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Denise trained at the College of Dramatic Art and the Royal Scottish Academy of Music. She began her career in rep. at the Gateway Theatre in Edinburgh and then transferred to the Palladium Theatre, also in Edinburgh, where she appeared in various variety shows. She worked as an interviewer for BBC radio before finding work as an actress on the West End stage. Her theatre credits include West End productions of 'High Spirits', 'The Beggars Opera' and 'Let's Get a Divorce' and numerous productions at the Mermaid Theatre. Denise appeared in the feature films "Waltz of the Toreadors", "Georgy Girl" and "Far From the Madding Crowd" and made many television appearances, most notably the "Stanley Baxter" series, "Do Not Adjust Your Set", "Captain Fantastic" and "Girls About Town". Denise's pastime interests include sea angling and playing the flute.- Ben Warriss was born on 29 May 1909 in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Rhythm Serenade (1943), Double Cross (1956) and Stick 'Em Up (1950). He was married to Virginia Vernon and Meggie Eaton. He died on 14 January 1993 in Twickenham, England, UK.
- Rufus Frampton is known for War & Peace (1972), The Silver Sword (1971) and Albert and Victoria (1970).
- Harriet Harper was born in 1942. She is an actress, known for Far from the Madding Crowd (1967), Cousin Bette (1971) and ITV Television Playhouse (1955). She was previously married to Nicolas Roeg.
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Lewis is an English actor and director born in Doncaster, Yorkshire where he grew up with his mother and two brothers. He is best known for his work in I May Destroy You (2020), Midwich Cuckoos (2022), Unforgotten (2015-) and The Sandman (2022). Lewis is also know for his successful work on stage in London's West End where he starred in My Night with Reg (2015) & Our Boys (2012). One of Lewis' most infamous characters is in the FIFA video games The Journey (2017) where he played villain Gareth Walker.- Actress
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Susan was born in Southwark, London to Nigerian parents. Her television debut was at 14 years old as one of the eight children selected for CBBC's Serious Jungle (2002). Susan was a member of The National Youth Theatre of Great Britain. At 18, whilst studying for her A Levels, she landed her first professional acting role in the BAFTA award winning That Summer Day (2006). The following year she started her actor's training at The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). Susan made her film debut in Half of a Yellow Sun (2013) as well as TV appearances in Bluestone 42 (BBC) Crashing (Channel 4) and as Cynthia in the E4 comedy hit Chewing Gum. Susan's first leading role was in the E4/Netflix co-production Crazyhead (2016). Susan is also a writer and her older sister, Emi, is a musical theatre actress.- Actress
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Athene Seyler was born on 31 May 1889 in Hackney, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Drake the Pirate (1935), Curse of the Demon (1957) and The Franchise Affair (1951). She was married to Nicholas Hannen and James Bury Sterndale-Bennett. She died on 12 September 1990 in Hammersmith, London, England, UK.- Actress
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Alexandra Gilbreath was born on 28 March 1969 in Chalfont St. Giles, Buckinghamshire, England, UK. She is an actress and director, known for Warhol, The Art of Love (2022) and Monarch of the Glen (2000).- Jonathan Slinger was born on 15 August 1972 in Accrington, Lancashire, England, UK. He is an actor, known for A Knight's Tale (2001), A Thousand Kisses Deep (2011) and Paradox (2009).
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Tomer Capone is an Israeli actor. He has starred in popular Israeli exported television such as Hostages and the political thriller television series Fauda. In 2016 he was awarded an Ophir Award for Best Supporting Actor in One Week and a Day. He stars in When Heroes Fly and in the Amazon series The Boys.
Capone was born in Holon, Israel, the second child of business-owner parents. Raised in the city of Rishon LeZion, After graduating high school, in 2004 Capone was conscripted into the Israel Defense Forces. He served as a soldier and later a squad leader with the IDF's 202nd battalion of the Paratroopers Brigade.- Actor
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Bishop was born in Bromley on 18th June 1980. After appearing on the television series, Grange Hill, he was cast as Jim Hawkins in Muppet Treasure Island (1996). He subsequently appeared in several British television series, including Pie in the Sky (1994), Love Soup (2005), My Family (2000), Peep Show (2003), and Spoons (2005). He also played the title role in the 2002 television film Dick Whittington (2002), as well as the lead role in the 2002 film Food of Love (2002). He also appeared in the film Suzie Gold (2004), which also starred Summer Phoenix.
In 2005, he played comedian Dudley Moore on stage in "Pete and Dud: Come Again," a drama that charted Moore's turbulent relationship with Peter Cook, which debuted at the Assembly Rooms as part of the Edinburgh Fringe before transferring to he Venue in London's West End in March 2006.
He was also seen in the Channel 4 British Comedy Awards 2006 award-winning comedy Star Stories (2006).
He is now appearing in the UK adverts for the bank NatWest, and his own pilot sketch show "Comedy Showcase--Kevin Bishop" for channel 4, which was also commissioned as six-part series for fall 2007.- Actress
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This distinguished theatrical tragedienne will be remembered forever if only for the fact George Bernard Shaw wrote his classic "Saint Joan" work specifically for her. Her over six-decade career allowed for a gallery of sterling, masterful portrayals, both classic and contemporary, performing all over the world including Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India and both Western and Eastern Europe. She was created a Dame of the British Empire in 1931, when her career was not quite half over, and in 1970 was made Companion of Honor to Queen Elizabeth.
Born Agnes Sybil Thorndike on October 24, 1882 in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, she was the daughter of a minor canon of Rochester Cathedral. She was the eldest of four children. One younger brother, Frank, was killed in WWI action, a tragedy that left her father inconsolable. He himself would die a few months later. Sybil first became a concert pianist until nerve injuries in her hands quickly altered her destiny. She, at brother Russell Thorndike's suggestion, decided upon acting. Russell would later become a novelist and his sister's biographer.
