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Stan Laurel came from a theatrical family, his father was an actor and theatre manager, and he made his stage debut at the age of 16 at Pickard's Museum, Glasgow. He traveled with Fred Karno's vaudeville company to the United States in 1910 and again in 1913. While with that company he was Charles Chaplin's understudy, and he performed imitations of Chaplin. On a later trip he remained in the United States, having been cast in a two-reel comedy, Nuts in May (1917) (not released until 1918). There followed a number of shorts for Metro, Hal Roach Studios, then Universal, then back to Roach in 1926. His first two-reeler with Oliver Hardy was 45 Minutes from Hollywood (1926). Their first release through MGM was Sugar Daddies (1927) and the first with star billing was From Soup to Nuts (1928). Their first feature-length starring roles were in Pardon Us (1931). Their work became more production-line and less popular during the war years, especially after they left Roach and MGM for Twentieth Century-Fox. Their last movie together was The Bullfighters (1945) except for a dismal failure made in France several years later (Utopia (1950)). In 1960 he was given a special Oscar "for his creative pioneering in the field of cinema comedy". He died five years later.1 - The Lucky Dog (1921)
2 - Get 'Em Young (1926)
3 - 45 Minutes from Hollywood (1926)
4 - Duck Soup (1927)
5 - Slipping Wives (1927)
6 - The Second 100 Years (1927)
7 - Love 'Em and Weep (1927)
8 - Why Girls Love Sailors (1927)
9 - With Love and Hisses (1927)
10 - Sugar Daddies (1927)
11 - Sailors, Beware! (1927)
12 - Call of the Cuckoo (1927)
13 - Do Detectives Think? (1927)
14 - Putting Pants on Philip (1927)
15 - The Battle of the Century (1927)
16 - Leave 'em Laughing (1928)
17 - Flying Elephants (1928)
18 - The Finishing Touch (1928)
19 - From Soup to Nuts (1928)
20 - You're Darn Tootin' (1928)
21 - Their Purple Moment (1928)
22 - Should Married Men Go Home? (1928)
23 - Early to Bed (1928)
24 - Two Tars (1928)
25 - Habeas Corpus (1928)
26 - We Faw Down (1928)
27 - Liberty (1929)
28 - Wrong Again (1929)
29 - That's My Wife (1929)
30 - Big Business (1929)
31 - Unaccustomed As We Are (1929)
32 - Double Whoopee (1929)
33 - Berth Marks (1929)
34 - Men O'War (1929)
35 - Perfect Day (1929)
36 - They Go Boom! (1929)
37 - Bacon Grabbers (1929)
38 - The Hoose-Gow (1929)
39 - Angora Love (1929)
40 - Night Owls (1930)
41 - Blotto (1930)
42 - Brats (1930)
43 - Below Zero (1930)
44 - Hog Wild (1930)
45 - The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case (1930)
46 - Another Fine Mess (1930)
47 - Laughing Gravy (1930)
48 - Be Big! (1931)
49 - Chickens Come Home (1931)
50 - The Stolen Jools (1931)
51 - Los calaveras (1931)
52 - Our Wife (1931)
53 - Pardon Us (1931)
54 - Come Clean (1931)
55 - One Good Turn (1931)
56 - Beau Hunks (1931)
57 - On the Loose (1931)
58 - Helpmates (1932)
59 - Any Old Port! (1932)
60 - The Music Box (1932)
61 - The Chimp (1932)
62 - County Hospital (1932)
63 - Scram! (1932)
64 - Pack Up Your Troubles (1932)
65 - Their First Mistake (1932)
66 - Les carottiers (1932)
67 - Towed in a Hole (1932)
68 - Twice Two (1933)
69 - Me and My Pal (1933)
70 - The Devil's Brother (1933)
71 - The Midnight Patrol (1933)
72 - Busy Bodies (1933)
73 - Dirty Work (1933)
74 - Sons of the Desert (1933)
75 - Oliver the Eighth (1934)
76 - Going Bye-Bye! (1934)
77 - Them Thar Hills (1934)
78 - Babes in Toyland (1934)
79 - The Live Ghost (1934)
80 - Tit for Tat (1935)
81 - The Fixer Uppers (1935)
82 - Thicker Than Water (1935)
83 - Bonnie Scotland (1935)
84 - The Bohemian Girl (1936)
85 - On the Wrong Trek (1936)
86 - Our Relations (1936)
87 - Way Out West (1937)
88 - Swiss Miss (1938)
89 - Block-Heads (1938)
90 - The Flying Deuces (1939)
91 - A Chump at Oxford (1939)
92 - Saps at Sea (1940)
93 - Great Guns (1941)
94 - A-Haunting We Will Go (1942)
95 - Jitterbugs (1943)
96 - The Tree in a Test Tube (1943)
97 - The Dancing Masters (1943)
98 - The Big Noise (1944)
99 - The Bullfighters (1945)
100 - Atoll K (1950)- Actor
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Born in Burchard, Nebraska, USA to Elizabeth Fraser and J. Darcie 'Foxy' Lloyd who fought constantly and soon divorced (at the time a rare event), Harold Clayton Lloyd was nominally educated in Denver and San Diego high schools and received his stage training at the School of Dramatic Art (San Diego). Lloyd grew up far more attached to his footloose, chronically unemployed father than his overbearing mother.
He made his stage debut at age 12 as "Little Abe" in "Tess of d'Ubervilles" with the Burwood Stock company of Omaha. Harold and his father moved to California as a result of a fortuitous accident settlement in 1913. Foxy bought a pool hall (that soon failed) while Harold attended high school. The pair were soon broke when his father suggested he try out for a job on a movie being shot at San Diego's Pan American Exposition by the Edison Company. On the set he first met Hal Roach who would be the most influential person in his professional life. Roach (admittedly a poor actor) told Lloyd that someday he'd be a movie producer and he'd make him his star.
Soon afterward, Roach inherited enough money to begin a small production company (Phun Philms, quickly renamed Rolin, with a partner who he soon bought out) and contacted Lloyd to star in the kinds of films he wanted to make: comedies. On the basis of a handful of self-produced shorts starring Lloyd, he managed to land a production contract with the U.S. branch of the French firm, Pathe, who literally paid Roach by the exposed foot of film on what films were accepted. Things were touch and go in the beginning, with improvised scenarios, outdoor shoots meaning Pathe rejected several of their first efforts, resulting in missed paydays. During his first contract with Roach he appeared in "Will E. Work" and then "Lonesome Luke" comedies, essentially cheap variations of Charles Chaplin's Little Tramp character. He abandoned the character in disgust in late 1917, adopting his "glasses" persona, an average young man capable of conquering any obstacle thrown at him. He began cementing his new image with Over the Fence (1917), that ushered in a prolific number of shorts through late 1921, often releasing 3 per month. In his "glasses" personification, Lloyd's popularity grew exponentially with each new release, but Lloyd rapidly grew dissatisfied with his relationship with his producer. Roach and Lloyd fought constantly; it's not so much that he didn't want to work for Roach, he didn't want to work for anyone - a trait he himself recognized from early on. To be fair, Roach was increasingly preoccupied with other stars (The "Our Gang" series was launched to huge success in 1922 and he also produced ''Snub Pollard" shorts, among others) and although he would always resent Lloyd's attitude and ultimate defection to Paramount, the loss of his major star wouldn't financially cripple him. Lloyd had his own quirks; he fell in love with his first co-star Bebe Daniels, who left him after it became apparent he was unable to make a commitment (however the two would remain lifelong friends). Lloyd, in his own way was decidedly complex: he could be professionally generous (often allowing debatably deserving directorial credit to members of his crew) while being notoriously cheap. Yet he practiced little financial self control in anything that concerned himself. Wildly superstitious, he engaged in strict rituals about dressing himself, leaving through the same doors as he entered, and expected his chauffeurs to know which streets were unlucky to traverse. As his finances improved with age he happily indulged himself with a myriad of hobbies that would include breeding Great Danes, amassing cars, bowling, photography, womanizing, and high-fidelity stereo systems. He was open minded about homosexuals while being practically Victorian in his ideas about raising his daughters. He had an enormous libido and rumors abounded about illegitimate children and according to Roach, chronic bouts with VD. Most traumatically, he suffered the loss of his right thumb and forefinger in an accidental prop bomb explosion on August 14, 1919, just as his career was starting to take off. Lloyd would go to great lengths to hide his disability, spending thousands on flesh-colored prosthetic gloves and hiding his right hand whenever knowingly photographed, even long after his career ended. Upon his recovery he completed work on Haunted Spooks (1920) and successfully renegotiated his contract with Pathe, which began a career ascent that would rival Chaplin's (indeed, Lloyd was more successful, considering grosses on total output as Chaplin's output soon dwindled by comparison). Lloyd began feature film production with the 4-reel A Sailor-Made Man (1921). It began as a 2-reel short but contained, in his words, "so much good stuff we were loathe to take any of it out." It became a huge hit and continued to release hit features with ever increasing grosses but split with Hal Roach (who retained lucrative re-issue rights to his earlier films) after completing The Freshman (1925), one of his finest films. Pathe's U.S. operations quickly unraveled after their U.S. representative, Paul Brunet returned to France, and Lloyd made a decisive move (Roach himself would also leave Pathe, opting for a distribution deal with MGM - Mack Sennett, also distributed by Pathe, would be financially ruined). After weighing various attractive offers, Lloyd signed an advantageous contract with Paramount and racked up another hit with For Heaven's Sake (1926), one of his weakest silent features, yet it grossed an incredible $2.591 million, nearly equaling "The Freshman" and astonishing even himself.
