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FKA twigs was born on 16 January 1988 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, UK. She is an actress and composer, known for Honey Boy (2019), FKA Twigs: Pendulum (2015) and The King's Man (2021).- Music Department
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- Composer
John Howard Carpenter was born in Carthage, New York, to mother Milton Jean (Carter) and father Howard Ralph Carpenter. His family moved to Bowling Green, Kentucky, where his father, a professor, was head of the music department at Western Kentucky University. He attended Western Kentucky University and then USC film school in Los Angeles. He began
making short films in 1962, and won an Academy Award for Best
Live-Action Short Subject in 1970, for The Resurrection of Broncho Billy (1970), which he made while at USC. Carpenter formed a band
in the mid-1970s called The Coupe de Villes, which included future directors Tommy Lee Wallace and Nick Castle. Since the 1970s, he has
had numerous roles in the film industry including writer, actor,
composer, producer, and director. After directing Dark Star (1974), he has helmed both classic horror films like Halloween (1978), The Fog (1980), and The Thing (1982), and noted sci-fi tales like Escape from New York (1981) and Starman (1984).- Actress
- Director
- Writer
Actress Julie Ann Emery is best known for her breakout recurring role in "Better Call Saul," AMC's highly buzzed-about prequel to "Breaking Bad." She can be seen as a series regular in AMC's fan favorite, "Preacher." Julie Ann takes on the important role of Lara Featherstone, one of the Grail's best operatives, and reports to Herr Starr. On "Better Call Saul," Julie Ann Emery played the role of Betsy Kettleman, one of the most mysterious characters in the series, who at first glance appears to be an average wife and mother, but has much more going on underneath.
Best known for the feature film Hitch ("...a sweet turn by Julie Ann Emery as Eva Mendes' best friend"...USA Today), Julie Ann made her big screen debut in the hit romantic comedy alongside Will Smith and Kevin James. Building on that momentum, she went on to star as Holly in the hit indie-comedy History of Future Folk and as Annie Cayne in the family film Dakota's Summer with Keith Carradine. Her most recent film project featured Julie Ann as a therapist to Mckenna Grace in "Gifted." The FOX feature film also starred Chris Evans.
No stranger to the small screen, you may also recognize Emery as Ida Thurman from the Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning miniseries "Fargo," with Billy Bob Thornton, Martin Freeman, Oliver Platt, and Bob Odenkirk. She starred as Special Agent Jennifer Sampson in Rod Lurie's critically acclaimed series "Line of Fire ("an agent so fiery and confident...she's reminiscent of Jodie Foster in The Silence of The Lambs"...NY Daily News). Emery also worked with Lurie as Secret Service Agent Joan Greer on ABC's political drama series "Commander in Chief" alongside Golden Globe-winner Geena Davis and Emmy-winner Donald Sutherland. Emery appeared as Amelia Keyes in Steven Spielberg's Emmy-nominated miniseries, "Taken," and in recurring roles on USA's "Suits," DirecTV's "Damages," "The Riches" for FX, Showtime's Emmy-nominated drama series "Dexter," and "NCIS."- Actor
- Composer
- Music Department
Lin-Manuel Miranda wrote the first incarnation of "In the Heights" his
sophomore year at Wesleyan University in Connecticut. Off-Broadway, "In
The Heights" received nine Drama Desk nominations, including best
music, best lyrics, and it won the award for outstanding ensemble
performance; received the Lucille Lortel Award and Outer Critics Circle
Award for best musical; received the Obie Award for outstanding music
and lyrics; received a Theater World Award for outstanding debut
Performance and the Clarence Derwent Award both for Mr. Miranda's
performance. He is the recipient of the 2007 ASCAP Richard Rodgers New
Horizons Award. He has appeared on
The Sopranos (1999) and
Sex and the City (1998),
House (2004), and
The Electric Company (2006).
He is also a co-founding member of Freestyle Love Supreme, a hip-hop
comedy group that tours comedy festivals all over the world.- Actress
- Soundtrack
Leggy, brunette-maned pin-up actress Caroline Munro was born in Windsor, Berkshire, England, and lived in Rottingdean near Brighton where she attended a Roman Catholic convent school. By chance, her mother and a photographer entered her picture in a "Face of the Year" competition for the British newspaper The Evening News and won. This led to modeling chores, her first job being for Vogue Magazine at age 17. She moved to London to pursue top modeling jobs and became a major cover girl for fashion and television commercials while there.
Decorative bit parts came her way in such films as Casino Royale (1967) and Where's Jack? (1969). One of her many gorgeous photo ads earned her a screen test and a one-year contract at Paramount where she won the role of Richard Widmark's daughter in the comedy/western A Talent for Loving (1973). She first met husband/actor Judd Hamilton filming this movie but they later divorced. Also in 1969, she became
the commercial poster girl for "Lamb's Navy Rum", a gig that lasted ten years. She had no lines as Vincent Price's dead wife in
The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971) and Dr. Phibes Rises Again (1972) which, in turn, led to a Hammer Studios contract and such low-budget spine-tinglers as
Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972) and Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter (1974). More noticeable roles came outside the studio as the slave girl/love interest in The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1973), the princess in At the Earth's Core (1976), and a lethal Bond girl in the top-notch The Spy Who Loved Me (1977). Her voluptuous looks sustained her for a bit longer but the quality of her roles did not improve with higher visibility. Later 70's and 80's roles included the lowergrade Starcrash (1978), Maniac (1980) and Slaughter High (1986), the last-mentioned written and directed by second husband George Dugdale, whom she married in 1990. He died in 2020.
Following her marriage, she was less seen. The septuagenarian continued to perform sporadically on camera, primarily in England and often in the horror genre. Subsequent lead and supporting movie roles have included Heaven's a Drag (1994), Domestic Strangers (1996), Flesh for the Beast (2003), Vampyres (2015), Cute Little Buggers (2017) and House of the Gorgon (2019) which also featured her daughter, actress Georgina Dugdale.- Actress
- Soundtrack
Birgitte Hjort Sorensen is a Danish actress. She has been nominated for three Robert Awards and one Bodil Award. Born in Hillerød and raised in Birkerød, Sørensen aspired to an acting career after watching the West End production of the musical Chicago while at school. She graduated from the Danish National School of Performing Arts. Her acting debut was in a minor role in the television series The Eagle in 2005. She followed this by playing Roxie Hart in a Copenhagen production of Chicago, and later on the West End. Sorensen's breakthrough role was as journalist Katrine Fønsmark in the television political drama Borgen (2010-2013, 2022).- Actor
- Producer
- Writer
Richard Timothy Jones is a American actor. He has worked extensively in both film and television productions since the early 1990s. His television roles include Ally McBeal (1997), Judging Amy (1998-2005), CSI: Miami (2006), Girlfriends (2007), Grey's Anatomy (2010), Hawaii Five-0 (2011-2014), Narcos (2015), and Criminal Minds (2017). Since 2018, he has played Sergeant Wade Grey on the ABC police drama The Rookie. His film roles include portrayals of Lamont Carr in Disney's Full Court Miracle (2003), Laveinio "Slim" Hightower in Rick Famuyiwa's coming-of-age film The Wood (1999), Mike in Tyler Perry's dramatic films Why Did I Get Married? (2007) and Why Did I Get Married Too? (2010), and Captain Russell Hampton in the Hollywood blockbuster Godzilla (2014).- Mason began his film-acting career at age six when director Harold Ramis
cast him in Groundhog Day (1993). Three months later, Mason won the title role in
the hit comedy, Dennis the Menace (1993). He was chosen from twenty thousand other
hopefuls in a nationwide casting call launched by John Hughes and Warner
Bros. It was an early and special opportunity to work with the gifted
Walter Matthau. Mason has had starring roles in such films at Flatland
Pictures' Just in Time (1996) directed by Tom Rice; and Morgan Creek's Bad Moon (1996)
directed by Eric Red, also starring Mariel Hemingway. Among his other film
credits, Mason had a wonderful experience working with Leslie Nielsen in
Disney's hilarious Spy Hard (1996) directed by Rick Friedberg. He also had a role in
Gattaca (1997), directed by Andrew Niccol, starring Uma Thurman and
Ethan Hawke. - Actress
- Producer
- Writer
Actress Josie Davis stars in director Drew Water's Christmas comedy, Festival of Trees, out this holiday season. Set to release next year, is her role as government astrophysicist, Dr Barboux, opposite James Remar, in the comedy Glowzies, which premiered at the respected Sitges Film Festival, in Spain.
