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- Monica Barbaro was born in San Francisco and raised in Mill Valley, Calif. She is classically trained in ballet and has studied modern dance, salsa, flamenco and West African dance. She attended New York University's Tisch School of the Arts where she took her first acting classes while getting her bachelor of fine arts degree in dance. After university, Barbaro studied at various acting schools in San Francisco and Los Angeles, including the Beverly Hills Playhouse.
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Scott Edward Adkins was born on June 17, 1976 in Sutton Coldfield, England, into a family that for generations were butchers. Along with his elder brother Craig, he was raised by their parents, John and Janet (Sanders) Adkins, in a loving middle-class family. Scott attended Bishop Vesey's Grammar School in Sutton Coldfield. Probably not the best of students, he used to sneak downstairs after his parents had gone to bed and watch films all night then fall asleep during lessons. A natural athlete, Scott enjoyed a variety of sports as he grew up, but when he was 10 years old, he accompanied his father and brother to the local Judo club. The attraction was instantaneous. Idolising stars such as Bruce Lee and Jean-Claude Van Damme, Scott began to train everyday. He took over his Dad's garage and turned it into his own Dojo. He even had a shrine to Bruce Lee in there that he would bow to. He remembers being mugged on a bus when he was around 13 and that really kicked his training into overdrive. He wasn't ever going to let that happen again. At the age of 14, Scott went on to train in Tae Kwon Do under the instruction of Ron Sergiew with the T.A.G.B. After a few years, he moved on to Kickboxing under Anthony Jones. He is now a fully trained Kickboxing Instructor for the P. K. A. A self confessed "film junkie" Scott's attention was drawn to acting through the Hollywood Greats. He enrolled in a drama class at Sutton Coldfield College. Being a shy lad he initially found it difficult to be put on stage in front of an audience. Finally, at the age of 21, Scott was offered a place at the prestigious Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art. However, as an impoverished student, he found it hard to make ends meet without a grant and was forced to leave without completing the course. Very dejected he thought that was the end.
His first break came when he was offered a role in a Hong Kong martial arts film called Extreme Challenge (2001) (aka Extreme Challenge). Spotted by Head of The Hong Kong Stuntmen Association and director Wei Tung and English-born Hong Kong movie expert Bey Logan, Adkins found himself in the East for the first time. Scott got the chance to work with some of Hong Kong cinema's leading action directors including Woo-Ping Yuen, Corey Yuen, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung and the legendary Jackie Chan. Acting roles started to come in and he was offered a guest role in BBC's Doctors (2000) filmed at Birmingham's Pebble Mill. A few episodes in BBC's EastEnders (1985) and City Central (1998), and a lead role in Sky One comedy drama Mile High (2003) followed by a regular role in BBC's Holby City (1999) as Bradley Hume, the assistant General Manager of Holby General.
Starring roles in feature films soon followed with his portrayal of Talbot in Special Forces (2003) and Yuri Boyka" in Undisputed 2: Last Man Standing (2006). It was this film that broke him into the mainstream with his villainous portrayal of a Russian MMA underground fighter Boyka in what has been hailed as one of the best American made Martial Arts films of recent times. Along with lead actor Michael Jai White, fight coordinator J.J. Perry and the slick direction of Isaac Florentine this movie has some unbelievably heart stopping fight scenes. After this Scott has had guest starring roles in bigger budget films like The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) and The Tournament (2009), and played Jean-Claude Van Damme's main adversary in Sony Pictures The Shepherd (2008).- Actor
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Manish Dayal was born in Orangeburg, South Carolina, USA. Manish is an actor and director, known for The Hundred-Foot Journey (2014), Viceroy's House (2017) and Halt and Catch Fire (2014). Manish is married to Snehal Patel.- Actress
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Marie Avgeropoulos currently stars as "Octavia Blake" in the CW's post-apocalyptic drama series, The 100 (2014). The Emmy- nominated series chronicles the surviving population living on a space station, called the ARK, who send a group of 100 delinquents down to earth. THE 100 set out to see if earth might still be inhabitable as supplies are running low on the ARK.
Marie recently wrapped production on three independent films: Isolation (2015), Numb (2015) and A Remarkable Life (2016), slated for release in early 2016. Earlier this year, Marie was seen, opposite Taylor Lautner in the Lionsgate thriller, Tracers (2015). Other film credits for Marie include the 2011 Golden Globe-nominated 50/50 (2011), alongside movie veterans Seth Rogen & Joseph Gordon-Levitt, as well as her memorable premiere film role in the 2009 comedy, I Love You, Beth Cooper (2009), starring opposite Hayden Panettiere.
