The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 2002 (LA) premiere
by nightopeningfan | created - 11 Jun 2020 | updated - 04 Aug 2020 | PublicSunday December 15th, The Dome Entertainment Centre 6360 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028
1. Elijah Wood
Actor | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Elijah Wood is an American actor best known for portraying Frodo Baggins in Peter Jackson's blockbuster Lord of the Rings film trilogy. In addition to reprising the role in The Hobbit series, Wood also played Ryan in the FX television comedy Wilfred (2011) and voiced Beck in the Disney XD animated ...
2. Billy Boyd
Actor | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Billy Boyd was born in 1968 in Glasgow, Scotland, to Mary and William Boyd. The talented young boy, inspired by Star Wars to try acting, got his first taste of it in his school's production of Oliver Twist when he was 10. Boyd's parents were extremely supportive, driving over two hours to get him ...
3. Brad Dourif
Actor | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Gaunt character actor Brad Dourif was born Bradford Claude Dourif on March 18, 1950 in Huntington, West Virginia. He is the son of Joan Mavis Felton (Bradford) and Jean Henri Dourif, a French-born art collector who owned and operated a dye factory. His father died when Dourif was three years old, ...
4. Sean Astin
Actor | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Sean Patrick Astin (né Duke; February 25, 1971) is an American actor, voice actor, screenwriter, director, producer, family man, author, marathon runner, political activist and philanthropist who is well known for his film debut portraying Mikey in Steven Spielberg's The Goonies (1985), for playing...
5. Christine Astin
Producer | Kangaroo Court
Christine Astin is best known for her work as an Academy Award nominated producer on Kangaroo Court (1994) as well as for her position as Vice President and CFO of Lava Entertainment.
Christine was born Christine Louise Harrell to Nancy Miller and firefighter Frank Harrell on September 12, 1967 just...
6. Camryn Grimes
Actress | The Young and the Restless
Camryn Grimes was born on January 7, 1990 in Van Nuys, California, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for The Young and the Restless (1973), Swordfish (2001) and Magic Mike (2012).
7. Miranda Otto
Actress | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Miranda Otto is an Australian actress. Otto is a daughter of actors Barry Otto and Lindsay Otto, and half-sister of actress Gracie Otto. She began her acting career at age 18 in 1986, and has appeared in a variety of independent and major studio films. Otto made her major film debut in Emma's War (...
8. Andy Serkis
Actor | War for the Planet of the Apes
English film actor, director and author Andy Serkis is known for his performance capture roles comprising motion capture acting, animation and voice work for such computer-generated characters as Gollum in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy (2001-2003) and The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012), ...
9. Bernard Hill
Actor | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Bernard Hill is an English actor. He is well recognized for playing King Théoden in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, Captain Edward Smith in Titanic, and Luther Plunkitt, the Warden of San Quentin Prison in the Clint Eastwood film True Crime. Hill was also known for playing roles in television ...
10. Mike Erwin
Actor | The Haves and the Have Nots
Mike Erwin is an American actor from Georgia who is known for providing the voice of Jak from the Jak and Daxter video game franchise for the PlayStation, Colin Hart from Everwood, a teenage Bruce Banner from Ang Lee's Hulk, Speedy from Teen Titans and Justice League Unlimited and Kevin Graham from...
11. Chris Pratt
Actor | Guardians of the Galaxy
Christopher Michael "Chris" Pratt was born on June 21, 1979 in Virginia, Minnesota and raised in Lake Stevens, Washington, to Kathleen Louise (Indahl), who worked at a supermarket, and Daniel Clifton Pratt, who remodeled houses. He is of mostly Norwegian descent. He graduated from Lake Stevens High...
12. Barrie M. Osborne
Producer | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Barrie M. Osborne was born on February 7, 1944 in New York City, New York, USA. He is a producer and production manager, known for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) and The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002). He is ...
13. Robbie Magasiva
Actor | Wentworth
Robbie Joseph Magasiva (born 21 May 1972) is a Samoan New Zealand actor who has starred in several films including New Zealand box office record breakers Sione's Wedding and Sione's 2: Unfinished Business.
He is also known for his role on Shortland Street (1992) as Dr. Maxwell Avia which he played ...
14. Dominic Monaghan
Actor | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Dominic Monaghan is best known for his role in the movie adaptations of "Lord of the Rings". Before that, he became known in England for his role in the British television drama Hetty Wainthropp Investigates (1996).
Monaghan was born in Berlin, West Germany, to British parents Maureen, a nurse, and ...