A Hollywood, California native, Josie Davis began her career at the age of three years old. She starred in numerous television commercials, and as just a child, she was cast as a series regular, on the hit television show, Charles In Charge, rated number-one in syndication. Josie received three nominations for her performance on the series and won the respected Youth In Film Award for her role as the awkward and bookish, Sarah Powell.
Josie was the youngest student to study with respected acting teacher from Brooklyn, Paul E Richards, for twenty years until his passing. Lee Strasberg had made Richards, the Broadway star, Richards, a judge for The Actors Studio in the 1950's, which included such actors such as James Dean, Marilyn Monroe, and Paul Newman etc.
At the age of twenty four, Davis auditioned for Hollywood heavyweights, Martin Landau, Mark Rydell, Shelley Winters, and Barbara Bain. After only one audition Davis was accepted into the legendary Actors Studio as a "Member with working privileges", then was made a Lifetime Member after only one callback. Over one thousand actors auditioned, making Davis only one of two actors to be accepted that year.
After wanting to focus on film, Academy Award winning director Mark Rydell told Josie she should be proud to be a new series regular on the last season of the iconic television series, Beverly Hills 90210. After the series ended, legendary Aaron Spelling cast Josie again as a series regular on his next show for NBC called, Titans, until it's final run. Josie 's additional series credits include: a recurring role on CSI: NY with Gary Sinese, the fan favorite Christmas episode of Two and a Half Men that USA Today called "A must see". Comedy King, Chuck Lorre and the ex President of Warner Brothers, Peter Roth, told Davis she should've been nominated for an emmy as Sandy, the multiple personality cook. Lorre said, "I couldn't imagine anyone else playing that part". Davis' other television credits include: CSI: Miami, Hawaii Five-O, NCIS, Rules of Engagment, opposite David Spade, The Mentalist, and the list goes on. Josie was cast opposite Ed O'Neil and Jennifer Love Hewitt in the comedy, In the Game, playing a diva sports reporter which guest starred Tom Brady, for ABC.
In 2011, Martin Landau and Mark Rydell cast Josie in the stage production out of The Actors Studio, called Speed the Plow, written by writer David Mamet. Her performance extremely well-received.
Josie took a break from television to focus on films. Her first up was Wizardream, playing the British, Evil Queen, opposite Malcolm Mc Dowell. Nicolas Cage cast Josie in his directorial debut, "Sonny", opposite James Franco with the late Harry Dean Stanton. Josie has played the lead in numerous independent films as well as Lifetime movies, which earned her two wins, both voted entirely by Lifetime fans.
Josie is writing the "Untitled Josie Davis Pilot" followed by completing her Memoir. She is involved in a variety of animal charities, but has especially loved her volunteer work at the South Los Angeles Animal Shelter where she adopted her cats Gia and Snow.- Actress
- Director
- Writer
Renée Felice Smith was born in New York City, New York, USA. Renée Felice is an actor and director, known for NCIS: Los Angeles (2009), The Relationtrip (2017) and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (2005).- Producer
- Actress
- Director
Deborah Kaye Allen was born in Houston, Texas, to African-American parents, Vivian Elizabeth (Ayers), a poet and art director, and Andrew Arthur Allen, an orthodontist. As a child, Debbie, her older brother, Andrew (called Tex), and her older sister, actress Phylicia Rashad, lived in Mexico to escape US racism. Their mother decided to live there to give the Allen children a brief
experience of not having to endure the chronic racism and segregation
that was typical of Texas during the 1950s. Debbie and
Phylicia are fluent in Spanish.
Debbie graduated from Jack Yates Senior High School in Houston, TX in
1967. She graduated cum laude from Howard University in 1971 with a BFA
in Classical Greek Literature, Speech, and Theater from Howard
University. She used her experiences from attending Historically Black
College Howard to inform her production and direction of the TV show
A Different World (1987).
Although her parents divorced, Debbie remained extremely close to her
father until his death. With Phylicia she has production
company "D.A.D." which stood for "Doctor Allen's Daughters". Her
Pulitzer-nominated poet mother Vivian is, the artistic and free spirit
that has influenced and encouraged the remarkable creativity that so
marks Allen as a performer.- Actress
- Writer
Yvonne Zima was born in Phillipsburg, New Jersey, to parents Dennis and
Marie, and is the sister of actresses
Madeline Zima and
Vanessa Zima. "Zima", a Polish surname, is
her mother's maiden name; Yvonne's maternal grandfather was of Polish
descent, while her other ancestry is Italian, German, and Irish. Zima
first appeared on television at the age of five as "Rachel Green" in
the ground-breaking television drama,
ER (1994), later landing a quick
succession of movie roles in
Bed of Roses (1996),
Executive Decision (1996),
Heat (1995) and
See Jane Run (1995), and
also appeared in the Christmas classic
Christmas Every Day (1996).
She had a leading role in
The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996),
playing opposite Geena Davis and
Samuel L. Jackson. Yvonne plays
guitar, sings and writes fiction. She wants to develop a TV show with
her actress-sisters, Madeline and Vanessa.- Actor
- Soundtrack
- Writer
Jake recently starred in a recurring role on Netflix's UMBRELLA ACADEMY as well as THE HARDY BOYS on Hulu. He can also recently be seen starring in the Hallmark Movie, THE WEDDING CONTRACT. On TV, Jake has recurred on ABC's DESIGNATED SURVIVOR, USA's SUITS, and NBC's GONE. Epstein is best known for his role as Craig Manning on DEGRASSI, which earned him a Gemini Award. His other film work most recently includes EIGHT GIFTS OF HANUKKAH for Hallmark as well as the independent film TERROR IN THE COUNTRY, and he will next star in the feature films WHAT WE DO FOR LOVE, LAUGHING ALL THE WAY and SINCERELY CHRISTMAS. On Broadway, he starred as Gerry Goffin in the Tony-nominated, Grammy-winning musical, BEAUTIFUL: THE CAROLE KING MUSICAL. His other stage work includes SPIDER-MAN: TURN OFF THE DARK (Peter Parker/Spider-Man), touring with SPRING AWAKENING (Melchior), Green Day's AMERICAN IDIOT (Will) and BILLY ELLIOT: THE MUSICAL (Tony).- Actor
- Producer
Marwan Kenzari is an award-winning Dutch actor. He received critical acclaim for his powerful and brooding performance in the Dutch crime drama Wolf, in which he plays a recently paroled Moroccan immigrant struggling to toe the line between promising boxer and rising criminal enforcer. His performance won him the Golden Calf for Best Actor at the Netherlands Film Festival in 2013. The International Film Festival Berlin selected Marwan as a Shooting Star 2014, while Variety introduced him as 'International Talent to Watch' in February 2014, followed by a listing in The Hollywood Reporter's '15 International Break Out Talents of 2016'.