Lloyd could do no wrong throughout the 1920s, he consistently earned at or near $1.5 million per film with his Paramount contract, and seemed invincible. He married his second co-star Mildred Davis on February 10, 1923 and she retired from acting (replaced by Jobyna Ralston). He built a huge 32-room mansion he christened, "Greenacres" that took over 3 years to complete and the couple eventually had 3 children. His final silent film, Speedy (1928), shot on location in New York, was one of the few major hits of the sound transition period and remains (as do most of Lloyd's films) thoroughly enjoyable today. The advent of sound proved problematic for the comedian. His films were gag-driven and his writing team was wholly unaccustomed to converting their type of comedy into dialog. While his first sound effort (began as a silent), Welcome Danger (1929) grossed nearly $3 million, by any standard it's a bad film, and marked a serious decline in Lloyd's screen persona; he became a talking comedian. Ironically, as bad as the film is, it would prove to be the last solid hit of his career. His next talkie, Feet First (1930), included a climb reminiscent (but technically superior to that) of his hit Safety Last! (1923), only being in sound, it contained every grunt and groan and proved painful to watch. With a gross of less that $1 million, Lloyd would see slightly over $300,000, his smallest feature paycheck to date, and it became clear he was in trouble. Lloyd fought back with Movie Crazy (1932). Generally regarded as his finest talkie, it grossed even less than "Feet First." Lloyd left Paramount for Fox and suffered his first outright flop with his next feature, The Cat's-Paw (1934), which grossed $693,000 against a negative cost of $617,000 ---resulting in red ink on a net basis. The miracle Harold Lloyd needed to salvage his career would never happen, but he refused to go down without a fight. Amazingly, the public was oblivious to his decline, and he was widely considered as one of the few silent comedy stars to have made a successful transition through the first decade of sound. But to those within the industry, the numbers didn't add up. Back at Paramount on a 2-movie deal, Lloyd starred in The Milky Way (1936), a better-than-average comedy that pulled a world-wide gross of $1.179 million, but it had production budget exceeding $1 million, resulting in a $250,000 loss for the studio. Paramount was livid, demanding a personal guarantee from Lloyd on anything over $600,000 for his next film, Professor Beware (1938). The comedian soon discovered he couldn't complete the film within the required budget and did something unprecedented --for him at least-- he invested his own money. The final production cost was $820,275 - and it grossed a mere $796,385 - and as a result of a complex payment deal, Lloyd ended up personally losing $119,400 on its initial release (he would eventually recoup the bulk of his losses over the next 35 years). At the relatively young age of 45, Harold Lloyd's Hollywood career was effectively over. Still immensely wealthy from a conservative investment strategy, and always hyperactive, he sought out ways to occupy his time, dragging his kids on marathon movie nights all across Los Angeles and falling back on his many hobbies. Foxy, who had handled the bulk of his correspondence (almost all Lloyd's pre-1938 autographs were actually signed by Foxy) and had carefully documented his press clippings since his acting career had began, retired to Palm Springs in 1938, leaving a void in Lloyd's life. He produced two pictures for RKO, A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob (1941), and a Kay Kyser vehicle, My Favorite Spy (1942) which must have looked good on paper but went nowhere at the box office. This ended his career as a producer. He would sign a $25,000 deal with Columbia in 1943 for a comeback project that never materialized. In 1944, Lloyd was approached by director Preston Sturges who envisioned a first-rate vehicle for him entitled, The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (1947). The production launched Sturges' new California Pictures, was financed by Howard Hughes, and initially released by United Artists. It proved to be a nightmare for everyone concerned. Its $1.7 million production cost proved to be an insurmountable obstacle preventing it from profitability and the eccentric Hughes withdrew it from circulation, later retitling it "Mad Wednesday," re-editing and re-releasing it as an RKO feature in 1951 to an even more dismal box office. Lloyd would also zealously protect ownership of his material and was quite litigious. He successfully sued MGM over their unauthorized poaching of his gags on a Joan Davis vehicle, She Gets Her Man (1945) (sadly an action that put the final nail in the professional coffin of the hopelessly alcoholic Clyde Bruckman). With his career at an end, Harold renewed his interest in photography and became involved with color film experiments. Some of the earliest 2 color Technicolor tests had been shot at Greenacres in 1929. In the late 1940s he became fascinated with color 3D still photography and often visited friends on film sets. Throughout the late 40s and well into the 1960s Lloyd indulged himself with glamor models. At his death, his collection of 3D stills numbered 250,000 (the vast majority of which are nudes). Recently his granddaughter published an elaborate book of photos carefully excised from the collection. In the late 1940s Lloyd became an active member of the Shriners (he'd joined originally in 1924) and an effective administrator for their Los Angeles crippled children's hospital. Harold is reported to be the only actor that owned most of the films he appeared in (sadly many of the earliest ones were destroyed in a nitrate fire in a vault at Greenacres in 1943). This ownership gave him the ability to withhold his films from being shown on television; Lloyd feared incorrect projection speed and commercials would damage his reputation. As a result, a generation of film fans saw very few of his films and his reputation was diminished. He did release 2 compilation films, of which the first, World of Comedy (1962) was very successful. Mildred descended into alcoholism in the 1950s and died in 1969. Lloyd occupied his time with extensive travel (he thoroughly enjoyed speaking engagements where he could interact with students on the subject of silent film) and continued his pathological passion for his hobbies through the end of his life. He became interested in high fidelity stereo systems and habitually ordered several record companies' entire annual catalogs, eventually amassing an LP collection rivaling most record stores. He enjoyed cranking music to volumes that caused the inlaid gold leaf on Greenacres' ceilings to rain down on anyone below. Conversely, he balked at modernizing anything inside the mansion, seeing improvements and redecorating as things that would survive him, and thus a complete waste of money. Lloyd was diagnosed with a recurrence of cancer by his brother-in-law, Dr. John Davis (Jack Davis, who starred in early "Our Gang" shorts) and died on March 8, 1971. His son, Harold Lloyd Jr. was an alcoholic homosexual and died soon afterward. Although Lloyd left an estate valued at $12 million (in 1971 dollars), he failed to make a provision for the maintenance of Greenacres, a blunder that would seriously complicate his estate. His granddaughter Suzanne Lloyd has been largely responsible for restoring his reputation of late, working to preserve his surviving films; many have been issued on HBO Video, Thames Video. Several have been superbly restored with new musical accompaniments and are shown periodically on TCM.1 - By the Sad Sea Waves (1917)
2 - The City Slicker (1918)
3 - Ask Father (1919)
4 - On the Fire (1919)
5 - Ring Up the Curtain (1919)
6 - The Marathon (1919)
7 - Billy Blazes, Esq. (1919)
8 - Just Neighbors (1919)
9 - Chop Suey & Co. (1919)
10 - Bumping Into Broadway (1919)
11 - Captain Kidd's Kids (1919)
12 - His Royal Slyness (1920)
13 - Haunted Spooks (1920)
14 - An Eastern Westerner (1920)
15 - High and Dizzy (1920)
16 - Get Out and Get Under (1920)
17 - Now or Never (1921)
18 - Never Weaken (1921)
19 - A Sailor-Made Man (1921)
20 - Grandma's Boy (1922)
21 - Dr. Jack (1922)
22 - Safety Last! (1923)
23 - Why Worry? (1923)
24 - Girl Shy (1924)
25 - Hot Water (1924)
26 - The Freshman (1925)
27 - For Heaven's Sake (1926)
28 - The Kid Brother (1927)
29 - Speedy (1928)
30 - Welcome Danger (1929)
31 - Feet First (1930)
32 - Movie Crazy (1932)
33 - The Cat's-Paw (1934)
34 - The Milky Way (1936)
35 - World of Comedy (1962)
36 - Funny Side of Life (1963)- Actress
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Brigitte Lahaie was born on October 12, 1955 in Tourcoing, Nord, France. Her father was a banker and her mother was an accountant. Brigitte also has two brothers and a sister. Lahaie moved with her sister to Paris, France in 1975 and worked in a shoe store prior to getting her first film job through a newspaper advert. Brigitte began performing in explicit hardcore movies in 1976 just a year following the legalization of hardcore pornography in France. After establishing herself as a star attraction in adult fare, Brigitte played a small role in the horror picture The Grapes of Death (1978) for cult cinema director Jean Rollin. Lahaie went on to tackle a lead role in Fascination (1979) for Rollin. Moreover, in the early 1980's Brigitte decided to stop doing porn and made a concentrated effort to appear in more traditional mainstream films under the alias Brigitte Simonin. (She has small parts in such mainstream movies as Diva (1981) and Henry & June (1990).) In addition, Lahaie published an autobiography in 1987, recorded and released a pop single, and even did a successful one-woman stage show about her life and career before going on to become the hostess of her own daily talk radio show that largely centers on issues concerning sexuality and relationships. Brigitte was inducted into the XRCO Hall of Fame as a Film Pioneer in 2014.1 - Vibrations sexuelles (1977)
2 - Suprêmes jouissances (1977)
3 - Entrecuisses (1977)
4 - Cathy, fille soumise (1977)
5 - Bordel SS (1978)
6 - Le bijou d'amour (1978)
7 - Les grandes jouisseuses (1978)
8 - Nathalie rescapée de l'enfer (1978)
9 - Les raisins de la mort (1978)
10 - La vitrine du plaisir (1978)
11 - Excès pornographiques (1978)
12 - Ondées brûlantes (1978)
13 - L'Amour, c'est son métier (1978)
14 - Parties chaudes (1979)
15 - Auto-stoppeuses en chaleur (1979)
16 - La grande mouille (1979)
17 - Cette malicieuse Martine (1979)
18 - Fascination (1979)
19 - Enquêtes (1979)
20 - Ta gueule, je t'aime! (1980)
21 - La nuit des traquées (1980)
22 - Le coup du parapluie (1980)
23 - Le segrete esperienze di Luca e Fanny (1980)
24 - Les petites écolières (1980)
25 - Parties très spéciales (1981)
26 - Pour la peau d'un flic (1981)
27 - Paul Raymond's Erotica (1982)
28 - Brigade des moeurs (1985)
29 - Joy et Joan (1985)
30 - L'exécutrice (1986)
31 - Le couteau sous la gorge (1986)
32 - On se calme et on boit frais à Saint-Tropez (1987)
33 - Les deux orphelines vampires (1997)
34 - La fiancée de Dracula (2002)- Jean Lefebvre was born on 3 October 1919 in Valenciennes, Nord, France. He was an actor, known for Diabolique (1955), Mais où est donc passée la 7ème compagnie (1973) and The Gendarme of Saint-Tropez (1964). He was married to Brigitte Lerebours, Yori Bertin and Micheline Grasser. He died on 9 July 2004 in Marrakech, Morocco.1 - Les diaboliques (1955)
2 - Un drôle de dimanche (1958)
3 - La belle Américaine (1961)
4 - Le gentleman d'Epsom (1962)
5 - Les tontons flingueurs (1963)
6 - Les veinards (1963)
7 - Un drôle de caïd (1964)
8 - Faites sauter la banque! (1964)
9 - Le gendarme de Saint-Tropez (1964)
10 - Le gendarme à New York (1965)
11 - Un grand seigneur (1965)
12 - Les copains (1965)
13 - Ne nous fâchons pas (1966)
14 - Trois enfants... dans le désordre (1966)
15 - Angélique et le roy (1966)
16 - Un idiot à Paris (1967)
17 - Le fou du labo IV (1967)
18 - Le gendarme se marie (1968)
19 - Le gendarme en balade (1970)
20 - La valise (1973)
21 - Le magnifique (1973)
22 - Mais où est donc passée la 7ème compagnie (1973)
23 - Quelques messieurs trop tranquilles (1973)
24 - On a retrouvé la 7ème compagnie ! (1975)
25 - Pas de problème! (1975)
26 - C'est pas parce qu'on a rein à dire... (1975)
27 - La 7ème compagnie au clair de lune (1977)
28 - Casanova & Co. (1977)
29 - Prends ta Rolls et va pointer (1981)
30 - On n'est pas sorti de l'auberge (1982) - Actor
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One of France's most popular actors, writers, and producers, Thierry Lhermitte has been appearing in films since the 1970s. Perhaps best known for work in farcical comedies, the tall, handsome actor has appeared in some of France's more outrageous films over the course of his prolific career.
