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Actress and philanthropist Rooney Mara was born on April 17, 1985 in Bedford, New York. She made her screen debut in the slasher film Urban Legends: Bloody Mary (2005), went on to have a supporting role in the independent coming-of-age drama Tanner Hall (2009), and has since starred in the horror remake A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010), the biographical drama The Social Network (2010), the thriller remake The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), and the romantic drama Carol (2015).
Patricia Rooney Mara is one of four children of Kathleen McNulty (née Rooney) and NFL football team New York Giants executive Timothy Christopher Mara. Her grandfathers were Wellington Mara, co-owner of the Giants, and Timothy Rooney, owner of Yonkers Raceway, and her grand-uncle is Steelers Chairman Dan Rooney, the former Ambassador to Ireland. She is the great-granddaughter of Art Rooney, the founder of the Pittsburgh Steelers football franchise. Her father has Irish, German, and French-Canadian ancestry, and her mother is of Irish and Italian descent.
After graduating from Bedford's Fox Lane High School, she went to Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia in South America for four months as part of the Traveling School, an open learning environment. She attended George Washington University for a year and then transferred to New York University, where she studied international social policy psychology and nonprofits. She took her degree from New York University in 2010. Her studies focused on non-profit organizations, as her family has a tradition of involvement in philanthropic causes.
She had thought of acting after watching old movies and attending musical theater, but did not think of it as a serious vocation and was afraid she might fail at this. As a result of her reservations, she appeared in only one play while in high school.
She began seriously focusing on acting when she was at New York University, appearing in student films. Inspired by her older sister, actress Kate Mara, she began to pursue the craft, auditioning for acting jobs at age 19. She appeared with her sister Kate in the video horror movie Urban Legends: Bloody Mary (2005), billing herself as "Patricia Mara". As "Tricia Mara", she had guest roles on television and won her first lead in the movie Tanner Hall (2009), which was shot in the fall of 2007.
She originally auditioned for the supporting role of Lucasta in "Tanner Hall", a $3-million independent film, but director Tatiana von Fürstenberg was so impressed by the young actress, she had her return to audition for the lead role of Fernanda, which Mara won. Furstenberg was delighted with her nuanced performance, saying, "Still waters run deep".
Continuing to call herself Tricia Mara, this was during the making of "Tanner Hall" that she considered changing her professional name to Rooney Mara, soliciting the advice of the cast and crew. After premiering at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival, her performance in "Tanner Hall" brought the rechristened Rooney Mara a "Rising Star" award at the 2009 Hamptons Film Festival and a "Stargazer Award" at the 2010 Gen Art Film Festival.
She received her first lead role in a major feature, in the $35 million remake A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010). The movie proved disappointing at the box office, grossing only $63 million domestically and racking up a worldwide gross of just under $116 million. However, she was noticed by critics in the small but pivotal role of the Boston University undergrad Erica Albright who dumps Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network (2010). Director David Fincher subsequently cast her as the lead, Lisbeth Salander, in his thriller remake, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), based on Stieg Larsson's Millennium book series. She received critical acclaim for her performance, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama.
She starred in the thriller film Side Effects (2013), the independent drama Ain't Them Bodies Saints (2013), and the acclaimed sci-fi romantic drama Her (2013). The following year, she starred in the adventure drama Trash (2014). She garnered further critical acclaim for her performance in Todd Haynes' romantic drama Carol (2015), for which she won the Best Actress Award at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, and was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama and the SAG, BAFTA, and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
In the spirit of her family's philanthropic endeavors, Rooney created Faces of Kibera, a charity that provides food, medical care and housing to orphans in Nairobi, Kenya's Kibra district, a small slum that houses a million people. There are many orphans as AIDS is rampant in the slum.- Actress
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Kate Mara is an American actress. She starred in the Netflix political drama House of Cards (2013) as Zoe Barnes and appeared in the Fox TV series 24 (2001) as computer analyst Shari Rothenberg. She appeared in Brokeback Mountain (2005), We Are Marshall (2006), Shooter (2007), Transsiberian (2008), Stone of Destiny (2008), The Open Road (2009), Transcendence (2014), and Fantastic Four (2015) as the Invisible Woman. She also appeared in the FX horror mini-series American Horror Story (2011) as Hayden McClaine. Mara's film debut was in Random Hearts (1999), with Harrison Ford in 1999, directed by Sydney Pollack. In 2015, she also had a supporting role as astronaut "Beth Johanssen" in director Ridley Scott's film The Martian (2015). In the same year, she also starred as Ashley Smith in the movie Captive (2015).
Mara also starred in Morgan (2016), Megan Leavey (2017) and My Days of Mercy (2017).
Kate was born in Bedford, New York. She is one of four children of Kathleen McNulty (Rooney) and NFL football team New York Giants executive Timothy Christopher Mara. Her younger sister is actress Rooney Mara.
Her grandfathers were Wellington Mara, co-owner of the Giants, and Timothy Rooney, owner of Yonkers Raceway, and her grand-uncle is Steelers Chairman Dan Rooney, the former US Ambassador to Ireland. She is the great-granddaughter of Art Rooney Sr., the founder of the Pittsburgh Steelers football franchise. She often sings the national anthem at Giants home games. Her father has Irish, German, and French-Canadian ancestry, and her mother is of Irish and Italian descent.
Mara graduated from high school a year early. She was accepted at the prestigious NYU Tisch School of the Arts but deferred her admission for three consecutive years.- Actress
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Sarah Silverman was most recently the host of the two-time Emmy-nominated weekly topical series, I Love You America, which streamed on Hulu and also received a Writers Guild Awards nomination.
Silverman is currently working on a musical adaptation of her 2010 memoir and New York Times Bestseller called The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee. The musical, The Bedwetter, will premiere Off Broadway at the Atlantic Theatre Company in April 2020.
On-stage, Silverman continues to cement her status as a force in stand-up comedy. In May 2017, she released her latest standup special A Speck of Dust on Netflix, which culminated in two Emmy Award nominations and a Grammy Award nomination. In 2013, she debuted her hour-long HBO standup special Sarah Silverman: We Are Miracles, which earned her the 2014 Primetime Emmy Award for "Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special." The special received an additional Primetime Emmy Awards nomination that year for "Outstanding Variety Special" in addition to a Writers Guild Awards nomination. In September 2014, Silverman released the special as an audio album through Sub Pop Records, which went on to receive a 2015 Grammy Awards nomination for "Best Comedy Album." Previously, Silverman made an impressive splash with her concert-meets-comedy film Sarah Silverman: Jesus is Magic, which garnered major attention at the Toronto Film Festival.
In the film world, Silverman was most recently seen opposite Emma Stone and Steve Carell in the critically-acclaimed film Battle of the Sexes, which was based on the true story of the 1973 tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs. She also starred in I Smile Back, the film adaptation of the Amy Koppelman novel. The drama premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival and was later released in theaters by Broad Green Pictures. Silverman received much praise for her role as "Laney Brooks," culminating in a 2016 Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for "Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role." Her additional film credits include The Book of Henry, Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, Ashby, A Million Ways to Die in the West, Take This Waltz, Gravy, Peep World, I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With, The School of Rock, There's Something About Mary, The Way of The Gun. Silverman also lent her voice as "Vanellope" in the Oscar-nominated smash hit Wreck It Ralph and Golden Globe nominated Wreck it Ralph 2: Ralph Breaks the Internet.
