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Tim Johnson (born August 27, 1961) is an American animator, film director, film producer, and television director. Johnson is best known for directing the DreamWorks Animation films Antz, Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas, Over the Hedge, and Home.
Tim Matheson (born Timothy Lewis Matthieson; December 31, 1947) is an American actor, director and producer. He is perhaps best known for his portrayal of the smooth-talking Eric 'Otter' Stratton in the 1978 comedy Animal House. His other well-known roles are as Vernon 'Doc' Mullins on Netflix's Virgin River, Henry Kaslan in the remake of Child's Play (2019), Dr. Brick Breeland on CW's Hart of Dixie, Vance Wilder Sr. in National Lampoon's Van Wilder, John Hoynes on West Wing, Al Donnelly in Bla…
Tim McInnerny (born 18 September 1956) is an English actor. He is known for his role as Percy in Blackadder and Blackadder II, and as Captain Darling in Blackadder Goes Forth; he did not reprise his role as Percy in Blackadder the Third due to a fear of being typecast. A guest appearance in series three, however, makes him the only person other than Rowan Atkinson and Tony Robinson to appear in all four series of Blackadder and also appearing in the one-off special Blackadder: Back & Forth. He …
British classical stage and TV actor Tim Pigott-Smith is a familiar face both in America and in his native England. A drama major, he graduated from the University of Bristol (where he later frequently lectured) in 1967 and made his professional debut two years later with the Bristol Old Vic. Predominantly a stage player in both regional and repertory, he made his Broadway debut in "Sherlock Holmes" as Dr. Watson in 1974.
Tim grew up in a log cabin in Oakham , Massachusetts. He acquired his love of hunting, fishing and all things outdoors from his father, Dale Francis Smith. He received his blue belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu from Alex Costa of Gracie Barra Back Bay in Boston, MA. Presently he trains under Anderson Caruma in Edgewater, NJ. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Timothy John Smith
Toby Leonard Moore (born 28 April 1981) is an Australian actor, best known for his roles as Victor in John Wick (2014), as James Wesley in the Netflix series Daredevil (2015), and Bryan Connerty in the Showtime series Billions (2016–2020). He also appears in The Unusual Suspects, an Australian production airing on SBS.
Todd Louiso (born January 27, 1970) is an American film actor and film director best known for his role as timid record store clerk Dick in High Fidelity, opposite Jack Black and John Cusack. Other supporting roles include School For Scoundrels. He has had minor roles in films like Jerry Maguire, Thank You for Smoking, 8 Heads in a Duffel Bag and Snakes on a Plane. Louiso started his directing career with Love Liza.
Tom Everett (born October 21, 1948) is an American actor known for his performances in political films such as Air Force One and Thirteen Days.
Tom Fisher (born Tom Browne, 1968, Camden, London, England) is an English actor, writer, and director, 1.89 m tall. His exact birth date is not publicly confirmed; sources vary between 1 January and 4 September 1968. He is best known as Jacob Spivey in The Mummy Returns (2001), Top Hat in Van Helsing (2004), Willigut in The Illusionist (2006), and Northumberland in The King (2019). Other notable film credits include Shanghai Knights (2003), The Young Victoria (2009), Cassandra's Dream (2007), a…
Tom Goodman-Hill is a British stage, film and television actor. He holds a BA in Drama and English with a teaching qualification from the University of Warwick, Coventry, England, UK.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Thomas Frank Mankiewicz (June 1, 1942 – July 31, 2010) was a screenwriter/director/producer of motion pictures and television, perhaps best known for his work on the James Bond films and his contributions to Superman: The Movie and the television series, Hart to Hart. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tom Mankiewicz, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Tomoyo Kurosawa (黒沢 ともよ, born April 10, 1996) is a Japanese actress, voice actress and singer from Chichibu, Saitama who is affiliated with Toho Entertainment. Her major voice acting roles in anime are in Yuki Yuna Is a Hero as Itsuki Inubozaki, Sound! Euphonium as Kumiko Oumae and Land of the Lustrous as Phosphophyllite. Kurosawa began studying acting at the age of 3. In 2000, she began appearing in TV dramas, commercials and stage performances. Kurosawa became a support member of Sound Hori…
Tonio Descanvelle is a French actor whose exact birthday and birthplace are not publicly confirmed in major sources. He has been active since 1992, making his earliest credit as Alex Lemercier in the TV series Commissaire Moulin, and has since accumulated over 40 film and television credits. He is particularly noted for his frequent collaboration with director Luc Besson, appearing in The Transporter (2002, as Thug 1, with Jason Statham), Transporter 3 (2008, as Crewman #1), Arthur and the Invi…
Álvaro Luis Bernat "Tony" Dalton (born February 13, 1975) is an American and Mexican actor. For much of his career, he has acted in Mexican films, television shows, and stage plays. He is best known in the United States for his portrayal of Lalo Salamanca in Better Call Saul (2018–2022). He also starred as Jack Duquesne in the 2021 Marvel Cinematic Universe miniseries Hawkeye. Álvaro Luis Bernat Dalton was born in Laredo, Texas, on February 13, 1975, the son of an American mother and a Mexican…
Gennaro Anthony "Tony" Sirico, Jr. (July 29, 1942–July 8, 2022) was an American character actor most famous for his role as Paulie Gualtieri in the television series The Sopranos.
Traci Wolfe (born 1961 in Plainfield, New Jersey, USA) is an actress, known for the role of Rianne Murtaugh in Lethal Weapon (1987), Lethal Weapon 2 (1989), Lethal Weapon 3 (1992), and Lethal Weapon 4 (1998)
Richard Treat Williams (December 1, 1951 – June 12, 2023) was an American actor, author, and aviator. Williams' accolades include nominations for two Screen Actors Guild Awards, three Golden Globes, a Primetime Emmy, two Satellite Awards, and an Independent Spirit Award. He appeared in over 75 films and several television series. Williams' career included numerous stage roles. On June 12, 2023, Williams was involved in a motorcycle crash on Vermont Route 30, near Dorset. According to the Vermo…
Tuppence 'Tupps' Middleton is an English actress. In 2010, she was nominated for the London Evening Standard Film Awards for Most Promising Newcomer. She has appeared in feature films such as Tormented (2009), Chatroom (2010), Cleanskin (2012), Trance (2013), The Lady Vanishes (2013), The Imitation Game (2014), and Jupiter Ascending (2015), as well as in television series such as Bones (2008), New Tricks (2010), Friday Night Dinner (2011), Sinbad (2012), Spies of Warsaw (2013), Black Mirror (2…
Tyler Sean Labine (born April 29, 1978) is a Canadian actor and comedian. He is best known for starring in the television series Breaker High, Invasion, Reaper, Deadbeat and as Dr. Iggy Frome, head of psychiatry, in the NBC medical drama New Amsterdam, and the film Tucker & Dale vs Evil.
Daryl Karolat (born December 8, 1966) is a Canadian actor and former professional wrestler, better known by the stage name Tyler Mane. He is also known for playing Michael Myers In Halloween and Halloween II and Sabretooth in X-Men. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tyler Mane, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Elizabeth Téa Pantaleoni (born February 25, 1966), better known by her stage name Téa Leoni, is an American actress. She has starred in a wide range of films including Jurassic Park III, The Family Man, Deep Impact, Fun with Dick and Jane, Spanglish, Bad Boys and Ghost Town. Description above from the Wikipedia article Téa Leoni, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Ulysses Samuel “Ukee” Washington III (born August 20, 1958) is an American news co-anchor for the weekday evening newscast on KYW-TV in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Washington is the second cousin of actor Denzel Washington and has had small parts in such movies as Unbreakable (2000), Signs (2002), Shooter (2007), and the 2004 remake of The Manchurian Candidate. He also appeared in The Happening (2008) portraying a television news anchor, his real life profession. He had a minor, non-speaking pa…
Valentine John Bettin (July 8, 1923 – January 7, 2021) was an American actor, known for using an English accent in all of his roles. He is perhaps best known for voicing Dr. David Q. Dawson in the 1986 Disney animated film The Great Mouse Detective and the Sultan in The Return of Jafar and Aladdin and the King of Thieves, the two direct-to-video sequels to Disney's Aladdin as well as the TV show, taking over for Douglas Seale. Bettin also hosted The Storyteller, a children's show on Chicago tel…
Vanessa Bell Calloway is an American actress and dancer. She is known for her film roles as Princess Imani Izzi in the 1988 comedy Coming to America, as well as for her roles in What's Love Got to Do with It, The Inkwell, Crimson Tide, and Daylight. She is a nine-time NAACP Image Award nominee. She began her acting career in the ABC daytime soap opera, All My Children in 1985. After moving to Los Angeles in 1986, she began appearing in episodes of prime time shows such as The Colbys, Falcon Cr…
Vanessa Nuala Kirby (born April 18, 1988) is an English actress. She rose to international prominence with her portrayal of Princess Margaret in the Netflix drama series The Crown (2016–2017), for which she won the BAFTA for Best Supporting Actress. For her performance in the film Pieces of a Woman (2020), she won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress. She received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Kirby made her professional acting debut on stage, with acclaimed performances in th…
Vera Ann Farmiga (/fɑːrˈmiːɡə/ far-MEE-gə; born August 6, 1973) is an American actress. Farmiga began her professional acting career on stage in the original Broadway production of Taking Sides (1996). After expanding to television and film, her breakthrough came with her starring role as a drug addict in the drama Down to the Bone (2004). She then had roles in the political thriller The Manchurian Candidate (2004), the crime drama The Departed (2006), and the historical drama The Boy in the St…
Verne Troyer (January 1, 1969 – April 21, 2018) was an actor best known for his role as "Mini-Me," Dr. Evil's smaller and more concentrated pure evil protégé, in the hit comedy Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999) and Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002). Even though Verne has become recognized as a "Big Man in the business," he has been working in show business as an actor and stuntman for several years. Troyer, born in Sturgis, Michigan, had always dreamed growing up of getting into sho…
Victor McGuire is an actor, known for The Phantom of the Opera (2004), Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) and Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015).
George Vincent Gilligan Jr. (born February 10, 1967) is an American screenwriter and filmmaker. He is best known as the creator, primary writer, executive producer, and occasional director of the AMC crime drama series Breaking Bad (2008–2013) and its spin-off prequel series Better Call Saul (2015–2022). He also wrote, directed, and produced the Breaking Bad sequel film El Camino (2019). Gilligan's other work includes writing, directing, and producing some episodes of the Fox science fiction s…
Vincent Tong (born May 2, 1980) is a Canadian actor, voice actor and director. His voice roles include Gene Khan / The Mandarin in Iron Man: Armored Adventures, Toro in Sushi Pack, Henry in Kid vs. Kat, Daniel in Voltron Force, Kai in Ninjago as well as Jestro in Nexo Knights. He also voiced Euden in Dragalia Lost before being replaced by Victor Hunter.
Virginia Gayle Madsen (born September 11, 1961) is an American actress and film producer. She made her film debut in Class (1983), which was filmed in her native Chicago. After she moved to Los Angeles, director David Lynch cast her as Princess Irulan in the science fiction film Dune (1984). Madsen then starred in a series of successful teen movies, including Electric Dreams (1984), Modern Girls (1986), and Fire with Fire (1986). Madsen received further recognition for her starring role as Hel…
Wai Ching Ho (16 November 1943 - 12 July 2026) was a Hong Kong actress. She is best known for her role as Madame Gao in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, appearing in Daredevil (2015–2016), Iron Fist, and The Defenders (both 2017). She voiced Grandma Wu in Pixar's Turning Red and has had a recurring appearance in Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens. On stage, she has also starred in Celine Song's play Endlings. Description above from the Wikipedia article Wai Ching Ho, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full li…
Wasabi Mizuta is a freelance voice actress and was formerly represented by Production Baobab and Ken Production. As of April 2005, she is the voice of the title character in the long running Doraemon anime.
Wentworth Earl Miller III (born June 2, 1972) is an English-born American actor, model, and screenwriter who rose to stardom following his role as Michael Scofield in the Fox Network television series Prison Break.
Werner Herzog (German: [ˈvɛɐ̯nɐ ˈhɛɐ̯tsoːk]; born 5 September 1942) is a German film director, screenwriter, author, actor, and opera director, regarded as a pioneer of New German Cinema. His films often feature ambitious protagonists with impossible dreams, people with unique talents in obscure fields, or individuals in conflict with nature. He is known for his unique filmmaking process, such as disregarding storyboards, emphasizing improvisation, and placing the cast and crew into similar situa…
Wes Ball (born October 28, 1980) is an American film director and producer. He is best known for directing the Maze Runner film trilogy (2014–2018), based on James Dashner's series of novels of the same name, as well as Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024), the fourth instalment in the Planet of the Apes reboot series. Description above from the Wikipedia article Wes Ball, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Wesley Cook "Wes" Bentley (born September 4, 1978) is an American film actor known for his roles as Ricky Fitts in American Beauty (1999) and Seneca Crane in The Hunger Games (2012). Bentley was one of four subjects in the documentary My Big Break (2009), which covered his fame after American Beauty and struggles with substance abuse. Rebuilding his career, he starred in the premier of Venus in Fur by David Ives in the off-Broadway production in 2010, whose run was extended. Description above …
Wes Chatham (born 11 October 1978) is an American actor best known for his roles as Amos Burton in the science fiction series The Expanse (2015–2022) and Castor in The Hunger Games film series (2014-2015). Chatham was born in Atlanta and grew up in North Georgia. Wes's parents divorced when he was two and he spent most of his childhood with his mother, sister, and brother. On a whim, Wes's mother took his sister to a audition for a Tide commercial in Savannah, Georgia and brought him along. Wh…
Wesley Kimmel is a child actor from Los Angeles, California, who has been involved in show business for a short time but has been able to do so much. He is the nephew of Jimmy Kimmel.
Will Beall is an American screenwriter and former Los Angeles Police Department detective. He is best known for writing the scripts for Gangster Squad (2013) and the DC Extended Universe films Aquaman (2018) and Zack Snyder's Justice League(2021), and for developing the police TV series Training Day and Deputy, which were cancelled after a single season. Description above from the Wikipedia article Will Beall, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
John William Ferrell (/ˈfɛrəl/; born July 16, 1967) is an American actor, comedian, writer, and producer. He is known for his leading man roles in comedy films and for his work as a television producer. Ferrell has received various accolades, including six Primetime Emmy Awards and a British Academy Television Award, in addition to nominations for two Golden Globe Awards and for a Tony Award. In 2011, Ferrell was honoured with the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. In 2015, he received a star…
Orville Willis Forte IV (/ˈfɔːrteɪ/ FOR-tay; born June 17, 1970) is an American actor, comedian, writer, and producer. He was a cast member and writer on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live for eight seasons from 2002 to 2010. During his time on the show, he played a recurring character that led to a feature film adaptation, MacGruber (2010), and a streaming limited series in 2021. Forte also created and starred in the sitcom The Last Man on Earth (2015–2018). He received three Pri…
William Rankin Patton (born June 14, 1954) is an American actor and audiobook narrator. He starred as Colonel Dan Weaver in the TNT science fiction series Falling Skies. He also appeared in the films Remember the Titans, Armageddon, Gone in 60 Seconds and The Punisher. He appeared opposite Kevin Costner in two films: No Way Out (1987) and The Postman (1997). He won two Obie Awards for best actor in Sam Shepard's play Fool for Love and the Public Theater production of What Did He See?.
