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Sarah Rafferty's character Donna on USA network's hit show "Suits" is one of the most formidable minds at their law firm, Donna Paulsen. With her razor sharp wit and knowledge of all the firm's happenings, Donna is admired and feared by everyone there, and she's not afraid to wield that power when it suits her needs. The hit show has nine seasons.
While still in prep school, Sarah was bitten by the acting bug. When her drama teacher caught her cutting across his lawn in an effort not to be late for field hockey practice, he told her to skip practice and join the cast of "Richard III," and thus began her adoration of acting.
Sarah decided to take her love for this craft and educate herself by double majoring in English and Theatre at Hamilton College, studying theatre abroad in London and Oxford during her junior year, and, after graduating magna cum laude from Hamilton, she went on to study at Yale Drama school. Her passion for learning about the arts was supported by her parents; her mother, the Chairwoman of the English Department at the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Greenwich, CT, and her father, an accomplished painter.
Her education and natural talent clearly paid off. In addition to starring on USA Network's "Suits,", she has appeared in numerous TV series such as "Law and Order," "Six Feet Under," "Brothers & Sisters," "Samantha Who?," "Without A Trace," "CSI: Miami," and "Bones," and feature films including: "Four Single Fathers" and "Falling For Grace," along with countless professional stage productions like "Gemini" and "As You Like It."
In addition to acting, Rafferty lends a hand to many causes including the Alzheimer's Association and The Brain Project. Rafferty hosted the annual Night at Sardi's event held in LA for two consecutive years, which benefited the support and research efforts of the Alzheimer's Association. Rafferty also takes on a role as an ambassador for the newly founded organization, The Brain Project. The goal of TBP is to raise funds through provoking works of art for Baycrest Health Sciences, a world leader in brain health and aging.
Sarah resides on both east and west coasts with her husband and two daughters and travels back and forth to Toronto for work.- Actress
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Molly Gordon is an American actress, known for her roles in Ithaca (2015), Sin City Saints (2015), Life of the Party (2018) as Maddie, Booksmart, as Triple A, and Good Boys (both 2019). She also stars on the drama TV series Animal Kingdom (2016-present), as Nicky.
She was raised in Los Angeles. Her parents are television and film director Bryan Gordon and film producer and screenwriter Jessie Nelson. Her family is Jewish. She performed on the LA stage from a young age, and grew up with actor Ben Platt, with whom she starred in productions of Fiddler on the Roof at age four and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying at age five. She regularly watched the sketch-comedy series Saturday Night Live and attended performances by comedy troupe The Groundlings, leading her to an interest pursuing comedic acting. She portrayed Dot in her high school's performance of Sunday in the Park with George when she was 17. She failed her SAT and briefly attended New York University, leaving after two weeks due to dissatisfaction with her program. Gordon's first film appearance was in Nelson's 2001 drama film I Am Sam as Callie, followed by her portrayal of a trick-or-treater in Nora Ephron's 2005 film Bewitched. In 2015, she also had a role in Love the Coopers, opposite Timothée Chalamet. Gordon moved to New York City in 2014 to pursue acting as a profession. In August 2015, she was cast as Nicky in the TNT pilot Animal Kingdom, based on the 2010 Australian film of the same name. The pilot was picked up with a 10-episode order in December 2015, and the series debuted on June 14, 2016, with Gordon as a series regular. She played Maddie, the daughter of Melissa McCarthy's character, in the 2018 comedy film Life of the Party. Gordon began rehearsals to portray Alice Spencer in the Off-Broadway production of Alice by Heart in December 2018. The musical, directed by Nelson who also co-wrote with Steven Sater, opened at the MCC Theater on February 26, 2019. The show's run concluded in May 2019. Gordon portrayed Triple A in the 2019 comedy film Booksmart. The film attracted Gordon due to its "kooky" characters that she found to "have such a grounded realism in them."- Actress
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This lovely, fresh-faced Lincoln, Nebraska native was born Janine Loraine Gauntt on December
6, 1962, to stalwart Texans Turner and Janice Gauntt. The younger of
two children, she grew up in Fort Worth, Texas, and trained, while a
child, in ballet, tap, theater, and modeling (from age 3).
A cheerleading beauty into her teens, she moved with her mother to study at
New York's Professional Children's School and was lucky enough to be
picked up by the famed Wilhelmina Agency as a model (at 15 she was the
youngest at the time to ever be signed). After some commercial work,
however, she returned to school in Texas and happened by chance to find
some minor work on various episodes of Dallas (1978).
This led to a Hollywood attempt at age 17 and a major TV break two
years later when she won the role of Laura Templeton on TV's popular
daytime soap General Hospital (1963), a role that required her long tresses to go from
brunette to blonde. This, in turn, fed into another 1980s regular part
on Another World (1964).
Janine subsequently made her film debut in the daytime
parody Young Doctors in Love (1982) that featured her along with other soap stars in cameos.
In between, she managed find time to attend Pepperdine University but
left when she earned a film role in the movie Tai-Pan (1986). At this stage of
the game, she tended to specialize in cute and flighty roles, but all
that changed when Janine won the role of spunky, crop-haired Alaskan
air taxi pilot Maggie O'Connell opposite Rob Morrow on the eccentric
prime-time series Northern Exposure (1990). It was role of her career, a meaty,
delightfully quirky star turn that made her a household name. The show
lasted six seasons.
Since then, she has been able to subsist on a
fairly full plate of TV-movie and film assignments. She's top-lined
such women's mini-pictures as Stolen Women, Captured Hearts (1997) and A Secret Affair (1999), while in film
playing a lady-in-distress co-star to Sylvester Stallone in the action thriller
Cliffhanger (1993), "perfect Mom" June Cleaver in a film remake of Leave It to Beaver (1997) and one
of Richard Gere's "women" in Dr. T & the Women (2000). She found another series regular role
with Strong Medicine (2000) that lasted two years.
Into the millennium, Janine has been featured in such films as Birdie & Bogey (2004), The Night of the White Pants (2006), Maggie's Passage (2009), The Ivy League Farmer (2015), Solace (2015), Occupy, Texas (2016) and a prime role in Runnin' from My Roots (2018). She also appeared for a the 2008 season of the TV series Friday Night Lights (2006).
Janine also moved into directing, writing, and producing on the side, while also dabbling in singing. Janine's daughter, former child actress Juliette Gauntt, who appeared in her mother's film The Night of the White Pants (2006), was born from a relationship with Jerry Jones Jr., the Dallas Cowboys' Vice President and General Counsel.- Actor
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Jack De Sena was born on 6 December 1987 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Avatar: The Last Airbender (2005), The Dragon Prince (2018) and All That (1994).- Actor
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Thomas Edward Hulce was born in Detroit, Michigan, and grew up in
Plymouth, MI, where he was raised with his two sisters and older
brother. He is the son of Joanna (Winkleman), who had sung
professionally, and Raymond Albert Hulce, who worked for Ford. He has
English, German, and Irish ancestry. Wanting to be a singer, Tom had to
make a switch in plans when his voice began changing. Knowing that if
he wanted to be in show business he needed to become an actor, Tom
began taking the necessary steps almost immediately.
When asked once why he chose acting Tom replied, "Because someone told
me I couldn't." It is determination like this that has helped him
achieve his respected position in the acting community to this day. Tom
set goals early on. Graduating from school at 19 years old, he gave
himself a decade to succeed as an actor. Working in Ann Arbor as usher
and ticket seller with a small theatrical company was a start. It was
around this time he saw the first play and actor that made him realize
that acting was "cool." Christopher Walken was in a play in Stratford,
Ontario. The performance made quite an impression on Tom.
While Mr. and Mrs. Hulce weren't totally sold on the idea of their son
becoming a thespian, Tom had determination and headed off for the
training he knew he'd need if he was going to achieve his goal. He
studied at the North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem; at
Booth Bay Harbor, Maine; Sarasota, Florida; and spent a summer in
England before heading off to New York City to try his hand at
Broadway. Within a month after his arrival, Tom was chosen to
understudy the role being performed by Peter Firth in the
Broadway play "Equus." He had originally been hired to play one of the
horses, but it was decided that his time was better spent learning the
understudy role and so he never donned the horse's attire.
