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Zoë Kravitz has captivated audiences in diverse group of acclaimed major motion picture films, notable independent releases and blockbuster franchises including The Batman, Mad Max and Fantastic Beasts, as well as the celebrated EMMY® Award-winning series Big Little Lies.
Following her role both starring in and Executive Producing the critically acclaimed series adaption of High Fidelity for Hulu, Kravitz most recently starred as Selina Kyle in Matt Reeves and Warner Bros.' acclaimed blockbuster film The Batman. In 2024, Kravitz will make her directorial debut with the original motion picture film, Blink Twice. Written by Kravitz and E.T. Feigenbaum, the film will star Naomi Ackie alongside Channing Tatum.
At the onset of this multi-talented entertainer's career, Variety touted her among its "10Actors to Watch," while Forbes spotlighted Kravitz on their coveted "30 Under 30 List." She has since gained global recognition and was recently named one of "the most influential people of 2022" by TIME.
Outside of her film endeavors, Kravitz is the global face of YSL Beauty and a brand ambassador for Saint Laurent, as well as the face of YSL's Black Opium fragrance.Lisa Bonet & Lenny Kravitz- Actress
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Actress and model Danielle Riley Keough was born in Santa Monica, California to musicians Lisa Marie Presley and Danny Keough. She is the eldest grandchild of legendary singer Elvis Presley and actress Priscilla Presley. Keough started modeling as a teenager. She first appeared on a runway for Dolce & Gabbana. She has also appeared on the cover of "Vogue" with her mother and grandmother.
Keough began her acting career in 2010 when she won the role of Marie Currie in The Runaways (2010). Other roles followed in The Good Doctor (2011), Jack & Diane (2012), and Steven Soderbergh's Magic Mike (2012).
She has been married to Ben Smith-Petersen since February 4, 2015. They have one child.Lisa Marie Presley- Actress
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Gina Cristine "Gia" Mantegna (born April 17, 1990) is an American actress. She is known for her role as Devin Levin on American sitcom The Middle.
Mantegna was born Gina Cristine Mantegna in Manhattan, New York, and raised in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Arlene, who owns the restaurant "Taste Chicago" in Burbank, California, and actor Joe Mantegna. While growing up she was a trained gymnast and ballerina. She plays piano and saxophone and is a skilled singer.
Mantegna made her acting debut at age 13 in the 2003 film Uncle Nino (2003), alongside Anne Archer, Trevor Morgan, and her father, Joe Mantegna. She later appeared in 13 Going on 30 (2004). In 2006, Mantegna portrayed the character of Grace Conrad in Warner Brothers' winter feature, Unaccompanied Minors (2006). She was cast as one of the main roles in an American television pilot show, Murder Book (2005), for Fox. She starred in The Neighbor (2007) alongside Matthew Modine, Michèle Laroque, and Ed Quinn.
She turned 18 in 2008, and decided to change her professional given name to Gia.
In 2008, Mantegna made a guest appearance in the Season 3 episode, for television show Criminal Minds (2005), in which her father stars, wherein she portrayed an abducted teen named Lindsey Vaughn, who witnesses her best friend's death. She also appeared on The Secret Life of the American Teenager (2008) in a recurring role as Patty Mary.
In 2010, Mantegna starred in the independent feature And Soon the Darkness (2010). She also appeared in the TeenNick television series, Gigantic (2010).
On December 9, 2010, Mantegna was announced as the 2011 Miss Golden Globe for the 68th Annual Golden Globe Award Ceremony.
In 2011, Mantegna starred in the found footage feature, Apartment 143 (2011), and in the independent romantic comedy, Getting That Girl (2011). In addition to film roles, she played recurring characters on The Middle (2009) and Under the Dome (2013).
