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- Actress
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Jennifer Jason Leigh was born Jennifer Lee Morrow in Los Angeles, California, the daughter
of writer Barbara Turner and
actor Vic Morrow. Her father was of Russian
Jewish descent and her mother was of Austrian Jewish ancestry. She is the sister of Carrie Ann Morrow and half-sister of actress Mina Badie.
Jennifer's parents divorced when she was two. Jennifer worked in her
first film at the age of nine, in a nonspeaking role for the film Death
of a Stranger (1973). At 14 she attended summer acting workshops given by Lee Strasberg and later landed a role in the Disney TV movie The Young Runaways (1978). She received her Screen Actors Guild membership for an episode of the TV series Baretta (1975) when she was 16. Jennifer performed in several TV movies and dropped out of Pacific Palisades High School six weeks short of graduation for her major role in the film Eyes of a Stranger (1981). Her first major success came as the female lead in Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982).
Jennifer was married to writer/director Noah Baumbach from 2005 to 2013, and the two have a son.- Actress
- Writer
- Camera and Electrical Department
Tessa Charlotte Rampling was born 5 February 1946 in Sturmer, England, to Isabel Anne (Gurteen), a painter, and Godfrey Lionel Rampling, an Olympic gold medalist, army officer, and colonel, who became a NATO commander. She was
educated at Jeanne d'Arc Académie pour Jeunes Filles in Versailles,
France and at the exclusive St. Hilda's school in Bushey, England. She
was a model before entering films in
Richard Lester's
The Knack... and How to Get It (1965),
followed by roles in
Georgy Girl (1966) and
Luchino Visconti's
The Damned (1969).
Rampling is best known for her role in
Liliana Cavani's
The Night Porter (1974),
where she played a concentration camp survivor who is reunited with the
Nazi guard (Dirk Bogarde) who tortured her
throughout her captivity. In 1974, she co-starred with
Sean Connery in
John Boorman's science fiction adventure
Zardoz (1974), with
Robert Mitchum in
Farewell, My Lovely (1975),
with Woody Allen in his
Stardust Memories (1980), and
with Paul Newman in
Sidney Lumet's
The Verdict (1982). An actress always
willing to take on bold and meaningful roles, Rampling had perhaps the
most off-beat one in Nagisa Ôshima's 1986
comedy Max My Love (1986) as
Margaret, a woman in love with a chimpanzee. She has also voiced video
games, such as The Ring.- Actor
- Producer
- Director
Even though he had burned up the London stage for nearly a decade--and
appeared in several films--Michael Sheen was not really "discovered" by
American audiences until his critically-acclaimed turn as
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in the
1999 Broadway revival of "Amadeus".
Sheen was born in Newport, Wales, the only son of Irene (Thomas) and
Meyrick Sheen. The charming, curly-haired actor grew up a middle-class
boy in the working-class town of Port Talbot, Wales. Although his
parents worked in personnel, they shared with their son a deep
appreciation for acting, with Meyrick Sheen enjoying some success later
in life as a Jack Nicholson
impersonator.
As a young man, Michael Sheen turned down the opportunity to pursue a
possible professional football career, opting to follow in the
footsteps of Daniel Day-Lewis and
Patrick Stewart by attending the
Bristol Old Vic Theatre School instead of university. In his second
year, he won the coveted
Laurence Olivier Bursary for
consistently outstanding performances. While Sheen was still studying,
he landed a pivotal role opposite stage legend
Vanessa Redgrave in
Martin Sherman's "When She
Danced" (1991). He left school early to make his West End debut and has
been dazzling audiences and critics with his intense and passionate
performances ever since. Among his most memorable roles were "Romeo" in
"Romeo and Juliet", the title role in
Yukio Ninagawa's 1994 Royal Shakespeare
Company's staging of "Peer Gynt" and "Jimmy Porter" both in a 1994
regional staging in a 1999 London revival of "Look Back in Anger". A
critic from the London Times panned the multimedia production of "Peer
Gynt", but praised Sheen for his ability to express "astonishing
vitality despite lifeless direction". Referring to Sheen's performance
in "Look Back in Anger", Susannah Clapp of The Observer hailed him for
his "luminous quality" and ability to be goaded and fiery and defensive
all at the same time. Sheen also managed to set critics' tongues
wagging with a deft performance in the role of "Henry V", not a part
traditionally given to a slight, boyish-looking actor. One writer
raved: "Sheen, volatile and responsive in an excellent performance,
showed us the exhilaration of power and conquest".
In 1993, Sheen joined the troupe "Cheek By Jowl" and was nominated for
the Ian Charleson Award for his performance in "Don't Fool with Love".
That same year, he excelled as a mentally unstable man who becomes
enmeshed in a kidnapping plot in
Mystery!: Gallowglass (1993), a three-part
BBC serial that aired in the USA on PBS' "Mystery!" in 1995. The actor
nabbed his first feature film role in 1994, playing Dr. Jekyll's
footman in Mary Reilly (1996)
opposite John Malkovich and
Julia Roberts, but that film did
not make it into theaters until 1996, a year after Sheen's second
movie, Othello (1995), was filmed and
released. Perhaps his most memorable big screen role at that point,
however, was "Robert Ross", Oscar Wilde's
erstwhile lover, in the 1997 biopic
Wilde (1997). He would also be seen in the
Brit road film Heartlands (2002)
opposite Mark Addy.
Hot off the success of "Amadeus", Sheen began racking up even more
notable big screen credits, starring opposite
Heath Ledger,
Wes Bentley and
Kate Hudson in
The Four Feathers (2002) and
landing a major role opposite
Kate Beckinsale in the action-horror
blockbuster Underworld (2003), along
with supporting turns in
Bright Young Things (2003),
Timeline (2003) and as British Prime
Minister Tony Blair in director
Stephen Frears' film
The Queen (2006). Next, Sheen grabbed
good notices played a divorce-embattled rock star, stealing scenes from
Pierce Brosnan and
Julianne Moore in the romantic comedy
Laws of Attraction (2004).
Back on the stage, the actor earned raves for his performance as
"Caligula" in London, for which he won the Evening Standard Award and
Critics Circle Award for Best Actor, along with a nomination for the
prestigious Laurence Olivier Award.- Actress
- Producer
- Additional Crew
Laura Leggett Linney was born in New York City on February 5, 1964,
into a theatre family. Her father was prominent playwright
Romulus Linney, whose own
great-grandfather was a congressman from North Carolina. Her mother,
Miriam Anderson (Leggett), is a nurse. Although she did not live in her
father's house (her parents having divorced when she was an infant),
Linney's world revolved, in part, around his profession from the
earliest age. She graduated from Brown University in 1986 and studied
acting at Juilliard and the Arts Theatre School in Moscow and,
thereafter, embarked on a career on the Broadway stage receiving
favorable notices for her work in such plays as "Hedda Gabler" and "Six
Degrees of Separation".
Linney's film career began in the early 1990s with small roles in
Lorenzo's Oil (1992) and
Dave (1993). She landed the role of Mary
Anne Singleton in the PBS film adaptations of
Armistead Maupin's "Tales of the City"
series, playing her in
Tales of the City (1993),
More Tales of the City (1998)
and
Further Tales of the City (2001).
Linney's first substantial big-screen role was as the ex-girlfriend of
Richard Gere's character in
Primal Fear (1996) and her superb
performance brought her praise and a better selection of roles.
Clint Eastwood chose Linney to
play his daughter, another prominent role, in 1997's
Absolute Power (1997), followed by
another second billing in the following year's
The Truman Show (1998).
Always a strong performer, Linney truly came into her own after 2000,
starting the decade auspiciously with her widely-praised, arguably
flawless performance in
You Can Count on Me (2000).
She found herself nominated for an Academy Award for this, her first
lead role, for which her salary had been $10,000. Linney won numerous
critics' awards for her role as Sammy, a single mother whose life is
complicated by a new boss and the arrival in town of her aimless
brother. On the heels of this success came her marvelous turn as Bertha
Dorset in
The House of Mirth (2000),
clearly the best performance in a film of strong performances. Since
then, Linney has frequently been offered challenging dramatic roles,
and always rises to the occasion, such as in
Mystic River (2003) and Kinsey (2004), for which she received
another Academy Award nomination.- Producer
- Writer
- Director
As a director, screenwriter, and producer, four-time Academy Award nominee Michael Mann has established himself as one of the most innovative and influential filmmakers in American cinema. After writing and directing the Primetime Emmy Award-winning television movie The Jericho Mile (1979), Mann made his feature-film directorial debut with Thief (1981), followed by executive producing the television series Miami Vice (1984). He went on to direct Manhunter (1986), The Last of the Mohicans (1992), Heat (1995), and The Insider (1999), Ali (2001), Collateral (2004), a film adaptation of Miami Vice (2006), Public Enemies (2009), and Blackhat (2015).
