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Kate Pierson is a founding member, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist for the Athens, Georgia dance-rock band, The B-52's. Outside of the B-52's, Kate has collaborated with several musical talents, including contemporaries Iggy Pop and Debbie Harry. Apart from music altogether, Kate and her partner Monica are proprietors of a small chain of lodging resorts scattered throughout the United States.- Actor
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Former lead guitarist for hard rock super group KISS, best known for his "space ace" character, on stage stagger, cackling laugh and smoking guitar effects. Frehley was born Paul Daniel Frehley on April 27th, 1951 in The Bronx, New York City and received his first electric guitar at age 14. A creative and gifted teenager, he counts The Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin as early influences on his musical tastes.
Frehley answered a newspaper ad in early 1973 for a then-unnamed group seeking a lead guitarist with "flash and balls", and successfully auditioned in front of bassist Gene Simmons and rhythm guitarist Paul Stanley, to become the fourth member of what would become KISS. Soon after, the group was joined by drummer Peter Criss and the four set about launching themselves. After mediocre success from their first three albums, "Kiss Alive" (a double live album) was released in 1975, and the rocket ride had begun! Kiss were very successful from 1975 until 1979, however, cracks appeared in the band and Peter Criss left the group in 1980, followed by Frehley in 1982.
Frehley put together his own band ("Frehleys Comet") and they regularly toured the New York City club circuit and released several albums, predominantly purchased by KISS fans still loyal to Ace! However, after several years of icy relations between ex-members Frehley / Criss and band founders Simmons / Stanley, all four original members reunited for a 1995 MTV Unplugged Special that was met with huge interest. This prompted a full-blown reunion tour (Kiss - Alive Worldwide) that was the biggest grossing tour of 1996/97!! Met with such keen enthusiasm from fans, the band toured relentlessly into the new century, however, Peter Criss was not satisfied with his salary, and was replaced by drummer Eric Singer, in 2001. Frehley stuck around another year or so, however, the old issues of Ace's unreliability caught up with him once again, and he once more exited the band, to be replaced by Tommy Thayer.
Most recently, Ace had a small part in the gangster film Remedy (2005).- Adam Clymer was born on 27 April 1937 in New York City, New York, USA. He was married to Ann Wood Fessenden. He died on 10 September 2018 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA.
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Allene Quincy was born on 27 April 1981 in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (2015), NCIS (2003) and Limitless (2015). She was previously married to Jonathan Appel.- Actress
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Allison Iraheta was born on 27 April 1992 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is an actress and composer, known for Lost Time (2014), The Short Game (2013) and Adam Lambert: If I Had You (2010).- Allison McKay was born in Walla Walla, Washington, USA. She is an actress, known for Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024), Lonely Hearts (2006) and Matinee (1993).
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Andre Gower is an actor, producer and director whose film & TV career spans over four decades. His role as "Sean" in The Monster Squad (1987) has secured his status in the horror genre with the resurgence and popularity of the now cult-classic film.
He recently Produced and Directed the award-winning documentary "Wolfman's Got Nards" which dives into the lasting power of film and the dynamic of fan loyalty.
He recently created and co-hosted (w/ Ryan Lambert) the digital series "Short Ends" for Nerdist/Legendary Studios as well as numerous other TV and film projects in development.
You can find Andre either on the golf course, story-breaking new concepts or celebrating the 35th anniversary of The Monster Squad at various screenings, conventions and special appearances.- Angel Comizzo was born on 27 April 1962 in Reconquista, Santa Fe, Argentina.
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Ann Peebles was born on 27 April 1947 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. She is a composer, known for Cradle 2 the Grave (2003), 3 Days to Kill (2014) and Alfie (2004). She has been married to Don Bryant since 1974.- Actress
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A familiar face on television and film, Anna Chancellor is perhaps best known for her unforgettable role as Henrietta (Duckface) in the hit British film "Four Weddings and a Funeral." Her TV credits include Lix Storm in the Emmy award-winning miniseries "The Hour;" "Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond" alongside Dominic Cooper, and in the UK comedy "Pramface." She has also appeared in popular television series such as "Downton Abbey," "Pride and Prejudice," and "Mapp & Lucia." She starred in three Agatha Christie adaptations: "Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Chocolate Box" (1993), "Agatha Christie's Marple: Murder is Easy" (2008) and "Ordeal by Innocence" (2018).- Actress
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Anna Skellern was born on 27 April 1985 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. She is an actress, known for The Descent: Part 2 (2009), I Give It a Year (2013) and Siren (2010).- Tokyo-born Suzuki An is a Japanese actress who was a former child-actress that nonetheless was in the successful Hana And Alice playing the role of a schoolgirl next to Aoi Yu. She would return to this role in 2015. She attended the expensive 'celebrity mill' Horikoshi High School, which Aoi Yu also attended. She subsequently attended Wako University. She had a role in the American film Snow Falling On Cedars in 1999. She was declared Best Newcomer at the 26th Japanese Academy Awards for her role in Returner (2002). There were reports that Suzuki has become less popular and in-demand following her weight gains later in her career. She cites badminton, music and piano as favourite pastimes. Ann has a younger sister. She was under contract to Foster Management.
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The daughter of actress Geneviève Sorya, in 1948 she played the part of Juliette in The Lovers of Verona (1949). During the 1950s and 1960s she made various films, including Montparnasse 19 (1958) and La Dolce Vita (1960), but only Lola (1961) , Jacques Demy, and A Man and a Woman (1966) Claude Lelouch saw major success. With the latter she had, but did not use, the chance to establish herself in America. Therefore she was only participating in second-row productions in Europe and America.- Actress
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Ariel Geltman Graynor is an American actress, known for her roles in TV series such as I'm Dying Up Here, The Sopranos and Fringe, in stage productions such as Brooklyn Boy and The Little Dog Laughed, and in films such as Whip It and For a Good Time, Call... She also starred as Meredith Davis on the short-lived CBS television sitcom Bad Teacher in 2014.- Actress
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Arielle Laure Maxime Sonnery, later known as Arielle Dombasle, was born to French parents in Hartford, Connecticut. After their mother's death in 1964, Dombasle and her brother were raised in Mexico by their maternal grandparents; she attended Lycée Franco-Mexicain, a private school. She decided to pursue a career in acting and singing after attending the Conservatoire International de Musique de Paris.
Dombasle released five singles in the 1980s: "Paris m'a séduit" (1980), "Cantate 78" (1985), "Je te salue mari" (1986), "Nada más" (1988), and "Amour symphonique" (1989). She made her feature film debut in the French-language drama Perceval le Gallois (1978), and has gone on to appear in over 70 movies, most of which are French. Dombasle was nominated for a César Award for her supporting performance in the romantic drama Boredom (1998), but lost to Dominique Blanc for Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train (1998). As well as acting, Dombasle has also directed and penned three films: Chassé-croisé (1982), Les pyramides bleues (1988), and Opium (2013).
During the 1990s, Dombasle was on a break from her music career, but bounced back in the 2000s with six singles: "Liberta" (2000), "Rhum and Coca-Cola" (2004), "C'est si bon" (2006), "Où tu Veux" (2007), and "Extraterrestre" (2009). She has continued to work as a musician into her 60s, having released nine albums since 2000. Dombasle is also an animal rights activist, having campaigned against slaughterhouses.
She is married to French philosopher and writer Bernard-Henri Lévy, and is stepmother to Lévy's two children.- Aslihan Karalar was born on 27 April 1999 in Ankara, Turkey. She is an actress, known for Establishment: Osman (2019), 15/07: Break of Dawn (2021) and Adanis: Kutsal Kavga (2022).
