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James Paul Marsden, or better known as just James Marsden, was born on
September 18, 1973, in Stillwater, Oklahoma, to Kathleen (Scholz) and
James Luther Marsden. His father, a distinguished Professor of Animal
Sciences & Industry at Kansas State University, and his mother, a
nutritionist, divorced when he was nine years old. James grew up with
his four other siblings, sisters, Jennifer and Elizabeth, and brothers,
Jeff and Robert. He has English, German, and Scottish ancestry. During his teen years, he attended Putnam City
North High School which was located in Oklahoma City. After graduating
in 1991, he attended Oklahoma State University and studied Broadcast
Journalism. While in university, he became a member of the Delta Tau
Delta fraternity.
While vacationing with his family in
Hawaii, he met actor Kirk Cameron,
and his actress sister,
Candace Cameron Bure. They
eventually invited James to visit them in Los Angeles. After studying
in Oklahoma State for over a year and appearing in his college
production, "Bye Bye Birdie", he left school and moved to Los Angeles
to pursue his interest in acting. James got his first job on the pilot
episode of The Nanny (1993) as
Eddie, who was Margaret Sheffield's boyfriend. He then became part of
the Canadian television series,
Boogies Diner (1994), which
aired for one season. After that series ended, he got a brief role as
the original Griffin on Fox's
Party of Five (1994). His first
big break came when he became the lead on the short-lived ABC series,
Second Noah (1996). Although the
show didn't last long, the young actor received enough exposure from
the public and even managed to win the hearts of fellow teenage girls.
In 1996, he attended an audition for a movie titled
Primal Fear (1996) but unfortunately
lost that role to Edward Norton.
Two years later, he was offered a lead role in
54 (1998), which he turned down. The role
later went to another actor,
Ryan Phillippe.
James' star power increased when he starred in
David Nutter's
Disturbing Behavior (1998),
alongside Katie Holmes and
Nick Stahl, which had mixed reviews, but
mostly positive ones. His role in the television series as Glenn Foy in
Ally McBeal (1997), is probably
one of his biggest achievement to date. He became one of the main cast
members during the first half of season 5, where he showcased his
singing abilities. It was in that show where he was able to grab the
attention of audiences from different backgrounds. The 5' 10" star
later played Lon Hammon Jr. in the romantic movie,
The Notebook (2004), which was based
on a novel by Nicholas Sparks of the same name. His movies,
Lies and Alibis (2006) and
10th & Wolf (2006) was also released
around the world to audiences in the year 2006. One of his most
memorable roles to fans is his role as Cyclops in the
X-Men (2000) movie franchise. The movie was
well accepted by audiences and critics, which eventually made James one
of the hottest stars since it was released. He was among the actors who
starred in all three of the X-Men movies. James had the honor of
working alongside
Patrick Stewart,
Famke Janssen and
Hugh Jackman in the film. However, not many
people know that he actually had to wear lifts for most of his scenes
in the X-men movies, because his character Cyclops is supposed to be 6"
3" compared to a 5' 3" Wolverine. In reality, he is actually under 6'
0", shorter than Famke Janssen who plays his love interest, Jean Grey,
and even shorter than Hugh Jackman who played Wolverine.
In the year
2006, he played Richard White in the
highly anticipated movie,
Superman Returns (2006), which
coincidentally was directed by
Bryan Singer, who also directed
previous X-Men installments. Although he appeared in
X-Men: The Last Stand (2006),
the third installment of the X-Men franchise, many would notice that he
in fact had more screen time in 'Superman Returns', as Lois Lane's long
awaiting fiancé who had to accept the fact that his fiancée is in love
with the man of steel. James earned great reviews from that movie,
which led to him getting more movie roles. In 2007, James played Corny
Collins in the film Hairspray (2007),
an adaption of the Broadway musical based on
John Waters movie,
Hairspray (1988). He joined a
star-studded cast, starring alongside top names such as
John Travolta,
Queen Latifah and
Michelle Pfeiffer. James not only
acted in that movie, but also sang two of the film's songs, "The Nicest
Kids In Town", and "Hairspray". Being part of Hairspray catapulted
James to a different level of stardom as audiences got to see another
side of him. His next role was in the Disney movie,
Enchanted (2007), playing Prince
Edward, where he acted alongside
Amy Adams,
Susan Sarandon and
Patrick Dempsey. Once again,
James had the opportunity to sing in two songs from the movie, "True
Love's Kiss" and "That's Amore".
Enchanted (2007) appealed to not only
older audiences but also to those who were fans of Disney's network
productions. Following his huge success in the years 2006 and 2007,
James played the male lead role in the romantic comedy,
27 Dresses (2008), opposite actress
Katherine Heigl in 2008. The movie did
well at the box office, earning a gross revenue of over $159
million, which exceeded the expectations of crew members especially
since it was under a $30 million budget.
Marsden played the
male lead in the horror film,
The Box (2009), based on the 1970
short story "Button, Button" by author Richard Matheson. He starred opposite Cameron Diaz in the
movie.
He co-starred in
Accidental Love (2015) (previously Accidental Love (2015), a politically-themed romantic comedy, directed by David O. Russell and filmed in
Columbia, South Carolina. Marsden's recent film roles include the sequel comedy Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (2013), the romantic drama The Best of Me (2014), and the comedy Unfinished Business (2015).
James was married to
Lisa Linde, an actress known from her role in
Days of Our Lives (1965).
Lisa is the daughter of legendary country music songwriter Dennis
Linde. The couple wed on July 22, 2000 and have a son, Jack Holden Marsden who
was born on February 1, 2001, and a daughter, Mary James, who was born
on August 10, 2005. They divorced in 2011. James has another son, born in 2012, with model Rose Costa.
Many would assume that with
all this success achieved by James at this age, he would be somewhat
high-headed but James mentioned that despite all the attention he's
getting from the public eye, he tries to keep himself as grounded as
possible. He even admits that he flies coach instead of first class
while traveling with his family. In an interview he mentioned that he
believes he has a certain responsibility to let his children know that
he isn't special because of what he does, but who he is as a person.
With a great humble attitude and a bright future ahead of him, there's
definitely more to expect from this Oklahoma native.- Actor
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James Gandolfini was born in Westwood, New Jersey, to Santa (Penna), a
high school lunchlady, and James Joseph Gandolfini, Sr., a bricklayer
and head school janitor. His parents were both of Italian origin.
Gandolfini began acting in the New York theater. His Broadway debut was
in the 1992 revival of "A Streetcar Named Desire" with
Jessica Lange and
Alec Baldwin. James' breakthrough role was
his portrayal of Virgil the hitman in
Tony Scott's
True Romance (1993), but the role
that brought him worldwide fame and accolades was as complex Mafia boss
Tony Soprano in HBO's smash hit series
The Sopranos (1999). He died
unexpectedly of a heart attack in 2013 while vacationing in Italy.- Actor
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Jason Sudeikis was born on September 18, 1975 in Fairfax, Virginia as Daniel Jason Sudeikis. His father is Daniel Joseph Sudeikis, a Vice President of a business development and his mother is Kathryn (née Wendt), a travel agent at Brennco and President of the American Society of Travel Agents. He is of Lithuanian, Irish and German ancestry. He has two younger sisters, Lindsay, a high school teacher and basketball coach, and, Kristen Sudeikis, an actress and dancer in New York City. His maternal uncle is actor George Wendt.
Sudeikis grew up in Overland Park, Kansas, where he attended Brookridge Elementary School, before transferring to Holy Cross Catholic School. In 1990, he attended Jesuit Rockhurst High School, later transferring to Shawnee Mission West High School. He attended Fort Scott Community College on a basketball scholarship, but left before finishing. He began performing improvisational comedy at ComedySportz (now called Comedy City) in Kansas City.
Sudeikis moved to Chicago, Illinois, where he studied at the Annoyance Theatre and ImprovOlympic, and was one of the founding members of the long-form team, J.T.S. Brown (1998). He performed with Boom Chicago in Amsterdam, Netherlands. He was later cast in The Second City's National Touring Company. In the early 2000s, he became a founding member of The Second City Las Vegas.
In 2003, Sudeikis was hired as a sketch writer for Saturday Night Live (1975) and would occasionally make bit appearances as audience members or extras. In May 2005, he became a featured player and was upgraded to repertory status in 2006. In July 2013, Sudeikis announced that he was leaving SNL, but still occasionally makes appearances.
Sudeikis is known for starring in the films, Horrible Bosses (2011), Hall Pass (2011), We're the Millers (2013), Horrible Bosses 2 (2014), Sleeping with Other People (2015), Mother's Day (2016), Masterminds (2015), The Book of Love (2016), Colossal (2016) and voicing the character of Red in the animated-comedy, The Angry Birds Movie (2016).
From November 2011 until November 2020, Sudeikis was in a relationship with Olivia Wilde. They have two children, Otis Alexander Sudeikis (born April 20, 2014) and Daisy Josephine Sudeikis (born October 11, 2016).
Recently, Sudeikis has starred in the films, Downsizing (2017), Kodachrome (2017), Driven (2018) and The Angry Birds Movie 2 (2019).- Actress
- Director
- Writer
Christina Chong is an international television and film actress who stars in the CBS series "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" as series regular 'La'an Noonien-Singh,' alongside Anson Mount and Rebecca Romijn. The series expanded on the iconic franchise, with six new crew members on the USS Enterprise, alongside its familiar trio of lead characters. The series returns for its second season in June and has already been picked up for a third season. Alongside acting, Christina is now following her musical passion with a debut EP titled "Twin Flames" releasing in August.