Marie has also become a go-to TV actress with several guest appearances on hit shows, such as Supernatural (2005), Fringe (2008), Eureka (2006) and Human Target (2010). In 2013, Marie landed her break-out role in television in The CW's Cult (2013), opposite Matthew Davis and Robert Knepper.
Born and raised on the shores of Lake Superior in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada Marie grew up fishing, hunting and camping spending most of her free time outdoors. She learned to play the drums at a young age, which has helped land her roles in various national commercials.
Marie currently resides in Los Angeles.- Actor
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Forte was age 32 before he came to the public's attention on Saturday Night Live (1975), but had been working in comedy since 1997.
Will Forte was born in Alameda County, California, and is the son of artist Patricia (Stivers) and financial broker Orville Willis Forte III (divorced). He has an older sister, Michelle. A creative and artistic child, he was an athlete (football and swimming) in high school and voted Best Personality at Acalanes High School. After graduating from UCLA with a degree in History, Forte had a brief career at a brokerage house before deciding to try comedy. Although he rarely performed stand-up, he joined the world-famous "Groundlings" and was hired as a writer for the series The Jenny McCarthy Show (1997), The Army Show, and The David Letterman Show. He eventually caught the attention of Carsey-Werner executive Tom Werner when he wrote a pilot about two childlike idiot brothers (eventually turned into the film, The Brothers Solomon (2007)) and was hired for the shows 3rd Rock from the Sun (1996) and That '70s Show (1998). In 2002, Forte moved from his home state of California to New York City to join Saturday Night Live (1975) as a writer and cast member. Although known as shy and reserved in his personal life, Forte was one of the individuals responsible for the shows move to absurd, surrealist comedy. Along with voice-over acting, guest appearances on television and small roles in films, Forte had his biggest opportunities to be a movie star with films he wrote. Forte wrote the screenplay for The Brothers Solomon (2007) (and had the leading role of childlike "Dean Solomon") and played the title role and co-wrote the SNL film MacGruber (2010). Both films were given small budgets ($10,000,000 each) and they were both considered box-office and critical failures, although they do have a cult following.
After MacGruber's theatrical release, Forte left SNL for personal and professional reasons, although he has returned as a guest performer. Forte has had a recurring role on the series 30 Rock and made numerous other guest appearances on other TV comedies. After leaving SNL, he increased his work as a voice artist and appeared in many films, including A Good Old Fashioned Orgy (2011), Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie (2012), Rock of Ages (2012), That's My Boy (2012), and The Watch (2012).
Since 2012, he has moved into dramatic and straight roles on a television pilot titled Rebounding by the producers of Modern Family and Irish film Run and Jump. In August 2012, he was cast in the Alexander Payne film Nebraska (2013), beating out higher-profile actors such as Casey Affleck and Paul Rudd.
From 2015 to 2018, he starred on, and as The Last Man on Earth (2015), a television sitcom. In 2018, he headlined as National Lampoon co-creator Douglas Kenney in the biographical film A Futile and Stupid Gesture (2018). The next year, he co-starred in more comedies, Booksmart (2019) and Good Boys (2019)- Actor
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Jon Gries was born on 17 June 1957 in Glendale, California, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Napoleon Dynamite (2004), Men in Black (1997) and The Pretender (1996).- Actor
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Jason Patric was born on 17 June 1966 in Queens, New York, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Narc (2002), The Lost Boys (1987) and The Losers (2010).- Odessa A'zion was born on 17 June 2000 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is an actress, known for Hellraiser (2022), Grand Army (2020) and Fam (2019).
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Greg Kinnear was born on June 17, 1963, in Logansport, Indiana, USA to Edward Kinnear, a career diplomat with the US State Department, and Suzanne (nee Buck) Kinnear, a homemaker. He has two brothers -- James, vice president-investments at Wachovia Securities in Arizona who was born in 1957, and Steve, a business manager with the Billy Graham Training Center in North Carolina who was born in 1959. His family moved often, including Lebanon and Greece. While a student in Athens, Greg first ventured into the role of talk show host with his radio show "School Daze With Greg Kinnear".