William Belleau (born April 15, 1982) is a Secwépemc Canadian actor known for his roles in films such as Killers in the Flower Moon (2023) and Eddington (2025), as well as the drama television series Frontier.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. William Dodson Broyles, Jr. (born October 8, 1944) is an American screenwriter, who has worked on the television series China Beach (1988–1991), and the films Apollo 13 (1995), Cast Away (2000), Entrapment (1999), Planet of the Apes (2001), Unfaithful (2002), The Polar Express (2004), and Jarhead (2005). He also assisted in the screenplay of "Saving Private Ryan" (1998). Description above from the Wikipedia article William Broyles, Jr., licensed under CC-…
William Davies (sometimes credited as William Davis or Will Davies) is an English screenwriter and producer. He has written and co-written several films, including Twins (1988), The Real McCoy (1993), the Johnny English franchise (2003-2018), Alien Autopsy (2006), Flushed Away(2006), How to Train Your Dragon (2010), Puss in Boots (2011), and Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile (2022). The British-born Davies is a graduate of Mercersburg Academy and Cambridge University. He is the brother of television produ…
William Hill was born and raised in the North Ward of Newark, New Jersey. After doing Theatre in the NJ area, he trained as an actor with Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse School Of The Theatre in New York City. In addition to film and television projects he has appeared on Broadway and in Theatre's across the country.
Born in Sussex England, he was raised in Northern Ireland. He attended The Royal Central School of Speech & Drama.
William J. Monahan (born November 3, 1960) is an American screenwriter and novelist. His second produced screenplay was The Departed, a film that earned him a Writers Guild of America Award and an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Description above from the Wikipedia article William Monahan, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Willie C. Carpenter is a veteran American character actor best known for his extensive work across television, film, and theater. He has built a prolific career spanning several decades, frequently portraying authoritative figures like judges, doctors, military personnel, and government officials.
Willow Shields (born June 1, 2000 in Albuquerque, New Mexico) is an American film and television actress. Her first television role was a guest appearance in the USA series In Plain Sight (2008), which was filmed in her hometown of Albuquerque, but she is best known for her role of Primrose Everdeen in The Hunger Games and the sequel The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.
Wilmer Eduardo Valderrama (born January 30, 1980) is an American actor and television personality. He is known for his roles as Special Agent Nick Torres on the CBS series NCIS, Fez On the sitcom That '70s Show (1998–2006), Agustín Madrigal in Encanto, and Carlos Madrigal in From Dusk till Dawn: The Series (2014–2016). He was also host of the MTV series Yo Momma (2006–07), the voice of Manny in the children's show Handy Manny (2006–2013), and has had recurring roles on Grey's Anatomy as well as…
Winona Laura Horowitz (born October 29, 1971), known professionally as Winona Ryder, is an American actress. She is the recipient of several awards, including a Golden Globe Award, and has been nominated for two Academy Awards. She is known for taking on quirky roles in her earlier films, later playing more prominent roles in the 1990s. After Ryder's film debut in Lucas (1986), she gained attention with her performance in Tim Burton's Beetlejuice (1988). She further rose to prominence with maj…
Winston Duke (born 15 November 1986) is a Tobagonian actor. Duke was born in Tobago and moved to Brooklyn, New York, United States, at age nine. Duke began his career with minor roles in theatre productions and recurring roles on the CBS science fiction series Person of Interest (2014–2015) and the ABC sitcom Modern Family (2016). He rose to prominence after playing M'Baku in several films of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which is one of the highest-grossing media franchises. He has since tak…
Wolf Kahler (born April 3, 1940) is a German actor born in Kiel. Since 1975, he has appeared in many English language US and UK television and film productions. An early role for him was Kaiser Wilhelm II in Michael York's adventure film The Riddle of the Sands. One of his most well-known roles was that of Dietrich in Raiders of the Lost Ark. Kahler's voice also appears in video games including as Kaiser Vlad in Battalion Wars. Kahler played the Prince of Tübingen in Stanley Kubrick's 1975 film…
Wyatt Jess Oleff is an American actor, known for portraying the role of Stanley Uris in the 2017 supernatural horror film It as well as its 2019 sequel. Oleff also had a minor role in the Marvel Studios films Guardians of the Galaxy and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, as the young Peter Quill.
Yoshito Yasuhara (安原 義人, Yasuhara Yoshito, November 17, 1949) is a Japanese actor, voice actor and narrator. He is 168 cm tall and his blood type is B. He is married to the actress and seiyū Yuri Kimura (木村有里). Born in Aioi City, Hyogo Prefecture, he graduated from Himeji High School, a school attached to Toyo University. He is a member of Theatre Echo, a theatre troupe and talent management firm known for its comedy sketches.
Yuki Hayashi (早志 勇紀, Hayashi Yūki, born May 4th) is a Japanese voice actor from Tokyo, Japan. After working at Office PAC, he currently belongs to LAL.
Yuko Sanpei is a voice actress, narrator and former child actress currently affiliated with Axl One.
Yumi Uchiyama (内山 夕実 Uchiyama Yumi, born October 30, 1987) is a Japanese voice actress from Tokyo, Japan and is affiliated with Office Osawa.
Yuzuru Tachikawa (立川 譲, Tachikawa Yuzuru; born December 2, 1981) is a Japanese anime director. Starting his career at Madhouse, he is known for directing the anime series Death Parade, Mob Psycho 100, and Deca-Dence. Tachikawa was born in Iruma District, Saitama on December 2, 1981.He graduated from the Nihon University College of Art, and later joined Madhouse as an animation director. Tachikawa directed the anime adaptation of Mob Psycho 100 from 2016 to 2022. The series received multiple ac…
Yvonne Zima is an American film and television actress, best known for playing the television roles of Rachel Greene on the medical series "ER" and Daisy on the daytime soap "The Young and the Restless".
Zach Robinson is an LA based composer, arranger, music producer, and electronic musician. After receiving his degree in music composition from Northwestern University, Zach worked closely as a collaborator with film composer Christophe Beck, writing additional music for feature films such as Frozen, Edge of Tomorrow, Ant-Man, Sisters, and The Peanuts Movie. In 2016, Zach co-composed and oversaw all music production of YouTube’s first developed sitcom, “Sing It!” created by YouTube superstars,…
Zackary Lowell Stentz is an American writer and producer of film and television, journalist, novelist, and teacher, best known for his work on Marvel properties with former writing partner Ashley Edward Miller. Stentz graduated from UC Santa Cruz with a degree in journalism. As a journalist, he wrote and edited for publications such as The Economist, Esquire, Sports Illustrated, and Entertainment Weekly. In addition, he was an environmental activist for Earth First! in the early 1990s. After …
Zacharias Ward (born August 31, 1970) is a Canadian actor. He is best known for his role as Scut Farkus in the 1983 film A Christmas Story and its 2022 sequel A Christmas Story Christmas.
Zenobia Shroff (born May 27, 1965) is an Indian-American actress appearing in film, theater and television. Shroff is known for her breakthrough role in The Big Sick (2017), and she stars as Muneeba Khan, the title character's mother, in the Disney+ TV series Ms. Marvel (2022).
William James Adams Jr., (born March 15, 1975), better known by his stage name will.i.am (will-i-am) and occasionally by his other stage name Zuper Blahq, is an American rapper, musician, songwriter, singer, actor and producer. will.i.am came to prominence in the 1990s as a member of the hip hop group The Black Eyed Peas along with rappers apl.de.ap and Taboo and, later, singer Fergie. As a music producer, he has produced with other artists including Juanes, Michael Jackson, Britney Spears, U2,…
Élodie Yung (French: [elɔdi juŋ]; born 22 February 1981) is a French actress. She is best known for her roles as Elektra Natchios in the 2016 second season of the Marvel Cinematic Universe Netflix series Daredevil and The Defenders, as well as Thony De La Rosa on the 2022 Fox series The Cleaning Lady. Yung was born in Paris on 22 February 1981. Her father is Cambodian and her mother is French. She grew up in Seine-Saint-Denis. Her father enrolled her in karate classes at age 9, and she eventua…
Óscar Jaenada (born May 4, 1975) is a Spanish actor and producer, known for films like Noviembre (2003), Camarón (2005), Los perdedores (2010), Piratas del Caribe: En mareas misteriosas (2011), Cantinflas (2014), After Words (2015), The Shallows (2016), Snatched (2017), Loving Pablo (2017), and Rambo:Last Blood (2019); and series like Hernán, Luis Miguel, Silent Cargo, Prime Time, Journey to the Center of the Earth (2023), and Midnight Family. He won the Platino for Best Actor in a Leading Role…
Igor Vitalievich Jijikine ( born July 4, 1965) is a Russian actor working in Los Angeles and Moscow. Over the recent years, Igor has worked with such directors as Steven Spielberg, Clint Eastwood and J. J. Abrams and has appeared in numerous commercial spots for major brands. Igor is also an accomplished sportsman and stage performer. He was honored as Master of Sports in the USSR and has performed with the Moscow State Circus, Donn Arden’s “Jubilee” and Cirque du Soleil's "Mystere" in Las Ve…
Tite Kubo (久保 帯人), born Noriaki Kubo (久保 宣章), is a Japanese manga artist. He is best known for his long-running series, Bleach.
Yoshiko Kamei (亀井 芳子, Kamei Yoshiko, May 25, 1967) is a Japanese voice actress Ibaraki Prefecture. She is affiliated with Mausu Promotion since 1990.
Satoshi Kon (October 12, 1963 – August 24, 2010) was a Japanese anime director and mangaka from Kushiro, Hokkaidō and a member of the Japan Animation Creators Association (JAniCA). He was a graduate of the Graphic Design department of the Musashino Art University. He is sometimes credited as "Yoshihiro Wanibuchi" (鰐淵良宏 Wanibuchi Yoshihiro?) in the credits of Paranoia Agent. He was the younger brother of guitarist and studio musician Tsuyoshi Kon.
Ryūji Nakagi (仲木 隆司, Nakagi Ryūji, October 24, 1936) is a Japanese actor and voice actor, currently affiliated with 81 Produce. His real name is Fumio Nakamoto (中本 文夫, Nakamoto Fumio).
Keiko Nobumoto was a Japanese screenwriter. She wrote the screenplay for Cowboy Bebop and created Wolf's Rain. Nobumoto died from esophageal cancer on December 1, 2021, at the age of 57.
Yuen Biao (Chinese: 元彪, born 26 July 1957) is a Hong Kong actor and martial artist. He specialises in acrobatics and Chinese martial arts and has worked on over 80 films as actor, stuntman and action choreographer. Along with Peking Opera School "brothers" at the China Drama Academy, Sammo Hung and Jackie Chan, he was a member of the"Seven Little Fortunes" performance troupe in Yu Jim-Yuen's China Drama Academy's Peking Opera School. Was a member of the Sammo Hung Stuntmen's Association.
Yuuko Hara (原 優子, Hara Yūko, born June 13, 1992) is a Japanese voice actress (seiyū) and stage actress from Saitama Prefecture. She is affiliated with Enkikaku. She is 158cm tall.
Akiko Tsuboi (坪井 章子 Tsuboi Akiko) is a Japanese voice actress born on January 1, 1937 in Shizuoka Prefecture. She has participated in series such as Galaxy Express 999 and Saint Seiya, and films such as Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind and Mobile Suit Gundam F91, among other works. It is affiliated with Aoni Production.
Ryusuke Ohbayashi (大林 隆介 Ōbayashi Ryūsuke, born March 13, 1946 in Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese voice actor. Some of his best known roles include Soun Tendo in Ranma ½ and Captain Kiichi Goto in Patlabor. He was formerly credited as Ryūnosuke Ōbayashi (大林 隆之介 Ōbayashi Ryūnosuke), and his real name is Shōchi Ōbayashi (大林 昌一 Ōbayashi Shōichi). He is employed by the talent management firm 81 Produce.
Michie Tomizawa (富沢 美智恵, former stage name: 富沢 美智江, Tomizawa Michie, October 20, 1961) is a Japanese voice actress, actress, singer, and narrator. She was born in Ueda City, Nagano Prefecture and raised in Takasaki City, Gunma Prefecture. She is affiliated with Aoni Production.
Kenichi Ono (小野 健一, Ono Ken'ichi, January 11, 1958) is a Japanese actor, tarento, and voice actor from Ikebukuro, Toshima-ku, Tokyo. His birth name is Kikuo Ono (小野 喜久男, Ono Kikuo). Kenichi presided over the theater company Chatter Gang. His former agencies were Production Baobab and Office Watt. Currently, he is attached to the agencies Remax since October 2006, and Rush Style since December 2018. His hobbies are marathon and hot yoga.
Ryoko Ono, born June 22, 1977, is a Japanese voice actress from Yokohama, Japan. She is currently affiliated with Power Rise. Yuuna Naha and Nazuna Gogyo are aliases used by Ryoko Ono for adult work.
Eiichiro Oda (Japanese: 尾田 栄一郎, Hepburn: Oda Eiichirō, born January 1, 1975) is a Japanese manga artist and the creator of the series One Piece. With more than 523.2 million tankōbon copies in circulation worldwide, One Piece is both the best-selling manga in history and the best-selling comic series printed in volume, in turn making Oda one of the best-selling fiction authors. The series' popularity resulted in Oda being named one of the manga artists that changed the history of manga. Since …
Yoshiyuki Kono (幸野 善之, Kōno Yoshiyuki, born May 21) is a Japanese voice actor and narrator from Tokyo. He is attached to Aoni Production.
Kōji Hashimoto (橋本 広司, Hashimoto Kōji, born 1 January 1956), known professionally as Kōji Yakusho (役所 広司, Yakusho Kōji), is a Japanese actor. He is known internationally for his starring roles in Shall We Dance? (1996), 13 Assassins (2010), The Third Murder (2017), The Blood of Wolves (2018), Under the Open Sky (2020) and The Days (2023). For his performance in Perfect Days (2023), he was awarded the Best Actor award in the 76th Cannes Film Festival.
Hideaki Tezuka is a Japanese actor and voice actor from Tochigi Prefecture. He is affiliated with Seinenza Theater Company.
Ginzō Matsuo (松尾 銀三, Matsuo Ginzō; December 26, 1951 – August 25, 2001) was a Japanese actor, voice actor and narrator who was born in Nakatsu, Oita, Japan as Kōichi Matsuo (松尾廣一, Matsuo Kōichi). He was part of Aoni Production at the time of his death, but he established Gin Production in 1997. He was most known for the roles of Hemu-Hemu (Nintama Rantarō) and Ginnosuke Nohara (Crayon Shin-chan).
Yoji Matsuda (松田 洋治, Matsuda Yōji, born October 19, 1967) is a Japanese actor and voice actor from Tokyo, Japan. He was born in Setagaya, Tokyo. His older brother is Naoyuki Matsuda, a musical translator and professor at Komazawa University. After studying at Aoyama Gakuin High School, he dropped out of Aoyama Gakuin University's Faculty of Letters and Department of Education. Among his classmates is a member of the Diet and the House of Councilors Renhō (his classmate from high school to univ…
Ko Shibasaki is a Japanese actress and singer who has performed in television shows, movies, and commercials. She is managed by Stardust Promotion.
William Duen Wai-lun, born 1958, was a one of the real life bodyguards of Jackie Chan along with Jackie Chan Stunt Team member Ken Lo, a role he performed from 1988 to 2003. He worked on many films with Jackie Chan and his stunt team and even did a few stunts himself. He was known more as a character actor than a stuntman, often playing police officials, including controversially in the movie High Risk (1995), which mocked Jackie Chan. In the movie Gorgeous (1999) he and fellow Jackie Chan body…
Hiro Mashima (真島ヒロ, Mashima Hiro) was born on May 3, 1977 and is a Japanese manga artist recognized for his fantasy manga Rave Master, Fairy Tail and Edens Zero.
