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Taylor Alison Swift is a multi-Grammy award-winning American singer/songwriter
who, in 2010 at the age of 20, became the youngest artist in
history to win the Grammy Award for Album of the Year. In 2011 Swift
was named Billboard's Woman of the Year. She also has been
named the American Music Awards Artist of the Year, as well as the
Entertainer of the Year for both the Country Music Association and the
Academy of Country Music, among many other accolades. As of this
writing, she is also the top-selling digital artist in music history.
Taylor Alison Swift was born on December 13, 1989, in Reading, Pennsylvania, to Andrea (Finlay), a one-time marketing executive, and
Scott Kingsley Swift, a financial adviser. Her ancestry includes German and English, as well as some Scottish, Irish, Welsh and 1/16th Italian. She was named after
James Taylor, and her mother
believed that if she had a gender neutral name it would help her forge a
business career. Taylor spent most of her childhood on an 11-acre
Christmas tree farm in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. When she was
nine years old the family moved to Wyomissing, PA, where she
attended West Reading Elementary Center and Wyomissing Area
Junior/Senior High School. Taylor spent her summers at her parents'
vacation home at the Jersey shore. Her first hobby was English
horse riding. Her mother put her in a saddle when she was nine months
old and Swift later competed in horse shows. At the age of nine she
turned her attention to musical theatre and performed in Berks Youth
Theatre Academy productions of "Grease", "Annie", "Bye Bye Birdie" and "The
Sound of Music". She traveled regularly to New York City for vocal
and acting lessons. However, after a few years of auditioning in New
York and not getting anything, she became interested in country music.
At age 11, after many attempts, Taylor won a local talent
competition by singing a rendition of LeAnn Rimes' "Big Deal", and was
given the opportunity to appear as the opening act for Charlie Daniels
at a Strausstown amphitheater. This interest in country music isolated
Swift from her middle school peers.
At age 12 she was shown by a computer repairman how to
play three chords on a guitar, inspiring her to write her first song,
"Lucky You". She had previously won a national poetry contest with a
poem entitled "Monster in My Closet", but now began to focus on
songwriting. She moved to Nashville at age 14, having
secured an artist development deal with RCA Records. She left RCA
Records when she was 15--the label wanted her to record the work
of other songwriters and wait until she was 18 to release an
album, but she felt ready to launch her career with her own material.
At an industry showcase at Nashville's The Bluebird Café in 2005, Swift
caught the attention of Scott Borchetta, a Dreamworks Records executive
who was preparing to form his own independent record label, Big Machine
Records. Taylor was one of the new label's first signings.
Taylor released her debut album, "Taylor Swift", in October of 2006 and
received generally positive reviews from music critics. The New York
Times described it as "a small masterpiece of pop-minded country, both
wide-eyed and cynical, held together by Ms. Swift's firm, pleading
voice". Her single "Our Song" made her the youngest solo writer and
singer of a #1 country song. The album sold 39,000 copies
during its first week. In 2008 she released her second studio album, "Fearless". The lead single from the album, "Love Story", was released
in September 2008 and became the second best-selling country single of
all time, peaking at #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Four
more singles were released throughout 2008 and 2009: "White Horse",
"You Belong with Me", "Fifteen" and "Fearless". "You Belong with Me"
was the album's highest-charting single, peaking at #2 on the
Billboard Hot 100. The album debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200
Album Chart. It was the top-selling album of 2009 and brought Swift
much crossover success.
In September 2009 she became the first country music artist to win
an MTV Video Music Award when "You Belong with Me" was named Best
Female Video. Her acceptance speech was interrupted by rapper Ye, who had been involved in a number of other award show incidents.
West declared Beyoncé's video for "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)",
nominated in the same category, to be "one of the best videos of all
time". When Beyoncé later won the award for Video of the Year, she
invited Taylor onstage to finish her speech. In November 2009 Taylor Swift
became the youngest ever artist, and one of only six women, to be named
Entertainer of the Year by the Country Music Association.
She released her third studio album in October 2010, "Speak Now", and wrote all the songs herself. She originally intended to call the album
"Enchanted" but Scott Borchetta, her record label's CEO, felt the title
did not reflect the album's more adult themes. Swift toured throughout
2011 and early 2012 in support of "Speak Now". As part of the
13-month, 111-date world tour, Swift played seven shows in Asia,
12 in Europe, 80 in North America and 12 in
Australasia (three dates on the US tour were rescheduled after she
fell ill with bronchitis). The stage show was inspired by Broadway
musical theatre, with choreographed routines, elaborate set-pieces,
pyrotechnics and numerous costume changes. Swift invited many musicians
to join her for one-off duets during the North American tour.
Appearances were made by James Taylor, Jason Mraz, Shawn Colvin, Johnny Rzeznik, Andy Grammer, Tal Bachman, Justin Bieber, Selena Gomez, Nicki Minaj, Nelly, B.o.B., Usher, Flo Rida, Tip 'T.I.' Harris, Jon Foreman, Jim Adkins,
Hayley Williams, Hot Chelle Rae, Ronnie Dunn, Darius Rucker, Tim McGraw and Kenny Chesney. In May 2012 Taylor featured in B.o.B's song "Both of
Us".
Swift's fourth studio album, "Red", was released on October 22, 2012. She
wrote nine of the album's 16 songs alone; the remaining seven were
co-written with Max Martin, Liz Rose, Dan Wilson, Ed Sheeran and Gary Lightbody. Nathan Chapman served as the album's lead producer but Jeff Bhasker, Butch Walker, Jacknife Lee, Dann Huff and Shellback (aka Shellback) also
produced individual tracks. Chapman has said he encouraged Swift "to
branch out and to test herself in other situations". She has described
the collaborative process as "an apprenticeship" that taught her to
"paint with different colors". "Red" examines Swift's attraction to
drama-filled relationships; she believes that, since writing the
record, such relationships no longer appeal to her. Musically, while
there is some experimentation with "slick, electronic beats", the pop
sheen is limited to a handful of tracks sprinkled among more
recognizably Swiftian fare. "Rolling Stone" enjoyed "watching Swift find
her pony-footing on Great Songwriter Mountain. She often succeeds in
joining the Joni/Carole King tradition of stark-relief emotional
mapping . . . Her self-discovery project is one of the best stories in
pop." The Guardian described Swift as a "Brünnhilde of a rock star" and
characterized "Red" as "another chapter in one of the finest fantasies
pop music has ever constructed". "USA Today" felt that the "engaging"
record saw Swift "write ever-more convincingly--and wittily and
painfully--about the messy emotions of a young twenty something
nearing the end of her transition from girl to woman". The "Los Angeles
Times" noted the exploration of "more nuanced relationship issues" on
"an unapologetically big pop record that opens new sonic vistas for
her".
As part of the "Red" promotional campaign, representatives from 72
worldwide radio stations were flown to Nashville during release week
for individual interviews with Swift. She made television appearances
on The Ellen DeGeneres Show (2003), Good Morning America (1975), The View (1997), Late Show with David Letterman (1993), ABC News Nightline (1980) and All Access Nashville with Katie Couric (2012). She performed at Los Angeles' MTV VMAs and London's
Teen Awards, and will also perform at Nashville's CMA Awards,
Frankfurt's MTV Europe Music Awards, Los Angeles' AMA Awards and
Sydney's ARIA Music Awards. Swift offered exclusive album promotions
through Target, Papa John's and Walgreens. She became a spokesmodel for
Keds sneakers, released her sophomore Elizabeth Arden fragrance and
continued her partnerships with Cover Girl, Sony Electronics and
American Greetings, as well as her unofficial brand tie-ins with Ralph
Lauren and Shellys. The album's lead single, "We Are Never Ever Getting
Back Together", was released in August 2012. The song became Swift's
first #1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart, recording the
highest ever one-week sales figures for a female artist. Two further
singles have since been released: "Begin Again" (country radio) and "I
Knew You Were Trouble" (pop and international radio).In her career, as
of May 2012, Swift has sold over 23 million albums and 54.5 million
digital tracks worldwide.
Taylor Swift is only beginning to emerge as an acting talent, having voiced
the role of Audrey in the animated feature
The Lorax (2012). She also made
appearances in the theatrical release
Valentine's Day (2010) and in
an episode of
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000). She contributed two original songs to
The Hunger Games (2012)
soundtrack: "Safe & Sound featuring The Civil Wars" and "Eyes Open".
Taylor released her fifth album, titled "1989", on October 27, 2014. This album is when she finally made the complete transition from country to pop. She says that she will not be going to any Country Music Award shows. The album is named after the year she was born, and is a sort of '80s-sounding album, in the sense that it's more electronic.
