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Rugged features and a natural charm have worked for Josh Brolin, the son of actor James Brolin. He has played roles as a policeman, a hunter, and the President of the United States.
Brolin was born February 12, 1968 in Santa Monica, California, to Jane Cameron (Agee), a Texas-born wildlife activist, and James Brolin. Josh was not interested at first in the lifestyle of the entertainment business, in light of his parents' divorce, and both of them being actors. However,
during junior year in high school, he took an acting class to see what it was like. He played Stanley in "A Streetcar Named Desire" and became hooked. His first major screen role was as the older brother in the film The Goonies (1985), based on a story by Steven Spielberg. He then immediately moved on to work on television, taking roles on such series as Pilot (1987) and The Young Riders (1989). "Private Eye" was a chance for Brolin to play a detective. "The Young Riders" was set just before the Civil War, and was co-directed by Brolin's father, James Brolin.
After The Young Riders (1989), Brolin moved back to the big screen, with mediocre success. He played a supporting role in The Road Killers (1994), but the film was not a success. He followed up with the crime film Gang in Blue (1996), the romantic film Bed of Roses (1996), the thriller film Nightwatch (1997), and appeared with his father in My Brother's War (1997).
However, nothing truly stuck out, especially not the box office flop The Mod Squad (1999). The 2000s initially brought no significant change in Brolin's career. He appeared in the independent film Slow Burn (2000), the sci-if thriller Hollow Man (2000) and starred on the television series Mister Sterling (2003). In 2004, he married actress Diane Lane but later divorced in 2013.
It was not until 2007 that Brolin received much acclaim for his films. He took a supporting role in the Quentin Tarantino-written Grindhouse (2007) which was a two-part film accounting two horror stories. He also played two policemen that year: corrupt officer Nick Trupo in the crime epic American Gangster (2007), and an honest police chief in the emotional drama In the Valley of Elah (2007) which starred Tommy Lee Jones and was directed by Paul Haggis. However, it was his involvement in No Country for Old Men (2007) that truly pushed him into the limelight. The film, directed by the Coen brothers, was about a man (Brolin) who finds a satchel containing two million dollars in cash. He is pursued by an unstoppable assassin (Javier Bardem, who won an Oscar for his work) and his friend, a local sheriff (Tommy Lee Jones). The film won four Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director.
Brolin found high-profile work the next year, being cast as Supervisor Dan White in the film Milk (2008). His performance as the weak and bitter politician earned him an Oscar nomination, and Brolin received more praise for his fascinating portrayal of George W. Bush in the Oliver Stone film W. (2008). Despite the mediocre success of W. (2008), he was recognized as the best part of the film, and Milk (2008) was another triumph, critically and commercially.
Brolin then acted in the smaller comedy Women in Trouble (2009) before landing a number of large roles in 2010. The first of these was the film based on the comic book figure Jonah Hex (2010). The film was a box office flop and critically panned, but Brolin also forged a second collaboration with legendary director Oliver Stone for Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010). Brolin played a large role alongside such young stars as Carey Mulligan and Shia LaBeouf, and older thespians such as Michael Douglas, Eli Wallach, and Frank Langella. Brolin's character was Bretton James, a top banker in the film, and also the film's chief antagonist. Brolin also appeared in Woody Allen's London-based film You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010) and a second collaboration with the Coen Brothers, which was a remake of True Grit (1969).
Despite his earlier mediocre success and fame, Brolin has maintained a choosiness in his films and, recently, these choices have paid off profoundly. Hopefully, he continues this streak of good fortune that his talents have finally given him.- Actress
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Isabel May is an American actress. She starred as Katie Cooper on the Netflix series Alexa & Katie and had a recurring role as Veronica Duncan on the CBS series Young Sheldon. She held the lead role of Zoe Hull in film Run Hide Fight. She is the narrator and leading protagonist of the Paramount+ series 1883.- Actor
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Thomas Jacob "Jack" Black was born on August 28, 1969 in Santa Monica, California and raised in Hermosa Beach, California to Judith Love Cohen & Thomas William Black, both satellite engineers. He is of Russian Jewish & British-German ancestry. Black attended the University of California at Los Angeles. While at UCLA, he was a member of Tim Robbins' acting troupe & it was through this collaboration that led to his 1992 film debut in Bob Roberts (1992). Although he was just a background voice in his first film, Jack's appearances in such television shows as The X-Files (1993), his breakthrough performance in High Fidelity (2000) & his rock-comedy band, Tenacious D have created an ever-growing cult following.- Actress
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Actress and model Danielle Riley Keough was born in Santa Monica, California
to musicians Lisa Marie Presley and Danny Keough. She is the eldest grandchild
of legendary singer Elvis Presley and actress
Priscilla Presley. Keough started modeling as a teenager. She first appeared on
a runway for Dolce & Gabbana. She has also appeared on the cover of "Vogue"
with her mother and grandmother.
Keough began her acting career in 2010 when she won the role of Marie Currie
in The Runaways (2010). Other
roles followed in
The Good Doctor (2011),
Jack & Diane (2012), and
Steven Soderbergh's
Magic Mike (2012).
She has been married to Ben Smith-Petersen since February 4, 2015. They have
one child.- Actress
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Precocious, outspoken child-teen starlet of the 1990s, Christina Ricci
was born on February 12, 1980 in Santa Monica, California, the youngest of four
children of Sarah (Murdoch), a realtor, and Ralph Ricci, a lawyer and
therapist. She is of Italian (from her paternal grandfather), Irish,
and Scots-Irish descent. She made her screen debut at the age of 9 in
Mermaids (1990), in which she worked
with Winona Ryder and
Cher. Her breakthrough adult role was in
The Ice Storm (1997), in which she
plays a nymphet who skillfully seduces two brothers. She worked with
Johnny Depp and
Casper Van Dien in the
Tim Burton film
Sleepy Hollow (1999).- Actor
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Cameron Monaghan was born in Santa Monica, California. Cameron's debut TV role as "Winthrop Paroo" in
The Music Man (2003) was originally played by Ron Howard in The Music Man (1962). Cameron began his acting career at 5 years old in commercials. At age 7, he began appearing on stage as Stuart Little in "Stuart Little" and as Piglet in "Winnie the Pooh" at Little Palm Family Theatre in Boca. His most famous rolls include Ian Gallagher in "Shameless US" and Jerome and Jeremiah Valeska in "Gotham".- Actress
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Laura Dern was born on February 10, 1967 in Los Angeles, the daughter
of actors Bruce Dern and
Diane Ladd. Dern was exposed to movie sets
and the movie industry from infancy, and obtained several bit parts as
a child. Her parents divorced when Dern was two and Dern lost contact
with her father for several years as a result.
Her parents' background and her own early taste of the movie-making
world soon convinced the young Dern to pursue acting herself. Like so
many young actors, her decision may have been influenced by social
awkwardness -- the child of 1960s counterculture parents, she was steeped
in Eastern mysticism and political radicalism, and was seen as an
oddball by her more conservative classmates. Even before her teens, she had achieved most
of her impressive 5' 10" height and was rail-skinny with a slouching posture.. Perhaps the nine-year-old Dern
found refuge by studying acting at the
Lee Strasberg Theater Institute.
The first success for the young Dern came in 1980, with a role in
Adrian Lyne's
Foxes (1980), a teen movie starring
Jodie Foster. She followed this with
several small parts, or parts in small movies, such as
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains (1982)
and Teachers (1984), as a student who
has an affair with a teacher. (Her mother objected to her active
presence on movie sets at age thirteen, which required Dern to sue for
emancipation so she could play her role in "The Fabulous Stains"). Her
next roles, as the blind girl who befriends the deformed boy in
Mask (1985), and as a teen-aged girl whose
sexual awakening collides with a mysterious older man in
Smooth Talk (1985), gave her career
an important boost. Dern appeared to have made it with a leading role
in David Lynch's acclaimed
Blue Velvet (1986), but it was four
years before her next notable film, and this was the bizarre
Wild at Heart (1990), also directed
by Lynch.
The following year, Dern starred in
Rambling Rose (1991), which would
become her signature performance, as a sexually-precocious,
free-spirited young housemaid in the South in the 1930s. Dern earned an
Oscar nomination for her performance, and so did her mother and
co-star, Diane Ladd. Dern continues to win
prominent roles on the big screen, often in smaller, highly-regarded
human dramas such as
October Sky (1999),
I Am Sam (2001) and
We Don't Live Here Anymore (2004),
although she is perhaps most widely known for her repeat role as Ellie
Sattler in the summer adventure movies
Jurassic Park (1993) and
Jurassic Park III (2001), or
for her guest performance on
Ellen (1994), as the woman to whom
Ellen finally comes out as a lesbian.
Dern's pre-teen gawkiness matured into lithe beauty, but this doesn't
prevent Dern from fearlessly throwing herself into a wide variety of
roles which are sometimes unflattering, an excellent example being her
unflinchingly comic portrayal of an intensely annoying loser whose
pregnancy becomes a social and political football in
Citizen Ruth (1996). This results in
Dern being one of the most interesting actors working in Hollywood
today.
Having previously dated such Hollywood talent as
Treat Williams,
Renny Harlin,
Kyle MacLachlan,
Jeff Goldblum and
Billy Bob Thornton, Dern eventually
married musician Ben Harper in
2005. Early in her career, Dern was roommate to
Marianne Williamson, the
spirituality guru. Dern attended two days of college at UCLA and one
semester at USC.- Actress
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Mariska (Ma-rish-ka) Magdolna Hargitay was born on January 23, 1964, in
Santa Monica, California. Her parents are
Mickey Hargitay and
Jayne Mansfield. She is the youngest of
their three children. In June 1967, Mariska and her brothers Zoltan and
Mickey Jr. were in the back seat of a car when it was involved in the
fatal accident which killed her mother. The children escaped with minor
injuries. Her father remarried a stewardess named Ellen, and they
raised the three children and gave them a normal childhood. They also
financially supported the children, since Jayne Mansfield's debt-ridden
estate left no money for them.