For Christina, the focus on equality and diversity in the Star Trek franchise leads back to her own personal journey in Hollywood. Christina is the proud daughter of a Chinese father who immigrated to the UK from Hong Kong and English mother. Her tireless work ethic stems from watching her father working low wage jobs in restaurants, often jobs only immigrants would be willing to take on, and her mother staying at home raising six children. She credits her ability to succeed in the arts to her mother, when despite living in government housing and raising her family on welfare, always managed to support Christina's dreams.
She began in the performing arts at three years old with dance and attended Italia Conti (the UK equivalent to world famous Juilliard) for high school. It was there she cultivated her musical theater and acting skills staring as 'Anita' in West Side Story in her graduation show, before moving to Germany to star in the European premier of the musical Aida, written by Elton John and Tim Rice. To further her career, she moved to New York to study at The Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute. Soon after, she returned to London to pursue her acting career full time.
Her career has seen no bounds to what she can achieve. On the television side she can be seen in hit series such as Netflix's "Black Mirror," BBC America's "Doctor Who," Fox's "24: Live Another Day," "Halo: Nightfall" with Mike Colter, British crime drama "Line of Duty," and ITV's "Grace."
On the film side, she stars in Blockbuster hits such as Universal Pictures' "Johnny English Reborn," Warner Bros.' "Tom & Jerry: The Movie," which was nominated for 'The Family Movie of 2021' award at the People's Choice Awards, "Christmas Eve" with Cheryl Hines and Patrick Stewart, award winning independent feature "W.E." with Oscar Isaac, and "Legacy" with Idris Elba.
Christina's lifelong passion to release original music has emerged in the form of her debut EP titled Twin Flames (August 2023). Comprised of four original songs: "Twin Flames," "No Blame," "Can't Show Love," and "I Get to Choose," listeners are taken on a journey of passion, pain, healing, and self-love during and after a "twin flame" relationship; from meeting to breaking-up to the understanding of what happened, and ultimately finding happiness alone. For the production, Christina worked with Jake Gosling (Ed Sheeran, Shawn Mendes, Shania Twain), NUUXS (Major Lazer, Diplo), and Matt Brettle (Cat Burns, Ardee) through record label Goldun Egg.
Christina has spent the last decade and half, rediscovering who she is in Hollywood both personally and professionally, working with life coach Michael James. She hopes to share her story of dealing with rejection, personal development, and overcoming adversity with the world. Aside from being in front of the camera, she is writing and producing, drawing from personal experiences to create content that gives hope and inspires.- Actress
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Aisha Tyler is an award-winning director, actor, comedian, New York Times bestselling author, podcaster and activist. She is an Emmy-winning television host and multiple award-winning voice actor for Archer (2009).
Aisha's feature directorial debut, Axis (2017), was shot in just seven days on location in Los Angeles in 2015 on a crowdfunded budget. It won Outstanding Achievement in Feature Filmmaking at the 2017 Newport Beach Film Festival and was chosen "Best of the Fest" at the Sarasota Film Festival. Scene Magazine said of AXIS, "the directorial debut of Aisha Tyler is a revelation... brilliant in every way." And Paste Magazine wrote: "to make a film this experimental, this compelling, your first time out as a director is just extraordinary." AXIS was released wide in 2018 and is available everywhere on multiple VOD platforms.
Aisha has directed several episodes of television, including Fear the Walking Dead (2015), Roswell, New Mexico (2019), and Criminal Minds (2005), where she made her television directing debut. She has also directed several short films as well as multiple music videos for rock artists Minke, Clutch, and Silversun Pickups. Aisha voices superspy Lana Kane on F/X's Emmy-winning hit Archer (2009). In 2013 Aisha took over for Drew Carey as host of the rebooted improvisational comedy series Whose Line Is It Anyway? (2013) for the CW.
Ms. Tyler is the founder of Courage+Stone, a line of premium ready-to-drink cocktails. Debuting in January 2020, the company donated a significant portion of its online to bar and restaurant workers put out of work during the coronavirus lockdown. She is one of just a handful of women of color founders in the spirits category.
Ms. Tyler's second book of comedic essays, Self-Inflicted Wounds, named for the popular segment of her podcast Girl on Guy, debuted on The New York Times bestseller list in 2013. She is also the author of Swerve: Reckless Observations of a Postmodern Girl
Ms. Tyler is a supporter of many charitable organizations, including The International Rescue Committee, Family Violence Prevention Fund, The Charlize Theron Africa Outreach Project, the LA Mission and Doctors Without Borders.
A San Francisco native, Ms. Tyler graduated from Dartmouth College with a degree in Government and Environmental Policy. An avid gamer and passionate advocate of inclusion in the gaming community, Aisha's voice can be heard in the video games Halo:Reach; Gears of War 3, and Watch Dogs. Aisha is a whiskey lover, a hard rock fan, a snowboarder and sci-fi obsessive, and confounding to all who know her.- Actor
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Babs Olusanmokun is an actor, best known for Denis Villeneuve's Academy Award-winning Dune (2021), Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (2022 - ), Nicolas Winding Refn's Too Old To Die Young (2019), Black Mirror (2017). He is multilingual, fluent in Portuguese, French and Yoruba and a third degree Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt. He lives in New York City.- Actor
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An award-winning Canadian actor, Christopher Heyerdahl
co-stars in one of Amazon's number 1 series of 2021 Little Marvin's anthology series: "Them", "Chapelwaite" for Epix, James Gunn's "The Peacemaker", WGNA's "Pure", USA's "Damnation" Sky Atlantic's "Tin Star", SyFy's "Van Helsing" and
AMC's hit series "Hell On Wheels," playing the enigmatic
'Swede." This post-Civil War drama debuted as the second highest rated
original series in AMC history. He started 2021 shooting the feature "Corner Office" with director Joachim Back and has appeared in the feature films "Sicario: Day of The Soldado", "Adopt a Highway" and co-starring in Robert Budreau's "Stockholm".
Born in British Columbia, Heyerdahl is known internationally for his
powerful performances in film, theatre and television. His previous
credits include roles as H.P. Lovecraft in the Gemini award winning
"Out Of Mind: The Stories Of H.P. Lovecraft"." Fluent in French, he also starred in Québecois films "Le
Dernier Tunnel," "Cadavres" and "La Loi Du Cochon." All directed by Érik Canuel and many recurring roles in French language television.
Heyerdahl has an impressive list of television credits including recent
guest starring roles on "50 States of Fright" ," Star Trek: Discovery", "Messiah", "Deadly Class", "Midnight, Texas", "Minority Report", "Vegas," "Castle," "CSI," and "Falling Skies," as well as recurring guest roles on "Supernatural," "Caprica,"
"Smallville," "Human Target," "Stargate Atlantis," the award-winning
children's series "Are You Afraid of the Dark?" In addition to Steven
Spielberg's Emmy and Golden Globe Award winning mini-series "Into The
West" for Dreamworks TNT.
In 2017 Heyerdahl was nominated for a both Canadian Screen Award and Leo Award for his portrayal of Sam on SYFY's Van Helsing. In 2015 he won a Leo Award for Best performance by a male (supporting) in a motion picture for "Eadweard" and Best Performance in a Children's Program for R.L. Stine's "The Haunting
Hour - Fear Never Knocks" In 2012. Additionally, in 2010 and 2006 Heyerdahl won
Leo Awards for Best Supporting Performance by a Male in a Dramatic
Series for "Sanctuary" and Best Guest Performance by a Male in a
Dramatic Series respectfully for his performance as Jan Van Der Heyden
in "The Collector."
In 2009, Heyerdahl was nominated for Best Supporting Performance by a
Male in a Dramatic Series for "Sanctuary- Revelations Part 2" and a
Gemini Award nomination for Best Performance by an Actor in a Guest
Role in a Dramatic Series, also for "Sanctuary."
On stage, Heyerdahl has a long list of theatre credits including
"Love's Labour's Lost", "The Changeling" and "Knight of the Burning
Pestle" at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, "The Glace Bay Miners'
Museum", "The Last Comedy", and "Savage Love", to name a few.
Most recently, Heyerdahl shot a leading role alongside Susan Sarandon,
Donald Sutherland and Ellen Burstyn in the indie crime-drama "The
Calling," Gil Bellows in "3 Days in Havana" and Michael Eklund in
"Eadwaerd." Heyerdahl is internationally known for his dual roles of
John Druitt and Bigfoot in SyFy's hit series "Sanctuary" and the mega
hit "Twilight" franchise as the "sensitive" Volturi Leader Marcus.- Actor
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Adeel was born in London on 18th September 1980 to a Pakistani father and a Kenyan mother and attended Cheltenham College throughout the 1990s. His father was keen for him to become a lawyer and he obtained a law degree but was more interested in acting and studied at the Actors' Studio in New York. He has made several stage appearances, including as Guildenstern in the Young Vic's 2011 production of 'Hamlet' but is best known for his television performances, being the first non-white actor to bag a BAFTA award as actor in a leading role for the single drama 'Murdered By My Father' and in 2018 will be seen as the villainous Thenardier opposite Olivia Colman and Dominic West in the BBC's serialization of 'Les Miserables'.- Actress
- Music Department
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One of the leading lights of the 1965-1990's Indian New Wave,
Shabana Azmi (alongside the late
Smita Patil) was one of the main female
actors who dominated the films of the so-called "Parallel Cinema" in
India in the 1970s and 1980s. Born to noted Urdu progressive poet and
lyricist Kaifi Azmi and theatre actress
Shaukat Azmi, Shabana has acted in films by
virtually all of India's most famous art-house directors including
Shyam Benegal,
Satyajit Ray,
Mrinal Sen,
Aparna Sen and others, as well as in
commercial and middle-of-the-road Hindi films, where she has essayed
several strong female characters (e.g., in
The Death Sentence: Mrityu Dand (1997)
and Godmother (1999)). Shabana Azmi was
paired opposite Rajesh Khanna in 7
successful films.She is noted for her naturalness and intensity
on-screen, matched by her fierce advocacy of the rights of women,
minorities and slum-dwellers off-screen, both through activism and in
her role as a Member of Parliament, where her consistent stand in
defense of liberal values and the freedom of expression is noteworthy.
