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Billy Zane
Actor, Titanic
William George Zane, Jr., better known as Billy Zane, was born on February 24, 1966 in Chicago, Illinois, to parents William George Zane, Sr. and Thalia Zane, both of Greek descent. His parents ran a medical technical school. Billy also has a sister named Lisa Zane, an actress born in 1961. Billy was bitten by the acting bug early on...
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Wilson Bethel
Actor, Inherent Vice
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Bonnie Somerville
Actress, The Ugly Truth
Bonnie was raised by her mother, and her mother's large Irish Catholic family in Flatbush, Brooklyn. Her mother is one of 9 children! Bonnie started acting and singing at a young age, appearing in all the high school plays at Poly Prep Country Day School in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. She attended Boston College as a Musical Theater major...
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Barry Bostwick
Actor, The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Tall (6' 4"), agile, energetic, and ever-so-confident as both actor and singer, especially on the award-winning Broadway stage, Barry Bostwick possesses that certain narcissistic poise, charm and élan that reminds one instantly (and humorously) of a Kevin Kline -- both were quite brilliant in their respective interpretations of The Pirate King in "The Pirates of Penzance"...
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Edward James Olmos
Actor, Blade Runner
Edward James Olmos was born in Los Angeles, California, to Eleanor (Huizar) and Pedro Olmos, who was a mail carrier and welder. His family was of Mexican descent. If Olmos had followed the first love of his life, he would have been a professional baseball player. But by age 13, another love entered his life: rock music...
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Debra Jo Rupp
Actress, She's Out of My League
Debra Jo Rupp always wanted to be an actress, but her parents were firmly opposed to the idea. They sent her to the University of Rochester at least in part because it offered no theater classes. But the school added a Drama department in Rupp's freshman year, and after graduation, she moved to New York to begin her acting career...
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Abe Vigoda
Actor, The Godfather
Tall, dour-faced and slouch-shouldered character actor who has proved himself in both gritty dramatic roles and as an actor with wonderful comedic timing. Vigoda is the son of a Lower East Side tailor. He made his first stage appearance at the age of 17 and plodded away in small theater shows for over 20 years...
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Emilio Rivera
Actor, Traffic
Emilio Rivera has discovered that turning your life around is the key to making dreams come true. His acting credentials have allowed him to top the list of successful Latino actors. His resume continues to grow with starring roles in films such as High Crimes with Ashley Judd and Morgan Freeman and the much anticipated film Confessions of a Dangerous Mind starring George Clooney and Julia Roberts...
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Mark Moses
Actor, Platoon
Mark Moses was born in New York City and grew up in Evanston, Illinois. He played quarterback for his high school in Evanston, and went on to play another year at Ithaca College, in upstate New York, where he majored in English before dropping out and traveling abroad. Mark then got into NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and graduated with a degree in theater...
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Beth Broderick
Actress, Revenge of the Bridesmaids
Beth Alison Broderick was born on February 24, 1959 in Falmouth, Kentucky, USA but was raised in Huntington Beach, California. Beth was always very interested in theater as a child and she graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Pasadena, California at age 18. After that, she moved to New York and began her professional acting career...
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Crista Flanagan
Actress, Disaster Movie
Crista Flanagan was born on February 24, 1976 in the small town of Mount Vernon, Illinois. Flanagan went on to the University of Evansville in Indiana, where she received a Bachelors Degree in Theatre. She proved even greater when she received her Masters Degree from The University of California, Irvine sharpening her skills in many plays such as Oaklahoma...
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Ben Miller
Actor, Johnny English
Halfway through a PhD in physics at Cambridge University, Ben met Alexander Armstrong (who was also studying there) in 1992. Instead of finishing his PhD, Ben chose to scrap science for comedy and started playing at the Comedy Club Footlights, Cambridge. After four years of touring pubs and underground comedy clubs...
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Dominic Chianese
Actor, The Godfather: Part II
A multi-talented performer--as well as being an actor, he is an accomplished singer. He released a new music CD in late 2000 on which he sings American and Italian standards.
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Ramona Marquez
Actress, The King's Speech
Ramona had no acting training prior to her role on Outnumbered, making her exactly what the producers were looking for. When Ramona was five, she was spotted by the script writer's wife at a birthday party and was immediately recommended for the role of "Karen" because of her "Interesting personality" and ability to be "sure of herself without being precocious"...
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Malcolm Barrett
Actor, The Hurt Locker
Malcolm Barrett, a native of New York City, studied at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. He recently worked on several NY based television series including "Law & Order" and "The Sopranos", "As the World Turns" and "The Beat". His feature film credits include "King of the Jungle," "Swimfan," and most recently...
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Sherrie Rose
Actress, Me and Will
Sherrie Rose is an award winning and critically acclaimed filmmaker, actress and writer. She studied writing at UCLA and previously electrical engineering and theatrical performance as dual majors on the Dean's list at USF. She has starred in over 60 films and television shows and is best known for...
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Todd Field
Actor, Eyes Wide Shut
William Todd Field was born in Pomona, California, and began acting after graduating from high school in Portland, Oregon, where he was raised. A budding jazz musician as well, he skipped college in favor of a move east to New York to study acting. Once there, he began performing with the Ark Theatre Company as both an actor and musician...
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John Vernon
Actor, Dirty Harry
John Vernon was a prolific stage-trained Canadian character player who made a career out of convincingly playing crafty villains, morally-bankrupt officials and heartless authority figures in American films and television since the 1960s. Vernon has been directed by some stellar filmmakers including...