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August Wilson once dropped out of school, disillusioned after having been unjustly accused of plagiarism by a racist instructor who could not fathom the artistic and intellectual genius of a then young Black male writer. Wilson was not disillusioned forever. Having now completed a decade by decade cycle of seven plays that illustrate the complexity, problems, and beauty of Black American life, Wilson sits at the pinnacle of American playwrights who have achieved world-renown. He first became involved in theatre in the late 1960s when he co-founded the Black Horizons Theater which was a community theatre located in Pittsburgh, PA, USA. His first professional production was "Black Bart and the Sacred Hills" which was based on an earlier series of poems. "Black Bart..." was produced at St. Paul's Penumbra Theatre in 1981. Wilson's breakthrough occurred when Lloyd Richards--then Dean and Artistic Director of the Yale Repertory Theatre--brought Wilson to the Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference and premiered his plays at the Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. Richards, the only Black American at Yale to have a Department Chair named for him, was a major influence on and expert collaborator with Wilson, who used Yale as a workshop for developing many of his productions. To date, his plays have been staged on Broadway and at regional theatres across the United States. He has won Pulitzer Prizes for "Fences" (1987) and "The Piano Lesson" (1990) and New York Drama Critics Circle Awards for "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom", "Fences", "Joe Turner's Come and Gone", "The Piano Lesson", "Two Trains Running", and "Seven Guitars". His most recent works include "Jitney" and "King Hedley II". He has been honored with Rockefeller and Guggenheim Fellowships in Playwrighting; is an Alumnus of New Dramatists and a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, further demonstrating an artistic, intellectual, and literary profundity that has assured him a permanent and prominent place in the history of American Theatre.- Actor
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Bert-Åke Varg was born on 27 April 1932 in Hörnefors, Västerbottens län, Sweden. He was an actor, known for Rederiet (1992), Profitörerna (1983) and Karlsson på taket (1976). He was married to Julianna Varg. He died on 31 December 2022 in Stockholm, Sweden.- Glamorous, shapely Parisienne Brigitte Auber briefly flirted with international fame as Danielle Foussard in Alfred Hitchcock's romantic thriller To Catch a Thief (1955). As a member of a gang of jewel thieves, she vied with heroine Grace Kelly for the affections of debonair cat burglar Cary Grant. The story goes, that, while filming a particularly perilous rooftop scene which had Brigitte fearing an accidental fall and possible death, she spotted a quartet of Catholic priests and was said to have quipped "Mon Dieu! You Americans think of everything!"
Brigitte (born Marie-Claire Cahen de Labzac) was the daughter of a man of letters and expert on the writings of Balzac, Robert Cahen, who had adopted the nom-de-plume Robert Cahen de Labzac ('Labzac', of course, being an anagram of Balzac). Initially wanting to become a dancer, young Brigitte instead turned to dramatics and began acting on screen from the age of 21. After early bit parts, her first leading role was opposite Daniel Gélin and Nicole Courcel in Jacques Becker's charming comedy Rendezvous in July (1949), set in post-war Paris. After that, she had back-to-back starring turns in Vendetta en Camargue (1950) (a rural comedy about a girl inheriting a farm house and facing larceny from some of the locals and resentment from others), Julien Duvivier's episodic melodrama Under the Paris Sky (1951),L'amour toujours l'amour (1952) (which was made for teen consumption) and Femmes de Paris (1953), a musical comedy. Hitch then picked her for the coveted role of Danielle in To Catch a Thief. In appearance, she certainly fitted the director's known predilection for cool blondes. However, Hitch thought Brigitte's French accent as too pronounced to cast her in his next picture, The Trouble with Harry (1955).
By the mid-60s, Brigitte worked intermittently on both the big and the small screen, mostly in comedies or crime dramas. She had one more supporting role in an English-language production, appearing as an attendant to Queen Anne (played by Anne Parillaud) in The Man in the Iron Mask (1998), starring Leonardo DiCaprio in the title role. - Brooke Long was born on 27 April 1980 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is an actress, known for Iron Man 2 (2010), Gigli (2003) and Orange County (2002).
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Brooklynn Proulx was born on 27 April 1999 in Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada. She is an actress, known for The Time Traveler's Wife (2009), Piranha 3D (2010) and Valentine's Day (2010).- Cali Timmins was born on 27 April 1963 in Montréal, Québec, Canada. She is an actress, known for The Hotel New Hampshire (1984), Ryan's Hope (1975) and Another World (1964). She has been married to Geoff Pierson since 1997. They have two children.
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Calista Carradine was born on 27 April 1962 in Hampton, Virginia, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Mata Hari, The Killing Machine (1994) and Kung Fu: The Legend Continues (1993).- Soundtrack
Calvin Newborn died on 1 December 2018 in Jacksonville, Florida, USA.- Actor
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Born an entertainer, Casey reigns from Michigan, the same birthplace for fellow Shaggy voice actor Matthew Lillard (whom both Casey and Matthew do a very fine, smashing job voicing the iconic character). Debuted as a radio operator and legendary disc jockey in his early days, he was the greatest and most likely the best one seen in recent years. Having an iconic voice and a set of vocal cords, Casey pleased the audience through radio and voice. Casey hit the big time in the early 60's with voicing both major and minor roles in television series, until Hanna-Barbera released, then later debuted, the same role he characterized his career off of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, in which he had the pleasure of working with legendary voice actors Don Messick and Hal Smith. For over 3 decades, he co-founded and hosted American Top 40, which aired the top songs of the week. In his later years, he spent his time with his friends and family, in the way he could showcase with love, passion, and voicing. He died on June 15th, 2014. He was 82 years old. He will be forever missed in the hearts of fans around the world.- Casting Department
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Catherine Avril Morris fell into her short-lived movie career completely by accident. She worked on the documentary film 'An Ordinary Rape' (dir. Isabelle Coulet) in 1991, casting the high school discussion panel as well as speaking on it. In 1992 she worked for six months as the Assistant Casting Director for 'Dazed and Confused' and then landed a supporting role in the film. She went on to act in various friends' short films while she herself studied Creative Writing. She is now a writer of screenplays, political articles, fiction and romance novels.- Charity Grace was born on 27 April 1884 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. She was an actress, known for Peter Gunn (1958), 77 Sunset Strip (1958) and Startime (1959). She died on 28 November 1965 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
- Christine Bottomley was born in Rochdale, Lancashire on April 27th 1979 and grew up in a flat over the family's chemist shop. Here she began people watching and impersonating the regular customers and realised that she wanted a life of 'professional pretending'. She went to several local youth drama groups before embarking on a course at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, from where she graduated in 2001. Shortly afterwards she was making her television debut in the soap 'Eastenders' and has subsequently cropped up in several popular television dramas, including 'Heartbeat' and 'The Innocence Project' though she probably gave her best performance as an abused wife, turning the tables on her bullying husband in the BBC mini-series 'The Street'.
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Ceylon-born Colin Gordon began acting on the West End stage as the hind legs of a horse in 'Toad of Toad Hall' in 1934. After wartime service, he returned to the stage, appearing in such plays as 'The White Carnation' and 'The Little Hut' (both 1953), 'Misery Me!' (1955) and 'The Touch of Fear' (1956). His award-winning stage role of teacher Rupert Billings in 'The Happiest Days of Your Life' was recreated for the film version by another bespectacled actor, Richard Wattis. From 1957, Colin worked as actor-director with the Guildford Repertory Theatre. Though he is usually described as a 'light comedy actor', Colin made his mark in the acting profession as much by playing countless supercilious or sneering bureaucrats, lawyers or haughty military types. His stock-in-trade became his ever-present horn-rimmed glasses, combined with a cynical or asinine manner and a precisely modulated voice. His best performances might include pompous BBC announcer Reginald Willoughby-Cruft in The Green Man (1956) and his bank manager, locked up in the Strongroom (1962) of his own bank during a robbery. He is likely best remembered for being a particularly sinister Number 2 to Patrick McGoohan in TV's The Prisoner (1967) - twice.- Actress
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Constance Brenneman began her acting career with one-woman shows portraying Mary Harris Jones "Mother Jones" and other prominent women in American History. After winning national performance competitions for these portrayals, Constance began doing more theater, film, voice over and television work, honing her craft at Carnegie Mellon Universities School of Drama.
