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Most recently, Keri can be seen starring in "The Diplomat" for Netflix in which Keri plays the titular role of an American Diplomat in London. She also stars in an episode of the limited anthology series "Extrapolations" created by Scott Burns. She also recently starred in "Cocaine Bear" for Universal Pictures from director Elizabeth Banks. Last year, she starred in the supernatural horror thriller "Antlers" for director Scott Cooper and producer Guillermo del Toro, and in "Star Wars: Episode IX" which reunited her with friend and director J.J. Abrams.
For six seasons Keri starred in the critically acclaimed FX series "The Americans" for which she received a Television Critics Association Award for Individual Achievement in Drama, three Emmy Award nominations, two Golden Globe Award nominations, six Critics' Choice Award nominations - one win - and a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination.
Russell's film credits include "We Were Soldiers," "Mad About Mambo," "The Upside of Anger," "Mission Impossible III," "August Rush," "The Girl In The Park," "Bedtime Stories," Extraordinary Measures," "Goats," "Austenland," "Dark Skies," "Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes," "Free State Of Jones," and the romantic comedy "Waitress" for which she received rave reviews.
Keri first garnered attention when she starred in the title role of the hit television series "Felicity" from J.J. Abrams and Matt Reeves. Just four months after the show's acclaimed premiere on the WB, she was honored with a Golden Globe® Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Drama Series.
Keri's other television credits include the miniseries "Into the West," executive produced by Steven Spielberg, the Hallmark Hall of Fame Presentation "The Magic of Ordinary Days," and "Running Wilde" with Will Arnett.
Keri starred alongside Adam Driver in the Broadway revival of Lanford Wilson's "Burn This." The limited engagement play, directed by Tony Award winner Michael Mayer, opened in March 2019 and ran through July 2019.
Russell returned to New York theatre after making her off- Broadway stage debut in production of Neil LaBute's "Fat Pig," in 2005.- Writer
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After training as a painter (he storyboards his films as full-scale paintings), Kurosawa entered the film industry in 1936 as an assistant director, eventually making his directorial debut with Sanshiro Sugata (1943). Within a few years, Kurosawa had achieved sufficient stature to allow him greater creative freedom. Drunken Angel (1948) was the first film he made without extensive studio interference, and marked his first collaboration with Toshirô Mifune. In the coming decades, the two would make 16 movies together, and Mifune became as closely associated with Kurosawa's films as was John Wayne with the films of Kurosawa's idol, John Ford. After working in a wide range of genres, Kurosawa made his international breakthrough film Rashomon (1950) in 1950. It won the top prize at the Venice Film Festival, and first revealed the richness of Japanese cinema to the West. The next few years saw the low-key, touching Ikiru (1952) (Living), the epic Seven Samurai (1954), the barbaric, riveting Shakespeare adaptation Throne of Blood (1957), and a fun pair of samurai comedies Yojimbo (1961) and Sanjuro (1962). After a lean period in the late 1960s and early 1970s, though, Kurosawa attempted suicide. He survived, and made a small, personal, low-budget picture with Dodes'ka-den (1970), a larger-scale Russian co-production Dersu Uzala (1975) and, with the help of admirers Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas, the samurai tale Kagemusha: The Shadow Warrior (1980), which Kurosawa described as a dry run for Ran (1985), an epic adaptation of Shakespeare's "King Lear." He continued to work into his eighties with the more personal Dreams (1990), Rhapsody in August (1991) and Madadayo (1993). Kurosawa's films have always been more popular in the West than in his native Japan, where critics have viewed his adaptations of Western genres and authors (William Shakespeare, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Maxim Gorky and Evan Hunter) with suspicion - but he's revered by American and European film-makers, who remade Rashomon (1950) as The Outrage (1964), Seven Samurai (1954), as The Magnificent Seven (1960), Yojimbo (1961), as A Fistful of Dollars (1964) and The Hidden Fortress (1958), as Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977).- Actress
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Catherine Keener is an American actress, Oscar-nominated for her roles in the independent films Being John Malkovich (1999) and Capote (2005). Acclaimed in her community for her quirky roles in independent film and mainstream such as The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005), Keener got her start as a casting director in New York City.
Catherine Ann Keener was born in Miami, Florida, and was raised in Hialeah, FL. She is the daughter of Evelyn (Jamiel) and James Keener, who owned an auto shop. She is of Lebanese (mother) and English, Scottish, and German (father) descent. Keener attended Wheaton College in Massachusetts. She began taking acting classes when she was unable to sign up for a photography class. After graduating, Keener managed a McDonalds in New York City before becoming an assistant casting director and soon relocating to Los Angeles.
Not long after, Keener told her superior of her aspirations for acting and she landed a one-worded role as a waitress in About Last Night (1986). Two years later, she landed a role in a film called Survival Quest (1988), where she met her future husband, Dermot Mulroney. After struggling for years in the industry, Keener landed a role in an independent film, opposite the unknown Brad Pitt, in Johnny Suede (1991). Her ascent in independent film began as she starred in Living in Oblivion (1995) and Walking and Talking (1996) before her mainstream break with Being John Malkovich (1999) in 1999, which earned Keener her first Oscar nomination. Since then, Catherine Keener has starred in several critically acclaimed films.- From acting in TV Dramas to Executive Communication Coach nearly all of Sandra Dee's life has focused around relationships and behavior (sometimes real, and sometimes "as seen on TV"):
She began modeling and appearing in regional commercials at the age of 11, yet, finding her own voice wasn't easy, even with the turn of events that led her, at 17 from her small town outside of Pittsburgh, PA, to the Miss USA Pageant and simultaneously to her first major role TV as Amanda Cory on Another World. From there she starred on Sunset Beach, Bold and the Beautiful, General Hospital, Days of Our Lives, The Bay and guest starred on many prime time shows, like CSI Miami, Zoey 101 and Two and a Half Men. It was the struggles with her own shyness and the pain she experienced of not being able to speak up for what she believed in, that drove her to study human, animal and plant communication, neurolinguistics, body language, and eventually becoming a master in several modalities, including NLP, Hypnosis, Stage Mastery, and Natural Lifemanship as she sought to then help others find their voice and conquer any fear that could hold them back from the speaking stage, video, TV and all high risk presentations.
She founded Charisma on Camera Presentation Training in 2010 and Horsepowered Consulting, featuring her signature Equine -Assisted Program, Charismatic Cowgirl Coaching in 2018. Sandra Dee is an international speaker, TV host, Radio and Podcast host, Published author, CMMS coach, Blue Ribbon Ambassador and horse, dog and wildlife enthusiast. Throughout her career, Sandra Dee has been driven for her love of animals and a passion to support rescue and conservation issues. Her clients have appeared on major stages worldwide as well as all major US networks, including QVC!
The media has labeled her, "The Charisma Coach" Stemming from her success as a coach for entrepreneurs, authors and celebrities around the world to help them get what they desire in life by naturally stepping into their most powerful self - Actor
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Among others of Ugo Tognazzi's superb, award-winning performances of his prolific career, this excellent Italian character star has been widely cherished for his classic comedy role of gay cabaret owner Renato Baldi, opposite Michel Serrault's hilariously mincing drag queen partner Alban, in La Cage aux Folles (1978) one of the biggest cross-over foreign hits to ever land on American soil.
Born Ottavio Tognazzi in Cremona, Italy, on March 23, 1922, by the time Ugo was a teen he was a bookkeeper for a salami factory and performed in local amateur theatricals on the sly. Appearing on the stage, he finally found an entry into films at age 28 in 1950 with a featured role in the war comedy I cadetti di Guascogna (1950). He built up a solid comedy resume in primarily Neapolitan 50's features including La paura fa 90 (1951) (his first co-starring role), Café chantant (1953), I milanesi a Napoli (1954), La moglie è uguale per tutti (1955), Domenica è sempre domenica (1958), Le confident de ces dames (1959) and Tipi da spiaggia (1959).
Ugo became a middle-aged European star the following decade. Turning in a number of powerhouse character studies, he excelled as bon vivants, adulterous husbands and other suave gents in primarily farcical comedy and saucy, sardonic romps, particularly those of director/writer Marco Ferreri. He also demonstrated a remarkable range when it came to portraying world-weary protagonists in political drama or grim satire. For Ferreri alone, he appeared in the award-winning The Conjugal Bed (1963), Countersex (1964), The Wedding March (1966), L'udienza (1972) and the masterful The Big Feast (1973), among others.
In 1978, Tognazzi decided to take a chance, and play a character unlike anything he had done, (and, also, rarely done, for fear of being 'stereotyped'), and co-starred with the wonderful Michel Serrault in an image-shattering part in 1978. What he did was experience the most popular role of his career as one-half of an aging gay couple who operate a drag club. La Cage aux Folles (1978) went on to spawn two sequels and an American remake (The Birdcage (1996) starring Robin Williams (in the Tognazzi role) and Nathan Lane (in the diva Serrault part).
Tognazzi won several acting honors over the course of his long career. He copped several European awards for his classic roles in The Monsters (1963) (The Monsters), I Knew Her Well (1965), The Climax (1967) (also a rare foreign Golden Globe nomination), La bambolona (1968), Il commissario Pepe (1969), Lady Caliph (1970) and Duck in Orange Sauce (1975). He capped it off with the Cannes Film Festival award for his trenchant performance in Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man (1981), the tale of a near-bankrupt factory owner who attempts to use the kidnapping of his son (played by his real-life eldest son Ricky Tognazzi) to his financial advantage. Tognazzi was also the father of actor Gianmarco Tognazzi and director Maria Sole Tognazzi, and had another son, producer/writer Thomas Robsahm, via a relationship with actress Margrete Robsahm.
In the eighties, Tognazzi focused strongly on the theater and starred in such plays as Luigi Pirandello's "Six Characters in Search of an Author" (1986, directed by Jean-Pierre Vincent in Paris, Théâtre de l' Europe) and Molière's "The Miser" (1989, where he sparked a controversy in Italian government circles when he improvised lines about corruption in high places during his performance). Although he directed himself in a handful of his own often sexually explicit films, including Il fischio al naso (1967) and Sissignore (1968), Ugo's true brilliance shines in front of the camera and in the works of other famed European directors, notably Ferrari, Bernardo Bertolucci, Pietro Germi, Dino Risi and Mario Monicelli. He worked up until the end with incisive starring performances in Arrivederci e grazie (1988), I giorni del commissario Ambrosio (1988), Tolérance (1989) and La batalla de los Tres Reyes (1990) (The Battle of the Three Kings). In 1972, at age 50, Tognazzi wed actress Franca Bettoia, who survives him. He died of a brain hemorrhage in 1990, age 68.- Actress
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Davis, second of three children, was born in Englewood, New Jersey, the daughter of Joan, a librarian (at one time, for the elementary section of Elisabeth Morrow School), and William Davis, an engineer. Davis has described her mother as a "great storyteller" who would take Davis and her siblings to museums or to "something cultural" every Sunday after church. Davis was raised in Tenafly, New Jersey and graduated in 1982 from Tenafly High School. She was a childhood friend of Mira Sorvino, with whom she wrote and acted in backyard plays. She is married to actor Jon Patrick Walker. They have two daughters, Georgia (born August 31, 2002) and Mae (born December 30, 2004).- Tony Burton, who is famous for playing the corner man in six "Rocky" movies, was himself, in real life, a professional heavyweight boxer. Boxing in such avenues as Palm Springs, Los Angeles, and Hollywood, California, the 6 feet 200 pound Burton knocked-out among others, Bob Smith and Denny Chaney. His most important match was an April 4, 1959 6th round knockout defeat at the hands of undefeated LaMar Clark at Palm Springs, California. Clark was the 10th rated heavyweight and had won 38 straight knockouts. Burton gave as good as he got for 5 rounds, but Clark's relentless mauling style finally wore him down.