In 2016, he had turns in Timur Bekmambetov's Ben Hur and Terry George's period drama The Promise starring Christian Bale and Oscar Isaac, which premiered in Toronto. 2017 will see him feature alongside Tom Cruise in The Mummy, opposite Noomi Rapace and Glenn Close in What Happend to Monday, and together with Anthony Hopkins, Ben Kingsley and Nicholas Hoult in actioner Collide.
In 2017 he can also be seen in the 20th Century Fox's Murder on the Orient Express with Kenneth Branagh, Penelope Cruz, Johnny Depp and Judi Dench, with Branagh also directing. Kenzari will play the French conductor of the train. In the new Netflix film The Angel he will play the lead.- Actor
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Writer
Sidharth Malhotra born (on 16 January 1985) is an Indian actor who works in Hindi films. He began his career in Bollywood as an assistant director to Karan Johar for Dharma Productions My Name Is Khan, released in 2010. Sidharth credits his passion for filmmaking and subsequent aspirations to be an actor to this movie project. An aspiring actor from Delhi, Sidharth Malhotra auditioned for the coming-of-age romantic teen drama Student Of The Year in 2012, produced by Karan Johar.
Sidharth Malhotra subsequently appeared in several commercially successful films such as the romantic comedy Hasee Toh Phasee (2014), the thriller Ek Villain (2014), and the drama Kapoor & Sons (2016). He received critical acclaim for his portrayal of the Late Captain Vikram Batra in the patriotic war drama Shershaah (2021), which also earned him several prestigious awards for his acting process. Sidharth Malhotra earned critical acclaim for portraying a RAW agent in the 2023 Netflix film, Mission Majnu. He married his co-star in the film, Kiara Advani, in 2023.- Colin O'Brien was born in Houston, Texas, the youngest of two boys. He discovered his love of acting at the tender age of 4 when he convinced his preschool class that he had a baby sister, complete with stories of their capers together. Colin soon took to the stage, in the first of 17 theatrical productions before graduating to feature film in Netflix's The Mothership starring Halle Berry. He then played the young Jaeden Martell, opposite Donald Sutherland, in Mr. Harrigan's Phone (2022), also from Netflix. Colin also played the young Timothée Chalamet in Wonka (2023), from Warner Bros, directed by Paul King.
In his first leading role, Colin was, Edward on Dear Edward (2023) from Jason Katims, also starring Connie Britton and Taylor Schilling, and streaming on AppleTV Plus.
Colin has been told he has a natural acting style. He enjoys comedy and drama equally, and says he, "likes being other people for a bit." - Music Artist
- Actress
- Composer
Talented. Beautiful. Modest. These three words described R&B
singer-turned-actress Aaliyah perfectly.
Aaliyah Dana Haughton was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Diane (Hankerson) and Michael Haughton. Her uncle was music manager Barry Hankerson and her brother is director Rashad Haughton. Aaliyah was raised in Detroit. She got her first major exposure appearing on
the syndicated television series Star Search (1983), where she awed the audience
with her amazing voice and talent, singing "My Funny Valentine", a song which her mother had sung years earlier. At age 11, she sang with Gladys Knight in a five-night stint in Las Vegas. Withdrawing from the celebrity scene
for a few years, Aaliyah lived the life of a normal teenage girl,
attending Detroit's Performing Arts High School, where she majored in
dance. It was around this same time that Aaliyah met singer/composer
R. Kelly. Kelly assisted Aaliyah with the production of her debut album
"Age Ain't Nothing But A number", which scored several number hits,
specifically "Back and Forth." The album's title was a brief reference
to her short-lived marriage to R. Kelly (she was 15 years of age at the
time, and he was in his 20s). Thir marriage was annulled due to her
status as a minor.
During her senior year, Aaliyah went on to record
"One In A Million", which featured the songwriting talents of major R&B
producers/writers Missy Elliott and Timbaland. The album was a major success and sealed Aaliyah's fame forever.
Aaliyah recorded the single 'Journey to the past' for the Anastasia (1997) soundtrack. After
seeing her at an awards show and in the video for her hit song "Are You
that Somebody?" (from the Eddie Murphy film Doctor Dolittle (1998)), film producer Joel Silver
(producer of The Matrix (1999) and other major actor films) asked Aaliyah to
audition for a role in an romance/action film, Romeo Must Die (2000).
With her determination and sex appeal, Aaliyah won Silver over and was
cast in her first major film role. Romeo Must Die (2000) was a hit at the box office.
This film led to her being cast as one of the stars of the film based
on Anne Rice's Queen of the Damned (2002), and in the two sequels to the major box office
hit, The Matrix (1999), The Matrix Reloaded (2003) and The Matrix Revolutions (2003).
During the busy schedule of her film career, Aaliyah took
time to record her third album, the self-titled "Aaliyah". July 2001
was a busy time for Aaliyah. After the success of her song "Try Again", for which she was nominated for a Grammy Award and won several MTV
Video Awards, Aaliyah finally released her "Aaliyah" album. Debuting at
number two on the Billboard charts, "Aaliyah" was a sales success, despite some lackluster reviews.
In August 2001, Aaliyah
took time off from her busy album promotional tour to fly to the
Bahamas to film a video for the song "Rock the Boat". The video, filmed
on Abaco Island, was directed by Hype Williams, a major music video director known for his style and wit.
On August 25, 2001, after filming the
video, Aaliyah and about 9-11 of her entourage took off from Marsh
Harbour airport at 6:50pm EDT in a small Cessna 404 en route to
Opa-Locka, Florida. A few minutes after take-off, the plane crashed
about 200 feet from the runaway, killing Aaliyah and many others
instantly. Four passengers were pulled alive from the wreckage, and one
later died at a hospital in Nassau. Aaliyah was only 22 years old. Her funeral was held on Friday August 31st in New York, and 22 white doves were flown to celebrate each year of her life. Soon after her death, the hit singles 'More Than a woman' and 'Rock The Boat' were released, from her third album. In 2002, the film Queen of the Damned (2002) was released, in which Aaliyah played Queen Akasha. She was nominated for best Villain at the MTV Movie Awards 2002.
Aaliyah's short-lived, but brilliant career, was a true success story for
a young African-American woman who went against all odds to be herself
in an industry where originality is scarce. Truly missed by her family,
friends, and fans, her music and film contributions will live
forever. It's no wonder that her name means 'Highest, most ex-halted one; the best' in Hebrew. She had achieved so much in her twenty-two years.- Actress
- Producer
- Writer
Eva Habermann was born on 16 January 1976 in Hamburg, West Germany. She is an actress and producer, known for Lexx (1996), The Ugly Truth (2021) and Under ConTroll (2019). She was previously married to Hans-Ullrich Hauenstein.- Tsianina Joelson was born on 16 January 1975 in Coquille, Oregon, USA. She is an actress, known for Bring It On (2000), American Pie 2 (2001) and Xena: Warrior Princess (1995). She has been married to Michael Lohmann since 2004. She was previously married to Gregory Joelson.