As a producer, Mann's work includes Martin Scorsese's The Aviator (2004), Hancock (2008), Texas Killing Fields (2011), and the HBO series Luck (2011) and Witness (2012). He has been a member of the Directors Guild of America since 1977 and has served on the DGA's National Board.- Actress
- Soundtrack
Barbara Hershey was born Barbara Lynn Herzstein in Hollywood, California, to Melrose (Moore) and Arnold Nathan Herzstein, a horse racing columnist. Her father, born in Manhattan, was from a Jewish family (from Hungary and Russia), and her mother, originally from Arkansas, had English and Scots-Irish ancestry. Hershey was raised in a small bungalow, and had aspirations of being an actress from her earliest memories.
The multi-award-winning actress has been in some of Hollywood's most memorable films. She has been a winner of an Emmy and a Golden Globe for A Killing in a Small Town (1990). She won two consecutive Best Actress awards at the Cannes Film Festival, (which is unprecedented) for Shy People (1987) and A World Apart (1988). She won a Gemini Award for Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning (2008) for PBS and a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Vienna International Film Festival.
Hershey was nominated for an Academy Award for The Portrait of a Lady (1996).
She's worked with some of the world's great directors, among them: Martin Scorsese, William Wyler, Woody Allen, Jane Campion and Darren Aronofsky.
The versatile actress was first discovered by a talent agent while she was attending Hollywood High School. She began working in television,
The Monroes (1966), and film, With Six You Get Eggroll (1968), with Doris Day. And with roles in The Baby Maker (1970) and Boxcar Bertha (1972), Hershey
quickly advanced to starring roles.
The 1980's catapulted Hershey's film career, when she starred in The Stunt Man (1980) with Peter O'Toole, The Entity (1982), The Right Stuff (1983), The Natural (1984) with Robert Redford, Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) with Woody Allen, Hoosiers (1986) with Gene Hackman, Tin Men (1987), Shy People (1987), The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), A World Apart (1988) and Beaches (1988) with Bette Midler.
Hershey returned to television in 1990 with her highly-lauded performance in A Killing in a Small Town (1990), Paris Trout (1991), Return to Lonesome Dove (1993), the British mini-series, Daniel Deronda (2002) and the last season of Chicago Hope (1994).
During the same period, Hershey remained active in features. She was nominated for an Oscar and Golden Globe for The Portrait of a Lady (1996). She also starred in Merchant-Ivory's A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries (1998) and the award-winning Australian film, Lantana (2001).
In the 2010 years, Hershey has performed in James Wan's cult-hit, Insidious (2010) and Darren Aronofsky's award-winning
Black Swan (2010), playing Natalie Portman's insane mother.
Hershey resides in Los Angeles.- Actor
- Producer
British-Malaysian television host, actor and model Henry Ewan Golding was born in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia, to Margaret Likan and Clive Golding. His father is English and his mother is Malaysian. His mother is from the Iban people, an Indigenous group in Sarawak, and Henry completed the bejalai, an Iban rite of passage, in the jungles of Borneo.
Henry spent his early years in Terengganu. His family moved from Malaysia to Surrey, England when he was eight. When he was twenty one, he moved back to Malaysia, living in Kuala Lumpur, pursuing acting work, and becoming known as a host of travel shows.
Henry made his feature film debut in the smash hit Crazy Rich Asians (2018), playing Nick Young, a Singaporean multi-millionaire who must carefully navigate his relationship with an American, Rachel Chu (Constance Wu). Later that year, he starred opposite Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick in the thriller A Simple Favor (2018). Since his 2018 success, he has starred opposite Emilia Clarke in the romantic comedy Last Christmas (2019) and played a more villainous role in the comedy-thriller The Gentlemen (2019). He will also star as the title character in the action film Snake Eyes (2021).
Henry married Liv Lo, an Italian-Taiwanese TV presenter and yoga instructor, in August 2016.- Actor
- Writer
- Director
U.S.-born actor, director, writer, musician, and composer best known
for his mockumentaries, poking fun at heavy metal music, small town
theatre, dog shows, folk music and film-making itself, Christopher
Haden-Guest was born February fifth, 1948, in New York City. His
mother, Jean Pauline (Hindes), was a vice president of casting at CBS.
His father, Peter Haden-Guest, was a UN diplomat who was a member of
the British House of Lords, and was the fourth Baron of Saling in the
County of Essex. Christopher's mother, who was American, was the
daughter of Russian Jewish immigrants. Christopher's father, who was
British, had English and Dutch-Jewish ancestry. Christopher's paternal
great-grandfather, Colonel Albert Goldsmid, was a British officer.
He received his dramatic arts training at New York City's High School
of Arts and Music and at Bard College, and Guest first appeared in
minor film roles in a mixture of film genres, including
The Hot Rock (1972),
Death Wish (1974),
Lemmings (1973), and
The Long Riders (1980). However,
he was also dabbling in writing for several T.V. shows, and when
filming
Million Dollar Infield (1982),
Guest became acquainted with writer-director
Rob Reiner and the two collaborated, along
with Michael McKean and
Harry Shearer, to pen the script and music
for the sleeper hit
This Is Spinal Tap (1984).
The mockumentary also starred Guest as dizzy lead guitarist Nigel
Tufnel, whose most famous line is surely, "These go to eleven," when
referring to the volume settings on the band's rather unique Marshall
amplifiers!
Guest then busied himself for several years in the 1980s as a regular
performer on
Saturday Night Live (1975)
and, along with fellow Spinal Tap band members lead singer David St.
Hubbins, aka Michael McKean; and
bassist Derek Smalls, aka Harry Shearer,
they regularly appeared as Spinal Tap. In 1992, they released
Spinal Tap: Break Like the Wind - The Videos (1992),
plus
A Spinal Tap Reunion: The 25th Anniversary London Sell-Out (1992).
Guest had a minor acting role in the courtroom drama of
A Few Good Men (1992), before
returning to poke fun at wannabe actors in the howlingly funny
Waiting for Guffman (1996)
with Guest taking center stage as high-strung choreographer Corky St.
Clair. He made a return to heavy metal with
Spinal Tap: The Final Tour (1998)
and
Catching Up with Marty DiBergi (2000)
before turning his comedic pen to the world of championship dog shows
for the sensational comedy
Best in Show (2000). The latest
mockumentary from Guest and co-writer-actor
Eugene Levy was again met with critical
praise, and movie fans just loved it, too! In 2003, Guest and
Eugene Levy took aim at the folk-music
world, and successfully collaborated to write the comedy
A Mighty Wind (2003) about the
reunion of the Folksmen, a fictional 1960s folk music group.
Guest is married to well-known actress
Jamie Lee Curtis with two children, daughter
Annie Guest and son Ruby Guest, plus he is the brother of actor Nicholas Guest.- Actress
- Producer
- Director
Arabella Field was born in New York City, New York, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Curb Your Enthusiasm (2000), American Horror Story (2011) and Seinfeld (1989). She was previously married to Brian Gerber.- Alex Brightman was born on 5 February 1987 in Santa Clara, California, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Hard Rock Life: Backstage at 'School of Rock' with Alex Brightman (2015), Documentary Now! (2015) and Untitled Alex Brightman/Jeffrey Seller/NBC Project. He is married to Jenny Ravitz.
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Popular British character actor Tom Wilkinson was born in Leeds, West
Yorkshire, England, and came from a long line of urban farmers. He was the son of
Marjorie (Percival) and Thomas Wilkinson. Economic hardships forced his
family to move to Canada for a few years when Wilkinson was a child;
then, after he had returned to England, he attended and graduated from the
University of Kent at Canterbury with a degree in English and American
Literature.
Wilkinson first became active in film and television in the mid-1970s,
but did not become familiar to an international audience until 1997.
That was when he starred as one of six unemployed workers who strip for
cash in Best Picture nominee
The Full Monty (1997), and went
on to win a BAFTA for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting
Role. That same year, he was featured in
Oscar and Lucinda (1997) and
Wilde (1997). Wilkinson was also shown to
memorable effect as a theatre financier with acting aspirations in Best
Picture winner
Shakespeare in Love (1998).
Over the next few years, Wilkinson would become more popular,
especially with American audiences, with such roles as General
Cornwallis alongside Mel Gibson in
the blockbuster The Patriot (2000)
and as the grief-stricken father, Matt Fowler, in the critically
acclaimed Best Picture nominee
In the Bedroom (2001). For his
role in that movie, he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor in a
Leading Role.