Tom had pangs of guilt where this role was concerned. On one hand he
wanted the role ... badly. On the other hand he wondered what would
happen if Peter left the role; could he fill those shoes? When the time
came, nine months after being hired, Tom found out that it was up to
him to play the role as his own. He wasn't expected to be another Peter
Firth... he had been hired to play the role his way. "... it actually
went quite well, " Tom recalled. "I realized I was a different actor
and that I would tackle the part in my own way." And tackle it he did!
Equus has a few "firsts" for Tom. One, it was his first big role; two,
it was his first Broadway role and third, it was his first nude
performance. For nine minutes Tom and his costar, Roberta Maxwell, were
naked in a scene that seemed impossible for the stage a decade earlier
(1960s). In a past interview Tom reflected, "It's so skillfully written
and developed that it doesn't seem an unusual thing to do. There's no
embarrassment, I just don't think about it at all." During the run of
"Equus," Tom turned down a big television offer, to the delight of the
director and cast. At that time in Tom's life the stage was all there
was, and he was going to do it right! Other plays that followed "Equus"
were George S. Kaufman's "Butter and Egg Man," Arthur Miller's
"Memory of Two Mondays," along with such works as "Julius Caesar,"
"Romeo and Juliet," Shaw's "Candida," and Chekhov's "The Sea Gull," and,
again on Broadway in his Tony nominated role in Aaron Sorkin's "A
Few Good Men."
Tom has even directed the off-Broadway musical "Sleep Around Town" at
Playwrights Horizon. Back in 1977 Tom landed his first motion picture
role in the film about the day James Dean died, September 30, 1955 (1977).
This was to be the first of a long line of period films. His next was National
Lampoon's National Lampoon's Animal House (1978). Set in the 1960's, Tom played "Pinto" along with
such comedy alumni as 'John Belushi', Tim Matheson, and Donald Sutherland.
1984 gave him the role that put him on the map. The title role of
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in the Oscar-winner Amadeus (1984)
was such a wonder that it even boosted the sales of Mozart's music
by 30%! Filmed in Prague, it was eerie for Tom to actually be standing
in the very spot where the original Amadeus had stood conducting the
opera Tom was recreating for the film. Dressed in a purple velvet jacket,
knickers, and white hose, wearing a bushy white wig and doling out a
hilarious laugh (often likened to that of a hyena's) Tom's portrayal of the
"man-child" musical genius was an Oscar-nominated performance.
Tom has been in many more films set in the past:
Those Lips, Those Eyes (1980)(1950s),
Shadowman (1988) (World War II), Mary
Shelley's Frankenstein (1994)
(1800s),
Wings of Courage (1995)(1930's),
and Disney's
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)(1500s).
Tom appeared in Echo Park (1985) with
Susan Dey, a film that had a struggle
to get released remains one of Tom's best performances and one that he
is quite proud of. Another film that Tom feels a lot of pride for is
Dominick and Eugene (1988).
Starring with Ray Liotta and
Jamie Lee Curtis, Tom played Dominick
Luciano, a mentally handicapped twin brother to Liotta's Eugene. The
young man works as a garbage collector to help put his brother through
medical school so he can become a "rich doctor" and they can afford to
get a "house by a lake." Tom spent time studying people in a Pittsburgh
neighborhood and handicapped people in an occupational training center
so he could master the innocence and determination that the lead role
required. He received the Best Actor award at the Seattle Fest for his
performance.
Murder in Mississippi (1990)
was Tom's second television movie (the first was
Forget-Me-Not-Lane (1975)
(aka "Neli, Neli"), a Hallmark Hall of Fame production). Playing the
role of Michael Schwerner, the New York social worker and Freedom
Fighter who is murdered by K.K.K. members in 1964 during Freedom
Summer, Tom received an Emmy nomination and his third Golden Globe
nomination.
The Inner Circle (1991) (aka
"The Projectionist") took Tom to Russia where he was Ivan Sanshin, the
private film projectionist to Stalin within the Kremlin walls. Based on
a true story, Ivan was a perfect example of how many were blinded to
the horrific conditions that men like Stalin conducted and followed in
ignorant loyalty. While there, Tom was fortunate to meet and spend time
with Alexander Ganshin, upon whose life the film was based.
The next three years held special items for Tom. His portrayal of Peter
Patrone, in T.N.T.'s
The Heidi Chronicles (1995),
earned him an Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or
Special, and 1994 and 1996 brought two of Tom's last period pieces.
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994)
had Tom playing opposite Kenneth Branagh
as Victor Frankenstein's college chum, Henry. And 1996 was a whole new
experience for Tom. Disney was looking for someone special to portray
their gentle Quasimodo in their newest full feature animation motion
picture,
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996).
Tom had never done voiceover work for a full film; to sing before a
microphone was one thing, but to do song and voice for someone that he
couldn't watch while performing was a whole new experience for him.
Herecalled that when he first auditioned he thought it strange that the
producers and director stood looking at the floor while he sang...until
he noticed they were looking at sketches of Quasimodo and were trying
to "feel" if he sounded like their bell ringer.
1998 saw Tom returning to the stage but this time as director again, as
he undertook the enormous task of bringing
John Irving's 1985 novel, "The Cider
House Rules", to the stage. An 8-hour production which required the
audience two days to see the whole performance, it was quite an
undertaking. Co-directing with Jane Jones (of "BookIt" in Seattle,
Washington) Tom took the play from its Seattle opening to the Mark
Taper Forum in Los Angeles, California where it received wonderful
reviews.
During the past recent years Tom has resided in Seattle, Washington where
he owns his own home. He figures he could live in Los Angeles or New
York - the acting hubs - but in Seattle, he's near the things he loves.
"Up in Seattle people look after their lives in a way you can't do in
New York or Los Angeles," he says. But no matter where he calls home,
we can always count on Tom for bringing us into a world that will
thrill, excite, fascinate, move and inspire us either through his
films, the stage, or his beautiful singing.- Producer
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Judd Apatow is an American film director, screenwriter, producer and comedian. He directed The 40-Year Old Virgin, Knocked Up, This is 40, Funny People, Trainwreck and The King of Staten Island. He also developed the television shows Freaks and Geeks, Undeclared, Girls, Love and Crashing. He is married to Leslie Mann and has two children.- Actress
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Nurturing an impressive body of work that encompasses film and television, award-winning actor, writer, and producer Stefanie Scott is one of Hollywood's most promising young talents. This year Stefanie will star in Peacock's upcoming thriller/supernatural series "Girl in the Woods." Set in the Pacific Northwest, "Girl in the Woods" follows Carrie's (Scott) escape from her mysterious, cult-like colony that guards the world against monsters hidden behind a secret door within the woods. She finds herself fighting to stay alive, in the previously sleepy, small town of West Pine. "Girl in the Woods" is slated to premiere in October 2021. In film, Stefanie can currently be seen starring in the independent horror/ drama feature "The Last Thing Mary Saw" alongside Isabelle Fuhrman and Rory Culkin. The film debuted at the Fantasia International Film Festival this year and will stream on Shudder in early 2022.
Also in 2021, Stefanie starred in "Girl in the Basement" directed by Elisabeth Röhm and inspired by true events. The film tells the emotional story of Sara (Scott) a suburban teen who is imprisoned by her father Don (Judd Nelson) in the basement of their home. Stefanie received rave reviews for her harrowing portrayal of Sara, who was held captive for over 20 years.
Stefanie is often recognized for her plethora of roles in feature films over the years, including starring in Focus Features' and Blumhouse Productions' "Insidious: Chapter 3." Stefanie completed all of her own stunts in the film, which grossed over $110 million worldwide. In 2017 she appeared in "At First Light" opposite Théodore Pellerin, "Beautiful Boy" alongside Timothée Chalamet, and "Small Town Crime" opposite Octavia Spencer. In 2015 she starred in Universal Pictures' "Jem and the Holograms" (directed by Jon M. Chu and produced by Scooter Braun) where she was able to showcase her musical side, along with bringing the character of Kimber to life. More recent credits include the indie feature "Mary" opposite Gary Oldman and Emily Mortimer, and "Good Girls Get High" where she also served as an Associate Producer.