Keiko Takeshita (竹下景子 Takeshita Keiko; born on September 15, 1953, in Higashi-ku, Nagoya, Japan) is a Japanese actress. She starred in the Japanese version of From Up on Poppy Hill as Hana Matsuzaki. Description above from the Wikipedia article Keiko Takeshita, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Naoto Takenaka is a Japanese actor, comedian, singer, and director from Yokohama, Kanagawa, affiliated with From First Production. He is married to former idol singer and actress Midori Kinouchi.
Rokuro Naya (納谷 六朗, Naya Rokurō, October 20, 1932 – November 17, 2014), real name: 納屋 六朗 (same reading), was a Japanese voice actor, actor and narrator. He was a lifelong resident of Tokyo and was affiliated with Mausu Promotion at the time of his death. His brother was the voice actor Gorō Naya (1929–2013) and his sister-in-law is an actress and voice actor Kachiko Hino. His wife is Mitsue Naya, the former president of Mausu Promotion, and his eldest son is Ryosuke Naya, also former president…
Gorō Naya (納谷悟朗) was a Japanese actor, voice actor, narrator, and theater director. He is most famous for voicing Inspector Kōichi Zenigata in the "Lupin III" anime series, and for his Japanese voice-overs of roles played by Clark Gable, Charlton Heston, and John Wayne. He died in 2013 due to chronic respiratory failure.
Yoko Kanno (菅野 よう子, Kanno Yōko, born March 18, 1963) is a Japanese composer, arranger and musician best known for her work on the soundtracks of anime films, television series, live-action films, video games, and advertisements. She was born in Sendai, Miyagi, Japan. She has written scores for Cowboy Bebop and its live-action adaptation, Darker than Black, Macross Plus, Turn A Gundam, The Vision of Escaflowne, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Wolf's Rain, Kids on the Slope, Genesis of A…
Toshiko Fujita (藤田 淑子, April 5, 1950 – December 28, 2018) was a Japanese actress, voice actress, singer, and narrator. She was affiliated with Aoni Production at the time of her death.
Gara Takashima is a veteran Japanese voice actress, she's been affiliated with Haikyou since 2010. She's been affiliated with them before until April 2008, after which she joined Across Entertainment until October 2009, when she went freelance until re-joining Haikyou. She is married to fellow voice actor Banjou Ginga.
Isao Takahata (October 29, 1935 – April 5, 2018), co-founder of Studio Ghibli, was one of the most famous directors of Japanese animated films. Unlike most anime directors, he did not draw and never worked as an animator before becoming a director. For the first two decades of his career from the 1960s to the 1980s, Takahata worked primarily as director for anime television. In 1985 he and his long-time collaborative partner Hayao Miyazaki formed Studio Ghibli with Toshio Suzuki and Yasuyoshi …
Curtis James Jackson III (born July 6, 1975), known professionally as 50 Cent, is an American rapper, actor, and television producer. Born in Queens, a borough of New York City, Jackson began pursuing a musical career in 1996. In 1999–2000, he recorded his debut album Power of the Dollar for Columbia Records; however, he was struck by nine bullets during a shooting in May 2000, causing its release to be cancelled. Jackson is to be dropped from the label. His 2002 mixtape, Guess Who's Back?, was…
Aasif Hakim Mandviwala (known professionally as Aasif Mandvi; born March 5, 1966) is a British-American actor, comedian and author. He made his television debut as a doorman at the Miami Biltmore Hotel in the episode "Line of Fire" of the series Miami Vice. In 2006, Mandvi auditioned for The Daily Show and was hired immediately and appeared on the show the same day. He began appearing as an occasional contributing correspondent on The Daily Show on August 9, 2006. On March 12, 2007, he was prom…
Abdul Wahab Mumuni (born 6 July 1979), known professionally as Abdul Salis, is a British actor. He played paramedic Curtis Cooper on Casualty, the longest-running medical drama broadcast in the UK. Description above from the Wikipedia article Abdul Salis, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Tall, dour-faced and slouch-shouldered character actor Abraham Charles Vigoda (February 24, 1921 – January 26, 2016) proved himself in both gritty dramatic roles, and as an actor with wonderful comedic timing. Vigoda was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Lena (Moses) and Samuel Vigoda, both Russian Jewish immigrants. His father was a tailor on the Lower East Side. He made his first stage appearance at the age of 17 and plodded away in small theater shows for over 20 years. For the majority of fil…
Adam Alexi-Malle, born in Siena, Italy, comes from a diverse background—his father hails from Italy (Sardinia) while his mother is Palestinian-Spanish. Their family journey took them from London, England, to eventually settling in the United States. Starting as a musician from a young age, training extensively in piano and violin across prestigious institutions worldwide, he initially aimed for a career as a concert musician before transitioning to acting after studying at the Royal Academy of …
Adam Copeland is a Canadian professional wrestler and actor currently signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW). He previously competed in World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) for more than two decades under the ring name Edge, becoming one of the most decorated and influential performers in company history. After making his professional wrestling debut in 1992, Copeland spent several years on the independent circuit, competing in both singles and tag team competition, most notably alongside his longt…
Adam Godley (born 22 July 1964) is a British actor. He has been nominated for two Tony Awards and four Laurence Olivier Awards for his performances on the New York and London stages which include, Private Lives in 2001, The Pillowman in 2002, Anything Goes in 2011, and The Lehman Trilogy in 2019. He made his Broadway debut in 2002 in a revival of Noël Coward's Private Lives for which he earned a Theatre World Award for Outstanding Broadway debut. In 2011 he returned to Broadway in the musical A…
Adam Richard Sandler (born September 9, 1966) is an American comedian, actor, and filmmaker. He was a cast member on Saturday Night Live from 1990 to 1995, before going on to star in many Hollywood films, which have combined to earn more than $2 billion at the box office. Sandler had an estimated net worth of $420 million in 2020, and signed a further four-movie deal with Netflix worth over $250 million. Sandler's comedic roles include Billy Madison (1995), Happy Gilmore (1996), The Waterboy (…
Adam Paul Scott (born April 3, 1973) is an American actor, producer, screenwriter, director and podcaster. He is best known for his roles as Ben Wyatt in the NBC comedy Parks and Recreation, Henry Pollard in the Starz comedy series Party Down, Palek in the HBO drama Tell Me You Love Me and Derek Huff in the 2008 film Step Brothers. He has appeared in the Adult Swim comedy Childrens Hospital. He was also on the show NTSF:SD:SUV::, and the annual Adult Swim special The Greatest Event in Televisio…
Born and raised in Brisbane, Australia. Daughter of a British father. Clemens began working as an actress on Australian television while in high school. She guest-starred in a 2006 episode of Blue Water High as Juliet, and in 2007, she starred in the children's series Pirate Islands: The Lost Treasure of Fiji as Alison. Clemens played Harper in the Showtime drama Love My Way that year, and was nominated for the Graham Kennedy Award for Most Outstanding New Talent at the 2008 Logie Awards for th…
Adelynn Spoon is an actress, known for Watchmen (2019) and Tell Me Your Secrets (2019).
Adil El Arbi (born June 30, 1988) and Bilall Fallah (born January 4, 1986) are Belgian film and television directors of Moroccan descent. The duo, collectively billed as Adil & Bilall, are known for writing and directing the feature films Image (2014), Black (2015), and Gangsta (2018), as well as directing Bad Boys for Life (2020) and the upcoming Bad Boys: Ride or Die (2024), the third and fourth installments of the Bad Boys franchise starring Will Smith and Martin Lawrence.
Adrian Molina (born August 23, 1985) is an American animator, storyboard artist and screenwriter who works for Pixar. He co-wrote the screenplay and story of Coco (2017), which he also co-directed. Description above from the Wikipedia article Adrian Molina, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Adrian Kayvan Pasdar (born April 30, 1965) is an American actor and film director. He is known for playing Jim Profit on the TV series Profit, for his roles in Near Dark, Carlito's Way, Mysterious Ways and as Nathan Petrelli on Heroes. Additionally, he directed the feature film Cement.
Adrianne Lee Palicki (born May 6, 1983) is an American actress and model. She is best known for her starring roles as Tyra Collette in the NBC sports drama series Friday Night Lights (2006–2011), as Bobbi Morse in the ABC superhero drama series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2014–2016), and as Commander Kelly Grayson in the Fox/Hulu science fiction comedy-drama series The Orville (2017–2022). Palicki also had supporting roles in the films Legion (2010), Red Dawn (2012), G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013), …
Aimee Sandimés Garcia López de Ordóñez (born November 28, 1978) is an American actress. She is known for her television roles as Veronica Palmero on the ABC sitcom George Lopez, Yvonne Sanchez on the CBS period drama Vegas, Jamie Batista on the Showtime drama Dexter and Ella Lopez on the Fox-turned-Netflix drama Lucifer. Description above from the Wikipedia article Aimee Garcia, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Aino Jawo is a Swedish DJ and singer. She is a member of the Swedish DJ and pop duo Icona Pop.
Alaa Safi is a French actor, director, and producer. He was the world champion in Tae Kwon Do at 18, then began his TV/Film career as an action actor and landed his first major role when he partnered with Jackie Chan in the movie Chinese Zodiac (2012). Since then, Alaa Safi has worked with multiple major studios such as Marvel's Doctor Strange (2016), The Mauritanian (2021), and most recently, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023). In addition to Alaa's film roles, he is also a series r…
Alain Chabat (French pronunciation: [alɛ̃ ʃaba]; born 24 November 1958) is a French actor, comedian, director, screenwriter, producer and television presenter. Originally known for his work in the comedy group Les Nuls, including as the co-writer and lead actor of La Cité de la peur (1994), he later co-created and hosted the Burger Quiz game show, which became the most watched entertainment show in the history of French television. Chabat has also become a notable filmmaker of his own, typicall…
Alan Alda (born January 28, 1936) is an American actor, director, screenwriter, and author. A six-time Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award winner, he is best known for his role as Hawkeye Pierce in the TV series MASH. He is currently a visiting professor at the Stony Brook University School of Journalism.
Alan Ford (born 23 February 1938) is an English actor. He is best known for his roles in Guy Ritchie gangster movies Snatch and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, and from appearing as separate characters in eight different episodes of The Bill. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alan Oppenheimer (born April 23, 1930) is an American actor. He has appeared in or provided voiceover performances for notable films such as In the Heat of the Night (1967), Westworld (1973), Freaky Friday (1976), Private Benjamin (1980), The NeverEnding Story (1984), 9 (2009), Foxcatcher (2014) and Toy Story 4 (2019). Oppenheimer studied at Carnegie Mellon University, earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1951. He began his acting career in the 1950s and gained recognition for his work in…
Born in 1952, Albie Woodington is a British film and theater actor. He attended the London Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. Woodington has had guest roles in the movies The First Knight, The 13th Warrior and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Alden Caleb Ehrenreich (/ˈɛrənraɪk/; born November 22, 1989) is an American actor. He began his career by appearing in the television series Supernatural (2005) and in Francis Ford Coppola's films Tetro (2009) and Twixt (2011). Following supporting roles in the 2013 films Blue Jasmine and Stoker, his breakthrough came in 2016 with a lead role in the Coen brothers' comedy Hail, Caesar!, for which he gained praise. Ehrenreich played Han Solo in Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018) and starred in the d…
Alessandro Antine Nivola (born June 28, 1972) is an American actor. His best-known roles include Pollux Troy in Face/Off (1997), Henry Crawford in Mansfield Park (1999), Billy Brennan in Jurassic Park III (2001), Arthur "Boy" Capel in Coco Before Chanel (2009), Anthony Amado in American Hustle (2013), Peter Forente in A Most Violent Year (2014), Governor Williams in You Were Never Really Here (2017), Mark Madoff in The Wizard of Lies (2017), photojournalist Lee Berger in the miniseries Chimeric…
Alex Bruhanski is an actor, known for Bird on a Wire (1990), Look Who's Talking Too (1990) and The Possession (2012).
Alex Daniels is a veteran stunt performer and actor whose extensive career has primarily focused on the physical requirements of genre cinema. He has contributed his expertise to major productions ranging from Starman and Cyborg to Holes and Borat, often working behind the scenes as a stunt double or coordinator for action-heavy sequences.
Alexander Medawar Garland (born 26 May 1970) is an English author, screenwriter, and director. He rose to prominence with his novel The Beach (1996). He received praise for writing the Danny Boyle films 28 Days Later (2002) and Sunshine (2007), as well as Never Let Me Go (2010) and Dredd (2012). In video games, he co-wrote Enslaved: Odyssey to the West (2010) and was a story supervisor on DmC: Devil May Cry (2013). Garland made his directorial debut when he wrote and directed the sci-fi thrill…
Alex Ivanovici is an Italian-Canadian actor. He is known for his roles as Ephor #2 in 300 (2006), Bartolomeo d'Alviano in Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (2010), Rick Trager in Outlast (2013), Quarantine Doctor in X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014), Doc in Rainbow Six: Siege (2015), Talos Rucker in Deus Ex: Mankind Divided (2016), and Cosmo/Lipless in Marvels: Guardians of the Galaxy (2021).
Alexander Draper Wolff (born November 1, 1997), known by his nickname and professionally as Alex Wolff, is an American actor, musician, and singer-songwriter. He first gained recognition for starring alongside his older brother, Nat, in the Nickelodeon musical comedy series The Naked Brothers Band (2007–2009), created by his mother, Polly Draper. Wolff's father, Michael Wolff, co-produced the series' soundtrack albums The Naked Brothers Band (2007) and I Don't Want to Go to School (2008), which…
Alexandre Astier (born 16 June 1974) is a French writer, director, editor, scriptwriter, humorist, actor and composer. Astier is most known as the creator, director, writer, editor, composer, and lead actor of the French television series Kaamelott, in which he also plays King Arthur. Alexandre Astier was born in Lyon on June 16, 1974, to Joëlle Sevilla and Lionnel Astier, both actors and producers mostly in Lyon's theatre scene. Alexandre Astier studied music at the conservatory and at the …
Alexandre Willaume-Jantzen (born December 20, 1972) is a Danish actor. He was born and raised in Hellerup. In 2000 he was educated at the State Theater School. He has participated in feature films, plays, cartoons, TV shows and commercials. He has two kids. From Wikipedia (da), the free encyclopedia
Alfie Williams (born January 3, 2011) is an English actor. He is best known for his role as Spike in the horror film 28 Years Later (2025).
