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Keegan-Michael Key was born in Southfield, Michigan and raised in Detroit. He was adopted as a child by a black father and a white mother. In 1989, he graduated from Shrine Catholic High School in Royal Oak, Michigan. Key attended the University of Detroit Mercy as an undergraduate and earned his Master of Fine Arts in Theater at Pennsylvania State University. While at The University of Detroit Mercy, he was a brother of Phi Kappa Theta.- Adrien Dorval was born on 22 March 1963 in Fort St. John, British Columbia, Canada. He was an actor, known for Shanghai Noon (2000), The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009) and The Chronicles of Riddick (2004). He was married to Angela Cruikshank. He died on 5 January 2021 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
- Alan Trachtenberg is known for High Lonesome: The Story of Bluegrass Music (1992) and The Beat Generation: An American Dream (1988).
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Aldo Pastur was born on 22 March 1949 in Argentina. He was an actor and producer, known for Crecer de golpe (1977), Marco, el candidato (1994) and La parte del león (1978). He was married to Claudia Santos. He died on 24 November 2023 in Argentina.- Actress
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Andrea Collins was born in Lewisburg Tennessee, and spent her early years classically trained in ballet. As Andrea approached her teen years she began her pursuit towards studying acting. She actively enrolled in both theater, and method acting classes, performing shows throughout Tennessee. By her twenties, Andrea had branched off towards professional modeling, when she was scouted by Whilemena. Under their management, she worked on several national commercials, print campaigns, all the while continuing her theatrical training. Andrea went on to be featured in several music videos, with genres ranging from country, pop, to rock. This encouraged her to focus more on the acting side of her skill set, and take on more film related roles, and use her modeling as more of a supplement. Andrea has since then starred, been featured in, and worked on countless film projects. Her work includes short film, feature length, independent, television, and theatrical. Her look and talent is timeless, and classic, as she incorporates her roots as a southern ballerina, with her upbringing in the California rock and roll scene. She currently has her own production company Fatale Noir Productions, and is now directing, writing, and providing special effects services, along with continuing her own acting career.- Actor
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Andreas Pietschmann was born on 22 March 1969 in Würzburg, Bavaria, Germany. He is an actor, known for Dark (2017), 1899 (2022) and Belle & Sebastian (2013).- Composer
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Andrew Lloyd Webber is arguably the most successful composer of our time. He is best known for stage and film adaptations of his musicals Jesus Christ Superstar (1973), Cats (1994), Evita (1996), and The Phantom of the Opera (2004).
He was born on March 22, 1948, in South Kensington in London, England, the first of two sons of William Lloyd Webber, an organist and composer. His mother, Jean Johnstone, was a pianist and violinist. Young Andrew Lloyd Webber learned to play various musical instruments at home and began composing at an early age. He continued his music studies at Westminster School, where his father was an organist. At the age of 9, young Andrew was able to play the organ and assisted his father during performances. In 1964 he went to Oxford University as a Queens Scholar of history.
In 1965 he met lyricist Tim Rice and dropped out of school to compose musicals and pop songs. In 1968 he had his first success with the West End production of 'Joseph and the Amasing Techicolor Dreamcoat'. From the 1960s to 2000s Lloyd Webber has been constantly updating his style as an eclectic blend of musical genres ranging from classical to rock, pop, and jazz, and with inclusion of electro-acoustic music and choral-like numbers in his musicals.
Andrew Lloyd Webber shot to fame in 1971 with the opening of his rock opera 'Jesus Christ Superstar'. His next successful collaboration with Tim Rice was the musical biopic 'Evita', based on the true story of Eva Peron of Argentina. Andrew Lloyd Webber has been constantly updating the genre of musical theatre. In 1981 he delivered 'Cats', based on Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats and other poems by T.S. Eliot. It was produced at New London Theatre, where stage was designed as a giant junkyard with large-scale bottles and cans scattered around a huge tire representing a playground for cats dressed in exotic costumes who would come and go through the aisles. The record-breaking production of 'Cats' was on stage for 21 seasons, from 1981 - 2002, and became one of the most popular musicals of all time. It played the total of 8,949 performances in London and 7,485 in New York.
In 1986 Andrew Lloyd Webber released his most successful musical, 'The Phantom of the Opera', based on the eponymous book by Gaston Leroux with the English lyrics by Charles Hart. 'The Phantom of the Opera' became the highest grossing entertainment event of all time, with total worldwide gross of 3,3 billion dollars and attendance of 80 million. It is also the longest running Broadway musical of all time and the most financially successful Broadway show in history. 'The Phantom of the Opera' was translated into several languages and was produced in more than twenty countries as "clones" of the original production, using similar staging, direction, costumes concept and sets design.
He was knighted Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber in 1992, and was created an honorary life peer in 1997 as Baron Lloyd-Webber, of Syndmonton in the County of Hampshire. He won the 1996 Academy Award for Best Music, Original Song for Evita (1996), and received two more Oscar nominations. Among his other awards are seven Tonys and three Grammys, including his 1986 Grammy Award for Requiem in the category of best classical composition. In 2006 Andrew Lloyd Webber was Awarded Kennedy Center Honors. He owns seven London theatres, which he also restored. Outside of his entertainment career he developed a passion for collecting Pre-Raphaelite paintings and Victorian art. He was married three times and has five children. He is residing in England.
Andrew Lloyd Webber is currently working on his new opera titled 'Master and Margarita' based on the eponymous novel by Mikhail A. Bulgakov.- Composer
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Angelo Badalamenti was born on 22 March 1937 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He was a composer and actor, known for Mulholland Drive (2001), Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992) and Lost Highway (1997). He was married to Lonny Irgens. He died on 11 December 2022 in Lincoln Park, New Jersey, USA.- Actress
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Anja Kling was born on 22 March 1970 in Potsdam, German Democratic Republic. She is an actress and writer, known for (T)Raumschiff Surprise - Periode 1 (2004), The Final Days (2008) and Tödliche Wahl (1995).- Actress
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Anne was raised in Newton, Massachusetts. She got the role of Iphigenia in "The Iphigenia Cycle" in Chicago while still in theater school at Northwestern University. She was a resident artist at The Court Theatre in Chicago. The production moved off-Broadway to New York City, where she won the Joseph E. Calloway award for her performance, and was profiled in American Theater Magazine as one of ten young theater artists to watch. She then appeared on Broadway in Wrong Mountain, in productions in several regional theaters, and won the Connecticut Critics Circle Award for outstanding performance in The Glass Menagerie.
Anne also worked in the United Kingdom as Clare in the BAFTA-nominated television series The Book Group (2002).- Actress
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Antonia San Juan was born on 22 March 1961 in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain. She is an actress and director, known for All About My Mother (1999), The Platform (2019) and La China (2005).- Writer
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Antonio Isasi-Isasmendi was born on 22 March 1927 in Madrid, Spain. He was a writer and producer, known for That Man in Istanbul (1965), They Came to Rob Las Vegas (1968) and Summertime Killer (1972). He died on 27 September 2017 in Ibiza, Balearic Islands, Spain.- Azucena Hernández was born on 22 March 1960 in Seville, Seville, Andalucía, Spain. She was an actress, known for Bacanal en directo (1979), El consenso (1980) and Las eróticas vacaciones de Stela (1978). She died on 4 December 2019 in Guadalajara, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain.
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Babak Karimi was born on 22 March 1960 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]. He is an actor and editor, known for The Salesman (2016), The Past (2013) and A Separation (2011).- Actress
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Beverley Knight was born on 22 March 1973 in Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England, UK. She is an actress and composer, known for Cinderella (2021), Premonition (2005) and Nynne (2005). She has been married to James O'Keefe since 7 September 2012.- Bill Wendell was born on 22 March 1924 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Mr. Saturday Night (1992), The Ernie Kovacs Show (1952) and What's It Worth (1952). He was married to Anne Wenzel. He died on 14 April 1999 in Boca Raton, Florida, USA.
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Billy Kametz was a Los Angeles-based actor originally from Hershey, PA. He came out to California to play Aladdin in the Aladdin Musical Spectacular in Disney's California Adventure for the final year of the show's 13-year run. Thereafter he was fortunate to lend his voice to cartoons, anime, video games, and commercials. Billy was most known for voicing characters such as Josuke in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Naofumi in The Rising of the Shield Hero, Galo in Promare, Ferdinand von Aegir in Fire Emblem 3 Houses, Takuto Maruki in Persona 5 Royal, White Blood Cell in Cells at Work, Osomatsu in Mr. Osomatsu, Anai in Aggretsuko, Blue in Pokemon Masters, Naoto Kurogane in BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle, Aoba in Neon Genesis Evangelion, Nishikata in Teasing Master Takagi-Sand, Kyouya in Konosuba, Hakuno in Fate Extra, and Phil Coulson, Iron Lad, The Collector and Thor Noir in Marvel Avengers Academy.- Actor
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TV sportscaster Bob Costas is known as a smart interviewer with encyclopedic knowledge and a devilish sense of humor.
He was born in the borough of Queens, New York. He is the son of Jayne (Quinlan) and John George Costas, an electrical engineer. His father's roots are Greek, from the island of Kalymnos in the Aegean Sea, and his mother is of Irish and German descent. He grew up primarily in Commack, New York, graduating from Commack High School South. Following high school, Costas majored in communications at Syracuse University. He left school prior to graduating to accept a job at radio giant KMOX in St. Louis. Later he received an honorary degree from Syracuse's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications.- Actor
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Bruno Ganz was an acclaimed Swiss actor who was a prominent figure in German language film and television for over fifty years. He is internationally renowned for portraying Adolf Hitler in the Academy Award-nominated film Downfall (2004).
