on spoof on
That's My Bush! (2001),
courtesy of the creators of "South Park", led to a brief Bush cameo in
the family film
The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course (2002)
and the much more serious TV-movie
DC 9/11: Time of Crisis (2003).
Interestingly, Timothy needed little in the way of prosthetics. He
simply parted his hair differently, added a bit of a drawl and imitated
his walk!
The still boyish-looking actor with that same trickle of sadness and
discomfort has worked continuously for the past thirty years and
appeared in over 65 films. Of late he has shined in small independent
features such as with his dysfunctional father in writer/director Gus Van Sant's
Elephant (2003), which chronicled a
Columbine High School-like massacre, and his closer-to-home portrayal
as a middle-aged actor in search of his early fame in
Paradise, Texas (2006).
Other millennium films include Shanghai Kiss (2007), Along the Way (2007), the remake of Jack London's Call of the Wild (2009), Pound of Flesh (2010), Realm of the Mole Men (2012) and the quirky romantic comedy 1 Nighter (2012) opposite the producer/writer/director of the film Jill Jaress. In addition, he has been frequently viewed in such comedic and dramatic TV movies as Jane Doe: Now You See It, Now You Don't (2005), Vampire Bats (2005), I Married Who? (2012), Sweet Surrender (2014) and How Not to Propose (2015), and made guest appearances on the popular series "The Governor's Wife," "Grey's Anatomy," "Private Practice" and "The Bridge."
Timothy's marriage to folk singer Alicia Cory from 1975 to 1978,
produced son Bartholomew. He has three other children (Benton, William,
Bridget) with current wife (since 1984) Marcia Morehart. Bottoms
divides his time between his acting work and his other great love of
training wild horses at his two ranches near Big Sur, California. On
the sly he has worked as a surveyor's assistant.
While brothers Joseph and Ben are lesser seen these days and finding satisfying lives outside the Hollywood realm, Sam pursued his own career until his death from brain cancer in 2008 at age 53. Their eldest brother continues to display his talents with more recent prime roles in such films as the dramedy Welcome to the Men's Group (2016), horror opus The Shed (2019) and the adventure thriller Tar (2020).- Actor
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Lewis Black was born on 30 August 1948 in Silver Spring, Maryland, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Inside Out (2015), Accepted (2006) and Man of the Year (2006).- Actor
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Raúl Castillo was born in McAllen, Texas, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Cassandro (2023), We the Animals (2018) and Army of the Dead (2021).- Actress
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Anjali was born in Cleveland, OH and raised in Orange County, CA, by Drs. Ela and Bharat Bhimani. After performing in school and community theatre for most of her young life, she went on to earn a degree in theatre from Northwestern University's highly acclaimed theatre school, with a certificate in musical theatre. After leaving Northwestern, she went on to perform at several regional theatre companies including the Goodman, the Lookingglass Theatre Company, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, and others and to collaborate extensively with director Mary Zimmerman, eventually moving to New York when Mary's Metamorphoses moved to Second Stage off -Broadway and Circle in the Square on Broadway, earning the play a Tony nomination for Best Play.
Anjali continued performing on Broadway when she joined the cast of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Bombay Dreams, going on to take over the role of Bollywood diva Rani in the hit musical. Other collaborations include working with Tony Kushner and Maurice Sendak on their production of Comedy on the Bridge/Brundibar, the world premiere of The Existents, starring and with music by Ty Taylor, A Widow of No Importance by Shane Shakrani, and as Safia Das in playwright D. Tucker Smith's epic adventure romance, Roof of the World, among many more.
On television and film, Anjali has been seen as tiger mom Nina Patel on ABC's hit comedy, Modern Family. Other notable appearances include Marvel's Runaways, S.W.A.T., Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Grace and Frankie, Miss India America, Silicon Valley, Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders, NCIS: Los Angeles, The Fosters, Necessary Roughness, Law and Order: SVU, The Sopranos, and more.