Some of Stefanie's early big breaks in the business came with appearing in Rob Reiner's "Flipped" (Warner Bros.) and co-starring as a young Natalie Portman in "No Strings Attached" (Paramount Pictures). She also lent her voice to the Oscar-nominated animated feature "Wreck-It Ralph" for Disney. In 2015 Stefanie appeared in a music video for Hayley Kioko entitled "Girls Like Girls" that went viral, hitting over 139 million+ views (and counting) on YouTube. The music video was groundbreaking for its time and a testament to marginalized connections.
Born in Chicago, Illinois Stefanie moved to Florida with her family at a young age where she began auditioning for local theater productions. She was homeschooled in the Melbourne area, before moving to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career full time. As a singer/songwriter Stefanie loves to write and record her own music, along with playing her ukulele and guitar. Her music has been featured in a handful of projects including the single "Wherever I May Go" which was featured in "Girl in the Basement" and "Pretty Baby" which was on the soundtrack for the film "Spare Room."
Over the years Stefanie has actively supported The Children's Hospital of Orange County (CHOC) visiting with kids that are battling ongoing illnesses & working to bring awareness to the great work CHOC brings to the community. On social media, Stefanie has nearly 3.6 million followers across all of her platforms and loves to utilize her following to give back to and raise awareness for causes near to her heart.- Actor
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Jefferson Hall was born on 6 December 1977 in Coventry, West Midlands, England, UK. He is an actor and producer, known for Tenet (2020), Oppenheimer (2023) and Halloween (2018).- Actress
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The product of a musical family, (Margaret) JoBeth Williams was born on December 6, 1948, in Houston,
Texas, to Frances Faye (Adams), a dietitian, and Fredric Roger
Williams, a wire/cable company manager and opera singer. Her father
encouraged her early interest in theater during high school.
She made her professional debut at age 18 in a Houston-based musical production,
then studied at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, with the
intentions of becoming a child psychologist. The acting bug hit her
again, however, and she decided to pursue theater after receiving her
B.A. in English in 1970. Working intensely to lose her Texas twang, her
early training came as a member of the Trinity Repertory Company, where
she stayed for two-and-a-half years.
In New York the lovely Jobeth became a daytime regular in the mid-1970s
on both Somerset (1970) and in a
vixenish role on
Guiding Light (1952)
before making a brief but memorable impact in a highly popular film at
the end of the decade. In the
Dustin Hoffman starring film
Kramer vs. Kramer (1979),
Jobeth plays Hoffman's gorgeous sleepover who gets caught stark naked
by his young, precocious son
(Justin Henry) the following
morning. She also impressed on the stage with major roles in
"Moonchildren" and "A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking."
Her star maker would could in the form of the strong-willed mother of
three who fights to save her brood from home-invading demons in
Steven Spielberg's humongous critical
and box-office hit
Poltergeist (1982), which also made a
major star out of movie husband
Craig T. Nelson. Officially in the big
leagues now, she joined the star ensemble cast of
The Big Chill (1983), and appeared
opposite Nick Nolte in
Teachers (1984). Disappointing outcomes
in the lackluster sequel
Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986)
and the intriguing but overlooked
American Dreamer (1984) prodded
her to search for more challenging work on TV.
It is the small screen, in fact, that has particularly shown off the
range of Jobeth's talent over the years, particularly in domestic
drama. Cast in some of the finest TV-movies served up, Jobeth won
deserved Emmy nominations for her real-life mother of an ill-fated
missing child in Adam (1983) and
real-life surrogate mother in
Baby M (1988). Other monumental
mini-movie efforts include her nurse in the apocalyptic drama
The Day After (1983); her
magnetic performance opposite Terry Kinney
as an adulterous worshiper and minister who carry out plans to kill
their respective spouses in the gripping suspense show
Murder Ordained (1987);
alcoholic James Woods'
long-suffering wife in
My Name Is Bill W. (1989);
a social worker trying to reach a deaf girl in
Breaking Through (1996);
and the overbearing mother whose son turns to drugs in
Trapped in a Purple Haze (2000).
She continues to balance both film and TV projects into the millennium.
Behind the scenes she was nominated for an Academy Award for her
directorial debut of Showtime's
On Hope (1994)and continues to seek out
other directing projects. It doesn't hurt being married to a director
for encouragement. She and John Pasquin,
who directed her in the film
Jungle 2 Jungle (1997) and on the
short-lived TV series Payne (1999),
have two children.
Into the millennium, Jobeth starred as a psychiatrist in the offbeat crime drama The Rose Technique (2002); then played a series of mom support roles -- Drew Barrymore's in Fever Pitch (2005), Reiko Aylesworth's in Crazylove (2005) and Adam Brody's in In the Land of Women (2007); plus roles in The Big Year (2011), Songs of Alchemy (2012), Barracuda (2017), Alex & The List (2017), SGT. Will Gardner (2019) and What the Night Can Do (2020). In addition to guest appearances on such popular program as "The Guardian," "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit," "Judging Amy," "Miss Match," "Numb3rs," "Criminal Minds," "The Nine," "Dexter," "NCIS," "The Good Doctor," and recurring roles on Private Practice (2007), Hart of Dixie (2011), Marry Me (2014) and Your Family or Mine (2015), she earned kudos as Sybil's mentally disturbed mother in a revived TV movie version of Sybil (2007).- Colin Salmon is one of Britain's most renowned actors. With a bold voice and posture, Colin makes his characters a favorite among audiences for every role he plays. He made his feature debut as Sgt. Robert Oswald in the British mega-hit mini-series Prime Suspect 2 (1992), which gave him much acclaim among British audiences. He has a recurring role in the James Bond films as Charles Robinson, M's Chief of Staff. He has also appeared as the Commander James "One" Shade in the video game-to-movie Resident Evil (2002) and played Oonu, squad leader of the Skybax in the mini-series Dinotopia (2002) . His other film credits include Captives (1994), Immortality (1998), Fanny and Elvis (1999), Mind Games (2001), and My Kingdom (2001). His theatre credits include Ariadne at London's Queen Elizabeth Hall.
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Lindsay Price was born on 6 December 1976 in Arcadia, California, USA. She is an actress, known for Lipstick Jungle (2008), Eastwick (2009) and Splitting Up Together (2018). She has been married to Curtis Stone since 8 June 2013. They have two children. She was previously married to Shawn Piller.- Actress
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Gina Hecht was born on 6 December 1952 in Houston, Texas, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Dave (2020), Seinfeld (1989) and Mork & Mindy (1978). She has been married to Brian Herskowitz since 4 July 1988. They have two children.- Actress
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Agnes was born of Anglo-Irish ancestry near Boston, the daughter of
a Presbyterian minister (her mother was a mezzo-soprano) who encouraged
her to perform in church pageants. Aged three, she sang 'The Lord is my
Shepherd' on a public stage and seven years later joined the St. Louis
Municipal Opera as a dancer and singer for four years. In keeping with
her father's dictum of finishing her education first (then being permitted
to do whatever she wished with her career), Agnes attended Muskingum
College (Ohio), and, subsequently, the University of Wisconsin.
She graduated with an M.A. in English and public speaking and later added
a doctorate in literature from Bradley University to her resume. When
her family moved to Reedsburg, Wisconsin, where her father had a
pastorate, Agnes taught public school English and drama for five years.
In between, she went to Paris to study pantomime with
Marcel Marceau.
In 1928, she began training at the American Academy for Dramatic Arts
and graduated with honors the following year. In order to supplement
her income , Agnes had turned to radio early on. She had her first job
in 1923 as a singer for a St. Louis radio station. Her love for that
medium remained with her all her life. From the 1930s to the
50s, she appeared on numerous serials, dramas and children's
programs. She was Min Gump in "The Gumps" (1934), the 'dragon lady' in
"Terry and the Pirates" (1937), Margot Lane of classic comic strip fame
in "The Shadow", Mrs.Danvers in "Rebecca" and the bed-ridden woman
about to meet her end in "Sorry, Wrong Number". Acting on the airwaves
was so important to her that she would insist on its continuation as a
precondition of a later contract with MGM. Significantly, through her
radio work on "The Shadow"and "March of Time" in 1937, she met and
befriended fellow actor Orson Welles.