She has also acted on stage to considerable acclaim, most notably in
Tumhari Amrita with Farookh Sheikh. She is married to noted
scriptwriter and lyricist
Javed Akhtar.- Patrick Schwarzenegger was born September 18, 1993, at St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica, California. He graduated USC with a degree in Business and a minor in cinematic arts. Patrick started studying acting with Nancy Banks while at college. He is known for being GoldenBoy in GenV (2023), as well as starring opposite Collin Firth in HBO highly acclaimed "The Staircase" (2022).
- Alison Lohman was born in Palm Springs, California, to Diane (Dunham), a patisserie owner, and Gary Lohman, an architect. She grew up in a family with no showbiz connections but she always wanted to perform. By age 9, she had landed her first professional, theatrical role playing "Gretyl" in "The Sound of Music" at Palm Desert's McCallum Theater. At 11, Alison won the Desert Theater League's award for "Most Outstanding Actress in a Musical" for the title role in "Annie" and, by age 17, she had appeared in 12 different productions. An accomplished singer, she performed as a featured solo vocalist for Frank Sinatra, Bob Hope and the Desert Symphony. As a senior in high school, Alison was an awardee of the National Foundation of the Advancement of the Arts. The offer of a scholarship to NYU's Tisch School soon followed but, instead, she moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in film. She attended a session of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London.
- Anna Thomson was born on 18 September 1953 in New York City, New York, USA. She is an actress, known for True Romance (1993), Desperately Seeking Susan (1985) and Unforgiven (1992).
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Aidan is #2 on IMDB's "Top 10 Breakout Stars of 2020" and #7 on IMDB's "Top 10 Stars of 2020." He recently completed filming of Season 4 of Netflix's The Umbrella Academy, starring as fan favorite character Number Five. Aidan's performance has been widely acclaimed as "...one of the show's main delights." -David Betancourt, The Washington Post
In August 2018, Aidan made Variety's Power of Young Hollywood Ones to Watch list being named as one of the top actors under the age of 25.
Aidan was twice Nominated Favorite Male TV Star for the Kids Choice Awards for his performance on his Emmy Award winning series "Nicky, Ricky, Dicky and Dawn." Aidan also hosted The Kids Choice Sports Awards.
An up-and-coming singer-songwriter musician, Aidan was selected for the prestigious Big Break Accelerator Program Showcase for 2020 SXSW, making him the youngest ever singer solo artist to be selected to perform at SXSW.
While his Blue Neon Tour was placed on hold due to the Covid19 Pandemic, Gallagher's self-produced music singles were recognized in two prestigious competitions with several Honorable Mentions and a People's Choice Winner Award for his song '4th of July'. As an independent artist his music videos for his 6 debut singles garnered over 30 million combined views on his YouTube channel.
In June 2018, Aidan made history becoming the youngest United Nations Ambassador in their history. Aidan has represented the youth of the world on behalf of the United Nations for several climate action initiatives including speaking at the 2019 Global Climate Action Summit and hosting the Illegal Wildlife Trade Summit on invitation of the UK Government, introducing the Duke of Cambridge (Prince William) to the stage.
Aidan is an accomplished singer, songwriter, guitar & piano player, and composer/ producer - his first passion is a love of the ocean and working to save the environment.- Tim McInnerny is an English actor. He is known for his many roles on stage and television, including as Lord Percy Percy and Captain Darling in the 1980s British sitcom Blackadder. McInnerny was born on 18 September 1956 in Cheadle Hulme, Cheshire, the son of Mary Joan (née Gibbings) and William Ronald McInnerny. He was brought up in Cheadle Hulme, and Stroud, Gloucestershire, and educated at Marling School, a grammar school in Stroud, and read English at Wadham College, Oxford, matriculating in 1976 after taking a gap year backpacking around the world.
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Tara Fitzgerald was born in Sussex, England. Her
mother, Sarah Fitzgerald, is Irish, and her father, Michael Callaby, was Italian. Shortly after her birth, her family moved to Freeport, in the
Bahamas where her grandfather, David Fitzgerald, was a well-established
lawyer. Her sister, Arabella Fitzgerald, was born there, but the family
returned to London when Tara was three. Her mother and father separated
when she was four-years-old and, along with her mother and sister, Tara
moved in with her uncle and Aunt Caroline. Her mother married the Irish actor
Norman Rodway when Tara was age 6, and the
birth of her half-sister, Bianca Rodway,
followed shortly thereafter. Rodway and Sarah Fitzgerald separated when
Tara was seven.
Tara's formative years were spent moving around - a lifestyle that saw
her attending five primary schools while living in a variety of
locations which included Glasgow, Dublin, and Stratford-upon-Avon.
Eventually, Sarah and her three daughters returned to South London, but
she left at the age of 16 after passing her "O" level examinations, now
known as the GCSE (General Certificate of Secondary Education) exams.
Her reason for taking a break from the educational process was that she
was not allowed to pursue her goal of attending drama school. Tara had
auditioned for RADA and the Guildhall, but she was unable to secure a
placement. She now recognizes that, at age 17, she really had not been
ready.
Tara spent the next two years working her way around Europe as a
waitress, an experience that provided her with an improved perspective.
When she returned to London and decided to audition for a place at the
Drama Centre, she was accepted immediately. Her training at the Drama
Centre leaned heavily toward method acting which she recalls was like
one long therapy session of breaking down the ego, and then rebuilding
it. (Other well-known actors who trained at the Drama Centre include
Anthony Hopkins,
Colin Firth,
Simon Callow and
Pierce Brosnan).
Life at the Drama Centre consisted of long days and hard work, but Tara
recalls the time as being one of the best in her life. She was living
at home with her mother, and working as a waitress at "The Ark"
restaurant in Kensington to repay the bank loan which she had secured
to cover her tuition fees. A theatrical agent noticed her performance
in an amateur production, and arranged for Tara to audition for a
co-starring role in the offbeat comedy
Hear My Song (1991). Tara was the
first actress to audition and, after the director had seen another 300
young hopefuls, the role was hers. Two weeks after graduating from
college in July, 1990, Tara was at work on a major film that turned out
to be a surprise success, and generated rave reviews of her
performance. Tara never looked back.
Starring roles in several successful television productions during 1991
and 1992 followed. Tara received critical acclaim for
The Black Candle (1991),
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1992),
The Camomile Lawn (1992)
and
Anglo Saxon Attitudes (1992).
Her next major step was a co-starring role in the West End play, "Our
Song", where she acquitted herself nightly opposite one of the legends
of the London stage,
Peter O'Toole. This success was
followed by a role opposite
Hugh Grant in the Australian hit
film, Sirens (1994), for which the
Australian Film Institute nominated Tara as Best Actress in a Lead
Role.
An American mini-series,
Fall from Grace (1994),
was followed by the Irish film,
A Man of No Importance (1994),
which found Tara sharing honors with
Albert Finney. Then came the two widely
different television productions
Mystery!: Cadfael (1994) (The Leper of St.
Giles
(#1.3)) and The Vacillations of Poppy Carew (1995).
Tara was back co-starring with
Hugh Grant in
The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain (1995)
before she embarked upon another major change of pace by playing
"Ophelia" opposite Ralph Fiennes in
"Hamlet" on the London and Broadway stages. Ralph received the
notoriety, but Tara received the award for Best Supporting Actress from
the New York Critics Circle.
Tara's next success was co-starring with
Ewan McGregor in the highly acclaimed
comedy/drama Brassed Off (1996).
Then, it was back to BBC television for
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1996),
The Woman in White (1997)
and
The Prince of Hearts (1997),
all of which were featured on the U.S. mainstay, "Masterpiece Theatre".
Tara's next theatrical film was
Conquest (1998), which was produced in
Canada. Back on the British side of the Atlantic, Tara starred in the
contemporary
Little White Lies (1998)
and the Daphne Du Maurier swashbuckler
(also featured on Masterpiece Theatre)
Frenchman's Creek (1998),
for which she received the award for Best Actress at the 1999 Reims
International Television Festival.
A major part in the film
Childhood (2001) (which,
regrettably, has never been released) was followed by the harrowing
role of a stalked woman in the psychological drama
In the Name of Love (1999).
Radio dramatizations have included "A Handful of Dust", "Look Back in
Anger", "The African Queen" and, most recently, "Laughter in
Leningrad".