In March 2015 she began dating Scottish Disc Jockey Calvin Harris after having met at the Brit Awards in February. They were together for thirteen months.- Actress
- Producer
- Soundtrack
The actress Wendie Malick was born in Buffalo, New York, in 1950 and
attended Ohio Wesleyan University, from which she graduated in 1972.
The 5-foot, 10-inch beauty was a Wilhelmina model in the 1970s, giving
it up to go to work for Buffalo-area Congressman
Jack Kemp. She quickly left
Washington, DC, behind to act in the theater.
She appeared as Judith Tupper Stone in the early 1990s on the HBO
comedy Dream On (1990) for which she
won four CableACE Awards as Best Actress in a Comedy Series. Malick has
proved a gifted comedienne with great comic timing and reached the
height of her career as one of the stars of the sitcom
Just Shoot Me! (1997). Malick
was hilarious as the beautiful fashion editor Nina Van Horn, a neurotic
and pretentious ex-model struggling with middle age. For her work on
the series, Malick won a Golden Globe and two Emmy Award nominations as
Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series.
On television, she has also had regular roles in the series
Trauma Center (1983) and
Good Company (1996) and
recurring roles on
NYPD Blue (1993),
Anything But Love (1989),
Baywatch (1989),
Kate & Allie (1984), and
Frasier (1993). She also starred in
several made-for-TV movies, including
Paper Dolls (1982),
Dynasty: The Reunion (1991)
and Perfect Body (1997).
She also starred in
North Shore Fish (1997)
on cable TV, based on a role which she originated on stage. Malick's
work has included roles in the movies
The American President (1995),
Scrooged (1988), and
Bugsy (1991). With her distinctive voice,
she is in high demand for voice-over work.- Actress
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Emma Corrin was born on 13 December 1995 in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England, UK. Emma is an actor, known for Lady Chatterley's Lover (2022), My Policeman (2022) and The Crown (2016).- Actor
- Director
- Producer
Steve Buscemi was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Dorothy (Wilson), a
restaurant hostess, and John Buscemi, a sanitation worker. He is of
Italian (father) and English, Dutch, and Irish (mother) descent. He
became interested in acting during his last year of high school. After
graduating, he moved to Manhattan to study acting with John Strasberg.
He began writing and performing original theatre pieces with fellow
actor/writer Mark Boone Junior. This
led to his being cast in his first lead role in
Parting Glances (1986). Since
then, he has worked with many of the top filmmakers in Hollywood,
including Quentin Tarantino,
Jerry Bruckheimer, and The Coen
Brothers. He is a highly respected actor.- Actor
- Camera and Electrical Department
Tony Curran was born on 13 December 1969 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. He is an actor, known for Calibre (2018), Deadwood: The Movie (2019) and Outlaw King (2018). He has been married to Mai Curran since 13 August 2011.- Actor
- Producer
- Writer
Jamie Foxx is an American actor, singer and comedian. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor, BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, and Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy, for his work in the biographical film Ray (2004). The same year, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the action film Collateral (2004). Other prominent acting roles include the title role in the film Django Unchained (2012), the supervillain Electro in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014), and William Stacks in the modern version of Annie (2014).
Jamie Foxx was born Eric Marlon Bishop in Terrell, Texas, to Louise Annette Talley and Darrell Bishop, who worked as a stockbroker and had later changed his name to Shahid Abdula. His mother was an adopted child. When her marriage to his father failed, his maternal grandparents, Mark and Estelle Talley, stepped in and, at age seven months, adopted Jamie too. He has said that he had a very rigid upbringing that placed him in the Boy Scouts and the church choir. During high school, he played quarterback for his high school team and was good enough that he got press in Dallas newspapers. He studied music in college. He released a music album, "Peep This" (1994), and sings the theme song for his movie, Any Given Sunday (1999). However, in 1989, his life changed when a girlfriend challenged him to get up onstage at the Comedy Club. In fact, he says he took his androgynous stage name because he learned that women got preference for mike time on open stage nights. That led to his being cast on Roc (1991) and In Living Color (1990).
Foxx had his own WB television show from 1996 to 2001, the sitcom The Jamie Foxx Show (1996), in which he played Jamie King Jr. Foxx is also a Grammy Award-winning musician, producing four albums which have charted highly on the US Billboard 200: "Unpredictable" (2005), which topped the chart, "Intuition" (2008), "Best Night of My Life" (2010), and "Hollywood: A Story of a Dozen Roses" (2015). In 2012, Foxx starred in the title role of the Quentin Tarantino written and directed Django Unchained (2012). Foxx starred alongside his Ray co-star Kerry Washington, as well as Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio and Samuel L. Jackson. In 2013, Foxx was cast as President James Sawyer in White House Down (2013) alongside Channing Tatum. The following year, Foxx appeared as the villain Electro in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014), and co-starred with Quvenzhané Wallis in Annie (2014), Sony's Will Smith and Jay-Z produced update of the comic strip-turned-musical.
He has two children, including Corinne Foxx, (born 1994), who resides with her mother.- Actor
- Producer
- Music Department
Legendary actor Christopher Plummer, perhaps Canada's greatest thespian, delivered outstanding performances as Sherlock Holmes in Murder by Decree (1979), the chilling villain in The Silent Partner (1978), the iconoclastic Mike Wallace in The Insider (1999), the empathetic psychiatrist in A Beautiful Mind (2001), the kindly and clever mystery writer in Knives Out (2019), and as Leo Tolstoy in The Last Station (2009). It was this last role that finally brought him recognition from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, when he was nominated as Best Actor in a Supporting Role, one of three Academy Award nominations he received in the 2010s, along with All the Money in the World (2017) (as J. Paul Getty) and Beginners (2010); he won for the latter role. He will also likely always be remembered as Captain Von Trapp in the atomic bomb-strength blockbuster The Sound of Music (1965), a film he publicly despised until softening his stance in his autobiography "In Spite of Me" (2008).
Christopher Plummer was born Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer on December 13, 1929 in Toronto, Ontario. He was the only child of Isabella Mary (Abbott), a secretary to the Dean of Sciences at McGill University, and John Orme Plummer, who sold securities and stocks. Christopher was a great-grandson of John Abbott, who was Canada's third Prime Minister (from 1891 to 1892), and a great-great-great-grandson of Presbyterian clergyman John Bethune. He had Scottish, English, Anglo-Irish, and Cornish ancestry. Plummer was raised in Senneville, Quebec, near Montreal, at his maternal grandparents' home.
Aside from the youngest member of the Barrymore siblings (which counted Oscar-winners Ethel Barrymore and Lionel Barrymore in their number), Plummer was the premier Shakespearean actor to come out of North America in the 20th century. He was particularly memorable as Hamlet, Iago and Lear, though his Macbeth opposite Glenda Jackson was -- and this was no surprise to him due to the famous curse attached to the "Scottish Play" -- a failure.
Like another great stage actor, Richard Burton, early in his career Plummer failed to connect with the screen in a way that would make him a star. Dynamic on stage, he didn't succeed as a younger leading man in films. Perhaps if he had been born earlier, and acted in the studio system of Hollywood's golden age, he could have been carefully groomed for stardom. As it was, he shared the English stage actors' disdain -- and he was equally at home in London as he was on the boards of Broadway or on-stage in his native Canada -- for the movies, which did not help him in that medium, as he has confessed. As he aged, Plummer excelled at character roles. He was always a good villain, this man who garnered kudos playing Lucifer on Broadway in Archibald Macleish's Pulitzer Prize-winning "J.B.".
Plummer won two Emmy Awards out of seven nominations stretching 46 years from 1959 and 2011, and one Genie Award in six nominations from 1980 to 2009. For his stage work, Plummer has racked up two Tony Awards on six nominations, the first in 1974 as Best Actor (Musical) for the title role in "Cyrano" and the second in 1997, as Best Actor (Play), in "Barrymore". Surprisingly, he did not win (though he was nominated) for his masterful 2004 performance of "King Lear", which he originated at the Stratford Festival in Ontario and brought down to Broadway for a sold-out run. His other Tony nominations show the wide range of his talent, from a 1959 nod for the Elia Kazan-directed production of Macleish's "J.B." to recognition in 1994 for Harold Pinter's "No Man's Land", with a 1982 Best Actor (Play) nomination for his "Iago" in William Shakespeare's "Othello".
Until the 2009 Academy Awards were announced, it could be said about Plummer that he was the finest actor of the post-World War II period to fail to get an Academy Award. In that, he was following in the footsteps of the late great John Barrymore, whom Plummer so memorably portrayed on Broadway in a one-man show that brought him his second Tony Award. In 2010, Plummer finally got an Oscar nod for his portrayal of another legend, Lev Tolstoy in The Last Station (2009). Two years later, the first paragraph of his obituary was written when the 82-year-old Plummer became the oldest person in Academy history to win an Oscar. He won for playing a senior citizen who comes out as gay after the death of his wife in the movie Beginners (2010). As he clutched his statuette, the debonaire thespian addressed it thus: "You're only two years older than me darling, where have you been all of my life?"