Mariska majored in theater at UCLA. Her first motion picture feature
was the cult favorite, Ghoulies (1984),
where she gave a memorable performance as Donna. Unlike her mother
Jayne, who had changed her name, her hair color, and did nude
pictorials to become a star, Mariska took a very different approach on
her journey to become a star. She rejected advice to change her name
and appearance. And she refused to copy her mother's sexy image by
turning down nude scenes in her next film Jocks (1986). She told
casting directors that she was her own person when she held onto her
dark locks and athletic figure, when they were expecting another blond,
buxom Jayne Mansfield. Mariska continued with her acting classes and
waited on tables, while she landed forgettable roles in short-lived
television shows. She appeared a few times on the nighttime soap
Falcon Crest (1981). She also appeared in the hit film
Leaving Las Vegas (1995),
credited as 'Hooker at the bar', and in the flop film
Lake Placid (1999) as Myra Okubo. Her
recurring role on the top-rated show ER (1994) in 1998 gave her career
enough of a jolt to land her the starring role of Det. Olivia Benson in
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999),
the first spin off from the excellent franchise of
Law & Order (1990). The hour-long
show deals with sex crimes and the detectives who solve these cases.
Mariska played Olivia as a tough, compassionate detective, who did
action scenes and her own stunt work. She reaped the rewards from the
hit TV show, after struggling and studying her craft for fifteen years.
She became the highest paid actress on television, and she won Emmy and
Golden Globe awards for her performance. The show also changed her
personal life, since she met her husband actor
Peter Hermann on the set and
married him on August 28, 2004. That same year, she appeared in the
television movie
Plain Truth (2004), in
which she played attorney Ellie Harrison. Mariska became an activist,
when fans of her show who were abused, would write to her, and she
founded a non-profit organization called "Joyful Heart Foundation" to
help "survivors of sexual assault, domestic violence, and child abuse."
Mariska gave birth to her son August in 2006. But that tremendous joy
was soon followed by tremendous sadness when her beloved father Mickey
died just two months later at the age of 80. Mariska and her husband
Peter adopted two children, a girl named Amaya, and a boy named Andrew,
within a span of few months in 2011.
Mariska speaks English, Hungarian, French, Spanish, and Italian, and
her husband also speaks several languages, including his native
language German. They divide their time between New York and Los
Angeles.- Actor
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Sean Patrick Astin (né Duke; February 25, 1971) is an American actor, voice actor, screenwriter, director, producer, family man, author, marathon runner, political activist and philanthropist who is well known for his film debut portraying Mikey in Steven Spielberg's The Goonies (1985), for playing the title role in the critically acclaimed Rudy (1993), and for his role as the beloved Sam Gamgee in the Academy Award winning trilogy, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002), and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003).
Astin was born Sean Patrick Duke on February 25, 1971 in Santa Monica, California. His mother was actress Patty Duke.
At the time of his birth, his biological father was believed to be entertainer Desi Arnaz Jr., but Astin
discovered through a DNA test in the 1990s that his biological father is music promoter Michael Tell, who was married to Patty Duke in 1970. Sean was raised by his stepfather, actor John Astin, who married Patty Duke in 1972 and whose surname Sean took. Sean's mother was of Irish and more distant German ancestry, and Sean's biological father is of Austrian Jewish and Polish Jewish descent.
At age nine, Sean starred with his mother in the after-school special Please Don't Hit Me, Mom (1981). Followed by Sean's feature debut The Goonies (1985) and since then, he has had a steady stream of roles. Starring in Toy Soldiers (1991), Where the Day Takes You (1992), Rudy (1993) and Harrison Bergeron (1995).
He directed and co-produced the short film Kangaroo Court (1994), which was nominated in the best short film category at The 67th Annual Academy Awards (1995). Sean's adoptive father John Astin was nominated for the same award in 1969.
Sean experienced another career breakthrough with his role as the epitome of loyal sidekicks, Samwise Gamgee, in Peter Jackson's "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy, released in 2001, 2002 and 2003. Along with the many awards bestowed upon the trilogy (particularly its final installment The Return of the King), Sean received nominations for his own performance. He took home the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor, and awards from the Las Vegas Film Critics Society, the Seattle Film Critics, the Utah Film Critics Association, and the Phoenix Film Critics Society. As an ensemble, the Return of the King cast received awards from the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures and the Screen Actors Guild. In 2004, Sean authored the NY Times best seller "There and Back Again: An Actor's Tale," chronicling his acting career with emphasis on his experiences filming the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Sean has been a long-distance runner since his teens. His marathons include the 2014 Marine Corps Marathon in Washington, DC, where he had the honor of officially starting the race, the 2015 Boston Marathon as a member of charity fund-raising team MR8, and the New York City Marathon in 2016. He has done numerous half marathons and countless 5Ks, 10Ks, and races of other distances. He successfully completed the Ironman World Championship Triathlon in Kona, Hawaii, in October 2015; the grueling event consisted of a 2.4 mile open ocean swim, a 112 mile bike race and a 26.2 mile marathon.
In 2012, while training for the LA Marathon, he began a Twitter campaign using #Run3rd, a way to dedicate his runs to causes and ideas that mattered not just to him, but to others. The principle of #Run3rd is that Sean runs first for himself, since running is ultimately a solitary act, second for his ever-patient and supportive family, and third for others. #Run3rd has grown to include a team of runners, walkers, and others who dedicate their activities to the causes of others. A $25,000 grant from the Ironman Foundation will allow the charity to fund after school running programs for children in under-served school districts. More information on #Run3rd, including sponsored 5Ks, is available at run3rd.com.
Sean has served as a philanthropist on the board of several non-profit organizations, including the Creative Coalition, National Center for Family Literacy, and Los Angeles Valley College's Patrons Association and Arts Council. He is a vocal advocate on many issues including literacy, mental health awareness and civic engagement. After the passing of his mother in late March 2016, Sean began fund-raising to create a foundation to carry on her life's work as an advocate for mental health
Politically, Sean has been very active having served in two non-partisan Presidential appointments. Sean also hosts a live weekly 2
hour in-studio bi-partisan political radio talk show, 'Vox Populi Radio' which was made possible by a successful crowdfunding campaign
in 2013. In 2004, Sean broke into the publishing world and authored the NY Times Best Selling release of There and Back Again a memoir of his film career (co-written with Joe Layden).
In addition to acting in live action films and television, Sean is also an accomplished voice actor. He has voiced several different characters in animated series, cartoons, animated movies, anime dubs and video games. His voice is also familiar to many. He narrated the Animal Planet series "Meerkat Manor" (2006-2007), and voiced the title characters in the animated Disney Channel series "Special Agent Oso" (2009-2012) and the animated feature film "Ribbit" (2014). He was the voice of Raphael in Nickelodeon's popular "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" (2012-2017) as well as it's video games. He voiced the paranoid Siamese cat Chester in "Bunnicula" (2016-2018), a Warner Brothers produced series based on children's books by James Howe and narrates "The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants" (2018-2019) a series on Netflix, based on the Dav Pilkey's children's books. He can be heard in a plethora of other animated shows, anime dubs, video games, audio dramas and narrations. More recently, Sean was the Narrator of the Documentary called Remember the Sultana, which released on March 1st, 2018.
After four decades in front of camera or microphone, Sean has ventured in front of a theater audience, first as Joseph Stalin in a multimedia stage production of "Shostakovich and the Black Monk: A Fantasy," (2018-2019) and then as Dr. Moricet in "Bang Bang!" (2018), John Cleese's adaptation of a 19th century French farce.
Sean is also comfortable behind the camera, directing episodic TV and serving as producer on several films. He directed and co-produced with his wife Christine the short film "Kangaroo Court," nominated for an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film in 1995. While working on "The Lord of the Rings," Sean made "The Long and Short of It." The film premiered at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival and appears on the DVD for "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers," along with a making-of video. He is currently working to bring "Number the Stars," based on Lois Lowry's Newbery Award winning children's classic, to the big screen.
While maintaining a career as a professional actor (in live action films and television) and a voice actor for characters in animated series, cartoons, animated movies, anime dubs and video games, Sean is also a political activist. Sean has been actively engaged in the political world since early in his life. He served in two non-partisan Presidential appointments. In 1995, under President Bill Clinton, he became a Civilian Aide to the Secretary of the Army, serving for 10 years under six secretaries in two administrations. He was appointed by President George W. Bush to his Council on Service and Civic Participation, whose mission was to promote a culture of volunteerism and civic engagement. He campaigned for presidential candidates John Kerry in 2004, and Hillary Clinton in 2008 and 2016. He also served as campaign manager for his friend, Dan Adler, in a special election for California's 36th congressional district race in 2011.
Sean attended Crossroads High School for the Arts and studied with the famous Stella Adler. He graduated with honors from UCLA; B.A. in History & B.A. in English American Literature and Culture. Sean is married to Christine Astin, his co-producer on Kangaroo Court (1994). He resides in Los Angeles, CA with his wife Christine Louise and daughters Alexandra (Ali) Louise, Elizabeth Louise, and Isabella (Bella) Louise. All of his daughters attend Harvard University.- Actor
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Ryan Douglas Hurst (born June 19, 1976) is an American actor, best known for his roles as Gerry Bertier in Disney's Remember the Titans, Tom Clark in Taken, Opie Winston in the FX network drama series Sons of Anarchy, as Sergeant Ernie Savage in We Were Soldiers, and as Chick in Bates Motel.
Hurst was born in Santa Monica, California, the son of Candace Kaniecki, an acting coach, and Rick Hurst, an actor. He attended Santa Monica High School.
Growing up in a Hollywood family, Hurst made a very early start in show business, with a recurring role in the NBC teen situation comedy series Saved by the Bell: The New Class. In the 1998 epic war drama film Saving Private Ryan, Hurst portrayed Mandelsohn, a paratrooper who, because of temporary hearing loss, cannot understand Captain Miller's (Tom Hanks) questions about sighting Private Ryan, which forces Miller to ask the questions in writing. Additionally, he appeared in the 2002 war film We Were Soldiers as Sgt. Ernie Savage, played the football player Lump Hudson in the black comedy thriller film The Ladykillers (2004), and starred in the TNT police drama series Wanted (2005). From 2005 to 2007, Hurst gained recognition for portraying the recurring role of Allison DuBois' half-brother, Michael Benoit, in NBC's supernatural procedural drama series Medium.