Returning to college in the States, he attended the University of Arizona in Tucson, graduating in 1985 with a degree in broadcast journalism. He headed out to Los Angeles, landing his first job as a marketing assistant with Empire Entertainment. He auditioned to be an MTV VJ, but was not selected and became an on-location reporter for the channel. He had bit parts on L.A. Law (1986) and Life Goes On (1989). He would later become the creator, co-executive producer, and host of Best of the Worst (1991) (1990-91). His breakthrough was as first host of Talk Soup (1991) (1994), when he left the show for the NBC late-night talk show, Later (1994).
In 1994, Kinnear had his first big screen role, as a talk show host in the Damon Wayans comedy Blankman (1994). In 1995 he won the role of David Larrabee in Sydney Pollack's remake of Billy Wilder's 1954 classic Sabrina (1995). Next was the lead in the 1996 comedy Dear God (1996). In 1997, he was cast in James L. Brooks's blockbuster comedy-drama As Good as It Gets (1997), receiving an Oscar nomination as best supporting actor. In his next film, the romantic comedy A Smile Like Yours (1997), he starred opposite Lauren Holly as part of a couple trying to have a baby. The film met with lukewarm reviews and a low box office.
His next film, You've Got Mail (1998), struck gold. He played Meg Ryan's significant other, a newspaper columnist. Next he played Captain Amazing in Mystery Men (1999). His more recent films have Nurse Betty (2000), Loser (2000), and Someone Like You (2001).- Actor
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Thomas Haden Church was born Thomas Richard McMillen in Yolo, California, to Maxine (Sanders) and Carlos Richard McMillen, who was a U.S. marine and surveyor. He was raised in Texas. His mother remarried George Quesada, a widowed WWII veteran who served in Guam, in 1969. He adopted this surname Quesada. He changed it to Haden Church after "nobody could pronounce Quesada". Church began his show business career in front of a microphone instead of a camera, first as a radio deejay and then as a voice-over announcer. After landing a role in the independent film, Stolen Moments, Church moved to Los Angeles to pursue his acting career.- Actor
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John Gallagher Jr. has appeared in several television programs, including The West Wing (1999), Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999), NYPD Blue (1993), Ed (2000), Love Monkey (2006), and Hallmark Hall of Fame's film The Flamingo Rising (2001). He played Jim Harper in Aaron Sorkin's The Newsroom (2012) which aired on HBO. He also appeared in HBO's mini-series Olive Kitteridge (2014), based on the Pulitzer-winning novel of the same name, in the role of Christopher Kitteridge.
Film credits include Pieces of April (2003), Woody Allen's Whatever Works (2009), Jonah Hex (2010), The Heart Machine (2014), Kenneth Lonergan's Margaret (2011), and a lead role in Short Term 12 (2013) opposite Brie Larson. In 2016, he starred in the thriller film 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016) and the horror thriller film Hush (2005).- Actor
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KJ Apa was born on 17 June 1997 in Auckland, New Zealand. He is an actor and producer, known for Riverdale (2017), The Hate U Give (2018) and The Last Summer (2019).- Actress
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Jodie Whittaker came to prominence after her breakout performance in Venus (2006), which was met with a string of nominations, including British Independent Film Award and Satellite Award nominations for "Most Promising Newcomer" and "Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical." Whittaker has also received critical acclaim for her performances in Journeyman (2017), Adult Life Skills (2016), and Broadchurch (2013), and also starred in Wired (2008), Attack the Block (2011), Good Vibrations (2012), and Trust Me (2017).
In 2017 she made history as the thirteenth actor and first woman to play the Doctor in Doctor Who (2005). She made her onscreen debut as the Doctor on December 25, 2017, in the episode titled Twice Upon a Time (2017). Her casting was met with overwhelming acclaim and positivity, and in 2020 she was voted the second greatest Doctor in the programme's 57-year history, only losing narrowly to David Tennant.- Actress
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Lane Bradbury was born on 17 June 1938 in Buckhead, Georgia, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for From the Midst of Pain (2010), Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974) and Then Came Bronson (1969). She was previously married to Lou Antonio.- Actor
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Ralph Bellamy was a veteran actor who was so well-liked and respected by his peers that he was the recipient of an honorary Oscar in 1987 for his contributions to the acting profession.
Ralph Rexford Bellamy was born June 17, 1904 in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Lilla Louise (Smith), originally from Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, and Charles Rexford Bellamy, who had deep roots in New England. Bellamy began his career as a player right out of high school in 1922, joining a traveling company that put on Shakespearean plays. For the next five years he appeared with stock companies and repertory theaters associated with the Chautauqua Road Co., which brought culture to the hinterlands. He not only learned his craft but by 1927 wound up owning his own theatrical troupe. Two years later he made his Broadway theatrical debut in "Town Boy" (29 years later he would win a Tony Award).
