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Kurtwood Smith was born on 3 July 1943 in New Lisbon, Wisconsin, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for RoboCop (1987), Broken Arrow (1996) and Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991). He has been married to Joan Pirkle since 5 November 1988. He was previously married to Cecilia Souza.- Actor
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Aku Louhimies is an award-winning director and screenwriter. His highly acclaimed, commercially successful films have established him as one of the most preeminent directors of Scandinavian cinema today.
Accomplished in both film and television, Louhimies' works have consistently garnered attention and praise, not least on the international film festival scene. Of his ten feature films, his latest works include the box-office record breaking Unknown Soldier (2017) and the European Film Award nominees 8-Ball (2013) and Frozen Land (2012).
He is also working on the world's first carbon negative film, the Wait (2021).
Louhimies attended school in the United Sates, graduating from Billings West High School in Montana before returning to Finland to study history at the University of Helsinki, continuing on to Aalto University with a degree in film directing.
He is fluent in English, Finnish, Swedish, and Spanish.
Louhimies attributes his discipline and a strong work ethic to his military background, having served as platoon leader of the Finnish defense forces. He is still an active reserve officer.
Louhimies was born in Helsinki, Finland to an artistic household; his father was an architect and his mother one of the first female commercial directors in Finland. Louhimies considers Montana his home state and has strong connections there. A dedicated father of four, Louhimies is passionate about using the medium for socially and environmentally constructive purposes. He is also a well-known public speaker and headed the Finnish Directors Guild for several years.- Aldo Kaiser was born on 3 July 1927 in San Guillermo, Santa Fe, Argentina. He was an actor, known for Estación terminal (1980), Rebelde con causa (1961) and Los que verán a Dios (1963). He died on 11 April 2019 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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Alex Steele was born on July 3rd, 1995 in Toronto, Ontario. She is best known for her role as "Tori" on Degrassi: The Next Generation (2001), but was first seen on the show as "Angela". She co-starred in The Choking Game (2014) as "Nina", a movie revealing the dangers in self suffocation, and as "Rebecca" in Wildflower (2014).- Actor
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Alexander Gemignani was born on 3 July 1979 in New York City, New York, USA. He is an actor, known for The Producers (2005), Homeland (2011) and Great Performances (1971).- Raised in Detroit, Michigan, by two loving parents, Alexandra attended the prestigious Interlochen Arts Camp throughout her childhood, later enrolling in the Interlochen Arts Academy for most of her high school career. After graduating, she chose to hone her incredible acting skills at the Royal Scottish Academy in Glasgow. At the age of 21, before she had even officially graduated she was given the coveted role of Anne in the West End production of "Woman in White", becoming an instant West End star. She followed this with a year long run of the West End revival of "Fiddler on the Roof" as Hodel and then another year starring in the West End revival of "Carousel" as Julie Jordan, a critically acclaimed performance, for which she won an award as debut artist on the West End,
After nearly a decade living abroad, she decide to move back to the US, making New York her new home. Her first role after returning was as the scatterbrained, but talented Sophie DePalma in the Kennedy Center's production of Master Class. It was later remounted at the Friedman Theater, giving Ms. Silber her Broadway debut. Since then, she has starred in Fiddler on the Roof, this time as Tzeitel. Alexandra was inspired to continue Hodel's story in Anatevka, her first published novel,followed by a memoir White Hot Grief Parade. She has written and performed her cabaret, London Still, at Feinstein's and as a part of the Barbara Cook series at the Kennedy Center, starred as The Young Wife in an off-Broadway revival of La Chiusa's "Hello Again", been a part of the off-Broadway production of "Women on the Verge", and then wrote and performed a second cabaret, Ex Libris. Silber received a Grammy nomination for her role as Maria in West Side Story with the San Francisco Symphony, conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas. Other orchestra appearances include the New World Symphony, and the Detroit Symphony where she sang the work of contemporary composer David del Tredici, conducted by Leonard Slatkin.
Silber makes her home in New York,with husband Alex Silvsr and her amazing cat Tatiana.
writing she was starring as Jin the US premier of the musical adaptation of "Love Story. A much sought after theater actress, Ms. Silber's stunning features and incredible charisma make her well suited to television and film as well. She has had roles in all three Law and Order series, including a role in the last season of the original series, and had her feature film debut in the Stephen King thriller, "1408". - Ana López Mercado was born on 3 July 1981 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico. She is an actress, known for And Your Mother Too (2001) and Lo que es el amor (2001).
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Andrea Barber was born on 3 July 1976 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for Full House (1987), Fuller House (2016) and Days of Our Lives (1965). She was previously married to Jeremy Rytky.- Actor
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Andreas Wisniewski was born on 3 July 1959 in West Berlin, West Germany. He is an actor and director, known for Die Hard (1988), The Living Daylights (1987) and Mission: Impossible (1996).- Actress
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Anna Fialová was born on 3 July 1995 in Kolin, Czech Republic. She is an actress, known for The Zookeeper's Wife (2017), Tvoje tvár má známý hlas (2016) and Je Suis Karl (2021).- Arnaud Giovaninetti was born on 3 July 1967 in Amiens, Somme, France. He was an actor, known for The Lover (1992), Tango (2010) and Low Profile (1993). He died on 24 January 2018 in Taverny, Val-d'Oise, France.
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Audra McDonald was born on July 3, 1970 in Berlin, Germany as Audra Ann McDonald. She's an actress and singer, best known for her many roles on Broadway. Her mother was a university administrator and her father was a high school principal stationed in West Berlin with the U.S. Army. She has a younger sister and grew up in Fresno, California. She graduated from Theodore Roosevelt High School and went on to study classical singing at Julliard, from which she graduated in 1993. A year later, she won her first Tony Award for her role in Carousel. In 1998, she released her first solo album Way Back to Paradise. She was nominated for her first Emmy Award in 2001 for her role in Wit (2001). In 2006, she debuted as an opera singer in a production of a one-act opera La Voix humaine at the Houston Grand Opera. By 2014, she had won 6 Tonys, becoming the first person to win the award in all 4 acting categories. She planned to make her West End debut in 2016 but postponed it in order to go on maternity leave, eventually debuting at the Wyndham's Theater in the West End in June 2017. She has made many TV and movie appearances, most notably in 4 seasons of Private Practice (2007) & in Disney's remake of Beauty and the Beast (2017). She also performs at concerts throughout the U.S. She was married to Peter Donovan from 2000 to 2009, they have a daughter, Zoe Madeline. Since 2012 she's been married to Will Swenson, they have a daughter, Sally James.- Aurora Del Mar was born on 3 July 1934 in Bahía Blanca, Buenos Aires, Argentina. She was an actress, known for Somos novios (1969), Me llaman Gorrión (1972) and La familia hippie (1971). She died on 15 January 2022 in Bernal, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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Baard Owe was born on 3 July 1936 in Mosjøen, Norway. He was an actor and director, known for The Kingdom (1994), Headhunters (2011) and Gertrud (1964). He was married to Marie-Louise Coninck. He died on 11 November 2017 in Denmark.- Actor
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Barry Crimmins was born on 3 July 1953 in Kingston, New York, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Call Me Lucky (2015), The New Adventures of Beans Baxter (1987) and Lenny Clarke's Late Show (1980). He was married to Helen Lysen. He died on 28 February 2018 in Syracuse, New York, USA.- Actress
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Betty Buckley, who has been called "The Voice of Broadway," is one of theater's most respected and legendary leading ladies. She is an actress/singer whose career spans theater, film, television and concert halls around the world. She is a 2012 Theatre Hall of Fame inductee and the 2017 recipient of the Julie Harris Awards from the Actor's Fund for Artistic Achievement.
She won a Tony Award for her performance as Grizabella, the Glamour Cat, in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats. She received her second Tony Award nomination for Best Actress in a musical for her performance as Hesione in Triumph of Love, and an Olivier Award nomination for her critically acclaimed interpretation of Norma Desmond in the London production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard, which she repeated to more rave reviews on Broadway.
Her other Broadway credits include 1776, Pippin, Song and Dance, The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Carrie. Off-Broadway credits include the world premiere of Horton Foote's The Old Friends for which she received a Drama Desk Nomination in 2014, White's Lies, Lincoln Center's Elegies, the original NYSF production of Edwin Drood, The Eros Trilogy, Juno's Swans and Getting My Act Together and Taking It On The Road. Regional credits include The Perfectionist, Gypsy, Threepenny Opera, Camino Real, Buffalo Gal, Arsenic and Old Lace, The Old Friends at Houston's Alley Theatre and Grey Gardens at the Bay Street Theatre in Sag Harbor, NY and The Ahmanson Theater in Los Angeles in 2016 for which she received an Ovation Award Nomination. In London she starred in Promises, Promises for which she was nominated for An Evening Standard Award and in 2013 the British premiere of Dear World.
