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- Michelle Keegan was born on 3 June 1987 in Stockport, Greater Manchester, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Coronation Street (1960), Our Girl (2013) and Drunk History: UK (2015). She has been married to Mark Wright since 24 May 2015.
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Josh Segarra is from Longwood, Florida and is of Puerto Rican descent. He starred as 'Billy Cepeda' in the series (Sirens) for USA, and recently originated the role of Emilo Estafan in the Broadway hit On Your Feet. He will become the newest villain in Star City as a series regular on the CW' Arrow. Josh also appeared in Judd Apatow's feature film Trainwreck and as Billy Cepeda in the comedy series "Sirens" on USA.
In the theater world, Josh was seen starring as 'Boland' in The Second Stage Theater's production of (Dogfight), directed by Joe Mantello, as well as starring as 'Mick' in the Off-Broadway and Broadway runs of the critically acclaimed production (Lysistrata Jones), directed by Dan Knechtges. His other television work includes the Emmy winning Showtime series (Homeland) opposite Claire Danes, The Fox series (The Following), and Blue Bloods. He was also a series regular on PBS's The Electric Company. Josh can also be seen recurring on Chicago PD for NBC. His film work includes roles in (The Music Never Stopped), (The Minsters), and (The Narrows).
Fluent in Spanish, Segarra developed an early passion for theater starring as the "Cowardly Lion" in the Orlando Youth Theatre's production of The Wizard of Oz. He continued down the musical path and gained accolades in solo performances in his middle school chorus and also received praise for his voice from members of his church. In high school, Segarra played "Harold Hill" (The Music Man), "Ren McCormick" (Footloose), and "Nick Piazza" and "Joe Vegas" (Fame: The Musical). During this time, his musical career blossomed as the lead singer of an a Capella group that sang for the governor of Florida. His numerous theatrical awards included a Best of Show in Duet Musical at the Florida Thespian State Competition. In 2008, Segarra graduated from the Tisch School of Arts at NYU with a degree in Theatre. During his freshman year at NYU, Segarra had a role in the CBS movie, Vampire Bats, starring Lucy Lawless. While at NYU, Josh sang, beat boxed and was the featured rapper for N'harmonics, a premiere a Capella group. He performed on various stages, including at Lincoln Center for the International a Capella Super Finals. In his sophomore year, he performed in the Off-Broadway musical, Fools in Love.
Josh Segarra is represented by Abrams Artist Agency, Andrew Tetenbaum at ATA Management, and Ryan LeVine at Jackoway.- Actress
- Producer
- Soundtrack
British actress Imogen Poots was born in Hammersmith, London, England, the daughter of English-born Fiona (Goodall), a journalist, and
Trevor Poots, a Northern Ireland-born
television producer. She was educated at Bute House Preparatory School
for Girls, Queen's Gate School for Girls and Latymer Upper School, all
in London. When she was a teenager she began attending the Youngblood
Theatre Company, and developed a love of acting.
Poots' initial screen debut was a (2004) role in British medical drama
Casualty (1986). She made her big
screen debut as Young Valerie in
V for Vendetta (2005), then went
on to appear in various projects, including
28 Weeks Later (2007),
Me and Orson Welles (2008),
Centurion (2010),
Bouquet of Barbed Wire (2010),
Fright Night (2011),
A Late Quartet (2012),
Greetings from Tim Buckley (2012),
and The Look of Love (2013).- Louis Partridge was born on 3 June 2003 in London, United Kingdom. Louis is an actor, known for Enola Holmes 2 (2022), Pistol (2022) and Enola Holmes (2020).
- Alison Oliver was born on 3 June 1997 in Ballintemple, Cork, Ireland. She is an actress, known for Saltburn (2023), Conversations with Friends (2022) and The Order.
- Suzie Plakson (born June 3, 1958) is an American actress, singer, writer and artist. Born in Buffalo, New York, she grew up in Kingston, Pennsylvania and went to college at Northwestern University. She began her career on the stage/theater, and played four characters opposite Anthony Newley in a revival tour of "Stop the World, I Want to Get Off". She also played "Marquise Theresa Du Parc" in the Broadway incarnation of the play "La Bête".
Plakson has played a wide range of characters throughout her career. Her regular role in a television series was playing hard-bitten sportswriter "Meg Tynan" in the sitcom Love & War (1992); she did several voices on Dinosaurs (1991) and ultimately played four characters on various "Star Trek" series. There were other guest spots and recurring roles in sitcoms such as Mad About You (1992) and Everybody Loves Raymond (1996), while she was also acting in movies such as Disclosure (1994), Red Eye (2005) and Wag the Dog (1997). She wrote and performed an allegorical solo show, "An Evening with Eve".
As a singer/songwriter, Plakson released the alternative country rock album "DidnWannaDoIt!" produced by Jay Ferguson. She also sculpts and writes -- samples of both are viewable and readable on her website. - Actor
- Producer
James Brian Mark Purefoy was born and brought up in Taunton, Somerset, England, the son of Shirley (Taylor), who ran an employment agency, and Anthony Chetwynd Purefoy. After leaving school
at the age of sixteen, he took a succession of different jobs,
including working on a pig farm and as a porter at Yeovil District
Hospital, before travelling and working extensively throughout Europe.
At eighteen, James returned to college to take his A-Levels, one of
which was Drama. It was there that he realised that this was something
he felt inspired by and so applied for and was accepted onto the acting
course at the Central School of Speech and Drama.
Whilst playing the
title role in "Henry V" in the first term of his final year at Central,
he was seen by a casting director from the RSC and invited to join the
company, immediately, in Stratford. Although initially asked only to
play "Ferdinand" in Nicholas Hytner's
production of "The Tempest", he left the RSC two years later having
performed in eight productions and been directed by the likes of
Adrian Noble,
Roger Michell and
Gene Saks playing, amongst other, "Edgar" in
"King Lear" and "Malcolm" in "Macbeth". Over the next six years, he
divided his time between theatre and television. In the theatre, he
worked with Katie Mitchell on
"Women of Troy" at the Gate;
Matthew Warchus,
Ken Stott and Jude Law
on "Death of a Salesman" at the West Yorkshire Playhouse;
Iain Glen on "Hamlet" at Bristol Old Vic;
Bill Alexander in a
critically-acclaimed season at Birmingham Rep, playing leading parts in
"The Servant", "The Way of the World" and "Macbeth"; and with
Simon Callow,
Joseph Fiennes,
Rupert Graves, and
Helen McCrory, on "Les Enfants du
Paradis", again for the RSC.