Tara has been heard as the voice of the narrator in such diverse
television mini-series as Wild Thing (Animal Life), The Final Day
(Celebrity Deaths), Vice - Inside Britain's Sex Business
(Self-explanatory), Reputations (Biographies), Omnibus: A Long Time
Ago, The Story of Star Wars (TV Special) and, most recently, The
Changemakers.
You also will hear Tara's great voice doing radio and television
advertisements for products ranging from Johnson's Facial Wipes to
Norwich Union Insurance.
Tara's recent cinematic appearances have included co-starring with
Rutger Hauer in
New World Disorder (1999), and
starring opposite Rhys Ifans and
Joseph Fiennes in
Rancid Aluminum (2000).
During this period, Tara appeared on stage in the title role of
"Antigone", and as "Blanche du Bois" in "A Streetcar Named Desire".
In 2001, Tara appeared as the female lead in the World War II drama,
Dark Blue World (2001) (aka "Dark
Blue World"), a Czech film by Academy Award-winning director
Jan Sverák
(Kolya (1996)). She was also seen on the big screen in
I Capture the Castle (2003),
a romantic comedy based upon the 1948 novel by
Dodie Smith (101 Dalmatians).
Tara's recent television work has included a starring role in a segment
of the highly-regarded psychological drama series
Murder in Mind (2001),
Echoes (2003).
She also played the leading female role in
Love Again (2003), a
dramatization of the life of British poet
Philip Larkin, which was telecast on the
BBC in July.
Tara has completed work on
Secret Passage (2004) opposite
John Turturro, a period drama which is set
in Venice during the Spanish Inquisition, and
Five Children and It (2004),
a family adventure film based on E. Nesbit's
classic 1902 novel, which was released in the U.K. on October 22, 2004.
During the late winter and early spring of 2004, Tara completed a very
successful tour of the United Kingdom playing the role of "Nora Helmer"
in "A Doll's House", for which she received high critical acclaim. In
the fall of 2004, she began a tour in the role of "Mara Hill" in a new
comedy "Clouds", by Michael Frayn.
During her career, Tara has picked her roles cautiously, always seeking
to play the role of a strong woman. She feels that playing characters
who have weak and insipid parts do not provide her with the motivation
that the role of a strong woman can deliver. She has been remarkably
successful in a variety of genre ranging from historical costume dramas
(The Woman in White (1997),
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1996)
and
Frenchman's Creek (1998)),
to contemporary psychological suspense dramas
(Little White Lies (1998)
and
In the Name of Love (1999)),
as well as comedy dramas
(Brassed Off (1996) and
Conquest (1998)), and offbeat comedies
(Sirens (1994) and
The Vacillations of Poppy Carew (1995)).
Her fine performance in the World War II drama
Dark Blue World (2001) (aka "Dark
Blue World") and her recent work on stage give further evidence of her
acting versatility.- Producer
- Actress
- Writer
Jada Koren Pinkett Smith was born in Baltimore, Maryland, to Robsol
Grant Pinkett, Jr., a contractor, and Adrienne Banfield-Jones, a
nurse. They divorced after only a few months of marriage. Her father is
of African-American descent and her mother is of Afro-Caribbean
ancestry (from Barbados and Jamaica). Jada majored in dance and
choreography at the Baltimore School for the Arts, where one of her
classmates was Tupac Shakur. She spent a year at the North Carolina School of the Arts before dropping out to pursue her career in acting. Her big break came in 1991 when she was cast in the part of a college frosh on the television sitcom A Different World (1987). She made her feature film debut two years later in Menace II Society (1993). She
did not gain widespread recognition, however, until her role opposite
Eddie Murphy in The Nutty Professor (1996).
In addition to being in front of the camera, she has spent time behind
it directing music videos. Pinkett-Smith is married to Will Smith, and they have a son, Jaden Smith; and a daughter, Willow Smith.- Actress
- Producer
- Director
Charity Wakefield was born on 18 September 1980 in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England, UK. She is an actress and producer, known for Wolf Hall (2015), The Player (2015) and Sense & Sensibility (2008).- Actor
- Writer
- Soundtrack
Fred Willard radiated a unique charm that established him as one of the industry's most gifted comic actors, first coming to prominence as ambitious but dimwitted sidekick Jerry Hubbard to Martin Mull's smarmy talk-show host Barth Gimble in the devastating satirical series Fernwood Tonight (1977). A master of sketch comedy, he was most heralded for his quick wit and improvisational expertise. His 50 appearances in sketches on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992) were indicative of his ability to transform any character into a unique comic portrayal. Fred starred in an oft sold-out one-man show, "Fred Willard: Alone At Last!" (actually with a cast of 12) that received two Los Angeles Artistic Director Awards, for Best Comedy and Best Production. He was also an alumnus of The Second City and headed a sketch comedy workshop, The MoHo Group.- Actress
- Producer
Sepideh Moafi is an American actress and singer. Moafi is best known for her role as Gigi Ghorbani in The L Word: Generation Q and Loretta in The Deuce. Moafi has also starred in Notorious, Falling Water and The Killing of Two Lovers. Moafi was born on September 18, 1985, in a refugee camp in Regensburg, Bavaria, Germany.Prior to Moafi's birth, Moafi's parents had to flee Iran after the Islamic Revolution. After two years in Turkey and then Germany where Moafi's parents sought political asylum and claimed refugee status, Moafi's family were granted visas to come to the United States.- Actor
- Producer
- Soundtrack
The Topeka, Kansas native's career began after he graduated from Texas Christian University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theater. He quickly found success as a model and moved to Los Angeles in 1999, when he scored the lead on the NBC hit, Passions (1999).
Acting is just one of Schuldt's many talents. In 2004, Schuldt worked with director Jonathan Walls and writer/actor/producer Jay Thames to create, write, finance, produce and star in the critically acclaimed independent film, Automatic (2005), which found enthusiastic audiences as an official selection at SXSW, Woodstock, Starz Denver, and the Deep Ellum Film Festival in Dallas.
Schuldt is also very active in the Lone Star Ensemble, the nonprofit theater group he founded in 2000, and the production company 35 Terrace.- Actor
- Producer
Michael has recently finished filming Obliterated for Netflix and was recently a part of Paramount + series The Offer directed by Dexter Fletcher and prior to this wrapped a role in the feature Arthur the King opposite Mark Wahlberg.
He was most recently on our screens as series regular Greg Turner in the award-winning drama series Cruel Summer from creator Bert V. Royal (Easy A).
Other recent screen credits include roles in Netflix's Traitors opposite Michael Stuhlbarg, Amazon's You are Wanted opposite Matthias Schweighofer, the lead role in the SKY action-adventure series Hooten and the Lady, features Angel Has Fallen with Morgan Freeman and Gerard Butler, and Luxor opposite Andrea Riseborough.
On stage, Michael's recent work includes All The President's Men?, directed by Nicholas Kent, at The National Theatre. He played the lead role in David Mamet's House Of Games at the Almeida Theatre as well as Harry in the west end production of When Harry Met Sally, opposite Molly Ringwald.
Other notable roles include BBC drama Upstairs Downstairs, Silent Witness, and the BBC comedy Love Soup opposite Tamsin Grieg. As a producer, he co-created and starred in the Fox pilot Played opposite Vanessa Kirby.
Michael was born in the Bronx, New York.- Actor
- Soundtrack
Jack Warden was born John Warden Lebzelter, Jr. on September 18, 1920 in Newark,
New Jersey, to Laura M. (Costello) and John Warden Lebzelter. His father
was of German and Irish descent, and his mother was of Irish ancestry.
Raised in Louisville, Kentucky, at the age of seventeen, young Jack Lebzelter
was expelled from Louisville's DuPont Manual High School for repeatedly
fighting. Good with his fists, he turned professional, boxing as a
welterweight under the name "Johnny Costello", adopting his mother's
maiden name. The purses were poor, so he soon left the ring and worked
as a bouncer at a night club. He also worked as a lifeguard before
signing up with the U.S. Navy in 1938. He served in China with the
Yangtze River Patrol for the best part of his three-year hitch before
joining the Merchant Marine in 1941.
Though the Merchant Marine paid better than the Navy, Warden was
dissatisfied with his life aboard ship on the long convoy runs and quit
in 1942 in order to enlist in the U.S. Army. He became a paratrooper
with the elite 101st Airborne Division, and missed the June 1944
invasion of Normandy due to a leg badly broken by landing on a fence
during a nighttime practice jump shortly before D-Day. Many of his
comrades lost their lives during the Normandy invasion, but the future
Jack Warden was spared that ordeal. Recuperating from his injuries, he
read a play by Clifford Odets given to
him by a fellow soldier who was an actor in civilian life. He was so
moved by the play, he decided to become an actor after the war. After
recovering from his badly shattered leg, Warden saw action at the
Battle of the Bulge, Nazi Germany's last major offensive. He was
demobilized with the rank of sergeant and decided to pursue an acting
career on the G.I. Bill. He moved to New York City to attend acting
school, then joined the company of Theatre
'47 in Dallas in 1947 as
a professional actor, taking his middle name as his surname.
This repertory company, run by
Margo Jones,
became famous in the 1940s and '50s for producing Tennessee Williams's
plays. The experience gave him a valuable grounding in both classic and
contemporary drama, and he shuttled between Texas and New York for five
years as he was in demand as an actor. Warden made his television debut
in 1948, though he continued to perform on stage (he appeared in a
stage production in
Arthur Miller's
Death of a Salesman (1966)).