Ms. Buckley most recently appeared in the new M. Night Shyamalan hit film Split co-starring James McAvoy, released in January 2017. She was nominated for a Saturn Award for her work in the film. Her other films include her debut in Brian de Palma's screen version of Stephen King's Carrie, Bruce Beresford's Tender Mercies, Roman Polanski's Frantic, Woody Allen's Another Woman, Lawrence Kasden's Wyatt Earp and M. Night Shyamalan's The Happening.
On television, Buckley most recently guest starred in the NBC Series Chicago Med and in the HBO series The Leftovers and Getting On. She appeared in The Pacific also for HBO and twice on the Kennedy Center Honors. She also starred for three seasons in the HBO series Oz and as Abby Bradford in the hit series Eight Is Enough. She has appeared as a guest star in numerous television series, miniseries and films for television including Evergreen, Roses For The Rich, Without A Trace, Law & Order: SVU and Pretty Little Liars.
Buckley tours in concert worldwide with her ensemble of musicians and recently was featured in the Royal Albert Hall concert of Follies in celebration of Stephen Sondheim's 85th birthday. She has recorded 17 CD's: including Ghostlight produced by T Bone Burnett released in 2014 and most recently Story Songs released in April 2017.
She received a Grammy Nomination for Stars and The Moon, Betty Buckley Live at the Donmar. She received her second Grammy Nomination for the audio book The Diaries of Adam and Eve. For over forty years Ms. Buckley has been a teacher of scene study and song interpretation, giving workshops in Manhattan and various universities and performing Arts Conservatories around the country. She has been a faculty member in the theatre department of the University of Texas at Arlington and teaches regularly at the T. Schreiber Studio in New York City, The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX and in Los Angeles, Denver and Oklahoma.
In 2009, Ms. Buckley received the Texas Medal of Arts Award for Theater and was inducted into the Texas Film Hall of Fame in 2007. She has two honorary doctorates from The Boston Conservatory and Marymount College and has been honored with three Lifetime Achievement Awards for her contributions to theater from the New England Theater Conference, The Shubert Theater in New Haven and the Terry Schreiber School in NYC.- Actor
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Bolo Yeung was born in China. He began his martial arts training at the age of 10. Growing up he took an interest in bodybuilding. Later he became know as Chinese Hercules after becoming Mr. Hong Kong bodybuilding champion. He held the title for ten years. Because of his impressively muscular physique he was chosen for several bad guy movie roles, with which his first big break came alongside the legendary Bruce Lee in the 1973 movie Enter the Dragon, where he played the role of 'Bolo'. They were really close friends.
Since then Bolo Yeung has appeared in countless martial arts movies, to date, also working on two movies with "The Muscles from Brussels"-Jean-Claude Van Damme in Bloodsport and Double Impact.
Now Bolo still looks great and still regularly trains at his local gym. Martial Arts and Bodybuilding is an integral part of his life and career.- Bruce Altman was born on 3 July 1955 in The Bronx, New York, USA. He is an actor, known for Running Scared (2006), Matchstick Men (2003) and Regarding Henry (1991). He has been married to Darcy M. McGraw since 1982. They have one child.
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Candice was born to Manuel and Julie Buenrostro and raised just north of Los Angeles, California in Ventura County. She attended TISCH school of arts at NYU after high school but, graduated from Cal State Channel Islands with a Bachelors degree in Psychology and Minor in Theatre Arts. While attending college she was a make-up artist.
In 2014 Buenrostro joined Afterbuzz TV which is an online broadcast network that specializes in after-show podcasts for a wide range of television series created by Keven Undergaro and Maria Menounos.- Talent Agent
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Chad Broskey (born July 3, 1987) is an American actor/singer/dancer. He appeared as Gavin in an episode for The Suite Life of Zack & Cody. He also co-starred in Read It and Weep opposite Kay Panabaker as Marco Vega and appeared in the Scrubs episode Their Story as The Todd's fantasy son Rod. Recently, Chad appeared in an episode of Wizards of Waverly Place as one of the football players that helps Justin take down The Answer Man.
Chad also has a strong musical theatre background and has been seen on stages across the country in shows such as Legally Blonde: The Musical (Warner Huntington III), and Hairspray (Link Larkin). He has also performed on board Norwegian Cruise Line's ship, the Norwegian Getaway as a production cast principle in Legally Blonde, Wine Lovers and Burn The Floor.- Actor
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Charlie Higson was born on 3 July 1958 in Frome, Somerset, England, UK. He is an actor and writer, known for The Fast Show (1994), Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) (2000) and Jekyll and Hyde (2015). He is married to Vicky. They have three children.- Actor
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Cheo Feliciano was born on 3 July 1935 in Ponce, Puerto Rico. He was an actor and composer, known for Something Wild (1986), Fires Within (1991) and Born Romantic (2000). He was married to Socorro Prieto Leon, Socorro Prieto, Coco and Coco Prieto Leon Feliciano. He died on 17 April 2014 in Cupey, Puerto Rico.- Chris Hunter was born on 3 July 1987 in Tacoma, Washington, USA. He is an actor, known for South of Nowhere (2005), Phil of the Future (2004) and Boo! (2009).
- Chuck Sieminski was born on 3 July 1940 in Swoyersville, Pennsylvania, USA. He died on 16 May 2020 in the USA.
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Connie Nielsen is set to begin production on Ridley Scott's "Gladiator 2," where she will star alongside Paul Mescal and Denzel Washington, reprising her iconic role of 'Lucilla' from the Academy Award-winning film "Gladiator." She appears in Ava Duvernay's feature, "Origin," based on the book by Isabel Wilkerson, opposite Jon Bernthal and Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor. Additionally, Nielsen has roles in the following upcoming films: "Role Play," alongside Kaley Cuoco, Bill Nighy, and David Oyelowo for StudioCanal; and "Follow Me," directed by Siri Rodnes. Nielsen is also preparing for the production of "Birds Eye," alongside Maria Bakalova and Jean Reno.
Nielsen starred in and served as an executive producer for the Danish mini-series, "The Dreamer: Becoming Karen Blixen," and starred in "Close to Me" for AMC/Channel 4, opposite Christopher Eccleston.
Previously, Nielsen starred as 'Queen Hippolyta' in Warner Brother's blockbuster hits, "Wonder Woman," "Justice League," "Wonder Woman 1984," and the Snyder Cut of "Justice League", co-starred with Bob Odenkirk in the successful Universal feature, "Nobody," and appeared alongside Simon Pegg and Lily Collins in "The Inheritance," directed by Vaughn Stein. She also appeared in TNT's limited series, "I Am the Night," directed by Patty Jenkins, opposite Chris Pine, and the Danish mini-series, "Liberty," created by Asger Leth. Her other film credits include: "I'll Find You" (directed by Martha Coolidge/Fred Roos), where she starred alongside Stellan Skarsgárd; "Sea Fever" (TIFF 2019), directed by Ken O'Sullivan; "Catcher Was a Spy," opposite Paul Rudd and Guy Pearce; "Stratton," opposite Dominic Cooper; "Le Confessioni," opposite Toni Servillo; the Norwegian film, "The Lion Woman," and Lars Van Triers' "Nymphomaniac," in which she had a leading role. Nielsen was the female lead in the Golden Globe Award-nominated series "Boss," opposite Kelsey Grammer, had a recurring role as a femme fatale on FOX's "The Following," opposite Kevin Bacon, and appeared in a recurring arc on CBS' "The Good Wife."- Actor
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Corey Reynolds played Detective Sgt. David Gabriel opposite Emmy Award winning actress Kyra Sedgwick on TNT's The Closer (2005), the highest-rated show in cable television history. His performance on the show garnered him three SAG Award nominations and a NAMIC Vision Award nomination.
Reynolds made his Broadway debut playing Seaweed in the Tony Award-winning musical Hairspray, a performance that garnered Reynolds nominations for the Outer Circle Critics Award, the Drama Desk Award and the prestigious Tony Award. Steven Spielberg, after seeing Reynolds' star-making turn in Hairspray, personally cast Reynolds in his feature-film debut in The Terminal (2004), with Tom Hanks.
Reynolds was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia, beginning his professional career at age 16 performing around his hometown. He went on to perform in the national and international tours of the Broadway musicals 'Smokey Joe's Café' and 'Saturday Night Fever', as well as regional performances of the musicals 'Parade' and 'Avenue X'.- Actor
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Born in Ajax, Ontario, Corey's career in front of the camera began as a baby model at the tender age of six months. Modelling soon led to work in commercials. At seven years old, he landed his first acting job in the ABC mini-series "Family Pictures," alongside screen veterans Angelica Houston and Sam Neill. The experience convinced young Corey that he had found his passion.
Corey's breakout came when he landed the role of "Timmy" in the 90's version of the prolific series, "Lassie." The show ran internationally for four seasons and earned him a Gemini nomination. Corey was a fairly prolific actor during his childhood. His first starring role in a feature film came in Disney's "Summer of Monkeys." The heartwarming family drama premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and won a coveted Crystal Heart Award.