As well as appearing in the BBC's landmark
period drama,
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1996),
he has always chosen to do a wide variety of parts on television, to
avoid being typecast. From the psychopathic rapist in BBC1's
Calling the Shots (1993)
with Lynn Redgrave to the fraudster
"Darius Guppy" in LWT's "The Prince"; from the urbane observer "Nick
Jenkins" in Channel 4's
A Dance to the Music of Time (1997)
to the sad stalker in Granada's series,
Metropolis (2000), James has
always managed to confound people's expectations of him. Over the last
few years, he has been busy making feature films, on average at the
rate of three a year. Early credits include "Jedd Wainwright" in
Feast of July (1995) for "Merchant
Ivory", and as the bisexual Irish baker, "Brendan" in
Rose Troche's
Bedrooms and Hallways (1998).
From the alcoholic roustabout "Tom Bertram" in
Mansfield Park (1999) to the
wannabee "Bond" actor "Carl Phipps" in
Maybe Baby (2000); the gambling,
womanising "Daniel" in
Women Talking Dirty (1999)
with Helena Bonham Carter to the
noble, enigmatic "Prince Edward" in
Brian Helgeland's
A Knight's Tale (2001).
He has
continued to surprise those who seek to pigeon-hole him in his film
career - always choosing to play parts that juxtapose strongly with the
one he has just completed. Last year, he returned to the theatre to
play the rake "Ned Loveless" in
Trevor Nunn's acclaimed production of "The
Relapse" at the National Theatre in London, before embarking on the
biggest challenge he has yet faced - playing "George" in the big budget
George and the Dragon (2004),
with, among others,
Michael Clarke Duncan,
Val Kilmer,
Piper Perabo and
Patrick Swayze. This movie will be
released in the summer of 2003. He lives alone in London.- Actor
- Soundtrack
Louis Hofmann was born in the Bensberg district of Bergisch Gladbach, and grew up in Cologne.
His first appearance on TV was for Servicezeit (1997), an evening magazine program on WDR Fernsehen television network. 2 years later, he decided to become an actor and applied to an acting agency and was subsequently represented by Agentur Schwarz.
Hofmann guest-starred in legal comedy-drama Danni Lowinski (2010) and television series Der verlorene Vater (2010). He also appeared in the television film Tod in Istanbul (2010) and the TV series Alarm für Cobra 11 - Die Autobahnpolizei (1996)
Hofmann's first cinematic leading role was in the Tom Sawyer (2011) by director Hermine Huntgeburth's adaptation of Mark Twain's classic novel. Along with Leon Seidel, who played the role of Huck Finn, he sang on the soundtrack of the film in the song, "Barfuß Gehen" ("Going Barefoot"), and represented the same character in The Adventures of Huck Finn (2012).
In 2013, Hofmann played a guest-starring role in an episode of the television series Stolberg (2006). Beginning on 24 October 2013 Hofmann appeared in the comedy The Almost Perfect Man (2013)
His role as Wolfgang in film Sanctuary (2015) earned him the 2015 Bavarian Film Prize as Best Newcomer Actor and the 2016 German Actors Award (Deutscher Schauspielerpreis) in the newcomer category. His first international role as a German prisoner of war in the Danish-German co-production Land of Mine (2015) (Danish: Under sandet) earned him the Best Supporting Actor prize at Denmark's Bodil Awards in 2016. At the 2016 German Film Awards, he received with the Special Prize Jaeger-LeCoultre Homage to German Cinema presented to honor the work of German actors in international films.
In 2016, Hofmann played Phil in Center of My World (2016), a coming-of-age romantic drama film directed by Jakob M. Erwa, based on the 1998 bestselling novel The Centre of the World by Andreas Steinhöfel. He was presented with a European Shooting Stars Award at Berlinale 2017 by the European Film Promotion organization.
He was cast as Jonas Kahnwald in Dark (2017), a science fiction thriller released on Netflix on 1 December 2017 and followed with two seasons. Dark (2017) project was one of four projects he played in a single year, two of them in English.
He played the lead role in the German film Prelude (2019). The film tells about the piano student David, who is going through the torments of first love. Hofmann himself described this picture as "a mixture of the films Whiplash and Black Swan". In an interview, he admitted that only after this film he realized what character parts he is drawn to: to a dramatic, suffering character overwhelmed by life circumstances.- Actor
- Producer
- Soundtrack
Tony Curtis was born Bernard Schwartz, the eldest of three children of
Helen (Klein) and Emanuel Schwartz, Jewish immigrants from Hungary.
Curtis himself admits that while he had almost no formal education, he
was a student of the "school of hard knocks" and learned from a young
age that the only person who ever had his back was himself, so he
learned how to take care of both himself and younger brother, Julius.
Curtis grew up in poverty, as his father, Emanuel, who worked as a
tailor, had the sole responsibility of providing for his entire family
on his meager income. This led to constant bickering between Curtis's
parents over money, and Curtis began to go to movies as a way of
briefly escaping the constant worries of poverty and other family
problems. The financial strain of raising two children on a meager
income became so tough that in 1935, Curtis's parents decided that
their children would have a better life under the care of the state
and briefly had Tony and his brother admitted to an orphanage. During
this lonely time, the only companion Curtis had was his brother, Julius,
and the two became inseparable as they struggled to get used to this
new way of life. Weeks later, Curtis's parents came back to reclaim
custody of Tony and his brother, but by then Curtis had learned one of
life's toughest lessons: the only person you can count on is yourself.
In 1938, shortly before Tony's Bar Mitzvah, tragedy struck when Tony
lost the person most important to him when his brother, Julius, was hit
by a truck and killed. After that tragedy, Curtis's parents became convinced
that a formal education was the best way Tony could avoid the same
never-knowing-where-your-next-meal-is-coming-from life that they had
known. However, Tony rejected this because he felt that learning about
literary classics and algebra wasn't going to advance him in life as much
as some real hands-on life experience would. He was to find that real-life
experience a few years later, when he enlisted in the navy in 1942. Tony
spent over two years getting that life experience doing everything from
working as a crewman on a submarine tender, the USS Proteus (AS-19),
to honing his future craft as an actor performing as a sailor in a stage play
at the Navy Signalman School in Illinois.
In 1945, Curtis was honorably discharged from the navy, and
when he realized that the GI Bill would allow him to go to acting
school without paying for it, he now saw that his lifelong pipe dream
of being an actor might actually be achievable. Curtis auditioned for the
New York Dramatic Workshop, and after being accepted on the strength of
his audition piece (a scene from "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" in pantomime),
Curtis enrolled in early 1947. He then began to pay his dues
by appearing in a slew of stage productions, including "Twelfth Night"
and "Golden Boy". He then connected with a small theatrical agent named
Joyce Selznick, who was the niece of film
producer David O. Selznick. After
seeing his potential, Selznick arranged an interview for Curtis to see
David O. Selznick at Universal
Studios, where Curtis was offered a seven-year contract. After changing
his name to what he saw as an elegant, mysterious moniker--"Tony Curtis"
(named after the novel
Anthony Adverse (1936) by
Hervey Allen and a cousin of his named
Janush Kertiz)--Curtis began making a name for himself by appearing in
small, offbeat roles in small-budget productions. His first notable
performance was a two-minute role in
Criss Cross (1949), with
Burt Lancaster, in which he makes
Lancaster jealous by dancing with
Yvonne De Carlo. This offbeat role
resulted in Curtis's being typecast as a heavy for the next few years,
such as playing a gang member in
City Across the River (1949).