Alfonso Cuarón Orozco (US: /kwɑːˈroʊn/kwar-OHN; Spanish: [alˈfonso kwaˈɾon]; born 28 November 1961) is a Mexican filmmaker. His accolades include four Academy Awards, seven BAFTA Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards. Cuarón made his feature film debut with the romantic comedy Sólo con tu pareja (1991) and directed the film adaptations A Little Princess (1995) and Great Expectations (1998). His breakthrough came with the coming-of-age film Y tu mamá también (2001), which earned him a nominatio…
Alice Maud Krige is a South African actress and producer. Her first feature film role was as the Gilbert and Sullivan singer Sybil Gordon in the 1981 Academy Award-winning film Chariots of Fire. Since then, she has played a variety of roles in a number of genres. Krige first played the role of the Borg Queen in the motion picture Star Trek: First Contact and reprised the role for the final episode of the television series Star Trek: Voyager. A year after the series ended, she reprised the role …
Alison Sealy-Smith (born 1959) is a Barbadian-born, Canadian actress who is best known for her role as Storm in various Marvel animated TV series. Smith was born in Bridgetown, Barbados, and raised in Toronto. She attended Mount Allison University in New Brunswick, Canada, where she studied psychology on a scholarship. She is the founding director of Obsidian Theatre, a company that specialises in African-Canadian drama. Smith was awarded a Dora Mavor Moore Award for her 1997 star turn in Dja…
Alison Sudol (born December 23, 1984) is an American actress, and singer-songwriter. She is formerly known as the singer A Fine Frenzy, and for her role as Queenie Goldstein in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016), as well as its sequels The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018) and The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022). Her music has been featured in numerous television shows and movies. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alison Sudol, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors …
Alvin Sargent (April 12, 1927–May 9, 2019) was an American screenwriter. He won two Academy Awards for Best Adapted Screenplay, for Julia (1977) and Ordinary People (1980). Sargent's other works include screenplays of the films The Sterile Cuckoo (1969), The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (1970), Paper Moon (1973), Nuts (1987), White Palace (1990), What About Bob? (1991), Unfaithful (2002), Spider-Man 2 (2004), Spider-Man 3 (2007), and The Amazing Spider-Man (2012). Alvin Sa…
Alyson Georgina Court (born November 9, 1973) is a Canadian actress who first appeared in the 1985 children's film Sesame Street Presents Follow That Bird, and played summer camper Dawn in the animated film The Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation the following year. She also played Loonette the Clown, the lead character of the Canadian children's television series, The Big Comfy Couch, from 1992 to 2003. Alyson has also been the only actress to voice Claire Redfield, in the Resident Evil seri…
Amanda Peet (born January 11, 1972) is an American actress, writer and producer. She began her career with small parts on television, and made her feature film debut in Animal Room (1995). Her portrayal of Jill St. Claire in The Whole Nine Yards (2000) brought her wider recognition, and she has since appeared in a variety of films, such as Saving Silverman (2001), High Crimes; Changing Lanes; Igby Goes Down (all 2002), Something's Gotta Give (2003), Identity (2003), Melinda and Melinda (2004), …
Amir Boutrous is a Film and Video Game Actor, Entertainer, Artist, and Performer. He is best known for for his roles in a wide assortment of both film and television projects such as Alien: Earth, which is coming out in the year 2025; Aladdin, which came out in the year 2019; and Skyfall from the year 2012. In the year 2014, he had a recurring role on the Howard Gordon penned FX series Tyrant.
Ana de la Reguera (born 8 April 1977) is a Mexican actress. She grew up in the tropical state of Veracruz, on the Gulf Coast of Mexico. She began her performance arts studies in the Cultural Institute of Veracruz, then left for Televisa's Center for Artistic Education (CEA) and TV Aztecas' artistic institute (CEFAC) in Mexico City, later taking study with Lisa Robertson and Aaron Spicer in Los Angeles and acting coach Juan 'Carlos Corzza in Spain. In theatre she participated in "El Cartero" ("I…
Rosalie Anderson MacDowell (born April 21, 1958) is an American actress and former fashion model. MacDowell is known for her starring film roles in romantic comedies and dramas. She has modelled for Calvin Klein and has been a spokeswoman for L'Oréal since 1986. Her early films include Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984) and the Brat Pack vehicle film St. Elmo's Fire (1985). Her breakout role was in Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989), which earned her the Independent Spirit A…
Andre Braugher (July 1, 1962 – December 11, 2023) was an American actor. He was best known for his roles in drama series such as Homicide: Life on the Street (1993-1999), Men of a Certain Age (2009-2011) and Brooklyn Nine-Nine (2013-2021). In terms of his film roles, he is known for City of Angels (1998), Passengers (2008), and She Said (2022).
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Andrea Roth (born September 30, 1967) is a Canadian actress. She is perhaps best known for her continuing role on the FX television series Rescue Me (2004–present), as Janet Gavin, the wife of main character Tommy Gavin.
Andrew B. Bachelor (born June 26, 1988), better known as King Bach, is a Canadian-American internet personality, actor, and content creator who was the most followed user on the now-defunct video sharing service Vine with 11.3 million followers.
Andrew Davis (born November 21, 1946) is an American film director, producer and cinematographer, noted for the action films Code of Silence, The Fugitive, Chain Reaction, Collateral Damage, Above the Law and Under Siege. Born on the south side of Chicago, Illinois, Davis has directed several films using Chicago as a backdrop. He is the son of actor Nathan Davis and Metta Davis and the brother of musician Richard "Richie" Peter Davis co-founder of the cover band Chicago Catz and Jo Ellen Friedm…
John Andrew Grush and Taylor Newton Stewart, known collectively as The Newton Brothers, are American film score composers, record producers, and multi-instrumentalists. Their works include scores for several films with director Mike Flanagan, who has composed for every project since Oculus (2013) and various other films and television series. Despite the name, they are not related. Early in their lives, Grush and Stewart were inspired to combine music and visuals and seek a career in film comp…
Andrew Lincoln (born Andrew James Clutterbuck; September 14, 1973) is an English actor. His first major role was as the character Egg in the BBC drama This Life (1996–1997). Lincoln later portrayed Simon Casey in the Channel 4 sitcom Teachers (2001–2003), Mark in the Christmas-themed romantic comedy film Love Actually (2003) and Dr. Robert Bridge in the ITV television series Afterlife (2005–2006). Beginning in 2010, Lincoln gained international fame for his portrayal of Rick Grimes, the lead c…
Andrew Robinson (born February 14, 1942) is an American film, stage, and television actor. Robinson is known to specialize in playing devious and psychotic roles. Originally a stage actor, he works predominantly in supporting roles on television and in low-budget films. He is best known for his roles in Dirty Harry and Hellraiser as well as on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
Andrew Woodall was born on June 1, 1963 in Hertfordshire, England, UK. He is an actor, known for The Count of Monte Cristo (2002), Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018) and Belle (2013).
Born in the heart of Ukraine, in a city called Kharkiv, Andrey Ivchenko was always a dreamer and very passionate about television and film. As his desire to be an actor grew, Andrey enrolled in his high school theater programs and realized he was a natural at memorizing lines quickly and learned how to own the stage. At the age of 18, Andrey joined the U.S.S.R. military and served for 2 years. After he got out, he attended college and got his Masters Degree in Kinesiology. Knowing his opportun…
Andy Milder (born August 16, 1969) is an American actor. Milder was born in Omaha, Nebraska. He moved to Santa Monica, California, at a young age and then went to the University of California, Berkeley, majoring in Economics before studying at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. He has appeared in such films as Apollo 13, Armageddon, Rumor Has It…, Frost/Nixon, Transformers, and Domino. He was a series regular on Fame L.A. and Weeds, and appeared on such shows as Star Trek: Voy…
Angela Sarafyan, sometimes credited as Angela Sarafian, is an Armenian-American actress. She has appeared as a guest star in several television series and has acted in the feature films: Kabluey (2007), On the Doll (2007), A Beautiful Life (2008), The Informers (2008), A Good Old Fashioned Orgy (2011), Lost & Found in Armenia (2012), and Reminiscence (2021). She portrayed Clementine Pennyfeather throughout the four seasons of the HBO series Westworld (2016–22).
Angus MacLane is an American director, animator, screenwriter, and voice actor best known for his work work at Pixar. He directed short films BURN-E, Small Fry, and the television special Toy Story of Terror! His feature film credits include co-directing Finding Dory (2016) and Lightyear (2022) as its sole director.
Anna Kay Faris (born November 29, 1976) is an American actress. She rose to prominence for her comedic roles, particularly the lead part of Cindy Campbell in the Scary Movie films (2000–2026). Faris' film credits include May, The Hot Chick (both 2002), Lost in Translation (2003), Brokeback Mountain, Just Friends (both 2005), My Super Ex-Girlfriend (2006), Smiley Face (2007), The House Bunny (2008), What's Your Number? (2011), The Dictator (2012), and Overboard (2018). She also had voice-over r…
Anna J. Foerster (born 1971) is a German-born American film and television cinematographer and director. She is best known for collaborations with director Roland Emmerich, working under different capacities on every film directed by him dating back to Independence Day (1996), with the exception of the film The Patriot (2000). As a second unit cinematographer, Foerster worked on the films Alien Resurrection (1997), Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever (2002), Johnson Family Vacation (2004), The Day After…
Anna Maria Horsford is an American actress, known for her performances in television comedies. Horsford is best known for her roles as Thelma Frye on the NBC sitcom Amen (1986–91), and as Dee Baxter on the WB sitcom The Wayans Bros. (1995–99). She had dramatic roles on the FX crime drama The Shield playing A.D.A. Beth Encardi, and CBS daytime soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful as Vivienne Avant, for which she was nominated for the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Guest Performer i…
Anna Katherine Popplewell (born 16 December 1988) is an English actress. Popplewell is known for playing Susan Pevensie in the fantasy film series The Chronicles of Narnia (2005–2008), that earned her a number of accolades. Aside from her The Chronicles of Narnia role, Popplewell played the role of Chyler Silva in the web series Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn (2012) which is based on the video game of the same name, and starred as Lady Lola in the historical romantic drama series Reign (2013–2016),…
Anna Torv (born 7 June 1979) is an Australian actress. She is known for her roles as Olivia Dunham on the Fox science fiction series Fringe (2008–2013), Wendy Carr in the Netflix crime thriller series Mindhunter (2017–2019), and Tess in the HBO post-apocalyptic drama series The Last of Us (2023). Her performance in Fringe earned her four Saturn Awards for Best Actress on Television and nominations for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actress in a Drama Series.
Anne Archer is an American actress. She starred as Beth in the psychological thriller film Fatal Attraction (1987), which earned her nominations for the Academy Award, BAFTA Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress. Archer was named Miss Golden Globe in 1971, and in the year following, appeared in her feature film debut The Honkers. Archer's other film appearances include Paradise Alley (1978), Raise the Titanic (1980), Patriot Games (1992), Short Cuts (1993), Clear and Presen…
Annette O'Toole (born Annette Toole; April 1, 1952) is an American actress. She is known for portraying Lisa Bridges in the television series Nash Bridges, adult Beverly Marsh in the 1990 television mini-series adaptation of Stephen King's epic horror novel It, Lana Lang in Superman III, Kathy in the romantic-comedy film Cross My Heart and Martha Kent (the adoptive mother of Clark Kent) on the television series Smallville.
Ansel Elgort (born March 14, 1994) is an American actor and singer. He began his acting career with a supporting role in the horror film Carrie (2013) and gained wider recognition for starring as a teenage cancer patient in the romantic drama film The Fault in Our Stars (2014) and for his supporting role in The Divergent Series (2014–2016). In 2017, he played the title character in Edgar Wright's action thriller Baby Driver, for which he received a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actor i…
Anthony Willis is known for M3GAN (2022), Promising Young Woman (2020) and How to Train Your Dragon: Homecoming (2019).
Anthony Chinn (1930 – 22 October 2000) was a Guyanese actor based in England who appeared in over 50 films and television series throughout a career which spanned more than four decades. Chinn also had early uncredited roles in the James Bond films Dr. No (1962), Goldfinger (1964) and You Only Live Twice (1967), later playing a Taiwanese businessman in A View to a Kill (1985). Chinn played the Kitai in John Huston's The Kremlin Letter (1969), a Chinese assassin in The Pink Panther Strikes Agai…
Anthony Douglas Gillon Dawson (18 October 1916 – 8 January 1992) was a Scottish actor, best known for his supporting roles as villains in films such as Alfred Hitchcock's Dial M for Murder (1954) and Midnight Lace (1960), as well as playing Professor Dent in the James Bond film Dr. No (1962). He also appeared as Ernst Stavro Blofeld in From Russia with Love (1963) and Thunderball (1965).
Anthony James (born James Anthony; July 22, 1942 – May 26, 2020) was an American character actor who specialized in playing villains in films and television, many of them Westerns.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Anthony Starke (born June 6, 1963) is an American actor. Starke is well known for his one episode role in Seinfeld, playing the 3rd person-speaking character Jimmy in "The Jimmy", as well as playing Jack on The George Carlin Show, on Fox.
Arben Bajraktaraj (born January 29, 1973) is an Albanian actor from Kosovo. He has starred in numerous French films but also in international films, such as Eden Log and Sex Traffic. He has frequently portrayed crime syndicate operatives in films like Taken and Verso. He was also well known for his role as the Death Eater Antonin Dolohov in the Harry Potter films. Bajraktaraj has worked throughout his career with numerous film directors such as Gérard Pirès, Xavier Ruiz, Tony Gatlif and Pierre …
Archie James Beale (born 22 November 1997), known professionally as Archie Renaux, is an English actor and model. He stars in the Netflix series Shadow and Bone. He appeared in the BBC One miniseries Gold Digger.
Arden VanAmringe Myrin (born December 10, 1973) is an American actress and comedian. She's known for her role of Regina Sinclair on the Netflix series Insatiable, and starred in the world premiere of Steve Martin's play Meteor Shower at the Long Wharf Theatre. Her television credits include Insecure, Grey's Anatomy, Conan, Orange Is the New Black, Hung, Key & Peele, Inside Amy Schumer, W/ Bob & David, Psych, Bones, Fresh Off the Boat, Suburgatory, 2 Broke Girls, Reno 911!, Shameless, and Gilmo…
Athar ul-Haque Malik (born 13 November 1952), known professionally as Art Malik, is a Pakistani-born British actor who achieved international fame in the 1980s through his starring and subsidiary roles in assorted British and Merchant Ivory television serials and films. He is especially remembered for his portrayal of the out-of-place Hari Kumar in The Jewel in the Crown at the outset of his career. He also portrayed Islamic extremist Salim Abu Aziz in True Lies.
Art Parkinson is an Irish actor from Moville in Inishowen, County Donegal, Ireland. He began his professional acting career at the age of seven, and is best known for his role as Rickon Stark on the HBO series Game of Thrones (2011–2013; 2016), and the voice of Kubo in the Laika animated film Kubo and the Two Strings (2016).
Art Stevens was an animator at Walt Disney Productions during the Golden Age of American Animation. Stevens began as an In-Betweener on the 1940 film Fantasia. After doing in-between work on several films, he received his first screen credit as a character animator was on Peter Pan in 1953. During his career, Stevens contributed to the storyboards and animation in many Disney cartoon shorts and feature films including Ward Kimball's critically acclaimed 1950s television documentaries Man in Spa…
Arthur Malet (24 September 1927 – 18 May 2013) was an English actor. He was known for appearing in Mary Poppins (1964), Halloween (1978), The Secret of NIMH (1982), and Hook (1991). Malet was born in Lee-on-Solent, Hampshire, England in 1927. He emigrated to the United States in the 1950s, starting out onstage and winning two Drama Desk Awards in 1957. He came to some prominence in the 1960s, starring in films playing characters much older than his real age, such as Mr. Dawes, Jr. in Mary Popp…
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Ash Brannon (born 1969 in Columbus, Georgia) is an American animator, writer and director. He was a story artist and directing animator on Toy Story and co-director on Toy Story 2. Besides working at Pixar he has also worked with Dreamworks Animation on Over the Hedge and Sony Pictures Animation on Surf's Up. Studying in CalArts Character Animation program, Brannon likewise practiced his skills in animation as a trainee for Disney's The Little Mermaid. F…
Ashanti Shequoiya Douglas born October 13, 1980 is an American recording artist, record producer and actress who rose to fame in the early 2000s. Ashanti is most famous for her eponymous debut album, which featured the hit song "Foolish", and sold over 503,000 copies in its first week of release throughout the U.S. in April 2002. The album set a Soundscan record as the biggest opening week sales for a new female artist, outselling debuts by Alicia Keys and Lauryn Hill. In the same week, she bec…
Ashley Eckstein is an American actress and fashion designer. She is the founder of the fashion label Her Universe. She is best known for voicing the role of Ahsoka Tano throughout the Star Wars franchise, beginning with Star Wars: The Clone Wars in 2008.
