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Anthony Marc Shalhoub was born and raised in Green Bay, Wisconsin. His father, Joseph Shalhoub, who owned a grocery chain, emigrated from Lebanon to the United States as an orphan at age ten, later marrying Shalhoub's mother, Helen (Seroogy), who herself was born in Wisconsin, to Lebanese parents. When Tony was six, he was introduced to the theater, in a school production of "The King and I". He graduated from Green Bay East High, and then graduated with a Bachelor's degree in drama from the University of Southern Maine before progressing to the Yale School of Drama, which he left with a Master's degree in Fine Arts.
After a time in the American Repertory Theatre, he moved to Broadway where he met his future wife, Brooke Adams, whom he married in 1992. She had an adopted daughter, Josie, who was three years old at the time that Tony and Brooke married. Tony adopted Brooke's own adopted child, Josie Lynn (born 1989) when she was eight. In 1994, the couple adopted another daughter, Sophie (born 1993). Tony's first audition after arriving in Los Angeles was for Italian cabdriver Antonio Scarpacci in the long-running sitcom Wings (1990), which also starred Tim Daly and Steven Weber.
Tony next had roles in Men in Black (1997), Men in Black II (2002), Galaxy Quest (1999) and Thir13en Ghosts (2001). However, his biggest break came, playing the obsessive-compulsive detective Adrian Monk in Monk (2002). The series made him a star and earned him four straight Emmy Award nominations between 2003 and 2006, for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series. Tony won the award in 2003, 2005 and 2006, proving how popular he has become after the success of "Monk", which has been both brilliant and popular work during all its seasons.- Actor
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Pierce Brendan Brosnan was born in Drogheda, County Louth, Ireland, to May
(Smith), a nurse, and Thomas Brosnan, a carpenter. He lived in Navan,
County Meath, until he moved to England, UK, at an early age (thus
explaining his ability to play men from both backgrounds convincingly).
His father left the household when Pierce was a child and although
reunited later in life, the two have never had a close relationship.
His most popular role is that of British secret agent James Bond. The
death, in 1991, of
Cassandra Harris, his wife of
eleven years, left him with three children - Christopher and Charlotte
from Cassandra's first marriage and Sean from their marriage. Since her
death, he has had two children with his second wife,
Keely Shaye Brosnan.
Brosnan is most famous for starring in the TV series Remington Steele (1982) as the title character, as well as portraying famous movie character James Bond in GoldenEye (1995), Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), The World Is Not Enough (1999) and Die Another Day (2002).- Actor
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Rick began his career as a radio DJ while he was still at high school
which led to him writing, producing and being on air in his own show.
He joined the Canadian TV series, SCTV (1976), winning an Emmy for writing and
portraying the character, Bob McKenzie, which became the basis for the
film, Strange Brew (1983), which he co-wrote, co-directed and made his film
acting debut. The character he played in Ghostbusters (1984) was based on
a similar character he played on SCTV (1976).- Actor
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Ciarán Hinds was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland on February 9, 1953. He was one of five children and the only son. His father was a doctor who hoped to have Ciarán follow in his footsteps, but that was not to be. It was his mother Moya, an amateur actress, who was the real influence behind his decision to become an actor. Though he did enroll in Law at Queens' University of Belfast, he left that in order to train in acting at RADA. He began his stage career at the Glasgow Citizens' Theatre as a pantomime horse in the production of "Cinderella". Staying with the company for several years, he starred in a number of productions, including playing the lead roles in "Arsenic and Old Lace" and "Faust". His stage career has included working with The Field Day Company and a number of world tours. He has starred in a number of productions with the Royal Shakespeare Company, including a world tour in the title role of "Richard III". Hinds' film career began in 1981 in the movie Excalibur (1981), which boasted a cast rich in talented actors including Liam Neeson, Gabriel Byrne and Patrick Stewart. In-between his movie work, he's amassed a large number of television credits. Playing such classic characters as "Mr. Rochester" in Jane Eyre (1997), and "Captain Wentworth" in Persuasion (1995) has increased his popularity and most definitely given him much increased recognition. As for his personal life, you won't be likely to see his name in the weekly tabloids. He likes to keep his private life private. It is known that he is in a long-term, committed relationship with a French-Vietnamese actress named Hélène Patarot and they have a daughter together and live in Paris. He is in very high demand and his reputation as a quality, professional actor is sure to keep him busy for as long as he chooses.- Actress
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Isabelle Huppert was born March 16, 1953, in Paris, France, but spent her childhood in Ville d'Avray. Encouraged by her mother Annick Huppert (who was a teacher of English), she followed the Conservatory of Versailles and won an acting prize for her work in Alfred de Musset's "Un caprice". She then studied at the Conservatoire d'Art Dramatique and followed an illustrious theatrical career, which includes Ivan Turgenev's "A Month in the Country", Euripides' "Medea" (title role) etc. She made her movie debut in Le Prussien (1971) and soon became one of the top actresses of her generation, giving fine performances in important films, like Claude Goretta's The Lacemaker (1977), as a simple-minded girl who falls in love with - and is betrayed by - a student, Jean-Luc Godard's Every Man for Himself (1980), as a prostitute, and Maurice Pialat's Loulou (1980), as an upper-class woman who is physically attracted by a young vagabond. She made an inconsequential US debut in Otto Preminger's Rosebud (1975) before playing a brothel madam in Michael Cimino's disastrous Heaven's Gate (1980), but she fared better in Curtis Hanson's The Bedroom Window (1987) (as an adulteress who witnesses an attack). Huppert has an extremely productive collaboration with Claude Chabrol, who cast her in several movies, including Violette (1978), in which she played a woman who murders her parents, and Story of Women (1988), in which she gave an excellent performance as a shameless abortionist, the last woman to be executed in France. More recent good films include Patricia Mazuy's Saint-Cyr (2000) and Michael Haneke's controversial The Piano Teacher (2001), as a sexually repressed piano teacher.- Actress
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Kim Basinger was born December 8, 1953, in Athens, Georgia, the third of five children. Both her parents had been in entertainment, her dad had played big-band jazz, and her mother had performed water ballet in several Esther Williams movies. Kim was introspective, from her father's side. As a schoolgirl, she was very shy. To help her overcome this, her parents had Kim study ballet from an early age. By the time she reached sweet sixteen, the once-shy Kim entered the Athens Junior Miss contest. From there, she went on to win the Junior Miss Georgia title, and traveled to New York to compete in the national Junior Miss pageant. Kim, who had blossomed to a 5' 7" beauty, was offered a contract on the spot with the Ford Modeling Agency. At the age of 20, Kim was a top model commanding $1,000 a day. Throughout the early 1970s, she appeared on dozens of magazine covers and in hundreds of ads, most notably as the Breck girl. Kim took acting classes at the Neighborhood Playhouse, performed in various Greenwich Village clubs, and she sang under the stage name Chelsea. Kim moved to Los Angeles in 1976, ready to conquer Hollywood. Kim broke into television doing episodes of such hit series as Charlie's Angels (1976). In 1980, she married Ron Snyder (they divorced in 1989). In movies, she had roles like being a Bond girl in Never Say Never Again (1983) and playing a small-town Texan beauty in Nadine (1987). Her breakout role was as photojournalist Vicki Vale in the blockbuster hit Batman (1989). There was no long-orchestrated campaign on her part to snag this plum role, Kim was a last-minute replacement for Sean Young. This took her to a career high.
With perhaps too much disposable income, Kim headed up an investment group that purchased the entire town of Braselton, in her native Georgia, for $20 million (she would later have to sell it). In 1993, Kim married Alec Baldwin, and in 1995 they had a daughter, Ireland Eliesse. Kim took some time off to stay at home with her child. Kim, who loves animals and is a strict vegetarian, devoted energy to animal rights issues, and PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals), even posing for some ads. In 1997, Kim gave an Oscar-winning performance in the film noir classic L.A. Confidential (1997). Kim's salary for I Dreamed of Africa (2000) was $5,000,000, putting her firmly in the category of big-name movie star. And no doubt there are still many great things ahead, in the career of cover girl turned Oscar-winning actress Kim Basinger.- Actor
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Marshall R. Teague has appeared in over 130 film & TV shows. He is retired U.S. Navy, and a former Deputy Sheriff in Memphis, TN. His acting career has cumulated various portions from his military & law enforcement background to his firearms training to integrate & mold into his characters for the most realistic portrayals on film. His talent for balancing starring roles with powerful supporting characters has allowed him to build a varied pivotal body of work. His theatrical breakout role was as Jimmy Reno in the 1989 cult classic Road House. From there he went on to costar on two Michael Bay films "The Rock" and "Armageddon". Also a reoccurring star on the TV series "Walker, Texas Ranger", "American Heiress", and "Babylon 5". In addition to acting, Marshall is a motivational speaker, singer/songwriter, and actively working on various TV and film production concepts.- Actor
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James is a rugged, intense character player with leading man good
looks. Having first gained recognition in 1979 as
Ajax, in his second film,
The Warriors (1979). That same year
he garnered acclaim on Broadway with
Richard Gere in the concentration camp
drama "Bent".