Into his teens, Corey continued to work at a feverish pace, starring in four more consecutive series - the period drama "Little Men," where his work as streetwise "Dan" earned him back-to-back Los Angeles Youth Award nominations, the futuristic adventure series 2030 C.E., the WB's martial-art drama "Black Sash" and FOX's steamy Hawaii-set drama "North Shore." His work in feature films included the period thriller "Edge of Madness," the psychological drama "The Secret" and the campy sci-fi franchise "Decoys."
As an adult, Corey has appeared as a guest star in many well known series, including; Psych, CSI: Miami, Smallville, Motive, The Listener, Supernatural, Murdoch Mysteries, Wild Card and Twice in a Lifetime.
He has also amassed an impressive list of film credits including--Immortals, The Lost Future, Apartment 1303, Age of the Dragons, Code Breakers, The Jazzman, Conduct Unbecoming, Awaken, A Star for Christmas and 5th & Alameda.- Cork Hubbert was born on 3 July 1952 in Pendleton, Oregon, USA. He was an actor, known for Legend (1985), The Charmings (1987) and Caveman (1981). He died on 28 September 2003 in Venice, California, USA.
- Damir Mihanovic Cubi was an actor, known for Jel' me netko trazio? (1991), Nad lipom 35 (2006) and Vjerujem u andjele (2009). He died on 1 January 2020 in Split, Croatia.
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Dan Clark was born on 3 July 1976 in England, UK. He is a writer and director, known for How Not to Live Your Life (2007), A Kind of Kidnapping (2023) and The Estate Agents (2000).- Actor
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Dane Davenport was born on 3 July 1982 in Plano, Texas, USA. He is an actor and assistant director, known for Hidden Figures (2016), Freaky (2020) and Flight (2012).- Music Department
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David Shire was born on 3 July 1937 in Buffalo, New York, USA. He is a composer and writer, known for Zodiac (2007), Short Circuit (1986) and The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974). He has been married to Didi Conn since 11 February 1984. They have one child. He was previously married to Talia Shire.- Producer
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David Shore has written for cult favorite Due South, NYPD Blue and EZ Streets, served as head writer and supervising producer on Traders, which he developed for Canadian television, and was part of the writing team of the Emmy Award-winning first season of The Practice. He was twice nominated for an Emmy as a producer on Law & Order and executive-produced both Family Law and Hack before creating House.
House has won awards as varied as the People's Choice and the Peabody. Shore won the HUMANITAS Prize and an Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series for his HOUSE episode "Three Stories."
That's all you really need to know about him.- Dean Cook was born on 3 July 1985 in the UK. He is an actor, known for The Little Vampire (2000), Plunkett & Macleane (1999) and The Queen's Nose (1995).
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Don Haggerty was born on 3 July 1914 in Poughkeepsie, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Cause for Alarm! (1951), The Loved One (1965) and Denver & Rio Grande (1952). He was married to Janet Marilyn McAuliffe, Fay Devereux Keith (Lee Fayrene Zook) and Libby Bennett. He died on 19 August 1988 in Cocoa Beach, Florida, USA.- Actress
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Doris Lloyd was an English actress with a lengthy film career. She appeared in over 150 films between 1920 and 1960. She spent most of her life abroad in the United States.
In 1891, Lloyd was born in Walton, Liverpool. Her parents were Edward Franklin Lloyd and Hessy Jane McCappin. One of her grandfathers was reportedly an amateur actor,.
Lloyd made her theatrical debut c. 1914, Liverpool Repertory Company. She made her film debut in the crime film The Shadow Between (1920), based on a novel by Silas Kitto Hocking (1850-1935).
In the early 1920s, Lloyd traveled to the United States to visit her sister who had settled there. She found work as an actress in the United States, and decided to permanently settle there. Besides film appearances, Lloyd appeared in Broadway theater, in the Ziegfeld Follies, and with touring theaters,
Though mostly playing minor and supporting roles, Lloyd had a few highlights in her film career. She played the sinister Russian spy Mrs. Travers in Disraeli (1929), Mrs. Cutten in Tarzan the Ape Man (1932), sympathetic thief Nancy Sikes in Oliver Twist (1933), school superintendent Miss Wetherby in Tarzan and the Leopard Woman (1946), and the "meek housekeeper" Mrs. Watchett in The Time Machine (1960).
Lloyd voiced one of the talking roses in the animated film Alice in Wonderland (1951). Towards the end of her career she had bit parts as an unnamed depositor in Mary Poppins (1964), and as Baroness Ebberfeld in The Sound of Music (1965). Her last film appearance was in the comedy film Rosie! (1967).
Lloyd died in May 1968, at the age of 76. She died in Santa Barbara, California, and was buried in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery of Glendale.- Actress
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Dorothy Kilgallen was the daughter of James Kilgallen, a colorful and popular newspaperman with the Hearst Corporation. She followed her father into the newspaper business and made her early reputation as a crime reporter (a novelty for women in those days) and for her participation in an around-the-world race using transportation that was available at the time (1936) to ordinary people, not aviators. Kilgallen finished second out of the three newspaper reporters who participated in the race. Her fame (she was the only woman) and her subsequent book about the race, "Girl Around the World," established her as a presence in the journalism profession. The book became the basis of the movie Fly Away Baby (1937).
In 1938, Kilgallen become a powerful and influential Broadway columnist. Starting in 1945, Kilgallen and husband Richard Kollmar hosted a long-running early morning radio talk show called "Breakfast With Dorothy and Dick." Although the couple had two children who sometimes joined them talking on the radio, Dorothy and Dick "lived an early version of an open marriage," according to a biographer. Their arrangement allowed both to carry on affairs as long as they did so outside of the expensive five-story neo-Georgian brownstone on Manhattan's East 68th Street that they both loved to decorate and furnish.
Millions of Americans came to know and admire Kilgallen through the TV quiz show What's My Line? (1950). She took the game more seriously than her more lighthearted colleagues did. It allegedly bothered her that she was never as popular with the show's viewers as were her fellow panelists, especially Arlene Francis. NBC News B-roll footage of Kilgallen's February 1964 visit to Dallas, Texas shows, however, that she was delighted when autograph seekers gathered around her. Game show viewers (Kilgallen was seen playing other games besides What's My Line?) seemed to have strong feelings about her. Either they loved her and rooted for her or hated her and enjoyed watching another participant outsmart her.
Kilgallen's relationship with singer Johnnie Ray started out as fun and secretive but later became disastrous when she competed with Ray's male lovers for his attention. Eventually, Kilgallen and Ray drank heavily together in public, a problem that may or may not have affected her performance on What's My Line? and her functioning with a typewriter. Kilgallen's newspaper work consisted of much more than her "gossipy" syndicated Broadway column. Her knowledge of the judge's misconduct during the 1954 murder trial of Samuel Sheppard (his case was the basis for the TV series The Fugitive (1963)) helped F. Lee Bailey secure a new trial for Sheppard. Upon Sheppard's release from the penitentiary that was then located in Columbus, Ohio in July 1964, Bailey helped arrange for a "late-night champagne party" in Cleveland, according to a book the lawyer published in 1971. Kilgallen, who was among the guests, had her first conversation with the wrongly convicted Sheppard.
Several months earlier, Kilgallen had visited Dallas, Texas to cover the murder trial of Jack Ruby. She secured two exclusive interviews with the defendant, who was being tried for the murder of alleged John F. Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald. One of Ruby's lawyers, Joe Tonahill, said years later that in the courtroom Kilgallen and Ruby made eye contact with each other in a way that suggested they may have met before his arrest. Tonahill and other lawyers including Melvin Belli were busy trying to save Ruby from the electric chair and had no time to investigate that. Kilgallen's first conversation with Ruby after his arrest occurred while he sat at the defense table during a recess. It resulted in the headline "Nervous Ruby Feels Breaking Point Near" in the New York Journal-American. (The newspaper was owned by the Hearst Corporation.) She never published anything from or even acknowledged (to her readers) her second conversation with Ruby. It occurred inside a small office behind the judge's bench out of earshot of the deputy sheriffs who were guarding Ruby and out of earshot of his lawyers and everyone else in the courthouse. It lasted approximately eight minutes, according to Joe Tonahill.
Possibly as a result of what Kilgallen learned from Ruby, she became a vocal critic of the Warren Commission investigation of the president's assassination. She allegedly told friends and her lawyer, but not her newspaper readers, that she soon was going to reveal important new information on the murder of JFK. Although Kilgallen's reactions to the Warren Commission report remain accessible, her theory about who shot the president will never be known. She died under mysterious circumstances (suicide or an accidental overdose according to some, murder according to others) soon after the advance notice she allegedly had given her friends and lawyer.