- Actor
- Writer
- Producer
Vijay Sethupathy, one of the most versatile actor in Indian film industry, has acted in more than 50 films, with many of them being successful. His first lead role was in Seenu Ramasamy's 'Thenmerku Paruvakatru' (2010) and his first blockbuster 'Pizza' (2012). Starting his acting career as a background actor, has become a popular actor by being unconventional - acting as protagonist, antagonist and character roles, and yet finding a way to establish himself and becoming a star who commands his own space in the Indian film industry.
With more than 16 years of experience, he has become the most sought after actor in Tamil, Hindi, Telugu, Malayalam and other Indian language films. He has also acted in one Web Series and 12 short films.- Actress
- Soundtrack
Kellye Nakahara was born on 16 January 1948 in Oahu, Hawaii, USA. She was an actress, known for Clue (1985), M*A*S*H (1972) and Doctor Dolittle (1998). She was married to David Wallett. She died on 16 February 2020 in Pasadena, California, USA.- Actor
- Producer
- Director
Ricardo Darín was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on January 16, 1957.
He works since he was a little boy, and has obtained with the years a
remarkable evolution from soap opera gallant and tv comedies to an
excellent leading figure of the most importants Argentinian movies. At
the age of 10 he made his debut in a play along with his parents, actor
Ricardo Darín Sr., and actess Renée Roxana. He acted for several years
in TV series (such as Alta Comedia and Estación Retiro), where he
reached popularity as a young leading actor in different soap operas,
specially in Alberto Migre's productions. In the 90s, he achieved a
great success in the TV comedy "Mi Cuñado" (1993), in which he
co-starred with Luis Brandoni. He never left theater and continued
acting in plays like "Sugar", "Extraña Pareja", "Taxi", "Algo en Común"
and "Art". At that time, he directed plays and movies like "He nacido
en la ribera", "La Rabona" y "Los Exitos del Amor". The first time the
critic emphasized his performance was in the movie "Perdido por
Perdido" (1993), Alberto Lecchi's debut as a film director. Then, he
played in "El Faro" (1998), "El Mismo Amor La Misma Lluvia" (1999), and
"Nueve Reinas" (2000), brilliantly portraying Marcos. Once again, he
colaborated with director Eduardo Mignona when he portrayed Domingo
Santaló in "La Fuga" (2001). In 2001 he played Rafael Belvedere in "El
Hijo de la Novia" (nominated in the foreign language category at the
2002 Oscars), crowning his career. Currently (2005), he is on tour with
the play "Art" all over the world.
He lives with his wife, Florencia Bas, and his children, Ricardo Jr.
and Clara.- Actress
- Producer
- Soundtrack
Gillian was born in Los Angeles, CA to parents, Victor and Cheryl Waters. She was raised in Altadena, CA. Her background is of African-American, Blackfoot Indian and Irish
descent. An all around student athlete, Gillian was a star basketball player, Homecoming Queen and a honors student in high
school. Gillian wanted to be an FBI agent and received a scholarship from the LAPD to attend Howard University and study Administration of Justice but later changed her major to Human Communication focusing on Intra/Interpersonal Relations and minored in Dramatic Arts.
A self-proclaimed "very cool, very hip nerd", Gillian has been in the
business for over 20 years. Her first break was starring as LL Cool J's lover in his music video "Hey Lover" ft. Boyz II Men and then as Dr. Dre's wife and tango partner in his
music video "Been There, Done That". She then moved on from music videos to television
and got her first role in the feature film, "How To Be A Player" and
then playing Cole's girlfriend on the hit show "Martin. She continued to book guest starring roles on sitcoms and dramas and smaller roles in feature films, like the Quentin Tarantino's classic Jackie Brown and Spike Lee's Bamboozled. Her favorite
roles to date are playing the Amazon warrior, Amoria, on the show Xena:
Warrior Princess which she filmed on location in New Zealand and the recurring
villain, China Lee Arvin on the soap opera, Days of Our Lives.
Gillian married her best friend of 19 years and fiancé of 3 years, actor, director and martial arts star, Michael Jai White in a lavish but intimate ceremony in Thailand complete with a beautiful Thai couture dress, a parade of painted elephants, Thai drummers, exotic dancers throwing flower petals and a fireworks show. The two had just completed filming their new Sony Pictures film shot in Bangkok, Never Back Down 3, which they are both starring in. She has two daughters from a previous marriage, Alaia and Niahla and 3 stepchildren, Devin, Jai and Morgan from her new marriage. Michael and Gillian are quickly becoming Black Hollywood's newest IT couple because of their very public loving relationship that solely focuses on their family, health & fitness, upcoming projects and their genuine happiness together.- Actress
- Producer
- Writer
Jennifer Dale was born on 16 January 1956 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She is an actress and producer, known for Coroner (2019), SurrealEstate (2021) and What Would Sal Do? (2017). She was previously married to Robert Lantos.- Actor
- Director
- Writer
Shaun Benson was born on 16 January 1976 in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. He is an actor and director, known for The Boys (2019), ARQ (2016) and General Hospital (1963).- Katy Jurado was born María Cristina Estela Jurado García into a wealthy
family on January 16, 1924. Her early years
were spent amid luxury until her family's lands were confiscated by the
federal government for redistribution to the landless peasantry.
Despite the loss of property, the matriarch of the family, her
grandmother, continued to live by her aristocratic ideals. When movie
star Emilio Fernandez discovered Katy
at the age of 16 and wanted to cast her in one of his films, Jurado's
grandmother objected to her wish to become a movie actress. To get
around the ban, Katy slipped from the grasp of her family's control by
marrying actor
Víctor Velázquez.
Jurado eventually made her debut in
No matarás (1943) during the what has
been called "The Golden Age of Mexican Cinema". Blessed with stunning
beauty and an assertive personality, Jurado specialized in playing
determined women in a wide variety of films in Mexico and the United
States. Her looks were evocative of the indigenous peoples of Mexico,
and she used what she called her "distinguished and sensuous look" to
carve a niche for herself in Mexican cinema. Indian features were
unusual for a film star in Mexico--despite the success of Fernandez,
the fabled "El Indio"--and her ethnic look meant she typically was cast
as a dangerous seductress, a popular type in Mexican
movies. The Mexican media reported that an American movie director at
one of her first Hollywood auditions laughed at her derisively because
she spoke English so poorly, and an outraged Jurado promptly stormed
out of the audition room, cursing in Spanish. As it turned out, that
kind of brazen behavior was exactly the type of personality that the
director was looking for.
In addition to acting, Jurado worked as a movie columnist and radio
reporter to support her family. She also worked as a bullfight critic,
and it was at a bullfight that Jurado was spotted by
John Wayne and director
Budd Boetticher. Boetticher, who was
also a professional bullfighter, cast Jurado in his autobiographical
film
Bullfighter and the Lady (1951),
which he shot in Mexico. She was cast in her part despite having very
limited English-language skills and had to speak her lines
phonetically. Luis Buñuel cast her in his
Mexican melodrama The Brute (1953), and
then she made her big breakthrough in American films in the role of
Gary Cooper's former mistress,
saloon owner Helen Ramirez, in
High Noon (1952). The role necessitated
her moving to Hollywood. She received two Golden Globe nominations from
the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for that part, for Most
Promising Newcomer and Best Supporting Actress, winning the latter.
"She planted the Mexican flag in the U.S. film industry, and made her
country proud", said National Actors Association official Mauricio
Hernandez. Her "High Noon" performance historically proved to be an
important acting watershed for Latino women in American movies.