Ganz was born in Zürich, to a Swiss mechanic father and a northern Italian mother. He decided to pursue an acting career by the time he entered university. He debuted at the theatre in 1961, and gained a reputation as a reflective, charismatic and technically brilliant stage actor. In 1970, he and Peter Stein founded the theatre company 'Schaubühne' in Berlin, Germany. On stage, Ganz portrayed Dr. Heinrich Faust in Peter Stein's staging of Faust, Part One and Faust, Part Two in 2000.
In cinema, Ganz became one of the best-known and most acclaimed actors in the German language, collaborating with many of the most respected European actors and directors of his time. He also starred in international features that reached a global audience. His film debut was The Gentleman in the Black Derby (1960). He also starred in Unknown (2011), The Counselor (2013), and The Party (2017).
Ganz died from cancer on 16 February 2019 at his home in the village of Au, in Wädenswil, Switzerland.- Producer
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Born in Mexico City, Cuse grew up in Boston, Massachusetts, and in Orange County, California. He attended Harvard University, graduating with a degree in American History.
Cuse, along with Damon Lindelof, served as writer and showrunner for all six seasons of Lost (2004) for ABC. He wrote, directed, and was the showrunner for the first two seasons of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan (2018). Other credits include Locke & Key (2020), Bates Motel (2013), The Strain (2014), and Colony (2016). In feature films, Cuse wrote San Andreas (2015), starring Dwayne Johnson, Warner Bros. highest grossing film of that year. He followed up by co-writing Warner Brothers' Rampage (2018), also starring Dwayne Johnson.
Cuse started his career in feature films working first as a development executive then formed a partnership with feature writer, Jeffrey Boam. He started his career in television as a writer on the Michael Mann series, Crime Story (1986), and then as co-creator and executive producer of the critically-acclaimed Fox series The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. (1993). He went on to create and executive produce Nash Bridges (1996) for CBS, starring Don Johnson and Cheech Marin, which ran for six seasons and 121 episodes.
Cuse has received 10 Emmy nominations and won 2 Emmys, a Golden Globe, a Writer's Guild Award, a Peabody Award, and was named to Time Magazine's annual List of the 100 Most Influential People in the World.- Actor
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Character actor Carmen Filpi was born on March 22, 1923 in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. The son of Remigio and Rosa Gatto Filpi, Carmen graduated from Pittsfield High School in 1942. Moreover, Filpi served in the U.S. Army in the Pacific during World War II. Carmen began his acting career as part of a comedy team with fellow Pittsfield resident George Morell; the duo performed in minstrels and floor show troupes in touring shows as well as in the Washington area. Filpi moved to Hollywood, California in the late 1960's in order to further pursue his acting career. Outside of his substantial film and television credits, Carmen also appeared in numerous TV commercials. Filpi was often cast as drunken bums and mangy drifters in a career that spanned over forty years. Carmen died at age 80 on May 9, 2003 at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Washington, D.C. He was survived at the time of his death by his sister Carmena and brothers John and Peter.- Actor
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Carter Wong was born on 22 March 1947. He is an actor and assistant director, known for Big Trouble in Little China (1986), Rambo III (1988) and Kung Fu Arts (1978).- Actor
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As a kid trying to negotiate his way through various gang territories to a floating crap game or a new pool hall where he was not yet known as a hustler, Leonard (Chico) Marx learned to fake several accents. Because he later employed an Italian accent in the Marx Brothers' act, people assumed his name was pronounced "Cheeko." Instead, Leonard was dubbed "Chicko" for his other consuming passion, women (or "chicks"), at which he was more successful than gambling, but when a typesetter dropped the "k" out of his name, the brothers let it stay as Chico. Chico was the brother who guided the Marxes to stardom. He took over the act's managment (amicably) from their mother, Minnie, and through audacity and charm, Chico secured the Brothers their first international (London) booking, their first Broadway show and their MGM contract with Irving Thalberg, among other successes.- Producer
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Chiney Ogwumike is a professional basketball player who has spent time with the Connecticut Sun and Los Angeles Sparks in the WNBA. Her sister Nneka has also had a successful college and professional career. Chiney also works for ESPN where she has hosted radio shows and podcasts, and appears as an analyst across College GameDay and other programming discussing men's and women's basketball.- Actress
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Christina Bennett Lind was born in Upland, Pennsylvania, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Fireworkers (2017), Grown (2009) and The Talk Man (2011).- Writer
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Cody is the founder of the Gifford Media Group, a multimedia development, production and intellectual property management company. A WGA screenwriter and a producer of film and television, he has sold, developed and produced content for some of the entertainment industry's most recognizable brands including HBO Films, Warner Bros. Television, MGM, Thunder Road and Harper Collins. His original screenplay, American Patriot, remains the highest-rated property ever featured by The Black List.
The son of television icons Frank and Kathie Lee Gifford, Cody began his career as a script reader at Ridley Scott's Scott Free Productions before transitioning to Twentieth Century Fox as a writer's assistant. He is a Magna Cum Laude graduate of the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts and an alumnus of the University of Oxford, where he wrote for the university's oldest independent newspaper, Cherwell.
He works regularly as a media consultant and is a member of USC's School of Cinematic Arts Leadership Circle.- Actor
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Cole Hauser was born in Santa Barbara, California. He is the son of Cass Warner, who founded a film production company (Warner Sisters), and Wings Hauser, an actor. His grandfathers were screenwriters Dwight Hauser and Milton Sperling, and his maternal great-grandfather was film mogul Harry M. Warner, of Warner Bros. His father is of German, Irish, and Belgian (Walloon) descent, and his mother is from a Jewish family (from Austria, Russia, and Poland). He grew up in California, Oregon and Florida.
Hauser has had a long and impressive career in acting. He made his big screen debut in "School Ties" where many other then up and coming actors had their starts. He next went on to star in Richard Linklater's Cult Classic "Dazed and Confused." Other feature credits include "Tigerland," for which Cole received an Independent Spirit Award nomination, "White Oleander" for which he received a Movieline breakthrough performance also, "Hart's War," "Tears of the Sun," "Higher Learning," and "Too Fast, Too Furious," to name a few.
In 2014 Hauser will be seen in two anticipated projects. This spring he can be seen opposite Johnny Depp in the Warner Bros release of Transcendence (2014). Immediately following he will star in DirecTV's original drama "Rogue" opposite Thandie Newton. The show, in its second season has been a big draw for the network. Earlier this year he was seen in Antoine Fuqua's Olympus Has Fallen (2013), an action ensemble which included Aaron Eckhart, Gerald Butler and Morgan Freeman.
Hauser lives outside of Los Angeles with his wife, photographer Cynthia Daniel, and three children.- Actress
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Constance Wu was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia. Her mother is a computer programmer and her father is a college professor. Both are immigrants from Taiwan. Constance grew up in Richmond performing in the local community theater scene. At 16, she moved to New York City to study at the famed Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute and she's been busy ever since. While in New York, she worked in classical theater and quickly transitioned to film work. She soon appeared in several Sundance Feature Films including Stephanie Daley (2006) and Year of the Fish (2007). In 2010, she moved to Los Angeles where her theater and film background helped land her a role in another Sundance Feature, Sound of My Voice (2011). In 2014, she was cast as Jessica Huang in the ABC comedy series Fresh Off the Boat (2015), which premiered in 2015. Based on Eddie Huang's memoir, it is set in the 1990s and revolves around a Taiwanese family that moves to suburban Orlando. Wu enjoys long-distance running, camping, piano, and reading. She lives in Silverlake, Los Angeles, with her pet rabbit, Lida Rose.
In 2018, she starred as Rachel Chu, an American college professor who dates a Singaporean multimillionaire (Henry Golding), in the smash romantic comedy hit Crazy Rich Asians (2018).- Actress
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Dagmar Havlová was born on 22 March 1953 in Brno, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]. She is an actress, known for Hríchy pro diváky detektivek (1995), Vlastníci (2019) and Leaving (2011). She was previously married to Václav Havel and Radvít Novák.- Actor
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David Roy Banks is an American Actor born and raised in Petaluma, California. Known for Never Have I Ever, Rutherford Falls, Erin & Aaron and The Afterparty. He studied at the Groundlings and has appeared in over 200 commercials. The son of Tom Banks and Alyne Banks. His father Tom Banks was the Exec. at Foote Cone & Belding San Francisco. In 2004, Banks made his film debut in the drama Doing Hard Time, he played opposite Steven Bauer, Boris Kodjoe, Michael Kenneth Williams, and Giancarlo Esposito.- Producer
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David Katzenberg was born on 22 March 1983 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is a producer and director, known for It (2017), The Goldbergs (2013) and Just Beyond (2021).- Dax Griffin was born on 22 March 1972 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. He is an actor, known for Ant-Man (2015), 42 (2013) and Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018).
- Eileen Wesson was born on 22 March 1947 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is an actress, known for They Live (1988), Airport (1970) and Did You Hear the One About the Traveling Saleslady? (1968).
