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Paul Giamatti is an American actor who has worked steadily and prominently for over thirty years, and is best known for leading roles in the films American Splendor (2003), Sideways (2004), and Barney's Version (2010) (for which he won a Golden Globe), and supporting roles in the films Cinderella Man (2005), The Illusionist (2006), and San Andreas (2015).
Paul Edward Valentine Giamatti was born June 6, 1967 in New Haven, Connecticut, and is the youngest of three children. His mother, the former Toni Marilyn Smith, was an
actress before marrying. His father,
Bart Giamatti (Angelo Bartlett Giamatti), was a professor of Renaissance Literature at Yale University, and went
on to become the university's youngest president (in 1986, Bart
was appointed president of baseball's National League. He
became Commissioner of Baseball on April 1, 1989 and served for five
months until his untimely death on September 1, 1989. He was
commissioner at the time Pete Rose was banned
from the game). Paul's father also wrote six books. Paul's older brother, Marcus Giamatti, is also
an actor. His sister, Elena, designs jewelry. His ancestry is Italian (from
his paternal grandfather), German, English, Dutch, Scottish, and Irish.
Paul graduated from
Choate Rosemary Hall prep school, majored in English at Yale, and
obtained his Master's Degree in Fine Arts, with his major in drama from
the Yale University School of Drama. His acting roots are in theatre, from his college days at Yale,
to regional productions (Seattle, San Diego and Williamstown,
Massachusetts), to Broadway.- Actress
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Ashley Jini Park is a Grammy and Tony nominated actress born in Glendale, California and raised in Ann Arbor, Michigan where she graduated from the famed Musical Theatre program at The University of Michigan.
After making her Broadway debut in Broadway's "Mamma Mia!", Ashley starred as 'Tuptim' opposite Ken Watanabe, Kelli O'Hara, and Conrad Ricamora in the Tony-Award-winning Broadway revival of "The King And I" at New York's Lincoln Center. She then co-starred in Broadway's "Sunday In The Park With George" starring Jake Gyllenhaal while filming the second season of "Nightcap" (Pop TV/ Lionsgate/ Dakota Pictures). In 2018, Ashley took Broadway and Off Broadway by storm. She starred in the award winning "KPOP" and was honored with the esteemed Lucille Lortel award for Lead Actress in a Musical. This same year, Ashley starred as 'Gretchen Wieners' in the Tina Fey Musical "Mean Girls" based on the feature of the same name. Her honest portrayal of the interminably insecure Gretchen garnered her a Tony nomination for Featured Actress in A Musical.- Actor
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Jason Isaacs was born in Liverpool. He studied law at Bristol University but fell in love with the theatre and directed, produced and appeared in dozens of productions there, at the National Student Theatre Festival and at the Edinburgh Festival. He graduated in 1985 but then attended the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and began working in 1988.
Jason's notable roles include Lucius Malfoy in the Harry Potter films, Mr. Darling/Captain Hook in Peter Pan (2003), and many soldiers: Col. William Tavington in Roland Emmerich's The Patriot (2000), Captain Steele in Ridley Scott's Blackhawk Down, Major Briggs in Paul Greengrass's Green Zone, Captain Waggoner in Fury, Captain Lorca in Star Trek: Discovery, Field Marshall Zhukov in Armando Iannucci's The Death of Stalin and Rear-Admiral Godfrey in John Madden's Operation Mincemeat. He was Hap in the cult series The OA, Maurice in the WW2 film Good (2008) and Jay in the multi-award winning MASS. He has made many TV series in Britain and the US and has won or been nominated for a Golden Globe, International Emmy, BAFTA, Critics Choice, Peabody, Satellite and many other awards.
On stage he was Louis Ironson in the original productions of Angels in America parts 1 and 2 for the Royal National Theatre and has performed at the Royal Court, Almeida and West End Theatres.
Jason is married to documentary filmmaker Emma Hewitt, who he met at drama school and with whom he has two children.- Actress
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Aisling Franciosi is an Irish-Italian actress, known for The Fall (2013), Game of Thrones (2011) and The Nightingale (2018). She was born in Dublin in 1993, moved with her family to Italy soon after, and returned to Ireland 4 years later with her mother. She attended acting classes as a child and attended Trinity College Dublin, where she majored in French and Spanish. In 2018, she moved to New York.- Aubrey Anderson-Emmons was born in Santa Monica, California. She is an actress, best known for her role on Modern Family (2009) as "Lily," the adopted daughter of Mitchell Pritchett and Cameron Tucker. She also appeared in Distance (2014), the story of a man about to embark on a journey of reconciliation with his estranged daughter, when a natural disaster hurls his plans off course.