Curtis continued to build up a show reel by accepting any paying job,
acting in a number of bit-part roles for the next few years. It
wasn't until late 1949 that he finally got the chance to demonstrate
his acting flair, when he was cast in an important role in an
action western, Sierra (1950). On the
strength of his performance in that movie, Curtis was finally cast in a
big-budget movie,
Winchester '73 (1950). While he
appears in that movie only very briefly, it was a chance for him to
act alongside a Hollywood legend,
James Stewart.
As his career
developed, Curtis wanted to act in movies that had social
relevance, ones that would challenge audiences, so he began to appear
in such movies as Spartacus (1960) and
The Defiant Ones (1958). He
was advised against appearing as the subordinate sidekick in
Spartacus (1960), playing second fiddle
to the equally famous Kirk Douglas.
However, Curtis saw no problem with this because the two had recently acted
together in dual leading roles in
The Vikings (1958).- Actress
- Producer
- Soundtrack
Anne Christine Winters is an actress from Dallas, Texas. At the age of four, Anne performed in her first musical production, and by ten, she sang her first solo to a crowd of over 24,000 at the American Airlines Center. Throughout high school, Anne split her time between Los Angeles and Dallas, appearing in over a dozen national commercials and several independent films.
Upon graduating from Prestonwood Christian Academy in Plano, Anne planned on attending Southern Methodist University. However, she made the decision to move to LA and continue her acting career full-time. She subsequently had main roles as Emma Al-Fayeed in FX's acclaimed drama series Tyrant (2014) and as Vicki Roth in ABC's crime drama series Wicked City (2015). She also recurred in the ABC Family/Freeform drama series The Fosters (2013) as Kelsey. Anne's feature film credits include Sand Castles (2014), Pass the Light (2015), The Tribe (2016), and Mom and Dad (2017).- Penelope Wilton was born on 3 June 1946 in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England, UK. She is an actress, known for The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011), Shaun of the Dead (2004) and Match Point (2005). She was previously married to Ian Holm and Daniel Massey.
- Actor
- Producer
Robert Z'Dar was born Robert James Zdarsky on June 3, 1950 in Chicago,
Illinois. He caught the acting bug while attending Proviso West High
School in Hillside. He received a BFA from Arizona State University.
Prior to acting Z'Dar was a singer/keyboardist/guitar player for the
Chicago-based rock band Nova Express, which performed as an opening act
for such groups as Jefferson Airplane, The Who, and The Electric Prunes.
Other early jobs included a jingle writer for the Leo Burnett and J.
Walter Thompson ad agencies, a Chicago police officer, and even a brief
stint as a Chippendales dancer.
Big, brawny and imposing, with an
enormous face, gigantic jaw, and a massive, muscular physique, the
hulking 6'2" Z'Dar projected a strong, aggressive, and intimidating
screen presence that was ideally suited for the steady succession of
mean, nasty, and extremely scary larger-than-life villains he often
portrayed throughout a career that spanned over three decades. Z'Dar acted in his film
debut in the mid-1980's. He achieved his greatest and most enduring
cult movie fame as the vengeful, relentless, and seemingly
indestructible undead New York City police officer Matt Cordell in the
immensely entertaining "Maniac Cop" pictures. Among Z'Dar's other
memorable roles were a prison guard in the enjoyably sleazy "Hellhole,"
a crazed prostitute-murdering serial killer in "The Night Stalker"
(this part directly led to Z'Dar being cast as Matt Cordell), a vicious
criminal who savagely beats up Sylvestor Stallone in "Tango and Cash,"
the Angel of Death in "Soultaker," a smooth drug dealer in the
delightfully outrageous "The Divine Enforcer," and Linnea Quigley's
abusive husband in "The Rockville Slayer."
A popular frequent guest at
horror film conventions, Z'Dar also produced several movies
and continued to act with pleasing regularity in a slew of
features up until his death from cardiac arrest at age 64 on March 30, 2015.- Actress
- Producer
- Soundtrack
Paulette Goddard was a child model who debuted in "The Ziegfeld
Follies" at the age of 13. She gained fame with the show as the girl on
the crescent moon, and was married to a wealthy man, Edgar James, by the time she was
17. After her divorce she went to Hollywood in 1931, where she appeared
in small roles in pictures for a number of studios. A stunning natural
beauty, Paulette could mesmerize any man she met, a fact she was well
aware of. One of her bigger roles in that period was as a blond
"Goldwyn Girl" in the Eddie Cantor film
The Kid from Spain (1932).
In 1932 she met Charles Chaplin, and
they soon became an item around town. He cast her in
Modern Times (1936), which was a big
hit, but her movie career was not going anywhere because of her
relationship with Chaplin. They were secretly married in 1936, but the
marriage failed and they were separated by 1940. It was her role as
Miriam Aarons in The Women (1939),
however, that got her a contract with Paramount. Paulette was one of
the many actresses tested for the part of Scarlett O'Hara in
Gone with the Wind (1939), but
she lost the part to Vivien Leigh and
instead appeared with Bob Hope in
The Cat and the Canary (1939),
a good film but hardly in the same league as GWTW. The 1940s were
Paulette's busiest period. She worked with Chaplin in
The Great Dictator (1940),
Cecil B. DeMille in
Reap the Wild Wind (1942) and
Burgess Meredith in
The Diary of a Chambermaid (1946).
She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in
So Proudly We Hail! (1943).
Her star faded in the late 1940s, however, and she was dropped by
Paramount in 1949. After a couple of "B" movies, she left films and
went to live in Europe as a wealthy expatriate; she married German
novelist Erich Maria Remarque in
the late 1950s. She was coaxed back to the screen once more, although
it was the small screen, for the television movie
The Female Instinct (1972).- Actor
- Writer
- Producer
John Rothman was born on 3 June 1949 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for One Mississippi (2015) and Prime (2005).- Actor
- Writer
Bill Paterson was born on 3 June 1945 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. He is an actor and writer, known for The Witches (1990), Miss Potter (2006) and How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008). He has been married to Hildegard Bechtler since 1984. They have two children.- Producer
- Actor
- Director
Tate Taylor was born on 3 June 1969 in Jackson, Mississippi, USA. He is a producer and actor, known for Get on Up (2014), The Help (2011) and The Girl on the Train (2016).- Actress
- Soundtrack
Tall, luminous and leonine, the legendary Colleen Dewhurst must go down as one of the theater's finest contemporary tragediennes of the late 1900s. With trademark dusky tones and a majestically careworn appearance, she possessed an inimitable down-to-earth fierceness that not only earned her the title "Queen of Off-Broadway" but allowed her to put a fiery and formidable stamp on a number of Eugene O'Neill's heroines. She was no slouch in the on-camera department, either, reaping trophies for a host of wryly comedic and electrifying dramatic turns on TV. While most of her towering achievements occurred in mid- to late career, she quickly made up for lost time. In addition, she and two-time actor/husband George C. Scott became an acting force together throughout much of the 1960s and early 1970s.