Silverman was nominated for a 2009 Primetime Emmy Award for "Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series" for her portrayal of a fictionalized version of herself in her Comedy Central series The Sarah Silverman Program. This marked Comedy Central's first ever Emmy nomination in a scripted acting category. Silverman also received a Writers Guild Award nomination for her work on the show. In 2008, Silverman won a Primetime Emmy Award for "Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics" for her musical collaboration with Matt Damon. Additionally, she was honored with a Webby Award for "Best Actress" for her online video "The Great Schlep," in which she persuaded young kids to encourage their grandparents in Florida to vote for President Obama prior to the 2008 Presidential Election.
Silverman has made memorable guest appearances on a number of acclaimed and notable television shows, including Monk, which earned her a 2008 Primetime Emmy Awards nomination for "Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series." Silverman also lends her voice to Emmy Award-winning FOX animated series Bob's Burgers. Her additional television work includes buzzed-about roles on HBO's Crashing, Masters of Sex, The Good Wife, The Larry Sanders Show, Seinfeld, and Mr. Show with Bob and David. Silverman has hosted a number of major awards shows, including the 2007 MTV Movie Awards and the Independent Spirit Awards.
Silverman grew up in New Hampshire and attended one year of New York University. In 1993 she joined Saturday Night Live as a writer and feature performer and has not stopped working since.
She currently lives in Los Angeles.- Actress
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Felicity Huffman was born on 9 December 1962 in Bedford, New York, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Transamerica (2005), Desperate Housewives (2004) and Sports Night (1998). She has been married to William H. Macy since 6 September 1997. They have two children.- Actor
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Dynamically entertaining heavyset US actor with piercing eyes, William Forsythe has a superb talent for playing some truly unlikable and downright nasty characters that dominate the films in which he appears! If you're cast as the hero against Forsythe's villain, then you have your work cut out for you, as Forsthye's raw energy and menace on screen is second to none. He started out in a couple of minor film roles and guest appearances in high-rated TV shows including CHiPs (1977), Hill Street Blues (1981) and T.J. Hooker (1982). He quickly moved into high-quality feature films, including playing a small-time hoodlum in Once Upon a Time in America (1984), an hilariously funny performance as a bumbling jail escapee alongside John Goodman in the knockout Raising Arizona (1987) and as a renegade soldier in Extreme Prejudice (1987).
The energetic Forsythe portrayed comic book villain "Flattop" in Dick Tracy (1990), was foolish enough to tangle with vengeful cop Steven Seagal in the hyper-violent Out for Justice (1991) and locked horns with ex-NFL linebacker Brian Bosworth in the biker action film Stone Cold (1991). With his expertise in playing icy villains, Forsythe was perfect to portray Prohibition mobster Al Capone in the short-lived '90s revival of the classic '60s crime show, The Untouchables (1993), and he continued the motif of playing edgy, nefarious individuals in the thought-provoking The Waterdance (1992), the oily film noir piece Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (1995), as real-life mobster Sammy Gravano, aka "The Bull", in Gotti (1996) and supporting another ex-NFL player's foray into film acting, when L.A. Raider Howie Long debuted in Firestorm (1998).
Forsythe has remained perpetually busy in the new century with a plethora of feature film, telemovie and TV series appearances, and has developed a minor cult following amongst film fans for his attention grabbing dramatic skills - check out his performances in City by the Sea (2002), The Devil's Rejects (2005) and Halloween (2007).- Actress
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Gabourey "Gabby" Sidibe, the star of Precious (2009), was born in the Bedford-Stuyvesant community in Brooklyn, New York. Her mother, Alice Tan Ridley, is a former special education teacher who gave up her career and became a street performer/singer, while her father, Ibnou Sidibe, is a cab driver. Her mother is African-American and her father is Senegalese. Her parents split when she was a youngster and Gabby grew up in Harlem. Though she was cast in school plays as a child, Sidibe had no interest in acting. She had witnessed her mother's financial struggles as a street singer and wanted the security that an education and a desk job would give her. After attending local colleges, Gabby pursued a degree in psychology at Mercy College. She was in the middle of preparing for an exam when a friend phoned her about an audition for the newest effort from Lee Daniels, Precious (2009).
Instead of attending class, she ended up being cast in the title role as Claireece "Precious" Jones, a taciturn, sixteen year-old who is pregnant for the second time after being raped by her father and is also on the receiving end of constant physical abuse by her mother. As grim as the subject matter is, Precious (2009) has become critical success and a source of inspiration for many. While her co-stars, Mo'Nique and Mariah Carey have both received a great deal of critical attention, it is Gabby who is the revelation as Precious, a character whose personality is quite different from her own. Anyone expecting a damaged young woman with no self-esteem is in for a shock after meeting the charming Sidibe. She hopes that her success in the film will motivate others to chase their dreams.
Precious (2009) has opened other doors for Sidibe. She has also completed shooting Yelling to the Sky (2011), a project from the Sundance Lab that also stars Zoë Kravitz and has other projects in the works.- Actress
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Laura Silverman was born on 10 June 1966 in Bedford, New Hampshire, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist (1995), Half Baked (1998) and The Comeback (2005). She has been married to Wesly Varghese since 4 December 2019.- Actress
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Vanessa Estelle Williams (Actress, Singer, Writer, Director) born and raised in Brooklyn, NY, is a talented force that came to Hollywood in the 90's with passion purpose and staying power. This highly sought-after creative artist wrapped "A Rich Christmas" a feature film for BET this past December 2020 and most recently completed the film "Christmas Family Reunion" with The Ninth House production company.
Vanessa stars in Sidra Smith's six-part miniseries "A Luv Tale" coming soon to the Essence Magazine digital platform. Off the coast of East Africa in the middle of the Indian Ocean, Vanessa jetted to luscious Mauritius to shoot the indie comedy feature "Singleholic" opposite Erica Ash, Rotimi, Stephen Bishop and Tyson Beckford. Coming soon Vanessa will reprise her role as Anna Marie in the Candyman sequel "Say My Name," directed by Nia DaCosta, written and produced by Jordan Peele.
Williams made her film debut playing as the gun toting head of security "Keisha" in the urban classic film "New Jack City." Other film credits include "Thriller" streaming now on Netflix, "Raising Izzie, Imagine That", "Like Mike," "Punks, Mother," "Candyman."
