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| Joe Jonas | Oct 6, 2007 | Joseph's original plan, before becoming a singer, was slightly different than his brothers. He first dreamed of becoming a comedian and wanted to audition for sketch comedy shows,but he was always attached to music and loved listening to different kinds of music, especially rock. In his spare time he enjoys jogging and working out. His favorite color is blue, and some of Joe's favorite foods are Chicken cutlet sandwiches with mayo, and Chocolate marshmallow ice cream. His favorite movie is Dumb ... | View pics |
| Stuart Townsend | May 6, 2006 | Stuart Townsend was born in Howth, County Dublin in 1972. Although his father, Peter Townsend was a professional golfer, Stuart was determined to be an actor and began his career by appearing in a number of student films, while attending the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin. He supported himself by boxing until his first feature film debut in Trojan Eddie (1996). Although his part was small, Townsend attracted a London agent and began appearing in numerous stage and film productions... | View pics |
| Richard Armitage | Feb 3, 2007 | At the young age of 17 Richard Armitage got his start in the entertainment industry by joining a circus in Budapest, where he performed for a few months. Upon his return to the UK he attended The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) in London. He has acted on stage, TV and film- specifically several different mini series projects for the BBC. | View pics |
| Taylor Kitsch | Sep 18, 2006 | Taylor Kitsch is a Canadian actor and model. Kitsch has three older brothers and two younger sisters. He moved to New York in 2002 after receiving an opportunity to pursue modeling with IMG and studied acting there as well. After two years, he signed with production company, Untitled Entertainment. While staying in New York, Kitsch also became certified as a nutritionist and personal trainer. Kitsch is currently appearing in the new NBC series Friday Night Lights as football player Tim ... | View pics |
| Henry Ian Cusick | Nov 4, 2006 | Not available | View pics |
| Viggo Mortensen | May 6, 2006 | After several years of experience in live theater, he made his first movie appearance playing an Amish farmer in Peter Weir's Witness. (Mortensen had actually been cast in two prior films — Swing Shift and The Purple Rose of Cairo — but his scenes in both of these films were deleted from the final cuts.) Prior to his casting in The Lord of the Rings, Mortensen appeared in Jane Campion's The Portrait of a Lady, Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III Sean Penn's Indian Runner, Brian DePalma's Ca... | View pics |
| Andrew Lee Potts | Mar 1, 2007 |
English actor Andrew-Lee Potts was born in Bradford West Yorkshire in 1979. Andrew has landed some considerable work since taking up the profession some 20 years ago. He has great strength in musical theatre and has had leading roles in many productions including: "Alice", "Bugsy Malone", "Joseph", "Annie Get Your Gun", "The Corn is Green" and "Oliver".
However, Andrew-Lee is better known for his television work. Appearances have included: "Children's Ward", "The Biz", "Hetty Waint... |
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| Michael Emerson | Oct 31, 2006 |
Emerson was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and grew up in the
neighboring town of Toledo, Iowa. After graduating from Iowa's Drake
University, where he earned a degree in Theatre Arts in 1976, he moved
to New York City. Unable to find acting work, he took retail jobs and worked
as a freelance illustrator. In 1986, he moved with his first wife to
Jacksonville, Florida. There, from 1986 to 1993, he acted in local
productions.