Colleen Rose Dewhurst was born on June 3, 1924, in Montreal, Quebec, the only child of Ferdinand Augustus "Fred" Dewhurst, a hockey and football player who later became sales manager of a lighting concern to support his family. Her mother, Frances Marie (nee Woods), a homemaker, was a Christian Science practitioner. Raised in the United States from the age of 13 (mostly in a suburb of Milwaukee, Wisconsin), she graduated from Riverside High School in Milwaukee in 1942 and then enrolled at Milwaukee's Downer College for Young Ladies. Working such odd jobs as a receptionist and elevator operator in between summer-stock engagements, she prepared for the stage in New York at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, where she met and later married fellow acting student James Vickery in 1947. She also took up studies with such illustrious teachers as Harold Clurman and Tyrone Guthrie.
Dewhurst played Julia Cavendish in "The Royal Family" while a student at Carnegie Lyceum in 1946. However, it took six years for her to make her professional debut at the ANTA in New York with a small dancing role in O'Neill's "Desire Under the Elms" (1952). In 1963, she won an Obie Award in the same play's leading role, Abbie. She built up her esteemed resumé gradually. In 1956 Joseph Papp featured her strongly at his New York Shakespeare Festival with roles in "Tamburlaine the Great", "Titus Andronicus", "Camille" (title part), "The Taming of the Shrew" (as Kate), and "The Eagle Has Two Heads". She won another Obie Award for her combined performances in the last three productions mentioned. The following year she portrayed Lady Macbeth in "Macbeth" and Mrs. Squeamish in "The Country Wife".
Dewhurst divorced her first husband, actor James Vickery in 1959 after meeting George C. Scott during the 1958 run of Broadway's "Children of Darkness", for which she won a Theatre World Award. Scott divorced his wife to marry Dewhurst in 1960 (ex-husband Vickery later married actress Diana Muldaur). Scott and Dewhurst had two children, Alexander Robert Scott ("Alex") and Campbell Scott.
Dewhurst's signature O'Neill role was that of Irish-American Josie Hogan in "The Moon for the Misbegotten". She first played the part in 1958 in Italy, then tackled the role again in 1965 in a production in Buffalo, New York. The third time was the charm when she recreated the role on Broadway in December of 1973 at age 49, not only earning the coveted Tony Award (her second), but the Los Angeles Drama Critics and Sarah Siddons awards as well. Over the years, O'Neill's plays would benefit greatly from her searing, impassioned performances, which included Sara in "More Stately Mansions," Christine Mannon in "Mourning Becomes Electra," Mary Tyrone in "Long Day's Journey Into Night," Essie Miller in "Ah, Wilderness!" and, of course, Abbie Putnam in "Desire Under the Elms". In 1987, she portrayed Carlotta Monterey O'Neill (Eugene's wife) in an acclaimed one-woman show, "My Gene", in New York.
Throughout the 1960s and early 1970s, Dewhurst became a frequent contender at the Tony Awards ceremonies. She won her first Tony for James Agee's "All the Way Home" in 1960, and went on to be nominated for "Great Day in the Morning" (1962), "The Ballad of the Sad Café" (1963), "More Stately Mansions" (1967), "All Over" (1971), "Mourning Becomes Electra" (1972) and "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" (1976). One of her few career failures was directing the Broadway production of "Ned & Jack", which opened and closed the same night on November 8, 1981. Very much a theater activist, she joined several advisory boards in her time and became president of the Actor's Equity Association in 1985, serving until her death six years later.
While Dewhurst and then-husband Scott were heralded for their explosive appearances together on stage ("Desire Under the Elms" [both won Obies], "Antony and Cleopatra," "The Lion in Winter"), film (The Last Run (1971)) and TV (The Crucible (1967)), the couple's personal relationship was equally turbulent. Separated in 1963 and divorced in 1965, they remarried two years later. After appearing together in "The Last Run", Scott and Dewhurst parted ways again when he took up with another actress from the movie, Trish Van Devere, whom he later married. Scott and Dewhurst had two sons together and remained amicable.
Preferring the stage, Dewhurst was vastly underused on the big screen. Despite showing Hollywood her potential on film with a small but spectacular, spine-tingling role as an asylum patient who nearly does in poor Audrey Hepburn in The Nun's Story (1959), she offered only a sprinkling of film roles over the years--Man on a String (1960), A Fine Madness (1966), The Cowboys (1972), McQ (1974), Ice Castles (1978), When a Stranger Calls (1979), Tribute (1980), The Dead Zone (1983), The Boy Who Could Fly (1986), Termini Station (1989) and Dying Young (1991).
Better utilized on TV, the multiple Emmy Award winner appeared delightfully as Candice Bergen's brash worldly mother on the popular Murphy Brown (1988), earning two of her Emmy statuettes. The other two came for her strong supporting performances in the mini-movies Between Two Women (1986) and Those She Left Behind (1989). In 1985, she played Marilla Cuthbert in Kevin Sullivan's strong adaptation of Anne of Green Gables (1985) and continued her role in the mini-movie Anne of Avonlea (1987). She graced Sullivan's series Avonlea (1990) with the same character in a recurring format. Sadly, Dewhurst died before her role could be written out of the show properly. A touching death scene was edited into one episode as a tribute.
Diagnosed with cervical cancer, Colleen's fervent Christian Science beliefs led her to refuse any kind of surgical treatment. She died at age 67 at the pet-friendly South Salem, New York, farmhouse she shared with her companion (since 1974), producer Ken Marsolais on August 22, 1991. Two months later, her ex-husband George C. Scott starred in and directed a production of "On Borrowed Time", dedicating the show to her memory. Both of their sons, Alexander Robert Scott ("Alex") and Campbell Scott entered the entertainment field. Alex became a theatrical manager and writer, while Campbell has appeared on stage and in films. He appeared with his mother on Broadway in "Long Day's Journey Into Night" and "Ah, Wilderness!" (both by Eugene O'Neill) in the late 1980s, and in the film "Dying Young (1991)" (one of her last performances).