After several years in small, local productions, he made both his
Broadway debut in the 1952 Broadway revival of Odets' "Golden Boy" and,
three years later, originated the role of "Marco" in the original
Broadway production of Miller's "A View From the Bridge". On film, he
and fellow World War II veteran,
Lee Marvin (Marine Corps, South
Pacific), made their debut in
You're in the Navy Now (1951)
(a.k.a. "U.S.S. Teakettle"), uncredited, along with fellow vet
Charles Bronson, then billed as
"Charles Buchinsky".
With his athletic physique, he was routinely cast in bit parts as
soldiers (including the sympathetic barracks-mate of
Montgomery Clift and
Frank Sinatra in the Oscar-winning
From Here to Eternity (1953).
He played the coach on TV's
Mister Peepers (1952) with
Wally Cox.
Aside from
From Here to Eternity (1953)
(The Best Picture Oscar winner for 1953), other famous roles in the
1950s included Juror #7 (a disinterested salesman who wants a quick
conviction to get the trial over with) in
12 Angry Men (1957) - a film that
proved to be his career breakthrough - the bigoted foreman in
Edge of the City (1957) and one
of the submariners commended by
Clark Gable and
Burt Lancaster in the World War II drama,
Run Silent Run Deep (1958).
In 1959, Warden capped off the decade with a memorable appearance in
The Twilight Zone (1959)
episode,
The Lonely (1959),
in the series premier year of 1959. As "James Corry", Warden created a
sensitive portrayal of a convicted felon marooned on an asteroid,
sentenced to serve a lifetime sentence, who falls in love with a robot.
It was a character quite different from his role as Juror #7.
In the 1960s and early 70s, his most memorable work was on television,
playing a detective in
The Asphalt Jungle (1961),
The Wackiest Ship in the Army (1965)
and N.Y.P.D. (1967). He opened up
the decade of the 1970s by winning an Emmy Award playing football coach
"George Halas" in
Brian's Song (1971), the
highly-rated and acclaimed TV movie based on
Gale Sayers's memoir, "I Am Third". He
appeared again as a detective in the TV series,
Jigsaw John (1976), in the
mid-1970s,
The Bad News Bears (1979)
and appeared in a pilot for a planned revival of
Topper (1937) in 1979.
His collaboration with
Warren Beatty in two 1970s films
brought him to the summit of his career as he displayed a flair for
comedy in both Shampoo (1975) and
Heaven Can Wait (1978). As the
faintly sinister businessman "Lester" and as the perpetually befuddled
football trainer "Max Corkle", Warden received Academy Award
nominations as Best Supporting Actor. Other memorable roles in the
period were as the metro news editor of the "Washington Post" in
All the President's Men (1976),
the German doctor in
Death on the Nile (1978), the
senile, gun-toting judge in
And Justice for All (1979),
the President of the United States in
Being There (1979), the twin car
salesmen in Used Cars (1980) and
Paul Newman's law partner in
The Verdict (1982).
This was the peak of Warden's career, as he entered his early sixties.
He single-handedly made
Andrew Bergman's
So Fine (1981) watchable, but after that
film, the quality of his roles declined. He made a third stab at TV,
again appearing as a detective in
Crazy Like a Fox (1984) in
the mid-1980s. He played the shifty convenience store owner "Big Ben"
in Problem Child (1990) and its two
sequels, a role unworthy of his talent, but he shone again as the
Broadway high-roller "Julian Marx" in
Woody Allen's
Bullets Over Broadway (1994).
After appearing in Warren Beatty's
Bulworth (1998), Warden's last film was
The Replacements (2000) in 2000.
He then lived in retirement in New York City with his girlfriend,
Marucha Hinds. He was married to French stage actress
Wanda Ottoni, best known for her role as
the object of Joe Besser's desire in
The Three Stooges short,
Fifi Blows Her Top (1958). She
gave up her career after her marriage. They had one son, Christopher,
but had been separated for many years.- Nina Arianda made her break-out debut in the 2010 off-Broadway
production of Venus in Fur just months after graduating from NYU's
Tisch graduate acting program. Her performance garnered the attention
of the entire New York theater community. Following her off-Broadway
acclaim, Nina procured roles in Woody Allen's Oscar-winning film
Midnight in Paris (2011), Tom McCarthy's Win Win (2011), and Vera Farmiga's Higher Ground (2011). Venus in Fur transferred to Broadway in 2011 where Nina's
performance went on to become the most critically acclaimed of the
2011-2012 season resulting in her winning the 2012 Tony Award for Best
Actress in a Play. This recognition followed her 2011 nod for her
Broadway debut performance as "Billie Dawn" in Born Yesterday.
In 2011, Nina appeared in Universal's Tower Heist (2011) starring Ben Stiller
and Eddie Murphy and made her network television debut on the
Emmy-winning series The Good Wife (2009). In addition to the Tony Award,
Nina has been honored with numerous accolades for her work in the
theater including recognition from The Drama League, an Outer Critics
Circle Award, the Actors' Equity Association Clarence Derwent Award,
the Theater World Award and the Clive Barnes Award. Nina was named 2011
Stage Star of the Year by New York Magazine, and topped Forbes
Magazine's 2011 Top 30 Under 30 in entertainment list. She was also
honored by Marie Claire Magazine with their 2012 Women on Top Award for
top performer.
Following Venus in Fur's successful Broadway run, Nina has appeared on
NBC's landmark series 30 Rock (2006), and CBS' Hostages (2013). She can be seen
in the recently released films Lucky Them (2013) starring Toni Collette,
Thomas Haden Church and Oliver Platt, Rob the Mob (2014) where she stars
alongside Michael Pitt, Andy Garcia and Ray Romano, and in the 2014
films The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them (2014), starring Jessica Chastain and James McAvoy, and The Humbling (2014) directed by Barry Levinson, starring Al Pacino, and will be starring with Sam Rockwell in
Sam Shepard's Fool for Love at Williamstown Theater Festival beginning
July 2014. - Actress
- Producer
- Director
Beth Grant has the unique honor of having co-starred in three Academy Award winning Best Pictures - Barry Levinson's Rain Man, the Coen Brothers's No Country For Old Men and Michel Hazanavicius's The Artist. Furthering her reputation as an Oscar lucky charm was her work with Johnny Depp in Gore Verbinski's Rango, the Academy's Best Animated Feature. Grant received the Screen Actors Best Ensemble Award for No Country For Old Men and Dayton-Faris's Little Miss Sunshine.
Grant co-starred in David O. Russell's Amsterdam, playing Robert De Niro's wife, opposite Margot Robbie, Christian Bale and John David Washington. As a Southerner she is particularly proud of her critically acclaimed role as "Addy Bundren" in Faulkner's As I Lay Dying directed by James Franco, premiering at Cannes. Grant enjoys cult status with hits Donnie Darko, To Wong Foo and Sordid Lives.
Grant had a blast in a five-episode arc on the final season of Amazon's Goliath where she gave hell to Billy Bob Thornton, Nina Arianda, Bruce Dern, Jena Malone, and J.K. Simmons. Grant stars as Carlotta Mayfair on Anne Rice's Mayfair Witches on AMC, AMC+, two seasons as "Cat Lady" in Dollface with Kat Dennings on Hulu, and 6 seasons as fan favorite "Beverly" on The Mindy Project now on Fox, Hulu and Netflix.
Her 140+ films include Lucky with Harry Dean Stanton and David Lynch, Pablo Larrain's Jackie, starring Natalie Portman, Words On Bathroom Walls with Charlie Plummer and Taylor Russell, Ridley Scott's Matchstick Men starring Nic Cage, and her four movies with Sandra Bullock - Speed, A Time To Kill, All About Steve and Bullock directed Making Sandwiches.
Grant delights in having created so many well known and popular, if often wacky, characters who she remembers as dear friends. Among her favorites are characters in Friends, Child's Play 2, Flatliners, CSI, Criminal Minds, The X-Files, Coach and recurring roles on Elmore Leonard's Maximum Bob, and Lemony Snicket's A Series Of Unfortunate Events both directed by Barry Sonnenfeld.
She adored working with writer/director Todd Holland on The Wizard, Malcolm In The Middle, and Wonderfalls, co-created with Bryan Fuller who also wrote roles for her on Pushing Daisies, Mockingbird Lane and American Gods.
Beth Grant loves doing theatre! She received the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award, LA Stage Alliance Ovation, LA Weekly Award, Backstage West Award for Lead Actress in Del Shores's The Trials And Tribulations Of Trailer Trash Housewife. Grant starred Off Broadway in Tony George's Tricks The Devil Taught Me at The Minetta Lane Theater.
Grant has won three Ovation Awards, including Lead Actress for Grace And Glorie at The Colony Theatre directed by Cameron Watson who also directed her in his beloved feature Our Very Own opposite Allison Janney, Robert Carradine and Jason Ritter.
Theatre credits also include world premieres by Maya Angelou, Romulus Linney, Horton Foote and Mark V. Olsen. Grant had two stints at The Ahmanson in Picnic with Jennifer Jason Leigh and Gregory Harrison and Summer And Smoke, directed by renowned Broadway director Marshall Mason, starring Christopher Reeve.