Plummer then told the audience that at birth, "I was already rehearsing my Academy acceptance speech, but it was so long ago mercifully for you I've forgotten it." The Academy Award was a long time in coming and richly deserved.
Plummer gave many other fine portrayals on film, particularly as he grew older and settled down into a comfortable marriage with his third wife Elaine. He continued to be an in-demand character actor in prestigious motion pictures. If he were English rather than Canadian, he would have been knighted. (In 1968, he was appointed Companion of the Order of Canada, the country's highest civilian honor and one which required the approval of the sovereign, Queen Elizabeth II.) If he lived in the company town of Los Angeles rather than in Connecticut, he likely would have several more Oscar nominations before winning his first for "The Last Station".
As it is, as attested to in his witty and well-written autobiography, Plummer was amply rewarded in life. In 1970, Plummer - then a self-confessed 43-year-old "bottle baby" - married his third wife Elaine Taylor, a dancer, who helped wean him off his dependency on alcohol. They lived happily with their dogs on a 30-acre estate in Weston, Connecticut. He thanked her from the stage during the 2012 Oscar telecast, quipping that she "deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for coming to my rescue every day of my life." Although he spent the majority of his time in the United States, he remained a Canadian citizen. He died in his Weston, Connecticut home on February 5, 2021 at age 91.
His daughter, with actress Tammy Grimes, is actress Amanda Plummer.- Actor
- Producer
- Writer
Dick Van Dyke was born Richard Wayne Van Dyke in West Plains, Missouri, to Hazel Victoria (McCord), a stenographer, and Loren Wayne Van Dyke, a salesman. His younger brother was entertainer Jerry Van Dyke. His ancestry includes English, Dutch, Scottish, German and Swiss-German. Although he had small roles beforehand, Van Dyke was launched to stardom in the musical "Bye-Bye Birdie" (1960), for which he won a Tony Award, and, then, later in the movie based on that play, Bye Bye Birdie (1963). He has starred in a number of films through the years including Mary Poppins (1964), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968) and Fitzwilly (1967), as well as a number of successful television series which won him no less than four Emmy Awards and three made-for-CBS movies. After separating from his wife, Margie Willett, in the 1970s, Dick later became involved with Michelle Triola. Margie and Dick had four children born during the first ten years of their marriage: Barry Van Dyke, Carrie Beth Van Dyke, Christian Van Dyke and Stacy Van Dyke, all of whom are now in their sixties and seventies, and married themselves. He has seven grandchildren, including Shane Van Dyke, Carey Van Dyke, Wes Van Dyke and Taryn Van Dyke (Barry's children) and family members often appear with him on Diagnosis Murder (1993).- Actor
- Director
- Writer
Johnny Whitaker was born on 13 December 1959 in Van Nuys, California, USA. He is an actor and director, known for Tom Sawyer (1973), Sigmund and the Sea Monsters (1973) and Johnny Whitaker's Drug Policy in Portugal Documentary (2016). He was previously married to Symbria Wright.- Actress
- Writer
- Soundtrack
The youngest of four, she grew up in Leeds and left school with 8 O levels and 2 A levels then drama school, She spent 15 years with her partner Ron Bertoli until the end of 1995, Now lives in South London with her son, She quit Eastenders when it was planned that her character was going to be gang raped claiming that it would be too traumatic for her son to see- Eve is a 12 year old mixed Asian / British actress who is known for playing the role of Follower in the Netflix series '3 Body Problem' (2024) Made by the creators of Game of Thrones DB Weiss and David Benioff.
She also plays the character of Saffy Blackmore in the long running BBC drama 'Casualty' (2022)
Her voice projects commenced when she became the voice of Wendy Wolf in 'Peppa Pig' (2018).
In addition to this Eve also voices the character of Maple Monkey in the children's animation 'Little Baby Bum - Music Time' for Netflix (2023) and is in the process of recording another voice role for a well known book series to be adapted to animation for a leading channel.
Eve performed as Young Eponine in her first professional theatre debut for Les Miserables UK Tour 2022.
Eve traveled to Abu Dhabi to film a Commercial for global brand Ferrari and Yas island Theme parks alongside Jason Momoa (Aquaman & Game of Thrones) (2023)
Eve is signed with The Gersh Agency and Stagebox Managment, now having representation in both the USA and UK. - Actress
- Soundtrack
Laurence Leboeuf is an award-winning actress from Montreal, Quebec, Canada who is currently shining on US screens in the NBC drama "Transplant" now on its second season. The series follows an ER doctor who fled his native Syria to come to Canada and overcome numerous obstacles to resume a career in the high stakes world of emergency medicine. Laurence portrays the series regular 'Magalie Leblanc,' a ferociously analytical second-year resident who pushes herself relentlessly.
The bilingual beauty (French and English) has been acting professionally since the age of 10 years old and rose to stardom with multiple award nominations and wins. She has continuously booked leading roles in both television and film of french Canadian and English Canadian productions. Award wins for Laurence include the Gemeaux Awards (French Canadian Emmys) for Best Actress in the series "Les Lavigueur," based on a true story of a family torn apart by multi-million dollar lottery win, Best Supporting Actress for her role in the television series "Musée Eden" as a young girl transplated to 1910s Montreal to watch over her uncle's wax museum in the Red Light District, and Best Actress for her role in the television series "Marche à I'ombre" which also won her the best Leading Actress award at the French Festival Séries Mania. In this groundbreaking series, Laurence portrayed 'Rachel Marchand,' a social worker at a halfway house with sexually violent tendencies who strikes up an illicit affair with a client. She also won Best Actress for "Human Trafficking" at the ACTRA Awards (English Canadian SAG Awards) for her portrayal of 'Nadia' a young Russian girl who gets kidnapped after being tricked into thinking she won a modeling competition, with Mira Sorvino and Donald Sutherland. For her film work, she won at the Prix Iris Awards (previously known as Jutra Awards) for Best Supporting Actress in "My Daughter, My Angel." Her indie action comedy film "Turbo Kid" was widely received at the Sundance Film Festival.
Laurence was born to actor-parents and grew up surrounded by the creative arts. Her dad owned a stage theater for 18 years which allowed Laurence to explore the behind the scenes of the craft. She is driven by the passion of Acting and the need to be creative, with the hopes of producing and writing alongside acting. She enjoys reading and staying active with running, snowboarding, and swimming to name a few, and loves to travel.- Actress
- Writer
- Additional Crew
Sunita Mani is an actress, dancer, and comedian most commonly recognized for her gyrations in the viral music video "Turn Down for What" (dir. The Daniels) and as part of the Cocoon Central Dance Team. She also appears in "Don't Think Twice" as Amy, "Mr. Robot" as Trenton, and in the Netflix original series, G.L.O.W as Arthie. Sunita has also guest starred on network television shows including "Broad City" on Comedy Central, Search Party on TBS, and The Good Place on NBC. She married musician Kenny Warren on May 25, 2018.- Actress
- Producer
- Additional Crew
Kathy Garver was born in Long Beach, California Her break-through
performance came as one of the young slaves in The Ten Commandments
She is most well known for starring as the teenage niece of Uncle Bill
Davis, Cissy Davis on
Family Affair (1966). The show
was nominated for Emmys in various categories during its five year run.- Actor
- Writer
Richard Hillman was born on 13 December 1974 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Bring It On (2000), Detroit Rock City (1999) and Boys and Girls (2000). He died on 27 June 2009 in Los Angeles County, California, USA.- Actress
- Director
- Costume Designer
MacKenzie Meehan was born on 13 December 1983 in Denver, Colorado, USA. She is an actress and director, known for Bull (2016), The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) and Vinyl (2016). She has been married to Matt Dellapina since 11 October 2014. They have one child.- Actor
- Soundtrack
Robert Prosky was born on 13 December 1930 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for Thief (1981), Broadcast News (1987) and Mrs. Doubtfire (1993). He was married to Ida Hove. He died on 8 December 2008 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA.- Actress
- Soundtrack
At just 15 years old, Maisy Stella (born December 13, 2003) has already experienced monumental success in her career. She began starring in the hit ABC TV series Nashville in 2012 as Daphne Conrad, alongside her real-life sister Lennon Stella, who plays Maddie Conrad. The series moved over to CMT (Country Music Television) for Season 5. Season 6 will air in January 2018 on CMT. Prior to acting in Nashville, Maisy had already gained national attention when her and Lennon's cover of Robyn's "Call your Girlfriend" went viral. The performance captured the hearts of millions worldwide and resulted in their first appearance on Good Morning America. Their YouTube channel has over 100 million views and nearly 800,000 subscribers.