Lhermitte was born on November 24, 1952 in Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France, to Rossanne (Bouchara) and André Lhermitte. His mother was from a Sephardi-Ashkenazi Jewish family, and his father was of French background. He began his career as one of the founding members of the comedy troupe Le Splendid. Among the troupe's other founders were Patrice Leconte, Josiane Balasko, and Michel Blanc, all of whom Lhermitte would collaborate with on future films. After his film debut in Bertrand Blier's Les Valseuses (1974) and a supporting role in Bertrand Tavernier's Que La Fête Commence... (1975), Lhermitte had his first screen collaboration with his Le Splendid colleagues, co-writing and acting in Leconte's Les Bronzés (1978). A farcical satire about a group of French tourists vacationing in Africa, the film proved to be phenomenally popular in France, inspiring a sequel the next year and a dedicated cult following.
Lhermitte subsequently made his mark starring in a number of comedies, including Les Hommes Preferent les Grosses (1981) with Balasko, Jean-Loup Hubert's L'Année Prochaine...Si Tout Va Bien (1981) with Isabelle Adjani, and Blier's La Femme De Mon Pote (1983). He maintained a prolific work schedule throughout the '80s and '90s, continuing to play the romantic lead in comedies of every possible variety for a diverse array of directors.
Lhermitte also continued to collaborate with his Le Splendid colleagues, starring in Leconte's 1993 Tango as a man intent on murdering his wife after she leaves him, and alongside Balasko in Grosse Fatigue, a comedy that featured Michel Blanc both directing and acting in a double role. In 1998, Lhermitte had one of his greatest successes to date as one of the stars of Francis Veber's Le Dîner de Cons. A witty comedy of manners, it featured the actor in top form as an arrogant publisher put in his place by the seemingly moronic man (Jacques Villeret) he has invited to his weekly dinner of idiots. One of the most popular films to be released in France in years, it was a phenomenal hit with critics and audiences alike.
In addition to acting, Lhermitte has continued to work as a screenwriter and producer. In 1994, he wrote, produced, and starred in the children's comedy Un Indien dans la Ville; three years later he served as the associate producer for its American remake, Jungle 2 Jungle. ~ Rebecca Flint Marx, Rovi
Children: Victor Lhermitte, Louise Lhermitte, Astree Lhermitte-Soka
Father: Andre Lhermitte1 - Les valseuses '1974)
2 - C'est pas parce qu'on... (1975)
3 - Les bronzés (1978)
4 - Les bronzés font du ski (1979)
5 - La banquière (1980)
6 - Clara et les Chics Types (1981)
7 - Le père Noël est une ordure (1982)
8 - La femme de mon pote (1983)
9 - Papy fait de la résistance (1983)
10 - Les ripoux (1984)
11 - Nuit d'ivresse (1986)
12 - Ripoux contre ripoux (1990)
13 - Grosse fatigue (1994)
14 - Un indien dans la ville (1994)
15 - Fallait pas!... (1996)
16 - Les soeurs Soleil (1997)
17 - Marquise (1997)
18 - Le dîner de cons (1998)
19 - Trafic d'influence (1999)
20 - Meilleur espoir féminin (2000)
21 - Le placard (2001)
22 - Ripoux 3 (2003)
23 - Si j'étais elle (2004)
24 - Les bronzés 3: amis pour la vie (2006)
25 - L'invité (2007)
26 - Gigola (2010)
27 - Joyeuse retraite! (2019)
28 - Joyeuse retraite! 2 (2022)- Actor
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Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee was perhaps the only actor of his generation to have starred in so many films and cult saga. Although most notable for personifying bloodsucking vampire, Dracula, on screen, he portrayed other varied characters on screen, most of which were villains, whether it be Francisco Scaramanga in the James Bond film, The Man with the Golden Gun (1974), or Count Dooku in Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002), or as the title monster in the Hammer Horror film, The Mummy (1959).
Lee was born in 1922 in London, England, where he and his older sister Xandra were raised by their parents, Contessa Estelle Marie (Carandini di Sarzano) and Geoffrey Trollope Lee, a professional soldier, until their divorce in 1926. Later, while Lee was still a child, his mother married (and later divorced) Harcourt George St.-Croix (nicknamed Ingle), who was a banker. Lee's maternal great-grandfather was an Italian political refugee, while Lee's great-grandmother was English opera singer Marie (Burgess) Carandini.
After attending Wellington College from age 14 to 17, Lee worked as an office clerk in a couple of London shipping companies until 1941 when he enlisted in the Royal Air Force during World War II. Following his release from military service, Lee joined the Rank Organisation in 1947, training as an actor in their "Charm School" and playing a number of bit parts in such films as Corridor of Mirrors (1948). He made a brief appearance in Laurence Olivier's Hamlet (1948), in which his future partner-in-horror Peter Cushing also appeared. Both actors also appeared later in Moulin Rouge (1952) but did not meet until their horror films together.
Lee had numerous parts in film and television throughout the 1950s. He struggled initially in his new career because he was discriminated as being taller than the leading male actors of his time and being too foreign-looking. However, playing the monster in the Hammer film The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) proved to be a blessing in disguise, since the was successful, leading to him being signed on for future roles in Hammer Film Productions.
Lee's association with Hammer Film Productions brought him into contact with Peter Cushing, and they became good friends. Lee and Cushing often than not played contrasting roles in Hammer films, where Cushing was the protagonist and Lee the villain, whether it be Van Helsing and Dracula respectively in Horror of Dracula (1958), or John Banning and Kharis the Mummy respectively in The Mummy (1959).
Lee continued his role as "Dracula" in a number of Hammer sequels throughout the 1960s and into the early 1970s. During this time, he co-starred in The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959), and made numerous appearances as Fu Manchu, most notably in the first of the series The Face of Fu Manchu (1965), and also appeared in a number of films in Europe. With his own production company, Charlemagne Productions, Ltd., Lee made Nothing But the Night (1973) and To the Devil a Daughter (1976).
By the mid-1970s, Lee was tiring of his horror image and tried to widen his appeal by participating in several mainstream films, such as The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970), The Three Musketeers (1973), The Four Musketeers: Milady's Revenge (1974), and the James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun (1974).
The success of these films prompted him in the late 1970s to move to Hollywood, where he remained a busy actor but made mostly unremarkable film and television appearances, and eventually moved back to England. The beginning of the new millennium relaunched his career to some degree, during which he has played Count Dooku in Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002) and as Saruman the White in the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Lee played Count Dooku again in Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005), and portrayed the father of Willy Wonka, played by Johnny Depp, in the Tim Burton film, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005).
On 16 June 2001, he was created a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in recognition of his services to drama. He was created a Knight Bachelor on 13 June 2009 in the Queen's Birthday Honours List for his services to drama and charity. In addition he was made a Commander of the Order of St John on 16 January 1997.
Lee died at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital on 7 June 2015 at 8:30 am after being admitted for respiratory problems and heart failure, shortly after celebrating his 93rd birthday there. His wife delayed the public announcement until 11 June, in order to break the news to their family.1 - The Avengers S5E10 Never, Never Say Die (1967)
2 - Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (1968)
3 - The Avengers S6E14 The Interrogators (1969)
4 - Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970)
5 - Hannie Caulder (1971)
6 - The Three Musketeers (1973)
7 - The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)
8 - The Four Musketeers (1974)
9 - An Eye for an Eye (1981)
10 - Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)
11 - Double Vision (1992)
12 - Police Academy: Mission to Moscow (1994)
13 - Moses (1995)
14 - Sleepy Hollow (1999)
15 - The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
16 - The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
17 - Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002)
18 - The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
19 - Les rivières pourpres 2 (2004)
20 - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
21 - Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)
22 - The Golden Compass (2007)
23 - Season of the Witch (2011)
24 - Dark Shadows (2012)
25 - The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)
26 - The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)- Actress
- Director
- Producer
Born to immigrants in New York City, Lucy Liu has always tried to balance an interest in her cultural heritage with a desire to move beyond a strictly Asian-American experience. Her mother, Cecilia, a biochemist, is from Beijing & her father, Tom Liu, a civil engineer, is from Shanghai. Once relegated to "ethnic" parts, the energetic actress is finally earning her stripes as an across-the-board leading lady.
She graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1986 & enrolled in NYU. However, she was discouraged by the dark and sarcastic atmosphere, so she transferred to the University of Michigan after her freshman year. She graduated w/ a degree in Asian Languages & Cultures, managing to squeeze in some additional training in dance, voice, fine arts & acting. During her senior year, she auditioned for a small part in a production of Alice in Wonderland and walked away with the lead. Encouraged by the experience, she decided to take the plunge into professional acting. She moved to L.A., splitting her time between auditions & food service day jobs. She eventually scored a guest appearance as a waitress on Beverly Hills, 90210 (1990). That performance led to more walk-on parts in shows like NYPD Blue (1993), ER (1994) & The X-Files (1993). In 1996, she was cast as an ambitious college student on Rhea Perlman's ephemeral sitcom Pearl (1996).