Not a classic beauty by any stretch, Dame Sybil had sharp features, prominent cheek bones and a pronounced chin that gave her a rather severe look. At age 21 she and her brother began professionally in a touring company guided by actor-manager Ben Greet. She performed as Portia in a production of The Merchant of Venice in 1907 while touring in New York. The following year she met playwright George Bernard Shaw while understudying the role of Candida in a tour which was being directed by the writer himself. It was also during this tour that Sybil met and married actor Sir Lewis Casson and solidified one of the most respected personal and professional relationships the acting realm has known. She stayed with The Old Vic for five years (1914-1919) and in 1924 earned stardom as Shaw's Joan of Arc.
Sybil's film career, unlike that of her esteemed contemporary Edith Evans, fell far short of expectations. Silent films recreated some of her finest theatrical experiences, including Lady Macbeth and, of course, Joan of Arc, but she would not evolve into a film star. She was sporadically utilized in later years as a flavorful character support and played a number of queens, dowagers and old crones with equal finesse. Such classic costumed fare would include Major Barbara (1941), The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1947), Stage Fright (1950), Gone to Earth (1950), The Lady with a Lamp (1951), Melba (1953), as Queen Victoria, and The Prince and the Showgirl (1957) in which she managed to grab focus during her scenes with Laurence Olivier and Marilyn Monroe. In 1969, Sybil lent her name to the new theatre in Leatherhead, Surrey, which became The Thorndike. Despite her 87 years, she performed in the new play There Was An Old Woman in its first season. It was to be her final theatrical performance. Always a healthy, vigorous woman, she died of a heart attack on June 9, 1976 at the ripe young age of 93. She was survived by four children and a number of grandchildren and great-grandchildren.- Actress
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Ruth Wilson, born on 13 January 1982, is an English actress. She is known for her performances in Suburban Shootout (2006), Jane Eyre (2006), and as "Alice Morgan" in the BBC-TV psychological crime drama, Luther (2010), since 2010. She has also appeared in Anna Karenina (2012), The Lone Ranger (2013), and Saving Mr. Banks (2013). In 2014, she had a voice role in the film, Locke (2013), and began a starring role in the Showtime series, The Affair (2014).- Actress
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A brash character actress who specialized in cinema, television, and theater, Hermione Youlanda Ruby Clinton-Baddeley was born on November 13, 1906 in Broseley, Shropshire. She was the youngest of four sisters - including Angela Baddeley, also an actress - and her half-brother, Very Rev William Baddeley, was a Church of England Minister.
Not much is known about Baddeley's early life. She made her stage debut in 1918, and became popular in London stage comedies and revues prior to World War II, known for her dancing talent and natural comic ability. She memorably performed several times with Hermione Gingold. Baddeley made her film debut in 1927, with a role in the extremely obscure silent comedy A Daughter in Revolt (1927), but didn't come to attention until twenty years later, when she portrayed the affable but blowzy Ida in the film noir Brighton Rock (1948).
Known for her memorable character roles, Baddeley dabbled in such movies as Passport to Pimlico (1949), A Christmas Carol (1951), Tom Brown's Schooldays (1951), The Pickwick Papers (1952), The Belles of St. Trinian's (1954), Mary Poppins (1964), and The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964). She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her acid-tongued performance in Room at the Top (1958). At two minutes and thirty-two seconds, it is the shortest performance to ever be nominated for the award.
Baddeley became a household favorite for her role as irritable cockney housekeeper Mrs. Naugatuck on the '70s comedy series Maude (1972). She landed guest spots on multiple other shows, including but not limited to Hancock's Half Hour (1956), The Patty Duke Show (1963), Bewitched (1964), Night Gallery (1969), The Bionic Woman (1976), The Love Boat (1977), Charlie's Angels (1976), Wonder Woman (1975), Fantasy Island (1977), and Magnum, P.I. (1980).
Baddeley's two marriages failed, and she had a daughter, Pauline Tennant, from her first. She was in a long-term relationship with actor Laurence Harvey until he left her for Margaret Leighton, and died on August 19, 1986 at the age of 79 following a series of strokes.- Mary Clare was a versatile British character actress of redoubtable presence. On the London stage from 1910 (some sources say 1912), she later alternated her theatrical appearances with acting on screen. During the 1920's and 30's, she specialised in stately characters and villainesses in period dramas. On stage, she was best served as star of Noël Coward's "Cavalcade", or in John Galsworthy's "The Skin Game" (a role she later reprised for the screen). Cinema gave her fewer opportunities to shine, but she made the most of her often small parts, moving easily between widely diverse characterisations: from the shady Baroness of The Lady Vanishes (1938) to snooty Lady Hingston in Portrait of Clare (1950); from the matronly Nazi spy, minder of would-be Mata Hari Phyllis Stanley, in The Next of Kin (1942), to that "poor desolate creature" Mrs. Corney in Oliver Twist (1948). Among her many dominant performances in support, there was also a solitary, but noteworthy, leading role in the mystery Mrs. Pym of Scotland Yard (1940).
- Janina Faye is a former child actress, quite popular during the 1950s and 1960s. She was born in England to a Polish expatriate father. She appeared in several classic fantasy and horror films, having a substantial role in "Dracula" (1958).
In 1948, Faye was born in Hammersmith, a district of West London. For decades, Hammersmith had a substantial population of Polish expatriates. Faye was born under the name "Janina Faye Smigielski" to Jan Smigielski and his wife Florence Louisa Jonathan. Her father was one of several Polish expatriate pilots recruited by the Royal Air Force (RAF) during World War II. During the Battle of Britain (1940), Smigielski served as part of the "No. 303 Squadron RAF". It was one of the 16 Polish squadrons serving in the RAF during the war.