Her autobiography, incomplete at the time of her death (she had been working on it for nearly 15 years), finally arrived in bookstores in 1997, six years after her death.- Actor
- Producer
- Director
Scott Valentine was born and raised in Saratoga Springs, New York and
first discovered acting at age five doing plays in his parents' garage.
He appeared in a few high school plays, but didn't pursue acting as a
career until his second semester of college. He moved to New York City
and studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, where he
completed the school's three-year program in a year and a half. He held
a few odd jobs such as short order cook and researcher for a publishing
firm, and he won a few roles off-off Broadway. He signed a contract for
a daytime soap and was about to screen test for a role in the feature
film, "Lords of Discipline" but was accidently hit by a truck on
September 17, 1981. After three years of convalescing, he left New York
for Los Angeles where he landed the part of Nick Moore on the hit
series, Family Ties (1982).- Actress
- Writer
- Script and Continuity Department
Ellen Corby was born Ellen Hansen on June 3, 1911, in Racine,
Wisconsin. She played many uncredited bit parts from the late '20s through the '30s. Ellen would not be seen on the big screen again until 1945 in Cornered (1945). In 1946, she appeared in 14 films, although mostly in small,
minor roles. One of them was in the Christmas classic It's a Wonderful Life (1946). One of
the highlights of her career came about in 1948 in I Remember Mama (1948) as Aunt
Trina. Ellen garnered a nomination for Best Supporting Actress, which
was ultimately won by Claire Trevor in Key Largo (1948). The Oscar nomination didn't
send her to the heights she had hoped. This wonderful actress continued
in roles that were mostly minor compared to some of her contemporaries.
However, it was television where she would receive the acclaim that had
eluded her on the screen. Time after time she played parts that were
absolutely outstanding. One of the funniest was as Myrt "Hubcaps" Lesh
in The Andy Griffith Show (1960). She was the ringleader of a gang that stole cars and then
sold them, and she sold Barney Fife a stolen car that turned out to be
a real lemon. The series that brought her worldwide recognition,
though, was the highly acclaimed The Waltons (1972) as Esther "Grandma" Walton.
The role got her Emmy awards in 1973, 1974, and 1975. Although a stroke
in 1976 slowed her down, Ellen still made appearances on the series.
Her last TV appearance was in 1997 in the TV movie A Walton Easter (1997). On April
14, 1999, Ellen died at the Motion Picture & Television Hospital in
Woodland Hills, California. She was 87 years old.- Actor
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Born in the Netherlands, he came to the United States as a
child in the late 1950s. Erland grew up in Orange, New Jersey;
Ridgefield, Connecticut; and Mont Vernon, New Hampshire. He attended
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he distinguished
himself as a member of the wrestling team and in student theatre
productions while also becoming a teaching assistant while still an
undergraduate. After graduation he moved to New York City, working in
the field of computers, and pursued amateur wrestling, going to the
1976 Montreal Olympics as the heavyweight alternate and being the
hopeful for the 1980 Moscow Olympics (which the US did not ultimately
attend). However, when a casting director for The Wanderers (1979) showed up at the New York Athletic Club, Erland was discovered and cast as "Terror."
Erland continued to work in computers (ultimately starting his own
company), fitting in his movie shoots as well as his studies toward an
operatic career. Originally a bass-baritone, he appeared many times at
the well-known Amato Opera in New York and eventually worked his way
into the Heldenbaritone repertoire. He was survived by his son, his
wife, his mother (since deceased), his brother Philip van Lidth de Jeude (also an opera singer and film actor), and his sister Philine (also an opera singer [ret], photographer & artist.- Lucian-River Chauhan was born on 3 June 2009 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He is an actor, known for Encounter (2021), Gabby Duran & The Unsittables (2019) and Heartland (2007).
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Pico Alexander was born on 3 June 1991 in New York City, New York, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for A Most Violent Year (2014), Home Again (2017) and War Machine (2017).- Actor
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Luke was born in September 1985 and brought up by his mother in the Romford area, describing himself as a 'proud Essex boy'. Thanks to a local drama school teacher who funded his audition, Luke joined the National Youth Theatre, later enrolling at the Central School of Speech and Drama, where he was awarded the Alan Bates Bursary for 2008. On graduation, he began to build up an impressive stage C.V., including the lead in Tennessee Williams' 'Orpheus Descending' at the Manchester Royal Exchange, and in 'A View From the Bridge' and 'Blue/Orange' at the Young Vic. Luke is also a well-regarded playwright - in fact he began writing in his teens as a second string in case he failed to make it as an actor. His works 'Goodbye to All That' and 'So Here We Are' were performed to critical acclaim at the Royal Exchange in Manchester, whilst the play 'Growth' garnered rave reviews at the Edinburgh Fringe, and 'Hearts' played at Sheffield Crucible and the Shed at the National. He is also under commission to the Bush Theatre as of 2016, the year in which he can be seen in the second television series of 'Poldark' as idealistic but fallible Dr Dwight Enys. Married to actress Joanna Horton (born April 1980), whom he met when they appeared together in the Royal Shakespeare Company's 'Days of Significance' and with whom he runs the company Norton Productions, they have a daughter Albie.- Actress
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Born in Detroit and grew up in the nearby suburb of Grosse Pointe,
Michigan. Moved to England to pursue music career. Had tremendous
success as a rock singer in Britain and worldwide, but only managed one
hit in her native America. Was reportedly asked to audition for the
part of Happy Days (1974)'s "Leather Tuscadero" after one of the show's producers
saw her picture on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine hanging the wall
of his daughter's bedroom. Currently lives in Germany with her second
husband, concert promoter Rainer Haas.- Edward Winter was born on 3 June 1937 in Ventura, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Porky's II: The Next Day (1983), M*A*S*H (1972) and Project U.F.O. (1978). He was married to Linda Foster, Sandra Frances Ward and Ronda Faye Moe. He died on 8 March 2001 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Glamorous, svelte, ash blonde Camilla Margareta Sparv briefly courted the international limelight in the mid-60s. The stunning Swedish high-fashion model arrived in Hollywood in 1965, courtesy of Columbia Pictures. Following a third-billed role (Sister Constance) in The Trouble with Angels (1966), she was awarded a Golden Globe as Most Promising Newcomer in 1967 for her performance (Inger Knudson) opposite James Coburn in Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round (1966). This seems to have set the tone for her subsequent casting as exotic European belles in several action films: the alluringly named Coco Duquette, mistress of chief antagonist Karl Malden in the Matt Helm thriller Murderers' Row (1966); kidnap victim Toni Peters and love interest of British spy Stephen Boyd in Assignment K (1968); the spunky girlfriend of a U.S. marshal (Gregory Peck) searching for Mackenna's Gold (1969); and the girl a champion skier (Robert Redford) has a brief fling with in Downhill Racer (1969). After a six-year hiatus, Camilla segued into television guest roles, decorating a number of (mostly) crime shows, including The Rockford Files (1974), Hawaii Five-O (1968), Barnaby Jones (1973) and Simon & Simon (1981).
