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Jon Cryer
Jonathan Niven Cryer (born April 16, 1965) is an American actor and television director. Born into a show business family, Cryer made his motion picture debut as a teenaged photographer in the 1984 romantic comedy "No Small Affair"; his breakout role came in 1986, playing "Duckie" Dale in the John Hughes-written film "Pretty in Pink". In 1998, he wrote and produced the independent film "Went to Coney Island on a Mission from God... Be Back by Five".
George L. Little
Little's first film as head costume designer was Tony Scott's 1995 thriller "Crimson Tide", which was followed by the 1999 family comedy "The Prince and the Surfer", Rodrigo García's 2000 drama "Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her" and the 2001 television movie "Uprising". In 2000, director John Moore enlisted Little to be head costume designer on his first feature film, the 2001 release "Behind Enemy Lines". Little went on to design the costumes for Moore's next three films: "Flight of the Phoenix", "The Omen" and "Max Payne". Other films for which Little was costume designer include "The Crazies", "Warm Bodies", "Transcendence" and "The Fantastic Four".
Jon Kline
Jon Kline earned his first cinematographer credit in 2007 on the short film "Six Bullets". His other notable credits include cinematographer on the music video "Tiderays" by Volcano Choir. He founded MKE Production Rental, an audiovisual equipment rental company, in Milwaukee in 2013. He currently lives in Chicago with his wife, Anna Pesok Kline.
Alex Rice
Rice first traveled to California in 1996 to attend a modeling convention and landed her first entertainment job working behind the scenes at the "Judge Judy" show. Her first feature film was the independent "The Doe Boy" (2001), which garnered several international film festival awards. She is perhaps best known for her recurring role as Janet Pete in the films "Skinwalkers" (2002), "Dreamkeeper" (2003), "Coyote Waits" (2003), and "A Thief of Time" (2004), based on the Tony Hillerman novels by the same names. She has appeared in other films including "Lewis and Clark: Great Journey West", "On The Corner", "A Thousand Roads", the IMAX release of "Sacagawea", "Johnny Tootall" and "The New World". She has also acted in various television series, including "Spin City", "", "Strong Medicine" and "The Sopranos".
Matt Bomer
In 2018, Bomer began working on his directorial debut on series "". Written by Tom Rob Smith and starring Jon Jon Briones and Darren Criss, in the roles of father and son, respectively. Bomer directed episode eight called "Creator/Destroyer". The episode was watched by more than 1 million people. Bomer had other opportunities to direct before but always wanted to wait for the optimum chance to immerse himself in a project. He read 3,000 pages of books on directing. He found a part in a 2018 revival of the Mart Crowley play "The Boys in the Band", which was staged at Booth Theatre and marked his Broadway debut. Directed by Joe Mantello, it tells the story a group of gay men who gather for a birthday party in New York City. Theater critic Michael Sommers noted that "Matt Bomer tends to fade in the glare of flashier personalities, but he lends the character a watchful quality as one of those deferential souls who is content to observe others." Bomer's first film in 2018 was Bill Oliver's science fiction film "Jonathan". His role was that of a detective who appears in only one scene of the film. "Jonathan" had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 21, 2018.
Jan Sterling
As a teenager, she returned to the borough of Manhattan, and with variations of her given name, such as Jane Adriance and Jane Sterling, began her career by making a Broadway appearance in "Bachelor Born", and went on to appear in such major stage works as "Panama Hattie", "Over 21" and "Present Laughter". In 1947, she made her film debut in "Tycoon", billed as Jane Darian. Ruth Gordon reportedly insisted she change her stage name and they agreed upon Jan Sterling. She played a prominent supporting role in "Johnny Belinda" (1948). Alternating between films and television, Sterling appeared in several television anthology series during the 1950s, and played film roles in "Caged" (1950), "Mystery Street" (1950), "The Mating Season" (1951), "Ace in the Hole" (1951), "Flesh and Fury" (1952), "The High and the Mighty" (1954) and "Female on the Beach" (1955).
John Dexter
Dexter's debut feature-film was "The Virgin Soldiers" (with Lynn Redgrave, 1969). His second film was "The Sidelong Glances of a Pigeon Kicker" (aka, "Pigeons", with Elaine Stritch, 1970); his third was "I Want What I Want" (1972).
Todd Schlopy
Schlopy became a cameraman on feature films beginning in 1989. He joined the IASTE local 600 Camera Guild in 1996.[3] His credits include Revenant (first assistant camera, 2015), Iron Man 3 (first assistant camera second unit, 2013), Transformers (first assistant camera, 2007), Air Force One (first assistant camera,1997), Seabiscuit (first assistant camera, 2003), Academy award winning Crash (first assistant camera, 2004), Swordfish (first assistant camera, 2001), Bad Times at the El Royale (first assistant camera, 2018), A Bad Moms Christmas (first assistant camera, 2017) Ride Along and Ride Along 2, (first assistant camera 2014 and 2016), Primary Colors (first assistant Steadicam 1998) Starship Troopers (first assistant Steadicam, 1997), Wanted (first assistant camera, 2008), The Rookie (first assistant camera, 2002) Red Dawn (first assistant camera, 2011), Jonah Hex (first assistant camera, 2010), High School (first assistant camera, 2010), (first assistant camera, 2009), (first assistant camera, 2008), (first assistant camera, 2005), Shallow Hal (first assistant camera, 2001), and Ski Patrol (second assistant camera, 1990) .[4]
Connor Byrne
Before Byrne entered into the acting world, he danced with companies around the world. He first performed in the West End Theater. He was best known to do Ballet. Byrne's first acting job was as Dan in the 1991 TV Movie adaptation of "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat". His first main role was as Rob "Hyper" Sharpe in "London's Burning" for 2 years. Byrne's biggest acting role is as Mike Milligan from the Tracy Beaker series. He is currently starring as Mike in the spin-off of Tracy Beaker, "The Dumping Ground".
Andrew Connolly
At sixteen years old he left school for a seven-month stint in the Merchant Navy, and later served eighteen months of "torture" in the Irish Navy before returning to Dublin, where he became involved in the Dublin Youth Theater. Connolly began his screen career with a recurring role in the RTÉ television series "Inside" in 1985, with his first film role coming three years later opposite Gabriel Byrne in "The Courier". Connolly received roles in several high-profile projects in the 1990s, including the film adaptation of the Tom Clancy novel "Patriot Games" in 1993, and he received a Best Actor nomination for his portrayal of an abusive soldier in 1995's "Guiltrip".
George Clooney
Clooney began appearing in films while working on "ER". His first major Hollywood role was in the horror comedy-crime thriller "From Dusk till Dawn", directed by Robert Rodriguez and co-starring Harvey Keitel. He followed its success with the romantic comedy "One Fine Day" with Michelle Pfeiffer, and the action-thriller "The Peacemaker" with Nicole Kidman. Clooney was then cast as Batman in Joel Schumacher's "Batman & Robin", which was a modest box office performer, but a critical failure (with Clooney himself calling the film "a waste of money"). In 1998, he co-starred in the crime-comedy "Out of Sight" opposite Jennifer Lopez, marking the first of his many collaborations with director Steven Soderbergh. He also starred in "Three Kings" during the last weeks of his contract with "ER".
Jason Flemyng
His first film appearance was in the 1994 version of "The Jungle Book". His first major cinema role was in Angela Pope's 1996 drama "Hollow Reed", where he played a child abuser, followed by a main role in Guy Ritchie's popular 1998 London gangster film "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels". Flemyng later claimed to have lost so much money while playing poker with the film's backers in between takes on set that he had to work on the four days of re-shoots the film required for no fee. He went on to appear in films such as "The Red Violin" and "Deep Rising" (1998), "Snatch" (2000), George A. Romero's "Bruiser" (2000) and "Rock Star" (2001). Flemyng also starred in the short film "Feeling Good", written by Dexter Fletcher, whom he met while working on "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels".
David Cryer
Donald David Cryer (born March 8, 1936) is a veteran American stage, television and film actor and singer and one of the founders of San Francisco’s American Conservatory Theater which began in Pittsburgh and New York’s Mirror Repertory Theatre. In recent years, he is best known for the role of Firmin in "The Phantom of the Opera", which he has played for nearly 19 years on the road and on Broadway. He has also played more performances of the Bernstein Mass, as The Celebrant (including at the Metropolitan Opera and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts) and more performances as Juan Peron in "Evita" than any other actor. Cryer and his first wife, the songwriter Gretchen Cryer, are the parents of the actor Jon Cryer and his sister Robin Cryer Hyland. With his second wife, the dancer and actress Britt Swanson, he is the father of four children: Rachel, Daniel, Carolyn, and Bill. He has eight grandchildren.
