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Alice Wetterlund was born on 16 May 1981 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates (2016), Resident Alien (2021) and People of Earth (2016). She was previously married to Andy Haynes.- Actress
- Producer
- Writer
Megan Denise Fox was born on May 16, 1986 in Oak Ridge, Tennessee and raised in Rockwood, Tennessee to Gloria Darlene Tonachio (née Cisson), a real estate manager & Franklin Thomas Fox, a parole officer. She began her drama and dance training at age 5 and at age 10, she moved to Port St. Lucie, Florida where she continued her training and finished school. Megan began acting and modeling at age 13 after winning several awards at the 1999 American Modeling and Talent Convention in Hilton Head, South Carolina. At age 17, she tested out of school using correspondence and eventually moved to Los Angeles, California. Megan made her film debut as Brianna Wallace in the Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen film, Holiday in the Sun (2001). Her best known roles are as Sam Witwicky's love interest, Mikaela Banes in Transformers (2007) and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009), and as April O'Neil in the film reboot Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014) and its sequel Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (2016).- Actor
- Producer
- Executive
Pierce Brendan Brosnan was born in Drogheda, County Louth, Ireland, to May
(Smith), a nurse, and Thomas Brosnan, a carpenter. He lived in Navan,
County Meath, until he moved to England, UK, at an early age (thus
explaining his ability to play men from both backgrounds convincingly).
His father left the household when Pierce was a child and although
reunited later in life, the two have never had a close relationship.
His most popular role is that of British secret agent James Bond. The
death, in 1991, of
Cassandra Harris, his wife of
eleven years, left him with three children - Christopher and Charlotte
from Cassandra's first marriage and Sean from their marriage. Since her
death, he has had two children with his second wife,
Keely Shaye Brosnan.
Brosnan is most famous for starring in the TV series Remington Steele (1982) as the title character, as well as portraying famous movie character James Bond in GoldenEye (1995), Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), The World Is Not Enough (1999) and Die Another Day (2002).- Actor
- Producer
- Soundtrack
Thomas Brodie-Sangster was born on 16 May 1990 in London, England, UK. He is an actor and producer, known for Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015), The Maze Runner (2014) and Love Actually (2003).- Viola Lynn Collins was born in Houston, Texas, to Patricia Lynn (Campbell) and Phillip Dean Collins. She attended the Juilliard School for
Drama and had a great deal of Shakespearean training before being cast
as "Portia" in "The Merchant of Venice". She also played "Ophelia" in a
production of "Hamlet" in New York, and was "Juliet" in
Peter Hall's "Romeo and Juliet" at
the Ahmanson theatre in Los Angeles. - Actress
- Soundtrack
At sixteen years of age, Melanie Lynskey captivated filmgoers with an astonishing debut in Peter Jackson's revered psychological crime picture, Heavenly Creatures (1994). Her electrifying portrait of the real-life Pauline Parker - a teenage outcast whose fierce rapport with her only friend (a pre-stardom Kate Winslet) spirals dangerously out of control - was deemed "perfect" by TIME's Richard Corliss, whilst earning the young New Zealander a Best Actress trophy in her motherland. Following a three-year hiatus spent studying at university and re-locating to Los Angeles, Lynskey made a welcome return to the silver screen when she was cast as Drew Barrymore's lovable stepsister in Andy Tennant's feminist fairy tale reworking, Ever After: A Cinderella Story (1998). Parts in Detroit Rock City (1999), But I'm a Cheerleader (1999), Coyote Ugly (2000), Snakeskin (2001), Abandon (2002), Sweet Home Alabama (2002), Shattered Glass (2003), and Clint Eastwood's Oscar-nominated war epic Flags of Our Fathers (2006) came next.
In the ensuing years, Lynskey emerged as one of the industry's most celebrated character actors, gaining plaudits for a succession of notable turns in prestige vehicles such as Sam Mendes's Away We Go (2009), Jason Reitman's Up in the Air (2009), Steven Soderbergh's The Informant! (2009), Tom McCarthy's Win Win (2011), Stephen Chbosky's The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012), and Adam McKay's Don't Look Up (2021). Prolific supporting roles - opposite the calibre of George Clooney, Edward Norton, Matt Damon, and Leonardo DiCaprio - aside, headline appearances in Hello I Must Be Going (2012), Happy Christmas (2014), The Intervention (2016) - for which she scored a Special Jury Prize at Sundance - and the genre-bending I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore (2017) have equally proved her mettle as a dynamite leading lady.
On television, Lynskey has worked her scene-stealing magic in an eclectic mixture of projects, such as the enormously successful Two and a Half Men (2003), where she appeared for twelve years as Charlie Sheen's duplicitous admirer, Rose; the acclaimed HBO dramedy Togetherness (2015), for which she nabbed a Critics' Choice nomination for her "sublime" (Vanity Fair) portrayal of a dissatisfied stay-at-home mother; the Stephen King supernatural horror series Castle Rock (2018), where she headlined as troubled psychic Molly Strand; and the critically lauded miniseries Mrs. America (2020), in which she co-starred with Cate Blanchett. For her spellbinding work on Showtime's furiously popular Yellowjackets (2021) - where she stars as Shauna, a suburban housewife consumed by abhorrent secrets - Lynskey has collected two Primetime Emmy nominations and the coveted Critics' Choice Award for Best Actress in a Drama Series, with Rolling Stone's Alan Sepinwall describing it as the "dark, messy, charismatic part she's been waiting her whole career to play".- Actor
- Director
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Joseph Morgan was born in London and spent his childhood with his family in Swansea, Wales. Morgan moved back to London in his late teens to study acting at the Central School of Speech and Drama. While there he continued to write and experiment with filmmaking, participating in student films and work-shopping scenes from his favorite movies.
Upon graduation from Central School, Morgan was hired by acclaimed film director Peter Weir to costar opposite Russell Crowe in 'Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World.' Soon after completion of that film, director Oliver Stone hired Morgan for a strong supporting role in the feature film 'Alexander.' After 'Alexander', Morgan spent time working on stage in the West End of London, as well as starring in numerous British television dramas including BBC miniseries 'The Line of Beauty', 'Henry VIII' opposite Emily Blunt, 'Doc Martin' and 'Mansfield Park'. Morgan was also hired by Harmony Korine to play a James Dean impersonator in his film 'Mister Lonely'
His big break came in 2009, when Morgan was cast in the leading role in the miniseries 'Ben Hur'. Based on the classic novel and film, 'Ben Hur' was directed by Emmy winner Steve Shill.
In 2010, Morgan's film projects included the independent drama 'Angels Crest', and the big-budget film 'Immortals', in which he co-starred with Mickey Rourke. Later that year he was cast as "Klaus" a series regular in the CW hit series 'The Vampire Diaries' After two short years as "Klaus" Morgan was offered a spin-off show called 'The Originals' and centered around his character. 'The Originals' ran for five seasons earning Morgan numerous nominations as well as The People's Choice award for favorite actor in a new show. During his time on the show Morgan spent his hiatus' shooting indie films 'Open Grave' opposite Shalto Copley and 'Desiree' opposite Walton Goggins and and Ron Perlman. He went on to direct three episodes of 'The Originals' bringing his unique style to an established show, garnering a very positive response from colleagues and critics alike.
In 2015 Joseph Morgan started a production Company - Night Owl Productions - with his wife and creative partner Persia White. Under that banner they wrote and produced two short films which Morgan directed. The first 'Revelation' went on to play at eight film festivals, winning the best fantasy film award at Flickers. The second 'Carousel' was filmed over seven hard days with a crew of over fifty passionate people striving to achieve maximum production value. It went on to play at numerous film festivals and win Best Drama Short at the London Independent Film Awards August 2018.- Actor
- Producer
- Writer
Jermaine Fowler was born on 16 May 1988 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Sorry to Bother You (2018), Coming 2 America (2021) and The Drop (2022).- Actress
- Producer
Sheila Carrasco was recently featured in the 2018 JFL New Face of Comedy: Characters showcase. Sheila is from the South Side of Chicago and went to NYU and Harvard. She is half Chilean/Mapuche and half white American. Recent credits include: I Think You Should Leave w/ Tim Robinson, The Good Place, Jane the Virgin, Outmatched, The Odd Couple, Life in Pieces, American Housewife, and #VanLife for NBC/Univ. She is a creator for Más Mejor- Broadway Video's premium comedy studio for Latinx voices. Sheila performed and wrote in the 2018 CBS Diversity Showcase. In 2019 she was the Head Writer and created and ran the inaugural staffed writers room. She is a veteran of the Groundlings Sunday Company and is a proud member of IAMA Theatre Company, where she performed her one-woman play "Anyone But Me".
