Garrett Hedlund
Born in Roseau, Minnesota, Garrett spent his early years growing up on a farm in a small town. When he was in the ninth grade his family moved to Scottsdale Arizona, where he began taking private acting lessons. After graduating high school, he immediately moved to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career. One month later, he'd landed the role of Achilles' cousin Patroclus in the major motion picture Troy (2004) opposite Brad Pitt. His next feature was Friday night lights (2004) starring Billy Bob Thornton, in which Garrett played a high school football player. He then landed a starring role opposite Mark Wahlberg in Four Brothers (2005), playing one of four brothers whose mother is murdered.
Howie Mandel
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.Howard Michael "Howie" Mandel (born November 29, 1955) is a Canadian stand-up comedian, television host, and actor. He is well known as host of the NBC game show Deal or No Deal, as well as the show's daytime and Canadian-English counterparts. Before his career as a game show host, Mandel was best known for his role on the NBC medical drama St. Elsewhere. He is also well-known for being the creator and star of the children's cartoon Bobby's World. On June 6, 2009, he hosted the 2009 Game Show Awards on GSN. Mandel became a judge on NBC's America's Got Talent, replacing David Hasselhoff, in the fifth season of the reality talent contest. He was a supporting character in the 2000 film Tribulation, from Cloud Ten Pictures.Description above from the Wikipedia article Howie Mandel, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Hiroshi Tamaki
Hiroshi Tamaki (玉木 宏 Tamaki Hiroshi, born 14 January 1980) is a Japanese actor, singer, and model from Nagoya, Japan. When he was still in high school, he was discovered by a talent agent while out shopping with friends. He made his debut in the drama Am I Weird? (私ってへん? Watashitte Hen?) in 1998. Tamaki became more well-known with his appearance in the 2001 film Waterboys.His singing career debuted with the single "Seasons" in summer 2004.He was cast as Shinichi Chiaki for the drama Nodame Cantabile, which aired in Japan on Fuji TV on October 16, 2006.
Thomas Horn
Thomas Horn is an American actor, best known for his role in the American drama film Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2011). In 2010, Horn won on Jeopardy!, during Kids Week, earning $31,800 after wagering $12,000 during final Jeopardy. Producer Scott Rudin was among those viewers impressed by Horn, subsequently offering him an audition for the role of Oskar Schell in Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. Horn's performance in the movie was praised by critics "for its sensitivity and emotional depth". Horn was born in San Francisco, California, His mother is a pediatric oncologist from Croatia, his father is an eye surgeon, and he has a younger brother, Philip. Horn speaks some Spanish, is fluent in Croatian, and has studied Mandarin.From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Howard Rollins
Howard Rollins (1950–1996) was an American television, film, and stage actor.He is perhaps best known for his portrayal of Coalhouse Walker Jr. in Ragtime and Virgil Tibbs on In the Heat of the Night.
Efrat Dor
Efrat Dor is an actress, born in Beersheba, Israel on January 6, 1983, she has 3 brothers, stands 5'4½" (1.64 m) tall. She is known for The Zookeeper's Wife (2017), Mayans M.C. (2018) and Holy Lands. In 2001 she attended the Lee Strasberg School of Acting in New York and in 2003 began her studies at the Beit Zvi School of Performing Arts. Between the years 2006-2009, Dor participated in several television series in secondary roles: "Maybe This Time" and "Ha-Chaim Ze Lo Hacol (Hebrew: החיים זה לא הכל) (Translated: Life is Not Everything)." In 2007 she played in the fringe show "Tavo Nahra" at the Acre Festival of the Year. Dor also played "Jessica" in the 2009 film "Phobidilia" (directed by Doron Paz and Yoav Paz) that was released early in the year of 2010, Dor made a break thru when she played "Shir" in the lead role in the daily drama series "Asfur". Also in 2010, Dor served as a designer for fashion designer Ronen Chen for two seasons. She also joined the regular cast in the second season of the series "Tamarot Ashan". In 2011 Dor played alongside Amos Tamam in the police series "Downtown Precinct" in the role of policewoman Alexandra Yudaiov. The series premiered on Channel 10 in October 2011. In 2013, She landed the lead role in the film, Cupcakes directed by Eytan Fox. Dor is married to Moshik Maimon. And they have a daughter. (This was translated, then rewritten using known facts).