In a career spanning nearly four decades, James has run the gamut of
roles and solid career choices. Ranging from the psychopaths,
Dutch Schultz in 'Francis Copolla''s
The Cotton Club (1984) and
'Albert Ganz' in Walter Hill's
48 Hrs. (1982) to Samantha's lover, the
billionaire playboy, Richard Wright, in the HBO series
Sex and the City (1998)."
James has also garnered roles which highlight a more vulnerable side,
such as his guitarist who gets a break in the Oscar-winning short,
Session Man (1991) or his artist who falls in love with a gargoyle come to life in the best
segment of the horror anthology,
Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990)
and as Mary Louise Parker's lover in Boys on the Side.
In the hit Showtime series Dexter (2006). James starred alongside Michael C. Hall
where he played Dexter's wise, compassionate, adoptive father, Harry Morgan.
Grey's Anatomy fans have recently enjoyed seeing James as Karev's
long-lost Dad. While remaining active with top feature films James
enjoys the distinction of being the only actor to die twice, as two
different characters in Quentin Tarintino's smash hit Django Unchained.
James won the 8th annual SAG award as a member of the Outstanding
Comedy Ensemble for his work in Sex and the City. As a member of the
ensemble cast of Dexter, James has been nominated for the SAG award and
the Emmy. In recognition for his work in Sci-Fi Fantasy and Horror
James was honored with the Saturn Lifetime Achievement Award in 2013.
In early 2019 James completed Season Two of CW's Black Lightning (2017) where he co-stars as Peter Gambi.
Reunited with Quentin Tarantino James appears in the highly anticipated Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (2019)- Actor
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John Gavin Malkovich was born in Christopher, Illinois, to Joe Anne
(Choisser), who owned a local newspaper, and Daniel Leon Malkovich, a
state conservation director. His paternal grandparents were Croatian.
In 1976, Malkovich joined Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre, newly founded
by his friend Gary Sinise. After that, it
would take seven years before Malkovich would show up in New York and
win an Obie in Sam Shepard's play "True
West". In 1984, Malkovich would appear with
Dustin Hoffman in the Broadway revival of
"Death of a Salesman", which would earn him an Emmy when it was made
into a made-for-TV movie the next year. His big-screen debut would be
as the blind lodger in
Places in the Heart (1984),
which earned him an Academy Award Nomination for best supporting actor.
Other films would follow, including
The Killing Fields (1984) and
The Glass Menagerie (1987),
but he would be well remembered as Vicomte de Valmont in
Dangerous Liaisons (1988).
Playing against Michelle Pfeiffer and
Glenn Close in a costume picture helped
raise his standing in the industry. He would be cast as the psychotic
political assassin in
Clint Eastwood's
In the Line of Fire (1993),
for which he would be nominated for both the Academy Award and the
Golden Globe. In 1994, Malkovich would portray the sinister Kurtz in
the made-for-TV movie
Heart of Darkness (1993),
taking the story to Africa as it was originally written. Malkovich has
periodically returned to Chicago to both act and direct.- Actress
- Producer
- Music Department
Mary Steenburgen is an Academy Award-winning American actress.
She was born February 8, 1953, in Newport, Arkansas, USA. Her mother,
Nellie May (Wall) Steenburgen, was a school-board secretary, and her
father, Maurice H. Steenburgen, was a freight-train conductor. Her
surname comes from distant Dutch ancestry, and her roots also include
English, Scottish, and Welsh.
Young Steenburgen was fond of arts and literature. Mary grew up
tap-dancing her way through talent shows and school functions. She was
active in her school drama class. After appearing in a number of high
school plays, she enrolled at Hendrix College, a highly progressive
Southern School located in Conway, Arkansas. Upon the recommendation of
her drama professor, she left college in 1972 and moved to New York to
study acting professionally. In the past several years,
Mary Steenburgen has emerged as one of
the most accomplished and sought-after screen actresses. Ever since
Jack Nicholson discovered her and cast her as a sassy adventuress in
his rollicking western,
Goin' South (1978), her career has
skyrocketed and she has won acclaim for exceptional performances in
each of her diverse film roles. In Nicholas Meyer's
Time After Time (1979),
Steenburgen was afforded critical praise for her portrayal of a
somewhat dippy but liberated young bank clerk in San Francisco who
crosses paths, via time machine, with English author H.G. Wells (played
by Malcolm McDowell, who later became
her husband). In 1980 she shot to fame with her role as Lynda Dummar in
Melvin and Howard (1980) for
which she won Oscar for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. Steenburgen again impressed audiences and critics alike with
her stunning performance as the strong-willed turn-of-the-century
Mother in Ragtime (1981).
Steenburgen is a notable patron of arts. She is also an active
supporter of humanitarian causes. She has two children from her
previous marriage to actor
Malcolm McDowell. Since 1995 she has
been married to actor Ted Danson, and the
couple is living in Los Angeles area.- Actor
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Peter Stormare was born in Arbrå, Gävleborgs län, Sweden, to Gunhild (Holm) and Karl Ingvar Storm. He began his acting career at the Royal National Theatre of
Sweden, performing for eleven years. In 1990 he became the Associate
Artistic Director at the Tokyo Globe Theatre and directed productions
of many Shakespeare plays, including "Hamlet". In 1993 he moved to New
York, where he appeared in English productions. He continues to work in
both the United States and his his homeland of Sweden. He resides in
Los Angeles, California, USA, with his wife.- Actress
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Kumamoto City-born Shimada Yoko is best known in the west as Mariko from the 1980 mini-series Shogun. The lady-in-waiting role created an interest in Japan and its culture overseas and introduced Japanese history to foreign audiences. She won the Golden Globe For Best Performance by an Actress in a TV-Series - Drama category and was nominated for a Prime-time Emmy Award for her work on the serial in 1981. Shimada, who spoke some English for the serial, had been acting for years prior to Shogun however. She began learning ballet since age three and wanted to become a ballerina until her high high school days. Her family had moved to Tokyo when she was eight. She obtained an agent and began acting while in junior high school. The TV serial Zoku Hyouten made her famous beginning 1970. She released a nude photo book, called Kir Royal, in 1992. She was 39 and the photo book became a bestseller shifting half a million copies. At 57 she starred in an 'AV' pornography video called Mikkai in 2011. This was a tribute to her body even at that age. Shimada has a reservation for a space burial.- Actress
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Colleen Camp was born in San Francisco, California. She began working as a juvenile actress at the age of 3 and was
eventually 'discovered' while working as a bird trainer at Busch Gardens. She appeared
on The Dean Martin Show (1965) and made her film debut in Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973). She has since gone on to appear in over 100 major motion pictures and television productions.- Actor
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- Director
David Morse, a 6' 4" tall blue-eyed blond who performed on stage for 10 years before breaking into film, has become established as a respected supporting, character actor and second lead.
He was born the first of four children of Charles, a sales manager, and Jacquelyn Morse, a schoolteacher, on October 11, 1953, in Beverly, Massachusetts. He grew up with three younger sisters. After graduating from high school, Morse studied acting at the William Esper Studio. In 1971, he began his professional acting career appearing in over 30 productions with the Boston Repertory Company from 1971 to 1977. In the late 1970s, Morse continued his stage career with the Circle Repertory Company in New York before moving into television and film. In the late 1990s, he returned to the Off-Broadway stage starring in Paula Vogel's Pulitzer Prize winning drama, "How I Learned to Drive" (1997), for which he won the Drama Desk Award and the Obie.
