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| David Stuart II | Oct 11, 2007 |
Canadian-born David Stuart developed an interest in acting at an early age growing up in Fredericton, New Brunswick. His first "role" in the Grade 2 Christmas play was booked without an audition due to his uncanny ability to hyper-extend his stomach. Apparently the bug bit as Acting has been his primary passion ever since.
After completing a B.F.A. in Acting at the University of Victoria, David headed to Los Angeles to attend both summer school and the two year program at the America... |
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| Tom Hollander | May 6, 2006 | Tom Hollander was born in 1967 in Oxford, UK to a Biology teacher and a prep school teacher. He claims to have been not much liked until he reached the sixth-form. He studied English at Cambridge University with his childhood friend Sam Mendes who went on to direct him in plays at Cambridge. Tom became an actor on leaving University and has since gained parts in Bedrooms and Hallways, The Lawless Heart and the critically acclaimed Gosford Park. He then starred as Guy Burgess in the BBC's Cambrid... | View pics |
| Paul Bettany | May 6, 2006 | Paul Bettany was born into a theatre family. His father, Thane, is still an actor. His mother has retired from acting. He has an older sister who is a mother and a writer and he has a niece. His maternal grandmother, Olga Gwynne (her maiden and stage name), was a successful actress, while his maternal grandfather was a musician and promoter. He was brought up in North West London and after the age of 9 in Hertfordshire (Brookmans Park). Immediately after finishing at Drama Centre he went into th... | View pics |
| James D'Arcy | May 6, 2006 | D'arcy trained at LAMDA and graduated in 1995. He has appeared in various film and television roles in the UK and US. Notably "Wilde," starring Steven Fry and Jude Law, "Master and Commander" along side Russel Crowe and "The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby" (TV) in the title role. | View pics |
| Dennis Hopper | May 6, 2006 | Multi-talented and unconventional actor/director regarded by many as one of the true "enfant terribles" of Hollywood who has led an amazing cinematic career for more than five decades, Dennis Hopper was born on May 17, 1936, in Dodge City, Kansas. The young Hopper expressed interest in acting from a young age and first appeared in a slew of 1950s television shows, including "Medic" (1954), "Cheyenne" (1955) and "Sugarfoot" (1957). His first film role was in Johnny Guitar (1954), which was quickl... | View pics |
| Ben Kingsley | May 6, 2006 |
Sir Ben Kingsley, CBE, (born December 31, 1943) is a British actor. He is perhaps best known for his portrayal of Mahatma Gandhi in Richard Attenborough's 1982 film Gandhi, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Actor. Kingsley grew up in Pendlebury, Salford, where he studied at University of Salford. He then moved to Lancashire, where he studied at Pendleton College, which later became home to the Ben Kingsley Theatre. Kingsley began his acting career on the stage at Manchester G... |
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| Maria de Medeiros | May 6, 2006 | Maria de Medeiros is best known in Europe for her film career, but American audiences will no doubt recognize her for her small role in the cult classic "Pulp Fiction". She won a Golden Globe award in 1995 for best actress in the film "Adão e Eva". | View pics |
| Andy Dick | Oct 7, 2006 | Andy Dick (born Andrew Thomlinson) is an American actor and comedian best known for his roles on TV sitcoms, including NewsRadio and Less Than Perfect. He has been in many top films including Employee of the Month, Hoodwinked and Old School. He has also had small parts in dozens of films. He was in the comedy show 'Less than Perfect' for 4 years and he is now working on more films. | View pics |
| Paul Thomas Anderson | May 6, 2006 | Like Jean Renoir and Max Ophüls, Paul Thomas Anderson's films are characterized by a constantly moving camera. Like François Truffaut and Martin Scorsese, his films are the work of a true "cineaste", someone with an encyclopedic knowledge of film and film technique, who is able to make tried-and-true techniques as fresh and as vibrant as when D.W. Griffith first started to discover them. Like Robert Altman, Anderson thrives on working with large ensembles of actors. Like Steven Spielberg and Tim... | View pics |