Welles soon invited her to join him and
Joseph Cotten as charter members
of his Mercury Theatre on the Air. Agnes was involved in the famous
"War of the Worlds" broadcast of 1938 which attracted nationwide
attention and resulted in a lucrative $100,000 per picture deal with
RKO in Hollywood. The Mercury players (the other principals were
Ray Collins,
Everett Sloane,
Paul Stewart and
George Coulouris) packed up and went
west.
An ebullient and versatile character actress, Agnes was impossible to
typecast: she could play years older than her age, appear as heroine or
villainess, tragedienne or comedienne. In her first film, the iconic
Citizen Kane (1941), she played the
titular character's mother. She received her greatest critical acclaim
for her emotive second screen performance as Aunt Fanny Minafer in
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942).
In addition to being voted the year's best female performer by the New
York Film Critics she was also nominated for an Academy Award. Through
the years, Agnes would be nominated three more times: for her touching
portrayal of the jaded but sympathetic Baroness Conti in
Mrs. Parkington (1944); for her
role as the title character's Aunt Aggie in
Johnny Belinda (1948) and for
playing Velma, the hard-boiled, suspicious housekeeper of
Bette Davis in
Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964),
co-starring her old friend Joseph Cotten. Other notable film
appearances included Jane Eyre (1943),
with Orson Welles,
The Woman in White (1948) as
Countess Fusco),
The Lost Moment (1947) (as a
105-year old woman) and
Dark Passage (1947), a classic film
noir in which she had third billing behind
Humphrey Bogart and
Lauren Bacall as the treacherous ,
malevolent Madge Rapf. She had a rare starring role in the campy horror
flick The Bat (1959), giving (according to
the New York Times of December 17) 'a good, snappy performance'.
On Broadway, she appeared in such acclaimed plays as "All the
King's Men" and "Candlelight". She enjoyed success with "Don Juan in
Hell", touring nationally: the first time (1951-2) with
Charles Laughton and
Cedric Hardwicke, the second time
(though receiving fewer critical plaudits) with
Ricardo Montalban and
Paul Henreid in 1973. She also starred with
Joseph Cotten in "Prescription Murder" (1962). While not a great
critical success, this was much liked by audiences and it introduced a famous
detective named Lieutenant Columbo. From 1954, she also toured the U.S.
and Europe with her own a one-woman show entitled "The Fabulous
Redhead". Agnes performed numerous times on television before landing
the role of Endora on
Bewitched (1964). One particularly
interesting part came her way through the director
Douglas Heyes who remembered her from
"Sorry, Wrong Number". He cast her in the starring - and indeed, only role in The Invaders (1961). As the lonely old woman confronted by tiny
alien invaders in her remote farmhouse, Agnes never utters a single
word and cleverly acts her scenes as a pantomime of unspoken terror.
Of course, the genial Agnes Moorehead has been immortalized as
Elizabeth Montgomery's
flamboyant witch-mother, Endora, although that was not a role the actress
wished to be remembered for (in spite of several Emmy Award
nominations). Indeed, she had thought this whole witchcraft theme to
be rather far-fetched and was somewhat taken aback by the show's huge
popularity. Agnes had a special clause inserted in her contract which
limited her appearances to eight out of twelve episodes which gave her the
opportunity to also work on other projects. Commenting on the acting
profession in one of her many interviews (New York Times, May 1, 1974),
she found the key to success in being " sincere in your work " and to
"just go right on whether audiences or critics are taking your scalp
off or not".- Actress
- Producer
Torri Higginson was born on 6 December 1969 in Burlington, Ontario, Canada. She is an actress and producer, known for Stargate: Atlantis (2004), The City (1999) and The English Patient (1996).- Director
- Writer
- Actress
In the past five years, Nora has created and/or written series for Amazon, Hulu, Comedy Central, and CBS, directing TV series for ABC, Hulu and FunnyOrDie. In 2020, she became the first woman ever to direct a campaign for Bud Light. She's gone on to direct campaigns for Nestle, Duracell, and Uber, among others.
She recently was a writer on the new series. Daisy Jones and the Six, produced by Reese Witherspoon, which debuted at #1 on Amazon. Nora was a founding member and accordion player for the band Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, with whom she toured for seven years, winning a Grammy, and playing Letterman, Conan, Kimmel, Coachella, and Lallapalooza among others.
Previously, she sold her TV show, Assisted Living, to CBS, which was produced by Will Ferrell and Jessica Elbaum. Her half-hour, Best Seller, produced by Olivia Wilde, sold to Comedy Central, and she created/directed Door No. 1, a first of its kind live-action VR comedy series, starring Snoop Dogg and Ravi Patel, for Hulu. She also created and directed a fifteen-episode murder mystery, The Coop, for Eko and FunnyOrDie, guest starring Tony Hale, Bobby Moynihan and Margaret Cho.
Nora directed a pilot, Royalties, starring 2018 Emmy and Golden Globe winner Darren Criss, and episode #712 of The Goldbergs on ABC. Nora has also played many roles in film and TV, including The Office, Greek, and Jennifer Falls.
She is in pre production on her debut feature, "A Tree Fell In The Woods."- Actress
- Producer
Model & Actress KD Aubert started her modeling career with LA
Models in 2001. As a runway model working overseas, she soon ventured
into print modeling with Elite models (LA) where she was thrust into
major campaigns. Soon after KD entered into the world of commercials
where again, she was lucky enough into land some very memorable
campaigns. In 2002, while hosting the MTV show Kidnapped with Dave
Holmes, she landed her first major role, not surprisingly on her first
audition, in the cult classic Friday After Next, followed shortly after
with a role in The Scorpion King. The following year she replaced a
recurring actress on the hit show Buffy the Vampire Slayer (aka Nikki
Wood). While shooting Buffy, KD landed a leading role in the movie
Hollywood Homicide starring Harrison Ford and Josh Hatrnett. She has
also starred on independent movies such as Dysenchanted (starring Jim
Belushi) and Easy. KD also starred alongside Kevin Hart, Tom Arnold and
many other superstars while on the comedy Soul Plane. After shooting
what was one her favorite sci-fi movies Frankenfish in Mobile, Alabama,
she returned to LA to snatch a guest star role on FOX's Bones.
Life in Politics In 2007, while recording music and partly residing in
Chicago, she volunteered at Obama headquarters where she met Arne
Duncan and Rahm Emmanuel. As a Democrat, KD will always stand with the
people, especially those less fortunate. KD feels what makes America
great, is the way we have always been able to look out for one another
and lend a helping hand.
Charities KD enjoys working alongside some very influential non-profit
organizations, such as Urban Born out of Los Angeles, and the Sickle
Cell Disease Foundation of California. Two of KD's sisters live with
the Sickle Cell Disease and the foundation truly helped from childhood
to now. In addition, KD works closely with the Charlie Mack Foundation
out of Philadelphia, PA. Will Smith and his dear friend, Charlie Mack,
founded this foundation. Every year KD is called upon to travel to
Philly to visit with kids who suffer from illnesses at local medical
facilities. She visits young kids and teens that have been incarcerated
as well as host fun events for the inner city youths.
Hobbies Aubert's hobbies include: playing golf, tennis, watching CNN &
MSNBC, traveling, eating exotic foods, writing songs, spending time
with family, going to the batting cages, and fishing to name a few.
Religion KD's religious views are called "non-denominational" with a
Christian foundation. She attends a worship center called "Agape" which
means unconditional love.
"We do not judge, we believe that we are all beautiful intelligent
expressions of GOD here on this planet." - KD Aubert- Ashley Madekwe (born 6 December 1981) is an English actress. She is known for her roles as call girl Bambi in the ITV2 series Secret Diary of a Call Girl, social climber Ashley Davenport on the ABC drama series Revenge and the witch Tituba in the WGN America series Salem.