Hurst's big break came when he was cast as Opie Winston in the FX crime drama series Sons of Anarchy. Originally a recurring cast member in the first season, he was promoted to main cast member for the following season and went on to become a fan favorite. His character, newly released from a five-year prison stint and "living right", but not making ends meet, goes back to Samcro to provide for his family, despite his wife's objections and his knowing the risks. Hurst's portrayal of Opie earned him the 2011 Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor - Series, Miniseries or Television Film. Also in 2011, Hurst voiced Jedidiah in the animated box office hit Rango. Also stars in the series, Outsiders. It was announced in August 2018 that he will star as Beta on The Walking Dead.
In 1994, Hurst met Molly Cookson and the couple married in May 2005. Together, they founded the production company Fast Shoes. In April 2013, Hurst purchased a 3,400 square-foot home in Woodland Hills, California for $1.71 million.- Producer
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Born on August 18, 1936, in Santa Monica, California, to Charles Robert Redford, an accountant for Standard Oil, and Martha Redford, Charles Robert Redford, Jr. was a scrappy kid who stole hubcaps in high school and lost his college baseball scholarship at the University of Colorado because of drunkenness. However, as a high school student, he had displayed a certain aptitude as a caricaturist and this contributed to his decision to seriously study art. Redford then enjoyed a year-long sojourn travelling around Europe, hitchhiking, living in youth hostels and generally living the painter's life. Eventually, he came to realise that his work was unoriginal and not very good. He therefore returned to New York to pursue studies in theatrical design at the Pratt Institute of Art. He subsequently enrolled in acting classes at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.
By the end of 1960, he was on Broadway in a series of plays including Barefoot in the Park, which launched him to fame. TV and stage experience coupled with all-American good looks led to movies and a breakthrough role in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), when the actor was 33. The Way We Were (1973) and The Sting (1973), both in 1973, made Redford No. 1 at the box office for the next three years. Redford used his clout to advance environmental causes and his riches to acquire Utah property, which he transformed into a ranch and the Sundance ski resort. In 1980, he established the Sundance Institute for aspiring filmmakers. Its annual film festival has become one of the world's most influential. Redford's directorial debut, Ordinary People (1980), won him the Academy Award for Best Director in 1981. He waited eight years before getting behind the camera again, this time for the screen version of John Nichols' acclaimed novel of the Southwest, The Milagro Beanfield War (1988). He scored with critics and fans in 1992 with the Brad Pitt film A River Runs Through It (1992), and again, in 1994, with Quiz Show (1994), which earned him yet another Best Director nomination.
Redford married Lola Van Wagenen on August 9, 1958; they divorced in 1985 after having four children, one of which died of sudden infant death syndrome. Daughter Shauna Redford, born November 15, 1960, is a painter who married Eric Schlosser on October 5, 1985, in Provo, Utah; her first child, born in January 1991, made Redford a grandfather. Son James Redford, a screenwriter, was born May 5, 1962. Daughter Amy Redford, an actress, was born October 22, 1970. Redford has a half-brother named William, who worked in medical research.- Actor
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Sean Penn is a powerhouse film performer capable of intensely moving
work, who has gone from strength to strength during a colourful film
career, and who has drawn much media attention for his stormy private
life and political viewpoints.
Sean Justin Penn was born in Los Angeles, California, the second son of
actress Eileen Ryan (née Annucci) and
director, actor, and writer Leo Penn. His
brother was actor Chris Penn. His
father was from a Lithuanian Jewish/Russian Jewish family, and his
mother is of half Italian and half Irish descent.
Penn first appeared in roles as strong-headed or unruly youths such as
the military cadet defending his academy against closure in
Taps (1981), then as fast-talking surfer
stoner Jeff Spicoli in
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982).
Fans and critics were enthused about his obvious talent and he next
contributed a stellar performance alongside
Timothy Hutton in the Cold War spy
thriller
The Falcon and the Snowman (1985),
followed by a teaming with icy
Christopher Walken in the chilling
At Close Range (1986). The
youthful Sean then paired up with his then wife, pop diva
Madonna in the woeful, and painful,
Shanghai Surprise (1986), which
was savaged by the critics, but Sean bounced back with a great job as a
hot-headed young cop in Colors (1988),
gave another searing performance as a US soldier in Vietnam committing
atrocities in
Casualties of War (1989) and
appeared alongside Robert De Niro in the
uneven comedy
We're No Angels (1989). However,
the 1990s was the decade in which Sean really got noticed by critics as
a mature, versatile and accomplished actor, with a string of dynamic
performances in first-class films.
Almost unrecognisable with frizzy hair and thin rimmed glasses, Penn
was simply brilliant as corrupt lawyer David Kleinfeld in the
Brian De Palma gangster movie
Carlito's Way (1993) and he was
still in trouble with authority as a Death Row inmate pleading with a
caring nun to save his life in
Dead Man Walking (1995), for
which he received his first Oscar nomination. Sean then played the
brother of wealthy
Michael Douglas, involving him
in a mind-snapping scheme in
The Game (1997) and also landed the lead
role of Sgt. Eddie Walsh in the star-studded anti-war film
The Thin Red Line (1998),
before finishing the 1990s playing an offbeat jazz musician (and
scoring another Oscar nomination) in
Sweet and Lowdown (1999).
The gifted and versatile Sean had also moved into directing, with the
quirky but interesting
The Indian Runner (1991), about
two brothers with vastly opposing views on life, and in 1995 he
directed Jack Nicholson in
The Crossing Guard (1995).
Both films received overall positive reviews from critics. Moving into
the new century, Sean remained busy in front of the cameras with even
more outstanding work: a mentally disabled father fighting for custody
of his seven-year-old daughter (and receiving a third Oscar nomination)
for I Am Sam (2001); an anguished father
seeking revenge for his daughter's murder in the gut-wrenching
Clint Eastwood-directed
Mystic River (2003) (for which he
won the Oscar as Best Actor); a mortally ill college professor in
21 Grams (2003) and a possessed
businessman in
The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004).
Certainly Sean Penn is one of Hollywood's most controversial,
progressive and gifted actors.- Aubrey Anderson-Emmons was born in Santa Monica, California. She is an actress, best known for her role on Modern Family (2009) as "Lily," the adopted daughter of Mitchell Pritchett and Cameron Tucker. She also appeared in Distance (2014), the story of a man about to embark on a journey of reconciliation with his estranged daughter, when a natural disaster hurls his plans off course.
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Tobias Vincent Maguire was born in Santa Monica, California. His parents were 18
and 20, and not yet married, when he was born. His mother, Wendy (Brown), did advertising, publicity, and acting in Hollywood for years as she coached and managed Tobey. His father, Vincent Maguire, was a cook and sometimes a construction worker. Tobey did not finish high school in order to pursue and focus on acting roles, but he did end up getting his GED. He did several commercials (he was a model dancer for Nordstrom by age six), and he had some roles on various TV shows before landing a starring role on the Fox comedy Great Scott! (1992). That role lasted nine weeks before the show was canceled. Fox-made series were not doing well in general at the time. He avoids drugs and alcohol, and his best friend is Leonardo DiCaprio. Tobey is a vegan and studies yoga. He now has two beautiful children with his wife Jennifer Meyer Maguire. Their names are Ruby Sweetheart and Otis Tobias Maguire. Another little known fact is that his two half-brothers, Jopaul and Weston Epp, were the child actors who handed Tobey (Peter Parker) his mask after the train scene in Spider-Man 2.- Actress
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Amber Rose Tamblyn was born May 14, 1983 in Santa Monica, California.
Amber caught an agent's eye at the age of ten after a performance in
"Pippi Longstocking". She has appeared in
Live Nude Girls (1995) and
Johnny Mysto: Boy Wizard (1997).
In addition, her most popular role has been the role of "Emily
Bowen-Quartermaine" of the popular soap
General Hospital (1963). She
originated the role of "Emily" in 1995. Amber is the daughter of actor Russ Tamblyn and singer and artist Bonnie Tamblyn. In addition, Amber writes poetry and has been published in the San
Francisco publications, "Cups" and "Poetry USA". Amber also enjoys
singing, dancing, and theater in addition to her life on
General Hospital (1963).- Actor
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An actor by trade but also a filmmaker, musician, and photographer, Adam Goldberg's career has spanned more than three decades comprising a vast resume of eclectic work both on off the screen. From mining the neuroses of characters for both dramatic and comedic effect, to producing work as a filmmaker with a superlative eye and keen wit, Goldberg has solidified his standing as a unique and prolific presence in the entertainment industry.
Goldberg is a co-star on the hit CBS series "The Equalizer." The show, a re imagining of the classic series and films, follows Robyn McCall (Queen Latifah), an enigmatic woman with a mysterious background who uses her extensive skills to help those with nowhere else to turn. Goldberg is a standout as whip smart, sardonic, and surprisingly fashion conscious computer hacker Harry Keshegian, who is like a brother to McCall and a fiercely supportive husband to his sniper wife Mel (Liza Lapira). "The Equalizer" had a massive debut to over 23 million viewers in 2021 and is currently airing its third season. Brand new episodes will return February 19, 2023, on CBS.
Also in television, Goldberg gained critical acclaim and fostered in a new generation of fans as Mr. Numbers in the award-winning crime drama "Fargo" (FX). He starred opposite Billy Bob Thornton and Colin Hanks on the show, which was inspired by the 1996 film of the same name. Goldberg is also known for his tour de force arcs as Crazy Eddie on "Friends" (NBC) and Nicky Rubinstein on "Entourage" (HBO), as well as starring roles on "The Jim Gaffigan Show," "Taken" (NBC),(NBC), "The Unusuals" (ABC), "NYC 22" (CBS), "The $treet" (FOX), and "God Friended Me" (CBS).
Often recognized for his impressive body of work in film, Goldberg has been hand-picked by Steven Spielberg and Ron Howard for memorable roles in their Academy Award winning projects. A career-changing moment for Goldberg was landing the role of tough, wise-cracking infantryman Private Mellish in Steven Spielberg's "Saving Private Ryan" opposite Tom Hanks. The film went on to receive 5 Academy Awards while also being nominated for Best Picture. From there, he starred in major blockbusters including Academy Award winner "A Beautiful Mind" which marked his second collaboration with director Ron Howard. In 2003 he showcased his talent in comedy, appearing a third time opposite Matthew McConaughey, in "How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days."