15. Alex Kingston
Actress | ER
Alex Kingston was born on March 11, 1963 in London, England, UK. She is an actress, known for ER (1994), Doctor Who (2005) and Alpha Dog (2006). She has been married to Jonathan Stamp since July 18, 2015. She was previously married to Florian Haertel and Ralph Fiennes.
16. Michael Rosenbaum
Actor | Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Michael Owen Rosenbaum is an American actor and pod-caster. He is known for portraying Lex Luthor on the Superman television series Smallville, a role that TV Guide included in their 2013 list of "The 60 Nastiest Villains of All Time". Rosenbaum is also known for portraying Martinex in Guardians of...
17. Erika Christensen
Actress | Traffic
Erika Jane Christensen was born in 1982 in Seattle, Washington, to Kathy (Hendricks), a construction manager, and Steven Christensen, a human resources executive and insurance worker. She was raised in the suburban outskirts of Los Angeles, California. At age 12, Erika knew that she was going to be...
18. David Wenham
Actor | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
David Wenham is an Australian actor who is known for his portrayals of Faramir from The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Friar Carl from the Van Helsing franchise and Dilios from 300. He also acted in Moulin Rouge, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, Dark City, Top of the Lake, SeaChange ...
19. John Rhys-Davies
Actor | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Welsh actor John Rhys-Davies was born in Ammanford, Carmarthenshire, Wales, to Mary Margaretta Phyllis (nee Jones), a nurse, and Rhys Davies, a mechanical engineer and Colonial Officer. He graduated from the University of East Anglia and is probably best known to film audiences for his roles in the...
20. Catherine Bell
Actress | Bruce Almighty
Catherine was born in London, but she moved to California with her Iranian mother at the age of two. Her mother still acts as her personal assistant. As a girl, she acted in various TV advertisements. She went to UCLA to study biology/ pre-medicine, but she dropped out to become a model in Japan. ...
21. Kate Bosworth
Actress | Superman Returns
Kate Bosworth was born in Los Angeles, California, to Patricia (Potter), a homemaker, and Harold Bosworth, who was an executive for Talbots. Unlike the characters Bosworth has portrayed in television and in film, which are known as "townies", Kate spent most of her childhood in different cities and...
22. Viggo Mortensen
Actor | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Since his screen debut as a young Amish farmer in Peter Weir's Witness (1985), Viggo Mortensen's career has been marked by a steady string of well-rounded performances.
Mortensen was born in New York City, to Grace Gamble (Atkinson) and Viggo Peter Mortensen, Sr. His father was Danish, his mother ...
23. Karl Urban
Actor | Star Trek
Originally from Wellington, New Zealand, Karl Urban now lives in Auckland. Born on June 7, 1972, he is the son of a leather-goods manufacturer (who had hoped that Karl would follow in his footsteps). His first acting role was when he was 8 -- he had a line on a television series. However, he did ...
24. Nona Gaye
Actress | Crash
It was inevitable that Nona Gaye would become a singer - she is the granddaughter of Cuban jazz great Slim Gaillard, the niece of R&B singer/songwriter Frankie Gaye and the daughter of soul legend Marvin Gaye. Signed to Third/Stone Atlantic at 14, Nona released "Love for the Future" in 1992, which ...
25. Liv Tyler
Actress | Armageddon
Liv Tyler is an actress of international renown and has been a familiar face on our screens for over two decades and counting. She began modelling at the age of fourteen before pursuing a career in acting. After making her film debut in Bruce Beresford's Silent Fall, she was cast by fledgling ...
26. Orlando Bloom
Actor | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Orlando Jonathan Blanchard Copeland Bloom was born on January 13, 1977 in Canterbury, Kent, England. His mother, Sonia Constance Josephine Bloom (née Copeland), was born in Kolkata, India, to an English family then-resident there. The man he first knew as his father, Harry Bloom, was a legendary ...
27. Amanda De Cadenet
Actress | Four Rooms
Amanda De Cadenet was born on May 19, 1972 in Hampstead, Greater London, England, UK. She is an actress and producer, known for Four Rooms (1995), Fall (1997) and Brokedown Palace (1999). She has been married to Nick Valensi since July 2006. They have two children. She was previously married to ...
28. Ethan Hawke
Actor | Training Day
Ethan Green Hawke was born on November 6, 1970 in Austin, Texas, to Leslie Carole (Green), a charity worker, and James Steven Hawke, an insurance actuary. His parents were students at the University of Texas at the time but divorced when Ethan was 5 years old. His mother raised him alone for the ...
29. Ming-Na Wen
Actress | Mulan
Ming-Na ("enlightenment") was born on the island of Macau, forty miles from Hong Kong. Her mother, Lin Chan Wen, divorced her father when Ming-Na was only a toddler. She has an older brother named Jonathan. After the divorce, they moved to Hong Kong where her mother became a nurse. There her mother...
