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Tony Goldwyn
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Anthony Howard Tony Goldwyn is an American actor, producer, director and political activist. He portrayed Carl Bruner in Ghost, Colonel Bagley in The Last Samurai, and he stars in the ABC drama Scandal, as Fitzgerald Grant III, President of the United States. His maternal grandparents were playwright Sidney Howard and actress Clare Eames, one of his maternal great-great-grandfathers was Maryland Governor and Senator William Thomas Hamilton. Goldwyn attended Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, following his departure from drama school, Goldwyn began acting in guest star roles in the mid-1980s. Goldwyn is well known for his portrayal of Carl Bruner, friend-turned-betrayer of Patrick Swayzes character Sam Wheat in Ghost, in the HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon, Goldwyn played astronaut Neil Armstrong, commander of Apollo 11. He had a role on the NBC-Universal drama Law & Order, Criminal Intent as Frank Goren, brother of lead character Robert Goren. He also had acting and directing duties for the first season of Dexter for Showtime, as a stage actor, Goldwyn has appeared twice in Off-Broadway shows at Second Stage Theatre and on Broadway at Circle in the Square Theatre. At Second Stage he appeared in Theresa Rebecks Spike Heels alongside Kevin Bacon, most recently, in the summer of 2006 at Second Stage Theatre he starred opposite Kate Burton in another Rebeck play, The Waters Edge. Goldwyn played J. D. Sheldrake, the business executive, in the Broadway musical Promises, Promises starring Sean Hayes. The cast recording was released on June 23,2010, with Goldwyn in three tracks, Goldwyn played Captain von Trapp in a concert performance of The Sound of Music at Carnegie Hall on April 25,2012. The benefit included opera singer Stephanie Blythe as the Mother Abbess, Brooke Shields as Baroness Schraeder, as a director, Goldwyn has directed four feature films, A Walk On The Moon, Someone Like You, The Last Kiss, and Conviction. He has also directed episodes of television series such as Without a Trace, The L Word, Dexter, Law & Order, Criminal Intent, Greys Anatomy. In 2014, he directed the episode of the WE tv series, The Divide. Since 2012, he has appeared as President Fitzgerald Grant III in ABC television series Scandal, in 2013, Goldwyn was cast in new Lifetime movie, Outlaw Prophet, as Warren Jeffs. In 2014, he appeared in Divergent as Andrew Prior, Caleb, in 2015 he signed on to star in James Gunns horror thriller film The Belko Experiment. A former President of the Creative Coalition, Goldwyn is also involved with arts advocacy. He is also a spokesperson of the AmeriCares Foundation, Goldwyn has been married to production designer Jane Michelle Musky since 1987. Additionally, Goldwyns brother John is an executive of Paramount Pictures
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Marin Ireland
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Marin Yvonne Ireland is an American stage, film and television actress. She won the 2009 Theatre World Award and was nominated for a 2009 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play for her performance in reasons to be pretty. She also appeared in the play during its run in the American Repertory Theatre New Stages presentation at the Hasty Pudding Theatre, Cambridge and her off-Broadway work includes Caryl Churchills Far Away at the New York Theatre Workshop. She played the role in Sabina by Willy Holtzman at Primary Stages. She was featured in the 2008 stage adaptation of The Beebo Brinker Chronicles and she appeared in the New Group revival of A Lie of the Mind in February and March 2010. She starred in the Lincoln Center Theatre production of Abe Kooglers Kill Floor in 2015 and she made her Broadway theatre debut in reasons to be pretty. For this performance, she received a Tony Award nomination as Best Featured Actress in a play and she then appeared in After Miss Julie in a Roundabout Theatre Company presentation of a Donmar Warehouse production at the American Airlines Theatre in September through December 2009. In November 2012, she starred in the role of Marie Antoinette in the world premiere at the Yale Repertory Theatre. Marin Ireland at the Internet Movie Database Marin Ireland at the Internet Broadway Database Marin Ireland at the Internet Off-Broadway Database Del Signore, John
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Nia Long
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Nitara Carlynn Nia Long is an American actress. And the sequels to the three films. Long was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Talita, a teacher and printmaker, and Doughtry Doc Long and her family is of Trinidadian, Grenadian, and Bajan descent. She has an older half-sister, the actress and comedian known as Sommore, Long was two years old when her parents divorced. She accompanied her mother when she moved to Iowa City, Iowa and her mother moved to South Los Angeles when Long was seven years old, as she planned to marry there. She and her fiance called off the wedding, but Talita chose to stay in Los Angeles, longs father resides in Trenton, New Jersey. Long attended the Roman Catholic school St. Marys Academy in Inglewood and she was bused from South Los Angeles to Paseo Del Rey Elementary School in Playa Del Rey from 3rd grade through 6th grade. In addition to her classes, she studied ballet, tap, jazz, gymnastics, guitar. She graduated from Westchester High School in Los Angeles in 1989, longs acting coach was Betty Bridges, better known as the mother of Diffrent Strokes star Todd Bridges. Her earliest role was in the Disney television movie, The B. R. A. T, patrol alongside Sean Astin, Tim Thomerson and Brian Keith. Her first notable role on television was a contract role as Kathryn Kat Speakes on the soap opera Guiding Light. Long portrayed Kat from 1991 to 1994, Long played Brandi in Boyz n the Hood. The film excited Long, who was doing her first real movie role and it helped Long build her confidence as an actress. It introduced me to the world in a way that it was okay for me to be who I am and still find success, I didn’t have to conform to anything. From 1994 –1995, she played Will Smiths girlfriend and fiancée Beulah Lisa Wilkes on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, jada Pinkett Smith was originally supposed to play Lisa, but was too short for the role, thus leaving Nia to take the part. In 2000, Long was offered the role of Alex Munday in Charlies Angels, but she turned it down, in 2003, she joined the cast of the drama Third Watch, where she played NYPD Officer Sasha Monroe, continuing until the series finale in 2005. In 2005 and 2006, Long appeared on Everwood, and appeared on Boston Legal during its 2006–2007 season, Long also starred in Big Shots from 2007–2008 alongside Michael Vartan and Dylan McDermott. In 2016, Long was cast in a role for the TV series Empire