| John Hurt | May 6, 2006 | Britain's superbly eccentric import John Hurt's magnetic, often bedeviled portraits have touched the souls of filmgoers internationally for over four decades, and there seems to be no end to the depth of this man's talent. Stretching the boundaries every which way but loose, he continues to be a definitive textbook in in the art of acting metamorphosis. Transitioning between stage, TV and film, he increased his respect with such plays as "Inadmissible Evidence" (1965), "Little Malcolm and His St... | View pics |
| Guillermo del Toro | May 6, 2006 |
Del Toro got his first big break when Cronos (1992) won nine academy awards in Mexico, then went on to win the International Critics Week prize at Cannes. Following this success, Del Toro made his first Hollywood film, Mimic (1997), starring Mira Sorvino. Del Toro had some unfortunate experiences working with a demanding Hollywood studio on Mimic, and returned to Mexico to form his own production company, The Tequila Gang. Next for Del Toro, was The Devil's Backbone (2001),... |
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| Donnie Yen | May 6, 2006 | Donnie Yen was born in Canton, China, on July 27, 1963. The son of martial arts master Bow Sim Mark and Klyster Yen, Donnie moved to Boston, MA, with his family while still a child. At four years of age his mother taught him the art of tai chi. Donnie went on to experiment with various martial arts, from taekwondo to wushu. He was invited to Beijing to train in wushu, where he met 'Woo-Ping Yuen'. Donnie got his first film role in Xiao tai ji (1984) at the age of only 19. He gained notoriety in ... | View pics |
| Vince Vaughn | May 6, 2006 | Vincent Anthony Vaughn (born March 28, 1970) is an American film actor. He began acting in the late 1980s, appearing in minor television roles before coming to wider renown with the 1996 movie, Swingers. Vaughn has since appeared in a number of high-grossing Hollywood comedies. | View pics |
| Gerrit Graham | Oct 17, 2006 | Gerrit Graham was born on November 27, 1949 in New York City. He grew up in St. Louis, Missouri, Chicago, Illinois and Grosse Pointe, Michigan. Gerrit made his acting debut at age eight in a Detroit Art Institute stage production of "Winnie the Pooh." Graham was the president of the dramatic association as a high school student at Groton and general manager of the Columbia Players while studying at Columbia University. He began his cinematic career acting in movies for director Brian De Palma: h... | View pics |
| Carrie Fisher | May 6, 2006 | Checked into substance-abuse program, addiction to prescription drugs. [October 1998] Co-wrote the 1997 Annual Academy Awards Ceremony presentation. Daughter of Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher. Father Eddie Fisher left when she was 3 years old to marry Elizabeth Taylor. Has a daughter Billie Catherine (with Bryan Lourd) born in 1992. Half sister to Joely Fisher. Brother is Todd Fisher. Half-sister of Tricia Leigh Fisher. The punk rock group Blink 182 wrote a song called ... | View pics |
| Mark Harmon | May 6, 2006 |
Harmon is currently the star of the CBS series NCIS.
He is the son of College Football All-American University of Michigan football legend and Heisman Trophy winner Tom Harmon, and of well-known actress, Elyse Knox. He has two older sisters: actress and painter Kristin Nelson, and actress Kelly Harmon.
After attending Los Angeles Pierce College as a student and quarterback, Harmon transferred to UCLA and, following in his father's athletic footsteps, was the starting quarterback ... |
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| Idris Elba | May 6, 2006 | Deejays under the name "Big Driis the Londoner" Appeared on the cover of Essence's "Hot Hollywood Men" issue, April 2004. Has a two-year old daughter (as at 2004). Is an only child to a father from Sierra Leone and mother from Ghana. Starred in the un-aired US pilot version of 'Ultraviolet'. | View pics |
| Edi Gathegi | Aug 27, 2008 | Not available | View pics |
| Spike Lee | May 6, 2006 | Spike Lee was born Shelton Lee in 1957, in Atlanta, Georgia. At a very young age, he moved from pre-civil rights Georgia, to Brooklyn, New York. Lee came from a proud and intelligent background. His father was a jazz musician, and his mother, a school teacher. His mother dubbed him Spike, due to his tough nature. He attended school in Morehouse College in Atlanta and developed his film making skills at Clark Atlanta University. After graduating from Morehouse, to go to the Tisch School of Arts g... | View pics |
| George Newbern | Oct 17, 2006 |