Since 2016, Anjali has been known worldwide as the voice of the reality bending hero Symmetra in Blizzard Entertainment's wildly popular video game Overwatch, along with other gaming heroes and villains such as Nisha from Fallout 4: Nuka World and Kala in Indivisible. In the gaming community she is also known for her work as the headstrong Mrs. Miriam Landisman on the series Undeadwood, produced by Critical Role Studios, and as the hardened sniper Stingray We're Alive: Frontier by Geek and Sundry.
In 2017, she created the positivity and life-hacking webseries I Am Fun Size on YouTube, a series in which she shares her experiences and interviews other well-known performers in order to help people looking to live fuller, bigger lives.- Angel Coulby is an English actress. She made her television debut in
the BBC comedy 'Orrible. She is best known for portraying the character
of Guinevere "Gwen" in the BBC fantasy series Merlin.
Angel grew up in north London, Finsbury Park, but moved to Edinburgh to
attend the Queen Margaret University where she studied acting. Angel
has always been a fan of the fantasy genre; she counts Labyrinth and
The Wizard of Oz among her favorite films. Some of the filming for
Merlin takes place in France and Angel loves filming there. - Actress
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Sarah-Jane Potts was born on 30 August 1976 in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, UK. She is an actress and producer, known for The Magician. (2022), Kinky Boots (2005) and Sugar Rush (2005). She has been married to Joseph Millson since 31 December 2013. She was previously married to Tony Denman.- Actor
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Emmy Award Winning Actor, Terrence Terrell was raised in the small town of Cleveland, Mississippi. He displayed an affinity for entertainment at a young age. As a child, he would entertain anyone who would watch and listen. Throughout his teenage years, he was bullied, but coped by turning the negativity into humor. As an adult, Terrell moved out of Mississippi to Los Angeles, California, to pursue a dream of acting and writing.
Terrence Terrell is a well established actor known for his roles in shows like "Criminal Minds", "Modern Family" and "Giants" to name a few. He is also the author of the critically acclaimed books "BLACKY" and "THE SHES"...and the empire keeps growing!- Actor
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Educated at the University of Toronto & Balliol College, Oxford, he
joined the Canadian Field Artillery in World War I, served in France &
was wounded. His first appearance was in a stage production in Siberia,
during the multi-nation intervention of 1918 - 1919. Raymond returned to
Canada & his family farm implement business , Massey-Harris Tractor Company, after the war, although footlights
proved a greater allure than plowshares. He appeared at the Everyman
Theatre, London in "In the Zone" in 1922 and from then his acting
career never looked back. As adept in front of arc lights as the
footlights, he was signed up for a 5 year contract by
Alexander Korda. Major Massey
was invalided from the Canadian Army in 1943. Raymond was devoted to
his American wife Dorothy, to whom he referred all queries and
problems. He had an ardent radio following in the States and became an
American citizen. This was natural as his mother and maternal
grandmother were Americans. A bad traveler, Raymond hated the sea and
airplanes. A good sportsman, he excelled at golf and fishing, A
scholar, he loved good literature. A modest man, he regarded himself as
supremely uninteresting.- Actor
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Cameron Finley was born August 30th, 1987 in Garland, Texas. Always the
energetic kid, his parents took him to an acting seminar near his Texas
home at age three. It was there they found energy wasn't the only thing
he had...wrapped up in the energy was a very talented actor. He landed
his first gig...a Shell commercial. By 1992, Hollywood came knocking
with not just one, but two movie roles for him. His first film, "A
Perfect World," and a second, "What's Eating Gilbert Grape," playing
one of Mary Steenburgen's children. 1994 marked Cameron's first
television series appearance on the hit show, "Walker, Texas Ranger."