Williams earned an Emmy Nomination for her work in the Showtime original film "Our America." After six consecutive nominations in the category Vanessa won the 2003 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series for her brilliant portrayal of Maxine Chadway in the hit Showtime series "Soul Food." Her star turn in "Raising Izzie" earned GMCTV its highest world premiere television rating and received a 2013 NAACP Image Award nomination for best Television Movie or Mini-Series. Television credits include NBC's long running daytime soap "Days of Our Lives," Freeform network's "Famous in Love." "The Flash, Ward of the State, the Bay series, "Sugar Mommas," "Lincoln Heights," "Everybody Hates Chris," "Knight Riders," "Flirting with Forty," "Ice Spiders," "Cold Case," "Soul Food" TV series (5 seasons), "Our America," "The Steve Harvey Show," "Chicago Hope," "Murder One," "Living Single," "NYPD Blue," "Melrose Place," "The Cosby Show" and "Law & Order."
Vanessa debuted on Broadway in Lincoln Center Theatre's production of "Sarafina." In 2012 Ms. Williams garnered rave reviews for her role as Esther in the critically acclaimed production of Lynn Nottage's "Intimate Apparel" at the Pasadena Playhouse. Her other Broadway and theatre credits include "Mule Bone," "Death and the Kings Horseman" and regional productions of "The Vagina Monologues, Issues, Abyssinia" and a European tour of the musical "HAIR."
An excerpt from her book "Shine," published in the June 2004 Essence Magazine became the basis for her solo show "Feet On the Ceiling!" a coming-of-age story. "Feet On the Ceiling" premiered at the "National Black Theatre Festival" in 2011 and plays regular engagements in cities and colleges throughout the US and the Caribbean.
Serving as Vice Chair on the Executive Board of Directors of The Black Aids Institute, Williams is also Chair of BAI's Hollywood Task Force on Aids. Recruiting and directing her colleagues in a series of Celebrity PSAs on HIV Awareness / AIDS Prevention.
An internationally recognized star, Williams' global brand appeal is authentic, energetic, and thoroughly relatable. An artist and mother of two creatively talented boys, Omar and Haile Wiseman, Vanessa blends passion and youthful exuberance with timeless charm and soulfulness that deeply connects with people. She is a talent audiences love, trust and admire.- Writer
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Seth Meyers was born on 28 December 1973 in Bedford, New Hampshire, USA. He is a writer and actor, known for Documentary Now! (2015), Saturday Night Live (1975) and New Year's Eve (2011). He has been married to Alexi Ashe Meyers since 1 September 2013. They have three children.- Emmy and Tony Award-winner Barnard Hughes forged a career as one of American's most successful character actors, equally at home and successful on stage, the silver screen, and television. Most of his success came after middle-age. He made his Broadway debut in 1939 in Mary McCarthy's "Please, Mrs. Garibaldi", a flop that lasted only four performances. He appeared in another 22 Broadway shows, his last being Noël Coward's "Waiting in the Wings, which closed in the year 2000. His Broadway career lasted spanned 61 years and eight decades. Along the way, he won the 1978 Tony Award as best Actor in a play for Da (1988), his most famous role, which also brought him the Drama Desk Award as Outstanding Actor in a Play. (He won a lifetime achievement Drama Desk Award in 2000.) He also was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play in 1973 for Much Ado About Nothing (1973), which was fitting, as it was in Shakespeare repertory that he honed his craft. Hughes was born Bernard Aloysius Kiernan Hughes on July 16, 1915, in Bedford Hills, New York, to Irish immigrants Marcella "Madge" (Kiernan) and Owen Hughes. Bedford Hills is a hamlet lying 41 miles north of the heart of Broadway in Times Square (He changed the spelling of his Christian name on the advice of a numerologist; thespians are very superstitious). After graduating from the La Salle Academy and attending Manhattan College, he joined New York City's Shakespeare Fellowship Repertory Co. He was a member of the company for two years. He did not actually appear on Broadway in Shakespeare until 1964, when he played Marcellus to Richard Burton's Hamlet (1964). Off-Broadway, he played Polonius to Stacy Keach's Obie Award-winning Hamlet in 1972. His only other Shakespearean turn on the boards of the Great White Way was as Dogberry in "Much Ado About Nothing" in the 1972-73 season, which brought him his first Tony nomination. Off-Broadway, he also appeared as the Chorus in "Pericles, Prince of Tyre" and Sir John Falstaff in "The Merry Wives of Windsor". Back on Broadway, his most prominent role other than "Da" (which he also played in the roadshow tour) was as the Old Man opposite Alec Baldwin in Prelude to a Kiss (1992). Hughes had a 54 year-long screen career, equally adept in television as in movies. He was a regular on the soap opera Guiding Light (1952) from 1961-66. Though Hughes was a highly effective dramatic actor, he had a flair for comedy and appeared on such sit-coms as _"The Phil Silvers Show" (TV series) and _"Car 54, Where Are You?" (1962)_ before having recurring roles on "All In the Family" (1971) as a priest and on The Bob Newhart Show (1972) as Bob's father in the 1970s. He eventually headlined his own sit-com in the mid '70s, Doc (1975), which had a successful first season but was canceled early into its second after the network demanded changes to boost ratings. Instead, the ratings sank. His break-through performance in the movies arguably was a the messianic doctor who was a victim of malpractice and turned avenger in Paddy Chayefsky's The Hospital (1971) in 1971. It came two years after a small but memorable part in Best Picture Oscar winner Midnight Cowboy (1969), as he middle-aged gay mamma's boy who picks up self-styled "hustler" Joe Buck with disastrous consequences. Hughes married actress Helen Stenborg in 1950 and they remained married until his death on July 11, 2006, five days before what would have been his 91st birthday. The couple had two children, theatrical director Doug Hughes (who was also a Tony-winner) and a daughter, actress Laura Hughes.
- Andrew Harold Rubin was born in the seaport town of New Bedford, Massachusetts. His father, Simon, owned a furniture and bedding factory and his mother, Leona (nee Greenstone) was an artist and international travel writer.
Andy, as he was called then, began performing and acting at the age of 10. He wrote and starred in skits and plays at the Jewish Community Center. Afterward, he continued acting the leads in plays while attending New Bedford High School. He won a college acting scholarship from the high school in his senior year.
School didn't make a lot of sense to him and as a result he only got into one college that he applied to. Wagner College, a Lutheran School, was located on Staten Island and as a concession to his parents Rubin agreed to go there. By the end of the school year Rubin's parents had received 24 letters from the Dean of Men listing various infractions by their son. His college career came rapidly to a close.
With his heart in acting, he auditioned for the famed American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City. The Academy was like an embryo for him: an amazing training ground to eat and breathe acting daily for two years. After graduation he got a job as a page at NBC 30 Rock rising rapidly in the ranks to become the youngest full time writer in the history of the NBC Publicity Department. Going on auditions while at NBC landed him his first big time job. He was cast from hundreds of hopefuls to play the character of Cosmo in a guy/girl duo in a national commercial campaign (6 TV and 5 radio) for Sprite soda.
After being flown to California to shoot for two weeks on location, Rubin decided to move to California to seek work. He met with success almost immediately, guest starring in various television dramatic series including "Ironside", "The Streets of San Francisco", "Cannon" and dozens of others. He also scored recurring roles on well known comedies of the day such as "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman", "The Jeffersons", and "The Odd Couple".