George Young Newbern (born December 10, 1964 in Little Rock, Arkansas) is an American television and film actor. Newbern's first lead role was in 1987's Double Switch, a retelling of The Prince and the Pauper that aired as a part of the Wonderful World of Disney television series. Updating the classic story for the 1980s, Newbern handled the role of Bart, a teenage rock star longing for a normal life, and also the role of Matt, a brainy high school student desperate to be popular. New... |
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| Craig Bierko | May 6, 2006 | Bierko is perhaps best known for his role as Max Baer in the film Cinderella Man, as Tom Ryan in Scary Movie 4 (spoofing Tom Cruise throughout the film) and on the Broadway stage as Harold Hill in The Music Man. He was also the original choice for the character of Chandler Bing on the sitcom Friends but turned it down. He had a short role as attorney Jeffrey Coho during the third season of the ABC television series Boston Legal. | View pics |
| William Hurt | May 6, 2006 |
William Hurt (born March 20, 1950) is an Academy Award-winning American actor. Hurt was born in Washington, D.C., the son of Claire Isabel (née McGill), who worked at Time, Inc., and Alfred McCord Hurt, who worked for the U.S. State Department. His mother re-married Henry Luce III (the son of the founder of Time Magazine) during Hurt's childhood. Hurt graduated from Middlesex School in 1968 where he was the Vice President of the Dramatics Club and had the lead role in several of the... |
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| Jonathan Pryce | May 6, 2006 | Jonathan Pryce was born on June 1, 1947, in Holywell, Wales. His father, named Isaac Price, was a coal miner, who died in 1976. His mother, named Margaret Ellen (nee Williams), was a retail cashier. He left the home of his parents at age 16 to attend an art school, where he became interested in drama. At some point he changed the spelling of his last name from Price to Pryce. He studied acting on a scholarship at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. After graduation from RADA, he joined ... | View pics |
| Carmine Giovinazzo | May 6, 2006 | wanted to become a professional baseball player, but due to a back injury he had to give up baseball and started his acting career In his spare time, Carmine enjoys painting, poetry and playing the guitar. He also likes to play roller hockey, basketball and baseball. Was a guest star on the original CSI: in 2002, on "Revenge is Best Served Cold", and starred as Danny in CSI Miami episode "MIA/NYC Nonstop", and has therefore has appeared in all three CSI-series. He is one of very few actors... | View pics |
| Jonathan Togo | Oct 11, 2007 |
Jonathan Togo was born on August 25, 1977, to Michael and Sheila Togo. He was raised in Rockland, Massachusetts, attending Hebrew school as a child and graduating from Rockland High School in 1995. He went on to attend Vassar College, graduating with a BA in Theater. While at Vassar, he performed in a band with Sam Endicott and John Conway, both of whom are now members of the band The Bravery. Jonathan has performed in numerous plays, including "Our Country's Good" for which he won th... |
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| Willard E. Pugh | Jan 31, 2007 | Taught broadcasting and film classes at Chaffey College in Rancho Cucamonga, California in the early 90s. | View pics |
| Tom Everett Scott | May 6, 2006 | Raised in East Bridgewater, Massachusetts, where he was the 3rd of 4 children, to a father who is a civil engineer, and his mother an insurance saleswoman. His parents still live in the "nice house in the woods, pond nearby," where Tom spent his childhood canoeing, camping and acting kid-like. He acted in high school plays, but Tom planned to quit acting, and take a more serious look at the world. So, he enrolled in communications at Syracuse University in 1988. During his sophomore year he says... | View pics |
| Clint Eastwood | May 6, 2006 | Clinton Eastwood, Jr. is an iconic American actor, film producer, composer, and Academy Award-winning film director. Eastwood is famous for his tough guy/anti-hero roles, including Inspector Dirty Harry Callahan in the Dirty Harry series and the Man with No Name in Sergio Leone's Spaghetti Westerns. Eastwood developed directing as a second career, and has, indeed, generally received much greater critical acclaim for his directing than he ever did for his acting. Eastwood developed directi... | View pics |