He then went on to carry the lead role in the cinema remake of "Leave
it to Beaver," as Theodore Cleaver. He then went on to play a supporting role
as Travis in Sandra Bullock's "Hope Floats," directed by Forest Whitaker. After
several more performances, Finley turned his attention towards the sciences,
leaving his acting career and studying genetic engineering. He graduated from
UCSD in 2010 with a degree in Molecular Biology and Genetics. He authored
nine scientific publications and developed several novel disease fighting
therapeutics. He is an inventor, scientist, maker, puppeteer, and artist,
residing in Brooklyn, NY. Returning to his entertainment roots, he has taken up
performing once more on stages throughout New York City, in the form of
spoken word, puppetry, movement, and circus. He returned to acting in 2018.- Actor
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Trevor Jackson was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. He is an actor and director, known for SuperFly (2018), Grown-ish (2018) and Burning Sands (2017).- Actor
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William G. Schilling was born on 30 August 1939 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for Space Jam (1996), Ruthless People (1986) and In the Line of Fire (1993). He died on 28 February 2019 in Riverside, California, USA.- Actor
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Congenial, unassuming and always ingratiating comic actor Bill Daily came to fame as the bumbling, jittery playboy astronaut Roger Healy, best buddy and sidekick to Larry Hagman's accident-prone Tony Nelson in the perennial sitcom favourite I Dream of Jeannie (1965). Though his role had initially been earmarked for Don Dubbins, the show's creator and executive producer Sidney Sheldon (with possible input from Hagman) made the impromptu decision to cast the relatively unknown Iowa native instead.
Daily had started his professional life as a musician playing bass with a local jazz combo called 'Jack and the Beanstalks'. Having completed compulsory military service during the Korean War he took on acting studies at the Goodman Theater College in Chicago. After graduating, he worked briefly as an announcer and staff director for NBC and subsequently developed his own stand-up comedy act which he took to nightclubs across the mid-west. By 1960, Daily contributed material for comedic sketches to Westinghouse Broadcasting for use in popular variety shows hosted by Mike Douglas, Merv Griffin and Steve Allen. Douglas also occasionally featured him in sketches. Daily was well on his way to accumulating the credentials to becoming a top comedy writer when Sheldon noticed him in a small supporting role in Bewitched (1964) (his TV debut). While now happily employed at Columbia/NBC as the affable Major Healy, Daily continued to moonlight as a writer for assorted food commercials. In the wake of 'Jeanie', he enjoyed an even longer run (six seasons) as the star's annoying neighbour and clueless comic foil on The Bob Newhart Show (1972).
During his later career he made numerous guest appearances, frequently as a panellist on TV shows like Match Game (1973) (which inspired the later UK franchise Blankety Blank (1978)). He also tried his hand hosting several youth-oriented specials on magic ('Bill Daily's Hocus-Pocus Gang') and appeared at conventions with his former co-stars for nostalgic reunions.- Actress
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Vanessa Britting was born on 30 August 1980 in Rockaway, New Jersey, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for Without a Trace (2002), The Unit (2006) and Desperate Housewives (2004). She has been married to David Krumholtz since 22 May 2010. They have two children.- Actress
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Dana was born Rosemary Brown. As an 18 year old schoolgirl, she won the Eurovision Song Contest
in 1970 with the charming song "All Kinds of Everything" which went on
to become a huge hit all over Europe. Other hits followed including
"Who Put The Lights Out". Around this time she was cast as the oldest
daughter in the film Flight of the Doves (1971). Other notable singles followed including
"Crossword Puzzle" written by Lynsey de Paul and Barry Blue before switching
record label. After notching up yet more hits like "Please Tell Him I
Said Hello", "Fairytale" and the amusing "Something's Cookin' in the
Kitchen", the hits eventually dried up though Dana continued to record
and perform. After marrying and starting a family she turned to
Christian music, writing the excellent "Totus Tuus.. Totally Yours".
