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Bow Wow (rapper)
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Shad Gregory Moss, better known by his stage name Bow Wow, is an American rapper, actor and television host. As Lil Bow Wow, he released his first album, Beware of Dog in 2000 at age 13, in 2003, Bow Wow released his third album Unleashed, which was the first album released without using Lil in his name. As of September 27,2015, Bow Wow had officially signed to a new label, Bad Boy Records. Bow Wow made his first movie appearance in All About the Benjamins, in the same year, Bow Wow made his debut as the lead role in Like Mike. He later began to lead roles in movies, such as Johnson Family Vacation in 2004. He also played a role in the film The Fast. Bow Wow also appeared in five episodes of the television series Entourage and he is currently working on his new album entitled Underrated and starred as Brody Nelson in CSI, Cyber until the shows cancellation in 2016. Bow Wow was born Shad Gregory Moss in Columbus, Ohio, at age three, he became interested in rap. Under the moniker Kid Gangsta, he began rapping recreationally at age six, in 1993, he performed at a concert in Los Angeles, and was noticed by rapper Snoop Dogg, who subsequently gave him a stage name, Lil Bow Wow. In 1998, at the age of eleven, Bow Wow met record producer Jermaine Dupri, in 1999, the soundtrack to the movie Wild Wild West featured his song The Stick Up with his mentor Jermaine Dupri. At the age of 13, in 2000 he debuted with Beware of Dog under the stage name Lil Bow Wow and its debut single was Bounce with Me, which featured R&B girl group Xscape. The album also included Bow Wow featuring Snoop Dogg, which topped the rap chart, Puppy Love, the Recording Industry Association of America certified Beware of Dog double platinum on March 5,2001, signifying sales of two million copies. In a 2009 interview, the claimed that the album had sold over 3 million copies since its release. Doggy Bag peaked at #11 on the Billboard 200 and #2 on the Top R&B/Hip Hop Albums chart and was certified platinum. Lil Bow Wow performed the track Basketball for the soundtrack of his film Like Mike, Bow Wow dropped the Lil from his stage name in April 2002, he told MTV News, I changed my name because Im getting older now and its too many Lils. All these Lil rappers, Im just kind of getting real irritated by it, besides, Im growing up, Im not little anymore. Its all these Lil cats, forget it, everything is just Bow Wow, no Lil Bow Wow. The first album released under his new name was Unleashed in 2003 and its first single was Lets Get Down featuring Birdman, the founder of Cash Money Records, which reached #14 on the Hot 100 and #6 on the Hot Rap Tracks charts
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Morris Chestnut
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Morris Lamont Chestnut, Jr. is an American actor. He first came to attention for his role in the 1991 film Boyz n the Hood and he has appeared in numerous feature films and on television series, including the starring role of pathologist Dr. Beaumont Rosewood, Jr. in the Fox TV series Rosewood. Chestnut was born in Cerritos, California, the son of Morris Lamont Chestnut and he graduated from Richard Gahr High School in 1986, and subsequently studied finance and drama at California State University, Northridge. Chestnuts first professional acting role was as Jadon in Freddys Nightmares, A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Series, season 2, episode 19 and his first feature film role was as Ricky Baker in Boyz n the Hood. He followed that up with roles in various TV movies, Chestnut also played a role on Patti LaBelles short-lived sitcom Out All Night. His career continued to rise steadily with co-starring roles in standard big-budget studio films such as Under Siege 2, Dark Territory, in 1998, he won the annual Madden Bowl video game competition. In 1999, Chestnut starred in The Best Man with Taye Diggs and Nia Long, the Best Man earned positive reviews from the press and did well at the box office. For his performance Chestnut earned an NAACP Image Award nomination and he again played a football player in The Game Plan. In 2001, he starred in The Brothers, a film centering on the themes of fidelity, in 2004, he appeared as a firefighter in Ladder 49. He has worked with Steven Seagal three times, in Under Siege 2, Dark Territory, Chestnut is Seagals reluctant partner. In both Half Past Dead and Prince of Pistols, he co-stars as the main villain, people magazine named Morris Chestnut as one of the Sexiest Men Alive for 2015. Chestnut is married to his wife Pam Byse Chestnut, the couple have two children – a son named Grant, and a daughter named Paige. Love In The Nick of Tyme What My Husband Doesnt Know Morris Chestnut at the Internet Movie Database Morris Chestnut at Yahoo
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Jonathan Lipnicki