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Staci Keanan was born Anastasia Sagorsky on June 6, 1975 in Devon,
Pennsylvania. She began her career at age four with fashion-show
assignments and magazine work. At age eight, she moved to New York City
with her mother and sister and balanced a modeling career with a
budding theater career, in addition to keeping a high scholastic
record. She won several prestigious scholastic awards, including a City
of New York essay contest and the National Language Arts Olympiad. As
for her acting career, she branched from modeling into commercials,
voiceovers and jingles, and then got roles in several miniseries and
television specials. Her first starring role was as Nicole Bradford in
the situation comedy
My Two Dads (1987). She received
both the Youth In Film Award and Sixteen Magazine's Top TV Newcomer
Award for her work on the series. In 1989, Staci made it to the silver
screen in the horror film Lisa (1990), and
then starred in the situation comedy
Step by Step (1991).- Sonya Walger is a British actress who also holds American citizenship. She had starring roles in the short-lived sitcoms The Mind of the Married Man (2001-2002) and Coupling (2003) before landing her role as Penny Widmore in the ABC drama series Lost (2006-2010). Walger later starred on Tell Me You Love Me (2007), FlashForward (2009-2010), Common Law (2012), The Catch (2016-2017) and For All Mankind (2019-2022).
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Sasha Luss was born in Magadan, Magadan Oblast and moved to Moscow at a young age. As a child, she had no interest in pursuing a modeling career, preferring to spend her time writing and dancing. She frequently participated in ballet competitions before she suffered an ankle injury which prevented her from continuing her hobby. Her mother's friends and even strangers would compliment Sasha's modeling potential. When Sasha was thirteen years old, her mother took her to visit a modeling agency, where she was instantly signed. Luss has stated that her grandmother disapproved of this career move, claiming that modeling is a terrible, immoral business.
Sasha made her film debut as Princess Lïhio-Minaa in Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017), and then headlined the action thriller Anna (2019), in the title role.- Writer
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Attended Loyola Academy in Wilmette, Illinois, graduating in 1994.
Graduated from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. in 1999.
Majored in English.
Shortly after graduating from Georgetown University, Jonathan Nolan
served as a production assistant on
Memento (2000).
Wrote the short story, "Memento Mori", on which the film
Memento (2000) is based.
Was co-writer, with his brother
Christopher Nolan, on
The Prestige (2006),
The Dark Knight (2008) and
The Dark Knight Rises (2012).
Also co-wrote the
Terminator Salvation (2009).- Actor
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- Writer
Brandon Scott Jones was born in Bel Air, Maryland, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Renfield (2023), Isn't It Romantic (2019) and Senior Year (2022).- Actress
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Josie Lawrence was born on June 6, 1959 in Old Hill, Dudley, West Midlands, England as Wendy Lawrence. She is an actress, known for Enchanted April (1991), Outside Edge (1994) and Robin Hood (2006). She is also a voice actress for The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends episode The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Pigling Bland (1994).- Actor
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Max Casella was born in Washington D.C. to David Deitch, a fiercely political journalist and second-generation Jewish immigrant to The Bronx, and Doris Casella, a social worker and activist from Long Island and daughter of Italian fashion designer John Casella.
His father's writing for The Boston Globe, among other publications, took the family of four to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where they lived through Max's high school years.
Casella's acting career began with iconic roles; he filmed Disney's Newsies while on set breaks from playing Vinnie Delpino on the series Doogie Howser, M.D., and has since added every category to his arsenal, from Broadway, Shakespeare and an Ethan Coen play on stage, festival hits to blockbusters in film, video game voicing, and many memorable characters in culturally-iconic period television shows.
Most recently, Max starred in the Onur Tukel masked indie film Scenes From an Empty Church made during quarantine, opposite Blake Lively and Jude Law in The Rhythm Section directed by Reed Morano, and in Sundance favorites Late Night by Mindy Kaling and Night Comes On, starring Dominique Fishback and directed by Jordana Spiro. Other film credits include the Academy Award-nominated Jackie with Natalie Portman, Woody Allen titles Wonder Wheel and Blue Jasmine with Cate Blanchett, Ben Affleck's crime drama Live By Night, Spike Lee's Oldboy, the Coen Brothers' Inside Llewyn Davis, Tukel's Applesauce, The Last of Robin Hood (as legendary director Stanley Kubrick), Andrew Dominik's Killing Them Softly, Sam Mendes' Revolutionary Road, Harold Ramis' Analyze This with Robert DeNiro, Tim Burton's Ed Wood, and Newsies. As a filmmaker himself, he's collaborated with friends on independent marvels, most notably a folkloric showcase of Italian musicians by John Turturro called Passioné.
On television, Casella spent five seasons on The Sopranos as Benny Fazio and was a series regular on HBO's Vinyl, as well as in Woody Allen's Crisis In Six Scenes, NBC's Shades of Blue, and HBO's Boardwalk Empire. He recurs on Amazon's award-winning The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, and on seasons of Ray Donovan and TBS' The Detour.
