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Demi Lovato

August 31st, 2010 by admin | No Comments | Filed in American movie star Introduction

Demetria Devonne “Demi” Lovato (born August 20, 1992) is an American actress and singer-songwriter. She is best known for her roles as Mitchie Torres inside the Disney Channel Original Movie, Camp Rock and its upcoming sequel, Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam, and as Sonny Munroe in Sonny With a Chance. Lovato starred inside 2009 movie Princess Protection Program. Before Disney, she had one of the roles on Barney & Friends.
As a solo musical artist, Lovato released her debut album Don’t Forget on September 23, 2008. The album debuted at #2 on the Billboard 200 selling 89,000 copies from the first week. It has since been certified Gold by the RIAA in 2010, for selling over 500,000 records inside the US. Lovato stated in an interview that the album was recorded in ten days.Lovato released her second album, Here We Go Again, on July 21, 2009.The album debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 selling 108,000 copies inside first week. The album’s single Here We Go Again is platinum-certified by RIAA.

Early life and education

Lovato was born in Dallas, Texas to Patrick Lovato and Dianna Bonheur Hart De La Garza. She is of Mexican, Irish, and Italian descent. She has an older sister, Dallas Lovato, and a younger half sister, Madison De La Garza. Her mother was a Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader and country recording artist; her father moved to New Mexico after their marriage ended in 1994. She earned a high school diploma through homeschooling in July 2009.

Acting career

Lovato began her acting career at the age of seven on the children’s television series Barney & Friends as Angela, appearing in seasons seven and eight alongside long time friend Selena Gomez. Lovato described their first meeting, “It was scorching hot, July. We were in line with 1,400 kids and we happened to be standing right next to each other. She had a little bow in her hair, and she turned around and she looked at me and said ‘Do you want to color?’…After that we had a couple of callbacks, and I saw her from the other side of the room and it was kind of a movie moment. We still joke about it. We were inseprable after doing two seasons together, and our moms are best friends now.”[13[]|]

In 2006 Lovato guest starred on Prison Break as Danielle Curtin in the episode “First Down”. She also appeared in the second season of the television sitcom Just Jordan as Nicole, in the episode “Slippery When Wet”. In January 2007, she landed the role of Charlotte Adams on the Disney Channel Original Short Series, As the Bell Rings, which premiered on August 26, 2007. A few of her original songs, including “Shadow,” were featured on the show. Upon leaving the show, her character was replaced by Lindsey Black. Lovato sang a cover of “That’s How You Know” from the film Enchanted. The song was released on DisneyMania 6 on May 20,񎧘.[14[]|]

In 2008, Lovato starred in the Disney Channel film, Camp Rock. She played Mitchie Torres, a fourteen-year-old girl with hopes of becoming a singer. The movie premiered on June 20, 2008 in the USA on Disney Channel with 8.9 million viewers, making Lovato a house-hold name among tweens.[15[]|] She provided vocals on four of the songs featured on the Camp Rock soundtrack, including “This Is Me” featuring Joe Jonas.[16[]|]

In June 2009 Lovato co-starred in Princess Protection Program as Princess Rosalinda alongside Selena Gomez on Disney Channel.[17[]|] The TV movie is about a young Princess who is taken into custody by the Princess Protection Program and is whisked away to rural Louisiana where she must learn the ins and outs of behaving like a normal American teenager. The movie is the fourth highest rated Disney Channel Original Movie, and premiered on Disney Channel with 8.5 million viewers.

Next, Lovato went on to star in the Disney Channel Original Series, Sonny With a Chance, which premiered on Februaryň, 2009.[18[]|] The series’ second season premiered on March 14, 2ዊ.[19[]|] The show stars Lovato as Sonny who becomes the new cast member of a live comedy show, So Random!.

In September 2009 production began for Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam. The Disney Channel Original Movie is set to premiere on September 3, 2010.

In March 2010 Lovato was one of the many stars featured in a PSA for Voto Latino in order to promote the organization’s “Be Counted” campaign for the 2010 U.S. Census. Lovato guest appeared in an episode of the medical drama series Grey’s Anatomy as a teenage patient. The episode titled “Shiny Happy People” aired May 13, 2010 on the ABC television network. In a review of the episode, EW.com praised her performance stating, “I still believe that even an unbiased observer would conclude that the Disney princess did a fine job acting it up as a suicidal 16-year-old who was admitted after trying to claw her own eyes out”.

Music career

She started playing piano in the age of seven.Before any of Lovato’s music was officially introduced a few of her original songs, including “Shadow,” were featured within the show As The Bell Rings. Lovato also sang a cover of “That’s How You Know” from the film Enchanted that was unveiled on DisneyMania 6 on May perhaps 20, 2008.In ’09, Lovato recorded “One as well as the Same” for Princess Protection Program as a duet with Gomez – they both appear from the film.
2008–2009: Don’t Forget
In June and July 2008, Lovato performed at various House of Blues and parks for her Demi Live! Warm Up Tour in preparation for the release of her debut album plus the Burnin’ Up Tour with the Jonas Brothers. The soundtrack to the Disney Channel Original Movie Camp Rock was launched in June 2008. Lovato was featured on four of the tracks on the soundtrack including “This is Me”, a duet with Joe Jonas. “This Is Me” peaked at variety nine within the Billboard Hot 100. Lovato served as the opening act in the Jonas Brothers’ Burnin’ Up Tour from July through September 2008. Many concerts within the tour were filmed as footage for a 3-D concert film titled Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience which was released on February 27, 2009. Lovato was featured in the film performing “This Is Me” with Joe Jonas.
On September 23, 2008, Lovato unveiled her debut album Do not Neglect. The album peaked at number two for the Billboard 200, promoting 89ꯠ units in its first week of release.It has since been certified Gold by the RIAA in early ’09, for selling over 500,ዀ records from the US. Lovato stated in an interview that the album was recorded in ten days.
The album was preceded through the lead single “Get Back”, which was revealed on August 12,񎧘 and reached variety forty-three within the Hot ጤ. In December 2008, the second single “La La Land” was revealed and reached amount fifty-two within the Hot 100. In March 2009, the third single “Don’t Forget” was launched and reached number forty-one for the Hot 100, becoming her most successful solo single at the time.
An EP, Moves Me, was revealed in December 2008 from the Well Go USA label, but not under Lovato’s support. The EP featured songs recorded by Lovato prior to being signed by Hollywood Records.
2009–2010: Here We Go Again and soundtracks
In early 2009, it was announced that Lovato will be embarking for the Summer Tour 2009 in order to promote her sophomore album, which she stated could be revealed from the summer of 2009.[The tour began on June 21, '09 in Hartford, Connecticut and concluded on August 24, '09 in Manchester, New Hampshire.

Lovato released her 2nd studio album, Here We Go Once again on July 21, 2009. The album debuted at variety one around the Billboard 200 with 108,000 records sold in its primary week.[28] Prior towards the album’s release Lovato stated: “It’s going to take a distinct sound, so hopefully it goes over nicely. I sing a lot of rock, but this time I wish to do additional John Mayer-ish kind of songs. Hopefully I can write with persons like him.”The album was additional inspired by acoustic music than her debut’s pop rock-influenced sound.
The album was preceded by the lead single, “Here We Go Again”, which was released on June 23, 2009. It became Lovato’s highest charting single as it reached amount fifteen around the Billboard Hot 100.The song is platinum-certified by RIAA.The album’s 2nd single, “Remember December”, was released on November 17, 2009 but only managed to reach variety six within the Bubbling Under Hot 100 (variety one-hundred-six about the Hot 100).
She appeared on We The Kings’s second studio album Smile Kid too. The album was launched December 8, 2009. Around the album, she contributes guest vocals towards the song “We’ll Be a Dream”, which was later introduced as single in March 2010.The music video for the song was introduced on April 22, 2010 via MTV.com.
On March 30, 2010 Lovato’s South American Tour was announced by way of her official Myspace page.This will likely be her primary international headlining tour. The tour kicked off May 23, 2010 in Santiago, Chile and concluded on May well 28, 2010 in São Paulo, Brazil. On April 27, 2010 the Jonas Brothers announced their World Tour 2010 featuring Lovato as a unique guest.The tour is going to be visiting multiple countries and continents including the United States, Canada, Mexico, South America, and Europe. The North American leg of the tour began on August 7, 2010 in Tinley Park, IL and ends on November 9, 2010 in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Lovato also appears on two soundtrack albums in 2010. She recorded songs for the Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam soundtrack, which was released on August 10, 2010, and will also appear around the Sonny With a Chance soundtrack in late 2010.
20Ǫ–present: Third studio album
Lovato also stated in July 2010 that work on her third album had begun, stating: “The new album, so far it is a little more pop, it’s more R&B. It is a little a lot more soulful. It has a diverse sound to it so I’m really excited to see how it turns out. Keri Hilson and Rihanna are inspiring my sound right now. I have also written a half Spanish song. It turned out really incredible so hopefully my fans will love it too.”The album is currently due for a late 2010 or an early 2011 release.

Personal life

In an interview with Ellen DeGeneres, Lovato admitted to going through painful experiences with bullying in the seventh grade. According to Lovato, the bullying was so bad that one day, in a fit of frustration and distress, she requested her mom give her a home-schooled education.She wrote the song “For the Love of a Daughter” about her estranged father. Lovato is really a Christian and prays with her band before they perform. Lovato dated Trace Cyrus in 2009. After Lovato and Gomez, whom she 1st met at the Barney & Friends auditions, posted a video blog on YouTube in March 2008, Miley Cyrus and her friend Mandy Jiroux uploaded a parody of that video, which caught the interest of entertainment media. Reports included the theory that Lovato and Gomez might replace Cyrus. Gomez clarified there was no feud.
In 2010, Lovato began dating Joe Jonas, whom she initial met while filming Camp Rock in 2007. On May 24, 썚, Lovato confirmed via her official Twitter that she and Jonas were no longer together. In an interview with UsMagazine, Jonas stated, “Demi and I knew that going into our romantic relationship it may not be an easy one. I realize that over the time we have spent together that I feel I care more about our friendship right now. It was my choice to break up, but I love her as a friend. She’s been there for me when I needed her. I will continue to be her friend and be there for her.”
Lovato is often a vegetarian.
Lovato has been honored The Honorary Ambassador of Education award from the American Partnership For Eosinophilic Disorders.
In 2010, on her 18th birthday, Lovato bought her family a Mediterranean Style house in Los Angeles. She said, “For me to give that to my family on my birthday, that was the best present.” then added, “It’s got pretty much everything you could possibly imagine in it. It’s the most beautiful, homey-feeling house. I love it.”Lovato also purchased their current 1.88 million dollar house in Toluca Lake, LA. She bought the house when she was 16 years old.