Jurado's portrayal undermined the Hollywood stereotype of the flaming,
passionate Mexican "spitfire." Previously, Mexican and Latino women in
Hollywood films were characterized by an unbridled sexuality, as
exemplified by such diverse actresses as
Lupe Velez,
Dolores Del Río (who came to loathe
Hollywood and returned to Mexico in the 1940s), and
Rita Hayworth, nee Margarita Cansino.
Although Jurado's character was forced to kow-tow to the stereotype in
"High Noon", delivering such lines as, "It takes more than big, broad
shoulders to make a man," the actress' great dignity in her role as a
moral arbiter among the competing factions of the marshal and his
fiancée, the townspeople and the gunmen out to kill the marshal showed
her Helen Ramirez to be in control and controlled by nothing, not even
her former love for the marshal. Her restrained performance, delivered
with a great deal of conviction, emphasized the shortcomings of the
rest of the other characters. Her moral integrity is the reason she,
like the marshal, must abandon the town.
With her superb performance, Jurado proved that Latino women could be
more than just sexpots in the American cinema. Importantly, working
against the tropes of a racist cinema, she used her talent to introduce
into the American cinema the model of the un-stereotyped Mexican woman
who is identifiably Mexican. One of the best examples of this can be
seen at the end of the middle of her career, when Jurado played sheriff
Slim Pickens' wife and partner in
Sam Peckinpah's elegiac
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973).
Determined and tough as nails, Jurado's character was clearly her
screen husband's equal, and she had a very moving scene with Pickens as
his character faced death. Jurado was blessed with extraordinary eyes,
which were both beautiful and expressive, their beauty and strength
never fading with age. Two years after "High Noon", Jurado received an
Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actress for her role as
Spencer Tracy's Indian wife in
Edward Dmytryk's
Broken Lance (1954), making her the
first Mexican actress thus honored.
She refused to sign a contract with a major Hollywood studio in order
to be able to return to Mexico between her American roles to star in
Mexican films. She +remained in Los Angeles for 10 years, marrying
Ernest Borgnine, her co-star in
The Badlanders (1958), in 1959.
During their tempestuous relationship, Jurado and Borgnine separated
and reconciled before finally separating for good in 1961. The tabloids
reported that Borgnine had abused her, and their separation proved
rocky as well, as they fought over alimony. Their divorce became final
in 1964. Borgnine summed up his ex-wife as "beautiful, but a tiger", a
bon mot that described her on-screen persona as well (she had two
children with former husband Victor Velasquez, a daughter and a son,
who tragically was killed in an automobile accident in 1981).
Jurado played the wife of Marlon Brando's
nemesis Dad Longworth (Karl Malden) in
One-Eyed Jacks (1961), Brando's
sole directorial effort. In her role she also was the mother of a young
woman who was Brando's love interest, thus marking a career transition
point as she assumed the role of a mature woman. As Jurado aged, she
appeared in fewer films, but notable among them included
Arrowhead (1953) with
Charlton Heston,
Trapeze (1956) in support of
Burt Lancaster and
Man from Del Rio (1956) with her
fellow Mexican national
Anthony Quinn who, unlike Jurado,
had become an American citizen. She also appeared with Quinn in
_Barabbas (1962)_and
The Children of Sanchez (1978).
She appeared on the Western-themed American TV shows
Death Valley Days (1952),
The Rifleman (1958),
The Westerner (1960) and
The Virginian (1962). Her
career in the US began to wind down, and she was reduced to appearing
in "B" pictures like Smoky (1966) with
Fess Parker and the
Elvis Presley movie
Stay Away, Joe (1968). She
attempted to commit suicide in 1968, and then moved back home to Mexico
permanently, though she continued to appear in American films as a
character actress. Her last American film appearance was in
Stephen Frears'
The Hi-Lo Country (1998),
capping a half-century-long American movie career that continued due to
her talent and remarkable presence, long after her extraordinary good
looks had faded.
Aside from acting in films in the US and Europe, she continued to act
in Mexican films. Her most memorable role in Mexican movies was in
Nosotros los pobres (1948)
(aka "We the Poor") opposite superstar
Pedro Infante. Though in the
latter part of her career she appeared occasionally in American films
shot in Mexico (including an appearance with her former mentor, Emilio
Fernandez, in "Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid" and
John Huston's
Under the Volcano (1984)), she
appeared mostly in Mexican movies in the last decades of her career,
becoming a prominent and highly respected character actress. She played
the leader of a religious cult in the Bunuel-like satire
Divine (1998).
Jurado won three Ariel awards, the Mexican equivalent of the Oscar, a
Best Supporting Actress award in 1954 for Bunuel's
The Brute (1953) a Best Actress Award in
1974 for
Fe, esperanza y caridad (1974)
and a Best Supporting Actress award in 1999 for "El evangelio de las
Maravillas". She also was awarded a Special Golden Ariel for Lifetime
Achievment in 1997. In the north, she was honored with a Golden Boot
Award by the Motion Picture & Television Fund in 1992 and has a star on
the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Jurado was an avid promoter of her home
state of Morelos as a location for filmmakers.
Towards the end of her life, she suffered from heart and lung ailments.
Katy Jurado died on July 5, 2002, at the age of 78 at her home in
Cuernavaca, Mexico. She was survived by her daughter. - Actor
- Producer
David Chokachi was born on 16 January 1968 in Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Emerald Run (2020), Baywatch (1989) and Soul Surfer (2011).- Writer
- Producer
- Music Department
James May was born in 1963 but his development was tragically arrested at the age of 12.
A confessed 'complete waster' until the age of 42, May then took the decision to apply his talent for the pointless in the direction of television. His oeuvre includes a record for the world's longest train set, building a real house from Lego, propelling children's action figures to beyond the speed of sound, a revival of the cult of duelling, the creation of a mechanical email system, and a wholesale rethink of the pet funeral business.
He regards the fish-finger sandwich as the greatest single leap in human progress until the invention of the internet.
He lives in Hammersmith, but his neighbours wish he didn't.- Actor
- Writer
- Producer
Born in New York City to a Judge of Special Sessions who was also
president of a sewing machine company. Grew up on City Island, New
York. Attended Hamilton Military Academy and turned down an appointment
to West Point to attend New York Law School, where his law school
classmates included future New York City mayor James J. Walker. After a
boating accident which led to pneumonia, Carey wrote a play while
recuperating and toured the country in it for three years, earning a
great deal of money, all of which evaporated after his next play was a
failure. In 1911, his friend Henry B. Walthall introduced him to director
D.W. Griffith, for whom Carey was to make many films. Carey married twice,
the second time to actress Olive Fuller Golden (aka Olive Carey, who
introduced him to future director John Ford. Carey influenced Universal
Studios head Carl Laemmle to use Ford as a director, and a partnership was
born that lasted until a rift in the friendship in 1921. During this
time, Carey grew into one of the most popular Western stars of the
early motion picture, occasionally writing and directing films as well.
In the '30s he moved slowly into character roles and was nominated for
an Oscar for one of them, the President of the Senate in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939). He
worked once more with Ford, in The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936), and appeared once with his son,
Harry Carey Jr., in Howard Hawks's Red River (1948). He died after a protracted bout with
emphysema and cancer. Ford dedicated his remake of 3 Godfathers (1948) "To Harry
Carey--Bright Star Of The Early Western Sky."- Actor
- Producer
- Writer
Although born in Charleston, S.C. Jonathan grew up in Mobile, Alabama.