Morse made his big screen debut in 1980 co-starring as "Jerry Maxwell", a cheerful bartender turned basketball player, opposite John Savage and Diana Scarwid in Inside Moves (1980), written by Barry Levinson and directed by Richard Donner. Although Inside Moves (1980) was nominated for an Oscar, Morse had to wait a few years until his career took off. His big break came in 1982 when he was cast as Dr. Jack "Boomer" Morrison, a young doctor who struggles as a single parent after the death of his wife, in St. Elsewhere (1982), a medical drama that ran for six seasons. He co-starred as opposite Jodie Foster and young Jena Malone in the Oscar nominated Sci-Fi drama Contact (1997). In 1999, he appeared in Stephen King's The Green Mile (1999), with Tom Hanks. A year later, he played a supporting role as a kidnapped husband of Meg Ryan in Proof of Life (2000). In 2002, Morse became the first English-speaking actor nominated for the Golden Horse Award, the Chinese equivalent of the Oscars, for his superb performance as FBI expert "Kevin Richter" in Double Vision (2002). From 2002 to 2004, Morse had a regular gig starring as "Mike Olshansky", an ex-Philadelphia policeman turned cab driver, in the TV series Hack (2002) which ran three seasons and was filmed in Philadelphia, close to his home. In 2006-2007, he has a recurring role on season 3 of an Emmy award-winning medical drama House (2004).
David Morse has been married to fellow actress Susan Wheeler Duff since 1982. They have three children, one daughter and twin sons. In 1994, after the the Northridge earthquake destroyed his home in Sherman Oaks, Morse moved from LA to Philadelphia with his family, and resides in his wife's hometown.- Actor
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Jeff Kober was born in Billings, Montana on December 18, 1953. Not satisfied with being a rancher, Kober relocated to the L.A. area in his twenties with the desire to become an actor. His first appearance on the small screen was a non-billed role in the 1980s series V (1984). Kober went on to supporting roles in the highly acclaimed Vietnam War drama China Beach (1988) and the short-lived, but now-cult horror series Kindred: The Embraced (1996). Following these series, Kober has guested on some of the most popular television series of the day. They include Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999), CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000), ER (1994), 24 (2001), The Closer (2005) and Criminal Minds (2005).
Kober's big screen career began with the film Out of Bounds (1986), in which he played the first of his signature nefarious characters - "Roy Gaddis", a small-time drug dealer with murderous inclinations. This role led to more film opportunities in The First Power (1990), Tank Girl (1995) (a comedic turn), Defining Maggie (2002), World Without Waves (2004), and the remake of The Hills Have Eyes 2 (2007), among others. Never one to balk at taking a chance in the acting field, Kober has also appeared in several short independent films - the Academy Award-winning Session Man (1991) and, most recently, Lucid (2006), another film that has garnered a number of awards at independent film festivals across the country. He has done extensive stage work, most prominently, as "the father" in Jenny Sullivan's autobiographical work "J For J" and "Defying Gravity". Being a creature of diverse talents, Kober is also a noted artist (he was responsible for the paintings attributed to his character "Daedalus" on Kindred: The Embraced (1996) and is the c/o author of "Art That Pays: The Emerging Artist's Guide to Making a Living" along with Adele Slaughter. On the personal front, Kober is twice divorced (Rhonda Talbot, Kelly Cutrone) and the father of one son. He has, at present, finished work on The Hills Have Eyes 2 (2007) (set for release in March 2007)-in the role of "Col. Lincoln Redding". Kober's next film was Multiple (2008).- Actor
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William James Pullman was born in Hornell, New York, one of seven children of Johanna (Blaas), a nurse, and James Pullman, a doctor. He is of Dutch (mother) and English, Northern Irish, and Scottish (father) descent. After high school, Bill went into a building construction program at SUNY Delhi in New York. He transferred to State University of New York College at Oneonta where he received his BA in Theater. He received both his MFA in Theater/Directing and an honorary PHD from University of Massachusetts at Amherst. While teaching Directing at Montana State University in Bozeman, Montana, one of Bill's students was the soon-to-be film director John Dahl, who later cast Mr. Pullman in "The Last Seduction".
Moving to New York City, he worked with Kathy Bates in the acclaimed stage production of "Curse of the Starving Class". However, it was his first work in three strikingly diverse films that brought him to the attention of his audience: "Ruthless People" with Danny DeVito and Bette Milder, the Mel Brooks hit "Spaceballs" and the Oscar-nominated (and winner for Best Supporting Actress Geena Davis) "The Accidental Tourist". Still attracted to the art and study of building construction, Bill has designed and/or restored three "barns": In Montana, he converted a 1933 barn at his ranch into his family home. In Los Angeles, he built a Truss barn in the style of LA's 1910 fruit storage barns. In western New York State, he restored a '3-bay' barn that sometimes serves as a community center near his hometown of Hornell, New York. Focused more on neighborhoods than show business-based charities and societies, Pullman has defined himself by his work with his local communities. He works to bridge communities of Los Angeles through his board work with Cornerstone Theater. Pullman continues to work with his neighbors who formed "Concerned Citizens Montana" to secure a place at the table regarding the national need for a smart grid for energy transmission. He also works with the local university (Alfred University, New York) as well as supports local health services ("The Pullman Women's Health and Birthing Center" at St James Hospital, Hornell, NY).
Pullman is also an MS Society Ambassador. Based in Los Angeles, New York City and Western Montana, Pullman is married to dancer Tamara Hurwitz Pullman, and they have three children, daughter singer/songwriter Maesa Rae and multi-talented sons Jack and Lewis Pullman, who is now also an actor.- Actor
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Gil Birmingham is an American actor of Comanche ancestry, best known for his portrayal of Billy Black in the The Twilight Saga film series. Birmingham was born in San Antonio, Texas. His family moved frequently during his childhood, due to his father's career in the military. He learned to play the guitar at an early age and considers music his "first love". After obtaining a Bachelor of Science from the University of Southern California, he worked as a petrochemical engineer before becoming an actor. In the early 1980s, a talent scout spotted Birmingham at a local gym, where he had been bodybuilding and entering bodybuilding contests. This led to his first acting experience, in a music video for Diana Ross, for her 1982 hit song "Muscles". After appearing in Ross' music video, Birmingham began to pursue acting as his primary career. He studied acting with Larry Moss and Charles Conrad. In 1986, Birmingham made his television debut on an episode of the series Riptide. By 2002, he had a recurring role as the character Oz in the medical drama Body & Soul, starring Peter Strauss. In 2005, he was cast as the older Dogstar in the Steven Spielberg six-part miniseries Into the West. He recently played a Texas ranger a ranger, in Hell or High Water, opposite Jeff Bridges.- Actor
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Colm Meaney was born on 30 May 1953 in Dublin, Ireland. He is an actor and producer, known for Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993), Layer Cake (2004) and Under Siege (1992). He has been married to Ines Glorian since 15 March 2007. They have one child. He was previously married to Bairbre Dowling.- Actress
- Producer
- Art Director
Kate Capshaw was born Kathleen Sue Nail in Fort Worth, Texas, to
Beverley Sue (Simon), a beautician and travel agent, and Edwin Leon
Nail, an airline employee. Capshaw worked as a teacher with an MA in
Learning Disabilities. Her desire to be an actress led her to New York
where she landed a role on the soap
The Edge of Night (1956).
She met her future husband,
Steven Spielberg while beating out 120
actresses for the female lead in
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984).- Actor
- Producer
- Director
Alfred Molina was born in 1953 in London, England. His mother, Giovanna
(Bonelli), was an Italian-born cook and cleaner, and his father,
Esteban Molina, was a Spanish-born waiter and chauffeur. He studied at
the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London. His stage work
includes two major Royal National Theatre productions,
Tennessee Williams' "The Night of the
Iguana" (as Shannon) and
David Mamet's "Speed the Plow" (as
Fox), plus a splendid performance in
Yasmina Reza's "Art" (his Broadway debut),
for which he received a Tony Award nomination in 1998. He made his film
debut in
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
and got a good part in
Letter to Brezhnev (1985) (as
a Soviet sailor who spends a night in Liverpool), but his movie
breakthrough came two years later when he played--superbly--Kenneth
Halliwell, the tragic lover of playwright
Joe Orton, in
Stephen Frears'
Prick Up Your Ears (1987). He
was also outstanding in
Enchanted April (1991),
The Perez Family (1995) (as a
Cuban immigrant),
Anna Karenina (1997) (as Levin) and
Chocolat (2000) (as the narrow-minded
mayor of a small French town circa 1950s, who tries to shut down a
chocolate shop).- Actress
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Award-winning stage actress Frances Conroy was introduced and encouraged by her parents to explore the elements of theater. Born Frances Hardman Conroy in Monroe, Georgia, she attended high school in Long Island and experienced classes at the Neighborhood Playhouse as a teenager. The pale, blue-eyed redhead also studied drama at Dickinson College and the Juilliard School (BFA) where she was taught, at the latter college, by theater greats John Houseman and Marian Seldes.