George Clooney
Clooney's first role was as an extra in the television mini-series "Centennial" in 1978, which was based on the novel of the same name by James A. Michener and was partly filmed in Clooney's hometown of Augusta, Kentucky. Clooney's first major role came in 1984 in the short-lived sitcom "E/R" (not to be confused with "ER", the better-known hospital drama, on which Clooney also co-starred a decade later). He played a handyman on the series "The Facts of Life" and appeared as Bobby Hopkins, a detective, on an episode of "The Golden Girls". His first prominent role was a semi-regular supporting role in the sitcom "Roseanne", playing Roseanne Barr's supervisor Booker Brooks, followed by the role of a construction worker on "Baby Talk", a co-starring role on the CBS drama "Bodies of Evidence" as Detective Ryan Walker, and then a year-long turn as Det. James Falconer on "Sisters". In 1988, Clooney played a role in the comedy-horror film "Return of the Killer Tomatoes". In 1990, he starred in the short-lived ABC police drama "Sunset Beat". During this period, Clooney was a student at the Beverly Hills Playhouse acting school for five years.
Justin Chon
Chon started acting in 2005 in shows such as "Jack & Bobby" and "Taki & Luci". He came to fame in 2006 when he played Peter Wu in the Disney Channel film "". He also played Tony Lee in the Nickelodeon sitcom "Just Jordan". In 2008, he played Eric Yorkie in the film "Twilight", based on the book by Stephenie Meyer. Chon reprised his role as Eric Yorkie in the "Twilight" sequel "New Moon". He starred as the central character Jeff Chang, in the film "21 & Over" in 2013. He also appeared in the independent film "Innocent Blood" that same year. In 2014, Chon appeared as a lead character in crime drama film "Revenge of the Green Dragons", which was executive produced by Martin Scorsese. In 2015, Chon starred as Sid Park, the trouble-making main character influenced by rocker culture in the independent film "Seoul Searching", directed by Benson Lee, which made its premiere at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. In 2016, Chon held a role in the Korean American comedy drama "Dramaworld". In March 2017, he was cast as a series regular in the ABC crime drama "Deception".
Barry Cryer
Cryer joined the cast of "Expresso Bongo" (1957) with Susan Hampshire, Millicent Martin and Paul Scofield, during which he recorded the song "Purple People Eater", made famous by Sheb Wooley. For contractual reasons, Wooley's version was never released in Scandinavia, but Cryer's was, and reached number one in Finland. Cryer's first writing credits were four sketches for "The Jimmy Logan Show", co-written with Douglas Camfield. Cryer became head writer with an occasional stage role for Danny La Rue's London nightclub, where he was spotted by David Frost. This led to a writing role on the variety special "A Degree of Frost", which led to Cryer joining the writing team, which also included John Cleese, Graham Chapman and Marty Feldman, on "The Frost Report" from 1966–67. Frost used Cryer on a number of subsequent shows, which established Cryer as a star writer in the 1970s. Cryer is seen serving the wine in the original performance of the Four Yorkshiremen sketch on "At Last the 1948 Show", first broadcast in 1967.
Jillian Murray
Murray starred in a recurring role on the Disney Channel original series "Sonny with a Chance", playing Portlyn. She was offered a series regular role after the 4th episode but declined due to many film offers on the table. She landed the lead female role in the comedy "Cougar Hunting" playing Penelope (Lara Flynn Boyle's daughter), as well as the female lead in her first studio film in "" playing Brandi Cox. After wrapping that film in 2010 she was offered the lead female in her second studio film "" playing Eve. This film is where she met her longtime boyfriend Dean Geyer.
Jeffrey Wright
Wright began appearing off-Broadway in New York City and Washington DC, and in 1990, he appeared in his first major film as an attorney in "Presumed Innocent", which starred Harrison Ford. In 1991, Wright joined John Houseman's national touring repertory company The Acting Company with productions of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and Athol Fugard's "Blood Knot". In 1993 and 1994, he appeared as Norman "Belize" Arriaga in Tony Kushner's award-winning play "Angels in America". His portrayal of a gay nurse forced to take care of Roy Cohn as he dies of AIDS won him the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play.
John Rocker
Rocker made his screen-acting debut in the 2002 horror comedy "The Greenskeeper" as a murderous golf-club groundskeeper.
John Michie
Michie's first film role was in the 1989 film "Conquest of the South Pole" but his first leading role came in the film adaptation, "Monk Dawson" in 1998. Based on the Piers Paul Read novel, it gained a good reception from the critics despite only a short run at the UK box office. Michie played the character David Baird in John Madden’s 1996 film "Truth or Dare" starring Helen Baxendale and John Hannah.
Danny Dyer
Dyer is best known for his "bad boy" or "hard man" roles in film. Dyer's first film role was in "Human Traffic" (1999). His subsequent movie work includes Mel Smith's "High Heels and Low Lifes" (2001) and starring roles in "Borstal Boy" (2000), "Mean Machine" (2002) and in four films by the British film director Nick Love: "Goodbye Charlie Bright" (2001); "The Football Factory" (2004); "The Business" (2005); and "Outlaw" (2007). Among other film roles, he also appeared as the character Steve in Christopher Smith's "Severance" (2006); as Hayden in "Adulthood" (2008); and as himself in the feature documentary "Tattoos: A Scarred History".
Jonny Coyne
His first role on TV was on an episode of "London's Burning" in 1990. His next big role was in a mini-series "Gulliver's Travels" starring "Ted Danson". He appeared in many British TV series over the next few years including guest appearances on "EastEnders", "Pulling" and "The Bill". In 2003, he was cast in "". In 2010, he was cast in "The Nutcracker in 3D".
Michael Jai White
White's first major starring role and breakout performance was in the 1995 HBO film "Tyson", as heavyweight boxer Mike Tyson. He portrayed the eponymous character in the 1997 movie "Spawn", making him the first African American to portray a major comic book superhero in a major motion picture. His work in "Spawn" earned him a nomination for the "Blockbuster Entertainment Award" for Best Male Newcomer. White starred opposite Jean-Claude Van Damme in "". In 2001, he also starred opposite fellow martial artist Steven Seagal in "Exit Wounds". In 2003, he starred in Busta Rhymes' and Mariah Carey's music video "I Know What You Want". Since 2003, in addition to his on screen roles, White has been doing voice work, including "Static Shock" and the "Justice League". White showcases his martial arts skills in the direct-to-DVD film "". He also appears in Michelle Yeoh's "Silver Hawk" in 2004. He appeared in "", although his role was cut from the theatrical release. His film "Why Did I Get Married?" opened at number one at the box office on October 12, 2007.
David Alan Grier
Grier was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical and won the Theatre World Award for "The First". He later starred as James "Thunder" Early in the hit Broadway musical "Dreamgirls". Grier made his film debut in 1983 in "Streamers", directed by Robert Altman. He won the Golden Lion for Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival for the film. He also appeared in the Negro Ensemble Company production "A Soldier's Play" and reprised his role in the film version "A Soldier's Story". Grier also appeared as a geology professor at the fictitious Hillman College in the show "A Different World" where he was a crush of several of the girls on the show including lead character Denise Huxtable played by actress Lisa Bonet.
Jon Cryer
Cryer's first professional acting effort was as David in the Broadway play "Torch Song Trilogy", replacing Matthew Broderick, whom he "closely resembled". Cryer was later an understudy and replacement for Broderick in Neil Simon's "Brighton Beach Memoirs" in 1989.
At age 19, Cryer appeared in the 1984 romantic comedy film "No Small Affair", in the lead role as Charles Cummings, after the original production with Matthew Broderick was shut down due to a heart attack by director Martin Ritt. He went on to have small roles in films and television movies, and he made his breakthrough as Phil "Duckie" Dale in the John Hughes-scripted film "Pretty in Pink". In an interview with the "Daily News", Cryer's mother said that after "Pretty in Pink", she started getting calls from teenage girls from all over the world, who would leave hysterical, giggling messages on her answering machine. In 1989, he got the lead role in the TV comedy series "The Famous Teddy Z". His performance gained poor reviews and the show was canceled after the first season.
Christopher Collet
Collet decided to enter show business during his teens and acquired an agent. His first film role was "Paul" in the 1983 horror "Sleepaway Camp". Collet remained in touch with his co-star Jonathan Tiersten and they auditioned together for shows. Collet eventually landed the role of "Neil Oxley" in the 1984 CBS after school special "Welcome Home Jellybean". Following this success Collet landed numerous roles in television and film including "Jake Livingston" in "Firstborn", "Richard Jahnke Jr." in the 1985 TV film "Right to Kill?", "Paul Stephens" in the 1986 film "The Manhattan Project", and "Albert Kaussner" in the 1995 Stephen King miniseries "The Langoliers". His television appearances include guest roles on "Magnum P.I.," "The Cosby Show," "The Hitchhiker" (1983), "The Equalizer" (1985), "L.A. Law" (1986), and "MacGyver" (1985). He also starred in several Broadway theatre productions. Collet has also been the voice director for many 4Kids television productions, and voiced the character of Orbot in the video game "Sonic Unleashed".
