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Lauren Ambrose was born on 20 February 1978 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Six Feet Under (2001), Psycho Beach Party (2000) and Can't Hardly Wait (1998). She has been married to Sam Handel since September 2001. They have two children.- Jamie McShane stars in Tim Burton's smash-hit Netflix series Wednesday. The show spins off the iconic Addams Family series, following Wednesday Addams (played by Jenna Ortega) and is written by Al Gough & Miles Millar. Jamie plays Sheriff Galpin, who has a vendetta against the Addams family.
Jamie is often recognized for his role as Eric O'Bannon in Netflix thriller Bloodline (from Damages creators Glenn Kessler, Daniel Zelman & Todd A. Kessler), starring alongside Ben Mendelsohn, Kyle Chandler and Sissy Spacek. He played the long-time friend and partner-in-crime of "Danny" (Mendelsohn).
In film, Jamie appears in David Fincher's Oscar Nominated Netflix film Mank, about famed Hollywood screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz (played by Gary Oldman) who co-wrote Citizen Kane with Orson Welles. This marks Jamie's second collaboration with David Fincher as they had previously worked together in Fincher's thriller Gone Girl.
Other feature credits include ARGO (multiple Oscar winner, including Best Picture), Marvel's The Avengers, Marvel's Thor, Dan Gilroy's Nightcrawler, Hostage, Gridiron Gang, and Pride and Glory. Jamie was also the lead of Busman's Holiday, an independent film and passion project that shot in Ireland, Norway, Italy, India, Tanzania and Australia. The film was ultimately distributed by Amazon.
Jamie has appeared in over 250 episodes of television. Highlights include a Series Regular role in FOX thriller The Passage, based on Justin Cronin's best-selling fantasy book trilogy. Jamie recurred across season one of David E Kelley & Michael Connelly's hit Netflix drama The Lincoln Lawyer. He starred in USA Network's limited series Unsolved, chronicling the police investigations into the murders of rap stars Biggie Smalls and Tupac Shakur. He recurred across season one of the CSI: Vegas reboot as the lead villain. Other recurring roles include CBS military drama Seal Team, Amazon's hit detective drama Bosch, TNT's critically acclaimed police-drama Southland, as well as an emotionally charged arc as Irish Gunrunner Cameron Hayes in FX's hit Sons of Anarchy.
Born and raised in northern New Jersey, Jamie is a life-long athlete excelling in numerous sports, especially hockey and tennis. He's played in numerous tournaments and spent time as an instructor. He also received his black-belt in Tae Kwondo. Jamie earned his BA in English at the University of Richmond. Following graduation he backpacked throughout Europe, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. For the decade following his return, he would stumble all over New York City doing play after play, eventually landing roles in Indie films. During this time Jamie wrote a book of poetry and some children's stories, and worked full-time in his family's business selling and fixing microscopes. Jamie eventually relocated to Los Angeles, where he now lives. - Actress
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Millie Bobby Brown (born 19 February 2004) is an English actress and model. She rose to prominence for her role as Eleven in the Netflix science fiction drama series Stranger Things (2016), for which she earned a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series at age 13. She is also the youngest person ever to feature on TIME 100 list.
Millie was born in Marbella, Andalusia, Spain, the third of four children of English parents, Kelly and Robert Brown. The family moved to Bournemouth, Dorset, when Brown was around four years old, and then to Orlando, Florida, four years later. Here, Millie went to acting workshops to pass time on a Saturday, and it was there that a top Hollywood talent scout called and told Millie's parents that "she has instincts you cannot teach." She advised Millie's parents that she could "mix it with the best kids in Hollywood." They packed up and drove from Orlando to Los Angeles, and within a week, Millie was meeting with the town's top children's talent agencies. She was offered representation by all the agents that she met. Within three months of being in Hollywood, Millie was cast as young Alice in ABC's fantasy drama series Once Upon a Time in Wonderland (2013), a spin-off of Once Upon a Time (2011).
In November 2013, after just one self-taped audition, and without meeting the producers/directors, Millie was offered the role of Madison O'Donnell in BBC America paranormal drama-thriller series Intruders (2014). She then made guest appearances in the CBS police procedural drama NCIS (2003), the ABC sitcom Modern Family (2009), and the ABC medical drama series Grey's Anatomy (2005). In 2016, Brown played Eleven in the Netflix science fiction drama series Stranger Things. Her portrayal received critical acclaim and she was nominated for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series and the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. She won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series with her co-stars, and won the 43rd Saturn Award for Best Performance by a Younger Actor in a Television Series. In November 2016, Brown starred in the music video for Sigma and Birdy's single "Find Me". Since November 2016, she has appeared in commercial advertisements for Citigroup. In January 2017, she made her modeling debut in Calvin Klein's By Appointment campaign. The following month, she was signed to the agency IMG Models. Brown made her feature film debut in the Godzilla sequel, Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019). In January 2018, Brown was cast to star and produce the film adaptation of the Enola Holmes Mysteries book.
On 20 April, 2018, Brown became the youngest person ever to be included on Time magazine's list of the world's 100 most influential people.
She resides in London and Atlanta, Georgia.- Rose Reynolds was born in Devon, England. In 2009 she relocated to London to train at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, graduating in 2012. She now considers home to be anywhere between Devon, London and Los Angeles. Film credits include A Grand Romantic Gesture (2019) and The World's End (2012). Notable television credits include Wasted (2016) Poldark (2016) and Crackanory (2016). Most recent work includes Alice in Wonderland/Tilly Jones in ABC's 'Once Upon A Time (2019).'
Rose is represented by Tom Jeggo at Insight Management & Production and Will Douglas at Grandview Management. - Actress
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Phoebe Mary Waller-Bridge is an English actress, producer, and writer. She created, wrote, and starred in the Channel 4 sitcom Crashing (2016) and the BBC comedy-drama series Fleabag (2016-2019). She was also the show-runner and executive producer for the first series of the BBC America thriller series Killing Eve (2018).
For Fleabag, she received the British Academy Television Award for Best Female Comedy Performance, as well as three Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series, Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series, and Outstanding Comedy Series. Both Fleabag and Killing Eve have been named among the greatest television series of the 21st century by The Guardian.
Waller-Bridge starred in the comedy series The Café (2011-2013) and the crime drama series Broadchurch (2015). She also appeared in films, including Albert Nobbs (2011), The Iron Lady (2011), and Goodbye Christopher Robin (2017), and played the droid L3-37 in the Star Wars anthology prequel Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018). She co-wrote the screenplay for the 25th James Bond film, titled No Time to Die (2020).
Phoebe Mary Waller-Bridge was born to Theresa Mary (née Clerke) and Michael Cyprian Waller-Bridge. Her father founded the electronic trading platform Tradepoint, while her mother works for the Worshipful Company of Ironmongers. The Waller-Bridge family were landed gentry of Cuckfield, Sussex. On her father's side, she is also a descendant of The Rev. Sir Egerton Leigh, 2nd Baronet, Conservative MP for Mid Cheshire from 1873 to his death in 1876. Her maternal grandfather was Sir John Edward Longueville Clerke, 12th baronet, of Hitcham, Buckinghamshire. Waller-Bridge grew up in Ealing, London, and has a younger brother named Jasper, a music manager, and an older sister named Isobel Waller-Bridge, a composer who wrote the music for Fleabag. Her parents are divorced. She was educated at St Augustine's Priory, a Catholic independent school for girls, followed by the independent sixth form college DLD College London in Marylebone, London. She graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London.