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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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Christopher Plummer
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Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer CC is a Canadian theatre, film and television actor. After making his debut in Stage Struck, Plummer went on to a successful film career. Plummer has ventured into television projects, including the miniseries The Thorn Birds. Plummer has won awards and accolades for his work, including an Academy Award. With his win at age 82 in 2012 for Beginners, Plummer is the oldest actor ever to win an Academy Award and his fathers uncle was patent lawyer and agent F. B. Plummers parents were divorced shortly after his birth, and he was brought up at the Abbott family home in Senneville, Quebec and he is bilingual, speaking English and French fluently. Plummer is a cousin of actor Nigel Bruce, the British actor, best known as Doctor Watson to Basil Rathbones Sherlock Holmes. He had studied to be a concert pianist, but developed a love for the theatre at an early age and he began acting while he was living on Pine Avenue in Montreal and attending Montreal High. He attended McGill, at time he also took up acting. Whittaker, who was also stage director of the Montreal Repertory Theatre, cast Plummer, aged 18. Plummer made his Broadway debut in January 1953 in The Starcross Story and his next Broadway appearance, Home is the Hero, lasted 30 performances from September to October 1954. He appeared in support of Broadway legend Katharine Cornell and film legend Tyrone Power in The Dark is Light Enough, the play toured several cities, with Plummer serving as Powers understudy. Later that same year, he appeared in his first Broadway hit, Plummer appeared less frequently on Broadway in the 1960s as he moved from New York to London. From May to June 1973, he appeared on Broadway as the character in Cyrano. For that performance, Plummer won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical, later that year, he played Anton Chekhov in Neil Simons adaptation of several Chekhov short stories, The Good Doctor. In the 1980s, he appeared on Broadway in two Shakespearean tragedies, Othello, playing Iago to James Earl Jones Moor, and the role in Macbeth with Glenda Jackson playing his lady. His Iago brought him another Tony nomination and he appeared with Jason Robards in the 1994 revival of Harold Pinters No Mans Land and had great success in 1997 in Barrymore, which he also toured with after a successful Broadway run. His turn as John Barrymore brought him his second Tony Award and he was nominated for a Tony Award and a Drama Desk Award for his 2004 King Lear and for a Tony playing Henry Drummond in the 2007 revival of Inherit the Wind
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Abigail Spencer
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Abigail Leigh Spencer is an American actress known for her roles in several television series. On television, she has had recurring roles on Mad Men, Hawthorne, from 2013 to 2016, Spencer starred as Amantha Holden in the SundanceTV drama series Rectify, for which she received a Critics Choice Television Award nomination. In 2016, Spencer began playing the role of history professor Lucy Preston in the NBC series Timeless. Spencer was born and raised in Gulf Breeze, Florida, the daughter of Lydia Ann and she has two brothers, Yancy Spencer IV and Sterling Spencer. Spencer has stated that she is part Cherokee, Spencers first major acting role was playing Rebecca Becca Tyree on ABC soap opera All My Children from June 3,1999 to April 10,2001. She later starred in Lifetime Television original series Angelas Eyes, which was cancelled on December 1,2006, in the following years she began playing guest roles on television series, including CSI, Crime Scene Investigation, How I Met Your Mother, Private Practice and Castle. Spencer played the role of a blogging enthusiast in Twix advertisements, and portrayed Miss Farrell, in early 2011, she landed the lead role on ABC drama pilot Grace by Krista Vernoff. Spencer had previously played the character in another Krista Vernoff drama pilot, Introducing Lennie Rose. She appeared in adventure film Oz the Great and Powerful, directed by Sam Raimi. As of 2013, Spencer has starred as Amantha Holden in the Sundance Channel original drama series Rectify and she was nominated for Critics Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series and Satellite Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama for her performance in the series. She was nominated for a Madrid International Film Festival Award for Best Actress for her performance in film. In 2014, Spencer appeared opposite Jason Bateman in This Is Where I Leave You, a comedy directed by Shawn Levy. In October 2014, Spencer joined the cast of the season of HBO crime drama series. A review of the series in Variety called Spencer prodigiously talented, a review in Deadline. com said that the show was a waste of Spencers talents. The New York Times wrote that Abigail Spencer is good as Lucy, Spencer married Andrew Pruett in 2004 and filed for divorce in February 2012. The couple has a son named Roman, Abigail Spencer at the Internet Movie Database
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Tye Sheridan
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Tye Kayle Sheridan is an American actor. Sheridan made his film debut in Terrence Malicks experimental drama film The Tree of Life and had his first leading role in Jeff Nicholss film Mud. He also co-starred in David Gordon Greens drama Joe, in 2015, he starred in the drama The Stanford Prison Experiment. Sheridan was born in Elkhart, Texas and his mother, Stephanie Sheridan, owns a beauty salon, and his father, Bryan Sheridan, is an employee of UPS. He has a sister, Madison. He attended the Elkhart Independent School District until he began his film career, Sheridan has graduated from high school. The film premiered at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival and went on to be awarded the prestigious Palme dOr and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, in 2012, he played the leading role of Ellis in Jeff Nicholss Mud opposite Jacob Lofland and Matthew McConaughey. The coming-of-age drama-thriller film premiered at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, for his role he has received the Marcello Mastroianni Award for best upcoming young actor at the 70th Venice International Film Festival. In 2014, he played Will Cutter in the film The Forger, from a script by Richard D’Ovidio, in 2015, Sheridan starred in the three films that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. He also had a role in the film adaptation of Gillian Flynns Dark Places. Sheridan played the mutant Scott Summers / Cyclops in the 2016 film X-Men, Apocalypse, in June 2013, he joined the cast of a film written and directed by Kyle Wilamowski, Grass Stains, along with Kaitlyn Dever. He plays a teen discovering his first love, when a prank goes awry and causes the death of his girlfriend’s older brother, the boy must balance his secret guilt with his feelings for the girl. He will star in the The Yellow Birds opposite Alden Ehrenreich, Jack Huston, on February 24,2016, Sheridan was cast as Wade Watts, a. k. a. Parzival, the character in Steven Spielbergs Ready Player One. Tye Sheridan at the Internet Movie Database