Julie Christie
Christie appeared in two comedies for Independent Artists: "Crooks Anonymous" and "The Fast Lady" (both 1962). Her breakthrough role, however, was as Liz, the friend and would-be lover of the character played by Tom Courtenay in "Billy Liar" (1963), for which she received a BAFTA Award nomination. The director, John Schlesinger cast Christie only after another actress, Topsy Jane, had dropped out of the film. Christie appeared as Daisy Battles in "Young Cassidy" (1965), a biopic of Irish playwright Seán O'Casey, co-directed by Jack Cardiff and (uncredited) John Ford.
Her role as an amoral model in "Darling" (also 1965) led to Christie becoming known internationally. Directed by Schlesinger, and co-starring Dirk Bogarde and Laurence Harvey, Christie had only been cast in the lead role after Schlesinger insisted, the studio having wanted Shirley MacLaine. She received the Academy Award for Best Actress and the BAFTA Award for Best British Actress in a Leading Role for her performance.
Jon Cryer
In 2015, Cryer released a book titled "So That Happened", a breezy, often comic tale chronicling Cryer's 30-year career on stage, film and television.
JR Reed (actor)
Reed enrolled in the UCLA School of Theater in 1987 and graduated in 1991. He joined Tim Robbins' The Actors' Gang and his first production with the group was the "Good Woman of Setzuan". JR met Kyle Gass and knew Jack Black from UCLA previously, this lead for him to get the occupation as the roadie and Spider-Man at early Tenacious D concerts. In 1996, Reed starred in his first film, "The Shot". His Actors' Gang production "Kick Ass Militia" won the Backstage West Play Production of the Year award in 1997. In 1999, JR starred in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and in 2000 featured in Tenacious D's TV series as "Lee". In 2001, Reed made appearances in "Dead Last" and "The Anniversary Party". In 2002, JR started a side-project band with Gass called Trainwreck. He can also be seen on "The Complete Masterworks" Tenacious D concert DVD.
Jon Favreau
While in Chicago, Favreau landed his first film role alongside Sean Astin as football tutor D-Bob in the sleeper hit "Rudy" (1993). Favreau met Vince Vaughn – who played a small role in this film – during shooting. The next year, he appeared in the college film "PCU" alongside Jeremy Piven, in the 1994 episode of "Seinfeld" titled "The Fire" he appeared as Eric the Clown. He then moved to Los Angeles, where he made his breakthrough in 1996 as an actor-screenwriter with the film "Swingers", which was also Vaughn's breakthrough role as the character Trent Walker, a foil to Favreau's heartbroken Mike Peters. In 1997, he appeared on the television sitcom "Friends", portraying Pete Becker – Monica Geller's millionaire boyfriend who competes in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) – for several episodes. Favreau made appearances in the sketch-comedy series, "Tracey Takes On..." in both 1996 and 1997.
Andre Braugher
Braugher's first film role was in the 1989 film "Glory" as Thomas Searles, a free, educated black man from the North who joins the first black regiment in the Union Army. He played Kojak's sidekick in the late-1980s ABC television film revival of "Kojak". He subsequently moved on to a role on the television series "" as Detective Frank Pembleton, a self-righteous, fiery, unyielding, Jesuit-educated police detective. Playing opposite Kyle Secor (who portrayed Detective Tim Bayliss), Braugher became the series' breakout star. He received Television Critics Association awards for individual achievement in drama in 1997 and 1998. He was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series in 1996 and 1998, winning in the latter year. He left "Homicide" after its sixth season but returned for the reunion . He has also co-starred in the films "City of Angels", "Frequency" and "Poseidon". In 1997, he was selected by "People" as one of the "50 Most Beautiful People in the World".
Jon-Paul Gates
Whilst attending Humberside University he got his first break starring as Allan Hindle in the BBC's soap, "Eldorado". Due the show's unpopularity, he changed his professional name to Jon-Paul Gates in 1994. After various short films and a Channel 4 TV series, "Focus North", he starred in his first feature film "Cold Fish" in 1999, playing the lead role of Alex. In 2001, he secured lead roles in Palm Tree's "The Hawk & the Dove" and played the antagonist Ida in "Winter Warrior"; which entered the top 10 DVD films in Russia in 2004. From 2002 to 2006 he accumulated more films in Europe; "The Prodigal", "Red Rose", "Axe Raiders" before trying his luck in the USA. After getting his big break in vampire flick "Revamped", he starred in The Asylum's "Dragon", with Gary Busey in "Beyond the Ring" and Danny Trejo in "Dark Games". Travelling back and forth, he played the evil priest opposite Jeff Fahey and Martin Kove in "Messages", Peter in "Carmen's Kiss" with Hugo Speer and Bruce Payne. Gates has also worked with Bruce Payne on "Disturbance".
Jana Kramer (album)
In 2002, Kramer made her acting debut in the low budget independent horror film "Dead/Undead". The following year Kramer guest appeared on "All My Children" which was marked as Kramer's television debut. Kramer has since continued to appear in a number of television shows such as "", "Grey's Anatomy", "Private Practice" and "". She has also had small supporting roles in films such as "Click", "Prom Night" and "Spring Breakdown". After a long career of acting, in February 2011 Kramer signed a recording contract with Elektra Records. The following month Kramer began work on her debut album. Country music producer Scott Hendricks produced the majority of the record.
Tom Booker
Booker moved to Los Angeles in 1991 and formed Theater-A-Go-Go! with Laura Hall. In 1994 Booker made his television debut as Jinxo in the Babylon 5 episode, "Grail". He also began teaching improv and sketch writing at The Second City Training Center in Los Angeles. His movie debut came in a minor role in the 1995 film Jury Duty. In 2001 he had the voice role of Keel Lorenz in both and its sequel The End of Evangelion. He had another minor role in the 1998 mockumentary The Thin Pink Line as a wet underwear contestant. Tom also co-wrote and co-directed (with producing partner Jon Kean) the feature film Kill the Man starring Luke Wilson, which premiered at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival. He also played the role of Biily Bob in the film.
Josh Richman
Richman's first big role was in the hit 1986 drama film "River's Edge" as Tony, he also starred in 2 other films that year, "Thrashin'" and "Modern Girls". He appeared in the 1987 film "The Allnighter" and the 1988 sequel film, "Fright Night Part 2". In 1989, he played a role in the cult film "Heathers". His other films include "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" (2005), "The Education of Charlie Banks" (2007) and a minor role in Oliver Stone's "Natural Born Killers" and Adam Collis "Sunset Strip".
John Cusack
Cusack began acting in films in the early 1980s. He made his breakout role in Rob Reiner's "The Sure Thing" (1985). He also starred in Cameron Crowe's directorial debut film, "Say Anything..." (1989). Cusack played a con artist in Stephen Frears' 1990 neo-noir film "The Grifters". After establishing New Crime Productions, Cusack co-wrote the screenplay for and starred in George Armitage's crime film "Grosse Pointe Blank" (1997), in which he played an assassin who goes to his 10-year high school reunion to win back his high school sweetheart.
Jenny McCarthy
In 1998 McCarthy's first major movie role was alongside Trey Parker and Matt Stone in the comedy "BASEketball". The following year, she starred in "Diamonds". In 2000 she had a role in the horror movie "Scream 3", and three years later she parodied that role in horror film spoof "Scary Movie 3" along with fellow Playmate and actress Anderson. In 2005, McCarthy produced, wrote, and starred in the movie "Dirty Love", which was directed by her husband at the time, John Asher. In March 2006 she was given Razzie Awards for "Worst Actress", "Worst Screenplay", and "Worst Picture" for her work on "Dirty Love", which also earned Asher a Razzie for "Worst Director."
John Carradine
He appeared in dozens of low-budget horror films from the 1940s onwards, to finance a touring classical theatre company. He also played a small but important role in the very-high-budget comedy "The Court Jester", which was at the time of its release the most expensive comedy film ever made. He sang the theme song to one film in which he appeared briefly, "Red Zone Cuba". Carradine also made more than 100 acting appearances on television over a period of 39 years. His first performance on the "small screen" was on the DuMont Television Network in 1947, when he played Ebenezer Scrooge in a broadcast presentation of "A Christmas Carol." His final role on television was in 1986 as Professor Alex Stottel on a revival of the classic series "The Twilight Zone", in an episode segment titled "Still Life." Some examples of other television series on which he appeared include CBS's "My Friend Flicka", "Johnny Ringo" (as The Rain Man), and "Place the Face", NBC's "Cimarron City" as the foreboding Jared Tucker in the episode "Child of Fear" and on William Bendix's "Overland Trail" in the 1960 episode "The Reckoning" on ABC's "Harrigan and Son", "Sugarfoot", "The Rebel", and "The Legend of Jesse James", and on the syndicated adventure series "Rescue 8" with actor Jim Davis.
Alex O'Loughlin
In 2004 he landed his first film role, the lead in "Oyster Farmer". He later appeared in "Man-Thing", "Feed", and in the Australian mini-series "The Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant", for which he was nominated as Best Lead Actor in Television from the Australian Film Institute Awards in 2005 and as Most Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series from the Logie Awards in 2006. O'Loughlin joined the cast of "The Shield" in 2007 as Detective Kevin Hiatt, the newest member of the strike team.