Rubin's big break came when he was tapped by director Martin Ritt ('Hud','Sounder') to star as Walter Matthau's eldest son, Buddy, in the horse-racing picture "Casey's Shadow". Although the film and he got terrific reviews it was not a box office success because it conflicted with another Matthau film, "House Calls" (with Glenda Jackson) which was released the same day.
He followed "Casey's Shadow" with the iconic film, "Police Academy", playing the character of George Martin, the suave Lothario pretending to be Hispanic so he "could get the girls". Rubin then went on to star in three television series, "Jessica Novak" (with Helen Shaver), "Hometown" (TV version of "The Big Chill") and "Joe Bash", an offbeat comedy starring him and Peter Boyle as two lower Manhattan beat cops created and produced by Danny Arnold ("Barney Miller").
Rubin continued to work in TV doing films and mini-series ("Roughnecks", "Deadline: Madrid") and in movies ("Nuts"- playing Barbra Streisand's ex-husband, "Sunnyside", "Little Miss Marker", "Tell Me That You Love Me"). He also was a regular on the Los Angeles theater scene starring in the Company Theater's "James Joyce Memorial Liquid Theater", Sam Shepard's "The Unseen Hand" at the Odyssey, "Hopscotch" at LAAT and "The Passing Game", produced by Tom Hanks, at the Gene Dynarski.
It was about this time that Rubin went on what he calls a "walkabout" traveling the world. During that time he explored the pyramids of Egypt, the temples of India and the outback of Australia where he and his wife, Lauren, lived with an Aboriginal tribe in a remote region of the country. He would also return to work occasionally, playing Jules Bergman, ABC's Science correspondent in "From the Earth to the Moon", and also writing and starring in "Men and Their Fathers", a well received short film.
He recently completed filming for a documentary, "The CURE Is U", set for release in 2012. No longer on a 'walkabout', he lives with his wife, Dr. Lauren Rubin, two dogs and five cats in Pacific Palisades. His passion for and love of acting has never dimmed. - With a dedication to his craft, and consummate appetite for the world and people around him, Dave Baez has built a career on character study and cultivated a passion to share his experience with a new generation of theater and film actors.
Born in the old New England fishing town of New Bedford, Massachusetts, Dave grew up in a multi-ethnic family, deeply rooted in Portuguese and Puerto Rican culture. Raised with unwavering support from his parents, Dave developed a passion for the arts, leading him to the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. There, he majored in Theater Studies, performing in several plays as well as establishing a program for students called, "The Experimental Stage," a creative outlet for free speech and the performing arts on campus.
After college, Dave moved to Miami, and was cast in his first professional theater production as King Philip of France, in "A Lion In Winter." A chance encounter with Frances Grill, founder of the CLICK modeling agency led to a meeting with fashion photographer Bruce Weber, who booked Dave for ads for Versace, Ralph Lauren, Brooks Bothers among others. Dave's focus, however, remained on acting as he used his newfound opportunity to move to New York and enroll in the acclaimed Herbert Bergdorf studio, studying under the late, celebrated actor, William Hickey, as well as an acceptance into the "Absolute Theater Company," which produced off Broadway plays. After benefiting from a donation from Al Pacino, the Company was able to produce a showcase in Los Angeles, which in turn, allowed Dave to make his destined move out west.
With experience and a solid resume, Dave quickly booked a role in the final installment of the Crow franchise, The Crow: Wicked Prayer, for Dimension Films in 2005, opposite Danny Trejo and Dennis Hopper. Several parts in film and television followed, including recurring roles in NBC's "Miss Match," alongside Alicia Silverstone and Ryan O'Neil, "Las Vegas," opposite Josh Duhamel and Vanessa Marcil, and a five-episode arc on Showtime's "Dexter," where Dave played Gabriel, the boyfriend to the title character's sister.
Dave can also be seen in the feature Mothers and Daughters, opposite Sharon Stone, Susan Sarandon, Selma Blair, Christina Ricci, and Courteney Cox, playing a doctor who develops a personal relationship with Selma Blair's character, as she struggles to make a tough decision regarding an unexpected pregnancy.
Other credits include the Daytime Episodic, "Days of Our Lives," CBS' "The Mentalist," The CW fantasy-drama, "The Secret Circle," the long-running Paramount comedy, "All of Us," co-created by Will and Jada Pinkett Smith, and the popular IFC series "Maron" in 2015, along with countless commercials for brands such as, Bud Light, Craftsman, Honda, Toyota, Buick, Caress, Verizon and AT&T, among others.
For Dave, acting is a companion to his natural thirst for life and intense reflection into his own soul. He is keenly aware that an actors journey never ends, the craft never perfected, but only built layer upon layer. This intense passion has led Dave to a new endeavor as he transitions into teaching the craft as well, sharing his experience, trade-craft and unique insights of the industry that has fulfilled him for over a decade. - Producer
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Michael Knowles hosts "The Michael Knowles Show" at the Daily Wire. In 2017, he wrote the #1 national bestselling treatise Reasons To Vote For Democrats: A Comprehensive Guide, which President Donald Trump hailed as "a great book for your reading enjoyment."
Before blank book fame, Michael studied History and Italian Literature at Yale University, graduating with honors. At Yale, Michael rendered the first-ever translation for the English stage of political philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli's play The Girl From Andros, which Machiavelli scholar Angelo Capodivacca hailed as "a watershed event for the English-speaking world."
In 2017, he teamed up with acclaimed novelist and screenwriter Andrew Klavan to perform the narrative podcast and audiobook "Another Kingdom," which rose to become one of the most popular Arts podcasts of the year before being renewed for a second and third season.
Michael appears regularly on Fox News, EWTN, and OANN among other television news networks. He has lectured at research institutes and universities throughout the United States. Vanity Fair has described Michael as "a dapper, lib-triggering troll."- Producer
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Steve Gonsalves was born on 23 October 1975 in New Bedford, Massachusetts, USA. He is a producer and actor, known for The House in Between 2 (2022), Ghost Hunters (2004) and The House in Between (2020).- Actress
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Rebekah Paltrow Neumann is an American actress, filmmaker, and entrepreneur. Born and raised in New York, Rebekah attended The Horace Mann High School and went on to major in Business and Buddhism at Cornell University. Upon graduating, Rebekah was accepted into Solomon Smith Barney's Sales and Trading Program. Soon thereafter, she left to pursue a career in acting and film. Classically trained with Eric Morris and The Old Vic Theatre, Rebekah has starred opposite Rosario Dawson in Awake and appeared opposite Lucy Liu in Nomads. On stage, she most recently starred in an Old Vic production of Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters directed by Eve Best. In 2012, Rebekah Paltrow Neumann co-founded WeWork Studios, the independent film production arm of WeWork. Wework, the first physical social network, was co-founded in 2010 by Rebekah's husband, entrepreneur Adam Neumann.- Additional Crew
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She was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts and went to New Bedford High School. Even before graduating in 1942, she had opened a dance studio where she taught dancing. Dancing was in her blood from an early age, and she performed often at high school festivities, the Mexican Hat Dance being one of her favorites. During the WWII years, she came to Hollywood and became the protégé of Gene Kelly, whom she admired a great deal. She had fine timing and was indefatigable. Unfortunately, she was a diabetic, and this may have been the cause of her demise. She married Larry Blyden in Hollywood (purportedly on the stage of a theatre), and had two children. After her death, her husband took the children to Texas, where they had relatives, and was soon, thereafter, killed in an auto accident.- Actress
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Alana Monteiro is a model, singer, songwriter, actress, and dancer. She is ranked in the top 50 Social on Models.com. She has appeared in 3x Emmy award winning Disney's Hocus Pocus 2. She released her first single "High" at the age of 24 which received major recognition with radio airplay & popular playlists. Growing up, she was heavily involved in the performing arts, dancing for 15 years, singing and dabbling in theater.