Emerson considered giving up acting in favor of a more s... |
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| Paul Bettany | May 6, 2006 | Paul Bettany was born into a theatre family. His father, Thane, is still an actor. His mother has retired from acting. He has an older sister who is a mother and a writer and he has a niece. His maternal grandmother, Olga Gwynne (her maiden and stage name), was a successful actress, while his maternal grandfather was a musician and promoter. He was brought up in North West London and after the age of 9 in Hertfordshire (Brookmans Park). Immediately after finishing at Drama Centre he went into th... | View pics |
| James Purefoy | Oct 12, 2006 | James Purefoy was born and brought up in Somerset. After leaving school at the age of sixteen he took a succession of different jobs, including working on a pig farm and as a porter at Yeovil District Hospital, before travelling and working extensively throughout Europe. At eighteen James returned to college to take his A-Levels, one of which was Drama. It was there that he realised that this was something he felt inspired by and so applied for and was accepted onto the acting course at the Cent... | View pics |
| Hugh Dancy | Oct 14, 2006 | He first got started with roles in series such as Trial & Retribution II (1998) (TV), "Dangerfield" (1995), "Kavanagh QC" (1995) and Granada's popular series "Cold Feet" (1997) and his theater appearances include Sam Mendes's David Copperfield (2000) (TV) and BBC's Madame Bovary (2000) (TV). He also portrayed D'Artagnan in the series Young Blades (2001). Dancy's appearance in Ridley Scott's war drama Black Hawk Down (2001) as Medic Kurt Schmid was followed with starring roles in Tempo (2003) wit... | View pics |
| Michael Fassbender | Oct 17, 2006 | Although born in Germany, Michael Fassbender moved to Ireland at a young age where he grew up. He currently lives in London, and got his big break quite recently starring in the huge hit "300". | View pics |
| Josh Holloway | Feb 8, 2007 | Josh Lee Holloway was born on July 20, 1969 in Northern California but moved after only two years to the Blue Ridge Mountains of Georgia (Freehome, GA), where he was raised the second-eldest of four boys. He graduated from Cherokee High School in Canton, GA. From an early age he discovered a passion and love for films. After one year at the University of Georgia, he embarked on a successful modeling career which took him all over Europe and North America. Holloway's pursuit of acting brought ... | View pics |
| Alexander Skarsgård | Jul 8, 2007 | Not comfortable with being a celebrity at such an early age, Alexander decided to quit acting. During almost eight years he turned down every offer he got. Instead he studied Political Science, did his Military service in the Marines and intended to study at an school of architecture in Stockholm. But in 1997 his longing for acting grew to strong and he enrolled at Marymount Theatre School in New York City. The interest for Alexander Skarsgård outside of Scandinavia has grown rapidly over the la... | View pics |
| Josh Hartnett | May 6, 2006 |
Graduated from South High School in Minneapolis, Minnesota in June of 1996, then attended SUNY in Purchase, New York. By April of 1997, he was offered the role of Michael Fitzgerald in the short-lived American television series "Cracker" (1997). Josh started off doing small plays and national commercials, but is beginning to break into the big-screen movie business with his starring role in Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998). Chosen as one of Teen People Magazine's "21 Hottest Stars Und... |
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| Heath Ledger | May 6, 2006 |
Heathcliff Andrew Ledger (April 4, 1979–January 22, 2008) was an Academy Award-nominated Australian actor. After appearing in television roles during the 1990s, Ledger developed a Hollywood career. He starred in both critical and financial successes, including Ten Things I Hate About You, The Patriot, Monster's Ball, A Knight's Tale and Brokeback Mountain, and completed the role of the Joker in the forthcoming The Dark Knight. Ledger was born in Perth, Western Australia, t... |
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| Hayao Miyazaki | May 6, 2006 | Hayao Miyazaki is a director of animation films and a co-founder of the animation studio, Studio Ghibli. Miyazaki is the creator of many popular animation feature films, as well as manga. Although largely unknown in the West outside of animation circles until Miramax released his film Princess Mononoke in 1999, his films have enjoyed commercial and critical success in Japan and East Asia. Miyazaki's Spirited Away is the highest-grossing film of all time in Japan; Princess Mononoke held the sa... | View pics |