Jack O'Connell (actor)
O'Connell first found fame as the hard-living James Cook on the E4 teen series "Skins" (2009–10), which was followed by other lead roles in the television dramas "Dive" (2010) and "United" (2011). His breakthrough came when he gave critically acclaimed performances in the independent films "Starred Up" (2013) and "'71" (2014). O'Connell subsequently starred as war hero Louis Zamperini in his first major Hollywood picture, Angelina Jolie's "Unbroken" (2014), for which he received the BAFTA Rising Star Award. In 2016, he co-starred with George Clooney and Julia Roberts in "Money Monster", a film directed by Jodie Foster. In 2017 he starred alongside Michelle Dockery and Jeff Daniels as outlaw Roy Goode on the Netflix western limited series "Godless".
Wayne Kramer (filmmaker)
Kramer first began directing with the 1992 film "Blazeland", which was never completed. Kramer has since commented that the process was "an absolute nightmare from beginning to end" and that he has no plans to finish or release the film. His first official release, "The Cooler", was selected for competition in the 2003 Sundance Film Festival. Later the same year "The Cooler" received a 2003 Special Mention for Excellence in Filmmaking from the National Board of Review. A year later, he was nominated for a Golden Satellite Award and an Edgar Allan Poe Award for writing the film's screenplay.
Leonardo DiCaprio
In 1991, he played an un-credited role in one episode of "Roseanne". Later that year, DiCaprio's debut film role was in the comedic science fiction horror film "Critters 3", in which he played the stepson of an evil landlord, a role that DiCaprio described as "your average, no-depth, standard kid with blond hair." Released in March that year, the movie went direct-to-video. Shortly after, he became a recurring cast member on the successful ABC sitcom "Growing Pains", playing Luke Brower, a homeless boy who is taken in by the Seaver family. DiCaprio was nominated for the Young Artist Award for Best Young Actor Co-starring in a Television Series.
Jon Cryer
Cryer currently appears in the highly popular CBS drama series "NCIS", where he currently plays Navy Dr. Cyril Taft who treats NCIS Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs (Mark Harmon). Cryer had expressed a desire to appear in "NCIS" since it premiered on September 23, 2003.
Judy Greer
Greer made her film debut in the horror film "Stricken" (1998), in which she played a college student involved in a fatal prank. This was followed by a small role in the Chicago-filmed drama "Kissing a Fool" (1998). She was then cast in her first major role as Fern Mayo, a nerdy teenager who uncovers her classmates' murder of their friend, in Darren Stein's black comedy "Jawbreaker" (1999). The film would go on to earn a cult following. Greer followed this with small parts in the romantic comedy films "What Women Want" (2000) and "The Wedding Planner" (2001), opposite Jennifer Lopez. She was cast in a 2002 pilot for NBC alongside Stephen Colbert, "Untitled Ken Finkleman Project" (Imagine Entertainment), based on the Canadian show "The Newsroom" from Ken Finkleman. Colbert portrayed Finkleman and Greer played his sister.
Jason Lee (actor)
After taking some minor acting roles in 1992–1994 (including the music video for the Sonic Youth single "100%", a small part in "Mi Vida Loca", and a bit part as a dance instructor on "Chance and Things"), Lee left professional skateboarding for a full-time acting career. His first major movie role was in Kevin Smith's "Mallrats", which became a cult hit. This started a friendship that subsequently led to appearances in many of Smith's films, including "Chasing Amy", "Dogma", "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back", "Clerks II", and "Cop Out". Lee won an Independent Spirit Award for his role in "Chasing Amy" as Banky Edwards.
Lee graduated to leading man roles in "Heartbreakers", "Stealing Harvard", and "A Guy Thing". He has had supporting roles in "Vanilla Sky", "Almost Famous", "Dreamcatcher", "Big Trouble", "The Ballad of Jack and Rose", and "Mumford", as well as a minor role in "Enemy of the State". Lee also voiced Syndrome in "The Incredibles" and "Jack-Jack Attack". He reprised the role as a "robot copy" of Syndrome in "Disney Presents Pixar's The Incredibles in a Magic Kingdom Adventure". Lee is also the voice of Underdog in "Underdog" and portrays Dave Seville in the live action/CGI films starring Alvin and the Chipmunks.
Jeremy James Kissner
Kissner's first film role was in 1998's remake of "Great Expectations", playing the younger version of Ethan Hawke's character.
Luke Askew
He made his film debut in "Hurry Sundown" (1967), but was first noticed as an actor for his role in the 1967 film "Cool Hand Luke". The following year he worked with John Wayne in "The Green Berets" (with his hair cut short). The following year he worked with Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda in "Easy Rider", a film that set him on the road to becoming a cult figure of modern cinema.
Jon Hall (actor)
He appeared in "Murder on a Mountain" on stage at the Bliss Hayden Little Theatre in Beverly Hills. This earned him a contract at Warner Bros. He followed it with "What? No Yacht?" at the Bliss Hayden Nothing appears to have happened with the Warners contract but his first film was "Women Must Dress" (1935) at Monogram.
Jere Burns
Burns made his television debut in a small role on ABC's "Mom's On Strike" in 1984. He had a recurring role as rapist James Fitzsimmons on "Hill Street Blues" and body collector Breugel on "Max Headroom". In 1988 he landed the role of sleazy Kirk Morris on "Dear John". In 1989 he appeared in the William Lustig film "Hit List" as Jared Riley. He appeared as the villainous Cade Dalton on the NBC miniseries "" (1991), hateful Vice-President of Sales Pete Schmidt on "Bob" (1993), a member of the feuding family in "Greedy" (1994), Jack Farrell in "Something So Right" (1996), and Ben Stuart in "Life-Size". He portrayed the title character's brother in "The Trouble with Harry", an episode of the series "Twice in a Lifetime" directed by David Winning (2000); Frank Alfonse on "Good Morning, Miami" (2002); Keith on "The King of Queens" (2006); Michael on "Help Me Help You" (2006); and Dr. Jim on "Surviving Suburbia" (2007) Soldier on plane, uncredited, Transformers; (2009). He starred as an FBI agent in the movie "Otis" (2008). Other screen credits include "Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles" (2001).
Rory Culkin
Culkin's breakthrough role was in "You Can Count On Me", opposite Laura Linney, a role for which he received much praise and a Young Artist Award. Since then, Culkin has appeared in numerous films, "Signs" being the most famous, in which he starred alongside Mel Gibson and Joaquin Phoenix. As a teenager, Rory started moving into more independent films, such as "The Chumscrubber", "Hick" and "Down in the Valley". He took a leading role in "Mean Creek", a 2004 independent film about a group of teenagers that plan to get revenge on a bully. The entire youth cast won an Independent Spirit Award for this film. Since his Young Artist Award win for "You Can Count on Me", Culkin has received three more nominations. He also had a guest role in the "" episode "Manic", and in an episode of "The Twilight Zone" called "Azoth the Avenger Is a Friend of Mine" alongside Patrick Warburton. In May 2010, Culkin was cast for the slasher film "Scream 4", which was released on April 15, 2011.
Jon Voight
He made his first acting debut into television movies, acting in 1991's "Chernobyl: The Final Warning", followed by "The Last of his Tribe", in 1992. He followed with 1992's "The Rainbow Warrior" for ABC, the story of the ill-fated Greenpeace ship sunk by French operatives in the Auckland Harbour. For the remainder of the decade, Voight would alternate between feature films and television movies, including a starring role in the 1993 miniseries "Return to Lonesome Dove", a continuation of Larry McMurtry's western saga, 1989's "Lonesome Dove". Voight played Captain Woodrow F. Call, the part played by Tommy Lee Jones in the original miniseries. Voight made a cameo appearance as himself on the "Seinfeld" episode "The Mom & Pop Store" airing November 17, 1994, in which George Costanza buys a car that appears to be owned by Jon Voight. Voight described the process leading up to the episode in an interview on the Red Carpet at the 2006 BAFTA Emmy Awards:
The Hudsucker Proxy
This was the first time the Coen brothers chose big stars to act in their movie. Joel Silver's first choice for Norville Barnes was Tom Cruise, but the Coens persisted in a desire to cast Tim Robbins. Winona Ryder and Bridget Fonda were in competition for the role of Amy Archer before Jennifer Jason Leigh was cast. Leigh had previously auditioned for a role in the Coens's "Miller's Crossing" and "Barton Fink". Her failed auditions prompted the Coens to cast her in "The Hudsucker Proxy". To prepare for her role as Amy Archer, Leigh read the biographies of some of the most substantial ladies of the thirties and forties such as, Rosalind Russell, Katharine Hepburn and Jean Arthur. When casting the role of Sidney Mussburger, "Warner Bros. suggested all sorts of names," remembered Joel. "A lot of them were comedians who were clearly wrong. Mussburger is the bad guy and Paul Newman brought that character to life." However, the Coens first offered the role to Clint Eastwood, but he was forced to turn it down due to scheduling conflicts.