Alana has taken various acting courses over the years upon moving to NYC. She's studied at prestigious film schools such as Stella Adler and New York Film Academy and many others. She began her film career by landing featured roles on major films. You'll find Alana Monteiro in movies like "Someone Great" featuring Gina Rodriguez, DeWanda Wise and Brittany Snow, "Second Act" starring Jennifer Lopez and Vanessa Hudgens and 3x time Emmy award winning Disney's "Hocus Pocus 2" starring Sarah Jessica Parker and Bette Midler. She also has landed leading principal roles in national commercials.
Alana has landed covers and editorials in the some of world's top high fashion magazines including Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Elle, Marie Claire, L'Officiel, Numéro, Glamour, Grazia and many more. She has worked with some of the industry's top leading beauty brands such as CoverGirl, Clinique, L'Oréal Paris, MAC Cosmetics, Bobbi Brown Cosmetics, bare Minerals and NARS. She has done countless print advertisement campaigns and worked for some of the worlds most globally-known brands such as Nike, Reebok, Under Armour, Footlocker, Gap, TJ Maxx, Marshals, Macy's, Puma, Target, Reebok, Fila etc. Her campaigns have been featured in over thousands of stores across nation and worldwide.
Alana is ranked in the top 50 Social on Models.com. She is also ranked among the top 100 Black female models who carved a niche for themselves in the fashion industry. The rankings including a list of icons such as Naomi Campbell and Tyra Banks.
A multi-talented, creative and well-rounded artist, Monteiro also writes and sings her own music. She has been singing and song-writing since her childhood for fun, but only started to pursue her music career professionally when she released her first single titled "High" on June 30th, 2021. With the popularity and success of her first single, she went on to create many more hits.- Actor
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Born August 23, 1969, in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Son of Carol and Ken VerCammen with one older sister Colleen who is married and now bears the last name Chiron. He attended Holy Family-Holy Name Elementary School and Bishop Stang High School. He attended AIC for two semesters then moved to South Florida where he attended PBCC. He left college to open, and operate Dream Romm Incorporated while pursuing his acting career.
After landing roles including but not limited to "T's Lounge Show," Harmony Street (1992) and Creep (1995), he took the advice of his friends and peers to head West. At the age of 28, he made the move to Los Angeles. He is employed as a Private Investigator while in between acting jobs. In Los Angeles, he has been booked as Todd on the The Bold and the Beautiful (1987) and Agent Harland on Robbery Homicide Division (2002) is another of his recent credits. He also made his debut on the big screen in the motion picture Shrink Rap (2003). Ken VerCammen has written the screenplays "Runaway Weekend", "Full Circle", and your "Your Time is Up".- Actor
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William Xifaras was born in raised in Massachusetts; primarily the city of New Bedford, and later Boston. The son of Beatrice Keshian of Medford, MA and Michael Xifaras of New Bedford, MA.
He began film acting after his release from Massachusetts state prison system in 2005 (after having served 5 years for Intimidation). Bill spent many years learning through a variety of classes including: improv, acting on film, character development and scene study. Simultaneously he volunteered his time to talk to at-risk youth about the importance of education and goals.
Principal roles include: 20th Century Fox's The Heat, Sony Pictures' The Equalizer, Universals' Ted 2, Netflix's Wheelman, Hulu series Castle Rock, Caviar's Sound of Metal, Artina Films' By the Gun, Paramount Picture's Defending Jacob, AMC's Kevin Can F**k Himself, Showtime's Dexter, Thug, and Align's Love, Weddings, and Other Disasters. Director's he's worked with include Morten Tyldum, Dennis Dugan, Ben Affleck, Paul Feig, Antoine Fuqua, Seth MacFarlane, Jeremy Rush, Kevin Hooks, Darius Marder, Hans Petter Moland, James Mottern, Sanford Bookstaver and Richard Duque-Henao.
Actor's he's worked with include: Liam Neeson, Chris Evans, Michelle Dockery, Jaeden Martell, Cherry Jones, Annie Murphy, John Hamm, Sandra Bullock, Harvey Keitel, Denzel Washington, Betty Gabriel, Seth MacFarlane, Frank Grillo, Scott Glenn, Julia Jones and Riz Ahmed.
Upon request, Bill donates his time talking to public schools, after-school groups, and social programs aimed at youth's in crisis. Causes such as child welfare, education, homelessness, and children in foster care, have been and continue to be, a priority for him.- Shirley Chisholm was born on 30 November 1924 in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. She was married to Arthur Hardwick Jr. and Conrad Chisholm. She died on 1 January 2005 in Ormond Beach, Florida, USA.
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At 17-years-old, Jodie, an east coast gal now living in the LA sunshine, almost became a cardiologist. Thank god NYU's Tisch School of the Arts accepted her early with a pretty substantial scholarship. So... Jodie canceled her 2nd interview at Brown 's Pre-Med Program and moved to NYC. The Village was her new home, Washington Square Park her campus and Stella Adler Conservatory became her training ground.
She worked consistently in the NY theater/musical theater scene for years with many renowned composers and directors. She played leading roles Off-Broadway in new musicals and plays at the York Theatre, New World Stages, Atlantic Stage and The Barrow Group.
Once she landed a recurring role on One Life to Live, her on-camera career in commercials, TV, and film began. Jodie is also an audiobook narrator with 40+ books under her belt and is an Audible Approved Producer. She has worked on TV shows including Modern Family and All My Children. She just completed a film directed by Ali LeRoi, The Obituary of Tunde Johnson. A short film she did with up-and-coming director, Tiffany Kontoyiannis, Non-Disclosure, was an official selection (2018) at Cannes Short Film Corner and the Female Media Festival.
Variety says, Jodie "Shines like a beacon."
As a producer, she tells female-driven stories that raise consciousness and connection through the lens of truth. Her first feature film got distribution by Cinedigm and Random Media. She has a feature in development which will be in pre-production the fall of 2019. She has two TV series on her slate that she is in the process of developing and pitching.
For over 10 years, Jodie's also coached actors and artists to achieve their goals, implement success strategies, become organizational masters and own their brand. With two bicoastal businesses, The Savvy Actor and Accelerated Artist, she brought the concepts of business to the artist. Jodie was an adjunct professor teaching the Business of Acting at Pace University in NYC for 3 years and built and teaches the year-long Business of Acting program at Studio School in LA. She has taught workshops at SAG-AFTRA, Actors Equity, The SAG Foundation, Comicon and over 50+ universities and training programs.