Faye had started her acting by 1956, with bit parts in various films. Her first credited role was in the drama film "The Story of Esther Costello" (1957), where she played a child version of the eponymous Esther Costello. The film was based on a 1952 novel by Nicholas Monsarrat (1910 -1979), intended as an expose of large-scale fund-raising. Costello was loosely based on deaf-blind activist Helen Keller (1880 - 1968), and the character was also deaf-blind. In the film, Costello is taken under the wing of a wealthy female patroness. She is then used by the patroness' husband to financially exploit would-be-philanthropists through self-serving fund-raising campaigns. The man eventually rapes the teenage girl. The film was the 11th most popular film at the British box office in 1957.
In 1958, Faye had her first substantial role in the horror film "Dracula". She played the original character Tania, daughter of the Holmwood family's housekeeper and treated as a surrogate niece by Lucy Holmwood (played by Carol Marsh). When "Aunt Lucy" turns into a vampire, she starts preying on young Tania. The character of Lucy was based on Lucy Westenra from the original novel, a fledgling vampire who only preyed on children. The film was a box office hit and inspired several sequels, thought Faye did not appear in any of them.
In 1959, Faye had a minor role in the horror comedy "The Headless Ghost". The film's plot features three college students who decide to spend the night in a haunted castle. Most of the ghosts there are harmless, but a headless ghost decides to hold the trio as prisoners. He wants them to locate his head, which has been missing since his execution. The film was produced by the film studio Anglo-Amalgamated, and was primarily intended as an export for the American market.
In 1960, Faye had a leading role in the film "Never Take Sweets from a Stranger", which covered the previously taboo matter of child sexual abuse. Faye played Jean Carter, a young girl who accuses an adult man that he offered her a reward to see her naked. The man is wealthy, respected, and well-connected, while the Carter family are newcomers in town. Local society refuses to believe Carter and is hostile towards her. Until the old man targets Carter again and kills Carter's only friend, with his actions removing his cover of respectability. The film was intended as a "social message" film about the exploitation of children, but was a box office flop as audiences and critics founds the subject matter distasteful. The film was rediscovered in the 1990s, gaining critical acclaim for its realistic portrayal of its subject matter.
In 1961, Faye portrayed a young version of Hellen Keller in theatrical productions of the play "The Miracle Worker" (1959) by William Gibson (1914-2008). The play depicted the childhood of Hellen Keller and the lessons of her teacher, Anne Sullivan (1866 - 1936). The play was based on "The Story of My Life" (1903), Keller's autobiography.
In 1962, Faye had a supporting role in the crime thriller film "Don't Talk to Strange Men", portraying a sister of the protagonist Jean (played by Christina Gregg). In the film, Jean has a telephone conversation with a stranger and is infatuated with the man. Only to realize that the stranger is a serial killer who is targeting both Jean and Jean's sister as potential victims. The film was not particularly successful, though modern critics have found that its warnings against trusting strangers are still relevant for adolescents.
Also in 1962, Faye has a major role in the science fiction horror film "The Day of the Triffids", based on a 1951 novel by John Wyndham (1903-1969). The film depicts an invasion of the Earth by extraterrestrial, carnivorous plants. As most people on Earth are blinded by the effects of a meteor shower, orphaned schoolgirl Susan (played by Faye) maintains her eyesight. She finds herself surrounded by panicked blind people who try to grab her. The film was relatively popular, though its detractors have complained about major deviations from the source novel and about a rather weak conclusion to its main plot.
In 1964, Faye had a supporting role in the film "The Beauty Jungle", which dealt with beauty contests and their seedy behind-the-scenes workings. Faye played Elaine Freeman, younger sister of the protagonist Shirley Freeman (played by Janette Scott). In the film, Shirley is a typist who has won a beauty contest despite having no previous experience or preparation. She decides to enter beauty contests full-time. She wins substantial amounts of money, but has to deal with contest judges blackmailing her into sleeping with. She is eventually disillusioned with the beauty contest circuit, and is disturbed when she realizes that Elaine is following in her footsteps.
By the mid-1960s, Faye was regularly appearing in television and her film career was on hiatus. In 1969, Faye had a relatively minor role in the exploitation film "The Smashing Bird I Used to Know" (1969). The film's main character was Nicki Johnson (played by Madeleine Hinde), an emotionally troubled teenage girl. Nicki is sexually harassed by her mother's boyfriend, and stabs him to death.
Also in 1969, Faye had a supporting in the film "Dance of Death", an adaptation of a 1900 play by August Strindberg (1849-1912). The play and film focus on the relationship between Edgar and Alice, an aging couple which is about to experience their 25th wedding anniversary. They have grown to hate each other, they have alienated their children, and they live an isolated life. So their anniversary "celebration" consists of vicious attempts to destroy each other. Faye plays their daughter Judith, who aspires to marry her cousin and has vampire-like tendencies.
During the 1970s, Faye mostly appeared in television roles. She appeared in the historical series "Napoleon and Love" (1974), which depicted the relationship between the emperor Napoleon I and his various wives and lovers. Her only film appearance in this decade was the biographical film "John Keats: His Life and Death" (1973), covering the life of the Romantic poet John Keats (1795-1821). Keats died at the age of 25 due to tuberculosis, but his work found enduring popularity following his death. Faye portrayed Fanny Brawne (1800-1865), Keats' fiancee and the muse for many of his works.
Faye made infrequent television appearances during the 1980s and 1990s. She made a comeback to film when she appeared in the the horror short film "Green Fingers" (2000), concerning a mysterious woman and her strange garden. The film was reminiscent of horror anthology stories, though it was not intended as part of a larger work.
By 2021, Faye was 73-years-old. She has seemingly retired from acting, though she has at times appeared in film festivals. Following an appearance in the Festival of Fantastic Films in Manchester, she has often come in contact with fans of her old films. As one of the few surviving cast members of "Dracula" (1958), Faye has at times been interviewed and asked to offer additional information about her co-stars. She has had a following among fans of classic horror films. - Edie Martin was born on 1 January 1880 in Marylebone, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Man in the White Suit (1951), Great Expectations (1946) and Kidnapped (1960). She was married to Felix William Pitt (actor). She died on 21 February 1964 in Brixton, London, England, UK.
