American Identity 2009 premiere

1. Todd Allen

Actor | Django Unchained

Actor/writer/producer Todd Allen has appeared in close to 70 film and television productions in his career. He has recently completed filming Kevin Costner's epic Horizon: An American Saga parts 1 and 2 making the 5th time he has worked with Costner. He is also slated to appear in Horizon parts 3 ...

2. Ben McKenzie

Actor | Gotham

Ben McKenzie was born Benjamin McKenzie Schenkkan in Austin, Texas on September 12, 1978, to Mary Frances (Victory), a poet, and Pieter Meade Schenkkan, an attorney. His uncle is playwright Robert Schenkkan. Ben is of Dutch Jewish (from his paternal grandfather), English, and Scottish descent. He ...

3. Paula Trickey

Actress | Christmas in the Heartland

Born in Amarillo Texas, raised in Tulsa Oklahoma, and the youngest of 3 girls, Paula Trickey attended East Central High School in Tulsa. Paula found her love for acting at the tender age of 8. At a time of grief in her family home, Paula performed and wrote plays in hopes to entertain and cheer up ...

4. Rebecca Mader

Actress | The Devil Wears Prada

Rebecca Mader was born in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England as Rebecca Leigh Mader. She is an actress and writer, known for The Devil Wears Prada (2006), Iron Man Three (2013), Once Upon A Time (2014-2018) and Lost (2008-2010). She has been married to Marcus Kayne since November 23, 2016. She was ...

5. Jon Voight

Actor | Midnight Cowboy

Jon Voight is an American actor of German and Slovak descent. He has won the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his role as paraplegic Vietnam War veteran Luke Martin in the war film "Coming Home" (1978). He has also been nominated for the same award other two times. He was first ...

6. Catherine Mary Stewart

Actress | The Last Starfighter

Catherine Mary Stewart's career has spanned more than 30 years and over 50 different productions, from film to television to theater, in England, Canada and the United States. She was living in London studying dance, acting and singing when she was cast in her first professional acting role as the ...

7. Karri Turner

Actress | Get Smart

Karri was born in Fort Worth, Texas. She attended college in Tulsa before moving to Southern California to attend the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. After graduating from AADA, she performed with the famed "Groundlings" comedy troupe (Sun Co) and the West Coast Ensemble theater company. Karri ...

8. Andrew Keegan

Actor | 10 Things I Hate About You

Andrew Keegan was born in Shadow Hills, California. He was first recognized for his gregarious performance of teen rebel "Zack Dell in the cult-classic film Camp Nowhere (1994). Barely in high school, Roland Emmerich cast Keegan in the blockbuster Independence Day (1996). After an immediate rise in...

9. Trilby Glover

Actress | Scream Queens

Trilby Glover was born on May 28, 1979 in Perth, Australia. She is an actress and director, known for Scream Queens (2015), Righteous Kill (2008) and Threshold (2019). She has been married to Ian Brennan since September 4, 2016. They have two children.

10. Todd Williams

Self | The American Dream Project

11. Phoenix Benjamin

Self | Skum Rocks!

12. Allen Nabors

Actor | J. Edgar

Born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee, Allen Nabors had a fondess for acting in his high school. At age 19, he moved to Chicago where he worked as a stage hand on the Jenny Jones Show for a year. After that, he appeared with the comedy troupe Second City for three years. Nabors then moved to Los ...

13. Carlos Ramirez

Actor | Stillwater

A native of Los Angeles, Carlos Ramirez began theatre at the early age of ten through his local church community. While a participant in his church choir, his talent led him to the opportunity to perform at the Hollywood Bowl. While attending acting classes at the Theatre of Arts, he and his ...

14. Walter Perez

Actor | Fame

Raised in South Gate, California, just 20 miles southeast of Hollywood, Walter Perez was always eager to express himself artistically. In his earlier years, he often directed and played the lead character in several homemade movies where he mimicked his movie idols such as Charlie Chaplin. His ...

