Rosie Perez is an American actress, dancer, choreographer and activist. She is best known for her distinguished role as Tina in the popular drama/comedy film Do the Right Thing, followed by her captivating portrayal as Gloria Clemente in the hit comedy film White Men Can’t Jump.
Rosie Perez Biography: Age, Early Life, Family, Education
Rosie Perez was born on September 6, 1964 (Rosie Perez age: 58) in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. Her mother, Lydia Perez, was born in Humacao, Puerto Rico, while her father, Ismael Serrano, is from Aguadilla, Puerto Rico.
Perez has had a rather unusual backstory. She is one of ten children born to her mother, who had several children with the man to whom she was previously married. Perez and her siblings were raised in Bushwick while her mother was intermittently jailed.
For a period of time, Perez was raised by her aunt, eventually then finding...
Rosie Perez Biography: Age, Early Life, Family, Education
Rosie Perez was born on September 6, 1964 (Rosie Perez age: 58) in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. Her mother, Lydia Perez, was born in Humacao, Puerto Rico, while her father, Ismael Serrano, is from Aguadilla, Puerto Rico.
Perez has had a rather unusual backstory. She is one of ten children born to her mother, who had several children with the man to whom she was previously married. Perez and her siblings were raised in Bushwick while her mother was intermittently jailed.
For a period of time, Perez was raised by her aunt, eventually then finding...
- 8/19/2023
- by Trevor Hanuka
- Uinterview
The Writers Guild of America revealed nominations Thursday in television, new media, news, radio/audio and promotional categories for the 2022 WGA Awards, which are scheduled to take place Sunday, March 20 hosted by the WGA West and WGA East.
Nominees in the marquee TV categories include reigning Comedy Series winners Ted Lasso from Apple TV+, with newcomers to the list including several shows with multiple noms: HBO Max’s Emmy winner Hacks, Showtime’s Yellowjackets, Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building and Disney+’s Marvel series Loki. That group along with FX’s Reservation Dogs comprise the awards’ New Series nominees list.
The wide-ranging list also includes noms for Netflix’s Maid and Midnight Mass, HBO’s critically lauded The White Lotus and Emmy winner Mare of Easttown, Amazon Prime Video’s The Underground Railroad and Disney+’s WandaVision in the longform categories.
Other notables: noms for Taylor Sheridan’s...
Nominees in the marquee TV categories include reigning Comedy Series winners Ted Lasso from Apple TV+, with newcomers to the list including several shows with multiple noms: HBO Max’s Emmy winner Hacks, Showtime’s Yellowjackets, Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building and Disney+’s Marvel series Loki. That group along with FX’s Reservation Dogs comprise the awards’ New Series nominees list.
The wide-ranging list also includes noms for Netflix’s Maid and Midnight Mass, HBO’s critically lauded The White Lotus and Emmy winner Mare of Easttown, Amazon Prime Video’s The Underground Railroad and Disney+’s WandaVision in the longform categories.
Other notables: noms for Taylor Sheridan’s...
- 1/13/2022
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
The New Group presents the world premiere of Seth Zvi Rosenfeld's Downtown Race Riot, launching the company's 2017-2018 Season. Directed by Scott Elliott, this production features Cristian DeMeo, David Levi, Moise Morancy, Josh Pais, Sadie Scott, Chlo Sevigny and Daniel Sovich. A limited Off-Broadway engagement is slated through December 23 at The Pershing Square Signature Center The Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre, 480 West 42nd Street. Check out photos from opening night below...
- 12/4/2017
- by Jessica Fallon Gordon
- BroadwayWorld.com
“The Kids Are All Right” is what Lisa Cholodenko called her 2010 film about a lesbian couple’s two teenage children. It’s a title that also accurately sums up Seth Zvi Rosenfeld’s new play, which he instead calls “Downtown Race Riot.” Presented by the New Group, the drama opened Sunday at Off Broadway’s Pershing Square Signature Center. “Downtown Race Riot” is about a drug-addicted mother’s two teenage children, and unlike the two moms in the Cholodenko movie, Mary Shannon (Chloe Sevigny) is a truly dreadful parent. But her kids, Joyce (Sadie Scott) and Jimmy (David Levi), are going to be all.