Upon graduation, Constance played roles in the one-hour drama's "Alias" and "The Practice," and worked further in feature films such as "Swing," "Mary and Joe," "Love and Other Drugs," "The Next Three Days," and "A Lesson of Love." Additionally, Constance spent nearly four years as a television host and broadcaster for a network television station.- Coretta Scott King was born on 27 April 1927 in Marion, Alabama, USA. She was married to Martin Luther King. She died on 30 January 2006 in Rosarito Beach, Baja California, Mexico.
- Corey Harrison was born on 27 April 1983 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. He is an actor, known for Pawn Stars (2009), Resurrection and Pawn Stars: Best of (2021). He was previously married to Karina.
- Cory Booker, elected mayor of Newark, New Jersey, in 2006, came by his civil-rights activism at an early age. His parents, Carolyn Rose (Jordan) and Cary Alfred Booker, were among the first black executives at IBM. Booker was born in Washington, D.C., but grew up in Harrington Park, a mostly white suburban town in northern New Jersey. He studied at California's Stanford University, earning a B.A. in political science and an M.A. in sociology. He was a star football player and was elected to the student government council. He won a Rhodes Scholarship to Queens College, Oxford, England, obtaining an honors degree in modern history in 1994. He met Rabbi Shmuley Boteach there and became president of the L'Chaim Society, an organization devoted to easing tensions between Jews and African-Americans.
After returning to the U.S., Booker attended Yale Law School, graduating in 1997. He then started several free legal clinics for low-income residents of the neighboring city of New Haven, CT. Returning to his home state of New Jersey, he was hired as a staff attorney for New York City's Urban Justice Center and then became Program Coordinator of the Newark (NJ) Youth Project. Although professionally and financially successful, in 1998 Booker moved into a Newark housing project called the Brick Towers, which was notorious for its run-down condition and festering crime problems. He led the project's tenants in their fight for improvements in housing, maintenance and security. That same year he won election to the Newark City Council in an upset victory over a four-term incumbent. The next year, as a council member, he went on a ten-day hunger strike to protest rampant and blatant drug-dealing in one of Newark's worst housing projects. In 2000 he spent five months living in a motor home, staying on streets in some of the most crime- and drug-infested areas of the city to get an idea of just how bad conditions were.
These and other tactics did not win him many friends in local government, and the many ordinances, city code revisions and laws he proposed were almost always voted down by his fellow council members. Frustrated at the resistance he met on the council, in 2002 he decided not to try for re-election but to run for the position of Mayor. His uphill battle against long-time mayor and veteran of Newark's brand of rough-and-tumble politics Mayor Sharpe James was chronicled in the Academy Award-nominated documentary Street Fight (2005) by filmmaker Marshall Curry. Although Booker made a strong showing, he ultimately lost the election.
In 2003 he started Newark Now, a nonprofit civic improvement group, became a partner in a West Orange (NJ) law firm and a senior fellow at Rutgers University's Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy. In 2006 he again ran for mayor of Newark. However, incumbent mayor James, who had beaten him in the '02 election, suddenly decided to drop out of the race. James, who was also a state senator, picked a Newark deputy mayor to run in his place. However, on election day Booker soundly trounced James' candidate, taking more than 72% of the vote in the largest landslide victory in Newark's history. In addition, Newark voters swept out the entire City Council, replacing them with the slate of candidates endorsed by Booker, giving him solid control over the city government.
Booker's first few months in office were, to say the least, tumultuous. Shortly before taking office he sued the city of Newark in state court to stop it from selling city land at prices he felt were much too low. Although the outgoing City Council argued in court that selling the land cheaply was the only way to encourage improvement in the deteriorated inner city, the courts ultimately agreed with Booker and, in addition, noted that the former city council had ensured that many of the recipients of these bargain land deals were developers who had contributed to the council members' campaigns.
Also, an assassination plot against Booker by the leaders of several Newark street gangs was discovered. The gangs, angered by Booker's campaign promises to increase the number of police on the streets and to crack down hard on street gang crime, had planned to have members who were incarcerated in several state prisons simultaneously start riots there, and then have gang members on the outside assassinate Booker while authorities' attention was diverted. - Producer
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Cristian Mungiu was born on 27 April 1968 in Iasi, Romania. He is a producer and writer, known for 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007), Graduation (2016) and Beyond the Hills (2012).- Actor
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Cristian Solimeno was born on 27 April 1975 in London, England, UK. He is an actor and editor, known for Love (2008), Footballers' Wives (2002) and The Glass Man (2011).- Actor
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Cuba Gooding was born on 27 April 1944 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Sudden Death (1985), Thank God It's Friday (1978) and Children of the Struggle (1999). He was married to Shirley Sullivan and Gail Barbara Harris. He died on 20 April 2017 in Woodland Hills, California, USA.- Actor
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Daniel Valdez was born on 27 April 1949 in California, USA. He is an actor and composer, known for La Bamba (1987), The China Syndrome (1979) and Zoot Suit (1981).- Actress
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Daphne Anderson was born on 27 April 1922 in London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Beggar's Opera (1953), Gideon C.I.D. (1964) and Hobson's Choice (1954). She was married to Lionel William Carter. She died on 15 January 2013 in Chichester, West Sussex, England, UK.- Actor
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Darren Barnet was born on 27 April 1991 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Anyone But You (2023), Love Hard (2021) and Gran Turismo (2023).- Actor
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David Lascher was born on 27 April 1972 in Scarsdale, New York, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for My Sister (2014), Beverly Hills, 90210 (1990) and Cruisers & Shakers (2019). He has been married to Jill London since 1999. They have two children. He was previously married to Jessica Watson.- Actor
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DJ EZ Rock was an actor, known for Iron Man 2 (2010), Bumblebee (2018) and Spies in Disguise (2019). He died on 27 April 2014.- Actor
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Doug Sheehan was born on 27 April 1949 in Santa Monica, California, USA. He is an actor, known for Knots Landing (1979), 10 (1979) and Day by Day (1988). He has been married to Cate Abert since 25 July 1981.- Earlene Davis was born on 27 April 1956 in Oregon, USA. She is an actress, known for Glee (2009), 9-1-1 (2018) and Feud (2017). She has been married to Gary Epp since 23 June 1984.
- Elizabeth Marmur was born on 27 April 1970. She is an actress, known for Neverwhere (1996), Peep Show (2003) and Coupling (2000).
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Elle Downs is a sixth generation Canadian of African Canadian and Native American (Cherokee Indian) descent. Her father was born in Kingston, Jamaica. Born an only child in Toronto, she was raised by her great grandmother and great aunt, Louise and Clara Little (Bell).
Elle has been interested in the arts from the early age of four. She often had visions of dancing and being on television. Throughout her early years she has taken piano lessons and acted in local theater plays. In high school she created a dance group called the `Hot Ice Dancers' and found her greatest love performing in front of audiences. Elle partook in three beauty pageants in her teens finishing third runner up and first runner up. She won the title of Miss Black Canada in the nineties.
Since, Elle has been developing her career as an actor appearing in TV series' such as Kevin Hill, Monk and 1-800-MISSING, as well as appearing in the feature film Godsend starring Robert DeNiro. Throughout the years she has had the opportunity to work with actors such as Lynn Whitfield, Greg Kinnear, Rebecca Romijn, Vivica A. Fox, and Malcolm McDowell.
Acting being her passion, she still has in her heart the desire to pursue her love for music and is currently working in the studio in her spare time.- Emily Rios was born on 27 April 1989 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is an actress, known for Quinceañera (2006), The Bridge (2013) and Breaking Bad (2008).
- Emma Taylor-Isherwood was born on 27 April 1987 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She is an actress, known for Strange Days at Blake Holsey High (2002), The Shipping News (2001) and Are You Afraid of the Dark? (1990).
- Erica Schroeder was born on 27 April 1975 in Albany, New York, USA. She is an actress, known for One Piece (1999), Sonic Rush (2005) and Pokémon (1997). She has been married to Kenneth Kacmar since 2006. They have two children.