Camilla was married three times: her exes included former Paramount production chief Robert Evans and vacuum cleaner millionaire Herbert Hoover III. Her third husband (of 22 years) was hedge fund founder and real estate company owner Fredric Kolber (1939-2016). - Zayne Emory was born in McMinnville, Oregon and began acting at an early age pursuing a career in local theater. In 2010, Zayne and his family moved to Los Angeles after he booked a pilot for ABC. Over the past decade, he booked numerous roles on television including arcs on Showtime's "Shameless," ABC's "The Goldbergs," Fox's "24: Legacy" reboot, Marvel's "Runaways." Most recently, Zayne starred as Donna Lynne Champlin's son on CW's "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend" and Nathan Fillion's son on ABC's "The Rookie." His father is a Premier Vintage Porsche Restorer, which instilled a strong passion for cars in him.
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Amar Chadha-Patel was born on 3 June 1986. He is an actor and director, known for Willow (2022), The Third Day (2020) and The Wheel of Time (2021).- Actress
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After graduating with a B.F.A in Theatre Performance from Miami University of Ohio, Lindsay moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in film and television. Almost a year later, she was cast as Christine Banks in Fox's hit show Boston Public and was submitted for Emmy consideration in the category of Outstanding Guest Star. This led to numerous other guest appearances on such shows as ER, Strong Medicine, Any Day Now, Popular, and as Susan Adamson on NBC's popular daytime series Days of Our Lives.
Lindsay has also completed work in 18 films; most notable would be her role opposite Steve Carell and Anne Hathaway in Get Smart as Max's Dance Partner in a now-iconic dance scene. Lindsay can be found in Pee Wee's Big Holiday produced by comedy legend Judd Apatow and available on Netflix.
In addition, Lindsay has written several feature films and TV shows and created/wrote/starred in two seasons of her own web series, Breaking Fat. She also adapted the comedic version of the popular film BloodRayne, called Blubberella, and played the title character (produced and directed the controversial German filmmaker Uwe Boll).
Lindsay has a production company with good friend Katherine VanderLinden: Lead's Best Friend Productions.- She was born in Iwata, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan on June 3, 1987. Her father Nagasawa Kazuaki was a professional football player and on Japan's national team who later became a coach for Jubilo Iwata. She won the Toho Cinderella contest in 1999 and joined the entertainment business in 2000 with the film Crossfire. At twelve she was the youngest winner of the contest ever. She attended the celebrity mill Horikoshi High School of Tokyo. As with most Japanese celebrities the shorthaired Nagasawa has acted in a mixture of feature-length films and television serial, done adult gravure modelling and released the obligatory single, in this case Sailor Suit And Machine Gun in which she also acted in 2006. She had also immediately jumped into the product promotion game and promoted hot sauce among other products. She won the Best Supporting Actress Prize (again the youngest ever) at the 28th Japanese Academy Awards for Crying Out Love, In the Centre Of The World in 2005. Her role in the 2011 film Moteki heralded her arrival as an adult. She was connected to Arashi's Ninomiya Kazunari for several years. She was next romantically linked with Iseya Yusuke. They had met on the set of Onna Nobunaga in 2012. She went through an inexplicable slump around 2013, but made a comeback as a voice actress in the role of the sexy Miki in the pan-Asian hit Kimi No Na Wa. She became a spokeswoman for Taiwan Tourism in Japan for 2017 and 2018. Masami collects stickers.
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Rebecca Callard was born on 3 June 1975 in Dewsbury, Yorkshire, England, UK. She is an actress and writer, known for Detectorists (2014), Fearless (2017) and Ordinary Lies (2015). She has been married to Gideon Turner since 24 July 2001. They have two children.- Writer
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Melissa Mathison was born on 3 June 1950 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She was a writer and producer, known for E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), The BFG (2016) and Kundun (1997). She was married to Harrison Ford. She died on 4 November 2015 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Actress
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Originated the role of Nabalungi in the Book of Mormon, for which she won a Tony Award. She recently starred in Tony Kushner's A Bright Room Called Day at the Public Theater. Nikki was born and raised in New Jersey, where she fell in love with the theater at a young age. With the encouragement of her parents, she began her professional career at age 13, appearing in commercials and voice-overs. She attended NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, earning a BFA in drama. She made her Broadway debut in "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," followed by a leading role in "House of Flowers" for City Center's Encores! Series. A fixture in New York theater: she originated the role of Lorraine in the Broadway production of "All Shook Up," performed alongside Phylicia Rashad in Michael John La Chiusa's "Bernarda Alba" at Lincoln Center Theatre, and starred as Dorothy in "The Wiz" at the La Jolla Playhouse (2006 Craig Noel Award). In 2008, Nikki took on classical theater at the world-renowned Stratford Shakespeare Festival, where she played Juliet in "Romeo and Juliet" and starred opposite Christopher Plummer in Shaw's "Caesar and Cleopatra." Her other theater credits include the 2014 Broadway Revival of Les Miserables (Eponine), Shakespeare in the Park productions of Julius Caesar (Portia) and Twelfth Night (Viola), Dave Malloy's Preludes, and The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin.
Nikki has performed at Carnegie Hall, NJPAC, and The Center for the Performing Arts, among others, and has performed her solo cabaret show on land and sea.
She resides in New York City with her husband and is a proud sustaining member of her local public radio station.- Actor
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John Hodgman was born on 3 June 1971 in Brookline, Massachusetts, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Coraline (2009), Baby Mama (2008) and Arthur (2011). He has been married to Katherine Fletcher since 1999. They have two children.- Lisa Lindgren was born on 3 June 1968 in Råsunda, Solna, Stockholms län, Sweden. She is an actress, known for Together (2000), Made in YU (2005) and Wallander (2005).
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Leo Gorcey's parents were actor
Bernard Gorcey (born 1888) who stood 4'
10", and Josephine Condon (born 1901), who stood 4' 11" and weighed 95
pounds; they worked in vaudeville in New York. In 1915, 14-year-old
Josephine gave birth to Fred. In 1917, Leo was born, a large baby at 12
lb. 3 oz.; as an adult he would be
5' 6". In 1921 his
brother David Gorcey
was born. In 1935, Leo and David appeared in the stage play "Dead End."
In 1937, this was made into a movie, and Leo became one of the busiest
actors for the next 20 years -- from 1937-1939 he starred in seven Dead
End Kids movies, from 1940-1945 in 21 East Side Kids films, from
1946-1956 in 41 Bowery Boys movies.