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Elvis Stojko was born on 22 March 1972 in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada. He is an actor, known for Death to Smoochy (2002), Enhanced (2019) and BrawlStars (2023). He has been married to Gladys Orozco since 20 June 2010.- Actress
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Emma Wray was born on 22 March 1965 in Birkenhead, Merseyside, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Stay Lucky (1989), Watching (1987) and Minder (1979).- Big, brawny, blond-haired Eric Bruskotter owns an equally sizable and extensive acting career that transcends well over 20 years. Bruskotter, who was born on March 22, 1966 in Fort Wayne, Indiana, originally appeared most commonly in television. His first acting gig came in the form of an episode of Amazing Stories (1985). He did a few other television appearances before landing a more consistent role on the series Tour of Duty (1987), playing a member of a platoon set in the backdrop of the Vietnam War. This series lasted from 1987 up until 1989; however, Bruskotter managed to stay busy with each year as time spiraled into the 1990s. His film roles at that point in time included Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (1993), playing an arrogant gym bully, opposite Jason Scott Lee as the lead role of martial artist Bruce Lee. 1997 would see the return of Bruskotter in a familiar soldier-type role, when he appeared in the science fiction cult movie Starship Troopers (1997). In this he played an unlucky trooper who lost his life during a training course accident. Other acting roles in his impressive resume include episodes on Walker, Texas Ranger (1993), JAG (1995), Angel (1999), 24 (2001) and Law & Order: LA (2010).
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Mr. Roth won an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for Forrest Gump & has been nominated for his screenplays of The Insider, Munich, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, A Star is Born, & Dune. He wrote Mr. Kurosawa's Rhapsody in August, The Horse Whisperer, Ali, & Best Picture Nominee, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. He was a producer of the Best Picture Nominee Mank. He received the WGA Laurel Award for Lifetime Achievement.- Writer
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Emmy-nominated Southern loudmouth Erin Gibson is an expert at mixing social commentary, political satire, and vagina jokes, into neat little comedy packages. Base in Los Angeles, she co-hosts & co-created "Throwing Shade" the award winning political absurdist comedy podcast and the live show & TV show by the same name. She developed her social commentary chops as the host of "Modern Lady" sharpened them writing and directing political sketches for Funny or Die, where she also created the long running, Emmy-nominated "Gay of Thrones" starring her real-life hair stylist, Jonathan Van Ness. You've seen her on Parks and Rec, Community, Key and Peele, the Kroll Show, and you've heard her on Comedy Central's Jeff and Some Aliens, but she's best known as "the face of State Farm's Rental Insurance trip-fold brochure."- Eugenia Guerty was born on 22 March 1975 in Olavarría, Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is an actress, known for Historias Breves 2 (1997), Padre Coraje (2004) and Nosotras sin mamá (2011).
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Fanny Ardant was the youngest of five children born to a cavalry officer and his wife. She was raised in Monte Carlo where she was educated at a convent school. A voracious reader, she discovered Proust when she was 15, and felt as though his writings were for her.
When she was 17 her father died, and the shock of his loss never left her. Shortly before his death Ardant began acting on stage. However, following her father's death she followed his advice and went to university in Aix-en-Provence where she read Political Science. Upon graduating, she took a job working for the French embassy in London; she was sacked from this, for poor timekeeping and being dishevelled. The latter was attributed to the social whirl that she enjoyed in London.
Ardant continued working odd jobs in London before deciding, almost on a whim, to go to drama school. She returned to France for her studies, and before long began acting on stage and then on television. At the age of 31 she was contacted by Francois Truffaut who had spotted her in a television drama and wanted to cast her in his film The Woman Next Door (1981).
While working together Ardant and Truffaut fell in love, and in 1983 she gave birth to their daughter Josephine. Truffaut died a year later from a brain tumour.- Actor
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Perhaps best known for his portrayal of underground drug king Rhah in Oliver Stone's Academy Award-winning Platoon (1986), Francesco Quinn is one of the film industry's most versatile young actors. Intent on following in the footsteps of his father, Oscar winner Anthony Quinn, who had appeared in more than 200 pictures, Francesco has already racked up some impressive film credits, setting him well on his way. He was the lead guest star in an episode of JAG (1995) which won the show a 29 share (the highest rating in its history) and had a lead role in TNT's Rough Riders (1997).- Producer
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Gary Janetti was born on 22 March 1966 in New York, USA. He is a producer and writer, known for Family Guy (1999), Will & Grace (1998) and Vicious (2013). He has been married to Brad Goreski since 26 December 2017.- Music Artist
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George Benson was born on 22 March 1943 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. He is a music artist and actor, known for Michael (1996), Hit and Run (2012) and All That Jazz (1979). He has been married to Johnnie Lee since 1962. They have six children.- Actor
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Gig Morton was born in Comox, British Columbia, Canada. His mom is a nurse and his dad is a builder/building inspector. He is the youngest of four children. Having three older sisters, who were entertained by most things he did, made Gig a natural performer. Gig got his start as a young actor when he appeared in four consecutive Walt Disney hit "Buddies" franchise movies. These include "Air Buddies", "Snow Buddies", "Space Buddies" and "Santa Buddies," Gig has also appeared in television series such as "Psych" for the USA Network, and "Fear Itself" for NBC. Reluctantly tagging along with his older sisters to audition for a stage production of "The Wizard of Oz", the seven-year-old Gig, soon found himself in the show. It became obvious that performing was natural for Gig. He went on to study acting in Nanaimo, and Vancouver, B.C. Gig has enjoyed working with many accomplished actors. He played opposite Nicole Eggert in the cable feature "Past Lies." Gig had a lead role in "Christmas Town" opposite Nicole de Boer. "Christmas Town" is the story of a little boy who is trying to rekindle the spirit of Christmas in his mother. The role was significant for Gig because he got to play a little boy who believed anything was possible. Working with Lou Diamond Phillips in "The Angel and the Badman" was another great experience for the young actor. In December of 2009 Gig worked with noted actor Callum Keith Rennie on an episode of "Shattered." Gig enjoyed being part of all 80 episodes of Mr. Young, seen on YTV, ABC Spark, Disney XD and Cartoon Network. It is amazing for Gig that he has fans from all over the world. Growing up, Gig studied Guitar, Tap Dancing, Ballet, Hip Hop Dance, Musical Theatre and Singing. He passed grade 5 levels of Speech and Dramatic Arts through Trinity Guildhall in London. Always interested in learning, Gig continues to take dance, and Parkour in Vancouver, while working and auditioning. When Gig has free time he is always researching and learning. One of his passions is science, specifically astronomy. Gig enjoys nothing more than getting out his telescope on a clear night and searching the sky for a glimpse at the wonders of the universe.
Above all, Gig loves to entertain people and help them forget their troubles for a while.- Gilles Pelletier was born on 22 March 1925 in Québec, Canada. He was an actor, known for The Barbarian Invasions (2003), Sous un ciel variable (1993) and Jesus of Montreal (1989). He was married to Françoise Graton. He died on 5 September 2018 in Montréal, Québec, Canada.
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Gina Nemo is a multi award-winning Producer, Director, Writer, Actress, and is the founder of Ventura Actors Studio and Gina Nemo Studios. Originally she got her beginnings as an award-winning actress for the TV show - "21 Jump Street." She then produced work for clients like Sony, Universal and many other independent networks, studios and media companies worldwide. Her award-winning films Dustslicker, GONE, Shadow Farm, My Boomerang & I Always Wanted To Be A Gangster will be released in 2024.
Nemo is producing and directing films, television shows, pilots and documentaries through her production and marketing company G Plan Media and her newly formed film company Zava Pictures.
Nemo also has an Independent record label G Plan Music which is a division of her production company G Plan Media.
Her acting school Ventura Actors Studio (VAS) which is located in Ventura, California is the premiere acting school for television, film and audition prep in the county. Her book Quick Start To Acting in Hollywood is helping her many students with their acting careers.
Nemo is also an award-winning writer, singer and songwriter and she has released poetry books, poetry audio releases and three albums which are all available on amazon, iTunes, Spotify and more. Her written work has been published in Canada, Ireland and India. She is the daughter of the late Jazz performer and composer Henry Nemo who wrote hit standards in the forties. She recorded and released a tribute to her late father with Billy Vera.- Actor
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Cruttwell attended the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art from 1978-1981. Before branching out as a writer, director and producer, Cruttwell performed in many theatre productions throughout Great Britain. In 1990, he wrote and starred in the play Waiting for Sir Larry, which won a Fringe First Award at the Edinburgh Festival. He made his film debut in Mike Leigh's Naked (1993) and had a leading role in John Herzfeld's 2 Days in the Valley (1996), starring alongside Danny Aiello, James Spader and Jeff Daniels. His last acting role to date was in the box-office success George of the Jungle (1997). Cruttwell has been seen in numerous British television productions including Murder Most Horrid and Birds of a Feather. In the United States, he guest starred in episodes of Murder She Wrote and The Marshal. In 2000 he wrote and directed the feature film, Chunky Monkey, starring David Threlfall and Alison Steadman, which had a limited release in the UK. In 2002 he co-founded the production company Head Gear Films with Phil Hunt and Compton Ross and in 2007 co-founded international sales and film finance company Bankside Films. In 2001, Cruttwell founded Balham Blazers Football Club. In 2011, the club was voted South East England Charter Standard Community Club of the Year, becoming a full-time senior outfit in Balham F.C. in the process and in 2012 Cruttwell won the London FA Award for Outstanding Contribution To Football In The Community. Since its formation, the club has won over 600 league and cup trophies. It is also a three-time winner of the London F.A. Charter Standard Community Club of the Year Award and a four-time winner of the Wandsworth Sports Club of the Year Award. In addition to founding the club and coaching many age group teams, Cruttwell, now Club President, has been Chairman, Director of Football and First Team Manager. In 2018, having won five promotions in six years to reach Step 5 on the Football League ladder, the club, nicknamed The Blazers, made its first appearance in the FA Cup and won the London Senior Cup, having won the London Senior Trophy in 2017. In 2018 Cruttwell co-devised a football-based TV Quiz show, Football Genius, a Hat Trick production, which was shown on ITV, with Tim Vine as host and Sam Quek and Paul Sinha as team captains. In 2019 he founded a production company, Park the Bus, with a remit to make sports-related drama and documentaries. To date, he has written, directed and produced two films for the company, The Football Monologues and Animals. He's also produced and directed two documentaries, King Of Clubs and In The Middle, which won the Best Screenplay Award at the 2022 Paladino d'Oro Sports Film Festival. Cruttwell, who lives in Suffolk with his wife, Rachel Hart, has four children, two grandchildren and is a lifelong supporter of Fulham FC.- Actor
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Guillermo Diaz was born in 1975 in New Jersey, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Scandal (2012), Law & Order: Organized Crime (2021) and Weeds (2005).- Haing S. Ngor was a native of Cambodia. Before the war, he was a physician & medical officer in the Cambodian army. He became a captive of the Khmer Rouge. He was imprisoned & tortured. In order to escape execution, he denied being a doctor or having an education. He moved to the U.S. as a refugee in 1980. Though he had no formal acting experience, he was chosen to portray photographer Dith Pran in The Killing Fields (1984) & won an Academy Award. He went on to a modestly distinguished acting career while continuing to work w/ human rights organizations in Cambodia on improving the conditions in resettlement camps as well as attempting to bring the perpetrators of the Cambodian massacre to justice. OnFebruary 25, 1996, he was found shot to death in the garage of his apartment building in L.A. Relatives & friends speculated that the killing was revenge for his opposition to the Khmer Rouge.