Following potent dramatic roles in such classical productions as "Mother Courage...and Her Children," "King Lear," "All's Well That Ends Well," "Measure for Measure" and "Othello" (as Desdemona) in the late 70s, Frances made her Broadway debut with "The Lady from Dubuque" in 1980. She went on to earn a well-respected name for herself under the Broadway and off-Broadway lights throughout the 1980s in such esteemed plays as "Our Town" (as Mrs. Gibbs), "The Little Foxes (as Birdie) and "In the Summer House." She also appeared with Ms. Seldes in the well-received plays "Ring 'Round the Moon" and "A Bright Room Called Day."
A performer with the The Acting Company, Frances won a Drama Desk Award for "The Secret Rapture" and an Obie for "The Last Yankee." In 2000 she received the Outer Critics Circle Award and a Tony nomination for "The Ride Down Mt. Morgan." Her other Broadway credits include "Ring Round the Moon", "The Little Foxes", "The Rehearsal" (Drama Desk Nominee), "Broken Glass", "In the Summer House" (Drama Desk Nominee) and "The Secret Rapture" (Drama Desk Nominee). Conroy's numerous Off- Broadway plays include "The Dinner Party", "The Skin of Our Teeth", "The Last Yankee" and "Othello" (Drama Desk Nominee).
An actress of subtle power, great depth and astonishing versatility, she has both an aloof serenity and faintly sad/sensitive ambiance that makes her all the more mysterious and intriguing. She came out to California in 1985 at the invitation of director Houseman and appeared in more theater plays, including "Richard III," at San Diego's Globe Theater. She also earned a sprinkling of generally overlooked film and TV parts, including small parts in Woody Allen's Manhattan (1979) (debut), Another Woman (1988) and Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989). Showing a distinct flair for the offbeat and neurotic, nothing really pushed the envelope for her on screen quite like her series' turn as the dowdy, emotionally frail undertaker's widow Ruth Fisher in the cult hit TV series Six Feet Under (2001). During the five-season run she won both a Golden Globe and three Screen Actors Guild awards and was nominated four times for an Emmy.
Film roles have been growing more abundant over the years, offering a number of fascinating featured roles, often as eccentric, often disturbing mothers and matrons. Such movies include Billy Bathgate (1991), Scent of a Woman (1992), Sleepless in Seattle (1993), The Crucible (1996), Maid in Manhattan (2002), Die, Mommie, Die! (2003), Catwoman (2004), The Aviator (2004) (as Kate Hepburn's mother), Shopgirl (2005), The Wicker Man (2006), Humboldt County (2008), The Smell of Success (2009), Love Happens (2009), 6 Souls (2010), Waking Madison (2010), Chasing Ghosts (2014), Making the Rules (2014), Welcome to Happiness (2015), rare leading roles in No Pay, Nudity (2016) and Mountain Rest (2018), and as psychotic Joaquin Phoenix's needy mother in the Oscar-winning psychological drama Joker (2019).
Frances has also appeared to fine advantage in several other TV series of late, most notably American Horror Story (2011) in which she earned her fifth and sixth Emmy nomination. She also had stand-out roles in How I Met Your Mother (2005), Casual (2015), Arrested Development (2003) and Dead to Me (2019), in addition to episodic guest spots on "ER," "Desperate Housewives," "Nip/Tuck," "Grey's Anatomy," "Young Sheldon" and "Castle Rock."
In 1992, she married actor/husband Jan Munroe, an L.A. performance artist. After a few Broadway roles with "The Little Foxes" (as Birdie), "Ring Round the Moon" and "The Ride Down Mt. Morgan," Frances returned to the theatre after a six-year absence, in the 2006 production of "Pyrenees" by David Greig at the Kirk Douglas Theater in Los Angeles.- William Petersen was born on 21 February 1953 in Evanston, Illinois, USA. He is a producer and actor, known for CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000), Manhunter (1986) and To Live and Die in L.A. (1985). He has been married to Gina Cirone since 14 June 2003. They have two children. He was previously married to Joanne Brady.
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Dawna Lee Heising has acted in over 225 feature films, including Param Gill's "Bad President", starring Eddie Griffin, and "Alien Storm", starring Tom Arnold. She has won over 700 film festival awards, including over 400 Best Actress awards. Dawna is trained in Tang Soo Do martial arts, ballet, and pole dancing. She is a former Miss Los Angeles Chinatown, Ms. US World, Ms. World, Ms. Universe, Miss San Francisco Universe, Miss Orange County Universe, Miss California Hemisphere and Mrs. California United States, among many other titles. She was the Queen of the 2021 Kaiju Film Festival, the 2019 Hollywood Silver Screen Film Festival Queen, and the 2018 WIND International Film Festival Queen.
Dawna has a B.S. Degree in Business Management and MBA from Pepperdine University. She is the Vice President of Aki Aleong's Mustard Seed Media Group. Her uncle is legendary Director of Photography Tak Fujimoto ("Silence of the Lambs", Sixth Sense") and her cousins George Daugherty and David Wong won a Primetime Emmy Award for "Peter and the Wolf on Broadway".- Actor
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Timothy Allen Dick was born on June 13, 1953, in Denver, Colorado, to Martha Katherine (Fox) and Gerald M. Dick. His father, a real estate salesman, was killed in a collision with a drunk driver while driving his family home from a University of Colorado football game, when Tim was eleven years old. His mother, a community service worker, remarried her high school sweetheart, an Episcopalian deacon, two years after Tim's father's death. He was raised with his many siblings and step-siblings. When Tim was young, his family moved to Birmingham, Michigan.
In high school, his favorite subject was shop, of course, and after high school, he attended Western Michigan University and graduated with a degree in Television Production in 1975. In 1978, he was arrested on drug charges and spent two years in jail. Upon his release, he had a new outlook on life and on a dare from a friend, started his comedy career at the Comedy Castle in Detroit. Later, he went on to do several cable specials, including, Comedy's Dirtiest Dozen (1988) and Tim Allen: Men Are Pigs (1990). In 1991, he became the star of his own hit television series on ABC called Home Improvement (1991). While continuing to film his television series throughout most of the 1990s, he starred in a string of blockbuster movies, including The Santa Clause (1994), Toy Story (1995), Toy Story 2 (1999) and Galaxy Quest (1999). In August 1996, he developed and unveiled his own signature line of power tools, manufactured by Ryobi. On top of all that, he has his own racing team, Tim Allen/Saleen RRRRacing. In May 1999, he ended his series Home Improvement (1991) after eight seasons and in 2001, he filmed such movies as Big Trouble (2002) and Joe Somebody (2001).- Actor
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Thomas Edward Hulce was born in Detroit, Michigan, and grew up in
Plymouth, MI, where he was raised with his two sisters and older
brother. He is the son of Joanna (Winkleman), who had sung
professionally, and Raymond Albert Hulce, who worked for Ford. He has
English, German, and Irish ancestry. Wanting to be a singer, Tom had to
make a switch in plans when his voice began changing. Knowing that if
he wanted to be in show business he needed to become an actor, Tom
began taking the necessary steps almost immediately.
When asked once why he chose acting Tom replied, "Because someone told
me I couldn't." It is determination like this that has helped him
achieve his respected position in the acting community to this day. Tom
set goals early on. Graduating from school at 19 years old, he gave
himself a decade to succeed as an actor. Working in Ann Arbor as usher
and ticket seller with a small theatrical company was a start. It was
around this time he saw the first play and actor that made him realize
that acting was "cool." Christopher Walken was in a play in Stratford,
Ontario. The performance made quite an impression on Tom.
While Mr. and Mrs. Hulce weren't totally sold on the idea of their son
becoming a thespian, Tom had determination and headed off for the
training he knew he'd need if he was going to achieve his goal. He
studied at the North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem; at
Booth Bay Harbor, Maine; Sarasota, Florida; and spent a summer in
England before heading off to New York City to try his hand at
Broadway. Within a month after his arrival, Tom was chosen to
understudy the role being performed by Peter Firth in the
Broadway play "Equus." He had originally been hired to play one of the
horses, but it was decided that his time was better spent learning the
understudy role and so he never donned the horse's attire.