15. Tony Tarantino

Producer | New Horizons

Tony Tarantino was born on July 4, 1940 in Queens, New York, to Elizabeth Jean and Dominic James Tarantino, who were of Italian/Sicilian descent. He was raised in Brooklyn. In 1952, the family, which included his sister Diane, moved to Los Angeles, California. Tony graduated from L.A.'s Washington ...

16. Shawn Carter Peterson

Actor | Pitch Perfect 2

Shawn Carter Peterson is known for Pitch Perfect 2 (2015), Reminiscence (2021) and The Host (2013).

17. Leslie Easterbrook

Actress | Police Academy

Leslie Easterbrook is an American actress from Nebraska. She has had a decades-long career, but she is mostly remembered for the role of the tough training instructor Debbie Callahan in the "Police Academy" movie series (1984-1994). She appeared in six of the series' seven films, and Callahan was ...

18. Stephen Rollins

Producer | American Identity

Stephen Rollins (born Stephen Emmanuel Rollins) is an American actor, writer, producer, and director. He began his film career with his acting debut as an extra in the motion pictures "Glory" and "Career Opportunities" and his first speaking roles in the television series "In the Heat of the Night"...

19. Melissa Gilbert

Actress | Little House on the Prairie

Melissa Ellen Gilbert is an American actress, television director, producer, politician, and former president of the Screen Actors Guild. Gilbert began her career as a child actress in the late 1960s, appearing in numerous commercials and guest starring roles on television. From 1974 to 1983, she ...

20. Jesse Garcia

Actor | Quinceañera

Jesse Garcia

Garcia has been widely recognized for his role in the highly acclaimed "Quinceañera," winner of the Audience Award and the Grand Jury Prize at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, and Official Selection for the 2006 Berlin Film Festival. For his performance as Carlos, Garcia was nominated ...

21. Henry Priest

Producer | Veritas

Henry Priest is known for Veritas (2007), Sunday Evening Haircut (2005) and Legendary (2010).

22. Jacqueline Sheen

Actress | Silk Stalkings

Gorgeous, busty and shapely blonde stunner Jacqueline Sheen was born on March 3, 1963 in Dallas, Texas. Jacqueline was the Playmate of the Month in the July, 1990 issue of "Playboy." She went on to appear in several "Playboy" videos and posed for a whole slew of "Playboy" special edition ...

23. Luann Lee

Actress | Volcano

Lovely, vibrant, and shapely blonde knockout Luann Lee was born on January 28, 1961 in Santa Monica, California. She graduated a year early from Thousand Oaks High School in Thousand Oaks, California. At age twenty-one Luann achieved her license and training as one of the youngest Metropolitan Life...

24. Willie Macc

Actor | Meet the Spartans

Willie Macc (born Willie McMiller, August 4, 1984) has quickly come a long way as a member of young black hollywood since first becoming known to a national television audience as the funny man on BET's extremely popular College Hill Virgin Islands in the Spring of 2007. He has become one of the ...

25. Holt McCallany

Actor | Mindhunter

In a career spanning over 30 years, Holt McCallany has worked with some of the world's best directors including David Fincher, Guillermo Del Toro, David O'Russell, Guy Ritchie, William Friedkin, Lawrence Kasdan, Walter Hill, Clint Eastwood, David Twohy, Brian De Palma, and Michael Mann among others.

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26. Matthew Newton

Writer | From Nowhere

Since graduating from the National Institute Of Dramatic Art in 1998 he has played lead roles in film, television and on stage. His feature films include 'Looking For Alibrandi', 'My Mother Frank', 'The Bet', 'Bitter and Twisted', 'Blurred', 'The Great Raid' and 'Queen Of The Damned'. He has worked...

27. Mehcad Brooks

Actor | Desperate Housewives

From bringing dynamic characters to life on screen to producing and writing films, award winning actor Mehcad Brooks has become known in the entertainment industry for his raw and refined talent, charisma, and moving presence. This year, Mehcad can be seen starring as Jackson 'Jax' Briggs, a ...