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Chaka Khan was born on 23 March 1953 in Great Lakes, Illinois, USA. She is a music artist and actress, known for The Blues Brothers (1980), Mission: Impossible III (2006) and Hollywood Homicide (2003). She has been married to Doug Rasheed since 2001. She was previously married to Richard Holland and Hassan Khan.- Actress
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Joan Crawford was born Lucille Fay LeSueur on March 23, 1906, in San Antonio, Texas, to Anna Belle (Johnson) and Thomas E. LeSueur, a laundry laborer. By the time she was born, her parents had separated, and by the time she was a teenager, she'd had three stepfathers. It wasn't an easy life; Crawford worked a variety of menial jobs. She was a good dancer, though, and -- perhaps seeing dance as her ticket to a career in show business -- she entered several contests, one of which landed her a spot in a chorus line. Before long, she was dancing in big Midwestern and East Coast cities. After almost two years, she packed her bags and moved to Hollywood. Crawford was determined to succeed, and shortly after arriving she got her first bit part, as a showgirl in Pretty Ladies (1925).
Three films quickly followed; although the roles weren't much to speak of, she continued toiling. Throughout 1927 and early 1928, she was cast in small parts, but that ended with the role of Diana Medford in Our Dancing Daughters (1928), which elevated her to star status. Crawford had cleared the first big hurdle; now came the second, in the form of talkies. Many stars of the silents saw their careers evaporate, either because their voices weren't particularly pleasant or because their voices, pleasing enough, didn't match the public's expectations (for example, some fans felt that John Gilbert's tenor didn't quite match his very masculine persona). But Crawford wasn't felled by sound. Her first talkie, Untamed (1929), was a success. As the 1930s progressed, Crawford became one of the biggest stars at MGM. She was in top form in films such as Grand Hotel (1932), Sadie McKee (1934), No More Ladies (1935), and Love on the Run (1936); movie patrons were enthralled, and studio executives were satisfied.
By the early 1940s, MGM was no longer giving her plum roles; newcomers had arrived in Hollywood, and the public wanted to see them. Crawford left MGM for rival Warner Bros., and in 1945 she landed the role of a lifetime. Mildred Pierce (1945) gave her an opportunity to show her range as an actress, and her performance as a woman driven to give her daughter everything garnered Crawford her first, and only, Oscar for Best Actress. The following year she appeared with John Garfield in the well-received Humoresque (1946). In 1947, she appeared as Louise Graham in Possessed (1947); again she was nominated for a Best Actress from the Academy, but she lost to Loretta Young in The Farmer's Daughter (1947). Crawford continued to choose her roles carefully, and in 1952 she was nominated for a third time, for her depiction of Myra Hudson in Sudden Fear (1952). This time the coveted Oscar went to Shirley Booth, for Come Back, Little Sheba (1952). Crawford's career slowed after that; she appeared in minor roles until 1962, when she and Bette Davis co-starred in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962). Their longstanding rivalry may have helped fuel their phenomenally vitriolic and well-received performances. (Earlier in their careers, Davis said of Crawford, "She's slept with every male star at MGM except Lassie", and Crawford said of Davis, "I don't hate [her] even though the press wants me to. I resent her. I don't see how she built a career out of a set of mannerisms instead of real acting ability. Take away the pop eyes, the cigarette, and those funny clipped words, and what have you got? She's phony, but I guess the public really likes that.")
Crawford's final appearance on the silver screen was in the flop Trog (1970). Turning to vodka more and more, she was hardly seen afterward. On May 10, 1977, Joan died of a heart attack in New York City. She was 71 years old. She had disinherited her adopted daughter Christina and son Christopher; the former wrote a tell-all book called "Mommie Dearest", The Sixth Sense published in 1978. The book cast Crawford in a negative light and was cause for much debate, particularly among her friends and acquaintances, including Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Crawford's first husband. (In 1981, Faye Dunaway starred in Mommie Dearest (1981) which did well at the box office.) Crawford is interred in the same mausoleum as fellow MGM star Judy Garland, in Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale, New York.- Actress
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The daughter of Canadian actor Christopher Plummer and American actress Tammy Grimes, Amanda Plummer was born in New York City on March 23, 1957. Her breakthrough role came when she starred opposite Robin Williams in The Fisher King (1991). However, Plummer may be best remembered for her work in the Quentin Tarantino classic Pulp Fiction (1994). Tarantino wrote the parts of two robbers who hold up a restaurant specifically for Plummer and her partner-in-screen-crime Tim Roth. Since that stand-out role, Plummer has continued to appear in a wide variety of films, including The Prophecy (1995), Freeway (1996), and My Life Without Me (2003). Plummer has also appeared in the films Butterfly Kiss (1995) as "Eunice" by Michael Winterbottom, My Life Without Me (2003) by Isabel Coixet, Pax (1994) by Eduardo Guedes, Daniel (1983) by Sidney Lumet, Ken Park (2002) by Larry Clark and, lately, The Making of Plus One (2010) and Inconceivable (2008), both by Mary McGuckian.
She has often performed on stage. Her highly acclaimed work on Broadway has garnered her a Tony award and two Tony Award nominations as well as the Outer Critics Circle Award and Drama Desk Award. She was honored with three Emmy awards, and one Emmy nomination, a Saturn Award, a DVDX nomination, a CableAce Award and a Golden Globe nomination. In 1988, she was honored with the Anti-Defamation League Award for Woman of Achievement.
On stage, Plummer appeared as Alma in Tennessee Williams's "Summer and Smoke" with Kevin Anderson, directed by Michael Wilson. At the Stratford Theater in Ontario, she was Joan of Arc in an original adaptation of "The Lark" by Jean Anouilh, directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg.
She appeared as Polly in "The Gnadiges Fraulein" with Elizabeth Ashley, and as Kyra in the world premiere of "One Exception", both by Tennessee Williams, at the Hartford Stage.
On Broadway, she appeared as Jo in "A Taste of Honey" (nominated for a Tony Award, and Drama Desk Award, and received the Outer Critics Circle, and Theatre World Awards); as Agnes in "Agnes of God" with Geraldine Page (Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle, and Boston Critics Awards); as Eliza in "Pygmalion" with Peter O'Toole and John Mills (Tony Award nomination); as Laura in "The Glass Menagerie" with Jessica Tandy; and as Dolly in "You Never Can Tell" by George Bernard Shaw.
Among her off-Broadway shows are "A Lie of the Mind" as Beth, directed and written by Sam Shepard with Harvey Keitel, Aidan Quinn and Geraldine Page, "Killer Joe" by Tracy Letts, "The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Any More" by Tennessee Williams, and "A Taste of Honey" with Valerie French. In England, at the Guilford Theatre, she appeared as Eliza Doolittle in "Pygmalion," and at the Royal Court Theatre performed in "This Is a Chair," directed by Stephen Daldry and written by Carol Churchill.
Her regional work includes Juliet in "Romeo & Juliet" (Hollywood Dramalogue Award) and Sonya in "Uncle Vanya," Frankie in "A Member of the Wedding," "Two Rooms," and "The Wake of Jamey Foster" by Beth Henley.
In television, she is the recipient of three Emmy Awards, one Emmy nomination, a Cable Ace Award, and a Golden Globe nomination. She appeared as Lucky in the filmed workshop, "Core Sample - Goli Otok" with Vanessa Redgrave and Lynn Redgrave, directed by Lenka Udovicki, the artistic director of The Ulysses Theater on Brijuni, Croatia, and also in Lucky McKee's film Red (2008).- Actor
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Richard Grieco was born to an Italian father (Richard Grieco) and an Irish mother (Carolyn O'Reilly). He is a musician and, in 1995, released a CD ('Waiting for the Sky to Fall') in Germany. In 2009, several years after being encouraged by Dennis Hopper, Grieco publicly revealed that he has been painting since 1991. He calls his work "Abstract Emotionalism".- Actor
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A Graduate of London's prestigious The Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Daniel was born and raised in London, England, then moved to Saskatchewan, Canada in his teens. He comes from a family completely immersed in show business. His mother Tessa Shaw was an actress, most notably of the 'Dr. Who' series fame and his father George Fathers, was one of the West End's most respected Scenic Designers.
Nominated in 2020 for 'Outstanding Performance, Film/TV ' at Canada's ACTRA Awards and invited to be a Juror for the 2021 ACTRA AWARDS, he is known as a solid Leading Character Actor playing powerful, dark and disturbed 'Machiavellian' roles.
In 2019, Daniel was cast by Showrunner, Glen Mazarra (The Walking Dead, The Shield) as Abel Vannay (Series Supporting Lead) in Stephen King's 'The Dark Tower' for Amazon Studios.
In 2018, Daniel joined the cast of 'Snatch' - The TV Series for Sony Picture Television. Producers were said to be looking for a slightly younger version of Jeff Bridges.
He is a former professional athlete (Rugby and Bull Riding). Daniel easily interchanges between American and UK accents. A former soldier Daniel still gives back as a part-time Instructor in the MOD (Rank of Capt.), which lends himself to playing his fare share of military and ex-military roles.
Daniel is an accomplished horseman and as a result spent 2 seasons on CBC's 'Heartland'. He's also an expert swordsman, having trained at the British Action Academy, which he demonstrated in CW's 'Reign'. However, before he fully committed to a career in Acting, he trained dancer (Ballet Rambert, Central School of Dance), which helped in being cast on stage in the Tony Award Winning 'Mamma Mia!' by Phyllida Llyod, playing two of the Leads, Bill Austin and Harry Bright in the Toronto Company.
Daniel is known the world over by teens having starred in Disney's 'Camp Rock' movies opposite teen sensations, the Jonas Brothers and Demi Lovato, playing the affable Brown Cessario, an old time rock 'n' roller and Uncle of the Jonas Brothers. 'Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam' won the Peoples Choice Award (2011).