Other seminal performances include playing Christopher Walken's undead and unwitting assistant, Jerry, in Gregrory Widen's cult thriller "The Prophecy," Michael Rapaport's beleaguered roommate in John Singleton's "Higher Learning," appearing in Ron Howard's "EdTV," and portraying a speed freak opposite Val Kilmer and Peter Sarsgaard in DJ Caruso's debut "The Salton Sea." Additional recent work includes starring opposite Bruce Willis and John Goodman in "Once Upon a Time in Venice," and appearing alongside Nicholas Cage and Laurence Fishburne in "Running with the Devil." A filmmaker's actor, Goldberg also appeared, notably, in Tony Scott's "Déjà Vu" opposite Denzel Washington, and in David Fincher's "Zodiac."
Goldberg is known for effortlessly jumping back and forth between mainstream film and television roles with acclaimed passion projects. Namely, the titular role in Jonathan Kesselman's 'Jewxploitation' comedy, "The Hebrew Hammer," his hilarious collaboration with Julie Delpy in "2 Days in Paris," and his portrayal of a brilliant but eccentric musician in the art world satire "(Untitled)" opposite Marley Shelton. Other standouts include his turn as a performance artist opposite Olivia Thirlby in Rafael Palacio Illingworth's "Between Us," and a cult leader who indoctrinates Fran Kranz in the Netflix thriller "Rebirth," both of which premiered the same year at the Tribeca Film Festival.
Born in Santa Monica and raised in LA, Goldberg loved to perform and create from an early age, taking acting classes and studying film and photography since secondary school. His debut in the entertainment industry came with supporting film role in Billy Crystal's "Mr. Saturday Night," but it was his turn as Mike, an intellectual with a chip on his shoulder, in Richard Linklater's iconic, '70s coming of age classic "Dazed and Confused" that introduced Goldberg to an audience that continues to grow as the film captivates new audiences with each generation. Linklater would later make a cameo in Goldberg's directorial debut, "Scotch and Milk," and later host a screening at Austin's Alamo Draft House the same summer Goldberg appeared in Linklater's groundbreaking, psychedelic animation feature, "Waking Life."
Goldberg wrote, directed, starred in, and co-edited "Scotch and Milk" when he was just 24 years old. The stylized black and white film follows a group of young jazz obsessed hipsters trying to reconcile their machismo with their sensitivity. Additionally, Goldberg screened a rough cut for Spielberg during the making of "Saving Private Ryan," which led Spielberg to enlist his post production supervisor to help finish the film. "Scotch and Milk" debuted at the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival and earned critical acclaim on the festival circuit. This included a particular notable write up in American Cinematography Magazine and featured on the Sundance Channel series "10 Best Films You May Have Never Seen."
Goldberg would go on to co-write the psychological drama "I Love Your Work," starring frequent collaborator Giovanni Ribisi, and featuring Franka Potente, Christina Ricci, and Joshua Jackson. The film follows an actor whose life goes south after he forms an obsession with a young film student. Goldberg composed and arranged music for the film alongside The Flaming Lips' multi-instrumentalist Steven Drozd, and it debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival where the film was picked up for theatrical distribution. He also directed, co-edited, and produced the surreal documentary short "Running with the Bulls" for the Independent Film Channel, and most recently co-wrote, directed, edited, and starred in the Sony feature film "No Way Jose," in which he plays a washed-up indie rocker going through a midlife crisis.
While working in film and television has been a huge part of Goldberg's life, his passion for photography and music have garnered their own cult following over the years, establishing him something of a modern day renaissance man. As a musician, Goldberg has recorded four albums under his moniker The Goldberg Sisters - two of which he recorded with a an eclectic array of musicians, and the last two of which he recorded in his home studio playing every instrument. As part of his 2018, 14-track album entitled "HOME: A Nice Place to Visit" Goldberg released a limited edition vinyl set that included a stunning large-format photo book, marrying his love for soundscapes and photography. Goldberg also directed the accompanying videos. Show Gallery in Los Angeles hosted an exhibition of the work where Goldberg played some of the tracks from the record utilizing loop pedals and other effects. The Goldberg Sisters discography also includes: Stranger's Morning (2013), The Goldberg Sisters (2011), and Landy (2009). https://music.apple.com/us/artist/the-goldberg-sisters/422885644
As a photographer Goldberg's signature dreamy, double exposures shot on film document and explore people, landscapes, and create cinematic scenes from which viewers can draw their own interpretations. Goldberg is also known for his style and passion for fashion, which he attributes to his mom with whom he used to go vintage clothes shopping on Melrose in the '80s. Any follower of his Instagram will take note of his extensive tagging of small brands, bespoke makers, and his support of slow fashion writ large. Everything he wears on "The Equalizer" - clothes and accessories - are either straight out of Goldberg's closet (a dedicated room in his house, he's not proud of this, nor is his wife thrilled) or handpicked by the actor.
Goldberg currently divides his time between Los Angeles and New York with his wife and two sons.
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Vibrant, increasingly lovely teen fave Shelley Fabares withstood the test of time by transitioning successfully into adult parts unlike many of her 1960s "teen queen" peers who faded quickly into the memory books. She was born Michele Marie Fabares on January 19, 1944, in sunny Santa Monica, California, the daughter of Elsa Rose (Eyler) and James Alan Fabares. As the niece of singer/comedienne Nanette Fabray, she was indoctrinated early into the show biz life. Tap dancing from age three, she also modeled during her elementary school and began appearing on such TV shows as Captain Midnight (1954) and Annie Oakley (1954) (the latter a recurring role). At age 12, she made her professional film debut in the Rock Hudson/Cornell Borchers tearjerker Never Say Goodbye (1956) as Hudson's daughter, and went on to play kid sister roles in the rock 'n' roll-themed Rock, Pretty Baby! (1956) and its sequel Summer Love (1958) both starring John Saxon.
Teen-idol status came with her coming-of-age role as the ever-wholesome daughter "Mary Stone" on The Donna Reed Show (1958), a part she played for five seasons before embarking on a more grown-up film career. During the run of the classic sitcom, she and TV "brother" Paul Petersen grew so popular that they sprinted to adjoining pop singing celebrity, although both admitted that their vocal talents were limited. Shelley especially enjoyed a #1 Billboard hit with the breathy, sultry-edged "Johnny Angel." The character of "Mary Stone" was gently phased out of the show as her character "left for college."
By this time, Shelley had turned into quite a curvaceous stunner. Her acting mettle hardly tested, she managed to become part of the bikini-clad blonde set with top femme parts in such fun-and-frolic fare as Ride the Wild Surf (1964), Hold On! (1966), which was a vehicle for British singing sensation Peter Noone of Herman's Hermits, and three of Elvis Presley's less-acclaimed vehicles of the later 1960s: Girl Happy (1965), Spinout (1966) and Clambake (1967).
A serious Vietnam-era stream of consciousness began to pervade film audiences in the late 1960s and Shelley's perky innocence that found so much favor during the Camelot years had lost its appeal. After a notoriously dry spell, she bounced back as the altruistic wife of a dying footballer "Brian Piccolo" in Brian's Song (1971), opposite James Caan, and settled comfortably again on the small screen with bright co-star roles on the series The Little People (1972), The Practice (1976), and Highcliffe Manor (1979). A more prickly character than usual, however, reared its head in the late-night soap spoof Forever Fernwood (1977), and this led to the equally malicious, vainglorious role of Bonnie Franklin's business competitor on the already-established hit sitcom One Day at a Time (1975). The show also featured her aunt Nanette Fabray as Franklin's meddling mom. In the late 1980s, Shelley found a fleshier character as Craig T. Nelson's resourceful mate on Coach (1989), earning steady work for eight seasons and two Emmy nominations in the process. A return to film stardom, however, would eclipse her.
Married and separated from record producer Lou Adler during her fun-in-the-sun years of the mid 1960s (they eventually divorced in 1980 after a separation of almost 14 years), Shelley found marital stability with actor/activist Mike Farrell of M*A*S*H (1972) fame, and became stepmother to his two children from a prior marriage. Following her recovery from a home accident that broke several ribs in 1998, Shelley was tested and diagnosed with severe auto-immune hepatitis, which resulted in a liver transplant in 2000. Thankfully, she survived the near-fatal ordeal and has been more heard than seen in recent years. She supplied the voice of "Martha Kent" on the Superman: The Animated Series (1996) animated series but has done little else in the ensuing years.- Actor
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Martin Starr was born on 30 July 1982 in Santa Monica, California, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Adventureland (2009), Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) and Knocked Up (2007).- Actress
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Anjelica Huston was born on July 8, 1951 to director and actor John Huston and Russian prima ballerina Enrica 'Ricki' Soma. Huston spent most of her childhood overseas, in Ireland and England, and in 1968 first dipped her toe into the world of show business, taking on the lead role of her father's movie A Walk with Love and Death (1969). However, before it was released, her mother died in a car accident, at 39, and Huston relocated to the United States, where the very tall, exotically-beautiful young woman modeled for several years.
While modeling, Huston made sporadic cameo appearances in a couple films, but decided to pursue it as a career in the early '80s. She prepared herself by reaching out to acting coach Peggy Feury and began to get roles. The first notable part was in Bob Rafelson's remake of the classic noir movie The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981) (in which Jack Nicholson, with whom Huston had been living since 1973, was the star). After a few more years of on-again, off-again supporting work, her father perfectly cast her as calculating, imperious Maerose, the daughter of a Mafia don whose love is scorned by a hit man (Nicholson again) in his film adaptation of Richard Condon's Mafia-satire novel Prizzi's Honor (1985). Huston won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance, making her the first person in Academy Award history to win an Oscar when a parent and a grandparent (her father and grandfather Walter Huston) had also won one.
Huston thereafter worked prolifically, including notable roles in Francis Ford Coppola's Gardens of Stone (1987), Barry Sonnenfeld's film versions of the Charles Addams cartoons The Addams Family (1991) and Addams Family Values (1993), in which she portrayed Addams matriarch Morticia, Wes Anderson's The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) and The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004). Probably her finest performance on-screen, however, was as Lilly, the veteran, iron-willed con artist in Stephen Frears' The Grifters (1990), for which she received another Oscar nomination, this time for Best Actress. A sentimental favorite is her performance as the lead in her father's final film, an adaptation of James Joyce's The Dead (1987) -- with her many years of residence in Ireland, Huston's Irish accent in the film is authentic.