Black Lives Matter.- Actor
- Writer
- Producer
Khary Payton (born May 16, 1972) is an American actor and voice actor best known for his voice role of the DC Comics character Cyborg across various films, cartoons and video games. He is also known for his live action performances on General Hospital and The Walking Dead.
In 1986, Payton was a winner in Showtime's 1st annual Kid Talent Quest, and a recording exists of him introducing the animated film Sherlock Holmes in the Baskerville Curse.
Payton appeared on a recurring basis as Dr. Terrell Jackson on the ABC daytime soap opera General Hospital. He portrays King Ezekiel on AMC's The Walking Dead.
Payton has portrayed Cyborg in the Teen Titans animated series and Aqualad in Young Justice. In the cartoon series Justice League, Payton provided the voice of the villain Ten from the Royal Flush Gang. He also provided the voice of Drebin in the game Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, Ripcord in G.I. Joe: Renegades, Blade in Marvel: Ultimate Alliance, Grimlock in Transformers: Robots in Disguise and Killer Croc in Batman: Arkham Underworld and is voicing Wasabi on the Disney XD original series Big Hero 6 based on the Marvel Comics by Man of Action and the film of the same name.- Actor
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Jim was born in London, the son of Jane O. (Martin) and Peter J. S.
Sturgess. He was raised in Surrey. First and foremost his interest was
music. However, he began to develop a secret passion for acting, at age
8, when he auditioned for local theatre to get out of class. Whilst
music appeared cool, he felt being in school plays wasn't. So he stuck
with small parts, despite a yearning to be in the lead role. At age 15,
he joined a band and they began lying about their ages to play gigs in
pubs. At school, he received mostly low grades with the exception of
music and drama.
For college, he moved to Salford because there was a lot of good music
coming out of the Manchester scene. In the hopes of joining a new band,
he undertook a Higher National Diploma in Media Performance at Salford
University. It was here that he met people that were really interested
in filmmaking, and it suddenly felt like a possible career move. He
began making short films with his friends and as well as doing theater.
He wrote and performed a one-man show, which led an actor in the
audience to suggest Jim to his agent. The agent signed him without even
meeting him.
Jim moved back to London in 2000, where he joined the band 'Saint Faith'. He had moved to Manchester to join a band, and instead
fell into acting. He moved back to London for acting, and ended up
joining a band. He took small roles on television to fund his life as a
musician.
Problems began in the band in 2006, and Jim heard of an audition for
the musical film
Across the Universe (2007).
He won the leading male role of Jude. He followed this film with
The Other Boleyn Girl (2008)
with Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson. His breakthrough role came
with Dexter in One Day (2011), based on
the bestselling book by David Nicholls. Before his audition, Jim hadn't
read the book.- Actor
- Producer
- Additional Crew
Danny Trejo was born Dan Trejo in Echo Park, Los Angeles, to Alice
(Rivera) and Dan Trejo, a construction worker. A child drug addict and
criminal, Trejo was in and out of jail for 11 years. While serving time
in San Quentin, he won the lightweight and welterweight boxing titles.
Imprisoned for armed robbery and drug offenses, he successfully
completed a 12-step rehabilitation program that changed his life. While
speaking at a Cocaine Anonymous meeting in 1985, Trejo met a young man
who later called him for support. Trejo went to meet him at what turned
out to be the set of
Runaway Train (1985). Trejo was
immediately offered a role as a convict extra, probably because of his
tough tattooed appearance. Also on the set was a screenwriter who did
time with Trejo in San Quentin. Remembering Trejo's boxing skills, the
screenwriter offered him $320 per day to train the actors for a boxing
match. Director
Andrey Konchalovskiy saw Trejo
training Eric Roberts and
immediately offered him a featured role as Roberts' opponent in the
film. Trejo has subsequently appeared in many other films, usually as a
tough criminal or villain.
Trejo is of Mexican descent.- Actor
- Producer
- Director
David was born in Buffalo, New York and grew up in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. He is the son of Patti, a travel agent, and weatherman
Dave Roberts (Boreanaz). His father is of Italian descent and his
mother is of half Slovak ancestry. At the age of seven he decide to be
an actor, which eventually led him to study cinema and photography at
Ithaca College in New York. After graduating from college, David moved
to Los Angeles in order to pursue a career in the movies. After some
uncredited roles he received his first important role as Kelly's
boyfriend in the series
Married... with Children (1987).
After three seasons of playing Angel in the hit series
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997),
he received his own spin-off show titled
Angel (1999).- Actress
- Producer
- Soundtrack
Yvonne Joyce Craig was born on May 16, 1937 in Taylorville, Illinois. As a young teenager, Yvonne showed such promise as a dancer that she was accepted to Denham's Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. Her training progressed until she left the company in 1957 over a disagreement on casting changes. She moved to Los Angeles hoping to continue her dancing, but was soon cast in movies. At first, Yvonne had small roles in movies such as Gidget (1959) and
The Gene Krupa Story (1959). After that, her film career just bumped along. As Yvonne was dating Elvis Presley at the time, she did have a
supporting role in the two Elvis movies, It Happened at the World's Fair (1963) and Kissin' Cousins (1964).
But her fame would come with the cult television series Batman (1966) in which she played Commissioner Gordon's daughter, Barbara. Her secret identity was Batgirl and as the Commissioner's daughter, she had access to all the calls of trouble taking place in Gotham City. Her character, Batgirl, was part of the 1967-68 season, which was the end of the run for the series. After Batman (1966), she also appeared on other television series such as Star Trek (1966) and The Six Million Dollar Man (1974). As her career wound down, Yvonne went into the real estate business. Yvonne Craig died at age 78 of breast cancer at her home in Pacific Palisades, California on August 17, 2015.- Actor
- Director
- Writer
Vincent Regan was born on 16 May 1965. He is an actor and director, known for Snow White and the Huntsman (2012), 300 (2006) and Troy (2004). He has been married to Amelia Curtis since 2001. They have three children.- Actress
- Producer
- Additional Crew
Mary Debra Winger was born May 16, 1955 in Cleveland, Ohio, to Ruth
(Felder), an office manager, and Robert Jack Winger, a meat packer. She is from a Jewish
family (originally from Austria-Hungary and the Russian Empire). Her
maternal grandparents called her Mary, while her parents called her
Debra (her father named her Debra after his favorite actress,
Debra Paget). The
family moved to California when Debra was five. She fell in love with
acting in high school but kept it a secret from her family. She was a
precocious teenager, having graduated high school at an early age of
15. She enrolled in college, majoring in criminology. She worked
part-time in the local amusement park when she got thrown from a truck
and suffered serious injuries and went temporarily blind for several
months. She was in the hospital when she vowed to pursue her passion
for acting.
After she recovered, she abandoned college and studied acting. Like any
struggling actor, she did commercials and guest-starred on 70s TV shows
like
Task Force: Part I (1976)
and Wonder Woman (1975), where
she performed as Diana's little sister,
Wonder Girl. She also made her feature film debut in the embarrassing
soft-core porn film,
Slumber Party '57 (1976).
(Years later on
Inside the Actors Studio (1994),
host James Lipton asked her to name her
first film, and she refused to answer him.) Her next two films,
French Postcards (1979) and
Thank God It's Friday (1978),
did absolutely nothing for her career. When
Sissy Spacek said no to playing the
character Sissy in
Urban Cowboy (1980), almost every
young actress in Hollywood pursued the role. Debra won the role over a
then-unknown Michelle Pfeiffer and
gave a star-making performance as
John Travolta's wife. Her handling
of the mechanical bull made her a new kind of sex symbol. She would
always remain grateful to her director
James Bridges for threatening to
quit the film if the studio didn't cast her. However, she followed it
up with a flop, Cannery Row (1982).
