Noureen DeWulf (born February 28, 1983 in New York City, New York) is an American actress. She is of Indian Muslim descent with parents from Pune, a city in India near Mumbai. She attended Boston University. Noureen DeWulf is best known as the star of the 2007 Academy Award winning musical comedy (winning the Academy Award for Live Action Short Film), "West Bank Story", …

Anders Thomas Jensen is a Danish screenwriter and film director. Jensen won the Oscar for his 1998 film "Election Night" (":da:Valgaften"). He also received Oscar nominations in the live-action short category for his films "Ernst & The Light" (":da:Ernst & lyset") (1996) and "Wolfgang" (1997). From the end of the 1990s and into the new millennium he wrote the screenplays for most of the Danish movie blockbusters of the period, …

Taylor Hackford (born December 31, 1944 in Santa Barbara, California) is an American film director. He received an Oscar in 2000 for the short film "Teenage Father" and received two Oscar nominations in 2004 for the Ray Charles biopic "Ray". Hackford is married to Academy Award winning actress Helen Mirren. Hackford graduated from USC's School of Cinema-Television in 2000. In a recent interview, he confirmed that he never attended film school, …

Gerald Bertram Fairbanks was born in San Francisco, California USA on November 1, 1904, and survived the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. He began his career in film as a cameraman on silent movies (John Barrymore's "The Sea Beast") followed by work on early sound productions such as Howard Hughes' film "Hell's Angels" where he participated both as a biplane pilot and aerial cinematographer for the extensive WWI dogfight scenes.

Born April 04, 1950 - Unpredictable American actress Christine Lahti majored in drama at the University of Michigan, then toured Europe with a group of pantomimists. She studied with Uta Hagen in New York, taking whatever stage work that came along (including her Obie award-winning performance in an Off-Broadway revival of Little Murders) before being steadily employed ... Continue Bio >>

Jack Chertok was born July 13th, 1906 in Atlanta, Georgia – was a film and television producer, perhaps best know to modern viewers as producer for the 182 black and white episodes of "The Lone Ranger" and as executive producer of the series "My Favorite Martian". Beginning in the mid-1930's he produced a wide variety of film shorts for MGM, including comedies, documentaries and crime dramas. His comedy "How to Sleep " won the 1935 Academy Award for Short Subjects, …

Peter Capaldi (born 1958, Glasgow) is a Scottish actor and Oscar winning director. Educated at the Glasgow School of Art, he is currently best known for his performance playing the political spin doctor, Malcolm Tucker, in the BBC sitcom "The Thick of It", written by fellow Scottish-Italian, Armando Iannucci. This character is reportedly based on the New Labour spin doctor Alastair Campbell, for which he was nominated for the BAFTA and RTS best comedy actor in 2006.

William Patrick Kinsella, OC, OBC (born May 25, 1935) is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. His work has often concerned baseball and Canada's First Nations and other Canadian issues. Though born in Edmonton, Alberta, Kinsella was raised until he was 10 years-old at a homestead near Darwell, Alberta, 60 km west of the city, home-schooled by his mother and taking correspondence courses.

Ham Tran is a Vietnamese American (Ethnic Chinese) film writer/editor/director. He earned an MFA in film directing from the UCLA Film School and is most famous for his thesis film "The Anniversary", which was shortlisted for an Academy Award for Live Action Short Film. His most recent effort is the full-length Vietnamese boat people and reeducation camp drama, "Journey from the Fall", …

Kristin (Harmon) Nelson (born June 25, 1945) is an American actress and painter. She is the daughter of American football star Tom Harmon and actress Elyse Knox. Actor Mark Harmon is her brother, and actress Kelly Harmon is her sister. In 1970 she starred with Johnny Crawford in "The Resurrection of Broncho Billy", that won the Academy Award for Live Action Short Film. She was married twice: first she married in 1963 actor and recording artist Rick Nelson, …

Michael Toshiyuki Uno is a film and television director, credited with directing television programs such as "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" (the remake series that began in 1985), "China Beach", "The Outsiders", "Early Edition", and "Dawson's Creek". Uno has also directed the films "The Silence", "The Wash", and "Dangerous Intentions".

Walton Sanders Goggins Jr. (born 1971) is an American actor born in Alabama and raised in Lithia Springs, Georgia. He is a regular on the FX Networks series, "The Shield", portraying "Detective Shane Vendrell". Goggins was also producer of the 2001 short film "The Accountant", which won an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film. While Goggins was not officially listed as a winner, …

David Massey (born 1957) is a film maker and graduate of the American Film Institute. In 1991 he was nominated for an Academy Award for Live Action Short Film for the film "Last Breeze of Summer." He is one of two African Americans to be nominated for a short film of any kind. The film won a Crystal Heart Award. He has also received recognition by The National Education Association and is an inductee at The Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame.

William "Billy" Zabka born in New York City, New York) is an American actor. Zabka is best known for playing "bully" types, such as his role as Johnny Lawrence in 1984's "The Karate Kid". Zabka's family is of Czechoslovak descent; the Czech translation of "Zabka" is "Little Frog."

Shizuko Hoshi is a Japanese American actress and theatre director living in Southern California. She is a graduate of Tokyo Women's College and University of Southern California. She was married to actor Mako, the founding Artistic Director of East West Players in Los Angeles, and worked closely with the Asian American theatre company from 1965 to 1989. While at East West Players, she received many awards for performance, directing and choreography, …

Rupert Wainwright (born November 30, 1961) is an English film and television director, writer, and actor. Wainwright was born in Cotswolds, UK and started his film career in the 1980s as an actor. While in his twenties, he wrote and directed a short film called "Open Window" which gained significant exposure through Columbia Pictures' nonprofit "Discovery Program" alongside 1987 Academy Award winner "Ray's Male Heterosexual Dance Hall".

Garth Stein is an American author and film producer from Seattle, Washington. In 1991 he co-produced an Academy Award winning short film, "The Lunch Date." He has also published several novels, "Raven Stole the Moon" in 1998 and "How Evan Broke His Head and Other Secrets" in 2005. Also in 2005, a play he authored, "Brother Jones", was produced in Los Angeles, California. He was born in Los Angeles, but grew up in Seattle.

Alexander Beyer (*June 24 1973 in Erfurt) is a German actor. He was born in Erfurt, a city in central Germany. It is the capital of the Bundesland of Thuringia. He has appeared in such films as: Volker Schloendorff's "The Legends of Rita" ("Die Stille nach dem Schuss", 1999), Leander Haussmann's "Sun Alley" ("Sonnenallee", 2000), Johannes Kiefer's "Gregor's Greatest Invention" ("Gregors groesste Erfindung", 2001), …