Philanthropy

Demi Lovato has partnered with mall proprietor GGP as the face of Shop Til You Rock, a music-inspired series of public events, which kick off at malls around the US in Summer 2010. The combines the season’s hottest fashions & today’s most popular musical guests in a series of interactive events.Lovato is also the spokesperson for anti-bullying organization PACER. Lovato explained to NY Post about becoming a spokesperson agains bullying “Bullying is a very serious thing to me, I’ve witnessed it first hand – I was bullied myself when I was 12, I want to be able to help other girls around [my sister’s] age come into their own with a strong confidence in their skin, their size, who they are and everything about themselves.”
Demi Lovato is also the spokesperson for the Join the Sourge Campaign! DoSomething.Org and the CLEAN & CLEAR Brand launched Joining the Surge, which is a national campaign that empowers teenagers to take action in their communities.
Lovato is involved in Disney’s Friends for Change, an organization which promotes “environmently-friendly behavior”, and appears in its public service announcements to raise awareness for the cause on the Disney Channel.Lovato, Selena Gomez, Miley Cyrus, and the Jonas Brothers recorded “Send It On”, a charity single which serves as the theme song for Disney’s Friends for Change in 2009. The song debuted on the Hot 100 at number twenty.Disney’s Friends For Change will direct all of its proceeds from “Send it On” to environmental charities to the Disney Worldwide Conservation Fund. Lovato and Joe Jonas recored a new song called “Make A Wave”, the second charity single which serves as the theme song for Disney’s Friends for Change in 2010.

Filmography

Film
Year Film Role Notes
2008 Camp Rock Mitchie Torres Disney Channel Original Movie
2009 Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience Herself 3D Concert film
Princess Protection Program Princess Rosalinda Maria Montoya Fiore / Rosie Gonzalez Disney Channel Original Movie
2010 Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam Mitchie Torres
Television
Year Title Role Notes
2002–2003 Barney & Friends Angela Recurring role
2006 Prison Break Danielle Curtin (1 episode) “First Down”
2007 & 2009 As The Bell Rings Charlotte Adams Guest Appearance, episode “Charlotte in the Halls”
2008 Just Jordan Nicole (1 episode) “Slippery When Wet”
Jonas Brothers: Living the Dream Herself Season 1, episode 3
Studio DC: Almost Live Herself Second show
Disney Channel Games 2008 Herself Third annual
Disney Channel’s Totally New Year 2008 Herself Disney Channel special New Years event
2009 – present Sonny With a Chance Allison “Sonny” Munroe[52] Disney Channel Original Series
2010 Grey’s Anatomy Hayley (1 episode) “Shiny Happy People”
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition Herself (1 episode) Guest appearance

Awards

Year Award Category Work Result
2009 Young Artist Awards “Best Performance in a TV Movie Leading Young Actress” Camp Rock Nominated[53]
Teen Choice Awards “Choice TV – Breakout Star Female” Sonny With a Chance Won[54]
“Choice Music – Tour (shared with David Archuleta)” Summer Tour 2009 Won[54]
“Choice Other Stuff – Red Carpet Icon: Female” Herself Nominated[54]
“Choice Summer – TV Star-Female” Princess Protection Program Nominated[54]
Alma Awards Special Achievement In Music Herself Nominated[55]
2010 People’s Choice Awards Favorite Breakout Music Artist Herself Nominated[56]
Young Artist Award “Best Performance in a TV Movie, Miniseries, or Special – Leading Young Actress” Princess Protection Program Nominated[57]
Teen Choice Award[58] “Choice TV Comedy Actress” Sonny With A Chance Nominated
“Choice Breakout Artist: Female” Herself Nominated
“Choice Pop Album” Here We Go Again Nominated
“Choice Love Song” Catch Me Nominated
“Choice Hook Up” (shared with We The Kings) We’ll Be a Dream Nominated
Honorary Ambassador of Education Award[59] Herself Won

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Clive Owen

August 28th, 2010 by admin | No Comments | Filed in ENGLISH movie star introduction

Clive Owen (born 3 October 1964) is an English actor, who has worked on television, stage and film. He 1st gained recognition from the United Kingdom for portraying the lead inside the ITV series Chancer from 1990 to 1991. He then garnered critical acclaim for his work inside the film Close My Eyes (1991) prior to getting international notice for his performance as a struggling writer in Croupier (1998). In 2005, Owen won a Golden Globe and a BAFTA Award and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his appearance from the drama Closer (2004). He has since played leading as well as supporting roles in films just like Sin City (2005), Inside Man (2006) and Children of Men (2006)

Early life

The fourth of five brothers, Owen was born in Coventry, Warwickshire, England, the son of Pamela and Jess Owen. His father, a country and western singer, left the family when Owen was three years old, and despite a brief reconciliation when Owen was nineteen, the two have remained estranged. Raised by his mother and stepfather, a railway ticket clerk,he has described his childhood as “rough.”While initially opposed to drama school, he changed his mind in 1984, after a long and fruitless period of searching for work. Owen graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 1987 with a class that included Rebecca Pidgeon, Serena Harragin, Mark Womack and Liza Tarbuck. After graduation, he won a position at the Young Vic, performing in several Shakespearean plays.

Career

Initially, Owen carved out a career in tv. In 1988 Owen starred as Gideon Sarn inside of a BBC production of Precious Bane as well as the Channel 4 film Vroom ahead of the 1990s saw him become a regular on stage and television from the UK, notably his lead role from the ITV series Chancer, followed by an appearance inside the Thames Television manufacturing of Lorna Doone.

He won critical acclaim for his performances in the 1991 Stephen Poliakoff movie Close My Eyes – in which he has a full frontal nude scene – about a brother and sister who embark on an incestuous love affair. He subsequently appeared inside the Magician, Class of ’61, Century, Nobody’s Kids, An Evening with Gary Lineker, Doomsday Gun, Return from the Native, The Turnaround and then a Carlton manufacturing referred to as Sharman, about a private detective. In 썌, he appeared in his first major Hollywood video The Rich Man’s Wife alongside Halle Berry ahead of finding international acclaim inside a Channel 4 video directed by Mike Hodges called Croupier (1998). In Croupier, he played the title purpose of a struggling writer who takes a job inside a London casino as inspiration for his work, only to obtain caught up inside a robbery scheme. In 1999, he appeared as an accident-prone driver in Split Second, his initial BBC manufacturing in a very decade.
He then starred in the Echo, a BBC1 drama. He starred in a very movie named Greenfingers about a criminal who goes to function in the garden, before appearing inside the BBC1 mystery series Second Sight. In 2001, he provided the voice-over for a BBC2 documentary about favorite music by means of the years referred to as Walk On By, as well as starring inside a highly-acclaimed theatre manufacturing named A Day inside the Death of Joe Egg, about a couple with a severely handicapped daughter.

He became effectively known to North American audiences inside summer of 2001 right after starring since the Driver from the Hire, a series of short films sponsored by BMW and made by prominent directors. He then appeared in Robert Altman’s Gosford Park, alongside an all-star cast including Helen Mirren, Maggie Smith, Michael Gambon, Kristin Scott Thomas and Ryan Phillippe. He appeared within the 2002 hit The Bourne Identity. In 2003, he teamed up with Hodges again to make I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead. He starred in Beyond Borders and took on the title function in King Arthur, for which he took riding lessons.

Owen appeared inside the West End and Broadway hit play Closer, by Patrick Marber, which was produced like a motion picture, and was released in 2005. He played “Dan” inside play, but was “Larry” the dermatologist in the video version. His portrayal of Larry within the movie version earned him plenty of recognition as well as the Golden Globe and BAFTA award and an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. He noted that the expectations of him since the Oscar nomination have not changed the way he approaches film-making, stating “I try, every single film I do, to be as very good as I can and that’s all I can do.”

Right after Closer, he appeared in Derailed alongside Jennifer Aniston, the comic book thriller Sin City because the noir antihero Dwight McCarthy and being a mysterious bank robber in Inside Man. Despite public denials, Owen had long been rumoured to be a possible successor to Pierce Brosnan inside the part of James Bond. A public opinion poll from the United Kingdom in October 2005 (SkyNews) discovered that he was the public’s number a single selection to star within the subsequent installment in the series. In that same month, even so, it was announced that fellow British actor Daniel Craig would turn into the subsequent James Bond. In an interview in the September 2007 issue of Details, he claimed that he was never offered or even approached concerning the purpose.[4] In 2዆, Owen spoofed the Bond connection by creating an appearance inside remake from the Pink Panther in which he plays a character named “Nigel Boswell, Agent 006″ (when he introduces himself to Inspector Clouseau, he quips that Owen’s character is “one short in the large time”).

In 2006, Owen starred from the highly acclaimed Kids of Men, for which he received widespread praise. The film was nominated for various awards, such as an Academy Award for Ideal Adapted Screenplay; Owen worked about the screenplay, though he was uncredited.The future year he starred alongside Paul Giamatti from the film Shoot ‘Em Up and appeared as Sir Walter Raleigh opposite Cate Blanchett’s Elizabeth I of England in the motion picture Elizabeth: The Golden Age. He appeared within the Christmas unique of the Ricky Gervais show Extras, as revealed inside the video podcast teaser. Owen starred in the International 񢉙), a movie which he described as being a “paranoid political thriller”.He then played the lead in the Boys Are Back, an Australian adaptation with the book The Boys Are Back In Town by Simon Carr.

It has been reported that Owen and Denzel Washington will return for the sequel to Within Man in 2010. In April 2010, he was cast since the lead in Juan Carlos Fresnadillo’s horror-thriller Intruders.

In June 20Ǫ it was announced that Owen and Nicole Kidman will star in an HBO motion picture about Ernest Hemingway and his relationship with Martha Gellhorn entitled Hemingway & Gellhorn. James Gandolfini will serve as executive producer to the video written by Barbara Turner and Jerry Stahl. The video will be directed by Philip Kaufman and will reportedly begin shooting future year.

Personal life

In an incident he later described as “very schmaltzy”, he met his future wife, the actress Sarah-Jane Fenton, when they performed the leads in Romeo and Juliet at the Young Vic.The couple married on 6 March 1995 and live in Highgate, London and Wrabness, north Essex, with their two daughters – Hannah and Evie.

In November 2006, he became patron from the Electric Palace Cinema in Harwich, Essex, England and launched an appeal for funds to repair deteriorating elements on the fabric.

He enjoys the music of indie rock band Hard-Fi and has been seen at two of their concerts, Brixton Academy, 15 May well 2006 and Wembley Arena, 18 December 2007. Despite hailing from Coventry, Owen can be a Liverpool supporter.