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Rebel Wilson was born in Sydney, Australia, to a family of dog handlers and showers. She trained at the Australian Theatre for Young People and at Second City in the US. After a successful stage and television career in Australia, this writer/actress/producer now focuses on feature film projects in the United States and is perhaps most known for her breakthrough roles in the films Bridesmaids and Pitch Perfect. In 2019, Rebel will be seen in four feature films: Isn't It Romantic and The Hustle (both of which she also produced), Jojo Rabbit directed by Taika Waititi and Tom Hooper's Cats and ABC television series Les Norton.- Actor
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Sam Rockwell was born on November 5, 1968, in San Mateo, California, the only child of two actors, Pete Rockwell and Penny Hess. The family moved to New York when he was two years old, living first in the Bronx and later in Manhattan. When Sam was five years old, his parents separated, at which point he and his father moved to San Francisco, where he subsequently grew up, while summers and other times were spent with his mother in New York.
He made his acting debut when he was ten years old, alongside his mother, and later attended J Eugene McAteer High School in a program called SOTA. While still in high school, he got his first big break when he appeared in the independent film Clownhouse (1989). The plot revolved around three escaped mental patients who dressed up as clowns and terrorized three brothers home alone--Sam played the eldest of the brothers. His next big break was supposed to have come when he was slated to star in a short-lived NBC TV-series called Dream Street (1989), but he was soon fired.
After graduating from high school, Sam returned to New York for good and for two years he had private training at the William Esper Acting Studio. During this period he appeared in a variety of roles, such as the ABC Afterschool Specials (1972): Over the Limit (1990) (TV) and HBO's Lifestories: Families in Crisis (1992): Dead Drunk: The Kevin Tunell Story (Season 1 Episode 7: 15 March 1993); the head thug in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990); and a guest-star turn in an Emmy Award-winning episode of Law & Order (1990), while working a string of regular day jobs and performing in plays.
In 1994, a Miller Ice beer commercial finally enabled him to quit his other jobs to concentrate on his acting career, which culminated in him having five movies out by 1996: Basquiat (1996); The Search for One-eye Jimmy (1994); Glory Daze (1995); Mercy (1995); and Box of Moonlight (1996). It was the latter film that would prove to be his real break-out in the industry. In Tom DiCillo's film, he found himself playing an eccentric named the Kid, a man-child living in a half-built mobile home in the middle of nowhere with a penchant for dressing like Davy Crockett, who manages to bring some much-needed chaos into the life of an electrical engineer played by John Turturro. The movie was not a box-office success, but it managed to generate a great deal of critical acclaim for itself and Sam.
In 1997, he found himself the star of another critically lauded film, Lawn Dogs (1997). Once again, he portrayed a societal outcast as Trent, a working-class man living in a trailer, earning a living mowing lawns inside a wealthy, gated Kentucky community. Trent soon finds himself befriended by 10-year-old Devon (Mischa Barton), and the movie deals with the difficulties in their friendship and the outside world. He also gave strong performances in the quirky independent comedy Safe Men (1998), in which he plays one half of a pretty awful singing duo (the other half being played by Steve Zahn) that gets mistaken for two safecrackers by Jewish gangsters; and the offbeat hitman trainee in Jerry and Tom (1998) against Joe Mantegna.
After a few smaller appearances in films such as Woody Allen's Celebrity (1998) and the modern version of A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999), in which he played Francis Flute, he had larger roles in two of the bigger hit movies to emerge: The Green Mile (1999) and Galaxy Quest (1999), wowing audiences and critics alike with his chameleon-like performances as a crazed killer in the former and a goofy actor in the latter.
More recently, he appeared in another string of mainstream films, most notably as Eric Knox in Charlie's Angels (2000) and as Zaphod Beeblebrox in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005), while continuing to perform in smaller independent movies. After more than ten years in the business, Sam has earned his success. In 2018, he won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor as a troubled police deputy in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017).- Actor
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Yves Montand was born on 13 October 1921 in Monsummano Terme, Tuscany, Italy. He was an actor, known for Jean de Florette (1986), Z (1969) and The Wages of Fear (1953). He was married to Simone Signoret. He died on 9 November 1991 in Senlis, Oise, France.- Actress
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Véra Gibson-Amado, known professionally as Véra Clouzot, was a Brazilian-French actress.
In 1941, Véra met French actor Léo Lapara, a member of the theater company of Louis Jouvet, who toured in Brazil during World War II. Vera married the actor, taking part in the company's South American tour that lasted almost four years. After World War II, Vera settled in Paris.
In 1947, Lapara had a role in Jenny Lamour (1947) by Henri-Georges Clouzot. Vera met Henri on the set with her then-husband and it was described as "coup de foudre", love at first sight. Clouzot hired Vera as the script girl of his next film, Miquette (1950). Vera divorced Lapara and married Henri-Georges Clouzot in 1950. She was directed by her husband in her first film, the 1953 thriller The Wages of Fear (1953), in which she appeared alongside Charles Vanel and Yves Montand. In a short film career Clouzot only performed in films directed by Henri-Georges, the most famous of which was undoubtedly the 1955 thriller Diabolique (1955).
Vera died suddenly of a heart attack in 1960 just 15 days short of her 47th birthday.- Actress
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Sarah Gadon was born in a quiet residential area in Toronto, Ontario, to a teacher mother and a psychologist father. She grew up with the support and encouragement of her parents and older brother, James, and with this was inspired to go headlong into acting and dance alike. Sarah spent much of her adolescence training as a performer as a Junior Associate at the National Ballet School of Canada and as a student at the Claude Watson School for the Performing Arts. She also studied cinema at the prestigious University of Toronto.