But, she became part of one of the top-grossing films of all time by
providing her deep, throaty voice to the title character of
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) as a favor to the film's director Steven Spielberg (Note: IMDB cast list for E.T. indicates Pat Welsh as the voice for that character.). She also appeared in the film for a few seconds in the Halloween scene, where she is wearing a zombie mask and carrying a poodle.
She received her first Academy Award nomination as Best Actress
for the huge hit,
An Officer and a Gentleman (1982),
where her on-screen love scenes with
Richard Gere became just as legendary as
her off-screen fights with him and with director
Taylor Hackford.
Debra's reputation as a great talent, as well as her reputation as a
difficult actress grew with her next film,
Terms of Endearment (1983),
which not only earned her a second Oscar nomination as Best Actress but
also won the Best Picture as well. She also earned the Best Actress
Award from the National Society of Film Critics. Debra was at the top
of her game and was the most sought-after actress in Hollywood, but she
turned down quality roles and lucrative offers for three years. Some
speculated that the reason was her romantic involvement with
Bob Kerrey, then-governor of Nebraska, while
others have stated it was her back problems. Whatever her reasons were,
her career lost its heat. Her long-delayed film
Mike's Murder (1984), reuniting her
with her "Urban Cowboy" director James Bridges, didn't help matters
either when it became a critical and financial flop. Debra tried to
revive her career by starring in the big-budget comedy
Legal Eagles (1986), but she
disliked the film so much that she publicly stated that the director,
Ivan Reitman, was one of the two worst
directors she worked with, the other director being
Taylor Hackford
(An Officer and a Gentleman (1982)).
She also walked out on her agency, CAA, but returned several years
later.
Her personal life made headlines when she left Bob Kerrey and eloped
with Oscar-winning actor Timothy Hutton
in 1986. In 1987, she gave birth to their son,
Noah Hutton. She also starred in
Black Widow (1987), which wasn't a
hit, and acted alongside Hutton as a male angel in
Made in Heaven (1987) which
flopped. She followed that up by starring in another flop,
Betrayed (1988), which featured a
fleeting cameo by Hutton. She separated from Hutton in 1988 and they
divorced in 1990, at which time she had two more bombs,
Everybody Wins (1990) and
The Sheltering Sky (1990).
However, she relished the experience on
The Sheltering Sky (1990) so
much that she stayed in the Sahara desert long after filming wrapped.
She came back to US and filmed a
Steve Martin vehicle,
Leap of Faith (1992), which did
nothing for her career. But, she found love on the set of her next
film, Wilder Napalm (1993) when she
co-starred opposite Arliss Howard,
who became her next husband. The film flopped but their marriage
lasted. She received good notices for
A Dangerous Woman (1993), but
it was Shadowlands (1993) which
finally brought her renewed respectability and her third Academy Award
nomination as Best Actress. She followed that up with a forgettable
comedy, Forget Paris (1995). Then, she signed to do "Divine Rapture" with Marlon Brando and Johnny Depp in a small village in Ireland, but two weeks into filming, financing fell apart, and the film was never completed. Winger was never paid for her work, and neither were the poor villagers, and Winger said she was devastated for them. Now 40,
Debra felt that there were no good roles for her and she concentrated
on motherhood by having a second son, Babe Howard, in 1997. Her
six-year absence from films inspired a documentary by
Rosanna Arquette titled
Searching for Debra Winger (2002),
which is about sexism and ageism in Hollywood. In 2001, she returned to
acting in her husband's film,
Big Bad Love (2001), which she also
co-produced. It renewed her love for acting, and she has ventured out
into television as well by earning her first Emmy nomination as Best
Actress for Dawn Anna (2005),
directed by her husband. In 2008, she wrote a well-written book, based
on her personal recollections, titled "Undiscovered". And she followed
that up by winning rave reviews as
Anne Hathaway's mother in
Jonathan Demme's
Rachel Getting Married (2008). However, it wasn't enough to reignite her feature film career, so she ventured towards television in 2010 with a guest-starring role on "Law and Order" titled Boy on Fire (2010), to a seven-episode stint on In Treatment (2008), to a two-part miniseries The Red Tent (2014), to a regular role on The Ranch (2016) . Her television exposure reignited her feature film career, and she was cast in her first romantic lead in 22 years in The Lovers (2017). And she had also mellowed with age, presenting an award to Richard Gere in 2011 and saying kind things about director Taylor Hackford in 2017, after having fought with both of them during An Officer and a Gentleman (1982). Nobody can deny that Debra Winger is one of the best American actresses
ever. Her fans hope that Hollywood will finally reward her talent with
a long-overdue Academy Award.- Actress
- Soundtrack
Mary 'Mare' Megan Winningham is an actress and songwriter who has
appeared in nearly 100 TV shows and feature films. She began her career
in 1976 as a singer, and starred in numerous and diverse film roles
before hitting it big as one of the original Brat Pack in
Joel Schumacher's
St. Elmo's Fire (1985) with
Emilio Estevez,
Andrew McCarthy,
Demi Moore,
Judd Nelson, and
Ally Sheedy.
Mare attended Chatsworth High School with
Val Kilmer,
James Rekart and
Kevin Spacey, but she was bitten by the
acting bug much earlier on. She had enjoyed drama and music since
primary school, taking a particular interest in the guitar and drums.
Since St. Elmo's Fire (1985),
Mare has played some outstanding roles in a number of big films. She
starred in the Tom Hanks comedy
Turner & Hooch (1989). She has
also starred in two feature films with
Kevin Costner,
The War (1994) and the western
Wyatt Earp (1994), the latter directed
by Lawrence Kasdan and co-starring
Gene Hackman. Mare won a Best Supporting
Actress Oscar nomination for her role opposite
Jennifer Jason Leigh in
Georgia (1995).
Bad Day on the Block (1997)
saw her starring opposite Charlie Sheen
and she put in a superb performance in
Brothers (2009), a war drama
co-starring Tobey Maguire and
Natalie Portman.
Her myriad TV roles include ER (1994),
Grey's Anatomy (2005), and
24 (2001) with
Kiefer Sutherland.- Actor
- Producer
- Additional Crew
This remarkable, soft-spoken American began in films as a diffident juvenile. With passing years, he matured into a star character actor who exemplified not only integrity and strength, but an ideal of the common man fighting against social injustice and oppression. He was born in Grand Island, Hall, Nebraska, the son of Herberta Elma (Jaynes) and William Brace Fonda, who was a commercial printer, and proprietor of the W. B. Fonda Printing Company in Omaha, Nebraska. His distant ancestors were Italians who had fled their country and moved to Holland, presumably because of political or religious persecution. In the mid-1600s, they crossed the Atlantic and settled in upstate New York where they founded a community with the Fonda name.
Growing up, Henry developed an early interest in journalism after having a story published in a local newspaper. At the age of twelve, he helped in his father's printing business for $2 a week. Following graduation from high school in 1923, he got a part-time job in Minneapolis with the Northwestern Bell Telephone Company which allowed him at first to pursue journalistic studies at the University of Minnesota. As it became difficult to juggle his working hours with his academic roster, he obtained another position as a physical education instructor at $30 a week, including room and board. By this time, he had grown to a height of six foot one and was a natural for basketball.
In 1925, having returned to Omaha, Henry reevaluated his options and came to the conclusion that journalism was not his forte, after all. For a while, he tried his hand at several temporary jobs, including as a mechanic and a window dresser. Then, despite opposition from his parents, Henry accepted an offer from Gregory Foley, director of the Omaha Playhouse, to play the title role in 'Merton of the Movies'. His father would not speak to him for a month. The play and its star received fairly good notices in the local press. It ran for a week, after which Henry observed "the idea of being Merton and not myself taught me that I could hide behind a mask". For the rest of the repertory season, Henry advanced to assistant director which enabled him to design and paint sets as well as act. A casual trip to New York, however, had already made him set his sights on Broadway.
In 1928, he headed east and briefly played in summer stock before joining the University Players, a group of talented Princeton and Harvard graduates among whose number were such future luminaries as James Stewart (who would remain his closest lifelong friend), Joshua Logan and Kent Smith. Before long, Henry played leads opposite Margaret Sullavan, soon to become the first of his five wives. Both marriage and the players broke up four years later. In 1932, Henry found himself sharing a two-room New York apartment with Jimmy Stewart and Joshua Logan. For the next two years, he alternated scenic design with acting at various repertory companies. In 1934, he got a break of sorts, when he was given the chance to present a comedy sketch with Imogene Coca in the Broadway revue New Faces. That year, he also hired Leland Hayward as his personal management agent and this was to pay off handsomely.