Jonah Hill
His first leading role was in the Apatow-produced comedy "Superbad". Hill starred in the film alongside Michael Cera, in roles based on the film's writers, Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg. The film is often cited as the film that launched the careers of the two actors. He followed it with an uncredited role as Dewey Cox's grown-up brother, Nate Cox, in "" in December 2007. He hosted "Saturday Night Live" on March 15, 2008, which featured musical guest Mariah Carey.
Julie Christie
Christie made her professional stage debut in 1957, and her first screen roles were on British television. Her earliest role to gain attention was in BBC serial "A for Andromeda" (1961). She was a contender for the role of Honey Rider in the first James Bond film, "Dr. No", but producer Albert R. Broccoli reportedly thought her breasts were too small.
Jeremy Sumpter
Sumpter's first movie role was in the 2001 film "Frailty" as the young Adam Mieks seen in flashbacks. Sumpter received a Saturn Award nomination for "Best Performance by a Younger Actor" for his performance. Following that, he appeared with Danny Glover in the Showtime film "Just a Dream", for which he received a Young Artist Award for "Best Performance in a TV Movie, Mini-Series or Special - Leading Young Actor". His next film was "Local Boys", a family surfing drama, with Mark Harmon and Eric Christian Olsen.
Jon Cryer
When Cryer was twelve years old, he decided that he wanted to become an actor. When his mother heard this, she thought he should have a backup plan, and joked: "Plumbing is a pretty good career." Cryer attended Stagedoor Manor Performing Arts Training Center for several summers as a teenager, and is a 1983 graduate of the Bronx High School of Science. He was classmates with screenwriter and film director Boaz Yakin. To his mother's "great disappointment", Cryer skipped college and went to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, United Kingdom for a summer short course in Shakespeare.
Gwyneth Paltrow
Her acting debut was in "High" (1989), a TV film her father directed, and after spending several summers watching her mother perform at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Massachusetts, Paltrow made her professional stage debut there in 1990. Her film debut followed with the musical romance film "Shout" (1991), starring John Travolta, and she was cast by Steven Spielberg in the commercially successful adventure feature "Hook" (1991) as the young Wendy Darling. Paltrow's next roles were in the made-for-television movies "Cruel Doubt" (1992) and "Deadly Relations" (1993). Her first plum feature film role was in the noir drama "Flesh and Bone" (1993) as the much-younger girlfriend of James Caan. Janet Maslin of "The New York Times" described Paltrow as a scene-stealer "who is Blythe Danner's daughter and has her mother's way of making a camera fall in love with her." In 1995, she starred in the thriller "Se7en", as the wife of a young detective (Brad Pitt), who is partnered with the retiring William Somerset (Morgan Freeman) and soon tasked with tracking down a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as tropes in his murders. The seventh-highest-grossing film in the year "Seven" also earned her a Satellite Award nomination. She appeared in "Moonlight and Valentino", as a grieving chain-smoker, and in "Jefferson in Paris", portraying Martha Jefferson Randolph.
Diora Baird
In 2004, Baird also started earning acting roles, such as a guest appearance on the "Drew Carey Show" and in the low budget film "Brain Blockers". Her breakthrough appearance in a major film was in "Wedding Crashers" in 2005, which she followed up with roles in "Accepted" and "Hot Tamale". In 2006, she appeared in four films, most notably a major role in the horror film "". In 2009, Baird portrayed an Orion Starfleet officer in "Star Trek" directed by J. J. Abrams but was cut from the final version of the film. She can be seen in the deleted scenes of the home video release.
Jordan Kerner
After another year, he had produced his first television movie, "Side by Side". His acting debut was in "Less Than Zero" (uncredited) and then "George of the Jungle 2" (credited), in which he played an advertising executive in the first and an airline passenger in the second.
Jason Statham
In 2005, Statham was once again cast by Ritchie to star in his new project, "Revolver", which was a critical and box office failure. He played a dramatic role in the independent film "London" in 2006. That same year he played the lead role in the action film "Crank". Statham was asked to promote Crank during the 2006 San Diego Comic-Con Convention. In 2008, Statham starred in the British crime thriller "The Bank Job" and "Death Race", a remake of "Death Race 2000" (1975). American film critic Armond White hailed Statham's ascension as an action film star. On the occasion of "Death Race", White championed Statham's "best track record of any contemporary movie star." Later in 2008, White praised Statham's "Transporter 3" as a great example of kinetic pop art. Chris Hewitt of "Empire Magazine", noted the film as "a dour, drab affair", but credit the film with "establishing Statham as a new action hero, as at ease with gruff one-liners as he was with Jackie Chan-esque high-kicking".
List of James Earl Jones performances
Jones voiced the antagonist Darth Vader in the "Star Wars" franchise, first in the 1977 film "Star Wars", then again in "The Empire Strikes Back" (1980) and in "Return of the Jedi" (1983). During that time, Jones was also in the films "The Bushido Blade" (1981) with Richard Boone, and "Conan the Barbarian" (1982) with Arnold Schwarzenegger. In the later part of the 1980s, Jones had co-starring roles in the films "Soul Man" (1986) with C. Thomas Howell, "Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold" (1987) with Richard Chamberlain, "Matewan" (1987) with Chris Cooper, "Coming to America" (1988) with Eddie Murphy and "Field of Dreams" (1989) with Kevin Costner. For his role in "Matewan", Jones was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male but lost to Morgan Freeman. Jones was first cast as the role of Admiral James Greer in the 1990 action thriller film "The Hunt for Red October", a film based on Tom Clancy's novel of the same name. He reprised the role again in "Patriot Games" (1992) and "Clear and Present Danger" (1994), both films he co-starred with Harrison Ford, who was also in the first three "Star Wars" franchise films. In between the two latter films, Jones played Mr. Mertle in "The Sandlot" (1993), a role he reprised again in "The Sandlot 2" (2005); and voiced the character of Mufasa in the 1994 animated Disney film "The Lion King", he voiced that character again in the sequel "" (1998).
John Grieve (actor)
Born in Maryhill, Glasgow, Grieve attended the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, before joining the Citizens Theatre in 1951. Grieve worked in variety alongside many familiar Scottish comedians, including Stanley Baxter and Jimmy Logan. Although principally known for his comic roles, he appeared in drama films such as "The Thirty-Nine Steps" (1978), "Eye of the Needle" (1981) and the BBC docudrama "Square Mile of Murder" (1980). His stage roles include the part of the King's Jester in the premier of "The Burning" (1971) by Stewart Conn.
John Terry (actor)
Terry's debut role was as the title character in the 1980 fantasy film "Hawk the Slayer", followed by roles in films such as "There Goes the Bride" (1980), "Tuxedo Warrior" (1982) and the action sequel "Wild Geese II" (1985), as Barbara Carrera's brother. His career then took a major upswing as he was assigned the roles of Lieutenant Lockhart in Stanley Kubrick's "Full Metal Jacket" (1987) and Felix Leiter in the James Bond film "The Living Daylights" (1987). Nothing as prominent followed immediately, though he received good notices for his role as a traumatized Vietnam veteran in Norman Jewison's "In Country" (1989). Terry subsequently played the lead in a well-regarded but short-lived TV series "Against the Grain". Terry played Slim in the 1992 film adaptation of "Of Mice and Men" and also appeared in "The Resurrected" (1992), an adaption of the H. P. Lovecraft novella, "Case of Charles Dexter Ward".
Eric Allan Kramer
In 1987, Kramer made his acting debut in television film "The Gunfighters". He also starred in the 1990 film "Quest for the Mighty Sword," replacing previous lead actor Miles O'Keeffe. He played Thor in NBC's television film "The Incredible Hulk Returns" and a Russian baseball player in the television movie "The Comrades of Summer". Among Kramer's more notable roles have been Little John in "", Bear in "American Wedding", and Boris, bodyguard to producer Lee Donowitz, in "True Romance". He has also appeared in a number of notable television series, including "Two and a Half Men", "Wizards of Waverly Place", "Growing Pains", "Cheers", "Empty Nest", "Blossom", "", "NewsRadio", "JAG", "Roseanne", "Murder, She Wrote", "Seinfeld", "That '70s Show", "Ellen", "Monk", "Jack and Bobby", "Phil of the Future", "How I Met Your Mother", "The King of Queens" and "My Name Is Earl". Kramer was also a series regular on the sitcom "Bob" as Whitey van de Bunt (1993) and the ABC/UPN sitcom "The Hughleys" as Dave Rogers.
Ethan Wayne
He played Little Jake, the grandson of his father's title character in "Big Jake". Ethan started doing stunt work after the death of his father in 1979. His first film was "The Blues Brothers". He then went back to work as an actor. His next two major film appearances were both in 1981, in the comedy "Longshot", and the slasher film "Scream".
