Trending

Popular people

Mary Pat Gleason

Biography

Mary Pat Gleason (February 23, 1950 - June 2, 2020) was an American film and television actress. From 1983–85 she appeared on The Guiding Light as Jane Hogan. Since the early 1980s she appeared on such television series as Full House, Murphy Brown, Empty Nest, L.A. Law, Saved by the Bell, Murder, She Wrote, Friends, Step by Step, Suddenly Susan, Will & Grace, Sex and the City, Desperate Housewives, Family Matters, NCIS: Los Angeles, The Middleman, Up All Night, 1600 Penn, Motive, and Baby Daddy. She appeared in such feature films as I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, Basic Instinct, Traffic, Bruce Almighty, 13 Going on 30, The Crucible, Bottle Shock, A Cinderella Story, and The Island.
Read more

Nick Shakoour

Biography

Nick's inspiration to perform was ignited in the 4th grade when his physical education teacher (Rudy Benton) discovered his ability to transform in and out of the personas of faculty members through comedic voice impressions. Rudy urged the school principal to throw together an impromptu assembly, and within a few hours, Nick found himself on stage, ready to share his hidden talent publicly for the first time. Nick portrays Zebedee on the MovieGuide Award-winning series, The Chosen. He has also starred in the Oscar-qualifying film Madaran (Mothers), recurred on NBC's State of Affairs as Aleek Al Moosari, as a fan favorite, and voiced Grumpy Bear and Tenderheart Bear for the animated series Care Bears: Unlock The Magic. Nick is also the voice of Artichoke and Auntie Uncle on Netflix's Emmy-nominated animated series Buddy Thunderstruck. He has voiced a plethora of interactive games, including Dying Light as the voice of Savvy and Bilal and Skylanders as the voice of Fling Kong.
Read more

Chris Rock

Biography

Christopher Julius "Chris" Rock III (born February 7, 1965) is an American comedian, actor, screenwriter, producer, and director. He was voted in the US as the 5th greatest stand-up comedian of all time by Comedy Central. He was also voted in the UK as the 9th greatest stand-up comic on Channel 4's 100 Greatest Stand-Ups in 2007, and again in the updated 2010 list as the 8th greatest stand-up comic. He is known for his roles in Dogma, Beverly Hills Ninja, Lethal Weapon 4, Nurse Betty, The Longest Yard, Bad Company, and a starring role in Down to Earth. Rock has also increasingly worked behind the camera, as a writer and director (and starring actor) of Head of State and I Think I Love My Wife. In the fall of 2005, the UPN television network premiered a comedy series called Everybody Hates Chris, based on Rock's school days, of which he is the executive producer and narrator. The show garnered both critical and ratings success. The series was nominated for a 2006 Golden Globe for Best TV Series (Musical or Comedy), a 2006 People's Choice Award for Favorite New Television Comedy, and two 2006 Emmy Awards for costuming and cinematography. Following the release of his first documentary, 2009's Good Hair, Rock is working on a documentary about debt called Credit is the Devil. In 2010 he starred alongside Adam Sandler in Grown-ups and with fellow comedian/actor Martin Lawrence in the remake of the British film Death at a Funeral.
Read more

Sophie Caswell

Biography

Sophie Caswell is a Korean American mixed-media artist and animator specializing in stop-motion and 2D animation. As a recent graduate from the University of North Carolina Asheville with a degree in New Media Animation, she has been featured in various film festivals including the Palm Springs International Animation Festival and Open World Animation Festival, won Best in Horror in the North Carolina Museum of Art Student Film Festival, and is featured in Stop Motion Magazine for her film "2:30". During her time at university, she produced multimedia short films and collaborative music videos while directing her passions towards sustainable filmmaking. With a core desire to express untold narratives through visual storytelling, she loves to experiment with different media to create artwork demonstrating a vulnerable dreamlike (or nightmarish) atmosphere with the ability to produce unique emotions and connect with others.
Read more

Sean Connery

Biography

Sir Thomas Sean Connery (August 25, 1930 – October 31, 2020) was a Scottish actor and producer. He won an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards (one being a BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award), and three Golden Globes, including the Cecil B. DeMille Award and a Henrietta Award. Connery was the first actor to portray the character James Bond in film, starring in seven Bond films (every film from Dr. No to You Only Live Twice, plus Diamonds Are Forever and Never Say Never Again), between 1962 and 1983. In 1988, Connery won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Untouchables. His films also include Marnie (1964), Murder on the Orient Express (1974), The Man Who Would Be King (1975), A Bridge Too Far (1977), Highlander (1986), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), The Hunt for Red October (1990), Dragonheart (1996), The Rock (1996), and Finding Forrester (2000). Connery was polled in a 2004 The Sunday Herald as "The Greatest Living Scot" and in a 2011 EuroMillions survey as "Scotland's Greatest Living National Treasure". He was voted by People magazine as both the “Sexiest Man Alive" in 1989 and the "Sexiest Man of the Century” in 1999. He received a lifetime achievement award in the United States with a Kennedy Center Honor in 1999. Connery was knighted in the 2000 New Year Honours for services to film drama. On October 31, 2020, Connery died at the age of 90.
Read more

