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Auburn University
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Auburn University is a public research university in Auburn, Alabama, United States. Auburn was chartered on February 1,1856, as East Alabama Male College, in 1872, under the Morrill Act, it became the states first public land-grant university and was renamed as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama. In 1892, it became the first four-year coeducational school in Alabama, in 1960, its name was changed to Auburn University to acknowledge the varied academic programs and larger curriculum of a major university. In 1964, under Federal Court mandate, AU admitted its first African American student, Auburn is among the few American universities designated as a land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant research center. The Alabama Legislature chartered the institution as the East Alabama Male College on February 1,1856 and its first president was Reverend William J. Sasnett, and the school opened its doors in 1859 to a student body of eighty and a faculty of ten. Auburns early history is linked with the Civil War and the Reconstruction-era South. Classes were held in Old Main until the college was closed due to the war, the campus was a training ground for the Confederate Army, and Old Main served as a hospital for Confederate wounded. It sits today on the next to Samford Hall. The school reopened in 1866 after the end of the Civil War, in 1872, control of the institution was transferred from the Methodist Church to the State of Alabama for financial reasons. Alabama placed the school under the provisions of the Morrill Act as a land-grant institution and this act provided for 240,000 acres of Federal land to be sold to provide funds for an agricultural and mechanical school. As a result, in 1872 the school was renamed the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama, under the Acts provisions, land-grant institutions were also supposed to teach military tactics and train officers for the United States military. In the late 19th century, most students at the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama were enrolled in the program, learning military tactics. Each county in the state was allowed to nominate two cadets to attend the free of charge. The universitys original curriculum focused on engineering and agriculture and this trend changed under the guidance of William Leroy Broun, who taught classics and sciences and believed both disciplines were important for growth of the university and the individual. In 1892, two events occurred, women were admitted to the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama. Eventually, football replaced polo as the sport on campus. The college was renamed the Alabama Polytechnic Institute in 1899, largely because of Brouns influence, on October 1,1918, nearly all of Alabama Polytechnic Institutes able-bodied male students 18 or older voluntarily joined the United States Army for short-lived military careers on campus. The student-soldiers numbered 878, according to API President Charles Thach, the vocational section was composed of enlisted men sent to Auburn for training in radio and mechanics
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"Old Main", the first building on Auburn's campus, was destroyed by
fire in 1887
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Samford Hall in the 1890s
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Cadets drill on Ross Square in 1918.
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A Time to Kill (film)
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A Time to Kill is a 1996 American crime drama film adaptation of John Grishams 1989 novel of the same name, directed by Joel Schumacher. Sandra Bullock, Samuel L. Jackson, Matthew McConaughey, and Kevin Spacey star, with Oliver Platt, Ashley Judd, Kiefer and Donald Sutherland, and Patrick McGoohan appearing in supporting roles. Set in Canton, Mississippi, the film involves the rape of a girl, the arrest of the rapists, their subsequent murder by the girls father. The film was a critical and commercial success, making $152 million at the box office. In Canton, Mississippi, two white supremacists, Billy Ray Cobb and Pete Willard, kidnap a ten-year-old African-American girl named Tonya. They violently rape and beat her and dump her in a river after a failed attempt to hang her, she survives. Tonyas father, Carl Lee Hailey, contacts Jake Brigance, a white lawyer, Brigance admits the possibility that the rapists will walk free. Carl Lee goes to the county courthouse and opens fire with an automatic rifle, Brigance agrees to defend Carl Lee. The rape and subsequent revenge killing gain national media attention, the district attorney, Rufus Buckley, decides to seek the death penalty, and presiding Judge Omar Noose denies Brigance a change of venue. Brigance seeks help from his team, law student Ellen Roark, close friend Harry Rex Vonner, and former mentor and longtime activist Lucien Wilbanks. The Ku Klux Klan begins to organize in the area, klansman Freddie Lee Cobb—Billy Rays brother—targets Brigance, burning a cross on his lawn and threatening his wife and daughter. When Brigance refuses to back down, Cobb kidnaps and assaults Roark, the presiding judge refuses Brigances request for a change of venue to a more ethnically diverse county, meaning that Carl Lee will have an all-white jury. Dispirited, Brigance tells Carl Lee that there is hope for an acquittal. Carl Lee replies that he had him as an attorney because even a racist jury would listen to a white man, as one of the bad guys. During closing arguments, a deeply shaken Brigance tells the jury to close their eyes and he describes, in slow and painful detail, the rape of a 10-year-old girl, recalling the story of Tonyas rape. He then asks the jury, in his comment, to now imagine shes white. After deliberation, a black child out of the courthouse and screams. Jubilation ensues amongst the supporters outside, the Klan, enraged, begins yelling in anger
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British Academy of Film and Television Arts
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The British Academy of Film and Television Arts is an independent charity that supports, develops and promotes the art forms of the moving image – film, television and game in the United Kingdom. David Lean was the founding Chairman of the Academy, the first Film Awards ceremony took place in May 1949 and honouring the films The Best Years of Our Lives, Odd Man Out and The World Is Rich. In 2005, it placed a cap on worldwide voting membership which now stands at approximately 6,500. BAFTA has offices in Scotland and Wales in the UK, in Los Angeles and New York in the United States and runs events in Hong Kong, amanda Berry OBE has been chief executive of the organisation since December 2000. Many of these events are free to online at BAFTA Guru. BAFTA runs a number of programmes across the UK, US. Launched in 2012, the UK programme enables talented British citizens who are in need of support to take an industry-recognised course in film. Each BAFTA Scholar receives up to £12,000 towards their annual course fees, since 2013, three students every year have received one of the Prince William Scholarships in Film, Television and Games, supported by BAFTA and Warner Bros. These scholarships are awarded in the name of in his role as President of BAFTA, since 2015, BAFTA has been offering scholarships for British citizens to study in China, vice versa. BAFTA presents awards for film, television and games, including entertainment, at a number of annual ceremonies across the UK and in Los Angeles. The BAFTA award trophy is a mask, designed by American sculptor Mitzi Cunliffe. Todays BAFTA award – including the mask and marble base – weighs 3.7 kg and measures 27 cm x 14 cm x 8 cm. BAFTAs annual film awards ceremony is known as the British Academy Film Awards, or the BAFTAs, in 1949 the British Film Academy, as it was then known, presented the first awards for films made in 1947 and 1948. Since 2008 the ceremony has held at the Royal Opera House in Londons Covent Garden. It had been held in the Odeon cinema on Leicester Square since 2000, the ceremony had been performed during April or May of each year, but since 2002 it has been held in February to precede the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Academy Awards, or Oscars. They have been awarded annually since 1954, the first ever ceremony consisted of six categories. Until 1958, they were awarded by the Guild of Television Producers and Directors, from 1968 until 1997, BAFTAs Film and Television Awards were presented together, but from 1998 onwards they were presented at two separate ceremonies. The Television Craft Awards celebrate the talent behind the programmes, such as working in visual effects, production
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The BAFTA award, designed by Mitzi Cunliffe
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Fruitvale Station
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Fruitvale Station is a 2013 American biographical drama film written and directed by Ryan Coogler. The film stars Michael B. Jordan as Oscar Grant, Forest Whitaker is one of the films producers. Kevin Durand and Chad Michael Murray play the two BART police officers involved in Grants death, the names of the officers were changed for the film. Fruitvale Station debuted at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Grand Jury Prize and it was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival where it won the award for Best First Film. The film was released in theaters July 12,2013 and it received critical acclaim upon its release and earned other awards. The film shows scenes of him and his girlfriend arguing about Grants recent infidelity and it later shows Grant unsuccessfully attempting to get his job back at the grocery store. He briefly considers selling some marijuana but in the end decides to dump the stash, Grant later attends a birthday party for his mother and tells her afterward that he will take the BART train to see fireworks and other New Years festivities in San Francisco. On the return train, Katie, a customer at the store where Grant used to work, recognizes Grant. A former inmate, from when Grant was in prison, then recognizes Grant and attempts to assault him, amid the chaos, Grants girlfriend calls and asks where he is, he assures her he is fine. In the end, after Grant is restrained on the station platform, Grant is rushed to a hospital but later dies. There is also footage of a gathering of people celebrating Grants life on New Years Day 2013 with the real-life, when you know somebody as a human being, you know that life means something. He was able to meet John Burris, the attorney for the Grant family, through a mutual friend and he also worked closely with the Grant family, after gaining their trust. In January 2011, Forest Whitakers production company was looking for new filmmakers to mentor. Coogler met Head of Production, Nina Yang Bongiovi, and showed her his projects, shortly after, he had a meeting with Whitaker, who decided to support Fruitvale. Coogler met with advisers of Sundance Screenwriters Lab and he developed the script with the help of Creative Advisors Tyger Williams, Jessie Nelson and Zach Sklar. The film received funding from the Feature Film Program and the San Francisco Film Society, Coogler had Michael B. Jordan in mind to play the role of Grant before writing the script. In April 2012, Jordan and Octavia Spencer joined the cast, Spencer also received a co-executive producer credit as she directly participated in funding the film and contacted investors when a deal was lost during the filming. Notable investors included Kathryn Stockett, author of The Help, a bestselling novel adapted as a successful film, in April 2012, Hannah Beachler signed on to serve as the films production designer
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Ryan Coogler accepts the U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic with the crew at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival.
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Get on Up (film)
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Get on Up is a 2014 American biographical drama film about the life of singer James Brown directed by Tate Taylor and written by Jez and John-Henry Butterworth. The film was released on August 1,2014, get on Up is told using a nonlinear narrative through James Browns stream of consciousness, including asynchronous events and frequent breaks in the fourth wall. The film opens in 1993 with James Brown walking through a hallway as an audience chants his name. He hears the voices of people he knew throughout his life, the film then cuts to 1988 in Augusta, Georgia, James learns that his private bathroom in a strip mall he owns was used without his consent. As James confronts and then forgives the trespasser, James accidentally fires a shotgun, during the 1960s, James and his band decide to travel to Vietnam to show support to the black troops, where they put on a well-received show. In 1939, James is raised in the woods by his parents, whose marriage is fraught with financial struggles and physical abuse. Later he performs in a group, The Famous Flames, formed by Bobby Byrd, whose family sponsored his release from prison. James lives with the Byrd family and becomes lead singer of Bobbys group, in 1964, manager Ben Bart convinces them to let The Rolling Stones close The T. A. M. I. The Flames upstage the Stones, and, exiting the stage, James tells the Stones, in James childhood, Susie leaves Joe, and Joe threatens her with a gun and keeps James. Joe continues to abuse James until Joe joins the army, James is left living with and working for his Aunt Honey, who runs a brothel. At her home, he attends church and enjoys the choir, at the age of 17, James steals a suit, is arrested, and receives a five-to-thirteen-year prison sentence. In prison, James sees a group of singers performing and his enthusiastic reaction incites a riot wherein both he and one of the singers, Bobby Byrd, are injured. Bobby invites James into the Byrd household, years later, James joins Bobbys gospel group and they put on a show at a club as The Famous Flames, following a performance by Little Richard. Another flashback from Jamess childhood shows him and other black boys forced into a battle royal boxing match while a band plays, inspired by the funky band, James wins the match. In the 1950s, James and Bobby meet an agent from King Records, with whom The Flames record their first single, Please, Please, Please, King Records executive Syd Nathan initially mocks the song but appreciates Jamess vocals. Ben Bart becomes James manager, calling him the voice of the group. The records are labelled as James Brown and His Famous Flames, James and Bobby form a new band with Maceo Parker, Pee Wee Ellis, Nafloyd Scott, and Baby Roy. The Famous Flames singing group is also re-formed, replacing the members that quit, the Flames perform at the Apollo Theater to an excited audience
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Smashed (film)
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Smashed is a 2012 American drama film directed by James Ponsoldt, written by Ponsoldt and Susan Burke, and starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Aaron Paul. Winstead and Paul play a couple, Kate and Charlie Hannah. After a series of embarrassing incidents caused by her habit, Kate decides to get sober with the help of a coworker. The script was based on Burkes own experience of giving up alcohol at a young age. She and Ponsoldt wrote the script over six months, and the roles were cast in September 2011. The films US$500,000 budget was financed by independent investors including Minnesota Vikings owner Zygi Wilf and it was shot in Los Angeles in October 2011. It premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival on January 22,2012 and was released by Sony Pictures Classics on October 12,2012, the film received positive reviews, with Winsteads performance receiving unanimous praise, and was nominated for several awards for her acting. Kate Hannah, a school teacher, arrives at work hungover. Asked by a student if she is pregnant, she pretends she is, then continues the lie to the school principal and her co-worker Dave reveals that he knows she has been drinking and she makes him swear not to tell anyone. Attending a party with her husband Charlie and his brother Owen, while leaving, she meets a woman who asks Kate for a ride. Kate is offered crack and the two get high together, the next morning, Kate wakes alone on the street. She finds her car and drives home, where Charlie acknowledges they both are alcoholics and they get intoxicated and have sex before Charlie passes out. Kate heads out alone to buy wine but is turned down by the cashier and she urinates on the floor because the bathroom door is locked, then steals a bottle of wine. Waking up, Kate realizes she has passed out again, at work, Dave, a recovering alcoholic, invites her to an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting. There, she befriends Jenny, who has chosen a passion for food, Kate decides to become sober and change her life. Dave drives Kate home, but bluntly makes a comment which upsets her. Kate is surprised the next day when she is thrown a baby shower by her colleagues and she reconciles with Dave, putting his comments behind them. At home, Kate is angry when it becomes clear Charlie told Owen and that night, she rebuffs Charlies sexual advances
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James Ponsoldt, who directed Smashed from a script he wrote with Susan Burke
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Mary Elizabeth Winstead was praised by many critics for her performance in the film
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Snowpiercer
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Snowpiercer is a 2013 English-language Czech-Korean science fiction thriller film based on the French graphic novel Le Transperceneige by Jacques Lob, Benjamin Legrand and Jean-Marc Rochette. The film is directed by Bong Joon-ho, and written by Bong, the film marks Bongs English-language debut, approximately 80% of the film was shot in English. The film stars Chris Evans, Song Kang-ho, Tilda Swinton, Jamie Bell, Octavia Spencer, Go Ah-sung, John Hurt, and Ed Harris. Evans stars as Curtis Everett, a member of the tail section passengers as they lead a revolution against the elite of the front of the train. Filming was done on train car sets mounted on gimbals at Barrandov Studios in Prague to simulate the motion of the train, Snowpiercer was well received by critics, and appeared on many film critics top ten film lists of 2014 following its international release. Praise was primarily directed towards its vision, direction, and performances, particularly Evanss, produced at a budget of $40 million, it remains as the most expensive Korean production ever. By 2031, elites inhabit the extravagant front cars and the scum inhabit the tail in squalid and brutal conditions. Under watch by Wilfords guards, they are brought only gelatinous protein bars to eat and kept in their place in the order by Minister Mason. Conspiring with his mentor Gilliam, Curtis Everett leads the tail passengers in a revolt that he plans will take all the way up to the engine. Overpowering the guards, they release security expert Namgoong Minsu and his clairvoyant daughter Yona from the car so as to disable the locks between cars. They take the car where insects are ground up to make their protein bars, instead, they are ambushed by a mass of masked men with hatchets led by Franco the Elder under Masons orders, after a bloody battle Curtis sacrifices his second-in-command Edgar to win the fight. They travel through several luxurious cars and arrive at a classroom, where the teacher expounds to the children and the rebels on the greatness of Wilford and the sacred engine. While distracted by the celebration of the New Year marking one circumnavigation of the globe, further back, Franco and Masons soldiers use the same distraction to kill the rebel army and many of the tail passengers. Franco executes Gilliam, and Curtis kills Mason in revenge, Curtis group continues forward, followed by Franco, leading to a violent fight in a sauna car during which Franco kills Grey and Tanya before Curtis and Namgoong seemingly kill him. Curtis confesses to him shortly after boarding the train, the tail passengers resorted to cannibalism to survive. He was nearly ready to kill infant Edgar when Gilliam offered his own arm instead, after years of disdain for Wilford, Curtis seeks to learn what Wilfords intentions were. Franco is revealed to have survived and makes his way toward the engine, Wilfords assistant Claude emerges from the engine, shoots Namgoong, and invites Curtis inside where he meets an aging Wilford. He explains the importance of using fear and chaos to maintain a necessary order, after letting Curtis experience being alone for the first time in seventeen years, Wilford asks Curtis to replace him
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Evans and Swinton. The two received critical acclaim for their performances.
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Bong at the 2013 Deauville American Film Festival
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The Long Walk Home
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The Long Walk Home is a 1990 American historical drama film starring Sissy Spacek and Whoopi Goldberg, and directed by Richard Pearce. Set in Alabama, it is based on a screenplay about the Montgomery Bus Boycott by John Cork, the feature film is based on a short screenplay and film of the same name, written by John Cork, then a graduate student in directing at USC. He had submitted his script to the Cinema Department for consideration, while USC selected Corks script for production, the department assigned Beverlyn E. Fray, another student, to direct it. The short film won awards, including first place at the Black American Cinema Society. Cork, however, was unhappy with the project and unsuccessfully tried to block screenings of the short film. The film was expanded as a feature, Odessa and her family confront typical issues faced by African Americans in the South at the time, poverty, racism, segregation, and violence. The black community has begun a widespread boycott of the buses to end segregation. Miriam Thompson offers to give her a two days a week to ensure she gets to work on time and to lessen the fatigue her “long walk home” is causing. Around the city, some informal carpools and other systems are starting, as the boycott continues, tensions rise in the city. Blacks had been the majority riders on the buses. Miriams decision to support Odessa by giving her a ride becomes an issue with her husband, Norman Thompson, Miriam has to choose between what she believes is right or succumb to pressure from her husband and friends. After a fight with her husband, Miriam decides to follow her heart and she becomes involved in a carpool group to help other black workers like Odessa. In the films final scene, Miriam and her daughter Mary Catherine, who is the narrator of the story in flashback, join Odessa, by the time of the film, the bus was in poor condition. The filmmakers had it given a repaint and towed it by a cable for its scenes in the movie. It is now owned by the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan, cinematographer John Bailey was to have made his directorial debut on this film but was replaced by Richard Pearce early into production. The film was released theatrically on December 21,1990, in the U. S. it gained another theatrical release in March 1991 after Miramax withdrew the film from its limited December 1990 release due to the heavy competition of the 1990 holiday season. After the films run, it was released to videocassette by Live Home Video in the United States. In 2002, the film was released twice on DVD by Platinum Disc and Artisan Entertainment, on January 29,2013, a new DVD was released by Lionsgate, under license from Miramax
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Tate Taylor
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Tate Taylor is an American actor, screenwriter, film producer and director. He is best known for directing The Help, Get on Up, Taylor was born on June 3,1969 in Jackson, Mississippi, where he grew up. He attended preschool in Jackson with writer Kathryn Stockett, Taylor worked for 15 years in New York City and Los Angeles. Though he debuted as a film director in Pretty Ugly People, he was primarily an actor for most of his career. Taylor achieved mainstream success when he directed the film The Help and she gave him rights to make the film adaptation in June 2008, before the book was published. In addition to receiving positive reviews, the film was a major commercial success, earning more than $200 million worldwide. Taylor directed Get on Up, a biopic on the singer James Brown, starring Chadwick Boseman, though the film was well received critically, it was a commercial disappointment. Most recently he has directed The Girl on the Train, which received mixed reviews, Taylor resides on the Wyolah Plantation, an Antebellum plantation in Church Hill, Mississippi. Director Chicken Party Pretty Ugly People The Help Get on Up The Girl on the Train Actor Wannabe Winters Bone Tate Taylor at the Internet Movie Database
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Joel Schumacher
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Joel T. Schumacher is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. He is best known for directing The Incredible Shrinking Woman, St. Elmos Fire, Batman Forever, A Time to Kill, Batman & Robin, Phone Booth, The Phantom of the Opera and The Number 23. Before he launched his career as a director, Schumacher also wrote the adaptation of The Wiz. Schumacher was born in New York City. His mother was a Swedish Jew, and his father was a Baptist from Knoxville, Tennessee, Schumacher studied at Parsons The New School for Design and The Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. After first working in the industry, he realized his true love was in filmmaking. Schumachers first screenplay was for the musical drama Sparkle in 1976 and he also wrote the screenplays for the 1976 low-budget hit movie Car Wash, 1978s The Wiz — an adaptation of the stage play of the same name — and a number of other minor successes. His film directorial debut was The Incredible Shrinking Woman in 1981, the Brat Pack films St. Elmos Fire and The Lost Boys were two of Schumachers biggest hits. Their style impressed audiences and their success allowed studios to trust him with ever-larger projects. He states in the commentary for St. Elmos Fire that he resents the Brat Pack label. Schumacher has directed two adaptations of John Grishams novels, The Client and A Time to Kill, Grisham personally requested that Schumacher return to direct A Time to Kill. Schumacher replaced Tim Burton as the director of the Batman film franchise when he directed Batman Forever in 1995, val Kilmer replaced Michael Keaton in the title role, despite a lukewarm critical reception, the film scored the highest-grossing opening weekend of 1995. It finished as the second highest-grossing film of the year in North America, after this success, Warner Bros. hired Schumacher to direct a sequel, Batman & Robin, in 1997. The film did not perform as well at the box office as its predecessors, Warner Bros. subsequently put the Batman movie series on hiatus, canceling Schumachers next planned Batman movie, Batman Unchained. On the DVD commentary, Schumacher has admitted that his movie disappointed fans of darker Batman adaptations, saying that the film was made intentionally marketable and kid-friendly. He claims to have been under pressure from the studio to do so, however, he admits full responsibility and, at one point. Schumacher is a devoted Batman fan himself, and has said he would have preferred an adaptation of the comic Batman. After back-to-back Grisham and Batman films, Schumacher decided to reinvent his career with darker, lower-budget fare like 8MM with Nicolas Cage, 8MM was entered into the 49th Berlin International Film Festival. In 1999, Schumacher also directed the video for Letting the Cables Sleep by English rock band Bush
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Schumacher in
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Taormina Film Fest in 2003, for the Italian premiere of
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Spider-Man (2002 film)
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Spider-Man is a 2002 American superhero film directed by Sam Raimi. Exercising its option on just two elements from the acquisition, Sony hired David Koepp to create a working screenplay. Directors Roland Emmerich, Ang Lee, Chris Columbus, Jan de Bont, M. Night Shyamalan, Tony Scott, the Koepp script was rewritten by Scott Rosenberg during preproduction and received a dialogue polish from Alvin Sargent during production. Filming took place in Los Angeles, and New York City from January 8 to June 30,2001, Spider-Man premiered in the Philippines on April 30,2002, and had its general release in the United States on May 3,2002. It became a critical and financial success, for its time, it was the only film to reach $100 million in its first weekend, had the largest opening weekend gross of all time, and was the most successful film based on a comic book. With $821.7 million worldwide, it was 2002s third-highest-grossing film and is the 56th-highest-grossing film of all time, the film was nominated at the 75th Academy Awards ceremony for Best Visual Effects and Best Sound Mixing. Due to the success of the film, Columbia Pictures and Marvel released two sequels, Spider-Man 2 in 2004, and Spider-Man 3 in 2007, high-school senior Peter Parker is a school outcast and bully victim. On a school trip, he visits a genetics laboratory with his friend Harry Osborn. There, Peter is bitten by a genetically engineered super spider, shortly after arriving home, he becomes ill and falls unconscious. Meanwhile, Harrys father, scientist Norman Osborn, owner of Oscorp, is attempting to secure an important military weapons contract and he experiments on himself with an unstable performance-enhancing chemical. After absorbing the chemical, he goes insane, kills his assistant, the next morning, Peter discovers that he is no longer near-sighted, and his body has metamorphosized into a more muscular physique. At school, he finds that his body can produce webs from the wrists, brushing off his Uncle Bens advice that with great power comes great responsibility, Peter considers impressing Mary Jane with a car. He enters a wrestling tournament and wins his first match. When a thief suddenly raids the promoters office, Peter allows him to escape in revenge, moments later, he discovers that Ben has been carjacked and shot, dying in Peters arms. Overcome with anger and vengeance, Peter corners, subdues and tries to kill the carjacker, the thief attempts to flee, but trips and falls out a window to his death instead. Meanwhile, at Oscorps chief competitor Quest Aerospace, during a weapons test Norman kills several scientists, upon graduating, Peter begins using his abilities to fight crime, donning a costume and the persona of Spider-Man. J. Norman, upon learning Oscorps board members plan to sell the company, attacks them at the World Unity Fair, jameson quickly dubs the mysterious killer the Green Goblin. The Goblin offers Spider-Man a place at his side, but gives him time to think about it, meanwhile, after meeting Peter again, Mary Jane is followed by four men down an alley
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Original Spider-Man teaser poster, which was recalled from theatres following
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The Big Bang Theory
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The Big Bang Theory is an American television sitcom created by Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady, both of whom serve as executive producers on the series, along with Steven Molaro. All three also serve as head writers, the show premiered on CBS on September 24,2007. The series tenth season premiered on September 19,2016, in March 2017, the series was renewed for two additional seasons, bringing its total to 12, and running through the 2018–19 television season. The geekiness and intellect of the four men are contrasted for comic effect with Pennys social skills, the structure of the original, unaired pilot, developed for the 2006–07 television season, was substantially different from the series current form. The only characters retained in both pilots were Leonard and Sheldon, who are named after Sheldon Leonard, althea was a character featured in both pilots and the first series episode. Sheldon and Leonard meet Katie after she breaks up with a boyfriend and they invite her to share their apartment, Test audiences reacted negatively to Katie, but they liked Sheldon and Leonard. The original pilot used Thomas Dolbys hit She Blinded Me with Science as the theme song, the series was not picked up, but the creators were given an opportunity to retool the show and produce a second pilot. They brought in the remaining cast and retooled the show to its final format, the original unaired pilot has never been officially released, but it has circulated on the Internet. On the evolution of the show, Chuck Lorre said, We did the Big Bang Pilot about two and a half ago, and it sucked. But there were two things that worked perfectly, and that was Johnny and Jim. We rewrote the thing entirely and then we were blessed with Kaley and Simon, as to whether the world will ever see the original pilot on a future DVD release, Lorre said, Wow, that would be something, we will see. The first and second pilots of The Big Bang Theory were directed by James Burrows, the reworked second pilot led to a 13-episode order by CBS on May 14,2007. Prior to its airing on CBS, the episode was distributed on iTunes free of charge. The show premiered on September 24,2007, and was picked up for a full 22-episode season on October 19,2007, the show is filmed in front of a live audience, and is produced by Warner Bros. Production was halted on November 6,2007, due to the Writers Guild of America strike, nearly three months later, on February 4,2008, the series was temporarily replaced by a short-lived sitcom, Welcome to the Captain. The series returned on March 17,2008, in a time slot. After the strike ended, the show was picked up for a season, airing in the 2008–2009 season. With increasing ratings, the received a two-year renewal through the 2010–11 season in 2009
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Single cover for "Big Bang Theory Theme" by
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Main characters in The Big Bang Theory. First row from left:
Raj Koothrappali,
Leonard Hofstadter,
Penny,
Sheldon Cooper, and
Howard Wolowitz. Second row from left:
Bernadette Rostenkowski-Wolowitz and
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ER (TV series)
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It was produced by Constant c Productions and Amblin Television, in association with Warner Bros. ER follows the life of the emergency room of fictional County General Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. The show became the longest-running primetime medical drama in American television history and it won 23 Primetime Emmy Awards, including the 1996 Outstanding Drama Series award, and received 124 Emmy nominations, which makes it the most nominated drama program in history. ER won 116 awards in total, including the Peabody Award, in 1974, author Michael Crichton wrote a screenplay based on his own experiences as a resident physician in a busy hospital emergency room. The screenplay went nowhere and Crichton focused on other topics, in 1990, he published the novel Jurassic Park, and in 1993 began a collaboration with director Steven Spielberg on the film adaptation of the book. Crichton and Spielberg then turned to ER, but decided to film the story as a pilot for a television series rather than as a feature film. Spielbergs Amblin Entertainment provided John Wells as the executive producer. The script used to shoot the pilot was virtually unchanged from what Crichton had written in 1974. Because of a lack of time and money necessary to build a set, the episode of ER was filmed in the former Linda Vista Hospital in Los Angeles. After Spielberg had joined as a producer, NBC ordered six episodes, ER premiered opposite a Monday Night Football game on ABC and did surprisingly well. Then we moved it to Thursday and it just took off, ERs success surprised the networks and critics alike, as David E. Kelleys new medical drama Chicago Hope was expected to crush the new series. Crichton remained executive producer until his death in November 2008, although he was credited as one throughout that entire final season. Wells, the other initial executive producer, served as showrunner for the first three seasons. He was one of the shows most prolific writers and became a director in later years. Lydia Woodward was a part of the first season production team and she took over as showrunner for the fourth season while Wells focused on the development of other series, including Trinity, Third Watch, and The West Wing. She left her executive position at the end of the sixth season. Joe Sachs, who was a writer and producer of the series, believed keeping a commitment to medical accuracy was important, Wed bend the rules. A medication that would take 10 minutes to work might take 30 seconds instead, a 12- to 24-hour shift gets pushed into 48 minutes
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Michael Crichton, the show's creator.
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Original cast of the show (1994–1995)
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Final season cast (2008–2009)
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Titus (TV series)
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Titus is an American dark comedy sitcom that debuted on Fox in 2000. The series was created by its star, Christopher Titus, Jack Kenny, Titus plays an outwardly childish adult, who owns a custom car shop. Titus began doing comedy when he was 18, after two years of relatively normal comedy bits, his act soon began to evolve to focus around his family, particularly his fathers heart attacks and his mothers mental illness. One night while performing, an assistant to a Fox executive was in the audience, knowing he had a deal with Fox, Titus wanted Dad is Dead to be the pilot. After the series ended, Titus commented that, if one watches Norman Rockwell is Bleeding, and then Dad is Dead, episodes were blocked and rehearsed extensively, and shot on Friday every week. The cast also had different methods of working, being a comedian, Titus knew where the punchline would be and never explored anything else. Zack Ward had difficulty finding the joke during rehearsals, but Kenny realized that he was looking for where the joke could be, Watros asked Titus to point out where the joke was, and promised to hit her marks. During breaks in rehearsal, Shatraw would work by himself on set, the season two episode The Last Noelle is one of Tituss favorites, and is based on his relationship with an abusive ex-girlfriend. Cynthia Watros was the first person to audition for the role of Erin, steve Carell and Zack Ward both auditioned for Tommy, Carell lost out to David Shatraw, while Ward was soon cast as Tituss brother, Dave. After a number of auditions for Tituss father Ken, Stacy Keach was cast after Titus admitted Keach intimidated him, before his passing, Christophers real father, Ken Titus, would give tips to Keach on how to better portray him. Titus also admitted that, even with the driest line the writers could invent and this often upset Titus because Keachs set-up would be funnier than Tituss punchline. Hargrove has also commented that Keach could get a response with just a look. Had The Protector aired in order, viewers would have seen the real reason behind Amys asocial, criminal behavior. This is also confirmed by these episodes production codes, which puts The Wedding in between Tommys Girlfriend II and Hard Ass, on a Sirius Radio interview on Raw Dog 104, Titus said the show got canceled due to an argument with executives. They wanted to split up Titus and Erin because the show Dharma & Greg had done similar and their ratings went up. Titus refused, because not only was he still married to his wife, Erin Carden. Upon Tituss refusal, on-air promotion ceased and the show was soon canceled, in another radio interview, he claimed the show was also taken down for its content and being too edgy. As of May 2010, Christopher Titus was reportedly in negotiations with the Fox network to start up a new series again, in March 2014, Titus posted on his Facebook page that the revival project was shut down due to legal issues with 20th Century Fox and limited funding
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The Titus logo used in the opening credits.
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Christopher Titus in the "neutral space", where he provides commentary and exposition
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Ken Titus (
Stacy Keach) in the neutral space in "
The Pendulum ". Christopher, the neutral space's normal occupant, was in a coma during the Live Story as a result of an accident in "The Pit".
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Erin Fitzpatrick in the neutral space, in the episode "
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30 Rock (TV series)
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30 Rock is an American satirical television sitcom created by Tina Fey that ran on NBC from October 11,2006, to January 31,2013. The series, loosely based on Feys experiences as head writer for Saturday Night Live and this series is produced by Broadway Video and Little Stranger, Inc. in association with NBCUniversal. 30 Rock episodes were produced in a setup, and were filmed in New York. The pilot episode premiered on October 11,2006, and seven seasons followed, tonally,30 Rock uses surreal humor to parody the complex corporate structure of NBC and its then parent company General Electric. Television critic Todd VanDerWerff of The A. V, club once remarked that it usually adopts the manic pacing of a live-action cartoon. The show was influential in its use of smash cuts, sudden. 30 Rock also became known for its dedication to making these extremely elaborate,30 Rock received critical acclaim throughout its run, winning several major awards, and achieving the top ranking on myriad critics year-end best of 2006-2013 lists. On July 14,2009, the series was nominated for 22 Primetime Emmy Awards, over the course of the series, it was nominated for 103 Primetime Emmy Awards and won 16, in addition to numerous other nominations and wins from other awards shows. Despite the high praise, the series struggled in the ratings throughout its run, today,30 Rock is regarded as a landmark series. Its series finale in particular has been named as one of the greatest in history by several publications. In 2013, the Writers Guild of America named 30 Rock the 21st best-written television series of all time, in 2002, Fey was the head writer and a performer on the television show Saturday Night Live. She pitched the show that became 30 Rock to NBC, originally as a sitcom about cable news, NBC Entertainment president Kevin Reilly felt that Fey was using the news setting as a fig leaf for her own experience and encouraged her to write what she knew. The show was reworked to revolve around an SNL-style sketch show. After being presented to Reilly once more, the show was set to air during the 2005–2006 television season, eventually, Lewis gave in just a month before his retirement, and Melcher backed down. Filming was postponed due to Tina Feys first pregnancy, during the 2004–2005 pilot season, a pilot was announced named Untitled Tina Fey Project. The 30 Rock pilot focused on the boss of a variety show who must manage her relationships with the shows volatile star and its charismatic executive producer. The storyline evolved into one that dealt with a writer of a variety show who dealt with both of the stars, as well as the shows new network executive. 30 Rock was officially given the light to air May 15,2006
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Alec Baldwin's performance as Jack Donaghy has been praised by critics.
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Fey has won six
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Mom (TV series)
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Mom is an American sitcom that premiered on September 23,2013, on CBS. The series was created by Chuck Lorre, Eddie Gorodetsky, and Gemma Baker and it stars Anna Faris and Allison Janney in lead roles as dysfunctional mother/daughter duo Christy and Bonnie Plunkett. Sadie Calvano, Blake Garrett Rosenthal, Matt L. Jones, Spencer Daniels, Nate Corddry, French Stewart, William Fichtner, Beth Hall, Jaime Pressly, the series has received positive reviews throughout its run. The show has garnered multiple nominations at the Critics Choice Television Awards. The show has received high ratings, which rose from the first to second season with an average viewership of 11.79 million. CBS renewed the series for a season, which premiered on November 5,2015. On March 25,2016, the series was renewed for a fourth season, on March 23,2017, CBS renewed the series for a fifth season. Her mother Bonnie Plunkett is also a drug and alcohol addict. Christys daughter, Violet, who was born when Christy was 16, has become a teen mother by her boyfriend. Christy also has a son, Roscoe by her ex-husband, Baxter. As the show progresses, added themes of real-life issues such as alcoholism, teen pregnancy, cancer, homelessness, gambling addiction, domestic violence, death, drug addiction, relapse and overdose. Anna Faris as Christy Jolene Plunkett, a mother who has gone a year without drinking and is still struggling with addiction. Now sober, she strives to be an example to her son Roscoe, and regain the trust of her daughter Violet. In addition, she is trying to out the rough edges in her relationship with her mother Bonnie, who never learned to play her role well. Allison Janney as Bonnie Plunkett, Christys mother, a joyful if cynical recovering addict who is now grateful with life and she tries desperately to regain the love and trust of her daughter, whom she was unable to properly nurture as a child. A single mother, she preferred to party and drink rather than stay home, sadie Calvano as Violet Plunkett, Christys daughter and older half-sister of Roscoe. During season 2, after a brief downward spiral of bad behavior, Violet gets engaged to Gregory Munchnik, a professor at her university. Nate Corddry as Gabriel, the manager of the restaurant where Christy works and he is a hardworking, competent manager, but often put in his place by his subordinates, particularly Chef Rudy
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Faris in 2012 was first cast.
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Janney in 2012 was second cast and won two Emmy Awards for the role.
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Comedy Central
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Comedy Central is an American basic cable and satellite television channel owned by Viacom Global Entertainment Group, a unit of the Viacom Media Networks division of Viacom. The channel carries comedy programming, in the form of original and syndicated series and stand-up comedy specials, as well as feature films. The international channels are operated by Viacom International Media Networks, as of February 2015, approximately 93,992,000 American households receive Comedy Central. On November 15,1989, Time Warner, owners of HBO, on April 1,1990, Viacom launched a rival channel called Ha. that featured reruns of situation comedies and some original sketch comedy. The Comedy Channels programs were broadcast from the HBO Downtown Studios at 120 East 23rd Street in Manhattan, the format prior to the merger with Ha. In the early days, certain hours of the day when clips were shown without host segments were dubbed Short Attention Span Theater, in 1990, hosts under this title, Jon Stewart and Patty Rosborough, were introduced. Comedian Marc Maron also hosted the series, Viacom bought out Time Warners half in April 2003 for $1.23 billion. LLC, the subsidiary that owned Ha. and Viacoms original half of the network, with the exception of the cult favorite Mystery Science Theater 3000, the channel had a relatively small viewership. A notable early success was Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher, which after showing promise on Comedy Central was quickly snapped up by ABC. Additionally, The Daily Show had got its start with original host Craig Kilborn, dr. Katz, Professional Therapist was also a notable original program from this era, as well as the game show Win Ben Steins Money. Successful non-original programming included Canadian comedy group The Kids in the Hall and British shows such as the U. K. edition of Whose Line Is It Anyway. some later seasons of AbFab, as it was informally known, were partially financed by Comedy Central. Comedy Central also had the rights to broadcast reruns of Seattles Almost Live. The channel made a breakthrough when South Park premiered in 1997, being the first major basic cable show to carry the TV-MA rating for mature audiences, the show was too controversial to be picked up by a mainstream network. As word of mouth spread, the number of people who requested that Comedy Central be added to their cable providers increased, on November 13,2000, Comedy Central introduced a modernized version of its globe logo, by straightening the buildings and removing the transmitter. The management of the said that the transmitter of the 1991 logo was said to communicate the 1950s broadcast era. In 2002, Comedy Central Records was formed as a means of releasing albums by comedians that have appeared on the network, since 2003, Comedy Central has created a tradition of roasting comedians in the style of the New York Friars Club roasts. During these roasts, friends of the roastee, along other comedians, take turns making fun of the roastee, the other roasters. The success of South Park, despite its mature content, encouraged the network to continue to push the limits on adult language, every Saturday and Sunday morning at 1 a. m
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Halfway Home (TV series)
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Halfway Home is an American comedy series that aired on Comedy Central in Spring 2007. After airing 10 episodes, on June 20,2007 costar Regan Burns confirmed that the show had ended, on its official website, Halfway Home is described as an improvised half-hour show featuring the daily exploits of five ex-cons living together in a residential rehab facility. Carly Barzac is an ex-convict for drug trafficking and she has a bad relationship with her parents, and had to hire actors to pretend to be her parents on Parents Day. She has set the record for pogo-sticking. Carlys years of use have severely hindered her cognitive abilities, leaving her ditzy and, according to an online intelligence test. When she goes sober her IQ skyrockets, this led to her gaining the highest score ever on the GED test in the state of California, unfortunately, this also leaves her irritable and violent, to the point where giving her more pot becomes the only option. Kenny Carlyle is the house supervisor and he is the stereotypical sensitive counselor who enforces the rules, while being known to break them on occasion. He has no formal training regarding rehabilitation or psychology and he has apparently been working at the Crenshaw Halfway House for fifteen years. Kenny hopes to pursue a career but lacks the talent. Serenity Johnson is an ex-convict for armed robbery and she is very aggressive and hostile, threatening other housemates with violence, no matter what terms she is on with them. She has a relationship with her mother, a beautician. She had aspirations of fame when she was interviewed for a television show, eulogio Pla was convicted for prostitution, his prison file describes him as sex to get what he wants. He comes from a long line of prostitutes and is the only one in the family to have been arrested. Eulogio seems to have some skills as a beautician and he fixes Carlys hair after Alan burns half of it off and, also, gives Dels delinquent nephew, Hubble a near-complete makeover. Alan Shepard is an ex-convict for arson, described as the house narc who has an obsession with fire. Alan married a woman after she lied and told him she was pregnant, always belittling everything about you, including the size of your penis. And by live with them, I mean share the same zip code, at times, though, he will try to get along with the other housemates, to varying degrees of success. He considers Kenny to be his best friend and thinks of himself as Kennys second in command, sebastian C-Bass Yates is an ex-convict for internet fraud
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The cast of Halfway Home. Counterclockwise: Kevin Ruf, Jordan Black, Jessica Makinson, Octavia Spencer, Regan Burns, and Oscar Nunez
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Beth Grant
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Beth Grant is an American character actress known for often playing conservatives, religious zealots, or sticklers for rules. Since 2012, she has been a regular on the television comedy The Mindy Project portraying the role of Beverly Janoszewski. She has appeared in the films No Country for Old Men, Speed, Donnie Darko, The Artist, Childs Play 2, Rain Man, Flatliners, Little Miss Sunshine, Sordid Lives, Dear Lemon Lima, Bad Words and Jackie. Grant was born on September 18,1949 in Gadsden, Alabama and she grew up in Kenansville, North Carolina. Her father was a poultry specialist and salesman and her mother worked as a manager for the North Carolina Employment Security Commission and was an activist for the Equal Rights Amendment. Grant credits her mother for providing the inspiration to become an actress and she graduated from East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting and Directing in 1973 and then travelled to New York to pursue a career in acting. She has appeared in dozens of films, including three Oscar Best Pictures, Rain Man, Speed, To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Grant guest starred as Gillian, Brady Kellys mother, in the third season of the acclaimed sitcom Husbands. Inspired by Mindy Kaling, Grant is also in the process of writing a Broadway musical and she is married to actor Michael Chieffo and has one daughter. Grant lives with her family in the neighborhood of Valley Village, ovation Awards 2010, Won the award for Lead Actress in a Play for the role of Grace in the Colony Theatre Company production of Grace & Glorie Beth Grant at the Internet Movie Database
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Grant at PaleyFest 2013's panel for
The Mindy Project
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Grant at the premiere of
In My Sleep in 2010.
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Allison Janney
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Allison Brooks Janney is an American actress. A seven-time Primetime Emmy Award winner for her work, her first four Emmy wins were for her role as C. J. Cregg on the NBC drama The West Wing. In 2014, she won the Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for her role as Margaret Scully on the Showtime series Masters of Sex. In 2014 and 2015, she won the Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her role as Bonnie Plunkett on the CBS sitcom Mom. Janney, who won a scholarship to study at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in the summer of 1984 and she won Drama Desk Awards for the 1997 Broadway revival of A View From the Bridge, and the 2009 original Broadway production of the musical 9 to 5. She also received Tony Award nominations for both, Janney was born in Boston, Massachusetts and raised in Dayton, Ohio. She is the daughter of Macy Brooks, an actress and homemaker. She is one of three siblings, Janney attended The Miami Valley School in Dayton, where she was named a distinguished alumna in 2004, and the Hotchkiss School in Connecticut. She then attended Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, at Kenyon, she studied with Paul Newman, an alumnus of Kenyon. He directed her in a play as the event of the schools newly dedicated Bolton Theater. Newman and his wife Joanne Woodward encouraged Janney to continue acting and she then went on to train at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York and did summer programs at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. She attended The Neighborhood Playhouse the same years as actor Dylan McDermott, Janneys first role on television was in the short-lived black-and-white faux-1940s comedy Morton & Hayes, she appeared in two episodes of the 1991 CBS series as Eddie Hayes wife. She then moved on to soap operas, she first played Vi Kaminski for a time on As the World Turns, following up with a two-year role as Ginger, one of the Spaulding maids. In the spring of 1994, she appeared in the finale of Law & Order. She was also a cast member on the radio show A Prairie Home Companion, in 2006, she had roles in the feature films Margaret and Over the Hedge. In 1999, she was cast in the role of press secretary C. J. Cregg on the television drama The West Wing. She was also nominated for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in the 2003 and 2006 Primetime Emmys, Janney won two Screen Actors Guild awards for Best Actress in a dramatic series, in 2001 and 2002. The cast of The West Wing won the Screen Actors Guild award for Best Ensemble in a series the same two years
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Janney at the 14th Annual Les Girls Cabaret Benefit in October 2014
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Janney at the
2011 Toronto International Film Festival
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Janney at
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Rob Zombie
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Rob Zombie is an American musician, filmmaker, and screenwriter. Zombie rose to fame as a member of the heavy metal band White Zombie. Zombies first solo effort was a song titled Hands of Death with Alice Cooper, in 1997, he began working on his debut solo studio album, Hellbilly Deluxe, which was released in August 1998. A month later, Zombie officially disbanded White Zombie and his solo album went on to sell over three million copies worldwide, and spawned three singles. He released an album the following year that contained songs from Hellbilly Deluxe. Zombie directed the horror film House of 1000 Corpses in 2000 and his second studio album, The Sinister Urge, became his second platinum album in the United States. In 2003, Zombie released the compilation album Past, Present, Zombie directed The Devils Rejects, a direct sequel to his prior film House of 1000 Corpses. The project received a positive reception than its predecessor. His third studio album, Educated Horses, was a departure from his earlier recordings, the album became his third to enter the top ten of the Billboard 200, though saw a decrease in sales when compared to his previous releases. Deciding to focus on his career, Zombie directed the horror film Halloween. The film became Zombies highest-grossing film to date, though was met with a critical reception. He later directed Halloween II which failed to match the success of its predecessor and he released the animated film The Haunted World of El Superbeasto that same year. Zombie returned to music with the release of his studio album. The album peaked at eight in the United States. In 2012, Zombie released a remix album and directed the horror film The Lords of Salem. He released his studio album Venomous Rat Regeneration Vendor the following year. Since the beginning of his career, Zombies music and lyrics have featured notable horror. His live shows have been praised for their shock rock theatricality
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Rob Zombie performing at
Roskilde Festival on the 4th of July 2014.
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Haverhill, Massachusetts, where Zombie grew up.
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Rob Zombie at Ozzfest, 2005.