The notebooks containing the information Kilgallen was about to publish disappeared. They were never seen again. Some felt that assassination researchers should have questioned Ron Pataky, an obscure newspaper critic based in Columbus, Ohio whom she befriended a few months after her encounters with Jack Ruby. The Columbus newspaper sometimes mentioned Pataky's travels to New York City, and in June 1964 Kilgallen's column had them riding together in a London taxicab. A month after her death, widower Richard Kollmar refused to cooperate with conspiracy theorist Mark Lane when Lane tried to find her notes. Ten years later other loved ones, including her journalist father who was by then in his late eighties and still working for the Hearst Corporation, refused to discuss her career or the assassination with a biographer.
As the 50th anniversary of her death approaches, only recently did a researcher discover at Syracuse University a long audio recording of Richard Kollmar's 1967 appearance on a locally broadcast New York City radio show that was hosted by John Nebel, better known as "Long John Nebel." Kollmar was promoting the book Murder One that was credited to his late wife. It sold well enough in 1967 to warrant more than one printing and was reissued in paperback. Nebel, who had been a fan of the breakfast radio show that "Dorothy and Dick" had done, and who had known Kilgallen, encouraged Kollmar to discuss publicly many aspects of his late wife's life and career, including the Sheppard murder case.
Throughout the long radio broadcast, you notice that Johnnie Ray, Ron Pataky and events surrounding the assassination are off limits. Kollmar never gets near any of those topics. Neither does Nebel or the other two people who are heard talking with them on the 1967 aircheck. (The book Murder One omitted a chapter on the Jack Ruby murder trial that Ruby's lawyer Joe Tonahill said years later that Kilgallen had planned to include.) Long John Nebel and his guests do discuss Kilgallen's feud with Frank Sinatra, but they avoid the detail that Sinatra had drawn the public's attention to Kilgallen's chin that had prevented her from being photogenic.
Kilgallen's only relative who ever talked publicly about any mysteries surrounding her was her youngest child who had been eleven-and-a-half years old when she died. At age 21, he told the biographer that his family was keeping him, too, in the dark about what had happened ten years earlier.- Ed Cray was born on 3 July 1933 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He was married to Diane Markson Kovacs and Marjorie Lee Best. He died on 8 October 2019 in Palo Alto, California, USA.
- Irish-American brunette Eileen O'Neill was born in Philadelphia, the daughter of bus driver Harry O'Neill and his wife Mary, a former fashion model. Following in her mother's footsteps, Eileen participated in beauty pageants and attended the Philadelphia Modeling & Charm School.
Her screen career began with regular appearances on a local talk show. After moving to California, Eileen made a TV commercial for Pepsi, won second prize in the "Miss Los Angeles Press Photographers" contest, took acting lessons and made her motion picture debut in 1961. Her first credited role on the big screen was as a haughty siren in the rock n'roll musical Teenage Millionaire (1961). It was panned by critics, but Variety commented that Eileen, at least, "improved the scenery". After a succession of no-name roles and bit parts, she then made something of a breakthrough, co-starring opposite Gene Barry and Gary Conway as Sergeant Gloria Ames in the first two seasons of the detective drama Burke's Law (1963). For the rest of the decade, Eileen went from one TV show to another, displaying a penchant for sitcoms, like The Beverly Hillbillies (1962), Bewitched (1964), My Favorite Martian (1963), The Munsters (1964) and Get Smart (1965).
In 1968, she took part in entertaining troops stationed in Vietnam for Armed Forces Radio. She also participated in Operation: Entertainment (1968) (as herself), a televised musical variety television program aimed at veterans, past and present. Eileen retired from screen acting in 1970, but continued to be involved in appearing in TV commercials for several more years. - Elizabeth Hendrickson was born in Northport, New York, USA. She is an actress, known for The Young and the Restless (1973), All My Children (1970) and Imaginary Bitches (2008). She has been married to Rob Meder since 29 June 2019. They have one child.
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Elle was born in 1989. Her mother, London King, was then married to Rob Schneider. Elle grew up back and forth in Ohio and L.A.
Elle now resides in Brooklyn, NY and is working on her music career by playing shows and recording in Brooklyn and Harlem.
She also works for a tattoo shop called East Side Ink in the lower east side.- Elvira Vicario is known for Corazones de fuego (1992), Como vos & yo (1998) and Little Women Forever (1995).
- Emilio Diaz was born on 3 July 1949 in Los Angeles County, California, USA. He was an actor, known for There's Something About Mary (1998). He was married to Billie Diaz. He died on 15 April 2008 in Seal Beach, California, USA.
- Emma Cunniffe was born on 3 July 1973 in Chester, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Poirot (1989), Hetty Wainthropp Investigates (1996) and Southcliffe (2013). She has been married to Rufus Jones since 2008.
- Enrique del Portal was born on 3 July 1932 in Madrid, Spain. He was an actor, known for La revoltosa (1969), El caserío (1972) and Bohemios (1969). He was married to Nieves Fernandez de Sevilla and Natividad Ruiz Cambronero. He died on 20 March 2020 in Madrid, Spain.
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Éric Toledano was born on 3 July 1971 in Paris, France. He is a writer and producer, known for The Intouchables (2011), The Specials (2019) and C'est la vie! (2017).- Composer
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Fontella Bass is an American R&B and soul singer and songwriter best known for her 1965 hit, "Rescue Me."
Fontella Bass was born in St. Louis, Missouri. She was the daughter of gospel singer Martha Bass, who was a member of The Clara Ward Gospel Singers, and the older sister of R&B singer David Peaston. At an early age, Fontella showed great musical talent. At the age of five, she provided the piano accompaniment for her grandmother's singing at funeral services, she sang in her church's choir at six, and by the time she was nine, she had accompanied her mother on tours throughout the South and Southwest America. Bass continued touring with her mother until age of sixteen. As a teenager, Bass was attracted by more secular music. She began singing R&B songs at local contests and fairs while attending Soldan High School from which she graduated in 1958. At 17, she started her professional career working at the Showboat Club near Chain of Rocks, Missouri. With the support of Bob Lyons, the manager of St. Louis station, Bass recorded several songs released through Bobbin Records and produced by Ike Turner. She also recorded on Turner's labels Prann and Sonja. Two years later she quit the Milton band and moved to Chicago after a dispute with Oliver Sain. She auditioned for Chess Records, who immediately signed her as a recording artist. Her first works with the label were several duets with Bobby McClure. The song, "Rescue Me", shot up the charts in the fall and winter of 1965. After a month-long run at the top of the R&B charts, the song reached #4 on the US pop charts and #11 in the UK, and gave Chess its first million-selling single since Chuck Berry a decade earlier. It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc.
During May 2000 Bass received a star on the St. Louis Walk of Fame.- Franz Kafka was born into a German-speaking Jewish family in Prague, Austrian Empire, in 1883. His father, Hermann Kafka, was a business owner and a domestic tyrant, frequently abusing his son. Kafka later admitted to his father, "My writing was all about you...". He believed that his father broke his will and caused insecurity and guilt, that affected his whole life. Their tensions come out in "The Trial" and in "The Castle" in form of a hopeless conflict with an overwhelming force. His mother, Julie Lowy, came from an intellectual, spiritual family of the Jewish merchant and brewer Jakob Lowy. Although her influence was diminished by his dominating father, she shared her son's delicate nature. Kafka had a few relationships with women and was engaged, but never made a family.
He finished the German National Gymnasium in 1901, and graduated from the German University in Prague as Doctor of Law in 1906. He worked for insurance companies for the rest of his life. His profession shaped the formal, cold language of his writings which avoided any sentimental interpretations, leaving it to the reader. In 1908 Kafka published eight short stories compiled under the title "Meditation". In 1911 he became interested in Yiddish theater, that absorbed him more than abstract Judaism. In 1912 he began writing "The Judgment", which was more than an autobiography, providing a therapeutical outlet for his wrecked soul. The same year he started "Metamorphosis" about a traveling salesman, who transformed into a giant bug. In 1914 he wrote "In the Penal Colony" and "The Trial", which is regarded to be his best work. His style remains unique, though literary connections may be traced to Edgar Allan Poe, E.T.A. Hoffmann and Nikolay Gogol, as well as to Chinese parables, to the Bible and Talmud.
As a Jew Kafka experienced social tensions and isolation from the German community, so very few of his writings could find readers during his life. His three sisters later died in the Nazi concentration camps. He suffered from clinical depression, social anxiety, insomnia, and tuberculosis, complicated by laryngitis, that caused him the loss of his voice before his death in 1924. He was comforted by his girlfriend Dora Diamant, who had broken away from her Hasidic shtetl in Poland. She was 19 when they met in 1923 and Kafka wrote to her parents, asking for their permission to marry her. Their answer was negative, because Kafka presented himself as a non-religious Jew. He asked Dora to destroy his manuscripts after his death, but she kept about 20 notebooks of his writings and 35 private letters, that were reportedly confiscated by the Gestapo in 1933 and are not yet recovered. His university friend Max Brod became his editor, biographer and literary agent, who preserved and published most of Kafka's works posthumously, including the unfinished novels "The Trial", "The Castle", and "America". - G.J. Arnaud was born on 3 July 1928 in Camargue, France. He was a writer, known for Les longs manteaux (1986), Zone rouge (1986) and Le coeur froid (1977). He died on 26 April 2020 in La Londe-les-Maures, Var, France.