In April 2013, the sisters had a show-stopping performance of "Ho Hey" by The Lumineers on Nashville. When ABC released the cover to the radio, it not only became the #1 most added song in the nation, but it also rose to the Top 40 of the Billboard Songs chart. Their rendition remains the #1 most downloaded song of all the hit TV show's releases. In addition, Maisy and Lennon have sold more singles than any other cast member on the show. Later that same year, they were invited to perform at the CMA awards and present Taylor Swift with the Pinnacle Award.
Maisy went on to have the summer of a lifetime in 2014. Maisy spent it performing at The White House, singing at the wedding of Kimberly Perry (from The Band Perry) and playing shows across the globe in places like Park City, Utah, and Portugal.
In April 2015, Maisy added a new title to her resume: "Author." Maisy and Lennon partnered with HarperCollins Publishing to release a children's book called "In The Waves," which is based on their original song with the same title. To promote their new book, Maisy and Lennon appeared on Good Morning America for the 3rd time, The View, Entertainment Tonight and BuzzFeed. Maisy has also presented at the Radio Disney Awards, appeared on the TODAY show, Fox & Friends and countless other media outlets.
Maisy has already started to make her mark in the fashion world. She has been included on numerous "best dressed lists," such as U.S. Weekly, People Magazine and USA Today. She partnered with Seventeen Magazine and InStyle to be a special correspondent. In February 2016, she attended New York Fashion Week for the second time and walked in the Red Dress fashion show. Her eye for fashion is not limited to just clothing though. In July 2016, Maisy and Lennon came out with an exclusive furniture collection with Pottery Barn Teen. The line highlights their eclectic and vintage style.
In June 2017, Maisy recorded and starred in a music video for the song "Riding Free", which is the theme song for the DreamWorks' series Spirit Riding Free. She also played the voice of Hester in Season 3, Episode 1 of Spirit Riding Free. The episode premiered on Netflix in November 2017. Maisy also made a television appearance as a guest judge on Top Chef Jr. in December of 2017.
Maisy currently resides in Nashville, Tennessee, but was born in Oshawa, Ontario. Maisy plays the ukulele, guitar and piano. She grew up in a family full of talent; her parents, Brad and MaryLynne, are also a musical duo known as The Stellas. With so many life-changing experiences at such a young age, Maisy Stella is excited to see what the future holds as she grows and develops her promising career.- Actress
- Director
Lynn-Holly Johnson was born on 13 December 1958 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She is an actress and director, known for For Your Eyes Only (1981), The Watcher in the Woods (1980) and Ice Castles (1978). She has been married to Kelly James Givens since 12 November 1994. They have two children.- Henrik Lundstrom is an actor from Sweden. He is known for his roles as detective Rasmus Larsson in " The Bridge" and Pierre Tanguy from the Oscar Nominated film "Evil"
Henrik started his career on the big screen more than 20 years ago when he landed
his first role in the much acclaimed Swedish film "Together" by Lukas Moodysson in 1999.
Moving on from there he appeared in 2 short films in 2002:
"Victor and his brothers" that won the Swedish Guldbagge for best short film.
and
" Brother of mine " that won several awards around the world including the Silver bear at The Berlin Film Festival.
In 2003 he was cast as Pierre Tanguy (one of the leads) in the hit movie "Ondskan"/"Evil" that won Best film at the Guldbagge and later was Oscar nominated for best foreign film.
In 2005 he played the lead character Martin Von Lindhé who jumps on a cargo ship in the 60s from Sweden to South Africa in the thrilling film " The Chef" along side Swedish actor Kjell Bergqvist. The film won Best Feature at the Hollywood film awards.
Between 2005 and 2008 Henrik starred in several films and TV series before he moved to New York in 2008 and enrolled in the 2 year conservatory program at Stella Adler Acting School Here he met classmate Marem Hassler whom he would later work with in the film " Penpals" in 2021-2022.
Between 2013-2015 Henrik was cast as a series regular in season 2 and 3 in the Swedish-Danish hit TV series " The Bridge", as the bothersome and unlucky junior detective Rasmus Larsson.
In 2017 Henrik played Viking leader Rollo in the Tv series " The Last Kingdom"
He is a relationship with Swedish actress Ester Sjögren. The couple where happy to announce the birth of their first child, a son named Stig, in September 2021. - Actor
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Jeffrey was born in Denver, Colorado and raised in Arlington, Virginia.
Before moving west to pursue television and film work he toured the
United States for two years with the first professional cast of the
American Shakespeare Company. From there he spent two years working out
of New York, primarily at Shakespeare & Company in Lenox,
Massachussets. He lives in Los Angeles, California with his wife
Kirstin, their daughter Betty Jane Vaida and her pitbulls Bubs and
Lucy.- Michael Robert Socha is an actor, known for his role as Tom in Being Human (2008).
He was born December 13, 1987, in Derby, Derbyshire, England, to Kathleen (Lyons) and Robert Socha, and has Polish, English, Irish, and Italian ancestry. Socha was a rebellious pupil who often skipped school. At the age of 11, he unsuccessfully auditioned for the lead role in a school musical play, but won the lead role of Bugsy Malone in another play years later. - Katherine Schwarzenegger Pratt was born on December 13, 1989 at St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica, California as Katherine Eunice Schwarzenegger. She's an American author who has written 3 self-help books on subjects like self-image, forgiveness & finding direction after college. She has also written a children's book about adopting her dog.
She's the oldest child of Maria Shriver & Arnold Schwarzenegger. Through her mom, she's a member of the Kennedy family. She's a grandniece of U.S. President John F. Kennedy as well as U.S. senators & former presidential candidates Robert F. Kennedy & Ted Kennedy. - Writer
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Jesse Armstrong was born on 13 December 1970 in Oswestry, Shropshire, England, UK. He is a writer and producer, known for In the Loop (2009), Four Lions (2010) and Succession (2018).- Karen Lorre has been acting since she was a teen. She studied pre-med in college, with an emphasis on Psychobiology, the study of how thoughts and feelings from the brain affect the body. While still in college at UCI, Karen took an acting class up in Hollywood. She had one of those bright light moments as she was acting that felt better than anything she had ever experienced before. She realized that acting was the only thing she wanted to do.
Karen played Tina Lord Roberts on One Life to Live (1968) for 4 years and was nominated for an award. She also was a series regular on the Showtime show Bedtime (1996).
Karen has done many guest stars on a variety of shows, both comedy and drama.
Karen has done about 60 commercials.
Karen also teaches people how to love unconditionally and she makes guided meditations so that people can feel incredible in many different areas of life.
Karen is super fit, she loves to do yoga, acrobatics, skip on the beach, her TRX and her pro ski simulator. - Actor
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Japanese leading man, an important star and one of the handful of
Japanese actors well known outside Japan. Nakadai was a tall handsome
clerk in a Tokyo shop when director Masaki Kobayashi encountered him and cast
him in The Thick-Walled Room (1956). Nakadai was subsequently cast in the lead role in
Kobayashi's monumental trilogy 'Ningen no joken' and became a star
whose international acclaim rivaled that of countryman Toshirô Mifune. Like
Mifune, Nakadai worked frequently with director Akira Kurosawa and indeed more
or less replaced Mifune as Kurosawa's principal leading man after the
well-known falling out between Mifune and Kurosawa. His appearances for
Kurosawa in Kagemusha: The Shadow Warrior (1980) and Ran (1985) are among the most indelible in the
director's oeuvre.- Cates' acting career ignited after she appeared on an episode of Sally Jessy Raphael (1983), titled "Too Heavy to Leave Their House". Shortly after, author and screenwriter Peter Hedges proposed to her that she play Johnny Depp and Leonardo DiCaprio's morbidly obese and housebound mother in What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)--Cates accepted. Her performance earned stellar reviews; Roger Ebert said about the actress, "Darlene Cates, making her movie debut, has an extraordinary presence on the screen. We see that she is fat but we see many other things, too, including the losses and disappointments in her life, and the ability she finds to take a grip and make a new start." The actress went on to appear in a handful of film and television projects before succumbing to natural causes, she was 69. When the The Guardian released a statement on the actress's death, Leonard DiCaprio paid tribute to the actress identifying her as "the best acting mom I ever had".