In August 2017, Jodie's life came full circle and she married her high school sweetheart, Matt Viera. #firstlovelastlove They live in Valley Village with their three dogs - Sylvia, Nugget and Tater Tot.
.- Norman Wexler was born in New Bedford Mass and attended Harvard University. In addition to his acclaim as the writer of Saturday Night Fever, he also suffered from manic depression, and in 1972 was arrested by the FBI for saying he was planning to shoot then-president Nixon.
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Fab 5 Freddy was born on 31 August 1959 in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He is a director and actor, known for Wild Style (1982), New Jack City (1991) and The Manchurian Candidate (2004).- Actress
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Taylor Garron was born on 21 May 1992 in New Bedford, Massachusetts, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for As of Yet (2021), The Things We Do When We're Alone (2017) and Abbott Elementary (2021).- Director
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An an actor, producer, director, writer, teacher and lecturer who covered all of the important mediums in one way or another during his lifetime, Ezra Stone will still be forever known for introducing quintessential late 30s and 40s teen Henry Aldrich to both radio and the stage. Stone's pitchy, cracking voice would become a familiar sound in living rooms for well over a decade.
He was born Ezra Chaim Feinstone on December 2, 1917, in New Bedford, Massachusetts. The son of Solomon Feinstone, a chemist, teacher and philanthropist, and the former Rose Meadow, Stone made his debut at age 6 in a play entitled "Phosphorus and Suppressed Desires" for the YMHA players in Philadelphia. He later went on to tour with the National Junior Theatre of Washington, DC, in 1931-1932 before graduating from the Oak Lane Country Day School of Temple University in 1934.
Stone studied for the stage at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and made his New York debut playing seven roles in the musical revue "Parade" in 1935. Although the ebullient teen built up his young marquee name with such popular comedies as "Room Service," "Three Men on a Horse" and "Brother Rat," he found his pot of gold winning the stage role of Henry Aldrich in "What a Life" in 1938. More riches came his way on Broadway with the role of Dromio in "The Boys from Syracuse" and as Arthur Lee in "See My Lawyer."
Twenty years old at the time he started playing the teenage Henry on radio, Stone enjoyed a healthy 13 years (1939-1953) as the disaster-prone youth who was summoned into millions of homes to the eternal lament of his long-suffering mother: "Hen-reeee! Henry Aldrich!" -- which was invariably followed by Henry's anguished reply: "Coming Mother!" By 1941 "The Aldrich Family" was rated among the "top ten" programs alongside Jack Benny and Bob Hope's popular shows.
As for films, Stone never got it into gear. He can only be witnessed in a support role in the "B" movie Those Were the Days! (1940) as Allie Bang. He also played a cameo as himself, Sgt. Ezra Stone, in This Is the Army (1943), the feature film version of the hit Broadway play he appeared in the year before.
WWII intervened in 1942 but Stone managed to incorporate his life's passion into his military duties by directing and appearing in a number of US Army Special Services productions. On October 5, 1942, Ezra married actress/director/teacher Sara Seegar. They went on to have two children, Josef and Francine.
Following the war Stone focused on writing and directing. During TV's "Golden Age" he not only wrote sketches for the sitcom The Aldrich Family (1949), which ran for four seasons, but also for shows that starred some of TV's funniest: Danny Thomas, Milton Berle, Fred Allen and Martha Raye. At around the same time he directed a number of Broadway productions including "Me and Molly," the farcical "At War with the Army," which also featured wife Sara, and "Wake Up, Darling." In the 1960s Stone started directed TV sitcoms and adventures, making the rounds on such sets as Petticoat Junction (1963), The Munsters (1964), Lost in Space (1965) and The Flying Nun (1967).
Ezra and Sara were married for 48 years until her death in 1990. Four years later, the icon of "old-time" radio was fatally injured in a one-vehicle road accident in New Jersey at age 76.- Actor
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Mr. Cee was born on 17 August 1966 in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Gatwick Gangsters (2017), Luke Cage (2016) and The Warriors (2005). He died on 10 April 2024 in the USA.- Actor
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Terrence E. McNally was born on 29 May 1948 in New Bedford, Massachusetts, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Earth Girls Are Easy (1988), 9 to 5 (1980) and Barnaby Jones (1973). He was previously married to Julie Brown.- Producer
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Kelly was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts - which she lovingly refers to as the strangest place in the United States. Her father John Farrell worked as a mathematics teacher and her mother a special needs teacher.
She started her professional career in theater at the age of 12 when she managed to con her parents into helping her pretend to be 18 so that she could audition for "summer stock" with The American Musical Theater Company. It worked out well and she happily strutted her stuff as a Kit Kat girl in Cabaret well before she was even a teenager. When Kelly wasn't busy in the theater she could be found behind her video camera making short films with any willing participants.
In High School, she was honored with The Moss Hart Award (winning over both college and professional productions) for her portrayal of Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady. After High School, Kelly Attended Berklee College of Music in Boston as a vocal performance major where she was featured on MTV's, "The Week in Rock" as an up-and-coming vocal talent.
After attending Berklee, Kelly moved to Los Angeles and though she enjoyed performing, she craved a deeper role in the filmmaking process. In 1999, Kelly began working with The TCS Productions.- Editor
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Jacob Teixeira was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, USA. He is an editor and producer, known for Survivor (2000), Bake Squad (2021) and Vegan on a Jet Plane: Bali (2021). He has been married to Ally Teixeira since 28 May 2017.- Actress
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American professional wrestler and valet as Taeler Hendrix and best known for her work for Ring of Honor and several other promotions. Debuted in 2008 for Top Rope Promotions in Massachusetts and has competed for New England Championship Wrestling, Ohio Valley Wrestling, TNA, Ring of Honor, SHINE Wrestling, Women Superstars Uncensored, Queens of Combat, Absolute Intense Wrestling, and many others. In 2012, she won a TNA Gut Check Challenge and was reassigned to OVW. She never really got many opportunities in TNA and was released before she could resign with the company. She made her PPV debut at "SHINE 2" on August 17, 2012, losing a three-way match to Sojourner Bolt (Josette Bynum) that also involved Heidi Lovelace (Dori Elizabeth Prange). She is a 3x OVW Women's Champion and the inaugural QOC (Queens of Chaos in North Carolina) Champion.- Actress
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Mim Paquin is a New York-based actor, singer, composer, writer and executive consultant working across all media and theatre. Known for Unremarkable, The System, The Kids Menu (2017). She is a member of Actors' Equity Association, Dramatists Guild of America, Songwriters Guild of America, Society of Composers and Lyricists, the Alliance For Women Film Composers, Maestra, UAC, and America's oldest professional theatrical club, The Lambs. She is known for her brilliant humor, heart, and depth, as well as her meticulous approach to role preparation, and her contagious energy.
Mim was born MaryAnne Leslie Paquin on January 24, 1974 to Leslie Jane (Nekuda) a substitute teacher, trained actor and singer, and to Pierre Arnold Paquin a foreign languages teacher, classical orchestral audio engineer, radio announcer, and singer. She is the fourth child of five children, and was born and raised in her hometown, the historical whaling city, New Bedford, Massachusetts.
