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| Ian McShane | Sep 18, 2006 | Award-winning character actor Ian McShane was born on September 29, 1942, in Blackburn, Lancashire, England, the son of professional footballer (soccer player) Harry McShane, who played for Manchester United, and wife Irene. Ian attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts and made his motion picture debut in The Wild and the Willing (1962). Although primarily known for his appearances on film and television, McShane has a long stage career, appearing in London in the original staging of Joe Orto... | View pics |
| Milo Ventimiglia | May 6, 2006 | At 18 years old, he started auditioning, booking jobs, and working his way up. He received a scholarship to attend the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco for their summer program. He may be best known for his role as Jess Mariano in the television comedy-drama Gilmore Girls. He currently stars in Heroes and is slated to play Robert "Rocky Jr." Balboa, the son of Rocky Balboa, in the new Rocky film Rocky Balboa coming out in December 2006. | View pics |
| Tristan Wilds | Dec 11, 2007 |
Tristan Wilds (born Tristan Paul Mack Wilds on July 15, 1989 in Staten Island, New York) actor currently starring on the HBO original series The Wire as Michael Lee. Tristan started acting at age seven; however, it was not until 2003 that he began acting professionally. He was first seen in the mini-series Miracle's Boys on The N (alongside Julito McCullum), playing A.J. After the show ended, he completed a workshop of Wool for The Roundabout Theatre Company, where he worked with Phyl... |
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| Eddie McGee | Dec 4, 2006 | Not available | View pics |
| Chris Pine | Sep 18, 2006 | Chris Pine is the son of Robert Pine and Gwynne Gilford, and brother of Katherine Pine. He was raised in a family of movie stars. Both his parents are actors and his grandma is an actress, too. Before he began acting he went to the University of California at Berkeley. His first role was in an episode of the ER (2003). In that same year he appeared in episodes of C.S.I Miami and The Guardian. He is well-known in movies like Princess Diaries 2: The Royal Engagement (2004) and his latest... | View pics |
| Eric Bana | May 6, 2006 |
Eric Bana was born Eric Banadinovich on August 9, 1968, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. He is the younger of two brothers. His father, named Ivan Banadinovic, came from Zagreb, Croatia, and worked as a manager for Caterpiller Inc. His mother, named Eleanor Banadinovich, came from a German family and was a hairdresser. Young Bana grew up in suburban Melbourne. He was popular among his schoolmates for his talent of making comic impressions of his teachers. At that time he was fond of... |
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| Zachary Quinto | Aug 20, 2007 | Graduated from Central Catholic High School - Class of 1995. Attended Carnegie Mellon University. Won Gene Kelly Award in High School for his part as General in Pirates of Penzance. | View pics |
| Dominic Monaghan | Oct 17, 2006 | Dominic Monaghan is best-known for his role in the movie adaptations of "Lord of the Rings". Before that, he became known in England for his role in the British television drama "Hetty Wainthropp Investigates" (1996). He was studying English Literature, Drama and Geography at Sixth Form College when he was offered the co-starring role in the series, which ran for four seasons. His other television credits include _"This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper" (2000) (mini)_ and a leading... | View pics |
| Cillian Murphy | May 6, 2006 | isco Pigs was Murphy's first big break. He was cast in the central role of Pig in Corcadorca's 1996 production of Enda Walsh's original play. He later reprised that role for the 2001 feature film version by Kirsten Sheridan. Also, he wrote and sang the song So New for the soundtrack. However, it was not until Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later became a sleeper hit in the USA in 2003, that the bigger studios and directors started to take notice. As for the actor's full-frontal nudity in the film, Murphy... | View pics |
| Stuart Townsend | May 6, 2006 | Stuart Townsend was born in Howth, County Dublin in 1972. Although his father, Peter Townsend was a professional golfer, Stuart was determined to be an actor and began his career by appearing in a number of student films, while attending the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin. He supported himself by boxing until his first feature film debut in Trojan Eddie (1996). Although his part was small, Townsend attracted a London agent and began appearing in numerous stage and film productions... | View pics |
| Vin Diesel | May 6, 2006 | Vin Diesel (born Mark Sinclair Vincent) is an American actor, writer, director, and producer. Diesel produced, directed, and starred in the 1994 short film Multi-Facial, a short semi-autobiographical film which follows the auditions of a struggling actor stuck in the audition process. Diesel was cast in 1998's Saving Private Ryan on the poignancy of his performance in Multi-Facial, and followed it up with major roles in Pitch Black and Boiler Room (2000). He also rece... | View pics |
| Bruce Willis | May 6, 2006 |
Bruce Willis is one of Hollywood's most beloved and iconic leading men. The actor sports an ever-present smirk, projects a constant stream of quips, and has virtually mastered the slow burn, but unlike some of his contemporaries with that approach, Willis never hesitates to let the audience know that it's partially done in goofy jest, or to reveal, at closer glance, a level of soft-hearted affability buried beneath it all.
