Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World 2003 premiere
by nightopeningfan | created - 17 Jun 2020 | updated - 17 Jun 2020 | PublicSaturday November 1st, The Beekman Theatre 1271 2nd Ave, New York, NY 10065
1. Russell Crowe
Actor | Les Misérables
Russell Ira Crowe was born in Wellington, New Zealand, to Jocelyn Yvonne (Wemyss) and John Alexander Crowe, both of whom catered movie sets. His maternal grandfather, Stanley Wemyss, was a cinematographer. Crowe's recent ancestry includes Welsh (where his paternal grandfather was born, in Wrexham),...
2. Paul Bettany
Actor | WandaVision
Paul Bettany is an English actor. He first came to the attention of mainstream audiences when he appeared in the British film Gangster No. 1 (2000), and director Brian Helgeland's film A Knight's Tale (2001). He has gone on to appear in a wide variety of films, including A Beautiful Mind (2001), ...
3. Jennifer Connelly
Actress | A Beautiful Mind
Jennifer Connelly was born in the Catskill Mountains, New York, to Ilene (Schuman), a dealer of antiques, and Gerard Connelly, a clothing manufacturer. Her father had Irish and Norwegian ancestry, and her mother was from a Jewish immigrant family. Jennifer grew up in Brooklyn Heights, just across ...
4. Cate Blanchett
Actress | Carol
Cate Blanchett was born on May 14, 1969 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, to June (Gamble), an Australian teacher and property developer, and Robert DeWitt Blanchett, Jr., an American advertising executive, originally from Texas. She has an older brother and a younger sister. When she was ten ...
5. Anthony Edwards
Actor | ER
Anthony Edwards was born in Santa Barbara, California, on July 19, 1962, to a well-blended family. He is the youngest of five children, and the son of Erika Kem (Weber), a landscape painter and artist, and Peter Edwards, an architect. His mother was of German descent, and his father was of English,...
6. Lachlan Murdoch
Actor | Cheats
Lachlan Murdoch was born on February 16, 1986 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He is an actor, known for Cheats (2002), Stargate SG-1 (1997) and Murdoch Mysteries (2008).
7. Sarah Murdoch
Actress | Head Over Heels
Sarah grew up on the northern beaches of Sydney before going on to become one of Australia's most successful international models based in New York for over 14 years. Key successes included major contracts with L'Oreal, Revlon, Estee Lauder and Ralph Lauren, major campaigns with Christian Dior and ...
8. Harvey Weinstein
Producer | Shakespeare in Love
Harvey Weinstein was born on March 19, 1952, in Flushing, Queens, New York City, New York, USA, the first of two boys born to Max and Miriam Weinstein. He is a film producer, known for Pulp Fiction (1994), Shakespeare in Love (1998), and Gangs of New York (2002). He has been married and divorced ...
9. Walter Cronkite
Actor | Liberty's Kids
Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr. was born in Saint Joseph, Missouri, the only child of Helen Lena (Fritsche) and Walter Leland Cronkite, a doctor. Throughout his early career, Cronkite worked with newspapers. During World War II, he served as a news reporter. In 1950, Cronkite became a journalist. He ...
10. Tom Rothman
Producer | Down by Law
Tom Rothman is Chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment's Motion Picture Group. In that role, Rothman oversees the entirety of the studio's motion picture businesses worldwide including that of Columbia Pictures, TriStar Pictures, Screen Gems, Sony Pictures Animation, Sony Pictures Imageworks, Sony ...
11. James Gianopulos
Actor | Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
James Gianopulos worked as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Paramount Pictures, a role he assumed in April 2017 until his departure in September 2021. Gianopulos has been involved in the evolution of new entertainment media and technologies for more than 30 years, and has been recognized as ...
12. Peter Weir
Director | Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Peter Weir was born on August 21, 1944 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He is a director and writer, known for Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003), The Way Back (2010) and Witness (1985). He has been married to Wendy Stites since 1966. They have two children.
13. Joan Chen
Actress | Judge Dredd
Born into a family of doctors and educated in China at the Shanghai Film Academy and the Shanghai Institute of Foreign Languages, Joan Chen was discovered by veteran Chinese director Jin Xie while observing a filming with a school group. Her performance in Xiao hua (1979) (A.K.A. "The Little Flower...