Madekwe was born in South London, England into a mixed family. Her father is Nigerian-Swiss and her mother is English. She grew up on a south London council estate and attended The Brit School at age 14. She attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London where she gained a BA in acting. While attending the school, she appeared in numerous stage productions including King Henry V as Princess Katherine and Wuthering Heights as Catherine Earnshaw.
Madekwe started her acting career with a film titled Storm Damage. Since then, she has made guest appearances on Teachers, Doctors, Casualty, and Drop Dead Gorgeous. Madekwe landed her first motion picture in the 2007 Woody Allen film Cassandra's Dream, opposite Colin Farrell and Ewan McGregor. Following that success, she played Elisha in the one-off BBC Three drama pilot West 10 LDN, and appeared in six episodes of Trexx and Flipside as Ollie. In 2008, she landed the role of Bambi on the ITV2 drama series Secret Diary of a Call Girl, appearing in series two and three. Madekwe starred in the 2008 comedy film How to Lose Friends & Alienate People. Her theatre credits include Little Sweet Thing by Roy Williams and Flight Path by David Watson.
Madekwe made her official US debut in the 2009 drama series The Beautiful Life, which only aired two episodes on The CW before being cancelled. In February 2011, she was cast as Ashley Davenport in the ABC drama series Revenge. After being a regular for the first two seasons, it was reported in late May 2013 that Madekwe would depart the series following a guest appearance in the first episode of the third season. She starred as Tituba in the television series Salem from 2014 to 2016.
In June 2012, Madekwe married her long-time boyfriend, actor Iddo Goldberg. They have worked together on Secret Diary of a Call Girl and he also had a role alongside her on the TV series Salem. - Actor
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Patrick Nicolas Jean Sixte Ghislain Bauchau was born in Brussels, Belgium. His father, Henry Bauchau, is a noted
author, psychoanalyst, and philosopher, while his mother was an
educator who also helped operate a publishing company. Coming from an
intellectual family, it's not surprising that Bauchau won an academic
scholarship to Oxford University, where he received a degree in Modern
Languages. In the early '60s, Bauchau became interested in film, and
worked with French filmmaker Eric Rohmer; this led to Bauchau being
cast in the leading role as Adrien in Rohmer's 1967 "moral tale," La
Collectionneuse. Bauchau and his fellow leading actors Haydee Politoff
and Daniel Pommereulle were also credited with the film's dialogue.
While this got Bauchau's acting career off to an impressive start, his
naturalistic performance left many believing that Bauchau was simply
playing himself. After "Tuset Street" (also released in 1967), Bauchau
temporarily moved away from acting and worked with Salvador Dali
constructing large pillow-like animal sculptures.
In 1980, Bauchau re-launched his film career in Robert Kramer's "Guns",
and in 1982, Wim Wenders cast him in the leading role of "The State of
Things". In 1984, Bauchau made his American film debut in Alan
Rudolph's eccentric, romantic comedy "Choose Me", and through much of
the rest of the decade he worked regularly on both sides of the
Atlantic. In 1991, Bauchau scored an impressive role in Michael
Tolkin's superb drama "The Rapture", and four years later the same
director gave him a meaty role in "The New Age". Bauchau plays the
villain the Bond flick, "A View to a Kill" and has starring roles in
Entre Nous and The Music Teacher, both nominated for the Academy Award
for Best Foreign Film In 1996. Bauchau was cast in the television
series "Kindred: The Embraced" as a patriarch of the living dead; while
the series lasted only a few weeks, it did lead to the series regular
role of Sydney in "The Pretender", which debuted the same year and ran
for four seasons on NBC. Bauchau's higher profile in television helped
him win notable roles in high-profile films such as "Clear and Present
Danger", "The Cell", "Ray" and "Panic Room". Bauchau also plays notable
roles in the independent features "The Five Obstructions", "Twin Falls
Idaho", "The Secretary", "Boy Culture" and "The Gray Man" among several
others. Bauchau is a series regular playing the blind seer Lodz on the
HBO hit show "Carnivale" and recurs in NBC's "Revelation" and ABC's
"Alias". He guest stars on numerous television shows including
"Castle", "CSI", "How to Make It In America", "Numbers", "Women's
Murder Club", "House", "Dead Zone" and "24" among many others. More
recently in Europe Bauchau finished shooting the feature films
"Ladrones" in Spain, "Suzanne" (France), "Glenn" (Belgium), "Chrysalis"
(Italy) and Michel Houellebecq's "Possibility Of an Island" also filmed
in Spain. Bauchau currently stars in the hit French TV series"
Mystere". More recently in the USA Bauchau appears in Roland Emmerich's
"2012", the Polish Brothers film "The Sweet Smell Of Success" and
"Extraordinary Measures" with Harrison Ford. He recently returned from
filming in Vera Cruz, Mexico on "How I Spent My Summer Vacation" with
Mel Gibson.
Bauchau speaks at least 6 languages fluently and has acted in films in
different languages throughout the world. He holds passports in 3
countries including the USA.
When not busy with acting, Bauchau lives in a small village outside
Paris, and, in Malibu Lake, California, where he is an avid gardener,
reader and art collector. He's married to Mijanou Bardot, Brigitte's
sister, who also appears in La Collectionneuse. They have 5 dogs, and
an adult daughter that lives in Rome.- Actor
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- Director
Ulrich Thomsen graduated from The Danish National School of Theatre and
Contemporary Dance in 1993, after which playing on several theaters in
Copenhagen, i.e. Dr. Dantes Aveny, Mungo Park and Østre Gasværks
Teater. His debut on film was in Ole Bornedal's Nightwatch (1994). Since then a number
of roles in, among others, Thomas Vinterberg's The Biggest Heroes (1996), Susanne Bier's Credo (1997) and
Anders Thomas Jensen's Flickering Lights (2000). However, the major breakthrough came in the film
The Celebration (1998) by Thomas Vinterberg, playing the part as Christian, the son. This
performance made him well known outside Denmark, earning him a bad guy
role in the James Bond film The World Is Not Enough (1999) and a part in the English film
Killing Me Softly (2002).- Actor
- Producer
- Additional Crew
Zack Fox was born on 6 December 1990 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Pause with Sam Jay (2021), Abbott Elementary (2021) and Thundercat: Dragonball Durag (2020).- Actress
- Producer
Colleen Marie Haskell was born and raised in Bethesda, Maryland, on
December 6, 1976. She attended Walter Johnson High in Bethesda,
Maryland, graduating in 1994. She then went on to attend college at the
University of Georgia in Athens where she was able to study abroad in
London, England on a six month internship with the London Film
Festival. Upon graduation in 1998, she spent two months in Ghana, West
Africa followed by two months traveling in France. She worked as an
intern for Arena Stage in Washington, D.C. and also did some
waitressing. In her spare time, she enjoys traveling and cooking, and
prefers to listen to talk radio.- Actor
- Writer
- Producer
Oliver Masucci, born 1968, is an award-winning German actor. He grew up in Bonn, where his father - an Italian immigrant - owned and ran several Italian restaurants. Oliver learned cooking at the age of four and regularly turns his hotel rooms into Italian-style kitchens because cooking makes him feel like home when shooting abroad for ten months per year. He has tried to teach his three children how to cook - unsuccessfully so far. He lives in Switzerland and Mallorca.
At the age of 12, while still in school, Oliver was cast for theatre plays at Stadttheater Bonn. After leaving high school in 1989 he was accepted into the Berlin University of Arts' acting school. After his studies he quickly turned into a much sought-after actor on all major theatre stages in Germany, Switzerland and Austria (among them: Basel, Berlin, Bochum, Hamburg, München, Salzburger Festspiele, Zürich).
Oliver Masucci has performed thousands of times on stage, for more than 20 years, and eventually was appointed ensemble member of the prestigious "Burgtheater" Vienna in 2009.
In 2014 he was cast to play Adolf Hitler in the Borat-style adaption of the satirical novel "Look who's back". He has since played in various award-winning German films, among them "Herrliche Zeiten" by Oscar Roehler, "When Hitler stole pink rabbit" by Oscar-winning director Caroline Link and "The Royal Game" by Philipp Stölzl - which will be released for an international audience in 2022.