Casella made his Broadway debut as Timon in the original cast of Julie Taymor's Tony Award-winning musical The Lion King, for which he received a Theatre World Award for Outstanding Broadway Debut and a Drama Desk Nomination. Often getting cast in shows for which he plays multiple roles, his many stage credits include Ethan Coen's collection of vignettes 'A Play is A Poem' with the Center Theatre Group in Los Angeles, Simon McBurney's stage adaptation of the Robert Evans autobiography 'The Kid Stays In The Picture' at the Royal Court Theatre in London, Public Theatre's Shakespeare in the Park production of 'Troilus And Cressida', and as Nick Bottom in Julie Taymor's critically acclaimed production of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' at Theatre for a New Audience, which was filmed for theatrical release by Academy Award-nominated cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto. As a member of the LAByrinth Theater Company, he starred alongside Ellen Burstyn in The Atmosphere of Memory, and at BAM in Endgame with again longtime collaborator John Turturro; they as well led Souls of Naples, which then toured to Italy as the country's beloved play. Later in Italy, Max starred in and curated music for John's and his adaptation (with Katherine Borowitz and Carl Capatorto) of author Italo Calvino's folk tales, Fiabe Italiane.
An animated storyteller and illustrator, Max is writing a TV series and other works about being raised by raucous iconoclasts while living with pituitary dwarfism, a hormonal condition that inhibits growth, and that in fact accounted for his eligibility for many of the roles he landed as a "child actor" when in his twenties.
He has two children, Mia and Gioia, with educator and set teacher Leona Casella.- Director
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Born in Tokyo in 1962. Originally intended to be a novelist, but after
graduating from Waseda University in 1987 went on to become an
assistant director at T.V. Man Union. Snuck off set to film
Mou hitotsu no kyouiku - Ina shogakkou haru gumi no kiroku (1991).
His first feature, Maborosi (1995),
based on a Teru Miyamoto novel and drawn
from his own experiences while filming August Without Him (1994), won
jury prizes at Venice and Chicago. The main themes of his oeuvre
include memory, loss, death and the intersection of documentary and
fictive narratives.- Actor
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Danny Webb -- previously credited as Daniel Webb -- is perhaps best known as the
prisoner Morse in Alien³ (1992), the only surviving member of the prison
colony. His resumé includes a fine mix of television and film,
appearing in popular TV series such as Brookside (1982), Cardiac Arrest (1994) and much later
Cutting It (2002). In film, he's appeared alongside Michael Caine, Sigourney Weaver, Richard Roxburgh,
John Hurt, Ray Winstone Kenneth Branagh, Stephen Rea and Gabriel Byrne.- Toby Wallace was born on 6 June 1995 in Westminster, London, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Babyteeth (2019), Boys in the Trees (2016) and Dark Frontier (2009).
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Performer, actress, singer and author Sandra Bernhard appeared as a series regular in season three of the immensely popular FX Television/Ryan Murphy show "POSE" reprising her role as brassy but caring Nurse Judy Kubrack, who works with H.I.V. / AIDS patients, following a memorable season one guest appearance and hugely successful second season. Bernhard has also done a special guest appearance on Ryan Murphy's "American Horror Story: Apocalypse", highlighting a successful, decades long television career.
She is also currently in her fifth year hosting her weekly radio show Sandyland on Sirius XM's Radio Andy channel 102, for which she won a broadcasting Gracie Award.
A pioneer of the one-woman show, Bernhard brings a completely unique and raucous mix of cabaret, stand-up, rock-n-roll, and social commentary to her live stage performances. Just last year she celebrated the 10 year anniversary of her iconic annual holiday shows at Joe's Pub in New York City, while she also continues to tour throughout the country and overseas.
Extremely notable past live stage shows, which she has performed both on and off-Broadway, include Without You I'm Nothing, I'm Still Here, Dammit, Everything Bad and Beautiful, and #blessed.
Bernhard's film credits include The King of Comedy, for which she was awarded Best Supporting Actress by the National Society of Film Critics, Track 29, Hudson Hawk, Dinner Rush, and the live performance film Without You I'm Nothing. Past television credits include Two Broke Girls, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Broad City, Difficult People, You're the Worst, The New Adventures of Old Christine, Will &Grace, The Sopranos, The Larry Sanders Show and Roseanne. Music albums include I'm Your Woman (Polygram, 1986), Excuses for Bad Behavior (Epic, 1994) and the world music album Whatever It Takes (Mi5, 2009). She has written three books: May I Kiss You on the Lips, Miss Sandra?, Confessions of a Pretty Lady, Love, Love and Love.- Actor
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Veteran character actor Robert Englund was born in Glendale, California, to Janis (MacDonald) and John Kent Englund, an aeronautics engineer. Since 1973, Robert has appeared in over 75 feature films and starred in four TV series. He has starred alongside Oscar-winners Henry Fonda, Susan Sarandon and Jeff Bridges. Since 1984 he's achieved international fame as the iconic boogeyman Freddy Krueger in the hit franchise A Nightmare on Elm Street and its seven sequels. Englund has guest starred in hundreds of hours of TV most recently Bones, Criminal Minds and Hawaii 5-0. He will soon be seen starring in the horror film Fear Clinic, and the English thriller The Last Showing, he can be heard as the voice of the Evil Beaver in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon show.- Born in London, England, Amanda Pays is the daughter of show business
agent and actor Howard Pays and former actress Jan Miller. An aunt, Mandy Miller,
won fame as a child star of the '50s film Crash of Silence (1952) . When she was eight,
Pays started school at a nearby convent and it was there that she
demonstrated her early skills as an actress. Possessing a distinctively
throaty voice, she was invariably cast in the male roles in the
all-girls school productions. At her mother's suggestion, Amanda sent a
Polaroid picture to a modeling agent and almost instantly found herself
enjoying a successful career which, for the next four years, took her
around the world. Then, at twenty-two, she suddenly tired of what she
called "clotheshorsing" and decided to jump into the acting field.