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Bart Johnson was born in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for High School Musical 3: Senior Year (2008), High School Musical (2006) and High School Musical 2 (2007). He has been married to Robyn Lively since 25 September 1999. They have three children.- Actor
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They don't come any nicer than John Davidson. The dark-haired,
Pittsburgh-born singer/TV personality, who was born in 1941 and the son
of a Baptist minister, is highly-defined and sometimes cursed by his
clean-cut, fresh-faced, apple-cheeked handsomeness. After graduating
from high school in White Plains, New York, and earning a B.A. in
Theater Arts from Denison University, John took his naturally-gifted
baritone voice to the musical stage. The affable six-footer made his
Broadway bow with Bert Lahr and
Larry Blyden in the short-lived musical,
"Foxy", in 1964 at the Ziegfeld Theater. TV producer
Bob Banner, who discovered such other
formidable talents as Carol Burnett,
Dom DeLuise and
Bob Newhart, caught John in one of his
performances and immediately took him under his wing.
Within a short time, John was moving quickly in the musical fast lane.
On TV, he co-starred as "Matt" in a 1964 Hallmark Hall of Fame
presentation of the classic musical, "The Fantasticks", alongside an
esteemed company that included Mr. Lahr,
Ricardo Montalban,
Stanley Holloway and the lovely
soprano, Susan Watson. He also
appeared as a regular on
The Entertainers (1964), and
grew in stature enough to host
The Kraft Summer Music Hall (1966),
keeping his face and voice consistently front-and-center on the
prime-time variety show circuit. Back on stage, he won a Theater World
Award in 1965 for his role as "Curly" in "Oklahoma!", a part he would
play many times over the years. Demonstrating leading man potential,
John was handed tuneful co-star assignments in the rather antiseptic
Disney movies,
The Happiest Millionaire (1967)
and
The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band (1968),
both featuring the reigning "Cinderella" of the time,
Lesley Ann Warren, but he did not move
ahead in films.
While an overly cute, lightweight image severely hampered his chances
to be taken seriously as a dramatic actor, the bedimpled performer,
nevertheless, made great strides as a full-fledged TV presence in the
1970s. He earned his own daytime talk show,
The John Davidson Show (1969),
and appeared in such mini-movie offerings as
Coffee, Tea or Me? (1973)
with Karen Valentine. He
co-starred with another eternal cutie at the time,
Sally Field, in
The Girl with Something Extra (1973),
playing newlyweds, but the sitcom was unsuccessful. Through the lean
years, John maintained by singing on his own TV Christmas specials and
guesting in episodes of
The Love Boat (1977) and
Fantasy Island (1977).
Interest in John, however, slacked off.
It wasn't until the next decade when his career revitalized by hosting
That's Incredible! (1980).
The show's format fit John's buoyant nature to a tee and lasted four
years, alongside co-host
Cathy Lee Crosby. His talent for
self-effacing "straight man" humor showed up first as a
The Hollywood Squares (Daytime) (1965)
regular, then as takeover host of
The New Hollywood Squares (1986),
which lasted several years. He also took over
Dick Clark's emcee post on the
syndicated game show,
The $10,000 Pyramid (1973),
during the 1992-1993 season.
Music, however, has always been John's first passion. In addition to
recording 12 solo albums in both the pop and country music venues, he
plays the guitar and banjo and has sung in English, French and Spanish.
A perennial nightclub and concert favorite, he has starred in many
national tours and stock productions including "The Music Man", "110 in
the Shade", "Paint Your Wagon", "Li'l Abner", "Camelot", "Carousel", "I
Do! I Do!" and "Will Rogers' Follies", among others. He's appeared in
legit plays, including the off-Broadway comedy, "High Infidelity",
opposite both Barbara Eden and
Morgan Fairchild, and, in 1996,
returned to Broadway, after 32 years, in the Rodgers and Hammerstein
musical, "State Fair". Two years later, he was inspired to try out his
one-man show, "Bully", as
Theodore Roosevelt, after playing the
president earlier in the musical, "Teddy and Alice". John has made
sporadic appearances in films, including the disaster epic,
The Concorde... Airport '79 (1979),
and
Edward Scissorhands (1990).
Divorced in 1982 from singer
Jackie Miller, who once was part
of the folk duo, Jackie and Gayle,
after 13 years of marriage and two children, John is currently with
second wife and former backup singer,
Rhonda Davidson (nee Rivera)
(since 1983). Together, they have a child of their own,
Ashleigh Davidson. Most recently, he
appeared with one of his children, Ashleigh, in a 2005 musical
production of "Shenandoah".- Actor
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Robert Lindsay was born on 13 December 1949 in Ilkeston, Derbyshire, England, UK. He is an actor, known for My Family (2000), G.B.H. (1991) and Jake's Progress (1995). He has been married to Rosemarie Ford since 31 December 2006. They have two children. He was previously married to Cheryl Hall.- Tanya van Graan was born in South Africa. She is an actress, known for Tremors: A Cold Day in Hell (2018), Zulu (2013) and 24 Hours to Live (2017).
- Caroline O'Neill was born on 13 December 1961 in Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Endeavour (2012), Queer as Folk (1999) and Robin Hood (2006).
- Linnethia Monique "NeNe" Johnson was born on December 13, 1966 in Queens, New York City, New York & raised in Athens, Georgia. She's best known for having appeared on the reality television series, The Real Housewives of Atlanta (2008) as an original cast member and for her recurring character, Roz Washington on the Fox comedy-drama series, Glee (2009). NeNe also played Rocky Rhoades as a series regular on the sitcom, The New Normal (2012) on NBC until its cancellation in 2013. She has participated on NBC's The Apprentice (2004) & ABC's Dancing with the Stars (2005). She made her Broadway debut as Madame in Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella in 2014 and starred as Matron "Mama" Morton in Chicago on 2015.
She was one of the regular panelists on ABC's revival of the 1950s game show, To Tell the Truth (2016). In addition to her television projects, She had a clothing line on Home Shopping Network, before launching her SWAGG boutiques in select cities across the country. - Amy Stoch was born on 13 December 1958 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. She is an actress, known for Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989), Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991) and Summer School (1987). She was previously married to Robert Poynton.
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Juan Fernández was born on 13 December 1956 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. He is an actor and producer, known for A Man Apart (2003), The Collector (2009) and Crocodile Dundee II (1988).- Actor
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Curd Jürgens (commonly billed as "Curt Jurgens" in anglophone
countries) was one of the most successful European film actors of the
20th Century. He was born Curd Gustav Andreas Gottlieb Franz Jürgens on
December 13, 1915, in Solln, Bavaria, in Hohenzollern Imperial Germany,
a subject of Kaiser Wilhelm II. Of
Franco-German parentage, Jürgens -- who was born during the closing
days of the second year of the First World War -- would abandon the
country of his birth after the end of World War II: Jürgens became an
Austrian citizen in 1945 and lived part-time in France.
Jürgens entered the journalism profession after receiving his
education, and married Louise Basler, an actress. Basler, the first of
his five wives, encouraged him to switch careers and become an actor.
He learned his new profession on the Vienna stage, which retained his
loyalty even after he became an global film star. Jürgens was sent to a
concentration camp for "political unreliables" in 1944, due to his
anti-Nazi opinions. It was this experience in Nazi Germany that led him
to become an Austrian citizen after the war.
His appearance in
The Devil's General (1955)
("The Devil's General" (1955)), established him as a star of German
cinema, and his role as
Brigitte Bardot's older lover in
Roger Vadim's
...And God Created Woman (1956)
(And God Created Woman (1956)) made him an international star. Always
interested in multilingual European actors with good looks and talent,
Hollywood beckoned the 6' 4" Jürgens, casting him in
The Enemy Below (1957) as a WWII
German U-boat commander in a duel with American destroyer commander
Robert Mitchum. He constantly was in
demand to play Germany military officers (e.g.,
The Longest Day (1962), the most
expensive black-and-white film ever made) -- indeed, his last role was
as "The General" in the miniseries
Smiley's People (1982) -- and
Germanic villains (e.g., "Cornelius", the cowardly and treacherous
trading company representative, in
Lord Jim (1965)) for the rest of his
life. One of his most famous roles in the English-language cinema was
as the James Bond villain, "Karl Stromberg", in
The Spy Who Loved Me (1977);
it was Moore's favorite Bond film.