Endowed with her father's great height and personal boldness, and her mother's beauty and aristocratic nose, Huston certainly cuts an imposing figure, and brings great confidence and authority to her performances. She clearly takes her craft seriously and has come into her own as a strong actress, emerging from under the shadow of her father, who passed away in 1987. Huston married the sculptor Robert Graham in 1992. The couple lived in Venice Beach until Graham's death in 2008.- Patrick Schwarzenegger was born September 18, 1993, at St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica, California. He graduated USC with a degree in Business and a minor in cinematic arts. Patrick started studying acting with Nancy Banks while at college. He is known for being GoldenBoy in GenV (2023), as well as starring opposite Collin Firth in HBO highly acclaimed "The Staircase" (2022).
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Andrea Kristen Savage is an American actress, comedian, and writer known for her roles in projects such as Step Brothers, TruTV's comedy series I'm Sorry, which she also created, the Comedy Central mockumentary series Dog Bites Man, the HBO comedy Veep, and Hulu's reality TV parody series The Hotwives.- Actor
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Bob Gunton is an American actor, primarily known for portraying strict and authoritarian characters in popular films. His better known roles include Chief George Earle in "Demolition Man" (1993), Prison Warden Samuel Norton in "The Shawshank Redemption" (1994), medical school dean Dr. Walcott in "Patch Adams" (1998), and politician Cyrus Vance in "Argo" (2012).
In 1945, Gunton was born Santa Monica, California. His parents were labor union executive Robert Patrick Gunton Sr. and his wife Rose Marie Banovetz. Gunton was raised in California and attended Mater Dei High School in Santa Ana, California. His college years were spent in the Paulist Seminary St Peter's College, in Baltimore, Maryland, and the University of California, Irvine.
Gunton joined the United States Army in 1969, when 24-years-old. He served until 1971. He served as a radio telephone operator with the 2nd Battalion, 501st Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division. He was assigned to the Fire Support Base Ripcord during the Vietnam War. When the base was evacuated during a siege by North Vietnamese Army (NVA), Gunton manage to retrieve important radios that were in danger of falling in enemy hands. He was awarded with a Bronze Star commendation for his deed.
Gunton was primarily known for theatrical roles in the late 1970s and 1980s. He played Raoul in the Broadway musical "King of Hearts" (1978). For this role he was nominated for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical. The award was instead won by rival actor Ken Jennings (1947-).
From 1979 to 1983, Gunton played the role of President of Argentina Juan Perón (1895-1974, term 1946-1955, 1973-1974) in "Evita". He won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical, and was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical.
In 1980, Gunton acted in the play How I Got That Story. He won both the Clarence Derwent Award for Most Promising Male Performer and the Obie Award for Distinguished Performance by an Actor. He was also nominated Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play.
In 1985, Gunton played the King in the musical "Big River". The musical was an adaptation of the novel "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" (1884) by Mark Twain. For this role Gunton was again nominated for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical.
From 1987 to 1990, Gunton played protagonist Sweeney Todd in "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street". He was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical, a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical, and an Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical. While critically acclaimed for this role, Gunton won none of these awards.
In the 1990s, Gunton started focusing more on film roles. More often playing antagonists than heroes or supporting characters,. In 2007, Gunton joined the main cast of the popular action drama television series "24", playing politician Ethan Kanin. He played the role until the end of the series in 2010. In 2015, Gunton joined the main cast of the superhero series "Daredevil". He played the super-villain Leland Owlsley (codenamed "the Owl in the comics).
By 2020 Gunton was 74-years-old. He has never retired, and continues to appear regularly in film and television.- Actor
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Forrest Wheeler knows that if you want to live the dream, it takes commitment and hard work. Forrest has always strived for excellence in his many ventures and activities: Acting, IMPROV, Xtreme Martial Arts, Action Stunts, Hip Hop and Tennis to name a few.
Forrest's first acting class was at the age of seven and he quickly discovered his passion and talent. In just a few years, Forrest has developed a thriving career working on numerous commercials, live performances, voice-overs and several TV Shows including "Community", "New Girl" and "Chasing Life".
Forrest's first job on the big screen was in "The Incredible Burt Wonderstone" as a Cambodian boy who is presented a rabbit as a pet and takes it home to his family for dinner. His roles as the young Kuai-Liang in "Mortal Kombat: Legacy II" and recently the popular movie "Such Good People" were also great opportunities to showcase his acting talents.
Forrest loves appearing in his role as Emery, the cool younger brother of Eddie Huang, on the ABC prime-time TV series "Fresh Off the Boat".
Forrest lives in Southern California with his family. He speaks English, Cantonese and Mandarin.- Actress
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Born in Los Angeles on June 2, 1978, Cox expressed an interest in show
business at age four. She was discovered by a prominent dance agent
while taking dance classes, which led to her professional debut in the
comedy film Mac and Me (1988). Dancing temporarily held center stage with
appearances in Michael Jackson's Moonwalker (1988); a Los Angeles Music Center Ballet
Tour; The Joffrey Ballet; Paula Abdul's video "Forever Your Girl"; "The MTV
Awards" and The Arsenio Hall Show (1989). At age 10, Cox won her first speaking part in a
guest-starring role in Mama's Family (1983). Her other television credits included
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987), Night Court (1984), Murphy Brown (1988), Baywatch (1989) and Boy Meets World (1993). Cox also had starring
roles in The Ryan White Story (1989) and the sci-fi thriller The Presence (1992) - both television
movies. She was also a series regular on NBC's Someone Like Me (1994). On the big
screen, Cox was featured in the box-office hit Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) and played Gina
Cates, Jagger Cates' long-lost sister on ABC's General Hospital (1963).- Actor
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With hundreds of V/O credits to his name, Veteran Voice Monkey Steve Blum is best known as the voice of "Spike Spiegel" from Cowboy Bebop, "Wolverine" from several incarnations of X-Men (animated movies, games, the Wolverine and the X-Men TV Series, The Super Hero Squad Show, X-Men Anime and more), "Zeb Orrelios" and dozens of other characters from Star Wars: Rebels, "Orochimaru," "Zabuza," and others from Naruto, "Green Goblin" from the Spectacular Spiderman series, "Heatblast," "Vilgax" and "Ghostfreak" from Ben 10, "Grayson Hunt" (Bulletstorm) "Grunt" (Mass Effect 2 and 3),"Zoltan Kulle" from Diablo 3, "Abathur" from Starcraft 2:Heart of the Swarm, "Tank Dempsey" (Call of Duty), "Killer Croc" from Arkham Asylum, "Oghren" (DragonAge),"Vincent Valentine" (Final Fantasy VII), "Leeron" (Guren Lagann), "Jamie" from Megas XLR, "Storm Troopers" and many others in most of the Star Wars games, The voice of 7-11, dozens of Digimon and a gigantic list of other characters from Anime, Video Games, TV and Film. In 2012, Steve was inducted into the Guinness Book of World Records as Most Prolific Voice Actor in Video Games - appearing in almost 300 games (now over 400!)
Lately you can catch him as Yumyan Hammerpaw in Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts, the terrible Jindiao in Dreamworks' Kung Fu Panda: Paws of Destiny, more Star Wars stuff like The Mandalorian, Star Wars Resistance, Jedi: Fallen Order and as Admiral Karius in Vader Immortal, Wheeljack in the BumbleBee Feature film, Returning as Tank Dempsey in COD Black Ops 4, Grimstroke in Dota 2, Roy Evans in Angel of Vine - the true crime podcast, as "Shoe" and "Sparky" in Laika's The Boxtrolls, and as astronaut Quentin Thomas on Hip Hop superstar Logic's amazing albums "The Incredible True Story," "Everybody," and "Young Sinatra 4" and on camera in Logic's music videos for the songs "Everyday," "Take it Back," and "Icy."
Also appearing as "Nar Est" and "Rasper" in Amazon's Niko and the Sword of Light, "Frank" the flying monkey and others in Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz on Boomerang, as "Makucha" the Leopard on Disney's The Lion Guard and as Lovable Pub Thug "Attila Buckethead" and more in Disney's Tangled television series! And see if you can find his characters in Star Wars Star Wars Rogue One, Solo, and Rise of Skywalker, Incredibles 2, Goosebumps 2, Shazam and Critters Attack feature films!
And... in the Emmy award-winning Transformers: Prime, he played "Starscream." "Green Lantern" in Injustice 2, "Sub-Zero," "Reptile and "Bo'Rai Cho" in Mortal Combat X, "Baraka" and "Sub-Zero" in MK 11. Several characters in Wabbit, Ultimate Spider Man, Ben 10: Omniverse, The Regular Show, We Bare Bears, Doc McStuffins, Uncle Grandpa, Wander over Yonder, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Scooby Doo, Guild Wars 2, Peabody and Sherman, Pickle and Peanut, Transformers Rescue Bots, Young Justice, and as the terrifying anti-bender "Amon" on the hit series Avatar: The Legend of Korra!
And every Saturday night, Steve continues to take the helm as "TOM," the robotic host of Cartoon Network's Toonami on Adult Swim.
If you're interested in learning the art of Voiceover from a guy who does a LOT of it, check out Steve's VO Webinar Teaching Series, newsletter and more at https://www.blumvoxstudios.com/ !