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Born in Inverness, Scotland, Erik's family emigrated to New Zealand when he was seven. A love of theatre began at primary school and after completing a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature at Victoria University Wellington he was selected to attend the national drama school, Toi Whakaari/ New Zealand Drama School. Once graduated Erik worked extensively in theatre in New Zealand before moving to Australia in 1995. He has enjoyed a successful trans-Tasman career since and resides with his wife Caitlin and two children, Eilish and Magnus in the small hamlet of Port Willunga, South Australia.
Erik will next be seen in BLACK SNOW with Travis Fimmel, BLUEBACK with Eric Bana and Mia Wasikowska and Kick Gurry's CAUGHT with Sean Penn, Mathew Fox, Bella Heathcote and Bryan Brown. In 2021 he played the lead role of Hoaggie in James Ashcroft's thriller COMING HOME IN THE DARK which had its world premiere at Sundance 2021. Also, Roderick Mackay's debut feature film THE FURNACE, which received critical acclaim at its world premiere at the 2020 Venice Film Festival and the lead in Daniel J. Phillips' horror feature AWOKEN.
He recently completed production on the ABC series AFTERTASTE, which he also produced, and was last seen on screen in the limited series THE LUMINARIES for the BBC in the role of Dick Mannering alongside Eve Hewson and Eva Green. He is in production on the highly anticipated return of the popular series BACK TO THE RAFTERS for Amazon.
Erik's other film credits include Shawn Seet's STORM BOY alongside Geoffrey Rush and Jai Courtney, Scott Hicks' THE BOYS ARE BACK opposite Clive Owen, Cate Shortland's SOMERSAULT with Sam Worthington, THE BLACK BALLOON opposite Toni Collette, Wayne Hope's NOW ADD HONEY, ACCIDENTS HAPPEN with Geena Davis, BEAUTIFUL and WE'RE HERE TO HELP.
For his outstanding performance in SOMERSAULT, Erik was awarded the Australian Film Institute (AFI) Award for Best Supporting Actor in 2004 and was nominated for a Film Critics Circle of Australia Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. In 2008, Erik was again nominated for an AFI Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in the multi-award winning film THE BLACK BALLOON. Erik was also nominated for Best Actor in a Feature Film for WE'RE HERE TO HELP, and Best Actor in a TV Drama for THE MILLION DOLLAR CONMAN at the 2008 NZ Film Awards.
Erik was awarded the Silver Logie in 2016 for his performance as 'George Turner' in 800 WORDS and in 2003 for his performance as 'Dr Mitch Stevens' in the television drama series ALL SAINTS. He has been nominated a further eight times for the Silver Logie for Most Popular Actor Award and in 2011 he was also nominated for the Silver Logie for Most Outstanding Actor. Erik is well known for his role as the head of the Rafter family in Australia's top rating TV drama PACKED TO THE RAFTERS and his other television credits include the AACTA Award winning first series of THE CODE, Rowan Woods' miniseries THE BROKEN SHORE adapted from the Peter Temple novel, THE ALICE, BLACKJACK: DEAD MEMORY, MDA, THROUGH MY EYES, THE MILLION DOLLAR CONMAN, WILDSIDE, 13 GANTRY ROAD, PACIFIC DRIVE, HERCULES and XENA: WARRIOR PRINCESS.
Erik's theatre credits include the sold-out season of THE SPEECHMAKER for the Melbourne Theatre Company; THE SPLINTER for the Sydney Theatre Company; JULIUS CAESAR, TWELVE ANGRY MEN, ALL MY SONS and ANGELS IN AMERICA for the Auckland Theatre Company; and SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL, HAMLET and GYPSY for the Court Theatre.- Actress
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Eugenie Bondurant's long and slightly eccentric career has taken her from the runways of New York and Paris to featured roles in film and television, including her breakout role as the feminine and feline cult icon "Tigris" in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2. Eugenie's uniqueness was instrumental in booking The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It with Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga and Fear of Rain alongside Harry Connick Jr. and Madison Iseman. Bondurant received high praise for her role as 'Dani McConnell' with The Artful Critic saying "Eugenie Bondurant might make the most impression" and The Guardian stating "Bondurant's creepy performance is the highlight of the film."
Tall and angular, with knife-blade cheekbones, Bondurant, a fifth-generation resident of NOLA, was "discovered" after a bout with cancer left her looking especially exotic and androgynous. Soon she became a working model in the U.S. and Europe. A modeling trip to Los Angeles led to an acting career that's included a string of bizarre characters in TV and film - including Fight Club (with Ed Norton), and Saturday Night Live (with Madonna and Mike Myers). She tossed around comedian Gene Wilder while playing Alice Cooper's favorite Dominatrix on the TV series Something Wilder. And on HBO's Arliss, she played a transvestite who lured a strait-laced athlete into a night of sin. In the indie feature, Donald and Dot Clock, her character bonded with a house-full of rodents.
Eugenie shared screen time with actor/director Pollyanna McIntosh in the horror hit Darlin' which debuted at the 2019 SXSW Film Festival. Her short film Tiny Bacteria was shown at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival; her numerous other film and TV credits may be viewed on her IMDB page. Awards include 2018 Arts Alliance Ambassador MUSE Award and Women in Film Award of Excellence.
Bondurant's first directing project last year, Leave Those Kids Alone with Pitch Her Productions opened the door to her directing award winning My Dinner With Steve and the collaboration on Happy New Year.
"Elegant Chanteuse" with the sultry alto voice, Bondurant finds cabaret the best medium to tell a story in song. You can hear her performing with her husband, Paul Wilborn. She is also a working voice-over artist. She is also a founding member of The Radio Theater Project.
A well-known On-Camera and Meisner Acting Coach, Bondurant, loves teaching acting at Station 12 Studio in St Petersburg and the prestigious Patel Conservatory in Tampa, Fl. Along with acting, she has a BA in Finance.- Early information on Florence La Badie is sketchy. She is thought to have been born in New York City in 1888, and was either taken away from or given up for adoption by her birth mother. Florence was adopted by a married couple named LaBadie, who legally gave the child their last name. Her adoptive father, Joseph LaBadie, is believed to have been an attorney in Canada, and the family spent time in Montreal, where Florence grew up. She was educated in both Montreal and New York, and after graduation from high school she worked as a model for well-known illustrator (and, later, film director) Penrhyn Stanlaws.
She took up a career on the stage, first appearing there in 1908. She signed up with director Chauncey Olcott's theatrical company, and went on the road with them. In 1909 she went with a friend, Mary Pickford, to the American Biograph film studio in New York to watch Pickford at work in In the Window Recess (1909), and Pickford got her a bit part in the picture. La Badie didn't make any films for a year after that, though, at which time she signed a contract with Biograph.
In 1911 she left Biograph for Thanhouser. She met with great success in Thanhouser's pictures, and was gradually promoted to lead roles, working there from 1911-1917 (making her the player who worked at Thanhouser the longest). She became the best-known of all of Thanhouser's players and was wildly popular in fan magazines and trade journals.
Although she was engaged twice (to actor Val Hush and writer Daniel Carson Goodman), she never married. She was the "companion" of film mogul Marcus Loew for several years.
On August 28, 1917, while driving a car near Ossining, New York, with her fiancé Daniel Goodman, the car's brakes failed and it plunged down an embankment at high speed, rolling over when it hit the bottom. Goodman escaped with relatively minor injuries, but she was thrown from the car and incurred a compound fracture of the pelvis. She was taken to a hospital in Ossining, where her conditioned worsened. She died of septicemia (infection) on August 28. She was 29 years old. - Francis Capra was born on April 27, 1983 in New York, and raised in the Bronx. Discovered by Robert De Niro and Chazz Palminteri when they were casting for the film A Bronx Tale (1993), he began to work as a child actor and moved to Los Angeles with his mother Ann Marie Capra and his siblings. His father was in jail for most of Francis' childhood before his eventual shooting death in 2003.
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During the 1960s, Abagnale attended high school in Long Island. His father built a profitable stationery store on Madison Avenue in New York City. When his father suffered a business loss and his parents divorced, the son left home in 1964 with around $100 in his pocket. The sixteen-year-old vowed to make up for his father's losses and bring his parents together again. To this end, in the years that followed, the young man developed an unusual talent for creative transformation, starting with forging his driver's license by bringing his birth year forward by 10 years. Even before he turned 21, the teenager, who appeared much older, had already posed as a pilot for the Pan Am airline, a doctor, a lawyer and a professor of history. Through forged checks, Abagnale secured a fortune of over $2.5 million.