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The greater one of the brothers of trio made up of Fofo and Miliki. In the group, he interpret the role of "serious" clown, ordered to moderate the attitudes of its brothers and nephews. Excellent executor of saxofon soprano, also executed skillfully marimba and other instruments. After the conclusion of "El loco mundo de los payasos", he dedicated himself to his to his children, such as Los Gabytos. He died in January of 1995 by a complication of his diabetes.- Actor
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Gabriel Tigerman was born on 3 July 1980 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Beef (2023), Good Trouble (2019) and Silicon Valley (2014). He has been married to Kathryn Fiore since October 2008. They have one child.- Actor
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This balding, impeccably well-spoken London-born character actor made his name on the Shakespearean stage well before becoming a known quantity on television. Gary was the son of Austrian-Jewish émigrés Siegfried Waldhorn and his wife Liselotte (née Popper). As a youngster, he became enamoured with acting after seeing Richard Burton on stage as Henry V at the Old Vic. After graduating from the Yale School of Drama in 1967, Waldhorn made his theatrical debut as an extra in a National Theatre production of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. For several years after, he served his apprenticeship as a small part supporting player. By the early 70s, Waldhorn had established himself as a serious actor, headlining as Milo Tindle in Sleuth (the part played by Michael Caine in the classic film version) at the West End. In 1972, he took the play on the road through Australia and New Zealand, along with Richard Todd, who essayed the role of mystery novelist Andrew Wyke. As a Shakespearean actor, Waldhorn later frequently performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company. Over the years, his roles have included Malvolio in Twelfth Night, Shylock in The Merchant of Venice, Leonato in Much Ado About Nothing, a highly acclaimed title role of Henry V (at the Old Vic, 1996-97) and the King of France in All's Well that Ends Well.
On screen from 1969, Waldhorn appeared in a variety of TV shows, his credits including perennial murder suspect William H. Druitt in the miniseries Jack the Ripper (1973), the diplomat and advisor Marquis de Caulaincourt in Napoleon and Love (1974), Conservative politician Henry 'Chips' Channon in Edward & Mrs. Simpson (1978), as well as recurring roles in the comedies All at Number 20 (1986) and Brush Strokes (1986). He also guested (usually as establishment figures) in diverse genre series, ranging from Space: 1999 (1975) to Robin Hood (1984) and from Rumpole of the Bailey (1978) to Lovejoy (1986) and Heartbeat (1992). In the final analysis, Gary Waldhorn will be most fondly remembered as David Horton, the conservative, wealthy, often starchy chairman of the parish council in the ever-popular sitcom The Vicar of Dibley (1994).
From April 1967 until his passing on January 10 2022, Waldhorn was married to Christie Dickason, playwright, poet, theatre director/choreographer, librettist and author of (to date) nine novels.- Actor
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Born in Munich in 1969, Gedeon was raised bilingual (English & German). He was sent to boarding school in England at the age of 8 and transferred to American high school at the age of 12. Gedeon starred in his first movie (Aunt Maria) when he was 10, his second lead role followed one year later in the American / German co-production Blood and Honor (3 part mini series) as Hartmut Keller. By demand of the American and German Producers each scene was shot once in English and once in German, due to his bilingual upbringing, Gedeon was the only actor who did not have to be dubbed in either version.
Gedeon continuously worked in various projects during school vacations until he dropped out of high school after 11th grade. At this time he concentrated on training for 2 years, attending musical school and taking speech and acting classes on the side.
In 1988 Gedeon starred, next to Tony Curtis and Birol Head On by Fathi Akin), in the motion Picture Welcome to Germany which marked the beginning of his career as a grownup. Since then Gedeon has acted in numerous films, including Acting it Out (German film award/ Movie and Bavarian Film award/Actor) by acclaimed German director Wortman, Silence like Glass by Carl Schenkel and Making Up (Student Academy Award USA/German Film Award) by Katja von Garnier. He also starred in the internationally successful television series Detectiv Rex (sold to over 140 territories) and Kobra 11 (Action series, sold to over 120 territories).
in 2006 Gedeon portrayed Henry Neumann, a Jewish boxer trapped in a boxcar with his family on the way to Auschwitz, in the motion picture The last Train. This challenging part, it seems, was the perfect preparation for the biggest opportunity in his career to date, the part of the Jewish Basterd (Will Wicky) in Quentin Tarantino's new movie Inglorious Basterds.- Writer
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American composer, librettist, actor, dancer, author, director, and producer on the stage. Started his career in his family vaudeville shows, came to Broadway at the beginning of the 20th century. Was the composer of the American battle hymn of World War 1, 'Over There' Received the Congressional Gold Medal for his lifetime achievement 1936.- Actor
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George Sanders was born of English parents in St. Petersburg, Russia. He worked in a Birmingham textile mill, in the tobacco business and as a writer in advertising. He entered show business in London as a chorus boy, going from there to cabaret, radio and theatrical understudy. His film debut, in 1936, was as Curly Randall in Find the Lady (1936). His U.S. debut, the same year, with Twentieth Century-Fox, was as Lord Everett Stacy in Lloyd's of London (1936). During the late 1930s and early 1940s he made a number of movies as Simon Templar--the Saint--and as Gay Lawrence, the Falcon. He played Nazis (Maj. Quive-Smith in Fritz Lang's Man Hunt (1941)), royalty (Charles II in Otto Preminger's Forever Amber (1947)), and biblical roles (Saran of Gaza in Cecil B. DeMille's Samson and Delilah (1949)). He won the 1950 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor as theatre critic Addison De Witt in Joseph L. Mankiewicz's All About Eve (1950). In 1957 he hosted a TV series, The George Sanders Mystery Theater (1957). He continued to play mostly villains and charming heels until his suicide in 1972.- Actress
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Gloria Allred was born on 3 July 1941 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Rat Race (2001), John Q (2002) and Race (2008). She was previously married to William Allred and Peyton Huddleston Bray, Jr..- Actor
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Grant Rosenmeyer was born on July 3rd, 1991 in Manhasset, New York. He started acting regionally at the age of 7 and, professionally, at age 8, getting his start on Broadway in a short-lived rendition of "Macbeth", opposite Kelsey Grammer, and in the famed musical, "Les Miserables", as "Gavroche", the spunky street urchin. He had to leave after four months to make his film debut in Wes Anderson's modern classic, The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), opposite Gene Hackman and Ben Stiller, along with the rest of the stellar cast. His next film was the famous "Jewxploitation" film, The Hebrew Hammer (2003), opposite Adam Goldberg and Andy Dick. Rosenmeyer then booked Fox's Oliver Beene (2003), as the title role, earning him a great deal of exposure. He has made numerous well-known guest appearances on shows such as Monk (2002), playing "Young Monk", and Curb Your Enthusiasm (2000) as "Wilson" in the episode, The Smoking Jacket (2005).- Actress
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Grethe Kausland was born on 3 July 1947 in Horten, Norway. She was an actress, known for Far til fire og ulveungerne (1958), Far til fire og onkel Sofus (1957) and Vi spillopper (1979). She died on 16 November 2007 in Oslo, Norway.- Born Deborah Jo Hunter in Fort Worth, the native Texan is an accomplished equestrian with a degree in pre-med from Fordham University in New York. She was a top fashion model in the seventies and eighties, and began her acting career in Dallas, Texas doing plays such as "Vanities", "The Marriage-Go-Round", "I Ought To Be in Pictures", "The Odd Couple" and "The Dining Room". More recently, she appeared at the Beverly Hills Theater, in "Rear Window". In her early television career beginning in 1984, she landed 3 major contract roles, finally remaining with CBS's The Bold and the Beautiful (1987) for the past 23 years, as "Dr. Taylor Forrester". She has appeared on numerous magazine covers. She has received many awards, and is consistently voted as "Most Popular Actress" in "Soap Digest" and "CBS Daytime". She has guest-starred on many prime-time shows, including Diagnosis Murder (1993), The Nanny (1993) and Zorro (1990), as well as movies for the Hallmark Channel, and mini-series such as The Maharaja's Daughter (1994), co-starring with Bruce Boxleitner and Ann-Margret. Hunter has twice been named as one of People Magazine's "50 Most Beautiful People" and has been the spokesperson for over 50 international products. She has done more than 500 commercials - her most notable as the "Pantene Girl". She is launching a skin care line, with an exclusive patented rejuvenating molecule, derived by cutting-edge technology, which she helped create. In her book, "Making a Miracle" (1999), Hunter recounts the trials and tribulations she endured after being fired from Melrose Place (1992) for becoming pregnant, and her daughter Katya's subsequent battle with a rare form of eye cancer, "Retinoblastoma", at the age of three-months-old.