She is known for her roles in the films A Dangerous Method (2011), Antiviral (2012), Enemy (2013), and Indignation (2016), and the mini-series 11.22.63 (2016).- Ruby Cruz was born on 31 March 2000 in Burbank, California, USA. She is an actress, known for Mare of Easttown (2021), Willow (2022) and Bottoms (2023).
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Elsie Kate Fisher is an American actor. They began their career in 2009 with a role in the television series Medium at age 6, before voicing Agnes in the first two Despicable Me films. In 2018, they received critical acclaim for their performance as the socially-struggling teenager Kayla Day in the comedy-drama film Eighth Grade; they earned many accolades and nominations for their performance, including a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actress - Motion Picture Comedy or Musical.
Most well known for voicing Agnes in the Despicable Me films. They are also notable for their voice role as Masha in the English version of the animated television series Masha and the Bear. As a live action actor, they were cast as Kevin Costner's character's daughter in the 2015 feature film McFarland, USA.
Fisher portrayed Parker Needler in the animated adaptation of The Addams Family (2019). They will also star in Ken Kwapis' musical film The Shaggs, based on the rock band of the same name.- Actress
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Yusra Warsama was born on 9 July 1985 in the United Arab Emirates. She is an actress and writer, known for The Last Days on Mars (2013), Castle Rock (2018) and Our Girl (2013).- Actress
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Actress Elizabeth Anne "Lizzy" Caplan was born in Los Angeles, California, to Barbara (Bragman), a political aide, and Richard Caplan, a lawyer. She has two older siblings, Julie and Benjamin, and was raised in a Jewish household. Her mother was a cousin of publicist Howard Bragman. Caplan was educated at Alexander Hamilton High School, where she showed an interest in acting and was cast in school plays.
After graduating, Caplan made her onscreen debut in the TV movie From Where I Sit (2000). Other roles followed in TV shows such as Freaks and Geeks (1999), Smallville (2001) and The Pitts (2003). Caplan made her big screen debut with a small role in Orange County (2002) and went on to play Janis Ian in the hit Mean Girls (2004). Further successes include Cloverfield (2008), Hot Tub Time Machine (2010) and 127 Hours (2010).
More recently, Caplan has played Virginia Johnson in the television series Masters of Sex (2013), for which she received an Emmy nomination. Her 2010s film work includes co-starring in The Interview (2014), opposite Joseph Gordon-Levitt in The Night Before (2015), and alongside Jesse Eisenberg, Dave Franco, Woody Harrelson, and Daniel Radcliffe in Now You See Me 2 (2016).- Actor
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Sebastian Stan was born on August 13, 1982, in Constanta, Romania. He moved with his mother to Vienna, Austria, when he was eight, and then to New York when he was twelve. Stan studied at Rutgers Mason Gross School of the Arts and spent a year at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London.
When he went back to New York he started working in some projects like Law & Order (1990), Tony & Tina's Wedding (2004) and Red Doors (2005). Upon finishing college, he played Martin Waters in The Architect (2006), Chase Collins in The Covenant (2006) and worked in Eric Bogosian's theater play The Talk (2007). Also in 2007, Stan started playing Carter Baizen in Gossip Girl (2007). His following projects were Spread (2009), Kings (2009), Hot Tub Time Machine (2010), and Black Swan (2010). He landed also the role of Bucky Barnes in Captain America: The First Avenger (2011). In 2012, Stan worked in several projects: Gone (2012), Political Animals (2012), The Apparition (2012), Once Upon a Time (2011) and the mini series Labyrinth (2012). In 2013, he was in Broadway's Picnic and in 2014 he was introduced as The Winter Soldier in the Marvel universe in Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014). He has continued his role as Bucky Barnes/The Winter Soldier in [=tt3498820], Black Panther (2018) and Avengers: Infinity War (2018). Other notable projects include Ricki and the Flash (2015), The Martian (2015), The Bronze (2015) and Logan Lucky (2017). He was given high praise for his work in the recent I, Tonya (2017).- Actor
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Will Arnett is a Canadian-American actor, voice actor, and comedian. He is most famous for playing George Oscar "Gob" Bluth II in the Fox series Arrested Development (2003). He also appeared in films such as The Lego Movie (2014), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (2016), and The Lego Batman Movie (2017). Arnett also voices the title character of Netflix's original animated series BoJack Horseman (2014). He has been the voice heard in the GMC commercials since 1998.- Actress
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The actress Wendie Malick was born in Buffalo, New York, in 1950 and attended Ohio Wesleyan University, from which she graduated in 1972. The 5-foot, 10-inch beauty was a Wilhelmina model in the 1970s, giving it up to go to work for Buffalo-area Congressman Jack Kemp. She quickly left Washington, DC, behind to act in the theater.
She appeared as Judith Tupper Stone in the early 1990s on the HBO comedy Dream On (1990) for which she won four CableACE Awards as Best Actress in a Comedy Series. Malick has proved a gifted comedienne with great comic timing and reached the height of her career as one of the stars of the sitcom Just Shoot Me! (1997). Malick was hilarious as the beautiful fashion editor Nina Van Horn, a neurotic and pretentious ex-model struggling with middle age. For her work on the series, Malick won a Golden Globe and two Emmy Award nominations as Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series.
On television, she has also had regular roles in the series Trauma Center (1983) and Good Company (1996) and recurring roles on NYPD Blue (1993), Anything But Love (1989), Baywatch (1989), Kate & Allie (1984), and Frasier (1993). She also starred in several made-for-TV movies, including Paper Dolls (1982), Dynasty: The Reunion (1991) and Perfect Body (1997). She also starred in North Shore Fish (1997) on cable TV, based on a role which she originated on stage. Malick's work has included roles in the movies The American President (1995), Scrooged (1988), and Bugsy (1991). With her distinctive voice, she is in high demand for voice-over work.- Actress
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Patricia Neal, the Oscar and Tony Award-winning actress, was born Patsy Louise Neal in Packard, Kentucky, where her father managed a coal mine and her mother was the daughter of the town doctor. She grew up in Knoxville, Tennessee, where she attended high school. She was first bit by the acting bug at the age of 10, after attending an evening of monologues at a Methodist church. She subsequently wrote a letter to Santa Claus, telling him, "What I want for Christmas is to study dramatics". She won the Tennessee State Award for dramatic reading while she was in high school.