Filmography

Year Film Role Notes
1988 Vroom Jake Film
Boon Geoff Boon – TV Series 3 – Episode 8 “Peacemaker”
1989 Precious Bane Gideon Sarn TV movie
1990 Chancer Stephen Crane/Derek Love TV series
Lorna Doone John Ridd TV movie
1991 Close My Eyes Richard Film
1993 Class of ’61 Devin O’Neil TV movie
Century Paul Reisner Film
The Magician Det. Con. George Byrne TV movie
1994 The Return of the Native Damon Wildeve TV movie
Doomsday Gun Dov TV movie
An Evening with Gary Lineker Bill TV movie
Nobody’s Children Bratu TV movie
The Turnaround Nick Sharman
1995 Bad Boy Blues Paul TV movie
1996 Privateer 2: The Darkening Ser Lev Aris Video game
The Rich Man’s Wife Jake Golden
Sharman Nick Sharman TV series
1997 Croupier Jack Manfred
Bent Max
1998 The Echo Michael Deacon TV serial
1999 Split Second Michael Anderson TV movie
Second Sight DCI Ross Tanner Television series
2000 Greenfingers Colin Briggs
Second Sight series two DCI Ross Tanner Television series
2001 The Hire The Driver
Gosford Park Robert Parks Film
Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
Satellite Award for Best Cast – Motion Picture
Critic’ Choice Award for Best Cast
Florida Film Critics Circle Award for Best Cast
Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Cast
Nominated – Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Cast
Walk On By Narrator TV documentary
2002 The Bourne Identity The Professor Film
2003 Beyond Borders Nick Callahan
I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead Will
2004 Closer Larry Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture
BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actor
New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor
National Board of Review Award for Best Cast
Nominated — Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
Nominated — Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture
Nominated — Critic’ Choice Award for Best Supporting Actor
Nominated — London Film Critics Circle Award for British Actor of the Year
Nominated — Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actor
Nominated — Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor
Nominated — Critic’ Choice Award for Best Cast
King Arthur Arthur Film
2005 Derailed Charles Schine Film
Sin City Dwight McCarthy Film
2006 Children of Men Theo Faron Film
Central Ohio Film Critics Association Award Best Actor
Nominated  Saturn Award for Best Actor
Inside Man Dalton Russell Film
The Pink Panther Nigel Boswell/Agent 006 Film
2007 Elizabeth: The Golden Age Sir Walter Raleigh Film
Shoot ‘Em Up Smith Film
Nominated — Satellite Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
2009 The International Louis Salinger Film
Duplicity Ray Koval Film
The Boys Are Back Joe Warr Film
2011 The Killer Elite Unknown filming

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Cameron Diaz

August 25th, 2010 by admin | No Comments | Filed in American movie star Introduction

Cameron Michelle Diaz (born August 30, 1972) is an American actress and former model. She gained fame in the 1990s with roles within the blockbuster films The Mask, My Finest Friend’s Wedding, and There’s Something About Mary. Other notable film credits consist of Charlie’s Angels, Vanilla Sky, Gangs of New York, and voicing Princess Fiona within the Shrek film series. Diaz received Golden Globe nominations for her performances in There’s Something About Mary, Being John Malkovich, Vanilla Sky, and Gangs of New York.

Early life
Modeling
At 16, she began her career as a fashion model. Diaz signed with top modeling agency Elite Model Management. For the next few years, her modeling took her around the world, working for contracts with major companies. She modeled for designers including Calvin Klein and Levi’s. When she was seventeen she was featured on the cover of the July 1990 issue of Seventeen magazine.

Acting
At 21, Diaz auditioned for The Mask, even though she had no previous acting experience,[8] based on the recommendation of an agent for Elite who met the film’s producers whilst they had been searching for the female lead. Immediately after obtaining the lead female role, she immediately started acting lessons. The Mask became 1 of the top ten highest grossing films of 1994,[9] and earned Diaz nominations for several awards.
Over the next three years, she took roles in low-budget independent films, for instance The Last Supper (1995), Feeling Minnesota (1996), She’s the 1 (1996), Keys to Tulsa (1996), and A Life Less Ordinary (1997), preferring to feel her way effectively into the company.
She returned to mainstream films using the major box office successes My Best Friend’s Wedding (1997) and There’s Something About Mary (1998), for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe within the category of Very best Actress — Musical or Comedy. She received critical acclaim for her performance in Being John Malkovich (1999), which earned her Very best Supporting Actress nominations at the Golden Globes, the BAFTA Awards, plus the SAG Awards. Throughout 1990�, Diaz starred in many films, for instance Factors You can Tell Just by Looking at Her, Really Poor Things, Any Given Sunday, and also the hit adaptation of Charlie’s Angels. In 2001, she won nominations for Very best Supporting Actress in the Golden Globes, the SAG Awards, the Critics’ Choice Awards, along with the AFI Awards for Vanilla Sky, and also voiced Princess Fiona in Shrek, for which she earned $10 million.
In 2003, Diaz received an additional Golden Globe nomination for Martin Scorsese’s epic Gangs of New York, and became the third actress (soon after Wedding costar Julia Roberts) to earn $20 million for a role, receiving the sum for Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle. Her subsequent films had been In Her Shoes (2005), and the Holiday (2006). She was set to team up once again with the Mask co-star Jim Carrey inside the film Fun with Dick and Jane, but dropped out to star in In Her Shoes. Diaz reportedly earned $50 million from the period of a year ending June 2008, for her roles in What Happens in Vegas opposite Ashton Kutcher, and also the Shrek sequels.In 2009 she starred in the films My Sister’s Keeper and the Box.
In 2010, Diaz once more voiced Princess Fiona in Shrek Forever Right after, and reunited with her Vanilla Sky costar Tom Cruise from the action/comedy Knight and Day.

Personal life

Diaz received “substantial” defamation damages from suing American Media Incorporated, after The National Enquirerhad claimed she was cheating on then-boyfriend Timberlake.

In 1992 Diaz appeared in a soft-core S&M video entitled “She’s No Angel” shot by photographer John Rutter. In 2003 she won an injunction against Rutter preventing him from distributing the video or accompanying photographs, but in 2004 the video began being distributed online through a Russian website.

When Diaz was asked if she can speak Spanish she said:

I go, ‘God, you know, it all sounds so familiar. I know what you’re saying, I really do. I just cannot respond to you back in Spanish. I can barely speak English properly.’ I didn’t grow up in a Cuban community. I grew up in Southern California on the beach, basically. And I’m third generation. I’m of Cuban descent. ”

She was vocal in her support for Al Gore in 2000. Diaz went so far as sporting a t-shirt that read “I won’t vote for a son of a Bush!” while making the publicity rounds for Charlie’s Angels.

Diaz has also been involved with the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA), the first and largest nonprofit for veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan, and has spoken as an advocate for military families.

Although she was quoted in a 1997 Time Magazine article saying she was germophobic,Diaz specifically denied this on the June Ǻ, 2009 edition ofReal Time with Bill Maher, saying that a small comment she made 12 years earlier regarding public bathroom doorknobs was blown out of proportion.

On April 15, 2008, her father, Emilio Diaz, died of pneumonia, aged 58.

Relationships
From 1990 to 썋, Diaz dated video director Carlos de la Torre.InŁ995 she began a relationship with actor Matt Dillon, with whom she co-starred in There’s Something About Mary and broke up with in 1998. She then had a relationship with singer/actor Jared Leto from 1999 to 2003. Diaz dated singer Justin Timberlake from 2003 to 2006. In October 2004, Diaz and Timberlake were in an altercation with a tabloid photographer outside a hotel. When the photographer and another man tried to photograph them, the couple snatched the camera. Pictures of the incident appeared in Us Weekly. Representatives for the pair claimed that they were ambushed and acting out. As of July 2010, Diaz has been carrying on a romantic relationship with New York Yankees baseball star Alex Rodriguez.

Filmography and awards

In 1996 Diaz received an award at the ShoWest Convention for “Female Star of Tomorrow.” In 2006 she won a People’s Choice Award for “Favorite Leading Lady.” On June 22, 2009, she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Year Film Role Notes
1994 The Mask Tina Carlyle Nominated — MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Performance
Nominated — MTV Movie Award for Most Desirable Female
Nominated — MTV Movie Award for Best Dance Sequence (shared with Jim Carrey)
1995 The Last Supper Jude
1996 She’s the One Heather
Feeling Minnesota Freddie Clayton
Head Above Water Nathalie
Keys to Tulsa Trudy
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My Best Friend’s Wedding Kimberly Wallace ALMA Award for Outstanding Actress in a Feature Film in a Crossover Role
Blockbuster Award for Favorite Supporting Actress †Comedy
Nominated — Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture
A Life Less Ordinary Celine Naville Nominated — MTV Movie Award for Best Dance Sequence (shared with Ewan McGregor)
1998 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Blonde TV Reporter
There’s Something About Mary Mary Jensen American Comedy Award for Funniest Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture
Blockbuster Award for Favorite Actress – Comedy
New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress
Teen Choice Award for Most Disgusting Scene
MTV Movie Award for Best Performance – Female
Nominated — ALMA Award for Outstanding Actress in a Feature Film in a Crossover Role
Nominated ” Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
Nominated — MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss
Nominated — MTV Movie Award for Best Comedic Performance
Nominated — MTV Movie Award for Best On-Screen Duo
Nominated — Teen Choice Award for Film Actress
Very Bad Things Laura Garrety
1999 Man Woman Film Random Celebrity cameo
Being John Malkovich Lotte Schwartz Nominated  American Comedy Award for Funniest Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture
Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Nominated — Chlotrudis Award for Best Supporting Actress
Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture
Nominated — Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actress
Nominated — Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actress
Nominated — Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture
Nominated — Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role
Nominated — Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
Any Given Sunday Christina Pagniacci ALMA Award for Outstanding Actress in a Feature Film
Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Actress – Drama
Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her Carol Faber
The Invisible Circus Faith
2000 Charlie’s Angels Natalie Cook Nominated — Satellite Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
2001
Shrek Princess Fiona voice
Vanilla Sky Julie Gianni Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress
Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress
Nominated — AFI Award for Best Actress
Nominated €”ÂALMA Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture
Nominated  Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress
Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture
Nominated — Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actress
Nominated — Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress
Nominated — Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role
Ǵ02 The Sweetest Thing Christina Walters Nominated -ÂTeen Choice Award for Favorite Comedy Actress
My Father’s House The Girl cameo
Minority Report Woman on Metro
Gangs of New York Jenny Everdeane Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture
2003 Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle Natalie Cook Imagen Foundation Award for Best Actress
2004 Shrek 2 Princess Fiona voice
2005 In Her Shoes Maggie Feller Nominated — Imagen Foundation Award for Best Actress
2006 The Holiday Amanda Woods Nominated — ALMA Award for Outstanding Actress – Motion Picture
2007 Shrek the Third Princess Fiona voice
2008 What Happens in Vegas Joy McNally Nominated — Teen Choice Award for Comedy Actress
2009 My Sister’s Keeper Sara Fitzgerald Nominated — ALMA Award for Outstanding Actress – Motion Picture
The Box Norma Lewis
2010 Shrek Forever After Princess Fiona voice
Knight and Day June Havens
2011 The Green Hornet Lenore Case Post-production
Bad Teacher Elizabeth Halsey Post-production

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Ben Foster

August 22nd, 2010 by admin | No Comments | Filed in American movie star Introduction

Ben Foster (born October 29, 1980) is an American actor. His film roles include Liberty Heights, Get Over It, Hostage, X-Men: The Last Stand, Alpha Dog, 30 Days of Night, The Messenger and Pandorum.He received very best supporting actor nominations from both the Saturn and Satellite Awards for his 2007 role within the film 3:10 to Yuma.