She has a sister, Elizabeth, and a brother, Cliff. She became pregnant very young, with a son, Christopher, who was born around 1980. In the mid-1980s, she met future husband Michael Tylo while they both worked on the soap All My Children (1970). They had a son, Michael (nicknamed Mickey), who was born around 1987. Although their marriage suffered some problems, they managed to overcome them. In the mid-1990s, Hunter reaffirmed her belief in Christianity, and has become an active Christian.
Hunter is a public speaker, giving messages of encouragement and hope for parents and families of children facing fatal childhood illnesses. In October of 2007, Hunter's son, Michael E. Tylo II, died as a result of epilepsy. Hunter is known as an advocate for working mothers. In 1998, she won a landmark case setting a precedent for the Pregnancy Discrimination Act, after being fired from Melrose Place (1992) for becoming pregnant. Hunter also works with "Retinoblastoma International", and her own charity, "Hunter's Chosen Child".
Hunter has studied acting with Gene Frankel in New York, actor Alan Arkin, as well as Roy London and Ivana Chubbuck, in Los Angeles. Hunter's skills include dialects, martial arts, gourmet cooking, kick-boxing, mountain biking, snowboarding, and horseback riding. - Actor
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Ian Anthony Dale was born on 3 July 1978 in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA. He is an actor and director, known for The Walking Dead (2010), The Resident (2018) and Hawaii Five-0 (2010). He has been married to Nicole Garippo since 8 October 2016. They have two children.- Producer
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Ian Maxtone-Graham was born on 3 July 1959 in New York City, New York, USA. He is a producer and writer, known for The Simpsons (1989), The Simpsons Movie (2007) and Veep (2012).- He weighed only four pounds at birth and was so tiny that doctors feared he wouldn't live. But immediately, he began to grow at an incredible rate and by age ten was over six feet tall. He was discovered by Hollywood as a teenager and offered a job acting in comedies. He made over fifty of them, until one day on the set when he fell from a scaffolding. When he woke up, he found he was losing his peripheral vision, due to a newly-discovered pituitary gland tumour. Doctors attempted to shrink the tumor with X-rays which miraculously both restored his sight and stopped his incredible growth. He enrolled in college, during which he went to see the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus where he saw Jack (Jim) Tarver, billed as 'the tallest man in the world'. He joined the circus and traveled with them for fourteen years. Upon retiring from the circus, Jack became a successful traveling salesman and was intensely creative. He painted, sculpted, was a prize-winning photographer.
- Jacqueline Malouf was born on 3 July 1941 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She was an actress, known for Donovan's Reef (1963), Petticoat Junction (1963) and I'm Dickens, He's Fenster (1962). She was married to Andrew Nassir. She died on 12 October 1999 in La Jolla, California, USA.
- Jael Strauss was born on 3 July 1984 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. She was an actress, known for The Story of Your Life (2008), Wrath/Anger (2008) and S&M: Sex & Money (2008). She died on 4 December 2018 in the USA.
- Jamie Renell was born on 3 July 1972 in Biddeford, Maine, USA. He is an actor, known for Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017), Finding Steve McQueen (2019) and The Change-Up (2011). He was previously married to Jacqueline Renell.
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One of four girls, Smithers was raised in the comfortable San Fernando Valley suburb of Woodland Hills just north of Los Angeles, CA. Her father was an attorney. While studying art at Taft High School, Smithers swerved her automobile to avoid hitting another driver and ran into a telephone pole. The accident left a permanent scar on her chin. A couple of years later, Smithers was interviewed by Newsweek reporter David Moberg for a story about typical American teenagers in the 1960s. She was photographed happily riding on the back of a friend's motorcycle by Julian Wasser. That carefree looking shot made the cover of the March 21, 1966 issue of the magazine. The shot led to work in commercials while she was continuing her art studies at California Institute of the Arts in Valencia.
After a few years as a working actress, she won the role of pretty but shy Bailey Quarters in WKRP in Cincinnati (1978), a CBS sitcom about a Midwestern radio station. After the show ended its run, she worked on occasion and in 1987, married actor James Brolin. She became a stepmother to his two sons and had a daughter with Brolin. Her marriage to Brolin ended in 1995.- Jane Allsop was born in Oxford, England and soon after moved to the US for several years. Upon returning to Melbourne the family settled in the eastern suburbs and Jane began drama classes at the age of nine. At age 13 Jane went to her first audition and got it - a Wedgewood Pie commercial. Ironically this was the same commercial that began Stephen Curry's career, and nearly two decades later they worked alongside one another in "The King". After secondary school Jane completed a Visual and Performing Arts Degree at the Victorian College of the Arts. She worked consistently over the years, gaining guest roles in many television programs including "Neighbours", State Coroner, "Kangaroo Palace" TV movie, "Halifax f.p III: Afraid of the Dark", "Lano and Woodley" and "Blue Heelers". But her big break came in 1999 when she landed the role of Constable Jo Parrish in the Seven Network's hit drama "Blue Heelers". She played the role of Jo Parrish for 5 years, completing exactly 200 episodes. The roles that followed included among other things a regular role on "Last Man Standing", a 4 part series of "MDA" starring alongside Vince Colosimo, and the role of Noeline Brown in "The King". In the latter half of 2010, she can be simultaneously seen in "Matching Jack" in cinemas, in "Tangle" on Foxtel Showcase, on Channel 10 in her role as Tash on "Rush", and on the Nine Network playing Carmel Arthur in the first "Underbelly Files: Tell Them Lucifer Was Here" telemovie.
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Jay Tarses was born on 3 July 1939 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd (1987), Teen Wolf (1985) and Open All Night (1981). He has been married to Rachel Newdell since 9 June 1963. They have three children.- Actor
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Jesse Corti was born on 3 July 1955 in Venezuela. He is an actor and producer, known for Beauty and the Beast (1991), Zootopia (2016) and Heist (2015). He has been married to Julietta Marcelli since 1989. They have two children. He was previously married to Laura Lyn Deberardino.- John Sears was born on 3 July 1940 in Syracuse, New York, USA. He was married to Carol Osborne . He died on 26 March 2020 in Miami, Florida, USA.
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José Moreno Brooks is an independent filmmaker, editor, and actor. Originally from northern California, José graduated with an Economics degree from UCLA before deferring his law school acceptance and making a sharp left turn. José has since appeared on-camera in several television series, including Telenovela, Queens, 911-Lonestar, Jane the Virgin, Mom, Young and Hungry, and Baby Daddy, among others.
When he is not acting, Jose can be found editing and producing passion projects. His first feature documentary Allihopa: The Dalkurd Story, which he co-produced and edited, is currently on the festival circuit and has been one of José's greatest storytelling opportunities. As a lifelong soccer player, the chance to spend two months embedded with a professional soccer team as they chase history was a dream for him. And as a filmmaker, the responsibility of telling the story of not just this football club in Sweden but also the Kurdish people and their resilience was an honor. It is José's hope that in our polarized and fractured world, this film can create a bit more compassion and serve as a reminder that we can create magic when we work all together or allihopa as they say in Sweden.- Judith Miller was born on 3 July 1941 in Antibes, Alpes-Maritimes, France. She was married to Jacques-Alain Miller. She died on 6 December 2017 in Paris, France.
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Julian Assange was born on 3 July 1971 in Townsville, Queensland, Australia. He is a producer and director, known for Mediastan (2013), Collateral Murder (2010) and Risk (2016). He has been married to Stella Assange since 23 March 2022.- Justin Dreyfuss was born on 3 July 1969 in Los Angeles County, California, USA. He is an actor, known for Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) and Munchies (1987).