On the screen, Daniel has starred opposite such stars as Oscar® nominee, Elliot Page ('Juno'), Rupert Grint (Harry Potter), Paul Rudd (Antman), Sir Derek Jacobi ('Gladiator') & Ken Welsh ('The Void'). On television he played opposite Golden Globe nominated Tatiana Maslany in 'Orphan Black' for BBC America, Rob Lowe in Lifetime's 'Beach Girls'. For David Levien and Brian Koppleman of 'Billions' fame, Daniel reprized his role as gangster poker player 'Muff Lannigan' opposite Michael Madsen in 'Tilt'
As a Presenter/Host he was privileged to present at the inaugural Canadian Screen Awards in 2013, of which the show he hosted, 'Canada's Greatest Know It All' for Discovery, was a nominated for numerous CSA's in 2013 and 2014.- Art Director
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After graduating from New York's Art Students League he worked for his architect father, then started film work at Edison Studios in 1915 assisting Hugo Ballin. In 1918 he moved to Goldwyn as art director and, in 1924, began his 32 year stint as supervising art director for some 1500 MGM films, with direct responsibility in well over 150 of those. He designed the Oscar itself, winning it 11 of the 37 times he was nominated for it. Some of his designs influenced American interiors, and it has been argued that he was the most important art director in the history of American cinema.- Corinne Cléry was born on 23 March 1950 in Paris, France. She is an actress, known for Moonraker (1979), The Story of O (1975) and Yor: The Hunter from the Future (1983).
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Anastasia trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art having already completed a degree in History of Art at Bristol University. Born to her Northern Irish mother (once an actress herself) and American father, she was brought up along with her six elder brothers in West London where she still remains today. To date, Anastasia has enjoyed a varied and entertaining career jumping between the US and the UK, both of which she considers to be home. She goes where the winds, and the work, takes her!- Actor
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Ho-Kwan Tse is known for Father of the Bride (2022), FBI: Most Wanted (2020) and Grey's Anatomy (2005).- The talented, unpredictable, opinionated, and uniquely beautiful Jenny Wright was born March 23, 1962 in New York City. Her father was an artist and her mother was a teacher. They instilled a love of the arts and a strong devotion to self education in Jenny at an early age. Her parents later separated, and Jenny moved to Cambridge, New York to live with her mother and two sisters. After her sisters left for college, Jenny and her mother moved back to New York City. Once back home, Jenny decided to pursue acting, and enrolled herself in the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute. There, she immediately captured the attention of modeling and casting agents. At the age of 16, Jenny modeled for artists Antonio Lopez and Salvador Dalí. She then went on to act on stage, in an off Broadway play, "Album", with Kevin Bacon. In 1980, Jenny made a brief appearance in the TV film Rape and Marriage: The Rideout Case (1980) with Mickey Rourke. She continued to act on stage, even garnering rave reviews for her portrayal of Dorcus Fray in Joseph Papp's Broadway production of "Plenty". In 1982, Jenny was cast in The World According to Garp (1982), after impressing director George Roy Hill with her blend of sensuality and innocence. Jenny then arrived in London for "Pink Floyd: The Wall", where she played an abused groupie. She then quickly followed up with four months in Utah for the TV documentary/drama, "The Executioner's Song," which proved to be a more substantial role. Jenny returned to New York afterwards, and back to the stage and took a break from films. She went back to films in 1984, for "The Wild Life" with Eric Stoltz and Chris Penn. Jenny also made appearances in films such as "St. Elmo's Fire" (1984) and "Out of Bounds" (1986). By appearing in films with actors such as Rob Loew and Anthony Michael Hall, Jenny was put in the 'Brat Pack' category. It was something she found to be uncomfortable, and wanted to shake off. Thus, Jenny's film choices became edgier, starting with Near Dark in 1987. With her girl next door look, large soulful eyes, and sensuality, Jenny made the role of sweet yet dangerous Mae her most memorable part of her career. She credits director Kathryn Bigelow with creating the film's mood and atmosphere, which makes "Near Dark" a stand-out film in the vampire genre. While "Near Dark" didn't fare too well at the box office, it did receive cult status, bringing Jenny independent,'left of center' film roles. Finally, Jenny successfully rid herself of the 'Brat Pack' label. She went on to teen roles in the critically acclaimed film The Chocolate War (1988) and in the off-beat "Twister" (1988). Those roles then gave way to conventional parts in the mainstream films "Young Guns II" (1990) and "The Lawnmower Man" (1992). After that, Jenny quit the film business.
- Born in Oakland, California, Kenneth Tobey was headed for a law career when he first dabbled in acting at the University of California Little Theater. That experience led to a year and a half of study at New York's Neighborhood Playhouse, where his classmates included Gregory Peck, Eli Wallach and Tony Randall. Throughout the 1940s Tobey acted on Broadway and in stock; he made his film debut in a 1943 short, "The Man on the Ferry." He made his Hollywood film bow in a Hopalong Cassidy Western, and has since appeared in scores of features and on numerous TV series. He even had his own series, Whirlybirds (1957), in which he played an adventurous helicopter pilot.
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A true master of his craft, Michael Haneke is one of the greatest film artists working today and one who challenges his viewers each year and work goes by, with films that reflect real portions of life in realistic, disturbing and unforgettable ways. One of the most genuine filmmakers of the world cinema, Haneke wrote and directed films in several languages: French, German and English, working with a great variety of actors, such as Juliette Binoche, Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Toby Jones, Ülrich Muhe, Arno Frisch and the list goes on.
This grand figure from Austrian cinema was born in Germany on 23 March 1942, from a German father and an Austrian mother, with both parents being from the artistic world working as actors, a career that Michael also tried but without much success. At the University of Vienna he studied drama, philosophy and psychology, and after graduation he went on to become a film critic and TV editor. His career behind camera started with After Liverpool (1974), which he wrote and directed. He went on to direct five more TV films and two episodes from the miniseries "Lemminge" (1979)_.
The years spent on television works prompted him to finally direct his first cinema feature, during his early 40's, which is somewhat unusual for film directors. But it was worth waiting. In The Seventh Continent (1989), Haneke establishes the foundation of what his future cinema would be about: a cinema that doesn't provides answers but one that dares to throw more and more questions, a cinema that reflects and analyses the human condition in its darkest and unexpected ways outside of any Hollywood formula. Films that exist to confront audiences and not comfort them. In it, Haneke deals with the duality of social values vs. internal values while exposing an apparent perfect family that runs into physical and material disintegration for reasons unknown. It was the first time a film of his was sent to the Cannes Film Festival (out of competition lineup) but he managed to cause some commotion in the audience with polemic scenes that were meant to extract all possible reactions from the crowd.
His next ventures at the decade's turn was in dealing with disturbed youth and the alienation they have in separating reality from fiction, trying to intersect both to drastic results. In Benny's Video (1992), it's the disturbing story of a teen boy who experiences killing for the first time capturing the murder on tape, impressed by the power of detachment that films and videos can cause to people; and later on the highly controversial Funny Games (1997), where two teens hold a family hostage to play sadistic games just for their own sick amusement. The film cemented Haneke's name as one of the greatest authors of his generation but sparkled a great debate with its themes of violence, sadism and the influence those things have in audiences. At the 1997's Cannes Film Festival, it was the film that had the most walk-out's by the audience. In between both films, he released 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (1994) and Kafka's The Castle (1997), the latter being one of the rare times when Haneke developed an adapted work.
In the 2000's, he strongly continued in producing more outstanding works prone to debate and reflection in what would become his most prolific decade with the following films: Code Unknown (2000), The Piano Teacher (2001), Time of the Wolf (2003), Caché (2005), an American remake shot-by shot of Funny Games (2007) and The White Ribbon (2009). His study about romance versus masochism in The Piano Teacher (2001) was an intense work, with powerful performances by Isabelle Huppert and Benoit Magimel, that the Cannes jury in the year were so impressed that Haneke managed to actually reverse their award rules where it was decided that film entries at the festival couldn't win more than one main award (the two lead actors won awards and Haneke got the Grand Prize of the Jury, just lost the Palme d'Or). With The White Ribbon (2009), an enigmatic black-and-white masterpiece following the inception of Nazism in this pre WWI and WWII story focusing on repressed children living in this small village where strange events happen all the time and without any possible reasoning, Haneke conquered the world and audiences with an artistic and daring work that won his first Palme d'Or a Golden Globe as Best Foreign Language Film and received an Oscar nomination for the same category plus the cinematography work of Christian Berger.
2012 was the year that marked his supremacy in the film world with the release of the bold and beautiful Amour (2012), a love story with powerful real drama and one where Haneke removed most of his usual dark characteristics to present more quiet and calm elements without losing input in creating controversy. The touching story of George and Anne provided one the greatest moments of that year and earned Haneke his second and consecutive Palme d'Or at Cannes and his first Oscar nominations for Best Direction and Best Original Screenplay - and it was one of the several nominees for Best Picture Oscar, winning as Best Foreign Language Film.
After abandoning a flash-mob film project, he returned to the screen with Happy End (2017), a film dealing with the refugee crisis in Europe and again he debuted his film at Cannes, receiving mildly positive reviews.
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Randall Park is an American actor, comedian, writer, and director. He was born in Los Angeles, California, to Korean parents, and graduated from the Humanities Magnet Program at Hamilton High School. Park went on to receive a Bachelor's degree in English and Creative Writing and a Master's degree in Asian American Studies from UCLA. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and daughter- Producer
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Jenn Brown is a two-time Emmy Award-winning sports broadcaster and TV personality. A former Division I Collegiate Athlete for the University of Florida, you've seen her on the sidelines of the biggest college football and baseball games for ESPN. Jenn was the first female correspondent for Inside the NFL (1977), she spent eight years as a reporter and host for ESPN and sidelined the smash-hit show American Ninja Warrior (2009). Currently, you can see her on Spike TV hosting and reporting on Bellator MMA.
Before Bellator, Jenn spent the past 3 years working a studio host for the UFC hosting a weekly show called UFC Now. Before the UFC Jenn, well as a studio host and reporter for the NFL Network. She hosted A Football Life (2011): Backstory as well as anchored NFL Total Access. Prior to working with NFL Network, Brown spent 8 years as a reporter and host for ESPN. She spent 3 years reporting from the college football sidelines on ESPN's Thursday Night Primetime Game along with ABC and ESPN's Saturday Noon Package. She also served as a reporter for the College World Series, Little League World Series, Summer and Winter X Games, the NFL Draft, National Signing Day and the ESPYS. Jenn was also a Los Angeles-based Bureau reporter for ESPN contributing interviews and reports for ESPN's news-gathering operation for SportsCenter, College GameDay and College Football Live. She also co-hosted ESPNU's popular college football show RoadTrip which covered the biggest college football and basketball rivalry games throughout the year.