In 2017, Mantegna reprised her Criminal Minds guest starring role "Lindsey Vaughn", now operating as a drug cartel hit woman.Daughter of Joe Mantegna- Actress
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Sosie Bacon was born on 15 March 1992. She is an actress and producer, known for Smile (2022), Mare of Easttown (2021) and Loverboy (2005).Kyra Sedgwick & Kevin Bacon- Patrick Schwarzenegger was born September 18, 1993, at St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica, California. He graduated USC with a degree in Business and a minor in cinematic arts. Patrick started studying acting with Nancy Banks while at college. He is known for being GoldenBoy in GenV (2023), as well as starring opposite Collin Firth in HBO highly acclaimed "The Staircase" (2022).Son of Arnold Schwarzenegger
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Jake Cannavale was born on 1 May 1995 in Manhattan, New York, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Nurse Jackie (2009), Romance & Cigarettes (2005) and The Mandalorian (2019).Son of Bobby Cannavale- Actress
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Grace Van Dien is an American actress and director, best known for "Stranger Things" (2016), "The Village" (2019), "Charlie Says" (2018), and the remake of "Sleeping Beauty" (2014). She also starred in many independent films and projects, such as "The Bad Twin" and acted in shows like "Greenhouse Academy." In her spare time she is a streamer on her Twitch channel, to which she has accumulated thousands of followers. She plays and streams Fortnite, Overwatch, and Valorant.Casper Van Dien & Catherine Oxenberg- Hero Fiennes Tiffin is an English actor, known for his role as the 11-year-old Tom Marvolo Riddle in the sixth installment of the Harry Potter Films, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009), and as Hardin Scott in the films After (2019) and After We Collided (2020). Hero first appeared in the drama, Bigga Than Ben (2008) as Spartak in 2008.
He attended Emanuel School in Battersea, London. He lives in South London with his mother and siblings.Son of Ralph Fiennes - Sistine Rose Stallone was born on 27 June 1998 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for 47 Meters Down: Uncaged (2019), Midnight in the Switchgrass (2021) and Scavenger Hunt.Daughter of Sylvester Stallone
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Maya Ray Thurman Hawke (born July 8, 1998) is an American actress and model. She is the daughter of actors Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman. She made her acting debut as Jo March in the 2017 BBC adaptation of Little Women (2017) and starred as Robin in the Netflix series Stranger Things (2016) since its third season.
Hawke was born on July 8, 1998, in New York City, the elder of her parents' two children together. Her parents met on the set of Gattaca (1997), married in May 1998, and divorced in 2005. Hawke's brother was born in 2002. She also has two half-sisters (born in 2008 and 2011) by her father's second wife, Ryan Shawhughes. She has another half-sister (born in 2012) from her mother's ex-fiancée, financier Arpad Busson.
On her father's side, Hawke is a great-great-grandniece of playwright Tennessee Williams. On her mother's side, she is a granddaughter of Buddhist scholar Robert A. F. Thurman and model Nena von Schlebrügge. Schlebrügge was previously married to Dr. Timothy Leary. Maya's grandmother, Birgit Holmquist, was also a model, having posed for Axel Ebbe's statue Famntaget, in Smygehuk in Sweden.
Hawke has dyslexia, which resulted in her changing schools frequently during her primary education before she was finally enrolled at Saint Ann's School, a private school in Brooklyn, New York that emphasizes artistic creativity and does not grade work. The artistic environment eventually led her to acting. Hawke also took part in summer studies at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London and the renowned Stella Adler Studio of Acting in New York. She attended the performing arts school Juilliard for one year before being forced to drop out after accepting her role in Little Women.
Like both her mother and grandmother, Hawke modeled for Vogue at the start of her career. She was also chosen as the face of the British fashion retailer AllSaints's 2016/2017 collection. In 2017, she starred as one of several faces in a video campaign for Calvin Klein's underwear range, directed by Sofia Coppola.Uma Thurman & Ethan Hawke- Actress
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Zoey Deutch was born in Los Angeles, California. She is steadily and boldly building her body of work with dynamic roles as both actor and producer.
Most recently, Deutch can be seen in Not Okay (2022) for Searchlight/Hulu, as well as Something from Tiffany's (2022) for Amazon/Hello Sunshine. She starred in and produced both films. She can also be seen in Focus Feature's film The Outfit (2022) from director Graham Moore, starring opposite Mark Rylance and Dylan O'Brien. She earned a nomination for "Best Supporting Performance" at the 2022 BIFA for this role.
Next up, Deutch will re-team with writer Katie Silberman for their second romantic comedy, Most Dangerous Game. Deutch and Silberman previously worked together on the Netflix hit, Set It Up (2018).