Jessica Napier
It was not until Jessica was 15 that she decided to be an actress. On her first serious audition she won the lead role of Edwina on "Echo Point". Her first feature film was in Shirley Barrett's award-winning "Love Serenade" (with Miranda Otto), followed by the critically acclaimed "Blackrock", where her character's brother was played by Heath Ledger in his first prominent film role.
Johnny Depp
Depp's first film role was in the horror film "A Nightmare on Elm Street" (1984), in which he played the boyfriend of heroine Nancy Thompson (Heather Langenkamp) and one of Freddy Krueger's victims. After a starring role in the comedy "Private Resort" (1985), Depp was cast in the lead role of the skating drama "Thrashin'" (1986) by the film's director, but the decision was later overridden by its producer. Instead, Depp appeared in a minor supporting role as a Vietnamese-speaking private in Oliver Stone's Vietnam War drama "Platoon" (1986).
Justin Henry
Henry began his acting career in "Kramer vs. Kramer". For his performance in that film, he became the youngest person to ever be nominated for an Oscar or Golden Globe. His next role was in a 1983 episode of the American television series "Fantasy Island". On the big screen, Henry appeared in the Brat Pack film "Sixteen Candles" (1984), as Mike Baker, one of Samantha Baker's siblings. Henry also played the son of a married couple played by Don Johnson and Susan Sarandon in the film "Sweet Hearts Dance" (1988). In this role, critic Janet Maslin called him a "large and amusingly sullen teenager".
Frank Maher (stuntman)
His first stunt role was as a Roman Centurion in the film "Caesar And Cleopatra" (1945) starring Stewart Granger. His other movie stunt roles included work on "The Crimson Pirate" (1952) doubling for Burt Lancaster and as a riding double in "The Devil’s Disciple" (1959).
Jonny Lee Miller
He first starred in the film "Hackers" (1995), with Angelina Jolie, whom he married in 1996. Shortly after "Hackers", Miller was cast as Sick Boy in "Trainspotting". He was suggested for the role by Ewan McGregor. The accent he used in the film was so convincing that it led many people to incorrectly believe that he was Scottish. Miller has stated: "I had to do a lot of work. I read and re-read the book and I pretended to be Scottish all the time I was in Glasgow, hanging around with Scots, picking up bits and pieces on the street and in bars. Everyone's been very encouraging and Danny thinks that I've got it about right. Of course, the others are from all over Scotland and have different accents themselves, so I've tried to just pick up a general, composite accent."
Jack Nicholson
He trained to be an actor with a group called the Players Ring Theater, after which time he found small parts performing on the stage and in TV soap operas. He made his film debut in a low-budget teen drama "The Cry Baby Killer" (1958), playing the title role. For the following decade, Nicholson was a frequent collaborator with the film's producer, Roger Corman. Corman directed Nicholson on several occasions, most notably in "The Little Shop of Horrors", as masochistic dental patient and undertaker Wilbur Force, and also in "The Raven", "The Terror" where he plays a French officer seduced by an evil ghost, and "The St. Valentine's Day Massacre".
Jackson Gallagher
Gallagher began his career starring in the Nine Network children's series "The Saddle Club" as Ashley 'Chewie' Becker. The actor later went onto secure his first film role in the 2013 horror genre film "Patrick". He played the titular character, but spent most of the film shoot bedbound. Film director Mark Hartley praised Gallagher's performance for bringing "inner menace" to the role.
Jillian Wheeler
Wheeler began acting at the age of six in commercials and theater productions. Her first role was a local theater production of "Annie", followed by regional and equity productions, including "Into The Woods", "A Midsummer Night's Dream", "Annie Warbucks", "The Music Man", "The Sound of Music" and "School House Rock". Wheeler made her debut at the San Jose Repertory Theater in the play "By The Bog of Cats" starring alongside Holly Hunter, for which she was awarded a Dean Goodman Choice Award for Supporting Actress. She was then cast in the world premier of "The Mandrake Root" alongside Lynne Redgrave. In addition to national and regional commercials, Jillian's film credits include "Mystic River",where she played Sean Penn and Laura Linney's daughter, "Osmosis Jones", "The Legend of Lucy Keyes", and "Little Erin Merryweather". Jillian was an active cast member on World Family's "Zippy and Me" and "Disney's World of English", from 1999 to 2004, which is distributed predominantly in Japan, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. She shifted her main focus to music in 2005, but continues to participate in both feature and independent acting projects.
John Candy
Candy's first lead role in a Hollywood film came with "Summer Rental" (1985) directed by Carl Reiner. He was reunited with Hanks in "Volunteers" (1985), though the film did not do as well as "Splash". He had a cameo in "The Canadian Conspiracy" (1985) and appeared alongside Martin Short in "" (1985) in Canada.
Willem Dafoe
Dafoe made a cameo appearance in John Waters' musical comedy "Cry-Baby" (1990) as a prison guard who gives a brief lecture on values to the title character, who is played by Johnny Depp. Rita Kempley of "The Washington Post" found the scene to be one of the film's highlights. In the same year, Dafoe co-starred in David Lynch's crime film "Wild at Heart" with Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern. Dafoe played a criminal who engages in a robbery with Cage's character before demonstrating his dark side. He wore fake, corroded teeth and grew a pencil moustache that bore resemblance to his previous collaborator, John Waters. "Entertainment Weekly" critic Owen Gleiberman felt the role proved Dafoe as a "master of leering, fish-faced villainy". In 1991, Dafoe starred with Danny Glover and Brad Johnson in the action film "Flight of the Intruder". The film follows a pair of United States Navy pilots, played by Dafoe and Johnson, who scheme and participate in an unauthorized air strike on Hanoi. Directed by John Millius, the film received negative reviews. He was due to star opposite Joan Cusack in the comedy "Arrive Alive" in 1991, but the film was cancelled during production. Dafoe had two lead roles in 1992. The first to be released, "White Sands", saw Dafoe a play small-town sheriff who impersonates a dead man after finding his dead body and a suitcase containing $500,000 in order to solve the case, resulting in an FBI investigation. In his next starring role, Paul Schrader's drama "Light Sleeper", Dafoe played John LeTour, a lonely, insomniac, New Yorker working as a delivery man for a drug supplier, who is played by Susan Sarandon. Roger Ebert praised Dafoe's "gifted" portrayal of LeTour and Owen Gleiberman opined that "even when the film doesn't gel, one is held by Willem Dafoe's grimly compelling performance."
Ian Bannen
His film debut occurred in the early 1950s with a small role in "Pool of London" (1951), and he quickly rose to prominence, primarily in a wide range of supporting roles. He had a very significant role as Stoker Samuel Bannister in "Yangtse Incident". During the early stages of his career he worked with the Boulting Brothers on "Private's Progress" and "Carlton-Browne of the F.O.". His performance as Crow in "The Flight of the Phoenix" (1965) earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor, making him the first Scottish actor to receive this honour; he also received a Golden Globe nomination for New Star of the Year - Actor. That same year, he starred alongside Sean Connery in the WW2 prison drama, "The Hill".
John McKay (director)
After working on the television series "Psychos" for Kudos and Channel 4 in 1999, he directed his first full-length feature film, "Crush", starring Andie MacDowell, Imelda Staunton, Anna Chancellor, and Kenny Doughty for which he also wrote the screenplay. Released in 2001, "Crush" was originally to have been titled "The Sad Fuckers Club", but this was changed after resistance from the producers and distributors and uneasiness on the part of test audiences. "Crush" met with a generally negative critical reaction, and a second feature that McKay had written and was planning to direct at the time, the World War II-set "Knickers", never eventually saw production.
Kevin Costner
Costner began his acting career with "Sizzle Beach, U.S.A." (1981). Following a few minor supporting parts, he rose to prominence with his portrayal of Eliot Ness in "The Untouchables" (1987). This was followed by a widely successful period in his career with starring roles in such films as; "Bull Durham" (1988), "Field of Dreams" (1989), "Dances with Wolves" (1990), for which he won two Academy Awards, "JFK" (1991), "" (1991), and "The Bodyguard" (1992). In 1995, Costner starred in and co-produced "Waterworld". The most expensive film ever made at the time, it was a major box office disappointment which marked a significant downturn in his career. His second directorial feature "The Postman" (1997) was another disappointment which marked a massive downfall of his career as a leading man. He has since starred in numerous films to rejuvenate his leading man status, including "Message in a Bottle" (1999), "For Love of the Game" (1999), "Thirteen Days" (2000), "3000 Miles to Graceland" (2001), "Dragonfly" (2002), "Rumor Has It" (2005), "The Guardian" (2006), "Mr. Brooks" (2007), "3 Days to Kill" (2014), "McFarland, USA" (2015), "Draft Day" (2014), and "Criminal" (2016). All of these films however have been either critical or commercial failures, failing to reboot his status. Nevertheless in recent years he has had supporting parts in critically favoured films including "The Upside of Anger" (2005), "Man of Steel" (2013), "Hidden Figures" (2016), and "Molly's Game" (2017).