Jenn attended the University of Florida on a full academic scholarship and played four years on the Florida Gator softball team. Making the team as a freshman walk-on and winding up its senior captain, she finished 3rd all-time in career stolen bases.
Jenn received several academic honors while at the University of Florida. She graduated Summa Cum Laude (with highest honors), was an active member of the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee, as well as a member of the Florida Blue Key. She was named to the National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) Academic All-American team, CoSIDA Academic All-District team, was a four- time SEC Academic Honor Roll, a member of the National Society of Collegiate Honors, was a two-time academic President's List, as well as a two-time academic Dean's List. Jenn also started a mentoring program to help teenage girls in foster care.
Jenn applied to 17 law schools with the intention of becoming a Sports Agent, but was offered a job to host a travel show and moved to Los Angeles. To this day, Jenn has not opened any of the potential acceptance letters from law schools, they sit in a box in a closet in her Mother's house in Orlando, Florida.
On October 14th, 2010 Jenn was inducted into Bishop Moore High School's Athletic Hall of Fame, being recognized as an All-Around Athlete. She broke her high school's record by earning the most varsity letters (14), by a male or female athlete.- Actress
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Lídia Franco was born on 23 March 1944 in Lisbon, Portugal. She is an actress, known for 6 Underground (2019), Nunca Digas Adeus (2001) and Espelho d'Água (2017).- Actress
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Melissa Errico is an actress and vocalist who has appeared in television, film, and stage, will join the cast of Billions, an upcoming Wall Street drama written and produced by Brian Koppelman and David Levien (Ocean's Thirteen, Runaway Jury, Runner Runner) and writer Andrew Ross Sorkin (Too Big to Fail).
Melissa Errico has starred on Broadway, on network television and film and is an accomplished recording artist and musical concert performer. While she is best known for her highly-acclaimed work on Broadway, she is unique in that she has throughout her career played many non-musical roles in plays by Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, Wally Shawn, to name a few.
She is a graduate of Yale University where she performed in Chekhov's Three Sisters with Ed Norton and Alessandro Nivola. In recent years she has increasingly been cast in strong dramatic roles on television and film. This year, she played the recurring role of Catherine on Stephen Soderbergh's Cinemax show The Knick, and has appeared in guest arcs on Blue Bloods and the Good Wife. Her Broadway credits include starring roles in My Fair Lady, Dracula, White Christmas, High Society, Les Miserables, Anna Karenina and Amour for which she was nominated for a Best Actress Tony Award. She starred in Stephen Sondheim's Passion and His Sunday in the Park With George. She has released three studio albums: Blue Like That (EMI Records) produced by Arif Mardin, Legrand Affair (Ghostlight) produced by Phil Ramone, and Lullabies and Wildflowers (VMG/Universal Records) produced by Rob Mathes. She tours with symphonies around the world.
Melissa Errico was a 2003 Tony nominee for Best Leading Actress in a musical for Michel Legrand's wistful and wittily romantic Broadway debut, "Amour". In 2005, she recorded an album, with Michel Legrand at the piano and arranging, produced by Phil Ramone. This will be Melissa's second solo studio album, her first being "Blue Like That", which was produced by Arif Mardin for Capitol Records EMI. In 2005, she can be seen in the film, Loverboy (2005) (Sundance/ Cannes), directed by Kevin Bacon, with Kyra Sedgwick, Sandra Bullock and Campbell Scott. During the 2004-2005 Broadway season, Melissa starred on Broadway in "Dracula", after appearing in two off-Broadway hit revivals non-musical and musical: Wallace Shawn's "Aunt Dan and Lemon" with Lili Taylor and "Finian's Rainbow" with Malcolm Gets (recorded on Ghostlight Records) in 2004.
Melissa is a graduate of Yale University, with a BA in Art History and Philosophy. She made her critically-acclaimed Broadway debut at Circle in the Square in "Anna Karenina", for which she withdrew from the Yale Graduate School of Acting, Her professional career began during her freshman year at Yale University, when, at 18, she landed the lead in the Premier National Touring Company of "Les Miserables". Her theater credits grew rapidly after graduation with "Anna Karenina", followed that same year by an acclaimed performance as "Eliza Doolittle" in the Broadway revival of "My Fair Lady" (opposite Richard Chamberlain), a role she reprised, triumphantly, in 2003 at The Hollywood Bowl with John Lithgow and Roger Daltrey and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Other Broadway credits: Cole Porter's "High Society", Michel Legrand's 2002 "Amour, Dracula". After a season as "Alex Bartoli" in the CBS television series, C.P.W. (1995), Melissa made an enormous splash with New York audiences and critics, winning raves for her silly and sexy turn as the goddess "Venus" in Kurt Weill's "One Touch of Venus" at City Center, a performance she has reprised at Avery Fisher Music Hall, Lincoln Center. Melissa is a member of the Irish Repertory Theater, where she has had great success in plays such as "Major Barbara" (with Boyd Gaines) as "Barbara", and opposite Eric Stoltz and Nancy Marchand in "The Importance of Being Earnest".
Melissa's other recent television credits include: "Laurel" on Miss Match (2003), Law & Order (1990), Norm (1999) and as "Ed's ex-wife" on Ed (2000). On film, she costars with Angelina Jolie in Twentieth Century Fox's film, Life or Something Like It (2002) and Jim Caviezel in the New Line Cinema film, Frequency (2000); and appeared in many independent films, including Bury the Evidence (1998), with Karen Black, and starred in the harrowing docu-drama, Mockingbird Don't Sing (2001) with Sean Young.
For The Kennedy Center Sondheim Celebration (2002), Melissa was chosen by Stephen Sondheim to star in "Sunday in the Park with George", opposite Raúl Esparza, which followed with a sold-out concert at Avery Fisher Music Hall and a 2003 Helen Hayes Nomination for "Best Leading Actress". For her theater work, Melissa has been honored with four Drama Desk nominations, four Outer Critics Circle Awards and five Drama League Honors, and won the Lucille Lortel Award for "Best Actress" in "One Touch of Venus".
Melissa has appeared for solo engagements in the prestigious cabaret rooms of Manhattan and Los Angeles, such as "The Cafe Carlyle", "The Oak Room" and "Feinsteins". She regularly appears with her band at Joe's Pub, The Cutting Room, Symphony Space, Wolf Trap in Washington DC. She began concert work with her month-long run in May 2000 at Joe's Pub in New York in "Real Emotional Girl: Melissa Errico Sings the Music of Randy Newman", in tribute to her collaboration with Randy Newman on his developing the musical, "Faust". In March 2002, she opened in a show with pianist Lee Musiker, titled "New Standards", which ran for three weeks at the Café Carlyle, featuring jazz standards and modern-day standards of Michel Legrand, Joni Mitchell and Oleta Adams. And in 2004, she had a successful month at The Oak Room at The Algonquin with her Spring Fever, working for the first time with James Taylor pianist Clifford Carter in a programme of original music by her brother and reworkings of classics by Van Morrison, Billy Joel, Eddi Reader and James Taylor with a five-piece band.
On February 25, 2003, Melissa released her debut album, "Blue Like That", on Capitol/ EMI with twelve tracks produced and arranged by industry legend Arif Mardin. Accompanying Melissa is jazz pianist Alan Pasqua, and her own brother, Mike Errico, on guitar and vocals, who also wrote two original songs. Her next album is with Michel Legrand and Phil Ramone.- Actor
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Louis Quinn was born on 23 March 1915 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for All the President's Men (1976), 77 Sunset Strip (1958) and The Crowded Sky (1960). He was married to Christine Nelson and Joanne Elizabeth (Jody) Ward. He died on 14 September 1988 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Actress
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She had boarding school education and always wanted to act but her parents were against it.. She did a grooming course in modeling during school holidays and was subsequently offered a modeling course. Her parents refused to let her attend a drama school in London so she accepted the modeling course in Manchester and established herself as a successful model. Her first television appearance was when she was at school and was voted 'Britains Most Glamorous Schoolgirl'.Her first real break came when she was contracted as the resident hostess on 'Sale of the Century' , a popular television show. She later extended her talents to acting appearing in such as 'Gems' and 'Allo, Allo'- Writer
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Marc Cherry was born on 23 March 1962 in Los Angeles County, California, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Desperate Housewives (2004), Devious Maids (2013) and The Golden Girls (1985).- Luciana Carro is a Toronto-born actress known for her dramatic and comedic roles on American television and feature films.
Carro began studying acting as a child and showcased her talent in a number of local productions. Her high school drama teacher Gerry Campbell, father of actress Neve Campbell, was impressed by the young woman's talent and convinced her to pursue classical training at Theatre Humber in Toronto. Carro's career began soon after she graduated from theater school.
Before landing her first major role on Ronald D. Moore's critically acclaimed, Emmy award-winning TV series, Battlestar Galactica (2004), Carro booked recurring roles on award-winning shows, such as The Chris Isaak Show (2001) and The L Word (2004). As "Louanne 'Kat' Katraine" on Battlestar Galactica, Carro worked with Academy Award nominees Edward James Olmos and Mary McDonnell. Carro's international following has grown as a result of her work on Battlestar Galactica and her subsequent roles in major feature films and TV shows.
Carro's film roles include work with Will Ferrell in Blades of Glory (2007), Christina Milian and Lorainne Bracco in Snowglobe (2007), Al Pacino and Rene Russo in Two for the Money (2005), and with director Keenan Ivory Wayans in White Chicks (2004). Carro's prowess as a screen actress has landed her recurring roles on TV shows, including, "Stephanie Meyer" in Greg Berlanti's Everwood (2006), "Priya Magnus" in Ronald D. Moore's Caprica (2010), "Crazy Lee" in Steven Spielberg's Falling Skies (2012-2013), and "Anana" in Ronald D. Moore's Helix (2014). Executive producer Charlize Theron cast Carro to play "Trina McCoy" in the ABC pilot, Hatfields & Mccoys (2013).
Beyond her film and television success, Carro has continued pursuing her passion for the theater as a student of renowned director and coach, Larry Moss. Some of her major roles in theater productions include: 'Anne Frank' in a Goodrich & Hackett's "The Diary of Anne Frank," 'Puck' in Shakespeare's "Midsummer Nights Dream," 'Alice' in James Reaney's "Alice Through the Looking Glass," and 'Nora' in Sean O'Casey's "The Plough and the Stars." In 2014 Carro began workshopping the role of 'Veronica' in Stephen Adly Guirgis' contemporary Nuyorican comedy, "The Motherf**cker with the Hat". - Director
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Jorge Daniel Espinosa is a Swedish-Chilean film director, screenwriter and film producer from Trångsund, Stockholm. He graduated from the National Film School of Denmark in 2001. He notably directed the Sony's Marvel Universe film Morbius starring Jared Leto and other films including Life, Easy Money, The Boxer, Babylon Disease, Outside Love and Child 44.- Actor
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Born Luis Vitalino Grandón Toledo in Concepción, Chile. In 1984, he moved to Stockholm, Sweden and studied Video Production in the ABF Institute in Stockholm, then he established Toledo Productions, making family documentaries to the Chilean colony and working as cameraman in MariaNorr Clinic south of Stockholm. Luis is not a professional actor, has started at 50 worked in some Chilean and international productions. "For me two minutes on the screen, make me feel like Al Pacino, I love movies".