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Rob Zombie attending the 2007
Comic Con to promote
Halloween
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Love at First Hiccup
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The First Time is a 2009 American teen comedy film directed by Barbara Topsøe-Rothenborg, based on the book Love At First Hicup by Dennis Jürgensen. The film is an American remake of the Danish film Kærlighed ved første hik, the film is centered on a high school freshman Victor, who falls in love with the beautiful senior Anya at first hiccup. The film follows their romance as they learn to overcome the little hiccups that can be found in all relationships. High school freshman Victor Knudsen tries to think about how to fall in love for high school senior Anya Benton, when introducing himself he hiccups and a few other students, including Anyas boyfriend Peter, mock him. At a party night, Victor and Anya run into each other. The next day at school, Victor overhears Peter and Marisa talking about Anyas virginity in the bathroom, Victor believes that Peter and Anya are not falling in love, so he goes to her house to warn her of Peters intentions but he instead chickens out. And that night, Peter and Anya are under-age drinking in her bedroom with Victor looking on through her window. Peter and Anya start making out to which Victor interrupts it a couple times by ringing the door bell, Peter becomes fed up of Victors actions and throws him out of the house. However, he is horrified when he opens the door to find Anyas parents arrive back home, the next day, Victor receives an invitation to Anyas 18th birthday party, which unbeknownst to Victor was actually made by Brian. When Anya opens Victors present the party guests panic, except Anyas dad Roger who finds it hilarious, in Anyas bedroom, Anya gets Victor to relax but her father informs the two they cant find Hugo, and then offers Victor a ride home. Sometime later, Victor apologizes to Anya and offers to take her out for lunch which she accepts, much to the annoyance, Anya breaks up with Peter, and Victor takes her to Pyramid Lake where they rent a row boat. While relaxing on the boat, Anya says that Victor hasnt failed and kisses him. She then asks if Victor is also a virgin, and when he replies that he is, she invites him to come over to her house on Wednesday to have sex with him, as her parents will be out playing cards. Victor goes to a store with the intention to buy condoms but is too embarrassed to do so. With the help of Zack, Victor pays him to buy them, on Wednesday night, Victor arrives at Anyas house for an intimate moment, but Anyas parents arrive back home just minutes later. Anyas father requests that he have a chat with Victor in the kitchen. In the kitchen, Roger says he realizes that Anya and Victor both like and care for other and that it is fine with him if they want to have protected sex. The next day, Anya invites Victor to hang out with her and Marisa, though Victor does not know the girl, Anya assumes Victor was only pretending to love her to show off to his friends
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Viola Davis
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Viola Davis is an American actress and producer. She is the black woman to be nominated for three Academy Awards, winning one, and is the only black actress or actor to win the Triple Crown of Acting. In 2012, she was listed by Time Magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. After graduating from the Juilliard School in 1993, Davis began her career on stage, in 2001, she won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her role as Tonya in the original production of August Wilsons King Hedley II. Davis film breakthrough came in 2008 when her role in the drama Doubt earned her several nominations, including the Golden Globe, SAG. Greater success came to Davis in the 2010s and she won the 2010 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her role as Rose Maxson in the revival of August Wilsons play Fences. For her lead role as 1960s housemaid Aibeleen Clark in the comedy-drama The Help, she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress among others and her portrayal also won her two SAG Awards in 2015 and 2016. Davis and her husband, Julius Tennon, are the founders of the production company JuVee Productions, Davis has starred in their productions Lila & Eve and Custody. Davis was born in St. Matthews, South Carolina, at her grandparents house on the Singleton Plantation and she is the daughter of Mary Alice and Dan Davis, and is the second youngest of six children. Her father was a trainer and her mother was a maid. Her mother was also an activist during the Civil Rights Movement, at the age of two, Davis was taken to jail with her mother after she was arrested during a civil rights protest. Two months after she was born, her moved to Central Falls, Rhode Island, with Davis. She has described herself as having lived in poverty and dysfunction during her childhood. Davis is the cousin of actor Mike Colter, who is known for portraying the Marvel Comics character Luke Cage. Davis attended Central Falls High School, the alma mater to which she credits her love of stage acting with her involvement in the arts. As a teen, she was involved in the federal TRIO Upward Bound, when enrolled at the Young Peoples School for the Performing Arts in West Warwick, Rhode Island, Davis talent was recognized by a director at the program, Bernard Masterson. Following graduation from school, Davis studied at Rhode Island College, majoring in theater. She was awarded a doctorate in Fine Arts from the college in 2002
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Davis at the
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Emma Stone
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Emily Jean Emma Stone is an American actress. One of the worlds highest-paid actresses in 2015, Stone has received accolades as an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award. She appeared in Forbes Celebrity 100 in 2013, and is described by the media as one of the most talented actresses of her generation. Born and raised in Scottsdale, Arizona, Stone began acting as a child, in a theater production of The Wind in the Willows in 2000. As a teenager, she relocated to Los Angeles with her mother, and made her debut in VH1s In Search of the New Partridge Family. After small television roles, she won a Young Hollywood Award for her debut in Superbad. The 2010 teen comedy Easy A was Stones first starring role and earned her nominations for the BAFTA Rising Star Award and this breakthrough was followed by the commercially successful film Crazy, Stupid, Love, and a supporting part in the critically acclaimed drama The Help. Stone gained wider recognition for playing Gwen Stacy in the 2012 superhero film The Amazing Spider-Man and she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the role of a recovering drug addict in the black comedy-drama Birdman or. Her Broadway debut came in a revival of the musical Cabaret, Stone won an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for playing an aspiring actress in the highly successful musical film La La Land. Emily Jean Stone was born on November 6,1988, in Scottsdale, Arizona, to Krista Jean Stone, a homemaker, and Jeffrey Charles Stone, Stone lived on the grounds of the Camelback Inn resort from the age of 12 to 15. She has a brother, Spencer. Her paternal grandfather, Conrad Ostberg Sten, was from a Swedish family that anglicized their surname to Stone when they immigrated to the United States through Ellis Island and she also has German, English, Scottish, and Irish ancestry. As an infant, Stone had baby colic and cried frequently, Stone has described herself as having been loud and bossy while growing up. She was educated at Sequoya Elementary School and attended Cocopah Middle School for the sixth grade, although she did not like school, she has stated that her controlling nature meant that I made sure I got all As. Stone suffered panic attacks as a child, which she caused a decline in her social skills. She underwent therapy but states that it was her participation in local theater plays that helped cure the attacks and she has recalled, The first time I had a panic attack I was sitting in my friends house, and I thought the house was burning down. I called my mom and she brought me home, and for the three years it just would not stop. I would go to the nurse at lunch most days and just wring my hands, I would ask my mom to tell me exactly how the day was going to be, then ask again 30 seconds later
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Stone in 2014
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Stone at the
Zombieland world premiere, 2009
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Stone at the premiere of Easy A in Germany, 2010
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Stone at the
Deauville American Film Festival in 2011
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Bryce Dallas Howard
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Bryce Dallas Howard is an American film actress, director, producer, and writer. Howard attended New York Universitys Tisch School of the Arts, and her performance in Kenneth Branagh’s film adaptation of As You Like It earned her a Golden Globe Award nomination. In 2006, she co-wrote and directed the short film Orchids, Howard became more recognizable to audiences as Victoria in The Twilight Saga, Eclipse. This project, as well as Terminator Salvation, was financially successful, in 2011, she had supporting roles in 50/50 and The Help. She is signed to reprise her role in the two films in the franchise. Howard was born in Los Angeles, California, to writer Cheryl Howard Crew and actor-director Ron Howard and she has two younger sisters, twins Jocelyn and Paige, and a younger brother named Reed. Through her father, she is a granddaughter of actors Rance Howard and Jean Speegle Howard and her godfather is actor Henry Winkler, who co-starred on Happy Days with her father. All of the Howard children were raised away from the world of show business and their parents did not allow them access to television and instead encouraged outdoor activities and hobbies. At the age of 7, however, she was allowed to be an extra in her fathers movies, in an appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, she mentioned that she and her siblings were babysat by family friend Tom Cruise on several occasions. She was raised in Westchester County, New York and on a farm in Greenwich, Howard attended Stagedoor Manor, a performing arts camp in upstate New York, with actress Natalie Portman. During her schooling, she took part in the recording of the Broadway-bound musical A Tale of Two Cities. She graduated with her BFA in Drama in 2003, Howard is also an alumna of the Steppenwolf Theatre Companys School at Steppenwolf in Chicago, and of The Actors Center in New York City. During her time in New York, Howard was also a member of theater company Theater Mitu, in residence at New York Theatre Workshop. For several years, Howard appeared in New York plays, among these were House & Garden, a 2002 Alan Ayckbourn production held at the Manhattan Theatre Club, in which she portrayed a disdainful, flirtatious teen. While performing as Rosalind in the critically acclaimed 2003 William Shakespeare comedy production As You Like It at The Public Theater, Howard was cast in Shyamalans fantasy thriller The Village two weeks later without having to audition. Its story is about a village whose residents live in fear of the creatures inhabiting the woods beyond it. She plays the lead, the chiefs blind daughter and love interest to Joaquin Phoenixs part. Her performance was applauded by critics and Howard was nominated for several awards, the Village did well commercially, but had a mixed reception
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Howard in 2010
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Howard with Shyamalan in 2006
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Howard at the
2008 Toronto International Film Festival
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Howard at the
2011 Toronto International Film Festival in
Toronto, Canada.
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Chris Columbus (filmmaker)
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Chris Joseph Columbus is an American filmmaker. Home Alone received a British Comedy Award for Best Comedy Film, Columbus received an Academy Award nomination for producing The Help. Columbus was born in Spangler, Pennsylvania and raised in Champion, Ohio, the son of Mary Irene, a worker, and Alex Michael Columbus. Columbus is of Italian and Czech descent, Columbus worked as a screenwriter with Steven Spielbergs Amblin Entertainment, working on Gremlins, The Goonies and Young Sherlock Holmes. He wrote the first episodes of the animated series Galaxy High and later made his debut with the teen comedy Adventures in Babysitting. His directorial work includes Home Alone, Only the Lonely, Home Alone 2, Lost in New York, the character types preferred by Columbus are the everyday American men, women, and children who struggle to uphold family traditions against a changing, sometimes intimidating society. In 1993, he said, I can understand the validity of showing people the ugliness of the world, if your film isnt going to do that, I just dont think its worth making. Columbus created the House of Secrets book series with Ned Vizzini and co-founded a new studio called ZAG Animation Studios with Saban Capital Group. In 1982, Columbus married Monica Devereux, with whom he has four children, Eleanor, Violet, Brendan, Columbus lives in San Franciscos Pacific Heights. Columbus and his wife listed their Pacific Heights home for sale in September 2013 for $12. 995M and his children attend or previously attended Saint Ignatius College Preparatory. He donated money to the school for a new building, many of Columbus family members —including his children, his wife, his mother, his father-in-law, and his cousin Robert Ayres— have appeared in cameo roles in his films. Particularly, his own daughter, Eleanor, portrayed the Hogwarts student Susan Bones in the first two Harry Potter films
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Chris Columbus
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Mark Radcliffe
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Mark Radcliffe is an English broadcaster, musician and writer. Born in Bolton, Lancashire, he is best known for his work for the BBC. In 1991 he moved to BBC Radio 1 closely followed by Riley with whom, under the moniker Mark and Lard, he worked for 14 years on the station. When the Mark and Lard duo departed BBC Radio 1 in 2004 and he remains a presenter on BBC Radio 2, where he presents the weekly programme The Folk Show. On BBC Radio 6 Music he co-hosts a weekday afternoon show, Radcliffe was born in Bolton, Lancashire and educated at Bolton School and the University of Manchester, where he studied English and American studies and classical civilisation. He took an interest in music from an age, playing drums in numerous bands while at school and university. As of 2007, he lives in Whitley, Cheshire is married with three daughters and became a grandfather in October 2008, Radcliffe is a supporter of Manchester City. In July 2011 he was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Letters from the University of Bolton, Radcliffes radio career began in late 1982 at Piccadilly Radio, where he hosted a Friday night show called Cures For Insomnia. He later hosted Transmission, a show playing local and nationally recognised New Wave and Post-Punk bands as well as European avant-garde. He came to prominence as a DJ on BBC Radio 5s Hit the North in 1990, nearly twenty years later in 2009 he briefly stood in as a presenter on BBC Radio 5 Live, the station that replaced it, to cover the Simon Mayo afternoon show. Radcliffes Radio 1 career started in 1983 when he produced sessions at Maida Vale Studios for John Peels show, in 1991, he started presenting the one-hour Monday evening show Out on Blue Six. Starting in early 1993, he presented the arts programme The Guest List on Thursdays, also in 1993, Radcliffe presented Skyman, an odd show which he presented in character as a visiting alien, and all the records played were space-related. This half-hour show aired immediately before Out on Blue Six on Monday evenings and his most famous work was as part of the act Mark and Lard on BBC Radio 1. The duo began in a 10pm–midnight slot on Mondays to Thursdays in October 1993 and this show was unique for Radio 1 because it was based around non-playlist music and featured live music sessions, poetry readings and comedy. He is also credited with the success of White Towns Your Woman in January 1997, following Chris Evans sudden departure from BBC Radio 1 in early 1997, Radcliffe and Riley were moved to a brief and unsuccessful position on the breakfast show. This show was a success and saw them win three Sony Gold awards for Best Daily Music Show, Radcliffe left Radio 1 in March 2004 and moved to an evening slot on BBC Radio 2 in June of the same year, with Riley moving to BBC Radio 6 Music. The new show was reminiscent of the graveyard slot he had occupied on BBC Radio 1, with live music and studio guests. The respect Radcliffe had garnered as a broadcaster was cemented when he scooped a major interview with Kate Bush in late-2005
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Radcliffe in 2014
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Radcliffe as DJ Mahone at the
Cropredy music festival 2008
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69th Golden Globe Awards
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The 69th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film and television of 2011, were broadcast live from the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California on January 15,2012, by NBC. The host was Ricky Gervais, for the third consecutive year, the musical theme for the year was composed by Yoshiki Hayashi, leader of the Japanese band X Japan. The nominations were announced by Woody Harrelson, Sofía Vergara, Gerard Butler, multiple winners for the night included the silent film The Artist which won three awards and The Descendants winning two awards. The television series Homeland also won two awards and these are the nominees for the 69th Golden Globe Awards. Winners are listed at the top of each list. E
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George Clooney, Best Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama winner
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Meryl Streep, Best Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama winner
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Jean Dujardin, Best Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy winner
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BAFTA
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The British Academy of Film and Television Arts is an independent charity that supports, develops and promotes the art forms of the moving image – film, television and game in the United Kingdom. David Lean was the founding Chairman of the Academy, the first Film Awards ceremony took place in May 1949 and honouring the films The Best Years of Our Lives, Odd Man Out and The World Is Rich. In 2005, it placed a cap on worldwide voting membership which now stands at approximately 6,500. BAFTA has offices in Scotland and Wales in the UK, in Los Angeles and New York in the United States and runs events in Hong Kong, amanda Berry OBE has been chief executive of the organisation since December 2000. Many of these events are free to online at BAFTA Guru. BAFTA runs a number of programmes across the UK, US. Launched in 2012, the UK programme enables talented British citizens who are in need of support to take an industry-recognised course in film. Each BAFTA Scholar receives up to £12,000 towards their annual course fees, since 2013, three students every year have received one of the Prince William Scholarships in Film, Television and Games, supported by BAFTA and Warner Bros. These scholarships are awarded in the name of in his role as President of BAFTA, since 2015, BAFTA has been offering scholarships for British citizens to study in China, vice versa. BAFTA presents awards for film, television and games, including entertainment, at a number of annual ceremonies across the UK and in Los Angeles. The BAFTA award trophy is a mask, designed by American sculptor Mitzi Cunliffe. Todays BAFTA award – including the mask and marble base – weighs 3.7 kg and measures 27 cm x 14 cm x 8 cm. BAFTAs annual film awards ceremony is known as the British Academy Film Awards, or the BAFTAs, in 1949 the British Film Academy, as it was then known, presented the first awards for films made in 1947 and 1948. Since 2008 the ceremony has held at the Royal Opera House in Londons Covent Garden. It had been held in the Odeon cinema on Leicester Square since 2000, the ceremony had been performed during April or May of each year, but since 2002 it has been held in February to precede the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Academy Awards, or Oscars. They have been awarded annually since 1954, the first ever ceremony consisted of six categories. Until 1958, they were awarded by the Guild of Television Producers and Directors, from 1968 until 1997, BAFTAs Film and Television Awards were presented together, but from 1998 onwards they were presented at two separate ceremonies. The Television Craft Awards celebrate the talent behind the programmes, such as working in visual effects, production
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The BAFTA award, designed by Mitzi Cunliffe
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British Academy of Film and Television Arts
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Michael B. Jordan
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Michael Bakari Jordan is an American actor. Other film roles include Red Tails, Chronicle, and That Awkward Moment, Michael B Jordan was born in Santa Ana, California, the son of Donna, an artist and high school guidance counselor, and Michael A. Jordan. He is the middle of three children with a sister, Jamila, who works in production, and a younger brother, Khalid. Jordans family spent two years in California before moving to Newark, New Jersey and he attended Newark Arts High School, where his mother works, and where he played basketball. Jordans middle name, Bakari, is Swahili for noble promise and his first principal film role followed 2001 when he was featured in Hardball, which starred Keanu Reeves. In 2002, he gained attention by playing the small. In March 2003, he joined the cast of All My Children playing Reggie Porter, jordans other credits include guest starring appearances on CSI, Crime Scene Investigation, Without a Trace and Cold Case. Thereafter, he had a role in the independent film Blackout. In 2008, Jordan appeared in the music video Did You Wrong by R&B artist Pleasure P. In 2009, he guest-starred on Burn Notice in the episode Hot Spot, in 2010, he guest-starred in the Law & Order, Criminal Intent episode Inhumane Society as a boxer involved in a Michael Vick-inspired dog fighting scandal. In 2009, Jordan began starring in the NBC drama Friday Night Lights as quarterback Vince Howard and he played the character for two seasons until the show ended in 2011. In 2010, he was considered one of the 55 faces of the future by Nylon Magazines Young Hollywood Issue and that year, he landed a recurring role on the NBC show Parenthood playing Alex. This marked his second collaboration with showrunner Jason Katims, who was in charge of Friday Night Lights, buddyTV ranked him #80 on its list of TVs Sexiest Men of 2011. Jordan voiced Jace in the Xbox 360 game, Gears of War 3, in 2012, Jordan appeared in the George Lucas-produced movie Red Tails and played one of the leads in Chronicle, a film about three teenaged boys who develop superhuman abilities. He also guest-starred in an episode of Houses final season, playing a blind patient, in 2013, Jordan starred as shooting victim Oscar Grant in Fruitvale Station, directed by Ryan Coogler. His performance was received, with The Hollywood Reporter film critic Todd McCarthy writing that he reminded him of a young Denzel Washington. Following his role in Fruitvale Station, Jordan was named an actor to watch by People, time named him with Coogler one of 30 people under 30 who are changing the world and he was also named one of 2013s Breakout Stars by Entertainment Weekly and GQ. He lent his voice to Cyborg in the superhero adventure Justice League
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Jordan at the 2015
San Diego Comic-Con International
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With
Sylvester Stallone and
Tessa Thompson promoting
Creed in November 2015.
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BART Police shooting of Oscar Grant
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Oscar Grant III was a young African-American man who was fatally shot in the early morning hours of New Years Day 2009 by BART Police officer Johannes Mehserle in Oakland, California, United States. Officer Johannes Mehserle and another officer had restrained Grant, forcing him to lie face down, Mehserle was unable to remove Grants right arm from under his body in order to handcuff him. Mehserle drew his pistol and shot Grant once in the back and he later claimed that he had intended to use a Taser on him. He was pronounced dead the morning at Highland Hospital in Oakland. The events were captured on multiple official and private digital video, owners disseminated their footage to media outlets and to various websites, where it was watched millions of times. Both peaceful and violent protests took place in the days following, the shooting has been variously classified as an involuntary manslaughter and a summary execution. On January 30,2010, Alameda County prosecutors charged Mehserle with murder for the shooting and he resigned his position, and pleaded not guilty. The trial began on June 10,2010, on July 8,2010, Mehserle was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter and not guilty of second-degree murder and voluntary manslaughter. Though initial protests that day against the ruling were peacefully organized, after there were incidents of looting, arson, destruction of property. Nearly 80 people were eventually arrested, on July 9,2010, the U. S. Justice Department opened a civil rights investigation against Mehserle. The federal government can prosecute independently for the act under the separate sovereigns exception to double jeopardy. No charges have been filed to date, on November 5,2010, Mehserle was sentenced to two years, minus time served. He served his time in the Los Angeles County Jail protective custody, on June 13,2011, Mehserle was released under parole after serving 11 months. Oakland civil rights attorney John Burris filed a $25 million wrongful death claim against BART on behalf of Grants family, BART settled with Grants daughter and mother for a total of $2.8 million in 2011. The cases of Grants father and friends were denied, Oscar Grant had been celebrating with his friends at the Embarcadero in San Francisco on New Years Eve. He and about eight friends returned to East Bay in the car of a BART train bound for Fruitvale. BART offered extended service and a special Flash Pass for the New Years Eve holiday, BART Officers Tony Pirone and Marysol Domenici were the first officers to arrive at the scene. The officers removed Grant and several men suspected of fighting from the train
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Fruitvale BART station, near where Grant was killed
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Oscar Grant III
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Protesters holding signs while walking in the streets on January 8, 2009.
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Protesters holding signs on January 8, 2009
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Bay Area Rapid Transit
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Bay Area Rapid Transit is a public transportation system serving the San Francisco Bay Area. The rapid transit elevated and subway system connects San Francisco with cities in Alameda, Contra Costa, BART operates 5 routes on 104 miles of track connecting 45 stations, plus a 3. 2-mile automated guideway transit line to the Oakland International Airport which adds an additional station. A spur line in eastern Contra Costa County will utilize other rail technologies, with an average of 433,000 weekday passengers and 128.5 million annual passengers in fiscal year 2016, BART is the fifth-busiest heavy rail rapid transit system in the United States. The systems acronym is pronounced Bart, like the name, BART is operated by the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District, formed in 1957. As of 2017, it is being expanded to San Jose with the consecutive Warm Springs, some of the Bay Area Rapid Transit Systems current coverage area was once served by an electrified streetcar and suburban train system called the Key System. This early 20th-century system once had regular trans-bay traffic across the deck of the Bay Bridge. By the mid-1950s, that system had been dismantled in favor of highway travel, a new rapid-transit system was proposed to take the place of the Key System during the late 1940s, and formal planning for it began in the 1950s. Some funding was secured for the BART system in 1959, passenger service began on September 11,1972, initially just between MacArthur and Fremont. All nine Bay Area counties were involved in the planning and envisioned to be connected by BART, before the system began revenue service, serious problems in the design and operation of the Automatic Train Control system were observed. Three engineers working for BART, Max Blankenzee, Robert Bruder, BART management was dismissive of their concerns, so the three took the issue to the board of directors. All but two of the directors voted in February 1972 to support management and reject the safety concerns, management retaliated against the engineers, firing them in March 1972. The IEEE later filed the first amicus brief in its history to support the engineers. The California Society of Professional Engineers reported to the California State Senate in June 1972 that there were serious safety risks with the ATC. Legislative analyst A. Alan Post, opened an investigation immediately, an ATC failure caused the train to run off the end of the elevated track and crash to the ground, injuring four people on-board, and drawing national and international attention. The “Fremont Flyer” led to a redesign of the train controls. The California State Public Utilities Commission imposed stringent oversight over train operations, the legislative analyst issued the first of three “Post Reports” in November 1972. The report was “sharply critical” of BART, finding that the ATC system was unreliable, the ATC program was mismanaged, and “no solution was in sight. ”The report accused BART of paying excessive fees for engineering services. BART’s general manager called the indictment of safety in the Post Report “not only disappointing, telephone calls were placed manually between stations, instead
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Pittsburg / Bay Point bound train at
Walnut Creek in July 2008.
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Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART)
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Location of the third rail changes at the station. On the left side of the track in the distance is the emergency walkway — the third rail is across the track from this walkway.
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Ticket vending machines at the
Powell Street Station
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The Help
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The Help is a 2009 novel by American author Kathryn Stockett. The story is about black maids working in households in Jackson, Mississippi. A USA Today article called it one of the sleeper hits. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution said of the book, This heartbreaking story is a stunning début from a gifted talent and it took her five years to complete and was rejected by 60 literary agents before agent Susan Ramer agreed to represent Stockett. The Help has since been published in 35 countries and three languages, as of August 2011, it had sold seven million copies in print and audiobook editions, and spent more than 100 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list. The Helps audiobook version is narrated by Jenna Lamia, Bahni Turpin, Octavia Spencer, Spencer was Stocketts original inspiration for the character of Minny, and also plays her in the film adaptation. The Help is set in the early 1960s in Jackson, Mississippi, Aibileen is a maid who takes care of children and cleans. Her first job since her own 24-year-old son, Treelore, died from an accident on his job, is tending the Leefolt household and caring for their toddler, Mae Mobley. Minny is Aibileens friend who tells her employers what she thinks of them. Minnys most recent employer was Mrs. Walters, mother of Hilly Holbrook, Skeeter is the daughter of a white family who owns a cotton farm outside Jackson. Many of the hands and household help are African Americans. Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from the University of Mississippi, skeeters mother wants her to get married, and thinks her degree is just a pretty piece of paper. Skeeter is curious about the disappearance of Constantine, her maid who brought her up, Constantine had written to Skeeter while she was away from home in college saying what a great surprise she had awaiting her when she came home. Skeeters mother tells her that Constantine quit and went to live with relatives in Chicago, Skeeter does not believe that Constantine would leave her like this, she knows something is wrong and believes that information will eventually come out. Everyone Skeeter asks about the disappearance of Constantine pretends it never happened. The life Constantine led while being the help to the Phelan family leads Skeeter to the realization that her friends maids are treated differently from the way the white employees are treated. She decides that she wants to reveal the truth about being a maid in Mississippi. Skeeter struggles to communicate with the maids and gain their trust, the dangers of writing a book about African Americans speaking out in the South during the early 1960s hover constantly over the three women
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The Help
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Get On Up (film)
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Get on Up is a 2014 American biographical drama film about the life of singer James Brown directed by Tate Taylor and written by Jez and John-Henry Butterworth. The film was released on August 1,2014, get on Up is told using a nonlinear narrative through James Browns stream of consciousness, including asynchronous events and frequent breaks in the fourth wall. The film opens in 1993 with James Brown walking through a hallway as an audience chants his name. He hears the voices of people he knew throughout his life, the film then cuts to 1988 in Augusta, Georgia, James learns that his private bathroom in a strip mall he owns was used without his consent. As James confronts and then forgives the trespasser, James accidentally fires a shotgun, during the 1960s, James and his band decide to travel to Vietnam to show support to the black troops, where they put on a well-received show. In 1939, James is raised in the woods by his parents, whose marriage is fraught with financial struggles and physical abuse. Later he performs in a group, The Famous Flames, formed by Bobby Byrd, whose family sponsored his release from prison. James lives with the Byrd family and becomes lead singer of Bobbys group, in 1964, manager Ben Bart convinces them to let The Rolling Stones close The T. A. M. I. The Flames upstage the Stones, and, exiting the stage, James tells the Stones, in James childhood, Susie leaves Joe, and Joe threatens her with a gun and keeps James. Joe continues to abuse James until Joe joins the army, James is left living with and working for his Aunt Honey, who runs a brothel. At her home, he attends church and enjoys the choir, at the age of 17, James steals a suit, is arrested, and receives a five-to-thirteen-year prison sentence. In prison, James sees a group of singers performing and his enthusiastic reaction incites a riot wherein both he and one of the singers, Bobby Byrd, are injured. Bobby invites James into the Byrd household, years later, James joins Bobbys gospel group and they put on a show at a club as The Famous Flames, following a performance by Little Richard. Another flashback from Jamess childhood shows him and other black boys forced into a battle royal boxing match while a band plays, inspired by the funky band, James wins the match. In the 1950s, James and Bobby meet an agent from King Records, with whom The Flames record their first single, Please, Please, Please, King Records executive Syd Nathan initially mocks the song but appreciates Jamess vocals. Ben Bart becomes James manager, calling him the voice of the group. The records are labelled as James Brown and His Famous Flames, James and Bobby form a new band with Maceo Parker, Pee Wee Ellis, Nafloyd Scott, and Baby Roy. The Famous Flames singing group is also re-formed, replacing the members that quit, the Flames perform at the Apollo Theater to an excited audience
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Theatrical release poster
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The Divergent Series: Allegiant
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The Divergent Series, Allegiant is a 2016 American action adventure film directed by Robert Schwentke with a screenplay by Bill Collage, Adam Cooper, and Noah Oppenheim. It is the first of two parts based on the novel Allegiant, the final book in the Divergent trilogy by Veronica Roth. Allegiant was released on March 18,2016, in theaters and IMAX, the film was a financial disappointment, grossing $179 million worldwide, becoming the lowest-grossing Divergent film. This led to cuts on the fourth and the possibility that the final installment in the series, Ascendant. Many Chicago citizens run toward the wall, but soldiers under Evelyn are told to shut down the perimeter, Evelyn directs Jack Kang of Candor to hold trials for the Erudite and Dauntless conspirators, in which a number of them become executions, starting with Max. Evelyn and Johanna attempt to pressure Tris and Four into taking leadership positions in the new world order but both refuse. After seeing that the situation within the city is only going to get worse, Tris escapes with Four, Caleb, Christina, Tori. However, Tori is killed by Edgar in the attempt, the group is ambushed by Edgar, who is later disabled by an armed group of individuals and airships. The soldiers take the group to the Bureau of Genetic Welfare, in an attempt to create a better society, they began to modify peoples genes, with disastrous results. The government set up experiments in an attempt to repair this mistake, the hope is to raise enough genetically pure Divergent individuals to fix the genetic damage left in the wake of the Purity War. Tris and Four are tested by Matthew and Nita to verify, Tris is shown to be truly Divergent, but Fours genetic structure indicates that his genes are still damaged. Caleb and Peter are assigned to teams that monitor Chicago. Matthew then brings Tris to the leader of the Bureau, David, in return for his help in restoring peace to Chicago, Tris agrees to help David, who claims that only the council he reports to have the power to intervene. Meanwhile, Four and Christina train with Nita and join the Bureaus military force, upon their return, Four discreetly petitions Caleb to keep an eye on the situation in Chicago. Four also attempts to warn Tris of the Bureaus intentions, Caleb warns Four of a rapidly escalating conflict back in Chicago between Johannas group of Allegiants and Evelyns factionless, with open war becoming an imminent threat. Four appeals to Tris for her to return to Chicago with him to end the bloodshed, David agrees to reinsert Four back in Chicago, escorted by Matthew and some Bureau soldiers. Once in the air, Matthew quietly reveals to Four that the flight is a trap, a skirmish breaks out and Four defeats all of the soldiers, though the airship crashes as a result. Matthew betrays David by helping Four get through the cloak wall, Four proceeds to Chicago while Matthew remains behind to be rescued by the Bureau and warn Tris
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Teaser poster
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Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
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The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. It is given in honor of an actress who has delivered a performance in a supporting role while working within the film industry. At the 9th Academy Awards ceremony held in 1937, Gale Sondergaard was the first winner of award for her role in Anthony Adverse. Initially, winners in both supporting acting categories were awarded instead of statuettes. Beginning with the 16th ceremony held in 1944, however, winners received full-sized statuettes, currently, nominees are determined by single transferable vote within the actors branch of AMPAS, winners are selected by a plurality vote from the entire eligible voting members of the Academy. Since its inception, the award has given to 78 actresses. Dianne Wiest and Shelley Winters have received the most awards in this category with two awards each, despite winning no awards, Thelma Ritter was nominated on six occasions, more than any other actress. As of the 2017 ceremony, Viola Davis is the most recent winner in category for her role as Rose Maxson in Fences. In the following table, the years are listed as per Academy convention, and generally correspond to the year of release in Los Angeles County. Toronto, Ontario, Canada, University of Toronto Press, inside Oscar, The Unofficial History of the Academy Awards. New York, United States, Ballantine Books, oscars. org Oscar. com The Academy Awards Database
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Alice Brady won for her performance in 1937's
In Old Chicago.
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
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Hattie McDaniel won in 1939 for her role as Mammy in
Gone with the Wind, thus becoming the first black performer to win an Oscar.
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
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Jane Darwell won for her performance as Ma Joad in
The Grapes of Wrath (1940).
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Teresa Wright won for her role in 1942's
Mrs Miniver.
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Golden Globe Award
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Golden Globe Awards are accolades bestowed by the 93 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign. The annual ceremony at which the awards are presented is a part of the film industrys awards season. The 74th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film, the 1st Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best achievements in 1943 filmmaking, was held in January 1944, at the 20th Century-Fox studios. Subsequent ceremonies were held at venues throughout the next decade, including the Beverly Hills Hotel. In 1950, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association made the decision to establish an honorary award to recognize outstanding contributions to the entertainment industry. Recognizing its subject as a figure within the entertainment industry. The official name of the award became the Cecil B. In 1963, the Miss Golden Globe concept was introduced, in its inaugural year, two Miss Golden Globes were named, one for film and one for television. The two Miss Golden Globes named that year were Eva Six and Donna Douglas, respectively, in 2009, the Golden Globe statuette was redesigned. It was unveiled at a conference at the Beverly Hilton prior to the show. The broadcast of the Golden Globe Awards, telecast to 167 countries worldwide, generally ranks as the third most-watched awards show each year, behind only the Oscars, gervais returned to host the 68th and 69th Golden Globe Awards the next two years. Tina Fey and Amy Poehler hosted the 70th, 71st and 72nd Golden Globe Awards in 2015, the Golden Globe Awards theme song, which debuted in 2012, was written by Japanese musician and songwriter Yoshiki Hayashi. On January 7,2008, it was announced due to the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike. The ceremony was faced with a threat by striking writers to picket the event, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association was forced to adopt another approach for the broadcast. In acting categories, Meryl Streep holds the record for the most competitive Golden Globe wins with eight, however, including honorary awards, such as the Henrietta Award, World Film Favorite Actor/Actress Award, or Cecil B. DeMille Award, Barbra Streisand leads with nine, additionally, Streisand won for composing the song Evergreen, producing the Best Picture, and directing Yentl in 1984. Jack Nicholson, Angela Lansbury, Alan Alda and Shirley MacLaine have six awards each, behind them are Rosalind Russell and Jessica Lange with five wins. Meryl Streep also holds the record for most nominations with thirty, at the 46th Golden Globe Awards an anomaly occurred, a three way-tie for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
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The Golden Globe statuette
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Martin Luther King Jr. Day
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Martin Luther King Jr. Day is an American federal holiday marking the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. It is observed on the third Monday of January each year, the holiday is similar to holidays set under the Uniform Monday Holiday Act. King was the spokesman for nonviolent activism in the Civil Rights Movement. The campaign for a holiday in Kings honor began soon after his assassination in 1968. President Ronald Reagan signed the holiday into law in 1983, at first, some states resisted observing the holiday as such, giving it alternative names or combining it with other holidays. It was officially observed in all 50 states for the first time in 2000, the idea of Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a holiday was promoted by labor unions in contract negotiations. Senator Edward Brooke introduced a bill in Congress to make Kings birthday a national holiday, the bill first came to a vote in the U. S. House of Representatives in 1979. However, it fell five short of the number needed for passage. Only two other figures have national holidays in the U. S. honoring them, George Washington, soon after, the King Center turned to support from the corporate community and the general public. The success of this strategy was cemented when musician Stevie Wonder released the single Happy Birthday to popularize the campaign in 1980 and hosted the Rally for Peace Press Conference in 1981. Six million signatures were collected for a petition to Congress to pass the law, senators Jesse Helms and John Porter East led opposition to the holiday and questioned whether King was important enough to receive such an honor. Helms criticized Kings opposition to the Vietnam War and accused him of espousing action-oriented Marxism, Helms led a filibuster against the bill and on October 3,1983, submitted a 300-page document to the Senate alleging that King had associations with communists. New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan declared the document a packet of filth, threw it on the Senate floor, President Ronald Reagan originally opposed the holiday, citing cost concerns. But on November 2,1983, Reagan signed a bill, proposed by Representative Katie Hall of Indiana, the bill had passed the House of Representatives by a count of 338 to 90, a veto-proof margin. The holiday was observed for the first time on January 20,1986, the bill also established the Martin Luther King Jr. Federal Holiday Commission to oversee observance of the holiday, and Coretta Scott King, in 2000, Utah became the last state to have a holiday named after King when Human Rights Day was officially changed to Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Later that year, Mecham proclaimed the third Sunday in January to be Martin Luther King Jr. /Civil Rights Day in Arizona, in 1990, Arizona voters were given the opportunity to vote on giving state employees a paid MLK holiday. That same year, the National Football League threatened to move Super Bowl XXVII, both measures failed to pass, with only 49% of voters approving Prop 302, the more popular of the two options, although some who voted no on 302 voted yes on Prop 301
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Martin Luther King Jr. in 1964
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Sign from 1969 promoting a holiday to honor the anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
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In honor of the Martin Luther King Day of Service, President
Barack Obama serves lunch in the dining room at
So Others Might Eat, a soup kitchen in Washington, January 18, 2010.
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A Martin Luther King Day march in Oregon.
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Being John Malkovich
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Being John Malkovich is a 1999 American fantasy-comedy film directed by Spike Jonze and written by Charlie Kaufman, both making their feature film debut. The film stars John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, and Catherine Keener, with John Malkovich, the film follows a puppeteer who finds a portal that leads into Malkovichs mind. Released by USA Films, the film was nominated in three categories at the 72nd Academy Awards, Best Director for Jonze, Best Original Screenplay for Kaufman, Craig Schwartz is an unemployed puppeteer in a forlorn marriage with his pet-obsessed wife Lotte. Gaining a file clerk job through Dr. Craig enters a door hidden behind a filing cabinet. Craig is able to observe and sense whatever Malkovich does for fifteen minutes before he is ejected and dropped into a ditch near the New Jersey Turnpike and he reveals the portal to Maxine and they let others use it for $200 a turn. Craig tells Lotte, who becomes obsessed with the experience, allowing her to out her transgender desires. Lotte becomes attracted to Maxine and they begin a relationship via Lotte being inside Malkovichs head while Maxine has sex with Malkovich. Craig, forsaken by both women, binds and gags Lotte and locks her in a cage, then enters Malkovichs mind and has sex with Maxine, Craig discovers that he is able to control Malkovichs actions while in his head, causing the actor to become paranoid. He is ejected and meets Craig by the turnpike, Malkovich demands that the portal be closed, but Craig refuses. Lotte escapes with the help of the animals in the cage and phones Maxine, Maxine is annoyed but accepts it as she enjoyed the experience. Seeking help, Lotte finds Lester, who reveals himself to be Captain Mertin and he is aware of the portal and has a room dedicated to Malkovich. Lester explains that the connected to it becomes ripe for occupation on the eve of their 44th birthday. However, after the old host turns 44, the moves to its next host. The former allows one to increase their life before moving on to another host while the means being trapped within the unborn child. Lester, who has been using the portal to prolong his life, reveals his plan to use Malkovich for himself, offered the chance to join Lesters group, Lotte warns him that Craig has control. Craig finds he is able to remain in Malkovich indefinitely and he spends the next eight months in Malkovichs body, and through his control turns Malkovich into a world-famous puppeteer. Malkovich marries Maxine and learns that she is pregnant as their relationship grows distant, as Malkovichs 44th birthday approaches, Lester and his friends cut a deal with Maxine and fake her kidnapping. They call up Craig threatening to kill her if Craig does not leave Malkovich, Craig ends the call, causing Lester to think that he called their bluff
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Sol Goode
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Sol Goode is a 2001 American romantic comedy film directed by Danny Comden. The lead role of Sol Goode is played by Balthazar Getty, other cast include Katharine Towne, Jamie Kennedy, Danny Comden, the film features cameo appearances including Jared Leto, Carmen Electra, Jason Bateman, and Shannon Leto. Sol is a loser, heading towards his 20s, and he hasnt had a relationship with a woman in his entire life. Sure, hes slept with lots of them, including the excruciatingly obnoxious Tammie, but never anything more than a night. Sols roommate Justin is about to get married and he thinks hes happy, after being promoted from mailroom worker to the assistant of a snotty agent. The truth is, his wife is a real bitch, but Sol hasnt given up, despite his parents insistence that hes next to nothing in the real world. These days hes hunting for a job as an actor, even though his visiting friend Happy, Sol seems destined to fail, until his best female friend Chloe decides to cheer him up. Sol could find if he was really looking for it. But if his relationships are as successful as his job hunting, Sol Goode was met with a mixed response upon its release, with many critics praising its cast performance. Vince Leo of Qwipster wrote Sol Goode is gets a recommendation as a comedy, and should especially appeal to those who enjoy films about dating in LA. There are good performances by the hip young cast, knowing insights which bubble up throughout the story, emily Blunt wrote a similar review, stating that the cast does a fantastic job of just enjoying the material supplied by screenwriter Danny Comden. Theres no surprises or unforeseen twists thatll leave you mesmerized, Sol Goode at the Internet Movie Database
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Pretty Persuasion
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Pretty Persuasion is a 2005 American black comedy/satirical film about a 15-year-old schoolgirl who makes an allegation of sexual harassment against her drama teacher. The films tagline is, Revenge knows no mercy and it was written by Skander Halim and directed by Marcos Siega. It stars Evan Rachel Wood, James Woods and Ron Livingston and was released in the US on August 12,2005 in select theaters, kimberly Joyce is a high school student at Roxbury, a Beverly Hills school for the wealthy. She and her best friend Brittany take Randa, a new student who recently immigrated from the Middle East, the film makes use of twists and flashbacks to tell its story. But the film also makes commentary on other social issues in contemporary American culture as well. The musical score was composed by Gilad Benamram, the film deliberately does not feature any popular music songs. Similarly, the wardrobe and props do not feature contemporary branding, the film was nominated for the 2005 Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. It won the German Independence Award at the 2005 Oldenburg International Film Festival, the film was not received very well by most film critics. Roger Ebert called it daring, and well-acted, but also said that it exists somewhere between comedy and satire. Phil Villarreal of the Arizona Daily Star called the film a scathing, much of it is also extremely funny. Any satire worth its salt should not be afraid to offend, James Mottram of Channel 4 opined, Hovering uncomfortably between comedy and satire, Pretty Persuasion never quite gets the balance right. Carlo Cavagna thought it a teen comedy that tries way too hard to be a dark teen comedy. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer accused the film of being an ugly, cheap attempt at satire, critic Armond White has called the film ingenious. The film has a rotten 32 percent rating at Rotten Tomatoes
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Evan Rachel Wood and Adi Schnall in Pretty Persuasion
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Pulse (2006 film)
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Pulse is a 2006 American horror film and remake of the Japanese horror film, Kairo, Pulse was written by Wes Craven and Ray Wright, and directed by Jim Sonzero. The film stars Kristen Bell, Ian Somerhalder, Christina Milian, when Josh Ockmann enters a dark university library intending to meet his friend Douglas Zeigler, he is attacked by a humanoid spirit that sucks the life force out of him. Some days later, Joshs girlfriend, Mattie Webber, visits his apartment, Josh tells Mattie to wait in the kitchen while he walks off. While waiting she finds Joshs pet cat, locked in a closet, but when she rushes to tell him, she finds he has committed suicide by hanging himself with an Ethernet cable. Mattie and her friends begin to receive messages from Josh asking for help but assume that Joshs computer is still on. Mattie learns that Joshs computer has been sold to Dex McCarthy, Mattie receives a package that Josh mailed two days prior to his death. Inside are rolls of red tape and a message telling her that the tape keeps them out, later, Dex visits Mattie and shows her video messages Josh was sending to Ziegler. Josh had hacked Zieglers computer system and then distributed a virus and this virus had unlocked a portal that connected the realm of the living to the realm of the dead. Josh believed he had coded a counter to the virus and wanted to meet Ziegler at the library, Joshs counter-program is found on a memory stick taped inside the PC case with red tape. Dex and Mattie visit Zeigler and find his room entirely plastered in red tape and they believe the red tape keeps the spirits out. Zeigler tells them of a project he worked on where he found no one knew existed. Opening these frequencies somehow allowed the spirits to travel to the world of the living, Zeigler also tells them that these spirits take away your will to live and where to find the main server infected with the virus. Dex and Mattie find the server and upload Joshs fix, causing the system to crash, moments later, however, the system reboots and the spirits return leaving Mattie and Dex with no option but to flee the city by car. Over the car radio, Mattie and Dex hear a report from the Army announcing the location of several safe zones where there are no Internet connections, cell phones, or televisions. As Dex and Mattie drive to a zone, the film concludes with a voice-over from Mattie saying We can never go back. What was meant to us to one another instead connected us to forces that we could have never imagined. The world we knew is gone, but the will to live never dies, not for us, and not for them. Clips of abandoned cities are shown, including a window of an apartment with Josh looking through it, the film grossed over $8 million in its opening weekend in the United States
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Pretty Ugly People
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Pretty Ugly People is a 2008 American black comedy-drama film written and directed by Tate Taylor, and his feature film debut. The film begins with a voice-over by Lucy discussing what its like being fat and she calls her friend Becky, crying and insinuating she is dying. She asks Becky to rally all of the college friends for one final trip to see Lucy. Orchestrated by Becky, the circle of friends meet up in an airport in Montana, when the group is assembled a man named Sam approaches the group and tells them Lucy has sent him to drive them to the lodge where she is staying. After arriving at the lodge, the group is greeted by a blonde woman. When no one recognizes her, Lucy reveals to her friends that it is her, later at lunch, Lucy explains to her friends that she has had gastric bypass surgery and she remains four pounds away from her ideal weight. Waking the group early the morning, she informs them that they are going on a four-day hike in which she will drop her final four pounds of weight. The majority of the film centers on the hiking trip, over the course of the trip, various aspects of the lives of all of Lucys friends are revealed. Raye and Mary are unhappy together and Mary ends up taking off her ring and ending her marriage to Raye. Similarly, Becky and Richard are unhappy in their marriage, at the end of the hike, Lucy prepares dinner for them before Sam comes to pick everyone up in the bus. Everyone is angry with Lucy, especially Becky, who convinced everyone else to come after Lucy called her, as Sam is driving the group back to the lodge, he has a heart attack and the bus goes off the road. Sam is dead and Richard dies while waiting for help, Richard apologizes to Becky for the way he treated her just before he dies. Everyone else survives, after Raye runs to get help, also proving to Mary that he cares about more than himself. Raye goes back to Washington and wins a Senate election, in the final scenes of the movie, everyone is having lunch on a beach, an inestimable time after the bus accident. Lucy and Becky, who is pregnant, wade into the water so that Becky can toss Richards ashes to sea and it was the winner of Best Feature Film at the Berks Madness film festival. It took the award at both the Berkley and Long Island film festivals. Also, it won an audience award at the Crossroads film festival. The film won Best Feature Film in 2008 at the Central Florida Film Festival, pretty Ugly People at the Internet Movie Database
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Drag Me to Hell
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Drag Me to Hell is a 2009 American supernatural horror film co-written and directed by Sam Raimi. In retaliation, the places a curse on the loan officer that. Raimi wrote Drag Me to Hell with his brother, Ivan, the film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and was released to critical acclaim. It was also a box office success, grossing over $90 million worldwide, Drag Me to Hell won the award for Best Horror Film at the 2009 Scream Awards and the 2010 Saturn Awards. In 1969 Pasadena, California, a couple seeks the aid of the medium Shaun San Dena saying their son has been hearing evil spirits voices after stealing a necklace from gypsies. San Dena aids the family by carrying out a seance, the medium says she will encounter the force again one day. In present-day Los Angeles, bank loan officer Christine Brown hopes to be promoted to assistant manager over her co-worker Stu Rubin and her boss, Jim Jacks, advises her to demonstrate that she can make tough decisions to get a promotion. Christine is visited by a gypsy woman, Sylvia Ganush. Though sympathetic with the old womans crisis, Christine denies Ganush an extension to prove herself to her boss, Ganush begs Christine not to repossess her house and kneels in front of her. Christine gets scared of the womans bizarre pleading as she is helping her to stand up and calls security, Jim compliments Christine on how she handled the situation. Later, Christine and her boyfriend Clay Dalton meet the fortune teller, at home, Christine is attacked by the spirit and has nightmares about Ganush. At work the day, Christine snaps at Stu and has a projectile nose bleed that soaks her boss in blood. She runs away and Stu secretly takes a file off Christines desk, Christine goes to talk to Ganush but learns that she died the previous night after visiting her house. He suggests a sacrifice to appease the demon, desperate to stop the attacks, Christine reluctantly sacrifices her pet kitten. At a dinner party with Clay and his parents, she is tormented by the Lamia, but this time through the use of illusions. Christine returns to Rham Jas who says that Shaun San Dena will risk her life to stop the demon for a fee of $10,000. San Dena prepares a seance to trap the Lamias spirit in a goat and kill it, Rham Jas tries to persuade it not to steal Christines soul, but it vows never to stop until Christine dies. Christine then places San Denas hand on the goat, causing the spirit to enter its body, San Denas assistant, Milos, attempts to kill the goat, but is bitten by the goat and becomes possessed, attacking the members of the seance
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Director Sam Raimi, actors Dileep Rao, Alison Lohman, and Justin Long discussing the film at
San Diego Comic-Con International in 2008.