It was Hayward who persuaded the 29-year old to become a motion picture actor, despite initial misgivings and reluctance on Henry's part. Independent producer Walter Wanger, whose growing stock company was birthed at United Artists, needed a star for The Farmer Takes a Wife (1935). With both first choice actors Gary Cooper and Joel McCrea otherwise engaged, Henry was the next available option. After all, he had just completed a successful run on Broadway in the stage version. The cheesy publicity tag line for the picture was "you'll be fonder of Fonda", but the film was an undeniable hit. Wanger, realizing he had a good thing going, next cast Henry in a succession of A-grade pictures which capitalized on his image as the sincere, unaffected country boy. Pick of the bunch were the Technicolor outdoor western The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1936), the gritty Depression-era drama You Only Live Once (1937) (with Henry as a back-to-the-wall good guy forced into becoming a fugitive from the law by circumstance), the screwball comedy The Moon's Our Home (1936) (with ex-wife Sullavan), the excellent pre-civil war-era romantic drama Jezebel (1938) and the equally superb Young Mr. Lincoln (1939), in which Henry gave his best screen performance to date as the 'jackleg lawyer from Springfield'. Henry made two more films with director John Ford: the pioneering drama Drums Along the Mohawk (1939) and The Grapes of Wrath (1940), with Henry as Tom Joad, often regarded his career-defining role as the archetypal grassroots American trying to stand up against oppression. It also set the tone for his subsequent career. Whether he played a lawman (Wyatt Earp in My Darling Clementine (1946)), a reluctant posse member (The Ox-Bow Incident (1942), a juror committed to the ideal of total justice in (12 Angry Men (1957)) or a nightclub musician wrongly accused of murder (The Wrong Man (1956)), his characters were alike in projecting integrity and quiet authority. In this vein, he also gave a totally convincing (though historically inaccurate) portrayal in the titular role of The Return of Frank James (1940), a rare example of a sequel improving upon the original.
Henry rarely featured in comedy, except for a couple of good turns opposite Barbara Stanwyck -- with whom he shared an excellent on-screen chemistry -- in The Mad Miss Manton (1938) and The Lady Eve (1941). He was also good value as a poker-playing grifter in the western comedy A Big Hand for the Little Lady (1966). Finally, just to confound those who would typecast him, he gave a chilling performance as one of the coldest, meanest stone killers ever to roam the West, in Sergio Leone's classic Once Upon a Time in the West (1968). Illness curtailed his work in the 1970s. His final screen role was as an octogenarian in On Golden Pond (1981), in which he was joined by his daughter Jane. It finally won him an Oscar on the heels of an earlier Honorary Academy Award. Too ill to attend the ceremony, he died soon after at the age of 77, having left a lasting legacy matched by few of his peers.- Actor
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Yannick Bisson was born on 16 May 1969 in Montréal, Québec, Canada. He is an actor and producer, known for Murdoch Mysteries (2008), Anything for Jackson (2020) and Year by the Sea (2016). He has been married to Chantal Craig since 26 May 1990. They have three children.- Actress
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Producer
Eva-Jane Willis was born in South Africa to Eileen Willis and film
director Ian Gabriel. She moved with her mother and sister to live in
North London at age 4. As a child, Eva-Jane trained part-time at
Mountview Theatre School where she was spotted by casting agents for
the BBC and landed her first minor role in the television series Grange
Hill. She went on to gain more screen experience in various adverts and
music videos before landing her first leading role in a feature film by
iDream productions in 2007. She decided to accept the offer and defer
her degree at London Metropolitan University. She completed the film
and went on to accept another lead in the feature "Highgate Vampire",
alongside actress Vanessa Kirby. However the film's development never
progressed beyond the initial pilot. She decided to undertake a
professional actor training and auditioned for Drama Centre London
where she was offered one of the five female places on the three year
BA Acting course. Whilst there she was nominated for the Carlton Hobbs
Award and won the first prize Laurence Olivier Bursary Award, for her
rendition of Celia in 'The Philanthropist' by Christopher Hampton, and
Lady Percy in 'Henry IV: Part 2'.- Actor
- Soundtrack
Ramon Tikaram was born on 16 May 1967 in Singapore. He is an actor, known for Jupiter Ascending (2015), Vampire Academy (2014) and Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love (1996).- Born in Vancouver, Canada, Ali began her acting career at only four years old after being scouted for a national car commercial. She went directly into film and television the following year, booking a supporting lead role in the feature film "Personal Effects" starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Academy Award winning actress Kathy Bates. A string of guest starring roles in television series followed, including Supernatural(CW), Fringe(FOX), Smallville (CW), Motive (CTV), as well as booking recurring roles on Once Upon a Time (ABC), Falling Skies (TNT), The Man in the High Castle (Amazon), You, Me, Her (Audience), and When Calls the Heart (Hallmark). She was just 11 years old when she booked her first lead in the movie, "One Christmas Eve" for Hallmark Hall of Fame. The film was directed by Jay Russell and starred Anne Heche, who mentored her throughout the six week shoot. Ali was subsequently nominated for a Young Artist Award for her work in the film. Ali followed this by booking another lead role in the Hallmark movie Campfire Kiss opposite Danica McKellar.She won a Joey award for best leading actress for her portrayal of Lacey Reynolds.
Ali's first starring role was in the independent film "The Corruption of Divine Providence". The film centered on a sixteen year old girl, Jeanne Seraphin (played by Skovbye) who is kidnapped from a small French Canadian town after being the subject of an alleged miracle, and different religious factions vie for control over her upon her eventual return. Directly after this Ali flew to Ottawa to film the lead role of Abigail Jones in the Lifetime movie Blind at 17 . While in Ottawa she booked the role of Emma in the Fox Feature Breakthrough opposite Chrissy Metz. All three films are expected to be released in 2019.
In July of 2019 Ali landed the series regular role of Tully Hart in the highly anticipated Netflix series called Firefly Lane.Firefly Lane is an adaptation of the novel from prolific author Kristin Hannah ,and follows the story of Kate and Tully's enduring friendship from their teen years through their 40's. Skovbye will play teenage Tully in the 1970's, a smart, gorgeous, effortlessly cool wild child who just moved to Firefly Lane with her wacky hippie mom. She's exciting to be around, enviably glam and instantly popular with both boys and girls. But her one true friend is her geeky neighbour Kate. Firefly Lane is set to premiere in late 2020.
Ali is drawn to complex and complicated characters and has an innate ability to play the more disturbed or "flawed" characters and is excited by the challenges that these roles present. Ali has developed a true passion for acting and has shown her ability to handle a diverse range of characters. She is incredibly dedicated to her craft and continues to train privately to hone her skills. - Jing Lusi was born in Shanghai and moved to England with her parents at the age of five. After graduating law from University College London, Lusi went on to become one of the most prominent Asian actresses in the UK. She has appeared across TV (Lucky Man (2016), Scott & Bailey (2011)), film (Survivor (2015), Crazy Rich Asians (2018)) and theatre, as well as presenting a number of documentaries for UK and Chinese broadcasters.
- Actress
- Soundtrack
Tiya Sircar starred as "Roonie Schuman" in the ABC comedy series "Alex, Inc." which premiered in 2018. Based on the podcast StartUp, Sircar played the wife to Zach Braff's character, "Alex Schuman". Sircar is also on the NBC hit comedy "The Good Place," for which Entertainment Weekly dubbed her the series 'Scene Stealer." She appeared on the comedy opposite Kristen Bell and Ted Danson in multiple shifting roles, from an altruistic human rights lawyer to a power-hungry demon. She also starred opposite Kate Beckinsale in the Paramount+ series, Guilty Party. In the wake of recent guest starring roles on such series as Netflix's "Master of None" and Fox's "The Mindy Project," Sircar has also exercised her comedic and dramatic acting chops on "The Witches of East End," "The Vampire Diaries," "The Crazy Ones," "Hannah Montana" and "The Suite Life on Deck."