As a teen, parents Margarita and Luis take him to the movies to see the classics. He has a younger brother Ricardo and sisters Alejandra and Elizabeth. Married with journalist Alejandra Gutierrez, have a daughter Catalina Grandón Gutierrez. Luis is known for being a truly fan of British author Ian Fleming and his character James Bond and his love for the Chilean cinematography.- Alejandro Casona was born on 23 March 1903 in Besulio, Asturias, Spain. He was a writer, known for La tercera palabra (1956), Las tres perfectas casadas (1953) and If I Should Die Before I Wake (1952). He was married to Rosalia Martin Bravo. He died on 17 September 1965 in Madrid, Spain.
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Bernardo De Paula was born on 23 March 1976 in New York City, New York, USA. He is an actor, known for Jellystone (2021), Carmen Sandiego (2019) and Shameless (2011).- Actress
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Madelyn Deutch is a writer, actor, director, and musician from Los Angeles, California.
Beginning as a singer, she spent a large part of her childhood performing on stage in charity events. This prompted her admission into the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts where she began writing her own music and participating in institutions like the Grammy Ensemble, the Monterey Jazz Festival, and winning the esteemed Silver Award from the National Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts.
Upon graduation she was offered a scholarship to attend The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music, with a concentration in voice. However, once in university, she immediately turned her attention to filmmaking and composing. She graduated with honors and went on to act in independent films such as "50-1" and "Windsor", and television like History mini series "Texas Rising" and Cinemax's "Outcast."
Throughout this time she raised funds for her first feature as a screenwriter "The Year of Spectacular Men." The film was shot in late 2015, with Madelyn playing the lead role and also composing the musical score. She is currently directing an original short, a handful of music videos, selling multiple projects for television, and setting up her next feature which she wrote - and will direct and score as well.- Taku Kawai was born on 23 March 1979 in Japan. He is an actor, known for Elektra (2005), Space Buddies (2009) and Snow Buddies (2008).
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Michael Nyman studied piano, harpsichord and music history with Alan Bush at the Royal Academy of Music, and musicology with Thurston Dart at King's College, London. Between 1968 and 1978 he worked as a music critic and in 1977 he founded the Campiello Band, later renamed the Michael Nyman Band. Many of his filmscores were composed for the films of Peter Greenaway. He has also written several operas, ballet music and a large number of chamber and concert pieces.- Director
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Mark Rydell was born on 23 March 1929 in New York City, New York, USA. He is a director and actor, known for The Long Goodbye (1973), On Golden Pond (1981) and Hollywood Ending (2002). He was previously married to Esther Jacobs and Joanne Linville.- Producer
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Jaume Collet-Serra was born on March 23, 1974 in Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. At the age of 18, he moved to Los Angeles and attended Columbia College Hollywood, working as an editor on the side. Upon graduation, he began shooting music videos and caught the eye of several production companies. From there he began directed various commercials for companies such as Playstation, Budweiser, Mastercard and Verizon. Since then, he has directed and produced movies such as The Shallows (2016), Orphan (2009) and Unknown (2011).- Marin's parents met while serving in the Peace Corps. She was born in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, but her family moved to Boston, Massachusetts, when she was four months old. Two years later, her brother Mark was born. Her father, Rodney, is a retired school teacher. Her mother, Margaret, is a judge of the Massachusetts Superior Court.
Marin wanted to be a ballerina and studied dance until age 16, when an ankle injury ended her dancing aspirations. While concerned about her decision to pursue acting, her parents nonetheless urged her to follow her dreams, but they encouraged her to get a Master's degree so she could at least fall back on a teaching career in case things did not work out. She graduated from Brown University and then enrolled at New York University, where she says she was pretty terrible in her acting classes. In 1992, she met her husband Randall, a New York theater director. After her success, they both moved to a Hollywood home that they leased after a a 9-month separation.
Marin had her first successes performing in New York theater ("Electra" & "The Tempest"), then got some minor movie roles and then guest roles on several television shows before her co-starring role on Once and Again (1999). She then got a role as Judith Harper on the popular sitcom Two and a Half Men (2003) and did several guest appearances on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999). - Actress
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Michelle Lynn Monaghan was born on March 23, 1976, in Winthrop, Iowa. She is the youngest of three children and the only daughter of Sharon (Hamel), who ran a day care center, and Robert L. Monaghan, a factory worker and farmer. She is of mostly Irish and German descent. After graduating from high school in Iowa, she studied journalism for three years at Chicago's Columbia College. In order to pay for college, she took a job as a model. In 1999, she quit college and moved to New York to work full-time as a fashion model. She traveled the world doing stints on the runways in Milan, Singapore, Tokyo, and Hong Kong, and also appeared in a number of magazines and catalogs.
In 2000, she made her TV debut in two episodes of Young Americans (2000), then appeared in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999). She made her big screen debut with a small role of Henrietta in Perfume (2001). Monaghan shot to fame in 2002 when she co-starred as Kimberly Woods for one season on the TV series Boston Public (2000). After appearances in several supporting roles, she starred opposite Robert Downey Jr. and Val Kilmer in the black comedy Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005). Later in 2005, Monaghan was filming in China, Italy, and the United States on Mission: Impossible III (2006), as the female lead opposite Tom Cruise.
In August of 2005, in Sydney, Australia, she married her long-time sweetheart, Peter White, a New York based graphic designer, whom she met at a Manhattan party five years earlier.- Actress
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- Olivia Stuck was born on 23 March 1999 in Toledo, Ohio, USA. She is an actress, known for Kirby Buckets (2014).
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Jessica Marie Garcia is an American actress hailing from Florida. Jessica is currently appearing in the Netflix hit On My Block as the role of Jasmine. She has acted in all four seasons of the hit Disney Channel Original series "Liv and Maddie". Her feature film "Avenge The Crows" was released on iTunes, where she plays Peaches starring alongside Danny Trejo and Lou Diamond Phillips. Jessica is also a member of the all-female ensemble cast of "BETCH: A Sketch Show" streaming now on the Go90 app and Hulu. You can see her earlier work on shows like "The Middle" as the tough wrestlerette, Becky for four seasons. Jessica's first break was on "Huge" playing Sierra Cruz on ABC Family.- Actor
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Steven Strait was born on March 23, 1986 in New York City, New York, the son of Jean (Viscione) and Richard Dyer Strait. He is of half English and half Italian descent. As a child, Steven grew up in Greenwich Village with his family. He attended Xavier High School and enrolled himself at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting to pursue his dream as an actor.
But before he was recognized as an actor, Steven got early recognition as a model while he was a teenager. Steven modeled for Details, Pop, Spoon, Surface and even Vogue as a teen model. He's also worked with famous photographers such as Bruce Weber, Ellen Von Unwerth and also Herb Ritts. Working with Weber got Steven featured in his 2001 book, "All-American: Short Stories".
Acting didn't come naturally for Steven. Even though most actors out there knew that they wanted to act as a kid, Steven actually didn't enjoy acting. He first learned about acting when he was with a family member at the age of eleven. Steven's parents thought acting could very well be Steven's career and they decided to enroll him in classes at the Village Community School.
Not too long later, Steven caught the acting bug. He eventually got the chance to perform live and that was when Steven thought he could actually make something he enjoyed a lifetime career. This passion eventually brought him to work at the Stella Adler Acting Studio and the Black Nexus Acting Studio, which are both situated in New York City.
When he turned 18, Steven graduated from Xavier High School and he moved to California with hopes of pursuing a real career in acting. It was only a matter of time. When Steven went to his first audition, he received an acting job which was a role in the movie, Sky High (2005). "Sky High" marked Steven's acting debut in the movie industry.
Steven then signed on to do the movie, Undiscovered (2005), about a group of teenagers who aspire to be famous. "Undiscovered" wasn't a big hit at the box-office but critics enjoyed watching Steven playing the role of "Luke Falcon". The movie also starred another movie newcomer, songstress Ashlee Simpson.
The time finally came when Steven was asked to star in the horror movie, The Covenant (2006), playing the role of "Caleb Danvers", a prep school student who comes from a wealthy family. In the cast, Steven worked with actors Taylor Kitsch, Toby Hemingway, Sebastian Stan, and Chace Crawford. The Covenant (2006) was a big hit in certain parts of the globe and fans got to learn more about Steven's acting talent. The critics were also impressed with Steven.
The year 2008 is probably Steven's busiest year since he started acting. Steven signed on to do a couple of movies in 2007 and promotion work for his movies will start from March 2008 onwards. Critics are also already excited to see Steven's work in the movie, 10,000 BC (2008), also starring Camilla Belle. He appeared in the MTV Production movie, Stop-Loss (2008), as "Michael Colson". Steven recently completed working on a movie named City Island (2009) in New York.
Aside from participating in fashion and acting, Steven is also known to most people as a singer. Steven has performed a few songs in the soundtrack album of Sky High (2005) and Undiscovered (2005).
Steven, so far, has proved that he is a multi-tasking star in the business. Even though he may seem to be famous, Steven claims that he tries to keep himself grounded from all the fame. At 22, this star has already impressed most entertainment critics, whether in modeling, acting or singing.- Actress
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Nicholle is probably best known for her role as Maggie Sheffield on hit CBS series "The Nanny" or Ryce Newton in Universal's "Beethoven" and "Beethoven's 2nd" feature films.
Most recently Nicholle portrayed Vicky White in the dramatic true story of her jailbreak in TUBI's "Prisoner of Love".
Nicholle portrayed Peter Scolari's daughter, Miriam Loeb, on Fox's "Gotham" and Reoccurred as Brassy Blonde, Maureen, on SHOWTIME's "Masters of Sex". She played the sexually frustrated mother of two, Debby, on the NBC comedy "About a Boy" (TV Series) And a struggling plantation actress, Hazel-Fay on STARZ's "Survivor's Remorse" (TV Series).
She starred alongside Emmy-winner Christine Lahti, in the title role of the CBS movie, "The Book of Ruth", in which she portrays an emotionally abused young woman desperately seeking independence from her over-bearing mother.