In 1939, Leo married 17-year-old dancer
Kay Marvis, who appeared in four of his
movies. They divorced in 1944 after five years of marriage; she went on
to marry Groucho Marx. In 1945, Leo married
Evalene Bankston; they divorced in
1948. Leo was to have paid her $50,000 in a divorce settlement;
however, when two detectives she hired broke into his home, he
retaliated by firing his gun at them. They sued, and Leo countersued
for illegal entry and won $35,000 back. In 1949, Leo married
Amelita Ward, whom he met while filming
Smugglers' Cove (1948). Their
marriage produced Leo Gorcey Jr. in 1949,
and a baby girl they named Jan (after Leo's producer and manager,
Jan Grippo) in 1951. They divorced in 1956.
That year Leo married his young nanny, Brandy, who was taking care of
his two kids. They had a baby girl, Brandy Jo, in 1958. The couple
divorced in 1962. Leo went to the altar one last time in February,
1968, marrying Mary Gannon. He stayed married to her until his death on
June 2, 1969.- Actor
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Sean Berdy was born on June 3rd, 1993 in Boca Raton, Florida, to parents Terrie and Scott Berdy. At a young age Sean began putting on impromptu comedic shows alongside his brother, Tyler, to the delight of family and friends. Seeing the joy he brought to others while performing, he became passionate about entertaining. Young Berdy also became fascinated with magic and won the top award for young magicians at the World Children's Magicians Festival held in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Sean received his first big break in acting on The Sandlot 2. Sean played the role of lovable and mischievous Sammy "Fingers" Samuelson.
In 2011, Sean was cast as a series regular in the ABC Family's series "Switched at Birth." Playing opposite Marlee Matlin as his mother, Sean portrayed the role of Emmett Bledsoe. Among other skills, Emmett rides a motorcycle, plays the drums in a rock band and is a photographer.
As a result, in 2011 he was nominated for TV Breakout Star by the Teen Choice Awards.
For Twentieth Century-Fox's animated movie "Ice Age: Continental Drift," Sean has provided an industry first on-camera ASL performance that displays in a picture-in-picture window used in the DVD release.
Over the years, Sean has created several music videos performed in ASL and delivered a number of motivational keynote speeches throughout the country.- Actor
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Clive Mantle was born in Barnet, Hertfordshire. He was a chorister in St.
John's choir, Cambridge for four years, and a member of the National
Youth Theatre for five years, appearing in a total of eleven
productions. He trained at R.A.D.A. and has worked steadily in films,
plays and television. He is best known for playing Little John in Robin
Of Sherwood and Mike Barratt in Casualty and Holby City.- Actress and singer Shiloh Verrico is poised to break into the national spotlight with her upcoming role in the Netflix multi-camera comedy series "Country Comfort." The storyline follows 'Bailey' (Katharine McPhee), a down-on-her-luck aspiring country singer who takes a job as a nanny for a rugged, widowed cowboy (Eddie Cibrian) and his five musically-inclined children. Shiloh portrays the emotional center of the family, 'Cassidy,' who is having an especially tough time coming to terms with the loss of her mother. Ultimately 'Cassidy' finds a bond with 'Bailey,' who is also suffering from the recent breakups of her band and relationship. "Country Comfort" is created by former "The Nanny" executive-producer Caryn Lucas, who also serves as showrunner. Netflix will drop the 10 episodes of the new series this March.
Shiloh, now 11, began acting in the theater at age 5, appearing in two off-Broadway theatre productions. The acting bug officially bit her the following year when she was cast in a national television commercial for Breyers Vanilla Bean ice cream. She has subsequently acted in a number of features and short films such as "Crown Vic," and appeared in multiple co-starring roles on network series such as "The Flight Attendant."
The New Jersey native is the youngest of five, with two brothers and two sisters. She has a unique low husky voice, large hazel-green eyes, and a smattering of freckles on her nose. She has always found joy in singing wherever she goes, and she enjoys playing her ukulele and guitar, which she was able to play on "Country Comfort."
Shiloh is athletic and plays tackle football as a wide receiver on her local PAL youth sports team--the only girl in her league! In 2019, she played a football player in a Super Bowl commercial for CBS Cares and Girls, Inc., voiced by Gayle King. The Girl Power PSA features a team of young girls facing off against the New York Giants and empowers them to get into the game and believe that they can succeed at the highest level on any field, especially when working together!
She has a special passion for animals and loves to hang out with her two rescue pups, Zeke and Braxton. Her ultimate goal is to purchase land where she can open her own animal shelter.
Shiloh has played a variety of roles that have relied heavily on her ability to convey deep emotion, which she has achieved through her subtle facial expressions and broad emotional range. Cast and crew have described her as a joy, both professionally and personally. She is excellent at taking direction and maintaining her focus while filming. Shiloh has an incredible ability to embody her characters and is an old soul with the joy of a child.
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Born June 3, 1988 in Nîmes, France, Nassim Lyes is a French actor of Algerian heritage who can most recently be seen starring in Xavier Gens' multi-lingual action thriller for StudioCanal, Farang (2023). Nassim can also recently be seen in Olivier Marchal's action feature Overdose (2022), Amazon's most viewed non-English language original content worldwide, and in the action-comedy En Passant Pécho (2021) from his original screenplay for Netflix. In television, Nassim starred alongside Sasha Baron Cohen in Gideon Raff's mini-series The Spy (2019) for Netflix and will next be seen in the upcoming season of HBO's Julia (2022).
Other notable credits include appearing in Philippe Lioret's Sixteen (2022), Sarah Adina Smith's English-language drama for Amazon, Birds of Paradise (2021), and The Last Mercenary (2021) alongside Jean-Claude Van Damme.
Next, Nassim will be seen teaming up with Xavier Gens again as the lead opposite Bérénice Bejo in Sharks, an event film for Netflix set around the 2024 Paris Olympics and revolving around sharks invading the Seine river. He is also the star and co-writer of the upcoming Netflix original comedy Cryptoshlag (2023).
Outside of film, Nassim has an extensive background in MMA/fighting and won a French national kick-boxing championship in the welterweight division.- Actress
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Dilraba Dilmurat was born on 3 June 1992 in Urumqi, Xinjiang, China. She is an actress, known for Eternal Love of Dream (2020), Eternal Love (2017) and The Flame's Daughter (2018).- Actress
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Lalaine Vergara-Paras, or simply Lalaine, is best known for her role as Lizzie's
(Hilary Duff) best friend Miranda Sanchez in the hit TV series
Lizzie McGuire (2001), and she has confirmed that she will appear in the reboot.
Lalaine released her music album "Inside Story" in 2003. She currently resides
in Los Angeles, California.- John Moulder-Brown was born on 3 June 1953 in London, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Deep End (1970), The Devil in the Fog (1968) and Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder (1987).