She first appeared on the big screen as an ex-girlfriend in Jerry Maguire (1996) (she had previously filmed a scene in the indie Bang (1995), but it was shelved for 2 years). She then waded through a series of supporting parts in small films before landing her big break on Ally McBeal (1997). She initially auditioned for the role of Nelle Porter, which went to Portia de Rossi. However, writer-producer David E. Kelley was so impressed w/ her that he promised to write a part for her in an upcoming episode. The part turned out to be that of growling, ill-tempered lawyer Ling Woo, which she filled w/ such aplomb that she was signed on as a regular cast member.
The "Ally" win gave her film career a much-needed boost-in 1999, she was cast as a dominatrix in the Mel Gibson action flick Payback (1999) & as a hitchhiker in the ill-received boxing saga Play It to the Bone (1999). The following year brought even larger roles: first as the kidnapped Princess Pei Pei in Jackie Chan's western Shanghai Noon (2000), then as one-third of the comely crime-fighting trio in Charlie's Angels (2000).
When she's not hissing at clients or throwing well-coiffed punches, she keeps busy w/ an eclectic mix of off-screen hobbies. She practices the martial art of Kali-Eskrima-Silat (knife-and-stick fighting), skis, rock climbs, rides horses &plays the accordion. In 1993, she exhibited a collection of multimedia art pieces at the Cast Iron Gallery in SoHo (New York), after which she won a grant to study & create art in China. Her hectic schedule doesn't leave much time for romantic intrigue, but she says she prefers to keep that side of her life uncluttered.1 - Beverly Hills, 90210 S2E6 Pass, Not Pass (1991)
2 - ER season 2 (1995)
3 - Hercules: The Legendary Journeys S1E8 (1995)
4 - Jerry Maguire (1996)
5 - The X Files S3E19 (1996)
6 - Ally McBeal season 2 (1998/99)
7 - True Crime (1999)
8 - Payback (1999)
9 - Ally McBeal season 3 (1999/00)
10 - Shanghai Noon (2000)
11 - Charlie's Angels (2000)
12 - Ally McBeal season 4 (2000/01)
13 - Sex and the City S4E11 (2001)
14 - Ally McBeal season 5 (2001/02)
15 - Chicago (2002)
16 - Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever (2002)
17 - Cypher (2002)
18 - Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
19 - Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003)
20 - Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)
21 - Domino (2005)
22 - Lucky Number Slevin (2006)
23 - Rise (2007)
24 - Shazam! Fury of the Gods (2023)- Actor
- Producer
- Director
Dolph Lundgren was born as Hans Lundgren in Stockholm, Sweden, to Sigrid Birgitta (Tjerneld), a language teacher, and Karl Johan Hugo Lundgren, an engineer and economist for the Swedish government. He lived in Stockholm until the age of 13, when he moved in with his grandparents in Nyland, Ångermanland, Sweden. Despite an early interest in music and the fine arts, Dolph decided to follow in his father's footsteps and pursue an Engineering degree. After having completed his military service, he enrolled at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.
It was in the military when Dolph first came in contact with the martial arts. Five years later, he had become a world-class competitor in Japanese Karate and was deeply involved with a discipline that was to become an important part of his life. After graduating High School, Dolph spent considerable time studying in the United States and abroad on various academic scholarships. He attended Washington State University and Clemson University in South Carolina. In 1982, he received a scholarship to complete his Masters Degree in Chemical Engineering at the University of Sydney, Australia. In 1983, he was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, one of the world's top engineering schools.
However, that same year, he decided to move to New York City and take up acting. He changed his forename to Dolph. He started studying drama at the Warren Robertson Theatre Workshop in Manhattan, not knowing how quickly his life was about to change. His film debut came in A View to a Kill (1985). However, it was his performance in Rocky IV (1985) later that year that definitely got him noticed. After a 9-month audition process among 5,000 hopefuls, he was cast opposite writer-director Sylvester Stallone, as his Russian opponent, "Ivan Drago". Following the success of Rocky IV (1985), Lundgren moved to Los Angeles and has since starred in more than 30 feature films.
Lundgren portrayed the classic action-heroic lead in such films as Gary Goddard's Masters of the Universe (1987), Showdown in Little Tokyo (1991) co-starring Brandon Lee and Blackjack (1998), by Hong-Kong action legend, John Woo. Lundgren has also continued to turning in memorable performances as the main adversary to other action-stars, most notably in Universal Soldier (1992) opposite Jean-Claude Van Damme, directed by Roland Emmerich, as well as Robert Longo's Johnny Mnemonic (1995) opposite Keanu Reeves. In February 2004, Lundgren directed his first feature film, the thriller The Defender (2004), in which he also starred. In 2005, he directed and starred in yet another feature, The Russian Specialist (2005) (a.k.a "The Mechanik").
In January 2006, he finished principal photography of The Final Inquiry (2006), a joint Italian/American/Spanish co-production, directed by Giulio Base, appearing opposite, among others, Daniele Liotti, Max von Sydow and F. Murray Abraham. In 2006, Lundgren starred in Diamond Dogs (2007), a Chinese/American co-production filmed on location in Mongolia. In 2007, he directed a modern day western shot in Texas, Missionary Man (2007). In 2009, he completed two new directorial efforts, the action-packed Command Performance (2009), which showcases Lundgren's longtime musical talents as a drummer; and the neo-noir thriller Icarus (2010). Lundgren also reunited with co-stars Jean-Claude Van Damme and Sylvester Stallone for Universal Soldier: Regeneration (2009) and the highly anticipated action blockbuster, The Expendables (2010).
Lundgren managed to not let his Hollywood career stand in the way of his athletic background. He has been awarded his Third Degree Black Belt by the World Karate Organization in Tokyo. His accomplishments include being the Captain of the Swedish National Karate Team, as well as a Champion of the Swedish, European and Australian Heavyweight Division titles. Lundgren still regularly performs Karate exhibitions at international tournaments worldwide. In addition, he was selected by the U.S. Olympic Committee to serve as Team Leader of the 1996 U.S. Olympic Pentathlon Team during the Atlanta Games. He is actively involved in promoting the image of this sport. His production company, Thor Pictures, is developing several projects in which he will produce, star and/or direct. He is also a founding member of "Group of Eight", a New York theater group started in 1994.
Lundgren has reportedly been working on a fitness book and sports wear line for men, the creation and launch of a new eponymous brand, a licensing, media and publishing program, and the development of future entertainment and media projects. Lundgren was married to Anette Qviberg-Lundgren, an interior decorator and fashion designer, until their divorce in 2011. They had two daughters together.1 - A View to a Kill (1985)
2 - Rocky IV (1985)
3 - Masters of the Universe (1987)
4 - The Punisher (1989)
5 - Showdown in Little Tokyo (1991)
6 - Universal Soldier (1992)
7 - Johnny Mnemonic (1995)
8 - The Peacekeeper (1997)
9 - Storm Catcher (1999)
10 - The Last Patrol (2000)
11 - Universal Soldier: Regeneration (2009)
12 - The Expendables (2010)
13 - Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning (2012)
14 - The Expendables 2 (2012)
15 - The Expendables 3 (2014)
16 - 4Got10 (2015)
17 - War Pigs (2015)
18 - Kindergarten Cop 2 (2016)
19 - Hail, Caesar! (2016)
20 - Altitude (2017)
21 - Aquaman (2018)
22 - Creed II (2018)
23 - Expendables 4 (2023)
24 - Aquaman ahd the Lost Kingdom (2023)- Actress
- Soundtrack
Evangeline Lilly, born in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, in 1979, was discovered on the streets of Kelowna, British Columbia, by the famous Ford modeling agency. Although she initially decided to pass on a modeling career, she went ahead and signed with Ford anyway, to help pay for her University of British Columbia tuition and expenses.1 - Smallville S1E13 Kinetic (2002)
2 - Smallville season 2: eps. 11 & 21 (2003)
3 - Freddy vs. Jason (2003)
4 - Tru Calling S1E7 Morning After (2003)
5 - The Lizzie McGuire Movie (2003)
6 - Smallville S3E11 Delete (2004)
7 - Lost, season 1 (2004/2005)
8 - Lost: The Journey (2005)
9 - The Long Weekend (2005)
10 - Lost, season 2 (2005/2006)
11 - Lost, season 3 (2006/2007)
12 - Lost, season 4 (2008)
13 - The Hurt Locker (2008)
14 - Lost, season 5 (2009)
15 - Lost, season 6 (2010)
16 - Real Steel (2011)
17 - The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)
18 - The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)
19 - Ant-Man (2015) MCU 12
20 - Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018) MCU 20
21 - Avengers: Endgame (2019) MCU 22
22 - Ant-Man and the Wasp:Quantumania (2023) MCU 31- Actress
- Soundtrack
Sophia Loren was born as Sofia Scicolone at the Clinica Regina Margherita in Rome on September 20, 1934. Her father Riccardo was married to another woman and refused to marry her mother Romilda Villani, despite the fact that she was the mother of his two children (Sophia and her younger sister Maria Scicolone). Growing up in the slums of Pozzuoli during the second World War without any support from her father, she experienced great sadness in her childhood. Her life took an unexpected turn for the best when, at age 14, she entered into a beauty contest and placed as one of the finalists. It was here that Sophia caught the attention of film producer Carlo Ponti, some 22 years her senior, whom she later married. Perhaps he was the father figure she never experienced as a child. Under his guidance, Sophia was put under contract and appeared as an extra in ten films beginning with Le sei mogli di Barbablù (1950), before working her way up to supporting roles. In these early films, she was credited as "Sofia Lazzaro" because people joked her beauty could raise Lazzarus from the dead.
By her late teens, Sophia was playing lead roles in many Italian features such as La favorita (1952) and Aida (1953). In 1957, she embarked on a successful acting career in the United States, starring in Boy on a Dolphin (1957), Legend of the Lost (1957), and The Pride and the Passion (1957) that year. She had a short-lived but much-publicized fling with co-star Cary Grant, who was nearly 31 years her senior. She was only 22 while he was 53, and she rejected a marriage proposal from him. They were paired together a second time in the family-friendly romantic comedy Houseboat (1958). While under contract to Paramount, Sophia starred in Desire Under the Elms (1958), The Key (1958), The Black Orchid (1958), It Started in Naples (1960), Heller in Pink Tights (1960), A Breath of Scandal (1960), and The Millionairess (1960) before returning to Italy to star in Two Women (1960). The film was a period piece about a woman living in war-torn Italy who is raped while trying to protect her young daughter. Originally cast as the more glamorous child, Sophia fought against type and was re-cast as the mother, displaying a lack of vanity and proving herself as a genuine actress. This performance received international acclaim and was honored with an Academy Award for Best Actress.