She apprenticed at the Barter Theater in Abingdon, Virginia, when she was 16-years-old, between her junior and senior years in high school. After studying drama for two years at Northwestern University, she headed to New York City and landed the job as an understudy in The Voice of the Turtle (1947). It was the producer of the play that had her change her name from Patsy Louise to Patricia. After replacing Vivian Vance in the touring company of "Turtle", she won a role in a play that closed in Boston and then appeared in summer stock. She won the role of the teenage "Regina" in Lillian Hellman's play, Another Part of the Forest (1948), for which she won a Tony Award in 1947. Subsequently, she signed a seven-year contract with Warner Bros.
In the first part of her film career, her most impressive roles were in The Fountainhead (1949), opposite Gary Cooper, with whom she had three-year-long love affair, and in director Robert Wise's sci-fi classic, The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), which she made at 20th Century-Fox. Warners hadn't been thrilled with her and let her go before her contract was up, so she signed with Fox. With her film career stagnating, she returned to Broadway and achieved the success that eluded her in films, appearing in the revival of Hellman's play, The Children's Hour (1961), in 1952. She met and married writer, Roald Dahl, in 1953, and they would have five children in 30 years of marriage.
In 1957, she had one of her finest roles in Elia Kazan's parable about the threat of mass-media demagoguery and home-grown fascism in A Face in the Crowd (1957). Before she had appeared in the movie, Neal had taken over the role of "Maggie" in Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), the Broadway smash that had been directed by Kazan. Returning to the stage, she appeared in the London production of Williams' Suddenly, Last Summer (1959) and co-starred with Anne Bancroft in the Broadway production of The Miracle Worker (1962).
After appearing in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), she had what was arguably her finest role, as Alma the housekeeper, in Hud (1963) opposite Paul Newman. The film was a hit and Neal won the Best Actress Oscar. In 1965, she suffered a series of strokes that nearly killed her. She was filming John Ford's film, 7 Women (1965), at the time, and had to be replaced by Anne Bancroft (who would later take a role she turned down, that of "Mrs. Robinson" in The Graduate (1967)). Neal was pregnant at the time.
She underwent a seven-hour operation on her brain and survived, later delivering her fifth child. She underwent rehabilitation supervised by her husband. She had turned down The Graduate (1967) as she had not recovered fully from her stroke. When she returned to the screen, in 1968 in The Subject Was Roses (1968), she suffered from memory problems. According to her director, Ulu Grosbard, "The memory element was the uncertain one. But when we started to shoot, she hit her top level. She really rises to the challenge. She has great range, even more now than before".
She received an Oscar nomination for her work. Subsequently, new acting roles equal to her talent were sparse. She did receive three Emmy nominations, the first for originating the role of "Olivia Walton" in the 1971 TV movie The Homecoming: A Christmas Story (1971), that gave birth to the TV show The Waltons (1972).
Patricia Neal died on August 9, 2010 in Edgarton, Massachusetts from lung cancer. She was 84 years old.- Actor
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Anders Danielsen Lie was born on January 1, 1979 in Oslo, Norway. He is an actor, known for 22 July (2018), Oslo, August 31st (2011) and Personal Shopper (2016).
Anders Danielsen Lie is a Norwegian film actor, musician and has earned a degree in medicin. He had his cinematic breakthrough as an 11-year-old, when he landed the lead in the feature film "Herman" in 1990. Today he is mainly known for his lead roles in "Oslo, the 31st of August" and "Reprise". Danielsen Lie is a highly acclaimed actor and who received the award for best actor at the Premiers Plan Film Festival for his role "Oslo, the 31st of August." He also won the Kanonprize in 2012 and was nominated for an Amandaprize for the same role. Lie has also written the book "Sex and Other Stuff" with Maria Øverås and Harand Moi for which they were nominated for the Brageprize and won the nonfiction award from the Culture and Church Department in Norway in 2007. He is the son of Norwegian actress Tone Danielsen, and in 2011 he released the album "This is Autism" which was based on tape recordings from his upbringing.- Sylvia Kay was born on 16 May 1936 in Altrincham, Cheshire, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Wake in Fright (1971), Just Good Friends (1983) and The Adventures of Robin Hood (1955). She was married to Christopher Douglas and Ted Kotcheff. She died on 18 January 2019 in London, England, UK.
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Sierra Mccormick was born in Asheville, NC and grew up in Palm Springs, CA. She began performing in film and television at a young age, and had a number of roles on different network TV shows throughout the late 2000s, including Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader, Criminal Minds, Supernatural, Monk, and Curb Your Enthusiasm. Later, she worked on larger studio films including Land of the Lost and 20th Century Fox's Ramona & Beezus. From 2011 to 2013 she was a series regular on the TV show ANT Farm, and in 2014 starred in the horror film Some Kind of Hate, for which she was nominated for the Fright Meter Award. Following this, she worked in many genre-spanning features including Lionsgate's The Honor List and Lifetime's Sorority Nightmare. She is starring in the upcoming film The Vast of Night, (which won the Slamdance Film Festival audience award and the Overlook Film Festival grand jury prize) as well as the ensemble horror piece V.F.W.- Jake Horowitz was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY. He made his New York theater debut Off Broadway in the multi-award winning production of "Our Town" directed by David Cromer. His recent film projects include: The Vast of Night, Adam Bloom, Agnes, Castle Freak and Julie Taymor's A Midsummer Night's Dream.