Jonny Cruz
Cruz studied computer science, acting, filmmaking and communication media, all of which he used to understand the complex process of film making. His computer skills allowed him to work as web designer and his passion for acting always prompted him to audition for movie roles as they came. Cruz states “I loved to learn so, I would spend endless hours working on the computer learning editing software, visual FX programs, I felt that I could pretty much make a movie on my own from beginning to end after learning all the different aspects of movie making”. So in 2005, with enough knowledge on technical and theoretical aspects of movie making, Cruz made his first incursion as writer, director and producer, besides his acting role, with "Cool Wheels" where he co-worked with college friends Robby Storey and Kim Matula. He then went on to produce, write, act and direct "Small Timers", his first feature-length movie. "Small Timers" took 6 years to complete due to severe technical difficulties, and Jonny states that completing the movie was one of the hardest things he's ever had to do.
List of awards and nominations received by Jeremy Renner
This is a list of awards and nominations received by Jeremy Renner, American actor. He has been formally recognized for roles in "Fish in a Barrel" (2001), "Dahmer" (2002), "S.W.A.T." (2003), "Neo Ned" (2005), "Take" (2007), "The Hurt Locker" (2008), "The Town" (2010), "The Avengers" (2012), "American Hustle" (2013), "The Immigrant" (2013) and "Kill the Messenger" (2014). While "Fish in a Barrel" (2001) marked Renner's first formal distinction of his film career, his performance as the titular character in "Dahmer" (2002) earned him his first major industry nomination for Best Male Lead at the 2003 Independent Spirit Awards. Following this success, Renner has most notably achieved two Academy Award nominations for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor for his roles in "The Hurt Locker" (2008) and "The Town" (2010), respectively. In 2014, Renner won his first Broadcast Film Critics Association Award and Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Acting Ensemble alongside the cast of "American Hustle" (2013).
Jeremy Irons
Irons's first major film role came in the 1981 romantic drama "The French Lieutenant's Woman", for which he received a BAFTA nomination for Best Actor. After starring in dramas, such as "Moonlighting" (1982), "Betrayal" (1983), and "The Mission" (1986), he was praised for portraying twin gynaecologists in David Cronenberg's psychological thriller "Dead Ringers" (1988). In 1990, Irons portrayed accused attempted murderer Claus von Bülow in "Reversal of Fortune", and won multiple awards, including the Academy Award for Best Actor.
John Cariani
His first break came in 1999 when he was cast in the Off-Broadway play "It's My Party (and I'll Die if I Want To)", starring F. Murray Abraham and Joyce Van Patten. In 2000 Cariani was cast in the independent film, "Scotland, PA". In 2001 he had a small role in the independent hit, "The Shaft" and then played a villain in Warner Brothers' film "Showtime". In 2002 he joined the cast of "Law & Order", playing the role of forensic expert Julian Beck from 2002–2007.
Dougray Scott
Scott began his acting career in national theatre, television, and puppet shows. He appeared in his first role on the television series "Soldier Soldier" and made his film debut in "Twin Town". His first major film roles were as Prince Henry in "Ever After" and the hero in the film adaptation of the Robert Harris novel "Enigma". In 2000, he signed up to play the villain in "" (hand-picked by star Tom Cruise). He was going to play Wolverine in the feature film version of "X-Men". When "Mission: Impossible 2" went over schedule and he was injured in a motorbike accident, he was forced to drop out of the project and was replaced by Hugh Jackman in "X-Men".
Jonathan Pryce
To gain his Equity card to work in Liverpool, he made his first screen appearance in a minor role on a 1972 episode of the British science fiction programme "Doomwatch", called "Fire & Brimstone". He then starred in two television films, both directed by Stephen Frears, "Daft as a Brush" and "Playthings". After the Everyman, Pryce joined the director Sir Richard Eyre at the Nottingham Playhouse and starred in the Trevor Griffiths play "Comedians" in a role specially written for his talents, Gethin Price. The production then transferred to London's Old Vic Theatre and in 1976 he reprised the role on Broadway, this time directed by Mike Nichols, for which he won the 1977 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play, his first Tony Award. It was around this time that he appeared in his first movie role, playing the character Joseph Manasse in the film drama "Voyage of the Damned", starring Faye Dunaway. He did not, however, abandon the stage, appearing from 1978 to 1979 in the Royal Shakespeare Company's productions of "The Taming of the Shrew" as Petruchio, and "Antony and Cleopatra" as Octavius Caesar.
James Earl Jones
His first film role was as a young and trim Lt. Lothar Zogg, the B-52 bombardier in 1964's "". In 1967, Jones portrayed a surgeon and Haitian rebel leader in "The Comedians". His first starring film role came with his portrayal of boxer Jack Jefferson in "The Great White Hope" (1970), co-starring Jane Alexander. They had played these roles in the original stage production, too. For his role, Jones was nominated Best Actor by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, making him the second African-American male performer (following Sidney Poitier) to receive a nomination. In "" (1972) he starred as a senator who by an unexpected confluence of events becomes the first African-American president of the United States. In 1974, Jones co-starred with Diahann Carroll in the film "Claudine", the story of a woman who raises her six children alone after two failed and two "almost" marriages.
Joker (character)
After Christopher Nolan's successful 2005 Batman film reboot, "Batman Begins", which ended with a teaser for the Joker's involvement in a sequel, the character appeared in 2008's "The Dark Knight", played by Heath Ledger as an avatar of anarchy and chaos. While "Batman Begins" earned a worldwide total of $370 million; "The Dark Knight" earned over $1 billion and was the highest-grossing film of the year, setting several box-office records (including highest-grossing midnight opening, opening day and opening weekend). Ledger won a posthumous Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance, the first acting Oscar ever won for a superhero film. The Joker has featured in a number of animated projects, such as 2009's "" (voiced by Jeff Bennett) and 2011's "Young Justice" (voiced by Brent Spiner), and comic book adaptations (including 2010's "", in which he is voiced by John DiMaggio). In 2012, Michael Emerson voiced the character in a two-part animated adaptation of "". Jared Leto portrayed the Joker in "Suicide Squad" (2016), and Zach Galifianakis voiced the character in "The Lego Batman Movie" (2017). In August 2017, Warner Bros. revealed plans for a standalone film based on the Joker, directed by Todd Phillips and produced by Martin Scorsese. Joaquin Phoenix portrays the character in "Joker", which is scheduled for release in 2019.
Jon Cryer
A year later, he starred with Charlie Sheen in the Jim Abrahams comedy "Hot Shots!", which was received very positively. Cryer is frequently linked to the Brat Pack. In a March 2009 interview on Anytime with Bob Kushell, Cryer stated that he had auditioned for "St. Elmo's Fire" but was not cast in a role. In 1993, he was asked to audition for the role of Chandler Bing on "Friends", while doing a play in London. His reading was videotaped by a British casting agent but the tape failed to arrive in the U.S. before the network had made its final decision.
Josh Stewart
Stewart made his mainstream feature film debut in 2008's "Curious Case of Benjamin Button" playing the character of Benjamin's crewmate, Pleasant Curtis. Also that year, he appeared in "The Haunting of Molly Hartley" in the role of Mary Hartley's teacher, Mr. Draper. In 2009, he had his first feature film starring role, in the horror movie "The Collector", playing the part of Arkin, a man attempting to rob a house to make enough money to pay off his wife's debts to loan sharks. In 2010, he starred, alongside Jamie-Lynn Sigler in the movie "Beneath the Dark", (originally titled "Wake") inspired by the novel "The Shining". He appeared in Christopher Nolan's final film in his Batman Saga, "The Dark Knight Rises" as Bane's right-hand man, Barsad. He appeared as the main protagonist in the 2012 webisodes, "", which are based on the popular television show "The Walking Dead". In 2013, Josh finished filming his directorial debut, "The Hunted", in which he also stars. Stewart reunited in 2014 with Director Christopher Nolan as the voice of CASE in the sci-fi epic "Interstellar". The same year Stewart was cast in the Disney film "The Finest Hours".
Johnny Simmons
Simmons landed his first feature film role in the 2007 comedy "Evan Almighty". He portrayed Dylan Baxter, the oldest of the three sons of Steve Carell's Evan Baxter and Lauren Graham's Joan Baxter. He then starred in a number of films, including the 2009 children's comedy "Hotel for Dogs", opposite Jake T. Austin and Emma Roberts. Also in 2009, Simmons starred in the black comedy horror film "Jennifer's Body" as Chip Dove, the boyfriend of Amanda Seyfried's character, Anita "Needy" Lesnicki. In 2010, he starred in the comedy film "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World", portraying Young Neil, a 20-year-old bass guitarist and fan of the fictional band Sex Bob-omb. In 2011, he was cast in a supporting role for the Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum led comedy "21 Jump Street" (2012). The film opened at South by Southwest on March 12, and was released theatrically on March 16, 2012.