Nastassja Kinski

Biography

Nastassja Aglaia Kinski (German: [nasˈtasi̯a ˈkɪnskiː]; née Nakszynski, Polish: [nakˈʂɨj̃skʲi]; born 24 January 1961) is a German actress and former model who has appeared in more than 60 films in Europe and the United States. Her worldwide breakthrough was with Stay as You Are (1978). She then came to global prominence with her Golden Globe Award-winning performance as the title character in the Roman Polanski-directed film Tess (1979). Other films in which she acted include the Francis Ford Coppola musical romance film One from the Heart (1982), erotic horror film Cat People (1982) from Paul Schrader, and the Wim Wenders drama films Paris, Texas (1984) and Faraway, So Close! (1993). She also appeared in the biographical drama film An American Rhapsody (2001). She is the daughter of German actor Klaus Kinski. Description above from the Wikipedia article Nastassja Kinski, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Read more

Sue Ane Langdon

Biography

Sue Ane Langdon (born 8 March 1936) is an American actress. She has appeared in dozens of television series and had featured roles in films such as A Guide for the Married Man and The Cheyenne Social Club, both directed by Gene Kelly, as well as The Rounders opposite Henry Fonda and Glenn Ford and two Elvis Presley movies, Roustabout and Frankie and Johnny. She began her performing career singing at Radio City Music Hall and acting in stage productions. In the mid-1960s, she appeared in the Broadway musical The Apple Tree, which starred Alan Alda. Her co-starring role on the television series Arnie won her a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress-Television. In 1976, she appeared in Hello Dolly at The Little Theatre on the Square. In 1978, she appeared in Chicago for Kenley Players in Columbus, Ohio. She was featured mainly in comedies, with an occasional dramatic film.
Read more

Christian Giudicelli

Biography

Christian Giudicelli (27 June 1942 – 14 May 2022) was a French novelist and literary critic. His seventh novel, Station balnéaire, was awarded the 1986 Prix Renaudot. Giudicelli was one of the eight jury members of the French literary award Prix Contrepoint. Giudicelli was born in Nîmes. He was a jury member of the Renaudot French literary prize since 1993. He contributed to literary publications including, La Nouvelle Revue française, Combat, Cahiers des saisons, La Quinzaine littéraire, Le Figaro Magazine, Écrivain magazine, as well as literary programs on France Culture. His writing is intimate, sensitive and melancholy; he draws the material for his novels and stories from his own experiences, travels, and friendships. He lived in Paris since the early 1960s. However, his works are largely unread; his last book, in 2019, sold only 180 copies. His close friendship with writer and accused paedophile Gabriel Matzneff is mentioned in his books, Les Spectre Joyeux and Gabriel infiniment aimable. He agreed to hide incriminating letters and photographs of Vanessa Springora for Matzneff, whom Springora accused of taking her as his lover when she was 14, according to Matzneff's writings. Giudicelli died of cancer in Paris at the age of 79 on 14 May 2022. Source: Article "Christian Giudicelli" de Wikipédia en français, soumis à la licence CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Read more

Tyler Evan Webb

Biography

Tyler Evan Webb is known for Star Trek: Discovery (2017), The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let’s Do the Time Warp Again (2016) and The Strain (2014). Tyler graduated with an Honour B.A. in Theatre from York University, and has danced in the Canadian Opera Company’s productions of Iphigenia in Tauris and Nixon in China. He’s a principal dancer with Desiraeda Dance Theatre (featured in WEIGHT). Television credits include Feist’s 1234 music video, a national commercial for ItalPasta, and international commercials for Nokia and Snickers. Tyler works on independent film projects in Toronto as an actor, choreographer, and assistant director. He has produced two short films and a Toronto Fringe play. A member of Carter Thor Studios East, he is equally at home on stage or film.
Read more

Gia Ramey-Gay

Biography

Gia Ramey-Gay was born and raised in Charlottesville, Virginia. Ramey-Gay attended the Governors School of the Arts in Norfolk, Virginia; took a summer program at the North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem and a summer semester for acting for film at the Tisch School of the Arts in New York City; and graduated in 2013 from Shenandoah University in Winchester, Virginia with a Bachelors of Fine Arts in acting. Moreover, Gia is not only a model (she first started modeling at age sixteen), actress, and Latin dancer in Los Angeles, California, but also an animal rights activist, a certified yoga instructor, a professional salsa dancer, a volunteer worker, and even a guitar player. Ramey-Gay did her first nude shoot for Playboy Plus in September, 2015. Gia was voted Playboy's Cybergirl of the Month for November, 2015 and the Cybergirl of the Year for 2016.
Read more