Having also established herself as a capable voiceover actress, Sircar lends her pipes as Sabine Wren, a graffiti artist and explosives expert, on the Disney/Lucas Film animated series "Star Wars Rebels" on the Disney Channel and the short-form interstitial series "Star Wars: Forces of Destiny," opposite Daisy Ridley, Felicity Jones and Lupita Nyong'o. Among other voiceover credits is The Simpsons, American Dad, Robot Chicken, and the Netflix/Dreamworks series "Spirit Riding Free."
Film audiences have come to know Sircar equally well, most recently in Netflix's Good Sam and in the independent feature comedy, Miss India America. Along with voiceover work on the animated studio film Walking with Dinosaurs 3D, she starred in the 20th Century Fox comedy feature The Internship opposite Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson, in a starring role in the foreign drama The Domino Effect, with Zac Efron in New Line's 17 Again, and in the Paramount family comedy Hotel for Dogs.
A native of Arlington, Texas, Sircar was raised in a family of academics. Her parents, originally from Calcutta (Kolkata), India, are both college professors who instilled a love of the arts in her at a very early age. Sircar began dancing at age three, first Indian classical and folk dance, then ballet, jazz, lyrical and modern. After taking her first acting class at age seven, she realized her true calling. Sircar attended the University of Texas at Austin, receiving two bachelor's degrees: the first in Business/Marketing, and another in Theater & Dance. Following graduation, she moved to Los Angeles to pursue her professional career.- Actor
- Writer
- Producer
Peter Onorati was born and raised in Boonton, New Jersey. He attended
college at Lycoming College, where he received his B.A. degree in
Business Administration. He was an NCAA all-conference wide receiver,
and signed up to play in the World Football League, which quickly
collapsed. He then enrolled in Fairleigh Dickinson University, where he
received an MBA. He worked for Ford Motor Company and McCall's
magazines. He started in comedy, and left the business world for
acting. He now lives in Los Angeles, appearing in both films and
television shows. He is married to writer Jeanette Collins, and they
have three sons.- Actress
- Producer
- Soundtrack
Tracey Gold has virtually grown up on television. She made an
auspicious television debut in the award-winning mini-series Roots. She
also enjoyed seven years on the immensely popular ABC comedy series
Growing Pains after which she returned to drama in more than 20 movies
for television.
Born in New York City and raised in Southern California, Tracey is the
oldest daughter of a thriving show business family. Her father, Harry
Gold, owns a successful talent agency in Hollywood. Her mother, Bonnie,
is a former New York advertising executive, who had her own radio show
in Montana. Following Tracey's lead, three of her younger sisters have
also pursued acting: Missy starred in the long-running ABC series
Benson, Brandy starred in ABC's Baby Makes Five, and Jessie starred
alongside Tracey in Shattered Trust.
Tracey's career as an actress started at the age of five when she began
working in commercials. Her first television starring role was as Missy
Ann (Sandy Duncan's character as a girl) in the ABC mini-series Roots.
Since then, Tracey has accumulated an impressive number of television
movie credits. She has starred in Captains and Kings; Night Cries;
Little Moe; Jennifer: A Woman's Story; The Secret of the Harvest Moon
(with Bette Davis), The Child Stealer (opposite Beau Bridges), Walt
Disney's Escape From Witch Mountain; A Few Days at Weasel Creek;
Marilyn: The Untold Story; Labor of Love (with Anne Jillian);
Thursday's Child (opposite Rob Lowe); Who Will Love My Children
(alongside Ann-Margaret; Another Woman's Child; Lots of Luck and A
Reason to Live. She also portrayed the title character in the ABC
television movie For the Love of Nancy. Other movie of the week credits
include Sleep Baby Sleep, The Lady Killer with Judith Light, Midwest
Obsession with Courtney Thorne-Smith and Stolen Innocence and the air
rescue thriller Wild Fire 7. In 2000, she starred in Growing Pains The
Movie, ABC's highest-rated television movie of the year. She also
appeared recently on USA's series The Dead Zone. Recently she starred
in the TV movies My Dad'a a Soccer Mom, Arachnoquake, Your Love Never
Fails and Sight Unseen amongst many others.
Tracey has also starred in many television specials, such as the CBS
Emmy Award-winning Kelly vs. Kelly, (directed by Tom Skerrit), I Think
I'm Having a Baby; If Wishes Were Horses; The Hand Me Down Kid and
Senior Prom.
Not limiting herself only to television, Tracey has also ventured into
feature films and theatre. She co-starred in several features such as
Shoot the Moon (opposite Albert Finney and Diane Keaton), Best of Times
(with Robin Williams and Kurt Russell) and Wanted and Tailspin.
In 2012 Tracey hosted and Produced the reality series Starving Secrets
for LifeTime. Other hosting credits include The Secret Life Of A Soccer
Mom for TLC, Trapped in TV Guide and multiple episodes of Entertainment
Tonight.
On the stage she starred in Neil Simon's I Ought To Be in Pictures at
the Tiffany Attic Theatre in Kansas City, Missouri, before performing
alongside Bonnie Franklin and Jackee Harry in The Vagina Monologues at
the famous Canon Theatre in Beverly Hills.
She also authored Room To Grow, her autobiography.
In 1992, Tracey's former television mother, Joanna Kearns, introduced
her to Roby Marshall. The couple married two years later and are now
the parents of sons Sage, Bailey, Aiden, Dillon. The family resides in
Los Angeles.- Laurette Spang was born in Buffalo, New York but raised in Ann Arbor,
Michigan. She grew up as the middle child of a chemist father and
housewife mother. She has an older brother, Richard and a younger
sister, Marilyn. As a dramatic major in college, she made a college
trip to New York where a chance encounter with a soap opera producer
led to an audition the following summer (after graduation), and a place
at the Williamtown summer theatre. That led to a scholarship at the
American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York. Spotted by a Universal
talent scout, she signed a contract and arrived in Hollywood in 1972. - Music Artist
- Actress
- Composer
Lee Ji-Eun, also known by her stage name IU, is a South Korean singer-songwriter, composer, and actress. She signed with LOEN Entertainment (now Kakao Entertainment) in 2007 as a trainee and debuted as a singer at the age of fifteen with her first extended play (EP) Lost and Found (2008). Although her follow-up albums, Growing Up and IU...IM brought mainstream success, it was only after the release of "Good Day", the lead single from her 2010 album Real, that she achieved national stardom. "Good Day" went on to spend five consecutive weeks at the top of South Korea's Gaon Digital Chart, and in 2019, it was ranked number one on Billboard's "100 Greatest K-Pop Songs of the 2010s" list.
With the success of her 2011 albums, Real+ and Last Fantasy, IU established herself as a formidable force on the music charts of her native country and further cemented her girl next door image as Korea's "little sister". 2011 also saw her first foray into songwriting with "Hold My Hand", which was written for the television series The Greatest Love. IU's third studio album, Modern Times (2013), showcased a more mature musical style that marked a departure from her earlier girlish image, with several tracks reaching the top 10 on the Gaon Digital Chart. The album was ranked number two on Billboard's "25 Greatest K-Pop Albums of the 2010s" list. IU subsequently exerted more creative control over her music; Chat-Shire marked the first time she was credited as the sole lyricist of her own album. IU's fourth studio album, Palette (2017), became her first to reach number one on Billboard's World Albums chart. While her following records Love Poem and Lilac continued to deviate from mainstream K-pop styles, exploring and mixing various music genres, IU consistently retained her dominance on South Korean music charts. Her 2020 single "Eight" became her first to reach number one on the Billboard World Digital Song Sales chart.
Aside from her music career, IU has ventured into acting and hosting radio and television shows. Following her supporting role in the teen drama Dream High (2011) and minor appearances in several television series, she was cast in leading roles in the television drama series You Are the Best! (2013), Pretty Man (2013-14), The Producers (2015), and Moon Lovers: Scarlet Heart Ryeo (2016). IU's role as a desperate office worker in My Mister (2018) received critical acclaim, and she earned her first Best Actress in Television nomination at the 55th Baeksang Arts Awards. In 2019, she starred in the anthology film series Persona and the fantasy television series Hotel Del Luna, the latter of which led to her second Best Actress nomination at the Baeksang Arts Awards. In 2022, IU starred in Hirokazu Kore-Edda's film Broker alongside Song Kang-Ho, Bae Doona, and Gang Dong-Won.