Throughout his 5-year criminal career, Abagnale was patiently pursued by FBI agent Carl Hanratty in a sort of cat-and-mouse game. At the end of his criminal career, he was wanted in 26 countries and the entire USA as "The Skywayman", who, thanks to a fake "Pan Am" identity card, repeatedly managed to escape by plane to other states and countries. After the fraudster was finally arrested in France in 1969, he was extradited to Sweden after a French prison sentence, where he also served time in a Malmö prison. Ultimately, Abagnale was extradited to the United States and sentenced to 12 years in prison. In 1974, however, the US government offered him early release in return for revealing his criminal skills and knowledge. Abagnale decided to work with the FBI, where he then held expert seminars in its financial crimes unit. Authorities and companies around the world soon became interested in the former document forger's expert knowledge.
As independent entrepreneurs, "Abagnale & Associates" today offer services for expert assessment and advice in the area of documents and certificates with great success on an international scale. Abagnale married and had three sons. With his company profits, the fraud expert paid back the entire $2.5 million that he had once swindled. The quick-change artist and creative fraudster has an intelligence quotient of 136. In 2001, Abagnale published his book "The Art of the Steal", a guide to preventing fraud and counterfeit crime. Based on Abagnale's autobiography of the same name from 1980, Steven Spielberg filmed the life of the cunning fraudster in 2002: In "Catch me if You can" the actor Leonardo DiCaprio plays the young Abagnale.
In the run-up to the US presidential election in November 2004, Abagnale spoke out in favor of the incumbent President George W. Bush: As an expert in document forgery, he declared the recently published notes of National Guard Lieutenant Colonel Jerry Kilian about alleged misconduct by Lieutenant Bush in 1972 Counterfeits. A little later, the television station "CBS", which had released the documents during the election campaign, had to admit the mistake and apologize. In 2015, he was named an AARP Fraud Watch Ambassador, where he helps "provide online programs and community forums to educate consumers about ways to protect themselves from identity theft and cybercrime." In 2018, he began co-hosting the AARP podcast "The Perfect Scam."- Producer
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Fred Weintraub was born on 27 April 1928 in Bronx, New York City, New York, USA. He was a producer and writer, known for Enter the Dragon (1973), A Dirty Knight's Work (1976) and Hot Potato (1976). He was married to Jackie Weintraub. He died on 5 March 2017 in Pacific Palisades, California, USA.- Froy Gutierrez was born and raised in Dallas, Texas. He goes to Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts where he studies theatre. After an agent saw him in a local play, he began submitting audition tapes in the summer of 2015. He is best known for his role as Charlie on Bella And The Bulldogs (2015).
- George Akiyama was born on 27 April 1943 in Japan. George was a writer, known for Koiko no Mainichi (1988), Zenigeba (1970) and Sutegataki hitobito (2013). George died on 12 May 2020 in Japan.
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Goran Stefanovski was born on 27 April 1952 in Bitola, Republic of Macedonia. He was a writer and actor, known for To the Hilt (2014), Hi-Fi (1987) and TV teatar (1956). He died on 27 November 2018 in Ashford, England, UK.- Producer
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Gordon Oliver was born on 27 April 1910 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was a producer and actor, known for The Spiral Staircase (1946), Jezebel (1938) and The Marines Are Here (1938). He was married to Elsa E. Cover. He died on 26 January 1995 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Actor
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Harry Stockwell was born on 27 April 1905 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. He was an actor, known for Here Comes the Band (1935), All Over Town (1937) and Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935). He was married to Nina Olivette, Dorothy Tucker and Elizabeth (Betty) Margaret Veronica. He died on 19 July 1984 in New York City, New York, USA.- Hülya Darcan was born on 27 April 1951 in Izmir, Turkey. She is an actress, known for Dirilis: Ertugrul (2014), Hakanlarin savasi (1968) and Altin Tabancali Ajan (1970). She was previously married to Tanju Korel.
- For over three decades, Ian M. Giatti has worked in film, television and broadcast media on both sides of the camera.
Ian is an actor best known for roles in The Great Outdoors (1988), Girls Just Want to Have Fun (1985), and The Rescue (1988). He was most recently featured in TV's SEAL Team (2018). - Actress
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Born in Toronto, Canada and raised in Jamaica, West Indies, Ingrid discovered acting in high school after she co-wrote and acted in a production about South African apartheid. Her desire to master the craft, took her to The American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City. Two months out of school she landed and originated the role of Taylor Roxbury-Canon on "All My Children". From there she went on to work with such acclaimed directors as, Woody Allen, Joel Schumacher and Brian DePalma who directed her in her starring role opposite Al Pacino and Sean Penn in "Carlito's Way".
With numerous TV credits and national commercials to her credit, Ingrid continues to hone her love and passion for acting.
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As a film character actor, Klugman was the epitome of the everyman. He was one of the pioneers of television acting in the 1950s, and is best remembered for his 1970s TV work as Oscar Madison on The Odd Couple (1970) and as the medical examiner on Quincy M.E. (1976).- Actor
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It isn't hard to make James Le Gros bust a gut laughing. Just call him Brad Pitt. Okay, so he doesn't get $6 million a film or have his photo air-kissed by legions of swooning schoolgirls during recess. But if you've caught Le Gros' quirky personality, you may wonder why he's still toiling away. But this Minnesota native, despite being tight-lipped on Pitt, Le Gros will happily chitchat about his career. Le Gros says he isn't very "LA", although he did live there for a short while.- Jamie Gray Hyder is a classically trained, Lebanese-American actor and advocate from the Washington, DC area, most recently known for her series regular role as Officer Katriona 'Kat' Tamin on Law & Order: SVU. Over the last decade, her work on iconic TV shows, in cult-classic video games and as crowd-favorite animated characters has rounded out her unique professional experience. In her free time, Jamie works with organizations that support mental health initiatives, veterans and the armed forces, the LGBTQ community, as well as international crisis programs.
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Jane began her love of performing very young; with dance, singing and acting. She grew up in Victoria, British Columbia and was an active participant in the local theatre scene. Upon graduating high school, she briefly studied Acting at York University, then took time off school to explore her other artistic ventures including painting, drawing and costume and fashion design. She later returned to her love of Musical Theatre and studied at the Canadian College of Performing Arts in Victoria, B.C. Jane also attended a short-term intensive at the New York Film Academy's Los Angeles Campus at Universal Studios where she focused on Acting for Film and T.V. She now resides in Vancouver, B.C. where she studies locally with various teachers, and continues to work on her craft. Shakespeare is another of Jane's great passions, she also loves to write stories, songs, poetry and screenplays.- Janelle Marra was born on 27 April 1979 in Kern County, California, USA. She is an actress, known for The Shield (2002), ER (1994) and Abelar: Tales of an Ancient Empire (2010). She has been married to Rob Lambert since 7 September 2013. They have one child.
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Jenna Coleman is best known for her BAFTA-nominated performance as Clara in 'Doctor Who' and for playing the title role in ITV's Emmy-nominated series 'Victoria'. She was most recently seen in a lead role as Marie-Andrée Leclerc in the dark crime drama 'The Serpent' for BBC and Netflix opposite Tahar Rahim, and in the critically acclaimed miniseries 'The Cry' for the BBC/Sundance. On-stage, she was most recently seen at The Old Vic in 'All My Sons' alongside Bill Pullman and Sally Field. Upcoming is Neil Maskell's feature debut 'Klokkenluider' and Warner Brothers'/Netflix anticipated series, 'The Sandman' as Johanna Constantine- Actor
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Actor and Filmmaker Jerry G. Angelo is one of entertainment business's prestigious young Hollywood talents. He is a visionary who creates original content and produces them. Jerry's respect for the past generations and all walks of life of Hollywood's prolific leading actors and actresses, including working with award winning actors and directors, have provided him vast knowledge in all areas of film and television.