For more info, please visit www.steveblumvoices.com
On Twitter and Instagram! @blumspew- Producer
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Sara Gilbert was born on January 29, 1975, as Sara Rebecca Abeles at St. John's Hospital and Health Center in Santa Monica, California, to Barbara Cowan and Harold Abeles. Barbara was previously married to the late Paul Gilbert. At the age of six, when Sara saw her sister Melissa Gilbert get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, she told her mother that she wanted to be an actress, too. A string of commercials and, in 1984, an appearance in the CBS TV movie Calamity Jane (1984), led her to adopt the Gilbert family name. After failing to get the new The Facts of Life (1979) show, she eventually found success with Roseanne (1988). Sara spent a total of nine years on that show and was given time to be able to study at Yale University, graduating with honors in 1997. Aside from Roseanne (1988), she has provided the voice of Laura Powers on The Simpsons (1989), and starred in several movies including Sudie and Simpson (1990), Poison Ivy (1992) and Light It Up (1999).- Actor
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Tyler was born in Santa Monica, California, and lives in the Los Angeles area with his two dogs. He is the son of Cyndi Garcia (1959-2014) and actor/writer John Posey. He is of Mexican (mother) and British Isles (father) descent. Tyler developed an early interest in the arts, and began his acting career performing on stage with his actor/writer dad, at the age of six. They later worked in television and film together. He is also a singer/songwriter. He has two siblings, an older brother, Derek, and a younger brother, Jesse Posey, also an actor.- Actor
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Lorenzo Fernando Lamas was born in Santa Monica, California, the son of actors Arlene Dahl and Fernando Lamas. His father was Argentinian and his mother was American, of Norwegian descent. Lorenzo was raised
in Pacific Palisades, California. In 1968, his family moved to New York.
He attended private school, graduating from Admiral Farragut Academy in
1975. He then moved back to California. With encouragement from his
father, he enrolled in Tony Barr's Film Actors Workshop and began his
career with a small role in a television show in 1976. He also began to
study karate and tae kwon do in 1979. He has starred in five television
series and in over fifty movies. He is most known for his roles on
television, notably as Lance Cumson on CBS' Falcon Crest (1981) and Reno
Raines in the syndicated hit show Renegade (1992). Lorenzo also sustained a
professional racing career while working successfully as a TV and Film
actor in the 80's and 90's. He acts on stage and has a cabaret show
that he tours with across the country. Some of the roles he has played
onstage include the king in the musical The King and I as well as Zach
in the musical A Chorus Line. He is an avid motorcyclist for over
thirty years and has participated in the Love Ride, to benefit MDA and
various charities since its inception in 1983. He is also on the board
of directors. Lorenzo is a commercial helicopter and airplane pilot and
he often flies disadvantaged children to summer camps and people too
sick or financially challenged to travel normally on domestic flights.
He just recently received his certification to become a helicopter
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Miguel Ferrer was an American actor known for playing Morton from RoboCop, Shan Yu from Mulan, Martian Manhunter from Justice League: The New Frontier, Slade Wilson from Teen Titans: The Judas Contract, Death from Adventure Time, Sesa Refumee from Halo 2 and Vice President Rodriguez from Iron Man 3. He passed away in January 2017 due to throat cancer. He is survived by his wife and three children.- Actor
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Bill Irwin was born on April 11, 1950, in Santa Monica, California, to
Elizabeth (Mills), a teacher, and Horace G. Irwin, an aerospace
engineer. He is the oldest of three children, and is of English, Irish,
and German descent. Irwin spent a year in Belfast, Northern Ireland, as
an exchange student. He is a graduate in theatre arts from Oberlin
College, OH, a graduate of Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey's
Clown College, FL, and received a MacArthur Genius Grant in 1984.
Irwin began his film career in 1980 and earned film credits in more
than twenty movies. His best-known film role was "Lou Lou Who" in
Dr. Seuss'
How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000).
He is also a producer, director, writer, and choreographer. In 2001,
Irwin collaborated with the renown Russian mime
Vyacheslav Polunin, who organized the
New Carnival within the framework of the World Theatre Olympics, in the
Hermitage Gardens in Moscow. There, Bill Irwin performed in the duo
with David Shiner, among some of the best
acting comedians of the 20th century, such as
Vyacheslav Polunin, Django Edwards,
Jérôme Deschamps, Franz-Joseph
Bogner, Leo Bassi,
Gennadiy Khazanov,
Leonid Yarmolnik and
Bolek Polívka and over a hundred of other
comedians and mimes from all over the world. He appeared on Broadway in
"Accidental Death of an Anarchist" and at La Jolla Playhouse in "The
Seagull" by Anton Chekhov, among his other
stage works. Bill Irwin won the 2005 Tony Award for Best Actor in a
Play, for his performance in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?". He was
also nominated for four Tony Awards as an actor, author, director, and
choreographer.- Actress
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Shirley Temple was easily the most popular and famous child star of all
time. She got her start in the movies at the age of three and soon
progressed to super stardom. Shirley could do it all: act, sing and
dance and all at the age of five! Fans loved her as she was bright,
bouncy and cheerful in her films and they ultimately bought millions of
dollars' worth of products that had her likeness on them. Dolls,
phonograph records, mugs, hats, dresses, whatever it was, if it had her
picture on there they bought it. Shirley was box-office champion for
the consecutive years 1935-36-37-38, beating out such great grown-up
stars as Clark Gable,
Bing Crosby,
Robert Taylor,
Gary Cooper and
Joan Crawford. By 1939, her
popularity declined. Although she starred in some very good movies like
Since You Went Away (1944)
and the
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947),
her career was nearing its end. Later, she served as an ambassador to
Ghana and Czechoslovakia. It was once guessed that she had more than 50
golden curls on her head.- Erin Sanders is an actress, writer, and director who is best known for her portrayal of the iconic Quinn Pensky on Nickelodeon's Zoey 101.
Following Zoey 101, Erin worked on CBS's The Young and the Restless playing Eden Baldwin, the daughter of Michael Grossman. Shortly thereafter, the creator of the new Nickelodeon series Big Time Rush approached Erin for the role of Camille. He was a longtime fan of hers and wrote the role with her in mind. So she returned to Nickelodeon, while continuing her work in adult drama securing a variety of guest-starring roles on networks including NBC, AMC, CBS, ABC, HBO, and Showtime.
Erin will star in the upcoming series Six Degrees of Separation slotted for release later this year.
In addition to her acting, Erin began screenwriting in 2018. In 2020, she began pre-production for her short film, By Nature, which she wrote and will also direct and star in.
Erin stars in the The Call, a love letter to horror films of the 80's. See The Call now in theatres and drive-ins. - Actress
Morgan Lily Gross is an American actress and model from Los Angeles. She is known for playing a young Mystique in X-Men: First Class and Lily Curtis from 2012. Other works she acted in include Henry Poole Is Here, Joe Bell, Claws, Grey's Anatomy, Curb Your Enthusiasm, CSI, Shameless, He's Just Not That Into You and Love's Everlasting Courage.- Actor
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Lou Ferrigno Jr. is an American dramatic and comedic actor. Beginning his career in entertainment as a fitness model, Ferrigno Jr. quickly transitioned to roles in commercials, Tv, and films. He's best known for his work on S.W.A.T. (2019), 9-1-1 (2018), How I Met Your Mother (2013), and Outer Banks (2023).
Upon graduation from The Annenberg School for Communication (USC), he began studying improvisational comedy at LA's finest schools: Improv Olympic (iO), Upright Citizens Brigade (UCB), and the West Side Comedy Theatre (WCT). Before long he would land national commercial spots for Subway, Dr. Pepper, Comcast, Carl's Jr., Mopar, Honda, Oscar Mayer, Miller Light, FIAT, Home Depot, and Navy Federal Credit Union, Fox Sports to name a few.
As the eldest son of actor/bodybuilder Lou Ferrigno, he spent much of his youth with his parents on Tv and film sets across the globe. Exposure to acting at a young age manifested to become his passion for film and Tv. Ferrigno Jr.'s first dramatic break was on the longtime daytime soap, Days of Our Lives (2012), and thereafter booking recurring roles on hit Tv programs How I Met Your Mother (2013) and Teen Wolf (2014).- Actress
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Hannah Marks is an actress and filmmaker who was named one of Rolling Stone's 25 under 25 Artists Changing the World in 2017. Her first feature After Everything (2018) FKA Shotgun as co-writer/director premiered to rave reviews at the 2018 SXSW Film Festival where Hannah was also nominated for the Game Changer award.
As an actress, Marks has four films slated for 2019 release, including Banana Split (2018) which she stars in, co-wrote, and produced. She was the female lead of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (2016) for BBC America/AMC Studios opposite Elijah Wood. Seasons one and two recently premiered on Hulu.
Prior film credits The Runaways (2010) and Dawn (2014) which both premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, and The Amazing Spider-Man (2012). Her other notable television work includes three seasons on the Golden Globe nominated series Necessary Roughness (2011) and a two-season arc on the Emmy nominated series Weeds (2005).
In addition to her 2018/2019 filmmaking credits, her short film BearGirl (2017) was a finalist for 2018 Sundance Ignite, highlighting filmmakers ages 18-24. Her previous shorts have played at numerous festivals, including Two Dollar Bill (2016), winning Best Short at the CineYouth program of Chicago International Film Festival, highlighting filmmakers under the age of 22.
Marks resides in Los Angeles and New York.- Actress
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Geraldine Leigh Chaplin was born in Santa Monica, California, to Oona Chaplin (née O'Neill) and legendary entertainer Charles Chaplin (A.K.A.
Charlie Chaplin). She is a granddaughter of playwright Eugene O'Neill and a great-granddaughter of stage actor James O'Neill. She
attended the Royal Ballet Academy in London. She was discovered by
David Lean when she was dancing in
Paris, which led to her role in
Doctor Zhivago (1965). She has two
children, Shane and Oona Chaplin.- Actress
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Carly Hannah Chaikin (born March 26, 1990) is an American actress. She began acting in 2009 and received her breakout role two years later, co-starring as Dalia Royce in the ABC sitcom Suburgatory. She played the role until the series' cancellation in 2014, and one year later began playing the role of Darlene in the critically acclaimed USA Network television drama Mr. Robot.
Chaikin was born in Santa Monica, California, to a cardiologist father and a physiotherapist mother. She was raised Jewish. She went to The Archer School for Girls, a high school in Los Angeles. During this time she played a variety of sports, including volleyball, softball, basketball, and soccer.
In 2009, Chaikin landed the role of Veronica in the film The Consultants, released December 4, 2010 in the US. The same year, Chaikin starred alongside Miley Cyrus in the film adaptation of Nicholas Sparks' The Last Song, initially released in the US on March 31, 2010. She played the role of Blaze, the antagonist of the film, a rebel that stirs up trouble for Ronnie, played by Cyrus.