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Jonathan William Lipnicki is an American actor. He is best known for his roles in the Hollywood films Jerry Maguire, Stuart Little, The Little Vampire, Stuart Little 2. Lipnicki was born in Westlake Village, California, son of Joseph and he has an older sister, Alexis. Lipnicki was educated at Agoura High School, a secondary school in the city of Agoura Hills in Los Angeles County in California. Lipnicki made his debut in 1996s Jerry Maguire as the son of Renée Zellwegers character. He subsequently appeared on The Single Guy, The Jeff Foxworthy Show as well as episodes of Dawsons Creek, in 1999, he starred in the film Stuart Little, playing a boy whose family adopts a talking mouse, a role he reprised in the films 2002 sequel. Lipnicki has also appeared in the preview of Jamie Kennedys Blowin Up. He appeared on the comedy Motherlover on the YOMYOMF Network, I’m not saying no and I’m not saying yes. In 2001, the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation named Lipnicki one of its “Heroes of 2001” at the age of ten, jonathan Lipnicki at the Internet Movie Database Official website
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Robert Forster
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Robert Wallace Forster, Jr. is an American actor. He has also had recurring roles in series such as Huff, Heroes, Alcatraz. He received a Saturn Award for his performance in the 2013 Granite State episode of Breaking Bad and his mother was Italian American, while his father was of English and Irish descent. As a tribute to his father, Forster hung one of his fathers Barnum & Bailey Circus posters in the office of his character in Jackie Brown. After starring roles in the TV shows Banyon and Nakia, he played supporting roles in action. Forster had lead roles in cult B-movies in the 1980s like Alligator, Vigilante, The Delta Force, Forster was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1997 for Jackie Brown, which he credits with reviving his career. He has since had consistent work in the industry, appearing in Like Mike, Mulholland Drive, Me, Myself, & Irene, Lucky Number Slevin. He recently appeared in the made-for-television movie The Hunt for the BTK Killer, Forster also played the father of Van on the short-lived Fox series Fastlane. Forster recorded a public announcement for Deejay Ras Hip-Hop Literacy campaign. Forster is also a motivational speaker, Forster is a member of the Triple Nine Society. Voisin, Scott, Character Kings, Hollywoods Familiar Faces Discuss the Art & Business of Acting, official website Robert Forster at the Internet Movie Database Robert Forster at the Internet Broadway Database DVD Talk Interview House Petrelli Interview 12/08, Part 1
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Crispin Glover
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Crispin Hellion Glover is an American actor, director, screenwriter, recording artist, publisher, and author. He is also the voice of Fifi in the Open Season franchise and he played a German-speaking clairvoyant during World War I in the Polish-language film Hiszpanka, and an unwitting employee in service of Robert De Niros character in The Bag Man. In the late 1980s, Glover started his company, Volcanic Eruptions, Glover was recognized for his directorial work in 2013 when the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City staged the series It Is Crispin Hellion Glover. The program consisted of screenings of all of his work, live performances. Glover is a child, born in New York City. His father is actor Bruce Glover and his mother, Mary Elizabeth Lillian Betty Krachey, was an actress and he was named after the Saint Crispins Day speech from William Shakespeares play Henry V, which his parents enjoyed. Hellion, his middle name, had earlier been used as a false middle name by his father. His father is of English, Czech, and Swedish descent, as a child, Glover attended The Mirman School from first grade through ninth grade. He then attended both Venice High for tenth and eleventh grade, and Beverly Hills High School only for twelfth grade, Glover began acting professionally at the age of 13. He appeared in sitcoms as a teenager, including Happy Days. His first film role was in 1983s My Tutor and that led to roles in Teachers and Friday the 13th, The Final Chapter. He then worked with director Trent Harris on the chapter of the Beaver Trilogy. In this short film, he portrayed a man who organizes a local talent show to showcase his obsession with Olivia Newton-John. At the climax of the film, Glover does his rendition, in full drag and his breakout role was as George McFly in Robert Zemeckiss Back to the Future, an international box office success in 1985. Glover and the producers could not agree on terms for him to appear in the sequels, so the role of the character was greatly reduced. In Back to the Future Part II, Zemeckis reused brief footage of Glover which had filmed for the first film. Glover was billed as George McFly in footage from Back to the Future in the closing credits, subsequently, clauses in the Screen Actors Guild are now in collective bargaining agreements to the effect that this is no longer permitted. He has continued to play exceedingly eccentric types, including playing Andy Warhol in Oliver Stones The Doors in 1991, as well as the characters in Bartleby
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Eugene Levy