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Al Lettieri
Actor, The Godfather
Menacing looking Italian American actor who developed into the quintessential on-screen hoodlum via several strong roles in key crime films of the early 1970s. Lettieri played the villain against some of Hollywood's biggest screen names including chasing Steve McQueen in The Getaway, intimidating Charles Bronson in Mr. Majestyk...
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Helen Shaver
Actress, The Land Before Time
Helen Shaver has built a lasting legacy both behind and in front of the camera. She has directed hundreds of hours of television ranging from Law & Order: SVU to Castle, from The Unit to Outer Limits. Her film Summer's End, a Showtime feature starring James Earl Jones, won multiple Emmy awards for Best Picture...
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Steve Jobs
Thanks, WALL·E
Steven Paul Jobs was born on 24 February 1955 in San Francisco, California, to students Abdulfattah Jandali and Joanne Schieble who were unmarried at the time and gave him up for adoption. He was taken in by a working class couple, Paul and Clara Jobs, and grew up with them in Mountain View, California...
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Kasi Lemmons
Actress, The Silence of the Lambs
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Jenny O'Hara
Actress, Mystic River
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Nicole Lyn
Actress, Bless the Child
Nicole Lyn was born in Brampton, Ontario, Canada to parents Cheryl Gabay and Peter Lyn. Her love for the arts began at 3-years-old, when she started taking dance classes in her hometown. She loved performing so much, she was soon modeling and appearing in Canadian and U.S. national commercials, which led to regular roles on 2 Canadian series (Ramona and Eric's World) by age 12...
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Bas Rutten
Self, The Smashing Machine
Bas Rutten is a world-renowned mixed martial artist who has also made a name for himself outside the ring as an actor, host, and television personality. As an actor Rutten can be seen next summer co-starring in the Kevin James feature film Here Comes the Boom for Columbia Pictures. Rutten previously appeared in Paul Blart: Mall Cop (2009) and lent his talents to the voice cast of Zookeeper (2011)...
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Steven Hill
Actor, One Life to Live
Born in Seattle, Washington, in 1922, as Solomon Krakovsky, to Russian Jewish immigrants, Hill became interested in the theater as a little boy. After graduation from high school, he served in the Naval Reserve (1940-44). From there, he worked alongside a young, unknown star Marlon Brando in "A Flag is Born." His real acting debut came about in 1950...
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Dennis Waterman
Actor, Scars of Dracula
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Jonathan Ward
Actor, FernGully: The Last Rainforest
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Emmanuelle Riva
Actress, Amour
An only child, Emmanuelle was born Paulette Germaine Riva in Cheniménil, but eventually grew up in Remiremont. Since she was 6, she dreamed of becoming an actress, so that the entire world would take notice of her. This ambition was, however, to be met with firm opposition from her own family. Emmanuelle's father Alfredo...
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Floyd Mayweather Jr.
Self, WrestleMania XXIV
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Pete Duel
Actor, Alias Smith and Jones
Born on 24 February 1940 in Rochester, New York, Pete Duel moved to West Hollywood in 1963 following a tour with the National Road Company's "Take Her, She's Mine". After landing small guest spots on various TV series, Pete was cast in a recurring role alongside Sally Field on Gidget in 1965...
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Bryce Papenbrook
Actor, Blue Exorcist: The Movie
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James Farentino
Actor, Dead & Buried
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Mitch Hedberg
Actor, Almost Famous
Mitch Hedberg was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, on February 24, 1968. He began his stand-up career in Florida, and after a period of honing his skills there he moved to Seattle and began touring. He soon appeared on MTV's "Comikaze", then a 1996 appearance on Late Night with David Letterman brought him his big break...
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Jessica-Jane Stafford
Self, Episode #1.1
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Kate Mulvany
Actress, The Great Gatsby
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James Sloyan
Actor, The Sting
James Joseph Sloyan was born on February 24, 1940 in Indianapolis, Indiana; his family moved to Europe when he was a young boy. James has lived in Rome, Capri, Milan, Switzerland and Ireland. When he was 17, his family moved back to the United States and settled in upstate New York where he managed a theater...
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Jan Cornet
Actor, The Skin I Live In
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Paula Zahn
Self, A Mother's Nightmare
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Alessandro Gassman
Actor, Transporter 2
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Trace Cyrus
Soundtrack, The House Bunny
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Michael Radford
Director, Il Postino: The Postman
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Todd Fisher
Director, Science of Survival
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Monica Staggs
Stunts, Star Trek: Voyager
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Teri Weigel
Actress, Predator 2
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Marjorie Main
Actress, Meet Me in St. Louis
Her father was a minister, and when she joined a local stock company as a youngster she changed her name to avoid embarrassing her family. She worked in vaudeville and debuted on Broadway in 1916. Her film debut was in A House Divided. She repeated her stage role in Dead End as Baby Face Martin (Humphrey Bogart)'s mother...
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Jay Kenneth Johnson
Actor, The Young and the Restless
Jay Kenneth Johnson was born and raised in Springfield, Missouri. He attended Kickapoo High School and Missouri State University. During Jay's sophomore year at Missouri State, he made the move to Los Angeles and quickly landed a role on Days of Our Lives, playing Philip Kiriakis till 2002. He went on to work with Aaron Spelling...
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Melinda Naud
Actress, Charlie's Cherubs/Stalag 3
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Andy Berman
Producer, It's Kind of a Funny Story
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Mikael Salomon
Cinematographer, The Abyss
Mikael Salomon was born and grew up in Denmark. He is originally and primarily a cinematographer. The first feature film he shot was Fantasterne by Kirsten Stenbæk. After almost two decades as one of his country's finest in the field and only a few foreign productions, he then moved his life and his career to Hollywood...
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