In 2011, Chaikin was cast as Dalia Oprah Royce in the ABC sitcom Suburgatory alongside Jeremy Sisto and Cheryl Hines. Chaikin's character, Dalia, was the mean girl to Jane Levy's Tessa, Her performance received universal acclaim; she quickly became a fan favorite and her performance a popular highlight of the show. Chaikin originally auditioned for the role of Tessa. Chaikin wrote a series of articles as her character, Dalia, for the magazine, Parade. As her character, Dalia, she shot a music video called "You Missed A Spot." In 2013, Chaikin was nominated for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her role in Suburgatory and was discussed as a potential Emmy nomination. The series ended its run on May 14, 2014.
Chaikin appeared in the 2012 independent film My Uncle Rafael starring John Michael Higgins. In addition to acting, Chaikin is a writer and producer of short films, including Happy Fucking Birthday, and Nowhere to Go, which was honored at the First Glance Film Festival in 2013.
In 2014, Chaikin was cast in the USA Network TV series, Mr. Robot, starring Rami Malek ("Elliot") and Christian Slater ("Mr. Robot"). She plays the programmer Darlene, part of the fsociety group which writes malicious rootkit code. At the 2015 SXSW film festival, the show won the Audience Award for Episodic TV shows. Mr. Robot was picked up for a second season. Mr. Robot has received widespread critical acclaim. Chaikin auditioned for the roles of both Angela and Darlene. She said that it was a great pilot and that the bad-ass nature of the character really appealed to her.
In 2015, Chaikin guest-starred on Marc Maron's TV show, Maron, as Tina, a college teaching assistant whom Marc's friend (played by Adam Goldberg) has slept with.- Rosabell Laurenti Sellers grew up in New York City, first performing at the legendary East Village experimental theater club La MaMa. As a child, with her Italian father and American mother, she moved to Rome, Italy where she grew and flourished as a young actress in film and television. Rosabell achieved European renown playing the title role in television movie Memories of Anne Frank. Shortly thereafter, she played Rachel Weisz's daughter in American release The Whistleblower (Samuel Goldwyn Films). For her work in 2012 film Gli Equilibristi, Rosabell was nominated for the David di Donatello award in the category of "Best Supporting Actress" In 2013, she played a lead role opposite Raul Bova in widely acclaimed Buongiorno Papa, and that same year, Rosabell was honored by the Italian Film Critics Association with the prestigious Nastro d'Argento award for "Most Promising Young Talent". Last season,
she played a regular role on successful Italian television series Una Grande Famiglia. Rosabell holds U.S. and Italian citizenship. - Actress
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Before the age of five, Tracy had a film credit to her name. The
daughter of singer Ricky Nelson and
Kristin Harmon, she appeared as one of
Henry Fonda's daughters in the movie
Yours, Mine and Ours (1968).
In 1982, she became the popular Valley Girl "Jennifer DeNuccio" on the
television series
Square Pegs (1982) which ran from
1982-83. This show made Tracy's name well known in Hollywood. She made
a few small appearances in movies while continuing to pursue television
roles, and returned in series
Glitter (1984). Two years later, she
was in the
Nick Nolte/Bette Midler
movie
Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986).
In 1987, Tracy was very sick and one month after her marriage to
William R. Moses, she was diagnosed
with Hodgkin's disease, but later cured. In 1989, she returned to
television as "Sister Stephanie 'Steve' Oskowski" in
Father Dowling Mysteries (1989).
Since that time, she has appeared in a handful of television movies,
including the TV series
A League of Their Own (1993)
and had a recurring role on
Melrose Place (1992).- Ashley Zukerman was born on 30 December 1983 in Santa Monica, California, USA. He is an actor, known for Fear Street: Part One - 1994 (2021), Manhattan (2014) and Succession (2018).
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Gloria Stuart was born on a dining room
table on 4th Street in Santa Monica, California on July 4, 1910. Her
early roles as a performing artist were in plays she produced in her
home as a young girl. She was the star of her senior class play at
Santa Monica High School in 1927. Attending the University of
California, at Berkeley, she continued to perform on the stage. Stuart
married and move to Carmel, where she performed in a production of "The
Seagull" which was transferred to the Pasadena Playhouse in 1932. It
was there that talent scouts for both Paramount and Universal saw her.
In a famous dispute, the heads of the two studios flipped a coin and
Universal won. She played lead roles for director
James Whale, including
(The Old Dark House (1932),
The Invisible Man (1933) and
The Kiss Before the Mirror (1933)).
The hard work at the studio estranged her from her first husband
(Stuart helped create the Screen Actors Guild). She played the leading
lady in Roman Scandals (1933), on
the set of which she met her husband
Arthur Sheekman. She was dissatisfied
with the roles in which she was cast at Universal and played roles in
films for other studios. Ultimately, a few years after having her
daughter Sylvia (named after the role she was playing when she met
Sheekman), she left the cinema and sought roles on the stage in New
York. In the 1940s, she opened an art furniture shop where she created
decoupage lamps, tables and trays, many of which sold to stars like
Judy Garland and others. Later, Stuart took
up oil painting and was very prolific, showing and selling her work in
New York, Los Angeles and elsewhere. Her landscapes of The Watts Towers
are on permanent collection at The Los Angeles County Museum. She also
took up and mastered the art of bonsai and some of her trees are on
permanent collection in the Huntington Library Japanese Garden. When
her husband fell ill in the 1970s (he died in 1978), she returned to
acting doing a range of television series. In 1982, she returned to the
screen appearing in a brief dance scene with
Peter O'Toole in
My Favorite Year (1982).
About this time a friend, she knew half a century earlier in Carmel,
who was a master printer, re-entered her life and from him, Stuart
learned the craft of fine printing. She established a printing press in
her home studio called Imprenta Glorias. where she created a body of
fine artist's books. Her greatest book, "Flight of Butterfly Kites" is
in permanent collection at the J. Paul Getty Museum. Gloria Stuart won
a Screen Actors Guild Award and an Oscar-nomination for her performance
as the Old Rose in Titanic (1997). In
July 2010, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences honored Gloria
Stuart with a Centennial Celebration. She was the first such honoree to
be living for a centennial. At 100 years of age, she had completed her
greatest artist's book with her great-granddaughter working as her
apprentice and also her final appearance on film in her grandson's
documentary about her, entitled
Secret Life of Old Rose: The Art of Gloria Stuart (2012)
when she died at home at the age of 100 on September 26, 2010.- Actress
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Judy Norton was born on 29 January 1958 in Santa Monica, California, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for The Waltons (1972), Stargate SG-1 (1997) and Inclusion Criteria (2018). She has been married to Robert Graves since 11 August 2002. She was previously married to Randy Apostle and Douglas Taylor.- Actress
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Alison Eastwood was born on 22 May 1972 in Santa Monica, California, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997), Absolute Power (1997) and The Mule (2018). She has been married to Stacy Poitras since 15 March 2013. She was previously married to Kirk Fox.- Actress
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Provocative and ever the temptress in her prime, the dark-maned, gorgeous Lana Wood was born Svetlana Gurdin on March 1, 1946, in Santa Monica, California, to Nick Gurdin (née Nikolai Zacharenko) and Maria Gurdin (known by countless aliases, usually Mary Zudilova), émigrés of Ukrainian and Russian descent. Both her parents' families fled their Russian homeland following the Communist takeover and the couple met and married in San Francisco. Lana's more famous acting sister was christened Natalia eight years earlier and the eldest girl in the family was an Armenian half-sister named Olga Tatuloff, their mother's child from a 1920s marriage.
Young Natalia (renamed Natalie Wood, out of respect to director Sam Wood) became a child star in the late 1940s, with such classics as Miracle on 34th Street (1947), and younger sis Lana would inevitably be drawn into films as a result of Natalie's overwhelming success. She made her "debut" as a baby in Natalie's "B" film Driftwood (1947) only to have her cute bit cut from the picture. Her first screen credit actually came with the John Ford classic The Searchers (1956) as a younger version of Natalie's character, and she was off and running.
In an effort to break away from her sister's looming shadow and find her own place in Hollywood, Lana set out to secure TV roles and did
quite well on such popular programs as Playhouse 90 (1956), Have Gun - Will Travel (1957), Dr. Kildare (1961) and The Fugitive (1963), while continuing her minor appearances in such films as Marjorie Morningstar (1958) (again with Natalie), Five Finger Exercise (1962) and the The Girls on the Beach (1965).
In 1965 she earned a contract at Twentieth Century-Fox and was cast in her first television series, The Long, Hot Summer (1965), playing the Southern belle role Lee Remick had played in the 1958 film (The Long, Hot Summer (1958)). Better yet was her 1966 breakthrough role as hash-slinging waitress "Sandy Webber" on the original prime-time soap opera smash Peyton Place (1964), which she played for two seasons. Unlike the glamorous and refined Natalie, Lana developed an earthier "bad girl" persona. Her character femmes bore typical hard-luck stories--tarnished girls from the wrong side of the tracks who were often more trouble than they were worth. Off-screen, she married Peyton Place (1964) co-star Steve Oliver, who played her abusive husband and jailbird "Lee Webber." The marriage lasted approximately one month.
After Peyton Place (1964), Lana continued to exude sex appeal in such films as For Singles Only (1968) and Scream Free! (1969), a drug tale that reunited Natalie's West Side Story (1961) co-stars Richard Beymer and Russ Tamblyn. She kept her name alive on TV as well, making the guest rounds on The Wild Wild West (1965), Bonanza (1959), The Felony Squad (1966) and Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1967).
In April 1971, Lana posed for Playboy in an attempt to gain added exposure. It worked. A major career boost presented itself in the
form of producer Albert R. Broccoli (nicknamed "Cubby"), who caught the spread and offered her the role of Bondian femme fatale "Plenty O'Toole" in Diamonds Are Forever (1971) opposite Sean Connery. Following all this sexy publicity, Lana somehow nabbed an unexpected role in the Disney romp Justin Morgan Had a Horse (1972).
Although she stayed fairly active throughout the next decade or so with such TV movies as Black Water Gold (1970), QB VII (1974) and
Nightmare in Badham County (1976), and the films Grayeagle (1977) and Demon Rage (1982), her star began to diminish.