Ashley Edward Miller (born March 16, 1971) is an American screenwriter and producer best known for his work on the television series Andromeda, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, and Fringe. He also worked on the films Thor and X-Men: First Class. Born in Windber, Pennsylvania, Miller's family relocated, and he grew up in Gainesville, Virginia. He was a member of the first graduating class at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology. His first job out of college was as a m…
Athena Karkanis (born 7 September 1981) is a Canadian television, film, and voice actress. She is best known for her role in the supernatural drama series Manifest, as well as supporting turns in Low Winter Sun, The Expanse, and Zoo. Karkanis has also had a number of regular voice roles, notably Skyland, Growing Up Creepie, Total Drama, and Wild Kratts.
Aubrey Christina Plaza (born June 26, 1984) is an American actress, comedian, and producer. As a teenager, she began acting in local theatre productions and performed improv and sketch comedy at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. After graduating from New York University Tisch School of the Arts, Plaza made her feature film debut in Mystery Team (2009). She gained wide recognition for her role as April Ludgate on the NBC political satire sitcom Parks and Recreation (2009–2015). In film, Pla…
Audrey Fleurot is a French actress, born July 6, 1977 in Mantes-la-Jolie in the Yvelines. She became known to the general public through the role of the Lady of the Lake in Kaamelott (2005-2009). It confirms with those of Josephine Karlsson in Engrenages (2005-2020) and Hortense Larcher in Un village français (2009-2017). At the same time, she broke into the cinema by playing in the hit film Intouchables (2011). Alternating first and secondary roles, she led a prolific career from then on and…
Audrie J. Neenan (born October 28, 1950) is an American stage and screen actress. Many of her roles have been portrayals of intimidating female figures such as judges, policewomen and mouthy waitresses. Notable film appearances include Sudden Impact (1983), Funny Farm (1988), See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989), The Departed (2006), and Doubt (2008). Neenan made her Broadway debut opposite Faye Dunaway in William Alfred's Curse of an Aching Heart, directed by Gerald Gutierrez. She went on to appe…
August Diehl (born 4 January 1976) is a German actor, who is known for playing the Gestapo Sturmbannführer Dieter Hellstrom in Inglourious Basterds, and Michael "Mike" Krause, Evelyn Salt's husband, in the movie Salt. Description above from the Wikipedia article August Diehl, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Austin Campbell Pendleton (born March 27, 1940) is an American actor, playwright, theatre director, and instructor. Pendleton is known as a prolific character actor on the stage and screen, whose six-decade career has included roles in films including Catch-22 (1970); What's Up, Doc? (1972); The Front Page (1974); The Muppet Movie (1979), Short Circuit (1986); Mr. and Mrs. Bridge (1990); My Cousin Vinny (1992); Amistad (1997); A Beautiful Mind (2001), which earned him a Screen Actors Guild Awa…
Ayahi Takagaki (高垣 彩陽, Takagaki Ayahi, born October 25, 1985) is a Japanese voice actress, singer and stage actress from Tokyo who is affiliated with MusicRay'n. She is a member of the J-pop idol unit Sphere.
Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio (born March 10, 1994), known professionally as Bad Bunny, is a Puerto Rican rapper, singer, record producer, and occasional professional wrestler. Dubbed the "King of Latin Trap", he is widely credited with helping Spanish-language rap reach mainstream global popularity and is considered one of the greatest Latino rappers of all time. Bad Bunny rose to prominence in 2016 with his song "Diles", which led to a recording contract with Hear This Music. He continued g…
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Badja Medu Djola (born Bernard Bradley; April 9, 1948 – January 8, 2005) was an American actor from Brooklyn, New York who worked primarily within Black film. He is best known for Mississippi Burning, Penitentiary, A Rage in Harlem, and Who's the Man? Description above from the Wikipedia article Badja Djola, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Leonard Barrie Corbin (born October 16, 1940) is an American film and television actor. His is best known for his role as the pompous former astronaut Maurice Minnifield on Northern Exposure (1990–1995), which earned him two Primetime Emmy Award nominations. Corbin also had prominent recurring or starring roles in the series Lonesome Dove, One Tree Hill, The Closer, Anger Management, The Ranch, and Better Call Saul. In film, he has acted in many genres including thrillers (WarGames, The Hot Spo…
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Basil Poledouris (August 21, 1945 – November 8, 2006) was an American music composer who concentrated on the scores for films and television shows. Poledouris won the Emmy Award for Best Musical Score for work on part four of the TV miniseries Lonesome Dove in 1989. He is best known for scores such as Conan the Barbarian (1982), RoboCop (1987), Spellbinder (1988), The Hunt for Red October (1990), RoboCop 3 and Starship Troopers (1997).
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Beatrice "Beatie" Edney (born 23 October 1962) is an English actress. Born in London, she is the daughter of actress Sylvia Syms, and sister of Benjamin Edney and a cousin of musician Nick Webb. Edney first came to audiences' attention as Heather MacLeod in the 1986 film Highlander, the first film in the Highlander series. She returned to the role again in the 2000 film Highlander: Endgame. In 1987 Edney performed the title role in the TV production of 'T…
Beau Christian Knapp (born April 17, 1989) is an American actor. He is known for his roles in The Signal (2014), Run All Night (2015), and Southpaw (2015). Knapp portrayed a lead villain in Death Wish (2018), the sixth installment of the Death Wish series. In 2021, he starred in the TV series adaptation of The Lost Symbol. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Béchir Sylvain (born September 16, 1981) is a Haitian-American actor, writer, director, and producer. He is best known for his roles on the hit Starz series “BMF,” Netflix’s horror drama “Black Summer” and the BET+ comedy mystery series “Diarra From Detroit.”
Beck Bennett (born October 1, 1984) is an American actor and comedian. He was a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live for eight seasons, joining the show for its 39th season in 2013 and leaving at the end of its 46th season in 2021. Prior to SNL, he performed in AT&T's "It's Not Complicated" commercials, in which he interviewed children and produced sketch videos with the comedy group Good Neighbour. Description above from the Wikipedia article Beck Bennett, licensed …
Benjamin Huntington Wright was an English actor. He was best known for playing Herr Zeller in The Sound of Music. He also played numerous roles in famous films and worked as voice actor, having roles in animated films by Disney Studios such as One Hundred and One Dalmatians, The Jungle Book and The Little Mermaid
Benjamin Walker (born born June 21, 1982) is an American actor, best known for his film appearances in Kinsey (as Alfred Kinsey at age 19), Harlon Block in Clint Eastwood's Flags of Our Fathers, and his critically acclaimed portrayal of Andrew Jackson in the Off- and On Broadway incarnations of Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson.
Betsy Sodaro (June 10, 1984) is an American actress. She is a regular performer at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in Los Angeles. She is best known for her appearances on comedy programs such as Ghosts, Another Period, Duncanville, Clipped, Animal Practice, Nailed It, Big Time in Hollywood, FL and the Netflix show Disjointed.
Bette Midler (/bɛt ˈmɪdlər/ bet MID-lər; born December 1, 1945) is an American actress, comedian, singer, and author. Throughout her five-decade career, Midler has received numerous accolades, including four Golden Globe Awards, three Grammy Awards, three Primetime Emmy Awards, two Tony Awards, and a Kennedy Center Honor, in addition to nominations for two Academy Awards and a British Academy Film Award. Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, Midler began her professional career in several off-off-Broadway…
Betty Lynn Buckley (born July 3, 1947) is an American actress and singer who has worked in film, television and theatre. She possesses a singing of voice of great power and beauty and has achieved great success in cabaret and concerts. Betty has also sustained a successful recording career with numerous cast albums and 18 solo albums to her credit, for which she has been nominated for two Grammys. Buckley is widely known for the 1977–81 TV series Eight Is Enough. She joined the show in its sec…
Betty Marion White Ludden (January 17, 1922 – December 31, 2021) was an American actress and comedian, with the longest television career of any entertainer, spanning 80 years. Regarded as a pioneer of television, she was one of the first women to have control both in front of and behind the camera and is recognized as the first woman to produce a sitcom (Life with Elizabeth), which contributed to her receiving the honorary title Mayor of Hollywood in 1955. White was known for her award-winnin…
Bilal Ali Hasna is a British actor and playwright. He starred in the film Layla (2024). On television, he is known for his roles in the Star series Extraordinary (2023–24) and the Amazon Prime series Dead Hot (2024). Hasna was named a 2023 Screen International Star of Tomorrow Hasna was born in central London to a Palestinian father and a Pakistani Punjabi mother. Hasna attended Haberdashers' Boys' School in Elstree. He graduated from the University of Cambridge in 2020 with a Bachelor of Arts…
Bilall Fallah (born January 4, 1986) is a Belgian film and television director. Known for directing the feature films Image (2014), Black (2015), and Gangsta (2018), as well as directing Bad Boys for Life (2020) and Bad Boys: Ride or Die (2024), the third and fourth installments of the Bad Boys franchise starring Will Smith and Martin Lawrence.
Bill Baldwin was born on November 26, 1913, in Pueblo, Colorado, USA. He was an actor, known for Rocky (1976), Rocky II (1979), and Rocky III (1982). He died on November 17, 1982, in Los Angeles County, California, USA. He was an announcer, actor, narrator, and sportscaster — and one of the select few radio war correspondents covering World War II.
William Condon (born October 22, 1955) is an American director and screenwriter. Condon is known for writing and/or directing numerous successful and acclaimed films, including Gods and Monsters, Chicago, Kinsey, Dreamgirls, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2, and Beauty and the Beast. He has received two nominations for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, Gods and Monsters and Chicago, winning for the former. Description above from …
Bill Fagerbakke was born on October 4, 1957 in Fontana, California, USA as William Mark Fagerbakke. He is an actor, known for The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (2015), SpongeBob SquarePants (1999) and The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004). He has been married to Catherine McClenahan since 1989. They have two children.
William Mills Irwin (born April 11, 1950) is an American actor, choreographer, clown, and comedian. He began as a vaudeville-style stage performer and has been noted for his contribution to the renaissance of the American circus during the 1970s. He has made several appearances on film and television. He won a for his role in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? He also worked as a choreographer on Broadway. He was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Choreography in 1989 for Largely New York. He i…
Muscular African American sports star, actor, media identity and inventor of the phenomenally popular "Tae Bo" fitness system, derived from his extensive martial arts training. Blanks was born in Eerie, Pennsylvania in 1955 amongst humble backgrounds and grew up as one of 15 children, battling dyslexia and tendon problems. However that didn't stop him from starting his martial arts training at age 14 and eventually achieving black belts in tae kwon do & several other arts, and winning numerous …
William Gregory Magnussen (born April 20, 1985) is an American actor. He has been featured in the films Into the Woods (2014), Bridge of Spies (2015), Birth of the Dragon (2016), Game Night (2018), and Aladdin (2019), and has had supporting television roles in Get Shorty (2017) and Maniac (2018). In 2021, Magnussen starred in the sci-fi series Made for Love on HBO Max and appeared in the films The Many Saints of Newark and No Time to Die. In 2023, he starred as Rey "The King" Kingston in Spy Ki…
Bisha Kanval Ali (born 17 March 1989) is a British stand-up comedian and screenwriter. She is the head writer on the Disney+ series Ms. Marvel (2022) and won the BAFTA Award for Best Writer: Drama for co-writing "Demon 79" (2023), the fifth episode of season six of Black Mirror, with Charlie Brooker. Description above from the Wikipedia article Bisha K. Ali, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Blake Ritson won a scholarship to St. Paul's School in London before attending Cambridge University and was soon appearing in the West End in the Tom Stoppard play 'Arcadia', for which he received excellent notices. In addition to acting - notable television roles have included 'Emma', 'Upstairs Downstairs' and 'Mansfield Park' with Billie Piper - he has also co-directed and co-written four prize-winning short films with his brother Dylan, another Cambridge graduate and ex-member of the Footlig…
Robert Elmer Balaban, Born: August 16, 1945, Chicago, Illinois, U.S (Height: 5' 5" [1.65 m]). is an American actor, author, comedian, director, and producer. He is best known for his appearances in the Christopher Guest mockumentary comedies Waiting for Guffman (1996), Best in Show (2000), A Mighty Wind (2003), and For Your Consideration (2006), as well as his roles in the films Midnight Cowboy (1969), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Altered States (1980), 2010 (1984), Deconstructing…
Robert "Bob" Francis Hastings (April 18, 1925 – June 30, 2014) was an American radio, film, and television character actor. He also provided voices for animated cartoons. He was best known for his portrayal of annoying suck-up Lt. Elroy Carpenter, on McHale's Navy. Hastings was born in Brooklyn, New York, a son of Charles and Hazel Hastings, Sr. His father was a salesman. Hastings started in radio on "Coast-to-Coast on a Bus" (NBC). Hastings served during World War II in the United States Army…
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Robert Lee Minor or Bob Lee Minor (born January 1, 1944) is an African-American stunt performer, television and film actor, best known for doubling many celebrities such as: Jim Brown, Fred Williamson, Bernie Mac, Danny Glover, Carl Weathers and John Amos. Minor was born in Birmingham, Alabama, and made his first television appearance in 1973 on the television program, Search, then appeared in tons of shows such as: Barnaby Jones, McCloud, The Six Million …
Robert Persichetti Jr. (born September 28, 1970) is an American filmmaker, animator, and storyboard artist. He is best known for co-directing the film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. Description above from the Wikipedia article Bob Persichetti, licensed under CC-BY-SA, is a full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Robert "Bobby" Lee Jr. (born September 17, 1971) is an American actor and comedian best known as a cast member on Mad TV from 2001 to 2009 and for his roles in the film Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, Pineapple Express and The Dictator. In 2016 Bobby and his girlfriend, Khalyla Kuhn, started a weekly podcast called Tigerbelly that has a number of notable guests including, Asa Akira, Charlie Finn, Stephen Rannazzisi, Michael Rosenbaum, Margaret Cho, Chris D'Elia and Jordan Peele. Description…
Robert Francis "Bobcat" Goldthwait is an American screen and voice actor, comedian, screenwriter, and film and television director. He became recognized as a solo stand-up comedian and had a record "Meat Bob" and two televised concert specials in the 1980s. During the fall of 1993, he performed stand-up material as an opening act for Nirvana on what would be their final North American tour. Goldthwait is commonly known for his energetic, ravenous stage personality, his dark, acerbic black comed…
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, and left to move back home to New York to try acting professionally. Bonnie sang in many bands in the NYC music scene, and had a development deal to sing her own mu…
Bowen Yang (born November 6, 1990) is an American actor, comedian, podcaster, and writer. Yang was hired to join the writing staff of the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live in September 2018, ahead of its 44th season, and a year later was promoted to on-air cast status for SNL's 45th season. He made history becoming the first SNL featured player to be nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award in 2021. He was promoted to repertory status before the 47th season. Yang has appeared in the tel…
Bradford Dillman (April 14, 1930 – January 16, 2018) was an American actor, as well as an author starred in the taut crime drama Compulsion (1959). The lanky, dark-haired Dillman also played Robert Redford's best friend J.J. in The Way We Were (1973). Dillman also appeared opposite Clint Eastwood in the Dirty Harry films The Enforcer (1976) and Sudden Impact (1983). In director Richard Fleischer's Compulsion, derived from the infamous Leopold & Loeb case of the 1920s, Dillman and Stockwell sta…
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Bradford "Brad" Lewis (born c. 1958) is an American film producer and local politician. He produced DreamWorks' Antz and, for Pixar, the Oscar winning Ratatouille. He is a former mayor of the city of San Carlos, California. Description above from the Wikipedia article Brad Lewis, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Bradley James is an English actor. He is best known for starring as Arthur Pendragon in the BBC series Merlin (2008–12), Damien Thorn in Damien (2016), Varga in Underworld: Blood Wars, Giuliano de' Medici in Medici: The Magnificent (2018–2020), and Lieutenant Colonel Felix Sparks in The Liberator (2020).