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Eugene Levy, CM is a Canadian actor, comedian, producer, director, musician and writer. He is the actor to have appeared in all eight of the American Pie films. He often plays nerdy, unconventional figures, with his humour often deriving from his excessive explanations of matters, Levy is a regular collaborator of actor-director Christopher Guest, appearing in and co-writing four of his films, commencing with Waiting for Guffman. Levy received the Governor Generals Performing Arts Award, Canadas highest honour in the performing arts and he was appointed to the Order of Canada on June 30,2011. Levy was born to a Jewish family in Hamilton, Ontario and his mother was a housewife and his father was a foreman at an automobile plant. He went to Westdale Secondary School, and attended McMaster University and he was vice-president of the McMaster Film Board, a student film group, where he met moviemaker Ivan Reitman. An alumnus of both the Second City, Toronto and the comedy series Second City Television, Levy often plays unusual supporting characters with nerdish streaks. Perhaps his best-known role on SCTV is the dimwitted Earl Camembert, a newsanchor for the SCTV News, lee Bailey, Ernest Borgnine, former Ontario chief coroner Dr. Morton Schulman, Norman Mailer, Neil Sedaka and Howard McNear as Floyd the Barber. Original Levy characterizations on SCTV are comic Bobby Bittman, scandal sheet entrepreneur Dr. Raoul Withers, report on business naïf Brian Johns, 3-D horror auteur Woody Tobias Jr. Though he has been the above the star in only two films, Armed and Dangerous and The Man, he has featured prominently in many films. In the 1980s and 1990s, he appeared in Splash, National Lampoon’s Vacation, Club Paradise, Stay Tuned, Multiplicity, Levy was the creator of Maniac Mansion, a television sitcom based on the LucasArts video game of the same name. He was also considered for the role of Toby Ziegler on The West Wing. Levy, along with his son Dan Levy, is co-creator of the popular CBC/PopTV sitcom and he also stars in the show alongside his son as head of the Rose family, Johnny Rose. Levys career received a tremendous boost in 1999, when he was cast as the clueless, reprising the role in three film sequels and starring in four straight-to-video sequels made him something of a cult hero. Levy has been quoted as saying the American Pie series was a turning point in his career. Since working on the first two American Pie movies, Levy has worked with Steve Martin and Queen Latifah in Bringing Down the House, Levy again appeared as his famous character, Noah Levenstein, in the fourth theatrical film in the American Pie series, American Reunion. He is the actor to appear in all eight American Pie films. Levy appeared in the corner of a poster hanging outside the theatre in Springfield in the See Homer Run episode of The Simpsons
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Jesse Plemons
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Jesse Lon Plemons is an American actor. He is also known for his roles in such films as Like Mike, Observe and Report, Battleship, The Master. Plemons was born in Dallas, Texas, the son of Lisa Beth and he was raised in Mart, a small town outside Waco. He has a sister named Jill Plemons. On his paternal side, he is related to Stephen F. Austin, in 2007, Plemons graduated from the Texas Tech University Independent School District, a distance learning program, which allowed him to earn his high school diploma. He attended schools in the Mart, Texas area, where he played football in school, junior high. He attended Mart High School until he received acting jobs. Plemons got his first start in a Coca-Cola commercial when he was 3 1/2 years old, then when he was 8 years old he started doing extra work, and with the support of his family, spent time auditioning in Los Angeles and landing small jobs. In the shows first season, his character Landry Clarke provided comic relief as the best friend of football quarterback Matt Saracen, though Landry himself was not on the team. Among the cast and crew, the joke was that Plemons played football better than most of the other actors, even though his character was one of the few who did not play. Landry joined the Panthers football team in the season, and Plemons, having played high school football. In his first football scene, Landry had to get the crap out of over and over and over again. When hit by co-star Taylor Kitsch Plemons chin split open, requiring eleven stitches, the show, a fan and critic favorite, after shifting to DirecTV, ended after five seasons, in 2011. In 2012, Plemons reunited with Kitsch and Friday Night Lights creator Peter Berg in the film Battleship, Berg, who directed the film, explained that he knew how comfortable Kitsch was with Plemons, I know that hes really good for Taylor and he makes Taylor better. So, I wrote that part for Jesse. I never thought of it as a Friday Night Lights reunion, I thought of it as protection, bringing a trusted family member in. From 2012 to 2013, Plemons portrayed the villain Todd Alquist during the season of the AMC drama series Breaking Bad. He was a recurring cast member in Season 5A and was promoted to regular for Season 5B