Dana Rosemary Scallon is now a Member of the European Parliament (MEP)
for the constituency of Connacht-Ulster, Ireland. She was the first
ever women elected as an MEP in the constituency.- Actress
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Emily Montague was born on 30 August 1984 in Livingston, New Jersey, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for The Endless (2017), Fright Night (2011) and Days of Our Lives (1965). She has been married to Damon Dayoub since 2 May 2015. They have one child. She was previously married to Chris D'Elia.- Actor
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Actor/Singer/Writer Sean Ryan Fox can be seen playing the lead role of Jasper Dunlop in Nickelodeon's longest running hit series Henry Danger (2014). On the show, Sean's character, Jasper Dunlap, can be described as Henry's goofy best friend, whom Henry can always count on to have his back.
Besides Henry Danger, Sean can be seen in the indie feature Christmas All Over Again (2016), which was released December 2016 and is being distributed by LionsGate Films. In the film, Sean plays the lead role of Eddie, a mischievous, swag-obsessed boy, who must overcome his inner Scrooge or remain caught in a cycle where every day is a Christmas without presents. The film also stars Joey Lawrence, Christy Carlson Romano, and Amber Frank.
Sean's other credits include NCIS (2003), Criminal Minds (2005), and Kickin' It (2011). He has also starred in the feature films David's Dinosaur (2017); Field of Lost Shoes (2015); and Sex, Death and Bowling (2015). He also was the voice of the animated Disney's Jake on Captain Jake and the Never Land Pirates (2011) and Nickelodeon's pilot The Loud House as Lincoln Loud. Aside from acting, Sean has completed his first album and released his first single and music video, "Indestructible," with great reviews, along with his
second song "Perfect Crime" with over 4.5 million views on YouTube.
Sean has been performing since he was two years old, putting on shows with his sister's karaoke machine. When he was six years old, he would put on his own made-up plays for his family to watch in the living room and at eight and half years old he got his first agent. He booked his first commercial job for AARP/The Hartford on his ninth birthday, and, after that job, he knew he loved acting and that he wanted to have a career in acting
Sean was born in Riverside, California, and raised in Newport Beach, California, where he still currently resides. His hobbies include designing various characters for his own universe that he hopes to play later. Sean is a huge Marvel fan and all of its characters, with DeadPool being his favorite. Sean has a big heart who loves to help out in any animal or children-related charities that may come his way.- Gifted, poetic actor who never fulfilled his potential. The son of an Episcopal minister and the eldest of four, Kinsolving began acting after his first year of college. A Method actor, Kinsolving studied under Mary Welch of the famed Actors Studio in New York.
After a short turn on Broadway, he was signed by agent Richard Clayton, who had brought both James Dean and Tab Hunter to stardom. Soon, Kinsolving was appearing in various East Coast television shows, including the live presentation of Eugene O'Neill's "Ah, Wilderness!" with Helen Hayes. In 1959, Kinsolving headed for Hollywood, rooming with actor James Franciscus. After several more TV appearances in such shows as Have Gun - Will Travel (1957), Kinsolving landed his first movie role, with Alan Ladd, in 1960's All the Young Men (1960). That same year, he gave a moving performance as "Sammy Golden" in the film adaptation of William Inge's The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1960). Kinsolving won raves and a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Regrettably, Kinsolving made only one more film, The Explosive Generation (1961), before completing his brief career in TV guest roles. Nonetheless, Kinsolving brought a striking combination of sexuality, pathos and vulnerability to his work (including an outstanding performance in Route 66 (1960)). Kinsolving retired from acting in 1966, due to his personal frustrations with the business. For two years, he owned a hip restaurant-bar, "Toad Hall", in Manhattan.
After brief romances with Tuesday Weld and Candice Bergen, Kinsolving sold his bar and married in mid-1969. Moving to Florida, he managed two art galleries. After divorcing his wife in 1972, Kinsolving, an avid seaman, spent the remainder of his life sailing exotic locales in his private schooner.