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Justin Torkildsen portrays Rick Forrester, son of Eric Forrester and Brooke Logan, on The Bold and the Beautiful. Born and raised in Boulder, Colorado, Justin learned to ski at the age of two and continued to enjoy outdoor activities as he grew up, including ski racing, ice hockey, track, skateboarding, rollerblading, mountain biking and rock climbing. He also had a wonderful opportunity teaching handicapped people to ski. Justin attended Boulder High, where he was an all-star baseball player and earned a letter managing the girls' swim team. He also dressed up as the school mascot, a panther, for football and basketball games. Justin's first acting experience came about after he answered an audition call for a local dinner theater. Armed with just a Polaroid photo of himself, he won the lead child role of Louis in The King and I. Other local theater parts followed and he received classical training in his roles in Shakespeare's Henry V and Richard III. Justin has made quite a splash in commercial modeling, landing an important ad campaign for Nautica, who featured Justin modeling outdoor gear on their website and in 7-story all billboards in Times Square and other locations in New York, as well as Chicago and Boston. Television talk-show host Roseanne saw one of these ads and booked him as a guest on her show where she put him through a dating-game segment. Other commercial jobs include a U.S national commercial for Nintendo's Gameboy. Justin first came to the attention of B&B when his agent sent in a tape for a different role and they remembered him when they were recasting the character of Rick Forrester. The producers were obviously struck by his physical similarities to the previous actor in the role, but were even more impressed with his acting opposite Ashley Cafagna (Kimberley) in the screen test and he got the role. Justin has found a place to live in the San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles and is spending his free time writing a screenplay with his best friend. He has already written and performed stand-up comedy routines at Comedy Works in Denver, The Ice House in Pasadena, and The Comedy Store in West Hollywood. He loves to write comedy and seeing the resulting smiles on people's faces. Justin loves cars, especially his 1978 Land Cruiser.- Kelsey is the oldest of three girls and lives with both parents near Los Angeles. Kelsey began modeling at the age of four and quickly started booking print jobs. In 2001 she was hired for her first runway fashion show and since then has performed as a runway model in 18 shows! She landed her first television guest-star appearance on "Power Rangers - Wild Force" in 2002 and shortly after filmed a flashback scene for the pilot episode of "The Oliver Beene Show". She frequently guest co-stars on "8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter" for flashback scenes of Kaley Cuoco's character "Bridget Hennessy". She was a Disney Catalog print model for approximately 2 years. Her most famous role was playing Annie McNamara on the hit cable series Nip/Tuck (2003). After the series ended, she relocated to Texas where her hobbies include fishing and horseback riding.
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Ken Ober was born on 3 July 1957 in Brookline, Massachusetts, USA. He was a producer and writer, known for Loaded Weapon 1 (1993), Parenthood (1990) and Mind of Mencia (2005). He died on 15 November 2009 in Santa Monica, California, USA.- Director
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Ken Russell tried several professions before choosing to become a film director; he was a still photographer and a dancer and he even served in the Army, but film was his destiny. He began by making several short films which paved the way for his brilliant television films of the 1960s that are acclaimed for his attention to detail and opulent visuals. His third feature film Women in Love (1969) was a triumph that made him known internationally. In the 1970s, his talent truly blossomed. Over the next two decades he would direct a succession of remarkable films, most containing the trademark flamboyance that critics generally dismiss but many find engrossing. He will forever be remembered as a controversial, visionary artist with something of a third eye for oddball dramas with captivating images and themes.- Keri Houlihan was born on 3 July 1975. She is an actress, known for Our House (1986), Snoopy's Getting Married, Charlie Brown (1985) and Night Court (1984).
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Kinji Fukasaku was born on 3 July 1930 in Mito, Japan. He was a director and writer, known for Battle Royale (2000), Fall Guy (1982) and Crest of Betrayal (1994). He was married to Sanae Nakahara. He died on 12 January 2003 in Tokyo, Japan.- Actress
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Laura Branigan was born on 3 July 1952 in Mount Kisco, New York, USA. She was an actress and composer, known for Flashdance (1983), Ghostbusters (1984) and I, Tonya (2017). She was married to Laurence Ross Kruteck. She died on 26 August 2004 in East Quogue, New York, USA.- An alumnus of the Pasadena Playhouse, Louise Allbritton's beauty and talent quickly got her jobs in the film industry, and she spent several years at Universal, where she played leads in mainly second features. She married CBS news reporter Charles Collingwood in 1946, and retired from the screen a few years later.
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The French actress Ludivine Sagnier was born on July 3, 1979 in La Celle-Saint-Cloud, in France's Yvelines department. Ludivine studied acting as a young girl and had made her movie debut at the age 10 in Les maris, les femmes, les amants (1989). She has established her reputation as one of the brightest young stars in French and international cinema in her collaborations with French filmmaker François Ozon, starting with Water Drops on Burning Rocks (2000) (based on a screenplay by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 8 Women (2002) and in Swimming Pool (2003). For her performance in 8 Women (2002), she won a Cesar Award nomination (the French equivalent of the Oscar) and the Romy Schneider Award that is given each year to a promising young French actress. In that film, Sagnier proved her acting prowess by distinguishing herself in a stellar cast that included the legendary actresses Danielle Darrieux, Catherine Deneuve and Isabelle Huppert as well as Emmanuelle Béart and Fanny Ardant. Along with these grand ladies of the French cinema, Sagnier won the Best Actress Award from the European Film Academy Award and the Silver Bear Award at the 2002 Berlin International Film Festival.
Swimming Pool (2003) represented her crossover into English-language cinema. (Sagnier played her first English language role in Toothache (2006).) Marketed in the U.S. with a comely shot of Sagnier sunbathing alongside a pool, Ozon's film became one of the biggest-grossing foreign movies in the U.S. during 2003. So far, she has turned down large monetary offers to appear in American films as the foreign girlfriend of young American superstars, as she remains committed to French cinema.
Sagnier became a mother on March 25, 2005, when she gave birth to a daughter named Bonnie by her boyfriend, French actor Nicolas Duvauchelle.- Luis Aranda was an actor, known for Llévame contigo (1982), Cops (1997) and El precio del poder (1992). He died on 27 August 2012 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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Mario Pergolini was born on 3 July 1964 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is an actor and producer, known for Hermanos & detectives (2007), Burnt Money (2000) and The Swamp (2001). He has been married to Dolores Galán since 6 July 1990. They have three children.- Writer
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Masato Harada was born on 3 July 1949 in Numazu, Shizuoka, Japan. He is a writer and director, known for Chronicle of My Mother (2011), The Last Samurai (2003) and Bounce Ko Gals (1997).- Matt Keough was born on 3 July 1955 in Pomona, California, USA. He was married to Jeana Keough. He died on 2 May 2020 in California, USA.
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Matt grew up in St. Louis and spent a good deal of time in the rough neighborhoods of East St. Louis. At age 16, he moved to Atlanta, where he studied guitar at the prestigious Atlanta Institute of Music. He moved back to St. Louis at age 17 and taught guitar for a year. He moved to Los Angeles in 1992 to be a studio musician, but ended up doing both acting and modeling. He did a Levi's commercial, then worked as a Levi's model both in print and on the runway, living in Europe for two years. He didn't much care for modeling, though, and decided to focus his attention on acting. After guest appearances in several TV shows, including "Charmed", Matt landed his first feature film role as the vampire Crease in Blade (1998). Since then, he has had leading roles in two independent films and major supporting roles in films like The Fast and the Furious (2001) and Blade II (2002).- Actor
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Max Mauff was born on 3 July 1987 in Berlin, Germany. He is an actor, known for The Reader (2008), The Wave (2008) and Sense8 (2015).- Actor
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Michael Cole was born on 3 July 1940 in Madison, Wisconsin, USA. He is an actor, known for It (1990), Mr. Brooks (2007) and Police Story (1973). He has been married to Shelley Funes since 1996. He was previously married to Paula Kelly Jr..- Director
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Born in Milan, Italy in 1957, Michele Soavi's parents separated when he was little and he lived with his mother who remarried a painter. Interested in his stepfather's interest in painting, Soavi began an interest in creative arts in his school. During his teenage years, he decided that the cinema was his true calling after attending several movie screenings and developing a taste for acting. After graduating from high school, Soavi took acting lessons at Fersen Studios in Milan. His first acting role was an extra in the movie Bambulè (1979) which was directed by Marco Modugno. During production, Modugno, impressed by Soavi's interest in the movies, offered him a job as an assistant director which Soavi accepted and learned more about a director's film making technique. After acting in small roles in Il giorno del Cobra (1980) and City of the Living Dead (1980), Soavi was given another chance as an assistant director by director Aristide Massaccesi (aka: Joe D'Amato). In their first film, Soavi acted in an uncredited part, and was the assistant director. Over four more films with Massaccesi, Soavi served as a bit part actor, screenwriter and personal assistant. Soavi first met writer/director Dario Argento in 1979 where the director took Soavi under his wing after learning of their same tastes with film making. Argento made Soavi the second assistant director for the movie Tenebrae (1982) with Lamberto Bava as the first assistant director.
Pleased with his work, Bava hired Soavi as his assistant director for the mystery-thriller A Blade in the Dark (1983) with Soavi in a supporting role. Afterwards, Argento brought back Soavi to work as his assistant director in Phenomena (1985) with Soavi acting in a small role.
Argento rewarded Soavi by giving him his first assignment as director of a music video "The Valley" featuring music by Bill Wyman for the movie Phenomena, plus as director for a documentary on Argento's films. Soavi worked again for Lamberto Bava as assistant director in Demons (1985) in which Soavi also appeared. Soavi, wanting to get on his own, turned to his former mentor Aristide Massaccesi to show off his work where the director offered Soavi a chance to direct his first movie, StageFright (1987). Altough a box-office flop in Italy, it was a success abroad. Despite the low budget (equivalent to under $1 million U.S. dollars), low-production values, poor editing involving the soundtrack, Soavi began to look elsewhere for work where he was hired as an assistant director and cameraman for British actor/director Terry Gilliam with The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988). With new skills, Soavi returned to Argento as a supervisor for special effects in Opera (1987) where Argento offered him to direct another film, a horror flick called The Church (1989). With his first big film project, a budget three to four times the budget of Stagefright, with Argento as the producer and filmed on location in Budapest. The international success of The Church inspired Soavi to direct another film, The Sect (1991).