He moved to Orlando, Florida at the age of twenty where he earned a
B.S. in psychology and began doing improv comedy with
Wayne Brady at SAK Theatre Comedy
Lab. In 1995 he moved with a group of improvisers moved to L.A. The
group began performing as the Houseful of Honkeys. Since then Jonathan
has toured doing improv comedy all over the world with
Wayne Brady and
Drew Carey. Jonathan lives in Los Angeles
with his wife Leah Stanko Mangum and
their two sons, Chase and Austin.- Actress
- Soundtrack
One of the more controversial supermodels, primarily because of her
unusually low weight during the early part of her career. (she typified
the "waif" models). Her unusual appearance (and possibly her
willingness to appear nude, "It's just work") have, in a very short
time, made her almost as widely recognized as Cindy Crawford.- Lee Min-ki was born on 16 January 1985. He is an actor, known for Tidal Wave (2009), A Good Day to Have an Affair (2007) and Because This Is My First Life (2017).
- Actress
- Soundtrack
Born in the Astoria section of Queens, New York City, Ethel Merman surely is the pre-eminent star of 'Broadway' musical comedy. Though
untrained in singing, she could belt out a song like quite no one else, and was sought after by major songwriters such as Irving Berlin and Cole Porter. Having debuted in 1930 in "Girl Crazy, " she is yet remembered for her marvelous starring appearances in so many great musicals that were later adapted to the silver screen. Among the film versions, Merman herself starred in Anything Goes (1936) and Call Me Madam (1953). That wonderfully boisterous blonde, Betty Hutton, had the Merman lead in both Red, Hot and Blue (1949) and Annie Get Your Gun (1950). Besides Betty Hutton, other Merman screen stand-in roles include Lucille Ball, (in Du Barry Was a Lady (1943)), Ann Sothern, (in Panama Hattie (1942)), Vivian Blaine (in Something for the Boys (1944)) and Rosalind Russell (in Gypsy (1962)).
(Russell could never render Stephen Sondheim and Jule Styne's "Everything's Coming Up Roses" the way the immortal Merman did, over
and over again.)
Ethel Merman's lifetime facts: her dare of birth, was on Thursday, January 16th, 1908 & her life expired on Wednesday, February 15th, 1984. Thursday, January 16th, 1908 & Wednesday, February 15th, 1984, differ 27,789 days, equaling 3,969 weeks & 6 days.- Actress
- Composer
- Casting Department
Jennie Kim, known as Jennie, was born in Cheongdam-dong, South Korea on January 16, 1996. Jennie studied abroad in New Zealand. She joined YG in August 2010.
Jennie Kim was born in Cheongdam-dong, South Korea and grew up in Auckland, New Zealand until her high-school years, when she moved back to South Korea. After she settled in Seoul, she immediately became a trainee of YG Entertainment in 2010. She was raised abroad, so she speak fluent English. She is also fluent in Korean and Japanese. She was only 14 when she joined YG, but she has proved that she has much potential. She has also collaborated with her fellow YG artists before she was cast as a member of Blackpink. Jennie is said to be the possible leader of the group, but after the band debuted, there was no leader because of their similar ages.- Actor
- Producer
- Writer
Curran Walters was born on January 16, 1998 in Oak Park, California. He previously modeled for clothing brands including Tilly's, Lee Jeans, and Brothers. He began his screen career with commercial shots in the Samsung Galaxy phone and the sports video game NBA 2K15. He made his feature debut in the 2014 family comedy Growing Up and Down (2014). Curran landed more roles on television including his recurring role as "Young Jackson" in the series premiere of Game of Silence (2016). He also appeared in the two-part episode of "Girl Meets High School: Part 1 (2016)" during Season 2 of Girl Meets World (2014). Further television credits include Too Close to Home (2016), Alexa & Katie (2018), 20th Century Women (2016), Too Close to Home (2016), Speechless (2016). He made his second feature appearance in the 2016 comedy-drama 20th Century Women (2016), starring Annette Bening, Elle Fanning and Greta Gerwig. Curran then made his third feature film appearance in the upcoming 2019 horror film Do Not Reply (2019) followed with made-for-television film drama Playing Dead (2018).- Actor
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Producer
Dameon J. Clarke is a Canadian-American actor and voice actor. His TV credits include Graceland, How to Get Away with Murder, 24, Castle, Supernatural and Prison Break, and his film work includes How to Be a Serial Killer and I Love You Phillip Morris. He has worked with numerous Academy Award winning actors and directors in many films and TV shows.
Clarke began acting at the age of 11 in Canada. His first role was a made for TV movie called "Secrets of a Married Man" as William Shatner's son. After several years in front of the camera Clarke took a sabbatical from acting to finish school and would later return to his roots at the age of 25 and has been acting ever since.
While living in Dallas, Texas in the early 2000s, Dameon worked alongside Keanu Reeves, Robert Downey Jr. and director Richard Linklater in a leading role in the film "A Scanner Darkly" which would later help launch his film and TV career. He also voiced major characters on anime shows, such as "Yu Yu Hakusho", "Fullmetal Alchemist", and the very popular "Dragon Ball Z", voicing the iconic character Cell.
Clarke later moved to Los Angeles, CA around 2005 and started working in TV and Film in Recurring and Guest Starring roles. (He is one of the few actors to have Guest Starred on the entire CSI franchise and two of the NCIS franchise [NCIS LA and NCIS]). In 2008 Clarke starred in the film "How to be a Serial Killer" and won several best actor awards (including NY Horror Film Festival and LA Shriekfest Film Festival) for his portrayal of Mike Wilson. He guest starred in the first 2 seasons of "Graceland" as "A.D.I.C. Clarke" the Assistant Director in Charge of the F.B.I. on the USA Network.
Dameon has voiced over 200 characters, including "Handsome Jack" in the acclaimed video game series Borderlands 2, "Borderlands, The Presequel!"and "Tales from the Borderlands". After the release of Borderlands 2, the "Handsome Jack" character was so popular, that despite having killed him off, Gearbox Software developed "Borderlands, The Presequel!" to develop the character's back story and allow the player to play as the villainous character for the first time. Telltale Games" also brought the character back from the dead in "Tales From the Borderlands".
Clarke also won several awards for his portrayal as "Handsome Jack" including the notable Spike TV "VGA" (Video Game Award) for "Best Performance by a Human Male".
He currently lives in Los Angeles, California.- A solid, reliable working actor since the early 70s, Frederick Coffin
was born January 16, 1943 to actress
Winnie Collins, as one of five
siblings. Educated at Western Reserve Academy, in Hudson, Ohio, Coffin
was both an excellent athlete and student. It was at WRA that he first
began theater studies; he graduated in 1961 with a BA in theater. He
enrolled at the University of Michigan in 1962 intending to play
football, but changed his focus to acting after deciding to perform in
a musical. He would graduate from the U of M with a Masters in Theater.