Brandon Roberts (born 1976) is an American composer for film and television. He has frequented collaborated with Marco Beltrami.
Brandon James Routh (born October 9, 1979) is an American actor and former fashion model. He grew up in Iowa before moving to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career, and subsequently appeared on multiple television series throughout the early 2000s. In 2006, he gained greater recognition for his role as the titular superhero of the 2006 film Superman Returns. He also had a recurring role in the TV series Chuck, as Daniel Shaw. Following this, he had notable supporting roles in the films Zack an…
Brandon Soo Hoo (born November 2, 1995) is an American actor and martial artist of Chinese descent known for playing Tran in the 2008 film Tropic Thunder and for his series regular role on the Cartoon Network sketch comedy series Incredible Crew. Soo Hoo played Scott Fuller on the El Rey Network horror-drama series From Dusk till Dawn: The Series, based on the film of the same name.
Brenda Buell Vaccaro (born November 18, 1939) is an American stage, television and film actress.
Brent Jennings (born April 13, 1951) is an American actor. He was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, and is a 1969 graduate of Little Rock Central High School. He played Oakland Athletics coach Ron Washington in the 2011 film Moneyball, played supporting character Ernie, traveling plumbing salesman in the short-lived, but acclaimed AMC television series Lodge 49 and currently stars in the TV series All American. Description above from the Wikipedia article about Brent Jennings, licensed under CC-…
Brent V. Friedman was a movie, TV and video game writer. Some of his credits include titles like Necronomicon: Book of the Dead, Dark Skies, Star Trek: Enterprise, Mortal Kombat: Annihilation and Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars. He wrote the treatment for a Fallout movie in 1998 for Interplay Films, a division of Interplay. Eventually the division was disbanded and the movie was canceled. The full treatment was later leaked in 2011. Friedman was a founding partner in Electric Farm Entertai…
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Brian Haley (born February 12, 1963) is an American actor and stand-up comedian. His stand-up act is characterized by playing his all-American looks against manic outbursts and absurd situations. As an actor he may be best known for his roles as Veeko the incompetent kidnapper in the John Hughes film Baby's Day Out, the over the top football father Mike Hammersmith (aka Spike's dad) in Little Giants, or Clint Eastwood's son "Mitch" in the movie Gran Torino.
Brian J. Williams is an American stuntman, stunt actor, stunt double, and actor. He was the main stunt double for Brent Spiner on Star Trek: The Next Generation, four Star Trek films and Star Trek: Enterprise. He was also a regular stunt performer on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, where he doubled actors such as Marc Alaimo, René Auberjonois, and Robert O'Reilly. He received no on-screen credit for most of his Star Trek television work.
Brian Reddy is an American actor. He guest-starred in Buffy the Vampire Slayer as Police Chief Bob Munroe. He also appeared in the Bill Murray film What About Bob? (Check those out if you want his real voice.) He made his only Seinfeld appearance as Dan, The High Talker, in "The Pledge Drive". Needless to say, that was not Brian's real voice you heard. It was that of a voice-over actress.
Brianna Caitlin Hildebrand is an American actress. She is known for appearing in the web series Annie Undocumented, and as Negasonic Teenage Warhead in the films Deadpool and Deadpool 2 where she reprised the role, during which her character was confirmed to be the first openly gay superhero in the X-Men cinematic universe. She was also cast as Sasha in First Girl I Loved, starring opposite Dylan Gelula and Mateo Arias. She is also known as Elodie Davis in the show Trinkets on Netflix. In July …
Bridget Fonda is an American former actress born on January 27, 1964, in Los Angeles, California. She comes from a legendary acting family—her grandfather was Henry Fonda, her father was Peter Fonda, and her aunt is Jane Fonda. She gained recognition for her roles in films such as The Godfather Part III (1990), Single White Female (1992), Point of No Return (1993), Jackie Brown (1997), and A Simple Plan (1998). Fonda was nominated for a Golden Globe for her performance in Scandal (1989) and re…
Kathryn Bridget Moynahan (born April 28, 1971 height 5' 9½" (1,77 m)), best known as Bridget Moynahan, is an American model and actress. After graduating from Longmeadow High School in 1989, Moynahan pursued a career in modeling. She was signed by a modeling agency, which led her to appear in department store catalogs and the covers of widely known magazines. After doing television commercials, she began taking acting lessons, in order to change occupations. Moynahan made her television debut …
Brock Peters or Brock G. Peters (born George Fisher; July 2, 1927 – August 23, 2005) was an American actor, best known for playing the role of Tom Robinson in the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird and for his role as "Crown" in the 1959 film version of Porgy and Bess. In later years, he gained recognition among Star Trek fans for his portrayals of Fleet Admiral Cartwright in two of the Star Trek feature films and Joseph Sisko, father of Benjamin Sisko, in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. He was also n…
Bruce Adler (November 27, 1944 – July 25, 2008) was an American Broadway actor. After debuting on the Broadway stage in the 1979 revival of Oklahoma!, he went on to a career that saw him nominated for Tony Awards as Best Featured Actor in a Musical for Those Were the Days (1991) and Crazy For You (1992). His film work was limited to voice work in animated films, notably providing the singing voice for the peddler of the 1992 Disney film Aladdin and the 1996 sequel Aladdin and the King of Thieve…
Bruce Harold Broughton (born March 8, 1945) is an American orchestral composer of television, film, and video game scores and concert works. He has composed several highly acclaimed soundtracks over his extensive career and has contributed many pieces to music archives, including the 1994 version of the 20th Century Studios fanfare, and conducting the Cinergi Pictures logo composed by Jerry Goldsmith. He has won ten Emmy Awards and has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Scor…
A character actor who grew up in Rhode Island. His best remembered roles is that of Danny Scalercio in The Sopranos.
Cailee Spaeny (born July 24, 1998) is an American actress. Her first major roles were in the science fiction film Pacific Rim Uprising and the neo-noir film Bad Times at the El Royale (both 2018). Her television roles include appearances in the miniseries Devs (2020), Mare of Easttown (2021), and the second season of the anthology series Beef (2026). For producing the latter, she earned a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series. In 2023, Spaeny recei…
Callum Robilliard Turner (born 15 February 1990) is an English actor. After beginning a career as a fashion model, he began working in film and television. He had lead roles in the drama film Queen and Country (2014) and the mystery miniseries Glue (2014). He played Theseus, the brother of Newt Scamander, in the fantasy films Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018) and Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022). Turner's performance in the mystery series The Capture (2019) e…
Cameron Bruce Crowe (born July 13, 1957) is an American screenwriter and film director. Before moving into the film industry, Crowe was a contributing editor at Rolling Stone magazine, for which he still frequently writes. Crowe has made his mark with character-driven, personal films that have been generally hailed as refreshingly original and devoid of cynicism. Michael Walker in The New York Times called Crowe "something of a cinematic spokesman for the post-baby boom generation" because his…
Cameron Oppenheimer, also known as Cameron. Cameron was born on 27 September 1953. She is known for her work on Pulp Fiction (1994), Sunset Strip (1993) and The Tomorrow Man (1996).
Campbell Scott (born July 19, 1961) is an American actor, producer, director, and voice artist. His notable TV roles include Boris Kuester von Jurgens-Ratenicz on Royal Pains, Mark Usher on House of Cards, Frank O'Brien on Soundtrack, George Brown on Lore, Joseph Tobin on Damages, and Steven Casemen on Six Degrees. His notable film roles include Victor Gaddes in Dying Young, Steve Dunne in Singles, Scott Corrigan in The Love Letter, Ethan Thomas in The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Sloan Cates in M…
Carice Anouk van Houten, born on September 5, 1976, is a Dutch stage and film actress. One of Europe's most celebrated actresses, Carice van Houten is perhaps best known as 'Melisandre' in the iconic TV show Game of Thrones, a performance for which she has been recognized with an Emmy Award nomination in 2019. Other projects include Paul Verhoeven's award-winning Black Book and Bryan Singer's Valkyrie opposite Tom Cruise and as Melisandre on Game of Thrones. Recent projects include Instinct and…
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Carlos Jacott (born July 28, 1967) is an American actor. He has guest-starred in numerous television series, such as Seinfeld, Firefly, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, and Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. He has starred in films, such as Kicking and Screaming, Mr. Jealousy, Being John Malkovich, The Last Days of Disco, Grosse Pointe Blank, and Fun with Dick and Jane.
Arthur Carlton Cuse (born March 22, 1959) is an American screenwriter, showrunner, producer, and director, best known for the American television series Lost, for which he made the Time list of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2010. Description above from the Wikipedia article Carlton Cuse, licensed under CC-BY-SA, is a full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Carmine Valentino Coppola (Italian: [ˈkarmine ˈkɔppola]; June 11, 1910 – April 26, 1991) was an American composer, flautist, pianist, and songwriter who contributed original music to the films The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, Apocalypse Now, The Outsiders, The Black Stallion, and The Godfather Part III. He is the father of film director Francis Ford Coppola. In the course of his career, he won both the Academy Award for Best Original Score and the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score…
Carol Creighton Burnett (born April 26, 1933) is an American actress, comedienne, singer, dancer and writer. Burnett started her career in New York. After becoming a hit on Broadway, she made her television debut. After successful appearances on The Garry Moore Show, Carol moved to Los Angeles and began an eleven-year run on The Carol Burnett Show which was aired on CBS television from 1967 to 1978. With roots in vaudeville, The Carol Burnett Show was a variety show which combined comedy sketch…
Carolyn Laurie Kane (born June 18, 1952) is an American actress and comedian. She became known in the 1970s in films such as Hester Street (for which she received an Oscar nomination) and Annie Hall. She appeared on the television series Taxi in the early 1980s, as Simka Gravas, the wife of Latka, the character played by Andy Kaufman, winning two Emmy Awards for her work. She has played the character of Madame Morrible in the musical Wicked, both in regional productions and on Broadway from 20…
Carole Augusta Shelley (16 August 1939 – 31 August 2018) was an English-American actress who made her career in the United States and United Kingdom. Her many stage roles included Gwendolyn Pigeon in The Odd Couple and Madame Morrible in the original Broadway cast of the musical Wicked. She won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her performance in The Elephant Man in 1979. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Caroline Cruice Goodall (born November 13, 1959) is a British actress and screenwriter. She was nominated for AFI Awards for her roles in the 1989 miniseries Cassidy, and the 1995 film Hotel Sorrento. Her other film appearances include Hook (1991), Cliffhanger (1993), Schindler's List (1993), Disclosure (1994), White Squall (1996), The Princess Diaries (2001) and The Best of Me (2014).
Caroline Hjelt is a Swedish DJ and singer. She is a member of the Swedish DJ and pop duo Icona Pop.
Casey Dubois was born on August 12, 1993 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He is an actor, known for Snakes on a Plane (2006), The Final Cut (2004) and Are We There Yet? (2005).
Casey Siemaszko (born Kazimierz A. Siemaszko) is a Polish-American actor and the brother of actress Nina Siemaszko. The son of a fighter in the Polish Underground who survived the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, Siemaszko narrated the 1998 feature, The Polish-Americans. Siemaszko was a graduate of the Goodman School of Drama at DePaul University in Chicago, which his sister, Nina Siemaszko later also attended. His acting career consists of smaller roles in dozen of popular films, including Ba…
Caspar Jennings is known as voice actor for Operation Mincemeat (2021), Sing (2016), Sing 2 (2021), and Migration )2023).
Catherine Lisa Bell (born 14 August 1968) is a British-American actress and model known for her roles as Lieutenant Colonel Sarah MacKenzie in the television series JAG from 1997 to 2005, Denise Sherwood in the series Army Wives from 2007 to 2013, and Cassandra "Cassie" Nightingale in Hallmark's The Good Witch films and television series from 2008 to 2021.
Celeste O'Connor (born December 2, 1998) is a Kenyan-born American actor. O'Connor was born in Nairobi, Kenya and raised in Baltimore, MD for the majority of their life. They began their career as an actor with the independent film, Wetlands (2017). Since then, O'Connor has appeared in films such as Selah and the Spades (2019), Freaky (2020), Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021), Madame Web (2024), Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024) and Scream 7 (2026).
Charisma Carpenter is an American actress known for her captivating performances and striking presence on both television and film. She was born on July 23, 1970, in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Carpenter's breakthrough role came in 1997 when she was cast as Cordelia Chase, a popular and sharp-tongued high school student, in the iconic television series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Her portrayal of Cordelia earned her a dedicated fan base and led to her becoming a beloved character in the show's spi…
Charlaine "Charlayne" Woodard (born December 29, 1953) is an American playwright and actress. She is a two-time Obie Award winner as well as a Tony Award and Drama Desk nominee. Description above from the Wikipedia article Charlayne Woodard, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Charles Hamilton Eglee (born November 27, 1951) is an American film and television screenwriter and producer. He worked extensively for Steven Bochco productions throughout the 1990s. For Bochco productions he co-created Byrds of Paradise with frequent collaborator Channing Gibson and co-created Murder One with Gibson and Bochco. Eglee co-created the series Dark Angel with James Cameron. He was a writer and executive producer on The Shield and Dexter. He served as a member of the production te…
Charles Halford is an actor, known for True Detective (2014), Constantine (2014), and Logan Lucky (2017), as a voice actor he is known for The Death and Return of Superman (2019), Tangled: The Series (2017), and Rise of the Tomb Raider (2015).
American actor best known for his role as anchorman Jim Dial on Murphy Brown.
After writing the 1996 film Sunchaser, the 1998 film The Mighty and the 2001 film K-PAX, Leavitt was hired by Warner Bros. in February 2004 to rewrite an early draft of the film Blood Diamond, then titled Okavango. The story had been stuck in "development hell" at the studio for years before producers Paula Weinstein and Gillian Gorfil finally decided on the story of an African farmer caught up in the conflict between an American smuggler and the local diamond mining organization. Leavitt resea…
Charles Martin Smith (born October 30, 1953) is an American film actor, writer, and director.
Carlos Irwin Estévez (born September 3, 1965), known professionally as Charlie Sheen, is an American actor. He has appeared in films such as Platoon (1986), Wall Street (1987), Young Guns (1988), The Rookie (1990), The Three Musketeers (1993), and The Arrival (1996). In the 2000s, when Sheen replaced Michael J. Fox as the star of ABC's Spin City, his portrayal of Charlie Crawford earned him a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor. He then starred as Charlie Harper on the CBS sitcom Two and a Half M…
Tessa Charlotte Rampling OBE (born 5 February 1946) is an English actress, model and singer, known for her work in European arthouse films in English, French, and Italian. An icon of the Swinging Sixties, she began her career as a model and later became a fashion icon and muse.
Chasty Ballesteros is a Canadian actress who has had roles in Smallville, Supernatural, Psych,Sanctuary, and How I Met Your Mother.