14. James D'Arcy
Actor | Cloud Atlas
James D'Arcy was born Simon Richard D'Arcy in London, England, to Caroline (O'Connor) and Richard D'Arcy. He was raised by his mother, a nurse. He trained at LAMDA and graduated in July 1995. During his three-year course, he gained acting experience by appearing in the plays "Heracles", "As You ...
15. Lucy Punch
Actress | Into the Woods
Lucy Punch grew up in London and was a member of the National Youth Theatre in her late teens before going to University College London to read History. While she was there she auditioned for TV roles and eventually dropped out to concentrate on acting.
She learned a lot, she says, from working on ...
16. Bebe Neuwirth
Actress | Jumanji
Beatrice "Bebe" Neuwirth is the daughter of Sydney Anne, an artist, and Lee Paul Neuwirth, a mathematician. Born and raised in Princeton, New Jersey, she started out as a dancer. Her New York career started out in "A Chorus Line". She won a Tony Award for her part in "Sweet Charity" and two Emmy ...
17. Martha Stewart
Actress | Bad Moms
Martha Stewart was born on August 3, 1941 in Nutley, New Jersey, USA. She is a producer and actress, known for Bad Moms (2016), Men in Black II (2002) and Pixels (2015). She was previously married to Andrew Stewart.
18. Lesley Stahl
Actress | Eagle Eye
Lesley Stahl was born on December 16, 1941 in Lynn, Massachusetts, USA. She is an actress, known for Eagle Eye (2008), Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (2021) and Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (2023). She was previously married to Aaron Latham and Dr. Jeffrey Gordon.
19. Peter Boyle
Actor | Everybody Loves Raymond
A bold, blunt instrument of hatred and violence at the onset of his film career, Peter Boyle recoiled from that repugnant, politically incorrect "working class" image to eventually play gruff, gentler bears and even comedy monsters in a career that lasted four decades.
He was born on October 18, ...
20. Mira Nair
Director | Salaam Bombay!
Accomplished Film Director/Writer/Producer Mira Nair was born in India and educated at Delhi University and at Harvard. She began her film career as an actor and then turned to directing award-winning documentaries, including So Far From India and India Cabaret. Her debut feature film, Salaam ...
21. James Lipton
Writer | Inside the Actors Studio
James Lipton was an actor, academic, author, choreographer, interviewer, scriptwriter, and producer for stage and television projects. He was known for creating and hosting the noted and popular TV series Inside the Actors Studio (1994), where successful and prominent actors discussed their craft ...
22. Robert Natter
Robert Natter is known for Akeelah and the Bee (2006), Tough Love (2009) and Foxworthy's Big Night Out (2006). Robert has been married to Erin Natter since November 3, 2007.
23. Jim Lau
Actor | S.W.A.T.
In a film career spanning over four decades, Jim Lau has appeared in well over 100 films and television shows, working with some of the world's most celebrated actors and directors in Hollywood - such as Alan Alda, Michael Landon, Burt Reynolds, Kurt Russell, John Carpenter, Jon Turteltaub and ...
24. Chiwetel Ejiofor
Actor | 12 Years a Slave
English actor, writer and director Chiwetel Ejiofor is renowned for his portrayal of Solomon Northup in 12 Years a Slave (2013), for which he received Academy Award and Golden Globe Award nominations, along with the BAFTA Award for Best Actor. He is also known for playing Okwe in Dirty Pretty Things...
25. Loraine Alterman Boyle
Self | Biography
Loraine Alterman Boyle was previously married to Peter Boyle.
26. Michael Gelman
Producer | Live with Kelly and Mark
Michael Gelman was born on August 4, 1961. He is a producer and actor, known for Live with Kelly and Mark (1988), The Morning Show (Regis Philbin, Cyndy Garvey) (1983) and Back on Board: Greg Louganis (2014). He has been married to Laurie Gelman since June 17, 2000. They have two children.
27. Laurie Gelman
Actress | Prom Night III: The Last Kiss
Laurie Hibberd was born April 4, 1964 in Canada. TV credits include YTV (Rock N Talk) WSVN, Miami (The Buzz), Breakfast Time on f/X (co-hosted with Tom Bergeron), Fox After Breakfast (co-hosted with Tom Bergeron), Good Morning America (Reporter), The Early Show on CBS (pop culture correspondent) ...
28. Kedaki Turner
Actress | For Love of Ivy
Kedaki Turner is known for For Love of Ivy (1968). She was previously married to James Lipton.
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