| Tahmoh Penikett | Oct 9, 2007 | He is the son of former Yukon premier Anthony David John Penikett (Tony). A graduate of the Victoria Motion picture school, Tahmoh also studied at the Lyric School of Acting in Vancouver. Tahmoh and his family (his father, and his twin sisters Sarah and Stephanie) make their home in Vancouver, British Columbia | View pics |
| Caleb Ross | Oct 11, 2008 | Not available | View pics |
| Michael Weatherly | Jan 15, 2007 | It took guts for Michael Weatherly to drop out of college and pursue acting- but thats just what he did. He has found success not only in film but also in several different TV shows. Currently he is a main character on the popular TV series "NCIS". | View pics |
| Jude Law | May 6, 2006 | Jude Law was born December 29, 1972 in south east London. He started acting with the National Youth Music Theatre at the age of 12 and, at 17, he dropped out of school completely, to star in a Granada daytime TV Soap called "Families" (1990). In 1992, Jude began his stage career. He starred in many plays throughout London, and was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award of "Outstanding Newcomer". After doing the play "Indiscretions" in London, he moved and did it again on Broadway. This time, h... | View pics |
| James Marsters | Nov 19, 2006 | James graduated from Davis High School and attended Juilliard, the Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts, and the American Conservatory Theatre. After spending ten years doing stage work he finally moved to L.A. to pursue a career in film and television. After appearing in several guest roles he finally got his big break as Spike in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (1997). Originally the character was supposed to be killed after a few episodes but Spike became so popular that he became a ... | View pics |
| Justin Chatwin | May 6, 2006 | Chatwin is a young actor hailing from Canada who most famously starred along side Dakota Fanning and Tom Cruise in "War of the Worlds". He has also been on the TV series "LOST" and "Weeds". He studied commerce at the University of British Columbia. | View pics |
| Matthew Gray Gubler | Dec 10, 2007 |
Matthew Gray Gubler (born March 9, 1980) is an American actor, film director, sketch artist, and former fashion model. The Las Vegas, Nevada-born actor made his début in the film The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (2004) as Intern #1, and now he is best known for his role as the young genius Dr. Spencer Reid in the CBS television show Criminal Minds. Coincidentally, his character on the show was also born and raised in Las Vegas. He also had a small role in RV as the disreputed Joe Jo... |
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| James Caviezel | May 6, 2006 | James Patrick Caviezel is an American film actor. He is sometimes credited as Jim Caviezel. He is perhaps best known for playing Jesus Christ in the 2004 movie, The Passion of the Christ. After appearances in Wyatt Earp and G.I. Jane, Caviezel scored a breakthrough performance in Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line. He was originally cast to play Cyclops/Scott Summers in X-Men (2000) but dropped out due to a scheduling conflict with his other film, Frequency. Caviezel is perhaps best associat... | View pics |
| Daniel Radcliffe | May 6, 2006 | Daniel Jacob Radcliffe is an English actor, best known for playing schoolboy wizard Harry Potter in each of the first five films based on the best-selling book series, written by J. K. Rowling. Radcliffe has also made several television and stage appearances. | View pics |
| Malcolm McDowell | May 6, 2006 |
Malcolm McDowell is an English actor. He was born Malcolm John Taylor in Leeds, West Yorkshire. Possibly best known for his portrayal of Alex DeLarge in A Clockwork Orange (1971), he began serving drinks in his parents' pub and then as a coffee salesman. While enrolled in Cannock House School, he began taking acting classes, and eventually he secured work as an extra with the Royal Shakespeare Company.
McDowell made his screen debut in Poor Cow (1967) followed by The Raging Moon (19... |
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| Jean-Claude Van Damme | May 6, 2006 |
Van Damme worked his way up to Hollywood mainstream in the 1990s, often working with acclaimed foreign directors. Notable movies include Kickboxer (1989), Double Impact (1991), Universal Soldier (1992), Nowhere to Run (1993), Hard Target (1993),Sudden Death (1995) and his most critically acclaimed work, Timecop (1994). Many of these roles included doppelgänger or Lazarus themes involving Van Damme's characters, an aspect unusual for the action movie genre. By the end of the 1990s, Van... |
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| Alice Cooper | Oct 17, 2006 | Not an actor by trade, but a famous man no doubt- Alice Cooper is a musician best known perhaps for (arguably) pioneering the use of wild/macabre stage theatrics in rock concerts. He has been in a few movies, usually as a cameo appearance- but typically you'll see his name on the soundtrack. | View pics |