Oliver has been nominated for the German Film Award for four times. He received the award for best actor in a leading role in 2021. He has also received the renowned Bayerischer Filmpreis and the Grimme Award.
He portrayed artist Josef Beuys in the Florian Henckel v. Donnersmarck film "Never look away", which was nominated for two Academy Awards in 2019. Later this year he took on the lead role of film director Rainer Werner Fassbinder in the film "Enfant Terrible" by Oskar Roehler, which was chosen for the official selection of the Festival de Cannes in 2020.
Internationally, he is best known for the lead role of Ulrich Nielsen in the first German Netflix series "Dark". It became one of the most-viewed series worldwide and was crowned "Greatest Netflix Original Series" by Rotten Tomatoes users in 2020.
Further English-speaking international roles include Michael Verhoeven in the Soderbergh series "The Girlfriend Experience" (Season 3), Moses in the Netflix-Series "Tribes of Europa", Captain Alban in "The Swarm" by Game-of-Thrones showrunner Frank Doelger (release scheduled 2022) and Klaus - Jamie Foxx' antagonist - in the upcoming Netflix vampire movie "Day Shift" (2022).
This year, Oliver will further be seen as the lead in the Amazon Prime Original Series "German Crime Stories - Bound (Gefesselt)".
In "Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore", which premiered in London in March 2022, Oliver stars as Anton Vogel, Head of Wizarding World.
In early 2022, Roman Polanski cast him as lead actor in his film "The Palace" (2023).- Actor
- Soundtrack
Wally Cox was a beloved character actor who made his mark in television
and ranks as one of the medium's most memorable performers. His ability
to show his range likely was limited by his short stature, slight
frame, and high-pitched voice, which along with his talent for being
very funny, made him ideal for comedy parts such as his memorable turn
as Professor P. Caspar Biddle in "The Bird-Watchers" episode of
The Beverly Hillbillies (1962)
in 1966. His television persona was that of a shy, timid man in
horn-rimed glasses who spoke in a tentative, though distinctly
enunciated, voice. It was a persona that his long-time friend
Marlon Brando said was completely at odds
with the real man.
Born Wallace Maynard Cox on December 6, 1924, in Detroit, Michigan, his
family moved to Evanston, Illinois, when he was a child, and he became
friends with the young Brando. The child Marlon once tied Wally to a
fence as a prank and left him in bondage overnight. After World War II,
Cox moved to New York City and studied metal-working, becoming a master
craftsman. In New York, he met up again with Brando, and the two
rekindled their friendship and became roommates, with Cox eventually
moving out as he reportedly could not abide Russell, Marlon's pet
raccoon. Brando interested Cox in acting, and he studied with Brando's
mentor Stella Adler. Cox and Brando both
shared a delight in book-reading and learning, though Cox was the more
accomplished intellectual.
After appearing in many TV productions in the 1940s and early '50s, Cox
achieved fame as the mild-mannered teacher on the live television
sitcom Mister Peepers (1952)
(1952-55), a summer replacement show that was inserted into the regular
line-up after receiving good reviews and strong ratings. The episode in
which Peepers married his girlfriend, the school nurse Nancy, was one
of the highest rated TV shows of 1954. Although the role made him a
star and won him two Emmy nominations, one as Best Comedian of 1953 and
one as Best Male Star of a Regular Series in 1954, Wally Cox hated
Robinson Peepers. He always referred to the character as "Mr. Goodboy"
and insisted he was nothing like him, that in fact, he was a "terrible
person." His persona on the
The Hollywood Squares (Daytime) (1965),
a quiet man with a thinly veiled layer of sarcasm, probably was more
like the real Cox. Outside of performing, Cox liked to ride motorcycles
and take long nature walks.
After the show's cancellation due to declining ratings, Cox appeared as
the lead in the TV series
The Adventures of Hiram Holliday (1956)
for the 1956-57 season. Although he never again headlined a live-action
series, he played character roles in a score of theatrical and TV
movies and frequently guest-starred on series television. He also
remained prominent in the public eye as a regular panelist on the
television game show
The Hollywood Squares (Daytime) (1965),
appearing in the upper left-hand cubicle from the series' debut in 1966
until his death in 1973. While many of the stars' responses were
actually scripted, Wally Cox apparently wasn't one of them, more often
using sarcasm and responding with an ironic attitude as with a witty
one-liner.
He was introduced to a generation of children as the voice of the
animated cartoon character Underdog on
Underdog (1964) (1964-1973). He was
also a singer, cutting a memorable record of "There Is a Tavern in the Town" in
1953, sung in a unique style featuring "tremulous yodeling" that was
truly one of a kind. Wally also made a memorable appearance on the
syndicated show Tom Smothers' Organic Prime Time Space Ride (1971) as a singer/yodeler, singing the cowboy song "That's How the Yodel Was
Born."
Cox always will be remembered as the eponymous "Mr. Peepers" and the
voice of "Underdog," but he was an actor of wider talents seldom used
by the industry, as can be seen in his turns as the sonar operator in
The Bedford Incident (1965)
and as the potential suicide Wally Haverstraw in
The Bill Cosby Show (1969)
episode "Goodbye, Cruel World" in 1970. Dying unexpectedly on February
15, 1973, from what some newspapers described as an accidental overdose
of sedatives but which Marlon Brando in
his autobiography said was a heart attack, Wally Cox's cremated remains
were kept hidden in a closet by his old friend for three decades.
According to Brando's son Miko, both his father's and Cox's ashes were
scattered at the same time in Death Valley, California, in a ceremony
following Brando's death, thus reuniting the lifetime friends.- Millie Davis is a Canadian-born actress known for television roles on "Odd Squad" (Ms. O), "Orphan Black" (Gemma Hendrix) and the feature films, "Wonder" (Summer), "Good Boys" (Brixlee) and "The Best Man Holiday" (Hope). She was born in Toronto, Ontario.
Millie's first on-screen appearance came when she was just 6 months old in a TV commercial (Run for the Cure). Her first line of on-screen dialogue came before her 4th birthday in "Befriend and Betray".
Already a veteran in the voice-over world, Millie has voiced lead roles on "Doozers" (Daisy Wheel), "Wishenpoof" (Penelope), "Annedroids" (Pal) and "Little People (Mia). She also voices the character of Esme in Sesame Street's new animated production, "Esme and Roy".
As for her family life, she is the younger sister of fellow Canadian actor, Drew Davis. They have appeared together as siblings in "Befriend and Betray", "Orphan Black" and "A Dark Truth" opposite Andy Garcia, Eva Longoria, and Forest Whitaker. - Actress
- Producer
- Writer
Kelly Frye was born in Houston, Texas, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Secrets of Sulphur Springs (2021), Criminal Minds (2005) and 12 Mighty Orphans (2021).- Actor
- Producer
- Writer
Noel Clarke was born in London, England, UK. He is an actor and producer, known for Brotherhood (2016), Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) and Mute (2018). He is married to Iris Da-Silva. They have two children.- Actress
- Producer
Angela Gots, also known as Angela Maria Gots, is an American-born, Russian actress. Born and raised in New York City, into a family of artists from St. Petersburg, Russia, Gots' mother is a renowned ballet teacher and her father is a creator of a Russian theater of mime. Angela had an early admiration and passion for the art of acting and graduated from NYU with a bachelor's degree in Education. She is known for Madam Secretary (2014), Molly's Game (2017), and City of Lies (2018).- Actor
- Producer
- Writer
Steven Wright was born on 6 December 1955 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Natural Born Killers (1994), So I Married an Axe Murderer (1993) and Reservoir Dogs (1992).- Born in Brooklyn, NY, to a writer/accountant father, Stan Victor, and
case worker mother, Barbara Victor (both from southern Nigeria), she
is the middle child of three girls. Growing up between Brooklyn and
Long Island, she started dancing and playing piano at 6. She was
entered into a pageant by an aunt at age 13 and won Miss New York
Junior Teen. Though discovered by an agent at a fashion show
commitment, and pushed towards a career in modeling, she was drawn to
acting. Her academic achievements led her to the Ivy League, and she
was enrolled in the undergrad program of the Wharton School of Business
at the University of Pennsylvania, where she studied entrepreneurial
management and marketing. While in college, she performed plays with
friends in parks around Philadelphia, and studied acting privately.