- 12/3/2017
- by Robert Hofler
- The Wrap
The New Group has announced complete casting for the world premiere of Seth Zvi Rosenfeld's Downtown Race Riot, with Cristian DeMeo, David Levi, Moise Morancy, Daniel Oreskes, Sadie Scott, Daniel Sovich, and as previously announced, Chlo Sevigny.
- 9/15/2017
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Baz Luhrmann has always had ambition. From his sweeping Cannes debut “Strictly Ballroom” to his wholly reimagined take on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby,” he’s always been known for an uncompromising vision.
And whether you’re taken aback by Luhrmann’s manic, melodic, cinematic constructions or addicted to his propulsive filmmaking style, it should come as no surprise that his first foray into serialized storytelling is as wild as it is ambitious.
Labeled “among the most expensive [TV series] in history” by Variety’s Cynthia Littleton (and only pseudo-refuted by Luhrmann in THR’s follow-up story), “The Get Down” was, indeed, a lengthy production featuring many moving pieces, a non-traditional episodic structure and a young, largely untested cast. But it was not a project Luhrmann entered into lightly — nor were its challenges driven by the wrong reasons. Luhrmann was steering the ship the whole way, making decisions based on...
And whether you’re taken aback by Luhrmann’s manic, melodic, cinematic constructions or addicted to his propulsive filmmaking style, it should come as no surprise that his first foray into serialized storytelling is as wild as it is ambitious.
Labeled “among the most expensive [TV series] in history” by Variety’s Cynthia Littleton (and only pseudo-refuted by Luhrmann in THR’s follow-up story), “The Get Down” was, indeed, a lengthy production featuring many moving pieces, a non-traditional episodic structure and a young, largely untested cast. But it was not a project Luhrmann entered into lightly — nor were its challenges driven by the wrong reasons. Luhrmann was steering the ship the whole way, making decisions based on...
- 8/11/2016
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
Release Dates
Several key release date announcements and changes have taken place recently, starting with Matthew McConaughey's "Gold" entering the awards race with a December 25th limited opening. Then there's the fifth "Shrek" film which Dreamworks Animation has set for a 2019 release.
Meanwhile Daniela Amavia's drama "A Beautiful Now" starring Abigail Spencer has been picked up by Monterey Media with plans for a September /October release. Kino Lorber has secured U.S. distribution rights for Simon Stone's Australian drama "The Daughter" with plans for an end of year release.
Insidious: Chapter 4
"The Dark Knight Rises" and "Dirt" actor Josh Stewart has joined the cast of "Insidious: Chapter 4" in a yet to be announced role. Adam Robitel will direct from a script by co-creator Leigh Whannell. Lin Shaye returns as parapsychologist Elise Rainier in the project which is targeting an October 20th 2017 release. [Source: More Details]
The Mirror Thief...
Several key release date announcements and changes have taken place recently, starting with Matthew McConaughey's "Gold" entering the awards race with a December 25th limited opening. Then there's the fifth "Shrek" film which Dreamworks Animation has set for a 2019 release.
Meanwhile Daniela Amavia's drama "A Beautiful Now" starring Abigail Spencer has been picked up by Monterey Media with plans for a September /October release. Kino Lorber has secured U.S. distribution rights for Simon Stone's Australian drama "The Daughter" with plans for an end of year release.
Insidious: Chapter 4
"The Dark Knight Rises" and "Dirt" actor Josh Stewart has joined the cast of "Insidious: Chapter 4" in a yet to be announced role. Adam Robitel will direct from a script by co-creator Leigh Whannell. Lin Shaye returns as parapsychologist Elise Rainier in the project which is targeting an October 20th 2017 release. [Source: More Details]
The Mirror Thief...