IU has released a total of five studio albums and nine EPs, five of which have reached number one on the Gaon Album Chart, and thirty number-one singles, making her the artist with the most number-one songs in South Korea. One of the best-selling solo acts in the group-dominated K-pop industry, IU became the first solo female K-pop act to perform at the Olympic Gymnastics Arena during the Seoul leg of her 2019 Love, Poem concert tour and also the first Korean female artist to hold a solo concert, The Golden Hour, at Seoul Olympic Stadium in Seoul on September 17 and 18, 2022. Rolling Stone named her the 135th greatest singer of all time in a 2023 ranking. She has been included five times in the top ten of Forbes magazine's annual Korea Power Celebrity list since 2012 and attained a peak ranking of number three that year. In 2014, Billboard recognized IU as the all-time leader of its K-pop Hot 100 with the most number-one songs and the artist with the most weeks at the number-one position on the chart. She was named Gallup Korea's Singer of the Year in 2014 and in 2017.- Actress
- Producer
- Music Department
Tori Spelling was born in Los Angeles, the daughter of author Candy Spelling and Hollywood producer Aaron Spelling. With her father producing many popular television shows in the 1970s, Tori had an early flair for showbusiness. She appeared on many of her father's shows, which gained her more praise for acting in comedies. Tori has a younger brother, Randy Spelling, who also appeared on his father's shows.
Tori has five children, all with her second husband, Dean McDermott, whom he wed in Fiji on Sunday, May 7th, 2006. Parenthood, among the duo began with Liam McDermott's birth (aka Liam Aaron McDermott), on Tuesday, March 13th, 2007, weighing 6 lbs. 6 oz. Second was Stella McDermott (aka Stella Doreen McDermott), she was born on Monday, June 9th, 2008, weighing 6 lbs. 8 oz. Third was Hattie McDermott (aka Hattie Margaret McDermott), born on Monday, October 10th, 2011, weighing 6 lbs. 14 oz. Fourth was Finn McDermott (aka Finn Davey McDermott), this birth was on Thursday, August 30th, 2012, weighing 6 lbs. 6 oz., at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California. Fifth was Beau Dean Mcdermott, he was born on Thursday, March 2nd, 2017. All births were by C-section.
(Liam, her firstborn, was an emergency C-section).- Actor
- Soundtrack
Miles Heizer was born on 16 May 1994 in Greenville, Kentucky, USA. He is an actor, known for Nerve (2016), Rails & Ties (2007) and Roman J. Israel, Esq. (2017).- Actor
- Writer
- Producer
Harry Carey, Jr., had been reliable character actor for decades, mostly
in Westerns, before he retired. He is the son of the actor
Harry Carey and the actress
Olive Carey. He was born on his parents'
1000-acre ranch near Saugus, in the northwestern part of Los Angeles
County, which is now next door to Santa Clarita, a large town that
certainly did not exist in 1947 or for decades longer. Thus, the young
Harry Carey, Jr., grew up among cattle and horses at the ranch. Because
of a large group of Navajo Indians who worked on his parents' ranch, he
learned to speak the Navajo language at the same time that he was
learning to speak English.
During World War II, Carey enlisted in the U.S. Navy, and he served in
the Pacific Theater first as a Navy medical corpsman. However, he was
transferred back to the United States (against his wishes) to serve
under his father's good friend, the director
John Ford, in making movies for the
Navy (training films)and the O.S.S. (propaganda films).
After World War II ended, Carey tried to make a career in singing, but
he was not successful at this. Hence, he moved into acting, and after a
couple of small acting parts, he was given a chance to work in a motion
picture with his father, the
John Wayne film
Red River (1948). (However, the father
and the son did not have any scenes with one another). After the death
of Harry Carey, Sr., in 1946, Mr. Ford gave the younger Carey a leading
role in the movie that Ford dedicated to the memory of Harry Carey,
Sr., in 1948, 3 Godfathers (1948).
As a full-fledged member of the noted John Ford Stock Company, Carey,
Jr., appeared in many of Mr. Ford's epic Westerns during the following
two decades. Carey also starred in a series-within-a-series on TV,
The Adventures of Spin and Marty (1955),
which was shown as a part of
The Mickey Mouse Club (1955).
Very boyish looks characterized Carey's early years, but he matured
into a strong and familiar character actor over the following four
decades, and he acted in scores of films and TV programs in his long
career. Carey, Jr., is married to Marilyn Fix Carey, the daughter of
the actor Paul Fix.- Alex Macqueen was born in 1974 in Epsom, Surrey.
He was in the National Youth Theatre in the 1990's while studying
English at Durham University and International Relations at Pembroke
College, Cambridge.
He is best known for his roles as Julius Nicholson in 'The Thick of It'
and Neil's Dad in 'The Inbetweeners'.
He has worked alongside various Directors including, Woody Allen,
Kenneth Branagh, Bryan Singer, Armando Ianucci and Richard Curtis.
In 2011 he was cast by Shane Meadows in 'This Is England 88' and in
2012 took the lead in Sky Atlantic's 'Hunderby' opposite Julia Davis.
In 2013 he was cast as the new 'Master' in the Dr Who Audio series
produced by Big Finish.
In 2009 he starred in the film
The Hide (2008), directed by
Marek Losey and written by
Tim Whitnall.
The Hide was described by Film Four as 'a brilliantly balanced
understated drama' and by The Times as giving 'Misery and Sleuth a ride
for their money'.
The Hide is a psychological thriller set in a bird watchers retreat on
the Suffolk marshes, shot in seven days at Pinewood and three on
location, and filmed on a micro budget.
Alex Macqueen has also made guest appearances in British comedies
including Peep Show (2003),
Pulling (2006),
The Inbetweeners (2008),
Lead Balloon (2006) and
The IT Crowd (2006).
He had a long-running part as Dr Keith Greene, an anaesthetist with a
dry, sarcastic sense of humour, in
Holby City (1999). - Actor
- Director
- Soundtrack
George Gaynes was born in Helsinki in May, 1917, which was then the capital of the Grand Duchy of Finland. The Grand Duchy was part of the Russian Empire, which was in a state of collapse at the time of Gaynes' birth. The Emperor Nicholas II of Russia had abdicated the throne on March 15, two months prior to Gaynes' birth, and the Empire was in the process of splintering.
His family left the country, and George was primarily raised in France, England, and Switzerland. Neither of his parents was Finnish. His father Gerrit Jongejans was a Dutch businessman, and his mother Iya Grigorievna de Gay was a Russian artist. George attended college in the vicinity of Lausanne, Switzerland and graduated in 1937. He then attended a music school in Milan, Italy for about a year.
In 1940, George Gaynes was living in France, during the time of the Battle of France in World War II. The Battle ended in defeat for the French Third Republic and the country was occupied by Nazi Germany. George attempted to flee the occupation authorities, by crossing the Pyrenees mountains into neutral Spain. He was arrested by the Spanish authorities for illegally crossing the border, but was soon released.
In 1943, George joined the Royal Netherlands Navy. With the Netherlands under German occupation, the headquarters of the Navy had moved to London, in the United Kingdom. George had no previous military experience, but he was noticed for multilingual skills. He fluently spoke Dutch, English, French, Italian and Russian. He was soon detached to the (British) Royal Navy to serve as a translator.
During his naval service in World War II, George took part in the Allied invasion of Sicily, the Battle of Anzio in the Italian Campaign, and the Adriatic Campaign. The War ended in 1945 and George was honorably discharged in July, 1946. His highest military rank was that of a sergeant.
In 1946, George briefly returned to living in France. He was approached by an American theater director with the offer to play a part in a musical. He took the offer and moved to New York City, where he started appearing in Broadway musicals. He applied for American citizenship and officially became a citizen in 1948.
From the late 1940s to the early 1960s, George Gaynes was primarily a theatrical actor. His roles included various musicals, dramas, and comedies. One of his better-known roles was that of Henry Higgins in the theatrical version of ''My Fair Lady'', which went on a successful tour in 1964.
In the early 1960s, George started appearing as a character actor in various television series. He was also offered a number of film roles. His career unexpectedly took off in the 1980s, with a major part in the television series Punky Brewster (1985) and another one in the then-popular film series "Police Academy" from 1984 to 1994. In Police Academy (1984), his role was that of Commandant Eric Lassard, the titular leader of the Academy. He played the role in all 7 films of the series, though he only had a featured part in the fifth film. This was probably his most memorable role and gained him celebrity recognition for the first time.