| Danny Glover | May 6, 2006 | Danny Glover is the dean of African American character actors. Though he has never managed to break through into stardom as has character-lead Morgan Freeman, he remains one of the top character actors working in cinema, constantly in demand, after almost thirty years since making his movie debut in a bit part in the 1979 Clint Eastwood potboiler Escape from Alcatraz (1979). Glover also has established a reputation as an outspoken political progressive, appearing in such productions as the stage... | View pics |
| Robert Wagner | Oct 7, 2006 | Robert Wagner was born in Detroit, and his family moved to Los Angeles when he was seven. Always wanting to be an actor, he held a variety of jobs (including one as a caddy for Clark Gable while pursuing his goal, but it was while dining with his parents at a restaurant in Beverly Hils that he was "discovered" by a talent scout. He had a bit part in The Happy Years (1950) but it was a small part as a crippled soldier in the Susan Hayward film With a Song in My Heart (1952) that got him attention... | View pics |
| Mandy Patinkin | May 6, 2006 | Mandel Bruce Patinkin is an American actor of stage and screen, as well as a renowned tenor. He has attended Kenwood Academy, The University of Kansas and Juilliard School of Drama, and won a Tony award for his role as Che in Evita on Broadway in 1979. He is recongnized in television for his roles on Chicago hope, Showtime's Dead Like Me, and the CBS' new crime drama Criminal Minds. Aa musician, Mandy has released five solo albums singing in both English and Yiddish, and has profound in... | View pics |
| Brian Dennehy | May 6, 2006 | Imposing, barrel chested and now silver haired prolific US actor, well respected on both screen and stage for the best part of 25 years. Dennehy was born in July 1938 in Bridgeport, Conneticut and attended Columbia University, New York City on a football scholarship where he majored in history, before moving onto to Yale to study dramatic arts. First appeared in minor screen roles in films including Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977), Semi-Tough (1977) and Foul Play (1978) and proved popular with ca... | View pics |
| Christopher Reeve | May 6, 2006 | Christopher Reeve (September 25, 1952 – October 10, 2004) was an American actor, director, producer and writer. He established himself early as a Juilliard-trained stage actor before portraying Superman/Kal-El/Clark Kent in four films, from 1978 to 1987. In the 1980s, he starred in several films, including Somewhere in Time (1980), Deathtrap (1982), The Bostonians (1984), and Street Smart (1987). He also starred in many plays, including the Broadway plays Fifth of July (1980 - 1982) and The... | View pics |
| John Patrick Amedori | Sep 5, 2006 |
Johns first gift was for music and his first ambition was to become a lead guitarist in his own band. His cameo in "Almost Famous" set him on the road to acting. His other accomplishment, graduating high school at the age of 15. John has one younger brother and a cute dog named Poe. |
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| Michael J. Fox | May 6, 2006 | Michael J. Fox was born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada on June 9, 1961 as Michel Andrew Fox. His parents, Bill and Phyllis, moved their ten-year-old son, his three sisters, Kelli, Karen and Jacki and his brother Steven to Vancouver, British Columbia after his dad, a sergeant in the Canadian Army Signal Corps, retired. It was during these years that Michael developed his desire to act. At fifteen, he successfully auditioned for the role of a ten-year-old in a series called "Leo and Me" (1976) . Gai... | View pics |
| Eric Schweig | May 6, 2006 | Not available | View pics |
| Kevin Pollak | May 6, 2006 | Kevin E. Pollak is an American actor, impressionist and comedian. His well-known impressions include Albert Brooks, Christopher Walken, Peter Falk, Alan Arkin and William Shatner. As an actor, Pollak's trademark is usually playing the best friend or confidant characters to the leading men, as he did in Ricochet (1991), End Of Days, A Few Good Men (1992) and The Wedding Planner (2001). However, Pollak has played a wide variety of parts; he played a villain in The Whole Nine Yards (2000) and a ... | View pics |
| Christopher Plummer | May 6, 2006 |
Plummer was born in Toronto, Ontario, the great-grandson of former Canadian Prime Minister Sir John Abbott. Following his parents' divorce he moved with his mother to live in Senneville, Quebec, near Montreal. He studied to be a concert pianist but developed a love of the theatre at an early age and began acting in high school. He travelled by train to study with Canadian Repertory Company in Ottawa.