Intensive study at London's Academy of Live and Recorded Arts led to
her professional debut opposite George Segal in The Cold Room (1984), an HBO production
written and directed by James Dearden, who later wrote Fatal Attraction (1987). Since then,
Pays had appeared on stage, screen and television in her native England
and in America. Her credits include the London fringe production of
"Fire Eaters," Thames Television's Minder on the Orient Express (1985), Lady Victoria in Oxford Blues (1984)
opposite Rob Lowe, as the host of the ground-breaking television
experiment Max Headroom (1987), Max Headroom (1985), as Sarah in the ABC miniseries A.D. (1985),
opposite Ava Gardner and James Mason and as Sister Nicole in Off Limits (1988), starring
Willem Dafoe and Gregory Hines. - Writer
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- Actor
Danny Strong started his career as an actor in numerous classic films and TV shows such as Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Gilmore Girls, then transitioned into screenwriting, exploding onto the scene with his 2007 script Recount which was #1 on the Hollywood Blacklist and became an award winning HBO Film. Since then he has become a prolific film and TV writer, director and producer, garnering numerous awards for various projects, including two Emmys, a Golden Globe, two WGA awards, a PGA Award, and the Peabody Award.
Through out his career he has shown a wide range and versatility moving between mediums and genres with films like the political docudramas Recount and Game Change, the civil rights epic The Butler and the big budget action blockbusters Hunger Games: Mockingjay (Part I and II). He co-created the smash hit TV show Empire which won him the NAACP Image Award and he produced the civil rights drama The Best of Enemies starring Taraji P. Henson and Sam Rockwell. He has also written numerous theater projects having made his theatrical debut with a new book to the musical Chess that premiered at the Kennedy Center.
Strong transitioned into directing with several episodes of Empire. He made his feature directorial debut with Rebel in the Rye that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was distributed by IFC Films. Over the years he has continued his acting career with recurring roles in many highly acclaimed TV shows including Mad Men, Girls, Justified, Billions and The Right Stuff. He grew up in Manhattan Beach, California and attended the USC School of Dramatic Arts.- Frida Gustavsson was born on 6 June 1993 in Stockholm, Sweden. She is an actress, known for Vikings: Valhalla (2022), The Witcher (2019) and Tigers (2020). She has been married to Marcel Witt-Brattström Engdahl since 3 September 2022. She was previously married to Hjalmar Rechlin.
- Cameron Britton is an American actor known for his role as Ed Kemper in the Netflix crime drama television series Mindhunter, for which he received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series and Hazel in the Netflix television series The Umbrella Academy. Britton previously worked as a preschool teacher for eight years, where he taught special needs children ranging from 18 months to 3 years old.
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Born in London, with a Nigerian father, Nina trained at the Northern
School of Contemporary Dance, and gained A-levels in Performing Arts.
Soon she was appearing as Desdemona in "Othello", Olivia in "Twelfth
Night" and Hermia in "A Midsummer Night's Dream", along with the title
role in "Educating Rita". Joining the RSC, she played in "Henry V",
"The White Devil", "The Learned Ladies" and "Herbal Bed", before moving
to the National Theatre for "Anthony & Cleopatra" and "House and
Garden", followed by "The Marriage of Figaro" at the Royal Exchange.