- 7/25/2016
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Exclusive: Cooley High has been set for a remake at MGM with DeVon Franklin, Common and Tony Krantz partnering on the seminal 1975 coming-of-age drama. Seth Rosenfeld will write the script. Set in 1960s Chicago and focused on a group of high school pals with big dreams of getting out of the South Side, Cooley High fell in with a series of terrific coming-of-age films that included American Graffiti, The Lords Of Flatbush and The Wanderers. Beyond that, the original became…...
- 7/19/2016
- Deadline
New York Stage and Film Johanna Pfaelzer, Artistic Director Thomas Pearson, Executive Director Mark Linn-Baker, Max Mayer, Leslie Urdang, Producing Directors and Vassar College Ed Cheetham, Producing Director recently announced the line-up of their 2013 Powerhouse Theater Season, which runs fromJune 21st - July 28th at Vassar College Poughkeepsie, New York. The 2013 season will include fully staged productions of new plays by Seth Zvi Rosenfeld andMozhan Marno, as well as two exciting musical workshops the Steve Martin amp Edie Brickell collaboration Bright Star featuring music from their newly released recording Love Has Come For You, directed by Tony Award-winner Walter Bobbie Chicago and A new musical inspired by The Brooklyn Hero Supply Company, music and lyrics by Peter Lerman, book by Simon Rich, based on characters created by Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman, directed by Tony Award-winner Michael Mayer Spring Awakening. The casts met the press earlier...
- 6/4/2013
- by Jennifer Broski
- BroadwayWorld.com
Exclusive: In a competitive situation, HBO has bought for development Down Lo, a drama project from singer-songwriter John Legend and producer-director Tony Krantz. Set in Miami’s South Beach, the edgy ensemble drama explores the intersection of three worlds — the party town’s popular music scene and sports and fashion circles. It deals with fame and secrets, with the stories told from multiple points of view. One of them will be that of a gay rapper living on the down low as homosexuality is still not readily accepted in the hip-hop community. (In an interview just this week, Snoop Dogg said he doubts that homosexuality will ever be accepted in the “masculine” rap world.) Down Lo also features top models as well as athletes with their penchant for big money, fast cars and beautiful women. Down Lo, which is expected to draw on Legend’s first-hand knowledge and great access to the music world,...
- 4/18/2013
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Film review: 'A Brother's Kiss'
Friends in real life growing up on the mean streets of East Harlem, filmmaker Seth Zvi Rosenfeld and actors Nick Chinlund and Michael Raynor first presented their downbeat tale of two conflicted brothers in a 1989 off-Broadway stage production and then developed it into an equally uncompromising feature film.
Admirable in many ways but oddly distancing when it means to take one on an emotionally wrenching journey into the often gruesome dramatics of "under-city" life, with a strong supporting cast that includes Cathy Moriarty, Rosie Perez, Marisa Tomei and John Leguizamo, "A Brother's Kiss" is a hard sell for distributor First Look Pictures.
Shifting between 1979 and 1995, the low-budget independent evokes a steamy, volatile urban setting in which booze and drugs, abuse and broken dreams are the lot of most denizens who have little hope of escape or redemption.
Portrayed by Justin Pierce, tough and charismatic teenager Lex is protective of his quieter, more practical younger brother Mick (Joshua Danowsky). They live in a dismal tenement with an alcoholic mother (Moriarty) who loves them but brings home a steady stream of unsavory lovers and has lost her will to even dream of a better life.
Lex, however, dreams of a career playing basketball and Mick wants to be a cop, and they both agree to stay away from drugs and drink. As adults, Mick (Raynor) and Lex (Chinlund) have survived but with deep-rooted problems that won't ever go away. Disciplined and now part of a large family with rules, policeman Mick was sexually traumatized as a kid and cannot get close to either sex.
His older brother is even more of a case study. Frustrated by his unobtainable hoop dreams, Mick tries to have a normal family life, marrying a sweet girl (Perez) who likewise longs for stability. They have a child, but Lex's bus-driver job does not pay enough to cushion them from adversity, and he becomes involved with a local drug dealer (Leguizamo), a fatal move that leads to a swift and sure downward spiral.