Sophia remained a bona fide international movie star throughout the sixties and seventies, making films on both sides of the Atlantic, and starring opposite such leading men as Paul Newman, Marlon Brando, Gregory Peck, and Charlton Heston. Her English-language films included El Cid (1961), The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964), Arabesque (1966), Man of La Mancha (1972), and The Cassandra Crossing (1976). She gained wider respect with her Italian films, especially Marriage Italian Style (1964) and A Special Day (1977), both of which co-starred Marcello Mastroianni. During these years she received a second Oscar nomination and won five Golden Globe Awards.
From the eighties onward, Sophia's appearances on the big screen came few and far between. She preferred to spend the majority of her time raising sons Carlo Ponti Jr. (b. 1968) and Edoardo Ponti (b. 1973). Her only acting credits during the decade were five television films, beginning with Sophia Loren: Her Own Story (1980), a biopic in which she portrayed herself and her mother. She ventured into other areas of business and became the first actress to launch her own fragrance and design of eyewear. In 1982 she voluntarily spent nineteen days in jail for tax evasion.
In 1991 Sophia received an Honorary Academy Award for her body of work, and was declared "one of world cinema's greatest treasures." That same year, she experienced a terrible loss when her mother died of cancer. Her return to mainstream films in Ready to Wear (1994) was well-received, although the film as a whole was not. She followed this up with her biggest U.S. hit in years, the comedy Grumpier Old Men (1995), in which she played a sexy divorcée who seduces Walter Matthau. Over the next decade Sophia had plum roles in a few independent films like Soleil (1997), Between Strangers (2002) (directed by Edoardo), and Lives of the Saints (2004). Still beautiful at 72, she posed scantily-clad for the 2007 Pirelli Calendar. Sadly, that same year she mourned the death of her 94-year-old spouse, Carlo Ponti. In 2009, after far too much time away from film, she appeared in the musical Nine (2009) opposite Daniel Day-Lewis. These days Sophia is based in Switzerland but frequently travels to the states to spend time with her sons and their families (Eduardo is married to actress Sasha Alexander). Sophia Loren remains one of the most beloved and recognizable figures in the international film world.1 - Quo Vadis (1951)
2 - The Pride and the Passion (1957)
3 - Desire Under the Elms (1958)
4 - Houseboat (1958)
5 - La ciociara (1960)
6 - A Breath of Scandal (1960)
7 - Heller in Pink Tights (1960)
8 - It Started in Naples (1960)
9 - El Cid (1961)
10 - Boccaccio '70 (1962)
11 - Ieri oggi domani (1963)
12 - The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)
13 - Matrimonio all'italiana (1964)
14 - A Countess from Hong Kong (1967)
15 - Il viaggio (1974)
16 - The Cassandra Crossing (1976)
17 - Una giornata particolare (1977)
18 - Qualcosa di biondo (1984)
19 - Prêt-à-Porter (1994)
20 - Nine (2009)- Actress
- Producer
- Music Department
Lindsay Dee Lohan was born in New York City, on 2 July 1986, to Dina Lohan and Michael Lohan. She began her career at age three as a Ford model, and also made appearances in over sixty television commercials, including spots for The Gap, Pizza Hut, Wendy's, and Jell-O (opposite Bill Cosby). Lohan made her acting debut in 1996 as the third actress to play Ali Fowler in the television drama Another World (1964). Shortly afterward she was hand-picked by Oscar-nominated writer Nancy Meyers as estranged twin sisters in an adaptation by Walt Disney Pictures of a novel by Erich Kästner, which marked Meyers' directorial debut. Lohan's first feature film, The Parent Trap (1998), a remake of The Parent Trap (1961), was a modest commercial success, earning her widespread critical acclaim and a Young Artist award for Best Leading Young Actress in a Feature Film, as well as Blockbuster Entertainment and YoungStar award nominations.
After signing a three-movie contract with Disney, she returned to the small screen to star in the made-for-TV movies Life-Size (2000) (opposite Tyra Banks) and Get a Clue (2002) (opposite Bug Hall). She also appeared as Rose in the pilot episode of the short-lived comedy series Bette (2000), which starred Bette Midler.
In June 2001 Lohan took a brief hiatus from acting. Her music career was launched over a year later, when Estefan Enterprises made a five-album production deal with her in September 2002, and she signed a recording contract with the reactivated Casablanca Records.
However, Lohan was not turning her back on her blossoming acting career. Just over a month previously she had been cast opposite Jamie Lee Curtis for another Disney adaptation of a novel, this time a fantasy comedy by Mary Rodgers. Freaky Friday (2003), a remake of Freaky Friday (1976), was a huge hit (generating over $160 million in worldwide box office receipts) and critics were spellbound by delightful performances from Lohan and Curtis (who went on to receive a Golden Globe nomination for her work). In addition, Lohan won the 2004 MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Female, as well as a Saturn award nomination and another Young Artist award nomination.
Lohan relocated permanently to Los Angeles between projects and moved into an apartment with fellow actress Raven-Symoné. She also dated pop star Aaron Carter for a short time.
Her next acting role was the title character in the comedy Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen (2004), a Disney adaptation of the novel by Dyan Sheldon. The film received scathing reviews upon its release and died a quick death at the box office, but even the harshest of critics were impressed by Lohan's charming turn as aspiring actress Lola.
Lohan's next project, Mean Girls (2004), saw her reunite with Freaky Friday (2003) director Mark Waters. Inspired by a non-fiction book by Rosalind Wiseman and written by Saturday Night Live (1975) scribe Tina Fey, the high-school comedy-drama opened to glowing reviews and grossed $86 million in the US. This earned her status as a bankable actress, and a salary of $7.5 million for the Donald Petrie romantic comedy Just My Luck (2006).
One of the most sought-after young actresses in the industry, she starred in Bobby (2006) (opposite Demi Moore and Sharon Stone), the Disney fantasy adventure Herbie Fully Loaded (2005) (a pseudo-sequel to The Love Bug (1969)) and the critically acclaimed A Prairie Home Companion (2006). On top of a thriving film career Lohan also launched a music career, releasing her debut album, "Speak," which hit shelves in December 2004.
In 2009 Lohan launched her own fashion line titled 6126, mainly focusing on the production of women's leggings. By spring she launched a self-tanning spray line titled "Sevin Nyne" and by the end of the year she became an artistic designer for fashion house Ungaro.
Lindsay continues her career in acting, having played a supporting role in the action film Machete (2010).1 - The Parent Trap (1998)
2 - Life-Size (2000)
3 - Freaky Friday (2003)
4 - Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen (2004)
5 - That '70s Show S7E7 Mother's Little Helper (2004)
6 - Mean Girls (2004)
7 - Herbie Fully Loaded (2005)
8 - Just My Luck (2006)
9 - Bobby (2006)
10 - The Holiday (2006)
11 - I Know Who Killed Me (2007)
12 - Georgia Rule (2007)
13 - Labor Pains (2009)
14 - Machete (2010)
15 - The Bling Ring (2013)
16 - InAPPropriate Comedy (2013)
17 - Scary Movie 5 (2013)
18 - Mean Girls (2024)- Actress
- Additional Crew
Slim and sexy blue-eyed blonde Payton Leigh was born on January 8, 1967, in Paso Robles, California. She worked in the medical field prior to becoming involved in the adult-film industry in her mid-30s in 2003. Leigh specializes in portraying oversexed housewives. She has several tattoos and piercings in her navel and clitoris. Peyton has been featured in such men's magazines as "Playboy" and "Hustler." She is a fan of the rock bands Aerosmith and Van Halen. She resides on the Central Coast in California with her husband and children and runs her own official website.1 - Mature Lesbians In Heat (2008)
2 - Lesbian Legal 1 (2009)
3 - Mother-Daughter Exchange Club 8 (2009)
4 - Lesbian Legal 3 (2009)
5 - Twisted Passions 5 (2009)
6 - Lesbian Legal 5 (2009)
7 - Blonde Beaver Eaters (2010)
8 - Mother-Daughter Exchange Club 12 (2010)
9 - Mother-Daughter exchange Club 13 (2010)
10 - Lesbian Babysitters 2 (2010)
11 - Mother-Daughter Exchange Club 15 (2010)
12 - Net Skirts 4.0 (2010)
13 - Lesbian Triangles 20 (2011)
14 - Lesbian Triangles 21 (2011)
15 - Mommy And Me 8 (2013)
16 - Mother-Daughter Exchange Club 31 (2014)
17 - Twisted Passions 11 (2014)
18 - Prinzzess And Her Girlfriends 3 (2018)- Actor
- Producer
- Additional Crew
Jet Li born Li Lian Jie in Beijing, China. He started training at the Beijing wushu academy (wushu is China's national sport, largely a performance version of various martial art styles) at age eight. He won five gold medals in the Chinese championships, his first when he was only 11. In his teens, he was already a national coach, and before he was 20 he had starred in his first movie: The Shaolin Temple (1982), which started the 1980s Kung-Fu boom in mainland China. He relocated to Hong Kong, where he was the biggest star of the early 1990s Kung-Fu boom. His first directorial effort was Born to Defense (1988).1 - Wong Fei Hung (1991)
2 - Wong Fei Hung II: Nam yee tung chi keung (1992)
3 - Wong Fei Hung III: Si wong jaang ba (1992)
4 - Yi tin to lung gei: Moh gaau gaau jue (1993)
5 - Fong Sai Yuk (1993)
6 - Jing wu ying xiong(1994)
7 - Lethal Weapon 4 (1998)
8 - Romeo Must Die (2000)
9 - The One (2001)
10 - Ying xiong (2002)
11 - Cradle 2 the Grave (2003)
12 - Unleashed (2005)
13 - The Forbidden Kingdom (2008)
14 - The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008)
15 - The Expendables (2010)
16 - The Expendables 2 (2012)
17 - The Expendables 3 (2014)
18 - Mulan (2020)- Actress
- Producer
- Writer
As the highest-paid actress in the world in 2015 and 2016, and with her films grossing over $5.5 billion worldwide, Jennifer Lawrence is often cited as the most successful actress of her generation. She is also the first person born in the 1990s to have won an acting Oscar.