After school, she returned to New York City where she studied at the
Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, and quickly began working both on
Broadway and on various television shows, including NYC classics Law &
Order and Law & Order: SVU. - Actor
- Producer
Thom Barry was born on 6 December 1950 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for The Fast and the Furious (2001), 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003) and Space Jam (1996).- Actor
- Soundtrack
An American Actor with Down Syndrome, has been acting since 2000, but
mostly in plays, he has studied acting with Jay Lynch of the Opus
Theater, Selma Glass at the Coconut Creek Recreation Center and Allan
Press of the Youth Theater in Boca Raton. his first main movie role was
in The Ringer (2005) next to
Johnny Knoxville. Finished high school
in 1996.- Actor
- Soundtrack
Daniel started as a stand-up comedian and appeared at the Latitude
Festival, won the 2007 Laughing Horse New Act of The Year, and was a
nominee for winner of the 2007 So You Think You're Funny competition.
He is playing Simon in the long-running UK BT Broadband TV
advertisement series.- Stephenie LaGrossa was born on 6 December 1979 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. She is an actress, known for Guiding Light (1952), Mujer, casos de la vida real (1985) and Survivor (2000). She has been married to Kyle Kendrick since 13 November 2010. They have two children. She was previously married to Michael Ward.
- Actor
- Additional Crew
Best known as Prison Break (2005)'s General Jonathan Kranz (Padman) and the Malibu police chief in The Big Lebowski (1998), Russom was, for 22 years, a New York stage actor whose day job was soaps, with long tenures as Joe Taylor on Love Is a Many Splendored Thing (1967), Willis Frame on Another World (1964), and Jack Darling on All My Children (1970). The feature No Way Out (1987) brought Russom to Los Angeles in 1987.
A year later, after starring opposite Carol Burnett in Hostage (1988), he moved to LA permanently to star in NBC's TV 101 (1988). Emmy-nominated for Long Road Home (1991), Russom has continued his theatrical activity in Los Angeles (and on Broadway) while establishing himself as a presence in episodic television and feature films, including True Grit (2010), his second film with Joel and Ethan Coen.- Writer
- Director
- Producer
Tommy Wirkola was born on 6 December 1979 in Alta, Norway. He is a writer and director, known for Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead (2014), What Happened to Monday (2017) and Dead Snow (2009).- Actor
- Soundtrack
Max Kasch was born on 6 December 1985 in Santa Monica, California, USA. He is an actor, known for Holes (2003), Waiting... (2005) and Forever Strong (2008). He has been married to Sophie Sawyer (Kasch) since 5 July 2016.- Actor
- Director
- Soundtrack
Craggy Irish-American James Naughton, a handsome charmer and solid character lead of crime stories, is best-known for his strong, cynical work on the musical stage. He firmly moved into films and especially TV roles, however, thanks to his Tony Award-winning Broadway success. A post-war baby and the older brother of actor David Naughton, the Connecticut native was born on December 1, 1945, the son of a pair of school teachers. Jim developed a taste for singing during his years performing at high school events.
Following studies at Brown University and the Yale School of Drama, Jim made his off-Broadway debut in 1971 for his pungent portrayal of "Edmund" in "Long Day's Journey Into Night," for which he received a Theatre World Award. his Broadway debut with "I Love My Wife" in 1977, followed by "Whose Life Is It Anyway?" in 1980.
In the early 70's he made a strong impression in the TV movie version of the play Look Homeward, Angel (1972) starring Timothy Bottoms and followed that with a featured role in the acclaimed college dramedy The Paper Chase (1973) also starring Bottoms. This led to a brief, co-starring role opposite veteran Dan Dailey in the short-lived father/son detective TV series Faraday and Company (1973), which was one of a rotating series of four programs comprising "The NBC Wednesday Mystery Movie," and as astronaut Pete Burke in the equally short-lived TV series version of Planet of the Apes (1974). In the meantime he also found guest roles on such crime series as "Mannix," "Joe Forrester" and "Barnaby Jones."
Jim continued diligently with work on TV throughout the 80s starring in three more quickly canceled TV programs -- as a high school dean in Making the Grade (1982); an emergency room team lead in the medical drama Trauma Center (1983); and a single dad raising a daughter in Raising Miranda (1988). He also had a light recurring role as Judith Light's ex-husband in the sitcom Who's the Boss? (1984). His smooth voice has often been heard on national TV commercials and in radio spots. He is provided narration on PBS television's Nature series.
JIm received bookend Tony Awards for his "Sam Spade"-like detective in the 1989 film noir musical "City of Angels" (1990) and as slick, shyster lawyer/razzle dazzler "Billy Flynn" in the revival of "Chicago" (1997). He would also direct such stage plays as Arthur Miller's "The Price" and Thornton Wilder's "Our Town" with Paul Newman and Jane Curtin.
Sporadic, often restrained work in such films as the Stephen King horror opus Cat's Eye (1985), The Glass Menagerie (1987) (as the "Gentleman Caller"), The Good Mother (1988), First Kid (1996), The First Wives Club (1996), Oxygen (1999), Factory Girl (2006), Suburban Girl (2007), The Word (2013), Equity (2016) and The Independents (2018), which starred and was directed by his son Greg Naughton and featured actress/daughter Keira Naughton, usually had Jim cast as trustworthy husbands (well, not always) and well-dressed professionals. He possessed one of those strong, worldly faces you certainly know but may not quite place.
Into the millennium, Jim has had recurring roles on such series as Ally McBeal (1997), Gossip Girl (2007) and Hostages (2013). Naughton has also taken to the cabaret circuit where his simple, relaxed singing style was showcased in his award-winning one-man show "Street of Dreams." The show, which featured a number of eclectic songs from country and western to contemporary pop to classic standards, was seen at such venues as the Manhattan Theatre Club and Caroline's Comedy Club. His wife, former actress Pamela Parsons, died of cancer in 2013.- Actress
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Gorgeous and voluptuous brunette beauty Britt Christina Marinette Lindberg was born on December 6, 1950, in Gothenburg, Sweden, to a working-class family, with one sister and two brothers.
When she was a teenager, she lived in the isle of Hisingen, At high-school, she studied Latin and planned on being an archaeologist.
Before graduation, with her lustrous long brown hair, doe eyes, sweetly comely face and full, ripe, well-endowed figure, Christina quickly became a popular pin-up girl. She did some modeling in bathing suits for several newspapers, and in 1970 she started doing nude pictorials in men's magazines such as "FIB-Aktuellt", "Penthouse" (Penthouse Pet of the Month in the June 1970 issue), "Playboy", "Lui", Oui" and "Mayfair." Also in 1970, she recorded a two-sided 45 rpm vinyl single with her face on the cover, for the FIB-Aktuellt label.
Christina's film debut was a starring role as the naive, virginal, yet enticing, 16-year-old Inga in Maid in Sweden (1971). She went on
to both minor and major roles as tantalizing sexpots in racy exploitation fare as Rötmånad (1970), The Depraved (1971), Campus Swingers (1972), The Swinging Co-eds (1972), Secrets of Sweet Sixteen (1973) and Anita (1973).
Christina Lindberg is especially memorable as British spy and gambler Christina, in the Japanese crime pink movie Sex & Fury (1973). She appeared in two soft-core flicks for acclaimed adult picture writer-director Joseph W. Sarno: the
lackluster Swedish Wildcats (1972) and the gloriously bizarre Young Playthings (1972). Her most enduring cult cinema fame stems from her outstanding performance as Frigga, a much abused and traumatized one-eyed mute junkie prostitute, who exacts a harsh retribution on her tormentors in the brutal and controversial revenge opus Thriller: A Cruel Picture (1973).
In the early 1970s, she was the onetime girlfriend of Swedish king King Carl XVI Gustaf.