Bellamy made the first of his over 100 films in 1933, appearing as a gangster in The Secret 6 (1931). While he never became a major star or played many leads in "A" pictures, he made a career out of playing second-leads in major productions before developing into a character actor. In his heyday he typically played a rich but dull character who is jilted by the leading lady (he won his only Oscar nomination, for Best Supporting Actor, for just such a role in the 1937 comedy The Awful Truth (1937), in which he lost Irene Dunne to Cary Grant). He also specialized in redoubtable detectives who always find their man (he starred as Ellery Queen in a series of four "B" movies) and as slightly sinister yet stylish villains (such typecasting reaching its apogee with his turn as the not-so-kindly doctor in the horror classic Rosemary's Baby (1968)).
Bellamy's greatest role was as Franklin D. Roosevelt in Dore Schary's play "Sunrise at Campobello," for which he won a 1958 Best Actor-Dramatic Tony Award. He also reprised his portrayal of Roosevelt in Schary's 1960 movie adaptation of his play Sunrise at Campobello (1960), which brought his co-star Greer Garson a Golden Globe award and a Best Actress Academy Award nomination for playing Eleanor Roosevelt.
To play F.D.R. and show his struggle with the onset of polio, Bellamy studied up on Roosevelt as both man and politician, gaining an insight into the future president's psyche. Like Method actors Marlon Brando and Jon Voight, who prepared for their portrayals of paraplegic war veterans in the movies The Men (1950) and Coming Home (1978) by living in veterans hospitals with paraplegics, Bellamy tried to understand the trauma that F.D.R. underwent and the challenges he faced. Bellamy spent a considerable amount of time at a rehabilitation center learning how to master leg braces, crutches and a wheelchair to increase the verisimilitude of his portrayal of Rosevelt. So successful was his portrait of Roosevelt that he was called upon a generation later to recreate F.D.R. for the blockbuster TV miniseries War and Remembrance (1988) (ironically, Voight himself would later play F.D.R. in the movie Pearl Harbor (2001)).
Bellamy also had a prolific career on television, beginning with his 1948 debut in The Philco Television Playhouse (1948). He starred in one of the first TV police shows, Man Against Crime (1949), which was on the air from 1949-54, and later had roles in several other TV series, including The Eleventh Hour (1962), The Survivors (1969) and The Most Deadly Game (1970). He also appeared in countless TV-movies and tele-plays, and was three times nominated for an Emmy Award.
Known as a champion of actors' rights, Bellamy was one of the founders of the Screen Actors Guild, and also served four terms as President of Actors' Equity from 1952 to 1964. He took office during some of the darkest days of McCarthyism, but positioned Actors' Equity and thus, the Broadway theater to the left of Hollywood by resisting blacklisting. Many of those blacklisted in Hollywood found homes in the theater. Under Bellamy, Actors Equity established standards to protect members against charges of Communist Party membership or "exhibiting left-wing sympathies". (One of the charges levied against legendary stage and film director Elia Kazan, including Rod Steiger at the time Kazan received an honorary Oscar, was that he should have defied the House Un-American Activities Committee and not have named names because he could have remained employed in the theater even if he had been blacklisted in Hollywood.)
Under Bellamy's leadership, Actor's Equity managed to double its assets within the first six years of his presidency and was successful in establishing the first pension fund for actors. It was for his services to the acting community that he was the recipient of an honorary Academy Award in 1987.
Ralph Bellamy died on November 29, 1991 in Santa Monica, California. He was 87 years old.- Actress
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Jennifer Irwin was born on 17 June 1975 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She is an actress and writer, known for Superstar (1999), Exit Wounds (2001) and No Strings Attached (2011).- Actor
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Matthew Alan was born in Evansville, Indiana, USA. Matthew is an actor and producer, known for Snowfall (2017), Monsters (2022) and Castle Rock (2018). Matthew has been married to Camilla Luddington since 17 August 2019. They have two children.- Erin Murphy is a former child actress from Encino, California. She is primarily remembered for portraying the underage witch Tabitha Stephens in the fantasy sitcom "Bewitched" (1964-1972). She portrayed the character for 103 episodes, between 1966 and 1972. She initially shared the role of Tabitha with Diane Murphy, her own fraternal twin sister. As the two sisters looked less alike as they aged, Diane left the series.