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A grand, robust, highly theatrical British classical actor, Maurice
Evans was born on June 3, 1901, in Dorchester, England, the son of a justice of the peace who enjoyed amateur
play writing on the side. In fact, his father adapted several
adaptations of Thomas Hardy's
novels and Evans would often appear in them. Early interest also came
in London choirs as a boy tenor.
Making his professional stage debut in 1926, Evans made do during his struggling years by running a cleaning
and dyeing store. He earned his first triumph three years later in the
play "Journey's End." When his resulting attempts as an early 1930's romantic film lead and/or second lead in White Cargo (1929), Raise the Roof (1930), The Only Girl (1933), The Path of Glory (1934), Bypass to Happiness (1934) and Checkmate (1935) didn't pan out, he refocused on the stage.
Following a season with the Old Vic theatre company, he
arrived in America and proceeded to conquer Broadway, establishing
himself as one of the world's more illustrious interpreters of
Shakespeare. His eloquent, florid portrayals of Romeo, Hamlet, Macbeth
and Richard II are considered among the finest interps. He was also deemed a
master of Shavian works which included superlative performances in
"Major Barbara", "Man and Superman" and "The Devil's Disciple".
As a U.S. citizen (1941), Maurice was placed in charge of the Army Entertainment
Section, Central Pacific Theater during WWII and left military service
with the rank of major. His post-war career included a handful of
character film roles, notably Kind Lady (1951), Androcles and the Lion (1952),
Gilbert and Sullivan (1953)
(as composer Sir Arthur Sullivan),
The War Lord (1965),
Rosemary's Baby (1968), and as
"Dr. Zaius" in the
Planet of the Apes (1968)
series.
Films would never be Evans' strong suit, earning much
more stature on TV. More importantly, he brought Shakespeare and Shaw to 1950's TV,
adapting (and directing) a number of his stage classics including King Richard II (1954), The Taming of the Shrew (1956), Man and Superman (1956), Twelfth Night (1957), The Tempest (1960). He won an Emmy
award in 1960 for his
Macbeth (1960).
Interestingly, for all his legendary performances under the theatre
lights and stirring TV classics, the ever-regal stage master is probably best known to
generations for his delightful, Shakespeare-spouting appearances
on the Bewitched (1964) TV series,
as Elizabeth Montgomery's
irascible warlock father. Following guest shots on such popular TV shows as "Medical Center," "The Big Valley," "Columbo," "Streets of San Francisco," "Fantasy Island" and "The Love Boat," he made his final on-camera appearance in the TV movie A Caribbean Mystery (1983).
Evans returned to England to live out his remaining years and died there on March 12, 1989, in a Sussex nursing home of heart failure as a
result of a bronchial infection, aged 87.- Actor
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Tristan Rogers was born on 3 June 1946 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. He is an actor and writer, known for General Hospital (1963), The Rescuers Down Under (1990) and The Bay (2010). He has been married to Teresa Parkerson since 21 May 1995. They have two children. He was previously married to Barbara Meale.- Actress
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Emily Chang was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for Total Recall (2012), The Vampire Diaries (2009) and The Bold Type (2017). She has been married to Alex Rubens since 22 September 2012.- Beccy Henderson is an actress and puppeteer best known for performing Deet in Netflix's Emmy Award winning series The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance (2019) and the bespectacled geek 'Aisling' in Channel 4's breakout comedy Derry Girls (2018-2022). As well as Heather Pearce in Channel 5 and Acorn's Crime Drama Dalgliesh (2021).
As a member of the core puppetry team for The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, Beccy performs multiple other characters in the series including Naia, Maudra Seethi and Juni, as well as assisting with the Skeksis and countless other creatures.
She also lent her voice to various characters including Deet's baby brother Bobb'n, Maudra Ethri, the Thrushpogs and Brea's squealing podling.
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Dashiell Connery was born on 3 June 1997. He is an actor, known for Outcry (2021), Pandemic (2009) and Tommy's Honour (2016).- Actress
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She was one of a bevy of sexy blondes shuffled about in 50s films,
thrust into the limelight by ambitious movie studios as possible
contenders to Marilyn Monroe's uncooperative pedestal. Almost none of these ladies managed to even step up to the plate when it came to the
powerful allure of "La Monroe" and starlet Carol Ohmart managed to be no different.
Armelia Carol Ohmart was born in Salt Lake City, Utah on July 3, 1927, the daughter of a dentist father (Thomas Carlyle Ohmart, a one-time actor) and an abusive Mormon mother (Armelia Merl Ohmart). Raised in Seattle and a baby contest winner as an infant, she was on stage from age 3 in a vaudeville act with her uncle. She then lived all over the place with her mother after her divorce from her father, attending high school at Lewis & Clark High in Spokane. A radio singer back in Salt Lake City, Carol won the "Miss Utah" title (then a brunette) at age 19, coming up fourth runner-up when she segued into the 1946 "Miss America" contest (came in 5th). The attention she received led to a modeling, commercial and magazine cover career.
In the early 1950s Carol found TV and commercial work and on stage on Broadway (in the ensemble of "Kismet" and also as Joan Diener's understudy) and summer stock. Paramount took interest after a talent agent caught her in "Kismet" and signed her in 1955, billing her, of course,
as the "next Marilyn." But Carol came off more hardbitten and
unsympathetic than the vulnerable, innocent sex goddess, and when the
knockout blonde's first two movies The Scarlet Hour (1956) and The Wild Party (1956) tanked at the
box office, she was written off in 1957. Only a few more film offers
came her way, including director William Castle's gimmicky House on Haunted Hill (1959) (her best
known); the campy horror Spider Baby or, the Maddest Story Ever Told (1967); and her last, The Spectre of Edgar Allan Poe (1974). She had
steadier work on TV with guest appearances on "Bat Masterson," "Perry
Mason," "Get Smart," "Mannix" and "Barnaby Jones," but by 1974 she retired from the screen.
Carol wed three times. The first, to radio actor Ken Grayson, lasted two years before it was annulled. A second brief two-year marriage in
1956 was with cowboy actor Wayde Preston (ne William Erskine Strange), who starred in the rugged "Colt .45" TV western. In the late 1970s, she married a third time to a non-professional (fireman), which lasted. After a particularly depressing period dealing with medication addiction and disability, a recovered, spiritual-leaning Carol found a helpful avenue outside the Hollywood scene in the 1970s studying metaphysics, delving also in oil painting, gardening, poetry and writing. She died on New Year's Day, 2002, at age 74, in Colorado.- Actor
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Jason Jones was born on 3 June 1973 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He is an actor and producer, known for The Detour (2016), The Art of the Steal (2013) and All About Steve (2009). He has been married to Samantha Bee since 13 October 2001. They have three children.