Her acting career began to falter in the mid 1970s because of her refusal to do hardcore sex scenes. Christina studied journalism in the late 1970s and subsequently wrote articles for various men's magazines. Lindberg returned to movies in 2000, in a cameo of her Frigga character in the over-the-top parody Sex, Lies and Video Violence (2000).
Christina is an animal rights activist, an environmentalist, and a vegetarian. She owns two Siamese cats and is a keen mushroom picker, and shared her knowledge in 1993 in a a 20-minute short, "Christina's Mushroom School".
Christina Lindberg lives in Stockholm, Sweden. She's the owner and editor-in-chief of the aviation magazine "Flygrevyn," which she took over following her fiancee Bo Sehlberg's death in 2004.- Actress
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Beautiful, vibrant-looking 60s actress Wende Wagner (her real name) was
born in Connecticut in 1941. Of French, German and Native American
heritage, her exotic looks would later serve her well on TV and in
motion pictures. She inherited her athletic genes from her parents; her
father was a former Olympic swimming/diving coach turned Naval
Commander and her mother was a champion downhill skier.
The sweet-looking beauty entered the entertainment arena as a model and
made her TV debut in 1959 on the Wagon Train (1957) western series. Very much a
free spirit, she was more interested in surfing and traveling around
the world than a career. She combined both passions when she earned
work as an underwater female stunt double for Lloyd Bridges on his hit series
Sea Hunt (1958) as well as the TV series The Aquanauts (1960), which took her to ideal
tropical settings. She also stunted for such movies as September Storm (1960)
co-starring Joanne Dru and Mark Stevens.
On that movie set, she met and subsequently married fellow stunt diver
Courtney Brown (he was Mr. Stevens' double in that film), who coached her in
underwater shooting. They had a daughter, Tiffany. During this time,
they based their lives in the Bahamas where most of their shooting
occurred. They divorced, however, after a short time and she returned
to Hollywood where she won the role of an Apache girl in the movie
Rio Conchos (1964) with Richard Boone, Anthony Franciosa and Stuart Whitman. A few years later, she
married actor James Mitchum, Robert Mitchum's eldest son, but they too split.
Wende's career continued in the 60s with a couple of movies and a role
in the The Green Hornet (1966) TV adventure series but she eventually dropped out of
sight. Little was heard from her until reports of her death from cancer
in 1997.- Actress
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Arabella Weir was born on 6 December 1957 in San Francisco, California, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for The Fast Show (1994), Posh Nosh (2003) and Colette (2018). She is married to Dr Jeremy Norton. They have two children.- Writer
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- Actor
Jack Thorne was born on 6 December 1978 in Bristol, England, UK. He is a writer and producer, known for Wonder (2017), The Aeronauts (2019) and National Treasure (2016). He is married to Rachel Mason.- Ryan Kennedy was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He is an actor, known for For All Mankind (2019), Tin Star (2017) and The Good Doctor (2017).
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- Director
Vanessa was born on December 6th in New Jersey. She is Colombian-American. She is an actor, writer and director known for The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (2020) Dolly Parton's Heartstrings (2019) Cobra Kai (2017) How To Be Single (2016), The Hudson Tribes (2016). Vanessa is also a painter and enjoys painting in many mediums.- Ann Skelly was born in Wexford, Ireland. She is an actress, known for The Nevers (2021), Death and Nightingales (2018) and Rose Plays Julie (2019).
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- Composer
Colin Farrell was born on 6 December 1938 in London, England, UK. He is an actor and composer, known for A Bridge Too Far (1977), Signs and Wonders (1995) and Gandhi (1982). He has been married to Ann Penfold since 1963.- Della Saba was born on 6 December 1989 in London, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Physical (2021), Zootopia (2016) and Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018).
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- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Triple-threat performer singer, dancer and actor Bobby Van was the epitome of the breezy, exuberant song-and-dance man who could enliven any film he was put into. Unfortunately, he caught the tail end of MGM's musical reign during the 1950s. Alas, the visions of Gene Kelly and Donald O'Connor come more readily to mind when one reflects on the "Golden Age" of musicals, but Bobby was a charming colleague.
The entertainer was born Robert Jack Stein on December 6, 1928 in the Bronx, New York. Living most of his early youth backstage (his parents were vaudevillians), Bobby made his stage bow at the ripe old age of four, when he became a scene-stealing part of his parents' act. Bobby attended New York City schools growing up and took a special interest in music classes. His early interest focused on the trumpet, but a last-minute song-and-dance job as a replacement at a Catskill Mountains resort where he and his band were playing a gig ultimately changed his destiny. A natural on stage, he also told jokes and did impressions. World War II interrupted his nascent career but he eventually regained his momentum and started appearing regularly in nightclub, on radio and TV.
Bobby earned some Broadway attention in the musical "Alive and Kicking" and in the revival of "On Your Toes," both in 1950. In 1952 he married musical actress Diane Garrett, who abruptly retired (they adopted a son, Peter, in 1959). That year was a banner one for Bobby professionally for he had joined the MGM ranks and was now appearing in movies. He partnered up with Debbie Reynolds in Skirts Ahoy! (1952) and had a minor part in the glossy Mario Lanza vehicle Because You're Mine (1952) which featured him in a dance solo. Bobby went on to "second lead" status the following year with Small Town Girl (1953) starring Jane Powell, which featured his famous "hopping" dance sequence, then to film star as the boyish high school swooner in the warm and winning The Affairs of Dobie Gillis (1953). Best of all, he showed off his exceptional dancing prowess in the musical classic Kiss Me Kate (1953) in which he, Tommy Rall and then-dancer Bob Fosse stopped the show with their breathtaking footwork in the "From This Moment On" number. Although this MGM film should have put him on the movie map, it ended up being his swan song. Bobby would not make another film for over a decade.
With the "Golden Age" of MGM now officially a part of his past, Bobby was forced to look elsewhere for work. He kept a lower profile but remained busy in night clubs and worked as a choreographer, staging the musical numbers for two of Jerry Lewis' movie vehicles: The Ladies Man (1961) and It's Only Money (1962). He appeared regularly again on the screen (the smaller screen, that is) with a recurring role in the short-lived TV series Mickey (1964) starring old MGM pal Mickey Rooney. The two stars later worked together in night clubs.
Divorced in the early 1960s from musical actress Diane Garrett, Bobby married another performer, singer/comedienne Elaine Joyce, in 1968. The lovely couple appeared frequently together on such game shows as Tattletales (1974) and Match Game (1973). Game shows actually became a steady line of work for Bobby, and he wound up hosting a few of his own, including Showoffs (1975), The Fun Factory (1976) and Make Me Laugh (1979). On stage he was rejuvenated again when he co-starred in the successful revival of "No, No, Nanette" (1971) on Broadway starring Susan Watson and Tony winner Helen Gallagher. Bobby himself was nominated for a Tony and went on to hoof it up in the original musical "Doctor Jazz" (1975), as well as the more established "Mack and Mabel" (1975), "Anything Goes" (1977) and "Dames at Sea" (1978). In 1977 wife Elaine bore him a baby girl, Taylor.
Sadly, in 1979 Bobby was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor. Although he underwent surgery to remove the tumor, the cancer came back. Ever the trouper, the "show went on" as he valiantly continued to perform despite his illness. He made his fourth and last appearance as host of the "Mrs. America Pageant" in June 1980. Bobby passed away a little more than a month later on July 31, 1980, at age 51. He is buried at Mt. Sinai Memorial Park in Burbank, California.- Lisa Spoonauer was born on 6 December 1972 in Rahway, New Jersey, USA. She was an actress, known for Clerks (1994), Clerks (2000) and Bartender (1997). She was married to Tom Caron and Jeff Anderson. She died on 21 May 2017 in Jackson Township, New Jersey, USA.
- Quinn Smith was born on 6 December 1969 in Park Ridge, Illinois, USA. He is an actor, known for The Bad News Bears (1976), The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training (1977) and Delvecchio (1976).
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Nick Park was born on 6 December 1958 in Preston, Lancashire, England, UK. He is a writer and producer, known for Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005), Chicken Run (2000) and Wallace & Gromit: A Grand Day Out (1989).