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Paradise (2013 film)
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Paradise is an American comedy-drama film written and directed by Diablo Cody, in her directorial debut. It stars Julianne Hough, Russell Brand, Octavia Spencer, Holly Hunter, Iliza Shlesinger and Kathleen Rose Perkins and was released October 18,2013. The title is a take on the fact that many tourists visit the Las Vegas Strip they are actually spending most of their time in the town of Paradise rather than in the actual city of Las Vegas. This was the last film by Mandate Pictures before it was shut down, lamb Mannerhelm goes to speak at her familys church in Montana one year after surviving a plane crash, which has left her with severe burns all over her body. While everyone is expecting her to some big announcement, she instead publicly denounces her belief in God. Lamb later explains some of the rules she has to live by in her conservative town, like listening only to Christian music. Once there, she goes to a bar in order to have her first drink, where she meets a bartender named William. Cast member Russell Brand was arrested during the shoot for grabbing a photographers iPhone, Paradise received negative reviews from critics. Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 22% based on 37 reviews, metacritic gives the film a score of 35/100, based on reviews from 15 critics. Paradise at the Internet Movie Database Paradise at AllMovie
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Gifted (film)
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Gifted is a 2017 American drama film directed by Marc Webb and stars Chris Evans, Mckenna Grace, Lindsay Duncan, Jenny Slate and Octavia Spencer. The plot follows an intellectually gifted 7-year-old who gets caught up in a battle between her uncle and grandmother. The film was released on April 7,2017, by Fox Searchlight Pictures, in a small town in central Florida, seven-year-old Mary shows remarkable mathematical talent on her first day of school. She is offered a scholarship to a school for gifted children. It emerges that Marys mother had been a mathematician, dedicated to the Navier–Stokes problem before committing suicide when Mary was six months old. Since then her uncle Frank has acted as Marys de facto guardian, believing that his sister would want Mary to experience a normal childhood, Frank is adamant that Mary be enrolled in regular public school. However, she somehow has already mastered advanced calculus before first grade, franks mother seeks custody in the Florida courts, believing that Mary is a one-in-a-billion mathematical prodigy who should be specially tutored in preparation for a life devoted to mathematics. In September 2015, Mckenna Grace, Octavia Spencer, Lindsay Duncan, in November 2015, Julie Ann Emery joined the cast of the film. Filming began in October 2015 in Savannah, Georgia, as well as in Tybee Island, the film was scheduled to be released on April 12,2017, but was pushed up to April 7,2017. On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an rating of 62% based on 50 reviews. The sites critical consensus reads, Gifted isnt quite as bright as its pint-sized protagonist, on Metacritic the film has a score of 60 out of 100, based on 25 critics, indicating mixed or average reviews. Official website Gifted Movie on Twitter Gifted at the Internet Movie Database Gifted at Metacritic Gifted at Rotten Tomatoes
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Moesha
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Moesha was an American sitcom series that aired on the UPN network from January 23,1996, to May 14,2001. The series stars R&B singer Brandy Norwood as Moesha Denise Mitchell and it was originally ordered as a pilot for CBSs 1995–1996 television season but was rejected by the network. It was then picked up by UPN, who aired it as a mid-season replacement and it went on to become the biggest success for the nascent network and one of the greatest hits over the course of the networks entire run. The show focuses on the life of a middle class African-American family through the eyes of a girl named Moesha. Her father Frank, a widower and Saturn car salesman, has married Dee, the series was created by Ralph Farquhar, along with the writing team of Sara V. The settings for the show include the Mitchell household and the teen hangout, the sitcom was portrayed to take place in the affluent Leimert Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. The show dealt with teen social issues such as teen pregnancy, drug use, race relations, premarital sex, the death of a parent. The shocking news of Franks infidelity during his first marriage turned the family upside-down and resulted in Dorians rebellion, Moesha Mitchell —Like many teens, Moesha is trying to find her place in life. At every turn, Moesha, along with her friends and family, experiences new challenges and hilarious situations associated with the pressures, Moesha is headstrong, independent, and at times stubborn, but stands up for what she believes is right. Franklin Frank Mitchell —A Saturn dealer and father to Moesha and Myles, originally believed to be Dorians uncle, he is later revealed to be the young mans father. Deidra Dee Mitchell —A high-school principal attempting to balance her career with two additional ones as wife to Frank and stepmother to Moesha and Myles. Kimberly Kim Parker —Moeshas boy-crazy best friend who has a crush on Hakeem, Myles Mitchell —Moeshas pesky younger brother. During the beginning of the series he was mostly for playing practical jokes on his sister and her friends. Hakeem Campbell — A frequent visitor to the Mitchell household, he is Moesha’s lifelong friend and neighbor, in the spinoff The Parkers, it was revealed that he and Moesha were no longer in a relationship. He dated Kims best friend Stevie Van Lowe, Andell Wilkerson —Moeshas older friend and owner of the neighborhood hangout The Den. Andell is featured on the spin-off show The Parkers, where she owns a self-named restaurant, Denise Niecy Jackson —Moeshas best friend and later her roommate. Quinton Q Brooks —Moeshas longest-running love interest and this is a Manufacture-on-Demand release, available exclusively through Amazon. com. Given her popularity for four seasons on Moesha, Countess Vaughn left the show in 1999 for her own show, The Parkers and it centered on the adventures of Kim attending community college with her mother, played by comedian MoNique
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Roswell (TV series)
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Roswell is an American science fiction television series developed, produced, and co-written by Jason Katims. The series debuted on October 6,1999 on The WB and moved to UPN for the third season, in the United Kingdom, the show aired as both Roswell High and Roswell. The series is based on the Roswell High young adult series, written by Melinda Metz and edited by Laura J. Burns. The pilot episode was filmed in 12 days with a budget of $2,000,000, the Morning After, the second episode of the series, was the first episode with the full title sequence utilizing the theme song, Here With Me by Dido. Roswell was filmed in locations around California. The series premiered on October 6,1999 on The WB Television Network in the United States to generally favorable reviews, moore was brought in to join Katims as an executive producer and showrunner and to further develop the science fiction elements of the show. 20th Century Fox was able to persuade UPN to pick it up for a season as a package deal when UPN outbid The WB for one of its popular flagship series. This eventually resulted in the cancellation from UPN as well. The pilot is set in 1999 and we are introduced to Liz Parker, Maria DeLuca, and Alex Whitman, high school students and best friends residing in the small town of Roswell, New Mexico, site of the famed Roswell UFO incident. Liz Parkers parents own the Crashdown Café, which serves alien-themed dishes, at the beginning of the pilot, Liz is waitressing in her parents restaurant when a disagreement between two customers breaks out. A gun goes off, and Liz is accidentally shot and we are now introduced to a character named Max Evans, a seemingly normal high school student, who rushes to Lizs aid and heals the gunshot wound by placing his hand over it, saving her life. The healing leaves a hand print on her stomach. In order to hide what he has done, Max pours ketchup on Liz before fleeing the scene with his friend Michael Guerin, the shooting acts as a catalyst for the rest of the series action. Liz is presented as a curious character, obtaining a sample of Maxs saliva, analyzes. When she confronts, him, Max admits that he, his sister Isabel, in dialogue between other characters we learn that Max, Isabel, and Michael had a pattern of isolating themselves from other students. A love triangle begins between Max, Liz, and Kyle Valenti, though sworn to tell no one, Liz does divulge Maxs secret to Maria in the pilot. Eventually Alex also learns about the alien, secrecy and the tension that surrounds secrets become major themes of the series, important to character development relationships, and plot. Two romances develop between human and alien characters, Liz and Maxs romance is portrayed as a tender and sweet, Michael and Marias as passionate and often explosive
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Season 2 main cast:
Shiri Appleby,
Nick Wechsler (Back row, left to right);
Katherine Heigl,
Colin Hanks,
Emilie de Ravin,
Majandra Delfino (Middle row);
William Sadler,
Jason Behr,
Brendan Fehr (Front row).
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Millennium (The X-Files)
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Millennium is the fourth episode of the seventh season of the science fiction television series The X-Files. It premiered on the Fox network in the United States on November 28,1999 and it was written by Vince Gilligan and Frank Spotnitz and directed by Thomas J. Wright. The episode is a Monster-of-the-Week story, unconnected to the wider mythology. Millennium earned a Nielsen household rating of 9.1, and was watched by 15.09 million people in its initial broadcast, the show centers on FBI special agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who work on cases linked to the paranormal, called X-Files. Mulder is a believer in the paranormal, while the skeptical Scully has been assigned to debunk his work. In this episode, an associate of the Millennium Group—a secret society which believes the apocalypse will happen on the new year of 2000—resurrects the dead for use in bringing about the apocalypse. As a result, Mulder and Scully have to ask the help of criminal profiler Frank Black, a man who has former experience with the shadowy group, for assistance. The episode serves as a crossover with the series Millennium, also developed by the creator of The X-Files, Chris Carter, the writers had a difficult time coming up with a story that would successfully allow Frank Black and Mulder and Scully to cross paths. Lance Henriksen later expressed disappointment with the episode, the idea to use zombies had originally been slated to appear in an aborted project X-Files remake of George A. Romeros cult 1968 zombie film Night of the Living Dead. In addition, the episode is notable because it features the first romantic kiss between Mulder and Scully, described as inevitable by one critic, thematically, the episode has been analyzed for its use of Biblical quotes from the Gospel of John and the Book of Revelation. For the first two seasons of the show, Black worked for a consulting firm known as the Millennium Group. Black lived in Seattle with his wife Catherine and daughter Jordan, during the first season, Black and the Group largely focused on various serial killers and other murderers. However, during the second and third seasons, Black began coming into conflict with forces within the Millennium group that appeared to be demonic in nature and it appeared that the Group was focused on the fulfillment of apocalyptic biblical prophecy at the start of the new millennium. During the third season, Frank returned to Washington, D. C. to work with the FBI following the death of his wife at the hands of the Group. In the third season finale Goodbye to All That, Black realized that the Group was preparing to come after him, in Tallahassee, Florida, on December 21,1999, a memorial service is held for a former FBI agent named Raymond Crouch. His widow is approached by a man, Mark Johnson. After the other mourners have left, Johnson returns to the parlor, dons the corpses clothes. One week later, Johnson is monitoring Crouchs grave when his phone rings, Fox Mulder and Dana Scully are called in to examine Crouchs empty grave
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The idea to use zombies had originally been slated to appear in an
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The four resurrected zombies are believed to be the
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Before its premiere, the episode was promoted with a marathon of Millennium episodes hosted by
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Malcolm in the Middle
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Malcolm in the Middle is an American television sitcom created by Linwood Boomer for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series was first broadcast on January 9,2000, and ended its run on May 14,2006. The series received critical acclaim and won a Peabody Award, seven Emmy Awards, one Grammy Award, the series follows a family of six, and later seven, and stars Frankie Muniz in the lead role of Malcolm, a somewhat normal boy who tests at genius level. While he enjoys his intelligence, he despises having to take classes for gifted children, jane Kaczmarek is Malcolms overbearing, authoritarian mother, Lois, and Bryan Cranston plays his immature but loving father, Hal. Christopher Masterson plays eldest brother Francis, a rebel who, in earlier episodes, was in military school. Justin Berfield is Malcolms dimwitted older brother Reese, a bully who tortures Malcolm at home. Younger brother Dewey, bitter about his childhood, smart. At first, the focus was on Malcolm, but as the series progressed. A fifth son, Jamie, was introduced as a baby at the end of Season 4, Malcolm in the Middle was produced by Satin City and Regency Television in association with Fox Television Studios. The show has proven popular worldwide and has been syndicated in 57 countries, in the United States, it had been syndicated during the day on FX and at night on Nickelodeons sister channel TeenNick, as well as local stations. Its also currently being syndicated by IFC every Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday mornings at 8, since 2015, the show airs on Comedy Central. In Ireland it aired on TV3s sister channel 3e and it was also syndicated on Network Ten from 2009 to 2010 and on Eleven from February 2011 in Australia and on Comedy Central in India. In Canada, episodes were shown on the Global Television Network, the show received universal acclaim from critics and proved an extremely popular draw for the network. It was placed No.88 on Entertainment Weeklys New TV Classics list, set in a suburban neighborhood in the fictional Tri-County Area, Malcolm in the Middle is about a boy named Malcolm and his dysfunctional family. The show stars Frankie Muniz as Malcolm, the third of four boys, his brothers, the first, Francis, was sent away to military school, leaving at home his three brothers, Reese, Malcolm, and Dewey, Malcolm being the middle child still at home. In season four, the character Jamie was added to the show as the fifth son, the show centered on Malcolm dealing with the rigors of being a child and enduring the eccentricities of his life early on. Emulating the style of hour-long dramas, this show was shot on film instead of video. Another distinctive aspect of the show is that the open of every episode is unrelated to the main story
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The house at 12334 Cantura Street as it appeared in 2009.
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Presidio Med
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Presidio Med is an American medical drama that aired on CBS from September 2002, to January 2003. The series centers on a San Francisco hospital and it was created by John Wells and Lydia Woodward, who also created ER. Bucking the recent medical trend toward impersonal care, the doctors at Presidio Medical Group set bureaucracy aside and put their patients first, forming trusting, although their personalities sometimes clash, all of the doctors seek the best possible care for their patients
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Medium (TV series)
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Medium is an American television drama series that premiered on NBC on January 3,2005, ending its run on that network on June 1,2009. The series then moved to CBS on September 25,2009, themed on supernatural gifts, its lead character, Allison DuBois, is a medium employed as a consultant for the Phoenix, Arizona district attorneys office. Allison and her husband Joe are the parents of three daughters, all of whom inherited Allisons gift, the show was initially based on the experiences of medium Allison DuBois, who claims she has worked with law enforcement agencies across the country in criminal investigations. The series aired on NBC during its first five seasons before switching to CBS for the sixth and seventh seasons, the production division of CBS had assumed production of Medium in 2006 after absorbing the television arm of the Paramount Pictures film studio. Paramounts home entertainment arm still held DVD distribution rights in conjunction with CBS DVD, on December 21,2010, CBS announced that the show had been canceled after seven seasons. The series finale aired exactly a month later, one challenge is convincing Devalos — and other doubters in the criminal justice system — that her psychic abilities can give them the upper hand when it comes to solving crimes. Information comes to her in dreams or in visions that sometimes do not mean what they initially suggest. The other is convincing Joe that her nightmares are based in reality. In police investigations, Allison often accompanies Det, Lee Scanlon, who initially did not believe in her gift. Allison sometimes bends the rules when she is determined to stop a crime about which she has had a vision, in season four, it was revealed that Cynthia had a missing daughter. Allisons dreams showed that Cynthias daughter was dead, Cynthia made a choice to kill the murderer of her daughter and go to prison. Cynthia later appeared in five to help Allison on a case. Also during this season, it was revealed that Lynn DiNovi, Lees live-in lover, in the season five finale, Allison discovers that she has a tumor on her brainstem. To prevent the murders of her family in the future. During her operation the tumor was removed, except for a small piece deeply embedded in her brainstem, Joe is told that Allison is in a coma. In the sixth-season premiere episode, Allison awoke from the coma and was suffering the consequences of postponing the surgery, Allisons psychic abilities slowly begin to resurface as a form of déjà vu. At the end of the episode, Allison is also slowly recovering her physical abilities, since the season six premiere, eldest daughter Ariel has taken the role of nurturing her siblings Bridgette and Marie. Ariel also falls victim to a possession, from which she recovers with Allisons help
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Worst Week
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Worst Week is an American sitcom which originally aired on CBS from September 22,2008 to June 6,2009. The series was based on the British sitcom The Worst Week of My Life, the show was adapted for American audiences by Fox under the title Worst Week of My Life, but a series failed to materialize after the pilot was filmed. The series aired on CBS Mondays at 9, 30pm ET/PT, following Two, the premiere attracted 11 million viewers but lost a third of its lead-in audience. Ratings dropped to a low of 8.4 million viewers with the sixth episode and they reached a high of 12.12 million viewers with the eleventh episode but declined afterwards. The season finale titled The Epidural aired on February 16,2009, the Series is currently being shown in Ireland on RTÉ Two, Sundays at 3, 40am, and, more recently, Fridays, on the new Esquire Network cable channel in the US. On May 20,2009, CBS announced its new season schedule, a previously unaired episode entitled The Party aired on June 6,2009. Worst Week is set in Manassas, Virginia Kyle Bornheimer as Sam Briggs Erinn Hayes as Melanie Clayton Nancy Lenehan as Angela Clayton Kurtwood Smith as Dick Clayton Nick Kroll as Adam Jessica St, universal Studios Home Entertainment has released a DVD of the complete series
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30 Rock
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30 Rock is an American satirical television sitcom created by Tina Fey that ran on NBC from October 11,2006, to January 31,2013. The series, loosely based on Feys experiences as head writer for Saturday Night Live and this series is produced by Broadway Video and Little Stranger, Inc. in association with NBCUniversal. 30 Rock episodes were produced in a setup, and were filmed in New York. The pilot episode premiered on October 11,2006, and seven seasons followed, tonally,30 Rock uses surreal humor to parody the complex corporate structure of NBC and its then parent company General Electric. Television critic Todd VanDerWerff of The A. V, club once remarked that it usually adopts the manic pacing of a live-action cartoon. The show was influential in its use of smash cuts, sudden. 30 Rock also became known for its dedication to making these extremely elaborate,30 Rock received critical acclaim throughout its run, winning several major awards, and achieving the top ranking on myriad critics year-end best of 2006-2013 lists. On July 14,2009, the series was nominated for 22 Primetime Emmy Awards, over the course of the series, it was nominated for 103 Primetime Emmy Awards and won 16, in addition to numerous other nominations and wins from other awards shows. Despite the high praise, the series struggled in the ratings throughout its run, today,30 Rock is regarded as a landmark series. Its series finale in particular has been named as one of the greatest in history by several publications. In 2013, the Writers Guild of America named 30 Rock the 21st best-written television series of all time, in 2002, Fey was the head writer and a performer on the television show Saturday Night Live. She pitched the show that became 30 Rock to NBC, originally as a sitcom about cable news, NBC Entertainment president Kevin Reilly felt that Fey was using the news setting as a fig leaf for her own experience and encouraged her to write what she knew. The show was reworked to revolve around an SNL-style sketch show. After being presented to Reilly once more, the show was set to air during the 2005–2006 television season, eventually, Lewis gave in just a month before his retirement, and Melcher backed down. Filming was postponed due to Tina Feys first pregnancy, during the 2004–2005 pilot season, a pilot was announced named Untitled Tina Fey Project. The 30 Rock pilot focused on the boss of a variety show who must manage her relationships with the shows volatile star and its charismatic executive producer. The storyline evolved into one that dealt with a writer of a variety show who dealt with both of the stars, as well as the shows new network executive. 30 Rock was officially given the light to air May 15,2006
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Alec Baldwin's performance as Jack Donaghy has been praised by critics.
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Fey has won six
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American Dad!
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American Dad. is an American adult animated sitcom created by Seth MacFarlane, Mike Barker, and Matt Weitzman for the Fox Broadcasting Company. American Dad. is the first television series to have its inception on Animation Domination. The series premiere aired on February 6,2005, following Super Bowl XXXIX, three months before the rest of the first season aired as part of the Animation Domination block, commencing on May 1,2005. Creative direction of American Dad. has largely been guided by Barker and Weitzman as opposed to MacFarlane, unlike its sister shows, Family Guy and The Cleveland Show, American Dad. The show is not as heavy on pop cultural allusions as MacFarlanes Family Guy, the plots are often absurd, but they are grounded by family stories and real-world issues. American Dad. has been nominated for awards, most prominently two Primetime Emmy Awards and two Annie Awards. In June 2013, it was awarded as top television series by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, since its debut, American Dad. has broadcast 219 episodes. The total number of seasons and organization of episodes within these seasons are in dispute because of a discrepancy in how official sources report this information, One model suggests the first season of American Dad. Comprises the first 7 episodes, while another suggests the first season comprises 23 episodes. TBS picked up the series for the 12th season following the final 3 episodes airing on Fox as the 11th season, American Dad. s TBS run began on October 20,2014. TBS has also renewed the series for a 22-episode as 13th season, on August 27,2015, TBS announced it had picked up American Dad. for a 14th and 15th season of 22 episodes each. The 14th season premiered on November 7,2016, Stans CIA boss, the Deputy Director Avery Bullock, is a recurring focal point. The voice actors are not assembled as a group performing the lines of their characters, rather. The voice actors have stated that because of their personalities and tendency to goof off together as a group. Centers on the circumstances, adventures and domestic life of its title character Stan Smith, his immediate family. In early February 2005, Barker stated, About a year and it was right up our alley, and everything just fell into place. At the time, Fox was aiming to develop a new lineup of adult animated sitcoms and its first episode, titled Pilot, was originally shown directly following Super Bowl XXXIX on February 6,2005. The rest of the first season, however, would not launch until May 1,2005, initially, it was a replacement for the originally failed series Family Guy
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Mike Barker: co-creator and co-showrunner from seasons 1 through 10
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The Smith family, from left to right:
Roger,
Francine,
Stan,
Klaus,
Hayley, and
Steve
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Matt Weitzman
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Seth MacFarlane
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Drunk History
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Drunk History is an American television comedy series produced by Comedy Central, based on the Funny or Die web series created by Derek Waters and Jeremy Konner in 2007. The series premiered on Comedy Central on July 9,2013, will Ferrell and Adam McKay are among the shows executive producers. On January 13,2017 Comedy Central renewed the show for a fifth season, since January 12,2015, a British version of Drunk History has been broadcast on the UK channel Comedy Central. A Latin American version called Drunk History, El lado borroso de la historia is presented by Eugenio Derbez, the Hungarian version titled Tömény történelem started airing on October 24,2016 on Comedy Central Hungary. A Brazilian version hosted by Danilo Gentili, called Drunk History Brasil, o Lado Embriagado da História, Comedy Central Brasil will broadcast the show separated from The Noite. Official website Drunk History at the Internet Movie Database
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Harriet Tubman
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Harriet Tubman was an American abolitionist, humanitarian, and an armed scout and spy for the United States Army during the American Civil War. She later helped abolitionist John Brown recruit men for his raid on Harpers Ferry, born a slave in Dorchester County, Maryland, Tubman was beaten and whipped by her various masters as a child. Early in life, she suffered a head wound when an irate slave owner threw a heavy metal weight intending to hit another slave. The injury caused dizziness, pain, and spells of hypersomnia and she was a devout Christian and experienced strange visions and vivid dreams, which she ascribed to premonitions from God. In 1849, Tubman escaped to Philadelphia, then returned to Maryland to rescue her family. Slowly, one group at a time, she brought relatives with her out of the state, traveling by night and in extreme secrecy, Tubman never lost a passenger. After the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was passed, she helped guide fugitives farther north into British North America, when the Civil War began, Tubman worked for the Union Army, first as a cook and nurse, and then as an armed scout and spy. The first woman to lead an expedition in the war, she guided the raid at Combahee Ferry. After the war, she retired to the home on property she had purchased in 1859 in Auburn, New York. She was active in the suffrage movement until illness overtook her. After she died in 1913, she became an icon of American courage, on April 20,2016, the U. S. Treasury Department announced a plan for Tubman to replace Andrew Jackson as the portrait gracing the $20 bill. Tubman was born Araminta Minty Ross to slave parents, Harriet Green and Ben Ross, Rit was owned by Mary Pattison Brodess. Ben was held by Anthony Thompson, who became Marys second husband, as with many slaves in the United States, neither the exact year nor place of Aramintas birth is known, and historians differ as to the best estimate. Catherine Clinton notes that Tubman reported the year of her birth as 1825, while her death certificate lists 1815 and her gravestone lists 1820. In her Civil War widows pension records, Tubman claimed she was born in 1820,1822, and 1825, an indication, perhaps, that she had only a general idea of when she was born. Modesty, Tubmans maternal grandmother, arrived in the United States on a ship from Africa. As a child, Tubman was told that she was of Ashanti lineage and her mother Rit was a cook for the Brodess family. Her father Ben was a woodsman who managed the timber work on Thompsons plantation
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Harriet Tubman circa 1885
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A map showing key locations in Tubman's life
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Notice published in the Cambridge Democrat newspaper, offering a three hundred dollar reward for capture of the escaped slaves "Minty" (Harriet Tubman) and her brothers Henry and Ben
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Saturday Night Live
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Saturday Night Live is an American late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels and developed by Dick Ebersol. The show premiered on NBC on October 11,1975, under the original title NBCs Saturday Night, the shows comedy sketches, which parody contemporary culture and politics, are performed by a large and varying cast of repertory and newer cast members. Each episode is hosted by a celebrity guest and features performances by a musical guest, an episode normally begins with a cold open sketch that ends with someone breaking character and proclaiming, Live from New York, its Saturday Night. In 1980, Michaels left the series to other opportunities. He was replaced by Jean Doumanian, who was replaced by Ebersol after a season of bad reviews, Ebersol ran the show until 1985, when Michaels returned, Michaels has remained since then. Many of SNLs cast found national stardom while appearing on the show, others associated with the show, such as writers, have gone on to successful careers creating, writing, or starring in TV and film. The show format has developed and recreated in several countries. Successful sketches have seen life outside of the show as feature films, throughout four decades on air, Saturday Night Live has received a number of awards, including 50 Primetime Emmy Awards, two Peabody Awards, and three Writers Guild of America Awards. In 2000, it was inducted into the National Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame and it was ranked tenth in TV Guides 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time list, and in 2007 it was listed as one of Time magazines 100 Best TV Shows of All-TIME. As of 2012, it has received 156 Emmy nominations, the most received by any TV show, the live aspect of the show has resulted in several controversies and acts of censorship, with mistakes and intentional acts of sabotage by performers as well as guests. From 1965 until September 1975, NBC ran The Best of Carson reruns of The Tonight Show, in 1974, Johnny Carson announced that he wanted the weekend shows pulled and saved so that they could be aired during weeknights, allowing him to take time off. In 1974, NBC president Herbert Schlosser approached his vice president of late night programming, Dick Ebersol, at the suggestion of Paramount Pictures executive Barry Diller, Schlosser and Ebersol then approached Lorne Michaels. Over the next three weeks, Ebersol and Michaels developed the idea for a variety show featuring high-concept comedy sketches, political satire. By 1975 Michaels had assembled a talented cast, including Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, Chevy Chase, Jane Curtin, Garrett Morris, Laraine Newman, Michael ODonoghue, Gilda Radner, and George Coe. The show was originally called NBCs Saturday Night, because Saturday Night Live was in use by Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell on the rival network ABC, NBC purchased the rights to the name in 1976 and officially adopted the new title on March 26,1977. In 1975 and 1976, they were the most desirable demographic for television advertisers, NBC executives agreed with Michaels and decided to keep the show on the air despite many angry letters and phone calls that the network received from viewers who were offended by certain sketches. Chevy Chase left the show in November of the season and was replaced a few months later by the then-unknown comic actor Bill Murray. Aykroyd and Belushi left the show in 1979 after the end of season four, in May 1980, Michaels—emotionally and physically exhausted—requested to put the show on hiatus for a year to give him time and energy to pursue other projects
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The original 1975 cast, from left to right:
Laraine Newman,
John Belushi,
Jane Curtin,
Gilda Radner,
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Garrett Morris, and
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Comcast Building (30 Rockefeller Plaza, or "30 Rock") from where the show is broadcast.
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SNL 's main stage, during rehearsal, 2008
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WSFA
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WSFA is the NBC-affiliated television station for Central Alabamas Black Belt region licensed to Montgomery. It broadcasts a high definition signal on VHF channel 12 from a transmitter in Grady along the Montgomery/Pike County line. Its studios are located on Delano Avenue in West Montgomery, the station can also be viewed on cable television, with Knology and Charter channel 11. A high definition feed is offered on Charter digital channel 711, local programming includes WSFAs major commitment – regional and local news – with shows such as Alabama Live, WSFA12 News First at 4, WSFA12 News at 6, and WSFA12 News at 10. The station also broadcasts news with The Today Show and NBC Nightly News. Syndicated programming on WSFA includes Entertainment Tonight, Judge Joe Brown, Judge Judy, WSFA is owned by the locally based Raycom Media, which has headquarters downtown at the RSA Tower. WSFA is one of Raycoms two flagships, alongside CBS affiliate WBTV in Charlotte, North Carolina, WSFA was formerly the default NBC affiliate for Dothan and the Wiregrass Region, which had been one of the few areas without an NBC affiliate of its own. That status ended when Gray Television, which owns WTVY in Dothan, the stations call letters – SFA – are an acronym for Souths Finest Airport. They can be traced back to 1930, when Gordon Persons opened a station at the Montgomery Regional Airport. The new station was the fourth station but the citys first. WSFA radio quickly became a landmark in Montgomery and was most famous in its early days for launching the career of music legend Hank Williams. By the mid-1950s, the new medium of television was sweeping the nation, ironically, this allocation was supposed to be occupied by Montgomerys first television station, CBS affiliate WCOV-TV. However, due to a delay in getting a transmitter for channel 12, at that time, WSFA-AM-TV was operated by a staff of 35. In 1956, the station was sold and moved to downtown Montgomery under a new set of call letters. The television station was again, in 1959, to the Broadcasting Company of the South of Columbia. A subsidiary of the Liberty Life Insurance Company, the company renamed itself Cosmos Broadcasting Corporation in 1965, later in the decade, Liberty reorganized itself as Liberty Corporation with Cosmos and Liberty Life as its subsidiaries. WSFA was the areas only VHF station until 1985, when Selma-based WAKA moved into Montgomery, in 1986, it dropped the -TV suffix. Liberty exited the business in 2002, bringing the station directly under the Liberty banner
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Logo for WSFA-DT2 during affiliation with
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Current WSFA 12 News opening nightly at 10PM
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The Birmingham News
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The Birmingham News is the principal newspaper for Birmingham, Alabama, United States, and the largest newspaper in Alabama. The paper is owned by Advance Publications, and was a newspaper from its founding through September 30,2012. The next day, the News and its two sister Alabama newspapers, the Press-Register in Mobile and The Huntsville Times, moved to a thrice-weekly print-edition publication schedule, the Times-Picayune of New Orleans, also an Advance newspaper, also went to thrice-weekly on the same day. The Birmingham News was launched on March 14,1888 by Rufus N. Rhodes as The Evening News, newspapers joined with industrial tycoons, academics and real-estate speculators in relentless boosterism of the new city. Rhodes was working as editor of the Daily Herald when he found his campaign for a viaduct spanning the Railroad Reservation dividing Birminghams north and south opposed by his publisher. He determined to out on his own and launched the News with the slogan Great is Birmingham. The News Bridge was dedicated on July 4,1891, deemed by his paper the grandest of all municipal achievements of great and glorious Birmingham. The News circulation grew from 628 in 1888 to over 7000 in 1891, the name was changed from The Evening News to The Daily News and then, in 1895, The Birmingham News. The newspaper continued to grow, reaching a circulation of 17,000 in 1909, staunchly progressive in its political stance, the News supported a straight-ticket Democrat platform in election seasons and championed progressive causes such as prohibition. The News led the drumbeat for the Greater Birmingham movement to annex suburban communities. The successful campaign caused the population of the City of Birmingham to grow from 40,000 in 1900 to 138,685 in 1910 and that same year, Rhodes died and was succeeded by his vice-president and general manager, Victor H. Hanson. Hanson, only 33 years old, was already an accomplished newspaperman, having at age 11 founded the City Item in Macon, Georgia, in direct competition with the morning Age-Herald, the News began a Sunday edition in 1912. In 1917 the News moved to a new six-story Jacobean-style office building on the corner of 4th Avenue North and 22nd Street. At the time of the move, the News published this opinion, The News is proud of its new home, publishers from other cities have been kind enough to say that nowhere in the land was there a more adequate, convenient and efficient newspaper plant. Many thousands of dollars have been expended with that end in view, a year later the paper made good use of its new space by purchasing the rival Birmingham Ledger, increasing the size of its staff to 748 and its circulation to 60,000. In 1927 the Birmingham Age-Herald was sold to Hanson, who continued publishing both papers, the News press printed both papers and handled advertising and subscriptions sales while the editorial and reporting staffs remained independent. The agreement lasted until the Post-Herald ceased publication in September 2005, leaving the News as Birminghams only daily newspaper. In 1956, the Hanson family sold the News to S. I. Newhouse Sr. s Advance Publications in New York for $18 million, the largest sum that had been paid at the time for a daily newspaper
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The July 27, 2005 front page of The Birmingham News.
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The 1917 Birmingham News building, vacated in 2006 and demolished in 2008
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Building built for The Birmingham News in 2006, but put on the market and vacated by The News in 2014 after Alabama Media Group could no longer afford the building.
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USA Today
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USA Today is an internationally distributed American daily middle-market newspaper that serves as the flagship publication of its owner, the Gannett Company. Founded by Al Neuharth on September 15,1982, it operates from Gannetts corporate headquarters on Jones Branch Drive in McLean, Virginia and it is printed at 37 sites across the United States and at five additional sites internationally. USA Today is distributed in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, with an international edition distributed in Canada, Asia and the Pacific Islands, Gannett formally announced the launch of the paper on April 20,1982. USA Today began publishing on September 15,1982, initially launching in the Baltimore and Washington, on July 2,1984, the newspaper switched from a largely black-and-white to a color publication, featuring full color photography and graphics in all four sections. On April 8,1985, the paper published its first special bonus section, a 12-page section called Baseball 85, on May 6,1986, USA Today began printing production of its international edition in Switzerland. On April 15, USA Today launched an international printing site. On August 28,1995, an international publishing site was launched in Frankfurt, Germany, to print. On October 4,1999, USA Today began running advertisements on its front page for the first time. The paper launched a sixth printing site for its international edition on May 15,2000, in Milan, Italy, followed on July 10 by the launch of a printing facility in Charleroi. That November, USA Today migrated its operations from Gannetts previous corporate headquarters in Arlington, in 2010, USA Today launched the USA Today API for sharing data with partners of all types. On August 27,2010, USA Today announced that it would undergo a reorganization of its newsroom and it also announced that the paper would shift its focus away from print and place more emphasis on its digital platforms and launch of a new publication called USA Today Sports. On September 14,2012, USA Today underwent the first major redesign in its history, to accomplish this goal, Gannett migrated its newspaper and television station websites to the Presto platform and the USA Today site design throughout 2013 and 2014. On January 4,2014, USA Today acquired the book and film review website, on September 3,2014, USA Today announced that it would lay off roughly 70 employees in a restructuring of its newsroom and business operations. In October 2014, USA Today and OpenWager Inc. entered into a partnership to release a Bingo app called USA TODAY Bingo Cruise, USA Today is known for synthesizing news down to easy-to-read-and-comprehend stories. In the main edition circulated in the United States and some Canadian cities, each consists of four sections, News, Money, Sports. The international edition of the paper features two sections, News and Money in one, with Sports and Life in the other, atypical of most daily newspapers, the paper does not print on Saturdays and Sundays, the Friday edition serves as the weekend edition. USA Today prints each complete story on the front page of the section with the exception of the cover story. The cover story is a story that requires a jump
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The April 14, 2015 front page of USA Today. The blue circle of the logo has been turned into a dotted ring with a hat being tossed into it to signify
Marco Rubio's announcement that he is running for
President of the United States.
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This February 5, 2009 issue of USA Today shows the old layout and logo of the paper prior to it being redesigned in 2012.
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USA Today is headquartered in
Tysons Corner, Virginia.
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Good Morning America
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Good Morning America is an American morning television show that is broadcast on ABC. It debuted on November 3,1975, and first expanded to weekends with the debut of a Sunday edition on January 3,1993, the Sunday edition was canceled in 1999, weekend editions returned on both Saturdays and Sundays on September 4,2004. The weekday program airs from 7,00 to 9,00 a. m. in all U. S. time zones, the Saturday and Sunday editions are one hour long and are transmitted to ABCs stations live at 7,00 a. m. Eastern Time, although stations in some markets air them at different times, viewers in the Pacific Time Zone receive an updated feed with a specialized opening and updated live reports. A third hour of the weekday broadcast aired from 2007 to 2008, the program features news, interviews, weather forecasts, special-interest stories, and feature segments such as Pop News, the GMA Heat Index and Play of the Day. It is produced by ABC News and broadcasts from the Times Square Studios in New York Citys Times Square district, the primary anchors are Robin Roberts, George Stephanopoulos, Lara Spencer and Michael Strahan along with newsreader Amy Robach and weather anchor Ginger Zee. Good Morning America has been the most watched morning show in total viewers, GMA generally placed second in the ratings, behind NBCs Today from 1995 to 2012. Good Morning America won the first three Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Morning Program, sharing the inaugural 2007 award with Today, on January 6,1975, ABC launched AM America in an attempt to compete with NBCs Today. The program was hosted by Bill Beutel and Stephanie Edwards, with Peter Jennings, because the show could not find an audience against Today, ABC sought a new approach. The network found that one of its affiliates, WEWS in Cleveland, the Morning Exchange also established a group of regular guests who were experts in certain fields, including health, entertainment, consumer affairs and travel. Also unlike both the NBC and ABC shows, The Morning Exchange was not broadcast from a newsroom set, in the process of screening the Cleveland morning program as a creative source, ABC also began looking at another local show, Good Morning. Which was produced by Boston ABC affiliate WCVB-TV, Good Morning. was very similar in format to The Morning Exchange, but with a lesser emphasis on news and weather. No legal cease and desist action was finalized against ABC in the matter, however, the launch of Good Morning America did result in the Boston morning show changing its name—to Good Day. ABC took an episode of The Morning Exchange and used it as a pilot episode, after very positive reviews for the pilot, the format replaced AM America in November 1975 as Good Morning America. The first host of the new program was David Hartman, featuring Nancy Dussault as his co-host, Dussault was replaced in 1977 by Sandy Hill. Dave Murray provided the forecasts for both Good Morning America and ABCs early morning news program ABC News This Morning from 1983 to 1986, on August 30,1976, Tom Brokaw began anchoring Today while the program began a search for a female co-host. Within a year, Today managed to back the Good Morning America ratings threat with Brokaw and new co-host Jane Pauley, featuring art. For the first time, Good Morning America became the morning news program in the United States as Today fell to second place
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The title card for Good Afternoon America, which aired for a nine-week period.
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Robin Roberts co-host 2002–present
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George Stephanopoulos co-host 2009–present
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Alec Baldwin
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Alexander Rae Alec Baldwin III is an American actor, writer, producer, and comedian. A member of the Baldwin family, he is the oldest of the four Baldwin brothers, Baldwin first gained recognition appearing on seasons 6 and 7 of the CBS television drama Knots Landing, in the role of Joshua Rush. His performance in the 2003 romantic drama The Cooler garnered him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, Baldwin co-starred in Mission, Impossible – Rogue Nation, the fifth installment of the Mission, Impossible series, released on July 31,2015. He is also a columnist for The Huffington Post, since 2016, he has been the host of Match Game. He has three brothers, Daniel, William, and Stephen, who also became actors. He also has two sisters, Beth and Jane, Alec and his siblings were raised as Roman Catholics. They are of English, Irish, Scottish, French-Canadian, Baldwin attended Alfred G. Berner High School in Massapequa and played football there under Coach Bob Reifsnyder. In New York City, Baldwin worked as a busboy at the disco Studio 54, from 1976 to 1979, he attended George Washington University, afterward transferring to New York Universitys Tisch School of the Arts. There he studied with, among others, Geoffrey Horne and Mira Rostova at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, Later, Baldwin made his Broadway debut in 1986 in a revival of Joe Ortons Loot alongside Zoë Wanamaker, Željko Ivanek, Joseph Maher, and Charles Keating. This production closed after three months, Baldwin also received an Emmy nomination for the 1995 television version of the production, in which both he and Jessica Lange reprised their roles, alongside John Goodman and Diane Lane. In 1998, Baldwin played the role in Macbeth at The Public Theater alongside Angela Bassett. In 2004, Baldwin starred in a revival of Twentieth Century with Anne Heche, on June 9,2005, he appeared in a concert version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific at Carnegie Hall. He starred as Luther Billis, alongside Reba McEntire as Nellie, the production was taped and telecast by PBS on April 26,2006. In 2006, Baldwin made theater news in Roundabout Theatre Companys Off-Broadway revival of Joe Ortons Entertaining Mr. Sloane. In 2010, Baldwin starred opposite Sam Underwood in an acclaimed revival of Peter Shaffers Equus, directed by Tony Walton at Guild Hall in East Hampton. Baldwin has returned to Broadway as Harold in Orphans, the show, which opened April 18,2013, was also to have starred Shia LaBeouf as Treat, but LaBoeuf left the production in rehearsals and was replaced by Ben Foster. Baldwins first acting role was as Billy Aldrich in the NBC daytime soap opera The Doctors from 1980 to 1982, in fall 1983, he starred in the short-lived television series Cutter to Houston. He went on to appear as the brother of Valene Ewing, in 1986, Baldwin starred in Dress Gray, a four-hour made-for-television miniseries, as an honest cadet sergeant who tries to solve the mystery of a murdered gay classmate
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Baldwin in 2012
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Gale Sondergaard
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Gale Sondergaard was an American actress. Sondergaard began her career in theater, and progressed to films in 1936. She was the first recipient of the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her debut in Anthony Adverse. She played supporting roles in films during the late 1930s and early 1940s, including The Cat. She was nominated for a second Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for Anna, married to the director Herbert Biberman, Sondergaard supported him when he was accused of communism and named as one of the Hollywood Ten in the early 1950s, which effectively ended her film career. She moved with Biberman to New York City and worked in theatre and she moved back to Los Angeles where she died from cerebrovascular thrombosis. She was born Edith Holm Sondergaard on February 15,1899, in Litchfield, Minnesota to Danish-American parents, Hans and her father taught at University of Minnesota, where she was a drama student. She studied acting at the Minneapolis School of Dramatic Arts before joining the John Keller Shakespeare Company and she later toured North America in productions of Hamlet, Julius Caesar, The Merchant of Venice, and Macbeth. After becoming a member of the Theatre Guild, she began performing on the New York stage, Sondergaard made her first film appearance in Anthony Adverse as Faith Paleologue and became the first recipient of the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for this performance. Her career as an actress flourished during the 1930s, and included a role opposite Paul Muni in The Life of Emile Zola, Sondergaard was originally cast as the witch in Oz and was photographed for two wardrobe tests, both of which survive. One was as a wicked witch, and another as a conventionally ugly wicked witch. Sondergaard was, however, cast as the sultry and slinky Tylette in 1940s The Blue Bird, in 1940, she played the role of the exotic and sinister wife in The Letter, supporting Bette Davis. She received a second Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actress for her role as the Kings principal wife in Anna, with her career stalled, she supported her husband during the production of Salt of the Earth. One of the Hollywood Ten chronicled Sondergaards relationship with Biberman and her role in the making of Salt of the Earth, the Bibermans sold their home in Hollywood shortly after they completed Salt of the Earth, and moved to New York where Sondergaard was able to work in theatre. Her younger sister Hester Sondergaard was also an actress who starred in the films, Jigsaw, The Naked City. Sondergaard was first married in 1922 to actor Neill OMalley, they divorced in 1930. On May 15,1930, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, she married Herbert Biberman and they had two children, Daniel Hans Biberman and Mrs. Joan Campos. Sondergaard resumed her career in film and television in 1969 and continued until 1983 and she died from cerebrovascular thrombosis in Woodland Hills, California in 1985, aged 86
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in the trailer for
Dramatic School (1938)
Gale Sondergaard
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in the trailer for
The Letter (1940)
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Jane Darwell
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Jane Darwell was an American actress of stage, film, and television. Her father objected, however, and she compromised by becoming an actress, the Jane Darwell Birthplace was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. Some sources give Darwells birth name as Patti Woodward and she took up voice culture and the piano followed by a course in dramatics. At one point, she decided to enter a convent but instead changed her mind, Darwell began acting in theater productions in Chicago and made her first film appearance in 1913. She appeared in almost twenty films over the two years before returning to the stage. After a 15-year absence from films, she resumed her career in 1930 with a role in Tom Sawyer. Short, stout, and plain, she was quickly cast in a succession of films usually as the mother of one of the major characters and she also appeared in five Shirley Temple films, usually as the housekeeper or grandmother. She won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress as Ma Joad in The Grapes of Wrath, a contract player with 20th Century Fox, Darwell was memorably cast in The Ox-Bow Incident, and occasionally starred in B movies and played featured parts in scores of major films. Darwell had noted appearances on the stage as well, in 1944, she was popular in the stage comedy Suds in Your Eye, in 1954, Darwell appeared with Andy Clyde in the episode Santas Old Suit of the series, The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse. This same episode was re-run the following Christmas 1955 on Studio 57, in 1959, she appeared with child actor Roger Mobley in the episode Mr. Rushs Secretary on the NBC western series, Buckskin, starring Tom Nolan and Sally Brophy. She guest starred on John Bromfields crime drama in a western setting. On July 27,1961, Darwell appeared as Grandmother McCoy in an episode of the ABC sitcom The Real McCoys, Darwell was fifteen years older than son, Walter Brennan. Pat Buttram and Henry Jones appeared in this episode as Cousin Carl and Jed McCoy, Darwells final role as the old woman feeding the birds in Mary Poppins was personally assigned to her by Walt Disney. On February 8,1960, Darwell received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contributions to the motion-picture industry, in her last years, Darwells health was poor. It took personal persuasion from Walt Disney for her to appear in Disneys Mary Poppins as she was, by then, tired, frail and in her middle eighties. Darwell died August 13,1967, at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills and she is interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California. Jane Darwell at the Internet Movie Database Jane Darwell at the Internet Broadway Database Jane Darwell at Find a Grave
Jane Darwell
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Darwell in the play A Doll's House, 1945.