Personal life

Foster was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of restaurant owners Gillian and Steven Foster.In an interview, Foster described his parents as “free-spirited, Vietnam-protesting hippies”. Foster is Jewish, and his paternal grandmother emigrated from Russia to escape Pogroms in 1923.He has a younger brother, Jon, who is also an actor.

When Foster was four years old, his family relocated to Fairfield, Iowa after their Boston house was burglarized while they were present.He has practiced Transcendental Meditation since he was four years old[8] and while living in Fairfield Iowa, he attended the Maharishi School of the Age of Enlightenment, which included Transcendental Meditation in its curriculum.

Career

Foster began working as an actor when he was sixteen years old.Foster dropped out of high school and moved to Los Angeles to pursue his career.[citation needed] In 1996 and 1997, he appeared inside television series Flash Forward and had an unsuccessful audition for the lead role in Richard Kelly’s Donnie Darko. More than the next three years, Foster obtained little roles in two made-for-TV movies and too as two episodes of the TV series Freaks and Geeks.

In 2001, he acted in the film Get Over It. Foster also had a recurring role as Russell Corwin (22 episodes) within the HBO Original Series, Six Feet Under.After appearing within the films 11:14 as well as the Punisher, Foster appeared in Hostage with Bruce Willis, Kevin Pollak and Michelle Horn. In 2006, Foster appeared in X-Men: The Last Stand as the comic-book hero Angel/Warren Worthington III.Inside crime thriller Alpha Dog, he played the character Jake Mazursky and added glaucoma drops to his eyes to simulate the appearance of a bleary eyed, drug user within the film.In񎧗, he played cold-blooded killer Charlie Prince within the critically acclaimed Western 3:10 to Yuma.

Filmography

Year Film Role Other notes
1996 Kounterfeit Travis
1998 I’ve Been Waiting for You Charlie TV Film
Breakfast with Einstein Ryan TV Film
1973 Peter TV Film
1999 Liberty Heights Ben Kurtzman
2001 Get Over It Berke Landers Nominated — Teen Choice Award for Film – Choice Chemistry (Shared with Kirsten Dunst)
2002 The Laramie Project Aaron Kreifels
Big Trouble Matt Arnold
Bang Bang You’re Dead Trevor Adams Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performer in a Children’s Special
Phone Booth Big Q Uncredited
2003 Northfork Cod
11:14 Eddie
20Ǥ The Punisher Spacker Dave
The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things Fleshy Boy
2005 Hostage Mars Krupcheck
2006 Alpha Dog Jake Mazursky Young Hollywood Award for Best Breakthrough Performance – Male
X-Men: The Last Stand Warren Worthington III / Angel
2007 3:10 to Yuma Charlie Prince Nominated — Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture
Nominated — Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor
Nominated — Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
30 Days of Night The Stranger
2008 Birds of America Jay
2009 The Messenger Will Montgomery Nominated — Breakthrough Gotham Award
Nominated — San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Actor
Nominated — St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor
Blink AJ
Pandorum Bower
2010 Here Will Shepard Post Production[10]
The Mechanic Steve McKenna Completed [11]

[edit]Television appearances

Year Title Role Other notes
1996 Flash Forward Tucker James Seventeen episodes, lead role
Nominated — Gemini Award for Best Performance in a Children’s or Youth Program or Series (Twice nominated, in 1997 and 1998)
1998 You Wish Earl One episode, “Future Shock”
2000 Freaks and Geeks Eli Two episodes
Family Law Jason Nelson One episode, “A Mother’s Son”
2001—2002 Boston Public Max Warner Two episodes
2005 The Dead Zone Darren Foldes One episode, “The Last Goodbye”
2003—2005 Six Feet Under Russel Corwin Twenty-two episodes, supporting character
Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series 񢉔)
Nominated — Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series (2005)
2007 My Name Is Earl Glenn One two-part episode, “My Name Is Inmate 28301-016″

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Benjamin Bratt

August 18th, 2010 by admin | No Comments | Filed in American movie star Introduction

Benjamin Bratt (born December 16, 1963) is an American actor. He is most famous for his role as Rey Curtis on the TV series Law & Order; and his appearances in the movies Blood in Blood Out, Miss Congeniality, Traffic, and Piñero. He starred on the A&E Network drama The Cleaner.

Early life
Bratt was born in San Francisco, California, the son of nurse Eldy (née Banda) and a sheet metal worker father.Bratt’s mother is a Peruvian Indigenous activist of the Quechua ethnic group born in Peru, she moved to the U.S. at age 14.His father was an American of German and English descent.They married December 30, 1960, in San Francisco,but divorced in September 1967.Bratt’s paternal grandfather, George Cleveland Bratt (March 5, 1893-March 29, 1984), was a Broadway actor who married his grandmother Wiltrude Hildner on August 6, 1920, in Detroit, Michigan.
As a child, Bratt went with his mother and siblings to participate within the 1969 Native American occupation of Alcatraz. These days Bratt is an active supporter of such Native American causes as the American Indian College Fund and We Shall Remain, a mini-series and multi-media project, narrated by Bratt, that establishes Native history as an vital part of American history from PBS’ acclaimed series American Experience.
His brother, Peter Bratt, wrote and directed Follow Me House, casting Benjamin as Abel. Also “La Mission” (2010 Indie Film) casting as Che
Bratt has been a strong supporter and board member of San Francisco Bay Area’s Friendship House Association of American Indians and Native American Health Center for years.

Schooling
In San Francisco, Bratt attended Lowell High School, where he developed his dramatic and oratory skills as a member of the Lowell Forensic Society. Bratt earned a B.F.A. at the University of California, Santa Barbara, exactly where he also joined the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity. Though accepted into the M.F.A. program at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, he left prior to receiving his degree to star within the television series Juarez.

Personal life
In 1998, he began dating actress Julia Roberts. He escorted her to the March 25, 2001, Academy Awards ceremony, at which she won the Academy Award for Greatest Actress. Three months later, in June 2001, they announced that they were no longer a couple.
Less than a year later, he married his pregnant girlfriend, actress Talisa Soto, on April 13, 2002, in San Francisco. The two met ten years earlier during the casting audition of Blood In Blood Out and afterwards off and on they saw each other. It was not until while filming Piñero that they started to develop a relationship. Their very first kid, daughter Sophia Rosalinda Bratt, was born on December 6, 2002; their second child, son Mateo Bravery Bratt, was born on October 3, 2005, in Los Angeles.

Career

Bratt’s best-known role has been that of Det. Rey Curtis on the television show Law & Order. In 1999, he was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for his work on the series. His more popular films include Miss Congeniality, Blood in Blood out and Traffic. On June 23, 2009, Bratt appeared on The View to promote The Cleaner.

On October 23, it was announced that Bratt will return as Detective Reynaldo Curtis on Law & Order, TVGuide.com has confirmed. Curtis reunited with his former boss, Lt. Anita van Buren (S. Epatha Merkerson), which aired on December 11, 2009. Bratt was nominated for a best supporting actor Emmy for the role in 1999. After four seasons, he left the show that same year to pursue a film career.

In 2009, Bratt performed in The People Speak a documentary feature film that uses dramatic and musical performances of the letters, diaries, and speeches of everyday Americans, based on historian Howard Zinn’s “A People’s History of the United States”.

Filmography

Film
Year Film Role Other notes
1990 Bright Angel Claude
1991 One Good Cop Felix
1993 Blood In Blood Out Paco Aguilar Alternative title: Bound by Honor
Demolition Man Officer Alfredo Garcia
1994 Clear and Present Danger Captain Ramírez
The River Wild Ranger Johnny
1996 Follow Me Home Abel
2000 The Next Best Thing Ben Cooper
The Last Producer Damon Black
Red Planet Lt. Ted Santen
Miss Congeniality Eric Matthews
Traffic Juan Obregón
2001 Piñero Miguel Piñero
2002 Abandon Wade Handler
2004 The Woodsman Carlos
Catwoman Tom Lone
2005 Thumbsucker Matt Schramm
The Great Raid Lt. Col. Henry Mucci
2007 Love in the Time of Cholera Dr. Juvenal Urbino
2008 Trucker Leonard ‘Len’ Bonner
2009 Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs Manny Voice Role
2010 La Mission Che Rivera
Television
Year Title Role Notes
1987 Juarez Sgt. Rosendo Juarez TV-Pilot
1988 Lovers, Partners & Spies Estaban TV-Pilot
Police Story: Gladiator School Officer Dave Ramirez TV-Movie
1988–1989 Knightwatch Tony Maldonado 9 episodes
1989 Nasty Boys Eduardo Cruz TV-Movie
ᎆ9–1990 Nasty Boys Eduardo Cruz 13 episodes
1990 Capital News TV-Movie/TV-Pilot
1991 Chains of Gold Carlos TV-Movie
1993 Shadowhunter Nakai Twobear TV-Movie
1994 James A. Michener’s Texas Benito Garza Alternative title: Texas
TV-Movie
19951999 Law & Order Det. Rey Curtis 95 episodes
1996 Woman Undone Jim Mercer TV-Movie
1996–1999 Homicide: Life on the Street Det. Rey Curtis 3 episodes
1998 Exiled: A Law & Order Movie Det. Rey Curtis TV-Movie
2001 After the Storm Arno TV-Movie
2003 Frasier Kevin, the Caller Episode: The Doctor Is Out
2005� E-Ring Lt. Col. Jim Tisnewski 23 episodes
2ወ The Andromeda Strain Dr. Jeremy Stone Miniseries
20082009 The Cleaner William Banks 26 episodes
2009 Freedom Riders
American Experience Narrator 3 episodes
Law & Order Det. Rey Curtis 1 episode
2010 Modern Family Javier Delgado Episode: Up All Night

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Stephen Rea

August 16th, 2010 by admin | 1 Comment | Filed in ENGLISH movie star introduction

Stephen Rea (31 October 1946) is a Northern Irish actor who was nominated for an Academy Award for his lead performance as Fergus in the 1992 film The Crying Game.