30. Jill Hennessy
Actress | Crossing Jordan
Jill Hennessy can be seen starring in Showtime's "City on a Hill" with Kevin Bacon and Aldis Hodge, executive produced by Tom Fontana and Ben Affleck. Jill starred in the special event series "Shots Fired" by Gina Prince-Bythewood with Sanaa Lathan and Stephan James on FOX and was the lead in the ...
31. Amy Smart
Actress | Starship Troopers
Amy Smart was born in Topanga Canyon, California to Judy, who worked at a museum, and John Boden Smart, a salesman. She has German, English, and Irish ancestry.
Smart was a relatively new arrival when she first gained notice for her supporting roles in the 1999 hit teen films Varsity Blues (1999) and...
32. Brandon Williams
Actor | The Greatest American Hero
Brandon Williams is known for The Greatest American Hero (1981) and The A-Team (1983).
33. Howard Shore
Music_department | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Howard Shore is a Canadian composer, born in Toronto. He was born in a Jewish family. He started studying music when 8-years-old, and played as a member of bands by the time he was 13-years-old. He was interested in a professional career in music as a teenager. He studied music at the Berklee ...
34. David Hyde Pierce
Actor | Frasier
David Hyde Pierce was born in Saratoga Springs, New York, USA. He is the youngest child of George and Laura Pierce (both deceased) and has two older sisters (Barbara and Nancy) and an older brother (Thomas). As a child, he was very interested in music (particularly piano) and regularly played the ...
35. Adam Beason
Writer | The B-Ring
Adam Beason was born on August 25, 1969 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for The B-Ring, The Ranger and Death Becomes Her (1992). He was previously married to Catherine Bell.
36. Paolo Mastropietro
Actor | Cradle 2 the Grave
Paolo Mastropietro was born on June 29, 1964 in New York City, New York, USA. He is an actor, known for Cradle 2 the Grave (2003), Exit Wounds (2001) and Renegade Force (1998). He has been married to Jill Hennessy since October 1, 2000. They have two children.
37. Russell Schwartz
Producer | Down by Law
Russell Schwartz was born in 1948. He is known for Down by Law (1986), A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon (1988) and They All Laughed (1981).
38. Michael Lynne
Producer | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Michael Lynne was born on April 23, 1941 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He was a producer, known for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (2013) and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003). He was married to Ninah ...
39. Robert Shaye
Producer | Wes Craven's New Nightmare
Robert Shaye was born in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He is a producer, director, and actor, particularly known for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) and The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002). He has been married to Eva ...
40. Rolf Mittweg
Producer | Run Fatboy Run
Rolf Mittweg is known for Run Fatboy Run (2007), The New World (2005) and My Own Private Idaho (1991).
41. Atlanta De Cadenet Taylor
Actress | Palo Alto
Atlanta De Cadenet Taylor is known for Palo Alto (2013), Elvis & Nixon (2016) and The Strange Strangers (2012).
42. Peter O'Brien
Actor | X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Peter O'Brien is an Australian actor, best known for his role as an original cast member of the Australian soap opera Neighbours as Shane Ramsay. O'Brien was born in the South Australian town of Murray Bridge, located 76 km south-east of the state capital Adelaide. He started off as a teacher at ...
43. Sala Baker
Actor | The Killer
Sala Baker was born on September 22, 1976 in Wellington, New Zealand. He is an actor and producer, known for The Killer (2023), Dangerous Waters (2023) and Shadow Force.
44. Mark Ordesky
Producer | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Mark Ordesky was born on April 22, 1963 in Sacramento County, California, USA. He is a producer and assistant director, known for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) and The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002). He has ...
45. Jennifer Gabler
Actress | Der Mond und andere Liebhaber
Jennifer Gabler is known for Der Mond und andere Liebhaber (2008).
46. Lily Aldridge
Actress | Ocean's Eight
Lily Aldridge is best known for her work as a Victoria's Secrets lingerie model. She appeared in seven Victoria's Secret Fashion shows from 2009 through 2015 and became a Victoria's Secret Angel in 2010. Aldridge appeared in the 50th Anniversary edition of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue in ...
47. Tamara Czartoryski-Borbon
Actress | The Evil Woods
Tamara Czartoryski-Borbon was born on April 23, 1978 in London, England, UK. She is an actress, known for The Evil Woods (2007), Dubplate Drama (2005) and Palais royal! (2005).
48. Scott Huver
Actor | The Wedding Video
Scott Huver is known for The Wedding Video (2004), E! Mysteries & Scandals (1998) and E! True Hollywood Story (1996).
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