In the early 70s, he would begin to perform in plays including "Much
Ado About Nothing", "As You Like It", and "King Lear". He would also
start doing guest shots on TV series around this time, amassing a great
many credits in the medium, appearing on such shows as
Kojak (1973),
Hill Street Blues (1981),
Moonlighting (1985),
The Twilight Zone (1985),
Dallas (1978),
Hunter (1984) and
L.A. Law (1986) - to name only
several. In the late 70s, he would start to lend his engaging,
professional, stolid presence to such features as
King of the Gypsies (1978),
Mother's Day (1980) (in which he was
billed as 'Holden McGuire') and
Alone in the Dark (1982),
graduating to major supporting parts in films such as
The Bedroom Window (1987),
Shoot to Kill (1988),
Hard to Kill (1990) (in which he was
particularly fine as Steven Seagals old
friend), Wayne's World (1992) and
Identity (2003), which would sadly turn
out to be his final feature film. He would die on July 31, 2003 in Los
Angeles of lung cancer, survived by wife
Barbara Monte-Britton, whom he
married in 1977, and by his three brothers. - Actor
- Director
- Producer
Excellent, prolific and versatile character actor Michael Pataki had a
long, varied and impressive career in both movies and TV shows, alike,
that spanned a little over 50 years. Pataki was born on January 16,
1938 in Youngstown, Ohio. He attended the University of Southern
California as a double major in Drama and Political Science. Michael
made his film debut with an uncredited small part in the 1958 feature,
Ten North Frederick (1958).
However, it was his acclaimed acting on stage in 1966 at a summer stock
festival in Edinburgh that really launched Pataki's career. Although
usually cast as mean and unlikable antagonistic characters, Michael on
occasion portrayed more appealing folks with equal skill and
conviction. Pataki gave a superbly chilling and compelling performance
as vicious bloodsucker "Caleb Croft" in the creepy horror winner,
Grave of the Vampire (1972).
Other memorable roles included nasty biker "Snake" in
The Dirt Gang (1972),
Marianna Hill's weak masochistic boyfriend
"Dennis" in the perverse
The Baby (1973), the lecherous "Sergeant
Ward" in the crummy,
The Bat People (1974), hi-jacker
"Wilson" in Airport '77 (1977),
Dracula's modern-day descendant "Michael Drake" in the hilariously
horrible Dracula's Dog (1977),
sleazy bounty hunter "Harry Iverson" in
The Glove (1979), hard-nosed "District
Attorney Dino Fulgoni" in the splendidly gritty
The Onion Field (1979), oddball
cemetery caretaker "Sam" in the offbeat zombie doozy
Dead & Buried (1981), ramrod
Russian sports official "Nicoli Koloff" in
Rocky IV (1985) and the stern "Dr.
Hoffman" in
Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988).
Pataki had a recurring role on the TV series,
The Amazing Spider-Man (1977);
he also appeared in the two spin-off theatrical pictures, Spider-Man
(1970) and
Spider-Man Strikes Back (1978).
Among the numerous TV shows Michael made guest appearances on are
The Twilight Zone (1959),
Star Trek (1966),
Combat! (1962),
Rawhide (1959),
My Favorite Martian (1963),
Ben Casey (1961),
Batman (1966),
Mission: Impossible (1966),
The Flying Nun (1967),
Baretta (1975),
Happy Days (1974),
McCloud (1970),
Barney Miller (1975),
Little House on the Prairie (1974),
Charlie's Angels (1976),
T.J. Hooker (1982),
WKRP in Cincinnati (1978),
Laverne & Shirley (1976),
The Jeffersons (1975),
The Fall Guy (1981),
Airwolf (1987),
St. Elsewhere (1982) and
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987).
Moreover, Pataki provided voices for cartoon television programs; he
was especially notable as the voice of the demented "George Liquor" on
The Ren & Stimpy Show (1991).
Michael directed two low-budget 70s drive-in exploitation features for
producer Charles Band: the potently
unnerving horror shocker,
Mansion of the Doomed (1976),
and the amusingly silly soft-core comedy musical,
Cinderella (1977). In addition, Pataki
also worked as an acting coach. Michael died of cancer at age 72 on
April 15, 2010 in North Hollywood, California.- Actor
- Writer
Kabir Bedi is one of India's most famous international actors, with a career that spans from Bollywood to Hollywood and Europe, in films, television, theatre, and radio.
Kabir's Italian series "SANDOKAN" made him a major star across all of Europe.
He starred in one of the world's most-watched TV series, "THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL"
He acted in the James Bond "OCTOPUSSY".
He has been a voting member of the "Oscars Academy" (Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences) since 1982.
In recent years, he has acted in 5 films in 5 languages: English, Italian, Hindi, Malayalam, and Telegu.
He is the Honorary Brand Ambassador for Sight Savers India, which performed over 5 million free eye operations across India.
He is the Honorary Brand Ambassador of Care & Share Italia, which educates children from kindergarten to university in the homes and centers in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana in India.
To top it all, he has been Knighted by the Italian Republic with its highest civilian honour, "Cavaliere".- Director
- Actor
- Writer
Josh Evans was born on 16 January 1971 in New York City, New York, USA. He is a director and actor, known for The Doors (1991), Born on the Fourth of July (1989) and The Price of Air (2000). He has been married to Roxy Saint since October 2012. They have one child. He was previously married to Charis Michelsen.- Composer
- Music Department
- Actor
Atticus Ross was born on 16 January 1968 in England, UK. He is a composer and actor, known for The Social Network (2010), The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) and Mank (2020). He has been married to Claudia Sarne since 2001. They have three children.- Actress
- Producer
Heather Elizabeth Parkhurst was born on 16 January 1967 in San Francisco, California, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Beverly Hills Cop III (1994), Alpha Dog (2006) and Bikini Summer III: South Beach Heat (1997).- Actress
- Soundtrack
Vivacious brunette singer and actress Lina Romay was born in New York
in January 1919, the daughter of Mexican L.A. consulate attaché
Porfirio A. Romay, of European descent. In her teens, she was adept at swimming and diving.
Moreover, she had an excellent voice and could sing equally well in
English and in Spanish. Her show business career took off, when she
joined the flamboyant bandleader
Xavier Cugat as his leading female
vocalist in 1940.
Cugat thought so highly of her, that he built a
chorus of five men and four women to blend with her singing. He also
wrote ballads specifically for her. Lina was featured with the
orchestra in the classic musicals
You Were Never Lovelier (1942)
and Bathing Beauty (1944),
respectively for Columbia and MGM. She also danced in the movie
Stage Door Canteen (1943). Her
most popular numbers included "Alma Llanera", "Babalu"
(pre-Desi Arnaz) and "Guadalajara". In 1945,
Lina appeared on the cover of "Yank", the weekly army publication.
Inevitably, the studio scouts were soon out in force and she was signed
as an MGM starlet that same year.
Until the end of her relatively short Hollywood career just eight
years later, she was cast as second fiddle to the main female lead in
films like Adventure (1945) (opposite
Clark Gable and
Honeymoon (1947), or -- more typically -- as
night club singers
(The Big Wheel (1949),
The Lady Takes a Sailor (1949)).
Embraceable You (1948), at least,
gave her a few good wisecracking lines. Lina's voice was also brought
to nationwide audiences via USO broadcasts and regularly spotted on the
popular radio shows of Bing Crosby,
Bob Hope and
Jack Benny.