On TV, Nina has appeared in People Like Us (1999), Teachers (2001), The Jury (2002),
The Three Gamblers (2000), Prime Suspect 2 (1992) - and many others. New projects include Human Trade (2003) with Martin Kemp and John Duttine, and Richard Curtis's new film Love Actually (2003) with Hugh Grant. She also appears in "The Vortex" at the Donmar Warehouse until February
2003.- Actress
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Abbie Cobb can be seen in the recurring role of "Kimantha" on the popular ABC series, Suburgatory (2011). She also co-stars in two upcoming
feature films: Moms' Night Out (2014), from TriStar Pictures, and the period drama, The Umbrella Man (2016). Most recently, she starred in the ABC drama pilot, Warriors (2014), expected to be picked up in The Fall, which deals with a medical team that takes care of returning combat veterans. Prior to "Suburgatory", Cobb had recurring roles on both CW's 90210 (2008) and ABC Family's The Secret Life of the American Teenager (2008). Cobb grew up in Nebraska as the youngest of three sisters. After obsessively watching Shirley Temple movies as a young child, she decided she'd love nothing more than to pursue acting as soon as she could. She performed in school plays and community theatre until she graduated, then moved out to LA. She landed her first role on Disney's StarStruck (2010) and continued working with Disney Channel on shows like Pair of Kings (2010), Good Luck Charlie, It's Christmas! (2011), Jonas (2009) LA, and Imagination Movers (2007). She eventually moved on to guest star on other networks, in shows like
American Horror Story (2011), NCIS: Los Angeles (2009), Grey's Anatomy (2005), The Mentalist (2008) and
True Blood (2008). Cobb enjoys filling up her weeks with work in TV, film, or theatre, but she also knows how hard it is to break into acting in Los
Angeles, so she spends her spare time sharing what she has learned from the process. Mentoring and connecting, one-on-one, with aspiring actors is a big part of her life; it thrills her to help out newcomers and keep them from falling into the typical traps in Hollywood! Cobb is a sought-after keynote speaker at acting conferences and workshops, where she shares her book, "Stuck on a Ferris Wheel", to inform and encourage actors.- Actor
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Jack Kilmer is an American actor who rose to prominence with his portrayal of 'Teddy' in the 2013 film 'Palo Alto,' which marked the beginning of his career as an actor. Although he was born to actor parents, Jack never intended to become an actor. He initially had an interest in music and might have built a career in the music industry if filmmaker Gia Coppola would not have approached him for 'Palo Alto.' The two were in the same school, and years later, Gia considered Jack as the perfect choice for the role of 'Teddy.' He even worked with his father, Val Kilmer. 'Palo Alto' gave Jack a direction in life, and eventually, he worked in several more films. One of his most notable roles was that of the late black metal musician Pelle "Dead" Ohlin in 'Lords of Chaos.'- Actor
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Gary Graham was born on 6 June 1950 in Long Beach, California, USA. He was an actor and producer, known for Robot Jox (1989), Star Trek: Enterprise (2001) and The Jackal (1997). He was married to Becky Hopkins, Diane Patricia Vaughan, Caren Leslie Williams and Susan Lavelle. He died on 22 January 2024 in Spokane Valley, Washington, USA.- Actress
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Born on June 9, 1931 in Chicago, Joan Marshall attended St. Clement's School. Looking far more mature than her age would indicate, when she was just 14 years old she auditioned for, and was hired, as a showgirl at Chicago's Chez Paree, one of the country's foremost nightclubs in the 1940s and 1950s. Two years later, she was appearing in Las Vegas productions. Vegas was where she met her first husband and her son, Steven, was born. Her daughter Shari was born three years later. Moving to Beverly Hills, she starred on the television series Bold Venture (1959) (1959-60 season). She made around 10 feature films, liking only a few of them. In 1961, she starred in Homicidal (1961) (billed as "Jean Arless"), playing two roles, one male and one female. This small film has developed a cult-like following.
She was signed by CBS and appeared often on such television shows as The Jack Benny Program (1950) and The Red Skelton Hour (1951). She had a gift for comedy, which often was overlooked because of her beauty. Possessing a flair for writing, in the 1970s, she collaborated with her old school friend, the award-winning writer Dirk Wayne Summers, co-scripting sitcoms.
She married film director Hal Ashby and, over the first six months of their marriage, and at his insistence, she related personal experiences of her life. Ashby (and Robert Towne) turned these details of her life into the romantic comedy film Shampoo (1975). She was reportedly displeased her husband had used such personal details in creating this film.
Her real-life wedding (to Ashby) can be seen in the opening scenes behind the credits in Ashby's romantic comedy film The Landlord (1970). Ashby died in 1988 and, two years later, Joan married business executive Mel Bartfield. Although there were many rumors that Joan was secretly wed to Richard Chamberlain, this was not the case. She and Chamberlain were -- and remained -- very close friends. After visiting Jamaica, West Indies, she fell in love with the island nation, where she had a home, and where she died of lung cancer on June 28, 1992, at the age of 61. Her ashes were spread under her favorite tree on the property.- The only child of Jozsef Barsi and Maria Benko, Judith Eva Barsi beat
10,000-to-1 odds when she was discovered at a San Fernando Valley
skating rink at age 5 1/2 in 1983 and mistaken for a three-year-old. Her
first commercial was for Donald Duck Orange Juice and she went on
to appear in anywhere between fifty and a hundred commercials, several episodes
of various T.V. series, and three major motion pictures. Her mother Maria
was the main thrust of her career as a Hollywood starlet, but also took
great pains to try to give her a normal, happy childhood; bringing her
Hungarian meals like duck for her school lunch. But this happy childhood
did not last long. Beginning in 1985, Jozsef would often be home drunk
instead of working as a plumber, and he refused to let Maria work. As a
result, the family briefly went on welfare until Judith's career took off in
1986 and 1987. By the time she entered fourth grade, she was pulling in
an estimated $100,000 a year, which bought her family a nice four-bedroom
house on a quiet street in West Hill. As her career soared, her father
became an increasingly abusive recluse who constantly threatened to kill
his wife and daughter. In stressful moods Judith bit her nails and plucked
out her eyebrows and eyelashes and her cats' whiskers. C.P.S. was called in
numerous times, but as Maria was reluctant to press charges and many of
the reports/accounts were emotional and not physical abuse, the case was
not pursued.