Since then, Wilkinson has made memorable appearances in
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004),
Batman Begins (2005),
The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005),
Valkyrie (2008),
Duplicity (2009),
The Ghost Writer (2010),
The Debt (2010) and
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011),
among others. Wilkinson also received his second Academy Award
nomination for his acclaimed role in
Michael Clayton (2007).
Wilkinson won an Emmy Award for his work as Benjamin Franklin in HBO's
John Adams (2008) mini-series. The
same year, he received an Emmy nomination for his role in HBO movie
Recount (2008), and has also
received Emmy nominations for
Normal (2003) and
The Kennedys (2011).
Wilkinson had two children, Alice and Molly, with his wife
Diana Hardcastle.- Actor
- Writer
- Soundtrack
Born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee, Chris Parnell enrolled at
Germantown High School where he took drama and auditioned for every
play. In 1985, when he was a senior at Germantown, he was voted "Most
Talented" by his classmates. Right after graduating high school, Chris
attended North Carolina School of Arts in Winston-Salem, where he
received his BFA in Drama. He later performed with the Berkshire
Theatre in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and the Alley Theatre in
Houston, Texas. Afterwards Chris moved back to Tennessee and taught
acting, film, and video at his own Germantown High School. He became
bored, however, with teaching and moved to Los Angeles. Once in LA, he
got a job at FAO Schwartz in Beverly Center, where he eventually became
Operations Manager. During that time, Chris began taking classes at The
Groundlings Main Company, where many Saturday Night Live (1975) cast members are
discovered. Fate would have it that talent scouts from Saturday Night Live (1975) saw him
and asked him to fly to New York for an audition. Completely surprised
by his chances, he took the offer. To his amazement soon after he
joined Saturday Night Live (1975) and became a featured player in the 1998-99 season.
Parnell has since performed many impressions as NBC News' Tom Brokaw,
former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Tom Hanks, Senator John McCain, and Eminem.
Parnell has also appeared as a member of Saturday Night Live (1975)'s resident boy band
"Seven Degrees Celsius," but his biggest claim to fame on the show was
when he performed an unforgettable hardcore gansta rap fantasizing
about a dream date with Britney Spears on Weekend Update. He spends most of
his summers in L.A. where he owns his own car and
apartment.- Actor
- Soundtrack
Luke Newton was born on 5 February 1993 in England. He is an actor, known for Bridgerton (2020), The Lodge (2016) and The Cut (2009).- Actor
- Writer
- Camera and Electrical Department
Tim Meadows was born on 5 February 1961 in Highland Park, Michigan, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Mean Girls (2004), The Ladies Man (2000) and Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007). He was previously married to Michelle Taylor.- Actor
- Soundtrack
John Carradine, the son of a reporter/artist and a surgeon, grew up in
Poughkeepsie, New York. He attended Christ Church School and Graphic
Art School, studying sculpture, and afterward roamed the South selling
sketches. He made his acting debut in "Camille" in a New Orleans
theatre in 1925. Arriving in Los Angeles in 1927, he worked in local
theatre. He applied for a job as as scenic designer to
Cecil B. DeMille, who rejected his
designs but gave him voice work in several films. His on-screen debut
was in Tol'able David (1930),
billed as Peter Richmond. A protégé and close friend of
John Barrymore, Carradine was an
extremely prolific film character actor while simultaneously
maintaining a stage career in classic leading roles such as Hamlet and
Malvolio. In his later years he was typed as a horror star, putting in
appearances in many low- and ultra-low-budget horror films. He was a
member of the group of actors often used by director
John Ford that became known as "The
John Ford Stock Company". John Carradine died at age 82 of natural
causes on November 27, 1988.- Actor
- Producer
- Camera and Electrical Department
Jeremy Robert Myron Sumpter was born on February 5, 1989 in Monterey, California, to Sandra (Johnson) and Gary Sumpter. He was raised
in his mother's hometown, Mount Sterling, Kentucky. At a young age, he enjoyed mountain climbing and play with his friends like any other
normal kid, but when he went to Lexington, Kentucky, to model, he won the numerous awards and met his manager Mark Robert. Soon after that, Jeremy, his twin sister Jessica Sumpter, his little sister Gigi Sumpter, and his mom and dad moved to Los Angeles, California.
Jeremy's first movie was Frailty (2001), in which he played young Adam Meeks, opposite Bill Paxton and Matthew McConaughey. "Bill had been one of my favorite actors so to be able to work with him was unbelievable," says Jeremy. The adult Adam Meeks was played by Matthew McConaughey. His next movie was Local Boys (2002).
Jeremy was chosen by Danny Glover to play Henry Sturbuck in the Showtime original film Just A Dream. "Working with Danny was great, we had a great time filming in a small town in Utah," explains Jeremy. Jeremy received the "Best Performance in a TV Movie, Mini-Series or Special - Leading Young Actor" from the Young Artist Awards. Jeremy was able to use his surfing skills on his next film, "Local Boys." This coming of age film was shot on location in southern California. "This was a hard film to shoot since we were surfing at the beach almost everyday and there were all these girls around in bikinis," jokes Jeremy.
After a worldwide search, Jeremy was chosen to play "Peter" in the P.J. Hogan film Peter Pan (2003). This was one of the most coveted roles in films for a teen actor in recent years. "It was a part that I really wanted," says Jeremy, "since I'd be able to fight pirates and fly around the stage on wires." Jeremy trained extensively in sword fighting and gymnastics prior to shooting the movie in Australia. Clubhouse (2004) was Jeremy's first television series, a dream role since he had always loved baseball and played little league when he was younger. Jeremy was cast in the role of Justin in Cyber Seduction: His Secret Life. After wrapping, he immediately went on to star in The Sasquatch Dumpling Gang in Oregon. A lot of the people from Napoleon Dynamite were involved in the film and it was a lot of fun for him to shoot. Jeremy shot "Calvin Marshall" in Oregon.
Jeremy Sumpter shot the Warner Bros./New Line big budget film "Into the Storm" and the independent feature film "Animal."
"The Squeeze," a feature film which was released in 2015 and starred Jeremy and Christopher McDonald. They teed off in a high stakes gambling matches careening throughout the South and landing in Las Vegas. Jeremy was also Co-Producer.
Jeremy recently shot Take Down" which is being distributed around the world.
In the future, Jeremy hopes to also work behind the camera as a director and producer. In his spare time, he surfs, plays basketball, football, golf and shoots pool.- Charlbi Dean was born on 5 February 1990 in Cape Town, South Africa. She was an actress, known for Triangle of Sadness (2022), Spud (2010) and Don't Sleep (2017). She died on 29 August 2022 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.
- Actress
- Soundtrack
Nora Angela was born and grew up in El Paso, Texas. She spent several
years attending elementary school in Richardson, Texas, a suburb of
Dallas, before moving back to El Paso. When she was 14 she moved to
Dallas where she attended the McKinney High School for several years.
She attended the Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science for one year.
At the age of 18 she moved to California to pursue an acting career.
She appeared in a number of films like Tart (2001), American Pie 2
(2001), R.S.V.P. (2002), May (2002), 'The Song of Rose (2003)'and
others as well as in several TV series. She is best known for her role
as Laynie Hart from the WB's show, Everwood.- Actor
- Stunts
- Producer
Japanom Yeerum was born on February 5, 1976, in the northeastern
province of Surin, Thailand. His parents were elephant herders. Jaa
watched martial arts films as a young kid and began to emulate some of
his idols, from Bruce Lee to
Jackie Chan to
Jet Li. Jaa studied martial arts at the local
temple school and later under a scholarship at the Physical Education
College in Khon Kaen, Thailand where he continued to study Muay Boran,
Muay Thai, Wushu, Judo and Tae-Kwan-Do. Jaa later did some stunt for in a
film for
'Panna Rittikrai', This resulted in Jaa being seen and getting
work, doubling for Robin Shou and
James Remar in
Mortal Kombat: Annihilation (1997),
and when his demo reel was seen by director
Prachya Pinkaew, the film
Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior (2003) was created for Jaa. He
adopted the English name Tony Jaa. In 2013, after ending his association
with Sahamongkol Film, Jaa was contracted by Universal Studio's for a
role in Fast and Furious 7. Jaa now has starring roles in several
international films being filmed in 2014 and is concentrating his
efforts more towards international audiences.- Producer
- Director
- Writer
Jane Schoenbrun was born on 5 February 1987 in Ardsley, New York, USA. She is a producer and director, known for We're All Going to the World's Fair (2021), Collective: Unconscious (2016) and The Eyeslicer (2017).- Actress
- Director
- Writer
Esme Creed-Miles (born 5 February 2000) is an English actress, known for starring in the Amazon Video series Hanna.