Tom had pangs of guilt where this role was concerned. On one hand he
wanted the role ... badly. On the other hand he wondered what would
happen if Peter left the role; could he fill those shoes? When the time
came, nine months after being hired, Tom found out that it was up to
him to play the role as his own. He wasn't expected to be another Peter
Firth... he had been hired to play the role his way. "... it actually
went quite well, " Tom recalled. "I realized I was a different actor
and that I would tackle the part in my own way." And tackle it he did!
Equus has a few "firsts" for Tom. One, it was his first big role; two,
it was his first Broadway role and third, it was his first nude
performance. For nine minutes Tom and his costar, Roberta Maxwell, were
naked in a scene that seemed impossible for the stage a decade earlier
(1960s). In a past interview Tom reflected, "It's so skillfully written
and developed that it doesn't seem an unusual thing to do. There's no
embarrassment, I just don't think about it at all." During the run of
"Equus," Tom turned down a big television offer, to the delight of the
director and cast. At that time in Tom's life the stage was all there
was, and he was going to do it right! Other plays that followed "Equus"
were George S. Kaufman's "Butter and Egg Man," Arthur Miller's
"Memory of Two Mondays," along with such works as "Julius Caesar,"
"Romeo and Juliet," Shaw's "Candida," and Chekhov's "The Sea Gull," and,
again on Broadway in his Tony nominated role in Aaron Sorkin's "A
Few Good Men."
Tom has even directed the off-Broadway musical "Sleep Around Town" at
Playwrights Horizon. Back in 1977 Tom landed his first motion picture
role in the film about the day James Dean died, September 30, 1955 (1977).
This was to be the first of a long line of period films. His next was National
Lampoon's National Lampoon's Animal House (1978). Set in the 1960's, Tom played "Pinto" along with
such comedy alumni as 'John Belushi', Tim Matheson, and Donald Sutherland.
1984 gave him the role that put him on the map. The title role of
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in the Oscar-winner Amadeus (1984)
was such a wonder that it even boosted the sales of Mozart's music
by 30%! Filmed in Prague, it was eerie for Tom to actually be standing
in the very spot where the original Amadeus had stood conducting the
opera Tom was recreating for the film. Dressed in a purple velvet jacket,
knickers, and white hose, wearing a bushy white wig and doling out a
hilarious laugh (often likened to that of a hyena's) Tom's portrayal of the
"man-child" musical genius was an Oscar-nominated performance.
Tom has been in many more films set in the past:
Those Lips, Those Eyes (1980)(1950s),
Shadowman (1988) (World War II), Mary
Shelley's Frankenstein (1994)
(1800s),
Wings of Courage (1995)(1930's),
and Disney's
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)(1500s).
Tom appeared in Echo Park (1985) with
Susan Dey, a film that had a struggle
to get released remains one of Tom's best performances and one that he
is quite proud of. Another film that Tom feels a lot of pride for is
Dominick and Eugene (1988).
Starring with Ray Liotta and
Jamie Lee Curtis, Tom played Dominick
Luciano, a mentally handicapped twin brother to Liotta's Eugene. The
young man works as a garbage collector to help put his brother through
medical school so he can become a "rich doctor" and they can afford to
get a "house by a lake." Tom spent time studying people in a Pittsburgh
neighborhood and handicapped people in an occupational training center
so he could master the innocence and determination that the lead role
required. He received the Best Actor award at the Seattle Fest for his
performance.
Murder in Mississippi (1990)
was Tom's second television movie (the first was
Forget-Me-Not-Lane (1975)
(aka "Neli, Neli"), a Hallmark Hall of Fame production). Playing the
role of Michael Schwerner, the New York social worker and Freedom
Fighter who is murdered by K.K.K. members in 1964 during Freedom
Summer, Tom received an Emmy nomination and his third Golden Globe
nomination.
The Inner Circle (1991) (aka
"The Projectionist") took Tom to Russia where he was Ivan Sanshin, the
private film projectionist to Stalin within the Kremlin walls. Based on
a true story, Ivan was a perfect example of how many were blinded to
the horrific conditions that men like Stalin conducted and followed in
ignorant loyalty. While there, Tom was fortunate to meet and spend time
with Alexander Ganshin, upon whose life the film was based.
The next three years held special items for Tom. His portrayal of Peter
Patrone, in T.N.T.'s
The Heidi Chronicles (1995),
earned him an Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or
Special, and 1994 and 1996 brought two of Tom's last period pieces.
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994)
had Tom playing opposite Kenneth Branagh
as Victor Frankenstein's college chum, Henry. And 1996 was a whole new
experience for Tom. Disney was looking for someone special to portray
their gentle Quasimodo in their newest full feature animation motion
picture,
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996).
Tom had never done voiceover work for a full film; to sing before a
microphone was one thing, but to do song and voice for someone that he
couldn't watch while performing was a whole new experience for him.
Herecalled that when he first auditioned he thought it strange that the
producers and director stood looking at the floor while he sang...until
he noticed they were looking at sketches of Quasimodo and were trying
to "feel" if he sounded like their bell ringer.
1998 saw Tom returning to the stage but this time as director again, as
he undertook the enormous task of bringing
John Irving's 1985 novel, "The Cider
House Rules", to the stage. An 8-hour production which required the
audience two days to see the whole performance, it was quite an
undertaking. Co-directing with Jane Jones (of "BookIt" in Seattle,
Washington) Tom took the play from its Seattle opening to the Mark
Taper Forum in Los Angeles, California where it received wonderful
reviews.
During the past recent years Tom has resided in Seattle, Washington where
he owns his own home. He figures he could live in Los Angeles or New
York - the acting hubs - but in Seattle, he's near the things he loves.
"Up in Seattle people look after their lives in a way you can't do in
New York or Los Angeles," he says. But no matter where he calls home,
we can always count on Tom for bringing us into a world that will
thrill, excite, fascinate, move and inspire us either through his
films, the stage, or his beautiful singing.- 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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Gary Dale Farmer is a character actor with plenty of
character. With over 100 Film and TV appearances attached to his
resume, and plenty more in the pipeline, Gary has shown he can adapt
easily to any genre when necessary. He was born in Ohsweken, Ontario,
into the Cayuga nation and Wolf Clan, and studied photography and Film
at both the Syracuse University and Ryerson Polytechnic University. He
then began a successful career as an actor, first taking small roles in
movies such as
Police Academy (1984), the
John Schlesinger film
The Believers (1987) with
Martin Sheen, the
Matt Dillon vehicle,
The Big Town (1987), and
Renegades (1989) starring
Kiefer Sutherland and
Lou Diamond Phillips.
By the early 1990s, Gary was starring in more substantial roles. He
portrayed Cowboy Dashee in the
Robert Redford- produced
thriller, The Dark Wind (1991) -
again opposite Lou Diamond Phillips- and starred with Corey Feldman and
Blown Away (1992).
Lou Diamond Phillips cast Gary in
his directorial debut
Sioux City (1994) and
Ernest R. Dickerson cast him in the
first
Tales from the Crypt (1989)
horror movie
Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight (1995)
with Billy Zane: Gary played a small town
deputy. He was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for his
memorable performance as Nobody in the
Jim Jarmusch independent western
Dead Man (1995), in which he starred
opposite Johnny Depp, and again for his role
in Smoke Signals (1998).
Jim Jarmusch re-prised Gary's role as the
Native American spiritual guide - Nobody - for his next film,
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999),
and Frank Oz cast him alongside
Marlon Brando and
Robert De Niro in
The Score (2001). Gary continues to
work steadily as an actor and has also moved behind the camera - he has
directed a few projects, including an episode of the
Forever Knight (1992) TV
series, episode 'Father Figure' (1992).
Gary formed his own band: 'Gary Farmer and the Troublemakers'. They
play the blues and have released two CDs.- Actress
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Jane Badler, the American and Australian actress best known for her
role as the evil reptilian Visitor leader "Diana" in the NBC
mini-series V (1983), its sequel V: The Final Battle (1984),
the subsequent TV series V (1984), and the last season of the
latest series V (2009), was born on the last day of 1953 in
Brooklyn, New York. She spent her teen years in Manchester,
New Hampshire, where she attended Central High School.
Jane won the Miss New Hampshire title and competed at the 1972
Miss America Pageant before going on to study drama at Northwestern
University in Evanston, Illinois.