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Heather Lind was born on 22 March 1983 in Upland, Pennsylvania, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Mistress America (2015), Boardwalk Empire (2010) and Demolition (2015).- Actor
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A former Philadelphian, Herbert Rudley left Temple University at the end of his second year, journeyed to New York and won a scholarship with Eva Le Gallienne's Civic Repertory Theatre. He made his first stage appearance in 1928 and went on to appear in many more plays, including the Judith Anderson-Maurice Evans "Macbeth" (with Rudley as Macduff). He repeated his stage role in "Abe Lincoln in Illinois" in the 1940 Hollywood version, appeared in twenty-one theatrical films and some made-for-TV ones, and also appeared on many TV programs beginning in 1950, including a two-year stint as husband to Eve Arden on NBC's "The Mothers-in-Law").- Actor
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Hugo Catalán was born on 22 March 1982 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico. He is an actor and director, known for El juego de las llaves (2019), Love Spells (2021) and P#t@s Redes Sociales (2023).- Actress
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Iben Hjejle (22 March 1971) is a Danish actress, notable for starring in the Stephen Frears film High Fidelity (2000). In Denmark, she is perhaps best known for appearing in the Danish television sitcom Langt fra Las Vegas (Far from Las Vegas) and playing the girlfriend of Danish comedian Casper Christensen, her former real life partner. She also plays Christensen's girlfriend in the sitcom Klovn (Clown) and the title role in the TV crime series Dicte.
Hjejle was born in Copenhagen. She has starred in a series of Danish movies, including a Dogme 95 movie, and also in Danish-produced action films such as Old Men in New Cars. She also played the Swedish Queen Sofia Magdalena in SVT's successful period drama production of The Marriage of Gustav III in 2001.
Hjejle also appeared in the 1996 film Portland, Mifune's Last Song in 1999, The Emperor's New Clothes in 2002, and in Dreaming of Julia and Flickering Lights in 2003. For her performance in Mifune's Last Song, she won an Honourable Mention at the 49th Berlin International Film Festival. It was also at the same festival that she was discovered by Stephen Frears, who offered her a part in his film High Fidelity (2000), where she played John Cusack's character's girlfriend Laura. In 2008 he offered her a part in Chéri, in a cameo as Marie Laure. Her involvement was a part of a minor international comeback. Additionally, the same year she worked on Defiance with Daniel Craig and in 2009 she filmed The Eclipse, which received a limited theatrical release in 2010.
Iben Hjejle was a part of the Danish popular television series Anna Pihl until its ending in April 2008, after three seasons. In 2012, she was cast as the lead in the crime-show Dicte The show debuted in early 2013, while reviews were mixed, Hjejle received good reviews for her performance.
She had a part in Lars von Trier's Direktøren for det hele (2006, also known as The Boss of It All).
From 1996-1999, she was married to Emil de Waal. She turned down the role of Éowyn in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings film trilogy because she did not like the idea of being so far from home. In an episode of Langt fra Las Vegas, her character Liva makes a joke about The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.- Actress
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Ioana Flora was born on March 22, 1975 in Pancevo, Serbia. She is the daughter of Ioan Flora, a poet, philologist and pedagogue. Appearing in films, on television and on stage, she debuted in acclaimed Romanian director Cristi Puiu's Stuff and Dough/Marfa si banii, where she starred alongside Dragos Bucur and Alexandru Papadopol. It was the first Romanian picture selected for the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs program at Cannes in 2001 and was credited with starting the New Wave of Romanian cinema.
Recently, Ioana played the female lead in The Christmas Gift/Cadoul de Craciun, a short feature that is among the 10 live action shorts shortlisted for the 2020 Academy Awards. Directed by Bogdan Muresanu, the short film also received the Best Short Movie award at the European Film Awards in 2019.
She is a critical darling, with both Romanian and international film critics heaping praise and accolades on her for being "an intense and instinctive artist - who always captures nuances with amazing precision and burns on the inside while acting, insofar as she can carry a whole film by herself."
Ioana graduated acting with a BA from the National University of Theatre and Film in Bucharest, in 1997, and attended the Architecture High School in Novi Sad, Serbia before that. She studied piano and classical ballet and speaks fluent Romanian, Serbian and English.
Ioana's filmography counts as many as 25 national and international productions, both in cinema and TV, and she was the recipient of one of the most valued distinctions in the international film industry - the Best Actress Award that she won at the Thessaloniki Film Festival in 2008, for Adrian Sitaru's Hooked.
Her next movie role was in Outbound (2009), directed by Bogdan George Apetri, a film that was screened and awarded at important international festivals, most notably the Locarno Film Festival (Official Selection) and the Warsaw Film Festival, in 2010, where it won both the FIPRESCI and the Special Jury Prizes. For her part in the movie, Ioana received the Best Supporting Actress award at the Gopos in 2012, and was named "Artist of the Year" by Pro Cinema.
In 2010 she appeared in Bora Bora, directed by acclaimed director Bogdan Mirica, recipient of the FIPRESCI award in Cannes, in 2016, for Dogs.
An actress who some critics describe as being possessed of untold depths and a simmering strength that can explode at any point, Ioana was also one of the 20 actors chosen out of 4300 applicants, to take part in the Talent Actors Stage programme at Berlin IFF in 2012.
In 2012, director Adrian Sitaru offered her one of the leading roles in his movie, Domestic.
A very difficult role that earned her the Romanian Film Union Award (UCIN) for best female performance, in 2013, was the one from Déjà vu, an independent production directed by Dan Chisu. It is also worth noting that the jury of the Gala voted unanimously for Ioana Flora.
The actress then intricately molded yet another disturbing character in the Dutch-Romanian co-production A Long Story / Marea Neagra, a drama directed by Jorien Van Nes that was well received by the international film industry. For her part in the film, premiering in 2013, at the Dutch Film Festival in Utrecht, Ioana got the Best Actress Award the following year, at the International Film Festival in Aubagne, France.
For her next role, Paula, in Andrei Cohn's debut film Back Home / Acasa la tata, Ioana received her second Best Actress Award at the Gopos in 2016, as well as her second UCIN Prize. Back Home opened the European Film festival that year. That same year, Ioana appeared in One floor below/Un etaj mai jos, directed by Radu Muntean, a film that, once again, put Romanian cinema on the map when it was featured in the Official Cannes 2015 Selection, Un Certain regard.
Her next role was in the independent short, Tie/Scor alb, directed by Marius Olteanu. The film had its international premiere at the Busan Film festival, in competition.
Ioana's most recent on-screen performance was in the acclaimed short The Christmas Gift/Cadoul de Craciun, Bogdan's Muresanu debut film, that was shortlisted by the American Film Academy for the 2020 Oscars nominations for Best Live action short. Honored with 57 awards so far, including the Best Film Award at the Clermont Ferrant and Palm Springs Festivals, The Christmas Gift also took home the European Academy's Best Short Film Award in December 2019, in Berlin. Starring Ioana Flora and Adrian Vancica, the short directed by Bogdan Muresanu was among 9 other films on the short list, out of 191 eligible titles.
At the end of 2019, Ioana finished shooting for Lebensdorf, a feature film directed by Vali Hotea where the type of character she plays is quite different from her usual fare. Other recent productions Ioana stars in are Andrei Gruznitski's Zavera, which premiered at the end of 2019, at the Cairo Film Festival, and two features set to debut this year - Razvan Savescu's Beginning/ Inceput (2018), and Ruxandra Ghitescu's Otto the Barbarian/Otto barbarul (2018).
Of the series and TV films Ioana starred in, the most noteworthy are The Madness of Henry VIII docudrama, which aired on National Geographic, L'homme pressé, produced by TV France and directed by Sébastien Grall (2005), Good fellas/Baieti buni, an innovative police series for the Romanian market at the time (2003), which aired on PRO TV, Donau, Duna, Dunav, Dunarea, directed by Goran Rebic - a German-Austrian-Serbian-Romanian co-production - Poor man, rich man/Om sarac, om bogat, directed by Peter Kerek and broadcast by PRO TV, and the period TV series Aniela (2010), as well as made-for-TV films produced by Acasa TV, in 2010.