Yang Yang
Yang Yang é um ator chinês nascido em Xangai. Ele se formou no Departamento de Dança da Faculdade de Artes do Exército de Libertação Popular.Em dezembro de 2007, ele foi escolhido pessoalmente pelo diretor Li Shao Hong para interpretar o papel principal de Jia Bao Yu em “The Dream of Red Mansions”. Este foi seu drama de estreia, pelo qual ganhou o prêmio de Melhor Novo Ator no BQ Celebrity Score Awards.Em 29 de abril de 2014, Yang encerrou seu contrato de sete anos com sua empresa Rosat Entertainment.Em 2015, Yang começou a ganhar reconhecimento por sua atuação em “The Left Ear”, filme sobre a maioridade que também estreou na direção de Alec Su. O filme foi um sucesso de bilheteria.Ele então participou do reality show de viagens 'Divas Hit the Road', um grande tópico online quando foi ao ar e ajudou Yang a liderar o '2015 Chinese Reality Show Star Ranking'. Yang interpretou o papel principal masculino no drama esportivo juvenil 'The Whirlwind Girl', que obteve um dos maiores índices de audiência do ano.Ele estrelou o drama de romance juvenil 'Love O2O', baseado no romance homônimo de Gu Man. O drama foi um sucesso internacional e é o drama moderno mais visto na China. Após a exibição de 'Love O2O', Yang experimentou um enorme aumento de popularidade e entrou com sucesso no mainstream.Em seguida, ele estrelou o filme de romance 'I Belonged to You', que foi um grande sucesso e quebrou o recorde de vendas de bilheteria de filmes de romance produzidos no continente. Ele foi nomeado uma das 10 celebridades chinesas de maior valor comercial pela CBN Weekly.Nas Olimpíadas do Rio de 2016, ele foi o portador da tocha representando os atletas chineses e foi o ator mais jovem a fazê-lo aos 24 anos. Em janeiro de 2016, Yang se tornou o primeiro artista a aparecer no selo postal do China Post. Em 19 de fevereiro de 2017, Yang teve sua própria figura de cera exibida no Madame Tussauds Shanghai. Sua segunda figura de cera foi exibida no Madame Tussauds em Pequim em 19 de julho de 2017.Yang participou do Women in Motion Talk no 70º Festival de Cinema de Cannes em maio de 2017 como embaixadora do Kering Luxury Group. Ele foi classificado em 5º lugar na lista Forbes China Celebrity 100 de 2017, 27º em 2019 e 44º em 2020. A série de esportes eletrônicos de Yang 'The King's Avatar' foi relatada como a série mais lucrativa da Tencent em 2019 e a série 'You Are My Glory' ganhou o prêmio Tencent Business Breakthrough em 2021. Sua 'Glória das Forças Especiais' contribuiu para uma participação de mercado de 34,11% e com a classificação geral mais alta de 1,006% nos últimos anos para qualquer série militar.
Fiona Shaw
Fiona Shaw (born Fiona Mary Wilson; 10 July 1958) is an Irish film and theatre actress. She is known for her roles as Petunia Dursley in the Harry Potter film series (2001–2010), Marnie Stonebrook in the fourth season of the HBO series True Blood (2011), and Carolyn Martens in the BBC series Killing Eve (2018–22).For her performance in Killing Eve, Shaw won the 2019 BAFTA TV Award for Best Supporting Actress. For her performances in the second seasons of Killing Eve and Fleabag, she received Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series and Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series respectively. For the third season of Killing Eve, she was again nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series.Shaw has worked extensively with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre. She won the 1990 Olivier Award for Best Actress for various roles, including Electra, the 1994 Olivier Award for Best Actress for Machinal, and the 1997 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Solo Performance for The Waste Land. Her other stage work includes playing the title role in Medea in the West End and on Broadway (2001–2002). She was awarded an Honorary CBE in 2001. In 2020, she was listed at No. 29 on The Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest film actors.