Tomei is believable as a scary crackhead homegirl who becomes Lex's pal, while Leguizamo is likewise menacing as a streetwise devil stealing souls and destroying lives. Moriarty has her best role in years as the lead's psychologically toxic and sickeningly self-destructive mom. Chinlund ("Con Air") and Raynor ("Federal Hill") are excellent.
Overall the film is realistic and superbly filmed by Fortunato Procopio, but first-time writer-director Rosenfeld, with the help of a pop soundtrack, tries too hard to keep one hooked on an unpleasant experience when less cinematic opening up of the material would have been more effective.
A BROTHER'S KISS
First Look Pictures
A Rosenfunk Pictures Ltd. production
Writer-director Seth Zvi Rosenfeld
Executive producer Jim Walton
Producers Bob Potter, E. Bennett Walsh
Director of photography Fortunato Procopio
Production designer Roger Fortune
Editor Donna Stern
Costume designer Carolyn Greco
Music Frank London
Casting Francine Maisler,
Tracey Marable Moore
Color/stereo
Cast:
Lex: Nick Chinlund
Mick Michael Raynor
Young Lex Justin Pierce
Young Mick Joshua Danowsky
Doreen Cathy Moriarty
Debbie Rosie Perez
Missy Marisa Tomei
Lefty John Leguizamo
Running time -- 92 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
Admirable in many ways but oddly distancing when it means to take one on an emotionally wrenching journey into the often gruesome dramatics of "under-city" life, with a strong supporting cast that includes Cathy Moriarty, Rosie Perez, Marisa Tomei and John Leguizamo, "A Brother's Kiss" is a hard sell for distributor First Look Pictures.
Shifting between 1979 and 1995, the low-budget independent evokes a steamy, volatile urban setting in which booze and drugs, abuse and broken dreams are the lot of most denizens who have little hope of escape or redemption.
Portrayed by Justin Pierce, tough and charismatic teenager Lex is protective of his quieter, more practical younger brother Mick (Joshua Danowsky). They live in a dismal tenement with an alcoholic mother (Moriarty) who loves them but brings home a steady stream of unsavory lovers and has lost her will to even dream of a better life.
Lex, however, dreams of a career playing basketball and Mick wants to be a cop, and they both agree to stay away from drugs and drink. As adults, Mick (Raynor) and Lex (Chinlund) have survived but with deep-rooted problems that won't ever go away. Disciplined and now part of a large family with rules, policeman Mick was sexually traumatized as a kid and cannot get close to either sex.
His older brother is even more of a case study. Frustrated by his unobtainable hoop dreams, Mick tries to have a normal family life, marrying a sweet girl (Perez) who likewise longs for stability. They have a child, but Lex's bus-driver job does not pay enough to cushion them from adversity, and he becomes involved with a local drug dealer (Leguizamo), a fatal move that leads to a swift and sure downward spiral.
Tomei is believable as a scary crackhead homegirl who becomes Lex's pal, while Leguizamo is likewise menacing as a streetwise devil stealing souls and destroying lives. Moriarty has her best role in years as the lead's psychologically toxic and sickeningly self-destructive mom. Chinlund ("Con Air") and Raynor ("Federal Hill") are excellent.
Overall the film is realistic and superbly filmed by Fortunato Procopio, but first-time writer-director Rosenfeld, with the help of a pop soundtrack, tries too hard to keep one hooked on an unpleasant experience when less cinematic opening up of the material would have been more effective.
A BROTHER'S KISS
First Look Pictures
A Rosenfunk Pictures Ltd. production
Writer-director Seth Zvi Rosenfeld
Executive producer Jim Walton
Producers Bob Potter, E. Bennett Walsh
Director of photography Fortunato Procopio
Production designer Roger Fortune
Editor Donna Stern
Costume designer Carolyn Greco
Music Frank London
Casting Francine Maisler,
Tracey Marable Moore
Color/stereo
Cast:
Lex: Nick Chinlund
Mick Michael Raynor
Young Lex Justin Pierce
Young Mick Joshua Danowsky
Doreen Cathy Moriarty
Debbie Rosie Perez
Missy Marisa Tomei
Lefty John Leguizamo
Running time -- 92 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
- 7/21/1997
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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