She began performing on stage in musicals and plays at age four. Before graduating from New Bedford high school, she performed in over fourteen fully staged local plays and New England Theatre Conference Moss Hart award-winning musical productions, and over forty professional, semi-professional and high school orchestral and choral concerts. While still a high school junior, Mim won Massachusetts Broadcasting Awards for writing and producing radio programs, as well as for her voice over work on commercials.
Her senior year she auditioned for and won the only solo in the Massachusetts Music Educators Association' All-State concert. Mim moved to Boston to attend The Boston Conservatory on a full-scholarship for a year where she studied theater, acting, singing, and dancing in their acclaimed musical theatre program. She left the conservatory to further develop her acting skills and to grow as a musician and composer. Notably, Mim studied acting with the famous casting director and author of AUDITION, Michael Shurtleff in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and wrote, composed, produced and performed her own original music on the Boston coffee house music scene.
While living in Boston, she developed her business acumen working as a temp in Boston's high tech and investment banking industries Harvard Business School, P.S.D.I, and eventually as a fully-employed web master and developer at SoftBank Investments directly reporting to internationally known tech guru, Ted Dolata. Mim continued her acting training at Southwick Studio and maintained her songwriting career. She wrote and recorded original music at Newbury Sound, and wrote music video-scripts and co-directed music videos as part of an hour-long program produced by The Rendon Group which aired on FOX-TV New England.
Without a safety net, Mim left an amazing promotion with her SoftBank family and moved to New York to continue to pursue acting and music. She supported herself in New York by becoming a full-time corporate manager in marketing, media, and communications departments for beauty and fashion industry leaders Coty Beauty, LLC and Nautica VF.
Mim performed in her first off-off-Broadway production, The Odd Couple (Female Version) to rave reviews. BackstageNY said, "noteworthy comedic turns come from MaryAnne as Mickey the Cop with a heart of gold." She originated roles in stage comedies written and staged by John Blenn at both Governor's and The Brokerage comedy clubs. She started her own five-piece rock and R&B band, Neeto, which performed her original music at venues on Long Island and in New York City, and performed live on Harlan Friedman's WLIR FM radio show featuring Long Island's best bands. She landed the lead Nellie Forebush in South Pacific at Lehman Stages performing opposite her future husband; worked as a church music director, soprano soloist, choral section leader; and directed and choreographed local stage productions.
Mim studied classical voice with vocal titan and Hollywood legend, Marni Nixon in New York City, and became a protégé of prodigious Ms. Christina Henson (protégé of Lily Pons and maestro Laszlo Halasz, founder of New York City Opera) while studying operatic voice and vocal pedagogy with her for five years. She headlines with symphony orchestras and choruses in New York and New England. OperaNews' senior editor described her as a "brilliant soprano!"
Mim plays the abused drug addicted mother, Marlene in The System, and troubled veteran marine corp musician, Detective Marianna Price in Copera. Her singing voice can be heard in the opening credits for Things Eternal on Prime Video and in the film The Clown Prince (2019). Mim's original film scores include Two Kisses (2020), The Observer (2004), and Unremarkable . Mim was the executive consultant and script supervisor for the award-winning The Kids Menu (2017) starring Vincent Pastore and Nyle Lynn, directed by Paul Borghese, and written by Richard Vetere.- Director
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Brad Rego was born on 27 October 1975 in New Bedford, Massachusetts, USA. He is a director and cinematographer, known for Cryptid (2022), Clandestine (2016) and The Killing of Jacob Marr (2010).- Writer
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Oliver H. P. Garrett was born on March 6, 1894 in New Bedford, Massachusetts to Legh Osborn and Alice Palmer Garrett. His father was an efficiency expert who passed away in 1899. His mother once operated a business that imported goods from India and the Far East and served with the YMCA in France during the First World War.
Garrett worked on newspapers in Boston and New York and wrote stories for magazines before coming to Hollywood in 1927. He would later share an Oscar with Joseph L. Mankiewicz for best screenplay for Manhattan Melodrama (1934) and became a founding member and two term vice president of the Screen Writers Guild.
On February 22, 1952, whilst visiting New York City, Garrett suffered fatal heart during a shopping trip. He was survived by his wife and three sons.- Stunts
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Luis Moco was born on 20 December 1980 in New Bedford, Massachusetts, USA. He is an actor, known for John Wick (2014), The Irishman (2019) and R.I.P.D. (2013).- Sound Department
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Carl W. Adams has created, written and directed numerous award-winning animated programming for television and cable networks. At Clambake Animation, LLC, he serves as Director of Development, creating, developing and producing shows.
Credits include: Creative Consultant for HBO's, "The Ricky Gervais Show" for HBO. Created and Executive Produced the Adult Swim series called "Southies" based on his hometown of Boston, Massachusetts.
Other credits include Adult Swim's, "Assy McGee", which ran for two seasons. This was Carl's third successful series for Adult Swim; he also served as Co-Executive Producer for the award-winning and critically acclaimed "Home Movies" that aired for four seasons. Carl was the Producer of several animated shorts for Cartoon Network's "Sunday Pants" series. His innovative work as an editor, story writer, and director for Comedy Central's first animated series, "Dr. Katz: Professional Therapist," helped garner a Primetime Emmy Award, as well as a network Peabody and two CableACE Awards during the course of its six seasons.
Carl also co-created and produced Noggin's first original animated series, "O'Grady High," a teen show featuring some of television's most talented comedians. He produced animated segments for Cosby on ABC, while simultaneously producing, story writing, and directing "The Dick and Paula Celebrity Special" for FX.
Directed and produced for Cosby on CBS and shorts for Julias POV on NBC
Carl wrote and produced children's shows for PBS The Electric Company and PBS LA.
Commercial credits include producing multiple national advertising campaigns for digital, mobile and television including Cookie Crisp, Baskin-Robbins, Ruffles Chips, Toyota Scion.
Before founding Clambake Animation in 2007, Carl spent 16 years in animation with Tom Snyder Productions (now a Scholastic Company) and is currently developing several new projects for web and broadcast.- Ted Williams was born on 22 September 1957 in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He is an actor, known for The Game Done Changed (2017), My Crazy Ex (2014) and Houseless (2013).
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While working as a third grade teacher on Cape Cod Geno found himself acting in his first play at the Harwhich Junior Theatre. After a few more plays, and on the advice of his acting mentor, friend, and writer Art Devine, Geno went to the University of California San Diego's graduate actor program.."a life changing experience". Upon graduating he moved to Los Angeles where he now lives with his wife and works as an actor.- Stephen Gustavson was born on 7 March 1966 in New Bedford, Massachusetts, USA. He is an actor, known for Birdemic: Shock and Terror (2010), Birdemic 2: The Resurrection (2013) and Roy Murphy: Private Eye.
- Ann Bomann was born on 5 August 1933 in Bedford, New York, USA. She is an actress, known for Orson Welles' Great Mysteries (1973) and The Chicago Conspiracy Trial (1970).