Nicholle was cast in the very first comedy series made for the Independent Film Channel's (IFC) "The Minor Accomplishments of Jackie Woodman". Starring Laura Kightlinger (The Black Dahlia, Will & Grace), Nicholle plays her very ambitious best friend and partner in crime, Tara Winsel, who will sell her soul to make it in Hollywood.
Other credits include: "Criminal Minds", "Beverly Hills 90210" and "For My Daughter's Honor", "Panic" "The Princess Diaries".
Nicholle was the first actress to ever voice Kara/Supergirl in the animated series "Justice League", "The New Batman Adventures" and "Superman: The Animated Series".
Nicholle was born in Hinsdale, Illinois and currently resides in Los Angeles, CA.- Actor
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John William Young is a gifted character actor, acting teacher and director. His many roles include doctors, bikers, red necks, dads, lawyers, neo nazis, surfer dudes, businessmen, best friends and the boy next door. He has worked with many major stars. He currently writes screenplays and coaches his sons' basketball teams.- Actress
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Bensu Soral is a Turkish actress. She studied at Inegöl Anatolian High School in Bursa. She is still studying graphic at Marmara University Faculty of Fine Arts. She started acting career by the support of her sister Hande Soral who is an actress. For the first time she appeared on television screen with Yol Ayrimi TV series. She played the character of Melek on Içerde TV series.
Awards; 2015 - 42. Pantene Golden Butterfly Awards (Pantene Star Shines)- Actress
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In Medium, with Patricia Arquette Season 4 Episode 1- Zoe played Brooke an older classmate of Ariel's, who was competing with Ariel for the part of Maria in The Sound of Music. Zoe sings the whole of "My Favorite Things" a cappella and not only impresses the school drama teacher who had previously picked Ariel for the part, but also underscores the dramatic police killing of the psychotic culprit.- Actor
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Paul Carafotes was born on 23 March 1959 in Somerville, Massachusetts, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Mindhunter (2017), Damages (2007) and Fight Club (1999).- Liu Ye's acting talents were apparent right from his first movie, Postman in the Mountains, for which he was nominated for Best Supporting Actor at China's 1999 Golden Rooster Awards. Shortly after his graduation from Central Academy of Drama, Liu Ye won Best Actor at Taiwan's 38th Golden Horse Awards for his bold and splendid performance as a gentle, sensitive homosexual in the movie Lan Yu in 2001. Three years later, he clinched Best Actor with his role in the movie Foliage at the 24th Golden Rooster Awards. His first U.S. movie Dark Matter, co-starring Meryl Streep and Aiden Quinn, won the Alfred Sloan Award at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. His performance as a resistance fighter in his latest epic film City of Life and Death received unanimous critical acclaim. The film won the 2009 Golden Seashell Award.
Instead of making use of his good physical appearance to become a teeny idol, Liu Ye has chosen the tough path of continuously challenging himself by taking on difficult roles. From simple, honest, and down-to-earth "peasant-like" roles, introvert and melancholic persona, to manly and Casanova roles, Liu Ye has convinced not only the audience, but also well-established international directors, of his remarkable acting skills. - Actress
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Charlene was born in 1960 on a large farm in the center of Saskatchewan, Canada, and studied Journalism at the British Columbia Institute of Technology; but in 1990 it was while doing regional theater in Portland, Oregon, that she caught the eye of a Manager from Los Angeles, and within months she was a guest on the Showtime series, "Kurt Vonnegut's Monkey House," which took a Cable Ace Award. Shortly thereafter, she became a series regular on "Street Justice," shot in Vancouver, Canada, and continued with another series in Toronto, "The Mighty Jungle."
Charlene was nominated for a Genie Award for Best Actress for the 1994 film, "Harmony Cats," the Canadian equivalent of the Oscar. And soon after, she took home a Canadian Film Award, The Blizzard, for Best Supporting Actress for the film, "Paris or Somewhere," in 1995. She played the 800-year-old, zany Aunt Zelda on the 1996 Disney movie, "Sabrina the Teenage Witch," then took a hiatus to focus on family and other personal and charity endeavors. In 2004, she returned to film in "Murder on the Yellow Brick Road" and "Seeking Fear," for which she won Best Actress at the NY Independent Film and Video Festival.
Most recently she directed and co-produced 13 episodes of the children's safety show "Keyeye." Still in editing, the show has already received notice from UNICEF for making an outstanding contribution to the cause of protecting children.- Actress
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Jitka Cvancarová was born on 23 March 1978 in Melník, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]. She is an actress and writer, known for The Painted Bird (2019), Men in Hope (2011) and I Wake Up Yesterday (2012). She has been married to Petr Cadek since 24 September 2011. They have one child.- Actor
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Ross Benjamin was born on 23 March 1974 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is an actor and assistant director, known for Heels (2021), Harry's Law (2011) and Tracey Takes On... (1996). He has been married to Dr. Elizabeth Robinson since 21 October 2006.- Costume and Wardrobe Department
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Kenneth Cole was born on 23 March 1954 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He is a producer, known for The Way Down (2004), Comedy Central Presents (1998) and Rachael Ray (2006). He has been married to Maria Cuomo Cole since 11 October 1987. They have two children.- Actress
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Irene DeBari is an Argentine-American film, television and stage actor born in Argentina but working in the US since her teens. She has appeared in numerous films and television shows, as well as on stage in Los Angeles, on Broadway, Off-Broadway and Repertory theaters across the country. She is also an accomplished painter and portraitist, painting for her own pleasure and on commission. She is married to Douglas Sinclair-Winnie.
DeBari has worked all over the world and that has awakened a deep passion for travel. On her very extensive bucket list, she's missing only seven countries, those are the ones currently at war or unsafe, but she might bite the bullet and go anyway. She sponsors many favorite charities, chief among them are Doctors Without Borders and Operation Smile. Several of her fans have started contributing to them also.- Actress
Hazel Dawn was born on 23 March 1890 in Ogden, Utah, USA. She was an actress, known for Niobe (1915), My Lady Incog. (1916) and One of Our Girls (1914). She was married to Charles Edward Gruwell (mining engineer). She died on 28 August 1988 in New York City, New York, USA.- Actor
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John commenced his working career as an Australian Infantry soldier, paratrooper, then went onto study theatre at the prestigious Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts. (WAAPA)
His acting career was launched internationally by the award winning Australian television dramas, Home & Away and Neighbours.
John gained critical acclaim with impressive performances on stage in the United Kingdom, Ireland and Australia for his performances as Oliver Mellors in the premieres of Lady's Chatterley's Lover and playing Don Watt in The Singing Forest about an Australian soldier who survived the Nazi death camp, Auschwitz.
With an impressive background on stage & screen, Morris continues his momentum and versatility behind the scenes as a producer, winning best short film for SAFE HOUSE which was invited to screen at the prestigious 61st Festival De Cannes 2008, Short Film Corner. SAFE HOUSE was later produced in 2011 in Hollywood as an action thriller starring Denzel Washington.
John co-produced The Dream Children, a topical feature film about same sex marriage and the challenges a couple face adopting a baby boy, which was released in March 2015 and continues to screen at international film festivals.
John is producing and will play the lead role of Peter Brock in King of the Mountain, a feature film set during the 60's, 70's & 80's about an Australian hero's journey, legend touring car driver Peter Brock and his triumph over adversity to win his 9th Championship at the 1987 James Hardie Bathurst 1000 endurance race. A record that still stands today. King of the Mountain movie is scheduled for release in 2026, honouring the great Peter Brock.
Morris's recent roles are, Andrei Andronikov a Russian assassin in the action - thriller Out for Vengeance. Frank Cole in the Sci-fi thriller, The Dust Walker and Frank Randall a ruthless businessman in the action drama, Donnie Eagles.
John is Co Founder of World Film Federation, a multimedia production services company based in Dallas, Texas, USA servicing the independent global film market and providing important information for film makers and assisting graduating multi media film students to secure life long careers.- Producer
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Judit Stalter is one of the most active producers of Hungary, a country that has a very vivid film industry and is target of a tremendous amount of American and international productions as service location. She is running a market leader film production company called Laokoon Filmgroup with 2 co-owners Gábor Sipos and Gábor Rajna. They are mostly known for their groundbreaking holocaust-drama, Son of Saul that has won most of the awards of the world, including the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, a Golden Globe and the Grand Prix in Cannes. Their focus is the development and production of high-quality auteur feature films, creative documentaries and shorts, but they work with a wide range of genres from art-house features to commercials, TV-series and documentaries. They have worked together with Fernando Trueba, Penélope Cruz, Fernando Bovaira, Federico Brugia and Antonio Banderas among others, as a service production company.
Stalter graduated from MegaPlus 2010 (Media Business - Audiovisual Business Affairs MA) and has participated in "Producers on the Move" and in several other international workshops and trainings. She is a member of EFA (European Film Academy).
She is native Hungarian speaker but speaks fluent English.
Before joining Laokoon Filmgroup she has worked at:
Inforg Studio - a well-known Hungarian production company, in the past twenty years, the company has produced 25 feature films, 100 shorts and about 70 documentaries, and the majority of them have won prizes at national and international festivals.
The Bureau - a London film production company as an intern.
Between 2000 and 2005 she has worked on a number of shorts, documentaries and features as a line producer/production manager.- Yumi Peh was born on 23 March 1992 in Singapore. She is an actress, known for Tian Xin Zhu Bo Da Zuo Zhan (2017).
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He left his hometown as a child, coming to the southeast, where, as a young adult, he had plans to become a diplomat by pursuing a law degree at Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), during which period he also participated in amateur theater. in 1947, close to his graduation, he signed up for an audition for the role of 'Hamlet' and, despite many hopefuls, he was selected for the part. On January 6, 1948, at the age of 22, he debuted on stage, to great success. After only three weeks' work as a lawyer, Cardoso opted for the arts, starting one of the greatest careers in 20th century Brazilian theater history.
In 1949 he created, together with his fellow actors from his amateur days, the 'Teatro dos Doze', a theater company that would stage great classics, such as Carlo Goldoni's "Harlequin Servant of two Masters" (Il servitore di due padroni, 1745). In the same year, he joins another group, the 'Teatro Brasileiro de Comédia (TBC)', in São Paulo, where he achieves a new triumph in Jean-Paul Sartre's "No Exit" (Huis Clos, 1944).
in 1954, together with his wife, they founded the 'Nydia Licia-Sérgio Cardoso Company', presenting a national repertoire such as Rachel de Queiroz's "Lampião" (1953), and Ernani Fornari's "Sinhá Moça Chorou" (1941). The couple also buys the old 'Espéria' Cinema, which would be the company's headquarters. To refurbish the building, Cardoso agrees to appear in the new and incipient medium of television. In 1956, the brand-new stage is inaugurated as 'Teatro Bela Vista', (nowadays, the 'Sérgio Cardoso Theater'), with William Shakespeare's "Hamlet".