Early life

Rea was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, the son of a bus driver.One of four children in a working class Presbyterian family, he attended Belfast High School and the Queen’s University of Belfast, taking a degree in English.

Career

Rea trained at the Abbey Theatre School in Dublin. In the late 1970s, he acted in the Focus Company in Dublin with Gabriel Byrne and Colm Meaney. During the broadcasting ban on Sinn Féin imposed by Margaret Thatcher’s government, in order to cut the ‘oxygen of publicity’, it was interpreted that Sinn Féin members could not be heard making statements expressing the views of Sinn Féin, so Rea was one of many actors contacted to provide an actor’s voice to get around that problem. After appearing on the stage and in television and film for many years in Ireland and Britain, Rea came to international attention when he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for the film The Crying Game. He is a frequent collaborator with Irish film maker Neil Jordan. Rea has long been associated with some of the most important writers in Ireland. His association with playwright Stewart Parker (1941-1988) for example, began when they were students together at the Queen’s University of Belfast.

Rea helped establish the Field Day Theatre Company in 1980 with Tom Paulin, Brian Friel, Seamus Heaney and Seamus Deane. In recognition for his contribution to theatre and performing arts, Rea was given honorary degrees from both the Queen’s University of Belfast and the University of Ulster in 2004.

Filmography

Year Title Role Notes
1970 Cry of the Banshee Villager
1978 The Professionals Pellin Episode: “In the public interest”
1978 On a Paving Stone Mounted
1982 Angel Danny
1983 Loose Connections Harry
1984 The Company of Wolves Young Groom
1985 The Doctor and the Devils Timothy Broom
1990 Not with a Bang Colin Garrity TV series
1991 Life Is Sweet Patsy
1992 The Crying Game Fergus National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor
Nominated — Academy Award for Best Actor
Nominated ” BAFTA Award for Best Actor
1993 Hedda Gabler Ejlert Lovborg TV
Bad Behaviour Gerry McAllister
1994 Princess Caraboo Gutch
Angie Noel Riordan
Interview with the Vampire Santiago
Prêt-à-Porter Milo O’Brannigan National Board of Review Award for Best Cast
1995 Citizen X Lt. Viktor Burakov (TV)
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea Nikos
All Men are Mortal Fosca
1996 Trojan Eddie Trojan Eddie
Michael Collins Ned Broy
Crime of the Century Bruno Richard Hauptmann Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film
The Last of the High Kings Cab Driver
1997 Double Tap Cypher
Fever Pitch Ray, the Governor
The Butcher Boy Da Brady
Hacks Brian
The Break Sean Dowd
1998 Still Crazy Tony Costello
This Is My Father Father Quinn
1999 Guinevere Connie Fitzpatrick
The End of the Affair Henry Miles
The Life Before This Brian
In Dreams Doctor Silverman
2000 The King’s Wake King Connor Mac Neasa (voice)
2001 The Musketeer Cardinal Richelieu
On the Edge Dr. Figure
2002 FeardotCom Alistair Pratt, ‘The Doctor’
Evelyn Michael Beattie
2003 The i Inside Doctor Newman
Bloom Leopold Bloom
2004 Fluent Dysphasia Murph
Control Dr. Arlo Penner
Proud Barney Garvey
The Confessor McCaran alternate title The Good Shepherd
The Halo Effect Fatso Nominated — Irish Film and Television Awards — Best Actor in a Supporting Role – Film
2005 Breakfast on Pluto Bertie Best Actor in a Supporting Role – Film
Tara Road Colm
River Queen Francis
V for Vendetta Inspector Finch
2006 Sisters Dr. Philip Lacan
Sixty Six Dr. Barrie
2007 Until Death Gabriel Callaghan
The Reaping Father Costigan
Stuck Thomas Bardo
2008 The Devil’s Mercy Tyler
Heidi 4 Paws Doctor (voice)
Kisses Down Under Dylan uncredited
The Heavy Anawalt
2009 Nothing Personal Martin
Father & Son (TV)
Ondine
2010 The Heavy Anawalt
2011 Blackthorn Mackinley filming

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Rick Schroder

August 14th, 2010 by admin | No Comments | Filed in American movie star Introduction

Richard Bartlett “Rick” Schroder, Jr. (born April 13, 1970) is an American Golden Globe Award-winning actor and film director.
He debuted in the 1979 hit film The Champ, going on to become a child star on the sitcom Silver Spoons. He has continued acting as an adult, notably on the western Lonesome Dove and the television crime drama NYPD Blue.

Early life and career

Schroder was born in Staten Island, New York, the son of Diane, a telephone business employee, and Richard Bartlett Schroder, Sr., a telephone corporation district manager. He has a sister, Dawn.Schroder debuted within the 1979 remake on the movie The Champ, winning the Golden Globe Award for Ideal New Male Star from the Year in a Motion Picture at the age of nine for his role as T.J. Flynn inside movie.

Within the following year, he made a Walt Disney feature film called The Last Flight of Noah’s Ark with Elliott Gould. The film bombed at the box office. He also starred as the title character in the film Little Lord Fauntleroy alongside Alec Guinness in 1980.

He became well-known as the star on the television series Silver Spoons, when he played the lead character Ricky Stratton. After Silver Spoons ended, he attended Calabasas High School for his senior year. As he grew older, he struggled to become identified as a serious actor. He changed his name credit from Ricky to Rick and preferred to take roles which helped him to stretch as an actor. He’s currently rumored to be in the running for the upcoming Kurt Cobain biopic.

Schroder was ranked #18 in Vˑ’s list of the 100 Greatest Kid Stars and #33 in VH1’s list on the 100 Greatest Teen Stars. In 2009, he directed the Adventure horror film Hellhounds.

Adult career

Schroder’s co-starring role inside the Western mini-series Lonesome Dove and its sequel, Return to Lonesome Dove, helped in his attempt to be recognized in additional mature roles. His roles as Danny Sorenson on three seasons of NYPD Blue, Dr. Dylan West on Strong Medicine and Mike Doyle on the 2007 season of 24 worked to cement that perception with the viewing audience.

In 2004, Rick Schroder wrote and directed the feature film Black Cloud, a drama about a Navajo boxer. The same year he directed and starred inside the music movie for “Whiskey Lullaby”,a song by Brad Paisley and Alison Krauss. Schroeder’s son and daughter also appeared within the movie. In 썕 CMT Music Awards, the video won the “Collaborative Video clip from the Year” award, although director of the video Schroder won “Director of the Year” award.

In 2007, Schroder announced that he was changing his credit back to “Ricky” beginning with his role on 24.
Schroder is an active celebrity ambassador for the child abuse prevention and treatment non-profit organization Childhelp.

Personal life

Schroder married Andrea Bernard on September 26,񎧈. Together, they have four children: sons Holden (born 1992) and Luke (born 1993) and daughters Cambrie (born 1997) and Faith Anne (born 2001). Andrea Bernard-Schroder is an interior designer and was a contestant on Season Two of Top Design on Bravo.
Politically, Schroder is a Republican who supported George W. Bush in 2000 and 2004, and John McCain in 2008. He also spoke at the 2000 Republican National Convention in Philadelphia.
He is a convert to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Filmography

Films

Year Film Role Other notes
1979 The Champ T.J. As Ricky Schroder.
1980 The Last Flight of Noah’s Ark Bobby As Ricky Schroder.
The Earthling Shawn Daley As Ricky Schroder
Little Lord Fauntleroy Ceddie Errol (Little Lord Fauntleroy) As Ricky Schroder
1982 Something So Right Joey Bosnick TV movie / as Ricky Schroder
1983 Two Kinds of Love Robbie Farley TV movie
1985 A Reason to Live Alex Stewart TV movie
1988 Too Young the Hero Calvin Graham TV movie
1989 Terror on Highway೛ Clay Nelson TV movie
Out on the Edge Danny Evetts TV movie
1990 A Son’s Promise Terry O’Kelly TV movie
The Stranger Within Mark TV movie
1991 Across the Tracks Billy Maloney TV movie
Blood River Jimmy Pearls a.k.a. The Kid TV movie
My Son Johnny Johnny TV movie
1992 Miles from Nowhere Frank Reilly TV movie
1993 Call of the Wild John Thornton TV movie
1994 Texas Otto MacNab TV movie
To My Daughter with Love Joey Cutter TV movie
There Goes My Baby Stick
1995 Crimson Tide Lt. Paul Hellerman
1996 Innocent Victims Billy Richardson TV movie
1997 Ebenezer Samuel Benson TV movie
Too Close to Home Nick Donahue TV movie
Detention: The Siege at Johnson High Jason Copeland TV movie
Heart Full of Rain Isaiah Dockett TV movie
1998 I Woke Up Early the Day I Died Cruiser Cop #2 Cameo performance
1999 What We Did That Night Henry TV movie
2001 The Lost Battalion Maj. Charles White Whittlesey TV movie
2002 Poolhall Junkies Brad
2003 Face of Terror Nick Harper
Consequence John Wolfe
2004 Black Cloud Eddie Directorial debut
2005 14 Hours Dr. Foster TV movie
2008 Journey to the Center of the Earth Jonathan Brock TV movie
2009 Locker 13 Tommy Novak
Blood Done Sign My Name Vernon Tyson
2010 Get Him to the Greek Himself

[edit]TV series

Year(s) Title Role Seasons Notes
1982–87 Silver Spoons Ricky Stratton 1-5
1989 Lonesome Dove Newt Dobbs TV miniseries
1993 Return to Lonesome Dove Newt Dobbs TV miniseries
1998-01 NYPD Blue Det. Danny Sorenson 6-8
2005-06 Strong Medicine Dr. Dylan West 6
2007 24 Mike Doyle 6 As Ricky Schroder
2008 The Andromeda Strain Major Bill Keane MD TV miniseries

[edit]TV appearances

Year Title Role Episode titles Notes
1983 Faerie Tale Theatre Hansel “Hansel and Gretel” Season 2, episode 6 / as Ricky Schroder
2003 Scrubs Nurse Paul Flowers “His Story” Season 2, episode 15
“My Karma” Season 2, episode 16
“My T.C.W.” Season 2, episode 18
“My Kingdom” Season 2, episode 19
2006 Robot Chicken Cloudkeeper (voice) “Password: Swordfish” Season 2, episode 10

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Denzel Washington

August 12th, 2010 by admin | No Comments | Filed in American movie star Introduction

Denzel Hayes Washington, Jr. (born December 28, 1954) is an American actor, screenwriter, director and film producer. He has garnered much critical acclaim for his work in film since the 1990s, including for his portrayals of real-life figures, such as Steve Biko, Malcolm X, Rubin Carter, Melvin B. Tolson, Frank Lucas, and Herman Boone.