Creed-Miles began her acting career as little Shirley Temple in the film Mister Lonely (2007) directed by Harmony Korine. Her next film appearance came ten years later when she was cast in Clio Barnard's Dark River. In an interview, Creed-Miles said that she had auditioned for roles in several independent films before she was chosen to star as the titular character in Hanna. According to the actress she trained in martial arts six hours a day for months as preparation for her fight scenes in the series. Creed-Miles valued how her role as Hanna enabled her to challenge societal norms about gender and sexuality. Creed-Miles has received positive reviews for her work in the series.
Creed-Miles is also a musician and feminist. She plays the lead in the 2019 films Pond Life and Undercliffe produced by Open Palm Films.- Actor
- Composer
- Writer
Darren Criss was born on 5 February 1987 in San Francisco, California, USA. He is an actor and composer, known for Little White Lie (2009), Glee (2009) and A Very Potter Musical (2009). He has been married to Mia Swier since 16 February 2019. They have one child.- Actor
- Producer
- Executive
David Ladd's professional career in Hollywood spans more than 40 years, beginning when he was a young boy performing in several films with his father, the legendary leading man Alan Ladd (his mother was actress Sue Carol). In the years since his first role, he has gone on to become a teenage film star, a senior production executive at MGM, and the producer of several studio films. He earned a degree in business administration from the University of Southern California (USC).
He first began working in production for ABC Television, producing movies and variety specials. He then moved to Columbia as a creative executive, before partnering with renowned producer John Veitch. Ladd's first solo producing credit on a motion picture was on the Wes Craven thriller, The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988). Under his production banner, David Ladd Films, he produced MGM's A Guy Thing (2003), directed by Chris Koch (starring Jason Lee and Julia Stiles); and Hart's War (2002), the critically-acclaimed World War II courtroom drama (starring Bruce Willis, Colin Farrell and Terrence Howard). Previously, Ladd served as Executive Vice-President of production for MGM.
During his nine years at the studio, he was instrumental in its resurgence, having supervised the development and production of numerous films, including Get Shorty (1995) (starring John Travolta, Gene Hackman, Rene Russo, and Danny DeVito); the courtroom thriller Red Corner (1997) (starring Richard Gere); Mulholland Falls (1996); The Cutting Edge (1992); and Untamed Heart (1993), among others.- Actor
- Location Management
A dual citizen of Luxembourg and the United States, David Meunier was born in Portland, Oregon February 5th, 1973 into a long line of farmers, carpenters, clothiers, and inventors from Luxembourg, Germany, and Russia. Although he considered pursuing a graphic arts major in college, Meunier instead spent his early twenties earning multiple degrees in both French and Dramatic Art Literature from universities in California and France. After performing in numerous stage productions in and around Santa Barbara throughout the 1990's, Meunier moved to Los Angeles in 1998 to begin his career in film and television.- Actress
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Aparna Brielle is an American actress who was born in Portland, Oregon. After an extensive childhood career as a professional dancer, she moved onto theatre, television, and film. She is best known for portraying Sarika Sarkar on the NBC comedy "A.P. Bio" after appearances in series such as "Grimm" (NBC) and "The Librarians" (TNT).- Aidan McArdle was born on 5 February 1970 in Dublin, Ireland. He is an actor, known for Ella Enchanted (2004), The Duchess (2008) and The Professor and the Madman (2019). He was previously married to Aislín McGuckin.
- Robin Sachs was a British actor from London who is known for playing Ethan Rayne from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. He also voiced Zaeed Massani from Mass Effect, Sergeant Sam Roderick from SpongeBob SquarePants, and Admiral Saul Karath from Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. He passed away in February 2013 due to heart failure.
- Actor
- Producer
- Writer
Raymond Lee was born in New York City, New York, USA. Raymond is an actor and producer, known for Quantum Leap (2022), Kevin Can F**k Himself (2021) and Top Gun: Maverick (2022). Raymond is married to Stacy Kusumolkul. They have two children.- Crystle Lightning, the Canadian Screen Award Winner for "Best Actress in a Drama Series" 2021, is an Indigenous Actress from the Enoch Cree Nation in Alberta. She began her career at age nine when she landed her first lead role in the feature: 3 NINJAS: Knuckle Up and has been working in the industry ever since.
Crystle's film and television appearances include "Yellowstone" on Paramount +, "Outlander" on Starz, "Trickster" (series lead) on The CW, "The Good Doctor" on ABC, "Rutherford Falls" on Peacock, "Ghosts" (recurring) on CBS, and recently the #1 Series on Amazon Prime TV "Three Pines" on Prime TV. This year, you will see Lightning in "Spirit Rangers" on Netflix, George R. R. Martin's "Mary Margaret Road Grader," directed by Steven Paul Judd, "Fancy Dance," directed by Erica Tremblay and "Bass Reeves" on Paramount +.
Lightning is co-creator and star of the all-Native, hit musical "BEAR GREASE," an Indigenous twist to the 1978 Classic, "Grease," marking her directorial debut.
In addition to acting, Lightning is a Hip Hop recording artist and a member of the award- winning group "LightningCloud." She has won Power 106's "Who's Next?" and Hot 97's "Battle for the Best." Additionally, she has recorded with a myriad of artists including Cypress Hill and Timbaland and toured with legends like Kendrick Lamar, Asap Rocky and Nicki Minaj.
Now, Crystle lives in Treaty 6, Alberta with her husband, son and 3 dogs. - Actress
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She is a former fashion model who briefly hosted the short-lived
Entertainment Tonight (1981) spin-off ET on MTV (2000). Based on that breakthrough she was cast as
the lead femme fatale in The Big Bounce (2004), which was a remake of a previous
movie adaptation of the same Elmore Leonard novel.- Actress
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- Producer
Brittany Allen is a multi-disciplinary artist: an Emmy-winning actor and film composer. She was raised in Toronto, Canada where she began acting at an early age. After graduating from Sheridan College for musical theatre, Allen was cast in All My Children. She went on to win an Emmy for her role. Following her time on the soap, Allen became known for her roles in Jigsaw, What Keeps You Alive and The Boys.
Allen's first theatrical score was for the critically acclaimed film What Keeps You Alive. She has since gone on to score for American Horror Stories, Two Sentence Horror Stories, Torn Hearts (Blumhouse); Scrambled (Lionsgate). She lives in Los Angeles with her partner and frequent collaborator, filmmaker Colin Minihan and their son.- Actor
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As they say, like father, like son. Cowboy hero Tim Holt avidly
followed in the boots of his famous character-actor dad, the
granite-jawed Jack Holt (b. Charles
John Holt), who appeared in hundreds of silents and talkies (many of
them westerns) over the years. The two actually appeared together as
father and son in the western
The Arizona Ranger (1948), and
Jack was glimpsed (as a hobo in the Mexican flophouse that
Humphrey Bogart,
Walter Huston, and Tim were staying in) in
the classic
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948).
Also a part of the acting Holt clan was the beautiful "prairie flower"
Jennifer Holt (nee Elizabeth
Marshall Holt), Tim's younger sister, who appeared in scores of 1940s
oaters. The three, however, never performed together in a single film.
Tim was born Charles John Holt, Jr. in Beverly Hills on February 5,
1918, to Jack and his wife, Margaret Woods, at a time when Jack was
just making a dent in silent films. Nicknamed "Tim", he was raised on
his father's ranch in Fresno, where he performed outside chores and
learned to ride a horse. Tim, in fact, made his debut at age 10 in one
of his father's westerns,
The Vanishing Pioneer (1928),
based on a Zane Grey story. He played
Jack's character as a young boy.
The boyishly rugged, athletically inclined Tim attended military school
in his teens, excelling in polo. While studying at college, he married
his college sweetheart,
Virginia Ashcroft, in 1938. At this
point he decided to try to put together an acting career. Virginia
herself made a very brief foray into acting.
Tim apprenticed at various stock companies before he eased his way back
into films with an unbilled part in
History Is Made at Night (1937).
He then earned strong notices in the classic
Barbara Stanwyck tearjerker
Stella Dallas (1937) and as
Olivia de Havilland's brother in
Gold Is Where You Find It (1938).
His horseback riding capabilities and fast-drawing technique quickly
kicked in with
The Law West of Tombstone (1938),
and he joined a superb cast in
John Ford's classic western
Stagecoach (1939) as a by-the-book
cavalry lieutenant.