Additional credits include Magnolia Pictures' dramedy, Buffaloed (2019), for which Deutch also executively produced, Sony Pictures' Zombieland: Double Tap (2019) alongside Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, and Emma Stone, Max Winkler's Flower (2017), The Year of Spectacular Men (2017) alongside her sister Madelyn Deutch and directed by their mother, Lea Thompson. Deutch also served as producer. Other credits include Rebel in the Rye (2017) opposite Nicholas Hoult; Before I Fall (2017), the adaptation of the 2010 young adult novel of the same name; Why Him? (2016) alongside James Franco and Bryan Cranston and directed by John Hamburg; Dirty Grandpa (2016) opposite Robert De Niro and Zac Efron and directed by Dan Mazer; Vincent N Roxxy (2016) opposite Emile Hirsch and Zoe Kravitz; Good Kids (2016); Beautiful Creatures (2013) opposite Alden Ehrenreich; and The Weinstein Company's Vampire Academy (2014). She also starred in in Ryan Murphy's Netflix series The Politician (2019) alongside Ben Platt and Gwyneth Paltrow, with the first season receiving a Golden Globe nomination for "Best Television Series - Musical or Comedy".
In 2020, Deutch was named to Forbes 30 under 30 list.- Actress
Nico Parker was born on 9 December 2004. She is an actress, known for Dumbo (2019), The Last of Us (2023) and Reminiscence (2021).Daughter of Thandie Newton- Leila George D'Onofrio is an Australian actress. George was born in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, to actor and producer Vincent D'Onofrio and actress Greta Scacchi, and raised by her mother in Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom. She has three younger half-brothers. In 2008, she took acting classes at Brighton College. The following year, she attended Crawley College, her mother's Alma mater, and in 2010, studied at the Arts Educational Schools, London. In 2011, she went to Australia to study at Sydney Film School. In 2012, she went to the United States to study at the Lee Strasberg Institute in New York City near her father.
- Kyle Allen was born on 10 October 1994 in Livermore, California, USA. He is an actor, known for West Side Story (2021), The Map of Tiny Perfect Things (2021) and All My Life (2020).
- Eisley was born on October 29, 1993, in Los Angeles, California, to musician David Glen Eisley and actress Olivia Hussey. Her grandfather was actor Anthony Eisley. Eisley and her mother appeared together in the movie Headspace (2005). After small roles in various independent films, Eisley gained a major role in The Secret Life of the American Teenager (2008). She played Ashley Juergens, younger sister of teen mother Amy Juergens.
Eisley starred as Sawa in the action film Kite (2014), opposite Samuel L. Jackson. At the end of 2014, she filmed Social Suicide (2015), a modern retelling of Romeo and Juliet. At the beginning of 2015, she also filmed the dark fantasy film The Curse of Sleeping Beauty (2016) as Briar Rose. Eisley also appears in the film adaptation of V.C. Andrews' book My Sweet Audrina (2016) in the title role of Audrina. - Actress
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Francesca Scorsese was born on 16 November 1999. She is an actress and director, known for We Are Who We Are (2020), The Departed (2006) and The Aviator (2004).- Francesca Eastwood is an accomplished film actress whose career continues to reach new heights. She will soon be seen starring in the upcoming mystery summer thriller "Clawfoot" (July 19, 2024) as the leading role of 'Jane' alongside Olivia Culpo (Paradise City), Nestor Carbonell (Shogun), and Milo Gibson (The Outpost). She'll continue to cement her silver screen presence in "Running on Empty" with Lucy Hale and Jim Gaffigan, (premiering August 9, 2024 in theaters). Continuing her momentum, Francesca will also be seen in the films "Queen of the Ring" with Walton Goggins and Josh Lucas, and "Juror #2" for Warner Bros., directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Nicholas Hoult, Zoey Deutch, and Toni Collette.
Most recently, Francesca was seen in M. Night Shyamalan's "Old" for Universal Pictures, and "A Violent Separation" opposite Brenton Thwaites from the Goetz Brothers. Her performance as the lead role of 'Noelle' in the SXSW indie film "M.F.A." was called "absolutely riveting" by the Los Angeles Times. Francesca also played a starring role opposite James Franco in the Dan Bush directed thriller "The Vault," as well as a starring role in "Outlaws and Angels" opposite Chad Michael Murray and Luke Wilson which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Her television credits include flashy guest starring roles on Showtime's "Twin Peaks," FX Network's "Fargo," and a recurring role in the NBC mini-series "Heroes Reborn."
Apart from acting, Francesca's stunning face has graced campaigns for L'Oreal and Too Faced Cosmetics. She was Miss Golden Globe for the 70th Golden Globe Awards in 2013.