Jennifer Shrader Lawrence was born August 15, 1990, in Louisville, Kentucky, to Karen (Koch), who manages a children's camp, and Gary Lawrence, who works in construction. She has two older brothers, Ben and Blaine, and has English, German, Irish, and Scottish ancestry.
Her career began when she traveled to Manhattan at the age of fourteen after dropping out of the 8th grade. After conducting her first cold read, agents told her mother that "it was the best cold read by a 14-year-old they had ever heard," and tried to convince her stage mother that she needed to spend the summer in Manhattan. After leaving the agency, Jennifer was spotted by an agent in the midst of shooting an H&M ad and asked to take her picture. The next day, that agent followed up with her and invited her to the studio for a cold-read audition. Again, the agents were highly impressed and strongly urged her mother to allow her to spend the summer in New York City. As fate would have it, she did and subsequently appeared in commercials such as MTV's "My Super Sweet 16" and played a role in the movie The Devil You Know (2013).
Shortly thereafter, her career forced her and her family to move to Los Angeles, where she was cast in the TBS sitcom The Bill Engvall Show (2007), and in smaller movies such as The Poker House (2008) and The Burning Plain (2008).
Her big break came when she played Ree in Winter's Bone (2010), which landed her Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations. Shortly thereafter, she secured the role of Mystique in franchise reboot X-Men: First Class (2011), which went on to be a hit in Summer 2011. Around this time, Lawrence scored the role of a lifetime when she was cast as Katniss Everdeen in the big-screen adaptation of literary sensation The Hunger Games (2012). The film went on to become one of the highest-grossing movies ever, with over $407 million at the US box office, and instantly propelled Lawrence to the A-list among young actors and actresses. Three Hunger Games sequels were released in each consecutive November: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013), The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (2014), and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (2015), with Lawrence reprising her role.
In 2012, the romantic comedy Silver Linings Playbook (2012) earned her the Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, Screen Actors Guild Award, Satellite Award, and the Independent Spirit Award for Best Actress, among other accolades, making her the youngest person ever to be nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Actress and the second-youngest Best Actress winner.
She starred in David O. Russell's popular drama-comedy American Hustle (2013), as Roselyn Rosenfield, and teamed with the director again to play inventor Joy Mangano in another family comedy, Joy (2015), for which she earned Oscar nominations for both roles (Best Supporting Actress and Best Actress, respectively).1 - Medium S3E7 Mother's Little Helper (2007)
2 - Medium S4E2 But for the Grace of God (2008)
3 - The Beaver (2011)
4 - X: First Class (2011)
5 - The Hunger Games (2012)
6 - Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
7 - The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)
8 - X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)
9 - The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (2014)
10 - The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (2015)
11 - Joy (2015)
12 - Passengers (2016)
13 - X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)
14 - Mother! (2017)
15 - Red Sparrow (2018)
16 - Dark Phoenix (2019)
17 - No Hard Feelings (2023)- Actor
- Producer
- Soundtrack
Christopher Lloyd is an American actor with a relatively long career. His better known roles include drug-using taxicab driver Jim Ignatowski in the sitcom Taxi (1978), Klingon Commander Kruge in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984), inventor Dr. Emmett "Doc" Brown in the Back to the Future trilogy (1985-1990), the evil Judge Doom in Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), and deranged Uncle Fester in The Addams Family (1991) and Addams Family Values (1993).
Lloyd was born on October 22, 1938 in Stamford, Connecticut. His parents were lawyer Samuel R. Lloyd and singer Ruth Lapham (1896-1984). His maternal uncle was politician Roger Lapham, Mayor of San Francisco (1883-1966, term 1944-1948). His maternal grandfather was businessman Lewis Henry Lapham (1858-1934), co-founder of Texaco Oil Company. Lloyd is a distant descendant of indentured servant John Howland (c. 1592-1673), one of the passengers of the ship Mayflower and signers of the Mayflower Compact.
Lloyd was raised in the town Westport, Connecticut, which changed from a community of farmers to a suburban development during the 20th century. Many artists and writers from New York City settled in the town. Lloyd was educated at Staples High School. He was a co-founder of the Staples Players, the school's theatre company. Lloyd was interested in an acting career, and served as an apprentice at summer theaters in Mount Kisco, New York and Hyannis, Massachusetts. In 1957, he started pursuing acting classes in New York City. He took lessons at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre, a full-time professional conservatory for actors. His acting teacher was Sanford Meisner (1905-1997), eponymous creator of the Meisner technique.
Lloyd made his New York theatrical debut in a 1961 production of the play "And They Put Handcuffs on the Flowers" by Fernando Arrabal (1932-). He was reportedly a replacement for another actor. He made his Broadway debut in a 1969 performance of Red, White and Maddox (1969). Until the mid-1970s, Lloyd was primarily a theatrical actor. He performed both on Off-Broadway shows and in Broadway. Lloyd made his film debut in the role of psychiatric patient Max Taber in the drama One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975). His first major role in television was drug-using taxicab driver Jim Ignatowski in the sitcom Taxi (1978). His character was an aging hippie, son of an affluent Boston family , and former student of Harvard University. Ignatowski was one of the sitcom's most colorful characters and Lloyd won two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series.
In the 1980s and early 1990s, Lloyd played most of his most notable film roles. Lloyd was first nominated for the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor, for his role as Dr. Emmett "Doc" Brown in Back to the Future (1985). The award was instead won by rival actor Roddy McDowall (1928-1998). He was nominated for the same award for his role as the evil Judge Doom in Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988). The award was instead won by rival actor Robert Loggia (1930-2015). Lloyd also performed as a voice actor, voicing the evil sorcerer Merlock in DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp (1990) and historical figure Grigori Rasputin (1869-1916) in Anastasia (1997). Lloyd had another notable television role when cast in the role of villain Sebastian Jackal in the sci-fi series Deadly Games (1995). He also played the character Dr. Jordan Kenneth Lloyd, the despised father of the series' protagonist Dr. Gus Lloyd (played by James Calvert).
Lloyd's last notable film role in the 1990s was playing the Martian Uncle Martin in My Favorite Martian (1999). The film was an adaptation of the classic sitcom My Favorite Martian (1963), and the character was previously played by Ray Walston (1914-2001). The film under-performed at the box office. In the 2000s, Lloyd played the role of recurring character Cletus Poffenberger in the comic sci-fi series Tremors (2003), and recurring character Professor Harold March in the sitcom Stacked (2005). As March, Lloyd played a retired rocket scientist who was a regular customer of the bookstore which served as the series' setting. In the 2010s, Lloyd returned to the role of Dr. Emmett "Doc" Brown in cameo appearances in A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014) and Donald Trump's The Art of the Deal: The Movie (2016), and as the protagonist of the short film Back to the Future: Doc Brown Saves the World (2015). By 2020, Lloyd has never retired from acting and continues to appear in various roles.1 - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
2 - The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981)
3 - Back to the Future (1985)
4 - Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
5 - Back to the Future Part II (1989)
6 - Back to the Future Part III (1990)
7 - The Addams Family (1991)
8 - Dennis the Menace (1993)
9 - Addams Family Values (1993)
10 - Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (1995)
11 - The Real Blonde (1997)
12 - The West Wing S6E14 The Wake Up Call (2005)
13 - Santa Buddies (2009)
14 - Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014)
15 - Going in Style (2017)
16 - NCIS S17E20 The Arizona (2020)
17 - Spirit Halloween : The Movie (2022)- Actor
- Producer
- Writer
Rob Lowe was born in Charlottesville, Virginia, to Barbara Lynn (Hepler), a schoolteacher, and Charles Davis Lowe, a lawyer. His brother is actor Chad Lowe. He has German, as well as English, Irish, Scottish, and Welsh ancestry. Lowe's family moved to Dayton, Ohio, when he was a child. Rob broke into acting in his teens. He spent the 1980s as a member of the "Brat Pack", a group of young, powerful and reckless actors and actresses that included Emilio Estevez, Charlie Sheen and Judd Nelson, among others. In 1988 Lowe was involved in a scandal centering around a sexually explicit videotape which involved a minor, for which he did 20 hours of community service in Dayton. He subsequently sought help for his problems with drugs and alcohol and has re-emerged in the 1990s as a clean and sober husband and father.1 - The Outsiders (1983)
2 - The Hotel New Hampshire (1984)
3 - St. Elmo's Fire (1985)
4 - Youngblood (1986)
5 - Wayne's World (1992)
6 - The Stand (1994)
7 - Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)
8 - Contact (1997)
9 - Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999)
10 - The West Wing season 1 (1999/00)
11 - The West Wing season 2 (2000/01)
12 - The West Wing season 3 (2001/02)
13 - The West Wing season 4 (2002/03)
14 - View from the Top (2003)
15 - The Christmas Blessing (2005)
16 - The West Wing season 7 (2006)
17 - Sex Tape (2014)- Actor
- Writer
- Director
Jerry Lewis (born March 16, 1926 - August 20, 2017) was an American comedian, actor, singer, film producer, screenwriter and film director. He is known for his slapstick humor in film, television, stage and radio. He was originally paired up with Dean Martin in 1946, forming the famed comedy team of Martin and Lewis. In addition to the duo's popular nightclub work, they starred in a successful series of comedy films for Paramount Pictures. Lewis was also known for his charity fund-raising telethons and position as national chairman for the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA). Lewis won several awards for lifetime achievements from The American Comedy Awards, Los Angeles Film Critics Association, and Venice Film Festival, and he had two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 2005, he received the Governors Award of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Board of Governors, which is the highest Emmy Award presented. On February 22, 2009, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awarded Lewis the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award.