Starting in 1964, he appears on Tupi TV's telenovelas, playing heartthrob leading roles to great viewership approval, culminating with his performance on Antônio Maria (1968). In 1969, he moves Globo TV, where he would appear in his only performance shot in color (Meu Primeiro Baile (1972)). Later, on O Primeiro Amor (1972), after 200 episodes already produced, he died unexpectedly, prompting a special appearance of the whole cast, after his last recorded scene aired, with an emotional farewell message and introducing the new actor, who would play Cardoso's role for the remaining 28 episodes.
His death created great commotion in Brazil, and approximately twenty thousand people attended his funeral at São João Batista Cemetery in Rio de Janeiro.- Actor
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Axel Högel was born on 23 March 1884 in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden. He was an actor, known for Her Little Majesty (1939), Hård klang (1952) and Railroad Workers (1947). He was married to Karin Eriksson. He died on 20 September 1970 in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden.- Maurice Marsac was born on 23 March 1915 in Croix, Nord, France. He was an actor, known for The Jerk (1979), Against All Flags (1952) and The Caddy (1953). He was married to Melanie Marsac. He died on 6 May 2007 in Santa Rosa, California, USA.
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Robert Ames was born on 23 March 1889 in Hartford, Connecticut, USA. He was an actor, known for Smart Woman (1931), Holiday (1930) and Behind Office Doors (1931). He was married to Helen Muriel Oakes, Vivienne Segal, Frances Goodrich and Alice L. Gerry. He died on 27 November 1931 in New York City, New York, USA.- Actor
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Passionate about theater to his very last day, Henri Rollan appeared in forty-odd movies, a career spanning six decades. He was one of the first few thespians to accept to play in moving pictures, as early as 1910, whereas most of his fellow actors regarded this new medium as definitely lowbrow. Fortunately for the spectators, a pocketful of repertory performers such as Le Bargy, Henri Rollan or the great Sarah Bernhardt saw no shame in bringing culture to a popular public that never went to the theatre, quite the opposite. Nevertheless, Henri Rollan did not grace many classics with his presence. Too bad because he would have been excellent in Renoir, Bresson, Clouzot or Autant-Lara's masterpieces. Henri Rollan was all too often in run-of-the mill productions of his time, forgettable and forgotten undemanding fare. Among the exceptions are his roles of the night watchman of the Eiffel Tower in René Clair's silent oddity "Paris qui dort" (1923), of the incompetent Maréchal d'Estrée in the famous "Fanfan la Tulipe" (Christian-Jaque, 1951) and of a French politician in Jacques Becker's "Les Aventures d'Arsène Lupin. He was also long remembered for being Athos in Diamant-Berger two versions (one silent, one talking) of Dumas' "Les trois Mousquetaires". And that is about all. Which does not mean that he was not effective in the films he appeared in. He was always a great professional and his performances (most often as a tough, stiff, humorless character endowed with authority) are excellent whatever the film he is in. Of course where he really shone was on stage, as an actor first, later as a renowned director. He was also a much loved and respected drama teacher who guided among others the first steps of Jean Claudio, Jacques Fabbri, Raymond Devos, Anna Gaylor, Annie Girardot, Marie Dubois and Jacques Lorcey. None of these persons ever forgot Henri Rollan, a passionate man who had the gift to transmit his genuine passion to other young passionates.- Actress
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Barbara Rhoades was born on 23 March 1946 in Poughkeepsie, New York, USA. She is an actress, known for The Goodbye Girl (1977), Harry and Tonto (1974) and Busting Loose (1977). She has been married to Bernie Orenstein since 18 February 1979. They have one child.- Actress
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Michelle Lynn Monaghan was born on March 23, 1976, in Winthrop, Iowa. She is the youngest of three children and the only daughter of Sharon (Hamel), who ran a day care center, and Robert L. Monaghan, a factory worker and farmer. She is of mostly Irish and German descent. After graduating from high school in Iowa, she studied journalism for three years at Chicago's Columbia College. In order to pay for college, she took a job as a model. In 1999, she quit college and moved to New York to work full-time as a fashion model. She traveled the world doing stints on the runways in Milan, Singapore, Tokyo, and Hong Kong, and also appeared in a number of magazines and catalogs.
In 2000, she made her TV debut in two episodes of Young Americans (2000), then appeared in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999). She made her big screen debut with a small role of Henrietta in Perfume (2001). Monaghan shot to fame in 2002 when she co-starred as Kimberly Woods for one season on the TV series Boston Public (2000). After appearances in several supporting roles, she starred opposite Robert Downey Jr. and Val Kilmer in the black comedy Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005). Later in 2005, Monaghan was filming in China, Italy, and the United States on Mission: Impossible III (2006), as the female lead opposite Tom Cruise.
In August of 2005, in Sydney, Australia, she married her long-time sweetheart, Peter White, a New York based graphic designer, whom she met at a Manhattan party five years earlier.- Georgianna Robertson was born on 23 March 1972 in Port Maria, Jamaica. She is an actress, known for Ready to Wear (1994), Double zéro (2004) and Oddville, MTV (1997).
- Beatriz Aguirre was born on 23 March 1925 in Colima, Colima, Mexico. She was an actress, known for Los años de Greta (1992), Ofelia (2017) and Don't Mess with an Angel (2008). She was married to Guillermo Romano. She died on 29 September 2019 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Joanna Page was born on 23 March 1977 in Treboeth, Swansea, Wales, UK. She is an actress, known for Love Actually (2003), From Hell (2001) and To the Ends of the Earth (2005). She has been married to James Thornton since 6 December 2003. They have four children.- Actress
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Elisa Tovati was born on 23 March 1976 in Paris, France. She is an actress, known for Highlander (1992), À fond la caisse (1997) and 99 Francs (2007).- Producer
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Peter Cohen was born on 23 March 1946. He is a producer and writer, known for The Architecture of Doom (1989), Herr Bohm och sillen (1988) and The Story of Chaim Rumkowski and the Jews of Lodz (1982).- Actor
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Nedrick Young was born on 23 March 1914 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for The Defiant Ones (1958), Inherit the Wind (1960) and Gun Crazy (1950). He was married to Elizabeth MacRae and Frances Sage. He died on 16 September 1968 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Tiffany Ayoung is an American actress from Miami Florida. A former member of the Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University Marching 100, and a proud member of her Drama and Choir Ministries at her church. Discovered by Maria Whatley at an IPOP audition in Tallahasse,FL; She went on to received the Actress of the Year and Best Adult Female Monologue Awards at the International Presentation of Performers (IPOP) in Los Angles, CA (July 2016). Known for Smoke and Mirrors (VI), Thandi's Love, MacGyver (2018), The Stranger (III) (2017).
- Francis De Sales was born on 23 March 1912 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for Two Faces West (1960), Mr. & Mrs. North (1952) and The Outer Limits (1963). He was married to Doris Frances Mylott and Eileen Elizabeth Carroll. He died on 25 September 1988 in Van Nuys, Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Sergio Kleiner was born on 23 March 1936 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is an actor, known for Sweet Challenge (1988), Fando and Lis (1968) and Muchachitas (1991).
- Lori Williams was born on 23 March 1946 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. She is an actress, known for Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965), A Swingin' Summer (1965) and It's a Bikini World (1967). She was previously married to Jerry Rabin.
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Jay Seals was born on 23 March 1976 in Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Desperation Road (2023), Mad Men (2007) and Golden and Gone.- Jeremy John Wade, a native of rural Suffolk, England, UK where he grew up on the banks of the Suffolk Stour, currently resides in the countryside near Bath, Somerset, UK when he's not traveling to some far off land to catch "monster" fish and film the TV Series, River Monsters, a production of Icon Films for Animal Planet. He has a degree in Zoology from Bristol University and a postgraduate teaching certificate in biological sciences from the University of Kent. Besides his latest occupation as host of River Monsters, Jeremy Wade has worked as a secondary school biology teacher, tour leader, motorcycle dispatch rider, supply teacher, art tutor, translator (Portuguese-English), public relations consultant, dishwasher, senior copywriter (at an advertising agency) and newspaper reporter.
He is a self-taught writer, with several published articles on poaching, fair trade, travel, natural history, and of course fishing. Besides his newspaper and magazine articles for The Times, Guardian, Sunday Telegraph, The Field and BBC Wildlife magazine, to name a few, he has also co-written a book in 1992 with Paul Arthur Boote called, "Somewhere Down the Crazy River." Described by many as an unusual, quirky, and strange tale of the perils faced by the two anglers, it is considered an angling classic. He has completed a new book, "River Monsters: True Stories of the Ones That Didn't Get Away," that will cover his fishing adventures worldwide which is scheduled for release in April 2011.
At age 16, he was the youngest member of the British Carp Study Group (The B.C.S.G. is a national single species organization for experienced and successful carp anglers). His first overseas trip was to the mountain rivers of India in 1982 where his desire for tracking down large and little-known fresh-water fish became unquenchable and possibly border-lined on obsessive. Although he has mostly fished in the Congo and the Amazon rainforests of Brazil, his travels have taken him to many lands where he has had the misfortune of catching Malaria, been jailed overnight as a suspected spy, almost drowned, survived a plane crash, had an Alaskan bear steal his fish, and found himself facing the wrong end of a gun. Who knows what perils he may face in the future.
During his career he has achieved a number of notable 'firsts'. These include filming a large mystery creature in an Amazon lake (dubbed 'the Amazon Nessie' by BBC Wildlife magazine) which turned out to be a malformed pink river dolphin, and getting the first underwater footage (with cameraman Rick Rosenthal) of the 'Giant Devil Catfish' in India.
His tenacity is to be admired as he studied Portuguese for three hours a day for three months to prepare for a trip to Brazil. He has since worked as a Portuguese-English translator and speaks a half dozen languages well enough to get around although, in an episode, he admits that German is not one of them.
He became a TV personality beginning in 2002 hosting his first TV series, "Jungle Hooks," filmed for Discovery Europe which was highly popular and followed by "River Monsters" in 2009 which has achieved the highest-ever audience figures in the history of Animal Planet.
When not fishing, he enjoys scuba diving (mostly cold, low-visibility water around the U.K. coast) along with free diving and rock climbing when the weather allows.23 March 1956 - Actor
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Lars Bethke was born on 23 March 1965 in Nacka, Stockholms län, Sweden. He is an actor and assistant director, known for Tre kronor (1994), Hassel/Förgörarna (2000) and Insane (2010).- Mexican film, television and voice actor, with a career spanning over four decades. With a trademark deep, coarse voice, Alcocer dubbed many characters in major American films and TV series for Latin American market, including The Munsters (as Herman Munster), Get Smart (as the Chief), Batman (as The Joker), Kojak (as the main character), Daktari (as Dr. Tracy), among many others. Quoted as a major influence by many current voice actors in Mexican dubbing industry. Details on his death other than date (October 2nd, 1984) are uncertain.