Washington has been awarded three Golden Globe awards, a Tony Award and two Academy Awards for his perform. He has also been nominated for two Emmy Awards and a Grammy Award.He is notable as the second African American man (after Sidney Poitier) to win the Academy Award for Greatest Actor, which he received for his role inside the 2001 film Training Day.

Early life

Denzel Washington was born in Mount Vernon, near New York City, in 1954. His mother, Lennis “Lynne”, was a beauty parlor-owner and operator born in Georgia and partly raised in Harlem. His father, Reverend Denzel Washington, Sr., was an ordained Pentecostal minister and also worked for the Water Department and at a local department store, S. Klein.

Washington attended grammar college at st johns vestry Pennington-Grimes Elementary School in Mount Vernon until 1968, when his mother sent him to a private preparatory school, Oakland Military Academy, in New Windsor, New York State, at the age of 14. “That decision changed my life,” Washington later said, “because I wouldn’t have survived inside the direction I was going. The guys I was hanging out with in the time, my running buddies, have now done maybe 40 years combined from the penitentiary. They have been nice guys, but the streets got them.” Right after Oakland, Washington next attended Mainland Higher University a public high university in Daytona Beach, Florida, from 1970–71. Washington was interested in attending Texas Tech University: “I grew up inside Boys Club in Mount Vernon, and we have been the Red Raiders. So when I was in high college, I wanted to go to Texas Tech in Lubbock just since they have been named the Red Raiders and their uniforms looked like ours.” Washington earned a B.A. in Drama and Journalism from Fordham University in 1977.[citation needed] At Fordham he played collegiate basketball like a freshman guard under coach P. J. Carlesimo. After a period of indecision on which major to study and dropping out of college for a semester Washington worked as a counselor at an overnight summer camp called Camp Sloane YMCA in Lakeville, Connecticut. He participated in a staff talent show for the campers and a colleague suggested he try acting. Returning to Fordham that fall with a renewed purpose and focus he enrolled in the Lincoln Center campus to study acting, and was offered the title character in both Eugene O’Neill’s The Emperor Jones and Shakespeare’s Othello. Upon graduation he was given a scholarship to attend graduate university on the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco where he stayed for one year before returning to New York to begin a professional acting career.

Early career

Washington spent the summer of 1976 in St. Mary’s City, Maryland in summer stock theater performing Wings of the Morning, the Maryland State play. Shortly after graduating from Fordham, Washington made his professional acting debut from the 1977 made-for-television movie Wilma with his initial Hollywood appearance inside the 1981 film Carbon Copy. Washington shared a 1982 Distinguished Ensemble Performance Obie Award for playing Private 1st Class Melvin Peterson inside the off Broadway Negro Ensemble Firm production A Soldier’s Play which premiered November 20, 1981.

A major career break came when he starred as Dr. Phillip Chandler from the tv hospital drama St. Elsewhere which ran from 1982 to 1988 on NBC. He was one of a few actors to appear on the series for its entire six-year run. Washington also appeared in various tv, film and stage roles such as the movies A Soldier’s Story (1984), Hard Lessons (1986) and Power (1986). In 1987 Washington starred as South African anti-apartheid political activist Steven Biko in Richard Attenborough’s Cry Freedom for which he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. In 1989 Washington won an Academy Award for Finest Supporting Actor for playing a defiant self-possessed ex-slave soldier inside the film Glory. Also that year he gave a powerful performances in the Mighty Quinn and as the conflicted and disillusioned Reuben James, a British soldier who, despite a distinguished military career, returns to a civilian life where racism and inner city life leads to vigilantism and violence in For Queen and Country.

1990s
In 1990, Washington starred as Bleek Gilliam in the Spike Lee movie Mo’ Far better Blues. In 1992 he starred as Demetrius Williams within the romantic drama Mississippi Masala. Washington was reunited with Lee to play one of his most critically acclaimed roles as the title character of 1992′s Malcolm X. His performance as the black nationalist leader earned him an additional nomination for the Academy Award for Ideal Actor. The next year he played the homophobic lawyer of a homosexual man with AIDS within the 1993 film Philadelphia. Throughout the early and mid 1990s, Washington starred in many successful thrillers, including The Pelican Brief and Crimson Tide, in addition to in comedy Much Ado About Nothing and alongside Whitney Houston in the romantic drama The Preacher’s Wife.

Whilst filming the 1995 film Virtuosity, Washington declined to kiss his white female co-star Kelly Lynch throughout a romantic scene. In an interview Lynch stated “Denzel felt strongly that white males, who were the target audience of this movie, would not want him to kiss a white woman.”A comparable situation occurred during the filming from the Pelican Brief when Julia Roberts expressed in an interview her desire to have her character within the film engaged in a romantic relationship with Washington’s character. In a similar case, Washington turned down the role of Nick Curran in Basic Instinct due to the graphic sex scene that was required.

In 1999 Washington starred in the Hurricane a motion picture about boxer Rubin ‘Hurricane’ Carter whose conviction for triple murder was overturned after he had spent almost 20 years in prison. A former reporter who was angry at seeing the film portray Carter as innocent despite the overturned conviction began a campaign to pressure Academy Award voters not to award the film Oscars. Washington did receive a Golden Globe Award in 20Ǡ and a Silver Bear Award at the Berlin International Film Festival for the role.

He also presented the Arthur Ashe ESPY Award to Loretta Claiborne for her courage and appeared as himself in the end on the Loretta Claiborne Story movie.

2000s
In 2000 Washington appeared inside the Disney film Remember the Titans which grossed over $100 million at the United States box office.[citation needed] He won an Academy Award for Greatest Actor in his next film, the 2001 cop thriller Training Day as Det. Alonzo Harris, a rogue LAPD cop with questionable law-enforcement tactics. Washington was the second African-American performer to win an Academy Award for Greatest Actor, the initial being Sidney Poitier who happened to receive an Honorary Academy Award the same night that Washington won. Washington holds the record for most Oscar nominations by an actor of African descent and so far he has earned five.

After appearing in 2002′s box workplace success, the health care-themed John Q., Washington directed his 1st film, a well-reviewed drama known as Antwone Fisher, in which he also co-starred.

Between 2003 and 2004, Washington appeared in a series of thrillers that performed generally nicely at the box workplace, including Out of Time, Man on Fire, as well as the Manchurian Candidate. In 2006 he starred in Inside Man, a Spike Lee-directed bank heist thriller co-starring Jodie Foster and Clive Owen, and Déjà Vu released in November񎧖.

In 2007 he co-starred with Russell Crowe in American Gangster. Denzel directed and starred within the drama The Excellent Debaters with Forest Whitaker. Washington following appeared in the 2009 film The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3, a remake of the ’70s thriller The Taking of Pelham One, Two Three, directed by Tony Scott as New York City subway security chief Walter Garber opposite John Travolta.

Return to theater

Washington was last seen onstage within the summer of 1990 inside title role of the Public Theater’s production of Shakespeare’s Richard III) and in 2005 after a 15-year hiatus he appeared onstage again in an additional Shakespeare play as Marcus Brutus in Julius Caesar on Broadway. The production’s limited run was a consistent sell-out averaging over 100% attendance capacity nightly despite receiving mixed reviews.

2010s

In February 2009 Washington began filming The Book of Eli a post-Apocalyptic drama set in the near future which was released in January 2010. He is also set to star as a veteran railroad engineer in the action film Unstoppable which is about an unmanned, half-mile-long runaway freight train carrying a dangerous cargo. The film is to be directed by Tony Scott and it will be the fifth collaboration between the two with previous films Crimson Tide (1995), Man on Fire (2004), Déjà Vu (2006) and The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009).
On Sunday, June 13, 2010, Washington won the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play for his role in the play Fences.

Personal life

In 1983, Washington married actress Pauletta Pearson, whom he met on the set of his 1st screen work, the TV-movie Wilma. The couple have four children: John David (b. July 28, 1984) who signed a football contract with the St. Louis Rams in May 2006 after playing college football at Morehouse,[18] Katia (b. November 1987) who is attending Yale University, and twins Olivia and Malcolm (named in honor of Malcolm X) (b. April 10, 19Ȼ). Malcolm is attending University of Pennsylvania where he plays for the basketball team. In 1995 the couple renewed their wedding vows in South Africa with Archbishop Desmond Tutu officiating.

Washington is a devout Christian,and has even considered becoming a preacher. “A part of me nevertheless says, ‘Maybe, Denzel, you€™re supposed to preach. Maybe you’re still compromising.’ I’ve had an opportunity to play fantastic men and, via their words, to preach. I take what talent I’ve been given seriously, and I need to use it for excellent.” In 1995 he donated 2.5 million dollars to assist build the new West Angeles COGIC facility in Los Angeles at the city’s West Angeles Church of God in Christ.

The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia named Washington as one of 3 individuals (the others being directors Oliver Stone and Michael Moore) with whom they were willing to negotiate for the release of three defense contractors that the group had held captive from 2003 to 2008.

On May well 18, 1991 Washington was awarded an honorary doctorate from his alma mater, Fordham University, for having “impressively succeeded in exploring the edge of his multifaceted talent”. He also was awarded an honorary doctorate of humanities from Morehouse College on Might 20, 2007.

In 2008 Washington visited Israel with a delegation of African American artists in honor of the Jewish State’s 60th birthday.