She made her theatre debut in Piatra Neamt, playing lead roles in Vlad Mugur's productions, and has been playing in state theatres, as well as in independent and nonconventional spaces ever since. She is currently playing Beatrice in a new production of Shakespeare's Much ado about nothing/Mult zgomot pentru nimic, directed by world-renowned director Andrei Serban.
When she's not acting, Ioana is directing and organizing performances for and with underprivileged children, teaching acting, public speaking and communication, as well as translating plays.- J.J. Watt was born on 22 March 1989 in Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA. He is an actor, known for Bad Moms (2016), New Girl (2011) and Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (2016). He has been married to Keaila Watt since 15 February 2020. They have one child.
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James Brown was born March 22, 1920 in the small town of Desdemona, Eastland County, Texas. He graduated from The Desdemona School (grades 1-12), which was built in 1922 (it closed in 1969). Very athletic, Brown became a tennis pro before there was any money in it. He entered films in 1941. Clearly a man of unlimited athletic prowess, he appeared in such rugged Hollywood productions as Wake Island (1942), Air Force (1943), Objective, Burma! (1945) and Sands of Iwo Jima (1949). He had more sedate roles in Going My Way (1944), as romantic lead "Ted Haines" (Bing Crosby, who was the star of the film, was a priest and therefore out of the running for the leading lady) and then, in "Sands of Iwo Jima" (with John Wayne), Brown was a U.S. Marine, Pfc. Charlie Bass, a combat veteran and colleague of Wayne's character Sgt. Stryker. In The Pride of St. Louis (1952), a biopic about baseball star Dizzy Dean, Brown played a sidelined ballplayer, "Moose". In Flight Nurse (1953) he played a flight engineer on an aircraft flying a mercy mission. It wasn't long afterward that he began a television career as "Lt. Rip Masters" on TV's The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin (1954), which ran from 1954-1958. He then appeared in The Rounders (1966), a western comedy series--billed as James Bowen Brown--as "Luke". In 1976 the "Rin Tin Tin" series was re-released with new sepia-tinted beginnings and endings, with Brown reprising his role as Lt. Rip Masters. Unfortunately, few of his later movies are worth mentioning, though he had a few telling moments as the stern, rifle-toting father of the serial killer "protagonist" in Peter Bogdanovich's Targets (1968).
He retired from acting in the late 1960s to manage his successful body-building equipment concern, and then was appointed head of customer relations at Faberge, a cosmetics firm. When Faberge's filmmaking division, Brut Productions, put together a 1975 comedy titled Whiffs (1975), the producers persuaded Brown to return to acting in a supporting role.
James Brown passed away in 1992 after a long battle with lung cancer.- Writer
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James Patterson was born on 22 March 1947 in Newburgh, New York, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Alex Cross (2012), Kiss the Girls (1997) and Along Came a Spider (2001). He has been married to Susan Patterson since 24 July 1997. They have one child.- James Westerfield was born on 22 March 1913 in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. He was an actor, known for On the Waterfront (1954), True Grit (1969) and Hang 'Em High (1968). He was married to Alice Gertrude Fay (Fay Tracey) and Rosemary Doris Deveson. He died on 20 September 1971 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.
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James Wolk was born in Farmington Hills, Michigan, to Edie (Elson), an art teacher, and Robert Wolk, a shoe store owner. His family is Jewish. James graduated from North Farmington High School, and worked in his father's store as a teenager. He graduated from the University of Michigan drama school in 2007, and won the role of 'Brad Cohen' in CBS/ Hallmark Hall of Fame's "Front of the Class". Based on the book of the same name, James beautifully portrayed Brad, who has been challenged with Tourette Syndrome from a young age but defied all odds to become a gifted teacher.
In 2009, he landed the title role in the ABC pilot "Solving Charlie" directed by Gregory Hoblit. James plays a young detective who, after his estranged father passes away, learns he has an 11 year old half-brother by the same name. His father's last wish is for Charlie to raise his younger brother.
James played the lead role of 'Robert/Bob Taylor' in the 2010 FOX pilot "Lone Star", directed by Marc Webb. James played a con man who has wives in two different Texas towns and leads a double life. The cast included Eloise Mumford and Adrianne Palicki as Bob's two wives, veteran actor David Keith as Bob's con-artist father, and Oscar winner Jon Voight as a powerful Texas oilman whose daughter is one of Bob's wives.
James also appeared in the 2010 Disney feature film "You Again" with Kristen Bell, Jamie Lee Curtis, Odette Yustman, Sigourney Weaver, and Kristin Chenoweth.
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Jazsmin Lewis was born on 22 March 1976 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Barbershop (2002), Traci Townsend (2007) and My Sisters World. She has been married to Brian Kelly since 2005. They have one child. She was previously married to Jesse Saunders.- Actress
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Jennifer grew up in California performing and competing as an elite figure skater. She turned professional and toured internationally, starring in ice shows for several years before continuing on to higher education. She began studying acting and film in Los Angeles where she was cast in commercials and television. Later, at UC San Diego, she earned a BS in Physiology and Neuroscience, with minors in both Theater and Chemistry. She then went on to medical school, residency training in New York, and returned to California where she earned her license to practice medicine. Rather than continuing a career in medicine, Jennifer chose to return to acting while continuing to maintain her license as a physician. While studying acting, she writes screenplays, and loves improving her Italian. When she is not acting, Jennifer enjoys world travel with her family for snowboarding and surfing, continuing her figure skating, and working in her Mediterranean garden.- Jenny Tomasin shot to fame in the UK in the early 1970s when she joined the cast of Upstairs, Downstairs (1971) playing the scullery maid Ruby. She stayed with the series right until the end, appearing in forty one episodes. When the series ended in 1975, plans were drawn up for a spin-off series following the further adventures of Ruby with Hudson and Mrs Bridges. Sadly the series was never made following the sad death of Angela Baddeley who played Mrs Bridges.
After that, Tomasin joined Emmerdale Farm (1972) for a stint as Naomi Tolly from 1981-82 and made guest appearances in such shows as That's My Boy (1981) and Doctor Who (1963).
Tomasin worked mainly in the theatre after that. Shows including a tour of Lettice and Lovage and a West End run in 2004 in The Marquise by Noël Coward playing yet another maid, this time called Alice.
In later years Tomasin's TV appearances had been confined to talking about her time in Upstairs, Downstairs (1971) but in 2005 all this changed when she returned to Emmerdale Farm (1972) - this time as a new character Noreen Bell, a cantankerous villager who seems certain to cause strife for those who get in her way. - Actor
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Jeremy Clyde was born on 22 March 1941 in Dorney, Buckinghamshire, England, UK. He is an actor and director, known for Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (2019), The Musketeer (2001) and North Sea Hijack (1980).- Jonas Dassler was born on 22 March 1996 in Lennep, Remscheid, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He is an actor, known for The Golden Glove (2019), LOMO: The Language of Many Others (2017) and The Silent Revolution (2018).
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An imposing Austrian import-turned-matinée idol on the silent screen, Hollywood actor Joseph Schildkraut went on to conquer talking films as well -- with Oscar-winning results. Inclined towards smooth, cunning villainy, his Oscar came instead for his sympathetic portrayal of Captain Alfred Dreyfus in The Life of Emile Zola (1937). His most touching role on both stage and screen would come as the Jewish father-in-hiding, Otto Frank, in The Diary of Anne Frank (1959).
Born on March 22, 1895, in Vienna, Austria, Joseph was the son of famed European/Yiddish stage actor Rudolph Schildkraut and his wife, the former Erna Weinstein. Nicknamed "Pepi" as a boy, the affectionate tag remained with him throughout his life. The family moved to Hamburg, Germany, when Joseph was 4. Joseph studied the piano and violin and grew inspired with his father's profession. On stage (with his father) from age 6, the family again relocated to Berlin where his father built a strong association with famed theatrical director Max Reinhardt.
Following Joseph's graduation from Berlin's Royal Academy of Music in 1911, the family migrated to America and settled in New York in 1912. His father continued making his mark in America's Yiddish theater while Joseph was accepted into the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Offered lucrative theatre work back in Germany, Rudolf and family returned to Europe where Joseph began to grow in stature on the stage with the help of mentor Albert Bassermann. Joseph, like his father, would become well known not only for his prodigious talents on stage, but his marriage-threatening, Lothario-like behavior off-stage.
World War I and a call to the Austrian Army could have interrupted his career but his theatrical connections helped exempt him from duty. A thriving member of the Deutsches Volkstheatre (1913-1920), work became difficult to find in the post-war years so once again the family returned to America in 1920. Now an established stage player, Joseph was handed the title role in the Guild Theatre production (and American premiere) of "Liliom" opposite his leading lady of choice Eva Le Gallienne. It made stars out of both actors and both revisited their parts together on stage many years later in 1932.
Having appeared in a few silent pictures in Germany and Austria, Joseph was handed a prime role in the silent screen classic Orphans of the Storm (1921) starring the Gish sisters. This alone established him as an exotic matinée figure along the lines of a Valentino and Navarro. Preferring the stage, he nevertheless continued making films while conquering (on screen) Hollywood's loveliest of actresses, including Norma Talmadge in The Song of Love (1923), Seena Owen in Shipwrecked (1926), Marguerite De La Motte in Meet the Prince (1926), Bessie Love in Young April (1926) (which also co-starred father Rudolf), Lya De Putti in The Heart Thief (1927), and Jetta Goudal in The Forbidden Woman (1927). Most notable was his participation in the Cecil B. DeMille epics The Road to Yesterday (1925) and The King of Kings (1927), the latter co-starring as Judas Iscariot, with father Rudolf playing the high priest Caiaphas.