Following the end of "Bewitched", Murphy played guest roles in several television series. She also modeled swimwear for the brand "Hang Ten". Murphy was a cheerleader while attending the El Toro High School in Lake Forest, California. She was the high school's homecoming queen during her senior year. She graduated in 1981, at the age of 17.
As an adult, Murphy variously worked as a casting director, a makeup artist, a fashion stylist, an acting teacher, and a motivational speaker. She worked for a time as stunt double for the actress Virginia Madsen. She has also worked as a fashion, beauty, and luxury lifestyle writer for various magazines. Murphy has had 6 children from various marriages. She has been affiliated with several autism-related charities over the years, because one of her sons has the disorder.
During the early 2010s, Murphy was the owner of the company "Erin Murphy Knits". The company marketed hand knit eco-friendly alpaca wear. Murphy raised alpacas in her private ranch in Bell Canyon, California. In 2014, Murphy became the co-owner of the company Slim Chillers, which produced "low-calorie frozen vodka martini pops". In 2018, Murphy purchased a beach house in Malibu. - Actor
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Mark Linn-Baker was born on 17 June 1954 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. He is an actor and director, known for My Favorite Year (1982), Adam (2009) and Perfect Strangers (1986). He has been married to Christa Justus since 29 December 2012. He was previously married to Adrianne Lobel.- Actress
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A gifted actress with a magnetic allure on screen, Rebecca Breeds is quickly establishing herself as one of Hollywood's most promising newcomers.
Breeds can be seen starring in the title role of CBS's CLARICE. Set in 1993, one year after the events of THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, the chilling drama series shifts the lens onto the untold story of FBI agent Clarice Starling (Breeds) as she returns to the field while navigating the high stakes political world of Washington, D.C. The role, which was originated by Jodie Foster and earned her an Academy Award, is heralded by the American Film Institute as the greatest heroine in film history. Created by Alex Kurtzman and Jenny Lumet and co-starring Michael Cudlitz, Lucca de Oliveira and Kal Penn, the ten-episode series premiered on February 11, 2021.
In 2015, she starred as 'Aurora de Martel' in the third season of The CW's THE ORIGINALS. Created by Julie Plec, the series follows a family of power-hungry thousand-year-old vampires as they work to take back the city they built and dominate all those who did them wrong. In 2013, Breeds made her American television debut in Rob Greenberg's WE ARE MEN for CBS. Also starring Kal Penn, Jerry O'Connell, Chris Smith and Tony Shalhoub, the comedy followed four single guys who live in a short-term apartment complex. Breeds played 'Abby Russo,' Frank's (Shahloub) charming daughter.
She is perhaps best well known to Australian audiences for her role as 'Ruby Buckton' in 7 Network's HOME AND AWAY. The long-running series chronicles the lives, loves, happiness, and heartbreaks of the residents of Summer Bay, a small coastal town just outside of Sydney. Her performance earned her a Logie Award nomination for Most Popular New Female Talent in 2009 and a subsequent nomination for Most Popular Actress in 2010.
In 2006, she made her television debut in the second and third seasons of Dennis Kiely and Noel Price's BLUE WATER HIGH. Additional television credits include Craig Sweeny's THE CODE, ABC FAMILY's hit drama series PRETTY LITTLE LIARS, NBC's THE BRAVE, ABC's NOTORIOUS, John Glenn's pilot MIRANDA'S RIGHTS and Mushroom Pictures's mini-series MOLLY.
On the big screen, Breeds previously starred in Partho Sen-Gupta's SLAM, opposite Adam Bakri and Rachael Blake. The film premiered at the 2019 Sydney Film Festival and was released in Australia on July 1, 2020. Prior, she was seen in Ben Elton's THREE SUMMERS, opposite Robert Sheehan. The film first premiered at the 2017 Melbourne International Film Festival and later screened at the 2018 Edinburgh International Film Festival. In 2013, she starred in BHAAG MILKHA BHAAG, which won several Indian film awards including the 2014 Screen Award for Best Film, the 2014 National Film Award for Best Popular Film and the 2014 International Indian Film Academy Award for Best Picture.
She made her feature film debut in Dan Castle's NEWCASTLE, which premiered at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival, where it was nominated for Best Narrative Feature.
Originally from Australia, Breeds resides in Los Angeles.- Actor
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Staz can currently be seen starring as Tarak in Zak Synder's Netflix feature franchise REBEL MOON. Part One held the No. 1 spot worldwide in 92 countries and Part Two is set to premiere on April 19th 2024.