Grant enjoys claiming several hometowns in the South from Ft. Payne, Alabama to Atlanta, Georgia to Wilmington, North Carolina. She was a Page in the North Carolina Senate, attended the NC Governor's School for Gifted And Talented, was a two term president of the College Democrats at her Alma Mater, East Carolina University, and was Governor Robert Scott's appointee to Arts and Recreation Commission at age 19. Early on she studied film acting with Clu Gulager. In later year years she found an acting home as student of Milton Katselas's Master Class.
Grant is a co-executive producer on upcoming release of Flannery O'Connor's Wildcat directed by Ethan Hawke. She produced and plays the title role in Del Shores' film Blues For Willadean, co-starring with Octavia Spencer and Dale Dickey.
Grant directed a multi-award winning short, The Perfect Fit, also starring Spencer along with Lauren Miller Rogen, Ahna O'Reilly, Frances Fisher, Jennifer Zaborowski and Grant's daughter, Mary Chieffo.
Chieffo graduated with honors from The Juilliard School and is the first female Chancellor of The Klingon Empire on Star Trek: Discovery. Grant and her daughter produced Operation Othello with Julius Tennon and Viola Davis's JuVee Productions and Oculus Story Studio, wherein Chieffo re-imagined Shakespeare's Othello, playing his nemesis "Iago" as a woman.
Beth Grant has been married to Mary's father, actor Michael Chieffo, for 37 years. She attributes much of her success to them and to her family of origin, brother Bubba Grant, his wife Dr. Mary Grant, and Beth's always beloved and remembered parents, activist Southern Belle Libba and mild-mannered Southern Gentleman William Grant, all of whom supported her wild and crazy dreams. Beth Grant says she is the luckiest woman in Hollywood.- Actress
- Writer
Keeley Hazell was born in the London borough of Lewisham, grew up in Grove Park and attended the Ravensbourne School in Bromley. Her mother, Amber, was a dinner lady and her father, Roy, was a window fitter; they separated when she was thirteen years old. At 16 years of age, Hazell left school to work as a hairdresser. Her work colleagues persuaded her to try her luck at modelling. At 17, she competed in The Daily Star's "Search for a Beach Babe" contest and won. Still not old enough to pose on Page 3, she went to study fashion at Lewisham College.- Actor
- Writer
- Producer
American actor who began as a child in Our Gang comedies and reappeared
as a powerful adult performer of leading and character roles. Born in
New Jersey, the young Mickey Gubitosi won a role in MGM's Our Gang
series at the age of 5. As one of the more prominent children in the
Gang, he gained attention for his cute good looks and his lovable, if
somewhat melancholy, personality.
In 1940 he took on the stage name Bobby Blake (though he continued to
use the name Mickey Gubitosi in the Our Gang series for another three
years) and began playing child roles in a wide range of films. He
gained a good deal of fame as the Indian sidekick Little Beaver in the
Red Ryder series of Westerns. Though roles were sporadic as he grew to
manhood, he was never long off the screen (except for a period of
military service, 1954-56). But despite some fine work in films like
Pork Chop Hill (1959) and
Town Without Pity (1961), his
career did not take off until his stunning portrayal of killer Perry
Smith in In Cold Blood (1967). A
number of telling performances in films of the next decade, stardom in
a popular television series
(Baretta (1975), and several ruefully
comic appearances as a guest on
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962)
made him a popular figure even as his personal difficulties increased.
Consumed with anger over his treatment by his family and the studio as
a child, he denigrated his early work, suffered bouts of difficulty
with drugs, and became known as a difficult, perfectionist person to
work with. He quit his successful TV series
Hell Town (1985) when his personal
demons became overwhelming. After a self-imposed exile of nearly eight
years, during which he struggled to right his life, he successfully
returned to films and television work, appearing renewed and more
confident in himself and his work.
In 2001, though, the murder of his wife, Bonnie Bakley, thrust Blake
into the limelight in a different way. Admittedly having married Bakley
through the coercion of her pregnancy, a routine Bakley had apparently
tried with various other celebrities, Blake made no denial of his
distaste for the woman, but was by all accounts thrilled with the
daughter born to them. Blake was arrested for his wife's murder, but
the presumption of innocence trumped when jurors didn't believe what they thought was flimsy
evidence, and Blake was acquitted in a trial that made worldwide
headlines. Reportedly broke from legal costs, Blake indicated
hopefulness that he might be allowed to return to acting work.- Actor
- Writer
- Producer
Billy Eichner was born on September 18, 1978 and raised in New York City.
He graduated from Stuyvesant High School (NY) in 1996. He is a graduate
of Northwestern University, where he majored in Theater.
He is the star, executive producer and creator of
Billy on the Street (2011), a comedy game show that airs on Fuse TV.
Billy will be a voiceover guest star on a season two episode of the
animated series, Bob's Burgers (2011). He has been a regular performer at New York's Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. He is also a commentator on pop culture, via his Twitter account.- Actress
- Soundtrack
Greta Garbo was born Greta Lovisa Gustafsson on September 18,
1905, in Stockholm, Sweden, to Anna Lovisa (Johansdotter), who worked at a jam factory, and Karl Alfred Gustafsson, a laborer. She was fourteen when her father died, which left the family destitute. Greta was forced to leave school and go to work in a department store.
The store used her as a model in its newspaper ads. She
had no film aspirations until she appeared in short advertising film at
that same department store while she was still a teenager. Erik A. Petschler, a comedy director, saw the film and gave her a small part in his Luffar-Petter (1922). Encouraged by her own
performance, she applied for and won a scholarship to a Swedish drama
school. While there she appeared in at least one film, En lyckoriddare (1921). Both were small parts, but it was a start. Finally
famed Swedish director Mauritz Stiller pulled her from the drama school for the
lead role in The Saga of Gösta Berling (1924). At 18 Greta was on a roll.
Following The Joyless Street (1925)
both Greta and Stiller were offered contracts with MGM, and her first film for the studio was the American-made Torrent (1926), a silent film in which she didn't have to speak a
word of English. After a few more films, including The Temptress (1926), Love (1927) and
A Woman of Affairs (1928), Greta starred in Anna Christie (1930) (her first "talkie"), which not only
gave her a powerful screen presence but also garnered her an Academy Award
nomination as Best Actress (she didn't win). Later that
year she filmed Romance (1930), which was somewhat of a letdown, but she bounced
back in 1931, landing another lead role in Mata Hari (1931), which turned out to be a major hit.
Greta continued to give
intense performances in whatever was handed her. The next year
she was cast in what turned out to be yet another hit, Grand Hotel (1932). However, it was in MGM's Anna Karenina (1935) that
she gave what some consider the performance of her life. She was absolutely
breathtaking in the role as a woman torn between two lovers and
her son. Shortly afterwards, she starred in the historical drama Queen Christina (1933) playing the title character to great acclaim. She earned an Oscar nomination for her role in the romantic drama Camille (1936), again playing the title character. Her career suffered a setback the following year in Conquest (1937), which was a box office disaster. She later made a comeback when she starred in Ninotchka (1939), which showcased her comedic side. It
wasn't until two years later she made what was to be her last film,
Two-Faced Woman (1941), another comedy. But the film drew controversy and was condemned by the Catholic Church and other groups and was a box office failure, which left Garbo shaken.
After World War II Greta, by her own
admission, felt that the world had changed perhaps forever and she
retired, never again to face the camera. She would work for the rest of
her life to perpetuate the Garbo mystique. Her films, she felt, had
their proper place in history and would gain in value. She abandoned
Hollywood and moved to New York City. She would jet-set with some of
the world's best-known personalities such as Aristotle Onassis and others. She
spent time gardening and raising flowers and vegetables. In 1954 Greta was given a
special Oscar for past unforgettable performances. She even penned her
biography in 1990.
On April 15, 1990, Greta died of natural causes in
New York and with her went the "Garbo Mystique". She was 84.- Actor
- Producer
- Soundtrack
One of a spate of teen idols to come out of Philadelphia in the 1950s
and 1960s, Frankie Avalon--unlike many of the others--actually had a
musical background, having been taught to play the trumpet at a very
young age by his father. As a youth Avalon performed in local clubs and
theaters. He won a local TV talent contest playing a trumpet solo. In
1951, at age 12, he was in a band called Rocco and the Saints, which
included another soon-to-be famous teen singer,
Bobby Rydell. In 1952 he was performing at
a private party held for singer
Al Martino. A talent scout who was
also at the party was impressed enough by Avalon to get him an
appearance on Jackie Gleason's TV
show, which led to more television appearances. In 1954 he made two
singles for "X" Records, an RCA Victor subsidiary. Both were
instrumentals featuring Avalon playing his trumpet: "Trumpet
Sorrento" and ""Trumpet Tarantella." He eventually landed a
recording contract with Philadelphia's Chancellor Records, and he
recorded "Cupid" and "Teacher's Pet". These records got him his first
movie role, a small part in
Jamboree! (1957) designed to promote
"Teacher's Pet." His next record was "DeDe Dinah", a song written by
his managers (and one for which he had so little respect that he
pinched his nose while recording it, resulting in its extremely nasal
sound). After an appearance on
Dick Clark's teen dance show
American Bandstand (1952), sales of the
record zoomed and it eventually sold more than a million copies. In
1959, after two more big hits ("Ginger Bread" and "I'll Wait for You")
he recorded the song he is probably best known for, the million-selling
"Venus." However, as 1960 rolled around his career began to wane and
his record sales dropped precipitously. He soon began taking small
parts in movies, most notably in
John Wayne's
The Alamo (1960). He began to get
somewhat bigger parts and had his first starring role in
Drums of Africa (1963). His movie
career really took off, however, when he was paired with former
Mousketeer Annette Funicello in
Beach Party (1963) and its string of
sequels. These films, with their combination of surfing, low comedy,
dancing and "beach bunnies" in bikinis, struck a nerve with teenage audiences, were
produced for peanuts and made a fortune. Avalon still recorded songs
for Chancellor and other labels, but now he was far better known among
younger audiences for his movies than for his records. In 1985 he began
touring with fellow teen idols Rydell and
Fabian in an oldies show called "The
Golden Boys of Bandstand," which was a rousing success. In 1987 he and
Funicello were reunited in
Back to the Beach (1987), an
homage to, and parody of, their earlier "beach" movies. Avalon still
makes personal appearances and tours, many with and for his old friend
and mentor Dick Clark.- Actor
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Denis Ménochet was born on 18 September 1976 in Enghien-les-Bains, Val-d'Oise, France. He is an actor and director, known for Inglourious Basterds (2009), Beau Is Afraid (2023) and The Beasts (2022).- Actor
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Graduated from the University of Tulsa with a BFA. A successful
illustrator, Sartain's artistic credits range from record cover designs
such as Leon Russell's "Will O' the Wisp"
to illustrations for nationally published magazines. Sartain created
and hosted Tulsa's first late night off-the-wall comedy program, "Dr.