On Wednesday, July 27th, Eunice Daly, a next-door neighbor, heard a
loud bang next door while watering her plants. The house had been set
on fire, and later the Barsis' bodies were discovered shot dead. All of Judith's
toys that were not destroyed by the fire were given to the local Goodwill,
and her best friend continued to feed her cats for months afterward. - Actor
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Harvey Fierstein is an American actor, screenwriter and playwright who has been in several stage productions, films, shows and games. He voiced Yao in Mulan and Huaca in Kingdom of the Sun (prototype for The Emperor's New Groove). He also acted in Hairspray, Independence Day, Mrs. Doubtfire, Bros, Big Mouth, Death to Smoochy and Bullets Over Broadway,- Actress
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Kristen Lee Gutoskie is a SAG nominated actor, born in Toronto, Ontario, to Linda, a nurse, and Bob, a technical sales manager, and was raised in the city's suburb of Markham. With the support of her loving parents and older sister Shauna, she participated in school theatre productions while taking singing and piano lessons after the bell rang. During her adolescent years she was inspired to dance, and traveled the country with her studio's hip hop team. She would take improv classes on weekends at Toronto's The Second City. She graduated with Honours from Wilfrid Laurier University, and studied as an exchange student at ACU in Australia where she performed in a staging of the Australian play Cosi, by Louis Nowra. She spends her free time mentoring youth for Good City Mentors and playing music for kids with Art of Elysium.
Kristen is known for her roles in the E4's Beaver Falls, CW shows Containment and The Vampire Diaries, and musical film The Dust Storm, directed by Ryan Lacen. She wrote and performed songs in both Containment and The Dust Storm and is writing and recording her first musical album. Kristen can also be seen in Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale, Go90's Relationship Status, and Fox's Lethal Weapon.- Greenwood was born and raised in Toronto. She studied dance in school
and is also well-versed in martial arts. She attended several voice and
musical theater schools in Canada. She began acting training at
multiple schools including the "Professional Actors Lab", "Jason Fraser
Studios", "Etobicoke School of the Arts" and also at "University
Settlement Drama Group". She attained a Bachelor of Science degree from
the University of Toronto in 2006. Her first role onscreen was in a
low-budget Canadian movie called Pinkville. She made her first
television debut on an episode of The Listener. She made many guest
appearances on television such as Rookie Blue, Flashpoint, Being Erica,
Covert Affairs, Lost Girl and Saving Hope. She has also appeared in
minor roles in short-movies such as Little Phoenix and the Fists of
Fury and as Jen in The Exit which she feels was her favorite role. She
was also cast in This Movie Is Broken. Her career took off in 2011 when
she was cast in a recurring role as Sonya on the hit CW's, Nikita.
After the success of season 2 of Nikita, she was retained for season 3
and season 4. In August 2013, she was cast in a recurring role on
FOX's, Sleepy Hollow. In January 2014, she was promoted to series
regular for season 2. - Actress
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"Ellie" Kendrick is an English actress best known for playing Anne Frank in the BBC's 2009 miniseries The Diary of Anne Frank, Ivy Morris in the first series of the 2010 revived Upstairs Downstairs, and Meera Reed in the HBO series Game of Thrones. She also voices Taelia Fordragon in World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth.- Anthony attended Marquette University on the Liberace Foundation
Scholarship for Performance, where he studied Theatre and Spanish
Literature. While at Marquette he worked with the Pabst Theatre and the
Wisconsin Shakespeare Company, appearing in a range of plays spanning
classic, modern and musical. After graduating cum laude from Marquette
with a B.A. in Theatre Arts and a B.A. in Spanish, Anthony took up
acting full time.
He quickly won a screen role for in the CBS Movie of the Week, "First
Steps", playing quadriplegic teenager Dean Conroy. His first feature
film was "Nothing in Common" with Jackie Gleason and Tom Hanks, playing
the part of Cameron. Other film roles were quick to follow. He
continues to play lead and guest characters in many of America's
favorite drama and comedy shows, as well as appearing on the stage and
in film.