Francesca currently resides in Los Angeles and is a proud parent to her son and a furry baby dog named Balto. - Actress
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Ever Gabo Anderson is an American actress and model. She is known for portraying a young Natasha Romanoff in the 2021 film Black Widow and will star as Wendy Darling in the 2022 film Peter Pan & Wendy. Her mother is actress Milla Jovovich and her father is director Paul W. S. Anderson. She has two younger sisters, Dashiel and Osian. She is of Russian, Montenegrin and Serbian descent through her mother, and of English descent through her father.Daughter of Milla Jovovich- Actress
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Memphis Eve Sunny Day Hewson, known professionally as Eve Hewson, is an Irish actress. Her first major role was in the drama film This Must Be the Place (2011). She played Nurse Lucy Elkins in Steven Soderbergh's TV series The Knick (2014-2015).
Hewson was born in Dublin, the second daughter of activist Ali Hewson (née Alison Stewart) and U2 lead singer Bono (Paul David Hewson). She was named after being born at 7 am on 7 July, as "eve" is the middle of the word "seven". She has an older sister, Jordan, and two younger brothers, Elijah and John. She was educated at the Dalkey School Project and St. Andrew's College in Dublin and New York University. The U2 song "Kite" was inspired by a moment when Bono took a kite up on Killiney Hill with Hewson and her sister, but the kite blew off and smashed.
Although Hewson's parents were against her performing, she made her acting debut in 2005 alongside her sister Jordan in the short film Lost and Found. She made her feature-length debut in 2008 in The 27 Club. The same year, Hewson took part in an acting programme at the New York Film Academy. In 2010, she appeared in the music video and accompanying short film for Irish band The Script's song "For the First Time".
She portrayed Yvonne in the 2013 thriller film Blood Ties. In July 2013, Jack Quaid of The Hunger Games and Hewson asked fans to help them fund a new film called Roadies using crowdsourcing. In September that year, she appeared in the romantic comedy film Enough Said as the daughter of James Gandolfini's character Albert. In November 2013, she was nominated for the Tatler Irish Woman of the Year Award for her work in films.
From 2014 to 2015, she co-starred in Steven Soderbergh's Cinemax TV series The Knick.
In October, 2015 she appeared as Carol Donovan in Steven Spielberg's Cold War movie Bridge of Spies. Her character is daughter of the main character in the movie, played by Tom Hanks.
She appeared as Maid Marian in the Otto Bathurst version of Robin Hood, released in November 2018. Taron Egerton, Jamie Foxx, and Jamie Dornan co-star.
Hewson lives in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. She received her degree from New York University on 22 May 2013; her father, Bono, declined an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from NYU on the same day.- Actress
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Dakota Mayi Johnson is an American actress and fashion model. She was born in Austin, Texas, and is the daughter of actors Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith. Her maternal grandmother is actress Tippi Hedren.
In 1999, she made her film debut in Crazy in Alabama (1999), where she and her half-sister, Stella Banderas, played the daughters to their real-life mother, Melanie Griffith. The film was directed by her stepfather, Antonio Banderas, but it wasn't a hit. Dakota resumed her schooling and waited several years before she decided to become a professional actress and model. In 2006, she was voted Miss Golden Globe, a launching pad bestowed on off-spring of famous parents. She served as the first second-generation Miss Golden Globe in the Globes' history, since her mother was Miss Golden Globe in 1975. She also signed with IMG Models. In 2009, she modeled for MANGO brand's jeans line. Dakota traveled to Sydney, Australia, where she shot the "Rising Star" campaign for fashion label, "Wish". Once she graduated from high school, she signed with the William Morris Agency and started her acting career. She had her first box office hit in 2010 with David Fincher's film, The Social Network (2010), in which she had a scene with Justin Timberlake. The film received eight Oscar nominations, including one for Best Picture. She also appeared in three additional films: Beastly (2011), alongside Vanessa Hudgens and Mary-Kate Olsen; Ezna Sands' film, Chloe and Theo (2015); and So Yong Kim's film, For Ellen (2012); She had roles in several 2012 films: Christopher Neil's film, Goats (2012), with David Duchovny; Nicholas Stoller's film, The Five-Year Engagement (2012), for producer Judd Apatow, and the hit feature film version of the 1987 television show, 21 Jump Street (1987) that made Johnny Depp a star. She also won the female lead in Chris Nelson's, film Date and Switch (2014), written by Alan Yang. Her first television show, Ben and Kate (2012), where she played "Kate", aired on Fox during the Fall 2012 season. It was canceled in 2013, and she quickly resumed her feature film career with three high-profile films: Need for Speed (2014), Cymbeline (2014), the modern-day adaptation of the William Shakespeare play, "Cymbeline", and the starring role of "Anastasia Steele" in Fifty Shades of Grey (2015), the adaptation of the