Hardly confined to westerns at this early stage, Tim showed impressive
acting abilities in comedy
(Fifth Avenue Girl (1939)), adventures
(Swiss Family Robinson (1940)),
and high drama (Back Street (1941)),
all for RKO Pictures. He reached an early peak when
Orson Welles cast him against type as the
cruel, malicious son George in
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942),
a role Welles initially contemplated playing himself. By the mid
'40s,
however, Tim had settled into the western genre. He starred in a series
of dusty RKO features partnered with comic Cliff Edwards
by his side and also appeared solo elsewhere.
World War II interrupted his thriving career. He was a decorated hero
(Distinguished Flying Cross, Victory Medal, and Presidential Unit
Citation among his awards) while serving in the Air Corps and was
discharged with the rank of second lieutenant. Wounded over Tokyo on the
last day of the war, he was also given the Purple Heart. He made an
auspicious return to films in the role of Virgil Earp in Ford's
My Darling Clementine (1946)
and then continued in a somewhat lesser vein with "B"-level oaters. He
came to the forefront one more time, co-starring with gold prospecting
rivals Humphrey Bogart and
Walter Huston in
John Huston's masterpiece
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948),
arguably the high point of Tim's entire film career, which rightfully
earned him the best notices he ever received.
Richard Martin became his
second sidekick in another popular string of RKO westerns, with Tim
repeatedly making the "top ten" ranks of money-making cowboy stars.
Appearing almost exclusively for RKO from 1939 on, Tim eventually
became disillusioned with the quality of his pictures and decided to
abandon films after appearing in RKO's
Desert Passage (1952) while still
a popular draw. Divorced from his second wife, Alice Harrison, he
retired for the most part to his Oklahoma ranch with his third wife,
Berdee Stephens, and their three children. He later became a manager
for a radio station in Oklahoma City. In 1957 he came out of retirement
to head up the cast in the subpar sci-fi horror film
The Monster That Challenged the World (1957)
and then quickly returned to obscurity.
Little was heard from Tim over the years save a co-starring role in a
low-budget hillbilly moonshine extravaganza for exploitation king
Herschell Gordon Lewis called
This Stuff'll Kill Ya! (1971).
He was diagnosed with bone cancer in August of 1972 and passed away
rather quickly on February 15, 1973, shortly after his 54th birthday.
Buried in Oklahoma, he was posthumously inducted into the Western
Performers Hall of Fame in 1991 and was a recipient of the "Golden
Boot" award in 1992.- Actress
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Andrea Deck was born on 5 February 1994 in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Homeland (2011), The Crown (2016) and Les Misérables (2012).- Peg Entwistle was born on February 5, 1908 in Port Talbot, Wales at the home of her maternal grandparents, John and Caroline Stevenson because Caroline was to act as midwife. Peg's mother was Emily Stevenson Entwistle and her father was actor/ stage manager Robert Symes Entwistle (1872-1922). They married on November 3, 1904. When mother and child were able to travel, the family returned to their modest home in the London neighborhood of West Kensington where Peg spent the first few years of her life.
Both Robert and his brother Charles Harold Entwistle were actors. This no doubt influenced Peg Entwistle's acting aspirations from a very early age. So much of Robert and Peg's history is tied to Charles because it was Charles who was their lifeline, the one who saved the day, time after time. By 1908 when Peg was born, both brothers were working steadily as actors. Charles Entwistle not only had more experience, he had better contacts. His New York employer was famous stage producer Charles Frohman who, with his two brothers Daniel and Gustave Frohman, owned or had access to over 800 theaters in Europe and the United States. Charles Entwistle trained as an actor in Paris and Heidelberg, but it was his great organizational skills that showed he was best suited to working as a manager and business agent in England. He was accustomed to dealing with actor contracts, touring arrangements, and temperamental theater owners. In 1906, producer Charles Frohman paid Charles Entwistle's way to America and introduced him to the Broadway stage. It was around this time that Frohman gave him the job of managing the great Shakespearean actor Walter Hampden. They became fast friends which lasted until Charles Entwistle's death in 1944. At least once a year, Charles Frohman sailed from New York to Europe, to check on his theaters and to shop for new plays. As a valued employee, Charles Entwistle often accompanied him and was trusted to manage Frohman's affairs in his absence.
Peg's father Robert evidently got enough work as an actor to comfortably take care of his family because while their home was not lavish, it was in a London neighborhood where the homes were slightly upscale. No doubt it probably came as quite a surprise to their family, friends and neighbors when Robert Entwistle decided to divorce his wife Emily in 1910. After a bitter custody dispute, Robert was granted full custody of his two year old daughter. However he lied when he told Peg that her mother had died. Peg believed it, because she never saw her mother again. But, she wasn't dead.
Years later when Robert Entwistle died in 1922, Peg was 14 years old. There was a mysterious statement in Robert Entwistle's Last Will and Testament dated December 15, 1922 in which Robert Entwistle stated: " Millicent Lilian Entwistle is the daughter of my first wife whom I divorced and the custody of my said daughter was awarded to me. I do not desire said daughter to be at any time in the custody or control of her said mother."
If Emily Stevenson were dead, such a statement would not have been necessary at all. Her Uncle Charles verified that her mother did not die in 1910 as she was told, that her parents had divorced in 1910 because Emily Stevenson had been having an affair with an actor named Julius Shaw who later died in 1918 during WWI. This explanation, in part, explains Robert's mysterious statement.
The date of the letter and Will are suspicious because they were dated December 15, 1922, almost 12 years after her mother supposedly died. The date is also suspect because Robert Entwistle was hit by the limo on the evening of November 2, 1922, and was in a coma until he died on December 19, 1922. He was likely heavily medicated due to his injuries which according to the interview Charles Entwistle gave to the New York Times, his ribs and his spine were lodged in his brain. Robert Entwistle could not have been of sound mind to authorize the Will or the letter.
The year 1910 was momentous for King Edward VII too. When he died, everything stopped for about a year. For the coronation of his successor, King George V, celebrations were planned on a grand scale. Charles Entwistle's employer, producer Charles Frohman was chosen for the planning committee to choose and schedule the festivities at His Majesty's Theater in London. To perform Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, the committee chose Robert and Charles Entwistle. Peg, at not quite three years old, had a ringside seat to watch her father and uncle perform for King Edward V and Queen Mary.
When the festivities were over, Charles Entwistle went back to work in New York and Robert stayed in England to raise Peg with help from his family. In 1911, Charles Entwistle, age 45, met successful stage actress Jane Ross, age 26. Their courtship consisted of commuting back and forth between stage work in New York and relaxing at her ranch in Santa Monica, California. They married on June 5, 1912 at her family's home in Ohio. When they returned from their honeymoon, they were hired by the Shubert brothers to tour the United States with one play after another with short and long engagements. In April 1913, Charles and his bride sailed back to England on the SS Olympic so Jane could meet Robert, Peg and the rest of the Entwistle family. His employer, Charles Frohman also happened to be traveling on the SS Olympic. After dinner, Charles Entwistle inquired if Frohman had an open position for his brother Robert. Charles Frohman promised to hire him initially as a stage manager and to bring Robert and his daughter to New York.
Charles Frohman interviewed Robert Entwistle in England and hired him as stage manager in Frohman's New York theaters. Charles, Jane, Robert and Peg sailed from England on the SS Chicago and arrived in New York on July 29, 1913, marking Peg's official move to the US. Various accounts give the year 1916 as the year Robert and Peg 'first' sailed from England to New York on the SS Philadelphia. They did sail on the SS Philadelphia in 1916, but that was not Robert's or Peg's first trip. The reason their names were on the ship's 1916 manifest was because Robert, Peg, new wife Lauretta, Charles and Jane were sailing home to England from New York to attend a family reunion. Further proof was that Robert had been working on plays in the United States several times since 1912 with Charles Frohman's touring companies. It is Jane's diary that documents everyone's movements from 1911 onward when she first met Charles Entwistle, proving that Robert Entwistle and his daughter had sailed to the United States long before the 1916 date.
When Charles Entwistle introduced his new wife to his brother, Robert was bowled over and not so jokingly inquired if she had any sisters. She did.
From July 1913 on, life got busy and stayed busy. Rehearsals began for Robert's Broadway debut in The Younger Generation at Charles Frohman's Lyceum Theater which was scheduled for September 1913. That same month, Robert Entwistle was introduced to Jane's sister Lauretta Ross who would become his second wife. While Robert enjoyed acting and being a stage manager, more than anything he wanted to own his own business and raise a family. He opened a specialty shop on Madison Avenue where he made elaborate gift boxes for wealthy clients.