Anthony has proven himself to be a versatile and varied actor, with a
full body of works behind him to show for it. He lives in Los Angeles,
California. - Actress
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Kyra Zagorsky was born in New York and raised in Colorado. She grew up an outdoors enthusiast, an athlete and a dancer. She received a BFA in theatre from Southern Oregon University in Ashland and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Acting from the University of California. Kyra played leading roles in regional theatre across the U.S. until she made the transition to TV and Film in 2007. Her breakout role was Dr. Julia Walker in Ron Moore's "Helix". In 2020 Kyra completed her Master of Arts Degree in Film and Television from the Savannah College of Art and Design where she received the Honors and Achievement award.- Actor
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Elliot Villar was born on 6 June 1980 in Bronx, New York, USA. Elliot is an actor, known for Mr. Robot (2015), Sneaky Pete (2015) and The Son (2017). Elliot has been married to Emily Dorsch since 22 August 2009.- David Dukes was born on 6 June 1945 in San Francisco, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Gods and Monsters (1998), Rawhead Rex (1986) and A Little Romance (1979). He was married to Carol Muske-Dukes and Carolyn Lee McKenzie. He died on 9 October 2000 in Lakewood, Washington, USA.
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Chantal Akerman was born on 6 June 1950 in Brussels, Belgium. She was a director and writer, known for The Meetings of Anna (1978), I, You, He, She (1974) and A Couch in New York (1996). She was married to Sonia Wieder-Atherton. She died on 5 October 2015 in Paris, France.- Actress
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Billie Whitelaw first appeared on the radio aged 11. She made her theatrical
debut in 1950 and in films from 1953. She has made a speciality of
playing intense, single-purposed women. Also, (on stage), she has
appeared in many of the stranger plays by Samuel Beckett.- Igby Rigney was born on 6 June 2003 in Westchester, New York, USA. He is an actor, known for F9: The Fast Saga (2021), The Midnight Club (2022) and Double Down South (2022).
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Cheryl "Rainbeaux" Smith is an actress quite familiar to genre film
fans. With leads in "B" pictures and meaty smaller parts in more major
ones, her career showed great promise in the 1970s. Alas, it was not
meant to be . . . the lure of hard drugs was to bring tragedy to the
lovely and talented "Rainbeaux" (a nickname given her for being a
mainstay at
L.A.'s Rainbow Club, a popular spot for musicians). She was
once a member of the legendary girl band The Runaways,
but heroin plagued her life for many years and caused her to contract
hepatitis, which ultimately killed her. She is the mother of a son,
allegedly sired by a member of the rock band
The Animals.- Actress
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Alba Adéle August (born 6 June 1993) is a Danish-Swedish actress.
She is the daughter of Danish director Bille August and Swedish actress and director Pernilla August.
August started as a child actor and debuted in a minor role in her father's film A Song for Martin (2001). In 2017, August was cast in the Danish language Netflix series The Rain.- Actress
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Paula Brancati is a Canadian actress born in Markham, Ontario on June
6, 1989. During her high school years, Paula studied Improvisation and
Musical Theatre with the CharActors Theatre Troupe. She also studied
jazz and ballet at the AB Dance School. Her first break into screen
acting began in 1999, marking the beginning of a career well over 10
years. Paula is best recognized for her roles on such television series
"Dark Oracle" (2004-2006), "Degrassi: The Next Generation" (2007-2010)
and "Being Erica" (2009-2011).- Actor
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Christian Brassington was born on 6 June 1983 in Wellington, Shropshire, England, UK. He is an actor and writer, known for Poldark (2015), Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007) and Tony Blair: Rock Star (2006). He has been married to Jennie Fava since 21 September 2013.- Actress
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Antonia has been acting professionally since she was 12. Her debut role was in 1997 playing Mandy McFarlane, one of the leads in the television series, Mirror Mirror - Series 2. This was followed by the role of Jem in William Shatner's A Twist in the Tale. Antonia's next project was the immensely popular series The Tribe in which she played one of the leading roles, Trudy, from 1998 until 2003.
As a young adult, Antonia worked on three separate seasons of Power Rangers and then, in 2005, Antonia began her six season stint playing Loretta West in the award winning series Outrageous Fortune. After filming completed on Outrageous, Antonia went on to have roles in the tele-movies Spies and Lies and The Women's Vote.
In the last few years, she played leading roles in four feature films: Timeslow, The Cure, White Lies - which was selected by New Zealand as its entrant into the 2014 Academy Awards - and Pork Pie in 2016. She also took on two presenting roles, first for the travel show My Kinda Place and next for the tv series that follows the journey of the contestants in the Smokefree Rockquest.
Television-wise, Antonia played leading roles in both The Blue Rose (2012) and in the World War One drama Anzac Girls (2013). She featured as a guest lead on the WGN flagship show, Salem (2014) and in 2016 she joined Rebecca Gibney in the Australian series Winter, playing Detective Alesia. Antonia then returned home to star in the Outrageous Fortune prequel, Westside. In 2017, she filmed the Netflix Original series Sisters, and in 2019 completed filming on Westside, season 6.