In 1977, Jane gained her first major role on the TV soap opera
One Life to Live (1968),
where she played "Melinda Cramer Janssen" until 1981, returning briefly
to reprise the role in 1983. She also starred on the venerable soap
opera The Doctors (1963). Jane's
other TV roles included a stint on
Falcon Crest (1981) as "Meredith
Braxton" from 1986 to 1987 and as "Agent Shannon Reed" for the revival
of the series
Mission: Impossible (1988),
which was shot in Australia. She also guest-starred on many TV series.
Jane relocated to Australia after filming
Mission: Impossible (1988)
Down Under, marrying businessman
Stephen Haines. They have two
sons, Sam and Harry. Her Australian TV roles include
Cluedo (1992) (the British and
Australian name of the board game known as "Clue" in the United
States). She also had a guest-starring role in
Snowy River: The McGregor Saga (1994).
In the 1990s, she launched a stage career and cabaret act, including
the one-woman show "The Love Goddess: Rita Hayworth".- Director
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Moved to New York City at the age of seventeen from Akron, Ohio.
Graduated from Columbia University with a B.A. in English, class of
'75. Without any prior film experience, he was accepted into the Tisch
School of the Arts, New York.- Actress
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Christine Ebersole was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Marian Esther
(Goodley) and Robert Amos Ebersole, a steel company president. She won
the 2007 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her work in "Grey
Gardens". Previously, she was awarded the Drama Desk Award, the Outer
Critics Circle Award, the Drama League awarded her both a citation and
the Outstanding Performance of the Year, and she was named to its dais
for 2007. She also received a special citation from the New York Drama
Critics' Circle and the Obie for her off-Broadway turn in "Grey
Gardens".- Actress
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Valerie Mahaffey is an American character actress and producer. She began her career starring in the NBC daytime soap opera The Doctors (1979-81), for which in 1980 she was nominated for the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series.In 1992, Mahaffey won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her role in the CBS drama series Northern Exposure. She later won fame through her portrayal of extroverted and friendly but ultimately insane women on the television shows Wings, Desperate Housewives, Devious Maids and Big Sky. Mahaffey also appeared in a number of movies, including Senior Trip (1995), Jungle 2 Jungle (1997), Jack and Jill (2011), Sully (2016), and most notably French Exit (2020), for which she received critical acclaim and an Independent Spirit Award nomination.- Actress
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Born Kay Ann Lenz on March 4, 1953, the comely, pert-nosed, dark-haired, award-winning actress came from an L.A. showbiz family -- her father being producer/commentator Ted Lenz and her mother model/radio engineer Kay Miller Lenz. At the ripe old age of eight weeks, Kay appeared on her first TV show produced by her dad as a baby being held up and sung to. She must have taken to the attention because she continued to appear on her father's TV shows and commercials throughout her childhood.
In the 1960s, she appeared as a teen on stage (Pasadena Playhouse) and, using the stage name Kay Ann Kemper, moved into TV in 1967 with several episodes on the religious series This Is the Life (1952). She went on to appear on such popular programs as "The Monroes" and "The Andy Griffith Show," Returning to theatre work, she left the small screen until 1972, when she was spotted on episodes of "Ironside" and "Owen Marshall" as well as the TV movie (and unsold pilot) where she started earning attention playing feisty, troubled teens. Initially billed as Kay Ann Kemmer, she appeared in a bit part on the classic George Lucas 1950's film American Graffiti (1973)
Kay began to flirt with serious 1970s film stardom after being cast by director Clint Eastwood in the troubled, titular role of Breezy (1973) opposite William Holden as a plucky, but hard luck hippie/free spirit who has an affair with a much older businessman. She earned a Golden Globe nomination as "Most Promising Newcomer." Unfortunately, although Kay was singled out for her affecting performance, the movie itself was ignored. Around that same time she earned a Daytime Emmy Award for her performance in a 1974 episode of The ABC Afternoon Playbreak (1972)
Although she ventured on, none of her subsequent strong work in such films as White Line Fever (1975), The Great Scout & Cathouse Thursday (1976), Moving Violation (1976), Mean Dog Blues (1978), The Passage (1979) and House (1985) and/or TV movie dramas as Lisa, Bright and Dark (1973) (title role), A Summer Without Boys (1973), Unwed Father (1974), The Underground Man (1974), The F.B.I. Story: The FBI Versus Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy Number One (1974), Journey from Darkness (1975), The Initiation of Sarah (1978) (title role), The Seeding of Sarah Burns (1979) (title role) and Sanctuary of Fear (1979) would help push her into the top star echelon. She did, however, earn fine notices and an Emmy nomination for her portrayal of Kate Jordache in the acclaimed mini-series Rich Man, Poor Man (1976) and had a standout role as Doreen in a recurring role on the series How the West Was Won (1976).
Continuing to appear on series TV, including dramatic appearances on "The Streets of San Francisco," "Gunsmoke," "Medical Center," "McCloud" and "Cannon," Kay gained uninvited attention after her wedding to superstar teen idol David Cassidy in 1977. The marriage would last six years.
Kay's career has remained quite solid since she entered mid-career. On film, she played an adulterous wife (and earned a bit of notoriety for her nude scenes) in the prison drama Fast-Walking (1982); co-starred with William Katt as an actress and his ex-wife in the haunted house thriller House (1985); played the girlfriend of vigilante Charles Bronson in another of the "Death Wish" series: Death Wish 4: The Crackdown (1987); is terrorized along with her family by escaped convicts in Fear (1988); is top-billed as an investigating cop in the voodoo horror The Head Hunter (1988); portrays a mobster's wife in the Burt Reynolds crime drama Physical Evidence (1989); appeared in a film vehicle for rock singer John Mellencamp as his lover in Falling from Grace (1992); and essayed the role of the ex-wife of notorious gunfighter Lance Henriksen in Gunfighter's Moon (1995).
TV remained a primary source of gritty work -- "Hill Street Blues," "Magnum P.I.," "Cagney & Lacey," "Heart of the City," "Moonlighting," "Simon and Simon," "Lois & Clark" and "Touched by an Angel." She topped it off with Emmy nominations for her performance in Midnight Caller (1988) and for her defense attorney Maggie Zombro in Reasonable Doubts (1991). Into the millennium, she was seen on episodes of "ER," "JAG," "Heartland," "Cold Case" and "Bones," and, on the large screen, reunited with "House" co-star William Katt as harried parents in the high school comedy The Secret Lives of Dorks (2013) and a earned a poignant co-starring role in the social drama More Beautiful for Having Been Broken (2019).- Actor
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Curtis Armstrong was born on 27 November 1953 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Better Off Dead (1985), Risky Business (1983) and Revenge of the Nerds (1984). He has been married to Elaine Aronson since 2 January 1994. They have one child. He was previously married to Cynthia Carle.- Actor
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John Doe was born on 25 February 1953 in Decatur, Illinois, USA. He is an actor and composer, known for Road House (1989), The Bodyguard (1992) and Pure Country (1992). He has been married to Gigi Gonzalez since 1987. They have three children. He was previously married to Exene Cervenka.- Music Department
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As Danny Elfman was growing up in the Los Angeles area, he was largely
unaware of his talent for composing. It wasn't until the early 1970s
that Danny and his older brother Richard Elfman started a musical troupe while
in Paris; the group "Mystic Knights of Oingo-Boingo" was created for
Richard's directorial debut, Forbidden Zone (1980) (now considered a cult classic by
Elfman fans). The group's name went through many incarnations over the
years, beginning with "The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo" and
eventually just Oingo Boingo. While continuing to compose eclectic,
intelligent rock music for his L.A.-based band (some of which had been
used in various film soundtracks, e.g. Weird Science (1985)), Danny formed a
friendship with young director Tim Burton, who was then a fan of Oingo
Boingo. Danny went on to score the soundtrack of Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985), Danny's first
orchestral film score. The Elfman-Burton partnership continued (most
notably through the hugely-successful "Batman" flicks) and opened doors
of opportunity for Danny, who has been referred to as "Hollywood's
hottest film composer".- Actress
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Lauren Tewes was born on 26 October 1953 in Braddock, Pennsylvania, USA. She is an actress, known for The Love Boat (1977), The X-Files Game (1998) and The Doom Generation (1995). She was previously married to Robert Nadir, Paolo Noonis and John Wassel.- Actor
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Phil Davis was born on 30 July 1953 in Grays, Essex, England, UK. He is an actor and director, known for Vera Drake (2004), Bleak House (2005) and Alien³ (1992). He has been married to Eve Matheson since 2002. They have one child.- Actress
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Cheryl Howard was born on 23 December 1953 in Glendale, California, USA. She is an actress, known for Splash (1983), A Beautiful Mind (2001) and Ransom (1996). She has been married to Ron Howard since 7 June 1975. They have four children.- Actor
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Robert Picardo was born on October 27, 1953 in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, USA, where he spent his whole childhood. He graduated
from the William Penn Charter School and attended Yale University. At
Yale, he landed a role in
Leonard Bernstein's "Mass" and at age
19, he played a leading role in the European premiere of "Mass". Later,
he graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Drama from Yale University. He
appeared in the David Mamet play "Sexual
Perversity in Chicago" and, with Diane Keaton,
in "The Primary English Class". In 1977, he made his Broadway debut in
the comedy hit, "Gemini", with Danny Aiello,
and also appeared in Bernard Slade's
"Tribute", "Beyond Therapy" as well as "Geniuses" and "The Normal
Heart", for which he won a Drama-Logue Award.