Jürgens considered himself primarily a stage actor and often performed
on the Vienna stage. Though the world knew him as a cinema actor, he
also directed several films and wrote several screenplays and an
autobiography, "Sixty and Not Yet Wise" (1975). His death from a heart
attack in 1982 in Vienna was front-page news across Austria and
Germany.- Actress
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Paula Wilcox was born on 13 December 1949 in Manchester, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Boomers (2014), Upstart Crow (2016) and Girlfriends (2018). She has been married to Skip Riddle since 1991. She was previously married to Derek Seaton.- Actor
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Craggy-faced, dependable star character actor Van Heflin never quite
made the Hollywood "A" list, but made up for what he lacked in
appearance with hard work, charisma and solid acting performances. He
was born Emmett Evan Heflin in Oklahoma in December 1908, the son of
Fanny Bleecker (Shippey) and Emmett Evan Heflin, a dental surgeon. When
his parents separated his brother and sister stayed with his mother,
while he was farmed out to his grandmother in California. He was never
quite settled and his restless spirit led him to ship out on a tramp
steamer after graduating from school. After a year at sea he studied
for a law degree at the University of Oklahoma, but after two years he
decided he had enough and went back to sailing the Pacific. When he
returned he decided to try his hand at acting and enrolled at the
prestigious Yale School of Drama. His first foray into theatre was the
comedy "Mister Moneypenny" (1928) (credited as "Evan Heflin"). It was
indifferently received and Van went back to sea, this time for three
years. In 1934 he returned to the stage in the plays "The Bride of
Torozko" and "The Night Remembers", both outright disasters.
His big break came in 1936, when he landed a good leading role as a
radical leftist at odds with the established elite in the
S.N. Behrman comedy of manners, "End of
Summer" at the Guild Theatre. Critic
Brooks Atkinson, praising the play and
the actors, commended the "sparkling dialogue" and "fluent and sunny
performance" (New York Times, February 18 1936).
Katharine Hepburn, who saw him on
stage, then persuaded Van to take a swing at film acting and finagled a
role for him alongside her in the
Pandro S. Berman production
A Woman Rebels (1936). Van spent a
year at RKO in forgettable films, with roles ranging from a reverend in
The Outcasts of Poker Flat (1937)
to a top-billed part as a burnt-out quarterback in
Saturday's Heroes (1937). By
1939 Van was back on stage, rather more successfully, in "The
Philadelphia Story" at the Shubert Theatre. The hit play, which also
starred Vera Allen,
Shirley Booth and
Joseph Cotten, ran for 417
performances, closing in March 1940. That same year he appeared for
Warner Brothers in the entertaining but historically inaccurate western
Santa Fe Trail (1940),
Bosley Crowther describing his
performance, above other cast members, as containing "the sharpest
punch" (New York Times, December 21 1940).
On the strength of these performances, Van was signed to a contract at
MGM, where he remained for eight years (1941-49). His tenure was
interrupted only by two years of wartime service as a combat
photographer with the U.S. 9th Air Force, First Motion Picture Unit,
which produced training and morale-boosting short films. Back at MGM,
his third assignment at the studio,
Johnny Eager (1941), had proved an
excellent showcase for his acting skills. He played Jeff Hartnett,
right-hand man of the titular crime figure
(Robert Taylor), a complex,
sardonic character, at once loyal soldier yet abjectly self-loathing.
For his role as the heavy-drinking, Shakespeare-quoting mobster with a
conscience, Van got the Academy Award as Best Supporting Actor in 1942.
He was immediately cast in the leading role as a forensically-minded
detective in
Kid Glove Killer (1942), a film
which marked the debut of Fred Zinnemann
as a feature director. This was in turn followed by another B-movie
whodunit,
Grand Central Murder (1942).
The prestigious--but not always accurate--historical drama
Tennessee Johnson (1942) saw
Van playing Andrew Johnson, the 17th US president. While the film was a
critical success, it did less well at the box office. The New York
Times commented on the "sincerity and strength" of his performance,
adding "Mr. Heflin, in a full-bodied, carefully delineated portrait of
a passionate man, gives decisive proof that his talents have thus far
been haphazardly used" (January 13, 1943). In between wartime service
and two musicals,
Presenting Lily Mars (1943)
and the Jerome Kern biopic
Till the Clouds Roll By (1946),
Van appeared in the excellent film noir
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)
with Barbara Stanwyck (as the
inevitable femme fatale) and
Kirk Douglas (as an alcoholic
district attorney). As the sympathetic gambler Sam who returns to his
home town, ostensibly to expose the dirty secrets of the main
protagonists, Van had more on-screen time than his illustrious co-stars
and some good lines to boot. Van put his tough-guy screen persona to
good use in enacting Raymond Chandler's
wisecracking gumshoe Philip Marlowe on NBC radio from June 1947, with
19 real-life Los Angeles detectives among the live audience.
During the next few years the versatile Heflin dealt capably with a
wide variety of assignments. He appeared as a jilted lover in the
expensively-produced costume drama
Green Dolphin Street (1947);
he was Athos, one of
The Three Musketeers (1948)
and an ex-GI on the trail of a psychopathic prison camp informer in
Fred Zinnemann's
Act of Violence (1948); poignant
as the unloved Monsieur Bovary in
Madame Bovary (1949); an ex-cop in
love with a high-flying socialite in the melodrama
East Side, West Side (1949);
and a cop whose affair with a married woman leads to a plot to kill her
husband in The Prowler (1951).
The 1950s saw Van's progression from leading man to star character
actor. Having left MGM in 1949, he was signed in this capacity to
several short-term contracts by Universal (1951-54), 20th Century Fox
(1954), Columbia (1957-59) and Paramount (1959-60). Apart from the
big-business drama Patterns (1956), he
is best remembered in this decade for his portrayal of western
characters with integrity and singularity of purpose: as the struggling
homesteader at the mercy of a ruthless cattle baron who befriends
Shane (1953); the desperate, single-minded
rancher trying to get a captured outlaw on the
3:10 to Yuma (1957); and the tough,
uncompromisingly stern father forced to kill his errant son in
Gunman's Walk (1958).
With the possible exception of his sympathetic German captain of a
World War II surface raider in the offbeat international co-production
Under Ten Flags (1960)
(aka "Under Ten Flags"), Heflin had few roles of note in the 1960s. He
appeared in the calamitous flop
The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)
and the equally disastrous
Stagecoach (1966) remake. One of his
last performances was as the deranged bomber in
Airport (1970). His final curtain call on
stage was as Robert Sloane in "A Case of Libel" (1963-64) on Broadway.
Unlike many of his peers, Van shunned the limelight and was never a
part of the Hollywood glamour set. A well-liked, introspective and
talented performer, he died of a heart attack in July 1971, aged just
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Afemo Omilami was born on 13 December 1950 in Petersburg, Virginia, USA. He is an actor, known for Forrest Gump (1994), Bringing Out the Dead (1999) and The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013). He has been married to Elizabeth Omilami since 11 September 1985. They have two children.- Producer
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Billy Van Zandt and his writing partner, the late Jane Milmore, are two of the most often produced playwrights in the world. Billy and Jane met at a high school acting competition in their home state of New Jersey. Together for 46 years, they wrote and starred in 25 plays together, including the international hit comedy "You've Got Hate Mail;" Off-Broadway's tribute to slapstick comedy "Silent Laughter;" cult favorite ""Drop Dead"; the Marx Bros. musical "A Night at the Nutcracker;" and the summer stock stock perennial "Love, Sex, and the IRS." Billy's solo play "The Property Known as Garland" starring his ex-wife Adrienne Barbeau broke box office records at Off-Broadway's Actors Playhouse. The plays have been produced in thousands of theaters worldwide, including two productions directed by Oscar winner Olympia Dukakis ("Billy and Jane are funny, outrageous, off-the chart writers/performers") and one by film legend Burt Reynolds. For television, these award-winning writers have produced over three hundred hours of television comedy, including "Newhart;" "Martin," which won them a People's Choice Award; "The Hughley's," which won them a Prism Award;" "Suddenly Susan" for Brooke Shields; "Daddy Dearest" for Don Rickles and Richard Lewis; "Anything But Love" for Jamie Lee Curtis and Richard Lewis; "The Wayans Bros."; and "I Love Lucy: The Very First Show" which won them an Emmy nomination. As an actor, Billy made his film debut in "Jaws 2"; and has co-starred with George C Scott, Tim Hutton, Sean Penn, Tom Cruise, Giancarlo Esposito, Evan Handler, Karl Malden, Mrs. Maisel, That Girl Lay Lay, and the crew of the USS Enterprise. Billy lives in Los Angeles, when he's not touring the world in the last Van Zandt/Milmore musical, "The Boomer Boys Musical."- Actor
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One of today's most exciting & versatile actors, voted by Buzzfeed as a Top 10 Asian-American Leading Man, and by TV Guide as "Hollywood's 25 Hottest", James is next appearing in the feature Year 2, and was recently seen in Netflix movie Yes Day, and the HBO show Lovecraft County. He recently guest starred in AMC's Preacher (2016), CBS' Elementary (2012) and Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders (2016), and FOX's Sleepy Hollow (2013). He also recently starred in NCIS: Los Angeles (2009), the new Nickelodeon sitcom School of Rock (2016), the FX drama Justified (2010), and is beloved to many for his 5-year run on NBC's Heroes (2006) as 'Ando'.