Mazeppa Pompazoidi's Uncanny Film Festival and Camp Meeting". Guest
stars included Gary Busey and 'Jim "Buck"
Millaway'. Following "Dr. Mazeppa Pompazoidi's Uncanny Film Festival
and Camp Meeting", Sartain has maintained a successful acting career in
television and motion pictures.- Actor
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Jeremiah Birkett was born on 18 September 1964 in the USA. He is an actor, known for L.A. Confidential (1997), The 10th Kingdom (2000) and Evan Almighty (2007).- Actress
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Nicole da Silva is an Australian actress. She is known for her roles in Wentworth as Franky Doyle and in Southern Star's AFI award-winning drama Rush as Senior Constable Stella Dagostino, for which she received critical acclaim over the show's four-season run. Nicole also gained a Best Actress nomination at the Monte Carlo Television Awards for her role in Carla Cametti PD, as well as a Graham Kennedy Logie Award nomination for Most Outstanding New Talent for her role as E.C in Dangerous. Other television roles include East West 101 , All Saints and Doctor Doctor. Da Silva was born and raised in Sydney, Australia on 18 September 1981, and has Portuguese ancestry.
Da Silva is perhaps best known for her role in the SoHo television drama series Wentworth, a reimagining of the classic Network Ten series Prisoner (Prisoner: Cell Block H), which ran from 1979 to 1986. Da Silva portrays Franky Doyle (initially played by Carol Burns in Prisoner), a tough lesbian inmate of Wentworth Correctional Facility fighting for the position of top dog against fellow inmate Bea Smith (Danielle Cormack).
In February 2014, she was announced as the first National Champion of UN Women Australia, for which she supported women's empowerment and gender equality at events around the country. In April 2018, da Silva announced that she is pregnant with her first child and will be due in July 2018.- Actress
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Holly Robinson Peete was born on 18 September 1964 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for 21 Jump Street (1987), For Your Love (1998) and 21 Jump Street (2012). She has been married to Rodney Peete since 10 June 1995. They have four children.- Nicholas Clay was an English actor, most famous for playing the legendary knight Lancelot du Lac (Lancelot of the Lake) in the medieval fantasy film "Excalibur" (1981).
Clay was born in London.His father was a professional soldier, who served in the Corps of Royal Engineers (nicknamed "Sappers"). The Clay family eventually settled in Kent, where Clay was raised. Clay became interested in acting as a teenager, and performed with the Little Medway Theatre Club. He was later formally educated at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA).
Clay made his film debut in the science fiction horror film "The Damned" (1963), concerning children with a mutation which makes them resistant to nuclear fallout. He was only 17-years-old at the time. He remained a theatrical actor for the rest of the 1960s.
Clay's next film role was that of handyman Billy Jarvis in the thriller "The Night Digger" (1971). In the film, Jarvis represented a threat to the film's female protagonists Maura and Edith Prince (played respectively by Patricia Neal and Pamela Brown). Clay's first leading role was that of naturalist Charles Darwin (1809-1882) in the biographical film "The Darwin Adventure" (1972),
Clay returned to the horror genre in the film "Terror of Frankenstein" (1977). He played Henry Clerval, the best friend of Victor Frankenstein. Clay found a notable role in the television miniseries "Will Shakespeare" (1978), where he played Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton (1573-1624). In real-life poet William Shakespeare had dedicated two narrative poems to Wriothesley: "Venus and Adonis" and "The Rape of Lucrece". Wriothesley is also mentioned in Shakespeare's Sonnets, under the name of the "Fair Youth", as a subject of the poet's admiration.
Clay played Lieutenant Raw in the war film "Zulu Dawn" (1979), which depicted the historical Battle of Isandlwana (1879). The film was released at the centennial of the battle. Clay had key roles in two Arthurian films released in 1981, playing Lancelot du Lac in "Excalibur" and Tristan in "Lovespell". Both Lancelot and Tristan were knights of Arthurian legends, known for their romantic affairs with married women. Lancelot was romantically involved with Queen Guinevere (Arthur's wife), and Tristan was romantically involved with his aunt-by-marriage Iseult of Ireland (wife of his uncle Mark of Cornwall).
Clay had another romantic role as gamekeeper Oliver Mellors in "Lady Chatterley's Lover" (1981), an adaptation of the 1928 novel David Herbert Lawrence (1885-1930). Both the novel and its film adaptation portrayed a love affair between Mellors and the wife of of his employer, Constance Reid, Lady Chatterley.
Clay next found a leading role in television as the historical monarch Alexander the Great, King of Macedon (356-323 BC, reigned 336-323 BC) in the miniseries "The Search for Alexander the Great". Next he appeared in a couple of crime novel adaptations. He played murder suspect Patrick Redfern in the mystery film "Evil Under the Sun" (1982), based on the 1941 novel by Agatha Christie. He also played murder suspect Jack Stapleton in the television film The Hound of the Baskervilles" (1983), based on the 1902 novel by Arthur Conan Doyle.
Clay next had a supporting role in another literary adaption. He played the Greek nobleman Glaucus in the miniseries "The Last Days of Pompeii" (1984), an adaptation of the 1834 novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton. He had a guest star role as Dr. Percy Trevelyan in a 1985 episode of "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes". The episode was an adaptation of the short story "The Adventure of the Resident Patient" (1893), where Trevelyan was Sherlock Holmes' client.
Clay played the Prince in the fantasy film "Sleeping Beauty" (1987), based on the traditional fairy tale recorded by both Charles Perrault and the Brothers Grimm. He next played nobleman Charles De Montfort in the Crusade-themed adventure film "Lionheart" (1987). This was his last role in a feature film.
In the same year, Clay played the historical figure Alexis Mdivani (1905-1935) in the television film "Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story" (1987). The real-life Mdivani was a Georgian nobleman who married American heiress Barbara Hutton (1912-1979). He was killed in an automobile accident when only 30-years-old.
Clay's last notable role in the 1980s was that of self-made businessman Mike Savage in the dramatic television series "Gentlemen and Players" (1988-1989). The series focused on an intense personal rivalry between Savage and "blue-blooded" businessman Miles "Bo" Beaufort (played by Brian Protheroe). It lasted 2 seasons, and a total of 13 episodes.
In the 1990s, Clay taught drama at the Actors' Centre and the Academy of Live and Performing Arts, and became an associate Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. His career declined, and he mostly appeared in television roles. He had guest-star roles in then-popular television series, such as "Zorro", "The New Adventures of Robin Hood", and "Highlander: The Series".
His last substantial television roles were that of mythological king Menelaus of Sparta in the miniseries "The Odyssey" (1997), and Lord Leo in the Arthurian miniseries "Merlin" (1998). His last recurring role was that of Dr. Angus Harvey in the controversial medical drama "Psychos" (1999) which only lasted 6 episodes. The series was at the time accused of reinforcing stereotypes and prejudice towards people involved in mental health.