Joseph met his first wife, aspiring actress Elise Bartlett, during a herald run as "Peer Gynt" (1923) on Broadway. The impulsive romantic swept her off her feet, proposed to her on the day he met her, and married her the following week. The couple separated a few years later and his first wife fell to drink, dying at a fairly young age of an alcohol-related illness. His second marriage to Marie McKay was much happier and lasted almost three decades.
The actor's sturdy voice and strong command of the stage led to an easy transition into talking films. Among others, Joseph won the role of Gaylord Ravenal in the Kern and Hammerstein musical Show Boat (1929) opposite Laura La Plante as Magnolia. Despite his preference for the theater, Depression-era finances forced him to relocate to Los Angeles for more job security. Throughout the 1930s and 1940s, Joseph evolved into one of Hollywood's most distinctive character actors.
He played Wallace Beery's nemesis, General Pascal in MGM's Viva Villa! (1934), King Herod opposite Claudette Colbert in DeMille's Cleopatra (1934), and stole scenes as the cunning and underhanded Conrad, Marquis of Montferratin, in DeMille's The Crusades (1935). Joseph received his Oscar for his portrayal of Captain Dreyfus, a proud and robust French Jew wrongly convicted of treason and subsequently exiled to Devil's Island, in the biopic The Life of Emile Zola (1937). He soon became a Hollywood fixture appearing in everything from sumptuous costumers (Marie Antoinette (1938), The Three Musketeers (1939), The Man in the Iron Mask (1939), Monsieur Beaucaire (1946)), to action adventure (Lancer Spy (1937), Suez (1938)) to potent drama (The Rains Came (1939), The Shop Around the Corner (1940)). His film output slowed down considerably at the outbreak of WWII in 1941, however; nevertheless he continued to show vitality on the stage with notable successes in "Clash by Night" (1941) with Tallulah Bankhead, "Uncle Harry" (1942) and "The Cherry Orchard" (1944) (again with Eva Le Gallienne).
His Hollywood downfall happened when he signed his career away to the low budget Republic Pictures studio...for financial reasons. The films were unworthy of his participation and his roles secondary in nature to the storyline. His final Broadway appearance and greatest stage triumph would occur in 1955 as Otto Frank and he repeated his role on film but The Diary of Anne Frank (1959). In one of Hollywood's bigger missteps, he was not even nominated for an Academy Award. Sporadic appearances followed on stage and film -- his last movie role wasted on the trivial role of Nicodemus in the epic failure The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965). The film was released posthumously. On TV, however, he played Claudius to Maurice Evans' Hamlet in 1953 and filmed a memorable "Twilight Zone" episode in 1961.
Following his beloved second wife's death in 1961, he married one more time, in 1963, to a much younger woman named Leonora Rogers. Joseph died of a heart attack only months later at his New York City home on January 21, 1964, He was 68, almost the exact same age his father Rudolf was when he too suffered a fatal heart attack. Joseph was interred in the Beth Olam Mausoleum of the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles.- Kandyse McClure is a Canadian actress born on March 22, 1980 in Durban in South Africa. She graduated from West Vancouver Secondary School in 1998. She is an actress, known for main roles in TV series Battlestar Galactica (2004), Hemlock Grove (2013), and from the movies Carrie (2002) and Seventh Son (2014).
- Karina Jelinek was born on 22 March 1981 in Villa María, Córdoba Province, Argentina. She is an actress, known for Bañeros 4: Los rompeolas (2014), El vagoneta en el mundo del cine (2012) and Only You (2013). She was previously married to Leonardo Fariña.
- Karl Bruskotter was born on 22 March 1966 in Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA. He is an actor, known for Tour of Duty (1987), Rented Lips (1987) and Mad About You (1988).
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Karl Hardman was an American actor and film producer.
He is best known for the 1968 George A. Romero film Night of the Living Dead.
Hardman was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Before joining the movie world, he was a radio reporter. His last appearance on the big screen dates back to 1996 in the horror B-movie Santa Claws.
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Born to a Czech mother and a Serbian father in Chicago as Mladen Sekulovich, on March 22, 1912, Karl Malden did not speak English until he was in kindergarten. After graduating from high school in the nearby steel town of Gary, Indiana, Malden worked in the industry for three years until 1934, when he was frustrated with the drudgery of manual labor. He left to attend the Arkansas State Teacher's College, then the Goodman Theater Dramatic School and never looked back. Three years later, he went to New York City to find fame.
Malden rapidly became involved with the Group Theater, an organization of actors and directors who were changing the face of theater, where he attracted the attention of director Elia Kazan. With Kazan directing, Karl starred in plays such as "All My Sons" by Arthur Miller and "A Streetcar Named Desire" by Tennessee Williams. While Malden had one screen appearance before his military service in World War II, in They Knew What They Wanted (1940), he did not establish his film career until after the war. Malden won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor as Mitch in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) and showed his range as an actor in roles such as that of Father Corrigan in On the Waterfront (1954) and the lecherous Archie Lee in Baby Doll (1956).
He starred in dozens of films such as Fear Strikes Out (1957), Pollyanna (1960), Birdman of Alcatraz (1962), Gypsy (1962), How the West Was Won (1962), The Cincinnati Kid (1965), and Patton (1970) as General Omar Bradley. In the early 1970s, he built a television career on the tough but honest screen persona he had created when he starred as Detective Mike Stone on The Streets of San Francisco (1972), co-starring with Michael Douglas. He also became the pitchman for American Express, a position he held for 21 years. In 1988, he was elected President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, a position he held for five years. Following that he, published his memoir entitled, "When Do I Start?: A Memoir", written with his daughter Carla.
Malden also courted controversy by pushing for a special salute to Elia Kazan at the 1999 Academy Awards. Malden defended both Kazan and the award, arguing that Kazan's artistic achievements outshone any shame attached to Kazan's naming names before the Congressional committee investigating Communists in Hollywood. Marlon Brando refused to give Kazan the statuette; Robert De Niro ultimately did. Karl Malden died at age 97 of natural causes at his home in Los Angeles on July 1, 2009. He was buried at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Westwood, California.- Actress
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Karyn is best known for her starring role as Maggie in the hit independent film, Better Than Chocolate (1999). She was also in Superstar (1999), Sailor Moon (1995) , The Life Before This (1999) , and many other film, TV, and theatrical productions. She created, produced, and starred in her one woman feminist show Bad Girls and was honored to be included in The Newfoundland Herald's selection of Newfoundland icons. She finds joy in creating, writing, singing, and answering questions with interpretive dance. Now she is fearlessly venturing into stand up comedy.- Actress
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Katarzyna Figura was born on 22 March 1962 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland. She is an actress, known for The Revenge (2002), Ubu król (2003) and The Player (1992). She was previously married to Kai Schoenhals and Jan Chmielewski.- Actress
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Katie Stuart is a multi-talented actress and stunt performer from Vancouver, British Columbia.
Katie began her work in the entertainment industry at a young age taking beginner acting classes with the Vancouver Youth Theatre which lead to her recruitment to the industry. Katie began her exploration in the stunt community when she met a young stunt performer on the set of Showtime's "Dead Like Me" who took her under his wing and introduced her to the Vancouver stunt community, effectively launching her secondary career as an action hero.
Katie began training gymnastics, martial arts, driving, and air rams. She also completed a five-month intensive program in Wilderness Leadership which included practical, crash courses in ocean and whitewater kayaking, rafting, canoeing, and sailing. In 2009, Katie returned to her roots in theater. She moved to Montreal to attend Concordia University and graduated with a bachelor of Fine Arts, specializing in Theater and Development. This included a two-month semester abroad, studying Jing Ju (Chinese Opera) in Beijing. Katie chose to focus on physicality and movement for her electives and completed courses in Comedia del Arte, Biomechanics, Corporeal Mime, and Stage Combat. In her last year at university, Katie had the pleasure of combining her love of physicality, stunt work, and theater, by choreographing the on-stage action for a brilliant piece of musical theater, entitled Hazards of Love: A Folk Opera, set to the Decemberists' album of the same name.
Katie has amassed numerous credits including the films THE EDGE OF SEVENTEEN, MASTERMINDS, X2: X-MEN UNITED, THE SISTERHOOD OF THE TRAVELING PANTS, SHE'S THE MAN, INTENSITY, and SUMMER OF THE MONKEYS. On the small screen, Katie co-starred as a series lead in SYFY's "The Crow: Stairway to Heaven", and starred as the lead in the six-episode web series "Inconceivable", where she received the award for 'Best Actress in a Drama at Hollyweb Fest. She also recurred in The CW's "The 100", A&E's "The Returned", SYFY'S "Stargate: SG1", and Showtime's "The L Word", and "Dead Like Me", and guest starred in CBS' "Zoo", CTV's "Motive", SYFY's "Poltergeist: The Legacy", and "The Outer Limits", ABC's epic mini-series "When We Rise" and the sci-fi epic series on Netflix, "Altered Carbon".- Kelli King was born on 22 March 1992 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is an actress, known for Grey's Anatomy (2005), Rude Awakening (1998) and A Boyfriend for Christmas (2004).