Marriages during the 1970s included a union with actor/co-star Richard Smedley, whom she met on the set of A Place Called Today (1972). They produced her only child, daughter Evan, in 1974. She later married producer Allan Balter after meeting him during the filming of
Captain America (1979). Six marriages would come and go before 1980.
In the mid-'80s she appeared for a time on the daytime soap opera Capitol (1982) but made a decision to move away from the acting arena after this period. Following the tragic drowning death of sister Natalie in 1981, Lana penned the controversial tell-all book "Natalie, A Memoir by Her Sister". What was meant as a candid, caring and cathartic expose on Lana's part was denounced by both critics and family alike as self-serving and hurtful. Later years included behind-the-camera work as a producer, which included co-producing the ABC-TV special The Mystery of Natalie Wood (2004). She also had her own casting company at one point.
After an extended absence, Lana was seen again on the screen into the millennium. Independent features include Deadly Renovations (2010), Donors (2014), Bestseller (2015), Killing Poe (2016), Subconscious Reality (2016), Wild Faith (2018) and The Marshal (2019). A devoted animal lover, the still-stunning grandmother-of-three occasionally appears at celebrity conventions and continues to work in films.- Actor
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Actor, Producer and Founder of independent film company Entangled Entertainment, Noel Guglielmi was raised in Los Angeles and first cast -- without a formal audition -- in a Taco Bell commercial at the age of 15.
Discovered during an acting class as a boy, today he is one of Hollywood's most recognized faces with more than 150 large and small-screen credits to his name over a 25-year career.
Noel has worked with some of the best in the business, with roles in Fast and Furious, Training Day, Bruce Almighty, Purge Anarchy, The Dark Knight Rises, Fresh Off the Boat, CSI Miami, Bones, The Walking Dead and literally hundreds more.
His personal dedication to entertainment spans not only acting and producing but writing, digital content creation, stand-up comedy, talent recruitment, coaching and mentoring as well as motivational speaking.
For Noel, the opportunity to engage audiences across cultures, ages and borders is made even more rewarding when he can draw from his dramatically unique personal experiences to enlighten and improve the quality of life for others, especially at-risk youth and criminal offenders to pop and car culture enthusiasts and more.
After groundbreaking years in the profession as one of Hollywood's original Latino celebrities, Noel was honored to be invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2017 as part of its diversity efforts and in recognition of his contributions.
Noel credits much of his success to learning from his peers. Attentive to every important aspect of film creation and being true to his roots and community help him stand out to succeed in one of the world's most competitive professions and against challenging odds.
Today, he makes time to mentor others both in business and life.- Actress
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Dominique Dunne was born in Santa Monica, California, the daughter of Ellen Beatriz Griffin Dunne and Dominick Dunne, a producer, actor, and writer. Actor Griffin Dunne is her brother. After
her parents' divorce, she moved first to New York, and then to Beverly Hills. Upon graduation from high school, Dominique went
to the University of Colorado to study acting, leaving after one year
to pursue her career. Three weeks after arriving in Hollywood, she
landed her first gig. Other roles soon followed, notably her role as
Dana Freeling, the eldest daughter in Poltergeist (1982), and Dominique was soon
well known in the Hollywood social scene. Well-liked by all who knew
her, Dominique seemed to be at the top of the world. Then, at a party,
she met John Thomas Sweeney, the chef at popular LA nightspot "Ma
Maison." The two began a relationship, which turned stormy. Sweeney was
uncontrollable and abusive (so abusive that Dominique did not need
makeup to play the role of an abuse victim on Hill Street Blues (1981)). Dominique ended
the relationship on October 30, 1982. That same night, a distraught
Sweeney raced to her house, where she and actor David Packer were rehearsing
a scene from V (1983), dragged her outside, and strangled her, leaving
her brain-dead. Five days later, she was removed from life support and
died, cutting short a brilliant career and leaving behind scores of
shocked and angry loved ones.- Actor
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Born in Santa Monica, California, USA, Richard Hatch was studying
classical piano at the age of eight, and knew he wanted to carve out a
career as a performer before he reached his teens. After attending
Harbor College in San Pedro, he joined a Los Angeles repertory company
with which he traveled to New York City in 1967. He performed in the
plays "Song of Walt Whitman", "Young Rebels" and a production called
"Exercise", which Richard directed. Richard was cast as the original
"Philip Brent" in the soap
All My Children (1970) in
1970. He later played "Inspector Dan Robbins" on the television series
The Streets of San Francisco (1972).
Richard Hatch is best remembered for his portrayal of "Apollo" on the
series,
Battlestar Galactica (1978).- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
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Kevin Corcoran was born on 10 June 1949 in Santa Monica, California, USA. He was an assistant director and actor, known for Old Yeller (1957), Swiss Family Robinson (1960) and Pollyanna (1960). He was married to Laura Soltwedel. He died on 6 October 2015 in Burbank, California, USA.- Actor
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Darby Hinton was born in Santa Monica California August 19th, 1957 to actor Ed Hinton, from Wilmington NC, and his school teacher wife, Marilynn Hinton from Chicago. The Hinton name goes back through early American history even crossing through Daniel Boone's family tree, while Marilynn's parents both immigrated from Germany in their youth.
Darby started his long acting career at the tender age of 6 months old and he hasn't stopped since. His first appearance was on 'Play House 90' followed by commercials and many of the classic TV shows back then. Like, 'Mr. Ed,' 'Wagon Train,' 'Route 66' & The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet.
Darby's film career didn't start until he was 4 years old when he was featured in a film called 'Hero's Island'. Working with the likes of Harry Dean Stanton, Rip Torn, Neville Brand. and James Mason. Followed by Disneys 'Son of Flubber.' Just before turning 6, Darby landed the plumb role of playing Fess Parker's son 'Israel Boone' on the hugely popular 'The Daniel Boone Show' which ran for 6 seasons and had a Thursday night viewing audience of 30 million by it's 4th season. The show still has millions of loyal fans and lives on in reruns attracting even more fans today.
After 'Boone' ended, Darby tried to shake the all American image by playing a drug user on, 'The Bold Ones: The New Doctors,' a troubled youth on 'Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law' even a drug dealer on Jack Lord's, 'Hawaii Five-0.'
But everybody still loved and knew him as 'Israel'. Darby then decided to take time off and focus on education, since most of his had been on set with a studio teacher. He left Hollywood and graduated High School from, The American School in Switzerland. He then started his College experience completing 3 around the world voyages aboard the SS Universe while attending World Campus Afloat. Where he was able to study theatre, and actors, around the word. From Indonesian Shadow Dance, Noh & Kabuki Theatre, to the classic Greek & Roman Tragedies, all in their place of origin. When his academic voyages ended he went right back to work, with featured roles on, 'Magnum, P.I.,' 'The Fall Guy,' 'Hunter' and 'Mike Hammer' to name a few.
Darby took great pleasure in honing his craft over the years with great acting coaches like, Milton Katsales, Howard Fine, Larry Moss, Corey Allen, and the wonderful Joan Darling, even studying and performing with, 'The Groundlings'
Darby continued his film work as well, from martial arts films in the Philippines to a detective in Malibu that couldn't shoot straight in the cult classic, 'Malibu Express.' He did a number of other features as well, at home and abroad. They took him to places like Russia, Romania, Bulgaria. When he started his family however, he decided to look for more steady work closer to home. He became the Probation Officer on 'Days Of Our Lives,' and eventually became 'The Salem Rapist' during some of the shows highest ratings. With more kids, came more responsibilities, and not having a real father growing up, (His father was killed in a plane crash when he was 14 months old), Darby wanted to be there for his kids, to help them and watch them grow. But... he still loved acting. So, he started just pursuing commercials and theatre close to home. That lead him to a role based on Charles Doheny for Theatre 40's, 'The Manor.' A play he has stared in for the last 16 years, performing to sold out audiences in the real 1920s Doheny estate, 'Greystone,' in Beverly Hills.
Having spent a life time studying, characters, people, and human nature, to be able to portray the vastly different characters he has over the decades, Darby felt it also important, and fascinating, to study with some of the master teachers in the world of spirituality and human nature. Teachers like Wayne Dyer, Julia Cameron, Jim Rohn, Brian Tracy, Jack Canfield to name a few and even ended up traveling around as a 'Master Trainer' with Tony Robbins, helping Tony get thousands to walk across hot burning coals.
As soon as the youngest of his 5 children left home to be a ski instructor in New Zealand, Darby started focusing on his acting career again and has since got to portray some memorable historical characters; Like David Burnet, 1st president of Texas in, 'Texas Rising.' George Donner in, 'The Donner Party - Dead of Winter,' and his most recent role, Cole Younger in, 'Bill Tilghman and The Outlaws.' due out in late 2018.
Along with these and other acting roles Darby is also proud to be an advocate for child performers everywhere, having been on the 'SAG-AFTRA Young Performer's Committee,' a long time member of, 'A Minor Consideration'. and since it's very conception in 2003, being on the advisory committee for 'Looking Ahead'. A non profit that helps young performers and their families thrive and avoid pitfalls due to the unique challenges of working in the entertainment industry, with the motto: Grow, Give Back, and Have Fun!!
As much as he loves acting, Darby feels his work with these organizations might be some of his most important work, having lost so many fellow young performers and friends to some of those pitfalls along the way.
Darby has also now written a successful book documenting, with over 500 pictures, his early years in the Business, his love of acting, and mostly what it was like: 'Growing Up Israel.' For more information you can visit his website.- Writer
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Dan Gilroy was born in Santa Monica, California, the son of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Frank D. Gilroy, and sculptor and writer Ruth Dorothy. His brother Tony Gilroy is a screenwriter and director; and his fraternal twin brother, John Gilroy, is a film editor. Through his father, he is of Italian, Irish and German descent.
Gilroy wrote the script for 2005 gambling drama Two for the Money (2005), starring Al Pacino and Gilroy's wife Rene Russo. His earliest credit is as co-writer of science fiction thriller Freejack (1992), followed by co-writing Dennis Hopper-directed comedy Chasers. He was also one of the writers to contribute to the unmade Superman film Superman Lives.
He made his directorial debut with the 2014 crime thriller Nightcrawler (2014). He also wrote the screenplay, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.
Gilroy has been married to Rene Russo since 1992, and they have one daughter, named Rose. They reside in Brentwood, California.