James recently returned to the stage, in La Jolla Playhouse's production of Wild Goose Dreams, directed by Leigh Silverman (2x TONY nominee). He recently starred the comedy feature 7 Days to Vegas (2019), and Banana Season (2018), where he had to train as a Mixed Martial Arts fighter for six weeks. He also stars in the romantic comedy Another Time (2018), along side Justin Hartley and Arielle Kebbel.
A native of NYC, James graduated from Bronx H.S. of Science, then went on to study communications & broadcasting at New England Institute of the Arts. After a stint in a hip-hop group in college, James moved to LA on a one-way ticket & a suitcase, where he began his training in music, dance, and acting. His first ever TV audition landed him on CBS's JAG (1995).
An athlete & avid runner, James has ran the LA Half Marathon with his wife Jamee , plays basketball for The Hollywood Knights, a charity celebrity team, and participated in Robbie Williams' Soccer Aid for UNICEF, at Manchester United's Old Trafford in the UK. His favorite hobbies include scuba diving and ultimate frisbee, and he loves playing guitar and the piano.
James is an ambassador for the international non-profit Good Neighbors and their Water for Life campaign, as well as the Creative Coalition and their Arts Education program. His passion is to create media that promotes wellness, fitness, and consciousness.- Actor
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Tall and athletic, and possessed of "movie star" good looks, John Hart
acted on the stage of the renowned Pasadena Playhouse as a young man,
before making his screen debut in a supporting role in director
Cecil B. DeMille's big-budget The Buccaneer (1938). With these physical assets and early
acting credentials, the native Los Angeleno seemed bound for bigger and
better things but military service slowed his momentum: Returning to
Hollywood after World War II, he found himself back at the proverbial
starting line. Hart soon fell into the low-budget Western and serial
rut, but he served with distinction in many youth-oriented productions:
He was the perfect embodiment of radio-comic strip hero Jack Armstrong
in a 1947 serial, rode the Western plains in 52 episodes of TV's
The Lone Ranger (1949) (playing the Masked Man) and brought life to James Fenimore Cooper's
courageous frontiersman Hawkeye in TV's Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans (1957). In more recent years,
he worked behind-the-scenes (as a cameraman, post-production
supervisor, dubbing supervisor, etc.).- Director
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Born in Freeport, Pennsylvania, Don Taylor studied law, then speech and
drama at Penn State University, where as a freshman he began taking
part in college stage productions. Hitchhiking to Hollywood in 1942,
the youthful Taylor screen-tested at Warner Brothers but was rejected
because of his draft status. MGM, not as fussy, signed him to a
contract and immediately put him to work, assigning him the minuscule
role of a soldier in director Clarence Brown's sentimental slice of Americana,
The Human Comedy (1943). More minor roles followed before Taylor enlisted in the Army;
but even there he continued to act: Playwright/screenwriter Moss Hart
chose him to play one of the leads in the United States Army Air Forces' production of
Hart's play, "Winged Victory." Taylor met his first wife, actress Phyllis Avery, when
she was also in Winged Victory. Returning to civilian life, Taylor
resumed his work in pictures with a top role in the trend-setting crime
drama The Naked City (1948). In later years Taylor became a film and TV director,
being nominated for an Emmy for his direction of an episode of The Farmer's Daughter.
Taylor met his second wife Hazel Court when he directed her in a 1958 episode of
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955).- Actor
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Marcel Spears was born on 13 December 1988 in New Orleans, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for The Dress (2019), InkShop (2024) and The Neighborhood (2018).- Actor
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Satya Bhabha is director, writer, and performer whose work has played at multiple festivals including TIFF, SXSW, Palm Springs, Telluride Film Festival, and OutFest. He has recently directed series for Apple, Showtime, Amazon, Max, and Peacock, and acted in the recent Netflix hit series "Scott Pilgrim Takes Off. He has developed and sold original projects to Amazon and Conde Nast.
As an actor, Satya is known for playing the lead role of Saleem Sinai in Salman Rushdie's "Midnight's Children", Matthew Patel in "Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World", and the recurring role of Shivrang in the TV show "New Girl". He also recurred on the Wachowski's "Sense8" and the Peabody Award winning "Key & Peele." Satya has also acted extensively in theatre, at venues such as The Public Theatre, The Signature Theatre, Shakespeare's Globe in London, and the Center Theatre Group in Los Angeles.
Satya has also created award-winning immersive theatre experiences such as the 48-hour long luxury travel adventure The Headlands Gamble. He has toured original live performance work throughout Europe and the USA and is the artistic director of LA based theatre company Public Assembly.
Satya graduated from Yale University where he was awarded the Sudler Prize for the arts. He has been playing the cello since he was very young and has performed around the world in symphonies, chamber ensembles, and bands. He played cello for the LA-based band He's My Brother She's My Sister. He has been married to his husband since 2016.- Mary first appeared on stage aged just 10. She received her formal
training at the royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) and went on to a
long and distinguished career in film, television and the theatre. She
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Heather North was an American voice actress from Pasadena, California. She was the regular voice of amateur detective Daphne Blake from 1970 to 1985, voicing the character in 7 different television series. She briefly resumed the role in 1997 for a guest appearance of Daphne in the animated series "Johnny Bravo". She voiced Daphne again for the direct-to-video films "Scooby-Doo and the Legend of the Vampire" (2003) and "Scooby-Doo and the Monster of Mexico" (2003). She then mostly retired from acting.
North was born in 1945. She started her acting career c. 1956, at the age of 11. She had several guest-roles in television series of the 1960s, such as "My Three Sons", "Gidget", and "The Monkees". She made her film debut in the drama film "Git" (1965). She played Elaine Garrett, the adolescent daughter of dog breeder Andrew Garrett. Her character found no love or affection from her father, but found romance in his employee Deke (played by Jack Chaplain).
In 1967, North joined the cast of the soap opera "Days of Our Lives". She played Sandy Horton, a granddaughter of the original main character Dr. Thomas Horton (played by Macdonald Carey). North remained in this role until 1972, when her character was written out. Sandy was reintroduced in 1982, but played by a different actress.
In 1969, North was a roommate of fellow actress Nicole Jaffe. Jaffe was voicing Velma Dinkley in the mystery animated series "Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!" (1969-1970). Stefanianna Christopherson was voicing Daphne Blake, Velma's partner in mystery solving. Christopherson quit the role when she and her husband relocated to New York, and Jaffe recommended North to serve as Christopherson's replacement. North voiced Daphne in several episodes of the animated series' second season.
In 1971, North played the female lead Jennifer Scott in the comedy film "The Barefoot Executive". Jennifer and her boyfriend were the co-owners of a chimpanzee who could predict whether a new television series was going to be a hit or a flop. That same year, North married television producer H. Wesley Kenney (1926-2015). He was the producer of "Days of Our Lives" and they had met on the soap opera's set. Their marriage lasted until his death in 2015.
Animation studio Hanna-Barbera next recruited North to voice Daphne Blake in "The New Scooby-Doo Movies" (1972-1973), the first sequel to the original Scooby-Doo series. In this one, the Mystery, Inc. gang of detectives joined forces with various guest stars. The series featured crossovers with characters from "Harlem Globetrotters", "Josie and the Pussycats", "Jeannie", "Speed Buggy", "The Addams Family" and "Batman and Robin".
After a hiatus of several years, North resumed the role of Daphne in "The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour" (1976). It featured two different segments about crime-fighting dogs and their owners. She voiced Daphne in all 3 seasons of "The Scooby-Doo Show" (1976-1978). The show was variously broadcast with several packages of Hanna-Barbera shows. North also voiced incidental characters in the superhero series "Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels" (1978-1980).
Her next appearance in a Scooby-Doo series was in "Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo" (1979-1980). In this series, Scrappy-Doo was added as the new co-protagonist, and Daphne's role was increasingly de-emphasized. Daphne was eventually written out of the series. North returned to voice Daphne in "The New Scooby Doo Mysteries" (1983-1984), where Daphne was re-introduced as a co-protagonist. Daphne was depicted as a reporter for this series, but continued solving mysteries.
North had her last regular appearance in a Scooby-Doo television series in "The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo" (1985). It was the first series in the franchise to have an ongoing story-line. Scooby-Doo and his owner Shaggy Rogers were manipulated into releasing 13 powerful ghosts and demons from captivity. They and a small group of allies (including Daphne) then had to recapture the ghosts, while each ghost schemed to eliminate them. The next series in the franchise was "A Pup Named Scooby-Doo" (1988-1991), which featured child versions of the main characters. North was replaced as the regular voiced of Daphne by a younger actress, Kellie Martin.