Jerry died on August 20, 2017, in Las Vegas.1 - At War with the Army (1950)
2 - Sailor Beware (1952)
3 - The Caddy (1953)
4 - Living It Up (1954)
5 - Artists and Models (1955)
6 - Pardners (1956)
7 - The Delicate Delinquent (1957)
8 - The Geisha Boy (1958)
9 - The Bellboy (1960)
10 - Cinderfella (1960)
11- The Ladies Man (1961)
12 - The Errand Boy (1961)
13 - The Nutty Professor (1963)
14 - The Patsy (1964)
15 - The Disorderly Orderly (1964)
16 - The Family Jewels (1965)- Actor
- Writer
- Producer
Eugene Levy is an award-winning actor, writer, and producer. He has appeared in more than 60 motion pictures to date, eight of which having topped the $100M mark. The box office success of films such as Bringing Down the House (2003), Cheaper by the Dozen 2 (2005) , and Father of the Bride Part II (1995) have established him as one of Hollywood's most popular comedic actors. But it was the role of Noah Levenstein in the American Pie franchise that cemented his reputation as America's favorite Dad. Levy's most recent big-screen role was that of Dory's Dad in the Disney/Pixar smash Finding Dory, in which he stars alongside Ellen DeGeneres and Diane Keaton. The film has surpassed the $1B mark worldwide, and is on track to become one of the highest-grossing animated films of all time.
Partnering with Christopher Guest, Levy earned critical acclaim for co-writing and co-starring in Best In Show, Waiting For Guffman, For Your Consideration, and A Mighty Wind. Levy has been nominated for and won countless awards for his films including a New York Film Critics Circle Award and a Grammy Award® for A Mighty Wind and a Golden Globe® nomination for Best In Show. Other films include Splash, Armed and Dangerous, Multiplicity, Club Paradise, and Serendipity.
In 2013, Levy formed Not A Real Company Productions (with his son Daniel Levy and principals Andrew Barnsley and Fred Levy) to produce Schitt's Creek, a television series for CBC/ITV he co-created, co-executive produces, and co-stars in with Daniel Levy. The single-cam, character-driven comedy also stars Catherine O'Hara, Annie Murphy, and Chris Elliott.
In 2016, Levy won Lead Actor in a Comedy at the Canadian Screen Awards and, as Executive Producer, the CSA for Best Comedy, an award he shared with Daniel Levy, among others. Schitt's Creek swept the Canadian Screen Awards, winning nine of a possible 10 categories. Levy also received the prestigious Legacy Award (along with co-star and long-time collaborator, Catherine O'Hara) from the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television. Levy won two Emmys® for his writing on SCTV in addition to many other awards and nominations for his television work.
Levy is a Member of the Order of Canada and a recipient of The Governor General's Performing Arts Award - the foremost honor presented for excellence in the performing arts.1 - Splash (1984)
2 - Father of the Bride (1991)
3 - Father of the Bride 2 (1995)
4 - Multiplicity (1996)
5 - American Pie (1999)
6 - Serendipity (2001)
7 - American Pie 2 (2001)
8 - Repli-Kate (2002)
9 - American Wedding (2003)
10 - New York Minute (2004)
11 - Band Camp (2005)
12 - Cheaper by the Dozen 2 (2005)
13 - The Naked Mile (2006)
14 - Beta House (2007)
15 - American Pie Presents: The Book of Love (2009)
16 - American Reunion (2012)- Actress
- Producer
- Additional Crew
Laura Leggett Linney was born in New York City on February 5, 1964, into a theatre family. Her father was prominent playwright Romulus Linney, whose own great-grandfather was a congressman from North Carolina. Her mother, Miriam Anderson (Leggett), is a nurse. Although she did not live in her father's house (her parents having divorced when she was an infant), Linney's world revolved, in part, around his profession from the earliest age. She graduated from Brown University in 1986 and studied acting at Juilliard and the Arts Theatre School in Moscow and, thereafter, embarked on a career on the Broadway stage receiving favorable notices for her work in such plays as "Hedda Gabler" and "Six Degrees of Separation".
Linney's film career began in the early 1990s with small roles in Lorenzo's Oil (1992) and Dave (1993). She landed the role of Mary Anne Singleton in the PBS film adaptations of Armistead Maupin's "Tales of the City" series, playing her in Tales of the City (1993), More Tales of the City (1998) and Further Tales of the City (2001). Linney's first substantial big-screen role was as the ex-girlfriend of Richard Gere's character in Primal Fear (1996) and her superb performance brought her praise and a better selection of roles. Clint Eastwood chose Linney to play his daughter, another prominent role, in 1997's Absolute Power (1997), followed by another second billing in the following year's The Truman Show (1998).
Always a strong performer, Linney truly came into her own after 2000, starting the decade auspiciously with her widely-praised, arguably flawless performance in You Can Count on Me (2000). She found herself nominated for an Academy Award for this, her first lead role, for which her salary had been $10,000. Linney won numerous critics' awards for her role as Sammy, a single mother whose life is complicated by a new boss and the arrival in town of her aimless brother. On the heels of this success came her marvelous turn as Bertha Dorset in The House of Mirth (2000), clearly the best performance in a film of strong performances. Since then, Linney has frequently been offered challenging dramatic roles, and always rises to the occasion, such as in Mystic River (2003) and Kinsey (2004), for which she received another Academy Award nomination.1 - Dave (1993)
2 - Absolute Power (1997)
3 - The Truman Show (1998)
4 - The House of Mirth (2000)
5 - Mystic River (2003)
6 - Love Actually (2003)
7 - The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005)
8 - Breach (2007)
9 - The Nanny Diaries (2007)
10 - The Big C season 1 (2010)
11 - The Big C season 2 (2011)
12 - The Big C season 3 (2012)
13 - The Big C season 4 (2013)
14 - Sully (2016)
15 - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 (2016)
16 - The Dinner (2017)- Actress
- Producer
- Writer
Jennifer Jason Leigh was born Jennifer Lee Morrow in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of writer Barbara Turner and actor Vic Morrow. Her father was of Russian Jewish descent and her mother was of Austrian Jewish ancestry. She is the sister of Carrie Ann Morrow and half-sister of actress Mina Badie.
Jennifer's parents divorced when she was two. Jennifer worked in her first film at the age of nine, in a nonspeaking role for the film Death of a Stranger (1973). At 14 she attended summer acting workshops given by Lee Strasberg and later landed a role in the Disney TV movie The Young Runaways (1978). She received her Screen Actors Guild membership for an episode of the TV series Baretta (1975) when she was 16. Jennifer performed in several TV movies and dropped out of Pacific Palisades High School six weeks short of graduation for her major role in the film Eyes of a Stranger (1981). Her first major success came as the female lead in Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982).
Jennifer was married to writer/director Noah Baumbach from 2005 to 2013, and the two have a son.1 - Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
2 - Backdraft (1991)
3 - Single White Female (1992)
4 - The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)
5 - A Thousand Acres (1997)
6 - Skipped Parts (2000)
7 - Road to Perdition (2002)
8 - In the Cut (2003)
9 - Weeds season 5: eps. 2 & 3 (2009)
10 - Weeds S6E9 To Moscow, and Quickly (2010)
11 - Weeds season 7 (2011)
12 - Weeds season 8 (2012)
13 - Revenge season 2: eps. 1 to 7 (2012)
14 - The Hateful Eight (2015)
15 - Amityville: The Awakening (2017)
16 - Annihilation (2018)- Actress
- Producer
- Director
New Zealand icon Lucy Lawless is most known for her role as "Xena the Warrior Princess." Lucy is married to producer Rob Tapert (Robert Gerard Tapert) and resides in New Zealand. They have two sons, Julius Robert Bay Tapert and Judah Miro Tapert, who were both born in New Zealand. Lucy also has a daughter, Daisy Lawless, from her first marriage to Garth Lawless.
Lucy was born Lucille Frances Ryan in Mount Albert, Auckland, to Julie, a teacher, and Frank Ryan, a banker and the city's mayor. She was awarded an Order of Merit in the New Zealand Queen's Birthday Honor List in June 2004. Lucy, whose role as Xena in "Xena: Warrior Princess" made her a cult television star, has been involved with the Starship Foundation and has held a role on its board of trustees. She was awarded the Order of Merit for services to entertainment and the community.
In 1995, Lucy landed the role of "Xena: Warrior Princess" in the show, Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (1995), in a three-story arc, that led to her own spin-off show, Xena: Warrior Princess (1995), for six seasons.
Whilst she has been primarily known for her role on "Xena: Warrior Princess," Lucy has also appeared in the classic TV series, Battlestar Galactica (2004), in the semi-regular role of "D'anna Biers," among her other many and varied roles, including the hit Adam Sandler movie, Bedtime Stories (2008). Lucy was also in several made-for-TV movies including: Locusts (2005) and Vampire Bats (2005). She also lent her voice to the straight-to-video movies: Justice League: The New Frontier (2008) and Dragonlance: Dragons of Autumn Twilight (2008). During 2011, Lucy appeared in the "No Ordinary Family" as the mysterious "Mrs. X" and also appeared in the prequel to Spartacus (2010), Spartacus: Gods of the Arena (2011) and "Spartacus Vengeance" as "Lucretia."
She portrayed "Caroline Platt" in Jane Campion's Top of the Lake (2013), a BBC Mini-Series in New Zealand, with Holly Hunter and Elisabeth Moss, the recurring character of "Diane Lewis" on NBC's Parks and Recreation (2009), and "Velma Kelly" in the Auckland Theatre Company's adaptation of "Chicago: The Musical," the latter from November 1-24, 2013.