Jane Darwell
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In
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
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Katina Paxinou
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Katina Paxinou was a Greek film and stage actress. She started her career in Greece in 1928 and was one of the founding members of the National Theatre of Greece in 1932. Paxinou appeared in a few more Hollywood films, before returning to Greece in the early 1950s and she then focused on her stage career and appeared in European films. She died in 1973, after a battle with cancer. Paxinou was born Aikaterini Konstantopoulou in Piraeus, Greece, she trained as a singer at the Conservatoire de Musique de Genève and later in Berlin. According to her biography in Playbill, Paxinou was disowned by her family after she decided to seek a permanent stage career, Paxinou made her debut at the Municipal Theatre of Piraeus in 1920 in the operatic version of Maurice Maeterlincks Sister Beatrice, with a score by Dimitri Mitropoulos. She first appeared in a play in 1928, as a member of Marika Kotopoulis troupe, in an Athens production of Henry Batailles The Naked Woman. In 1931, she joined Aimilios Veakis troupe along with Alexis Minotis and she also appeared in Anton Chekhovs Uncle Vanya and August Strindbergs The Father. In 1932, Paxinou was among the actors that inaugurated the recently re-founded National Theatre of Greece, when World War II broke out, Paxinou was performing in London. Unable to return to Greece, she emigrated to the United States and she was selected to play the role of Pilar in the film For Whom the Bell Tolls, for which she won an Oscar and a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture. She made one British film, Uncle Silas, which features Jean Simmons in the female role and, worked in Italy for 20th Century Fox. After that film, Paxinou worked for a Hollywood studio only once more, to play a gypsy woman. In 1950, Paxinou resumed her stage career, in her native Greece, she formed the Royal Theatre of Athens with Alexis Minotis, her principal director and her husband since 1940. Paxinou made several appearances on the Broadway stage and television as well and she played the lead in Ibsens Hedda Gabler for 12 performances at New York Citys Longacre Theatre, opening on June 28,1942. Paxinou died from cancer in Athens in 1973 at the age of 72 and she was survived by her husband, and her one daughter from her first marriage to Ioannis Paxinos, whose surname she had been using after their divorce. Her remains are buried at First Cemetery of Athens, the Paxinou-Minotis Museum is a museum in Athens, Greece featuring memorabilia of the life of Paxinou, an academy award winner Greek film and theatre actress. Items include her furniture, paintings and sketches, photographs, books, the items were donated by director Alexis Minotis, Paxinous husband, and include his personal library and theatrical archive. Katina Paxinou at the Internet Movie Database Katina Paxinou at the Internet Broadway Database
Katina Paxinou
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Katina Paxinou
Katina Paxinou
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Katina Paxinou in the
For Whom the Bell Tolls trailer.
Katina Paxinou
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Katina Paxinou (left) in
Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children, Pantheon Theatre,
Athens, 1971/72 (
PFF 's Archive).
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Ethel Barrymore
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Ethel Barrymore was an American actress and a member of the Barrymore family of actors. Regarded as the First Lady of the American Theater, Barrymore was a preeminent stage actress in her era, Ethel Barrymore was born Ethel Mae Blythe in Philadelphia, the second child of the actors Maurice Barrymore and Georgiana Drew. Her father was killed four months before her birth in a famous Old West encounter in Texas while heading a traveling road company. She was named for her father’s favorite character—Ethel in William Makepeace Thackeray’s The Newcomes and she was the sister of actors John Barrymore and Lionel Barrymore, the aunt of actor John Drew Barrymore, and the grand-aunt of actress Drew Barrymore. She was also a granddaughter of actress and theater-manager Louisa Lane Drew and she spent her childhood in Philadelphia, and attended Roman Catholic schools there. In 1884 she, her parents and brothers sailed to England, Maurice had inherited a substantial amount of money from an aunt and decided to exhibit a play and star in some plays at Londons Haymarket Theatre. Ethel recalled being frightened on first meeting Oscar Wilde when handing him some cakes, returning to the U. S. in 1886, her father took her to her first baseball game. She established a lifelong love of baseball and wanted to be a concert pianist, the years in England were the happiest of her childhood years due to the fact the Barrymores were more of a nuclear family in London than at any other time when in the United States. Georgie did not recover and died in July 1893 a week before her 37th birthday, essentially Ethel and Lionels childhood ended when Georgie died. They were forced to go to work in their teens, John, a few years younger, stayed with their grandmother and other relatives. Barrymores first appearance on Broadway was in 1895, in a play called The Imprudent Young Couple which starred her uncle John Drew, Jr. and she appeared with Drew and Adams again in 1896 in Rosemary. In 1897 Ethel went with William Gillette to London to play Miss Kittridge in Gillettes Secret Service and she was about to return to the States with Gillettes troupe when Henry Irving and Ellen Terry offered her the role of Annette in The Bells. A full London tour was on and, before it was over, Ethel created, on New Years Day 1898, Euphrosine in Peter the Great at the Lyceum, men everywhere were smitten with Ethel, most notably Winston Churchill, who asked her to marry him. Not wishing to be a wife, she refused. Winston, years later, married Clementine Hozier, a beauty who looked very much like Ethel. Winston and Ethel remained friends until the end of her life and their “romance” was their own little secret until his son let the cat out of the bag 63 years after it happened. After her season in London, Ethel returned to the United States, charles Frohman cast her first in Catherine and then as Stella de Grex in His Excellency the Governor. After that, Frohman finally gave Ethel the role that would make her a star, Madame Trentoni in Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines, which opened at the Garrick Theatre on February 4,1901
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Ethel Barrymore, 1896
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Barrymore in 1901 in one of the costumes from Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines
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Barrymore playing the male character Carrots in a play of the same name, 1902
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Early portrait circa 1914
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Anne Baxter
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Anne Baxter was an American actress, star of Hollywood films, Broadway productions, and television series. She won an Oscar and a Golden Globe and was nominated for a Primetime Emmy, granddaughter of Frank Lloyd Wright, Baxter studied acting with Maria Ouspenskaya and had some stage experience before making her film debut in 20 Mule Team. She became a player of 20th Century Fox and was loaned out to RKO Pictures for a role in Orson Welles The Magnificent Ambersons. In 1947, she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Sophie MacDonald in The Razors Edge, in 1951, she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress for the title role in All About Eve. She worked with several of Hollywoods greatest directors, including Alfred Hitchcock in I Confess, Fritz Lang in The Blue Gardenia, and Cecil B. Baxter was born in Michigan City, Indiana, to Catherine Dorothy —whose father was the famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright—and Kenneth Stuart Baxter, an executive with the Seagrams Distillery Company. When Baxter was five, she appeared in a play and, as her family had moved to New York when she was six years old. She was raised in Westchester County, NY and attended Brearley, at age 10, Baxter attended a Broadway play starring Helen Hayes, and was so impressed that she declared to her family that she wanted to become an actress. By the age of 13, she had appeared on Broadway in Seen, during this period, Baxter learned her acting craft as a student of the famed teacher Maria Ouspenskaya. In 1939 she was cast as Katherine Hepburns little sister in the play The Philadelphia Story, rather than giving up, she turned to Hollywood. Her first movie role was in 20 Mule Team in 1940 and she was chosen by director Orson Welles to appear in The Magnificent Ambersons. In 1943, she played a French maid in a north African hotel in Billy Wilders Five Graves to Cairo, Baxter co-starred with Tyrone Power and Gene Tierney in 1946s The Razors Edge, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Baxter later recounted that The Razors Edge contained her only great performance and she said she relived the death of her brother, who had died at age three. She played Mike in the 1948 Western film Yellow Sky with Gregory Peck, in 1950, Baxter was chosen to co-star in All About Eve, largely because of a resemblance to Claudette Colbert, who was originally set to star but dropped out and was replaced by Bette Davis. The original idea was to have Baxters character gradually come to mirror Colberts over the course of the film, Baxter received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress for the title role of Eve Harrington. She said she modeled the role on a bitchy understudy she had for her performance in the Broadway play Seen But Not Heard at the age of thirteen. Through the 1950s she continued to act on stage, in 1953, Baxter contracted a two-picture deal for Warner Brothers. Her first was opposite Montgomery Clift in Alfred Hitchcocks I Confess, in June 1954, Baxter won the coveted part of the Egyptian princess and queen Nefretiri, one of her most memorable roles, opposite Charlton Hestons portrayal of Moses in Cecil B
Anne Baxter
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Publicity photo, circa 1950
Anne Baxter
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Joseph Cotten, Anne Baxter and
Tim Holt in
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
Anne Baxter
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Baxter as Eve Harrington in
All About Eve (1950)
Anne Baxter
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Baxter with
Yul Brynner in
The Ten Commandments (1956)
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Celeste Holm
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Celeste Holm was an American stage, film and television actress. Holm won an Academy Award for her performance in Gentlemans Agreement and she originated the role of Ado Annie in the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Oklahoma. Born and raised in Manhattan, Holm was an only child and her mother, Jean Parke, was an American portrait artist and author, her father, Theodor Holm, was a Norwegian businessman whose company provided marine adjustment services for Lloyds of London. Because of her parents occupations, she traveled often during her youth and attended schools in the Netherlands, France. She graduated from University School for Girls in Chicago, where she performed in school stage productions. She then studied drama at the University of Chicago before becoming an actress in the late 1930s. Holms first professional role was in a production of Hamlet starring Leslie Howard. The role that got her the most recognition from critics and audiences was as Ado Annie in the production of Rodgers. After she starred in the Broadway production of Bloomer Girl, 20th Century Fox signed Holm to a contract in 1946. In 1947 she won an Oscar and Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress in Gentlemans Agreement, after another supporting role in All About Eve, however, Holm realized she preferred live theater to movie work, and only accepted a few select film roles over the next decade. The most successful of these were the comedy The Tender Trap and she starred as a professor-turned-reporter in New York City in the CBS television series Honestly, Celeste. and was thereafter a panelist on Who Pays. She also appeared several times on ABCs The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom, in 1958, she starred as a reporter in an unsold television pilot called The Celeste Holm Show, based on the book No Facilities for Women. Holm also starred in the musical The Utter Glory of Morrissey Hall, in 1965, she played the Fairy Godmother alongside Lesley Ann Warren in the CBS production of Cinderella. In 1970–71, she was featured on the NBC sitcom Nancy, with Renne Jarrett, John Fink and Robert F. Simon. In the story line, Holm played Abby Townsend, the secretary of the First Lady of the United States and the chaperone of Jarretts character, Nancy Smith. In 1979, she played the role of First Lady Florence Harding in the television mini-series and she was a regular on the ABC soap opera Loving, appearing first in 1986 in the role of Lydia Woodhouse and again as Isabelle Dwyer Alden #2 from 1991 to 1992. She last appeared on television in the CBS television series Promised Land, Olav by King Olav of Norway in 1979, and inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1992. She remained active for social causes as a spokesperson for UNICEF, from 1995 she was Chairman of the Board of Arts Horizons, a not-for-profit arts-in-education organization
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Holm in 1955
Celeste Holm
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Publicity photo, c.1940
Celeste Holm
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Accepting her Academy Award for
Gentleman's Agreement (1947)
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Donna Reed
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Donna Reed was an American film and television actress and producer. Her career spanned more than 40 years, with performances in more than 40 films and she is well known for her role as Mary Hatch Bailey in Frank Capras 1946 film Its a Wonderful Life. In 1953, she received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Lorene Burke in the war drama From Here to Eternity and she received numerous Emmy Award nominations for this role and the Golden Globe Award for Best TV Star in 1963. She was born Donna Belle Mullenger on a farm near Denison, Iowa, the eldest of five children, she was raised as a Methodist. After graduating from Denison High School, Reed planned to become a teacher and she decided to move to California to attend Los Angeles City College on the advice of her aunt. While attending college, she performed in stage productions but had no plans to become an actress. After receiving several offers to screen test for studios, Reed eventually signed with MGM, in 1941 after signing with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Reed made her film debut in The Get-Away opposite Robert Sterling, she was billed as Donna Adams. MGM soon changed her name to Donna Reed, as there was feeling during World War II. She starred in The Courtship of Andy Hardy and had a role with Edward Arnold in Eyes in the Night. In 1943, she appeared in The Human Comedy with Mickey Rooney and her girl-next-door good looks and warm onstage personality made her a popular pin-up for many GIs during World War II. She personally answered letters from many GIs serving overseas, in 1945, Reed struggled with an English accent and with a passive, underwritten role as Gladys Hallward in the first cinema adaptation of the Oscar Wilde novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray. In 1946, she was lent to RKO Pictures for the role of Mary Bailey in Frank Capras Its a Wonderful Life. The film has since named as one of the 100 best American films ever made by the American Film Institute and is regularly aired on television during the Christmas season. Following the release of Its a Wonderful Life, Reed appeared in Green Dolphin Street with Lana Turner, in 1949 she expressed a desire for better roles. Several years later, she performed in Scandal Sheet, in 1953, Reed played the role of Alma Lorene Burke, girlfriend of Montgomery Clifts character, in the World War II drama From Here to Eternity. The role earned Reed an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for 1953, from 1958 to 1966, Reed starred in The Donna Reed Show, a television series produced by her then-husband, Tony Owen. The show featured her as Donna Stone, the wife of pediatrician Alex Stone and mother of Jeff, the show ran for eight seasons on ABC. Reed won a Golden Globe Award and earned four Emmy Award nominations for her work on the series, Reed described her show as a realistic picture of small town life with an often humorous twist
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The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1945
Donna Reed
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Donna Reed as
Mary Hatch and James Stewart as
George Bailey from
It's a Wonderful Life
Donna Reed
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Donna Reed as
Miss Ellie Ewing Farlow in
Dallas
Donna Reed
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Reed, Tony Owen, and their four children in 1959. Standing is Penny Jane; seated from left are Tony, Jr., Mary and Tim.
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Jo Van Fleet
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Catherine Josephine Jo Van Fleet was an American theatre and film actress. Known primarily for playing roles older than she was, her career spanned three decades, and she won an Academy Award as well as a Tony Award. She won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play in 1954 for her performance as Jessie Mae Watts in Horton Footes The Trip to Bountiful, costarring Lillian Gish, after her success on the stage, director Elia Kazan brought her to Hollywood to work on screen. Kazan, who had directed her on stage in 1952s Flight to Egypt and 1953s Camino Real, cast her as Cathy Ames in his adaptation of John Steinbecks East of Eden. She won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance and her subsequent film work was steady through 1960, and included such films as The Rose Tattoo, Ill Cry Tomorrow, The King and Four Queens, and Gunfight at the O. K. Corral. However, her career did not progress as she had hoped and her friend and mentor, Kazan, once said Jo stagnated, and, since she knew it, was bitter. And as she became bitter, she became more difficult, in 1958, she was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her performance in Look Homeward, Angel, in which she played the acquisitive mother of Anthony Perkins character. Her television work included Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Thriller, Bonanza, Van Fleet was married to William Bales from 1946 until his death in 1990. Van Fleet died in a Jamaica, Queens hospital from undisclosed causes at the age of 80 and her interment was at Flushing Cemetery. She was survived by her son Michael Bales, and a grandson and she has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contribution to Motion Pictures, at 7000 Hollywood Boulevard. Jo Van Fleet at the Internet Broadway Database Jo Van Fleet profile, lortel. org, Jo Van Fleet at the Internet Movie Database Jo Van Fleet at the TCM Movie Database Jo Van Fleet at AllMovie
Jo Van Fleet
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in
East of Eden (1955)
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Shelley Winters
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Shelley Winters was an American actress who appeared in dozens of films, as well as on stage and television, her career spanned over 50 years until her death in 2006. Winters won Academy Awards for The Diary of Anne Frank and A Patch of Blue and she also appeared in such films as The Big Knife, A Double Life, Lolita, The Night of the Hunter, Alfie, Next Stop, Greenwich Village, and Petes Dragon. Shelley Winters was born Shirley Schrift in St. Louis, Missouri, the daughter of Rose, a singer with the Muny, and Jonas Schrift and her parents were Jewish, her father emigrated from Austria, and her mother was born in St. Louis to Austrian immigrants. Her family moved to Brooklyn, New York when she was three years old and her sister Blanche Schrift later married George Boroff, who ran the Circle Theatre in Los Angeles. Winters studied at the New School in New York City, as the New York Times obituary noted, A major movie presence for more than five decades, Shelley Winters turned herself into a widely respected actress who won two Oscars. Winters originally broke into Hollywood films as a Blonde Bombshell type, but quickly tired of the roles limitations. She claims to have washed off her makeup to audition for the role of Alice Tripp, the girl, in A Place in the Sun, directed by George Stevens. As the Associated Press reported, the public was unaware of how serious a craftswoman Winters was. Although she was in demand as an actress, Winters continued to study her craft. She attended Charles Laughtons Shakespeare classes and worked at the Actors Studio and she studied in the Hollywood Studio Club, and in the late 1940s, she shared an apartment with another newcomer, Marilyn Monroe. Her first movie was What a Woman, working in films through the 1940s, Winters first achieved stardom with her breakout performance as the victim of insane actor Ronald Colman in George Cukors A Double Life, in 1947. She quickly ascended in Hollywood with leading roles in The Great Gatsby with Alan Ladd and she also returned to the stage on various occasions during this time, including a Broadway run in A Hatful of Rain, in 1955–1956, opposite future husband Anthony Franciosa. She won an Oscar as Best Supporting Actress for The Diary of Anne Frank in 1960 and she donated her Oscar for The Diary of Anne Frank to the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam. In The Poseidon Adventure, she was the ill-fated Belle Rosen and she returned to the stage during the 1960s and 1970s, most notably in Tennessee Williams Night of the Iguana. She appeared in cult films as 1968s Wild in the Streets. She also starred in the 1970 Broadway musical Minnies Boys as Minnie Marx, the mother of Groucho, Harpo, Chico, Zeppo, as the Associated Press reported, During her 50 years as a widely known personality, Winters was rarely out of the news. Her stormy marriages, her romances with famous stars, her forays into politics and she delighted in giving provocative interviews and seemed to have an opinion on everything. That led to a career as a writer
Shelley Winters
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Winters in a studio publicity photo (1951)
Shelley Winters
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Uncredited in Tonight and Every Night (1945), Winters appears with
Rita Hayworth
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Rita Moreno
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Rita Dolores Moreno is a Puerto Rican-American actress, dancer and singer. Moreno is one of twelve performers to have won all four major annual American entertainment awards, an Oscar, an Emmy, a Grammy and she has also won numerous other awards, including various lifetime achievement awards. Moreno also received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Americas highest civilian honor, Moreno, was born Rosa Dolores Alverío in Humacao, Puerto Rico, to Rosa María, a seamstress, and Francisco José Paco Alverío, a farmer. Moreno, whose mother was 17 at the time of her birth, was raised in nearby Juncos, Ritas mother moved to New York City in 1936, taking her daughter, but not her son, Ritas younger brother, Francisco. Rita later adopted the surname of her first stepfather, Edward Moreno, Rita began her first dancing lessons soon after arriving in New York with a Spanish dancer known as Paco Cansino, who was a paternal uncle of film star Rita Hayworth. When she was 11 years old, she lent her voice to Spanish language versions of American films and she had her first Broadway role—as Angelina in Skydrift—by the time she was 13, which caught the attention of Hollywood talent scouts. Moreno acted steadily in films throughout the 1950s, usually in roles, including in The Toast of New Orleans. In March 1954, Moreno was featured on the cover of Life Magazine with the caption Rita Moreno, An Actresss Catalog of Sex, Moreno disliked most of her film work during this period, as she felt the roles she was given were very stereotypical. One exception was her role in the film version of The King. Moreno won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for that role and she did appear in one film during her self-imposed exile from Hollywood – Cry of Battle – although it had been filmed directly before and after she won the Academy Award. She made her return to film in The Night of the Following Day, another notable role was in the hit film The Four Seasons. She has continued to work in film since then, including a voice role in the 2014 film Rio 2. From 1971 to 1977, Moreno was a main cast member on the PBS childrens series The Electric Company and she screamed the shows opening line, HEY, YOU GUYS. Her roles on the show included Millie the Helper, the naughty little girl Pandora, and Otto, One notable guest appearance was a three-episode arc on The Rockford Files in 1977 as former call girl Rita Kapcovic. For her portrayal, Moreno won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress - Drama Series, as a result, she became the third person to have won an Oscar, a Grammy, a Tony, and an Emmy. She was a regular on the first three seasons of the version of Nine to Five during the early 1980s. During the mid-1990s, Moreno provided the voice of Carmen Sandiego on Foxs animated series Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego. In the late 1990s, she gained exposure to a new generation of viewers when she played Sister Pete and she made a guest appearance on The Nanny as Coach Stone, Maggies tyrannical gym teacher, whom Fran Fine also remembered from her school as Ms. Wickavich
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Rita Moreno (2011)
Rita Moreno
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Rita Moreno, 1963
Rita Moreno
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Awarded the
Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2004
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Lila Kedrova
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Lila Kedrova was a Russian-born French actress. Kedrova claimed to have born in 1918, in Petrograd, Russia. Her parents were Russian opera singers and her father, Nikolay, was a singer and composer, a creator of the first Russian male quartet to perform liturgical chants. Her mother, Sofia Gladkaya, was a singer at the Mariinsky Theatre, Kedrovas brother, Nikolay was a Russian singer and composer of liturgical music. Some time after the October Revolution, in 1922, the family emigrated to Berlin, in 1928 they moved to France, where Kedrovas mother taught at the Conservatoire de Paris, and her father again recreated the quartet Quatuor Kedroff. In 1932, Kedrova joined the Moscow Art Theatre touring company, then her film career began, mostly in French films, until her first English appearance in 1964 as Mme Hortense in Zorba the Greek. Her performance won her the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress, Kedrova appeared in Alfred Hitchcocks 1966 film, Torn Curtain playing the role of Countess Kuchinska. Kedrova played Fraulein Schneider in the West End stage production of Cabaret in 1968 alongside Judi Dench and she then went on to play a series of eccentric or batty ladies in several Hollywood films. In 1989 she played Madame Armfeldt in the London revival of A Little Night Music, in 2000, Kedrova died at her summer home in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada, of pneumonia, after a battle with Alzheimers disease. Lila Kedrova at AllMovie Lila Kedrova at Find a Grave Lila Kedrova at the Internet Broadway Database Lila Kedrova at the Internet Movie Database
Lila Kedrova
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Kedrova in 1965.
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Estelle Parsons
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Estelle Margaret Parsons is an American actress, singer and stage director. After studying law, Parsons became a singer before deciding to pursue a career in acting and she worked for the television program Today and made her stage debut in 1961. During the 1960s, Parsons established her career on Broadway before progressing to film and she received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Blanche Barrow in Bonnie and Clyde, and was also nominated for her work in Rachel, Rachel. She worked extensively in film and theatre during the 1970s and later directed several Broadway productions, more recently her television work included playing Beverly Harris, mother of the eponymous title character, on the sitcom Roseanne. She has been nominated five times for the Tony Award, in 2004, Parsons was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame. Parsons was born in Lynn Hospital, Lynn, Massachusetts and her mother, Elinor Ingeborg, was a native of Sweden, and her father, Eben Parsons, was of English descent. She attended Oak Grove School for Girls in Maine, after graduating from Connecticut College in 1949, Parsons initially studied law at Boston University, and then worked as a singer with a band before settling on an acting career in the early 1950s. Moving to New York City, Parsons worked as a writer, producer and she made her Broadway debut in 1956 in the ensemble of the Ethel Merman musical Happy Hunting. She began performing Off-Broadway in 1961, and received a Theatre World Award in 1963 for her performance in Whisper into My Good Ear/Mrs. In 1964, Parsons won an Obie Award for Best Actress for her performance in two Off-Broadway plays, Next Time Ill Sing to You and In the Summer House. In 1967, she starred with Stacey Keach in the premiere of Joseph Hellers play We Bombed in New Haven at the Yale Repertory Theater. Parsons has received Tony Award nominations for her work in The Seven Descents of Myrtle, And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little, Miss Margaridas Way, in 1978 she played Lady MacBeth in the Kauai Community Players production. She also played Ruth in Gilbert & Sullivans The Pirates of Penzance on Broadway in 1981, from June 17,2008 through May 17,2009, she played the role of Violet Weston in August, Osage County. She continued playing the role during the national tour beginning July 24,2009. As a director, Parsons has a number of Broadway credits, including a production of Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Off-Broadway, she directed Dario Fos Orgasmo Adulto Escapes from the Zoo. She also served as the Artistic Director of the Actors Studio for five years, in 2016, she starred in Israel Horovitzs new play Out Of The Mouths Of Babes along with Judith Ivey directed by Barnet Kellman at The Cherry Lane Theater in New York City. In 2004, Parsons was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame and her film career includes an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Blanche Barrow in Bonnie and Clyde, and a nomination for Rachel, Rachel. She received a BAFTA Award nomination for her role in Watermelon Man, on television, Parsons played the recurring role of Beverly, on Roseanne
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Parsons in a
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Ruth Gordon
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Ruth Gordon Jones, known as Ruth Gordon, was an American film, stage, and television actress, as well as a screenwriter and playwright. Gordon began her performing on Broadway at age nineteen. Known for her voice and distinctive personality, she gained international recognition. Her later work included performances in Rosemarys Baby, Harold and Maude, in addition to her acting career, Gordon wrote numerous plays, film scripts, and books, most notably co-writing the screenplay for the 1949 film Adams Rib. Gordon won an Academy Award, an Emmy, and two Golden Globe awards for her acting, as well as receiving three Academy Award nominations for her writing, Ruth Gordon Jones was born at 31 Marion Street in Quincy, Massachusetts. She was the child of Annie Tapley and Clinton Jones. Her first appearance in the public eye came as an infant when her photograph was used in advertising for her fathers employer, prior to graduating from Quincy High School, she wrote to several of her favorite actresses requesting autographed pictures. A personal reply from Hazel Dawn inspired her to go into acting, although her father was skeptical of her chances of success in a difficult profession, in 1914 he took his daughter to New York, where he enrolled her in the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. In 1915, Gordon appeared as an extra in silent films that were shot in Fort Lee, New Jersey, including as a dancer in The Whirl of Life, woollcott, who described her favorably as ever so gay, would become her friend and mentor. In 1918, Gordon played opposite actor Gregory Kelly in the Broadway adaptation of Booth Tarkingtons Seventeen, the pair continued to perform together in North American tours of Frank Cravens The First Year and Tarkingtons Clarence and Tweedles. Then in 1920, Gordon and Kelly were wed, in December 1920, Gordon checked into a Chicago hospital to have her legs broken and straightened to treat her lifelong bow-leggedness. After a three-month recovery, she and Kelly relocated to Indianapolis where they started a repertory company, Kelly died of heart disease in 1927, at the age of 36. In 1929, Gordon was starring in the hit play, Serena Blandish and their son, Jones Harris, was born in Paris that year and Gordon brought him back to New York. Although they never married, Gordon and Harris provided their son with a normal upbringing, in 1932 the family was living discreetly in a small, elegant New York City brownstone. Gordon married her husband, writer Garson Kanin, who was 16 years her junior. Gordon and Kanin collaborated on the screenplays for the Katharine Hepburn – Spencer Tracy films Adams Rib and Pat, both films were directed by George Cukor. The couple were friends of Hepburn and Tracy, and incorporated elements of their real personalities in the films. Gordon and Kanin received Academy Awards nominations for both of those screenplays, as well as for that of a film, A Double Life
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Pictured in 1919
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Goldie Hawn
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Goldie Jeanne Hawn is an American actress, director, producer, and occasional singer, who rose to fame on televisions Rowan & Martins Laugh-In. She is the mother of actors Oliver Hudson, Kate Hudson and Wyatt Russell and she founded The Hawn Foundation in 2003. Hawn was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for the role in the 1980 film Private Benjamin. She is set to star in her first film in 15 years with a role in Snatched. Hawn was born in Washington, D. C. the daughter of Laura, a jewelry shop/dance school owner, and Edward Rutledge Hawn and she was named after her mothers aunt. Her father was a Presbyterian of German and English descent, her mother was Jewish, the daughter of immigrants from Hungary, and Hawn was raised Jewish. Hawn has often said to descend from Edward Rutledge, the youngest signatory of the Declaration of Independence. Hawn began taking ballet and tap dance lessons at the age of three, and danced in the corps de ballet of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo production of The Nutcracker in 1955. She made her debut in 1961, playing Juliet in a Virginia Shakespeare Festival production of Romeo. By 1964, she ran and taught in a ballet school, in 1964, Hawn made her professional dancing debut in a production of Can-Can at the Texas Pavilion of the New York Worlds Fair. She began working as a professional dancer a year later and appeared as a dancer in New York City. Her next role, which brought her to international attention, was as one of the regular cast members on the 1968–1973 sketch comedy show, Rowan & Martins Laugh-In. On the show, she would break out into high-pitched giggles in the middle of a joke. Noted equally for her attitude as for her bikini and painted body. Her Laugh-In persona was parlayed into three film appearances in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Cactus Flower, Theres a Girl in My Soup. After Hawns Academy Award win, her career took off. She starred in a string of average and successful comedies starting with Theres a Girl in My Soup, $. She continued proving herself in the league with the 1974 satirical dramas The Girl from Petrovka and The Sugarland Express
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Hawn in 1978
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With
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Helen Hayes
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Helen Hayes MacArthur was an American actress whose career spanned almost 80 years. She eventually garnered the nickname First Lady of American Theatre and was one of 12 people who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, Hayes also received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Americas highest civilian honor, from then-President Ronald Reagan in 1986. In 1988, she was awarded the National Medal of Arts, the annual Helen Hayes Awards, which have recognized excellence in professional theatre in greater Washington, DC, since 1984, are her namesake. In 1955, the former Fulton Theatre on 46th Street in New York Citys Broadway Theater District was renamed the Helen Hayes Theatre, when that venue was torn down in 1982, the nearby Little Theatre was renamed in her honor. Helen Hayes is regarded as one of the Greatest Leading Ladies of the 20th century theatre, Helen Hayes Brown was born in Washington, D. C. on October 10,1900. Her mother, Catherine Estelle, or Essie, was an actress who worked in touring companies. Her father, Francis van Arnum Brown, worked at a number of jobs, including as a clerk at the Washington Patent Office and as a manager, Hayes Irish Catholic maternal grandparents emigrated from Ireland during the Irish Potato Famine. Hayes began a career at an early age. She attended the Academy of the Sacred Heart Convent in Washington and her sound film debut was The Sin of Madelon Claudet, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. She followed that with starring roles in Arrowsmith, A Farewell to Arms, The White Sister, What Every Woman Knows, however, Hayes did not prefer that medium to the stage. In 1951, she was involved with the Broadway revival of J. M. Barries play Mary Rose at the ANTA Playhouse, in 1953, she was the first-ever recipient of the Sarah Siddons Award for her work in Chicago theatre, repeating as the winner in 1969. She returned to Hollywood in the 1950s, and her star began to rise. She starred in My Son John and Anastasia, and won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as a stowaway in the disaster film Airport. She followed that up with roles in Disney films such as Herbie Rides Again, One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing. Her performance in Anastasia was considered a comeback—she had suspended her career for years due to the death of her daughter Mary. In 1955, the Fulton Theatre was renamed for her, however, business interests in the 1980s wished to raze that theatre and four others to construct a large hotel that included the Marquis Theatre. Parts of the original Helen Hayes Theatre on Broadway were used to construct the Shakespeare Center on the Upper Westside of Manhattan, which Hayes dedicated with Joseph Papp in 1982. In 1983 the Little Theater on West 45th Street was renamed the Helen Hayes Theatre in her honor, as was a theatre in Nyack, which has since been renamed the Riverspace-Arts Center
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Helen Hayes
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In the film What Every Woman Knows (1934)
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Riverside Shakespeare Company Shakespeare Center Dedication with Helen Hayes, 1982.
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Cloris Leachman
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Cloris Leachman is an American actress of stage, film, and television. In a career spanning seven decades she has won eight Primetime Emmy Awards, one Daytime Emmy Award. As Miss Chicago, Leachman competed in the 20th Miss America pageant, in the 2000s, Leachman had a recurring role as grandma Ida on the Fox sitcom Malcolm in the Middle, and appeared as a roaster in the Comedy Central Roast of Bob Saget in 2008. She was a contestant on the season of the ABC reality competition series Dancing with the Stars in 2008. She was 82 at the time and is the oldest contestant to have danced on the series, from 2010-14, she starred as Maw Maw on the Fox sitcom Raising Hope. Leachman was born in Des Moines, Iowa, the eldest of three sisters and she attended Theodore Roosevelt High School. Her parents were Berkeley Claiborne Buck Leachman, who worked at the family-owned Leachman Lumber Company, the youngest sister, Mary, was not in show business. Middle sister Claiborne Cary was an actress and singer and her maternal grandmother was of Bohemian descent. As a teenager, Leachman appeared in plays by local youth on weekends at Drake University in Des Moines and she began appearing on television and in films shortly after competing in Miss America in 1946. After winning a scholarship in the Miss America pageant, Leachman studied acting under Elia Kazan at the Actors Studio in New York City and she was cast as a replacement for the role of Nellie Forbush during the original run of Rodgers and Hammersteins South Pacific. Leachman appeared in live television broadcasts in the 1950s, including such programs as Suspense. She made her film debut as an extra in Carnegie Hall. Leachman was several months pregnant during the filming, and appears in one scene running down a darkened highway wearing only a trench coat, a year later, she appeared opposite Paul Newman and Lee Marvin in The Rack. She appeared with Newman again in a role as a prostitute in Butch Cassidy. She continued to work mainly in television, with appearances in Rawhide, during this period, Leachman appeared opposite John Forsythe on the popular anthology Alfred Hitchcock Presents in an episode titled Premonition. She later appeared as Ruth Martin, Timmy Martins adoptive mother, jon Provost, who played Timmy, said, Cloris did not feel particularly challenged by the role. Basically, when she realized that all shed be doing was baking cookies and she was replaced by June Lockhart in 1958. That same year, she appeared in an episode of One Step Beyond titled The Dark Room, in 1960, she played Marilyn Parker, the roommate of Janice Rules character, Elena Nardos, in the Checkmate episode The Mask of Vengeance
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Leachman in 2009
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Jon Shepodd,
Jon Provost and Cloris Leachman in
Lassie (1957)
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Betty White (left) and Leachman (right) as Sue Ann Nivens and Phyllis Lindstrom on The Mary Tyler Moore Show (August 1973)
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Cloris Leachman as Phyllis Lindstrom, 1974.
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Ingrid Bergman
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Ingrid Bergman was a Swedish actress who starred in a variety of European and American films. She won three Academy Awards, two Emmy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, a BAFTA Award, and the Tony Award for Best Actress. She is best remembered for her roles as Ilsa Lund in Casablanca and as Alicia Huberman in Notorious, before becoming a star in American films, Bergman had been a leading actress in Swedish films. Her introduction to American audiences came with her role in the English-language remake of Intermezzo. Selznicks financial problems meant that Bergman was often loaned to other studios, apart from Casablanca, her performances from this period include Victor Flemings remake of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Gaslight, and The Bells of St. Marys. Her last films for Selznick were Alfred Hitchcocks Spellbound and Notorious and her final film for Hitchcock was Under Capricorn. After a decade in American films, she starred in Roberto Rossellinis Stromboli, many of her personal and film documents can be seen in the Wesleyan University Cinema Archives. According to the St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, Bergman quickly became the ideal of American womanhood, in 2007, the American Film Institute ranked Bergman as the fourth-greatest female screen legend of classic American cinema. Bergman, named after Princess Ingrid of Sweden, was born on 29 August 1915 in Stockholm, to a Swedish father, Justus Bergman, when she was two years old, her mother died. Her father, who was an artist and photographer, died when she was 13, in the years before he died, he wanted her to become an opera star, and had her take voice lessons for three years. But she always knew from the beginning that she wanted to be an actress, sometimes wearing her mothers clothes and her father documented all her birthdays with a borrowed camera. After his death, she was sent to live with an aunt and she then moved in with her Aunt Hulda and Uncle Otto, who had five children. Another aunt she visited, Elsa Adler, first told Ingrid, when she was 11, that her mother may have had some Jewish blood, but her aunt also cautioned her about telling others about her possible ancestry as there might be some difficult times coming. Biographer Aleksandra Ziolkowska-Boehm, however, notes that the claim of Jewish blood was likely an embellishment, after being forced to do an in-depth genealogical investigation, Bergmans maternal cousin found there to be no Jewish ancestry on Bergmans mothers side. Later, she received a scholarship to the state-sponsored Royal Dramatic Theatre School, after several months she was given a part in a new play, Ett Brott, written by Sigfrid Siwertz. Chandler notes that this was totally against procedure at the school, during her first summer break, she was also hired by a Swedish film studio, which led to her leaving the Royal Dramatic Theatre after just one year, to work in films full-time. Her first film role after leaving the Royal Dramatic Theatre was a part in 1935s Munkbrogreven. She went on to act in a films in Sweden, including En kvinnas ansikte, which was later remade as A Womans Face with Joan Crawford
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Ingrid Bergman at 14
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Her first film, Munkbrogreven (1935) at age 19.
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With Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca
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Lee Grant
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Lee Grant is an American actress and film director. In her debut film in 1951, she played the role of a shoplifter in Detective Story, co-starring Kirk Douglas. It gave her an Oscar nomination along with the Best Actress Award at the 1952 Cannes Film Festival. In 1952, because she refused to testify against her husband at the HUAC hearings, she was blacklisted from most acting jobs for the next 12 years and she was then only able to find occasional work on the stage or as a teacher during that period. It also contributed to her divorce, in 1964, she won the Obie Award for Distinguished Performance by an Actress for her performance in The Maids. During her career, she was nominated for the Emmy Award seven times between 1966 and 1993, winning twice. Lee Grant was born Lyova Haskell Rosenthal in Manhattan, the child of Witia, an actress and teacher, and Abraham W. Rosenthal. Her father was born in New York City, to Polish Jewish immigrants, the family resided at 706 Riverside Drive in the Hamilton Heights neighborhood of Manhattan. Her date of birth is October 31, but different sources cite dates between 1925 and 1928 and she debuted in LOracolo at the Metropolitan Opera in 1931 at age four, and later joined the American Ballet as an adolescent. She attended Art Students League of New York, Juilliard School of Music, The High School of Music & Art, Grant graduated from high school and won a scholarship to the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre, and studied under Sanford Meisner. She subsequently enrolled in Actors Studio in New York, Grant had her first stage ballet performance in 1933 at the Metropolitan Opera House. In 1938, in her teens, she was made a member of the American Ballet. As an actress, Grant had her stage debut as understudy in Oklahoma in 1944. In 1948, she had her Broadway acting debut in Joy to the World, Grant established herself as a dramatic method actress on and off Broadway, earning praise for her role as a shoplifter in Detective Story in 1949. She said she enjoyed working under director William Wyler, who helped guide her, after her eulogy was published, she was summoned by the same committee to testify against her husband, playwright Arnold Manoff, but refused. As a result, for the dozen years, her prime years, as she put it, she was blacklisted. She was so good that she earned a Best Supporting Actress nomination for her very first film role, but because Eddie Dmytryk named her husband, Lee Grant was blacklisted before her film career even had a chance to begin. Of course, she refused to testify about the man to whom she was married, Grant appeared in a limited number of stage and television shows during these years
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Grant in 1975
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Grant in 1961
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Grant at the premiere of F.I.S.T. (April 1978)
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Beatrice Straight
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Beatrice Whitney Straight was an American theatre, film and television actress and a member of the prominent Whitney family. She was an Academy Award and Tony Award winner, Straight made her Broadway debut in 1939 in The Possessed. Her other Broadway roles included Viola in Twelfth Night, Catherine Sloper in The Heiress, for her role as Elizabeth Proctor in the 1953 production of The Crucible, she won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play. For the 1976 film Network, she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and she was on screen for five minutes and two seconds, the shortest performance ever to win an Academy Award for acting. She also received an Emmy Award nomination for the 1978 miniseries The Dain Curse, Straight also appeared as Mother Christophe in The Nuns Story and Dr. Lesh in Poltergeist. S. Her maternal grandfather was political leader and financier William Collins Whitney, in 1918, when Straight was four years old, her father died in France of influenza during the great epidemic while serving with the US Army during World War I. Following her mothers remarriage to British agronomist Leonard K. Elmhirst in 1925 and it was there that Straight was educated at Dartington Hall and began acting in amateur theater productions. Straight returned to the United States and made her Broadway debut in 1939 in the play The Possessed. Most of her work was in the classics, including Twelfth Night, Macbeth. Kildare, Ben Casey, The Defenders, Route 66, Mission, Impossible, further television performances include the role of Hippolyta in the Wonder Woman series, and Marion Hillyard, the icy, controlling mother of Stephen Collins in The Promise. Straight worked infrequently in film and is remembered best for her role as a devastated wife confronting husband William Holdens infidelity in Network. She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance which, at five minutes and her most widely seen film appearance after Network was the role of the paranormal investigator Dr. Martha Lesh in the 1982 horror film Poltergeist. On February 22,1942, Straight married Louis Dolivet, Free French Leader, in Polk County, at the time, Dolivet was a speaker at the National Farm Institute and Straight was in the middle of the mid-west road show of Twelfth Night. Her mother, Dorothy Elmhirst and stepfather, Leonard K. Elmhirst attended the wedding, along with her brother Michael Straight and his wife, Belinda Crompton. Dolivet was in the French Air Force until June 1940 and was the co-editor of The Free World, at the time of the wedding, her elder brother, Whitney Straight, had been missing since August 1941, when his plane was shot down on the French coast. Straight obtained a divorce from Dolivet in Reno, Nevada on May 24,1949 and they married in 1949 and remained married until Cooksons death in 1990. Peter had two children from his previous marriage, Peter Cookson, Jr. and Jane Copland, the boy was found by Straights second husband, Cookson. Straight reportedly suffered from Alzheimers disease in her last years, in 2001, she died from pneumonia in Northridge, Los Angeles, at the age of eighty-six
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Beatrice Straight
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Vanessa Redgrave
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Vanessa Redgrave, CBE is an English actress of stage, screen and television, as well as a political activist. She is a 2003 American Theatre Hall of Fame inductee, and she also received Tony nominations for The Year of Magical Thinking and Driving Miss Daisy. On screen, she has starred in scores of films and is a six-time Oscar nominee and her other nominations were for Morgan, A Suitable Case for Treatment, Isadora, Mary, Queen of Scots, The Bostonians and Howards End. Among her other films are A Man for All Seasons, Blowup, Camelot, The Devils, Murder on the Orient Express, Prick Up Your Ears, Mission, Impossible, Atonement, Coriolanus and The Butler. Redgrave was born in Greenwich, London, the daughter of actors Sir Michael Redgrave, laurence Olivier announced her birth to the audience at a performance of Hamlet at the Old Vic, when he said that Laertes had a daughter. She was educated at the Alice Ottley School, Worcester, and Queens Gate School, London and her siblings, Lynn Redgrave and Corin Redgrave, were also acclaimed actors. Vanessa Redgrave entered the Central School of Speech and Drama in 1954 and she first appeared in the West End, playing opposite her brother, in 1958. In 1960, Redgrave had her first starring role in Robert Bolts The Tiger, in 1961, she played Rosalind in As You Like It for the Royal Shakespeare Company. In 1962, she played Imogen in William Gaskills production of Cymbeline for the RSC. In 1966, Redgrave created the role of Jean Brodie in the Donald Albery production of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and she won four Evening Standard Awards for Best Actress in four decades. In 2003 she won a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her performance in the Broadway revival of Eugene ONeills Long Days Journey Into Night. In January 2006, Redgrave was presented the Ibsen Centennial Award for her work in interpreting many of Henrik Ibsens works over the last decades. Previous recipients of the award include Liv Ullmann, Glenda Jackson, for this, she won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding One-Person Show and was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play. She reprised the role at the Lyttelton Theatre at the Royal National Theatre in London to mixed reviews and she also spent a week performing the work at the Theatre Royal in Bath in September 2008. She once again performed the role of Joan Didion for a benefit at New Yorks Cathedral of Saint John the Divine on 26 October 2009. The performance was originally slated to debut on 27 April, but was pushed due to the death of Redgraves daughter Natasha, the proceeds for the benefit were donated to the United Nations Childrens Fund and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency. Both charities work to help for the children of Gaza. In October 2010, she starred in the Broadway premiere of Driving Miss Daisy starring in the role opposite James Earl Jones
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Redgrave at the
Berlin International Film Festival, 2011
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Maggie Smith
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Dame Margaret Natalie Smith, CH, DBE, known as Maggie Smith, is an English actress. She has had an extensive, varied career in stage, film, Smith has appeared in over 50 films and is one of Britains most recognisable actresses. Smith began her career on stage at the Oxford Playhouse in 1952 and she received Tony Award nominations for Private Lives and Night and Day, before winning the 1990 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for Lettice and Lovage. Other stage roles include Stratford Shakespeare Festival productions of Antony and Cleopatra and Macbeth, on screen, Smith first drew praise for the crime film Nowhere to Go, for which she received her first BAFTA Award nomination. She has won two Academy Awards, winning Best Actress for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and Best Supporting Actress for California Suite and she is one of only six actresses to have won in both categories. She has won a record four BAFTA Awards for Best Actress, a BAFTA for Best Supporting Actress, a six-time Oscar nominee, her other nominations were for Othello, Travels with My Aunt, A Room with a View, and Gosford Park. Smith played Professor Minerva McGonagall in the Harry Potter film series and her honorary awards include the BAFTA Special Award, the BAFTA Fellowship, and the Special Olivier Award. She received the Stratford Shakespeare Festivals Legacy Award in 2012, Smith was born in Ilford, Essex, but moved with her family to Oxford when she was four years old. She is the daughter of Nathaniel Smith, a Newcastle-born public health pathologist who worked at Oxford University, and Margaret, as a child, her parents used to tell Smith the romantic story of how they had met on the train from Glasgow to London via Newcastle. She has older twin brothers, Alistair and Ian, who went to architecture school and she attended Oxford High School until age sixteen, when she left to study acting at the Oxford Playhouse. In 1952, aged 17, under the auspices of the Oxford University Dramatic Society, in 1954, she appeared in the television programme Oxford Accents produced by Ned Sherrin. In 1957, she starred opposite Kenneth Williams in the musical comedy Share My Lettuce, in 1958, she received the first of her 18 BAFTA Film and TV nominations for her role in the film Nowhere to Go. In 1962, Smith won the first of a record five Best Actress Evening Standard Awards for her roles in Peter Shaffers plays The Private Ear and The Public Eye, again opposite Kenneth Williams. She appeared opposite Olivier in Ibsens The Master Builder and played roles in The Recruiting Officer. Her other films at this time included Go to Blazes, The V. I. P. s, The Pumpkin Eater, Hot Millions and Oh. Smith won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in the role of the 1969 film The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. Vanessa Redgrave had originated the role on stage in London and Zoe Caldwell won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play, the role also won Smith her first BAFTA Award. In 1970, she played the role in Ingmar Bergmans London production of the Ibsen play Hedda Gabler
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Smith in a publicity shot for
Othello, 1965
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Maggie Smith at Kensington Garden in 2008
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Smith's handprints in
Leicester Square in
West End of London.