Chelan Simmons (born Chelan Lauren Simmons, October 29, 1982, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) is a Canadian actress and former professional model, 5′ 4″ (163 cm) tall. The middle child of three, she made her screen debut at age seven as Laurie Ann Winterbarger (the first victim of Pennywise) in the TV miniseries IT (1990), and went on to work as a child model and commercial actor before transitioning to film and television. She is married to Greg Street (since 2015) and has one child. H…
Chloë Grace Moretz is an American actress. She began acting as a child, with early roles in the supernatural horror film The Amityville Horror (2005), the drama series Desperate Housewives (2006–07), the supernatural horror film The Eye (2008), the drama film The Poker House (2008), the drama series Dirty Sexy Money (2007–08), the romantic comedy film 500 Days of Summer (2009) and the children's comedy film Diary of a Wimpy Kid (2010). Her breakthrough came in 2010 with her critically acclaime…
Chris Appelhans (born April 28, 1980) is an American illustrator, production designer, and director known for writing/directing Sony Pictures Animation's Wish Dragon (2021) and co-directing KPop Demon Hunters (2025). He started as a concept artist for films like Monster House, The Princess and the Frog, and Coraline, earning an Annie Award nomination for Coraline, and has illustrated children's books like A Greyhound, a Groundhog. He studied at Art Center College of Design and resides in Los An…
Christian Paul Bacon (born March 17, 1977) is an American composer. His film scores include Alpha and Omega (2010), Source Code (2011), Gnomeo & Juliet (2011), Sherlock Gnomes (2018) and Men in Black: International (2019). He was the composer for all 50 episodes of the A&E drama series Bates Motel, for which he was nominated for an Emmy Award, and also composed the music for 26 of the 32 episodes of the NBC musical drama series Smash. Description above from the Wikipedia article Chris Bacon (c…
Chris Chalk is an American stage and screen actor, a graduate of the Theater Program at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Christopher O'Dowd (born 9 October 1979) is an Irish actor and comedian. He received wide attention as Roy Brenneman, one of the lead characters in the Channel 4 comedy The IT Crowd, which ran for four series from 2006 to 2010. He has starred in films including Gulliver's Travels (2010), Bridesmaids, Friends with Kids (2011), Cuban Fury (2014), Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016) and The Cloverfield Paradox (2018). He created and starred in the Sky 1 television series Moone Boy, …
Chris Sheffield (born July 13, 1988) is an American actor. He is best known for playing the role of Ben in The Maze Runner and Will Mason in The Last Ship.
Christian Berkel (born October 28, 1957) is a German actor. Berkel was born in Berlin, Germany. His father was a military doctor. From the age of 14 he lived in Paris where he took drama lessons with Jean-Louis Barrault and Pierre Berlin. He then trained at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin and appeared on stage in Augsburg, Düsseldorf, Munich, Vienna and at the Schiller Theatre, Berlin. He has appeared in many German television productions and secured a major role in the Acad…
Christian Camargo (born July 7, 1971) is an American actor, perhaps best known for his role of Brian Moser in the Showtime drama Dexter.
Christian Erickson (born August 30, 1946) is an American actor based in Paris, France. He is known for his role as General Kormarov in the film adaption of Hitman and as Lance Boyle, the TV presenter in the MegaRace video games series.
Christian Gudegast is an American writer, filmmaker, and director born on February 9, 1970, in Los Angeles, California.
Christina Chong is a British actress, dancer and musician born in Enfield, London, to a Chinese father and an English mother. She began dancing at the age of four and attended the Sutcliffe School of Dance in Longridge. At 14, she gained a place at the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts in London, graduating five years later. After graduation, she moved to Berlin to star in the European premier of the musical Aida, written by Elton John and Tim Rice. After sustaining an injury, Chong returne…
Christina Renée Hendricks (born May 3, 1975) is an American actress and former model. With an extensive career on screen and stage, she has received various accolades, including six Primetime Emmy Award nominations, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and two Critics' Choice Awards for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. She is probably best known for her role as Joan Harris in the critically acclaimed AMC drama series Mad Men. In 2010, a poll of female readers taken by Esquire magazine name…
Christina Hodson is an English screenwriter. She is best known for writing the films Bumblebee (2018), Birds of Prey (2020), and The Flash (2023). Her screenplay Shut In appeared on the 2012 edition of the Black List, an annual list of Hollywood's best-unproduced screenplays. However, the resulting film, released in 2016, was critically panned. Another of her screenplays, The Eden Project, was picked up by Sony Pictures in 2014. Description above from the Wikipedia article Christina Hodson, li…
Christina Pickles (born February 17, 1935) is an English actress, best known for role of Nurse Helen Rosenthal in the hospital drama St. Elsewhere, for which she was nominated for four Emmys. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Christopher Neal Jackson (born September 30, 1975) is an American actor, singer, musician, and composer. He began his career in 1995 starring in the Off-Broadway musical Time and the Wind by composer Galt MacDermot when he was just 20 years old. He made his Broadway debut in 1997 as an ensemble member in the Original Broadway Cast of Disney's The Lion King. He remained with the show for several years, ultimately taking over the role of Simba. He went on to perform leading roles in several more …
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Christopher Neame (born 12 September 1947, London) is an English actor. His film credits include appearances in the Hammer Horror film Dracula AD 1972 (1972), the James Bond film Licence to Kill (1989), Ghostbusters II (also 1989), Hellbound (1994) and The Prestige (2006). He is known to television viewers in the UK for his roles in two BBC dramas dealing with the Second World War - Lieutenant Dick Player in Colditz (1972–74) and Flight Lieutenant John Cur…
Christy Scott Cashman is known for Edge of Darkness (2010), The Pink Panther 2 (2009) and American Hustle (2013).
Chukwuma Modu is a British actor best known for his roles in Game of Thrones, The Good Doctor and The 100.
Claudia Lee Black is an Australian actress and voice actress, best known for her portrayals of Aeryn Sun in Farscape, Vala Mal Doran in Stargate SG-1 and Sharon "Shazza" Montgomery in the film Pitch Black. She has had prominent roles in video games, such as Chloe Frazer in Uncharted, Morrigan in Dragon Age, Admiral Daro'Xen and Matriarch Aethyta in Mass Effect and Samantha Byrne in Gears of War 3, Gears of War 4, and Gears of War 5. She also had a recurring role as Dahlia in The Originals and s…
Clay Donahue Fontenot is known for Blade II (2002), Iron Man (2008) and Logan (2017).
Clifton Avon "Cliff" Edwards (June 14, 1895 – July 17, 1971), nicknamed "Ukulele Ike", was an American musician, singer, actor and voice actor, who enjoyed considerable popularity in the 1920s and early 1930s, specializing in jazzy renditions of pop standards and novelty tunes. He had a number-one hit with "Singin' in the Rain" in 1929. He also did voices for animated cartoons later in his career, and is best known as the voice of Jiminy Cricket in Walt Disney's Pinocchio (1940) and Fun and Fan…
British stage and screen writer/director and actor. As well as an acting career, Dyer is well known for his work as a leading writer & director at the Royal National Theatre in London, UK.
Clive Standen is was born on a British Army base in Holywood, County Down, Northern Ireland, and at the age of two he had moved across the water to Leicestershire in the East Midlands. He went to school at King Edward VII School (Melton Mowbray) followed by a performing arts course at Melton Mowbray College. His first experience of stunts and sword fighting was at the tender age of 12 when Standen got his first job working in a professional stunt team in Nottingham learning to Ride, Joust and s…
Colin Andrew Ignatius Peter McFarlane (born 15 September 1961) is a British actor and voice actor. He is best known for his role as Gillian B. Loeb in two films of Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Trilogy, Ulysses in the STARZ television drama series Outlander and as the voice of Bulgy in the children's television series Thomas & Friends.
Colin Morgan is an actor from Northern Ireland. He is known for playing the title character in the BBC fantasy series Merlin (2008–2012), Leo Elster in Humans (2015–2018), and Billy Clanton in Kenneth Branagh's Belfast (2021). Morgan made his London theatre debut in 2007 as the title character in DBC Pierre's Vernon God Little. He went on to appear in the theatre productions Pedro Almodóvar's Todo sobre mi madre ("All About My Mother") in 2007, Thomas Babe's A Prayer for My Daughter in 2008, P…
Collin Chou (Chinese: 鄒兆龍) is a Taiwanese actor and martial artist. Chou is best known in the United States for his portrayal of Seraph in the films The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions. In Asian cinema, Chou has co-starred with Jet Li, Donnie Yen and Sammo Hung in martial arts films such as Fearless (2006), and Flash Point (2007). He is also known for playing the antagonist Shang Wei in Hail the Judge (1994), which starred Stephen Chow, and playing Jade Warlord in The Forbidden Kingd…
Colton Haynes (born July 13, 1988) is an American actor and model. He is best known for his role as Jackson Whittemore in MTV's supernatural drama series Teen Wolf. At the age of fifteen, Haynes began modeling for Abercrombie & Fitch while living in New York City, New York. After moving to Los Angeles, California, he began acting in television series such as CSI: Miami and Pushing Daisies and Arrow.
Conrad Khan was born in London, England in 2000. He made his debut playing Young Eric in The Huntsman: Winters War (2016). He is know for his leading role in County Lines (2019), and was nominated for the Bafta rising star award after this. He is also know for his role as Duke in season 6 of Peaky Blinders (2022).
Corbin Dean Bernsen (born September 7, 1954) is an American actor and film director. He is best known for his roles as retired police detective Henry Spencer on USA Network's series Psych and it's subsequent TV movies, divorce attorney Arnold Becker on the NBC drama series L.A. Law and the TV movie, and Roger Dorn in the Major League trilogy. He also portrayed Jerry in Lay the Favorite (2012), Gil Gordon in The Big Year (2011), Harlan Dexter in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005), Dr. Alan Feinstone in…
Cornell Salmonn John (born 1963) is a British actor who has appeared in various film and television productions since 1999. He is most renowned for his role as Trife's uncle, Curtis, in the films Kidulthood (2006), Adulthood (2008) and Brotherhood in addition to later starring in the BBC soap opera EastEnders as Sam James, during 2013. He is also known for having originated the role of Mufasa in the West End production of the musical The Lion King.
Cory D. Hardrict (born November 9, 1979) is an American actor and film producer. He's best known for his roles as Dallas Bertrand in Tyler Perry's Divorce in the Black, Marcus Turner in CW's All American: Homecoming, Kelly Jamerson in City of Lies, Cole Hammond on Crackle's The Oath, Haitian Jack in All Eyez on Me, 'D' (Dandridge) in American Sniper, Joel Edmund in Transcendence, Cpl. Jason Lockett in Battle: Los Angeles, Tyrone in He's Just Not That Into You, Duke in Grant Torino, and Packer i…
Courtney Bernard Vance (born March 12, 1960) is an American actor. Vance started his career on the Broadway stage in the original productions of August Wilson's Fences in 1985, John Guare's Six Degrees of Separation in 1990 and Nora Ephron's Lucky Guy in 2013 for which he won a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play. He is known for his roles in films such as Hamburger Hill (1987), The Hunt for Red October (1990), The Preacher's Wife (1996), Cookie's Fortune (1999), Terminator Genisys (20…
Craig Bierko is an American stage and screen actor and singer, best known for playing the lead role Chet Wilton in the Lifetime dramedy series "UnREAL". He holds an BS in Theater Arts from The School of Speech, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.
Craig John Fairbrass (born January 15, 1964, in Mile End, London, England) is an English actor, producer, and screenwriter, 6′ 3″ (191 cm) tall, the son of seamstress Maureen and dock worker Jack Fairbrass. He grew up in Stepney, East London, was expelled from Eaglesfield Boys Comprehensive School at 15, and joined the National Youth Theatre. He made his film debut opposite Denzel Washington in For Queen & Country (1988), and his Hollywood breakthrough came as Delmar in Cliffhanger (1993, with …
Craig Paul Kyle (born November 3, 1971) is an American writer for Marvel Comics. He is best known for creating the character X-23. He has also produced several of Marvel's direct-to-DVD animated films and worked on several aspects of the Thor film series. Description above from the Wikipedia article Craig Kyle, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Craig Theodore Nelson (born April 4, 1944) is an American actor known for his Emmy-winning role as Hayden Fox on the ABC sitcom Coach. He's also known for his roles in Poltergeist, Stir Crazy, and The Incredibles. Before becoming an actor in 1971, Nelson was a gag writer and comic based in Los Angeles. He studied at Central Washington University and the University of Arizona.
Curtis Armstrong (born November 27, 1953) is an American actor best known for the Revenge of the Nerds movies, Moonlighting, and Ray.
Cyril Raffaelli (born 1 April 1974) is a French traceur, martial artist and stuntman. Description above from the Wikipedia article Cyril Raffaelli, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Daniel Brett Weiss (/waɪs/; born April 23, 1971) is an American television writer and producer. Along with his collaborator David Benioff, he is best known for co-creating Game of Thrones (2011–2019), the HBO adaptation of George R. R. Martin's series of books A Song of Ice and Fire (published 1996-2011 for the first five). Description above from the Wikipedia article D. B. Weiss, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Daniel Bernard "D. B." Sweeney (born November 14, 1961) is an American actor. Some of his best-known roles include Jackie Willow in Francis Ford Coppola's Gardens of Stone (1987), Lt. Phil Lowenthal in Memphis Belle (1990), and Travis Walton in Fire in the Sky (1993). He also starred in The Cutting Edge (1992), Eight Men Out (1988), Dinosaur (2000), and Brother Bear (2003).
Khaled Mohamed Khaled (born November 26, 1975), professionally known as DJ Khaled, is an American record producer, radio personality, DJ and record label executive. He previously went by the name Arab Attack, but changed it after the 9/11 attacks, as he did not want to appear insensitive. He was a radio host for the Miami-based urban music radio station WEDR and the DJ for the hip hop group Terror Squad. From 2004 to 2006, Khaled assisted in the production of the hip-hop albums Real Talk by Fab…
Da'Vine Joy Randolph (/deɪˈvaɪn/; born May 21, 1986) is an American actress. She first gained recognition for her portrayal of psychic Oda Mae Brown in the Broadway production of Ghost (2012), for which she received a nomination at the Tony Awards for Best Featured Actress in a Musical. Randolph went on to appear in the films The Angriest Man in Brooklyn (2014) and Office Christmas Party (2016) prior to receiving praise for her roles in Dolemite Is My Name (2019) and The United States vs. Billi…
Daisy Jazz Isobel Ridley (born 10 April 1992) is an English actress, who rose to prominence for her role as Rey in the Star Wars sequel trilogy: The Force Awakens (2015), The Last Jedi (2017), and The Rise of Skywalker (2019). She also appeared in the mystery film Murder on the Orient Express (2017), played the title character of the romantic drama Ophelia (2018), and has done occasional voice acting, notably the live-action/animated film Peter Rabbit (2018) and video games such as 12 Minutes.…
Dakota Mayi Johnson (born October 4, 1989) is an American actress. The daughter of actors Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith, Johnson made her film debut at age ten with a minor role in Crazy in Alabama (1999), directed by her then-stepfather Antonio Banderas and starring her mother. After graduating from high school, she began auditioning for roles and had a minor part in The Social Network (2010). Johnson had her breakthrough playing the lead role in the erotic Fifty Shades film series (2015–20…
Jorge Damián Alcázar Castello is a renowned Mexican actor, born in Jiquilpan, Michoacan, on January 8, 1953. One of the most talented and recognized contemporary actors, Damián studied at the National Institute of Fine Arts, and later studied at the Centro of Theater Experimentation and, later, at the Faculty of Theater at the Universidad Veracruzana, where, years later, he would be a teacher. After several years in the theater, Damián made his film debut with The Center of the Labyrinth (1985)…
Dan Harris (born August 29, 1979) is an American screenwriter and director best known for working with Michael Dougherty and Bryan Singer, and whose writing credits include Superman Returns, X2, and X-Men: Apocalypse. Harris was raised in Kingston, Pennsylvania. He went to Wyoming Valley West Middle and High Schools and graduated from Wyoming Seminary. Before he received his bachelor's degree from Columbia University, Harris's short film Urban Chaos Theory won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Sho…
Daniel Jeannotte is a Canadian actor. He gained recognition for his roles as Brandon Russell in the American-Canadian fantasy television series Good Witch, and as James Stuart in the CW period drama series Reign.