Soavi worked on a number of screenplays, and directed the horror-comedy Cemetery Man (1994) which was a huge hit in the USA. Afterwards, Soavi took a break from working to spend time with his wife and family. Recently, he returned to directing with two made-for-Italian-TV dramas. Despite his absence from the entertainment world in recent years, Michele Soavi is remembered to this day as one of the many masters of Italian horror cinema as a director, screenwriter, actor, and assistant director.- Actor
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Mickey Rooney Jr. was born on July 3, 1945, as Joseph Yule III to movie legend Mickey Rooney and his second wife (among his own wives was Merci Montello, the Playmate of the Month for December 1972 as "Mercy Rooney"). A beauty pageant winner ("Miss Alabama 1944"), the former Betty Jane Rase met Mickey Sr. when he was stationed in the Army in Birmingham, Alabama, during World War II. Mickey Jr. was the first of his father's nine children.
Growing up in Hollywood as the son of a famous movie star, Junior rubbed shoulders with some of the biggest stars on the planet, including Mae West, Elvis Presley and The Beatles. When he was 13 years old he met Judy Garland at a party at her Brentwood home. "So you're Mickey's first-born son," his father's most famous leading lady said. "You're a fine-looking young man." Unlike his extremely short father, the son would grow to be over six feet tall, taking after his tall mother.
His father, in his 1991 autobiography "Life Is Too Short", admitted that he cheated on Betty Jane. According to Mickey Sr., she was "totally oblivious to anything going on outside our home." Mickey Sr. summed up their relationship as, "We just weren't compatible." The marriage ended in divorce in 1948.
Mickey Jr. saw his father frequently after the divorce. Sharing the name of the #1 box office star of 1939, 1940 and 1941 opened doors for Mickey Jr., although making the most of the opportunities wasn't always easy. He found out he had to work twice as hard to prove himself because of his famous name.
He had his first taste of show business as one of the original Mousketeers on Walt Disney's The Mickey Mouse Club (1955) (his father claims that Walt Disney named the famous Mouse after him). He and brother Tim Rooney were hired in 1955 due to their ability to sing, dance and act. After appearing on the show for a year, their contracts were terminated after the mischievous boys got into a hassle with the studio's paint department (they sneaked in and poured different colors of paint in different cans). Six years later, at age 17, he hosted "The Andy Hardy Theater" on local TV. Musically inclined, he played bass in Willie Nelson's band and has recorded an album called "The Song Album." Like his height, his musical talent was inherited from his mother, who was a gifted vocalist. His maternal grandmother taught him how to play the ukulele by showing him how to play chords, which he then played on an acoustic guitar. In addition to playing bass and guitar, Mickey Jr. plays drums, harmonica and keyboards and writes music. He, his wife Laura and their friend John Whittinghill perform rock 'n' roll and gospel music as "Mickey Rooney Jr. and Friends."
A born-again Christian, Mickey Jr. met Laura, a Messianic Jew, in 1986. Through The Lord's Link Ministry, the couple minister and spread the Good News. Laura sings and plays a harp, while both she and Mickey Jr. testify to the "folly" of living "life in the fast lane." They reside in Hemet, CA.
Mickey Jr. and his brother Tim operate the Rooney Entertainment Group, a movie and TV production company. He has written his autobiography, "Which One's Your Mother?"- Miguel del Sel was born on 3 July 1957 in Provincia de Santa Fé, Argentina. He is an actor, known for Siempre es difícil volver a casa (1992), Totalmente (1999) and La herencia del Tío Pepe (1998).
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Montel Williams was born on 3 July 1956 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He is a producer and actor, known for The Montel Williams Show (1991), JAG (1995) and All My Children (1970). He has been married to Tara Fowler since 6 October 2007. He was previously married to Grace Morley and Rochele See.- Actor
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Mykel Shannon Jenkins, born in Biloxi, Mississippi to an officer in the U.S. Air Force, called many states home. With his parents and two siblings, the family finally settled in New Orleans, Louisiana, where Mykel graduated from Bonnabel High School and, after that earned a bachelor's degree from Loyola University. While in high school, Mykel was a nationalist in drama and speech & debate, where his fire for the dramatic was ignited. During college, while holding down a part-time job as a waiter, Mykel became a household name as the host of New Orleans' WB38 Kids' Club, where he served as an on-air personality for more than four years introducing kids and parents to a world of knowledge. After college, Mykel began his pursuit of an acting career, landing minor roles in a few movies. During this time, Mykel's knack for writing reared its creative head as he penned his first screenplay about childhood friends who pull off the greatest art heist. Although this one did not make it to film (yet), Mykel has written, directed, and produced over six screenplays since that first one.
In 2003, empowered by his family and armored with a dream and staunch determination, Mykel made his big move to Hollywood. Mykel has studied under some of the most renowned teachers in the industry, such as the Beverly Hills Playhouse, Gary Imhoff, Lesly Kahn, and continues to be mentored by Acting Coach Eric Stuart. Over the years, Mykel's hard work paid off. His TV credits include The CW's Containment, Steppin' Back to Love, A Royal Christmas Ball, Michael Jackson: Searching for Neverland and The Bold and the Beautiful. Mykel's film credits include The Last Heist, Beyond the Trek, The Masked Saint, Same Kind of Different as Me, and Undisputed III: Redemption, where he brought to life the charismatic and unforgettable American fighter, Turbo. Mykel also starred in the critically acclaimed WellGo USA Ent (THEATRICAL)/Netflix's The Paper Tigers, a film about three now middle-aged Kung Fu prodigies who reunited to avenge the death of their master teacher. Most recently, Mykel signed on as Dobbs Ryker opposite Morgan Freeman (gang kingpin Kendric Ryker) and Luke Hemsworth (Lee Gunner) for the action-thriller motion picture Gunner, hitting theaters in 2024.
Expanding his opportunities, Mykel began to tap into his creative writing and directing side, which was provoked by his own words, "Why wait for an opportunity? I will create my own." He has written, directed, produced and starred in over six of features, including The Gods, The Gods 2: The Dark Side, Two Wolves, and Octopus Pot. Mykel is currently writing The Gods 3, and a series entitled Summer 17. Last year, Mykel wrapped on Youn'G (which he again wrote, produced, directed, and co-starred), spotlighting his son, Bryce Clyde Jenkins, in a coming-of-age dramedy about a teenage boy who, with the help of his close friends, fights for his true love while at the same time discovering his cool neighborhood mentor is his father.
Although Mykel is quite busy writing, directing, and acting, he still finds time to train physically as well as spiritually. As a personal trainer, Mykel knows what it takes to maintain a healthy body and mind, i.e., hard work and discipline. He enjoys training others because he can assist in more than just their physical development, but their spiritual and mental growth as well. Mykel enjoys watching movies, working out and keeping up with his son, cheering for his athletes, bowling, and creative writing. At the close of his busy day, Mykel still finds time to play his two favorite roles, a devoted father and husband, with tremendous patience, understanding, and love.- Nathalia Ramos was born in Madrid, Spain, to an Australian mother, Kate Cohen, and a Spanish father, Juan Carlos Ramos. Fluent in both English and Spanish, she lived in Madrid, Melbourne, and Miami before finally settling in LA at the age of 14. She played Hope Loblaw on the hit show Arrested Development. She is most known for her leading roles in Bratz and Nickelodeon's House of Anubis, which won her a Kids Choice Award. Nathalia continues to act in film and television and graduated from USC with a degree in Political Science in 2018.
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Lisa Olivia Munn was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Her mother, Kimberly Schmid, lived in Vietnam, and is of Chinese ancestry, while her father, Winston Barrett Munn, is from a family with deep roots in the American South. Olivia's parents divorced when she was two years old, and she was raised by her mother and stepfather, a member of the United States Air Force. Although the family departed Oklahoma and resided in many locations, she was mainly raised in Tokyo, Japan. During this time, she appeared in a number of local theater productions and later became a model in the Japanese fashion industry. When the family eventually returned to the United States, Olivia moved to Los Angeles to pursue her dream of becoming an actress. After a few small roles, her career took a very promising turn when she landed the role of Mily Acuna on the Hawaii-lensed TV series Beyond the Break (2006) and the role of Rob Schneider's receptionist in Big Stan (2007). She hosts "The Daily Nut" and the "Formula D" Podcasts on G4.- Oscar Ustari has been married to Ornella Giusti since 2007. They have two children.