| Ryan Gosling | May 6, 2006 | Ryan Thomas Gosling (born November 12, 1980) is a Canadian actor. Gosling was born at St. Joseph's Hospital in London, Ontario to Mormon parents Thomas and Donna Gosling. He was raised in Cornwall, Ontario, and received his start in show business singing with his older sister, Mandi, at local talent shows. He credits his mother for turning him around from a troubled youth. She quit her job to home school him when Gosling got into too many fights at school. A former hyperactive Ritalin child, ... | View pics |
| Alexa Davalos | Dec 4, 2006 |
Alexa Davalos is an American actress. Davalos was born Alexa Davalos Dunas in France, daughter of actress Elyssa Davalos and a photographer father, and granddaughter of American actor Richard Davalos. She is of French, Dutch and Greek descent. Davalos speaks French fluently. Davalos made her feature film debut starring in "The Chronicles of Riddick" as Kyra. In September 2003, Davalos was seen opposite Antonio Banderas in the HBO original film "And S... |
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| Zac Efron | May 21, 2006 | Zachary David Alexander Efron is an American actor most likely known for his appearance in the Disney Channel Original Movie High School Musical and Summerland. He will also be starring in the film version of the Broadway musical Hairspray. | View pics |
| Dane Cook | Sep 27, 2006 | Dane Cook is an American stand-up comedian and actor. He has released two full-length comedy albums, Harmful If Swallowed and Retaliation, the latter of which went double platinum and became the best-selling comedy album in twenty-eight years. He has performed on many television shows and in the fall of 2006 performed in his own HBO special, Vicious Circle. As an actor, Cook has appeared in fifteen films since 1997, and starred in the 2006 comedy Employee of the Month... | View pics |
| Ridley Scott | May 6, 2006 | Not available | View pics |
| Tim Burton | May 6, 2006 | His early film career was fueled by almost unbelievable good luck, but it's his talent and originality that have kept him at the top of the Hollywood tree. Tim Burton began drawing at an early age, going on to attend the California Institute of the Arts, studying animation after being awarded a fellowship from Disney, for whom he went on to work. Although he found that the mainstream Disney films he worked on (The Fox and the Hound (1981)) were far removed from his own sensibility, Disney let hi... | View pics |
| Clint Eastwood | May 6, 2006 | Clinton Eastwood, Jr. is an iconic American actor, film producer, composer, and Academy Award-winning film director. Eastwood is famous for his tough guy/anti-hero roles, including Inspector Dirty Harry Callahan in the Dirty Harry series and the Man with No Name in Sergio Leone's Spaghetti Westerns. Eastwood developed directing as a second career, and has, indeed, generally received much greater critical acclaim for his directing than he ever did for his acting. Eastwood developed directi... | View pics |
| Tom Cruise | May 6, 2006 | Tom Cruise (born Thomas Cruise Mapother IV) is an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe Award-winning American actor and film producer. He has starred in a number of top-grossing movies and remains one of the most successful movie stars in Hollywood. His first leading role in a blockbuster movie was in 1983's Risky Business. Subsequent films include Top Gun (1986), Rain Man (1988), A Few Good Men (1992), and Jerry Maguire (1996). | View pics |
| Klaus Kinski | May 6, 2006 | Not available | View pics |
| Josh Hutcherson | May 6, 2006 | Joshua Ryan Hutcherson is an American film and television actor. He began acting in the early 2000s, appearing in several minor film and television roles, before gaining wider exposure with major roles in the 2005 films Little Manhattan and Zathura, and the 2006 comedy RV. | View pics |
| Daniel Craig | May 6, 2006 | Daniel Wroughton Craig is the sixth and current actor to portray James Bond in the official film series. He moved to London when he was 16 to join the National Youth Theatre, later securing a place at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Craig's film career began with The Power of One in 1992. Other leading film roles have included Sylvia (2003) with Gwyneth Paltrow and consecutive films for Roger Michell, The Mother (2003) with Anne Reid, and Enduring Love (2004) with Rhys Ifans. In 2005,... | View pics |
| Robert Armstrong | Oct 17, 2006 | Robert Armstrong is familiar to old movie buffs for his case-hardened, rapid fire vocal delivery in typical roles as promotional schemers-agents-managers-and hard-boiled officials of many sorts in over 160 films. He spent a short hitch in the infantry during World War I. Armstrong originally decided to go into law and started its study at the University of Washington. But it was not too long-and perhaps influenced by his uncle the playwright and producer Paul Armstrong - before Armstrong decided... | View pics |