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Daisy May Cooper was born on 1 August 1986 in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England, UK. She is an actress and writer, known for Am I Being Unreasonable? (2022), This Country (2017) and Avenue 5 (2020).- Writer
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Charlie Cooper was born in June 1989 in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England, UK. He is a writer and actor, known for This Country (2017), See How They Run (2022) and Avenue 5 (2020).- Actress
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London-born Evelyn Laye, daughter of actor parents, was already treading the boards at the age of two. Her father managed the Palace Theatre in Brighton and this was where Evelyn first made a name for herself. A seasoned stage performer by the age of fifteen, she graduated to the London West End three years later in a small part in "The Beauty Spot". During the 1920's, she was one of England's most popular stars of musical revue and operetta, with hits in the aviation musical "Going Up" (1918-19), "Madame Pompadour" (1923), "Betty in Mayfair" (1925-26) and "Merely Molly" (1926-27), the last two at the Adelphi Theatre. She appeared, both in London and on Broadway, in Noël Coward's "Bitter Sweet" in 1929, her song "I'll See you Again" becoming her trademark signature piece. Her performance attracted the attention of producer Samuel Goldwyn, who promptly brought her to Hollywood.
Tagged (by Goldwyn) as "the Champagne Blonde", the lovely Evelyn made her American debut in the operetta, One Heavenly Night (1930), directed by the experienced George Fitzmaurice. The ridiculously contrived story and silly dialogue made this one of the worst flops of 1931, not helped by the wooden performance of Laye's co-star, John Boles. Although New York Times critic Mordaunt Hall, in his January 10 review reserved sole praise for Laye's singing and performance, Goldwyn washed his hands of the whole affair and Evelyn returned to England. She made another attempt at Hollywood, four years later, in The Night Is Young (1935), another continental operetta, co-starring Ramon Novarro, and featuring songs by Sigmund Romberg and Oscar Hammerstein. Reviewer Andre Sennwald (January 14) caustically described the picture as being technically well-made, but otherwise "without any distinguishing virtue". There were considerably better reviews for Evelyn's two British-Gaumont productions, Waltz Time (1933) and, without doubt her best motion picture, Evensong (1934), the story of the rise and decline of an Irish diva.
There was a three-decade long hiatus until Evelyn's return to the screen (though she had appeared as herself with then-husband, and fellow actor, Frank Lawton, in the TV sitcom My Husband and I (1956)). She was also rather incongruously cast in the horror film, Theatre of Death (1967). Three years later, Evelyn gave a strong performance as the mother of Jean Simmons in Say Hello to Yesterday (1971), a romance set in swinging 60's London. For the most part, she continued to act on the stage, which had always been her favourite medium, performing in plays like "Three Waltzes", "The School for Scandal", "Wedding in Paris", "The Marquise" and "The Amorous Prawn". One of her last plays was Noël Coward's "Semi-Monde" (1987-88), at the Royalty Theatre in London, with fellow cast members Kenneth Branagh and Judi Dench. Retaining her popularity well into her nineties, Evelyn Laye made her farewell tour of Britain in 1992. She died three years later at the age of 95.- Actor
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Rising star Jack Lowden grew up in the Scottish Borders. He graduated from the prestigious Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in 2011. He has had enormous success on stage in leading roles, including his performance as Oswald in Henrik Ibsen's "Ghosts", for which he won both the Ian Charleson Award and the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actor in 2014; the play was filmed and is available to view online. After an assortment of television and film appearances, his breakout international screen role has been as Nikolai Rostov (Natasha's brother) in the six-hour BBC miniseries War & Peace (2016), leading to an array of leading roles in films.- Amanda Hillwood was born on 26 February 1957 in Lambeth, London, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Die Hard 2 (1990), A Very Peculiar Practice (1986) and Inspector Morse (1987). She has been married to Matt Frewer since 10 November 1984. They have one child.
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Legendary Australian character actress of the British screen, Miss Cannon was without doubt one of the best scene stealing actresses.
Her pixie like looks and extraordinary facial expressions made her a true favourite of many a British movie.
Without her appearances in many a 'Carry On..' film in the 1960s, her career would have probably been forgotten today. Arguably her most famous performance was as the lonely but happy spinster in Carry on Cruising (1962). The bar scene with Dilys Laye where both their characters get hideously drunk, is as legendary as the movie itself.- Actress
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Natasha Lyonne is an Emmy- and Golden Globe-nominated producer, actor, writer, and director.
Lyonne co-created Netflix series Russian Doll (2019), which received three Emmy awards, a total of 13 Emmy nominations including Comedy Series and Lead Actress for Lyonne, a Gotham Award nomination, and a Golden Globe acting nomination for Lyonne after premiering in 2019. She is showrunner and writes and directs for the series, in which she stars alongside Greta Lee, Charlie Barnett, and Chloë Sevigny.
Lyonne directed the October 2020 Netflix comedy special, Sarah Cooper: Everything's Fine (2020), a variety special dealing with issues of politics, race, gender, and class and featured Helen Mirren, Fred Armisen, Whoopi Goldberg, Jon Hamm, Aubrey Plaza, Ben Stiller, Winona Ryder, and Marisa Tomei, among others. In addition to directing, Lyonne executive-produced the special through Animal Pictures, her production company with Maya Rudolph and Danielle Renfrew Behrens. Animal Pictures is developing and producing a slate of original content, including the half-hour series Desert People, which Lyonne co-created with Alia Shawkat and Apple TV+'s upcoming comedy series starring Rudolph, created by Alan Yang and Matt Hubbard.
Lyonne portrayed Tallulah Bankhead opposite Andra Day in her Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe-winning turn as legendary jazz singer Billie Holiday in Academy Award nominee Lee Daniels's The United States vs. Billie Holiday (2021). The biopic was released by Hulu in February 2021.