On July 29, 1914, Robert and Lauretta were married in Clarklake, Michigan. Peg was six years old and stayed with her new Ross relatives while her father and her new mother went on their honeymoon to Niagara Falls. In September 1914, the New York Times reviewed the Broadway production of The Beautiful Adventure with Robert Entwistle's name simply as a mention on the cast list. Meanwhile, Charles and Jane began the transition from stage plays in New York to making motion pictures in California. Charles already made his directorial debut and he felt that films were the next step. Peg spent a lot of time at both her father's home and her uncle's two homes. She was introduced to Jane's Santa Monica ranch, and enjoyed spending time in the stables.
On May 7, 1915, the RMS Lusitania was torpedoed by a German U-boat and over 1198 people were killed. Among the passengers who were killed was Charles Frohman, the Entwistle's New York employer. His body (#24) was recovered the next day. There were several memorial tributes held in the US and in England. Robert, Lauretta and Peg Entwistle attended his funeral with Charles Entwistle's friend Walter Hampden and his wife Mabel Moore. Charles and Jane attended one of the memorials held in California.
Robert and Lauretta had two sons: Milton Ross Entwistle was born in 1917. He died in 2018 at the age of 100. Robert Bleaks Entwistle was born in 1919. He died in 2004 at age 85. Tragedy struck this family again and again: On April 2, 1921, Lauretta died suddenly from meningitis leaving Robert with 14 year old Peg, 4 year old Milton and 2 year old Robert. Charles and Jane came to the rescue to help out as did the Ross family in Ohio and Michigan. Then, a little over a year later, at 10:30pm on November 2, 1922 (Election Day), Peg's father, Robert was struck by a limousine driver on Park Avenue at 72nd Street after leaving his Madison Avenue specialty shop. The limo driver was observed looking at the injured man lying on the ground, then he ran back to the limo and quickly drove away. A man and woman at the scene transported Robert Entwistle to the Accident Ward at Presbyterian Hospital where it was determined that he was in a coma due to his injuries. When he was stabilized, Robert Entwistle was moved to Bellevue Hospital and then moved one last time to Prospect Heights Hospital, a private hospital in Brooklyn. None of the pedestrian observers wrote down the correct license number of the limo. Robert Entwistle lay in coma for 47 days and died on December 18th, 1922 at Prospect Heights Hospital. His brother Charles Harold Entwistle said, when he was interviewed by the New York Times at his Hotel Flanders suite, that Robert's spine was broken in two places and had penetrated the brain which was the actual cause of death. The newspaper reported that Robert was about 50 years old, and left three children: Millicent, age 15, Milton, age 5, and Robert, age 4. His body was taken to Cincinnati and buried next to his second wife Lauretta Ross Entwistle in Oak Hill Cemetery in Glendale, Ohio.
Charles and Jane Entwistle adopted Peg, Milton and Robert. In 1924, they enrolled Peg in Henry Jewett's Repertory School in Boston to study acting. She was one of the Henry Jewett Players and studied with famed director & actress, Blanche Yurka. In 1925, Charles Entwistle's friend and employer, actor Walter Hampden, gave Peg her first Broadway role in his production of Hamlet, starring Ethel Barrymore. It was an uncredited walk-on part where she carried the King's train and brought in the poison cup, but it was enough for Peg to attract the attention of scouts from the prestigious New York Theatre Guild. She was the youngest actress ever to be recruited. At age 17, Peg played the role of Hedvig in the 1925 production of Henrik Ibsen's "The Wild Duck." It was after seeing this play that Bette Davis said to her mother that she wanted to be exactly like Peg Entwistle. She claimed Peg was her inspiration to study acting.
Peg went on to play good supporting roles with Dorothy Gish, Laurette Taylor, Henry Travers, William Gillette, Robert Cummings, Romney Brent, and other famous directors, producers, actors and actresses. George M. Cohan personally directed her in one of his original Broadway comedies. Peg traveled around the country as a representative of the Guild during a special tour celebrating the Theatre Guild's ten-year birthday. The tour was orchestrated by the great Bernard Shaw. Peg received rave reviews in each play, including plays the critics did not like. Her longest running play was the 1927 hit play Tommy starring Sidney Toler. It ran for 232 performances and is the play for which Peg is most remembered.
On April 18, 1927, Peg married actor Robert Keith in the chapel of the New York City Clerk's office. Keith, who was also a writer, notably "The Tightwad," wasn't exactly truthful with her. Nearly a year after they married, Peg learned that Robert had been married twice before and had a son by his second wife that he was now expected to take care of while his mother, stage actress Helen Shipman, toured with plays. In 1928, feeling there was no other choice, Peg became the stepmother of Robert's son, a child actor named Brian, who grew up to become Brian Keith, star of the 1960's TV series Family Affair (aired 1966-1971). Peg divorced Robert Keith in May of 1929 on the grounds of infidelity, cruelty and concealing that he had a child. Robert Keith married again in 1930 to Dorothy Tierney and remained married till he died in 1966 at age 68. His son Brian Keith committed suicide (by gunshot) at age 75 on June 24, 1997. He left a suicide note saying he was in despair about his health problems (lung cancer) and depressed because he missed his daughter Daisy Keith Sampson, an actress who starred with Brian Keith on Heartland, who had committed suicide two months prior on April 16, 1997.
In 1932, after the popular James Barrie revival of "Alice Sit-By-The-Fire" was pulled because of problems with the star actress, Laurette Taylor, Peg Entwistle was brought out to Los Angeles by producers Edward DeBlasio and
Homer Curran especially to co-star opposite Billie Burke and Humphrey Bogart in a tryout production of Romney Brent's "The Mad Hopes." The show was a huge smash and Peg was again given accolades. Three days after the production had ended, Peg was in her room at her uncle and aunt's California house at 2428 Beachwood Drive, packing to go back to New York, when RKO Pictures called. They asked if she would come in to do a screen test. She did and was soon signed to a small role in David O. Selznick's Thirteen Women (1932), with Irene Dunne and Myrna Loy. The film was a flop despite the talents of movie stars like Irene Dunne and Myrna Loy. Peg's contract was not renewed.
It was the worst year of The Great Depression. Money was tight for everyone. Peg was broke and had no way to get back to New York. There were no stage roles to be had in Los Angeles. In her mind, with no prospects, everything seemed hopeless. On Friday evening, September 16th, 1932, Peg left a note for her Uncle Charles and Aunt Jane Entwistle saying that she was going to visit friends and to buy some books. On Sunday, September 18th, 1932, a hiker found Peg's coat, one of her shoes and her purse containing her suicide note. The hiker saw her body lying about one hundred feet below the 50-foot tall letter "H" of the Hollywoodland sign. She gathered up Peg's things, went to the Los Angeles Police Department's Hollywood Station and left them on their step. Then the hiker called Central Station to report where she left the items and to give them the location of the body.
When police found her body, they believed that Peg had climbed up a workman's ladder that had been leaning up against the back of the letter "H" and she jumped head-first to her death. The note found in Peg's purse read: "I am afraid, I am a coward. I am sorry for everything. If I had done this a long time ago, it would have saved a lot of pain. P.E." (the initials of her name). An autopsy was performed showing the cause of death was internal bleeding caused by "multiple fractures of the pelvis." No alcohol was present. Because of no identification found in her purse, it took two days for her uncle to recognize the details from a newspaper report and to come forward to identify her body.
Peg's only film credit was Thirteen Women (1932) starring Myrna Loy and Irene Dunne. It was produced by David O Selznick and was released about one month after her death on October 14, 1932.
The nickname, "The Hollywoodland Sign Girl" was given by an editor at the now defunct Los Angeles Herald Examiner newspaper.
Peg is buried in the family plot with her father and her stepmother Lauretta in Oak Hill Cemetery in Glendale, Ohio. (not to be confused with Forest Lawn Cemetery in Glendale, CA).
Charles Harold Entwistle (b. September 5, 1866 - d. April 1, 1944) died at the age of 77. Jane Ross Entwistle (b. December 22, 1885 - d. January 14, 1957) died at the age of 71. Both are buried at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Glendale, CA.
Milton Ross Entwistle was cremated when he died at age 100 on February 1, 2018.
Robert Bleaks Entwistle died on October 31, 2004 at age 85 and is buried in Valhalla Memorial Park in North Hollywood, CA
What a talented family, some of whom met with their own tragic ends. Although she only made one film, it is Peg's stage accomplishments for which she should be most remembered. But unfortunately, she will always be remembered as the only person to ever jump to her death from the Hollywoodland sign. - Actor
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Tall (6'3"), darkly handsome, seriously-looking David Selby, highly regarded for his villainous work on both
daytime and nighttime soap classics, was born on February 5, 1941, in Morgantown, West
Virginia. He attended West Virginia University and graduated with both
B.S. and M.A. degrees from West Virginia University, then earned a
Ph.D. from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale.