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Jessica Lange
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Jessica Phyllis Lange is an American actress who has received worldwide acclaim for her work in film, theater, and television. In 2016, Lange became the twenty-second thespian in history to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting, Lange was discovered by producer Dino De Laurentiis while modeling part-time for the Wilhelmina modelling agency. She made her film debut in his 1976 remake of the 1933 action-adventure classic King Kong, for which she won her first Golden Globe Award. In 2010, she won her first Primetime Emmy Award for her portrayal of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis famed aunt, Big Edie, in addition to acting, Lange is a photographer with three published works. She has also been a parent and currently holds a Goodwill Ambassador position for UNICEF, specializing in HIV/AIDS in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Lange was born in Cloquet, Minnesota, on April 20,1949 and her father, Albert John Lange, was a teacher and traveling salesman, and her mother, Dorothy Florence, was a housewife. She has two sisters, Ann and Jane, and a younger brother, George. Her paternal ancestry originates in Germany and the Netherlands, while her maternal ancestry originates in Finland, due to the nature of her fathers professions, her early home life was chaotic. Her family moved over a dozen times to various towns and cities in Minnesota before settling back down in her hometown, in 1967, she received an art scholarship to study art and photography at the University of Minnesota, where she met and began dating Spanish photographer Paco Grande. After the two married in 1971, Lange left college to pursue a bohemian lifestyle, opting to travel throughout the United States. The couple then moved to Paris, where they drifted apart, while in Paris, Lange studied mime theatre under the supervision of Étienne Decroux, and joined the Opéra-Comique as a dancer. While sharing an apartment with Jerry Hall and Grace Jones, she was discovered by fashion illustrator Antonio Lopez, in 1973, she returned to the States and began work in New York City as a waitress at the Lions Head Tavern in Greenwich Village. While modelling, Lange was discovered by Hollywood producer Dino De Laurentiis, who was looking to cast his next leading lady, Lange made her professional film debut in 1976s King Kong, beating out actresses Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn for the role of damsel in distress. However, renowned film critic Pauline Kael praised her, noting, Lange went on to win the 1976 Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year. She would remain a favorite of Kaels, who would comment, She has a facial structure that the camera yearns for. A year later, she was contacted by director Bob Rafelson regarding a project on which he was working with Jack Nicholson, after his meeting with Lange, he wrote her name down on a piece of paper, placed it in an envelope, and sealed it. After several meetings and auditions with other actresses, the choice was between Lange and Meryl Streep. In the end, Rafelson offered Lange the lead role opposite Nicholson in his remake of the film noir
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Lange at the
66th Primetime Emmy Awards
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Lange in December 2008.
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Lange in 2013 at the
Paley Center for Media for
American Horror Story: Asylum.
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Dianne Wiest
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Dianne Evelyn Wiest is an American actress. Wiest has won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress twice, for Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets over Broadway and she appeared in three other of Allens films, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Radio Days and September. She also starred in Ron Howards Parenthood, for which she received her second Oscar nomination, Wiest also received two Screen Actors Guild Awards and one BAFTA Award nomination. For her work on television, she has won two Primetime Emmy Awards, Wiest was born in Kansas City, Missouri. Her mother, Anne Stewart, was a nurse and her father, Bernard John Wiest, was a college dean and former psychiatric social worker for the U. S. Army. Her mother was Scottish, while her father was an American of Croatian and German descent, Wiest has two brothers named Greg and Don. Her original ambition was to be a ballerina, but switched her goal to theatre in her year at Nurnberg American High School. Wiest graduated from the University of Maryland in 1969 with a degree in Arts, Wiest studied theatre at the University of Maryland, leaving after her third term to tour with a Shakespearean troupe. Later, she had a role in a New York Shakespeare Festival production of Ashes. She also acted at the Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven, CT and she was an understudy both off-Broadway and on Broadway, in Kurt Vonneguts Happy Birthday, Wanda June in 1970. She made her Broadway debut in Robert Andersons Solitaire/Double Solitaire, taking over in the role of the daughter in 1971 and she toured the USSR with the Arena Stage. In 1976, Wiest attended the Eugene ONeill National Playwrights Conference and starred in leading roles in Amlin Grays Pirates, at Joe Papps Public Theater she took over the lead in Ashes, and played Cassandra in Agamemnon, directed by Andrei Şerban. In 1979, she originated the role of Agnes in Agnes of God in its first production in Waterford and she appeared in two plays by Tina Howe, Museum and The Art of Dining. (She played opposite Lithgow again in the Herbert Ross film Footloose, as Wiest became established as a film actress through her work in Woody Allens films, she was less frequently available for stage roles. However, she did appear onstage during the 1990s, in In the Summer House, Square One, Cynthia Ozicks The Shawl, in 2003, she appeared with Al Pacino and Marisa Tomei in Oscar Wildes Salome. In 2005, she starred in Kathleen Tolans Memory House and she also starred in a production of Wendy Wassersteins final play Third at Lincoln Center. Her early screen roles include roles in Its My Turn and Im Dancing as Fast as I Can. In 1984, she starred in Footloose, as the reverends wife, under Woody Allens direction, Wiest won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Hannah and Her Sisters in 1987 and Bullets over Broadway in 1995
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Wiest in 2009
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Olympia Dukakis
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Olympia Dukakis is an American actress. She started her career in theater, and won an Obie Award for Best Actress in 1963 for her Off-Broadway performance in Bertolt Brechts Man Equals Man. She later transitioned to acting and in 1987 she won an Academy Award, a Golden Globe. She received another Golden Globe nomination for Sinatra, and an Emmy Award nominations for Lucky Day, More Tales of the City, Dukakis was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, the daughter of Alexandra and Constantine S. Dukakis. Her parents were Greek immigrants, her father originally from Anatolia and she is an alumna of Arlington High School in Arlington, Massachusetts, and was educated at Boston University. Dukakis has held a career in a number of films, including Steel Magnolias, Mr. Hollands Opus, the Thing About My Folks, and Moonstruck, for which she won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. She appears as Dolly Sinatra in the mini-series of Frank Sinatras life and her Broadway theatre credits include Whos Who in Hell, Social Security, and the one-woman play Rose. Her theater, film, and television work has won her an Obie Award, a Drama Desk Award, a Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award. Dukakis won Academy Award and a Golden Globe for Moonstruck and was nominated for the Canadian Academy Award for The Event and she provided the voice of Grandpas love interest for The Simpsons episode The Old Man and the Key. In 2003, Dukakis published her national bestselling autobiography Ask Me Again Tomorrow and she recently directed the world premiere production of Todd Logans Botanic Garden at Victory Gardens Theatre in Chicago, Illinois. In the 2008 season of Hartford Stage, Dukakis starred in the revival of Tennessee Williams The Milk Train Doesnt Stop Here Anymore, opposite Kevin Anderson. In 2008, Dukakis also co-adapted and starred in the world-premiere of Another Side of the Island, based on Shakespeares The Tempest, at Alpine Theatre Project in Whitefish and she starred in and executive-produced the 2013 film Montana Amazon, co-starring Haley Joel Osment. In 2011, Dukakis guest-starred on Law & Order, Special Victims Unit and she played the role of Debby Marsh, an attorney. On May 24,2013, she was honored with the 2, 498th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame located at 6233 Hollywood Boulevard, Dukakis has been married to actor Louis Zorich since 1962. Olympia Dukakis at the Internet Movie Database Olympia Dukakis at the Internet Broadway Database Olympia Dukakis at the Internet Off-Broadway Database Olympia Dukakis at the TCM Movie Database \
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Dukakis at the
Montclair Film Festival, May 2015
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Olympia Dukakis at the Emmy Awards in 1998
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Olympia Dukakis at Malaparte for "Norman Jewison and Friends with Moonstruck", August 2011
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Brenda Fricker
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Brenda Fricker is an Irish actress of theatre, film and television. She has appeared in more than 30 films and television roles, in 1989, she became the first Irish actress to win an Oscar, earning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for My Left Foot. As of July 2014, she has retired from acting. Fricker was born in Dublin, Ireland and her mother, Bina, was a teacher at Stratford College, and her father, Desmond Frederick Fricker, was an officer in the Department of Agriculture and a journalist for The Irish Times. In her teens, she aspired to follow her parents footsteps into journalism, Fricker has a younger brother named Daniel, who both works and lives in the Baltimore, MD area. Before becoming an actress, Fricker was assistant to the art editor of the Irish Times, with hopes to become a reporter. At age 19, she became an actress by chance, her film career began with a small uncredited part in the 1964 film Of Human Bondage. She also appeared in Tolka Row, Irelands first ever soap opera, One of Frickers first TV roles was staff nurse Maloney in Coronation Street, debuting on 10 January 1977. Brendas character attended on the birth of Tracy Barlow on 24 January 1977s episode, Fricker came to wider public attention in the United Kingdom in another nursing role, as Megan Roach in the BBC One television drama series Casualty. In February 1998 she appeared in two episodes, with Megan attending the wedding of her former colleagues Charlie Fairhead and Barbara Baz Samuels, in 2007, she returned for a single episode for Red Nose Day. The episode was written by Richard Curtis, Frickers final appearance as Megan was in August 2010, when the character took a lethal cocktail of drugs to end her life. Fricker found international acclaim after she won the 1989 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Christy Browns mother in My Left Foot. In her acceptance speech, Brenda thanked Christy Brown just for being alive and also dedicated the Oscar to Mrs. Brown, for her performance Brenda was also nominated for a Golden Globe Award and she won the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress as well. She rejoined My Left Foots writer/director Jim Sheridan to make the 1990 film The Field and she continued her television work during this period, starring in the Australian-produced short series Brides of Christ. She then co-starred in the 1992 TV miniseries Seekers alongside Josette Simon, buoyed by her Oscar win, Fricker went on to appear in several high-profile Hollywood films, most notably in Home Alone 2, Lost in New York as the Central Park Pigeon Lady. The following year she portrayed May Mackenzie in So I Married an Axe Murderer, One of her last Hollywood film roles came with A Time to Kill, as Ethel Twitty, after which she focused almost exclusively on film and television work in Canada and the British Isles. In 2003, she played Bernie Guerin, mother of Veronica Guerin in the film of the same name and she then played nurse Eileen in the film Inside Im Dancing. In 2007, she starred in How About You the film based on a story about people living in a residential nursing home written by Maeve Binchy
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Fricker (left) holding her
Academy Award in 1990
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Marisa Tomei
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Marisa Tomei is an American actress. In a career spanning three decades, Tomei had initial success in films as an actress, followed by a series of unsuccessful films. Following her work on the television series As the World Turns, after having minor roles in a few films, she came to international attention in 1992 with the comedy My Cousin Vinny, for which she received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Tomei has appeared in a number of successful movies, including What Women Want, Anger Management, Wild Hogs. Other films include Untamed Heart, The Paper, Unhook the Stars, Slums of Beverly Hills, In the Bedroom, Before the Devil Knows Youre Dead, The Wrestler, Cyrus, and Love Is Strange. She has also been cast in the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Aunt May and has appeared in Captain America, Civil War and will appear in Spider-Man, Tomei has also worked in theater. Tomei was born in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of Patricia Adelaide Addie, an English teacher, and Gary A. Tomei and she graduated from Edward R. Murrow High School in 1982. She has a brother, actor Adam Tomei, and was partly raised by her paternal grandparents. Tomeis parents are both of Italian descent, her fathers ancestors came from Tuscany, Calabria, and Campania, while her mothers ancestors are from Tuscany, Tomei grew up in the Midwood neighborhood of Brooklyn. While there, she became captivated by the Broadway shows to which her parents took her and was drawn to acting as a career. At Andries Hudde Junior High School, she played Hedy LaRue in a production of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. After graduating from Edward R. Murrow High School in 1982, Tomei followed up As the World Turns in 1986 with a role on the sitcom A Different World as Maggie Lauten during the first season. Her film debut was a role in the 1984 comedy film The Flamingo Kid, in which she played Mandy. She only had one line in the entire film, during this phase, she made her stage debut in 1987 at the age of 22 with the off-Broadway play Daughters, in which she played Cetta. The role earned her rave reviews and the Theatre World Award for outstanding debut on stage, following several small films, Tomei came to international prominence with her comedic performance in the 1992 film My Cousin Vinny, for which she received critical praise. Mona Lisa is also an auto mechanic, which comes in handy in the untying of the knotted story. For her performance, Tomei was named Best Supporting Actress at the 1993 Academy Awards, prevailing over Miranda Richardson, Joan Plowright, Vanessa Redgrave, American film critic Rex Reed created controversy when he suggested that Jack Palance had announced the wrong name after opening the envelope. While this allegation was repeatedly disproved – even the Academy officially denied it – Tomei called the story extremely hurtful, after her Oscar win, Tomei appeared as silent film star Mabel Normand in the film Chaplin, with her then-boyfriend Robert Downey Jr. playing the title character
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Tomei at the 2012
Toronto International Film Festival
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Tomei at the
81st Academy Awards where she received her third nomination for
The Wrestler
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Tomei at the
Inauguration of
Barack Obama, January 2009
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Anna Paquin
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Anna Helene Paquin is a Canadian-born New Zealand actress. As a child, she beat 5000 candidates for the role of Flora McGrath in Jane Campions romantic drama film The Piano, despite having had little to no acting experience prior to getting the role. For her performance, she received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress at the age of 11 and she played mutant superheroine Rogue in multiple films of the X-Men franchise and was nominated for a Saturn Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award for her performance in the first installment. Paquin is also known for playing the role of Sookie Stackhouse in the HBO vampire drama television series True Blood. Paquin has been married since 2010 to actor Stephen Moyer, with whom she has two children, Paquin has two older siblings, Andrew, a director, and Katya, whose partner is the Green Party of New Zealands former co-leader Russel Norman. Paquin is of Dutch, French and Irish descent, Paquins family moved to New Zealand when she was four. She attended the Raphael House Rudolf Steiner School until she was eight or nine and her musical childhood hobbies in New Zealand included playing the viola, cello and piano. She also participated in gymnastics, ballet, swimming and downhill skiing, while in New Zealand, Paquin attended Hutt Intermediate School. She graduated from Windward School in June 2000 and completed the schools Community Service requirement by working in a soup kitchen and she studied at Columbia University for one year but has since been on a leave of absence to continue her acting career. Director Jane Campion was looking for a girl to play a main role in The Piano, set to film in New Zealand. Paquins sister read the ad and went to try out with a friend, when The Piano was released in 1993 it was lauded by critics, won prizes at a number of film festivals, and eventually became a popular film among a wide audience. Paquins debut performance in the film earned her the 1993 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress at the age of 11, making her the second-youngest Oscar winner in history, behind Tatum ONeal. The Piano was made as a independent film and wasnt expected to be widely known. However, she was invited to the William Morris Agency, and she systematically refused them, but she did appear in three commercials for the phone company MCI in 1994. She later made a series of commercials for Manitoba Telecom Systems in her birth city of Winnipeg. She also appeared as a voice in a book entitled The Magnificent Nose in 1994. In 1996, she appeared in two films, the first role was as young Jane in Jane Eyre. The other was a part in Fly Away Home playing a young girl who, after her mother dies, moves in with her father
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Paquin at the 2012
San Diego Comic-Con International
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Paquin at 25th Annual Paley Television Festival, April 2009
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Paquin with husband and
True Blood costar
Stephen Moyer, 2009
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Paquin at the San Diego Comic-Con in 2010
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Juliette Binoche
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Juliette Binoche is a French actress, artist and dancer. She has appeared in more than 60 feature films, been recipient of international awards. Coming from a background, she began taking acting lessons during adolescence. Her sensual performance in her English-language debut The Unbearable Lightness of Being, directed by Philip Kaufman, for her performance in Lasse Hallströms romantic comedy Chocolat, Binoche was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress. During the 2000s she maintained a career, alternating between French and English language roles in both mainstream and art-house productions. In 2010, she won the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival for her role in Abbas Kiarostamis Certified Copy making her the first actress to win the European Best Actress Triple Crown. In 2008 she began a tour with a modern dance production in-i devised in collaboration with Akram Khan. Binoche was born in Paris, the daughter of Jean-Marie Binoche, a director, actor, and sculptor, and Monique Yvette Stalens, a teacher, director, and actress. Her father, who is French, also has one eighth Portuguese-Brazilian ancestry, juliettes mother was born in Częstochowa, Poland. Binoches maternal grandfather, Andre Stalens, was born in Poland, of Belgian and French descent, both of them were actors who were born in Częstochowa, the German Nazi occupiers imprisoned them at Auschwitz as intellectuals. When Binoches parents divorced in 1968, four-year-old Binoche and her sister Marion were sent to a boarding school. During their teens, the Binoche sisters spent their holidays with their maternal grandmother. Binoche has stated that this perceived parental abandonment had an effect on her. She was not particularly academic and in her years began acting at school in amateur stage-productions. At 17 she directed and starred in a student production of the Eugène Ionesco play and she studied acting at the Conservatoire National Supérieur dArt Dramatique, but quit after a short time as she disliked the curriculum. In the early 1980s, she found an agent through a friend and joined a troupe, touring France, Belgium. Around this time she began lessons with acting coach Vera Gregh, after this Binoche secured her first feature-film appearance with a minor role in Pascal Kanés Liberty Belle. Her role required just two days on–set, but was enough to inspire Binoche to pursue a career in film, Binoches early films established her as a French star of some renown
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Binoche in 2015
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Juliette Binoche in 1985.
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Binoche at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival.
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Juliette Binoche and
Jean Reno at
Cannes, 2002
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Kim Basinger
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Kimila Ann Kim Basinger is an American actress, singer and former fashion model. Following a successful modeling career in New York during the 1970s and she starred in several made-for-TV films, including a remake of From Here to Eternity, before making her feature debut in the 1981 drama Hard Country. She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Lynn Bracken in the 1997 film L. A. Confidential. For her role in L. A. Confidential, she won the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress. Her other films include I Dreamed of Africa,8 Mile, The Door in the Floor, Cellular, The Nice Guys, Basinger was born in Athens, Georgia, on December 8,1953. Her mother, Ann Lee, was a model, actress and her father, Donald Wade Basinger, was a big band musician and loan manager, as a U. S. Army soldier, he landed in Normandy on D-Day. The third of five children, she has two brothers, James Michael Mick and Skip, and two sisters, Ashley and Barbara, basingers ancestry includes English, German, Swedish, and Scots-Irish. Basinger has described herself as shy, which had a major effect on her during her childhood. She has said that her shyness was so extreme that she would faint if asked to speak in class, Basinger studied ballet from about age three to her mid-teens. By her mid-teens, she grew in confidence and successfully auditioned for the cheerleading team. At 17, she entered the Americas Junior Miss Scholarship Pageant, although she lost in the state pageant to Sue Whitted, who competed as Georgias Junior Miss, her beauty was profiled in the national program. She had competed at the level for the Breck Scholarship and was featured in an ad for Breck in a joint portrait with her mother. She was subsequently offered a contract with the Ford Modeling Agency. She turned it down in favor of singing and acting, and enrolled at the University of Georgia, but soon reconsidered and went to New York to become a Ford model. Despite earning $1,000 a day, Basinger never enjoyed modeling, saying It was very hard to go from one booking to another and always have to deal with the way I looked. Basinger has said that even as a model, when others relished looking in the mirror before appearing, she abhorred it, not long after her Ford deal, Basinger appeared on the cover of magazines. She appeared in hundreds of advertisements throughout the early 1970s, most notably as the Breck Shampoo girl and she alternated between modeling and attending acting classes at the Neighborhood Playhouse, as well as performing in Greenwich Village clubs as a singer. In 1976, after five years as a girl, Basinger quit modeling
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Basinger at the
62nd Academy Awards in March 1990
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Basinger as Officer J.Z. Kane in
ABC television series
Dog and Cat (1977)
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With
Alec Baldwin at the
19th César Awards at the
Théâtre du Châtelet in
Paris, France, in February 1994
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Angelina Jolie
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Angelina Jolie Pitt, DCMG is an American actress, filmmaker, and humanitarian. She has received an Academy Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards, and has cited as Hollywoods highest-paid actress. Jolie made her debut as a child alongside her father, Jon Voight. Her film career began in earnest a decade later with the low-budget production Cyborg 2, followed by her first leading role in a major film, Hackers. She starred in the critically acclaimed biographical cable films George Wallace and Gia, Jolies starring role as the video game heroine Lara Croft in Lara Croft, Tomb Raider established her as a leading Hollywood actress. Beginning in the 2010s, she expanded her career into directing, screenwriting and her biggest commercial success came with the fantasy picture Maleficent. Her personal life is the subject of wide publicity, divorced from actors Jonny Lee Miller and Billy Bob Thornton, she separated from her third husband, actor Brad Pitt, in September 2016. They have six children together, three of whom were adopted internationally, born in Los Angeles, California, Jolie is the daughter of actors Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand. She is the sister of actor James Haven and niece of singer-songwriter Chip Taylor and her godparents are actors Jacqueline Bisset and Maximilian Schell. On her fathers side, Jolie is of German and Slovak descent, and on her mothers side, she is of primarily French Canadian, Dutch, like her mother, Jolie has stated that she is part Iroquois, although her only known indigenous ancestors were 17th-century Hurons. After her parents separation in 1976, Jolie and her brother lived with their mother, when Jolie was six years old, Bertrand and her live-in partner, filmmaker Bill Day, moved the family to Palisades, New York, they returned to Los Angeles five years later. Jolie then decided she wanted to act and enrolled at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, Jolie first attended Beverly Hills High School, where she felt isolated among the children of some of the areas affluent families because her mother survived on a more modest income. She was teased by other students, who targeted her for being extremely thin and her early attempts at modeling, at her mothers insistence, proved unsuccessful. She dropped out of her classes and aspired to become a funeral director. She also struggled with insomnia and an eating disorder, and began experimenting with drugs, by age 20, she had used just about every drug possible, particularly heroin. Jolie suffered episodes of depression and twice planned to commit suicide—at age 19 and again at 22, when she was 24, she experienced a nervous breakdown and was admitted for 72 hours to UCLA Medical Centers psychiatric ward. Two years later, after adopting her first child, Jolie found stability in her life, later stating, I knew once I committed to Maddox, I would never be self-destructive again. Jolie has had a dysfunctional relationship with her father, which began when Voight left the family when his daughter was less than a year old
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Jolie at the Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict in June 2014
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Jon Voight at the
Academy Awards in April 1988, where his children accompanied him
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Jolie at the Cologne premiere of
Alexander in December 2004
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Jolie with her partner,
Brad Pitt, at the
Cannes premiere of
A Mighty Heart in May 2007
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Jennifer Connelly
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Jennifer Lynn Connelly is an American film actress who began her career as a child model. She appeared in magazine, newspaper and television advertising, before she made her debut in the 1984 crime film Once Upon a Time in America. Connelly continued modeling and acting, starring in such as the 1985 horror film Phenomena, the 1986 film Labyrinth. She gained critical acclaim for her work in the 1998 science fiction film Dark City, in 2002, Connelly won an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award and a BAFTA Award for her supporting role as Alicia Nash in Ron Howards 2001 biopic A Beautiful Mind. She re-teamed with her Requiem for a Dream director Darren Aronofsky, Connelly was named Amnesty International Ambassador for Human Rights Education in 2005. She has been the face of Balenciaga fashion advertisements, as well as for Revlon cosmetics, in 2012, she was named the first global face of the Shiseido Company. Magazines including Time, Vanity Fair and Esquire, as well as the Los Angeles Times newspaper have included her on their lists of the worlds most beautiful women, Connelly was born in Cairo, New York, in the Catskill Mountains. She is the daughter of Ilene, a dealer, and Gerard Karl Connelly. Her father was Roman Catholic, and of Irish and Norwegian descent, Connellys mother was Jewish, and was educated at a yeshiva, all of Connellys mothers grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Poland and Russia. Connelly was raised primarily in Brooklyn Heights, near the Brooklyn Bridge, where she attended Saint Anns and her father suffered from asthma, so the family moved to Woodstock, New York, in 1976 to escape the city smog. Four years later, the returned to Brooklyn Heights. When Connelly was 10 years old, an advertising executive friend of her suggested she audition as a model. Her parents sent a picture of her to the Ford Modeling Agency, Connelly began modeling for print advertisements before moving on to television commercials. In an interview with The Guardian, she revealed that, after having done some modeling and she appeared on the cover of several issues of Seventeen in 1986 and 1988. In December 1986, she recorded two pop songs for the Japanese market, Monologue of Love and Message of Love, Connelly sang in phonetic Japanese as she did not speak the language. Her mother started taking her to acting auditions, at once, Connelly was selected for a supporting role as the aspiring dancer and actress Deborah Gelly in Sergio Leones 1984 gangster epic Once Upon a Time in America. The role required performing a ballet routine, during the audition, Connelly, who had no ballet training, tried to imitate a ballerina. Her performance, and the similarity of her nose to Elizabeth McGoverns, Connelly described the movie as an incredibly idyllic introduction to movie-making
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Connelly at the
2012 Cannes Film Festival
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Connelly at the
2010 Toronto International Film Festival
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Connelly and her husband,
Paul Bettany, at the
2009 Toronto International Film Festival
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Cate Blanchett
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Catherine Elise Cate Blanchett is an Australian actress and theatre director. She has received acclaim and many accolades, including six AACTA Awards. In 2013, she starred as Jasmine Francis in Woody Allens Blue Jasmine, Blanchett is one of only six actors, and the only actress, to receive Academy Award nominations for portraying the same role in two films, accomplished in her case by portraying Queen Elizabeth I. She is additionally the only Australian to win two acting Oscars, a seven-time Oscar nominee, she has also received nominations for Notes on a Scandal, Elizabeth, The Golden Age, Im Not There and Carol. Blanchett has also had a career on stage and is a four-time Helpmann Award winner for Best Female Actor in a Play. From 2008 to 2013, she and her husband Andrew Upton were co-CEOs, Blanchett has been awarded the Centenary Medal for Service to Australian Society by the Australian government. She was appointed Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government in 2012, in 2015, she was honoured by the Museum of Modern Art and received the British Film Institute Fellowship in recognition of her outstanding contribution to the industry. Blanchett was born on 14 May 1969 in the Melbourne suburb of Ivanhoe and she is the middle of three children, her older brother is a computer systems engineer, and her younger sister is a theatrical designer. The two met when Blanchetts fathers ship broke down in Melbourne, when Blanchett was 10, her father died of a heart attack, leaving her mother to raise the family on her own. Blanchetts ancestry includes English, some Scottish, and remote French roots, Blanchett has described herself as being part extrovert, part wallflower during childhood. She had a penchant for dressing in traditionally masculine clothing, and went through goth and punk phases during her teenage years and she studied economics and fine arts at the University of Melbourne but dropped out after one year to travel overseas. While in Egypt, Blanchett was asked to play an American cheerleader, as an extra in the Egyptian boxing movie, Kaboria, in need of money, she accepted. Upon her return to Australia, she moved to Sydney and enrolled in the National Institute of Dramatic Art to pursue an acting career and she graduated from NIDA in 1992. Blanchetts first major role was opposite Geoffrey Rush, in the 1992 David Mamet play Oleanna for the Sydney Theatre Company. That year, she was also cast as Clytemnestra in a production of Sophocles’ Electra, a couple of weeks after rehearsals, the actress playing the title role pulled out, and director Lindy Davies cast Blanchett in the role. Her performance as Electra became one of her most acclaimed at NIDA, Blanchett played the role of Ophelia in an acclaimed 1994–95 Company B production of Hamlet directed by Neil Armfield, starring Rush and Richard Roxburgh, and was nominated for a Green Room Award. She appeared in the 1994 TV miniseries Heartland opposite Ernie Dingo, the miniseries Bordertown with Hugo Weaving and she also appeared in the 50-minute drama short Parklands, which received an Australian Film Institute nomination for Best Original Screenplay. Her first leading role was as Lucinda Leplastrier in Gillian Armstrongs romantic drama Oscar and Lucinda, Blanchett received wide acclaim for her performance, and earned her first AFI Award nomination as Best Leading Actress, she lost to Deborah Mailman in Radiance
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Blanchett at the
Deauville Film Festival in 2013
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Blanchett at the
Berlin International Film Festival, 2007
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Blanchett in 2012 at the
AACTA Awards
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Rachel Weisz
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Rachel Hannah Weisz is a British-American actress. Weisz began her career in the early 1990s, appearing in Inspector Morse, Scarlet and Black. She made her debut in Death Machine. Her first Hollywood appearance was in Chain Reaction, opposite Keanu Reeves and her stage breakthrough was the 1994 revival of Noël Cowards play Design for Living, which earned her the London Critics Circle Award for the most promising newcomer. Weiszs performances also include the 1999 Donmar Warehouse production of Tennessee Williams Suddenly, Last Summer and her portrayal of Blanche DuBois in the latter play earned her the Olivier Award for Best Actress. Weisz appeared in the film, The Mummy in 1999, other films that followed are, Enemy at the Gates, About a Boy, Constantine and Darren Aronofskys The Fountain. For her supporting role in the drama thriller The Constant Gardener, opposite Ralph Fiennes, she received an Academy Award, a Golden Globe, in 2006, Weisz received the BAFTA Britannia Award for British Artist of the Year. She starred in Oz the Great and Powerful in 2013, in 2015, she appeared in two Cannes Film Festival films, Youth and The Lobster. Weisz portrays Deborah Lipstadt in Denial, the film is based on Lipstadts book and is directed by Mick Jackson. Weisz was born in Westminster, London, and grew up in Hampstead Garden Suburb and her father, George Weisz, is a mechanical engineer/inventor from Hungary. Her mother, Edith Ruth, was a teacher-turned-psychotherapist from Vienna and her parents left for the United Kingdom around 1938, before the outbreak of the Second World War, to escape the Nazis. Scholar Rev. James Parkes helped her mother and her mothers family leave Austria for England and her father is from a Jewish family, her maternal grandfather, Alexander Teich, was also Jewish, and had been a secretary of the World Union of Jewish Students. Her mothers ancestry is Austrian Jewish, Viennese and Italian, Weiszs mother formally converted to Judaism when marrying Weiszs father. She has a sister, Minnie Weisz, who is a photographic artist. Weiszs parents valued the arts and encouraged their children to form opinions of their own by introducing them to family debates, Weisz left North London Collegiate School and attended Benenden School for one year, completing A-levels at St Pauls Girls School. Known for being an English rose, Weisz started modelling when she was 14, in 1984, she gained public attention when she turned down an offer to star in King David with Richard Gere. Her education concluded at Trinity Hall, Cambridge where she graduated with a second-class honours and it won a Guardian Student Drama Award at the 1991 Edinburgh Festival Fringe for an improvised piece called Slight Possession, directed by David Farr. Dirty Something, a BBC Screen Two, hour-long film made in 1992, was Rachel Weiszs first film, playing Becca who met, the opening scenes were filmed at the festival
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Weisz at the
2015 Cannes Film Festival
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Weisz signing an autograph during the press conference for
The Brothers Bloom in September 2008
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Weisz in January 2007
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Weisz at the 2012
Deauville American Film Festival
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Jennifer Hudson
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Jennifer Kate Hudson is an American singer, actress and spokesperson. She rose to fame in 2004 as a finalist on the season of American Idol. She has also appeared in films as Sex and the City, The Secret Life of Bees. She has made television appearances, including guest roles on Smash, Empire. In 2015 she made her Broadway debut in the role of Shug Avery in the 2015 revival of The Color Purple, as a singer, Hudson has released three studio albums. Her debut album Jennifer Hudson, released in 2008, debuted at two on the Billboard 200 and was certified gold by the RIAA, with sales exceeding a million copies worldwide. The record was nominated for four Grammy Awards, winning the 2009 Grammy Award for Best R&B Album and her second album I Remember Me, released in 2011, also debuted at number two on the Billboard 200 and was certified gold by the RIAA. Her third and most recent album JHUD peaked in the top ten, in October 2008, after Hudsons mother, brother and nephew were killed in a shooting, Hudson stepped out of the public eye for three months. Hudson resumed her appearances in 2009, with high-profile performances at Super Bowl XLIII, the Grammy Awards, American Idol. Hudson has been described as a friend of former President Barack Obama and she also performed at the White House at the Celebration of Music from the Civil Rights Movement event. In 2013, she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, in 2016, Hudson was announced as a coach on the 2017 Series of The Voice UK. Hudson was born on September 12,1981, in Chicago and she is the third and youngest child of Darnell Donnerson and Samuel Simpson. She was raised as a Baptist in Englewood and attended Dunbar Vocational High School and she cites Whitney Houston, Aretha Franklin, and Patti LaBelle as her overall biggest influences and inspiration. At the age of 7, she got her start in performing by singing with the choir and doing community theater with the help of her late maternal grandmother. She enrolled at Langston University but she left after a due to homesickness and unhappiness with the weather. In January 2002, Hudson signed her first recording contract with Righteous Records and she was released from her five-year contract with Righteous Records so that she could appear on American Idol in 2004. The bottom three consisting of three African-American females led to controversy, in May 2009, MTV listed Hudson as the sixth greatest American Idol and noted her exit was the most shocking of all time. In one of her first appearances on a record, Hudson is featured in a duet, The Future Aint What It Used to Be, on Meat Loafs Bat Out of Hell III, The Monster Is Loose
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Hudson at
Barnes & Noble Books in
Skokie, Illinois, 2012
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Hudson performing in 2007
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Jennifer Hudson's first public appearance after the murder of three family members, including her mother, sings the "
National Anthem " at
Super Bowl XLIII
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Hudson at the
83rd Academy Awards in 2011
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Anne Hathaway
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Anne Jacqueline Hathaway is an American actress and singer. Hathaway went on to become a widely praised role model for children for her roles in Nicholas Nickleby, Ella Enchanted, The Princess Diaries 2, Royal Engagement, and Hoodwinked. In 2011, Hathaway voiced Jewel in the animated film Rio and hosted the 83rd Academy Awards with James Franco, in 2012, she portrayed Catwoman in Christopher Nolans The Dark Knight Rises, for which she won the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress. The same year, she starred as Fantine in Tom Hoopers Les Misérables, which earned her acclaim and she won the Academy, Golden Globe, BAFTA. Hathaway has since gone on to appear in Rio 2, Interstellar, The Intern, People magazine named Hathaway one of its breakthrough stars of 2001, and she appeared on its list of the worlds 50 Most Beautiful People in 2006. Following a four-year relationship with real estate developer Raffaello Follieri, Hathaway married Adam Shulman in 2012, with whom she has one son, Hathaway was born in Brooklyn, New York. Her father, Gerald Thomas Hathaway, is a lawyer, and her mother, Kathleen played Fantine in the first U. S. tour of Les Misérables. When Hathaway was six years old, her moved to Millburn, New Jersey. Hathaway is the middle of three children with her brother, Michael and younger brother, Thomas. Kathleen is of Irish descent, and Gerald is of Irish, French, English, at the age of fifteen, her relationship with the Catholic Church changed, after learning that Michael was gay. She said, I realized my older brother was gay, and I couldnt support a religion that didnt support my brother, now I call myself a non-denominational Christian, because I havent found the religion for me. In 2009, she stated that her religious beliefs are a work in progress, Hathaway attended Brooklyn Heights Montessori School and Wyoming Elementary School in Millburn. Later, she appeared in plays, including Jane Eyre and Gigi at New Jerseys Paper Mill Playhouse, Hathaway studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, and was the first teenager admitted into The Barrow Group Theater Companys acting program. Between 1998 and 1999, she sang soprano with the All-Eastern U. S, high School Honors Chorus at Carnegie Hall and in plays at Seton Hall Preparatory School in West Orange, New Jersey. She is a stage actress and stated that she prefers performing from stage to film roles. Her acting style has been compared to those of Judy Garland and she cites Garland as one of her favorite actresses and Meryl Streep as her idol. At the age of sixteen, three days after her performance at Carnegie Hall, Hathaway was cast in the short-lived Fox television series Get Real. She made her film debut The Princess Diaries, which is based on Meg Cabots 2000 novel of the same name, Hathaway auditioned for the role of a princess-to-be during a flight layover on the way to New Zealand and was cast on the strength of this one audition
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Hathaway in 2014
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Hathaway at the
Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in 2008
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Hathaway at the 2007
Deauville American Film Festival
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Hathaway on the red carpet in 2009 at the
81st Academy Awards
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Alicia Vikander
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Alicia Amanda Vikander is a Swedish actress and former dancer. Vikander made her film debut in Pure, for which she won the Guldbagge Award for Best Actress. She went on to star in the 2013 Swedish drama film Hotell, Vikander was born in Gothenburg, the daughter of Maria Fahl Vikander, a stage actor, and Svante Vikander, a psychiatrist. Her parents are from small villages in the north and south of Sweden and they separated when Vikander was two months old, and she was mostly raised by her single mother. She has five half-siblings on her fathers side, Vikander has said that she had the best of both worlds growing up, being an only child to her mother and being surrounded by a big family when she went to her father’s house every second week. Her ancestry is Swedish and one quarter Finnish and she appeared in several musicals at the Opera, such as The Sound of Music and Les Misérables. In 1997 she participated in the TV4 kids singing show Småstjärnorna and she won her episode with praise by the judges for her stage presence. Vikander trained in ballet from the age of nine with the Svenska Balettskolan i Göteborg, at the age of 15, Vikander moved from Gothenburg to train at the ballets upper school in Stockholm, she lived on her own, working to become a principal dancer. She traveled around the world for summer courses, training one summer at the School of American Ballet in New York City. At the age of 16, she almost left school to commit fully to the series she worked on with director Tomas Alfredson. Her dance career was sidelined by injuries in her late teens and she auditioned for drama school but was turned down twice. At one point, Vikander was admitted to law school but she never attended, Vikander began her career by appearing in a number of short films and television roles in her native Sweden. She became well known in Scandinavia for her role in the popular Swedish TV drama Andra Avenyn, Vikander received critical acclaim for her feature film debut, playing the leading role of Katarina in the Swedish film Pure. The film centers around the troubled secretary Katarina, who tries to escape her life. In 2011, she had the role of Fragancia Fernandez. In 2012, Vikander gained international attention for playing the key role of Kitty in the English-language film adaptation of Anna Karenina, the film premiered at the 2012 Toronto Film Festival and received positive reviews. That year, she added Danish to her repertoire while co-starring as Queen Caroline Mathilde in the Nikolaj Arcel feature film A Royal Affair and it had its world premiere at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival and was received with critical acclaim. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 85th Academy Awards
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Vikander at the 2015
San Diego Comic-Con
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Vikander at the
48th Guldbagge Awards in 2013
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Vikander and director
Lisa Langseth at the
2012 Cannes Film Festival
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Celia Johnson
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Dame Celia Elizabeth Johnson DBE was an English actress. She began her acting career in 1928, and subsequently achieved success in West End. She also appeared in films, including the romantic drama Brief Encounter. Much of her work was for television, and she continued performing in theatre for the rest of her life. She suffered a stroke and died soon after at the age of 73, born in Richmond, Surrey, and nicknamed Betty, Johnson was the second daughter of Robert and Ethel Johnson. Her first public performance was in 1916, when she played a role in a charity performance of King Cophetua and she attended St Pauls Girls School in London from 1919 until 1926, and played in the schools orchestra under Gustav Holst. She acted in productions, but had no other acting experience, when she was accepted to study at Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 1926. She later spent a term in Paris, studying under Pierre Fresnay at the Comédie Française and she later recalled her choice of an acting career with the comment, I thought Id rather like it. It was the only thing I was good at, and I thought it might be rather wicked. ”Her stage début, and first professional role, was as Sarah in George Bernard Shaws Major Barbara at the Theatre Royal, Huddersfield in 1928. She went to London the following year to take the place of Angela Baddeley in the part of Currita in A Hundred Years Old, in 1930 Johnson played in Cynara with Sir Gerald Du Maurier and Dame Gladys Cooper. She made her first trip to the United States the following year to star as Ophelia in a New York production of Hamlet. She returned to London, where she appeared in a number of productions, before establishing herself with a two-year run in The Wind. She married the journalist Peter Fleming in 1935, and in 1939 gave birth to their first child, during the Second World War, Johnson lived with her widowed sister and sister-in-law and helped care for their combined seven children. She appeared in In Which We Serve and This Happy Breed, Lean and Coward sought Johnson for the next production, Brief Encounter. I have found myself already planning how I should play bits, Johnson was awarded the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. After the war, Johnson concentrated on her life, which included two daughters born in 1946 and 1947 and her occasional acting work was secondary for the following decade. In 1952, she opened The Grass is Greener, in 1957 she acted with Ralph Richardson in The Flowering Cherry. As a member of Laurence Oliviers National Theatre Company, Johnson appeared in the plays The Master Builder with Olivier and Hay Fever, for her role in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, she received the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role
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Dame Celia Johnson
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Susannah York
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Susannah Yolande Fletcher, known professionally as Susannah York, was an English film, stage and television actress. She was awarded a BAFTA as Best Supporting Actress for They Shoot Horses, Dont They. and was nominated for an Oscar and she won best actress for Images at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival. In 1991 she was appointed an Officier de lOrdre des Arts et des Lettres and her maternal grandfather was Walter Andrew Bowring, CBE, a British diplomat who served as Administrator of Dominica, she was a great-great-granddaughter of political economist Sir John Bowring. York had a sister, as well as a half-brother, Eugene Xavier Charles William Peel Fletcher. In early 1943, her mother married a Scottish businessman, Adam M. Hamilton, at the age of 11 York entered Marr College in Troon, Ayrshire. Later she became a boarder at Wispers School, a school housed in Wispers, at 13 she was removed – effectively expelled – from Wispers after owning up to a nude midnight swim in the school pool, and she transferred to East Haddon Hall in Northamptonshire. There she won the Ronson award for most promising student before graduating in 1958 and her film career began with Tunes of Glory, co-starring with Alec Guinness and John Mills. In 1961, she played the role in The Greengage Summer. In 1962, she performed in Freud, The Secret Passion with Montgomery Clift in the title role, York played Sophie Western opposite Albert Finney in the Oscar-winning Best Film Tom Jones. She also appeared in Kaleidescope, A Man for All Seasons, The Killing of Sister George, scott, playing the title role in an American television movie of Jane Eyre. It was also in 1970 that Susannah York played opposite Peter OToole in Country Dance, York was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for They Shoot Horses, Dont They. She snubbed the Academy when, regarding her nomination, she declared it offended her to be nominated without being asked and she was highly praised for her performance, though she said I dont think much of the film, or of myself in it. She did attend the ceremony but lost to Goldie Hawn for her role in Cactus Flower, in 1972, she won the Best Actress award at the Cannes Film Festival for her role in Images. She played Supermans mother Lara on the doomed planet Krypton in Superman and its sequels, Superman II and Superman IV, The Quest for Peace. York made extensive appearances in British television series, including Prince Regent, as Maria Fitzherbert, the wife of the future George IV. In 1984, York starred as Mrs. Cratchit in A Christmas Carol and she again co-starred with George C. Scott, David Warner, Frank Finlay, Angela Pleasence and Anthony Walters, in 1992, she was a member of the jury at the 42nd Berlin International Film Festival. In 2003, York had a role as hospital manager Helen Grant in the BBC1 television drama series Holby City
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Susannah York
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York and co-star
Michael Sarrazin in trailer to
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969)
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Margaret Leighton
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Margaret Leighton, CBE was an English actress. She was known for her sense of grandeur and refinement. She began her career on stage in 1938, and went on to win the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play, for the original Broadway productions of Separate Tables. Leightons film appearances included Under Capricorn, Calling Bulldog Drummond, Carrington V. C. and she won an Emmy Award in 1971 for a television version of Hamlet. She was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, born in Barnt Green, Worcestershire, Leighton made her stage debut as Dorothy in Laugh With Me, which was also performed that year for BBC Television. She became a star of the Old Vic and she starred with Walter Pidgeon in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer crime/mystery Calling Bulldog Drummond. Leighton was nominated for Best Actress in a Play for Much Ado About Nothing opposite John Gielgud and she portrayed the wife of an American presidential candidate in the 1964 film The Best Man, written by Gore Vidal. She had a noteworthy list of TV appearances, including Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Ben Casey and her last appearance on Broadway was as Birdie Hubbard in a revival of Lillian Hellmans The Little Foxes starring Anne Bancroft as Regina Giddens. For her film role as Mrs. Maudsley in The Go-Between Leighton won the British BAFTA Film Award for Best Supporting Actress and she received a BAFTA nomination for Best British Actress for her role as Valerie Carrington in Carrington V. C. She received a Hollywood Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for The Go-Between, Leighton had three husbands, publisher Max Reinhardt, actor Laurence Harvey, and actor Michael Wilding, her death). She was awarded the CBE in 1974, Leighton died of multiple sclerosis in 1976, aged 53, in Chichester, Sussex. Helen Smith The Tempest. Ariel Home at Seven, janet Preston The Holly and the Ivy. Helen Teckman The Good Die Young, judith Wynter/Leonie The Sound and the Fury. Caddy Compson Waltz of the Toreadors, emily Fitzjohn The Third Secret The Best Man. Agatha Andrews The Madwoman of Chaillot, constance, the Madwoman of Passy The Go-Between. Aka X, Y and Zee Lady Caroline Lamb, Lady Melbourne A Bequest to the Nation. Lady Frances Nelson From Beyond the Grave, madame Orloff in segment The Elemental Galileo. Elderly Court Lady Trial by Combat, rosalind ITV Play of the Week episode A Month in the Country
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Leighton in 1959.