Jerry enjoys taking on roles which allow him to transform into different characters, The Deception (2012), 7 Faces of Jack the Ripper (2014), The Control Group opposite Academy Award Nominee Brad Dourif, Warfighter (2018), Artik (2019).
Jerry's filmmaking body of work on both sides of the camera covers all genres. His most ambitious project (Directing and Writing debut) is the heart-bearing drama Warfighter (2018) where Jerry plays a Navy Seal LT that suffers from war trauma. Warfighter is a movie that brings awareness to PTS, and is a tribute to all our service women and men.
Artik (2018) is the highly anticipated Action-Thriller Hybrid where Jerry plays the title character who is a comic book obsessed serial killer that collides with a straight-edged enthusiast over the fate of a young boy.
Jerry's has mentored many upcoming writer/director's with their groundbreaking projects, such as Jay Durrwachter's The Deception (2012), Timothy Woodward Jr's 7 Faces of Jack the Ripper (2014) and follow up Throwdown (2014) with Vinnie Jones, Danny Trejo, Mischa Barton, Johnny Kearn's Dead Ringer (2015) and Tom Botchii Skowronski's Artik (2019)
Jerry's Film credits opposite talents such as, Chase Williamson, Lauren Ashley Carter, Matt Mercer of Artik (2018), Paul Logan, Issac Singleton Jr., Mindy Robinson, Jennifer Marshall, Warfighter (2018), Kai Caster, Line (2017), Chloe Farnworth, Michael Wayne Foster, Road Wars(2015), Brad Douriff, The Control Group (2014), Danny Trejo, Luke Goss, Vinnie Jones, Mischa Barton, Throwdown (2014), Jeremy London, Patrick Kilpatrick, 7 Faces of Jack the Ripper (2014), Luce Rains, The Deception (2012), Christopher Browning, Claim 24, Colin Farrell, Anton Yelchin, Imogen Poots, Fright Night (2011).
Jerry has portrayed many television roles opposite respected talents such as Jonathan Banks in Better Call Saul (2015-), Michelle Monaghan Messiah (2019-), Penelope Ann Miller, Joe Anderson, New York Prison Break the Seduction of Joyce Mitchell (2017), Josh Fadem, Nick Corrirossi, Live at the Necropolis: The Lords of Synth (2016), Ilana Glazer, Paul Downs, Time Traveling Bong (2016).- Jillian Bach was born on 27 April 1973 in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, USA. She is an actress, known for American Pie (1999), Julie & Julia (2009) and The Mentalist (2008).
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John Cygan was born on 27 April 1954 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor and director, known for Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (2001), Iron Man (2008) and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (2003). He was married to Cathy Merriman. He died on 13 May 2017 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.- Director
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John Fallon spent two years learning the technical aspects of filmmaking, and another three years perfecting his craft as an actor through a professional theater program (from which he graduated with honors). His feature length directorial debut "The Shelter" starring Michael Pare from his own screenplay was recently released in theaters, VOD and now on DVD to critical acclaim. The LA Times called it "remarkably ambitious" while Ain't it Cool News said "The Shelter is resonant in tone and spot on in execution!"
As a director, John also directed the music video for the hit song "Gasolina" by Daddy Yankee and the award-winning short film "The Red Hours". He has a series of films at varied levels of development, including the action film EVA, the barbarian adventure film "The Prize" and the bleak period drama "Heretic", having to do with two Templars going through hell after the second Crusade. Many of his screenplays other were produced into films in the past including "Deaden", "Trance" and "American Muscle". John Fallon has also acted in such films as "Saw II", "100 Feet" opposite Famke Janssen, the French hit "Dead Shadows" and the action film "American Muscle".
Finally, since the year 2000, John has been at the helm of one of the most successful horror movie websites in the world called Arrow in the Head, part of the JoBlo Movie Network, which led him to being a member of the Jury at the Sitges Film Festival, the Fantastic Fest Film Festival among many others.- Producer
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John Heyman was born on 27 April 1933 in Leipzig, Germany. He was a producer and executive, known for Black Gunn (1972), Privilege (1967) and The Go-Between (1971). He was married to Nizza Heyman, Norma Farnes and Norma Heyman. He died on 9 June 2017 in New York City, New York, USA.- Actor
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John Philbin was born on 27 April 1960 in California, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Point Break (1991), The Return of the Living Dead (1985) and Children of the Corn (1984).- John Shrapnel was born in Birmingham, the son of Norman and Myfanwy Shrapnel. He was brought up in Stockport and south London, attending City of London School and Cambridge University. He was an original member of the National Youth Theatre and had worked extensively in theatre, particularly the Royal Shakespeare Company and National Theatre. He lived in Suffolk and London.
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Jon Cassar was born on 27 April 1958 in Malta. He is a producer and director, known for 24 (2001), Forsaken (2015) and When the Bough Breaks (2016).- Joyce Vanderveen was born on 27 April 1927 in Netherlands. She was an actress, known for The Ten Commandments (1956), Peter Gunn (1958) and Combat! (1962). She was married to Louis Blaine. She died on 11 March 2008 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Trained in music and dance, tiny-framed, pixie-like Judy Carne was born Joyce Botterill in Northampton, England on April 27, 1939, the daughter of a grocer. Trained in dance, she appeared in music revues as a teenager and changed her name at the advice of a dance teacher.
Slowly building up a career on British TV, she arrived in America in 1962, the eve of the mid-60s "British invasion," and appeared to good advantage on the TV series Fair Exchange (1962). Beginning unobtrusively in film, she developed enough as a light comedienne to score well on the smaller screen and won a regular role on the sitcom The Baileys of Balboa (1964). Stardom came with her own romantic comedy series Love on a Rooftop (1966) opposite the late Pete Duel. The latter series, though short-lived, was quite popular and showcased Carne's appeal to maximum advantage. She found herself embraced by America as a cute, pert-nosed Cockney lass with a Peter Pan-like effervescence.
It was no surprise when a couple of years later she soared to "flower power" stardom on the hip and highly irreverent TV cult variety show Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1967), where she introduced the phrase "Sock it to me!" to the American vernacular. As the plucky brunette, she always seemed to be on the receiving end of a slapstick prank, but the audiences loved her for it. The show also made instant household names out of fellow Laugh-In comrades Arte Johnson, Ruth Buzzi, Henry Gibson, Jo Anne Worley, Lily Tomlin, and, notably, Goldie Hawn, who managed to out-perk even Judy and grab the lion's share of attention. Judy proved herself a game sport for a while, but made the decision to leave the series after only two seasons-- tired of the grind, the typecast, and the disappointment of having her singing/dancing skills undermined.
In the long run it probably was a major career mistake. With the exception of her role as Polly (the Julie Andrews roles) in a Broadway revival of "The Boy Friend" that also featured Sandy Duncan, Judy's post "Laugh-In" professional life was unexceptional with a surprising quick descent. There were a couple of mini-movies, a failed TV idea for a sitcom called "Poor Judy", a failed Las Vegas music act, and the TV talk show circuit. Nothing panned out. Despite an innocent, bubbly, cheery exterior, her private life was anything but. Her 1963 marriage to rising star Burt Reynolds was over within a couple of years. The divorce was acrimonious, to say the least, with nasty, below-the-belt accusations being flung from both sides and feeding the tabloid sheets. A second marriage to TV producer Robert Bergman in 1970 lasted even less than that. More problematic, however, was Judy's escalating financial problems and a drug problem which started with marijuana and hallucinogens and developed into a full-fledged heroin addiction.
In the late 60s and 70s she tried to maintain somewhat with scattered appearances on the musical and comedy stage with roles in "Cabaret" (as Sally Bowles), "Absurd Person Singular," "There's a Girl in My Soup", "The Owl and the Pussycat" and "Blithe Spirit". Her career pretty much in shambles, she fell quickly into the lifestyle of a junkie and began living in squalor. For the next decade, she literally dropped out of sight. The only time she was heard from was when she was busted for a drug arrest or when she made unhappy headlines for a near-fatal 1978 car crash (her ex-husband Robert was driving) that left her with a broken neck.