- Jess Sylvia was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts on March 14, 1986 to Stacey Burke and Daniel Sylvia. As the oldest of three children, she naturally possesses leadership qualities and determination. Beginning in grade school, Jess demonstrated a raw talent for stage performance. At the age of ten, she attended New Bedford Ballet where she performed in numerous productions into her teenage years. She continued to pursue theater as well, making that her extracurricular focus. While attending the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Jess directed and starred in women's studies plays such as "The Vagina Monologues." In 2007 she transferred to the University of Rhode Island to complete a concentrated biotechnology program. Jess had plans to relocate to Los Angeles to pursue her dream of film acting at the end of the program in 2008. After completing her first feature film that summer, she did just that.
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Andrea Borges was born on 20 April 1984 in New Bedford, Massachusetts, USA. She is an actress and cinematographer, known for The Cold Read (2013), The Trespasser (2014) and All the Way, Part One (2011).- Producer
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Ted Collins is a multi-award winning producer, screenwriter, and director with 25 years of experience producing and directing feature films, shorts, feature docs, and television. Most recently, Ted was a 2018 recipient of the Sparky Jury Award for "Best Feature Documentary" at the coveted Slamdance Film Festival and 2017 Audience Award at the Austin Film Festival for his first documentary feature, Mr. Fish: Cartooning From the Deep End. Ted is fixated on creating innovative feature films, scripted and unscripted television and at the forefront -- directing and producing, 2 Men & a Pig, in pre-production and producing and directing, Die Job, a comedy feature written by Andy Cowan of Seinfeld, Cheers, and 3rd Rock from the Sun... these two films are up next for him.
Ted is also a programmer of feature documentaries for the 2020 Slamdance Film Festival.- Actress
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Tynisha Keli Soares, professionally known by her stage name Tynisha Keli, is an American R&B and Pop singer-songwriter, hailing from the State of Massachusetts. The daughter of Timothy and Elisa Smith Soares, Tynisha is of Portuguese descent. After suffering tragedy at an early age, she began immersing herself in music at just 8 years of age, and began singing professionally at age 14.
In 1999, Keli met Scott Ross (alias Scottie Gee), a former member of the platinum hip-hop group Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch, who agreed to assist her career. He coached her after school, acting as both manager and father figure. Soon he landed her a gig at the Strand Theatre in Boston, where she performed 'Never Can Say Goodbye', the Jackson 5 classic, in front of an all-black audience. She moved to Los Angeles a year later and landed a spot in a pop girl group, 'Gyrlz Society'.[8] Gyrlz Society was an American girl group comprising four members: Amy Correa, Melissa Tessmer, Tynisha Keli, and Katy Scanlan. The group released one single, the group's only song "Respect Me", along with a Double "D" Mix, which was produced by Damon Jones in 2002 under MCA Records. Although the single's casing mentioned a self-titled Gyrlz Society album to be released "later this year" (2003), the album was cancelled and the group quickly disbanded. From the beginning she knew that being part of a group was not her desire; she wanted to try it on her own. Before she got a major record deal, she recorded with Beau Dozier a few demos to send to record labels.
In 2003, being signed to Warner Bros. Records, Keli worked with Kara DioGuardi, a prominent songwriter/producer. She later started working with different producers including Bryan-Michael Cox, J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League, Tha Cornaboyz, Robin Thicke, and Rico Love. The album was recorded from 2006 to 2008, and was released in Japan in early 2009. It debuted at number 12 at Japan Oricon Albums Chart and sold over 600,000 copies to date, which was a commercial success for Keli. The first single "I Wish You Loved Me" was released on 2007 and the video was released one year later in 2008. The single debuted in Japan at number 25 in 2009. The second single "Shatter'd", released a few months later, is her first Top 10 song which peaked at number 5 in Japan.
In 2009, she covered the song "The Boy Is Mine" (originally sung by Brandy and Monica) with singer Beni Arashiro. Also in the same year, Tunisia appeared often in the 2009 film "Fame".
She co-wrote the song "Powerless", which was featured on the debut album 'Exposed' by R&B-Singer and Def Jam signed Kristinia DeBarge.
Tunisia Keli still continues her music career to date, with the release of "Inhale Exhale" and her second single "Romeo and Juliet"; both being released in 2015. On April 14, 2016 she released a new single called "Forget It All" on iTunes and other music services. During the course her business relationships within the music industry, she met her current manager, Dr. William Harrison, and is currently working on her latest project, "The Chronicles of TK p. II".- Actor
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Bradford Craig was born on 3 May 1937 in New Bedford, Massachusetts, USA. He is an actor and composer, known for Honky (1971).- Jose Andrews was born on 2 November 1951 in New Bedford, Massachusetts, USA. He was an actor, known for Crocodile Dundee II (1988), To Sleep with a Vampire (1992) and The Equalizer (1985). He died on 30 August 2001 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- John Alexis Howard was born on 1 November 1908 in New Bedford, Massachusetts, USA. He was an actor, known for Hawaii Five-O (1968). He died on 25 April 1998 in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
- Conrad Roy was born on 12 September 1995 in New Bedford, Massachusetts, USA. He died on 13 July 2014 in Fairhaven, Massachusetts, USA.
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It's been an intense few years for singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist/producer Alexa Melo. In June of 2015, at 20 years old, the Massachusetts-born, L.A.-raised artist independently released her self-titled debut album. A series of West Coast concert performances got industry tastemakers talking, acclaim from the blogosphere began to build, and support from major market radio programmers across the country soon followed.
But just as things were ramping up, emergency surgery on her vocal chords grinded the momentum to an untimely halt. "It got to the point where, if I didn't get a vocal cord cyst removed, there would be irreversible damage," Alexa says. "So the timing was terrible, but it needed to get done."
After a full year of vocal rest - pure agony to a performer as prolific as Melo - she slowly got herself back into the swing of things in 2016, recording a series of cover songs to post on YouTube. Alexa says of the sessions, "It was a good way to practice singing again. It eased me back into performing, and helped me let people know that I didn't give up!"
Alexa moved to San Francisco in the summer of 2017 to begin a vigorous search for inspiration, to continue rebuilding her spirit and to create a new sound of her own. In a short few months she wrote and produced her upcoming second release, the four-song Mute EP. It embodies and sonically manifests the mental and physical struggles she'd dealt with while recuperating from vocal surgery. In the process of producing MUTE she met a key collaborator, videographer Daniel Garcia. He helped to create a visual aesthetic for the EP, directing compelling and emotionally-charged music videos for each song.
Alexa plans to release the first single and music video in the summer of 2018. The entire EP will be available in the fall.- Robert Spencer was born on 27 February 1962 in Bedford, New Hampshire, USA. He is an actor, known for Islamicize Me (2018), Siege (2019) and The Life of Muhammad (2011).
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Ronald V. Ashcroft was born on 16 February 1923 in New Bedford, Massachusetts, USA. He was an editor and producer, known for Like Wow! (1961), The Astounding She-Monster (1957) and Girl with an Itch (1958). He was married to Lorraine Ashcroft. He died on 14 December 1988 in Sylmar, California, USA.