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Diane Ladd
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Diane Ladd is an American actress, film director, producer and author. She has appeared in over 120 film and television roles, for the 1974 film Alice Doesnt Live Here Anymore, she won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She went on to win the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress on Television for Alice and her other film appearances include Chinatown, Ghosts of Mississippi, Primary Colors,28 Days, and American Cowslip. Ladd is the mother of actress Laura Dern, with her ex-husband, Ladd is related to playwright Tennessee Williams and poet Sidney Lanier. Ladd was raised in the Roman Catholic faith of her mother, Ladd was married to actor and one-time co-star Bruce Dern from 1960 to 1969, and had two children, including Diane Elizabeth Dern, who died at seventeen and a half months, and actress Laura Dern. Ladd and Laura Dern co-starred in the films, Wild at Heart, Rambling Rose and Inland Empire, Ladd is currently married to Robert Charles Hunter. In 1971, Ladd joined the cast of the CBS soap opera and she was the second actress to play the role of Kitty Styles on the long-running daytime serial. That film inspired the television series Alice, in which Flo was portrayed by Polly Holliday, when Holliday left the TV series, Ladd succeeded her as waitress Isabelle Belle Dupree. She appeared in the independent screwball comedy Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me in 1992, where she played a flirty, aging Southern belle alongside her real mother, actress Mary Lanier. In 1993, Ladd appeared in the episode Guess Whos Coming to Chow. of the CBS comedy/western series Harts of the West in the role of the mother of co-star Harley Jane Kozak. The 15-episode program, set on a ranch in Nevada starred Beau Bridges. In 2004, Ladd played psychic Mrs. Druse in the miniseries of Stephen Kings Kingdom Hospital. In April 2006, Ladd released her first book, Spiraling Through The School of Life, A Mental, Physical, in 2007, she co-starred in the Lifetime Television film Montana Sky. Dern received a nomination for Best Actress for Rambling Rose, the dual mother and daughter nominations for Ladd and Dern in Rambling Rose marked the first time in Academy Award history that such an event had occurred. They were also nominated for dual Golden Globe Awards in the same year, Ladd has also worked in onstage. She made her Broadway debut in Carry Me Back to Morningside Heights in 1968, in 1976, she starred in A Texas Trilogy, Lu Ann Hampton Laverty Oberlander, for which she received a Drama Desk Award nomination. She currently stars in the Hallmark Channel series Chesapeake Shores, note, Alice Doesnt Live Here Anymore released in 1974 in the US and 1975 in the UK. On November 1,2010, Ladd, Laura Dern, and Bruce Dern received adjoining stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Diane Ladd at the Internet Movie Database Diane Ladd profile at Allmovie. com, accessed May 9,2014
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Ladd in May 2013
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Ladd as Lucille in
Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me.
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Jodie Foster
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Alicia Christian Jodie Foster is an American actress and filmmaker who has worked in films and on television. She has often cited as one of the best actresses of her generation. Foster began her career at the age of three as a model in 1965, and two years later moved to acting in television series, with the sitcom Mayberry R. F. D. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, she worked in several television series. Fosters breakthrough came in Martin Scorseses Taxi Driver, in which she played a teenage prostitute, the role garnered her a nomination for an Academy Award. She won her second Academy Award three years later for her role in the sleeper hit The Silence of the Lambs, where she played Clarice Starling, an FBI trainee investigating a serial murder case. Foster made her debut as a director the same year with the moderately successful Little Man Tate. The companys first production was Nell, in which she played the title role. Her other films in the 1990s included period drama Sommersby, Western comedy Maverick, science fiction film Contact, and period drama Anna and her second film direction, Home for the Holidays, was not well-received commercially, while critical reviews were mixed. She has focused on directing in the 2010s, directing the films The Beaver and Money Monster, as well as episodes for Netflix television series Orange is the New Black and she also starred in the film Elysium. In addition to her two Academy Awards, Foster has won three BAFTA Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award and the Cecil B DeMille Award. Foster was born on November 19,1962 in Los Angeles, as the youngest child of Evelyn Ella Brandy and her father came from a wealthy Chicago family, whose forebears included John Alden, who had arrived in North America on the Mayflower in 1620. He was a Yale University graduate and a decorated U. S. Air Force lieutenant colonel and he had already been married once and had three sons from the union before marrying Brandy in Las Vegas in 1953. Brandy Foster was of German heritage and grew up in Rockford, Foster also has Irish roots, with ancestry that can be traced back to County Cork. Before Fosters birth, she and Lucius had three children, daughters Lucinda Cindy Foster and Constance Connie Foster, and son Lucius Fisher Buddy Foster. Their marriage ended before Foster was born, and she never established a relationship with her father, following the divorce, Brandy raised the children with her partner in Los Angeles. She worked as a publicist for film producer Arthur P. Jacobs, until focusing on managing the careers of Buddy. Although Foster was officially named Alicia, her siblings began calling her Jodie, Foster was a gifted child, and learned to read at the age of three
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Foster at the 2011
César Awards ceremony
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The main campus of the
Lycée Français de Los Angeles, which Foster attended.
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Foster with
Christopher Connelly in a publicity photo for
Paper Moon (1974), in which she had one of the first starring roles of her career
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Foster at the Governor's Ball after winning an
Academy Award for
The Accused (1988). Her performance as a rape survivor marked her breakthrough into adult roles.
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Geraldine Page
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Geraldine Sue Page was an American film, television and stage actress. Page made her Broadway debut in 1953 and went on to receive Tony Award nominations for Sweet Bird of Youth, Absurd Person Singular, Agnes of God and she was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1983. Page was born in Kirksville, Missouri and she was the daughter of Edna Pearl and Leon Elwin Page, who worked at Andrew Taylor Still College of Osteopathy and Surgery. He was an author whose works included Practical Anatomy, Osteopathic Fundamentals and she had a younger brother, Frederick. After graduating from Chicagos Englewood Technical Prep Academy in Chicago, Illinois, she attended the Goodman School of Drama in Chicago, Page was a trained method actor and worked closely with Lee Strasberg. She began appearing in theatre at age 17. Her appearance as Alma in the 1952 production of Summer and Smoke, written by Tennessee Williams and her work continued on Broadway as the spinster in the 1954–1955 production of The Rainmaker, written by N. She earned critical accolades for her performance in the 1959 production of Williamss Sweet Bird of Youth opposite Paul Newman. She originated the role of a larger-than-life, addicted, sexually voracious Hollywood legend trying to extinguish her fears about her career with a hustler named Chance Wayne. For her performance, Page received her first nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play and she and Newman later starred in the film adaptation of the same name and Page earned a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress for the film. In 1964, she starred in a Broadway revival of Anton Chekhovs Three Sisters playing eldest sister Olga to Kim Stanleys Masha with Shelley Winters as the interloper Natasha, both Shirley Knight and Sandy Dennis played the youngest sister Irina at different stages in this production. It was directed by Lee Strasberg, in 1967, Page starred in Peter Shaffers Black Comedy/White Lies, a production which also included Michael Crawford and Lynn Redgrave who were making their Broadway debuts. Page received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for the 1975 production of Alan Ayckbourns Absurd Person Singular with Sandy Dennis and Richard Kiley. Page also starred as Zelda Fitzgerald in the last major Broadway production of a Williams play, Clothes for a Summer Hotel, in 1973, she played Mary Todd Lincoln opposite Maya Angelou in the Broadway production of the two-character play Look Away, written by Jerome Kilty. In 1983, Page was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame and this became the Mirror Theater Ltd with its repertory program the Mirror Repertory, and Geraldine accepted the role of Founding Artist in Residence. Vivat Regina. by Robert Bolt, Clarence by Booth Tarkington and she also appeared in The Circle by W. Somerset Maugham. It was during production that she received the Academy Award for Best Actress for The Trip to Bountiful. She received the award from F. Murray Abraham, who, after winning his Oscar for Amadeus, after winning an Academy Award in 1986, Page returned to Broadway in a revival of Noël Cowards Blithe Spirit as Madame Arcati
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Page with
George C. Scott in 1959
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Page in a publicity photo for
Hondo (1953)
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Rosanna Arquette
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Rosanna Lisa Arquette is an American actress, film director, and producer. Her other film roles include After Hours, The Big Blue, Pulp Fiction and she also directed the 2002 documentary Searching for Debra Winger, and starred from 2006 to 2007 on the ABC sitcom What About Brian. Her paternal grandfather was comedian Cliff Arquette and her mother was Jewish, from a family that emigrated from Poland and Russia. Her father, whose surname was originally Arcouet, was of part French Canadian descent. Her father was a convert from Catholicism to Islam, through him and her siblings, Patricia, Alexis, Richmond, and David, are also actors. Arquette has appeared in television and screen films. In 1982, she earned an Emmy Award nomination for the TV film The Executioners Song, Arquettes first starring role was in John Sayless 1983 film, Baby Its You, a highly regarded but little seen film. She starred in Desperately Seeking Susan alongside pop singer Madonna, for which she won a British Academy Film Awards for her supporting role despite her clearly being the lead. Madonna was breaking out at the time and though many feel that while Arquettes performance was central to the movies success and she had negotiated a deal where she would provide a song for the movie. Into The Groove became a hit for Madonna as did the movie itself. In an interview at the time, Arquette said The two questions I hate the most are What was it like working with Madonna. and Are you the Rosanna in the song Rosanna, in 1989, director Martin Scorsese offered her a part in New York Stories. Other movies of note are Pulp Fiction and the David Cronenberg film, Crash, in 1990, Arquette appeared on the cover and in a nude pictorial in Playboys September issue, although she claimed it was without her prior knowledge or consent. In recent years, Arquette has expanded into directing, including the documentaries Searching for Debra Winger and All We Are Saying, Arquette appeared in the short running What About Brian as Nicole Varsi and on Showtimes The L Word as Cherie Jaffe. She also guest starred on Malcolm in the Middle as a healer named Anita who takes Malcolms virginity, bryan Cranston, one of her former co-stars from Amazon Women on the Moon, also played Malcolms dad Hal. In 2009, she joined Fit Parent Magazine, founded by Craig Knight, Arquette stars in the French thriller The Divide, directed by Xavier Gens. In August 2013, Arquette married her husband, investment banker Todd Morgan. Her previous marriages, to director Tony Greco, film composer James Newton Howard and she has one daughter, Zoe Bleu, with Sidel. Rosanna Arquette at the Internet Movie Database Rosanna Arquette at AllMovie 1M1 Records Rosanna Arquette is Wendy Cracked a Walnut
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Arquette at 2012
Monte-Carlo Television Festival.
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Julie Walters
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Julia Mary Julie Walters, CBE is an English actress and writer. She has won two BAFTA Film Awards, four BAFTA TV Awards and received the BAFTA Fellowship in 2014, Walters first came to international prominence in 1983, for playing the title role in Educating Rita. It was a role she had created on the West End stage and it also won her a BAFTA and a Golden Globe. She received a second Academy Award nomination, this time for Best Supporting Actress, for her role in the 2000 film Billy Elliot and her other film roles include Personal Services, Prick Up Your Ears, Buster, Stepping Out, Calendar Girls, Mamma Mia. and Brave. She has also played Molly Weasley in seven of the eight Harry Potter films, on stage, she won an Olivier Award for Best Actress for the 2001 production of All My Sons. She has won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress four times, for My Beautiful Son, Murder, The Canterbury Tales and she also starred in A Short Stay in Switzerland in 2009, which won her an International Emmy for Best Actress. In 2006, she came fourth in ITVs poll of the publics 50 Greatest TV stars in Britain, in 2008, she released her autobiography titled Thats Another Story. Walters was born in St. Chads Hospital, Edgbaston, Birmingham, the youngest of five children and the third to survive birth, Walters had an early education at a convent school and later at Holly Lodge Grammar School for Girls on Holly Lane in Smethwick. It was heaven when I went to a grammar school, she said in 2014. Her first job was in insurance at the age of 15, at 18 she trained as a nurse at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, and worked on the ophthalmic, casualty and coronary care wards during the 18 months she spent there. Walters decided to leave nursing, and studied English and drama at Manchester Polytechnic, Walters first received notice as the occasional partner of comedian Victoria Wood, whom she had briefly met in Manchester. The two first worked together in the 1978 theatre revue In at the Death, followed by the adaptation of Woods play Talent. They went on to appear in their own Granada Television series, Wood and Walters and they continued to perform together frequently over the years. The BAFTA-winning BBC follow-up, Victoria Wood As Seen on TV, featured one of Walterss best-known roles, Mrs Overall, in Woods parodic soap opera, before making her London stage debut in Educating Rita, Walters had worked in regional theatre, stand-up comedy and cabaret. In 1985, she played Adrian Moles mother Pauline in the TV adaptation of The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Walters appeared in the lead role of Cynthia Payne in the 1987 film Personal Services – a dramatic comedy about a British brothel owner. Then she played the characters wife, June, in the film Buster. She also appeared as Mrs. Peachum in the 1989 film version of The Threepenny Opera, in 1998 she starred as the Fairy Godmother in the ITV pantomime Jack and the Beanstalk, alongside actors Neil Morrissey, Adrian Edmondson, Paul Merton, Denise van Outen and Julian Clary. The show was first broadcast 25 December 1998 on ITV1, in 2001 she won a Laurence Olivier Award for her performance in Arthur Millers All My Sons
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Walters at the premiere of
Paddington, November 2014
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Walters at the premiere of
The Harry Hill Movie, December 2014
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Star at the Birmingham Walk of Stars
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Thandie Newton
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Melanie Thandiwe Thandie Newton is an English actress. She also currently portrays DCI Roz Huntley in Series 4 of the BBC One police procedural series Line of Duty, Newton was born in Westminster, London, England, the daughter of Nyasha, a Zimbabwean, and Nick Newton, an English laboratory technician and artist. Her birthplace has been reported to be Zambia in some biographies. The name Thandiwe means beloved in Ndebele, Zulu, Xhosa or siSwati, according to Newton, her mother is a Shona princess. Regarding her childhood, Newton remarked at a TED conference, From about the age of 5, I was aware that I didnt fit, I was the black, atheist kid in the all-white, Catholic school run by nuns. Newton was brought up in London and Penzance, Cornwall and studied dance at the Tring Park School for the Performing Arts, between 1992 and 1995, Newton attended Downing College, Cambridge, where she studied social anthropology. After the film Flirting, Newton played a house slave Yvette in the Brad Pitt/Tom Cruise film Interview with the Vampire. The film also starred Oprah Winfrey and Danny Glover, Newton then starred as Nyah Hall, again opposite Cruise, in Mission, Impossible II. Her next role was in the low-budget film It Was an Accident, written by her husband, between 2003 and 2005, Newton played Makemba Kem Likasu, love interest and later wife of Dr. John Carter on the American television series ER. She reprised the role for the finale in 2009. In 2004, she appeared in The Chronicles of Riddick. Newton won a BAFTA award for Best Supporting Actress in 2006 for her role in Crash and she played Chris Gardners wife, Linda Gardner, in The Pursuit of Happyness. Also in 2006, Newton performed on radio in a version of Cinderella. In 2007, Newton co-starred with Eddie Murphy in the comedy Norbit as his love interest, Newton next portrayed U. S. National Security Advisor-turned Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in W. Oliver Stones film biography of President George W. Bush. The film was released 17 October 2008, Newton was an introducer at Wembley Stadium on 7 July 2007, for the UK leg of Live Earth. She was due to introduce Al Gore to the concert, but he was delayed, first Daughter Laura Wilson in 2012, a disaster film directed by Roland Emmerich and released 13 November 2009. In July 2011, Newton delivered a TED Talk on Embracing otherness and she discussed finding her otherness as a child growing up in two distinct cultures, and as an actress playing many different selves. In 2012, she starred alongside Tyler Perry in the drama film Good Deeds
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Newton at the
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Newton at the 2007 BAFTAs
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Gosford Park
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Gosford Park is a 2001 British mystery film directed by Robert Altman and written by Julian Fellowes. The story follows a party of wealthy Britons and an American, and their servants, who gather for a weekend at Gosford Park. A murder occurs after a party, and the film goes on to present the subsequent investigation from the servants and guests perspectives. Development on Gosford Park began in 1999, when Bob Balaban asked Altman if they could develop a film together, Balaban suggested an Agatha Christie-style whodunit and introduced Altman to Julian Fellowes, with whom Balaban had been working on a different project. The film went into production in March 2001, and began filming at Shepperton Studios with a budget of $19.8 million. Gosford Park premiered on 7 November 2001 at the London Film Festival and it received a limited release across cinemas in the United States in December 2001, before being widely released in January 2002 by USA Films. It was released in February 2002 in the United Kingdom, the film was successful at the box office, grossing over $87 million in cinemas worldwide, making it Altmans second most successful film after MASH. Widely acclaimed by critics, it received awards and nominations, including seven Academy Award nominations. In November 1932, Constance, Countess of Trentham, and her ladys maid, on the way, they encounter actor Ivor Novello, American film producer Morris Weissman and Weissmans valet, Henry Denton, who are also attending the hunting party. At the house, they are greeted by Lady Trenthams niece, Lady Sylvia McCordle, her husband Sir William McCordle, the other guests include Lady Sylvias sisters, Louisa, Lady Stockbridge and Lady Lavinia Meredith and their husbands, Raymond, Lord Stockbridge and Commander Anthony Meredith. Also in attendance are the Honourable Freddie Nesbitt and his wife, Mabel, Isobels suitor, Lord Rupert Standish, the servants hall is divided by a strict social hierarchy, dominated by the head housekeeper, Mrs. Wilson. She maintains a relationship with the head cook, Mrs. Croft. The head housemaid, Elsie, takes a kindly interest in the naive Mary, Sir William is an extremely rich industrialist, and much of the company are dependent on him in one way or another. Commander Meredith is in on the verge of bankruptcy and is outraged when Sir William announces he intends to withdraw his investment in Merediths latest business venture, Lady Sylvia reveals to her aunt that William may stop paying Lady Trenthams allowance. Freddie Nesbitt was having an affair with Sir Williams daughter Isobel, likewise, Rupert Standish is trying to romance Isobel for her money. Lady Sylvia makes an assignation with Mr Weissmans valet, Henry Denton, for 1am that night, the next morning the men go out early on a pheasant shoot, and Sir William is slightly injured by a stray birdshot. Later, the join the gentlemen for an outdoor luncheon on the estate grounds. Dinner that evening is tense and sombre, as the conversation progresses, tempers flare and Lady Sylvia attacks Sir William, implying that he was a First World War profiteer
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Theatrical release poster
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Wrotham Park, where outdoor and the ground floor scenes for Gosford Park were shot
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Charles Dance
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Walter Charles Dance, OBE is an English actor, screenwriter, and film director. Dance typically plays assertive bureaucrats or villains, Charles Dance was born in Redditch, Worcestershire, the son of Eleanor, a cook, and Walter Dance, an engineer. Growing up in Plymouth, he attended Widey Technical School for Boys in Crownhill, Dance was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company during the mid-to-late-1970s and was in many of their productions in London and Stratford-upon-Avon. Later he returned to the RSC to take the role in Coriolanus at Stratford-upon-Avon and Newcastle in 1989. He received rave reviews and a Critics Circle Best Actor award for his performance as the Oxford don C. S. Lewis in William Nicholsons Shadowlands, in the 2007 stage revival. He has also starred in many other British television dramas such as Edward the Seventh, Murder Rooms, Randall and Hopkirk, Rebecca, The Phantom of the Opera, Fingersmith and Bleak House. He also played Guy Spencer, the pro-Hitler propagandist, in the installment of Foyles War. Dance made a guest appearance on the BBC drama series Merlin as the Witchfinder Aredian and he played Havelock Vetinari in the 2010 Sky adaptation of Terry Pratchetts Going Postal. He played the role of Tywin Lannister in HBOs Game of Thrones, based on the Song of Ice, Dance was wooed for the role by the producers whilst filming Your Highness in Belfast. Dance also played Conrad Knox on the British television series Strike Back and he appeared in Paris Connections as the Russian oligarch Aleksandr Borinski. Dance made one of his earliest big screen appearances in the 1981 James Bond film For Your Eyes Only as evil henchman Claus. Though he turned down the opportunity to screen test for the James Bond role, in 1989 he played Bond creator Ian Fleming in Anglia Televisions dramatised biography, Goldeneye. On 30 June 2013, Dance appeared amongst other celebrities in an episode of the BBCs Top Gear as a Star in a Reasonably Priced Car for the debut of the Vauxhall Astra. Dances debut film as a writer and director was Ladies in Lavender, in 2009, he directed his own adaptation of Alice Thomas Elliss The Inn at the Edge of the World. Dance married Joanna Haythorn in 1970 and he became engaged to sculptor Eleanor Boorman in September 2010. They have a daughter, Rose, born in March 2012, Dance was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire on 17 June 2006. He lives in Kentish Town in north London
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Dance at the London Film and Comic Con, July 2012.
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Stephen Fry
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Stephen John Fry is an English comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist. While at university, he involved with the Cambridge Footlights. As half of the double act Fry and Laurie, he co-wrote and co-starred in A Bit of Fry & Laurie and also took the role of Jeeves in Jeeves. He was also the long-time host of the BBC television quiz show QI and he has also filmed commercials, including an advertisement where he explains the essence of British culture to foreigners arriving at Londons Heathrow Airport. Fry was born in Hampstead, London, on 24 August 1957, the son of Marianne Eve Fry and Alan John Fry, a British physicist and inventor. The Fry family originates in Dorset, at Shillingstone and Blandford, in the early 1800s, Samuel Fry settled in Surrey, Frys mother is Jewish, but he was not brought up in a religious family. His maternal grandparents, Martin and Rosa Neumann, were Hungarian Jews, rosas parents, who originally lived in Vienna, Austria, were sent to a concentration camp in Riga, Latvia, where they were murdered. His mothers aunt and cousins were sent to Auschwitz and Stutthof, Frys father is English, and his paternal grandmother had roots in Kent and Cheshire. Fry grew up in the village of Booton near Reepham, Norfolk, having moved from Chesham, Buckinghamshire and he has an elder brother, Roger, and a younger sister, Joanna. He was expelled from Uppingham when he was 15 and subsequently from the Paston School, at 17, after leaving Norfolk College of Arts and Technology, Fry absconded with a credit card stolen from a family friend. He had taken a coat when leaving a pub, planning to spend the night sleeping rough and he was arrested in Swindon, and, as a result, spent three months in Pucklechurch Prison on remand. While Fry was in Pucklechurch, his mother had cut out the crossword from every copy of The Times since he had been away, Fry later stated that these crosswords were the only thing that got him through the ordeal. Following his release, he resumed his education at City College Norwich and he scored well enough to gain a scholarship to Queens College, Cambridge. At Cambridge, Fry joined the Cambridge Footlights, appeared on University Challenge, Fry also met his future comedy collaborator Hugh Laurie at Cambridge and starred alongside him in the Footlights Club. Frys career in television began with the 1982 broadcasting of The Cellar Tapes, a second series, retitled Alfresco, was broadcast in 1983, and a third in 1984, it established Fry and Lauries reputation as a comedy double act. In 1983, the BBC offered Fry, Laurie and Thompson their own show, which became The Crystal Cube, undeterred, Fry and Laurie appeared in an episode of The Young Ones in 1984, and Fry also appeared in Ben Eltons 1985 Happy Families series. In 1986 and 1987 Fry and Laurie performed sketches on the LWT/Channel 4 show Saturday Live, forgiving Fry and Laurie for The Crystal Cube, the BBC commissioned, in 1986, a sketch show that was to become A Bit of Fry & Laurie. The programme ran for 26 episodes spanning four series between 1986 and 1995, and was very successful, in a 1988 television special, Blackadders Christmas Carol, he played the roles of Lord Melchett and Lord Frondo
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Fry in Happy Birthday to
GNU (2008)
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Fry, upper right, rehearsing a student production of
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Norfolk College of Arts and Technology in 1975
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Fry signing autographs at the
Apple Store,
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Stephen Fry visits Nightingale House, a care home in London, in December 2009
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Michael Gambon
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Sir Michael John Gambon CBE is an Irish-born English actor who has worked in theatre, television and film. He has won four BAFTA TV Awards and three Olivier Awards, Gambon was born in Cabra, Dublin, during World War II. His father, Edward Gambon, was an engineer, and his mother and his father decided to seek work in the rebuilding of London, and so the family moved to Mornington Crescent in north London, when Gambon was five. His father had him made a British citizen, a decision that would later allow Gambon to receive a substantive, rather than honorary, knighthood, brought up as a strict Roman Catholic, he attended St Aloysius Boys School in Somers Town and served at the altar. He then moved to St Aloysius College in Hornsey Lane, Highgate, London and he later moved to North End, Kent, and attended Crayford Secondary School, before leaving with no qualifications at fifteen. He then gained an apprenticeship with Vickers Armstrong as a toolmaker, by the time he was 21, he was a qualified engineer. He kept the job for a year, acquiring a fascination and passion for collecting antique guns, clocks, watches. At age 24, Gambon wrote a letter to Micheál Mac Liammóir and it was accompanied by a CV describing a rich and wholly imaginary theatre career – and he was taken on. Gambon made his professional stage début in the Gate Theatre Dublins 1962 production of Othello, playing Second Gentleman, followed by a European tour. Gambon, along with Robert Stephens, Derek Jacobi and Frank Finlay, was hired as one of the to be renowned and played any number of small roles, appearing on cast lists as Mike Gambon. The company initially performed at the Old Vic, their first production being Hamlet, directed by Olivier and starring Peter OToole. Gambon played for four years in many NT productions, including named roles in The Recruiting Officer and The Royal Hunt of the Sun, working with directors William Gaskill, after three years at the Old Vic, Olivier advised Gambon to gain experience in provincial rep. In 1967, he left the NT for the Birmingham Repertory Company, Gambon was suggested for the role of James Bond in On Her Majestys Secret Service, although he was dismissed for being even less known than George Lazenby who was cast. His rise to fame began in 1974 when Eric Thompson cast him as the vet in Alan Ayckbourns The Norman Conquests at Greenwich. A speedy transfer to the West End established him as a actor, squatting at a crowded dining table on a tiny chair. He is also one of the few actors to have mastered the demands of the vast Olivier Theatre, as Simon Callow once said, Gambons iron lungs and overwhelming charisma are able to command a sort of operatic full-throatedness which triumphs over hard walls and long distances. This was to him in good stead in John Dexters masterly staging of The Life of Galileo in 1980. Hall called him unsentimental, dangerous and immensely powerful, and The Sunday Times called his performance a decisive step in the direction of great tragedy, Great acting, while fellow actors paid him the rare compliment of applauding him in the dressing room on the first night
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Gambon in June 2013
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Richard E. Grant
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Richard E. Grant is a Swazi-English actor, screenwriter, director and perfumier. Grant was born Richard Grant Esterhuysen in Mbabane, Swaziland and his father, Henrik Esterhuysen, was head of education for the British government administration in the British Protectorate of Swaziland. His father had English and Dutch/Afrikaner ancestry and his mother was of English, as a boy, Grant went to primary school at St Marks, a local government school in Mbabane that had only recently become racially integrated. When Grant was ten years old, he witnessed his mother commit adultery on the seat of a car with his fathers best friend. This event inspired Grant to keep a diary, which he has continued to do ever since. Grant wears a watch on each wrist, one given to him by his dying father and he is a dual citizen of the United Kingdom and Swaziland. Grant attended secondary school at Waterford Kamhlaba United World College of Southern Africa, an independent school just outside Mbabane, Grant studied English and drama at the University of Cape Town. He adopted his name when he moved to Britain as an adult. Grant was a member of the Space Theatre Company in Cape Town before moving to London in 1982 and he later stated, I grew up in Swaziland when it was mired in a 1960s sensibility. The kind of English spoken where I grew up was a period English sound, charles Sturridge, who directed Brideshead Revisited for TV, said, you speak English like someone from the 1950s. Grants first film role was the perpetually inebriated title character in Withnail and I, in 1995, Grant starred as the titular character in Peter Capaldis short film Franz Kafkas Its a Wonderful Life. The film won the 1995 Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film, Grant has twice portrayed the Doctor from Doctor Who, both outside the main continuity. In the comedy sketch Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death, he portrayed a version of the Tenth Doctor and he also voiced a version of the Ninth Doctor for the BBC original animated webcast Scream of the Shalka. The latter had intended to be the official Ninth Doctor prior the revival of the TV series, in August,2012, the BBC announced that Grant would join the cast of Doctor Who for The Snowmen, in which he plays a villain, Dr. Walter Simeon. Grant reprises the role in the series 7 finale, The Name of the Doctor, on 1 December 2006, Grant turned real life investigator when, with the help of BBC Newsnight, he exposed a $98 million scam to sell a bogus AIDS cure. Grant appeared as The Voice in 2+2+2 at American Nights at The Kings Head Theatre, from 3 to 29 July 2007, and in 2008 co-starred in the London-based comedy Filth and Wisdom. In 2008, he made his theatre debut with Opera Australia, playing the role of Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady, at the Theatre Royal. He played Alain Reille in Yasmina Rezas one-act play God of Carnage at the Theatre Royal, Bath, and subsequently at Cheltenham, Canterbury, Richmond, Brighton and Milton Keynes
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Grant at the
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Grant as The Voice for 2+2+2 at Heavy Entertainment, London.
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Kelly Macdonald
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Kelly Macdonald is a Scottish actress, known for her roles in the films Trainspotting, Gosford Park, Intermission, Nanny McPhee, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 and Brave. For the 2005 TV film The Girl in the Cafe, she was nominated for a Golden Globe and she was part of the cast of the famous miniseries State of Play portraying the role of Della Smith. For her role in the 2007 film No Country for Old Men and she went on to star for five seasons in the HBO series Boardwalk Empire as Margaret Thompson, for which she received a 2011 Emmy Award nomination. Macdonalds career began while she was working as a barmaid in Glasgow and she saw a leaflet advertising an open casting session for Trainspotting and decided to audition, winning the part of Diane, the underage seductress to Ewan McGregors Renton. Other roles include Mary ONeary in Two Family House, and an actress playing Peter Pan in Finding Neverland and she had major roles in Robert Altmans British period piece Gosford Park, where she played an aristocrats maid, and in Intermission, as Deirdre. On radio, she portrayed Mary in the 1999 BBC radio drama Lifehouse, based on Pete Townshends abandoned rock opera, some of the songs for which were released on The Whos album Whos Next. On television, her highest profile roles have been in two BBC dramas, the Paul Abbott serial State of Play, and the one-off Richard Curtis piece The Girl in the Café, both of these were directed by David Yates, and both also starred Bill Nighy. Her agent was originally unsure she was right for the latter part and her persistence paid off, however, as she was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. She played the lead in The Merry Gentleman, as Kate Frazier, in 2010, she played her first comedy role, in the British independent romantic comedy film The Decoy Bride. The Decoy Bride was released in 2012, in 2011, she played the Grey Lady in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2, the final instalment of the Harry Potter film franchise. She replaced Nina Young, the actress in the role. In 2012, she provided the voice of Merida, the heroine of the Disney/Pixar film Brave, from 2010 until its ending in 2014, she starred in the HBO crime drama Boardwalk Empire as Margaret Thompson, the wife of Prohibition-era Atlantic City crime boss Nucky Thompson. She appeared in all five seasons of the series, in 2011, she and the rest of the shows cast were awarded the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series. In 2016, she starred in Ricky Gervais Special Correspondents as Claire Maddox, in 2016, she played the lead role in Hated in the Nation, an episode of the anthology series Black Mirror for which she received critical acclaim. On 3 November 2016 Macdonald was featured in the trailer for Danny Boyles T2 Trainspotting confirming she will reprise her role as Diane from the original film and her mother was a garment industry sales executive. In August 2003 Macdonald married musician Dougie Payne, bassist of rock band Travis, the couple have two children, and moved back to their home town of Glasgow in 2014, after living in London and then New York City. Kelly Macdonald at the Internet Movie Database Kelly Macdonald at the TCM Movie Database Kelly Macdonald at the British Film Institutes Screenonline Kelly Macdonald in Skellig on Sky1, Easter 2009
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Macdonald at the 2007
New York Film Festival
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Macdonald at the
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Jeremy Northam
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Jeremy Philip Northam is an English actor. He has appeared in the films Gosford Park, Emma, Amistad, The Winslow Boy, Enigma, Martin and Lewis and he played Thomas More in the Showtime series The Tudors. He has recently played Anthony Eden in the Netflix series The Crown Northam was born in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, the youngest of four siblings. His mother, Rachel, was a potter and professor of economics, Northam was educated at Bristol Grammar School and Bedford College, University of London now part of Royal Holloway, University of London, and trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. He married Canadian film/television make-up artist Liz Moro in April 2005 and he has appeared frequently in British films such as Carrington, Emma, The Winslow Boy, An Ideal Husband, Enigma and as Welsh actor and singer Ivor Novello in Gosford Park. He made his American film debut in The Net, in 2002 he starred in the film Cypher alongside Lucy Liu. That same year, he portrayed singer Dean Martin in the CBS film Martin and Lewis and golfer Walter Hagen in Bobby Jones, in 2007 and 2008, he portrayed Thomas More on the Showtime series, The Tudors. He played John Brodie Innes in the 2009 film Creation, based on the life of Charles Darwin and he plays British Prime Minister Anthony Eden in the Netflix drama series, The Crown. His audiobook work includes The Silver Chair by C. S. Lewis for Harper Audio, for SilkSoundBooks, he recorded The Real Thing and Other Short Stories and The Aspern Papers, both written by Henry James. In 2007 he recorded Gerard Manley Hopkins poems for The Great Poets edition for Naxos Audiobooks. He recorded the audio book Dark Matter and it was released on 21 October 2010, by Orion. Edward Voysey, The Voysey Inheritance, National Theatre Company, Cottesloe Theatre, London,1989 Also appeared in productions of School for Scandal and The Shaughraun, National Theatre Company
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Jeremy Northam
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Jeremy Northam with author Michelle Paver recording Paver’s audio book "Dark Matter"
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Sophie Thompson
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Sophie Thompson is an English actress who has worked in television, film and theatre. Her film appearances include Four Weddings and a Funeral, Persuasion Dancing at Lughnasa, Gosford Park, and Harry Potter and she also played Stella Crawford in the BBC soap opera EastEnders, for which she won Best Bitch at the Inside Soap awards. Other Olivier nominations include Wildest Dreams, Clybourne Park, and Guys and she is the younger sister of actress and screenwriter Emma Thompson. Big-screen roles include Four Weddings and a Funeral, Eat Pray Love, Emma, Dancing at Lughnasa, Gosford Park, Fat Slags, Relative Values and Morris, Thompson appeared in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows in 2010, as Mafalda Hopkirk and Hermione Granger disguised as Hopkirk. Thompson starred alongside popular British comedians Alan Davies, in Jonathan Creek and she has also appeared in Persuasion, Midsomer Murders, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, A Harlots Progress, and Magnolia. She played Miss Bartlett in Andrew Davies 2007 adaptation of E. M. Forsters A Room with a View, Thompson played the role of child abuser Stella Crawford in the BBC One soap opera EastEnders. She came into the show as Phil Mitchells lawyer and they developed a romantic link. Stella later became jealous of Phils relationship with his son Ben, Thompson left EastEnders on 20 July 2007, after the exposure of Stellas evil ways on her wedding day led to the characters suicide. She won the inside soap Best bitch award for her portrayal of Stella, in 2009, Thompson appeared in the BBC One comedy series Big Top. During 2012, Thompson appeared in Love Life and Lightfields, both of which were aired on ITV and her most recent television credits include Detectorists, Professor Branestawm, A Gert Lush Christmas, and Jericho. She also played Kathy/Bev in Dominic Cooks 2011 production of Clybourne Park at The Royal Court, Thompson received an Olivier nomination for Best Actress. In 1996, Thompson played the role of Amy in Sam Mendes acclaimed Donmar Warehouse revival of Company and she also appeared as the Bakers Wife in the Donmars revival of Into the Woods, which garnered her the 1999 Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical. She also played Ophelia in the Renaissance Theatre Company production of Hamlet in 1988 in Birmingham and that production was directed by Sir Derek Jacobi and starred her future brother-in-law Kenneth Branagh as Hamlet, Richard Easton as Claudius and Dearbhla Molloy as Gertrude. A film documentary called Discovering Hamlet was made of the process of producing and rehearsing this play and it was released in 1990, and a DVD version was released in 2010. Thompson took part in Celebrity MasterChef 2014, emerging as the winner beating Jodie Kidd, in 2015, Thompsons recipe book, My Family Kitchen, was published, and her first childrens book, Zoo Boy, was published in 2016. From 1995 to 2015, Thompson was married to actor Richard Lumsden and they have two sons, Ernie James, and Walter Eric. The Missionary … Mission Girl Twenty-One … Francesca Four Weddings and a Funeral … Lydia, Bean … Girlfriend Torvill and Bean,1 episode The Railway Children … Mrs Perks So What Now
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Sophie Thompson in 2014
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Emily Watson
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Emily Margaret Watson, OBE is an English actress. She won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress as Janet Leach for the 2011 ITV television film biopic Appropriate Adult, Watson began her career on stage and joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1992. In 2002, she starred in productions of Twelfth Night and Uncle Vanya at the Donmar Warehouse, Watson was born in Islington, London. Her father, Richard Watson, was an architect and her mother, Katharine, was an English teacher at St Davids Girls School and she was brought up as an Anglican. Watson has described her childhood self as a Nice middle class English girl, id love to say I was a rebellious teenager but I wasnt. Watson was educated at St James Independent Schools, in west London and she attended the University of Bristol, where she obtained a BA. Following university, she trained at the Drama Studio London and she later received an MA from Bristol University. Watsons career began on the stage and her theatre credits include The Childrens Hour, Three Sisters, Much Ado About Nothing and The Lady from the Sea. Watson has also worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company in A Jovial Crew, The Taming of the Shrew, Alls Well That Ends Well and her performance was widely acclaimed on both sides of the Atlantic and garnered her an Olivier Award nomination for Uncle Vanya. Watson was virtually unknown until director Lars von Trier chose her to star in his controversial Breaking the Waves after Helena Bonham Carter dropped out at the very last minute. She also played a role in Cradle Will Rock, a story of a theatre show in the 1930s. Though she won the role of Frank McCourts mother in the adaptation of his acclaimed memoir, Angelas Ashes. In 2001, she appeared alongside John Turturro in The Luzhin Defence, in 2004, Watson received a Golden Globe nomination for her role as Peter Sellerss first wife, Anne Howe, in the HBO film The Life and Death of Peter Sellers. 2005 saw Watson starring in four films, Wah-Wah, Richard E, in 2007, she appeared in The Water Horse, Legend of the Deep, an adaptation of the Dick King-Smith childrens novel about the origin of the Loch Ness Monster. Watson considers Ginzburg to be her best recent role, however, in 2011, she played Janet Leach in the ITV two-part film Appropriate Adult, about serial killer Fred West, for which she won a BAFTA. She also received rave reviews for her portrayal of Julie Nicholson in the BBC Drama A Song for Jenny, Watson was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2015 New Year Honours for services to drama. In 2017, she starred in the BBC mini-series Apple Tree Yard, in 2007, Mood Indigo, a script written by Watson and her husband, was optioned by Capitol Films. The film is a story set during the Second World War
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Watson at the
British Academy Film Awards in London's
Royal Opera House, February 2007
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Chicago (2002 film)
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Chicago is a 2002 American musical crime comedy film based on the musical of the same name, exploring the themes of celebrity, scandal, and corruption in Chicago during the Jazz Age. The film stars Catherine Zeta-Jones, Renée Zellweger and Richard Gere, Chicago centers on Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart, two murderesses who find themselves in jail together awaiting trial in 1920s Chicago. Velma, a vaudevillian, and Roxie, a housewife, fight for the fame that will keep them from the gallows. Directed and choreographed by Rob Marshall, and adapted by screenwriter Bill Condon, with music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb, Chicago won six Academy Awards in 2003, the film was critically lauded, and was the first musical to win Best Picture since Oliver. In 1924, Roxie Hart sees star Velma Kelly perform at a Chicago theater, wanting stardom for herself, she begins an affair with Fred Casely, who claims to know the manager. After the show, Velma is arrested for killing her husband Charlie and sister Veronica, a month later, Casely admits to Roxie that he has no showbiz connections and just wanted her body. She convinces her husband, Amos, to take the blame, as Amos confesses to the detective, Roxie fantasizes that she is singing a song devoted to her husband. However, when the detective brings up evidence that Roxie and Casely were having an affair, Amos recants, ambitious District Attorney Harrison announces he will seek the death penalty. At Cook County Jail, Roxie is sent to Murderess Row, Roxie meets her idol Velma, but her friendship is rudely rebuffed. She learns the backstories of the women there, including Velma Kelly. On Mortons advice, Roxie engages Velmas lawyer, the brilliant Billy Flynn, the press believe the story, praised by the public as a tragic heroine, Roxie becomes an overnight sensation. Meanwhile, Kitty Baxter, a heiress, is arrested for murdering her husband. To Velmas surprise, Roxie quickly steals back the fame by claiming to be pregnant. Amos is ignored by the press, and Flynn, to create sympathy for Roxie, convinces him that the child is Caselys. Roxie over-confidently fires Flynn, believing she can now win on her own, however, when Katalin Helinszki, a Hungarian woman from Murderess Row is hanged, she realizes the gravity of the situation and rehires Flynn. Roxies trial begins, and Billy turns it into a spectacle with the help of the sensationalist newspaper reporters. Billy discredits witnesses, manipulates evidence, and even stages a public reconciliation between Amos and Roxie when she says the child is his. The trial seems to be going Roxies way until Velma appears with Roxies diary, Billy discredits the diary, implying that Harrison was the one who planted the evidence
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Theatrical release poster
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Colm Feore
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Feore was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to Irish parents who lived in Ireland for several years during his early life. The family subsequently moved to Windsor, Ontario, where Feore grew up, after graduating from Ridley College in St. Catharines, Ontario, he attended the National Theatre School of Canada in Montreal, Quebec. Feore honed his skills as a member of the Acting Company of the Stratford Festival of Canada. He spent 16 seasons at Stratford where he rose from bit parts to leading roles, including Romeo, Hamlet, Richard III and he returned in 2006 to star in four productions, including Don Juan in both English and French and as Fagin in Oliver. He also has appeared on Broadway as Cassius in the production of Julius Caesar starring Denzel Washington as Brutus, off-Broadway, for the Public Theater, he was Claudius in a Hamlet production that starred Liev Schreiber. He also played a crazed marketing executive imposter in the season of the Canadian TV series, Slings and Arrows. The show has run in the United States on the Sundance Channel, outside Canada, Feore has appeared in numerous film, theatre and television roles. He is perhaps most famous in the United States for his roles in such Hollywood films as Pearl Harbor, The Sum of All Fears, Paycheck. In 1999, he appeared in Stephen Kings Storm of the Century as the powerful and he was the crooked Los Angeles Police Chief James E. Davis in 2008s Changeling. In 2011, he appeared as Laufey, King of the Frost Giants, in the superhero film. In 2014, he portrayed Dr. Francis Dulmacher in Gotham and he played murderers in two episodes of Friday the 13th, The Series. In October 2012, Feore was awarded a doctorate degree by Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, in recognition of his contributions to Canadian theater. He has been married to Donna Feore, a choreographer and theatre director associated with the National Arts Centre and they have three children, sons Jack and Thomas, and daughter Anna. A Nest of Singing Birds, Michael Jimson Iron Eagle II, Yuri Lebanov Friday the 13th, anton Pascola, Alex Dent Beautiful Dreamers, Dr
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Colm Feore at the 2013 Canadian Film Centre Annual Gala & Auction, in February 2013
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John C. Reilly
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John Christopher Reilly is an American actor, comedian, singer, screenwriter, and producer. He has performed in fifty films, including Boogie Nights, Magnolia, Gangs of New York, Talladega Nights, Step Brothers, Wreck-It Ralph. For his performance in Chicago, Reilly was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and the corresponding Golden Globe Award. He was later nominated for a Grammy Award and a second Golden Globe Award for Walk Hard, the title song of Walk Hard, The Dewey Cox Story, performed by Reilly in the film. Since 2010, Reilly has been starring in the television series Check It Out. with Dr. Steve Brule, playing a character originated on Tim and Eric Awesome Show. Reilly performs with his band John Reilly and Friends and worked as an actor in True West. Reilly was born in Chicago, Illinois, the fifth of six children and his father was of Irish and Scottish descent, and his mother was of Lithuanian ancestry. His father ran an industrial supply company. Reilly has described himself as being mischievous during his childhood, highlighting an event when he was 12 in which he, Reilly, though he no longer professes Catholicism, was raised Roman Catholic and attended Brother Rice High School. He is an alumnus of DePaul University in Chicago, Reilly made his film debut in the Brian De Palma war film Casualties of War as PFC Herbert Hatcher in 1989. Although his role was written as a one, De Palma liked Reillys performance so much that the role was significantly expanded. He played Buck, Tom Cruises characters NASCAR car chief in Tony Scotts Days of Thunder in 1990 and he continued to appear in several significant supporting roles, including 1992s Hoffa and 1993s Whats Eating Gilbert Grape. The following year, Reilly was cast in the romantic comedy Never Been Kissed, in 2002, he appeared in three of the years Academy Award for Best Picture nominees, Chicago, Gangs of New York and The Hours. For Chicago, he played Amos Hart, Roxannes trusting husband and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, Reilly appeared in Martin Scorseses 2004 Howard Hughes biopic, The Aviator, as Noah Dietrich, Howard Hughes trusted business partner. Of the role Reilly said, “Noah was almost a father figure to Hughes. Howard would have a scheme, and it was Noah who had to say, in 2007, Reilly starred as the title character in parody bio-pic Walk Hard, The Dewey Cox Story, singing various songs, parodying Johnny Cash, Ray Charles and others. The next year, Reilly reunited with Ferrell to star in Step Brothers, in 2008, he was among the many notable actors to perform in the online political musical, Proposition 8 – The Musical. Reilly voiced himself in the The Simpsons episode Any Given Sundance and co-starred alongside Sean William Scott in The Promotion in 2008
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Reilly at the 2009
Los Angeles Film Festival premiere of
Ponyo
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Reilly in February 2007
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Reilly at the 2012
Comic-Con International in San Diego
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Dominic West
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Dominic Gerard Francis Eagleton West is an English actor, musician, and director. He stars as Noah Solloway on the Showtime drama series, The Affair, West was born and brought up in Sheffield, the sixth of seven siblings in a Roman Catholic family, largely of Irish descent. His mother, Pauline Mary Moya, was an actress, and his father, Thomas George Eagleton West, West attended Eton College and Trinity College, Dublin. He graduated from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 1995, wests screen appearances include True Blue, Chicago, Richard III, and Mona Lisa Smile. His most notable role has been as the American police detective Jimmy McNulty on the HBO television police drama The Wire. West was praised for the accuracy of his characters American accent, during his stint on The Wire, West directed the season 5 episode Took. West starred as Lysander in the 1999 film version of William Shakespeares A Midsummer Nights Dream, in feature films, he portrayed the heavy metal guitarist Kirk Cuddy in the 2001 film Rock Star. In 2006 West made a guest appearance as an actor in a sketch in The Catherine Tate Show, in 2007, he played the Spartan politician Theron in 300 and Detective Poppil in Hannibal Rising. West played the supervillain, Jigsaw, in the 2008 film Marvels Punisher, in 2010 he had a role as General Virilus in Neil Marshalls adventure thriller Centurion. West starred in the UK ghost film, The Awakening, West has done other work on TV and radio. He appeared in the role of Oliver Cromwell in the Channel 4 series The Devils Whore and he also performed as Dr. West, the opening track on Eminems 2009 album Relapse, as a doctor discharging Eminem from a rehab facility. West played the part over the phone in January 2009 while Eminem was recording it in a Miami studio, in 2011, West appeared as a news presenter on the BBC-TV period drama series The Hour. In 2012, West was offered the role of Mance Rayder in the HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones and he played gay activist Jonathan Blake in the 2014 film Pride about the 1984-1985 miners strike in the UK. West stars as Noah Solloway on Showtimes series The Affair, which premiered October 2014, the series was renewed for a third season in 2015. As a theatre actor, West has played Edward in Harley Granville Barkers The Voysey Inheritance directed by Peter Gill at the Royal National Theatre in 2006. He took the role in Simon Grays classic comedy, Butley. In the September he returned to his native Sheffield to play Iago to his former Wire co-star Clarke Peterss Othello at the Crucible Theatre, from mid December 2012 to January 2013, West starred as Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield. In 2015-16 he starred alongside Janet McTeer in Les Liaisons Dangereuses at the Donmar Warehouse in London, in 2009, West starred in a series of online films known as The Carte Noire Readers
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Dominic West
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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
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It is the third and final installment in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, following The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers, preceding The Hobbit film trilogy. Released on 17 December 2003, The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King received rave reviews and universal acclaim, the film was the highest-grossing film of 2003 and, by the end of its theatrical run, the second highest-grossing film in history. As of January 2017, it is the fourteenth highest-grossing film of all time, at the 76th Academy Awards, it won all 11 Academy Awards for which it was nominated, therefore holding the record for highest Oscar sweep. The wins included the awards for Best Picture, the first and only time a film has done so, it was also the second sequel to win a Best Picture Oscar. The film jointly holds the record for the largest number of Academy Awards won with Ben-Hur, the film has been re-released twice, in 2011 and 2017. Gandalf leads Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli, and King Théoden to Isengard where they reunite with Merry, with Saruman defeated, Gandalf retrieves Sarumans palantír. Pippin later steals a glance into the seeing-stone, and suffers an attack from Sauron himself. Gandalf deduces that Sauron will attack Gondors capital Minas Tirith and he rides there to warn them, taking Pippin with him because Sauron believes Pippin is the ring bearer. The hobbits begin climbing a precarious stair carved in the face that will take them into Mordor via a secret way. But having overheard Gollums plot to regain the Ring, Sam keeps an eye on him. Saurons army strikes and overwhelms the city of Osgiliath, forcing Faramir, while helping Théoden gather his forces, Aragorn is approached by Elrond who informs him Arwen is dying. Following a vision of her son, she refused to leave Middle Earth, Elrond gives Aragorn the sword Andúril, Isildurs sword Narsil reforged, so he can reclaim his birthright while gaining reinforcements from the Dead Men of Dunharrow. Joined by Legolas and Gimli, Aragorn travels to the Paths of the Dead, Faramir is gravely wounded after a futile effort to retake Osgiliath, and believing his son to be dead, Denethor falls into madness. Gandalf is left to command the city defences against the Orc army led by Gothmog, but as Gothmogs forces eventually force their way into the city, Denethor attempts to kill himself and Faramir on a pyre. Pippin alerts Gandalf and they save Faramir, but Denethor leaps to his death from the top of Minas Tirith just before Théoden and the Rohirrim arrive. Initially, the Rohirrim have the advantage at the Battle of the Pelennor Fields, though Théodens niece Éowyn, having posed as a male soldier, battles and slays the Witch-King with Merrys help, Théoden dies of his wounds. Aragorn arrives with the Army of the Dead, they overcome the Orcs, Aragorn and the other captains of Men decide to lead all who can march upon the Black Gate as a distraction, so Frodo and Sam can get to Mount Doom. Gollum disposes of the last of the food, blaming Sam
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Theatrical release poster
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The city of Minas Tirith was built from parts of the set of Helm's Deep, while the wide shots were from miniatures.