As of 2019 she can be seen starring as Alexa Crowe in the light, colorful, Auckland-set mystery, "My Life is Murder."1 - Hercules: The Legendary Journeys season 1 (1995)
2 - Hercules: The Legendary Journeys S2E5 (1995)
3 - Xena: Warrior Princess season 1 (1995/96)
4 - Xena: Warrior Princess season 2 (1996/97)
5 - Xena: Warrior Princess season 3 (1997/98)
6 - Xena: Warrior Princess season 4 (1998/99)
7 - Xena: Warrior Princess season 5 (1999/00)
8 - Xena: Warrior Princess season 6 (2000/01)
9 - The X Files S9E1&2 (2001)
10 - Spider-Man (2002)
11 - Xena: Warrior Princess - A Friend in Need (2002)
12 - EuroTrip (2004)
13 - Veronica Mars S2E11 Donut Run (2006)
14 - The L Word season 6: eps. 1 & 8 (2009)
15 - Bitch Slap (2009)- Actress
- Writer
- Director
Michèle Laroque was born on 15 June 1960 in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France. She is an actress and writer, known for Ma vie en rose (1997), Brillantissime (2018) and The Closet (2001).1 - Une époque formidable... (1991)
2 - Fallait pas!... (1996)
3 - Ils s'aiment (1999)
4 - Le placard (2001)
5 - Ils se sont aimés (2004)
6 - La maison du bonheur (2006)
7 - Enfin veuve (2007)
8 - Ils se re-aiment (2013)
9 - Camping 3 (2016)
10 - Ils s'aiment depuis 20 ans (2017)
11 - Elles s'aiment depuis 20 ans (2017)
12 - Embrasse-moi! (2017)
13 - Brillantissime (2018)
14 - Joyeuse retraite! (2019)
15 - Joyeuse retraite! 2 (2022)- Actress
- Soundtrack
Diane Lane was born on January 22, 1965, in New York. She is the daughter of acting coach Burton Eugene "Burt" Lane and nightclub singer/centerfold Colleen Farrington. Her parents' families were both from the state of Georgia. Diane was acting from a very young age and made her stage debut at the age of six. Her work in such acclaimed theater productions as "The Cherry Orchard" and "Medea" led to her being called to Hollywood. She was 13 when she was cast by director George Roy Hill in his wonderful 1979 film A Little Romance (1979), opposite Sir Laurence Olivier. The film only did so-so commercially, but Olivier praised his young co-star, calling her the new Grace Kelly. After her well-received debut, Diane found herself on magazine covers all over the world, including "Time", which declared her the "new young acting sensation". However, things quietened down a bit when she found herself in such critical and financial flops as Touched by Love (1980), Cattle Annie and Little Britches (1980), Movie Madness (1982), Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains (1982) and, most unmemorably, Six Pack (1982), all of which failed to set her career on fire.
She also made several TV movies during this period, but it was in 1983 that she finally began to fulfill the promise of stardom that had earlier been predicted for her. Acclaimed director Francis Ford Coppola took note of Diane's appeal and cast her in two "youth"-oriented films based on S.E. Hinton novels. Indeed, Rumble Fish (1983) and The Outsiders (1983) have become cult classics and resulted in her getting a loyal fan base. The industry was now taking notice of Diane Lane, and she soon secured lead roles in three big-budget studio epics. She turned down the first, Splash (1983) (which was a surprise hit for Daryl Hannah). Unfortunately, the other two were critical and box-office bombs: Walter Hill's glossy rock 'n' roll fable Streets of Fire (1984) was not the huge summer success that many had thought it would be, and the massively troubled Coppola epic The Cotton Club (1984) co-starring Richard Gere was also a high-profile flop. The back-to-back failure of both of these films could have ended her career there and then -- but thankfully it didn't. Possibly "burned out" by the lambasting these films received and unhappy with the direction her career was taking, she "retired" from the film business at age 19, saying that she had forgotten what she had started acting for. She stayed away from the screen for the next three years. Ironically, the two films that were the main causes of her "retirement" have since grown in popularity, and "Streets of Fire" especially seems to have found the kind of audience it couldn't get when it was first released.
The process of rebuilding her career was a slow and gradual one. First came the obscure and very sexy straight-to-video thriller Lady Beware (1987), followed by the critically acclaimed but little seen The Big Town (1987) with Matt Dillon and Tommy Lee Jones. In the former, Diane plays a very mysterious and sexy stripper and her memorable strip sequence is a highlight of the film. Despite her sexy new on-screen image, it wasn't until 1989's smash hit TV mini-series Lonesome Dove (1989) that Diane made another big impression on a sizable audience. Her performance in the hugely popular and critically acclaimed western epic as a vulnerable "whore with a heart" won her an Emmy nomination and much praise. Film producers were interested in her again. Another well-received TV production, Descending Angel (1990), was followed by smaller roles in major films like Richard Attenborough's Chaplin (1992) and Mike Binder's Indian Summer (1993), and larger parts in small independent films like My New Gun (1992), Vital Signs (1990) and Knight Moves (1992). Indeed, the latter two films co-starred her then-husband, Christopher Lambert, with whom she had a daughter named Eleanor.
Diane was now re-established in Hollywood and started to appear in higher-profile co-starring roles in some big-budget, major movies like Walter Hill's Wild Bill (1995), the Sylvester Stallone actioner Judge Dredd (1995), the Robin Williams's comedy Jack (1996) and Murder at 1600 (1997) co-starring Wesley Snipes. However, all of these still did not quite make Diane a "big-name star" and, by 1997, she found herself, possibly by choice, back in smaller, personal projects.
Her next role as a frustrated 1960s housewife in the independent hit A Walk on the Moon (1999) deservedly won her rave notices and, at last, gave her career the big lift it needed. The cute but tear-jerking comedy My Dog Skip (2000) also proved to be a small-scale success. However, it was the £330-million worldwide grossing blockbuster hit The Perfect Storm (2000) that finally made Diane Lane the household name that she always should have been.
After the worldwide success of "The Perfect Storm", she was more in demand than ever. She played Leelee Sobieski's sinister junkie guardian in the slick thriller The Glass House (2001), and co-starred with Keanu Reeves in the #1 smash hit Hardball (2001). However, her greatest career moment was still to come with her lead role in the enormous critical and commercial hit Unfaithful (2002), in which she superbly portrayed Richard Gere's adulterous wife. Her performance won the respect of critics and audiences alike, as well as many awards and nominations including Best Actress Oscar and Golden Globe nominations.
Her follow-up films including Under the Tuscan Sun (2003), Must Love Dogs (2005), Hollywoodland (2006), Secretariat (2010), and the blockbuster, Man of Steel (2013), were all received and her performances were highly praised. She won further Best Actress Golden Globe nominations for her roles in Under the Tuscan Sun (2003) and Cinema Verite (2011).
She is very well regarded within the industry, adored by film fans, and has a credibility and quality that is all too rare today. Her immense talent at playing human and real characters, her "drop dead gorgeous" beauty and down-to-earth grittiness guarantees that she will stay on top, and she guarantee has already shown the kind of resilience that will keep her working for a long, long time.1 - The Outsiders (1983)
2 - Knight Moves (1992)
3 - Judge Dredd (1995)
4 - Jack (1996)
5 - Murder at 1600 (1997)
6 - A Walk on the Moon (1999)
7 - The Perfect Storm (2000)
8 - The Glass House (2001)
9 - Under the Tuscan Sun (2003)
10 - Man of Steel (2013)
11 - Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)
12 - Bonjour Anne (Paris can wait) (2016)
13 - Justice League (2017)
14 - Serenity (2019)
15 - Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021)- Actor
- Producer
- Additional Crew
Burt Lancaster, one of five children, was born in Manhattan, to Elizabeth (Roberts) and James Henry Lancaster, a postal worker. All his grandparents were immigrants from the north of Ireland. He was a tough street kid who took an early interest in gymnastics. He joined the circus as an acrobat and worked there until he was injured. In the Army during WWII he was introduced to the USO and to acting. His first film was The Killers (1946), and that made him a star. He was a self-taught actor who learned the business as he went along. He set up his own production company in 1948 with Harold Hecht and James Hill to direct his career. He played many different roles in pictures as varied as The Crimson Pirate (1952), From Here to Eternity (1953), Elmer Gantry (1960) and Atlantic City (1980).
His production company, Hecht-Hill-Lancaster, produced such films as Paddy Chayefsky's Marty (1955) (Oscar winner 1955) and The Catered Affair (1956). In the 1980s he appeared as a supporting player in a number of movies, such as Local Hero (1983) and Field of Dreams (1989). However, it will be the sound of his voice, the way that he laughed, and the larger-than-life characters he played that will always be remembered.1 - The Killers (1946)
2 - From Here to Eternity (1953)
3 - Trapeze (1956)
4 - Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957)
5 - The Unforgiven (1960)
6 - The Young Savages (1961)
7 - Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
8 - Il gattopardo (1963)
9 - A Child Is Waiting (1963)
10 - The Professionals (1966)
11 - Castle Keep (1969)
12 - Novecento (1976)
13 - The Cassandra Crossing (1976)
14 - Go Tell the Spartans (1978)
15 - Field of Dreams (1989)- Music Artist
- Producer
- Actress
Jennifer Lynn Lopez was born on July 24, 1969 in The Bronx, New York City, New York to teacher Lupe López and computer specialist David López. The two Puerto Ricans were brought to the continental United States during their childhoods and eventually met while living in New York City. Their daughters would have a stable, middle-class upbringing.
Jennifer always dreamed of being a multi-tasking superstar. As a child, she enjoyed a variety of musical genres, mainly Afro-Caribbean rhythms like salsa, merengue, and bachata, and mainstream music like pop, hip-hop, and R&B. Although she loved music, the film industry also intrigued her. Her biggest influence was the Rita Moreno musical, West Side Story (1961). At 5, Jennifer began taking singing and dancing lessons. Aside from being a budding entertainer, Jennifer was also a Catholic schoolgirl, attending eight years at a Catholic elementary school named Holy Family, located in The Bronx, before graduating from all-girls prep school Preston High School after a four-year stay. At school, Jennifer was an amazing athlete and participated in track and field and tennis. She spent most of her upbringing in a two-story house in the Castle Hill neighborhood.
At 18, Jennifer moved out of her parents' home. After high school, she briefly worked in a law office and took dance classes at night. During this time, she continued dance classes at night. Her big break came when she was offered a job as a fly girl on Fox's hit comedy In Living Color (1990). After a two-year stay at In Living Color (1990) where actress Rosie Perez served as choreographer, Lopez then went on to dance for famed singer-actress Janet Jackson. Her first major film was Gregory Nava's My Family/Mi familia (1995), and her career went into overdrive when she portrayed late Tejana singer Selena in Selena (1997).1 - Money Train (1995)
2 - Jack (1996)
3 - Blood and Wine (1996)
4 - The Wedding Planner (2001)
5 - Angel Eyes (2001)
6 - Maid in Manhattan (2002)
7 - Enough (2002)
8 - Shall We Dance (2004)
9 - An Unfinished Life (2005)
10 - The Back-up Plan (2010)
11 - What to Expect When You're Expecting (2012)
12 - Second Act (2018)
13 - Hustlers (2019)
14 - Marry Me (2022)