| Jamie Bamber | Nov 8, 2006 | Jamie St. John Bamber Griffith was born in London to an American father, Ralph, and a Northern Irish mother, Liz. He spent his early school years in Paris, where his father worked as a management consultant. His mother had trained and worked as an actress in London before starting a family and moving to France. Jamie is one of seven siblings, having a younger brother and a younger sister as well as four older half-brothers from his father's first marriage, all of whom were raised as a sing... | View pics |
| Jesse Spencer | May 6, 2006 | Jesse Spencer was educated at Malvern Central School and Scotch College. Jesse was offered a place to study medicine at Melbourne University but he deferred it to pursue a career in acting. He is better known in Australia and the UK as Billy Kennedy in the Australian TV show Neighbors, a role he played from 1994 to 2000. He is currently co-staring in House as Dr. Robert Chase. Jesse has appeared in many films including Uptown Girls, Swimming Upstream and Flourish. | View pics |
| Johnny Depp | May 6, 2006 | Johnny Depp is an Academy Award-nominated American actor, known for his affinity for strange character roles. At the age of 15 he dropped out of school to become a rock musician. Depp got into acting after a visit to Los Angeles, California, with his former wife, Lori Anne Allison, who introduced him to actor Nicholas Cage. After making his film debut in 1984's A Nightmare on Elm Street, Depp came to fame on the television series 21 Jump Street, before establishing a career in Hollywood films... | View pics |
| Paul Newman | May 6, 2006 |
Paul Leonard Newman is an Academy Award-winning American actor and film director. He is the founder of Newman's Own. He has donated all of the company's profits and royalties, in excess of $200 million, to thousands of charities.
While he was attending graduate school at Yale, he became a successful stage actor in New York City. He made his Broadway theatre debut in the original production of William Inge's Picnic with Kim Stanley. He later appeared in the original Broadway product... |
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| Eric Bana | May 6, 2006 |
Eric Bana was born Eric Banadinovich on August 9, 1968, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. He is the younger of two brothers. His father, named Ivan Banadinovic, came from Zagreb, Croatia, and worked as a manager for Caterpiller Inc. His mother, named Eleanor Banadinovich, came from a German family and was a hairdresser. Young Bana grew up in suburban Melbourne. He was popular among his schoolmates for his talent of making comic impressions of his teachers. At that time he was fond of... |
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| Mickey Rourke | May 6, 2006 |
Rourke's performance in the film The Pope of Greenwich Village alongside Darryl Hannah and Eric Roberts caught the attention of critics. While the film was a box office flop during its initial release, it has become somewhat of a minor cult hit. Actor Johnny Depp calls it "perfect cinema" and HBO's Entourage has praised it. Rourke has said the film is his favorite movie, and both Hannah and Roberts have cited it as a highlight of their careers. In the mid-1980s, Rourke earned himself... |
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| Ryan Reynolds | May 6, 2006 | Ryan is the youngest of four children. His father, Jim, was a Vancouver food wholesaler. His mother, Tammy, was a retail-store saleswoman. Between 1991-93, Ryan taped "Hillside" (1990) (aka "Fifteen"), a cheesy Nickleodeon series, in Florida, with many other Canadian actors. After the series ended, he returned to Vancouver where he played in a series of forgettable TV movies. He did small roles in Glenn Close's Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story (1995) (TV) and CBS's update of ... | View pics |
| Ewan McGregor | May 6, 2006 | McGregor was born in Crieff, Scotland, and attended Kirkcaldy College in 1988 to study drama, appearing in the Tron Theatre in Glasgow in the end of term show. McGregor's first leading role came in Shallow Grave, and his major international breakthrough soon followed with the role of heroin addict Mark Renton in Trainspotting. McGregor has been featured as the male romantic lead in Hollywood films such as Moulin Rouge and Down With Love, and in the British film Little Voice. He took on the ro... | View pics |
| Christopher Nolan | May 6, 2006 | Born in London in 1970, Christopher Nolan began making films at the age of seven using his father's super 8mm camera and an assortment of male-action figures. He graduated to making films involving real people, and his super 8mm surreal short 'tarantella' was shown on PBS' 'image union' in 1989. Chris studied English Literature at University College London while starting to make 16mm films at the college film society. His short film 'larceny' was shown at the Cambridge Film Festival in 1996, and... | View pics |