- Ahmed Ramzy was a famous Egyptian actor who was born in Alexandria in 1930. He played the leading roles in many Egyptian films in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. He was born Ramzy Mahmud Bayumi to Dr Mahmoud Bayoumi, a famous Egyptian orthopedist, and Helen MacKay, a Scottish lady. His dad died in 1939 after he lost a fortune (250,000 Egyptian Pounds) in the stock market, and his mom had to raise him by herself. Ramzy graduated from the renowned school Victoria College where he met Omar Sharif, and they became best friends since then. Ramzy joined the Medical school for 3 years, then he transferred to the Faculty of Commerce, which he eventually dropped to pursue his acting career. He had one brother, Dr. Hassan Bayoumi, who was older by 9 years and followed in their father's footsteps and had his practice in London. He got married 3 times and he had 3 kids; 2 daughters and a son. He was discovered by the producer Helmy Halim in 1955, and he was cast in his first role, as "Ramzy" in Ayyamna al-Holwa (Our Best Days), along with Faten Hamama, Abdel Halim Hafez, and his lifelong friend Omar Sharif. The film was a box office hit. Since the late 1950s, he participated in many movies and was famous for the role of the funny playboy and womanizer. He was very active till the 1970s. His last appearance was in a TV series called Hanan Wa Haneen with his friend Omar Sharif in 2007. Some of his close friends were Omar Sharif, Faten Hamama, Rushdi Abaza and Saleh Selim. Some of his well known movies are Our Best Days, Dark Waters, Hamidu's Son, Girls of Today and Adrift on the Nile. He passed away on September 28th, 2012 at the age of 82 due to a severe brain clot.
- Samuel Villarroel was born on 23 March 1952 in Valparaíso, Región de Valparaíso, Chile. He is an actor, known for Gatas & Tuercas (2005), Marrón Glacé (1993) and Marrón Glacé, el regreso (1996). He has been married to Marcela Medel since 1982. They have one child.
- Dora Gerson was born on 23 March 1899 in Berlin, Germany. She was an actress, known for Auf den Trümmern des Paradieses (1920) and Caravan of Death (1920). She was married to Max Sluizer and Veit Harlan. She died on 14 February 1943 in Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, Oswiecim, Malopolskie, Poland.
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Among others of Ugo Tognazzi's superb, award-winning performances of his prolific career, this excellent Italian character star has been widely cherished for his classic comedy role of gay cabaret owner Renato Baldi, opposite Michel Serrault's hilariously mincing drag queen partner Alban, in La Cage aux Folles (1978) one of the biggest cross-over foreign hits to ever land on American soil.
Born Ottavio Tognazzi in Cremona, Italy, on March 23, 1922, by the time Ugo was a teen he was a bookkeeper for a salami factory and performed in local amateur theatricals on the sly. Appearing on the stage, he finally found an entry into films at age 28 in 1950 with a featured role in the war comedy I cadetti di Guascogna (1950). He built up a solid comedy resume in primarily Neapolitan 50's features including La paura fa 90 (1951) (his first co-starring role), Café chantant (1953), I milanesi a Napoli (1954), La moglie è uguale per tutti (1955), Domenica è sempre domenica (1958), Le confident de ces dames (1959) and Tipi da spiaggia (1959).
Ugo became a middle-aged European star the following decade. Turning in a number of powerhouse character studies, he excelled as bon vivants, adulterous husbands and other suave gents in primarily farcical comedy and saucy, sardonic romps, particularly those of director/writer Marco Ferreri. He also demonstrated a remarkable range when it came to portraying world-weary protagonists in political drama or grim satire. For Ferreri alone, he appeared in the award-winning The Conjugal Bed (1963), Countersex (1964), The Wedding March (1966), L'udienza (1972) and the masterful The Big Feast (1973), among others.
In 1978, Tognazzi decided to take a chance, and play a character unlike anything he had done, (and, also, rarely done, for fear of being 'stereotyped'), and co-starred with the wonderful Michel Serrault in an image-shattering part in 1978. What he did was experience the most popular role of his career as one-half of an aging gay couple who operate a drag club. La Cage aux Folles (1978) went on to spawn two sequels and an American remake (The Birdcage (1996) starring Robin Williams (in the Tognazzi role) and Nathan Lane (in the diva Serrault part).
Tognazzi won several acting honors over the course of his long career. He copped several European awards for his classic roles in The Monsters (1963) (The Monsters), I Knew Her Well (1965), The Climax (1967) (also a rare foreign Golden Globe nomination), La bambolona (1968), Il commissario Pepe (1969), Lady Caliph (1970) and Duck in Orange Sauce (1975). He capped it off with the Cannes Film Festival award for his trenchant performance in Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man (1981), the tale of a near-bankrupt factory owner who attempts to use the kidnapping of his son (played by his real-life eldest son Ricky Tognazzi) to his financial advantage. Tognazzi was also the father of actor Gianmarco Tognazzi and director Maria Sole Tognazzi, and had another son, producer/writer Thomas Robsahm, via a relationship with actress Margrete Robsahm.
In the eighties, Tognazzi focused strongly on the theater and starred in such plays as Luigi Pirandello's "Six Characters in Search of an Author" (1986, directed by Jean-Pierre Vincent in Paris, Théâtre de l' Europe) and Molière's "The Miser" (1989, where he sparked a controversy in Italian government circles when he improvised lines about corruption in high places during his performance). Although he directed himself in a handful of his own often sexually explicit films, including Il fischio al naso (1967) and Sissignore (1968), Ugo's true brilliance shines in front of the camera and in the works of other famed European directors, notably Ferrari, Bernardo Bertolucci, Pietro Germi, Dino Risi and Mario Monicelli. He worked up until the end with incisive starring performances in Arrivederci e grazie (1988), I giorni del commissario Ambrosio (1988), Tolérance (1989) and La batalla de los Tres Reyes (1990) (The Battle of the Three Kings). In 1972, at age 50, Tognazzi wed actress Franca Bettoia, who survives him. He died of a brain hemorrhage in 1990, age 68.- Cinematographer
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David Watkin was born on March 23rd 1925 to a middle class family in Kent, England. Being fond of classical music, he originally wanted to become a pianist despite the lack of support from his religious father.
Watkin served shortly in World War II before finally beginning his career in cinema. His break into the film world arrived when he shot the memorable title sequence for the film 'Goldfinger', in 1964. Being an innovator in cinematography, he was known as having an artistic technique- almost picturesque. His most famous works are 'Jesus of Nazareth', 'Moonstruck', 'Out of Africa', and many other known titles.- Director
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Mark Rydell was born on 23 March 1929 in New York City, New York, USA. He is a director and actor, known for The Long Goodbye (1973), On Golden Pond (1981) and Hollywood Ending (2002). He was previously married to Esther Jacobs and Joanne Linville.- Writer
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Barry Cryer was born on 23 March 1935 in Leeds, Yorkshire, England, UK. He was a writer and actor, known for The Stanley Baxter Show (1963), Tommy Cooper (1969) and The Russ Abbot Show (1986). He was married to Theresa Margaret 'Terry' Donovan. He died on 25 January 2022 in Northwick Park, Harrow, London, England, UK.- Actor
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Jon Finlayson has been in show business from the age of eight. He started his professional theatrical life as a boy soprano with the Australian Boys' Choir and has been actively involved in professional theatre since, as a child radio actor, musical comedy and revue performer, actor, writer for stage, radio and television, director, and producer. The hospitality of the Finlayson household is renowned. His Sunday soirees, when he entertains visiting and local show-biz folk, are legendary and he bakes bread, mixes drinks, carves ham, and stages these events with great flair.- Actor
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Pierre Palmade was born on 23 March 1968 in Bordeaux, France. He is an actor and writer, known for Asterix and Obelix vs. Caesar (1999), Le grand restaurant (2010) and Absolument fabuleux (2001). He was previously married to Véronique Sanson.- Actor
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Jason Schombing was born on 23 March 1963. He is an actor and writer, known for Timecop (1994), The A-Team (2010) and Tin Man (2007).- Actress
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Luisa Mattioli was born on 23 March 1936 in San Stino di Livenza, Veneto, Italy. She was an actress, known for The Night of the Great Attack (1959), La bella Lola (1962) and Romulus and the Sabines (1961). She was married to Roger Moore. She died on 5 October 2021 in Zurich, Switzerland.- Actor
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Damon Albarn was born in Whitechapel Hospital, London. He was the son of Keith (a former luminary of England's late-1960s psychedelic rock scene that yielded Soft Machine and others) and Hazel (a stage designer for Joan Littlewood's theatre company). Arriving in Colchester, Essex in the late '70s, the young Damon began studying music (the piano) and drama. He met Graham Coxon, guitar genius in Stanway Comprehensive School and they formed a group named 'Seymour' later changed to 'Blur', perhaps one of the greatest modern rock groups these days. Damon is the leadsinger of 'Blur' as well as writes songs and plays keybords. His witty, sarcastic lyrics are exquisitely combined with unique sounds, influenced by Beatles, Rolling stones, Kinks and Small Faces. He split with Justine Frischman, frontwoman of 'Elastica' in 1998. _Face (1997)_ is his debut film.- Gianni Infantino was born on 23 March 1970 in Brig, Valais, Switzerland. He has been married to Leena Al Ashqar since 2001. They have four children.
- Tony Burton, who is famous for playing the corner man in six "Rocky" movies, was himself, in real life, a professional heavyweight boxer. Boxing in such avenues as Palm Springs, Los Angeles, and Hollywood, California, the 6 feet 200 pound Burton knocked-out among others, Bob Smith and Denny Chaney. His most important match was an April 4, 1959 6th round knockout defeat at the hands of undefeated LaMar Clark at Palm Springs, California. Clark was the 10th rated heavyweight and had won 38 straight knockouts. Burton gave as good as he got for 5 rounds, but Clark's relentless mauling style finally wore him down.
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Ric Ocasek was born on 23 March 1944 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He was an actor and composer, known for Super 8 (2011), The Saint (1997) and Transformers (2007). He was married to Paulina Porizkova, Suzanne LaPointe and Constance Campbell. He died on 15 September 2019 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.- Actress
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Vanessa Morgan was born on 23 March 1992 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. She is an actress, known for Riverdale (2017), The Latest Buzz (2007) and My Babysitter's a Vampire (2010). She has been married to Michael Kopech since 4 January 2020. They have one child.- Director
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Barry Shear was born on 23 March 1923 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a director and producer, known for Wild in the Streets (1968), Across 110th Street (1972) and The Name of the Game (1968). He was married to Sondra Joy Roe. He died on 13 June 1979 in Los Angeles, California, USA.