This juxtaposition initially served Willis well in big- and s... |
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| Will Smith | May 6, 2006 |
Willard Christopher "Will" Smith, Jr. (born September 25, 1968) is a Golden Globe and a two time Academy Award-nominated American actor, and a multiple Grammy Award-winning hip hop artist. He is one of a small group of people who have enjoyed success in three major entertainment media in the United States: feature films, television, and the music industry. Newsweek has named him the most powerful actor on the planet. Smith's most notable television role was that of "Will" Smith in The Fre... |
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| Chris Brown | Sep 18, 2006 |
Christopher Maurice Brown (born May 5, 1989) is an American R&B and pop singer, dancer, and occasional actor who rose to fame in mid 2005 with his Billboard Hot 100 number-one, Scott Storch-produced debut single "Run It!", featuring Juelz Santana. His self-titled debut album produced four successful top ten and top twenty hits in the United States. To date, the album has sold 1.6 million copies in the U.S. and 3 million worldwide.
Other than his singing career, Brown has begun some ... |
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| Kevin Costner | May 6, 2006 | Kevin Michael Costner (born January 18, 1955) is an Oscar winning American film actor and director who has often produced his own films. During his career, Costner's films have grossed over $1.3 billion. | View pics |
| James Marsden | May 6, 2006 | Marsden started his acting career with minor roles in the late 80's and the 90's, he appeared as a background player in the popular TV show Saved by the Bell and also in some of the Saved by the Bell movies before switching to more mainstream and Hollywood movies. Marsden lost out to Edward Norton for a role in Primal Fear (1996) and turned down the lead role in 54 (1998), which later went to Ryan Phillippe. Marsden then played Cyclops in the film X-Men and its sequels, X2: X-Men United and X-M... | View pics |
| Ryan Phillippe | May 6, 2006 | Ryan Phillippe (born Matthew Ryan Phillippe on September 10, 1974) is an American actor. He came to fame in the late 1990s, after starring in a string of teen-oriented films, including I Know What You Did Last Summer, Cruel Intentions, and 54. Phillippe's more recent roles include the 2005 Academy Award-winning ensemble film Crash and the 2006 war drama Flags of Our Fathers. | View pics |
| Leonardo DiCaprio | May 6, 2006 |
His name allegedly derives from his German mother Irmalin's having experienced a sudden kick from her unborn boy while enjoying a DaVinci painting at the Uffizi. In the year following his birth, she and his Italian father, George, were divorced. He grew up in Echo Park, then a particularly seedy, drug-dominated area of Los Angeles. At five he appeared on his favorite TV show "Romper Room" (1953) and was nearly thrown off for misbehaving. After a string of commercials, educational... |
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| Roy Scheider | May 6, 2006 | Scheider's first film role was in the 1963 horror film Curse of the Living Corpse. (He was billed as "Roy R. Sheider"). In 1971 he appeared in two highly popular movies, Klute and The French Connection, the latter garnering him an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Four years later he would play in the Hollywood blockbuster Jaws and three years after that, was nominated for his second Academy Award, this time as Best Actor in All That Jazz. He was originally cast as Michael in The De... | View pics |
| Michael Rooker | May 6, 2006 | Michael Rooker was born in 1955 in Jasper, Alabama. When he was 13 his parents divorced and he went with his mother to live in Chicago. He caught the acting bug while attending college, and began appearing in local stage productions. On first breaking into film, his intensity and "don't-mess-with-me" good looks were highlighted to chilling effect as the title character in Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986), filmed in 1986 but, due to its controversial nature, not released until 1990. Sinc... | View pics |
| Martin Lawrence | May 6, 2006 | Lawrence moved to California and found his way to the legendary Kings Wood comedy club. Shortly after appearing at the Wood, he won a performance spot on Star Search, a popular show in the United States. He did well on the show and made it to the final round before ultimately losing. However, executives at Columbia TriStar Television saw Martin's performance and offered him an appearance on the television sitcom What's Happening Now!!; this was his first acting job. Following What's Happening No... | View pics |
| Kurt Russell | May 6, 2006 |
Russell started his film career at the age of ten in an uncredited part in Elvis Presley's It Happened at the World's Fair. At the age of twelve he landed a big part for a juvenile actor: the lead role as the orphan Jaimie in the TV western The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters (1963–1964). Based on a book by Robert Lewis Taylor, this series also starred Dan O'Herlihy, Charles Bronson, and the young Osmond Brothers. The young Russell was soon signed to a ten-year contract with the Walt Dis... |