Then, he became involved in television, where he soon was nominated for
an Emmy Award for his role as Coach Cutlip on the series,
The Wonder Years (1988).
Robert appeared in several other series:
China Beach (1988),
Frasier (1993),
Ally McBeal (1997),
Home Improvement (1991),
The Outer Limits (1995) and
Sabrina the Teenage Witch (1996).
In 1995, he got the role of the holographic doctor on
Star Trek: Voyager (1995),
where he also directed two episodes. He also got roles in
The Howling (1981),
Star 80 (1983),
Get Crazy (1983),
Oh, God! You Devil (1984),
Innerspace (1987),
Munchies (1987),
Samantha (1991),
White Mile (1994),
Star Trek: First Contact (1996),
Small Soldiers (1998),
Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003),
Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey (2010),
and so on.
He resides in Los Angeles, California with his wife Linda, and their
two daughters.- Actor
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In 1960, a young 7-year-old named Patrick Lilley went on an Amos Carr photo shoot with his little sister. She was the subject but it was "Butch's" head shot that would wind up in the Hollywood Blvd. window! Utilizing his nickname and real first name, his agent Mary Grady and his mom Patti created the stage name, Butch Patrick, which he still uses 50 plus years later. Butch started out, quick, with landing his first three auditions. First was a very cool B movie, starring Eddie Albert and Jane Wyatt, called The Two Little Bears (1961). Also starring Soupy Sales and a 15-year-old Brenda Lee! A series came next in the form of GH. That's right, General Hospital (1963)'s first year had Butch mixing with John Beradino. To round out the group, a Kellogg's award-winning Corn Flakes commercial. Butch continually worked in the early 60s on the most popular TV programs of the time: Mister Ed (1961), My Favorite Martian (1963), The Untouchables (1959), The Detectives (1959), Ben Casey (1961), Rawhide (1959), Gunsmoke (1955), Bonanza (1959) and many, many more. A second series came his way with the reboot of the classic The Real McCoys (1957). Working with Oscar winner Walter Brennan and Richard Crenna was a huge treat for Butch. All this time, he was working in over 20 commercials and a dozen movies. Starring the likes of Burt Lancaster, Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, Jo Van Fleet, Sal Mineo, Don Murray, Edward G. Robinson, to name a few. Now, we enter to 1964. The Beatles are all the rage and Butch gets a call to fly from Illinois and go to CBS Studio Center for a screen test. Very hush hush as they have a part in mind for him. It will become a life-changing day for sure!! His screen test is with the famous movie star Yvonne De Carlo and his character is "Edward Wolfgang Munster". From that day on, Butch would always be known, worldwide, as the iconic TV character, "Eddie Munster". The third series for Butch was the charm for sure. The Munsters (1964) are still one of the most popular series in history. Merchandised still and a huge family favorite, 50 years later! His character's hairline is the most recognizable, ever, and the Munster address is the most famous on TV, bar none. "1313 Mockingbird Lane" still is a favorite trivia question for the masses, worldwide. After a two-year stint, Butch set off to Disney for a few "World of Colors". The Young Loner (1968), with Edward Andrews and Kim Hunter, was a gem. Way Down Cellar another two part special was shot the same summer. A few features followed and then he became a semi-regular on My Three Sons (1960), doing 10 episodes. In between, Butch was busy with Adam 12's, the pilot episode of Marcus Welby M.D. Ironside, more westerns and movies too. In the summer of 1969, Butch left the country to film in Brazil for three months. A feature based on an award-winning novel, The Sandpit Generals (1971). Then, in 1971, Sid Krofft took Butch to lunch and convinced him to star in their new show for Sid and Marty's World Lidsville. He worked with Charles Nelson Reilly and Billie Hayes of Puf n Stuff fame. What a trip that summer turned out to be. Afterwards, Metromedia Records signed Butch to a contract and American Bandstand and the Dating Game were the new high-profile shows Butch was seen on. Not to mention the teen heartthrob tears from 1971 to 1973. After Butch turned 19, he decided this career really wasn't he yearned for and left Hollywood to drive fast cars and catch up on his surfing. In 1983, with MTV on the air, Butch formed a band, "Eddie and the Monsters", on Rocshire records and aired a video on the upstart cable powerhouse. They were actually the first unsigned act ever to be seen. This led to the show the basement tapes that led to the discovery of many new unsigned bands with videos. So there you have his older accomplishments. Today, Butch receives scripts and works the indie movie circuit, giving back to the industry that served him well. He's a cancer survivor and works with people with addiction issues, as well. He had his own issues with his life and, after 40 years of alcohol and drug abuse, he's been clean and sober nearly 10 years. He married Leila Murray in 2016.- Actress
- Producer
- Music Department
Naturally brunette/blue-eyed beauty Amy Davis Irving was born in Palo
Alto, California. She is the youngest of three children, and the
daughter of influential theatrical/television director and producer
Jules Irving, and actress
Priscilla Pointer. Her father was of
Russian Jewish descent, and her mother's ancestry includes English,
Scots-Irish, Welsh, Jewish, and German.
Amy was brought up in the world of theater. She was put on stage from
the time she was nine-months-old, her father was the director and her
mother was the actress, they didn't want baby sitters for their
children, so if she wasn't performing, she would stay in the wardrobe
department or her mother used to put her in the second row center where
she could watch her. And, before she was 10-years-old, she had already
worked in several plays. At a young age, Amy Irving was trained at the
American Conservatory Theater and Britain's London Academy of Music and
Dramatic Arts (L.A.M.A.D.A.). She made her off-Broadway debut at the
age of 17 and, from that moment to date, she received critical acclaim,
appearing in such plays as: "Heartbreak House" (1983), "The Road to
Mecca" (1988), "Broken Glass" (1994), "The Three Sisters" (1997), "The
Guys" (2002), "Ghosts" (2002) and "Celadine" (2004), among others.
In 1976, Amy made her film debut, playing "Sue Snell", one of her most
unforgettable characters in
Stephen King's
Carrie (1976), a classic in the horror
genre, taken to the big screen by director
Brian De Palma. For the next few years,
Irving continued working in important films,
The Fury (1978), also directed by De
Palma, Voices (1979) and
The Competition (1980). Later, in
1983, she gave a fine performance as "Hadass", in
Barbra Streisand's
Yentl (1983); earning an Oscar nomination. Two of her best
opportunities arrived in the late 80s, when she played "Anna Anderson"
in
Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna (1986)
and "Isabelle Grossman" in the romantic comedy,
Crossing Delancey (1988); she
received a Golden Globe nomination for each movie.
Amy was married to director
Steven Spielberg from 1985 to 1989 and
she has a son with him, Max Spielberg.
And, in 1990, after her divorce, she met Brazilian director
Bruno Barreto while they were working on
A Show of Force (1990). They wed
a few years later and they have a son (Gabriel). In 1997, Irving made a
guest appearance on Woody Allen's
Deconstructing Harry (1997)
and, in 1999, she came back in the sequel of
Carrie (1976),
The Rage: Carrie 2 (1999).
Unfortunately, her film opportunities narrowed in the
90s. However, in the year 2000, she surprised the whole world again
when she performed as "Mary Ann Simpson", a very funny and sensual, at
the same time, English teacher in the film,
Bossa Nova (2000). She managed to
capture this peculiar character very well. After this romantic comedy,
Amy had a great opportunity, playing "Barbara Wakefield",
Michael Douglas' wife in
Traffic (2000), the film was a huge
success and she won an Actor Award, shared with the rest of the cast.