John Simm
In 1995, Simm played the troubled teenager Bill Preece in the acclaimed ITV police drama "Cracker". This is considered his breakthrough role. 
He also made his feature film debut in "Boston Kickout", beating Dennis Hopper to the Best Actor award at the Valencia Film Festival. In 1996, he made his professional stage debut in the Simon Bent play "Goldhawk Road" at the Bush Theatre, directed by Paul Miller. In 1997, he won the lead role of Danny Kavanagh in the first series of "The Lakes", a BBC series written by Jimmy McGovern. In 1999, he starred in the second series of "The Lakes" as well as appearing as Jip in the award-winning cult clubbing film "Human Traffic" and Michael Winterbottom's acclaimed "Wonderland". In 2000, he starred in the opening episode of the BBC drama "Clocking Off", written by Paul Abbott, with whom he would work again in 2002 when he starred as Cal McCaffrey in the multi-award-winning political thriller series "State of Play". Simm also played the lead role of loan shark John Parlour in Tony Marchant's "Never Never" for Channel 4.
Dabbs Greer
Greer made his film debut as an extra in the 1938 film "Jesse James", which was filmed mainly around Pineville, Missouri. He told the "Neosho Daily News" in 2002, "They were paying $5 a day – a day! – to local people for being extras. That was really good money in those days, more money than we had seen in a long time." Greer was recognizable to fans of "Adventures of Superman", as he appeared in three episodes of that series, including the inaugural entry, "Superman on Earth" (1952), in which he was cast as the first person ever to be saved by Superman. He was the major guest star, as a man framed for murder in "Five Minutes to Doom" (1954), and as an eccentric millionaire in "The Superman Silver Mine" (1958).
John Dye
In Memphis, Dye discovered that a Judd Nelson film called "Making the Grade" (1984) was filming in the area. Dye landed his first film role as "Skip." In the 1985 music video for the ZZ Top song "Sleeping Bag", he appeared alongside fellow actors Tracey Walter and Heather Langenkamp. In 1986 he starred alongside actresses Virginia Madsen and Cynthia Gibb in the comedy film "Modern Girls". In 1987 Dye got his first leading role, in the film "Campus Man", as Todd Barrett. That same year, he re-teamed with Nelson in the television miniseries "Billionaire Boys Club". In 1989, he starred alongside actors James Earl Jones and Eric Roberts in the martial-arts drama "Best of the Best".
John Wyman
In 1977, his film career started with Richard Burton and Joan Plowright, in Sidney Lumet's "Equus". The following year he starred in "Revenge of the Pink Panther" and "Adventures of a Plumber's Mate", and appeared in the fantasy film "Arabian Adventure" in 1979. His big break came in 1981 when he appeared in "For Your Eyes Only" as Erich Kriegler, a villainous KGB henchman of Aristotle Kristatos (Julian Glover), whose character was killed near the end of the film in a fight with Bond (Roger Moore) in Greece.
Tony Roper (actor)
His first major starring role was in "Scotch and Wry". He wrote the comedy-drama "The Steamie" in 1988, for which he won a BAFTA. He achieved even greater fame in "The Naked Video" and in the spin-off series "Rab C. Nesbitt", in which he played Rab's partner-in-crime, Jamesie Cotter. He also starred in the short-lived 1999 sitcom "All Along the Watchtower". Tony also had a small part as the postman in the longer version of the 1973 cult film, "The Wicker Man".
Suzanne Cryer
After graduation, she appeared at Hartford Stage in "The Rivals," Baltimore Center Stage in "Don Juan" and began making guest appearances on television series. She won critical acclaim for her performance in the premiere of Donald Margulies' two-person play "Collected Stories" at Southcoast Repertory Theater. She then went on to film "Wag the Dog" while simultaneously performing in the West coast premiere of "Arcadia" at the Mark Taper Forum. Her next major role was that of Josie in "Neil Simon's Proposals" which began at the Ahmanson Theater in Los Angeles and then toured the country before arriving on Broadway at the Broadhurst Theater. In 1997, Cryer made a guest appearance on an episode of "Seinfeld" in the episode "The Yada Yada." She played George's girlfriend Marcy, who frequently made use of the term "yada yada yada." In 1999, the year she got married, she joined the cast of the ABC sitcom "Two Guys and a Girl" (the show's second season) as Ashley Walker, a love interest for Berg (Ryan Reynolds). She became a series regular and remained with the show until it ended in 2001. She made two appearances on "Frasier "as Roz's sister, Denise in the episode "The Guilt Trippers." In recent years, she returned to theater to play Tracy Lord in "The Philadelphia Story" at Hartford Stage and appeared in Chris Shin's play "What Didn't Happen" at Playwright's Horizon. She made appearances in the television series "Dexter," "," "Shark," "Bones," "Grey's Anatomy" and "Desperate Housewives."
John Carson (actor)
Making his film debut in 1947, Carson carved out a career appearing in low-budget British films such as "Seven Keys" (1961); "Smokescreen" (1964); and "Master Spy" (1964). His saturnine looks and sinister voice (sometimes compared with James Mason) led to him starring in a number of horror films including "The Night Caller" (1965); "The Plague of the Zombies" (1966); "The Man Who Haunted Himself" (1970); "Taste the Blood of Dracula" (1970); and "Captain Kronos – Vampire Hunter" (1972).
Ray Liotta
One of Liotta's earliest roles was as Joey Perrini on the soap opera "Another World"; he appeared on the show from 1978 to 1981. He quit the show so he could try his luck in the film industry, and moved to Los Angeles. He made his film debut in a sexual assault scene with Pia Zadora and a garden hose in 1983's "The Lonely Lady". His first major acting role was "Something Wild" (1986), which earned him his first Golden Globe nomination. In 1989, he costarred alongside Kevin Costner in the fantasy/drama film "Field of Dreams"—Liotta portrayed Shoeless Joe Jackson, the ghost of the famed baseball player.
Terry Cryer
Cryer was born in Leeds, United Kingdom, to Richard and Florence Cryer and grew up in an impoverished household, which his mother left when he was a year old; at the same age he fell down some stairs, fracturing his skull and contracting spinal meningitis. At the age of fourteen Cryer worked for a film processing company called Cardigan D&P, mixing chemicals at 100 gallons a time. It was this experience that sparked his interest in photography. Three years later he joined the army and was sent by the War Office to take photographs in Egypt; Val Wilmer later noted, "his first job was producing identity cards for 400 fighting men of the East African Pioneer Corps. Coping with the difficulties of photographing dark faces using techniques designed for white ones stood him in good stead for his future portraits of African Americans." His first camera was a Reid (an imitation Leica), but he saved up his pay and upgraded to a superior twin-lens Rolleiflex camera.
John Cryer
He is the son of Ann Cryer and Bob Cryer, both former Labour MPs. As a child he appeared as an extra in the film "The Railway Children" (1970). His second wife is Ellie Reeves, a Labour MP for Lewisham West and Penge and Labour NEC member from 2006-2016 and a trade union lawyer, who is the sister of Rachel Reeves, the former Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary.
David Schwimmer
Schwimmer starred in his first leading film role in the 1996 romantic comedy film, "The Pallbearer" with Gwyneth Paltrow. In the film, Schwimmer plays a man asked to deliver the eulogy for a high school friend he cannot remember, and begins an affair with the friend's mother. Critics dismissed "The Pallbearer" as a poor imitation of the 1967 film "The Graduate". "Variety"'s film reviewer complimented the actor, writing that he had enjoyed his performance, stating that he displayed "a winning, if rather deadpan, personality along with good comic timing". It also concluded that Schwimmer had a "promising bigscreen future". Janet Maslin of "The New York Times" cited that his first film "relegates him to a drab role". When asked why he decided to accept the role, Schwimmer admitted the decision was to "make an effort to find roles that are as far away from the character of Ross as possible". He was offered a role to star alongside Tommy Lee Jones in the 1997 science-fiction comedy "Men in Black" after Chris O'Donnell turned down the role, but turned it down because of a prior commitment to direct his first film with his theatre company friends starring before the role was given to Will Smith.
Kurt Yaeger
Yaeger started taking acting courses and began acquiring role after role. Some of his early work includes Michael Anderson's "Tenderloin", a film about one of the most infamous neighborhoods in San Francisco. The film premiered at the Mill Valley Film Festival in October 2009. Yaeger also shares the joy of working on "Dolphin Tale" with Morgan Freeman, Ashley Judd and Harry Connick, Jr.; "Knife Fight" with Rob Lowe; "War Flowers" with Christina Ricci, Tom Berenger and Jason Gedrick; and the Syfy feature film "Piranhaconda" with Michael Madsen and Rachel Hunter. In 2012, he appeared in a recurring role for six episodes of the highest rated FX television series Sons of Anarchy. Late 2016 brings Yaeger to the set of Cinemax's New Series Original Quarry and to for a mulit-episode arc. The list of Television and Movie credits continues to grow.