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| Eugene Levy | May 6, 2006 |
Eugene Levy (born December 17, 1946) is a Canadian Emmy- and Grammy Award-winning actor, television director, producer, musician and writer. He is known for his work in Canadian television series, American movies and television movies. Levy was born in Hamilton, Ontario, the son of a homemaker mother and an automobile plant foreman father. He went to Westdale Secondary School, and attended McMaster after his graduation. He studied film at Connecticut College and graduated in 1969. H... |
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| 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 |
| Sam Milby | Feb 1, 2007 | Born and raised in Troy, Ohio, Milby is the youngest son of Filipina Elsie Lacia who hails from Surigao Philippines and American entrepreneur, Lloyd Milby. Landed his big break in a toothpaste commercial in 2005 and later on became more famous as one of the house mates of "Pinoy Big Brother" (2005). His first media appearance was in the music video of "Just A Smile" by Barbie Almabis which was used in the promotion of that toothpaste product. Was defeated by fellow house-mate Jayson Gainza... | View pics |
| Paul Newman | May 6, 2006 |
Paul Leonard Newman is an Academy Award-winning American actor and film director. He is the founder of Newman's Own. He has donated all of the company's profits and royalties, in excess of $200 million, to thousands of charities.
While he was attending graduate school at Yale, he became a successful stage actor in New York City. He made his Broadway theatre debut in the original production of William Inge's Picnic with Kim Stanley. He later appeared in the original Broadway product... |
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| John Goodman | May 6, 2006 | Goodman was raised by his mother, Virginia. He has one brother, Leslie, and one baby sister, Betty. Goodman respected his mother for she raised the kids on her own. Virginia worked hard trying to provide for her family. Goodman became apart of the football team at Affton High School in St. Louis. In 1970, Goodman graduated from High School then went on to college. He graduated from Southwest Missouri State, with a drama degree in 1975. After college Goodman travel to New York City w... | View pics |
| Doug E. Doug | May 6, 2006 | Doug was born Douglas Bourne in Brooklyn, New York. He attended Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School in Brooklyn. Doug has appeared in a number of films, including Jungle Fever (1991), Hangin' with the Homeboys (1991), Class Act (1992), Cool Runnings (1993), Operation Dumbo Drop (1995), and the remake of Disney's That Darn Cat (1997). He also appeared in Eight Legged Freaks (2002). He was the star of his own short-lived ABC sitcom, Where I Live, a show which won the acclaim of Bill Cosby, and... | View pics |
| Jamie Foxx | May 6, 2006 | Jamie Foxx (born Eric Marlon Bishop on December 13, 1967 in Terrell, Texas), is an American Oscar-winning actor, Grammy-nominated, multi-platinum-selling R&B singer, pianist, and comedian. He won the 2004 Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in Ray, a biopic about the life of the late musician Ray Charles. | View pics |
| Mick Molloy | Aug 14, 2006 | Mick Molloy is a popular Australian comedian, writer and producer who has been active in the fields of radio, television, stand-up and film. He hosted a radio show, Tough Love with Mick Molloy (2004-06) on Triple M alongside Robyn Butler and Richard Molloy, and is currently hosting a TV show, Any Given Sunday with Nicole Livingstone on the Nine Network. Previously, he worked with longtime comedy partner Tony Martin on the popular Martin/Molloy radio show, broadcast nationwide on the Austereo ... | View pics |
| Mike Myers | May 6, 2006 | One of Myers' first acting jobs was with Saturday Night Live star Gilda Radner in a TV commercial when he was nine years old. Myers graduated from high school in 1982 and was immediately accepted into Toronto's Second City improvisational comedy troupe. He made numerous appearances, including as Wayne Campbell, on Toronto's Citytv in the early 1980s, on the alternative video show "City Limits" hosted by Christopher Ward. In 1985 he was one of the founding members of The Comedy Store Players, an ... | View pics |
| Sylvester Stallone | May 6, 2006 | Sylvester Stallone is an Academy Award-nominated film actor, director, producer, and screenwriter. He is often referred to by his nickname, "Sly". He achieved his greatest successes in a number of action films, notably the Rocky and Rambo series. Rocky was nominated for ten Academy Awards in all, including two for Stallone himself, for Best Actor and for Best Original Screenplay. In addition to winning Best Picture, Rocky won for Best Director and Best Film Editing. | View pics |