Antonia loves to perform in the theatre. Her notable roles include Kate Hardcastle in She Stoops to Conquer (2009), numerous characters in The Vagina Monologues (2010), Sally Bowles in Cabaret (2010-2011) and Laura Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie (2013).
Antonia has received a number of accolades for her work. In 2018 she was awarded "Best Actress" for her portrayal of Rita West in Westside at the New Zealand TV Awards. She was nominated for the same award in 2017. In 2014, alongside the rest of the cast of Anzac Girls, she won "Best Ensemble" at the Equity Awards in Australia. In 2013, Antonia was awarded the "Best Actress" award at the Women's Institute of Film and Television Showcase in America for her work in White Lies, and received a nomination for the same award at the New Zealand Film Awards that same year. Also that year, Antonia was nominated for "Best Actress" in the Seoul International Drama Awards for The Blue Rose. In 2012, Antonia received a "Best Actress" nomination for her work in The Cure at the NZ Film Awards and Antonia's portrayal of Laura Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie was judged the "Best Theatrical Performance of 2013" in Auckland's Best Of Awards. In 2008 she was awarded "Best Supporting Actress" at the NZ Film and Television Awards for Outrageous Fortune, and prior to this win she had received nominations in the same category in 2006 and 2007. She was also nominated for "Best Actress" in the TV Guide Peoples Choice Awards in 2015 for her work on Anzac Girls, in 2014 for her work on The Blue Rose, and in 2005 and 2011 for her work on Outrageous Fortune.
Antonia has completed a two-year acting course studying the Stanford Meisner technique in New Zealand (2005-2007) and has also studied acting with Philippe Gaulier at his school in Paris (2007), and with Ivana Chubbuck at her studio in Los Angeles in 2014-15. She has also completed a Bachelor of Arts degree, majoring in English Literature.- Gideon Glick was born on 6 June 1988 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He is an actor, known for Maestro (2023), Marriage Story (2019) and White Noise (2022).
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Colin Quinn was born on 6 June 1959 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He is a writer and actor, known for Trainwreck (2015), A Night at the Roxbury (1998) and Cop Show (2014). He has been married to Jen Sochko since 9 June 2019.- Actress
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The oldest of four siblings born to a surgeon father, Marilyn Jones was raised in the affluent Detroit suburb of Grosse Pointe. After
graduating from high school in Michigan, she attended Miami University (Ohio) and eventually graduated from the University of
Colorado with a humanities degree.
After a stint in New York waiting on tables and working as an office clerk in-between acting jobs, she was signed with 30 other performers to Columbia Pictures' Talent and Development Workshop and sent to Los Angeles. The program folded when the executive, who ran the studio at the time, resigned. Jones did manage to land an agent and began acting on episodic television. Her performances in Harassment (1980) and Good-Bye Radar: Part 1 (1979) were especially strong. She landed roles in two short-lived prime-time soaps, Secrets of Midland Heights (1980) (CBS) and King's Crossing (1982) (ABC). She worked steadily throughout the 1980s.- Actor
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Brandon Thomas Lee was born on 6 June 1996 in the USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Cosmic Sin (2021), Baywatch (2017) and Sierra Burgess Is a Loser (2018).- Alex Datcher was born on 6 June 1962 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She is an actress, known for Passenger 57 (1992), The Expert (1995) and Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987).
- Daniel Logan, born in New Zealand, started acting when he was 10 years
old. He got his break when Auckland children's rugby teams were being
scouted to find a boy for a TV commercial. After auditioning with
hundreds of other young rugby players, Daniel got the part, his first
acting role, playing a little boy who gets knocked into the mud by
Auckland rugby star Michael Jones. He was noticed by other casting
agents and that break led to more commercials and TV appearances,
including a recurring role in episodes of the New Zealand medical
series "Shortland Street" and a guest appearance in international hit
"Hercules: The Legendary Journeys."
Daniel also starred in the short film, "Falling Sparrows" and provided
the lead & supporting voices in 2 animated series' "Tamota" and
"Takapu." He also had a part in "The Legend of Johnny Lingo." At the
top of this young actors growing resume sits "Star Wars: Episode II -
Attack of the Clones," with the coveted role of Boba Fett.
Playing Boba Fett required more then a love of action, it also required
patience. Daniel recalls being next to blue and green screen back drops
through seemingly endless special effects takes. At one point, a series
of 82 different shots of Daniel were done for a special effects
sequence of clones that would only last a few seconds on-screen. He
knows all the work was worth it, and is very proud and honored to be a
part of the Star Wars legacy. - Cecilia Hart was born on 6 June 1948 in Cheyenne, Wyoming, USA. She was an actress, known for Law & Order (1990), The Runaways (1978) and MacGyver (1985). She was married to James Earl Jones and Bruce Weitz. She died on 16 October 2016 in Westport, Connecticut, USA.