best-selling erotic novel, "Fifty Shades of Grey". She beat out many young actresses for the coveted role of Anastasia, and the film became a worldwide hit, making her a star. She won the People's Choice Award for Favorite Dramatic Movie Actress for "Fifty Shades of Grey". She also starred in the two sequels to the hit film. She has continued to seek challenging roles, such as of a young mother who loses her son in Black Mass (2015) opposite her "21 Jump Street" castmate Johnny Depp, and of a temptress in A Bigger Splash (2015). She has balanced her dramatic career by doing comedies as well, such as How to Be Single (2016). She acted in the hit independent film The Peanut Butter Falcon (2019). She co-produced some of the films that she acted in: Am I OK? (2022) (where she played a lesbian); Cha Cha Real Smooth (2022) (where she played mother to an autistic daughter); and Daddio (2023) (where she and Sean Penn are the only two principal actors in the entire film). She won good notices for playing a mother looking for her lost daughter in The Lost Daughter (2021), a film that received several Oscar nominations. She played the title role in the Marvel-adventure Madame Web (2024) and in the period film adaptation of the Jane Austen novel Persuasion (2022), both films directed by first time women film directors. She also became the first female member of her family when she turned director by co-directing the music video to the song "Cry Cry Cry" by the band Coldplay- Actress
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Corinne grew up in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Connie and Oscar-winning actor Jamie Foxx. In 2016, Corinne graduated from the University of Southern California, with a bachelor's degree in Public Relations. She studied acting at the Howard Fine Acting Studio and American Academy For Dramatic Arts in Los Angeles. Corinne began her modeling career at age 20, signing with LA Models, Select Models in London and One Management in New York. After beginning a successful modeling career, Corinne has shifted her focus on acting, working with LBI Management. Corinne was honored by the HFPA and given the title of Miss Golden Globe in 2016. Corinne appeared in her first television role on Sweet/Vicious, airing November 2016.Daughter of Jamie Foxx- Actor
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Angus Imrie was born on 2 August 1994 in Isle of Wight, Hampshire, England, UK. He is an actor and director, known for The Kid Who Would Be King (2019), Emma. (2020) and Kingdom (2007).- Actress
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Lily-Rose Melody Depp was born on May 27, 1999 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France to Vanessa Paradis & Johnny Depp. Her little brother, Jack Depp joined the clan in 2002. During Lily-Rose's early years, the Depp-Paradis family divided their time between their homes in France and LA, and the children would often travel with their parents while they were working.
Depp and Paradis split in 2012 after 14 years together. Following the split, both Lily-Rose and Jack spent most of their time stateside where they attended prestigious private schools in LA.
At school, Lily-Rose performs well academically. She has participated on the debate team, and has also participated in dance and music performances. She is well liked by her teachers and peers and is said to have a dry, somewhat dark sense of humor. She is lauded by those close to her as being extremely bright, funny and kindhearted. Beyond acting, she has also dabbled in recording; the track "La Ballade De Lily Rose" appears on Paradis' album "Bliss" (2000.)- Actress
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Lily Jane Collins was born in Guildford, Surrey, England. Her father is English musician Phil Collins, while her mother, Jill Tavelman, who is from Los Angeles, California, was president of the Beverly Hills Women's Club for three terms. Lily moved with her mother to LA at the age of five, after her parents split up. She is of Russian Jewish (from her maternal grandfather), English, and German descent.
Her first screen role was at the age of two in the BBC series Growing Pains, in 1992. Collins performed at the Youth Academy for Dramatic Arts as a child, but her main interest was journalism. She graduated from the Harvard-Westlake School, and attended the USC, where she majored in broadcast journalism. She began writing a column ("NY Confidential") for the British magazine Elle Girl in her teens as well as contributing to Seventeen, Teen Vogue, and the Los Angeles Times magazines.
After some early television appearances as a presenter/reporter (for instance, covering the 2008 US Presidential campaign as a host on the Nickelodeon show, Kids Pick the President (2000)), she made a couple of appearances on 90210 (2008) in 2009. She co-starred as the daughter of Tim McGraw and Sandra Bullock's characters in the massive box office hit The Blind Side (2009). More dramatic roles followed, and she came to worldwide attention when she played the starring role in Mirror Mirror (2012), following it up by headlining The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (2013) and Love, Rosie (2014).- Honor Swinton Byrne was born on 6 October 1997 in Kensington & Chelsea, London, England, UK. She is an actress, known for The Souvenir (2019), The Souvenir: Part II (2021) and I Am Love (2009).Daughter of Tilda Swinton