In his hometown, he made his stage debut in 1961 and appeared in such productions as "Brigadoon," "Oklahoma!, "Tiger at the Gates" and "Romeo and Juliet (as Mercutio). He went on appear in repertory and stock productions throughout the decade in such productions as "The Last Days of Lincoln" (as Abraham Lincoln), the title role in "Oedipus Rex," "Inherit the Wind," the title role in "Krapp's Last Case," "You Can't Take It With You," "Brecht on Brecht" and "The Tempest." In New York from 1967, he appeared in "The Impossible Years" and "Sticks and Bones."
He achieved instant attention on TV when he was signed on as Quentin Collins, a werewolf, on the
gothic daytime drama Dark Shadows (1966), inheriting heartthrob status and even recorded two songs during the
show's run, "Quentin's Theme" and "I Wanna Dance With You." After the
series' demise, he made his movie debut with Night of Dark Shadows (1971), the second film based on the cult series.
Selby toyed with film stardom in the early 1970s after co-starring as Barbra Streisand's beleaguered husband in the riotous comedy Up the Sandbox (1972), playing the lead opposite Maud Adams in the minor Canadian drama The Girl in Blue (1973), and sharing the title role with Ron Leibman in the crime comedy The Super Cops (1974)). When it didn't pan out, he aggressively turned back to TV with guest parts on "The Waltons," "Police Woman," "Kojak" and "Family," and a role in the acclaimed mini-series Washington: Behind Closed Doors (1977), plus several TV movies. He also continued his high-profiled pace on the New York theatre stage with productions of "The Playboy of the Western World," "The Heiress," with Jane Alexander and Richard Kiley, and "Eccentricities of a Nightingale" opposite Betsy Palmer. He also played Brick in the 1975 national tour of "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof."
Returning to either co-star or support roles in films, David's credits would include Rich Kids (1979), Raise the Titanic (1980) and Rich and Famous (1981). He was given an extra shot of adrenalin when, in 1981, he joined the night-time soap opera scene with the second season of Flamingo Road (1980). He didn't hit real pay dirt, however, until he squared off with tough-as-nails Jane Wyman as her scheming son in the long-running series Falcon Crest (1981) in which he won a Soap Opera Digest award.
Following the end of his hit series in 1990, David returned to the big screen offering white-collar support to Julia Roberts in Dying Young (1991); Richard Gere in Intersection (1994); Jeff Bridges in White Squall (1996); James Spader in Shadow of Fear (2004); Ben Affleck in Surviving Christmas (2004); Cuba Gooding Jr. in End Game (2006); Jesse Eisenberg in The Social Network (2010); a guest cameo in the Johnny Depp remake of Dark Shadows (2012); Owen Wilson in Are You Here (2013); and Kristen Stewart in Equals (2015). He also kept busy on TV with guest appearances on "Touched by an Angel," "Ally McBeal," "Cold Case," "Castle Rock," "Chicago Fire" and "NCIS: New Orleans."
Always returning to his love for the live stage, later theatrical credits include "The Crucible" (as John Proctor), "The Night of the Iguana" (as Shannon), "Much Ado About Nothing" (as Benedick), several productions of "Love Letters," "A Long Day's Journey Into Night" (as James Tyrone), "Lincoln and James" (as Lincoln, which he wrote), and "A Delicate Balance" (as Tobias). David also penned the play "Final Assault" which premiered in 2003. A long-time staple player in radio drama with the L.A. Theatre Works, he has written books of poetry, plays and several novels including Promises of Love and A Casualty of Indifference.
David and his wife Chip ran a summer children's musical theatre in New York for ten years before moving to Los Angeles. They have three children.- Actress
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Paige Howard was born on 5 February 1985 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for Adventureland (2009), The Employer (2013) and stalkTALK (2011).- Actress
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- Producer
Crystal Hunt was born on 5 February 1985 in Clearwater, Florida, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for Hilton Head Island (2017), Magic Mike XXL (2015) and Sydney White (2007).- Actress
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Myndy Crist was born on 5 February 1971 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for The Time Machine (2002), Dark Skies (2013) and The Jane Austen Book Club (2007). She is married to Josh Stamberg. They have two children.- Actor
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Abhishek Bachchan, is an actor, producer, singer, voice-over artiste and an entrepreneur. He has done over 70 films. He won critical acclaim for his portrayal of an angsty young goon in 'Yuva' (2004). He received the Filmfare 'Best Supporting Actor' Award for this role and continued this winning streak with 'Sarkar' (2005), 'Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna' (2006), 'Dostana' (2008), 'Paa' (2009) and 'Bol Bachchan' (2012).
Born in Mumbai, India on February 5th 1976 to Bollywood legends Amitabh Bachchan and Jaya Bachchan (née Bhaduri).
After schooling in the Bombay Scottish school, then Jamnabai Narsee school and then Modern school (Vasant Vihar, New Delhi), he was sent to Aiglon College an international boarding school in Switzerland. After which he enrolled in Boston University to study Arts. He dropped out of college and moved back to Mumbai to pursue his acting career. Making his debut in JP Dutta's Refugee (2000).
Abhishek lives in Mumbai, India with his wife, actor Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and their daughter Aaradhya Bachchan. Time Magazine (2007) listed them on its list of most influential Indians. And they made quite a splash when they appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show (2009).
Over the years he has become famous for his versatility and the variety of films that he has been a part of; ranging from 'Yuva' (2004), The 'Dhoom' series (2004, 2006, 2013), Sarkar (2005), 'Bluffmaster' (2005), the highly acclaimed 'Guru' (2007), 'Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna' (2006), 'Paa' (2009, which he produced and won a National Award for Best Film - Hindi), to the blockbusters 'Bol Bachchan' (2012) and 'Happy New Year' (2014).
In 2016 he took a sabbatical from acting to re-evaluate himself and concentrate on his other passion, sports. He owns teams in the Pro Kabaddi League (Jaipur Pink Panthers) and in the Indian Super League (Chennaiyin Football Club). He has always maintained, "Entrepreneurship and acting can't be taught. They have to be done with passion."
He returned to films in 2018 with the critically acclaimed 'Manmarziyaan' (2018). As audiences for streaming platforms began growing, he did the Hindi voice of Bagheera for Mowgli on Netflix (voiced by Christian Bale in English); and plays the lead in season two of Breathe, one of the biggest shows on Amazon Prime Video.
He turned film producer with R. Balki's National-Award Winning comedy-drama, 'Paa', in which he played father to Amitabh Bachchan (his real-life father). Since then, he has produced several films through his production company, 'Saraswati Entertainment'.
Trying his hand at rapping, Abhishek hit all the right notes with the song 'Right Here Right Now' from 'Bluffmaster'.
Continuing to essay strong roles in his quest of great characters and films, Bachchan continues to be one of the most sought after and dependable actors in the industry.- Rebecca Welles was born on 5 February 1928 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. She was an actress, known for Wire Service (1956), Juvenile Jungle (1958) and Lights Out (1946). She was married to Don Weis and Barton Lawrence Goldberg. She died on 13 February 2017 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.
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Although Red Buttons is best known as a stand-up comic, he is also a
successful songwriter, an Academy Award-winning actor (and has been
nominated for two Golden Globe awards) and an accomplished singer. Born
Aaron Chwatt in New York City's Lower East Side, Buttons (who got his
name from a uniform he wore while working as a singing bellhop) started
his show-business career singing on street corners as a child. At 16 he
got a job as part of a comedy act playing the famed Catskills resort
area in upstate New York (his partner was future actor Robert Alda).