North mostly retired from acting in 1985, after Hanna-Barbera ceased requiring her services. She emerged from retirement once in 1997, and twice in 2003. In all three occasions, she voiced her signature role of Daphne. She was widowed in 2015, when her husband H. Wesley Kenney died of cardiac arrest. North herself died in November 2017, at the age of 71. She was suffering from bronchiolitis, a respiratory disease.
Though long gone, North remains one of the most popular voice actresses of the 1970s and the 1980s. Several actresses have voiced Daphne Blake since North's heyday, but none has been identified with this role to the degree that North was. Despite her limited success in live-action roles, North is fondly remembered for a few notable comedy roles.- Actor
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Mark Stevens, a good-looking, second-tier star during the 1940s and 1950s, was born Richard William Stevens in Cleveland, Ohio, on December 13, 1916 (the dates in reference books seem to vary between 1915-20). Of Scottish and English heritage, the freckle-faced boy with the reddish hair had a father who was an American flyer. His parents divorced while he was young and Mark was sent to England where the rebellious boy found himself kicked out of several schools. He resided briefly with his maternal grandparents until a second move to Canada, where he was raised by his older sister. Slight in stature, Mark built himself up through athletics. A back injury, sustained while training as a Canadian Olympic diver, however, kept him from serving in WWII.
His initial interest appeared to be art, which he studied for a time, but a gift for singing led to nightclub and theatre work, performing in musicals and legit plays throughout the various Canadian provinces. Radio broadcasting turned into another creative outlet for Mark. He eventually returned to his Ohio hometown in the early 1940s where he earned leading roles at the Cleveland Playhouse. Notice here on the stage eventually had him setting his sights on Hollywood. Being young and talented -- combined with a 4-F classification -- helped gain him a studio contract at a time when the major stars were assigned to military duty. Voted 5th as a promising "star of tomorrow" in 1946, he appeared sporadically on radio.
He first became a contract player at Warner Brothers where he was groomed in bit parts as earnest soldier types and given the marquee name of Stephen Richards. That name was quickly changed by Darryl F. Zanuck to Mark Stevens, however, when Mark moved to the 20th Century-Fox lot. The studio also darkened his hair and covered up the freckles to enhance his serious good looks. He soon materialized into a prime film noir contender with such films as Within These Walls (1945) and the excellent The Dark Corner (1946) (interestingly had the starring role but billed fourth in line), the latter pairing him up with a cast-against-type Lucille Ball several years before her I Love Lucy (1951) fame. One of Mark's finest hours on film was as an FBI man at odds with Richard Widmark in The Street with No Name (1948). He also co-starred as the altruistic husband of mental patient Olivia de Havilland in The Snake Pit (1948).
On the musical front, Mark appeared rather colorlessly in such tunefests as I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now (1947) and Oh, You Beautiful Doll (1949), in which he was overshadowed by his leading ladies. Indeed, despite his good looks and abilities, Stevens was constantly (and unfairly) pigeonholed as a lesser version of John Payne or Alan Ladd. In retrospect, many of his capable performances leave viewers thinking he was a
producer's casting Plan B. Securing a brief contract at Universal in 1951 where he appeared in such films as Little Egypt (1951) and Katie Did It (1950), Stevens later directed and starred in the "B" level crimer Cry Vengeance (1954) for Allied Artists.
TV played a big part in his career in the 1950s, with two classic dramatic series coming his way. A move into producing (Mark Stevens Television, Inc.) and music publishing (Mark Stevens Music, Inc.) encouraged his retirement from acting, although he did occasionally appear in guest spots on such TV dramas as Wagon Train (1957) and Playhouse 90 (1956), while occasionally directing as well. He earned a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960 for his small screen work.
A jack of all trades, Mark moved to Europe in the late 1950s and spent a decade operating a restaurant in Spain. He was married for some time to film/TV actress Annelle Hayes and had two children, Mark Richard and Arrelle. His rather nomadic existence eventually led to him to both the divorce and bankruptcy courts in the early 1960's. Divvying his time between here and Europe in later years, he still found occasional work in Hollywood while owning/maintaining apartment buildings as well. He married a second time to a Swedish woman named Hilde. His last on-screen work occurred on late 1980's TV, dying of cancer in Majores, Spain, at age 77, on September 15, 1994.- Actor
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Clark Brandon was born on 13 December 1958 in New York City, New York, USA. He is an actor and director, known for Skeeter (1993), Fast Food (1989) and Dark Secrets (1992).- Composer
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Harry Gregson-Williams is one of Hollywood's most sought-after and prolific composers whose long list of film and television credits underscore the diverse range of his talents. He most recently wrote the music for "The Last Duel" and "House of Gucci" both directed by Ridley Scott. In addition, he wrote the music for Disney's live action feature film "Mulan" which was directed by Niki Caro with whom he worked previously having scored her film "The Zookeeper's Wife." Gregson-Williams also co-wrote the original song "Loyal Brave True" for "Mulan" performed by Christina Aguilera. He and his brother, composer Rupert Gregson-Williams, wrote the original score for both seasons 1 & 2 of the HBO drama series "The Gilded Age". He also co-wrote the original score for the Netflix documentary "Return to Space" with his friend Mychael Danna, directed by Oscar-winning directors Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin for which he received an Emmy nomination.
Upcoming 2023 releases include "Meg 2: The Trench" starring Jason and directed by Ben Wheatley and Aardman's animated feature "Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget" directed by Sam Fell and the action thriller "Retribution" directed by Nimród Antal and starring Liam Neeson.
Gregson-Williams was the composer on all four installments of the animated blockbuster "Shrek" franchise, garnering a BAFTA Award nomination for the score for the Oscar-winning "Shrek." He received Golden Globe and Grammy Award nominations for his score for Andrew Adamson's "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe."
He has collaborated multiple times with a number of directors including Ben Affleck on "Live by Night," "The Town" and "Gone Baby Gone", Joel Schumacher on "Twelve," "The Number 23," "Veronica Guerin" and "Phone Booth", Tony Scott on "Unstoppable," "The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3," "Déjà Vu," "Domino," "Man on Fire," "Spy Game" and "Enemy of the State", Ridley Scott on "The Martian," "Prometheus," "Exodus: Gods and Kings," "Kingdom of Heaven," "The Last Duel" and "House of Gucci", Bille August on "Return to Sender" and "Smilla's Sense of Snow", Andrew Adamson on the "Shrek" series, "Mr. Pip" and the first two "Narnia" movies, and Antoine Fuqua on "The Replacement Killers," "The Equalizer," The Equalizer 2" and "Infinite".
Some of his more recent film projects include Disney Nature's feature film "Polar Bear" which streamed exclusively on Disney+ in 2022, "The Ambush" directed by Pierre Morel, "Life in a Day 2020" directed Kevin Macdonald, "The Meg" directed by Jon Turteltaub, Aardman's "Early Man" directed by Nick Park for which he received an Annie Award nomination and Disney Nature's "Penguins." His television credits include "Whiskey Cavalier," the miniseries "Catch-22" co-composed with his brother Rupert Gregson-Williams and additionally he wrote the main title theme for "Electric Dreams" and earned an Emmy nomination for the episode entitled "The Commuter."
Over the past two decades he has scored three of the five games in the highly successful "Metal Gear Solid" franchise for Konami as well as "Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare" for Activision, which became the top-selling video game of 2014 and earned him various music gaming awards. Throughout his illustrious and successful career, Gregson-Williams has also collaborated with a diverse array of recording artists such as Regina Spektor, Imogen Heap, Tricky, Peter Murphy, Flea, Hybrid, Paul Oakenfold, Sasha, Trevor Horn, Trevor Rabin, Lebo M., Perry Farrell and Tony Visconti.
Born in England to a musical family, Gregson-Williams earned a music scholarship to St. John's College, Cambridge, at the age of 7 and later gained a coveted spot at London's Guildhall School of Music & Drama, from which he recently received an honorary fellowship. He started his film career as assistant to composer Richard Harvey and later as orchestrator and arranger for Stanley Myers, and then went on to compose his first scores for director Nicolas Roeg. His subsequent collaboration and friendship with composer Hans Zimmer led to Gregson-Williams providing music for such films as "The Rock," "Armageddon" and "The Prince of Egypt" and helped launch his career in Hollywood.
In 2018, Gregson-Williams received the BMI Icon Award, in recognition of his unique and indelible influence on generations of music makers, as well as the Society of Composers & Lyricists' prestigious Ambassador Award.