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Jackson's retelling of the Dunharrow sequence required an actor in prosthetics to play the King of the Dead, while the rest of the Army of the Dead were completely digitally constructed.
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Sean Astin
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Sean Patrick Astin is an American actor, director, voice artist, and producer. He is known for his roles as Samwise Gamgee in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Mikey Walsh in The Goonies. Astin was born in Santa Monica, California, the son of actress Patty Duke, at the time, it was reported that entertainer Desi Arnaz, Jr. was his biological father. When Michael Tell, a writer, music promoter and publisher of the newspaper The Las Vegas Israelite, came to sublet her apartment and offered to marry her as a way out of the scandal, Duke agreed. The marriage lasted only 13 days in 1970, and ended long before Astin was born, on August 5,1972, Duke married actor John Astin, after having been in a relationship with him for two years. When the wedding guests were invited to speak, 18-month-old Astin looked at John and cried, Daddy. to which the Episcopal priest performing the ceremony remarked, Well, in 1973, Duke gave birth to Astins brother, Mackenzie Astin, who also became an actor. Duke and John Astin divorced in 1985, Duke married Mike Pearce in 1986, and they adopted a son, Kevin, in 1989. When he was 14, Duke told Astin that Arnaz was his father, however, in his mid-20s, Astin met a relative of Michael Tell who suggested they were related. Sean set out to find the truth about his biological father, Astin maintains close relationships with all three men, saying, Desi Arnaz Jr. loves me, and I love him. We are so close. Science tells me. that hes not my biological father, Science tells me that Mike Tell is. Astin considers John his father, as John was the one who raised him, Astin is also close to his stepfather, Mike Pearce, saying, I can call any of them on the phone any time I want to, says Sean. John, Desi, Mike or Papa Mike. my four dads, Astin is of German and Irish ancestry through his mother, and Austrian German through his biological father. He graduated from UCLA with a B. A. in History, an alumnus of Los Angeles Valley College, Astin served on the schools board of directors of the Patrons Association and the Arts Council. Astins first acting role was in a 1981 television movie titled Please Dont Hit Me, Mom and he made his film debut at age 13 as Mikey in The Goonies. After The Goonies, Astin appeared in more films, including the Disney made-for-TV movie. In 1994, Astin directed and co-produced the short film Kangaroo Court, many awards were bestowed upon the trilogy, particularly its final installment, which earned eleven Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Throughout the filming process, Astin became close friends with several cast members, Astins daughter, Alexandra, is in the closing scene of The Return of the King. She plays his daughter, Elanor Gamgee, who runs out to him as he returns from the harbor
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Astin at
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Sean Bean
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Shaun Mark Bean, known professionally as Sean Bean, is an English actor. After graduating from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, he made his debut in a theatre production of Romeo. Retaining his distinctive Yorkshire accent, he first found success for his portrayal of Richard Sharpe in the ITV series Sharpe. His most prominent film role was Boromir in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, as a voice actor, Bean has been featured in the video games The Elder Scrolls IV, Oblivion, Sid Meiers Civilization VI, and the drama The Canterbury Tales, among several others. He has received awards during his career and won an International Emmy for Best Actor. He has also nominated for a BAFTA and Saturn Award. Bean was born in Handsworth, a suburb of Sheffield, which was part of West Riding of Yorkshire. He is the son of Rita and Brian Bean and he has a younger sister named Lorraine. His father owned a shop that employed 50 people, including Beans mother. Despite becoming relatively wealthy, the family never moved away from the estate as they preferred to remain close to friends. As a child, Bean smashed a door during an argument. This prevented him pursuing his dream of playing football professionally. In 1975, Bean left Brook Comprehensive School with O Levels in Art, after a job at a supermarket and another for the local council, he started working for his fathers firm with a day release at Rotherham College of Arts and Technology to take a welding course. While there, he stumbled into an art class and decided to pursue his interest in art. After attending courses at two colleges, one for half a day and the other for less than a week, he returned to Rotherham College. After some college plays and one at Rotherham Civic Theatre, he won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Bean graduated from RADA in 1983, making his professional acting debut later that year as Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet at the Watermill Theatre in Newbury. His early career involved a mixture of stage and screen work, as an actor, he adopted the Irish spelling of his first name. His first national exposure came in an advert for non-alcoholic lager, between 1986 and 1988, he was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, appearing in productions of Romeo and Juliet, The Fair Maid of the West, and A Midsummer Nights Dream
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Bean at the 2015
Toronto Film Festival.
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At the premiere of
North Country at the 2005
Toronto International Film Festival
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Dominic Monaghan
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Dominic Bernard Patrick Luke Monaghan is an English actor. He currently hosts the nature program Wild Things with Dominic Monaghan, Monaghan was born in Berlin, West Germany, to British parents, Maureen, a nurse, and Austin Monaghan, a science teacher. He also has a brother named Luke Twardowski-reid. His older brother Matthew is the songwriter and co-lead vocalist of the indie band Radiosepia. Monaghans family lived in Berlin, Düsseldorf, Stuttgart and Münster, when he was about 11 years old, his family moved from Germany to Heaton Moor in Stockport, England. In Stockport, he attended St Annes Roman Catholic High School and Aquinas College, although Monaghan held many occupations when he was younger, he always wanted to be an actor. After his second year at St. Annes, Monaghan became a regular in school such as Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol. There, he was scouted for Hetty Wainthropp Investigates, on which he played Hettys under-aged sidekick, Geoffrey Shawcross and he made his feature-film debut as Russian sailor Sasha in the TV film Hostile Waters. Monaghan later starred in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy as Meriadoc Brandybuck, for which he achieved international acclaim, Monaghan narrated Ringers, Lord of the Fans, a documentary about The Lord of the Rings fandom. He also provided the narration for The Discovery Channels documentary Devils Bible in 2008 and he also appeared in Soldiers of Fortune alongside Sean Bean and Christian Slater. He was a regular cast member on the ABC series Lost from 2004 to 2007, playing English ex-rockstar, Monaghan originally auditioned for the role of Sawyer. The role of Charlie was then changed from an old, washed up rocker from the 1980s, Monaghan returned to the series as a special guest star after departing from the main cast. In 2009, Monaghan starred as Chris Bradley / Bolt in X-Men Origins, on 15 July 2009, it was confirmed that he would join the cast of ABC Studios science fiction television series FlashForward as the character Simon. The series premiered on 24 September 2009 and it was cancelled after its first season. On 18 March 2010, Monaghan was spotted at the Universal Sheraton filming a short called Gloria and it was part of a programme called REESES Puffs Extraordinary Cinema. He played the part of Caleb Reese, in 2010, Monaghan and Megan Fox made an appearance as a couple in an abusive relationship in the music video for rapper Eminems song Love the Way You Lie. Scenes include the celebrities on top of a liquor store, Fox and Monaghan also filmed inside the store and at a seedy dive bar next door to the store. In November 2012, a new show on Channel 5 titled Wild Things with Dominic Monaghan began airing in the UK, the documentary shows Monaghan travelling to various locations such as Venezuela and Ecuador to film and interact with the exotic and often dangerous local wildlife
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Monaghan at the
Wellington premiere of
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King in 2003
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Miranda Otto
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Miranda Otto is an Australian actress. Otto made her film debut in Emmas War, in which she played a teenager who moves to Australias bush country during World War II. She played Éowyn in Peter Jacksons The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Otto was raised in Newcastle and Brisbane, and briefly resided in Hong Kong following her parents 1974 divorce. She spent weekends and holidays with her father in Sydney and developed an interest in acting through him, during her childhood, Otto and her friends wrote scripts and designed costumes and flyers in their spare time. She appeared in plays at the Nimrod Theatre, which attracted the attention of casting director Faith Martin. Subsequently, Otto received a role in the 1986 World War II drama Emmas War and she had wanted to be a ballerina but was forced to abandon this goal due to moderate scoliosis. Otto graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney in 1990, prior to graduation, she appeared in minor film roles including Initiation and The 13th Floor. In the film, directed by Kathy Mueller, she starred as a woman who could communicate with horses. Her appearance garnered Otto her first Australian Film Institute nomination for Best Actress the following year, Ottos next role was in the film The Last Days of Chez Nous, which portrayed the complex relationships between the members of an Australian family. The film earned Otto her second Australian Film Institute nomination, this time for Best Supporting Actress, in 1993, Otto co-starred with Noah Taylor in the sexually provocative comedy film The Nostradamus Kid, which was based on the memories of author Bob Ellis during the 1960s. Otto was drawn to the film because she was fascinated by the period, a small role in the independent film Sex Is a Four Letter Word followed in 1995. In 1995, she began to doubt her career choice as she failed to get the parts for which she auditioned and she fled to her home in Newcastle for almost a year, during which she painted her mothers house. In 1996, director Shirley Barrett cast Otto as a shy waitress in the film Love Serenade and she played Dimity Hurley, a lonely young woman, who competes with her older sister Vicki-Ann for the attention of a famous DJ from Brisbane. She starred in the 1997 films The Well and Doing Time for Patsy Cline, when Otto received the film script for The Well, she refused to read it, fearing that she would not get the part. Otto believed that she could not convincingly play the role of Katherine, the film, directed by Samantha Lang, starred Otto as a teenager involved in a claustrophobic relationship with a lonely older woman. Otto earned her third Australian Film Institute nomination for the film, later that year, she co-starred with Richard Roxburgh in the drama Doing Time for Patsy Cline. The low-budget Australian film required Otto to perform country music standards, soon after the release of The Well and Doing Time for Patsy Cline, magazines and other media outlets were eager to profile the actress. In 1997, Otto began dating her Doing Time for Patsy Cline co-star Richard Roxburgh and her involvement with Roxburgh made her a regular subject of Australian tabloid magazines and media at the time, a role to which she was unaccustomed
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Miranda Otto at InStyle Women of Style Awards Red Carpet 2012
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John Rhys-Davies
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John Rhys-Davies is a British actor and voice actor known for his portrayal of Gimli in The Lord of the Rings trilogy and the charismatic Arab excavator Sallah in the Indiana Jones films. John Rhys-Davies was born on 5 May 1944 in Salisbury, England and his mother, Mary Margaretta Phyllis Jones, was a nurse, and his father, Rhys Davies, was a mechanical engineer and Colonial Officer. In the early 1950s his family lived for years in Kongwa, Dar es Salaam, Moshi and Mwanza Tanzania. He was educated at Truro School and at the University of East Anglia where he was one of the first 87 students admitted, after teaching at Watton County Secondary School in Norfolk he won a place at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. He appeared sporadically on UK television in the early 1970s including his role as the gangster Laughing Spam Fritter opposite Adam Faith in Budgie, later he played Praetorian officer Naevius Sutorius Macro in I, Claudius. In 1989, Rhys-Davies also starred in another James Clavell adaption, Noble House, set in Hong Kong, in which he plays Ian Dunross corporate enemy, Quillian Gornt. Davies has played the character Porthos in two projects, a two-part episode of The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne and the Hallmark Channel movie La Femme Musketeer. He appears in the full motion video cut scenes of games including Ripper, Dune 2000. He has also appeared in a number of Sci Fi Channel original movies, in 2004, he starred in The Privileged Planet, a documentary that makes the case for intelligent design. In 2013 he appeared in the family history programme Coming Home, in 2014, he joined the cast of the television show Metal Hurlant Chronicles to play Holgarth, an immortal alchemist. In 2015 he had a role in the single campaign of the PC game Star Citizen alongside Mark Hamill. The work consists of full body Motion capture, including facial expressions and he is also known for his popular portrayal of the dwarf Gimli in The Lord of the Rings trilogy. The cinematography of the films was aided in that Rhys-Davies is tall –6 ft 1 in, therefore, although his character was supposed to be short, he was properly in proportion compared to the hobbit actors. Had he been of similar height, shots of the entire fellowship would have required three camera passes rather than two. The other members of the cast—Sean Astin, Sean Bean, Billy Boyd, Ian McKellen, Dominic Monaghan, Orlando Bloom, Viggo Mortensen, Rhys-Davies suffered severe allergic reactions to the prosthetics used during filming, and his eyes sometimes swelled shut. When an interviewer asked him whether he would consider returning to the role for the version of The Hobbit, he said, Ive already been asked and to be honest with you. I have already completely ruled it out, theres a sentimental part of me that would love to be involved again. Really I am not sure my face can take that sort of punishment any more and he added that this time around Theyve got a different set of problems
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John Rhys-Davies, 2014
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Rhys-Davies in an autograph session in Sweden
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Karl Urban
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Karl-Heinz Urban is a New Zealand actor. Leonard Bones McCoy in Star Trek, Star Trek Into Darkness and Star Trek Beyond and he won acclaim for his performances in New Zealand films The Price of Milk and Out of the Blue. He also played the main character John Kennex in the television series Almost Human. Urban was born in Wellington, New Zealand and his father, a German immigrant, owned a leather goods store, and his mother once worked for Film Facilities in Wellington. Through his mother, the young Urban was exposed to classic New Zealand cinema, Urban attended St Marks Church School, where he showed an early love for public performance. His first acting role came at age eight, when he had a line in one episode of the New Zealand television series Pioneer Woman. Though continuing to take part in stage productions, he did not act professionally again until after high school. He attended Wellington College in 1986–1990 and he then enrolled at Victoria University of Wellington in the Bachelor of Arts program but left after one year to pursue a career in acting. Over the next few years, he appeared in several local TV commercials in addition to roles in the Wellington area. Eventually he moved to Auckland, where he was offered many guest roles in TV shows, Urban then moved briefly to Bondi Beach, Sydney, Australia in 1995, before returning to New Zealand the following year. He also made an appearance as Mael in the episode Altared States, both programs were filmed in New Zealand. In 2001, he appeared in the offbeat rural romance The Price of Milk, for which he received his first nomination at the New Zealand Qantas Film, urbans first Hollywood role was in the 2002 horror film Ghost Ship. However he was unable to make the audition because of filming commitments, the role eventually went to Daniel Craig. Urban played John Reaper Grimm in Universal Pictures Doom, which was released on 21 October 2005, in 2007, he starred in the Viking adventure Pathfinder. A longtime fan of Westerns, Urban appeared as Woodrow Call in Comanche Moon, in 2009, he played Dr. Leonard Bones McCoy, a role famously originated by DeForest Kelley, in the eleventh Star Trek film. A fan of the Star Trek franchise since childhood, Urban actively pursued a role in the film and his performance was widely embraced by the Star Trek fan community for its faithfulness to the spirit of Kelleys McCoy. In 2009, he appeared as himself in the documentary film Reclaiming the Blade. Urban next appeared as CIA agent William Cooper in Red, adapted from the DC Comics graphic novel of the name and co-starring Bruce Willis
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Karl Urban promoting the film
Dredd at the 2012
Fantastic Fest
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Urban,
Zachary Quinto,
J. J. Abrams, and
Chris Pine, at the
Star Trek Into Darkness in Sydney, Australia movie premiere, in April 2013
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Hugo Weaving
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Hugo Wallace Weaving is a Nigerian-born English-Australian film and stage actor. Weavings first television role was in the 1984 Australian television series Bodyline, in film, he first rose to prominence for his performance as Martin in the Australian drama Proof. Weaving played Anthony Tick Belrose/Mitzi Del Bra in the comedy-drama The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert and his roles as a voice actor include Rex in Babe, Noah in Happy Feet and Happy Feet Two, and Megatron in the Transformers film series. Weavings awards for acting include a Satellite Award, MTV Movie Award, while in England, he attended The Downs School, Wraxall, near Bristol, and Queen Elizabeths Hospital. His family moved back to Australia in 1976, where he attended Knox Grammar School in Sydney and he graduated from Sydneys National Institute of Dramatic Art in 1981. Weavings first television role was in the 1984 Australian television series Bodyline, Weaving appeared in the Australian miniseries The Dirtwater Dynasty in 1988 and as Geoffrey Chambers in the drama Barlow and Chambers, A Long Way From Home. He starred opposite Nicole Kidman in the 1989 film Bangkok Hilton, in 1991, Weaving received the Australian Film Institutes Best Actor award for his performance in the low-budget Proof. He appeared as Sir John in the 1993 Yahoo Serious comedy Reckless Kelly, in 1998, he received the Best Actor award from the Montreal Film Festival for his performance as a suspected serial killer in The Interview. Weaving played the enigmatic and evil–minded Agent Smith in the 1999 film The Matrix and he later reprised that role in the films 2003 sequels, The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions. He was an actor in the cartoon film The Magic Pudding. He garnered additional acclaim in the role of half–elven lord Elrond in Peter Jacksons three-film adaptation of The Lord of the Rings, Weaving was the main actor in Andrew Kotatkos award-winning film Everything Goes. He starred as a heroin-addicted ex-rugby league player in the 2005 Australian indie film Little Fish, opposite Cate Blanchett. Weaving played the role as V in the 2006 film V for Vendetta, in which he was reunited with the Wachowskis, creators of The Matrix trilogy. Actor James Purefoy was originally signed to play the role, but was fired six weeks into filming over creative differences, Weaving reshot most of James Purefoys scenes as V apart from a couple of minor dialogue-free scenes early in the film. Stuntman David Leitch performed all of Vs stunts, Weaving reprised his role as Elrond for the video game The Lord of the Rings, The Battle for Middle-Earth II. He regularly appears in productions by the Sydney Theatre Company, in 2006, he worked with Cate Blanchett on a reprise of the STC production of Hedda Gabler in New York City. Weaving himself was unaware of the controversy and had accepted the role based on Michael Bays personal request, in a November 2008 Sun Herald interview, though Weaving reprised his role in two sequels, he does not have much personal investment in the Transformers films. In February 2010, Weaving revealed to The Age, Director Michael Bay talks to me on the phone and we were doing the voice for the second one and I still hadnt seen the first one
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Weaving at the premiere of
The Turning at the
2014 Berlin Film Festival.
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Hugo Weaving at the premiere of
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King in December 2003.
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David Wenham
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David Wenham is an Australian actor who has appeared in movies, television series and theatre productions. He is known in Hollywood for his roles as Faramir in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, Carl in Van Helsing, Dilios in 300 and its sequel 300, Rise of an Empire and Neil Fletcher in Australia. He is also known in his native Australia for his role as Diver Dan in SeaChange, Wenham was born in Marrickville, Sydney, the son of Kath and Bill Wenham. He has five sisters, Helen, Anne, Carmel, Kathryn, and Maree. He was raised in the Roman Catholic faith and attended Christian Brothers High School, Wenham started his career as an actor after graduating from Theatre Nepean at the University of Western Sydney with a Bachelor of Arts in 1987. His role as Diver Dan has made the actor something of a sex symbol, although he dislikes thinking of himself as such, a portrait of Wenham by artist Adam Cullen won the Archibald Prize in 2000. Wenham is signed to Storm Model Management in London and he was also seen in Van Helsing playing Hugh Jackmans sidekick, Friar Carl. His character, Dilios, narrated and appeared in the movie 300, minor roles of Wenhams in overseas films include in The Crocodile Hunter as a park ranger, and briefly in Moulin Rouge. Wenham stars in the video for Alex Lloyds single Brand New Day. In 2008s Australia, he reunited with Hugh Jackman playing antagonist Neil Fletcher who seeks to acquire the ranch Jackmans character is employed with, in both Lord of the Rings, Return of the King and 300, Wenhams character is the sole survivor returned from an ill-fated battle. He reprises his role of Dilios in the videogame 300, March to Glory for Sony PlayStation Portable, in 2009 he again took to the stage, this time as the lead actor, Jerry Springer, in the British musical Jerry Springer, The Opera. During its 6-day run at the Sydney Opera House he played in sold-out performances alongside ARIA award winning singer Kate Miller-Heidke, in 2010, Wenham starred as the disgraced Melbourne lawyer Andrew Fraser in the Australian TV series Killing Time. This ten-part series shows Frasers fall from grace as he defends many Melbourne criminals during the 1980s and 1990s and it was shown on TV1 in late 2011. Wenham plays New Zealand detective Al Parker alongside Elisabeth Moss in the 2013 BBC series Top of the Lake, in 2013, Wenham returned to the stage to play the lead role of John Proctor, in the Melbourne Theatre Companys mid-year production of Arthur Millers The Crucible. In 2014, Wenham started as Patrick, in Paper Planes to released in 15 January 2015, in 2015, Wenham voiced the role Jacko a frilled-neck lizard, in Blinky Bill the Movie. He has two daughters, Eliza Jane and Millie, with his girlfriend, Kate Agnew. Wenham read a poem by Rupert McCall at the service for Steve Irwin. The poem was entitled The Crocodiles are Crying, Wenham is a Sydney Swans supporter
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Wenham at the premiere of the film
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Elijah Wood
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Elijah Jordan Wood is an American actor, voice actor, DJ, and producer. He made his debut with a minor part in Back to the Future Part II. Landing a succession of roles, he was critically acclaimed as a child actor by age nine. As a child, he starred in the films Radio Flyer, The Good Son, North and he began to take on teenage roles in the films The Ice Storm, Deep Impact and The Faculty. He is best known for his leading role as Frodo Baggins in Peter Jacksons epic film trilogy The Lord of the Rings. Since then, he has chosen varied roles in such as Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Sin City, Green Street, Everything Is Illuminated. Wood provided the voice of Mumble in the animated musical films Happy Feet and Happy Feet Two. In 2005, he started his own label, Simian Records. He did the voice acting for Spyro in the Legend of Spyro trilogy, from 2011-14, Wood played the role of Ryan Newman in FXs dark comedy, Wilfred. As of late autumn 2016, he co-stars in the BBC America series Dirk Gentlys Holistic Detective Agency, Wood was born on January 28,1981 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, the second of three children. His parents, Debbie and Warren Wood, operated a delicatessen, Wood is of Austrian, Danish, English, German, and Polish descent. He has a brother, Zachariah, who is a video game producer at Sony, and a younger sister, Hannah. At age seven, Wood began modeling in his hometown and took piano lessons, in elementary school, he appeared in The Sound of Music, followed by the title character in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. He also served as boy in a Marion Creative Council production of See How They Run. In 1989, his parents sold their delicatessen and the family–without his father–moved to Los Angeles for Wood to pursue an acting career and his parents divorced when he was 15. Wood modeled and did local commercials and he got his first break in the video for Paula Abduls Forever Your Girl, directed by David Fincher. This was followed by a role in the TV film, Child in the Night. Playing Aidan Quinns son in Avalon and Tin Men garnered professional attention for Wood, a small part in Richard Geres Internal Affairs, was followed by the role of a boy who brings estranged couple Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson back together in Paradise
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Wood at 2014
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Paul Giamatti
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Paul Edward Valentine Giamatti is an American character actor and producer. He has won two Golden Globe Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award and four Screen Actors Guild Awards, Giamatti was born June 6,1967, in New Haven, Connecticut, the youngest of three children. His father, A. Bartlett Giamatti, was a Yale University professor who became president of the university. His mother, Toni Marilyn Giamatti, was a homemaker and English teacher who taught at Hopkins School and had previously acted. His paternal grandfathers family were Italian immigrants from Telese Terme, the surname was originally spelled Giammattei. The rest of Giamattis ancestry is German, Dutch, English, French, Irish and his paternal grandmother had deep roots in New England, dating back to the colonial era. His brother, Marcus, is also an actor, and his sister, Giamatti was first educated at The Foote School and later graduated from Choate Rosemary Hall in 1985. He attended Yale University, where he was elected to the Skull and he was active in the undergraduate theater scene, working alongside fellow actors and Yale students Ron Livingston and Edward Norton. He graduated in 1989 with a degree in English, and went on to earn a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Yale School of Drama. In 1997, Giamatti landed in his first high-profile role as Kenny Pig Vomit Rushton in the adaptation of Howard Sterns Private Parts. Stern praised Giamattis performance often on his program, calling for him to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. In 1998, Giamatti appeared in a number of supporting roles in the films, The Truman Show, Saving Private Ryan. In 1999, he played Bob Zmuda and Tony Clifton in Miloš Formans Andy Kaufman biopic, Giamatti later continued steadily during the early 2000s by appearing in major studio releases including Big Mommas House, Planet of the Apes and Big Fat Liar. In 2003, Giamatti began to earn critical acclaim after his role in the film American Splendor. In 2004, Giamatti gained mainstream recognition and fame with the 2004 independent romantic comedy Sideways and his portrayal of a depressed writer vacationing in the Santa Barbara wine country garnered him a Golden Globe nomination and an Independent Spirit Award. Following the commercial success of Sideways, Giamatti appeared in Cinderella Man and he was nominated for a Golden Globe and won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture. Giamatti had his first major role in a movie in the 2007 film Shoot Em Up, while also starring in The Nanny Diaries. That same year, he starred in the independent film Pretty Bird, Giamatti received his second Golden Globe win for his role in the 2010 film, Barneys Version
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Giamatti at the
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Giamatti at the
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Virginia Madsen
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Virginia G. Madsen is an American actress and producer. She made her debut in Class, which was filmed in her native Chicago. She soon moved to Los Angeles, in 1984, David Lynch cast her in the science fiction film Dune as Princess Irulan. Madsen was then cast in a series of teen movies, including Electric Dreams, Modern Girls. Currently, she stars as Kimble Hookstraten in the ABC political drama Designated Survivor, Madsen was born in Chicago, Illinois, the daughter of Elaine Madsen, an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker and author, and Calvin Madsen, a fireman. Madsens parents divorced in the late 1960s, and her left a career in finance to pursue a career in arts. Madsens siblings are Cheryl Madsen, an entrepreneur, and actor Michael Madsen and her paternal grandparents were Danish, and her mother has English, Irish, Scottish, German and distant Native American ancestry. Madsen is a graduate of New Trier High School in Winnetka, Madsen later attended the Ted Liss Acting Studio in Chicago, and Harand Camp Adult Theater Seminar in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin. Of her experience with Liss, she said, I had wanted to join his class since I was 12 and it was well worth the wait because I dont think I could have got that sort of training anywhere else especially in the United States. I always wanted to make a career out of acting. Madsen made her debut when she was 22, acting in a bit part she landed as Lisa in the teen sex comedy Class. She then made an appearance in Kenny Loggins music video for Im Free from the Footloose soundtrack and she portrayed a cellist named Madeline in Electric Dreams, which was the first film release by Virgin Films Production Company. She was cast as Princess Irulan in David Lynchs science fiction epic Dune, in 1986, she starred as Boris romantic interest Barbara in Creator, which also starred Peter OToole. Madsen first became popular with audiences in 1986 with her portrayal of a Catholic schoolgirl who fell in love with a boy from a camp in Duncan Gibbons Fire with Fire. As beauty queen Dixie Lee Boxx, she was the love interest of minor-league baseball manager Cecil Stud Cantrell in the HBO TV movie Long Gone. Also in 1987, she appeared in the video for I Found Someone. She played a secretary in the 1988 comedy film Hot to Trot and she also starred in the 1992 horror film Candyman. Madsen appeared in a role in the Francis Ford Coppola drama The Rainmaker starring Matt Damon
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Madsen at the 2006
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Madsen at the
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Sandra Oh
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Sandra Miju Oh is a Canadian actress known for her role as Dr. She has also played roles in the feature films The Princess Diaries, Under the Tuscan Sun, Last Night, Sideways. Other films she has appeared in include The Night Listener, Sorry, Haters, Blindness, Bean, Wilby Wonderful, Hard Candy, and Rabbit Hole. Oh was born on July 20,1971 in the Ottawa suburb of Nepean, to middle-class Korean immigrant parents Oh Junsu and Oh Young-nam and her father is a businessman and her mother a biochemist. Oh has a brother, Ray, and a sister, Grace and she grew up in a devout Christian household, living on Camwood Crescent in Nepean, where she began acting and ballet at an early age. Growing up, Oh was one of the few youths of Asian descent in Nepean, at the age of 10, she played The Wizard of Woe in a class musical, The Canada Goose. Later, at Sir Robert Borden High School, she founded the Environmental club BASE, while at Sir Robert Borden High School she was Student Council President. This interest led her to drama classes, act in school plays, and join the drama club where she took part in the Canadian Improv Games and Skit Row High. Against her parents advice, she rejected a four-year journalism scholarship to Carleton University to study drama at the prestigious National Theatre School of Canada in Montreal and she told her parents that she would try acting for a few years, and if that failed, return to school. Reflecting on forgoing university, Oh said, I’m the only person in my family who doesn’t have a masters in something, soon after graduating from the National Theatre School in 1993, she starred in a London, Ontario stage production of David Mamets Oleanna. The film received acclaim, with Roger Ebert praising Ohs warm performance. Janet Maslin of The New York Times also praised her performance, saying, Ms. Ohs performance makes Jade a smart, Oh won the Genie Award for Best Actress for the role. She then went on to star in the 1997 international feature hit film Bean playing the role of Bernice. Her other Canadian films include Long Life, Happiness & Prosperity and Last Night, Oh was cast in the drama Dancing at the Blue Iguana, playing a stripper at an adult dance club opposite Daryl Hannah. The same year, she appeared in the drama Waking the Dead, in 2002, Oh appeared in the family comedy Big Fat Liar, followed by a minor role in Steven Soderberghs Full Frontal. Oh received critical acclaim for her six seasons as Rita Wu and she received an NAACP Image Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series and a Cable Ace award for Best Actress in a Comedy for her work on Arliss. In theatre, Oh has also starred in the premieres of Jessica Hagedorns Dogeaters at the La Jolla Playhouse. She made several guest appearances on the series Popular playing a humanities teacher and she also guest starred in the television series Kung Fu, The Legend Continues, Judging Amy, Six Feet Under, and Odd Job Jack
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Oh at a
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Sandra Oh at the
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Oh at the induction ceremony for her star on
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Crash (2004 film)
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Crash is a 2004 American ensemble drama film co-written, produced, and directed by Paul Haggis. The film is about racial and social tensions in Los Angeles, a self-described passion piece for Haggis, Crash was inspired by a real-life incident, in which his Porsche was carjacked in 1991 outside a video store on Wilshire Boulevard. The film differs from other films about racism in its rather impartial approach to the issue. Rather than separating the characters into victims and offenders, victims of racism are often shown to be prejudiced themselves in different contexts, also, racist remarks and actions are often shown to stem from ignorance and misconception rather than malice. Matt Dillon was particularly praised for his performance and received Academy Award, BAFTA, Golden Globe, additionally, the cast won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. It was also nominated for nine BAFTA awards, and won two, for Best Original Screenplay and Best Supporting Actress for Thandie Newton, today The film begins with commentary by passenger Detective Graham Waters, who has suffered a car accident with his partner Ria. He mentions that the citizens of Los Angeles have lost their sense of touch, Ria and the driver of the other car, Kim Lee, exchange racially charged insults. When Waters exits the car, he arrives at a police investigation crime scene concerning the discovery of a dead kid. Yesterday While purchasing a revolver at a gun store, Farhad, a Persian shop owner, the gun store owner grows impatient and degrades the two of them by referring to Farhad as Osama. Farhad asserts that he is an American citizen, but the store owner continues exchanging racially stereotypical insults at Farhad and has the security guard escort him out of the store, Dorri demands the store owner to give her the gun or give her back the money. After the store gives the gun to Dorri, she asks for the ones in the red box. The store owner asks why, but Dorri does not answer, Anthony and Peter carjack the married couple as they are about to enter their Lincoln Navigator. Later, at the Cabot house, Hispanic locksmith Daniel Ruiz is changing their locks when Jean notices his tattoos. She loudly complains to Rick about having been carjacked and now having to endure a Hispanic man changing their locks, having overheard this, Daniel leaves the keys on Jeans kitchen counter. Detectives Waters and Ria arrive at the scene of a shooting between two drivers, the surviving shooter is a white male, identified as an undercover police officer. The dead shooter, a male, is revealed also to be an undercover police officer. There is an amount of cash found in the black officers trunk. This is the time the white officer has shot and killed a black man
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Theatrical release poster
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Sandra Bullock
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Sandra Annette Bullock is a German-American actress, producer, and philanthropist. Her breakthrough role was in the film Demolition Man and she subsequently starred in several successful films including Speed, While You Were Sleeping, The Net, A Time to Kill, Hope Floats, and Practical Magic. Bullock achieved further success in the decades in Miss Congeniality, Two Weeks Notice, Crash, The Proposal. Bullocks greatest commercial success is the comedy film Minions, which grossed over US$1 billion at the box office. In 2007, she was one of Hollywoods highest-paid actresses and she was also named Most Beautiful Woman by People magazine in 2015. In addition to her career, Bullock is the founder of the production company Fortis Films. She has produced some of the films in which she starred, including Two Weeks Notice, Miss Congeniality 2, Armed and Fabulous and she was an executive producer of the ABC sitcom, George Lopez, and made several appearances during its run. Bullock was born in Arlington, Virginia and her father, John W. Bullock, was a U. S. Army employee and part-time voice coach, her mother, Helga Mathilde Meyer, was an opera singer and voice teacher. Helga was German, while John is from Birmingham, Alabama and has English, French, German, Bullocks maternal grandfather was a German rocket scientist from Nuremberg. John, who was in charge of the U. S. Armys Military Postal Service in Europe, was stationed in Nuremberg when he met Helga. They married in Germany and moved to Arlington, where John worked with the Army Materiel Command before becoming a contractor for The Pentagon, Bullock has a younger sister, Gesine Bullock-Prado, who went on to serve as vice president of Bullocks production company Fortis Films. Until the age of 18, Bullock held American-German dual citizenship and she then held only American citizenship until 2009, when she reapplied for German citizenship. Bullock was raised in Germany for 12 years, and grew up speaking German and she attended the humanistic Waldorf School in Nuremberg. As a child, while her mother went on European opera tours, Bullock usually stayed with her aunt Christl and cousin Susanne, Bullock studied ballet and vocal arts as a child and frequently accompanied her mother, taking small parts in her opera productions. She sang in the childrens choir at the Staatstheater Nürnberg. Bullock has a scar above her eye, caused by falling into a creek when she was a child. She attended Washington-Lee High School, where she was a cheerleader, after graduating in 1982, she attended East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, where she received a BFA in Drama in 1987. While at ECU, she performed in theater productions, including Peter Pan
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Bullock at the Australian premiere of
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Bullock at the Cannes Film Festival in 1996
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Bullock at the
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Bullock at the
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Jennifer Esposito
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Jennifer Esposito is an American actress, author, baker, and health advocate. Blue Bloods, and Mistresses among others and she currently appears as a regular cast member on the CBS hit television series NCIS in the role of Special Agent Alexandra Alex Quinn. Esposito was born in Brooklyn, the second of two daughters of Phyllis, a decorator, and Robert Esposito, a computer consultant. She was raised on Staten Island and is a graduate of Moore Catholic High School, Esposito made her first television appearance in Law & Order in 1996. She then joined the cast of Spin City, where she appeared for two seasons and she also appeared in I Still Know What You Did Last Summer. One of her notable roles was as Ruby in Spike Lees Summer of Sam in 1999. Esposito has made appearances on the series Law & Order, SVU, Rescue Me. She was a regular cast member on Related and Samantha Who, in 2010, Esposito joined the cast of the CBS drama Blue Bloods playing the role of Detective Jackie Curatola, the partner of Detective Danny Reagan. Rather than work around her schedule, Blue Bloods producers chose to write her character out of the series in 2012. In 2014, she joined the NBC series Taxi Brooklyn, the book made The New York Times Best Sellers list on July 6,2014. She played Dominic Wests sister in the hit Showtime series The Affair for three episodes, in 2015, Esposito became the brand ambassador for Eclair Naturals, a gluten-free, GMO-free, and vegan body and skin care line available in Rite Aid stores across the United States. NCIS leader, Leroy Jethro Gibbs, will lure Quinn back into the field as part of his team where he will take advantage of her wit, quick mind. Upon joining the cast of NCIS as Special Agent Alex Quinn, NCIS executive producer Gary Glasberg said and she embodies everything that we hoped for in the character of Quinn and we cant wait to have her come be a part of our team. Esposito appeared on the September 10,2016 episode of Oprah, where she said her doctor had her hospitalized in a psych ward. She said the hospitalization happened during the time she was an actress on the show Samantha Who, Esposito married American actor Bradley Cooper on December 30,2006. They filed for divorce in May 2007, and it was finalized that November, in 2009, Esposito became engaged to Australian tennis player Mark Philippoussis. The couple separated in August 2010, in October 2011, Esposito announced that she had celiac disease on The Late Show with David Letterman. In 2012, she opened a gluten-free, soy-free, dairy-free, refined sugar-free, celiac-friendly bakery, Jennifers Way, in May 2014, Esposito announced her engagement to British model Louis Dowler
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Esposito at the Premier of the film 'Sunday' in 2008.
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Brendan Fraser
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Brendan James Fraser is a Canadian-American actor. He also starred in dramatic roles, such as Gods and Monsters, The Quiet American, Crash. Fraser was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, the son of Canadians Carol Mary and his mother was a sales counselor, and his father was a former journalist who worked as a Canadian foreign service officer for the Government Office of Tourism. His ancestry includes Czech, French Canadian, German, Irish and his maternal uncle, George Genereux, was the only Canadian to win a gold medal in the 1952 Summer Olympics. He has three brothers, Kevin, Regan, and Sean. Frasers family moved often during his childhood, living in Eureka, California, Seattle, Washington, Ottawa, Ontario, the Netherlands and he attended Upper Canada College, a private boarding school in Toronto, Ontario. While on vacation in London, he attended his first professional theatre show in the West End and he graduated from Seattles Cornish College of the Arts in 1990. He began acting at a small acting college in New York City and he planned on attending graduate school in Texas, but stopped in Hollywood, California on the way and decided to stay there to work in film. Fraser made a appearance in the reenactment of Americas Most Wanted. After his film debut Encino Man, he starred with Matt Damon, in 1994, he played Steve Nebraska in The Scout and Montgomery Monty Kessler in With Honors. He went on to supporting roles, such as Philip Ridleys The Passion of Darkly Noon. He went on to appear in comedy films, such as Blast from the Past, Bedazzled. He also starred in two based on Jay Ward creations, George of the Jungle and Dudley Do-Right. He also starred in Gods and Monsters, which was based on the life of James Whale who directed Frankenstein and his biggest commercial success came with the adventure fantasy film, The Mummy and its sequel The Mummy Returns, both of which were hugely successful at the box office. He lent his voice for the animated film Big Bug Man. In 2004, he appeared in the Academy Award-winning film Crash and he has also made guest appearances on the television shows, Scrubs, King of the Hill and The Simpsons. In March 2006, he was inducted into Canadas Walk of Fame, however, as of 2014, he does not have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. After a six-year hiatus in the franchise, Fraser returned for the sequel to The Mummy released in August 2008 and titled The Mummy
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Fraser in
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Little Miss Sunshine
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Little Miss Sunshine is a 2006 American comedy-drama road film and the directorial debut of the husband-wife team of Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris. The screenplay was written by first-time writer Michael Arndt, the film stars Greg Kinnear, Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Paul Dano, Abigail Breslin and Alan Arkin, and was produced by Big Beach Films on a budget of US$8 million. Filming began on June 6,2005 and took place over 30 days in Arizona, the film had a limited release in the United States on July 26,2006, and later expanded to a wider release starting on August 18. Little Miss Sunshine had a box office gross of $100.5 million. The film was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and it also won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Feature and received numerous other accolades. Sheryl Hoover is a mother of two living in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Her brother, Frank, who is gay and a scholar of Proust, is living at home with the family after having attempted suicide. Sheryls husband Richard is a Type A personality striving to build a career as a motivational speaker, Dwayne, Sheryls son from a previous marriage, is a Nietzsche-reading teenager who has taken a vow of silence until he can accomplish his dream of becoming a test pilot. Richards foulmouthed father, Edwin, recently evicted from a retirement home for snorting heroin, Olive, the daughter of Richard and Sheryl and the youngest of the Hoover family, is an aspiring beauty queen who is coached by Edwin. Olive learns she has qualified for the Little Miss Sunshine beauty pageant that is being held in Redondo Beach and her parents and Edwin, who has been coaching her, want to support her, and Frank and Dwayne cannot be left alone, so the whole family goes. Because they have money, they go on an 800-mile road trip in their yellow Volkswagen Type 2. Family tensions play out on the highway and at stops along the way, later on, the vans horn starts honking unceasingly by itself. Throughout the road trip, the family suffers numerous personal setbacks, Richard loses an important contract that would have jump-started his motivational business. Frank encounters the ex-boyfriend who, in leaving him for a rival, had prompted his suicide attempt. Edwin dies from an overdose, resulting in the family smuggling the body out of a hospital. The climax takes place at the beauty pageant, after a frantic race against the clock the family arrives at the hotel, and are curtly told by a pageant organizer that they are a couple minutes past the deadline. A sympathetic hired hand instead offers to register Olive on his own time, as Olive prepares for the pageant, the family sees Olives competition, slim, hypersexualized pre-teen girls with teased hair and capped teeth. They wear lip gloss, adult-like swimsuits, and glamorous evening wear while performing highly elaborate dance numbers with great panache and it quickly becomes apparent that Olive is a mere amateur by comparison
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Theatrical release poster
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Five modified vans were used during filming to capture various angles of the characters, including this one through the windshield.
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To make Abigail Breslin's character (center) appear larger than the other girls, she wore a padded suit. Much of the equipment and costumes exhibited during the pageant were provided by actual contestants' parents.