| Jackie Chan | May 6, 2006 | Following the death of martial arts legend Bruce Lee, the search was on for an actor who could inspire audiences to the same degree; every young martial artist was given a chance. Chan decided that rather than emulating Lee (and thus living forever in his shadow), he would develop his own style of filmmaking. His directorial debut Shi di chu ma (1980) was a milestone in martial arts films, being one of the first to effectively combine comedy with action. This set the tone for many of his future ... | View pics |
| Nick Nolte | May 6, 2006 | With ruggedly handsome looks and a lengthy screen career, actor-producer Nick Nolte has established himself as a major industry figure. His enviable standing as one of Hollywood's most distinctive leading men was further cemented with a 1998 Best Actor Oscar nomination for his role in Affliction. A native of Omaha, NE, Nolte was born February 8, 1941. While a student at Arizona State University, he revealed talent as a football player, but whatever promise he may have had on the field was ab... | View pics |
| Will Ferrell | May 6, 2006 | John William "Will" Ferrell is an Emmy and Golden Globe nominated American comedian, impressionist, and actor who first established himself as a cast member of Saturday Night Live. Ferrell has gone on to star in films such as Zoolander (2001), Elf (2003), Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004), and Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby. | View pics |
| Robert De Niro | May 6, 2006 | Robert De Niro Jr.is a two-time Academy Award-winning, iconic American film actor, director, producer and founder of the Tribeca Film Festival. He is critically acclaimed as one of the finest motion picture actors and among the most famous actors of all time having starred in many movies. He is particularly noted for his portrayal of mobsters in the gangster underworld, and conflicted, troubled characters, and for his enduring collaboration with director Martin Scorsese, and early work with dire... | View pics |
| Mel Gibson | May 6, 2006 | Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson is an Academy Award-winning American-born, Australian-raised actor, director, and producer. After establishing himself as a household name with the Mad Max and Lethal Weapon series, Gibson went on to direct and star in 1993's The Man Without a Face and 1995's Academy Award-winning Braveheart. Gibson's direction of Braveheart made him only the sixth actor-turned-filmmaker to garner an Oscar for Best Director. In 2004, he directed and produc... | View pics |
| Jack Nicholson | May 6, 2006 | John Joseph "Jack" Nicholson is a highly successful, iconic American method actor known for his often dark-themed portrayals of neurotic characters. He has been nominated for an Academy Award 12 times (winning 3 of them), more than any other male actor. He has also won seven Golden Globe Awards and he received a Kennedy Center Honors in 2001. Among his notable film credits are The Shining (1980), Batman (1989), A Few Good Men (1992), and As Good As it Gets (1997)... | View pics |
| David Boreanaz | May 6, 2006 | David was born in Buffalo, New York and grew up in Philadelphia. At the young age of seven he decide to be an actor which eventually led him to study acting at Ithaca College in New York. After graduating from college David moved to Los Angeles in order to pursue a career in the movies. After some uncredited roles he received his first important role as Kelly's boyfriend in the series _"Married... with Children" (1987)_ . After three seasons of playing Angel in the hit series "Buffy the Vampire ... | View pics |
| Ann-Margret | May 6, 2006 | Ann-Margret is a Swedish-born actress and singer who was born Ann-Margret Olsson in Valsjöbyn, Jämtland, Sweden. She moved to the United States when she was young and grew up in Wilmette, Illinois. She attended Northwestern University and was discovered singing in a nightclub by George Burns. She was often referred to as a "sex-kitten" and the "female Elvis". | View pics |
| Heath Ledger | May 6, 2006 |
Heathcliff Andrew Ledger (April 4, 1979–January 22, 2008) was an Academy Award-nominated Australian actor. After appearing in television roles during the 1990s, Ledger developed a Hollywood career. He starred in both critical and financial successes, including Ten Things I Hate About You, The Patriot, Monster's Ball, A Knight's Tale and Brokeback Mountain, and completed the role of the Joker in the forthcoming The Dark Knight. Ledger was born in Perth, Western Australia, t... |
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| Dan Aykroyd | May 6, 2006 |
Daniel Edward Aykroyd is an Academy Award-nominated Canadian comedian, actor, screenwriter, and musician. He was an original cast member of Saturday Night Live, an originator of the Blues Brothers (with John Belushi), and has had a long career as a film actor and screenwriter.