Judy's tell-all 1985 autobiography, "Laughing on the Outside, Crying on the Inside", was a harrowing and heart-wrenching read with explicit detailing of her descent into degradation. Despite the book, the adorable English girl who captured America's heart in the late 1960s failed to win back a now-disinterested audience. She remains a prime example of what the flip side of a glamorous Hollywood can turn out to be.
In later years, Judy lived and was not heard of much since the publishing of the book. She has allegedly been married twice more since then. She was also in attendance for the televised 25th anniversary of "Laugh-In" and a televised "Laugh-In" Christmas show both in 1993. Out of the picture since the early 1980's, she was a 1990 guest for talk show hosts Geraldo Rivera and Howard Stern and made an isolated appearance as a homeless person in the downbeat urban movie drama What About Me (1993), written and directed by the film's star Rachel Amodeo.
Living quietly in the village of Pitsford for two decades, she died from pneumonia on September 3, 2015, at a hospital in Northampton.- Karina Rabolini was born on 27 April 1967 in Elortondo, Santa Fe, Argentina. She is an actress, known for PinBall (1995), Carburando (1990) and Totalmente (1999). She has been married to Daniel Scioli since 10 December 1991.
- Katrina Johnson was born on 27 April 1982 in San Diego, California, USA. She is an actress, known for Black Creek, Shane on You and She's a Fox (2009).
- Kevin McNally was born on April 27, 1956, in Bristol, England. He grew up in Birmingham where he attended Redhill and Mapledene Junior schools and Central Grammar School for Boys. At the age of 16, he got his first job at Birmingham Repertory Theatre. A year later he received a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. In 1975 he won the Best Actor Bancroft Gold Medal for his stage performance. McNally's most notable stage performances in London's West End include his appearance as Alan Bennett opposite Maggie Smith in 'The Lady in the Van' and opposite Juliette Binoche in 'Naked'. He also starred as Richard in Terry Johnson's 'Dead Funny' at the Savoy Theatre.
Since 1976 McNally has been involved in numerous TV productions beginning with his portrayal of the Roman ruler Castor, son of Tiberius, in the acclaimed BBC history series I, Claudius (1976) and his portrayal of Drake Carne in the popular series Poldark (1975). His career on television ascended after his work in Masada (1981) and in the cult TV series Doctor Who: The Twin Dilemma (1984). During the 1980s and 1990s McNally established himself as a reputable and versatile actor on both the British and American TV. He played a broad variety of leading and supporting characters ranging from the Soviet politician Kirov in Stalin (1992) to homicide detective Jack Taylor in Chiller (1995), and from an insecure son, Alan Hook, in TV series Dad (1997) to a convicted murderer James Hopkin in Bloodlines (2005). His portrayal of Frank Worsley in Shackleton (2002) as well as the role of Harry Woolf in Life on Mars (2006) are among his best known works for television.
In 1977 McNally made his big screen debut as HMS Ranger Crewman in the James Bond adventure The Spy Who Loved Me (1977). After having played bit parts in more than twenty feature films, McNally shot to international fame as pirate Joshamee Gibbs, his best known film role, in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) and the sequel Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006). He returned in the role Joshamee Gibbs in the third installment of the 'Pirates' franchise Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007).
Kevin McNally has been enjoying a happy family life with Scottish actress Phyllis Logan and his two children. He resides with his family in Chiswick, London, England. - Kit Ying Lam was born on 27 April 1963 in Hong Kong, British Crown Colony. She was an actress, known for A Chinese Odyssey: Part 2 - Cinderella (1995), A Chinese Odyssey: Part One - Pandora's Box (1995) and The Bride with White Hair (1993). She died on 3 November 2018 in Hong Kong, China.
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Kitty Kelly was born on 27 April 1902 in New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Beginner's Luck (1935), So Proudly We Hail! (1943) and Men of Chance (1931). She died on 29 June 1968 in Hollywood, California, USA.- Born in London, UK, but moved to Australia - the family's native country - only a few months later. Started her career as a model during high school. Later she got an international contract with the Ford Agency and lived in New York, London and Paris. After having taken some acting classes she appeared in several theatrical productions with The Crown Players repertory company, including "What the Dickens" and "Snow Angel". Her first movie was 1992 as Holly in Eyes of the Beholder (1992). Two years later she was Julie Dante in Aaron Spelling produced show: Models Inc. (1994)
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After being expelled from high-school he worked for a few years in the sanitation business. In the evenings he studied to become a journalist. Working on Radio Sjuhärad he came in touch with Nationalteatern in Gothenburg and began a new career as an actor. Around 1980 he created the grumpy and bossy character Kurt Olsson for a radio show. The fame grew and finally he got a chance to make a TV show, Kurt Olssons television (1987). This character became the star of several TV-shows but the difficulty of developing Kurt Olsson further has meant that the character was eventually scrapped. Brandeby went on with television comedy, for example with the long-running comedy show Rena rama Rolf (1994). Between 2006 and May 2011 he played the police commissioner Sven Andersson in a series of criminal dramas, "Irene Huss". He fell ill with a kidney condition in the summer of 2011 and passed away at the end of 2011.- Since graduating from the Danish National Theatre School in Copenhagen in 2002, Laura has achieved recognition for her work on both stage and screen. Recently she was co-recipient of the Natsværmer (Moth) Award at the Copenhagen Night Film Festival 2005 along with her brother, Nicolas. In 2004, Laura was nominated for a TV Zulu Award for `Best Supporting Actress' as Ditte in Susanne Bier's critically acclaimed film Brødre (Brothers). In 2003, she was honoured with both the Reumert Talent Award for Theatre and the Prince Henriks of Denmark Arts Award. Notable theatre appearances include performances at the world-renowned Betty Nansen Theatre, and in the role of Asta in the Danish Royal Theatre's production and tour of Ibsen's Little Eyolf, which included a historic visit to Greenland in 2006. She is the third child of renowned actress Helle Hertz and actor/director Christoffer Bro, along with her two brothers, actor Anders Peter and writer/actor Nicolas Bro.
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Laura Catalina Ortiz was born in Bogota, Colombia. She finished high school early, took up acting and headed to Los Angeles where she now resides. In 2006, she booked a lead role off her very first movie audition for Wes Craven's The Hills Have Eyes (2006). Her performance was nominated for a Chainsaw Award. She followed that with a lead role in Chillerama (2011) and other big screen roles in Norbit (2007), Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), and voicing a character for Horton Hears a Who! (2008) (working with Jim Carrey and Steve Carell).
In television, Laura was recently a series regular for two seasons on FearNet Channel's Holliston (2012), a horror sitcom created by Adam Green. She has guest starred on ABC's Happy Endings (2011), Fox's In Justice (2006), Showtime's Sleeper Cell (2005), Nickelodeon's Drake & Josh (2004), and the Comedy Central pilot, Nightrider. In 2012, she guest starred in the ABC sitcom pilot, Happy Valley (2012) and in 2013, she played Rupert Grint's love interest in the CBS pilot Super Clyde (2013) (from Gregory Thomas Garcia, creator of Raising Hope (2010) and My Name Is Earl (2005)).
Laura is also a series regular voice on the Disney Channel animation, Fish Hooks (2010) and has voiced multiple characters for Adult Swim's Robot Chicken (2001). She also stars in the popular web series, The Real Housewives of Horror (2013). She presented at The Annie Awards with Tom Kenny (the voice of SpongeBob).- Leo Heller was born on 27 April 2003. He is an actor, known for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016), Ready Player One (2018) and Stella's Last Weekend (2018).