Filmography

Year↓ Title↓ Role↓ Notes
1977 Wilma Robert Eldridge (TV-movie)
1981 Carbon Copy Roger Porter
1984 License to Kill Martin Sawyer (TV-movie)
1984 A Soldier’s Story Pfc. Melvin Peterson
1986 The George McKenna Story George McKenna (U.S. title – Hard Lessons, TV-movie)
1986 Power Arnold Billings NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture
1987 Cry Freedom Steve Biko Nominated—Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
NominatedGolden Globe Award for Best Actor– Motion Picture Drama
1989 The Mighty Quinn Xavier Quinn
1989 For Queen and Country Reuben James Festival du Film Policier de Cognac Award for Best Actor
1989 Glory Pvt. Trip Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture
Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor
1990 Heart Condition Napoleon Stone
1990 Mo’ Better Blues Bleek Gilliam
1991 Ricochet Nick Styles
1992 Mississippi Masala Demetrius Williams NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture
1992 Malcolm X Malcolm X Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor
Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor
MTV Movie Award for Best Performance – Male
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture
New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor
Silver Bear for Best Actor
Southeastern Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor
Nominated—Academy Award for Best Actor
Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama
1993 Much Ado About Nothing Don Pedro of Aragon
1993 The Pelican Brief Gray Grantham Nominated—MTV Movie Award for Most Desirable Male
1993 Philadelphia Joe Miller Nominated—MTV Movie Award for Best On-Screen Duo shared with Tom Hanks
1995 Crimson Tide Lt. Commander Ron Hunter NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture
Nominated—MTV Movie Award for Best Performance – Male
1995 Virtuosity Lt. Parker Barnes
1995 Devil in a Blue Dress Easy Rawlins
1996 Courage Under Fire Lt. Colonel Nathaniel Serling NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture
Lone Star Film & Television Award for Best Actor
Southeastern Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor
1996 The Preacher’s Wife Dudley
ᎇ8 Fallen Detective John Hobbes
1998 He Got Game Jake Shuttlesworth NominatedAcapulco Black Film Festival Award for Best Actor
Nominated—NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture
1998 The Siege Special Agent Anthony ‘Hub’ Hubbard FBI
1999 The Bone Collector Lincoln Rhyme
1999 The Hurricane Rubin “Hurricane” Carter Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama
Black Reel Award for Best Actor
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture
Silver Bear for Best Actor
Nominated—Academy Award for Best Actor
Nominated—Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor
Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama
Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
2000 Remember the Titans Coach Herman Boone BET Award for Best Actor
Black Reel Award for Best Actor
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture
Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama
20Ǡ The Loretta Claiborne Story Himself
2001 Training Day Detective Alonzo Harris Academy Award for Best Actor
American Film Institute Award for Actor of the Year – Male – Movies
Black Reel Award for Best Actor
Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor
Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor
MTV Movie Award for Best Villain
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture
Nominated—Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor
Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama
Nominated—Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Actor
Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama
Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
2002 John Q John Quincy Archibald Nominated—Black Reel Award for Best Actor
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture
2002 Antwone Fisher Dr. Jerome Davenport also as director
Black Reel Award for Best Director
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture
Producers Guild of America Stanley Kramer Award
Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Director
Nominated—Black Reel Award for Best Supporting Actor
Nominated—Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Director
Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Director
2003 Out of Time Police Chief Matthias Lee Whitlock Nominated—Black Reel Award for Best Actor
Nominated—NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture
20Ǥ Man on Fire John Creasy Nominated—NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture
2004 The Manchurian Candidate Major Ben Marco
2006 Inside Man Detective Keith Frazier Nominated—Black Movie Award for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
Nominated—Black Reel Award for Best Actor
Nominated—NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture
2006 Déjà Vu Special Agent Doug Carlin
2007 American Gangster Frank Lucas Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama
Nominated—MTV Movie Award for Best Performance – Male
Nominated—MTV Movie Award for Best Villain
Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama
Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
2007 The Great Debaters Melvin B. Tolson also as director
Christopher Award for Best Feature Film
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture
Nominated€”NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Director
2009 The Taking of Pelham 123 Walter Garber
2010 The Book of Eli Eli Nominated—Saturn Award for Best Actor
썚 Unstoppable Frank Barns
2012 The Matarese Circle Brandon Scofield In development (film adaptation of The Matarese Circle)

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Julia Roberts

August 9th, 2010 by admin | No Comments | Filed in American movie star Introduction

Julia Fiona Roberts (born October 28, 1967) is an American actress first brought to the world’s attention in the 1990 romantic comedy Pretty Woman, which grossed $464 million worldwide. After receiving Academy Award nominations for Steel Magnolias in 1990 and Pretty Woman in 19Ȼ, she won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 2001 for her performance in Erin Brockovich. Her films, which also include romantic comedies such as My Best Friend’s Wedding, Mystic Pizza, Notting Hill, Runaway Bride, Valentine’s Day and crime films such as The Pelican Brief and Ocean’s Eleven and Twelve have collectively brought box office receipts of over $2.4 billion, making her one of the most successful actors in terms of box office receipts.

Roberts had become one of the highest-paid actresses in the world, topping the Hollywood Reporter’s annual “power list” of top-earning female stars from 2002 to񎧖. Her fee for 1990′s Pretty Woman was $300,000;[citation needed] in 2003, she was paid an unprecedented $25 million for her role in Mona Lisa Smile. As of 2007, Roberts’s net worth was estimated to be $140 million.

Roberts was the first actress to appear on the cover of Vogue.[citation needed] She has been named one of People magazine’s “50 Most Beautiful People in the World” eleven times, tied with Halle Berry. In 2001 Ladies Home Journal ranked her as the 11th most powerful woman in America, ahead of then national security advisor Condoleezza Rice and first lady Laura Bush.[4] Roberts has a production company called Red Om Films, formerly Shoelace Productions (“Moder” spelled backwards, after her husband’s last name).

Early life

Roberts was born in Atlanta, Georgia at Crawford Long Hospital (now Emory University Hospital Midtown), the daughter of Betty Lou (née Bredemus) and Walter Grady Roberts. Her parents were Baptist and Catholic.Her older brother, Eric Roberts (from whom she was once estranged, but reconciled with in 2004), and sister, Lisa Roberts Gillan, are also actors. Roberts’ parents, one-time actors and playwrights, met while performing theatrical productions for the armed forces and later co-founded the Atlanta Actors and Writers Workshop in Atlanta, Georgia, off Juniper Street in Midtown. While her mother was pregnant with Roberts, she and her husband ran an acting school for children in Decatur, Georgia. The children of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King attended the school. As a thank-you for their service, Mrs. King paid the hospital bill when Roberts’ mother gave birth to Julia.

Roberts’ mother filed for divorce in 1971, with the divorce being finalized early in 1972.The family moved to Smyrna, Georgia (a suburb of Atlanta) in 1972, where Roberts attended Fitzhugh Lee Elementary School, Griffin Middle School and Campbell High School.Her mother re-married to Michael Motes and had another daughter, Nancy Motes, who was born in 1976. Roberts’ father died of cancer when she was ten.

In school, Roberts played clarinet in the band. She wanted to be a veterinarian as a child, but soon after graduating from Smyrna’s Campbell High School, she headed to New York to join her brother and sister Lisa Roberts Gillan and pursue a career in acting. Once there, she signed with the Click modeling agency and enrolled in acting classes. She reverted to her original name “Julia Roberts” when she discovered that a “Julie Roberts” was already registered with the Screen Actors Guild. Her niece Emma Roberts, whom Julia used to take to movie sets when she was a young girl, has joined her father and aunts in the acting business.

Career

1986–1989
Roberts made her film debut playing a supporting role with her brother, Eric, in Blood Red (she has just two words of dialogue), which, although filmed in 1987 was not released until 1989. Her first television appearance was as a juvenile rape victim in the initial season of the series Crime Story with Dennis Farina, in the episode titled “The Survivor”, broadcast on February಍, 1987. She appeared on Sesame Street opposite the character Elmo, demonstrating her ability to change emotions. Roberts first caught the attention of moviegoers with her performance in the independent film Mystic Pizza in 1988; that same year, she had a role in the fourth season finale of Miami Vice. The following year, she was featured in Steel Magnolias as a young bride with diabetes and got her first Academy Award nomination (as Best Supporting Actress) for her performance.

1᚞–2000

Roberts became known to worldwide audiences when she co-starred with Richard Gere in the Cinderella/Pygmalionesque story Pretty Woman in 1990. Roberts won the role after the first three choices for the part, Molly Ringwald, Meg Ryan and Daryl Hannah (Her co-star in Steel Magnolias.), all turned it down.[citation needed] The role also earned her a second Oscar nod, this time as Best Actress. Her next box office success was the thriller Sleeping with the Enemy, playing a battered wife who escapes her demented husband, Patrick Bergin, and begins a new life in Iowa. She played Tinkerbell in Steven Spielberg’s Hook in 1991, and also played a nurse in the 1991 film Dying Young. This work was followed by a two-year hiatus, during which she made no films other than a cameo appearance in Robert Altman’s The Player (1992). In early 1993, she was the subject of a People magazine cover story asking, “What Happened to Julia Roberts?”
In 1993, she co-starred with Denzel Washington in the successful The Pelican Brief, based on the John Grisham novel. She also starred alongside Liam Neeson in the 1996 film Michael Collins. In 1995 she appeared in season 2 of Friends (episode 13 “The One After the Superbowl”). Over the next few years, she starred in a series of films that were critical and commercial failures, such as Stephen Frears’ Mary Reilly (1996). Roberts overcame these failures with the commercial and critical success of My Best Friend’s Wedding in 1997. She starred with Hugh Grant in the 1999 film Notting Hill. That same year, she also starred in Runaway Bride, her second film with Richard Gere. Roberts was a guest star on the Law & Order television series episode “Empire” with series regular Benjamin Bratt (at that time her boyfriend). Also in 1999, she starred in the critically panned film Stepmom alongside Susan Sarandon.

2001–2005

In 2001, Roberts received the Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of Erin Brockovich, who helped wage a successful lawsuit against energy giant Pacific Gas & Electric. While presenting the Best Actor Award to Denzel Washington the following year, she made a gaffe, saying she was glad that Tom Conti wasn’t there. She meant the conductor Bill Conti, who had tried to hasten the conclusion of her Oscar speech the previous year, but instead named the Scottish actor.[12] Roberts would team up with Erin Brockovich director Steven Soderbergh for three more films: Ocean’s Eleven (2001), Full Frontal (2002), and Ocean’s Twelve (2004). Later in 2001, she starred in the road gangster comedy The Mexican giving her a chance to work with longtime friend Brad Pitt. In 2005, she was featured in the music video for the hit single “Dreamgirl” by the Dave Matthews Band.

2006–present
Roberts had two films released in 2006, The Ant Bully and Charlotte’s Web. Both films were animated features for which she provided voice acting. Her next film was Charlie Wilson’s War, with Tom Hanks and Philip Seymour Hoffman, directed by Mike Nichols and based on the book by former CBS journalist George Crile; it was released on December 21, 2007. Fireflies in the Garden, also starring Ryan Reynolds and Willem Dafoe, was released at the Berlin International Film Festival in February 2008.

Roberts made her Broadway debut on April 19, 2006 as Nan in a revival of Richard Greenberg’s 1997 play Three Days of Rain opposite Bradley Cooper and Paul Rudd. Although the play grossed nearly US$1 million dollars in ticket sales during its first week and was a commercial success throughout its limited run, her performance drew criticism. New York Times’ critic Ben Brantly described her as being fraught with “self-consciousness (especially in the first act) [and] only glancingly acquainted with the two characters she plays.” Brantley also criticized the production of “Greenberg’s slender, elegant play,” writing that “it’s almost impossible to discern its artistic virtues from this wooden and splintered interpretation, directed by Joe Mantello.”Three Days of Rain received two Tony Award nominations in stage design categories. In 2009 Lancôme announced that Julia Roberts will become their global ambassador for their company. Roberts starred with Clive Owen in the comedy-thriller Duplicity for which she received her seventh Golden Globe nomination. In 썚, she appeared in the ensemble romantic comedy Valentine’s Day, with Bradley Cooper, and will star in the film adaptation of Eat Pray Love. Julia Roberts embraces Hinduism in August, 2010.