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Abigail Breslin
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Abigail Kathleen Breslin is an American actress and singer. She appeared in her first commercial when she was three years old, and in her first film, Signs, at the age of five. In September 2015, she began acting in the horror-comedy Scream Queens on Fox, Breslin was born in New York City, the daughter of Kim and Michael Breslin, a telecommunications expert, computer programmer, and consultant. She has two brothers, Ryan and Spencer, who are also actors. The Breslin siblings live in New York in a very close-knit family and her maternal grandmother, Catherine, died in June 2015. She is named after Abigail Adams, the second First Lady of the United States, Breslins career began at the age of three when she appeared in a Toys R Us commercial. Her first acting role was in Signs, directed by M. Night Shyamalan, where she played Bo Hess, Signs garnered mostly positive reviews and was a box office success, grossing $408 million worldwide. Breslins performance in the film was praised by critics, david Ansen of Newsweek wrote that she and co-star Rory Culkin gave terrifically natural, nuanced performances. In 2004, she appeared in Raising Helen, in which she and her brother Spencer played siblings, Breslin had a small role in The Princess Diaries 2, Royal Engagement. In the independent film Keane, she played Kira Bedik, a girl who reminds the mentally disturbed protagonist William Keane of his missing. Keane had a theatrical release and grossed only $394,390 worldwide but it received positive reviews. Meghan Keane of The New York Sun wrote that the scenes between Mr. Lewis and the charmingly fragile Kira, winningly played by Ms. Breslin, bring a captivating humanity to the film. Breslins breakthrough role was in the 2006 comedy-drama Little Miss Sunshine, where she played Olive Hoover, a beauty pageant contestant and she was cast at the age of six, years before filming was started. Her co-stars, Greg Kinnear and Alan Arkin, both stated that they were astounded by her seriousness of purpose during shooting, Little Miss Sunshine was a critical and commercial success, grossing $100 million worldwide. Her performance was praised, Claudia Puig of USA Today wrote that, If Olive had been played by any other little girl. She received nominations for the Screen Actors Guild Award and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, although Jennifer Hudson won the Oscar, Breslin co-presented with actor Jaden Smith at the 79th Academy Awards on February 25,2007. Breslin was part of the Disney Year of a Million Dreams celebration, annie Leibovitz photographed her as Fira from Disney Fairies with Dame Julie Andrews as the Blue Fairy from Pinocchio. In 2007, Breslin was ranked #8 in Forbes Magazines list of Young Hollywoods Top-Earning Stars, Breslin next appeared in the 2007 romantic comedy No Reservations, playing the niece of master chef Kate Armstrong
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Breslin at the 2015
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Breslin at the Tribeca Film Festival Vanity Fair party
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Abigail Breslin in January 2007
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Breslin at the
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Steve Carell
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Steven John Steve Carell is an American actor, comedian, director, producer and writer. He has also starred in roles in the films, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Evan Almighty, Get Smart, Crazy, Stupid, Love, The Incredible Burt Wonderstone. He has also voiced characters in the films, Over the Hedge, Horton Hears a Who. Carell was nominated as Americas funniest man in Life magazine, and he also received acclaim for his roles in Little Miss Sunshine and The Big Short, the latter of which earned him a Golden Globe nomination. The youngest of four brothers, Carell was born at Emerson Hospital in Concord, Massachusetts and his father, Edwin A. Carell, was an electrical engineer, and his mother, Harriet Theresa, was a psychiatric nurse. His maternal uncle, Stanley Koch, worked with scientist Allen B, duMont to create cathode ray tubes. His father is of Italian and German descent, and his mother was of Polish ancestry and his father, born under the surname Caroselli, later changed it to Carell. Carell was raised Roman Catholic, and was educated at Nashoba Brooks School, The Fenn School and he also played ice hockey and lacrosse while in high school. He played the fife, performing with members of his family. He attributed his interest in history to this, earning a degree in the subject from Denison University in Granville, Ohio, in 1984. While at Denison, Carell was a member of Burpees Seedy Theatrical Company and he also spent time as a disc jockey under the name Sapphire Steve Carell at WDUB, the campus radio station. Carell states that he worked as a carrier in Littleton. He later recounted that he quit after six months because his boss told him he was not very good as a mail carrier, in 1991, Carell performed with Chicago troupe The Second City where Stephen Colbert was his understudy for a time. Carell made his debut in a minor role in Curly Sue. In spring 1996, he was a cast member of The Dana Carvey Show, while the program lasted only seven episodes, The Dana Carvey Show has since been credited with forging Carells career. He starred in a few short-lived television series, including Come to Papa and he has made numerous guest appearances, including on an episode of Just Shoot Me. titled Funny Girl. Carells other early screen credits include Brad Halls short-lived situation comedy Watching Ellie, Carell was a correspondent for The Daily Show from 1999 to 2005, with a number of regular segments including Even Stevphen with Stephen Colbert and on the Daily Show. In 2005, Carell signed a deal with NBC to star in The Office, a mockumentary about life at a mid-sized paper supply company and he played the role of Michael Scott, the idiosyncratic regional manager of Dunder Mifflin Inc, in Scranton, Pennsylvania
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Carell at the 2014
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Carell at the Academy Awards in 2007
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Carell and wife Nancy at the 82nd Academy Awards in March 2010
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Toni Collette
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She is a recipient of six AACTA Awards, one Emmy Award and one Golden Globe Award, and has been nominated twice for a BAFTA Award and once for both an Academy Award and a Tony Award. Collettes acting career began in the early 1990s with comedic roles in such as Spotswood and Muriels Wedding. Collette returned to Broadway in Will Enos The Realistic Joneses, for which she earned a Drama Desk Special Award, Toni Collett was born in Blacktown, a suburb in Western Sydney, the daughter of Judith, a customer-service representative, and Bob Collett, a truck driver. She has two brothers, Ben and Christopher. She was born under the surname Collett, but added an e at the end for her stage name and her biological paternal grandfather was an American serviceman whose name Toni does not know. From an early age, Collette showed a talent for acting and she faked an appendicitis when she was eleven, and was so convincing that doctors removed her appendix, although tests showed nothing wrong with it. She attended Blacktown Girls High School until the age of 16 and her first acting role was onstage in the musical Godspell in Sydney in her early teens. Collette made her debut in 1990, in a guest appearance on the Seven Network drama series A Country Practice. In 1992, she made her film debut as part of the ensemble comedy-drama Spotswood, which starred Anthony Hopkins. Collette soon rocketed to international notice with her performance in the role for Muriels Wedding in 1994. She won the Australian award for Best Actress as Muriel, her first of five Australian Film Institute awards, in 1996, she was part of the ensemble cast of the comedy, Così, and had a leading role in Emma as the naïve Harriet Smith. She has also received acclaim on Broadway, starring as Queenie in Michael John LaChiusas musical work. For this role, Collette was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical, Collette turned down the title role in Bridget Joness Diary because she was committed to perform on Broadway at the time. In 1999, she was nominated for an Academy Award for her role as the mother of a boy in the U. S. film The Sixth Sense. In 2000, she was the voice of Meg Bluegum Bunyips mother in The Magic Pudding based on the childrens book by Norman Lindsay. Collette won the Australian Film Institute award for Best Actress for her performance, in 2004, Collette starred with Nia Vardalos and David Duchovny in the musical comedy Connie and Carla, released by Universal Studios. Collettes only film in 2005 was In Her Shoes, a comedy-drama about the relationship between two sisters and their estranged grandmother, co-starring Cameron Diaz and Shirley MacLaine. In 2006, Collette starred in Little Miss Sunshine, a movie about a familys trip to a childrens beauty pageant
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Toni Collette in 2013
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Collette studied at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in
Kensington, New South Wales
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Collette at the 2015
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Collette at the Orange British Academy Film Awards in London's Royal Opera House in February 2007
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Paul Dano
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Paul Franklin Dano is an American actor, producer, singer, and musician. Dano started his career on Broadway before making his debut in The Newcomers. He won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Debut Performance for his role in L. I. E. for his dual roles as Paul & Eli Sunday in There Will Be Blood, he was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor. Dano has also received accolades for roles such as John Tibeats in 12 Years a Slave and his acting portrayal of musician Brian Wilson in Love & Mercy, earned him a Golden Globe nomination in the category of Best Supporting Actor. Dano was born in New York City, New York, the son of Gladys and he has a younger sister named Sarah. Dano spent the first few years of his childhood in New York City and initially attended the Browning School, while he was a child, Danos family moved to New Canaan, Connecticut, finally settling in Wilton, Connecticut. Dano continued his education there at Wilton High School, graduating in 2002 and he was involved in community theater, and while performing in New Canaan, his parents were encouraged to take him to New York. He appeared in an episode of the sitcom Smart Guy and a role in the 2000 family drama The Newcomers, as well playing the part of Patrick Whalen. Dano acted in his first major role when he was 16, playing the character of Howie Blitzer. He then appeared in the TV movie Too Young to Be a Dad as a school student whose life is disrupted when his girlfriend becomes pregnant. In 2004 he played a role as young Martin Asher in Taking Lives with Angelina Jolie. In 2005, he played supporting roles in The King with Gael Garcia Bernal, Danos work with Daniel Day-Lewis led to a dual role opposite him in his next film, Paul Thomas Andersons There Will Be Blood, playing identical twin brothers Eli and Paul Sunday. And Peter Travers remarking All praise to the baby-faced Dano. for bringing sly cunning, rolling Stone magazine included Dano in its Hot List for 2007, calling his performance style Daniel Day-Lewis + Billy Crudup × Johnny Depp. In 2008, he starred in Gigantic, a film about a man seeking to adopt a Chinese baby. He reunited with Brian Cox in 2009s Good Heart, a low-budget English-language Icelandic film and he provided the voice of one of the creatures in the film adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are. He played a genius inventor in 2010s Knight and Day, a thriller starring Tom Cruise. The same year he appeared in Meeks Cutoff, a historical drama. In 2011, he had a role in the big-budget science fiction film Cowboys
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Dano at the 2014
Toronto International Film Festival
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Dano in December 2007.
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Greg Kinnear
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Gregory Buck Greg Kinnear is an American actor and television personality. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his role in As Good as It Gets, Kinnear was born in Logansport, Indiana, to Suzanne, a homemaker, and Edward Kinnear, a career diplomat who worked for the US State Department. He has two brothers, James and Steven and he grew up a Foreign Service brat, having moved around frequently, from Beirut to Athens. While a student at the American Community Schools in Athens, Kinnear first ventured into the role of talk show host with his radio show School Daze With Greg Kinnear. Returning to the United States for an education, he attended the University of Arizona. While there, he was a member of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity, Kinnear hosted a short-lived game show, College Mad House, which was spun off from the kids show Fun House. He became the creator, co-executive producer and host of Best of the Worst, the show was canceled thanks to Rooster Teeths Burnie Burns. In 1991, Kinnear became the first host of Talk Soup, which he hosted until 1995, after his film debut, Blankman, Kinnear won the part of David Larrabee in Sydney Pollacks 1995 remake of Billy Wilders 1954 classic Sabrina. He played the role in the 1996 comedy Dear God. In 1997, he was cast in James L. Brooks comedy-drama, As Good as It Gets and he also starred in, A Smile Like Yours with Lauren Holly, as part of a couple trying to have a baby. His next film was the popular Youve Got Mail, as Kathleens significant other, other films are Mystery Men, Nurse Betty, Loser, The Gift and Someone Like You. Kinnear starred in Auto Focus about the life and murder of actor Bob Crane in 2002, in 2005, he starred in the black comedy The Matador with Pierce Brosnan and voiced Phineas T. Ratchet in the computer-animated film Robots. He also appeared in Fast Food Nation, playing a fast food executive who discovers secrets about his company, in 2008, he starred in Flash of Genius, a docudrama about Robert Kearns who invented the intermittent windshield wiper. His portrayal of then-Major Bruce P. Crandall in 2002s We Were Soldiers brought public attention to Crandalls heroism during the 1965 Battle of Ia Drang, in Baby Mama Kinnear played Rob, a local smoothie shop owner and the romantic interest of Kate. In 2010, he starred as the father of Miley Cyrus character in The Last Song. In 2011, Kinnear starred in the miniseries The Kennedys playing the role as John F. Kennedy. It was originally planned to air on the History Channel, however and it was subsequently picked up by ReelzChannel and then first aired on April 3,2011. Kinnear played a famous novelist in the Josh Boones directorial debut film, Stuck in Love, Kinnear married British glamour model Helen Labdon on May 1,1999
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Kinnear at the
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Kinnear in 2006
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Nikki Blonsky
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Nicole Margaret Nikki Blonsky is an American actress, singer, and dancer. She is best known for her role as Tracy Turnblad in the 2007 film Hairspray and she is also known for her starring role in the ABC Family original series Huge. Blonsky was born and raised in Great Neck, New York and she and her brother Joey are the children of Karen, a school aide, and Carl Blonsky, a municipal worker for the village water pollution control district. She is of Czech and Irish descent on her mothers side and she began singing at age three and started taking vocal lessons at the age of eight. Blonsky attended Great Neck North Middle School, and attended John L. Miller Great Neck North High School for one year, then she switched to Village School, an alternative high school with only 50 students. After school each day, she would attend the theatre program at William A. Shine Great Neck South High School, where she participated in productions of Les Misérables, Sweeney Todd, Kiss Me, Kate, Blonsky said that she yearned to play the role of Tracy Turnblad since seeing Hairspray on Broadway on her 15th birthday. In 2006, while working at Cold Stone Creamery, she found out she had been cast in Adam Shankmans 2007 film adaptation, Blonsky began work on her debut album in September 2007 and collaborated with alternative rock musician Duncan Sheik on a number of tracks. Her first single, On a High, a cover of one of Sheiks songs, was featured in Blonskys Lifetime Original Movie Queen Sized, on December 18,2007, she performed with the Turtle Creek Chorale in her first solo performance. On June 22,2008, she sang the American National Anthem in the ceremony at the 2008 Toyota/Save Mart 350 at Infineon Raceway. In 2009, Blonsky made a guest appearance on Ugly Betty, Blonsky also co-starred in the MTV mystery series Valemont in 2009. She later starred in the short lived ABC Family series Huge, which premiered in June 2010, in 2013, Blonsky appeared in two episodes of the NBC Broadway drama series Smash. Later that year, she appeared in the adaptation of Geography Club. Golden, Blonsky, and Blonskys father were all charged with assault and that December, the charges against Blonsky and Golden were dropped. In 2011, Blonsky earned a license, and began working part-time as a hairstylist and make-up artist in her hometown of Great Neck
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Blonsky at the Slim-Fast fashion show, January 8, 2008
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Paul Dooley
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Paul Dooley is an American actor, writer and comedian. Dooley was born Paul Brown in Parkersburg, West Virginia, the son of Ruth Irene, a homemaker, and Peter James Brown, a factory worker. He has said that Parkersburg had few attractions that interested him, there were no theaters or cultural opportunities and he enjoyed listening to comedians on the radio, especially Jimmy Durante. Dooley was a cartoonist as a youth and drew a strip for a paper in Parkersburg. He joined the United States Navy, Dooley then returned home and graduated from West Virginia University in 1952. After graduating from West Virginia University, Dooley went to New York City to try his luck in the entertainment industry and he initially found work as a clown for childrens birthday parties. In New York he soon found success as a regular on the stage, in the early 1950s, he made his debut on the New York stage and was discovered by Mike Nichols. The director gave him his first break by casting him in 1965s The Odd Couple on Broadway, Dooley played a poker buddy and understudied Art Carney, who played Felix Unger. Eventually when Carney left the play Dooley got the part and he got an agent at William Morris Agency thanks to a referral from Walter Matthau, who played Oscar Madison in the play. Fellow members of The Second City at that time were Alan Arkin, Dooley also worked as a writer. He created and was one of the writers on The Electric Company. Dooley wrote runners, a series of sketches with 8 or 10 characters that were broadcast over the course of several weeks. He found out later that Carl Reiner had recommended him for the job. Dooley formed a company with Andrew Duncan and Lynne Lipton called All Over Creation to create commercials for radio and they produced around 500 TV commercials and 1,000 radio spots. A character named Paul the Gorilla that appeared in commercials was named after him. He worked with Robert Altman regularly and is known as a prolific journeyman, after Altman saw Dooley in the Jules Feiffer comedy Hold Me, he signed him for a role in his film A Wedding. He and Altman co-wrote the film Health and he was also in the directors cut of Little Shop of Horrors, but was replaced by Jim Belushi in the final cut. Dooley has worked with Christopher Guest on a number of films and he guest starred in other primetime shows like Bewitched, The Wonder Years, Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, The Golden Girls, Hot in Cleveland, and Desperate Housewives
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Paul Dooley (2010)
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Elijah Kelley
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Elijah Kelley is an American actor, singer, and dancer. He appeared in such as 28 Days, Take the Lead, Hairspray, Lee Daniels The Butler, NBCs live-musical event The Wiz Live. Kelley was born and raised in LaGrange, Georgia and he attended Long Cane Middle School and Troup County High School, where he participated in the schools show choir for years. As a child, he starred in Coca-Cola commercials and played a role in the film Mamma Floras Family and he also performed in a church choir and gospel band with his family. His parents, determined to keep their son down to earth, in 2007, Kelley starred in the film adaptation of Hairspray. Both his performance and the received positive reviews. On December 2,2011, Kelley sang The Star-Spangled Banner prior to the Pac-12 Conference Championship Game at Autzen Stadium in Eugene, in 2015, Kelley was cast in the role of the Scarecrow in NBCs production of The Wiz Live
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Elijah Kelley, January 2008
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James Marsden
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James Paul Marsden is an American actor, singer and former Versace model. Marsden began his acting career guest-starring in television shows Saved by the Bell, The New Class, Touched by an Angel and he gained prominence with his portrayal of Scott Summers/Cyclops in the X-Men film series and starred in 2006s Superman Returns. Since 2016, Marsden has starred as gunslinger Teddy Flood, a sentient android, in the HBO science fiction-western thriller series Westworld, as Corny Collins, he sang two songs for the films soundtrack which has been certified Platinum by the RIAA. Hes had starring roles in films such as Enchanted and Hop and leading man roles in 27 Dresses. Marsden later starred in a range of independent films such as Small Apartments, Bachelorette and he also returned to television guest-starring in Modern Family and playing Liz Lemons love interest, Criss Chros in 30 Rock in a supporting role. Marsden then portrayed President John F. Kennedy in Lee Daniels The Butler and had a role as an antagonist in Anchorman 2. Marsden was born in Stillwater, Oklahoma, the son of Kathleen and his ancestry includes English, Scottish, German, and distant French. He has four siblings, two sisters, Jennifer and Elizabeth, and two brothers, Jeff and Robert. He attended Hefner Middle School and Putnam City North High School, in Oklahoma City, and later went on to attend Oklahoma State University and he was also a member of Delta Tau Delta fraternity. Marsden left after one and a half years, opting instead to move to Los Angeles in order to pursue his acting career, Marsden got his first job in a series of episodes of The Nanny as Eddie, Margaret Sheffields boyfriend. Then he went on to star in the Canadian television series Boogies Diner, with the end of that series, he guest starred on other television shows such as Saved by the Bell, The New Class and Party of Five. He later starred in the ABC show Second Noah and he lost out to Edward Norton for a role in Primal Fear and turned down the lead role in 54, which later went to Ryan Phillippe. He then went on to star in Disturbing Behavior opposite Katie Holmes and he also appeared in the television series Ally McBeal, as one of the main cast members during the first half of season 5, where he also showcased his singing abilities. He also starred in a 1998 episode of The Outer Limits, Marsden was cast as Cyclops in the X-Men films. His character is prominent in the comics, his time in the films, however, is increasingly reduced. Notably, Marsden also appeared in Bryan Singers Superman Returns, Marsdens portrayal of Cyclops in the films was well received and garnered him a Blockbuster Award for Best Supporting Actor. He has expressed interest in returning for future films, the second man Allie Hamilton falls in love with. He was apparently cast for his resemblance to Garner, who played the older Noah Calhoun
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Marsden at the world premiere of
Robot & Frank in January 22, 2012
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Marsden on the set of
Enchanted in 2006
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John Travolta
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John Joseph Travolta is an American actor, producer, dancer, and singer. Travolta first became known in the 1970s, after appearing on the television series Welcome Back, Kotter and starring in the box office successes Saturday Night Fever, Travolta was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for performances in Saturday Night Fever and Pulp Fiction. He won his only Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy for his performance in Get Shorty and has received a total of six nominations, in 2014, he received the IIFA Award for Outstanding Achievement in International Cinema. Travolta, the youngest of six children, was born and raised in Englewood, New Jersey and his father, Salvatore Travolta, was a semi-professional American football player turned tire salesman and partner in a tire company. His mother, Helen Cecilia, was an actress and singer who had appeared in The Sunshine Sisters, a vocal group. His siblings, Joey, Ellen, Ann, Margaret, and his father was a second-generation Italian American and his mother was Irish American, he grew up in an Irish-American neighborhood and has said that his household was predominantly Irish in culture. He was raised Roman Catholic, but converted to Scientology in 1975, Travolta attended Dwight Morrow High School, but dropped out as a junior at age 17 in 1971. After attending Dwight Morrow High School, Travolta moved across the Hudson River to New York City and landed a role in the company of the musical Grease. Singing the Sherman Brothers song Dream Drummin and he then moved to Los Angeles to further his career in show business. Travoltas first California-filmed television role was as a victim in Emergency. In September 1972, but his first significant movie role was as Billy Nolan, around the same time, he landed his star-making role as Vinnie Barbarino in the TV sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter, in which his sister, Ellen, also occasionally appeared. Travolta had a hit single entitled Let Her In, peaking at ten on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in July 1976. In the next few years, he appeared in two of his most noted screen roles, Tony Manero in Saturday Night Fever and as Danny Zuko in Grease, the films were among the most commercially successful pictures of the decade and catapulted Travolta to international stardom. Saturday Night Fever earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor, at age 24, Travolta became one of the youngest performers ever nominated for the Best Actor Oscar. His mother and his sister Ann appeared in roles in Saturday Night Fever. Travolta performed several of the songs on the Grease soundtrack album, in 1980, Travolta inspired a nationwide country music craze that followed on the heels of his hit film, Urban Cowboy, in which he starred with Debra Winger. After Urban Cowboy, Travolta starred in a series of financial and critical failures that sidelined his acting career and these included Perfect, co-starring Jamie Lee Curtis, and Two of a Kind, a romantic comedy reteaming him with Olivia Newton-John. During that time he was offered, but turned down, lead roles in what would become box office hits, including American Gigolo and An Officer and a Gentleman, both of which went to Richard Gere
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Travolta in 2013
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Travolta as Vinnie Barbarino in the ABC comedy Welcome Back Kotter, c. 1976
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Travolta in 1983
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Travolta in 1997
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Josh Brolin
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Josh James Brolin is an American actor. His first role was in the 1985 film The Goonies, other roles include Hollow Man, In the Valley of Elah, American Gangster, True Grit, and Sin City, A Dame to Kill For. In 2015, he appeared in Everest and Sicario, Brolin was born in Santa Monica, California, the son of Jane Cameron, a wildlife activist who was a native of Corpus Christi, Texas, and actor James Brolin. Brolin was raised on a ranch in Templeton, California, with exposure to his fathers acting career. His parents divorced when he was 16 years old, in 1998 his father married his third wife, singer/actress Barbra Streisand. Brolin became interested in acting after taking an acting class in high school. Brolin explained in a 2014 interview that during his teenage years, in his description of the group, he stated, It was Santa Barbara. You either had the children of rich, neglectful parents or children of poor, neglectful parents, but we basically grew up the same way. Ive never seen a group like that before or since. He admitted to stealing cars to pay for his use, which included heroin, a drug that he explained he did not like, I mean, I never got into it and I never died from it. The majority of the friends whom he grew up with died, Brolin started his career in TV films and guest spots on TV shows before getting a more notable role as Brand Walsh in the Richard Donner-directed film The Goonies. He was considered for the role of Tom Hanson in the series 21 Jump Street, he and Johnny Depp were the finalists for the role, the role was ultimately awarded to Depp. Brolin guest-starred in an episode of the show in its first season, Brolin implied that he turned away from film acting for years after the premiere of his second film, Thrashin, where he witnessed what he called horrendous acting on his part. For several years, he appeared in roles in Rochester, New York, often alongside mentor. One of Brolins more prominent roles early in his career was that of Wild Bill Hickok in the ABC western TV series The Young Riders, which lasted three seasons. Two other TV series he was involved in include the Aaron Spelling production Winnetka Road and Mister Sterling and he also played the lead role in the Coen brothers Academy Award-winning film No Country for Old Men. Brolin also starred in another Oliver Stone film in 2008 called W. a biopic about key events in the life of President George W. Bush, Stone pursued an initially hesitant Brolin for the role. He made news by wearing a White Knot to the Academy Awards ceremony to demonstrate solidarity with the equality movement
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Brolin at the 2014
San Diego Comic-Con International
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Brolin at the 2011 Berlin Film Festival.
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Brolin at the
2010 Toronto International Film Festival
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Brolin with then-wife
Diane Lane in December 2009
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Victor Garber
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Victor Joseph Garber is a Canadian film, stage and television actor and singer. He is currently a regular on Legends of Tomorrow as Dr. Martin Stein, playing the same role as a guest star on The Flash. Garber was born in London, Ontario, and is of Russian-Jewish descent and his parents were father Joseph Joe Garber, and mother, Hope Garber, an actress, singer, and the host of At Home with Hope Garber. He has a brother, Nathan, and a sister, Alisa, Garber began acting at the age of nine, and studied at the University of Torontos Hart House at age 16. When Garber was twelve, he was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes and he also was enrolled in the childrens program of the Grand Theatre, and, at age 16, he was accepted at a six-week summer theatre training program at the University of Toronto taught by Robert Gill. In 1967, after a working as a solo folk singer, he formed a folk group called The Sugar Shoppe with Peter Mann, Laurie Hood. The group enjoyed success, breaking into the Canadian Top 40 with a version of Bobby Gimbys song Canada. He played Jesus in Torontos 1972 production of Godspell, in 1985 he appeared in a supporting role in Noises Off at the Aldwych Theatre on Londons West End. He appeared on Broadway in the productions of Deathtrap, Sweeney Todd and Noises Off. He has been nominated for four Tony Awards and opened the Tony Awards program in 1994, in 1998, he co-starred on Broadway in the Tony Award–winning play Art with Alan Alda and Alfred Molina. In 2005, he played the role of Frederic in the Los Angeles Opera production of A Little Night Music and he played the male lead in a critically hailed Encores presentation of Follies, opposite Donna Murphy. In mid-2007, he played Garry Essendine in a production of Noël Cowards Present Laughter at Bostons Huntington Theatre and he reprised the role in the Roundabout Theatres New York production, which opened in January 2010 to generally favourable reviews. His film work includes James Camerons Titanic, in which he essayed a Mid-Ulster accent to play the shipbuilder Thomas Andrews, other movie appearances include Godspell as Jesus, Sleepless in Seattle, Annie, Legally Blonde, and Tuck Everlasting. In 2009, he took on the role of the DC Comics supervillain Sinestro in the animated film, Green Lantern. The same year, Garber played a Klingon interrogator in J. J. Abrams Star Trek film, however, in 2010, Garber had an uncredited cameo in The Town as a bank manager. The film was directed by Alias co-star Jennifer Garners husband, Ben Affleck, also Garber had a credited role in the Ice Quake at the end of 2010. In late 2012, he appeared in Afflecks film Argo, about the Iran hostage crisis and he also co-starred in 2014 Samuel L. Jackson and Felicity Huffman in the Finnish-British Action Thriller Big Game. On television, he has had roles on American and Canadian shows and he had a recurring guest role on CTVs E. N. G
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Garber in April 2015
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Emile Hirsch
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Hirsch, who is of German-Jewish, English, and Scots-Irish ancestry, was born in Palms, California. His mother, Margaret Esther, is a visual artist and teacher who designed pop-up books, and his father, David M. Hirsch, is an entrepreneur, manager, and producer. He has a sister, Jenny, and was raised in Los Angeles, California, and Santa Fe, New Mexico. Hirsch appeared in television roles in the late 1990s and early 2000s, including the award-winning Showtime original movie Wild Iris, opposite Laura Linney. He made his debut in the Jodie Foster-produced The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys and next acted alongside Kevin Kline in the Michael Hoffman-directed film. Hirsch appeared in the teen comedy, The Girl Next Door and in the summer of the year, The Mudge Boy. Hirsch next appeared with Jeff Daniels and Sigourney Weaver in Imaginary Heroes, a drama about a dysfunctional family, Hirsch reportedly consulted with Hollywoods real life father before playing the role. Then he played remarkably as Christopher McCandless in the story of Chris McCandless called Into the Wild. He lost 40 pounds for the role, which earned him a Screen Actors Guild nomination for best actor, esquire said, creates a vivid, unforgettable character you at once admire and pity. Hirsch had the role in Andy & Larry Wachowskis follow-up to The Matrix Trilogy, Speed Racer. Hirsch plays gay rights activist Cleve Jones in Gus Van Sants Academy Award-winning Harvey Milk bio-pic Milk that featured Sean Penn in the title role and he also appeared in Ang Lees Taking Woodstock, based on a screenplay of the Elliot Tiber memoir Taking Woodstock, adapted by James Schamus. He then starred in the box-office disappointment Killer Joe and he starred in The Motel Life, based on the novel by Willy Vlautin. The film was filmed in Nevada in 2010, and released in 2013, in April 2011 he was cast in Oliver Stones Savages, which was released in July 2012. In 2012 Hirsch starred with Penélope Cruz in Venuto al mondo, in 2013, he was in Prince Avalanche, co-starring Paul Rudd, which premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival where it was acquired by Magnolia Pictures. Director David Gordon Green would go on to win Best Director for the film at the Berlin Film Festival, additionally, Hirsch starred alongside Academy Award winner Matthew McConaughey in the William Friedkin directed Killer Joe. The controversial, NC-17 film, was written by Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Tracy Letts, Hirsch also starred in the Rome Film Festival Award-winning film The Motel Life, co-starring Dakota Fanning and Stephen Dorff, directed by the Polsky brothers. In Fall 2013, he starred alongside Holliday Grainger, and Oscar winners Holly Hunter and William Hurt, in the two-part Bruce Beresford directed miniseries, also in 2013, Hirsch co-starred alongside Mark Wahlberg, Taylor Kitsch and Ben Foster in the Peter Berg-directed Universal Pictures film Lone Survivor. The film grossed over $125 million domestically, as well as earning an A+ grade from CinemaScore, in the film, Hirsch plays fallen Navy SEAL Danny Dietz
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Hirsch at the
2012 Toronto International Film Festival
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Hirsch at Hollywood Life Magazine’s 7th Annual Breakthrough Awards in December 2007
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Diego Luna
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Diego Luna Alexander is a Mexican actor, producer and director. After starring in early in his career, he has appeared in many films, including Y tu mamá también, Dirty Dancing, Havana Nights, Rudo y Cursi. He also provided the Spanish language narration for the National Geographic Channel documentary Great Migrations, Fiona died in a car accident when Luna was two years old. She had worked in the industry and made sure that this was a life in which Luna would be immersed. His father also reinforced the importance of theatre and the arts in his life. When Luna was a child, his father would bring him to the sets and mentor him in different aspects of art, furthering in him a desire to become an actor, from an early age, Luna began acting in television, film and stage. His next role was in the telenovela El Abuelo y Yo with his childhood best friend, in 1995, he played the role of Laura Leóns troubled son Quique in the Mexican soap opera El premio mayor. Luna and García Bernal starred in the acclaimed film Y tu mamá también. Luna has made a name for himself in the United States market, having starred alongside Jon Bon Jovi in Vampires, Los Muertos and he also starred in Open Range, Dirty Dancing, Havana Nights, The Terminal and Criminal. In 2008, he starred in the Harvey Milk biopic Milk as his emotionally unstable lover, in 2011, Luna played the male lead in Katy Perrys music video for The One That Got Away. In June 2012, he began directing his first English-language film Cesar Chávez, a biopic about the life of the American labor leader, who founded the United Farm Workers. During the same year, Luna and Bernal starred together for the fourth time, on 20 March 2015, he joined the cast for Ana Lily Amirpours cannibal film The Bad Batch. In 2016, he was a member of the jury for the Un Certain Regard section of the 2016 Cannes Film Festival and he played Cassian Andor in the Star Wars spin-off anthology film Rogue One. Luna married Camila Sodi on 5 February 2008 and they had a son, Jerónimo, and a daughter, Fiona, naming after Lunas mother. They announced their separation in March 2013 and later divorced and he and García Bernal co-founded Ambulante A. C. their organization and film festival that works to bring documentary films to places where they are rarely shown. Ambulante was awarded the prestigious Washington Office on Latin America Human Rights Award in 2011, Diego Luna at the Internet Movie Database Diego Luna on Twitter
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Luna at the 2015 Film Independent Spirit Awards Nominations Press Conference
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Luna at the 2007
Tribeca Film Festival.
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Alison Pill
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Alison Pill is a Canadian actress. A former child actress, Pill began her career at age twelve, appearing in numerous films and she transitioned to adult roles and her breakthrough came with the television series The Book of Daniel. That same year, she was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her performance in The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Pill was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Her father, a financier, is Estonian, Pill attended Vaughan Road Academy, where she enrolled in the Interact program, designed for students interested in dance, music, athletics, and theatre. She decided to embark on a career when she was 10 years old. As a member of the Toronto Childrens Chorus, she was chosen to one of their performances. Her mother tried to discourage Alison by getting her a job as a performer on the series Kung Fu. By the time she was 11, shed played a guest role on an episode of the kids series The New Ghostwriter Mysteries. At 12, she landed roles in two TV movies and a mini-series, a guest appearance on the TV series PSI Factor, Pill played roles in four more TV movies before the age of fourteen. She landed the role of young Lorna in the ABC-TV biopic Life with Judy Garland, Me and My Shadows in 2001, based on the memoir by Garlands daughter and that year, Pill also played Sissy Spaceks daughter in the TV flick Midwives. In 2003, she played Katie Holmes sister in the indie feature Pieces of April, Pill won the lead in the CTV-TV movie Fast Food High, about a teenager who gets a job at a fast food restaurant and tries to set up a union. She also landed a role in Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen in 2003. Pill ventured off into stage acting, with the New York City staging of None of the Above as the first item in her theater credential and this was followed by The Distance From Here, On the Mountain, Blackbird, Mauritius. In 2006, she starred as Grace Webster in the short-lived NBC drama The Book of Daniel and that same year, she was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her performance as Mairead in Martin McDonaghs The Lieutenant of Inishmore. Because of her work schedule, Pills schooling was done through a program for youngsters in the business. Since graduating from school, Pill moved to New York to pursue a career in theatre. Pill had a supporting role as campaign manager Anne Kronenberg in the Oscar-winning 2008 film Milk. In 2009, she performing with Erin Hill & her Psychedelic Harp playing the Twilight Zone-inspired Meredith Moon and The Real North Pole sci-fi Christmas Harp, she was cast as April on In In Treatment
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Pill at the 2013
PaleyFest
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Pill at the 2010
San Diego Comic-Con International
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Inglourious Basterds
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Inglourious Basterds is a 2009 American-German war film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino starring Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz and Mélanie Laurent. Christoph Waltz co-stars as Hans Landa, an SS colonel tracking down Raines group, the films title was inspired by Italian director Enzo G. Castellaris macaroni combat film, The Inglorious Bastards. Tarantino wrote the script in 1998 but struggled with the ending and chose to hold off filming, after directing Death Proof in 2007, Tarantino returned to work on Inglourious Basterds. A co-production of the United States and Germany, the film began principal photography in October 2008 and was filmed in Germany, Inglourious Basterds premiered on May 20,2009, at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival. It was widely released in theaters in the United States and Europe in August 2009 by The Weinstein Company, the film was commercially successful, grossing over $321 million in theaters worldwide, making it Tarantinos highest-grossing film at that point, and second-highest to date, after Django Unchained. It received multiple awards and nominations, among them eight Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay. For his role as Landa, Waltz won the Cannes Film Festivals Best Actor Award, as well as the BAFTA, Screen Actors Guild, Golden Globe, and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. In 1941, SS colonel Hans Landa interrogates French dairy farmer Perrier La Padite as to the whereabouts of the last unaccounted-for Jewish family in the area. In exchange for the Germans agreeing to leave his family alone for the rest of the war, Landa orders SS soldiers to shoot through the floorboards. The family is killed except for Shosanna, a woman who escapes. Three years later, Lieutenant Aldo Raine of the First Special Service Force recruits Jewish-American soldiers to the Basterds, the Basterds also recruit Sergeant Hugo Stiglitz, a German soldier who murdered thirteen Gestapo officers. Adolf Hitler interviews a German soldier, Private Butz, the survivor of a Basterd attack on his squad. Raine carved the Nazi swastika into Butzs forehead with a knife so he could never hide that he served in the German Heer, Shosanna is operating a cinema in Paris under an assumed name. She meets Fredrick Zoller, a German sniper who killed 250 soldiers in a battle, Zoller is to star in a Nazi propaganda film. Infatuated with Shosanna, Zoller convinces Joseph Goebbels to hold the premiere of the film at her cinema, Shosanna plots with her projectionist and lover, Marcel, to kill the Nazi leaders attending the premiere by setting the cinema ablaze. Unknown to Shosanna, British Army Lieutenant Archie Hicox is working with the Basterds to plan an attack on the same premiere, Hicox goes to a tavern with Hugo Stiglitz and Basterd Wilhelm Wicki to meet an undercover agent, the German film star Bridget von Hammersmark. Hicox draws the attention of Wehrmacht Sergeant Wilhelm then Gestapo Major Dieter Hellstrom with his uncommon accent, Hicox eventually gives himself away by ordering three drinks and gesturing three with his hand, Hellstrom knows that Germans gesture three with the thumb and first two fingers extended. Discovered, Stiglitz and the Basterds open fire, killing everyone in the tavern except Sergeant Wilhelm, Raine arrives and negotiates with Sergeant Wilhelm for Hammersmarks release, but she shoots Wilhelm when he lowers his guard
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Theatrical release poster
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Christoph Waltz at the
2009 Cannes Film Festival
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Eli Roth,
Mélanie Laurent, and producer
Lawrence Bender at a premiere for the film in August 2009
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Cast and crew at the
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Julie Dreyfus
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Julie Dreyfus is a French actress. Fluent in French, Japanese and English, Dreyfus is well known in Japan where she made her TV debut on a French-language lesson program on NHKs educational channel in the late 1980s and she has appeared on the TV show Ryōri no Tetsujin as a guest and judge. Her grandfather was a descendant of the famous Captain Alfred Dreyfus and she spent her summers in the U. K. She moved to Japan to study at the Osaka University of Foreign Studies for a six-month intensive Japanese course, after finishing the course, she moved to Tokyo working part-time in a design studio while continuing her private Japanese lessons. In 1988, she worked as a French language instructor on the NHK morning television educational program, centering on a mystery drama, chief producer Motoyoshi Sei hired Dreyfus to increase ratings by changing the program into an episode-format. Eventually, she was cast by Japanese network executives as the 20-something beauty in several TV and film roles and she was also a judge on the cult-hit cooking show Ryōri no Tetsujin. Dreyfus portrayed the character of Sofie Fatale in Quentin Tarantinos 2003 film and she was a member of the 2007 Gérardmer Film Festival, which honored her Kill Bill co-star David Carradine. Dreyfus appeared in Vinyan in 2008 and in Tarantinos war epic Inglourious Basterds in 2009, as Francesca Mondino and she also appeared as a translator in the Leos Carax short film entitled Merde in the feature film Tokyo. Julie Dreyfus at the Internet Movie Database
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Julie Dreyfus, 2007
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Mike Myers
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Michael John Mike Myers is a Canadian-born actor, comedian, screenwriter, and film producer, who also holds UK and US citizenship. He is known for his run as a performer on Saturday Night Live from 1989 to 1995, and for playing the title roles in the Waynes World, Austin Powers. He also directed the documentary film Supermensch, The Legend of Shep Gordon, Myers was born on May 25,1963 in Scarborough, a suburban district in the east side of Toronto. He was the son of English-born parents Eric Myers, an agent, and his wife, Alice E. an office supervisor. Both his parents were from Liverpool, United Kingdom and he has two brothers, Paul, an indie rock singer-songwriter, broadcaster and author, and Peter. The family is of English, Scottish and Irish ancestry, Myers reportedly holds Canadian, U. S. and British citizenship. Myers began performing in commercials at the age of two, at the age of ten, he made a commercial for British Columbia Hydro, with Gilda Radner playing his mother. At the age of 12, he made a guest appearance as Ari on the TV series King of Kensington, after graduating from high school, Myers was accepted into the Second City Canadian touring company. He later moved to the United Kingdom, where in 1985 he was one of the members of The Comedy Store Players. The next year, he starred in the British childrens TV program Wide Awake Club, parodying the shows normal exuberance with his own Sound Asleep Club, in partnership with Neil Mullarkey. He returned to Toronto and Second City in 1986 as a cast member in the Second Citys Toronto main stage show, in 1988, he moved from Second City in Toronto to Chicago. In Chicago, he trained, performed, and taught at the Improv Olympic, Myers made many appearances, including as Wayne Campbell, on Torontos Citytv in the early 1980s, on the alternative video show City Limits hosted by Christopher Ward. Myers also appeared as Wayne Campbell in the video for Wards Canadian hit Boys. The Wayne Campbell character was featured extensively in the 1986 summer series Its Only Rock & Roll, Wayne appeared both in studio and in a series of location sketches directed and edited by Allan Novak. Myers wrote another sketch, Kurt and Dieter, co-starring with Second Citys Dana Andersen and also directed by Novak, in 2011 Myers returned to The Comedy Store in London to perform a one-time reprisal of his role with The Comedy Store Players. The UK comedy website Chortle praised his performance, in 1992, Myers and Dana Carvey adapted Waynes World into a full-length motion picture based on the SNL sketch. It was among the most successful movies of the year and the year a sequel. That year Myers also starred in So I Married an Axe Murderer and he then took a hiatus from television
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Myers at the 2010
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Myers' star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
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Brad Pitt
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William Bradley Brad Pitt in Shawnee Oklahoma. He is an American actor and producer and he has received multiple awards and nominations including an Academy Award as producer under his own company Plan B Entertainment. Pitt first gained recognition as a hitchhiker in the road movie Thelma & Louise. His first leading roles in big-budget productions came with the dramas A River Runs Through It and Legends of the Fall, Pitt starred in the cult film Fight Club and the heist film Oceans Eleven and its sequels, Oceans Twelve and Oceans Thirteen. As a public figure, Pitt has been cited as one of the most influential and powerful people in the American entertainment industry, as well as the worlds most attractive man and his personal life is also the subject of wide publicity. Divorced from actress Jennifer Aniston, to whom he was married for five years and they have six children together, three of whom were adopted internationally. In September 2016, Jolie filed for divorce from Pitt, William Bradley Pitt was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma, to William Bill Alvin Pitt, manager of a trucking company, and Jane Etta, a school counsellor. The family soon moved to Springfield, Missouri, where he lived together with his siblings, Douglas. Pitt has described Springfield as Mark Twain country, Jesse James country, having grown up with a lot of hills, Pitt attended Kickapoo High School, where he was a member of the golf, swimming and tennis teams. He participated in the schools Key and Forensics clubs, in school debates, following his graduation from high school, Pitt enrolled in the University of Missouri in 1982, majoring in journalism with a focus on advertising. As graduation approached, Pitt did not feel ready to settle down and he loved films—a portal into different worlds for me—and, since films were not made in Missouri, he decided to go to where they were made. Two weeks before earning his degree, Pitt left the university and moved to Los Angeles, while struggling to establish himself in Los Angeles, Pitt took lessons from acting coach Roy London. Pitts acting career began in 1987, with uncredited parts in the films No Way Out, No Mans Land and his television debut came in May 1987 with a two-episode role on the NBC soap opera Another World. In November of the same year Pitt had a guest appearance on the ABC sitcom Growing Pains and he appeared in four episodes of the CBS primetime series Dallas between December 1987 and February 1988 as Randy, the boyfriend of Charlie Wade. Later in 1988, Pitt made a guest appearance on the Fox police drama 21 Jump Street, in the same year, the Yugoslavian–U. S. Co-production The Dark Side of the Sun gave Pitt his first leading film role, the film was shelved at the outbreak of the Croatian War of Independence, and was not released until 1997. He made guest appearances on television series Head of the Class, Freddys Nightmares, Thirtysomething, and Growing Pains. Pitt was cast as Billy Canton, an addict who takes advantage of a young runaway in the 1990 NBC television movie Too Young to Die. the story of an abused teenager sentenced to death for a murder
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Pitt at the premiere of
Fury in Washington D.C, October 2014
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Pitt at the 2007
Palm Springs International Film Festival
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Pitt,
George Clooney,
Matt Damon,
Andy García,
Julia Roberts, cast of
Ocean's Eleven and director
Steven Soderbergh in December 2001
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Pitt in 2001
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Christoph Waltz
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Christoph Waltz is an Austrian-German actor. For each performance, he won an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and he also received the Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival and a Screen Actors Guild Award for his portrayal of Landa. Waltz was born in Vienna, the son of Johannes Waltz and Elisabeth Urbancic, set and costume designers from Germany and his maternal grandfather, Rudolf von Urban, was a psychiatrist and psychologist who wrote the book Sex Perfection and Marital Happiness. His maternal grandmother was Burgtheater actress Maria Mayen, and his step-grandfather was actor Emmerich Reimers and his great-grandparents also worked in theatre of dreams. Waltz studied acting at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna, in the late 1970s, Waltz spent some time in New York City where he studied method acting with Lee Strasberg and Stella Adler. He started as a actor, performing at venues such as Zurichs Schauspielhaus Zürich, Viennas Burgtheater. He became a television actor in the years 1980 to 2000. In 2000, he made his debut, with the German television production Wenn man sich traut. Before coming to the attention of an audience in Tarantinos Inglourious Basterds he had played Dr. Hans-Joachim Dorfmann in the British TV series The Gravy Train in 1990. The show is a story of intrigue and misdeeds set in the offices of the European Union in Brussels, in Quentin Tarantinos 2009 film Inglourious Basterds, Waltz portrayed SS-Standartenführer Hans Landa, aka The Jew Hunter. Waltz received the Best Actor Award for the performance at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival and received acclaim from critics, the following month, he won the BAFTA for Best Supporting Actor, and won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He is the actor to have won an Academy Award for playing a character in a Tarantino film. Tarantino acknowledged the importance of Waltz to his film by stating, I think that Landa is one of the best characters Ive ever written and ever will write and its true that if I couldnt have found someone as good as Christoph I might not have made Inglourious Basterds. Waltz played gangster Benjamin Chudnofsky in The Green Hornet, that year, he starred in Water for Elephants. He played German bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz in Quentin Tarantinos Django Unchained, during a training accident prior to filming, Waltz injured his pelvis. His role garnered him awards acclaim once again, with Waltz winning the Golden Globe, the BAFTA, Waltz has been cast as the former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in the film Reykjavik, based on the 1986 peace talks between the United States and USSR. In April 2013, he was selected as a member of the competition jury at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. In late 2013, he directed a production of the opera Der Rosenkavalier at the Vlaamse Opera in Antwerp, in 2014, he was selected as a member of the jury for the 64th Berlin International Film Festival
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Waltz at the Paris premiere of
Django Unchained, January 2013
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Waltz in 2012
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Waltz and his wife, Judith Holste at the
82nd Academy Awards, March 2010
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Christian Bale
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Christian Charles Philip Bale is an English actor. He has starred both in films and smaller projects from independent producers and art houses. Bale first caught the eye at the age of 13. Based on the story by J. G. Ballard, Bale played an English boy who is separated from his parents. In 2000, he garnered acclaim for his portrayal of serial killer Patrick Bateman in American Psycho. He is known for going to lengths to portray characters in films, notably for the psychological thriller The Machinist. Bale went on to greater commercial recognition for his starring role as Batman in Christopher Nolans Batman Begins, The Dark Knight. His portrayal of Dicky Eklund in the David O. Russell-directed biographical film The Fighter, earned him critical acclaim, Bale was born in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, the son of Jenny, a circus performer, and David Bale, an entrepreneur, commercial pilot and talent manager. His mother is English and his father was born in South Africa, to English parents, Bale has remarked, I was born in Wales and he spent his childhood in Wales, Surrey and Dorset in England, and Portugal. Bale acknowledged that the frequent relocation had a influence on his career choice. He attended Bournemouth School, but left at age 16 and his first acting role was a commercial for the fabric softener Lenor in 1982. A year later, he appeared in a Pac-Man cereal commercial playing a rock star. In 1984, he made his debut in The Nerd on Londons West End with Rowan Atkinson. Bales parents divorced in 1991, and while his mother and sister Sharon stayed in Bournemouth, in 1990, he played the role of Jim Hawkins opposite Charlton Heston in Treasure Island, an adaptation of Robert Louis Stevensons classic book. Bale starred in the musical films Newsies and Swing Kids, the latter about teenagers who secretly listened to jazz during the rise of Nazi Germany. Bale was recommended by actress Winona Ryder to star in Gillian Armstrongs 1994 film Little Women, Bale also voiced Thomas, a young compatriot of Captain John Smith, in Disneys Pocahontas and in 1997 played Arthur Stuart in Velvet Goldmine, Todd Haynes tribute to glam rock. In 1999, Bale played serial killer Patrick Bateman in American Psycho, Bale was briefly dropped from the project in favour of Leonardo DiCaprio, but DiCaprio eventually dropped out to star in The Beach, and Bale was cast once again. He went so far as to himself from the cast
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Bale at the
2014 Berlin Film Festival.
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A 14-year-old Bale in
Stockholm, Sweden in February 1988 while promoting
Empire of the Sun