After leaving Saturday Night Live, Aykroyd starred in a number of mainly comedy films. When starting out in the film industry Aykroyd would star with his old friend Belushi in three films, The Blues Brothers a... |
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| Kevin Spacey | May 6, 2006 |
Kevin Spacey (born Kevin Spacey Fowler[1] on July 26, 1959) is a two-time Academy Award winning actor and director.
Spacey grew up in California, and began his career as a stage actor during the 1980s, before being cast in supporting roles in film and television. He gained critical acclaim in the early 1990s, culminating in his first Oscar for 1995's The Usual Suspects, followed by a Best Actor Oscar win for 1999's American Beauty. Spacey has since spent time working on stage productions i... |
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| Sean Hayes | May 6, 2006 | Sean Patrick Hayes is an Emmy award-winning American actor and comedian, best known for his role as Jack McFarland in the NBC sitcom Will & Grace. As a teenager, he was an extra in Winona Ryder's first movie, Lucas (1986), which was filmed at his high school, Glenbard West. His professional film debut was in the independent film Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss (1998), which brought him wide attention and caught the attention of executives who cast him in the NBC comedy television series Will & Gra... | View pics |
| Oliver Platt | May 6, 2006 | The son of a career diplomat, he spent his childhood in Washington DC, Asia, and the middle east. Oliver graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree with a major in Drama in 1983 from Tufts University. He then trained at Shakespeare & Co. with Kristine Linklater. | View pics |
| Derek Luke | May 6, 2006 |
Derek Luke (born April 24, 1974) is an American actor. He won the Independent Spirit Award for his big-screen debut performance in the 2002 film Antwone Fisher, directed and produced by Denzel Washington. Luke was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, the son of Marjorie Dixon, a pianist, and Maurice Luke, who is a native of Georgetown, Guyana and a former actor. He has two brothers, Daniel and Maurice, and is a graduate of Linden High School in Linden, New Jersey. He throws right-handed, ... |
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| Takeshi Kaneshiro | May 6, 2006 |
The 1/2 Chinese (of Taiwanese nationality) and 1/2 Japanese Takeshi Kaneshiro may have started out as a puerile teen idol in the Chinese entertainment scene, but he's since become a proper film star in his own right. Whether by his own design or not, the boyishness that marked his first steps into showbiz has evolved into a cool, somewhat reticent demeanor that has now become his trademark.
there hasn't been an Asian actor quite as versatile as Kaneshiro, who is able to straddle the... |
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| Keanu Reeves | May 6, 2006 | Keanu Charles Reeves is a Canadian actor. He is perhaps best known for his role as Neo in the action film trilogy The Matrix and for roles in Speed and comedies such as Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure. He also played bass in a grunge band, Dogstar, during the 1990s. | View pics |
| Jason David Frank | May 6, 2006 | Jason David Frank was born in California. He went to Bonita High School. Jason first got interested in Martial Arts when he was young, and at the age of 4, got into his first Karate School. It was called The Red Dragon Karate School. When he was 12 he started teaching other children, and when he turned 18, he and a friend decided to buy the school. He was trying for parts in movies but not until "Power Rangers" did he have any real success. | View pics |
| Hayao Miyazaki | May 6, 2006 | Hayao Miyazaki is a director of animation films and a co-founder of the animation studio, Studio Ghibli. Miyazaki is the creator of many popular animation feature films, as well as manga. Although largely unknown in the West outside of animation circles until Miramax released his film Princess Mononoke in 1999, his films have enjoyed commercial and critical success in Japan and East Asia. Miyazaki's Spirited Away is the highest-grossing film of all time in Japan; Princess Mononoke held the sa... | View pics |