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Lewis Dauber was born on 27 April 1949 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor and producer, known for The Island (2005), Something's Gotta Give (2003) and Jingle All the Way (1996). He was married to Paulette Levin. He died on 3 October 2019 in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, California, USA.- Actress
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Lisa is BACK to acting full time after raising her boys and married to corporate world for a couple decades. She is excited about a slew of 2019-2020 projects. Check out the latest! Lisa has performed in over 100 film, television, commercial and theater productions, starting her career in Equity Waiver theater, then completing her Bachelor of Arts degree at UCLA, Lisa went on to play the lead role of "Alice" in A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988), directed by Renny Harlin. Due to the phenomenal box office success of A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988), Lisa played "Alice" once again in A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child (1989), directed by Stephen Hopkins. Lisa has played from nun to prostitute. Comedy, soap operas and episodic dramas. She was a regular in the television series, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures (1992), Knots Landing (1979), General Hospital (1963) and numerous guest starring roles. Some of her television highlights include her portrayal of "Carol Brady/Florence Henderson" in the TV movie, Unauthorized: Brady Bunch - The Final Days (2000), and in an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987), portraying the part of "Yuta". This episode, The Vengeance Factor (1989), became so prolific, that "Yuta" is featured on the "Star Trek: Next Generation Monopoly Board"! Other film credits include Men Seeking Women (1997), starring Will Ferrell, and she co-starred with Mark Hamill in Watchers Reborn (1998). Notably, Lisa played the lead in the student foreign short film, Les nouvelles aventures de Chastity Blade (2000) (or "The All New Adventures of Chastity Blade"), which was nominated for a Foreign Student Film Academy Award.- Music Artist
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Lizzo was born Melissa Viviane Jefferson on April 27, 1988 in Detroit, Michigan & raised in Houston, Texas. Before signing with Nice Life and Atlantic Records, Lizzo released 2 studio albums, Lizzobangers (2013) & Big Grrrl Small World (2015). Lizzo's first major-label EP, Coconut Oil was released on 2016. She attained mainstream success with the release of her third studio album, Cuz I Love You (2019), which peaked inside the top five of the US Billboard 200. The album spawned two singles: Juice & Tempo. The deluxe version of the album included Lizzo's 2017 single, Truth Hurts, which became a viral sleeper hit, topping the US Billboard Hot 100 two years after its initial release. Around this time, her 2016 single: Good as Hell also climbed the charts, reaching the top 3 on the Hot 100 and top ten of the UK Singles Chart. Lizzo received 8 nominations at the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards, the most for any artist that year, including Album of the Year for the deluxe version of Cuz I Love You, Song of the Year and Record of the Year for Truth Hurts, as well as Best New Artist. She eventually won the awards for Best Urban Contemporary Album, Best Pop Solo Performance for Truth Hurts & Best Traditional R&B Performance for the song, Jerome.
Aside from singing and rapping, Lizzo also takes up acting roles: she served as a voice performer in the animated film, UglyDolls (2019) and appeared in the crime comedy-drama film, Hustlers (2019). On 2019, Time named Lizzo as Entertainer of the Year for her meteoric rise and contribution to music. In addition to her 3 Grammy Awards, she has also won a Billboard Music Award, a BET Award & 2 Soul Train Music Awards.- Actress
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Lou de Laâge was born on 27 April 1990 in Bordeaux, Gironde, France. She is an actress, known for The Innocents (2016), Jappeloup (2013) and The Mad Women's Ball (2021).- Additional Crew
Lowry Burgess was born on 27 April 1940 in the USA. Lowry is known for Art Through Time: A Global View (2010). Lowry died on 28 January 2020 in Melbourne, Florida, USA.- Actor
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Distinguished Irish character actor of aristocratic or avuncular mien who appeared on stage from the age of 19. He had a penchant for appearing in plays by George Bernard Shaw (at first at London's Court Theatre and later on Broadway) and was was an early interpreter of Dr. John Watson during an 1899 Australian tour of Sherlock Holmes. Hare was later prolific as actor-director on the New York stage, variously with the theatrical companies of Charles Frohman and William A. Brady between 1900 and 1928. He entered films in 1916 as leading man to some of the noted stars of the stage, among them Billie Burke, Janet Beecher and Ethel Barrymore. As he grew older (and with the coming of sound) he graduated to character portrayals of high ranking military officers, inspectors, lords and royalty. Hare spent pretty much the remainder of his lengthy career free-lancing in Hollywood, content with ever-diminishing roles right up to his retirement in 1961.- Marcella Lowery was born on 27 April 1945 in Queens, New York, USA. She is an actress, known for School for Scoundrels (2006), New Jack City (1991) and Thunder Force (2021).
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Marcelo Cespedes was born on 27 April 1955 in Rosario, Santa Fé, Argentina. He was a producer and director, known for Tinta roja (1998), Jaime de Nevares: Último viaje (1995) and H.I.J.O.S.: El alma en dos (2002). He died on 5 May 2020 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.- Mario Das Neves was born on 27 April 1951 in Avellaneda, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Mario died on 31 October 2017 in Rawson, Chubut, Argentina.
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Marius Biegai was born on April 27, 1968 in Krakow, Poland. His family moved to Germany in the early seventies. He lived in Berlin for most of his childhood. His younger brother is famed composer Christian Biegai. Marius spent his college years in Ulm, where he obtained a major in Theatre from the " Theaterakademie Spielstatt Ulm". After college he worked in theatre & television in Munich and Berlin. He soon moved to New York looking for new artistic experiences. Once he was there, he joined the "Artaban Theatre Company" (Theatre du Soleil a. Robert Gourp), he also worked and taught several acting workshops & joined director Gene Frankel's prestigious acting Master Class, where he met Mexican actor - choreographer Veronica Falcón. On August 1998, they got married in a simple ceremony in Mexico City.
They moved to Berlin that same year & founded together "Creactors & Co." a bilingual Theatre - Performance Company. While living in Germany, Marius worked mostly in television & theater. By the year 2000, they decided to relocate back to Mexico City. Once in Mexico, Marius could not work as much while he was learning Spanish, for obvious reasons. So, therefore he only did commercial work, playing non speaking parts and yet, he soon became the most sought after actor in advertisement. At one point he had 10 commercials running simultaneously. That was unheard of in the advertisement world, but Mr. Biegai has a chameleonic ability as an actor that allowed him to pull it off.
As soon as he became fluent Spanish, roles started pouring in. He worked non stop in television, film & theatre. His resume as an actor includes: dozens of shorts, more than twenty-five films, over forty television shows & several stage productions in Mexico & abroad. His breakthrough performance in film was, when he played the role of Sasha Boginski in the Box Office Hit Private Pérez (2011), the film was directed by Beto Gomez & established Marius within the Mexican Film Industry.
In Television he became a star, when he played El Menona, audiences fell in love with his interpretation of this naif child-like character & loved his comedic timing. Los héroes del norte (2010) became a huge hit. To this day, the show is considered, the most successful comedy series ever produced in Mexico. While working on the 2nd season of Los héroes del norte (2010), Mr. Biegai did something very few actors back there, had done then or since. He became the first and only actor to simultaneously play two leading roles (an antagonist & a protagonist) & air at the same time.
He played the iconic villain "Hiram Alos", a neo Nazi Dr., one of the most terrifying characters ever to be seen in a Hispanic television show. Dr. Hiram Alos, the character was introduced on the 3rd season of the hit HBO dramatic series Capadocia (2008). At the same time Marius was still playing The Menona. It was unheard of producers allowing an actor to do that, working for two different networks, in two different shows that were on air at the same time. It was unprecedented. Audiences accepted him & loved him in both roles. Few actors can accomplish that in television.That's a testament to Mr. Biegai's astounding range, charisma & talent.
Along with his cast mates, Mr. Biegai won twice (2012 & 2013) the Mexican equivalent of the People's Choice Award (The TV Novela Award) as part of the Best Ensemble Cast on a TV comedy series, for their work in Los héroes del norte (2010). Marius was at a time, the most successful foreign actor working in Mexico & he is a creative force behind many productions. His credits include several projects as producer, director & creative consultant. He's worked in advertisement, film, theater, opera & television. He has performed in ten different languages & he is fluent in German, Polish, French, Spanish & English. In 2014 Mr. Biegai moved to Los Angeles, where he lives his wife actor, Veronica Falcón Queen of the South (2016) & their only son.