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Kellie Shanygne Williams was born on March 22, 1976 in Washington, D.C. She started her career as a children's fashion model. She made many appearances on stage (e.g., "Joe Turner's Come and Gone", "The Colored Museum", "Butterfingers Angel", and "Goin' Home") and in TV commercials. She is best known as Laura Lee Winslow on Family Matters (1989). Kellie spends a lot of time working with projects such as "The Starlight Foundation International Youth Ambassador", "Famous Phone Friends", "Great Beginnings for Black Babies", and "Hollywood for Children." She enjoys dancing and singing and has attended the University of California in Los Angeles, where she resides.- Actress
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Kidada Jones was raised in Bel Air, where her home was often frequented by celebrities like Michael Jackson and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. At an early age, Kidada battled an identity crisis. Her father is African-American and her mother was Ashkenazi Jewish. By the time she was 15 she had been expelled from 11 schools, for acting up, due to not fitting in. Later on, Kidada dated Tupac Shakur who, incidentally, was on his way to pick her up when he was gunned down. Three days later, she had his face tattooed on her arm. Now, Kidada has made a name for herself. She made her film debut in The Faculty (1998), playing Venus, Usher's on-screen girlfriend. Off-screen, she is close friends with Usher, and also with singer Aaliyah. Although her scenes were deleted in The Faculty (1998), Kidada appeared in Black & White (1999) with Brooke Shields, and also in Thicker Than Water (1999).
Along with a rising movie career, Kidada is also a Tommy Hilfiger model and has appeared in several adds and commercials.
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Larry Martyn was born on 22 March 1934 in London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Department S (1969), Whoops Baghdad! (1973) and West End Tales (1981). He was married to Hilary Martyn. He died on 7 August 1994 in Kent, England, UK.- Laure Calamy was born on 22 March 1975 in Orléans, Loiret, France. She is an actress, known for Full Time (2021), My Donkey, My Lover & I (2020) and A World Without Women (2011).
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Laurie Lennard was born on 22 March 1958 in the USA. She is a producer and actress, known for An Inconvenient Truth (2006), Sour Grapes (1998) and Get a Life (1990). She was previously married to Larry David.- Swedish-born Lena Olin already had a successful career as an actress before she came to Hollywood. She acted at the Royal Theatre in Stockholm and was directed by Ingmar Bergman. She was born in Stockholm, to actors Britta Holmberg and Stig Olin, who appeared in six of Bergman's films. Lena also belongs to the Bergman "family". As a young actress, she played in the great classics of William Shakespeare, Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg. She made her international debut as a movie actress in After the Rehearsal (1984) (aka "After the Rehearsal"), directed by Bergman. In western Europe, she became well-known in the political movie The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988) as "Sabina", in a story about the Prague spring (1968). After coming to the US, she played mostly distinguished, exotic temptresses, intelligent women and crude vamps. Bergman had developed Lena's artistic gift to play different human emotions and express them in a subtle way. Sydney Pollack, director of Out of Africa (1985), rewrote the screenplay for Havana (1990) especially for her. This explains why this film recalls associations with the classic Casablanca (1942), starring Ingrid Bergman, also from Sweden. Olin received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Enemies, A Love Story (1989). She went on to have a choice role in Chocolat (2000), which received a Best Picture Oscar nomination, and received a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination. She made a move to the smaller screen and played the role for one season as the deliciously evil "Irina Derevko", the mother to Jennifer Garner's "Sydney Bristow" in the series Alias (2001). Olin received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series.
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Leo Dan was born in 1945 in Atamisqui, Pcia. de Santiago del Estero, Argentina. He is a music artist and actor, known for Roma (2018), Biutiful (2010) and La muchachada de a bordo (1967).- Actor
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Leo "Bud" Welch, born in Calhoun County, Mississippi, 1932, was a blues/gospel guitarist and singer. In 1947 at age 15, he could play guitar and sing well enough to perform in front of an audience. He received praise and blessings of many elder guitar players. And he was offered an audition by BB King - but could not afford the trip to Memphis. However, Bud stayed with the blues till 1975 when he mostly converted to gospel. But his musicianship didn't pay the bills. His main occupation was being a lumberjack for 30 years. Welch's international music career started at the age of 82, in 2014, with the release of the album "Sabougla Voices" by Big Legal Mess Records. His subsequent studio album, "I Don't Prefer No Blues", also recorded for Big Legal Mess, was released in 2015. Austrian filmmakers Wolfgang Pfoser-Almer and Stefan Wolner made several trips to Mississippi following Leo "Bud" Welch as a performer and private person. Their documentary, "Late Blossom Blues" premiered at the Clarksdale Film Festival, Delta Cinema, January 28, 2017. Leo "Bud" Welch passed away on December 19, 2017. "I don't know what you come to do" is carved in his stone at Double Springs Church Cemetery, Bruce, MS.- Lew Wasserman was born on 22 March 1913 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He was married to Edie Wasserman. He died on 3 June 2002 in Beverly Hills, California, USA.
- Linden Chiles was born on 22 March 1933 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. He was an actor, known for The Green Hornet (1966), Old Friends (2010) and The Mystic Tales of Nikolas Winter (2012). He was married to Cynthia Jean Coles, Mona Lee Schussman and Rosemary Kelly. He died on 15 May 2013 in Topanga, California, USA.
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Lizzie Brocheré was born on 22 March 1985 in Paris, France. She is an actress and director, known for Rings (2017), Full Contact (2015) and American Horror Story (2011).- Louis L'Amour was born on 22 March 1908 in Jamestown, North Dakota, USA. He was a writer, known for Hondo (1953), East of Sumatra (1953) and Apache Territory (1958). He was married to Kathy Adams. He died on 10 June 1988 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Luise von Finckh made her first acting experiences at the age of 10 in the musical Les Misérables at the Theater des Westens. In 2005 she played little Cosette there. From January to July 2007, she participated in the children's and youth series Schloss Einstein as Rosi. This was followed by the cast as Lotte in the film cattle à la carte in 2010 and 2011 as Luise in the fairy tale The scored shoes. In the summer of 2012, she first played the French exchange student Claire Latour in the series Good Times, Bad Times, where she took over in the fall of 2016, the main character Jule Vogt. In 2015 she could be seen in Fack ju Göhte 2.
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Wonderfully talented, heavyset character actor (from New York, but regularly playing Southerners) M. Emmet Walsh has made a solid career of playing corrupt cops, deadly crooks, and zany comedic roles since the early 1970s.
Michael Emmet Walsh was born in Ogdensburg, to Agnes Katharine (Sullivan) and Harry Maurice Walsh, a customs agent. He is of Irish descent. Walsh first appeared in a few fairly forgettable roles both on TV and onscreen before cropping up in several well remembered films, including a courtroom police officer in What's Up, Doc? (1972), as the weird Dickie Dunn in Slap Shot (1977), and as a loony sniper hunting Steve Martin in The Jerk (1979). On-screen demand heated up for him in the early 1980s with attention-grabbing work in key hits, including Brubaker (1980), Reds (1981), and as Harrison Ford's police chief in the futuristic thriller Blade Runner (1982). Walsh then turned in a stellar performance as the sleazy, double-crossing private detective in the Joel Coen and Ethan Coen film noir Blood Simple (1984), and showed up again for the Coens as a loud-mouthed sheet-metal worker bugging Nicolas Cage in the hilarious Raising Arizona (1987). As Walsh moved into his fifties and beyond, Hollywood continued to offer him plenty of work, and he has appeared in over 50 movies since passing the half-century mark. His consistent ability to turn out highly entertaining portrayals led film critic Roger Ebert to coin the "Stanton-Walsh Rule," which states that any film starring Walsh or Harry Dean Stanton has to have some merit. And the "M" stands for Michael!- Director
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Manuel Pradal was born on 22 March 1964 in Aubenas, Ardèche, France. He was a director and writer, known for Marie Baie des Anges (1997), Ginostra (2002) and La petite inconnue (2016). He died on 13 May 2017 in Paris, France.- Actor
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Marcel Marceau was the legendary mime, who survived the Nazi occupation, and saved many children in WWII. He was regarded for his peerless style pantomime, moving audiences without uttering a single word, and was known to the World as a "master of silence."
He was born Marcel Mangel on March 22, 1923, in Strasbourg, Alsace, France, and was brought up in Strasbourg and Lille. There he was introduced to music and theatre by his father, Charles Mangel, a kosher butcher, who also sang baritone and was a supporter of arts and music. His mother, Anne Mangel (née Werzberg), was a native Alsatian, and the family was bilingual. At the age of 5, his mother took Marcel to a Charlie Chaplin's movie, and he was entranced and decided to become a mime. Young Marcel was also fond of art and literature, he studied English in addition to his French and German, and became trilingual.
At the beginning of the Second World War, he had to hide his Jewish origin and changed his name to Marceau, when his Jewish family was forced to flee their home. His father was deported to Auschwitz, where he was killed in 1944. Both Marceau and his brother, Alain, were in the French underground, helping children to escape to safety in neutral Switzerland. Then Marceau served as interpreter for the Free French Forces under General Charles de Gaulle, acting as liaison officer with the allied armies.
Marcel Marceau gave his first big public performance to 3000 troops after liberation of Paris in August of 1944. After the war, in 1946, he enrolled as a student in Charles Dullin's School of Dramatic Art at the Sarah Bernhardt Theatre in Paris. There his teacher was Etienne Decroux, whose other apprentice Jean-Louis Barrault hired Marcel Marceau, and cast him in the role as Arlequin. His biggest inspirations were Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Marx Brothers. In 1947, blending the 19th century harlequin with the gestures of Chaplin and Keaton, Marceau created his most famous mime character, Bip, a white-faced clown with a tall, battered hat and a red flower. In 1949 he created his own company and toured around the world.