In the 1990s, his career slowed down again, with only a few film appearances. He only played in a single film through the 2000s, Just Married (2003), and then retired. He was 86-years-old and could no longer play physically demanding roles. He spend 13 years in retirement before he died of natural causes in 2016.- Actress
- Writer
- Soundtrack
Rebecca Front was born on 16 May 1964 in Stoke Newington, London, England, UK. She is an actress and writer, known for The Thick of It (2005), The Day Today (1994) and Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard (2021). She has been married to Phil Clymer since March 1998. They have two children.- Actress
- Writer
Known for her portrayal of series regular Jennifer Rappaport on ABC's "One Life to Live", Jessica has cultivated her career as the leading lady in various television shows and independent films. Jessica starred in Lifetime TV's hit movie "Secret Lives Of Housewives" and has also had strong guest starring roles on popular primetime shows, including Fox's "Rosewood" and TNT's "Perception". Jessica recently recurred in Freeform's "Party of Five" remake and "The Upshaws" on Netflix. Jessica has also discovered her passion for screenwriting.- Stanislav Yanevski was born on 16 May 1985 in Sofia, Bulgaria. He is an actor and producer, known for Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005), Hostel: Part II (2007) and The Cloaking.
- Brían F. O'Byrne was born on 16 May 1967 in Mullagh, County Cavan, Ireland. He is an actor, known for Million Dollar Baby (2004), Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007) and Bug (2006). He is married to Heather Goldenhersh. They have two children.
- Music Artist
- Actress
- Composer
Janet Damita Jo Jackson was born on May 16, 1966 in Gary, Indiana, to
Katherine Jackson (née
Katherine Esther Scruse) and
Joe Jackson, a musician. She is
the youngest of ten children. Before her birth, her brothers formed a
band later called The Jackson 5. She lived at home with her sisters,
while her brothers and father lived an extravagant life in Los Angeles.
She later moved in with them while her brothers were making a name for
themselves, and signed a deal with Motown. Janet was in the shadow but
later also made a name for herself.
As she was touring, and making appearances with her brothers, and the
rest of the family, she co-starred with the rest of them in "The
Jacksons". In 1977, she got the part of Penny Gordon on "Good Times".
That showed her acting abilities early on. She also made a few
memorable appearances on the hit TV show "Diff'rent Strokes" as
Charlene Dupree. Soon afterwards came her role on "Fame".
She married boyfriend James Debarge, but they divorced just months
later. She signed with A&M Records, and recorded her first solo album
titled "Janet Jackson". The album did poorly on the music charts. Two
years later she recorded "Dream Street" which turned out to be another
disaster. A year later she signed on Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis to
record a third album, this time called "Control". It was a hit, selling
5 million copies in the U.S. alone, spawning six hits, and the #1 "When
I Think of You". Afterwards, she fired her father, her manager to truly
gain control.
Janet was determined to make this happen again. She then recorded
"Rhythm Nation 1814". This time it sold 9 million copies in the U.S. -
a bigger hit than "Control"! She happened to fall in love with a dancer
named René Elizondo, Jr. from one of her sister's, LaToya Jackson's
music video and later secretly married him in March of 1991. The year
before she got a star on the Hollywood walk of fame. Janet went to work
on her fifth album simply called "Janet.". It was her biggest hit to
date selling over 10 million copies in the U.S. alone and includes her
biggest hit single to date, "That's The Way Love Goes". Two years later
she released a Greatest Hits album "Design of a Decade" which included
two new hits "Runaway", and "Twenty-Foreplay". Her sixth album "The
Velvet Rope" clarified her pop culture status.
In the midst of the release of "Nutty Professor II", René Elizondo filed for divorce, which is when it emerged they had been secretly married. Janet recorded her seventh album "All For You". Another
hit. She was honored by MTV as an MTV Icon. In 2003, Janet went to work
on her next album "Damita Jo" - it was another hit.- Deniz Akdeniz, best known for his role in the Max Original hit "The Flight Attendant" alongside Kaley Cuoco and Zosia Mamet. He recently starred with Julia Louis-Dreyfus in the endearing drama "You Hurt My Feelings" from acclaimed director Nicole Holofcener. Part of the incredible ensemble cast of Craig Gillespie's "Dumb Money". He will next appear alongside Kaitlin Olson in the new ABC show "High Potential" by Drew Goddard.
- Actor
- Producer
- Writer
After graduating from RADA in 1994, Cambridge law graduate Mangan did
not pursue lead roles on-screen, preferring to take what he saw as the
less limited opportunities on the stage. Between 1994 and 2000, he
performed in plays by (among others) Shakespeare, Shaw, Coward, Benn and
Goldsmith throughout the UK and the West End before joining
world-renowned theatre company Cheek by Jowl for an international tour
of Much Ado About Nothing, earning him a nomination for a National
Theatre Ian Charleson Award.
He worked again for director Declan
Donnellan at the Royal Shakespeare Company in School for Scandal, and
at the Savoy Theatre, London in Hay Fever. In 2008 he played the title
role in The Norman Conquests, directed by Matthew Warchus, at The Old
Vic Theatre, London and then at the Circle in the Square on Broadway.
The production earned several Tony Award nominations, including one for
Mangan himself. In 2012 he appeared at the Royal Court, London (for the
second time) in a Joe Penhall play, Birthday, directed by Roger
Michell, playing a pregnant man. He also starred as Bertie
Wooster in Perfect Nonsense at the Duke of York's Theatre alongside Matthew Macfadyen as Jeeves.
His breakthrough
performance was Adrian Mole in the six-part TV show "Adrian Mole: The
Cappuccino Years" (2001). In the same year he also appeared in "Sword
of Honour" on Channel 4 alongside Daniel Craig. Since then he has
worked extensively in British television as a lead actor in both
serious drama and comedy. His most recent success is the
British/American television comedy series "Episodes" created by David
Crane and Jeffrey Klarik, starring Mangan alongside Matt Le Blanc and
Tamsin Greig. It premiered on Showtime in the United States on January
9, 2011 and on BBC Two in the United Kingdom on January 10, 2011.
His first film part was as Doctor Crane in Billy Elliot. He went on to
appear in many other films such Chunky Monkey, Birthday Girl, Festival
and Beyong The Pole. His most recent film is as the voice of Postman
Pat in "Postman Pat: The Movie" a British 3D computer-animated comedy
film. He was host of the Evening Standard British Film Awards for 4
years (2009-2013) and will host the Olivier Awards in 2014. In April
2014, Mangan will return to host the British Academy Television Craft
Awards in London for a third time. He is a well-known voiceover artist -
voicing animation, commercials and documentaries.- Actor
- Writer
- Producer
Born in Montreal Canada. Drama major at Humber College, but kicked out
for only being good at comedy. Enrolled in an improv class and met
David Foley. They began working as a comedy team while employed as movie
ushers. In 1984 they merged with another comedy team and formed The
Kids in the Hall.- Actor
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Music Department
While Vicky Kaushal was born and raised in Mumbai, his family hails from Hoshiarpur, Punjab. His father, Sham Kaushal, is a well-known action director, and his younger brother, Sunny Kaushal made his Bollywood debut in 2016.
While growing up, Kaushal was interested in playing cricket, studying, and watching films. His father wanted him to pursue a stable career away from the silver screen. This led Kaushal to study engineering at the Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Technology in Mumbai. He graduated as an Electronics and Telecommunications engineer in 2009.
As an engineering student, Kaushal once went on an industrial visit to an IT company. When he saw the staff sitting in front of desktop computers and working, he could not visualise himself doing the same in the future. After earning his engineering degree, he appeared for a corporate job interview and was offered the role. However, he tore up the offer letter and decided to try acting instead.
Kaushal joined Kishore Namit's acting academy to prepare himself for a film industry career. He spent the next two years dabbling in theatre and going for auditions. He began his acting career in 2011 with the theatrical production Laal Pencil.
Around the same time, Kaushal started assisting Anurag Kashyap on the sets of Gangs of Wasseypur (2012). He got to play minor roles in films like Luv Shuv Tey Chicken Khurana (2012), directed by Sameer Sharma, and Bombay Velvet (2015), directed by Anurag Kashyap. He also appeared in Geek Out (2013), a short film directed by Vasan Bala.