American Girl films
Roberts has brought to life some of the books from American Girl as films, serving as executive producer alongside her sister Lisa. The company’s product lines and services are focused on pre-teen-girl characters from various periods of American history, embodied as dolls and featured in narratives including books and movies. Roberts has produced four movies.

Personal life

Relationships
Roberts’s personal life has often been in the spotlight. She has had widely reported romantic relationships with numerous famous men, including Liam Neeson, Dylan McDermott, Kiefer Sutherland, Lyle Lovett, Matthew Perry, and Benjamin Bratt. She was briefly engaged to McDermott, her Steel Magnolias co-star. She met Sutherland in 1990, when he was her co-star in Flatliners. In August 1990, Roberts and Sutherland announced their engagement, with an elaborate studio-planned wedding scheduled for June 14, 1991. Roberts broke the engagement three days before the wedding. Roberts subsequently went to Ireland with Jason Patric, a friend of Sutherland’s. On June 27, 1993, she married country singer Lyle Lovett. The wedding took place at St. James Lutheran Church in Marion, Indiana, near where Lovett was appearing on tour with his band. In March 1995, the couple separated, and subsequently divorced.

In 1998, Roberts began dating Law & Order star Benjamin Bratt, and he was her escort for the March 25, 썑 Academy Awards ceremony at which she won her Oscar. Three months later, in June 2001, Roberts and Bratt announced that they were no longer a couple. “It’s come to a kind and tenderhearted end,” she said of their relationship.
Roberts met her current husband, cameraman Daniel Moder, on the set of her movie The Mexican in 2000. At the time, Moder was married to Vera Steimberg Moder. He filed for divorce a little over a year later, and after it was finalized, he and Roberts wed on July 4, 2002, at her ranch in Taos, New Mexico. On November 28, 2004, they became the parents of fraternal twins, daughter Hazel Patricia and son Phinnaeus “Finn” Walter. Their third child, son Henry Daniel Moder, was born on June 18, 2007, in Los Angeles.

Roberts disclosed in an 2010 interview for Elle magazine that she is a practicing Hindu.

Roberts has given her time and resources to UNICEF as well as to other charitable organizations. On May 10, 1995, Roberts arrived in Port-au-Prince, as she said, “to educate myself”.The poverty she found was overwhelming. “My heart is just bursting”, she said. UNICEF officials hoped that her six-day visit would trigger an outburst of giving: $10 million in aid was sought at the time.
In 2000, Roberts narrated Silent Angels, a documentary about Rett syndrome, a neurodevelopmental disorder, which was shot in Los Angeles, Baltimore and New York. The documentary was designed to help raise public awareness about the disease. In July 2006, Earth Biofuels announced Roberts as a spokeswoman for the company and as chair of the company’s newly formed Advisory Board promoting the use of renewable fuels.

Filmography

Film
Year↓ Title↓ Role↓ Notes
1987 Firehouse Babs
1988 Blood Red Maria Collogero
1988 Mystic Pizza Daisy Arujo Nominated—Independent Spirit Award for Best Lead Female
Nominatedâ Young Artist Award for Best Young Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
1988 Satisfaction Daryle Also known as Girls of Summer
1989 Steel Magnolias Shelby Eatenton Latcherie Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture
Nominated”Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
1990 Flatliners Rachel Mannus Nominated—Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress
1990 Pretty Woman Vivian Ward Blimp Award for Favorite Movie Actress
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
Nominated—Academy Award for Best Actress
Nominated—BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role
1991 Hook Tinkerbell Nominated—Razzie Award for Worst Supporting Actress
1991 Dying Young Hilary O’Neil Nominated—MTV Movie Award for Best Female Performance
Nominated—MTV Movie Award for Most Desirable Female
19Ȼ Sleeping with the Enemy Sara Waters/Laura Burney Nominated—Saturn Award for Best Actress
1992 The Player Cameo
1993 The Pelican Brief Darby Shaw Nominated—MTV Movie Award for Best Female Performance
1994 Prêt-à-Porter Anne Eisenhower Also known as Ready to Wear
National Board of Review Award for Best Cast
1994 I Love Trouble Sabrina Peterson
1995 Something to Talk About Grace King Bichon
1996 Everyone Says I Love You Von Sidell
1996 Michael Collins Kitty Kiernan
1996 Mary Reilly Mary Reilly Nominated— Razzie Award for Worst Actress
1997 Conspiracy Theory Alice Sutton Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Actress – Suspense
1997 My Best Friend’s Wedding Julianne Potter Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Actress – Comedy
Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
Nominated— MTV Movie Award for Best Female Performance
1998 Stepmom Isabel Kelly Nominated—Blimp Award for Favorite Movie Actress
Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Actress – Drama
1999 Runaway Bride Maggie Carpenter Nominated—Blimp Award for Favorite Movie Actress) Also for Notting Hill)
Nominated— Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Actress – Comedy/Romance
Nominated— Csapnivalo Award for Best Female Performance
Nominated— MTV Movie Award for Best Female Performance
1999 Notting Hill Anna Scott Nominated— Blimp Award for Favorite Movie Actress) Also for Runaway Bride)
Nominated— Blimp Award for Favorite Movie Couple) Shared with Hugh Grant)
Nominated— Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Actress – Comedy/Romance
Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
2000 Erin Brockovich Erin Brockovich Academy Award for Best Actress
BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role
Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress
Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Actress – Drama
Empire Award for Best Actress
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress
MTV Movie Award for Best Female Performance
National Board of Review Award for Best Actress
San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress
Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
Teen Choice Award for Film – Choice Actress
Nominated—Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress
Nominated—Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress
Nominated— MTV Movie Award for Best Line from a Movie) For “Bite my ass, Krispy Kreme!”)
Nominated—MTV Movie Award for Most Desirable Female
NominatedâOnline Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress
Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama
2001 Ocean’s Eleven Tess Ocean Nominated—Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Cast
2001 America’s Sweethearts Kathleen “Kiki” Harrison
2001 The Mexican Samantha Barzel Nominated— Teen Choice Award for Film – Choice Chemistry) Shared with Brad Pitt)
2002 Confessions of a Dangerous Mind Patricia Watson
2002 Grand Champion Jolene
2002 Full Frontal Catherine/Francesca
2003 Mona Lisa Smile Katherine Ann Watson
2004 Ocean’s Twelve Tess Ocean Nominated”Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Cast
2004 Closer Anna Cameron National Board of Review Award for Best Cast
Nominated—Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Cast
2006 Charlotte’s Web Charlotte the Spider (voice)
2006 Beslan: Three Days In September Narrator
2006 The Ant Bully Hova (voice) Nominated—Blimp Award for Favorite Voice From an Animated Movie
2007 Charlie Wilson’s War Joanne Herring Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture
2008 Fireflies in the Garden Lisa Waechter
2009 Duplicity Claire Stenwick NominatedGolden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
2010 Valentine’s Day Kate
2010 Eat Pray Love Elizabeth Gilbert Awaiting Release
2011 Larry Crowne Filming
Television
Year↓ Title↓ Role↓ Notes
1᚛ Crime Story Tracy Episode “The Survivor” (1.19)
1988 Miami Vice Polly Wheeler Season 4 episode 22: “Mirror Image”
1988 Baja Oklahoma Candy Hutchins TV
1ᚤ Friends Susie Moss Episode “The One After the Superbowl: Part 2″ (2.13)
1999 Law & Order Katrina Ludlow Episode “Empire”
Nominated—Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress – Drama Series
2003 Freedom: A History Of Us Virginia Eyewitness 2 episodes: “What Is Freedom?” (1.07); “Yearning to Breathe Free” (1.10)
2010 Hope For Haiti Now Herself Telethon for Haiti earthquake relief

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Sherwin David “Wood” Harris

August 7th, 2010 by admin | No Comments | Filed in American movie star Introduction

Sherwin David “Wood” Harris (born October 17, 1969) is an American actor, perhaps best known for his roles as drug kingpin Avon Barksdale in the HBO television drama The Wire, Motaw in the 1994 motion picture Above the Rim, Ace in the 2002 motion picure Paid in Full and as high school football player Julius Campbell in the 2000 motion pictue Remember the Titans.

Harris was born Sherwin David Harris in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Mattie and John Harris. He holds a Bachelors of Arts in Theater Arts from Northern Illinois University (NIU) and a Master of Arts from New York University. He is the younger brother of actor Steve Harris. While enrolled in NYU, Harris starred in his first major film role in the basketball drama Above the Rim, starring opposite Tupac Shakur, and appeared in many theatrical stage productions of various off-Broadway plays.

Harris was awarded the New York Film Festival’s 1st Run Best Actor Award for his portrayal of “Derrick ‘D-Train’ Trainer” in Morningside Prep, a thirty minute short movie directed by rising filmmaker, Malcolm Lee. He subsequently guest starred in a variety of television and film venues before portraying legendary rock guitarist, Jimi Hendrix in Showtime’s 2000 movie, Hendrix.

Later that year, Harris received his first NAACP Image Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture along with the Blockbuster Movie Award nomination for Favorite Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture for his role as Julius “Big Ju” Campbell in Remember The Titans. In 2002, he starred in the Dame Dash produced cult-classic film, Paid in Full, based on the true story of three legendary Harlem drug kingpins.
He starred as Avon Barksdale in the first three seasons of HBO’s original series The Wire. He also produced his own debut album, Beautiful Wonderful, which was intended for release in 2005. Harris returned to his role as the ruthless drug kingpin Avon Barksdale in the fifth and final season of The Wire.

He had previously appeared in a minor role as Correctional Officer in the HBO Series Oz who is sympathetic to the Muslim inmates, leaving a gun for them to use in an imminent riot at the end of Season 1.
In June 2008 director Martin Guigui revealed on his production blog that Harris was cast as Nate “Sweetwater” Clifton in Sweetwater, the movie about the first black player in the NBA.

Filmography

Just Another Day (2010)
Sweetwater (2009)
Dough Boys (film) (2009)
Next Day Air (20ǩ)
MVP (2009)
Not Easily Broken (2009)
4 Life (2007)
Southland Tales (2006)
Dirty (2005)
Paid in Full (20Ǣ)
The Wire (2002-2008) (TV series)
The Gold Cup (20Ǡ)
Remember the Titans (2000)
Hendrix (2000) (TV)
Are You Cinderella? (2000)
Committed (2000)
Rhapsody (2ዀ) (TV)
Train Ride (2000)
Spenser: Small Vices (1999) (TV)
The Siege (1998)
Celebrity (1998)
As Good as It Gets (1997)
Above the Rim (1994)
[edit]Guest TV appearances

Southland_(TV_series) (2010)
House (2008)
Numb3rs (2007)
BET Awards (2006)
CSI: Miami (2006)
The Twilight Zone (2003)
Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry (2002)
New York Undercover (1998)
Cosby (1997)
Oz (1997)
NYPD Blue (1996)

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