Plummer's eclectic career on screen began in 1957 when Sidney Lumet provided him hi... |
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| LeVar Burton | May 6, 2006 | LeVar Burton made his acting debut at age 19 in the acclaimed landmark TV miniseries "Roots." He served as host and producer of "Reading Rainbow," an acclaimed children's show designed to instill an interest in reading, and regained widespread celebrity in the late 80s as a member of the intergalactic ensemble of "Star Trek: The Next Generation." Since leaving "Star Trek," Burton had a recurring role on the period family drama "Christy" and published the novel "Aftermath" in 1996. In addition, ... | View pics |
| Bruce Greenwood | May 6, 2006 |
Stuart Bruce Greenwood (born August 12, 1956) is a Canadian actor. Greenwood was born in Noranda, Quebec, the son of Mary Sylvia (née Ledingham), a nurse who worked in an extended care unit, and Hugh John Greenwood, a Vancouver-born geophysicist and teacher who taught at Princeton University. He has two sisters, Kelly Louis and Barbara Lynn. Greenwood studied philosophy and economics at the University of British Columbia. Greenwood met his wife Susan in Canada when they wer... |
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| David Spade | May 6, 2006 |
David Wayne Spade (born July 22, 1964) is an Emmy and Golden Globe-nominated American actor, comedian and producer. Born in Birmingham, Michigan, Spade is the youngest of Wayne Spade and Judy Todd's three sons. His father moved the family to Scottsdale, Arizona, but abandoned them not long afterwards. His brothers are Bryan Spade and Andy Spade, husband of famed designer Kate Spade and CEO of Kate Spade New York. Spade's mother eventually remarried, but David's... |
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| Joe Pantoliano | May 6, 2006 | One of today's best character actors, the inexhaustible Joe Pantoliano boasts over 100 film, television, and stage credits. A favorite of directors Richard Donner, Steven Spielberg, Andrew Davis, and Andy and Larry Wachowski, he is also a dependable scene stealer with more than his share of memorable roles -- including killer pimp Guido in Risky Business (1983), bumbling criminal Francis Fratelli in The Goonies (1985), double-crossing bail bondsman Eddie Moscone in Midnight Run (1988), cynical ... | View pics |
| Snoop Dogg | May 6, 2006 | Snoop Dogg got his name from his mother who jokingly remarked that he looked like the Peanuts character Snoopy. Snoop is known primarily for his achievements in the music industry, as a gangsta MC. As most successful musicians seem to do at some point, Snoop Dogg has done some work in film. Due to the nature of his music and his related star persona, the primary focus of his film effort has been in urban drama and comedy. Unfortunately, the talented MC has had more than one brush with the law: h... | View pics |
| Frankie Muniz | May 6, 2006 | Frankie Muniz is an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award nominated American actor and (as of 2006) professional race car driver. He is perhaps best known as the star of the popular Fox Network television situation comedy, Malcolm in the Middle, as well as several films aimed at tween and teen audiences, including Agent Cody Banks. By 2003, Muniz was considered 'one of Hollywood's most bankable teens'. He is also well known as the original voice of Chester McBadbat on the Nickelodeon animated seri... | View pics |
| Rupert Graves | May 6, 2006 | Born in a seaside resort town, Britain's Rupert Graves was born a rebel, resisting authority and breaking rules at an early age. In his teens he became a punk rocker and even found work as a circus clown and in traveling comedy troupes. In 1983 he made his professional stage debut in "The Killing of Mr. Toad" and went on to co-star with Harvey Fierstein in the London production of "Torch Song Trilogy." It didn't take long for somebody to take note of Rupert's boyish good looks and offbeat versat... | View pics |
| Max von Sydow | May 6, 2006 | He was born in a middle-class family in Lund, where his father was an ethnologist. When he was in high school, he and a few fellow students, including Yvonne Lombard, started a theatre club which encouraged his interest in acting. After conscription he began to study at the Royal Dramatic Theatre's acting school (1948-1951), together with Lars Ekborg, Margaretha Krook and Ingrid Thulin. His first role was as Nils the crofter in Alf Sjöberg's Bara en mor (1949). After graduation he worked at the... | View pics |
| Derek Jarman | May 6, 2006 | Not available | View pics |
| Bradley Cooper | Oct 7, 2006 | Bradley Cooper got his start in New York immediately after graduating from Georgetown University. He is perhaps best known for his recurring character on the tv series Alias. | View pics |
| Christopher Meloni | Oct 14, 2006 | Originally from Washington DC, Chris now lives in New York with his production designer wife, Sherman Williams. Chris worked as a construction worker prior to getting his acting break. He got a degree in history at the University of Colorado. First child, daughter Sophia Eva Pietra, born in Los Angeles. [23 March 2001] Used to work as a bouncer, a bartender, and a personal trainer before launching his acting career. Is half Italian, half French-Canadian (Quebecois) Son, Dante Amadeo,... | View pics |
| David Hyde Pierce | May 6, 2006 | David Hyde Pierce is an American actor, best known for his role as Dr. Niles Crane on the sitcom Frasier. He began acting in high schooland studied classical piano at Yale University. Unfortunately, he soon grew bored with music history lessons. He graduated in 1981 with a double major in English and Theatre Arts. Pierce then moved to New York City, where he worked several menial jobs (including selling ties at Bloomingdales and working as a security guard) while acting i... | View pics |