Buttons worked the burlesque circuit as a comic and even landed a role
in a Broadway play, "Vicki", in 1942. He soon joined the U.S. Marine
Corps, and in 1943 was picked for a role in Moss Hart's service play
"Winged Victory" on Broadway, and soon afterwards journeyed to
Hollywood to make the film version. After his discharge from the
service he returned to Broadway, both in plays and as a comic with
several big-band orchestras. He was successful enough that he got his
own TV series, The Red Buttons Show (1952), on CBS. It lasted three years and won Buttons
an Emmy for Best Comedian. He worked steadily for the next several
years, and in 1957 got his big film break in the drama Sayonara (1957) with
Marlon Brando, in which he played an American soldier stationed in Japan who
struggled against the societal and racist pressures of both American
and Japanese cultures because of his love for a Japanese woman. His
performance garnered him an Academy Award, and more film roles
followed. He played a paratrooper in The Longest Day (1962), was nominated for a Golden Globe for Harlow (1965) and again for
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969). He had a part in the TV series The Double Life of Henry Phyfe (1966) and has done pretty
much every kind of TV show there is, from variety to comedy to soap
operas. He gained further renown in the 1970s for his appearances on
the "Dean Martin Celebrity Roast" where he performed his "Never Got a
Dinner" act to great acclaim. He has played Las Vegas for years, has a
star on Hollywood Boulevard (corner of Hollywood and Vine) and has
appeared in numerous telethons and charitable events, for which he has
been honored by such organizations as the Friars Club and the City of
Hope Hospital.- Actor
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Jordan Nagai was born on 5 February 2000 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is an actor, known for Up (2009), Up: The Video Game (2009) and The Simpsons (1989).- Writer
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Stephen J. Cannell was raised in Pasadena, California. His father ran
an interior design firm. From an early age, Stephen suffered from
undiagnosed dyslexia, which made it nearly impossible from him to do
well in school, he either flunked or was held back many times. Even
though one of the courses he had trouble with was English, he wrote in
one of his yearbooks that it was his ambition to be an author. After a
lot of work, he managed to graduate from high school and attend the
University of Oregon. He worked for his father's design firm while he
wrote television scripts and story ideas after work. He sold his first
story ideas to Mission: Impossible (1966) and his first script to It Takes a Thief (1968). His first
steady job in television was as a story editor on Adam-12 (1968). He created a
character named Jim Rockford for a script he wrote for the series
Toma (1973), a show he was producing at the time. That script was rejected
by ABC, so it was rewritten and eventually became the pilot for the
classic NBC series, The Rockford Files (1974). From there, it becomes nearly impossible
to list all of his work. He has either written or co-written over 300
television scripts, created or co-created over two dozen television
series, formed a successful production company, wrote best-selling
police novels and even acted in his own and other producers' shows. He
has won an Emmy, two Writer's Guild Awards, two Edgar Award Nominations
and has a star on the Hollywood Blvd. Walk of Fame. Despite his many
accolades, his first love continued to be writing. A co-worker of his
on "Rockford", writer and The Sopranos (1999) creator David Chase, was once quoted as
saying no person he ever met seemed to love writing as much as Stephen
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Vivian Wu (Chinese name : Wu JunMei) is a Chinese American actress and producer. Born in Shanghai, China, to Zhu ManFang, a famous Chinese actress and Wu ChengYe, a college professor, she was discovered by female director HuangShuQin during her visit to her mother's film set when she was 15 years old and was offered one of the lead roles in Huang's Long Live Youth launching her prolific acting career. While completing high school, Wu was also starring in numerous films and soon became one of the nation's most promising young stars.
During her third year as an actress Vivian was chosen by legendary director Bernardo Bertolucci to play the role of Wen Xiu, in his iconic Oscar-winning film, The Last Emperor. Bertolucci's film introduced Vivian to the international stage outside of mainland China. Vivian was the first Asian actress to receive a Best Supporting Actress nomination at the prestigious Italian David Donatello film festival.
Vivian then went to Hawaii Pacific University to study Travel Industry Management. After moving to Los Angeles in 1990, she was selected by People Magazine as one of the fifty most beautiful people in the world. Since 1990, she has dedicated herself full-time to her acting career.
Besides for The Last Emperor, she is also known for her roles in The Joy Luck Club, and Heaven and Earth. More notably, Vivian starred with Ewan McGregor in Peter Greenaway's award-wining The Pillow Book which also won Cannes' Certain Regard Award. Vivian's remarkable portrayal of Nagiko, a deeply obsessed Japanese woman earned her international raving reviews.
In addition to her notable Western films and television work, Vivian continues her impressive career in China. She has starred in several independent feature films and garnered excellent reviews for such international films as Chinaman and Eve and the Firehorse, the latter which earned her a nomination for Canada's Genie Award, for her outstanding performance of MeiLing.
In 2018, Cathy Yan offered Vivian the leading role in her directorial debut Dead Pigs. Vivian's energetic performance of Candy won her and her three costars a Best Performance by an Ensemble Cast Award at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. Recent television credits then include hit series such as Wo Ju, Ru Yi Zhuan, Hot Mama etc..
Vivian has also been involved in many charity foundations. In 1999, she founded the "Vivian Wu and Friends Educational Charity Foundation" in Shanghai to aid children with special educational needs.
Vivian has been married to Oscar Luis Costo, a Cuban/American producer/writer/director. The two met on the set of Vanishing Son, in which Vivian starred in and Oscar produced. Their 1996 Shanghai wedding in China was featured by People Magazine in their Celebrity Weddings of the Year Special Edition. Vivian was selected as the best-dressed bride of the year. She and Oscar have collaborated on several projects together, and in 2004, Vivian produced and starred in Oscar's feature film Shanghai Red.
In 2019, Vivian spent over half a year in North America, playing the role of Dr. Lu Wang, a series regular, on the Netflix series Away - a new dramatic series premiering globally on September 4th, 2020.- Actress
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Jamie Brewer is known for her breakthrough dimensional role as
Adelaide 'Addie' Langdon in
American Horror Story (2011).
She has a theatre background which started in 1999. She has continued her theatre and improvisation training at the 'Ruskin School of Acting', and at the 'Howard Fine Acting School'. Jamie appeared/spoke in PSA's for the "Souper Bowl" of Caring Houston Food Drive" in Houston, TX for 2 consecutive years which aired on NBC, ABC, and CBS.
Brewer is involved with a several non-profit organizations, including DSAOC,
DSALA, BTAP, National Down Syndrome Congress, the American
Association of People with Disabilities of the United States, Shane's Inspiration, and Easterseals.- Actor
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Jonathan Freeman is an American actor, puppeteer and singer who is known for voicing Jafar from Disney's Aladdin franchise. He portrayed Jafar in four animated films, five video games including Kingdom Hearts, an animated series, a 2011 Broadway musical and other Aladdin media. He also did the puppeteering and voice for Tito Swing from Shining Time Station.- Actress
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Kimberly Daugherty was born on 5 February 1989 in Walnut Creek, California, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for A Christmas Movie Christmas (2019), The Duel (2016) and Grey's Anatomy (2005). She has been married to Brant Daugherty since 15 June 2019. They have two children.- Actress
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Adassa plays Dolores in Disney's blockbuster hit "Encanto" and is featured on Billboard's chart-topping song "We Don't Talk About Bruno." As a bilingual Afro-Latino voice actress, singer, and songwriter, Adassa's work spans from animation to arena performances at Madison Square Garden. Adassa first emerged as a talent in Mc Donald's national "Me Encanta" campaign and later landed commercial roles with brands like Toyota and Proctor and Gamble's Secret. Adassa's dynamic four-octave vocal range and artistry have resulted in features and performances on songs with Pitbull, Flo Rida, Snoop Dogg, Daddy Yankee, Ciara, Missy Elliott, and Luis Fonsi among others. In addition to Adassa's vocal prowess, she is a sought-after lyricist having written for the catalogs of Warner, Universal, and SONY. Adassa is married to Gabriel Candiani. They have seven children together.- Actress
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Leslie Zemeckis is a best-selling author, actress, and award-winning documentarian. Critically acclaimed films include "Behind the Burly Q," the true story of old-time burlesque in America which ran on Showtime. The award-winning "Bound by Flesh" about conjoined twin Daisy and Violet Hilton, and the award-winning "Mabel, Mabel, Tiger Trainer" chronicling the extraordinary world of the first female tiger trainer, Mabel Stark, in the early part of the 20th century and her award-winning film "Grandes Horizontales" about the lives and loves of the 19th Century courtesans in Paris has won numerous Best Documentary awards at festivals throughout the world and will soon be streaming.
Zemeckis is the author of three best-sellers, "Behind the Burly Q," the definitive oral history of burlesque, "Goddess of Love Incarnate; the Life of Stripteuse Lili St. Cyr" and "Feuding Fan Dancers" (an SCIBA finalist for best bio of the year), about Sally Rand, Faith Bacon and the golden age of the showgirl. She is currently at work writing about the January 2018 debris flow tragedy in Montecito.- Actress
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Özge Gürel is a Turkish actress. Özge Gürel was born in Istanbul. She lived in Silivri, Turkey until she finished high school. Her father is of Circassian descent while her maternal family were Turkish immigrants from Thessaloniki. She left International Trade department of Beykent University. She took acting management lessons after acting lessons. She step into the world of acting with the character of Zeynep in Kizim Nerede (2010). In 2014 she became the lead actress in Cherry Season (2014) and started to being known. She played the lead role of Nazli Pinar Aslan in Full Moon (2017) with her co-star Can Yaman who played Ferit Aslan.