In 2019, Lyonne returned as Nicky Nichols in the seventh and final season of the Netflix original drama series Orange Is the New Black (2013), for which she also directed an episode. Lyonne directed and appeared in an episode of Comedy Central's Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens (2020). She also directed an episode of Shrill (2019), starring Aidy Bryant, and an episode of Hulu series High Fidelity (2020), starring Zoë Kravitz.
Lyonne made her directorial debut with Kenzo short film Cabiria, Charity, Chastity (2017), featuring the Fall/Winter 2017 collection. She wrote the screenplay for the film, which stars Rudolph, Armisen, and Leslie Odom Jr., among others. In 2017, she produced and starred in IFC Midnight's Antibirth (2016), directed by Danny Perez, co-starring Sevigny. This independent farce horror hybrid, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2016, was released wide in the US in 2016, and released in the UK in 2017.
In 2014, Lyonne earned an Emmy Nomination for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for her role in Orange Is the New Black (2013). Recent television credits include guest stints on Portlandia (2011), Girls (2012), Inside Amy Schumer (2013), The Simpsons (1989), and IFC's Documentary Now! (2015).
As a young child, Lyonne was signed by the Ford Modeling Agency and at the age of six, and she was cast as Opal on Pee-wee's Playhouse (1986). She is well-known for her acclaimed performances in Slums of Beverly Hills (1998), the beloved comedy directed by Tamara Jenkins and co-starring Alan Arkin and Tomei; the coming-of age comedy But I'm a Cheerleader (1999), with Clea DuVall and RuPaul; and Everyone Says I Love You (1996). Additional film credits include The Grey Zone (2001), Sleeping with Other People (2015), Hello, My Name Is Doris (2015), Blade: Trinity (2004), Party Monster (2003), James Mangold's Kate & Leopold (2001), American Pie (1999), American Pie 2 (2001), Detroit Rock City (1999), A Futile and Stupid Gesture (2018), and Irresistible (2020).
On stage, Lyonne starred alongside Ethan Hawke in The New Group's darkly comic Off-Broadway production of Blood From a Stone, written by Tommy Nohilly and directed by Scott Elliott. Lyonne earned critical acclaim for her adept portrayal of the couch-ridden, heartbroken Grace in the Roundabout Theatre Company s production of Tigers Be Still, written by Kim Rosenstock and directed by Sam Gold. In 2019, Lyonne co-presented Jacqueline Novak: Get On Your Knees with executive producer Mike Birbiglia. The comedy showed at the Cherry Lane Theatre and received rave reviews. Lyonne's other stage credits include roles in Love, Loss, and What I Wore, an intimate collection of monologues and stories by Delia Ephron and Nora Ephron, and the familial drama Two Thousand Years, directed by Scott Elliot and written by the legendary Mike Leigh.- Conrad Westmaas is known for Secret Diary of a Call Girl (2007), Doctor Who: Sontarans vs Rutans (2024) and Doctor Who: The Monthly Adventures (1999).
- Margery Withers was born on 23 October 1905 in Patagonia, Argentina. She was an actress, known for Onegin (1999), Secrets & Lies (1996) and Festival (1960). She died on 6 September 1999 in Pinner, Middlesex, England, UK.
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At sixteen years old, Melanie Lynskey dazzled the film world with an audacious debut in Peter Jackson's revered psychological crime picture, Heavenly Creatures (1994). Her electrifying portrait of Pauline Parker - high school misfit whose fierce rapport with her only friend (a pre-fame Kate Winslet) spirals dangerously out of control - was deemed "perfect" (Richard Corliss, TIME) and secured the humble New Zealander a Best Actress trophy in her motherland. Following a three-year interval spent studying at university and relocating to Los Angeles, Lynskey made a welcome return to the silver screen when she was cast as Drew Barrymore's sweet-natured stepsister in Andy Tennant's 'girl power' twist on the Brothers Grimm fairy tale, Ever After: A Cinderella Story (1998). Parts in But I'm a Cheerleader (1999), Coyote Ugly (2000), Snakeskin (2001), Sweet Home Alabama (2002), Shattered Glass (2003), and Clint Eastwood's Oscar-nominated war epic Flags of Our Fathers (2006) came next.
In the consequent years, Lynskey emerged as one of the industry's most celebrated character actors, picking up plaudits for a host of appearances in prestige vehicles such as Sam Mendes's Away We Go (2009), Jason Reitman's Up in the Air (2009), Steven Soderbergh's The Informant! (2009), Tom McCarthy's Win Win (2011), Stephen Chbosky's The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012), and Adam McKay's Don't Look Up (2021). Prolific supporting roles - opposite the calibre of George Clooney, Matt Damon and Leonardo DiCaprio - aside, spotlight turns in Hello I Must Be Going (2012), Happy Christmas (2014), The Intervention (2016) - for which she scored a Special Jury Prize at Sundance - and the genre-bending I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore (2017) have equally proved her mettle as a dynamite leading lady.
Since entering the annals of 21st century popular culture with her riotous embodiment of Rose - on the toweringly successful Two and a Half Men (2003), where she appeared for over a decade as Charlie Sheen's duplicitous admirer - Lynskey has injected her scene-stealing prowess into a multitude of small-screen gigs: among them, HBO's exalted tragicomedy Togetherness (2015), which showcased her "sublime" (Vanity Fair) depiction of a dissatisfied stay-at-home mom; macabre Stephen King spookfest Castle Rock (2018), where she headlined as pill-popping psychic Molly Strand; and all-star political period piece Mrs. America (2020), in which she joined forces with Cate Blanchett. For her spellbinding work on Showtime's Yellowjackets (2021) - where she's front-and-centre as Shauna, a suburban housewife consumed by horrific secrets - Lynskey collected the coveted Critics' Choice Award for Best Actress in a Drama Series (2022), with Rolling Stone's Alan Sepinwall describing her turn in the runaway cult smash as the "dark, messy, charismatic part she's been waiting her whole career to play".