Sadly, Kinsolving developed a strange respiratory illness which, without warning, rendered him unconscious. On the afternoon of December 4, 1974, Kinsolving collapsed and died in his Palm Beach apartment. He was 36. - Actress
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Character actress Shirley Booth could play everything in all facets of
show business, whether it was Miss Duffy the Tavern Owner's Man Crazy Daughter on
"Duffy's Tavern", the sassy maid on TV's
Hazel (1961) or the pathetic woman in
Come Back, Little Sheba (1952).
For those who only know her through her sitcom, it might be hard to
believe she was a seasoned theatrical veteran, having appeared on
Broadway from 1925-70. She was highly regarded as a stage actress and
ranks as one of the premier talents of the 20th-century theatre.- Actress
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Colorado-born leading lady Julie Bishop, who also acted under her birth
name of Jacqueline Wells and the stage name Diane Duval, started off as
a silent movie child actress, working with such legends as
Clara Bow and
Mary Pickford.
The daughter of a wealthy banker and oilman, she was raised in Texas
and, eventually Los Angeles, following her parents' divorce. She was
signed by Warner Bros in 1940 and played a dutiful sweethearts opposite
filmdom's top male stars, notably
Errol Flynn in
Northern Pursuit (1943),
Humphrey Bogart in
Action in the North Atlantic (1943),
John Wayne in both
Sands of Iwo Jima (1949) and
The High and the Mighty (1954),
and Alan Ladd in
The Big Land (1957), her last
picture. But, for the most part, she was never given anything
challenging enough to become a top-flight star.
She also appeared on stage in "Hamlet" and "The Merchant of Venice". A
licensed private pilot, Julie painted still lifes and staged several
exhibitions in her post-career years. She died at age 87, on her
birthday.- Joan McMurtrey was born on 30 August 1958 in Homewood, Illinois, USA. She is an actress, known for No Way Out (1987), Simon & Simon (1981) and JAG (1995).
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Best remembered for his raunchy humor, Robin Harris became famous in
supporting roles in movies such as Do The Right Thing as Sweet Dick
Willie and House Party. He has left a legacy that fans and actors will
truly miss due to his career which was cut by a massive heart attack at
the age of 36. Spike Lee dedicated Mo'Better Blues to Harris after his
untimely death.- Actor
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William Duell was born on 30 August 1923 in Corinth, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), 1776 (1972) and How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003). He was married to Mary Barto. He died on 22 December 2011 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.- Actress
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Ely Pouget was born on 30 August 1960 in New Jersey, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for The Rift (1990), Death Machine (1994) and Dark Shadows (1991). She is married to Andrés Garretón. They have two children.- Actor
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Nelson Ascencio is from New York where he studied at The Academy of Dramatic Arts and HB Studios.
Alumni of The Groundlings Theatre in Los Angeles.
He is an Actor/Writer best known for his time on MADtv, as well playing Flavius in The Hunger Games franchise. He continuous to appear in various television episodes and on film.
Nelson continues to write and produce his own material.- Actress
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Kimberley Joseph was born on 30 August 1973 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. She is an actress and producer, known for Lost (2004), Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (1995) and Time Trax (1993).- Writer
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Brian Yuzna was born on 30 August 1949 in Manila, Philippines. He is a writer and producer, known for Beyond Re-Animator (2003), The Dentist (1996) and Faust (2000). He is married to Cathy Yuzna. They have four children.- The famous Russian actor was discovered by Andrei Tarkovsky.
He was looking for an actor to play the part of Andrei Rublev
for his second full-length film and accidentally found the completely unknown Solonitsyn in Chelyabinsk. He worked there as an amateur actor.
After Andrei Rublev, he played main parts in many of Russia's best movies. - Christopher Collins was born on 30 August 1949 in Orange, New Jersey, USA. He was an actor, known for The Transformers: The Movie (1986), The Transformers (1984) and G.I. Joe (1985). He was married to Judith Ryan. He died on 12 June 1994 in Ventura, California, USA.