He is also filming the titular role in the new BBC crime thriller VIRDEE.
Prior to this, he played co-lead in the feature HARVEST MOON opposite Paul Bettany for Miramax.
Staz can be seen as the series regular role of William Dey in SUPERGIRL for the CW / DC Entertainment. He also recently filmed the guest lead role of Dax Baron (Doomsday) in the second season of KRYPTON for Syfy and DC Entertainment.
He can be seen as the recurring role of Qhono, Daenerys Targaryen's personal bodyguard, in Season 6-8 of GAME OF THRONES opposite Emilia Clarke.
Staz also played the recurring role of Gordon in the latest series of HUMANS opposite Gemma Chan and Colin Morgan.
He also played the role of Ahsan Alkaaf in the pilot LADY PARTS for Working Title and Channel 4.
Previous to this, he starred as Rocky in THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW remake for FOX directed by Kenny Ortega - the cast also included Laverne Cox, Victoria Justice and Ryan McCartan.
Staz also played one of the lead roles in the Bollywood feature BAZODEE cast by Kelly Valentine Hendry,
Other credits include a guest lead role in Series 2 of TYRANT for FOX 21 directed by Gwyneth Horder-Payton and HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF BLOOD PRINCE.- Director
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Unlike virtually all his contemporaries, Ken Loach has never succumbed to the siren call of Hollywood, and it's virtually impossible to imagine his particular brand of British socialist realism translating well to that context.
After studying law at St. Peter's College, Oxford, he branched out into the theater, performing with a touring repertory company. This led to television, where in alliance with producer Tony Garnett he produced a series of docudramas, most notably the devastating "Cathy Come Home" episode of The Wednesday Play (1964), whose impact was so massive that it led directly to a change in the homeless laws.
He made his feature debut Poor Cow (1967) the following year, and with Kes (1969), he produced what is now acclaimed as one of the finest films ever made in Britain. However, the following two decades saw his career in the doldrums with his films poorly distributed (despite the obvious quality of work such as The Gamekeeper (1968) and Looks and Smiles (1981)) and his TV work in some cases never broadcast (most notoriously, his documentaries on the 1984 miners' strike).
He made a spectacular comeback in the 1990s, with a series of award-winning films firmly establishing him in the pantheon of great European directors - his films have always been more popular in mainland Europe than in his native country or the US (where Riff-Raff (1991) was shown with subtitles because of the wide range of dialects). Hidden Agenda (1990) won the Special Jury Prize at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival; Riff-Raff (1991) won the Felix award for Best European Film of 1992; Raining Stones (1993) won the Cannes Special Jury Prize for 1993, and Land and Freedom (1995) won the FIPRESCI International Critics Prize and the Ecumenical Jury Prize at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival - and was a substantial box-office hit in Spain where it sparked intense debate about its subject matter. This needless to say, was one of the reasons that Loach made the film!- Actor
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Thomas Arthur Darvill, known professionally as Arthur Darvill, is an English actor and musician. He is perhaps most recognized as Rory Williams, one of the Eleventh Doctor's companions in Doctor Who (2005), and as Rev. Paul Coates in Broadchurch (2013). In 2013-2014 he appeared in the lead role in the theatre musical Once in the West End and on Broadway. Darvill's mother Ellie Darvill is an actress and during Arthur's early childhood she worked with masks, puppets and live acting as a member of Cannon Hill Theatre, which was based at Midlands Arts Centre, and toured Britain and the world. She is also known as the puppeteer and voice behind Why Bird from Playdays. Prior to the birth of his sister, Darvill went on some of the tours, helping with the setting up of the shows. His father Nigel played the Hammond organ for artists including Edwin Starr, Ruby Turner, Fine Young Cannibals and UB40. Darvill attended Bromsgrove School in Worcestershire from 1993 to 2000.- Lia Beldam was born on 17 June 1944 in Zurich, Switzerland. She was an actress, known for The Shining (1980). She was married to George Beldam and Frank Manning. She died on 23 August 2021.
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William Lucking was born on 17 June 1941 in Vicksburg, Michigan, USA. He was an actor and director, known for Red Dragon (2002), The World's Fastest Indian (2005) and Contraband (2012). He was married to Sigrid Insull and Mary Carolyn Linda Elizabeth "MiMi" Hawkins. He died on 18 October 2021 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.