Marcel Marceau shone in a range of characters, from an innocent child, to a peevish waiter, to a lion tamer, to an old woman, and became acknowledged as one of the world's finest mimes. In just a couple of minutes, he could show a metamorphosis of an entire human life from birth to death. Through his alter ego, Bip, he played out the human comedy without uttering a word. His classic silent works such as The Cage, Walking Against the Wind, The Mask Maker, In The Park, and satires on artists, sculptors, matadors, has been described as works of genius. For many years Marceau's 'Compagnie de Mime Marcel Marceau', also known as 'Compagnie de Mimodrame', was the only company of pantomime in the world. Marceau played several silent film roles and only one with a speaking part, as himself, speaking the single word "Non" in Mel Brooks' Silent Movie (1976).
In 1959, Marcel Marceau established his own school in Paris, and later the Marceau Foundation to promote the art of pantomime in the United States. His later performances in 2000-2001 received great acclaim. He was made "Officer de la Legion d'Honneur" (1978) and "Grand Officer de la Legion d'Honneur" (1998), and was awarded the National Order of Merit (1998). He won the Emmy Award for his work on television, and was elected member of the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin, the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, the Academie des beaux-arts France and the Institut de France, and was declared "National treasure" in Japan. In 2002 he was UN Goodwill Ambassador at the international conference on aging in Madrid.
His "art of silence" filled a remarkable acting career that lasted over 60 years. He was an actor, director, teacher, interpreter, and public figure, and made extensive tours in countries on five continents. Outside of his mime profession, Marcel Marceau was a multilingual speaker and a great communicator, who surprised many with his flowing speeches in several languages. In his later years he was living on a farm at Cahors, near Toulouse, France. He continued his routine practice daily to keep himself in good form, never losing the agility that made him famous. He also continued coaching his numerous students.
Marcel Marceau passed away at his home in France, on September 23, 2007, like an Autumn leaf after the Autumn Equinox, and after Yom Kippur in Jewish calendar, having the Day of Atonement as his final curtain. His burial ceremony was accompanied by the Mozart's piano concerto No21, and the music of J.C. Bach. Marcel Marceau was laid to rest in the Pere Lachaise cemetery in Paris, France.
He brought poetry to silence.- Margie DeMeyer was born on 22 March 1957 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is an actress, known for Gunsmoke (1955), My Three Sons (1960) and The Brady Bunch (1969).
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María Dolores Gispert was born on 22 March 1934 in Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. She was an actress, known for El ángel está en la cumbre (1958), Los agentes del quinto grupo (1955) and La legión del silencio (1956). She was married to Miguel Ángel Valdivieso. She died on 20 July 2018 in Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.- Mario Gallo was born on 22 March 1923 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Raging Bull (1980), King Kong (1976) and A Woman Under the Influence (1974). He died on 30 October 1984 in Ontario, California, USA.
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Martha Issová was born on 22 March 1981 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]. She is an actress and writer, known for The Seven Ravens (2015), Deti noci (2008) and Buko (2022).- Mary Tamm was an English actress from Bradford, with Estonian and Russian descent. She is primarily remembered for portraying Romana I, the first incarnation of the female Time Lord Romana in the long-running science fiction television series "Doctor Who" (1963-1989). Tamm portrayed the character throughout the story arc "The Key to Time" (1978-1979). Her version of the character was well-educated, haughty, and somewhat arrogant, but inexperienced as an adventurer. Romana I was then replaced by Romana II (played by Lalla Ward), who was depicted as a more confident, and wittier incarnation.
Tamm was born to emigrant parents, who had fled Stalinist persecution in their native Soviet Union. Tamm's father was Estonian, and Tamm's mother was a Russian opera singer. Four of Tamm's paternal uncles died while serving prison sentences in the gulag labor camps. Tamm learned only the Estonian language at her home, and went on to attend Estonian-language school on Saturdays. She learned English as a second language, when enrolled in a primary school.
In 1961, the 11-year-old Tamm won a scholarship to attend the Bradford Girls' Grammar School, a private school active since 1875. She soon joined the city's Civic Theatre, as a child actress. By the time she reached adulthood, she wanted to become a full-time actress. She studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) from 1969 to 1971.
In 1971, Tamm started regularly performing with the Birmingham Repertory Company. In 1972, she moved to London to secure a role in a musical at the city's stage. In 1973, Tamm made her BBC television debut as the character Sally Ross in "The Donati Conspiracy". She started regularly appearing in various film and television roles at this point. She portrayed the intended victim of a human sacrifice in the "Luau" segment of the horror anthology film "Tales That Witness Madness" (1973), and she portrayed the protagonist's victimized girlfriend in the neo-Nazi-themed spy thriller film "The Odessa File" (1974).
When initially offered to play the role of a female companion in "Doctor Who" , Tamm wanted to refuse. She felt that the companions of the series were damsels in distress with limited character development. She changed her mind when the producers assured her that Romana would be a member of the Doctor's own species, and as capable as the Doctor himself. Tamm was disappointed when she realized that Romana was essentially a sidekick, and often in peril. She decided to leave the series after a single story arc, though she left the show on relatively good terms. Tamm was annoyed when rumors about her supposed pregnancy were spread by a former producer of the show.
In the 1980s, Tamm had leading roles in several short-lived dramas and in the sitcom "The Hello, Goodbye Man". In the early 1990s , she was a regular guest panelist on the morning quiz show "Crosswits". From 1993 to 1996, Tamm portrayed a recurring character in the soap opera Brookside. In 2005, Tamm was cast as Pandora in the "Gallifrey" audio plays produced by Big Finish Productions. In the 2010s, she returned to the role of Romana in seven "Doctor Who" audio adventures. They were released posthumously in 2013.
In 2009, Tamm published the first volume of her autobiography, under the title "First Generation". She was working on a second volume at the time of her death from cancer in July 2012. The second volume was published posthumously in 2014. Tamm was survived by her only daughter, Lauren. Though long gone, Tamm remains popular in the science fiction fandom. - Actor
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Matt Bush was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Adventureland (2009), The Goldbergs (2013) and Piranha 3DD (2012).- Actor
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The youngest of seven, Matthew was born in Loma Linda, Ca, to Dolores (Warner), a bookkeeper, and Mark Alexander Modine, a drive-in theater manager. After graduating high school in Imperial Beach, Ca. Modine moved to NYC (1979). Matthew studied with Stella Adler at her Conservatory of Acting. While still a student of hers, he began landing starring roles in film, and later theatre and television. Matthew has worked with many of the most highly regarded directors including, Christopher Nolan, Oliver Stone, Sir Alan Parker, Stanley Kubrick, Robert Altman, Abel Ferrara, Alan J. Pakula, John Schlesinger, Tony Richardson, Robert Falls, Sir Peter Hall, Spike Lee, Tom DiCillo, Mike Figgis, Jonathan Demme and John Sayles. A partial list of his films include: The Dark Knight Rises (2012), Birdy (1984), Vision Quest (1985), Full Metal Jacket (1987), Married to the Mob (1988), Gross Anatomy (1989), Memphis Belle (1990), Pacific Heights (1990), Short Cuts (1993), The Browning Version (1994) and Any Given Sunday (1999).
Matthew is the recipient of a Golden Globe Award, Venice Film Festival Volpi Cup and Golden Lion. Mary (2005), directed by Abel Ferrara, co-starring Juliette Binoche and Forest Whitaker, won the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival. Birdy won the Cannes Film Festival Gran Prix. Equinox (1992), directed by Alan Rudolph, received four Independent Spirit Award nominations including Best Actor and Best Film. For his work in television, Matthew was part of the Emmy winning Showtime series Weeds (2005). He has received Golden Globe and Emmy Award nominations for the M.O.W. What the Deaf Man Heard (1997) and HBO's Emmy winning And the Band Played On (1993). Modine has directed several distinguished short films: When I Was a Boy (1993), Smoking (1994), Ecce Pirate (1997), I Think I Thought (2008) and To Kill an American (2008).- Maurice Berger is a cultural historian whose work explores the relationship between social and cultural issues and American film, television, art, and material culture. He is Research Professor and Chief Curator at the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, University of Maryland Baltimore County. He was also formerly Curator of the National Jewish Archive of Broadcasting at The Jewish Museum in New York. Berger's essay series, Race Stories, "a continuing exploration of the relationship of race to photographic portrayals of race," appears monthly on the ''Lens Blog'' of the New York Times. Berger has curated more than 30 exhibitions and is the author of eleven books, including, "Revolution of the Eye: Modern Art and the Birth of American Television" (Yale 2015), "For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights" (Yale, 2010), "Masterworks of The Jewish Museum" (Yale, 2004), and "White Lies: Race and the Myths of Whiteness (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1999)." Berger's curatorial honors include "Exhibition of the Year" and "Best Exhibition in a University Museum" from the Association of Art Museum Curators and "Best Thematic Exhibition in New York" from the International Association of Art Critics, American Section. His short film, "Threshold," premiered at the Whitney Biennial in New York in 2012. He has appeared in a number of film and television documentaries and feature news segments, including "The Marion Stokes Project" (Dir. Matt Wolf, 2016), "Revolution of the Eye," (Prod. Lisa Petrillo, CBS-4 Miami, October 2015), "Blacking Up: Hip Hop's Remix of Race and Identity" (Dir. Robert Clift, 2010), and "For All the World to See," (Prod. Cara Cosentino, WNET Sunday Arts, August 2010). For his work on the "For All the World to See" segment of Sunday Arts, Berger received a 2011 Emmy Award nomination from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, New York chapter.