Emma Caulfield Ford
Emma Caulfield Ford (born April 8, 1973) is an American actress. She is best known for her starring role as former demon Anya Jenkins on the supernatural drama television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1998–2003), which earned her a nomination for the Satellite Award for Best Cast. She had recurring roles as Susan Keats on the Fox teen drama series Beverly Hills, 90210 (1995–1996), as Emma Bradshaw on the CW teen drama series Life Unexpected (2010–2011), and as Sarah Proctor on the Disney+ miniseries WandaVision (2021), a role she will reprise in its spin-off Agatha: Coven of Chaos (2024). She starred in the supernatural horror film Darkness Falls (2003) and in the romantic comedy film Timer (2009), and had a supporting role in the comedy film Back in the Day (2014).Description above from the Wikipedia article Emma Caulfield, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Susan Dey
Susan Hallock Dey is an American actress, known for her television roles as Laurie Partridge on the sitcom The Partridge Family from 1970 to 1974, and as Grace Van Owen on the NBC drama series L.A. Law from 1986 to 1992.
Denzel Whitaker
Denzel Dominique Whitaker (born June 15, 1990) is an American actor, playing key roles in the films The Great Debaters and Training Day, as well as TV shows ER, Brothers & Sisters and The War At Home. He later went on to be a featured cast member during the tenth and final season of the Nickelodeon sketch-comedy series All That. He was also in the Disney Channel Original Movie, Dadnapped. He also appeared on The Suite Life of Zack and Cody, as a player on Zack and Cody's basketball team, and in Werner Herzog's Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans.Whitaker was born in Torrance, California, the son of Younalanda and Dale Whitaker. He was named after Denzel Washington, a fact he disputed on The Oprah Winfrey Show while promoting the movie The Great Debaters, only to learn later from his father that, in fact, Washington was his namesake.From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
William Franklyn
William Franklyn was a British actor, perhaps best known for voicing the "Schhh... You Know Who" adverts for Schweppes from 1965 to 1973. He also performed on stage, film, television and radio, taking over from Peter Jones as "The Book" (the narrator) in the third, fourth and fifth radio series of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. He is also known for his portrayal of Sexton Blake for BBC Radio 4 in 1967.
Leslie Easterbrook
Easterbrook was born in Los Angeles. She was adopted when she was nine months old; her adoptive parents, Carl and Helen Easterbrook, raised her in Arcadia, Nebraska. She attended and graduated from Kearney High School and Stephens College. Her father was a music professor and her mother was an English teacher at the University of Nebraska at Kearney.Easterbrook appeared in about a dozen feature films and over 300 television episodes.One of her earlier successes was in 1980 as Rhonda Lee beginning with season six of Laverne & Shirley. The role of Rhonda was part of the show's change of locale from Milwaukee to Hollywood.Easterbrook performed as Debbie Callahan in the Police Academy film series. Easterbrook told author Paul Stenning, "The funny thing is, that's not me at all. I'd never played tough. I'd played all kinds of things, but I'd never played someone who's intimidating or someone that was aggressive sexually. I was of a size that I never played the girl who got the guy. I wondered how I could do it. But I did. I went for the audition and I scared the producer and the director and then they backed up in their chairs and I went 'Oh no, now I really blew it. I scared them'. So I left the audition upset. I didn't get to read the script until I got the part. I thought it was outrageous and so funny."Easterbrook appeared in Murder, She Wrote, Diagnosis: Murder, Hangin' with Mr. Cooper, Baywatch, Matlock, Hunter, and The Dukes of Hazzard. In 2005, she replaced Karen Black as Mother Firefly in Rob Zombie's The Devil's Rejects, the sequel to the 2003 horror film, House of 1000 Corpses. In 2007, she played security guard Patty Frost in Rob Zombie's remake of Halloween. In 2008, she played as Betty in the thriller/horror film House. In 2010, she starred in The Afflicted. She also appeared on Ryan's Hope as Devlin Kowalski. Her voice work has been featured in several projects, including Batman: The Animated Series and Superman: The Animated Series.She sang the National Anthem at Super Bowl XVII which landed her starring roles in musicals on Broadway and throughout the country; she recorded a song for the soundtrack of Police Academy: Mission to Moscow.Easterbrook made a video, Real Beginner's Guide to the Shotgun Sports, the first in a series designed to encourage and prepare nonshooters for their first shooting experience. Easterbrook serves on the board of the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund, and supports a number of children's charities. Easterbrook is a National Rifle Association member and has served on the board of directors of the California Rifle and Pistol Association.Easterbrook is married to MAS*H writer Dan Wilcox. She was previously married to fellow actor Victor Holchak.