Then, this beautiful and talented actress continued working in
remarkable films such as
13 Conversations About One Thing (2001),
with her Carrie (1976) co-star,
Sissy Spacek, in the Walt Disney
production,
Tuck Everlasting (2002) and in
the horror film,
Hide and Seek (2005), along with
Robert De Niro. Recently, she had an
important part as "Emily Sloane" in the very-known show,
Alias (2001).
In addition to her talents as an actress, she is a great dancer and
also showed off her vocal talents, singing in films such as
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988),
Honeysuckle Rose (1980),
Rumpelstiltskin (1987) and
An American Tail: Fievel Goes West (1991).
Nowadays, Amy Irving continues working on stage in Broadway productions
and spends most of her time with her friends and family, especially
with her two children.- Actress
- Director
- Producer
Joanna Kerns was born on 12 February 1953 in San Francisco, California, USA. She is an actress and director, known for Girl, Interrupted (1999), Knocked Up (2007) and Growing Pains (1985). She has been married to Marc Appleton since 30 September 1994. She was previously married to Richard M. Kerns.- Actor
- Soundtrack
Born in San Francisco and raised in the agricultural heartland of California's San Joaquin Valley, Fuller became passionate about acting while attending UC Berkley, where he received a degree in English literature. After graduating, he made the move to Los Angeles with everything he owned stuffed into the back seat of a Dodge Dart (including a king size foam rubber mattress). For the next ten years he was a Realtor by day and a stage actor by night. Then, in 1986, he created the leading role in Steven Berkhoff's explosively successful "Kvetch", earning rave reviews on both coasts.
Fuller has gone on to have a very successful career, working with some of Hollywood's best directors, including David O. Russell, Tony Scott, Harold Ramis, and Ivan Reitman, among others. His numerous film credits include "Auto Focus," "Ray," "Pushing Tin," "The Jack Bull," "Ghostbusters II," "Mr. Woodcock," "Nailed" and "The Pursuit of Happyness."
Kurt still returns to the stage occasionally, most recently in the acclaimed "Greedy" for Red Dog squadron. He's also worked at the La Jolla Playhouse and the Mark Taper Forum.
He is married to Jessica Hendra, a published author. They have two daughters, Julia and Charlotte. His birthday is September 16.- Actress
- Producer
- Casting Director
American leading lady, briefly prominent on screen during the 80s and 90's. Blond, gray-eyed Darlanne (whose not very Hollywood-sounding birth name literally translates to 'wing' in German) began her career in 1974 as a model with the Eileen Ford and Zoli Agencies in New York. Seven year later, though very much a success in this most competitive industry (earning $300 per hour) she decided, that, at 25, she "was washed up as a model". Determined to make a serious go of becoming an actress, Darlanne's early film roles instead suggested inevitable typecasting as high fashion models, accentuating allure factor rather than acting ability. As it turned out, more promising offers did come her way, beginning with a role as the chief love interest in Roger Corman's cultish space opera Battle Beyond the Stars (1980). She was then briefly featured as Robert De Niro's girlfriend Eve, the first person murdered in Once Upon a Time in America (1984), followed by a grittier role as a junkie/police informant in To Live and Die in L.A. (1985). Between 1986 and 1991, Darlanne derived her primary source of income from the small screen where she found an appreciative audience playing Julie Torello, the wife of Dennis Farina's tough 1960s Chicago cop in Crime Story (1986) and Lacey Marseille in season three of Wiseguy (1987). She took over the female lead in season seven of Hunter (1984), but, given 'creative differences' between her and co-star Fred Dryer , she wanted to quit the show and her character was killed off after twelve episodes. Darlanne's career then gradually lost direction and she retired from acting in the mid-90s. Between 2002 and 2007, she held a position as a college professor teaching drama and production at the University of Central Florida film faculty.- Actor
- Soundtrack
Born in Istanbul, Turkey, Tcheky Karyo grew up in Paris. He studied
drama at the Cyrano Theatre and became a member of the Daniel Sorano
Company, where he played numerous classical roles. He next joined the
National Theatre of Strasbourg, where he starred in contemporary
theatre as well as in such classical works as "Tartuffe", "Macbeth" and
"Othello." He is one of France's most popular actors. Nominated for a
Cesar Award for his starring role in La balance (1982), Karyo received the
prestigious Jean Gabin Prize in 1986 in recognition of his
talent.- Actor
- Producer
- Director
David Threlfall was born on 12 October 1953 in Burnage, Manchester, England, UK. He is an actor and producer, known for Shameless (2004), Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) and Hot Fuzz (2007). He has been married to Brana Bajic since 1995. They have two children.- Actress
- Music Department
- Additional Crew
Mindy Sterling is an American actress from New Jersey. She is known for her roles in the Austin Powers film trilogy, the 2000 How the Grinch Stole Christmas film, Con Man, Chowder, The Legend of Korra, iCarly, the Spider-Man 2 video game, Mars Needs Moms, Invader Zim and The Goldbergs. She had a son.- Blond, blue-eyed character actor who has worked on stage, film, and TV
for the past 30 years. Born in Washington D.C., Carhart had a
globetrotting childhood in Turkey and France before returning to the
U.S. and studying theater. Carhart had some success on and off-Broadway and
then moved on to small roles in such major films as
Ghostbusters (1984),
Witness (1985) and
Working Girl (1988). He played Harlen who attempted to rape Geena Davis's
character in
Thelma & Louise (1991), and also
had roles in the
The Hunt for Red October (1990),
Red Rock West (1993) and
Air Force One (1997). Carhart has
had many guest spots on television shows including a memorable guest
turn as a police officer whose testimony against a murderer may reveal
the sexuality he has tried to keep secret on
The Practice (1997), and as a
fat-sucking vampire on
The X-Files (1993). He played Eddie Willows in
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000),
the ex-husband of star
Marg Helgenberger. He is, (...as of 2017) a recurring character on The Paramount Network series, Yellowstone, playing the Attorney General Stewart and starring Kevin Costner - Actor
- Soundtrack
Michael Bowen Jr. is an American actor. He is best known for portraying Nicolas Cage's romantic rival, Tommy, in the cult classic Valley Girl (1983), Danny Pickett on the ABC series Lost, and Jack Welker on the AMC series Breaking Bad. Bowen is the only son of Beat painter Michael Bowen Sr. and actress Sonia Sorel (née Henius; 1921-2004) who was Bowen's first wife. His maternal great-grandfather was biochemist Max Henius, a Danish immigrant to America who himself was of Polish-Jewish descent, and his maternal great-grandmother was the sister of historian Johan Ludvig Heiberg. He grew up in San Francisco knowing "interesting characters - revolutionary-type people," which inspired his portrayal of Uncle Jack. Through his mother's other marriage he is the half-brother of actors Robert and Keith Carradine of the Carradine family. He is the half-uncle of actresses Martha Plimpton and Ever Carradine.- James Christopher Read was born on July 31, 1953 and was raised in
Schenectady, New York. He gained his first experience as an actor in an
amateur production while still in high school, but entered the
University of Vermont as a forestry major in 1971. He dropped out of
college after a year to work and travel abroad, and eventually resumed
his education at the University of Oregon performing in numerous
theatrical productions before graduating in 1976. He began his
professional career in New York City, and then in regional theaters
(primarily Denver, Colorado) before moving in Los Angeles in 1981. In
1982 James was cast as a series regulars in
Remington Steele (1982). He
left that show after the first season and appeared in a quick
succession of other tv series and movies before landing the starring
role of George Hazard in "North and South" (1985), a twelve-hour
epic which became one of the most popular and successful mini-series of
all time. During rehearsals on that project, he met and fell in love
with Wendy Kilbourne, the actress who
was cast to play his love interest in the series. After marrying for
the first time on film, they officially tied the knot in 1988 and
remain married today. Read played Hazard again in the 12 hour sequel,
North & South: Book 2, Love & War (1986),
and once again in "Heaven and Hell: North & South, Book III"
(1994). James has performed in dozens of
other movies and series through his career, notably in "Beaches" (1988),
"Eight Men Out"
(1988), and as Cary Grant opposite Farrah Fawcett in
"Poor Little Rich Girl" (1987).
He recently spent four seasons as a regular on the TV series "Wildfire"
(2005-2008) where he also directed for the first time. James was
granted a Master's degree in Psychology from Pepperdine University in
1997. He and Wendy have a son Jackson (born 1990) and a daughter Sydney
(1995). They live in California.