Daniel Thomas "Dan" O'Bannon (September 30, 1946 – December 17, 2009) was an American screenwriter and director of science fiction and horror films. He is best known for his work on "Alien" (1979), "The Return of the Living Dead" (1985) and "Total Recall" (1990).
Dan Romer is an American film composer, music producer and songwriter based in Los Angeles. Description above from the Wikipedia article Dan Romer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Dan Scanlon (born June 21, 1976) is an American animator, storyboard artist and director, working for Pixar, for whom he has directed Monsters University and Onward. Scanlon was an animator for Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World, The Indescribable Nth and Joseph: King of Dreams. He served as a storyboard artist for The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea and 101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure. Scanlon joined Pixar in 2001, where he was a story artist for Cars and Toy Story 3. He …
Dan Starkey (born 27 September) is an actor known for making numerous appearances in the BBC One science-fiction TV series Doctor Who. He has portrayed a number of different Sontaran characters, most notably Strax, who has come across the Eleventh and Twelfth incarnations of the Doctor, played by Matt Smith and Peter Capaldi respectively. Since 2016, he has appeared in all 36 episodes of the sketch series Class Dismissed. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Daniel Jonathan Stevens (born 10 October 1982) is an English actor. He first drew international attention for his role as Matthew Crawley in the ITV period drama series Downton Abbey (2010–2012). He also starred as David in the thriller film The Guest (2014), Sir Lancelot in the adventure film Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (2014), The Beast/Prince in Disney's live-action adaptation of Beauty and the Beast (2017), Lorin Willis in the biographical legal drama Marshall (2017), Charles D…
Dan Trachtenberg (born May 11, 1981) is an American filmmaker and podcast host. He is best known for directing the films 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016) and Prey (2022), the former earning him a Directors Guild of America Award nomination for Outstanding Directing – First-Time Feature Film. For television, he directed the pilot episodes of The Boys (2019) and The Lost Symbol (2021), the latter of which he also served as an executive producer. Trachtenberg was one of three hosts of The Totally Rad …
Dana Thomas Carvey (born June 2, 1955) is an American actor and stand-up comedian, best known for his work as a cast member on Saturday Night Live from 1986 to 1993 and for playing the role of Garth in Wayne's World (1992) and Wayne's World (1993). Carvey is also known for his film roles in comedies such as Moving (1988), Opportunity Knocks (1990), Trapped in Paradise (1994), and The Master of Disguise (2002).
Dana Gourrier is an American stage, film and television actress, best known for her supporting roles in Quentin Tarantino's feature films "Django Unchained" and "The Hateful Eight". She holds a BFA in Performance Art from the University of Louisiana, Lafayette, and an MFA in Acting from the California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, USA.
Dane William DeHaan (born February 6, 1986) is an American actor, known for his roles as Andrew Detmer in Chronicle (2012), Harry Osborn/Green Goblin in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014), Lockhart in A Cure for Wellness (2016), Valerian in Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017), and Chris Lynwood in ZeroZeroZero. In 2021, he starred in psychological romance horror miniseries Lisey's Story.
Daniel Alexander Betts (born December 10, 1971 in Cuckfield, West Sussex, England). He trained under Yat Malmgren and Christopher Fettes at the Drama Centre, London, graduating in 1993. His varied career has included many roles on the British and International stage, as well as TV and film work including Fury (2014), and the upcoming Brad Pitt films War Machine (2016) and Allied (2016).
Daniel Gerson (August 1, 1966 – February 6, 2016) was an American screenwriter and voice actor, best known for his work with Pixar Animation Studios and Walt Disney Animation Studios. He co-wrote the screenplays of Monsters, Inc., Monsters University and Big Hero 6, which was reported to be his last film as screenwriter. Gerson contributed material to Chicken Little, Curious George, Cars, Meet the Robinsons, Up, Inside Out and Zootopia, as well as television shows including Misguided Angeles, …
Daniel Henney was born in Carson City, Michigan, to a Korean adoptee mother and Philip Henney, his American father of Irish descent. Daniel Henney started modeling in the U.S. in 2001 and worked in France, Italy, Hong Kong and Taiwan while attending college. After his debut in South Korea with an advertisement for the Amore Pacific's cosmetic "Odyssey Sunrise", he became a spokesperson for commercials with Jun Ji-hyun for Olympus cameras and Kim Tae-hee for Daewoo Electronics's Klasse air condi…
Daniel Kaluuya (/kəˈluːjə/; born 24 February 1989) is a British actor and filmmaker. His work encompasses both screen and stage, and his accolades include an Academy Award, two British Academy Film Awards, and a Golden Globe Award. In 2021, he was named among the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine. Kaluuya began his acting career as a teenager in improvisational theatre. He played Posh Kenneth in the first two seasons of the television series Skins (2007–2009); he also c…
Daniel "Dan" Waters (born November 10, 1962 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American screenwriter and film director. He is the older brother of director Mark Waters. Description above from the Wikipedia article Daniel Waters, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Daniela Melchior (European Portuguese: [dɐniˈɛlɐmɛlʃiˈɔɾ]; born 1 November 1996) is a Portuguese actress. Born in Almada, Setúbal, she launched her career in 2014 with a role in the telenovela Mulheres. She went on to appear in the teen drama Massa Fresca (2016), telenovelas Ouro Verde (2017), and A Herdeira (2018). Melchior made her film debut in 2018 with The Black Book. She provided the Portuguese dubbing for Gwen Stacy in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and was cast in the comedy-drama Pa…
Daniella Pineda (born February 20, 1987) is a Mexican-American actress, writer and comedian from Oakland, California.
Danielle Andrea Harris (born June 1, 1977) is an American actress. She is known as a "scream queen" for her roles in multiple horror films, including four entries in the Halloween franchise: two films as Jamie Lloyd (Halloween 4 and 5; 1988–89), and the Halloween remake and its sequel as Annie Brackett (2007–09). Other such roles include Tosh in Urban Legend (1998), Belle in Stake Land (2010), and Marybeth Dunston in the Hatchet series (2010–17). In 2012, she was inducted into the Fangoria Hall…
Danielle Nicolet (born November 24, 1973) is an American television and film actress.
Danielle Nicole Panabaker (born September 19, 1987) is an American actress. She began acting as a teenager and came to prominence for her roles in the Disney films Stuck in the Suburbs (2004), Sky High (2005) and Read It and Weep (2006), and in the HBO miniseries Empire Falls (2005). She won three Young Artist Awards: for guest-starring in an episode of the legal drama television series The Guardian (2004), for her lead role in the TV film Searching for David's Heart (2005) and for her ensemble…
Daniel Louis Aiello Jr. (June 20, 1933 – December 12, 2019) was an American actor. He appeared in numerous films, including The Godfather Part II (1974), The Front (1976), Once Upon a Time in America (1984), The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985), Moonstruck (1987), Harlem Nights (1989), Hudson Hawk (1991), Ruby (1992), Léon: The Professional (1994), 2 Days in the Valley (1996), Dinner Rush (2000), and Lucky Number Slevin (2006). He had a pivotal role in the Spike Lee film Do the Right Thing (1989) as…
Danny John-Jules is a British actor, singer and dancer. He is best known for his role as Cat in the science-fiction comedy, Red Dwarf, as well as his role as Dwayne Myers in the crime drama, Death in Paradise. He was also a protagonist in the hit CBBC children's spy drama M.I. High, in which he portrayed Lenny Bicknall, the caretaker.
Daniel Kirrane is an English actor. He has appeared in films such as Walking on Sunshine and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
Daniel "Danny" Mastrogiorgio (born October 26, 1964 in Mount Vernon, New York) is an American actor and voice actor. Mastrogiorgio has acted in numerous films and television programs, including The Lost Don, The Lost Don II, Underdog, The Book of Daniel, Top Cat: The Movie, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Gotham and Brother Bear.
Daniel Mark Pudi (born March 10, 1979) is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Abed Nadir on the NBC sitcom Community (2009–2015), for which he received three nominations for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series and one nomination for the TCA Award for Individual Achievement in Comedy. Since 2020 he has starred as Brad Bakshi in the Apple TV+ comedy series Mythic Quest. He played the lead role in The Tiger Hunter, a comedic and warmhea…
Danny Woodburn is an entertainer on stage, film, television, and the comedy club circuit. Born and raised in the Philadelphia area, he is the son of a nurse and a professional golfer. He is a graduate of Philadelphia's Temple University's School of Film and Theater and recipient of their Outstanding Alumni Achievement Award of 2001. Danny achieved prominence on NBC's sitcom Seinfeld (1989), performing the role of Mickey Abbott, the volatile but lovable friend of Kramer. Since his first appear…
Daryl Sabara (born June 14, 1992) is an American film and television actor, best known for playing Juni Cortez in the Spy Kids trilogy, as well as for a variety of television and film appearances, including Wizards of Waverly Place, Father of the Pride, The Polar Express, Keeping Up with the Steins, Halloween, and the reality show America's Most Talented Kids, on which he was a judge. He is currently the lead actor in Cartoon Network's Generator Rex.
David Metzger (born December 12, 1960) is an American composer, conductor, arranger, and orchestrator who has worked on many Disney Animation films, including Wish, Frozen, Frozen 2, Moana, Planes, Wreck-It Ralph, Tarzan, and Brother Bear. In addition to his work for Disney, he has done orchestrations for over 50 major films, composed the musical scores for Tarzan 2, Brother Bear 2, and Tarzan and Jane, and has numerous video game, theme park, television, and commercial credits, as well as co-a…
Dave Porter is an American composer, best known for his original score for the television series Breaking Bad (2008–2013), its prequel spin-off Better Call Saul (2015–2022) and the epilogue film El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (2019). At Sarah Lawrence College, Porter studied classical and electronic music composition. Description above from the Wikipedia article Dave Porter (composer), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Daveigh Elizabeth Chase (née Chase-Schwallier; July 24, 1990 – June 16, 2026) was an Annie Award-winning American actress, singer, and voice over artist best known for playing Chihiro Ogino in the English adaptation of Spirited Away, Rhonda Volmer in the HBO series Big Love, Samara Morgan in The Ring and Lilo Pelekai in Lilo & Stitch. Description above from the Wikipedia article Daveigh Chase, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
David Carradine (born John Arthur Carradine Jr.; December 8, 1936 – June 3, 2009) was an American actor best known for playing martial arts roles. He is perhaps best known as the star of the 1970s television series Kung Fu, playing Kwai Chang Caine, a peace-loving Shaolin monk travelling through the American Old West. He also portrayed the title character of both of the Kill Bill films. He appeared in two Martin Scorsese films: Boxcar Bertha and Mean Streets. David Carradine was a member of th…
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. David Carson is a British television director. He has directed episodes of many TV series, including The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Smallville, Doogie Howser, M.D., and L.A. Law. He also directed the feature film Star Trek Generations (1994). He is married to actress Kim Braden, with two children. Description above from the Wikipedia article David Carson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list o…
Karl David Sebastian Dencik (born 31 October 1974) is a Swedish-Danish actor. He has acted in both Swedish and Danish films, and has also had major roles in English-language films and series including Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), Top of the Lake (2017), McMafia (2018), Chernobyl (2019), and the James Bond film No Time to Die (2021). Dencik is a two-time Robert Award winner, for Best Actor in a Leading Role for A Soap (2006) and Robert Award for Best…
David Dodd Hand (January 23, 1900 – October 11, 1986) was an American animator and animation filmmaker known for his work at Walt Disney Productions. He worked on numerous Disney shorts during the 1930s and eventually became supervising director on the animated features Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Bambi.
David Michael Hasselhoff (born July 17, 1952), nicknamed "The Hoff," is an American actor, singer, producer and businessman. He is best-known for his lead roles as Michael Knight in the popular 1980s US series Knight Rider and as L.A. County Lifeguard Mitch Buchannon in the series Baywatch. Hasselhoff also produced Baywatch for a number of seasons in the 1990s up until 2001, when the series ended with Baywatch Hawaii. Hasselhoff also crossed over to a music career during the end of the 1980s a…
David Hewlett is an English-born Canadian and American actor, writer, director and voice actor best known for his iconic role as the astrophysicist Dr. Meredith Rodney McKay in the science fiction television franchise Stargate (including Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, and Stargate Universe). He has also built a prolific career in psychological thrillers, horror films and major studio features.
David Hoselton is a Canadian screenwriter and television producer, best known for his work on the television series House and the animated films Over the Hedge and Brother Bear. Hoselton attended the University of Toronto Law School where he met and befriended David Shore, the creator of House. Hoselton began his Hollywood career in 1987, as a writer for the film Like Father Like Son, and wrote or co-wrote several other films. In 2006, during the third season of House, Shore hired Hoselton as …
Statuesque Northern actor known for his Viking looks, David Nicholls was originally a rugby player with the Scarborough team before turning to acting and a variety of roles in films and TV. He died in 2008, an inquest hearing that his death came about 40 years after being exposed to asbestos in a car parts factory he worked at as a young man.
David Michael Koechner is an American character actor (film, television and stage), comedian and musician. Koechner began studying improvisational comedy in Chicago at the ImprovOlympic, under the teachings of Del Close, before joining the Second City Northwest. After one-year stints of doing sketch comedy on Saturday Night Live and Late Night with Conan O'Brien, he began taking small parts in films such as Man on the Moon and Wag the Dog. While filming the country mockumentary Dill Scallion, …
David Lansbury was born on February 25, 1961 in New York City, New York, USA. David is an actor, known for Michael Clayton (2007), Oz (1997) and The Hurricane (1999).
David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick (né Johnson) is an American screenwriter and producer of film and television. He has written the screenplays for the films Orphan (2009), Wrath of the Titans (2012), The Conjuring 2 (2016) and its sequel The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (2021), and the DC Extended Universe films Aquaman (2018) and its sequel Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (2023). Description above from the Wikipedia article David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list …
David Marconi is an American screenwriter, film producer and film director. His writing credits include the screenplays for Enemy of the State, Live Free or Die Hard and soon to be released The Foreigner.
David Margulies (February 19, 1937 - January 11, 2016) was an American actor, known for Ghostbusters (1984), Ghostbusters II (1989) and Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994). He was previously married to Carol Grant.
David James Stuart Mitchell (born 14 July 1974) is a British comedian, actor and writer. Mitchell rose to prominence alongside Robert Webb as part of the comedy duo Mitchell and Webb. The duo starred in the Channel 4 sitcom Peep Show, in which Mitchell plays Mark Corrigan. He won the British Academy Television Award for Best Comedy Performance in 2009 for his performance. Mitchell and Webb have written and starred in several sketch shows including Bruiser, The Mitchell and Webb Situation, That …
David Morrell (born April 24, 1943) is a Canadian-American author whose debut 1972 novel First Blood, later adapted as the 1982 film of the same name, went on to spawn the successful Rambo franchise starring Sylvester Stallone.