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Clarke Peters
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More recently, Peters has portrayed Alonzo Quinn on the CBS crime drama Person of Interest and Isaiah Page on The Divide. Peters was born Peter Clarke, as the second of four sons, in New York City, at the age of 12, he had his first theater experience, in a school production of My Fair Lady. He began to have ambitions to work in the theater at the age of 14. He graduated from Dwight Morrow High School in 1970, shortly before he left the United States, he was arrested for obstructing police lines after an anti-Vietnam war demonstration, but was cleared. He later said of this experience, It made me more angry than anything else, because what I experienced was how impotent you could be as an American citizen. In 1971, Peters elder brother enabled him to work as a designer for a production of the musical Hair in Paris. While there, he received a letter from the FBI that accused him of draft evasion, when he went to New Jersey to contest his charge, he said if the enemy comes to America, Ill be there, but I dont know the Vietnamese. If you put me in the army, Im not going there, in 1973, he moved to London, and changed his name to Clarke Peters because Equity already had a few namesake members. While in London, he formed a band, The Majestics, and worked as a backup singer on such hits as Love and Affection by Joan Armatrading, Boogie Nights by Heatwave. However, music was not Peters main ambition, and he preferred to work in the theater and his first West End theatre musical roles, which he received with assistance from his friend Ned Sherrin, were I Gotta Shoe and Bubbling Brown Sugar. Other West End credits include Blues in the Night, Porgy and Bess, The Witches of Eastwick, Chicago, in 1981, Peters starred in the Sean Connery space Western Outland as the treacherous Sgt. Ballard, and had an almost wordless role as Anderson, a pimp in Neil Jordans Mona Lisa in 1986. After writing several revues with Sherrin, In 1990 Peters wrote the revue Five Guys Named Moe and he followed this up with Unforgettable, a musical about Nat King Cole, which received scathing reviews. He also starred in the 2010 UK production of Five Guys Named Moe, as an actor, he has appeared on Broadway in The Iceman Cometh, which won him the Theatre World Award, and as shady lawyer Billy Flynn in the revival of Chicago in 2000 and 2003. In regional theatre he has appeared in Driving Miss Daisy, The Wiz, Bubbling Brown Sugar, Ma Raineys Black Bottom, Carmen Jones, Peters is familiar to television viewers as Detective Lester Freamon in the critically acclaimed HBO series The Wire. Peters also starred in the HBO mini-series The Corner, portraying a drug addict named Fat Curt, both The Wire and The Corner were created by writer and former Baltimore Sun journalist David Simon. Peters also stars in Simons HBO series Treme, in the role of Mardi Gras Indian chief Albert Lambreaux and he also appeared in the UK show Holby City, as Derek Newman, the father of nurse Donna Jackson. He voiced a part in the Doctor Who animated episode Dreamland and he played Nelson Mandela in the 2009 film Endgame, and Bishop Enoch in Spike Lees 2012 film, Red Hook Summer
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Joe Anderson (actor)
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Anderson attended Richmond upon Thames College and later the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London. He has been acting professionally since childhood and his skills include photography, guitar and gymnastics. His father is actor Miles Anderson, his mother is talent agent Lesley Duff and he was diagnosed with dyslexia and attributes his move into acting to this. Anderson has worked in film, television and on stage at the Chichester Festival Theatre, earlier in his career he appeared in Copying Beethoven, playing Ludwig van Beethovens nephew Karl. He then starred as Max Carrigan, a young American man, after that, he appeared in period film Becoming Jane as Henry Austen, Jane Austens older brother, then as bassist Peter Hook of the band Joy Division in Anton Corbijns 2007 film Control. In 2008, he played Elliot in The 27 Club and a German tourist in The Ruins, in 2009, he starred in High Life as Donnie and in Love Happens as the musician boyfriend of Jennifer Anistons character. He was also seen in Amelia, the biopic of Amelia Earhart and he appeared in 2010s The Crazies, a remake of the 1973 horror film of the same name. He and his castmates from Control were featured in The Killers music video for their version of the Joy Division song Shadowplay, in an interview with Pure Movies, he said that talking about himself made him uncomfortable and feel self indulgent and that he really struggled with it. In 2012, he starred as Lincoln Cole in the television series The River, Anderson co-starred alongside Dwayne Johnson in Hercules. In December 2014, it was announced that Anderson would be replacing Michael Pitt in the role of Mason Verger in the season of the TV series Hannibal. Anderson received the Rising Star Award at the California Independent Film Festival in 2008 and he was named Best Actor Drama at Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival 2008 for his performance in The 27 Club. Anderson appeared in music related films in which he also performed musical pieces. In Across the Universe, he sang covers of Beatles songs, all of these recordings were released on the corresponding soundtrack album. In Control, as bassist Peter Hook of the group Joy Division, he and his cast mates performed Transmission, Leaders of Men and these three performances were shown in their entirety in the special features under the extended performance scenes section of the DVD. Transmission was the recording by the cast released on the soundtrack album. In The 27 Club, Anderson played the bassist of a music duo called Finn. He and cast/bandmate James Forgey penned the song for the film. A studio version and a version of the song were made available on the film’s official website