Clay died in May 2000, suffering from liver cancer. He was 53-years-old. He was interred in the graveyard of St Peter's Church, Sibton, Suffolk. He was survived by his wife, actress Lorna Heilbron. The couple had two daughters. - Actor
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Jack Carpenter was born on 18 September 1984. He is an actor and producer, known for I Love You, Beth Cooper (2009), The Good Wife (2009) and Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life (2016). He has been married to Michelle Cohen since 26 August 2011.- Harry Townes was born and died in Huntsville, Alabama, where he served
as an ordained Episcopal priest. Aside from Huntsville and the
priesthood, he had a distinguished, prolific, and quite long career as
a character actor in movies and on television. He attended the
University of Alabama in the 1930s, but moved to New York, before
finishing, in order to study acting. He found his niche at Columbia
University where he also received his undergraduate degree. From there,
it was on to roles on stage -- his first in 1936 playing Captain Tim in
"Tobacco Road". A two-year run in the part of a leprechaun in "Finian's
Rainbow" came next -- a role that also took him to London. After a
spattering of roles in the movies, Townes found his greatest presence
on television, amassing a very large portfolio of roles for his handbag
of characters. Studio One (1948), Playhouse 90 (1956) and Ponds Theater (1953) all enjoyed his
contributions. The more popular Gunsmoke (1955), Perry Mason (1957), Star Trek (1966), Rawhide (1959) and
Bonanza (1959) also benefited from Townes' acting skills. Though he continued
to perform occasionally into old age, he quit his Beverly Hills home
and lifestyle, entered the priesthood, and settled back into his
hometown of Huntsville in the 1970s. - Actress
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Natalia Safran was born on 18 September 1970. She is an actress and producer, known for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023), Hours (2013) and Aquaman (2018). She has been married to Peter Safran since 26 August 2000. They have one child.- Actress
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Anna Deavere Smith was born on 18 September 1950 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for The Human Stain (2003), The American President (1995) and Rachel Getting Married (2008).- Actor
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Jackson Robert Scott is best known for his breakthrough role in the 2017 remake of Stephen King's It (2017) as the iconic character Georgie. Following his groundbreaking appearance in "It", Scott went on to land a series regular role in the pilot Locke & Key (2020) also directed by "It" director Andy Muschietti. The talented young actor has previous credits as a guest star in the hit CBS TV series Criminal Minds (2005) and AMC's sci-fi horror Fear the Walking Dead (2015). Fans can look out for Jackson starring in the title role in The Prodigy (2019), an Orion Pictures/MGM Nicholas McCarthy thriller alongside Taylor Schilling. Jackson speaks Mandarin Chinese and enjoys playing soccer, baseball and his Cub Scout troop.- Actor
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Andrew Airlie was born on 18 September 1961 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. He is an actor and writer, known for The Romeo Section (2015), Fifty Shades of Grey (2015) and Reaper (2007).- Actress
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Elizabeth Spriggs was born on 18 September 1929 in Buxton, Derbyshire, England, UK. She was an actress and writer, known for Sense and Sensibility (1995), Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001) and Paradise Road (1997). She was married to Murray Manson, Marshall Jones and Kenneth Spriggs. She died on 2 July 2008 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK.- Actress
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Legendary voice actress June Foray was born June Lucille Forer on September 18, 1917 in Springfield, Massachusetts, to Maurice Forer and Ida Edith Robinson, who wed in Hampden, Massachusetts. Her father, who was Jewish, emigrated from Novgorod, Imperial Russia, while her Massachusetts-born mother was of Lithuanian Jewish and French-Canadian descent. Her mother converted to Judaism to marry, and took the name Sarah.
At age 12, young June was already doing "old lady" voices. She had the good fortune of having a speech teacher who also had a radio program in the Springfield area. This teacher became her mentor, and added June to the cast of her show. Eventually her family moved to Los Angeles, where she continued in radio. By age fifteen, she was writing her own show for children, "Lady Makebelieve", in which she also provided voices. June dabbled in both on-camera acting and voice work, but was particularly talented in voice characterizations, dialects and accents. Just like Daws Butler, one of her later co-stars, she was a "voice magician" and worked steadily in radio from the 1930s into the 1950s.
June branched out from radio and began providing voices for cartoon characters. In the 1940s, she provided the voices for a live-action series of shorts, "Speaking of Animals", in which she dubbed in voices for real on-screen animals, a task she was to repeat many years later in an episode of The Magical World of Disney (1954). In the late 1940s June, Stan Freberg, Daws Butler, Pinto Colvig and many others recorded hundreds of children's and adult albums for Capitol Records. Her female characterizations on these records ran the entire gamut from little girls to middle-aged women, old ladies, dowagers and witches. No one seemed to be able to do these same voices with the warmth, energy and sparkle that June did.
In the 1950s June's star in animation not only began to rise but soared when Walt Disney sought her out and hired her to do the voice of Lucifer the cat in Cinderella (1950). The Disney organization continued to use June many times over, well into the 21st century. Warner Brothers also hired her to replace Bea Benaderet and do all of its "Looney Tunes" and "Merrie Melodies" cartoons. June has done many incidental characters for Warners, but her most famous voice has been that of Granny (in the "Tweety and Sylvester" series). Unfortunately, since Mel Blanc's contract called for exclusive voice credit on these cartoons, June never received credit for all the voices she did. During this time she also appeared on [error].
In 1957, Jay Ward met with June to discuss her voicing the characters of "Rocky the Flying Squirrel" and "Natasha Fatale" in a cartoon series. On November 19, 1959, the show debuted as The Bullwinkle Show (1959), later changing its name to The Bullwinkle Show (1959). June provided many other voices for this show, especially its "side shows" such as "Fractured Fairy Tales" and "Aesop and Son". She did fewer voices for the "Peabody's Improbable History" segment, but she did appear in at least three of those episodes. After the show had been successful for a few years, Ward added one of its most popular segments, "Dudley Do-Right of the Mounties". June was a regular in this side show as Dudley's girlfriend Nell Fenwick.
Since Ward used June exclusively for nearly all his female voices, he showcased her talents as no other producer had before. June missed out on doing voices for three of the show's "Fractured Fairy Tales" because she could not reschedule some bookings to do recording work with Stan Freberg, so Julie Bennett filled in for her on those occasions. Dorothy Scott--co-producer Bill Scott's wife--also filled in for June a few times for "Peabody's Improbable History". Her collaboration with Ward made her incredibly famous, and "Rocky the Flying Squirrel" became her signature voice. To this day June regularly wears a necklace with the figure of Rocky sculpted by her niece Lauren Marems.
Ward later produced two other cartoon series, Hoppity Hooper (1964) and George of the Jungle (1967). June's appearances on "Hoppity Hooper" were limited to the segments of "Fractured Fairy Tales", "Dudley Do-Right" and "Peabody" that aired during its run. On "Fractured Fairy Tales" June did a whole montage of voices similar to those from her Capitol Records days. Her witch voices were so incredibly funny and magnificently done that Disney and Warner Brothers tapped her to provide that same voice for the character of Witch Hazel. She was once again the lone female voice artist, this time on "George of the Jungle". Included on that show were the "Super Chicken" and "Tom Slick" side shows.
In the 1960s, June lost out to Bea Benaderet when she auditioned for the voice of "Betty Rubble" on The Flintstones (1960). June appeared numerous times during the decade in holiday specials such as Frosty the Snowman (1969) and The Little Drummer Boy (1968)). In the 1960s and 1970s, June dubbed in voices for full-length live-action feature films many times. Jay Ward and Bill Scott also had her dub in dialogue for silent movies in their non-animated series Fractured Flickers (1963).
In the early 1970s, June tried her hand at puppetry. She became the voice of an elephant, an aardvark and a giraffe on Curiosity Shop (1971). Around this time she also recorded various voices for the road shows of "Disney on Parade", which toured the US and Europe for several years.
She acted on-camera occasionally over the years, primarily on talk shows, game shows and documentaries; in the early years of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962), she performed a 13-week stint as a little Mexican girl. However, June had said that she prefers to record behind the scenes because she jokingly said "She can earn more money in less time."
June Foray died on July 26, 2017, in Los Angeles, California, U.S. She was ninety nine years old.- Vinay Rai was born on 18 September 1979 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. He is an actor, known for Doctor (2021), Etharkkum Thunindhavan (2022) and Thupparivaalan (2017).
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Struan Rodger was born on 18 September 1946 in Manchester, England, UK. He is an actor and writer, known for Kill List (2011), Stardust (2007) and Chariots of Fire (1981).- Lee Joo-bin was born on 18 September 1989 in South Korea. She is an actress, known for The Roundup: Punishment (2024), Mr. Sunshine (2018) and Melloga Chejil (2019).
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Jeana Keough was born on 18 September 1955 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. She is an actress, known for The Beach Girls (1982), History of the World: Part I (1981) and 10 to Midnight (1983).- Actor
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As a nine-year-old boy, Leon Askin recited a 17-stanza eulogy for Emperor Franz Josef
in front of the city hall in Vienna's 9th District. Little did the son
of a salesman know then that he would one day be the student of Max Reinhardt
and Louise Dumont, and discover Jura Soyfer while directing the
political cabaret "ABC". Emigration brought him into contact with even
more 20th-century luminaries: in 1938 he met Erwin Piscator, the founder of
the school of Epic Realism, and worked with him for the next 30 years.
On the set of Billy Wilder's One, Two, Three (1961), Wilder once exclaimed, "Here comes my
professional!" Askin, who was often cast as the "funny villain",
performed alongside Richard Burton, Doris Day and James Cagney. It is not merely
exposure to big stars that distinguishes Leon Askin, though. He
captured the hearts of critics and audiences with his impressive stage
performances of "Faust" and "Shylock" on Broadway, which he also
directed, and "Othello" in Hamburg. In addition, Askin made TV history
as Gen. Burkhalter in the series Hogan's Heroes (1965).- Art Department
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Dan Povenmire is an American writer, director, cartoonist, singer and voice actor known for co-creating the Disney cartoons Phineas & Ferb and Milo Murphy's Law alongside Jeff Marsh. He also worked on episodes of Rocko's Modern Life, Family Guy and SpongeBob SquarePants. He voiced Dr. Doofenshmirtz, the enemy of Perry the Platypus and antagonist of Phineas & Ferb.- Actress
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Sophina Brown was born in Saginaw, Michigan, USA. She is an actress, known for Because I Said So (2007), Shark (2006) and Ravenswood (2013). She has been married to Henry Simmons since May 2010.