Kaushal debuted on the big screen as a lead with Masaan (2015), an independent drama film directed by Neeraj Ghaywan. The film was selected for screening at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, where it won two awards- the Promising Future prize in the Un Certain Regard category and the FIPRESCI, which is an International Jury of Film Critics prize.
In 2016, Kaushal won several awards for his debut movie, including the Best Debut Actor at the International Indian Film Academy Awards (IIFA), Screen Awards, and Zee Cine Awards. He was also nominated for the 10th Asian Film Award for Best Newcomer in 2016.
His second big screen release was Mozez Singh's Zubaan (2015), a musical drama that was filmed before Masaan (2015). Kaushal plays the role of a young man with a speech impairment. He consulted a speech therapist to prepare for this role. Zubaan (2015) was screened at the 20th Busan International Film Festival held in 2015 as the opening film.
In 2016, he appeared as an unbalanced and troubled character in Anurag Kashyap's neo-noir psychological thriller Psycho Raman (2016). To prepare for this role, he went into isolation for five days. The film premiered under the Directors' Fortnight section at the 69th Cannes Film Festival held in 2016, receiving positive reviews. It received a good response from critics at home as well.
He was next seen playing the lead along with Angira Dhar in Love Per Square Foot (2018), directed by Anand Tiwari. This romantic comedy film was released on Netflix and was later screened at the Beijing International Film Festival in 2019.
Kaushal continued to prove his mettle as a versatile actor with movies like Raazi (2018), Sanju (2018), and Husband Material (2018).
In Raazi (2018), Meghna Gulzar's spy action thriller, he plays a Pakistani army officer. The film went on to gross more than Rs. 200 crores. Sanju, directed by Rajkumar Hirani, proved to be another bit hit in his career.
His performance as Kamli in Sanju (2018) earned him the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor in 2019. He also won the Best Supporting Actor Award at the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne (IFFM) 2018 and Zee Cine Awards 2019. This blockbuster earned over Rs. 586 crores worldwide.
In 2019, Kaushal appeared as a military officer in the action film Uri: The Surgical Strike (2019). To prepare for this movie, filmed in Siberia, Kaushal underwent military training for five months to gain muscle weight. The film grossed more than Rs. 340 crores at the box office. Kaushal received the Best Actor Award at the National Film Awards in 2019, jointly with Ayushmann Khurrana for Andhadhun (2018).
His next film was Bhoot: Part One - The Haunted Ship (2020), directed by Bhanu Pratap Singh.
In Shoojit Sircar's biographical historical drama film Sardar Udham (2021), Kaushal played the role of Indian freedom fighter Udham Singh. The critics appreciated his performance in the film, and he won the Filmfare Critics Award 2022 for Best Actor and IIFA Award 2022 for Best Actor.
He followed this up with a comedy thriller, Govinda Naam Mera (2022). He was also seen in the romantic musical drama Almost Pyaar with DJ Mohabbat (2022) by Anurag Kashyap.
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Ahn Bo-Hyun was born on 16 May 1988. He is an actor, known for Itaewon Class (2020), My Name (2021) and Descendants of the Sun (2016).- Producer
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Adam Richman was born on 16 May 1974 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He is a producer and actor, known for All My Children (1970), Stalking the Bogeyman (2023) and Guiding Light (1952).- Rupert Young is an English actor best known for his role as Sir Leon in the medieval fantasy fiction series, Merlin.
Though acting from a young age, Rupert has often praised his drama teacher for encouraging him to study at drama school. In order to raise the funds, he took on a number of jobs related to acting and directing, eventually being accepted into the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.
With a career spanning film, television, theatre and audio plays, he is best known for a variety of television appearances including roles in Doctor Who, Primeval, and Doc Martin.
In 2009, beginning as a small supporting role, Rupert was cast as Sir Leon in the BBC fantasy drama Merlin. He soon became a recurring character throughout the series, appearing alongside Colin Morgan and Bradley James until the end of the series.
Recently, Rupert Young appeared in the classic thriller Gaslight, written by Patrick Hamilton in 1938. His terrifyingly convincing portrayal of the plays villain shocked national audiences, encapsulating the dark horrors of the Victorian-era of London. - Actor
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Connecticut-born actor Bill Smitrovich (on May 16, 1947) started his
acting career rather late. A Masters degree holder from Smith College
and a former acting teacher at the University of Massachusetts, the
hefty actor earned his big break in an understudy role in the world
premiere of Arthur Miller's "The American Clock" at the Spoleto Festival, a
production that went to Broadway. Other stage parts have included "Food
from Trash," "Requiem for a Heavyweight," "Far East" and "Frankie &
Johnny at the Claire de Lune." Bill was a founding member of the No
Theatre Company, now in association with the Wooster Group, whose
members included Willem Dafoe and the late Spalding Gray. Bill made his 1978 New
York debut in the company's production of "The Elephant Man."
In the early 1980s he started tackling film and TV roles, often playing good
cops and assorted villainous types. He made his film debut in a small
role in A Little Sex (1982) and went on to play a prime part in the TV-movie pilot
of Miami Vice (1984). A co-starring detective part on the series Crime Story (1986) led to
more visibility. He finally became a household face (if not quite a
name) as former construction worker-turned-restaurateur Drew Thatcher,
the father of three on the critically acclaimed dramatic series
Life Goes On (1989). Co-starring with Patti LuPone (of "Evita" fame), they played
parents to a son born with Down Syndrome (portrayed by Chris Burke). The
much-admired family-oriented show, which went on to deal with other
topical themes such as AIDS, lasted four seasons.
Since then Bill has
involved himself in raising public consciousness and sensitivity of
Down Syndrome. He has hosted the annual "Life Goes On Celebrity Golf
Classic" for the Down Syndrome Association of Los Angeles. Following
this TV success, Bill co-starred on the A Nero Wolfe Mystery (2001) with Timothy Hutton and
Maury Chaykin, had a recurring chief prosecutor role on The Practice (1997) and played a
lieutenant in the Fox hit series Millennium (1996). His many film roles include
Key Exchange (1985), Renegades (1989), The Trigger Effect (1996) with Dermot Mulroney, Independence Day (1996) with Will Smith, a
strong role as a public defender in Rob Reiner's Ghosts of Mississippi (1996), Air Force One (1997) and,
more recently, as a general in Kevin Costner's Cuban Missile Crisis drama
Thirteen Days (2000). He also played Alexander Haig in the TV-movie biopic on Ronald Reagan
starring James Brolin and Judy Davis.
Married to Shaw Purnell and the father of two, he has played a number of high-ranking officials, both good or corrupt, over the years. Most of Bill's recent work into the millennium has been on the small screen with guest appearances on such popular shows as "Nash Bridges," "NYPD Blue," "24," "Numb3rs," "Law and Order," "Criminal Minds," "Brothers & Sisters," "Desperate Housewives," "Boston Legal," "Castle," "Californication," "Two and a Half Men" and "Grey's Anatomy," with regular/recurring roles on such series as The Practice (1997), Without a Trace (2002), The Event (2010), The Last Ship (2014) Dynasty (2017). Occasional big screen supports include Thirteen Days (2000), Iron Man (2008), The Rum Diary (2011),Eagle Eye (2008), Ted (2012) and its sequel Ted 2 (2015), The November Man (2014), Bitch (2017) and Valley of Bones (2017)- Wells Adams was born on 16 May 1984 in Monterey, California, USA. He has been married to Sarah Hyland since 20 August 2022.
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Ben Sinclair was born on 16 May 1984 in New York City, New York, USA. He is a producer and actor, known for High Maintenance (2016), High Maintenance (2012) and Thor: Love and Thunder (2022). He was previously married to Katja Blichfeld.- Actor
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Raphaël Quenard was born on 16 May 1991 in Échirolles, Isère, France. He is an actor and writer, known for Junkyard Dog (2023), Yannick (2023) and L'acteur (2023).- Actor
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Brent Jasmer was born on 16 May 1965 in Springfield, Oregon, USA. He is an actor, known for The Bold and the Beautiful (1987), Leprechaun 4: In Space (1996) and Team Knight Rider (1997). He is married to Adrianne Richter. They have one child.