She retired from public life in
1953, but resurfaced in the late 1970s to work as Spanish-language
radio announcer for Hollywood Park horse races. Her last performance on
stage was for a benefit show in Los Angeles in March 1973, under her
married name -- Elena Romay Gould.- Writer
- Director
- Producer
Max Joseph was born on 16 January 1982 in New York City, New York, USA. He is a writer and director, known for We Are Your Friends (2015), Catfish: The TV Show (2012) and Garden of Eden (2012). He has been married to Priscilla Joseph since 2012.- Actor
- Writer
- Soundtrack
Elliott Reid was born on 16 January 1920 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), Inherit the Wind (1960) and Vicki (1953). He died on 21 June 2013 in Studio City, Los Angeles, California, USA.- Prolific, sharp-featured American character actor of somewhat skeletal
and dishevelled appearance, accentuated later in his career by thinning
hair and a scraggly goatee. A former theology student, Brocco began his
career playing leading roles in stock theatre. He subsequently honed
his craft touring France, Italy, Spain and Switzerland, before
returning to the U.S. in 1947, eventually joining the Federal Theater
Group. On films from as early as 1932, he was at his most effective
portraying eccentrics, scientists, small-time crooks, alcoholics, or
nervous, downtrodden little men. His particular forte lay in the genre
of science-fiction, where he graced the small screen on numerous
occasions as assorted victims
(The Outer Limits (1963),
The Time Tunnel (1966),
The Invaders (1967)) or aliens
(Lost in Space (1965),
Star Trek (1966),
The Twilight Zone (1959)).
His occasional film appearances include a dementia patent in
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
and a rare starring role in the black comedy
Homebodies (1974), late in his career.
As a liberal-minded individual, Brocco was briefly blacklisted during
the McCarthy era, but this did not prove detrimental to his career in
the long run. - Eriko made her acting debut at age 14 in the highly acclaimed Asian feature film, "Flowerly Afternoon," which was directed by Kazuki Omori, best known in the U.S. for his work with the famous "Godzilla" television series. Eriko rose to fame when she joined the popular TV show "Go with the Wild!" as a series regular. Then she starred in the award-winning NHK's mini-series "My Beloved Ultra Seven" followed by the Japan's highly regarded television series "Hideyoshi" in which she portrayed Hosokawa Garacia, a historically renowned woman in Japanese history who endured severe persecution when she became Japan's first woman to convert to Christianity. This demanding role required Eriko to play Garacia from age 14 all the way up to age 37. Between the big and small screen, Eriko also recorded and released 10 original albums and 18 singles with record label EMI, touring all over Japan giving sold out concert performances. Having played the lead in over 20 films and television series, her life would become the basis for a beloved anime series entitled: Legendary Idol Eriko, which has been translated into six languages and syndicated world-wide currently, airing in such countries as France, Italy, India and Spain.
Eriko joined the highest rated show of the 2006 - 2007 television season, NBC's drama "Heroes," as Princess Yaeko. The show received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Television Series - Drama and also won the People's Choice Award for Favorite New Television Drama.
Her tough but vulnerable performance as Princess Yaeko led to her being cast in 20th Century Fox's feature "Dragonball Evolution"as sexy villainess, Mai. Soon after she joined the cast of CW's "Reaper, (2009)" as Kristen, a love interest to Tyler Labine's character Sock. Her first autobiography was published in Japan by the leading publishing company, Bungeishunjyu (2010.) In 2011, the tragedy of Japan's magnitude 9.1 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster changed her life. Her parents' home in her hometown severely damaged by the aftermath eventually led her to shift her focus and found a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping the survivors of this tragedy. - One of the outstanding stage actresses of her time, Diana Wynyard will
always be remembered for her unforgettable performance in the British
version of the thriller Gaslight (1940)
(re-made in Hollywood in 1944 with
Ingrid Bergman). Starring
opposite the great Anton Walbrook, she
played the part of terrorized Bella Mallen (driven to the point of
insanity by her evil husband) with an ethereal, haunted fragility.
Diana Wynyard was educated at the Woodford School in Croydon and first
appeared on the stage in London in 1925, debuting in 'Sorry, You've
been Troubled' as Lady Sheridan. She soon became one of the great stars
of the British theatre with a wide-ranging repertoire, which included
Shakespeare, Chekhov and Shaw. In 1937, she played Eliza Doolittle in
'Pygmalion'.
In 1932, she was signed to a contract at MGM and was cast opposite the
three Barrymores in
Rasputin and the Empress (1932).
However, her best performance was with
Clive Brook in
Noël Coward's
Cavalcade (1933), for which she
received an Academy Award nomination. The New York Times (June 6, 1933)
remarked, "Miss Wynyard is excellent as Jane Marryot. She portrays her
role with such sympathy and feeling that one scarcely thinks of her as
an actress". Another review of Diana Wynyard, this time for
One More River (1934), described
her acting as 'stirringly sincere'. Her Hollywood career lasted only
two years before the actress returned to England. She gave other
sensitive performances in
The Prime Minister (1941),
with John Gielgud as Benjamin Disraeli, and
The Remarkable Mr. Kipps (1941), with
Michael Redgrave, both directed by
Carol Reed. Her subsequent marriage
to Reed lasted just four years. Diana Wynyard appeared in smaller
supporting roles during the 1950s and, in keeping with her confession
"I don't really want to be a film star", gradually returned to the
Shakespearean stage. One of her last significant screen roles was as
James Mason's mother in
Island in the Sun (1957).
On stage, she played Beatrice, first opposite
Anthony Quayle and later John Gielgud, in
'Much ado about nothing' (Australian tour, 1949-50). Other parts
included Katherine in 'The Taming of the Shrew' and Hermione in
'The Winter's Tale'. Diana was awarded a CBE in 1953
for her contribution to the theatre. She never stopped working and gave
her final performance as Gertrude to Peter O'Toole's
Hamlet. - Actor
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Erkan Kolcak Köstendil, is a Turkish actor, writer, director, and singer. His uncle is actor Bülent Sakrak. Born and raised in Bursa, a large city located in northwestern Anatolia, Kostendil was considering and working towards becoming a goalkeeper until his path crossed with two seasoned actors who made such an impression on him that he decided to study theater at the prestigious Mimar Sinan University of the Fine Arts.
Kostendil later went on to write, direct, and act in plays and short films. He wrote and starred in the play 'Karsi Cinsle Tanisma Sanati' and was in another play named 'Aut', for which he was chosen 'Actor of the Year'. This play also earned him a 'Young Actor Special' award. Kostendil always kept busy as he wrote and directed the first Turkish Facebook Series, 'Mukadderat'. He gained widespread industry recognition as well as many awards with his short film, 'Vakit'. Kostendil then went on to write and direct a medium-length film which was shot in Istanbul and Amsterdam.
Making a successful transition into TV acting, Kostendil has appeared in numerous popular shows and has claimed his place within the acting world by capitalizing on his unique character interpretations. He first appeared on 'Kurtlar Vadisi' in 2005. Kostendil got his first big break with the 2009 production, 'Sakarya Firat' in which he played a low-ranking soldier, and portrayed the character with utmost authenticity. In the following years he appeared in a number of movies and TV shows. In 2014, he portrayed the character 'Karlos Nevizade', on the hit TV show, 'Ulan Istanbul'. This character became a phenomenon among the Turkish TV audience, and gained Kostendil huge fame and recognition all around Turkey. It was on this show that he and one of his co-stars, Sebnem Bozoklu, performed a song he had written named 'Yanarim Yanarim' in one of the episodes. This performance got millions of views on Youtube. After a couple more successful projects, Kostendil appeared in the internationally aired historical drama, 'Muhtesem Yuzyil: Kosem', successfully portraying 'Shahin Khan Girai', the last Khan of Crimea. His last appearance was on the TV show, 'Familya'.- Actress
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Manuela Vellés was born on 16 January 1987 in Madrid, Spain. She is an actress and writer, known for Kidnapped (2010), Camino (2008) and Lobos sucios (2015).