- Jerry Bruckheimer
Jerry Bruckheimer is a storyteller whose films have grossed billions and have earned their producer the acclaim and respect of the entertainment industry and moviegoers throughout the world. Bruckheimer has always been a storyteller. He began his career on Madison Avenue producing award-winning commercials including a parody of Bonnie and Clyde, which he created for Pontiac.
- Willem Dafoe
Willem Dafoe (born July 22, 1955) is an Academy Award-nominated American film and stage actor and a founding member of the experimental theatre company The Wooster Group. He is best known for his roles in the Hollywood films "The Last Temptation of Christ" (1988), "Platoon" (1986) and the "Spider-Man" series.
- Ewan McGregor
I was born on March 31, 1971, in Perth Royal Hospital, Scotland. I was the second son of teachers Jim and Carol McGregor. My brother Colin, a tornado fighter pilot, is two years older than me. I grew up in the small town of Crieff
- Peter Lauritson
Peter Lauritson is a long-time film producer and director and television producer and director involved with "Star Trek" since "Star Trek: The Next Generation".
- Harvey Keitel
Harvey Keitel (born May 13, 1939) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor from New York City.
- Hank Azaria
Hank Albert Azaria (born April 25, 1964) is a four-time Emmy Award-winning American actor, comedian and voice artist.
- Seth Rogen
Seth Rogen was born April 15, 1982 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. His mother is a social worker and his father is an assistant director for a non-profit organization. During his youth, he attended a Talmud Torah school, but it was at camp that he got his first taste of stand-up comedy, performing for the other campers.
- Ray Liotta
Intense is the word for Ray Liotta. He specializes in psychopathic characters who hide behind a cultivated charm. Even in his nice guy roles in Field of Dreams (1989) and Operation Dumbo Drop (1995), you get the impression that something is smoldering inside of him. Liotta maintains a steady stream of work, completing multiple projects per year.
- Kenneth Branagh
Kenneth Charles Branagh (born December 10 1960) is an Emmy Award-winning, Academy Award-nominated Northern Irish-born actor and film director.
- Shirley MacLaine
Shirley MacLaine (born April 24, 1934) is an Academy Award-winning American film and theatre actress, well-known not only for her acting, but for her devotion to her belief in reincarnation. She is also the writer of a large number of autobiographical works, many dealing with her new age beliefs, such as solipsism, as well as her Hollywood career. She is the older sister of Warren Beatty.
- Stanley Tucci
Stanley Tucci, Jr. (born 11 November 1960) is an American actor, writer, film producer and film director.
- Jena Malone
Jena Malone (born November 21, 1984) is an American actress. She is widely known for starring in a large number of independent films. She made her film debut with a critically acclaimed performance in "Bastard Out of Carolina" (1996). Malone is perhaps best known for her roles in "Donnie Darko" (2001), "Saved!" (2004), and "Stepmom" (1997).
- Hugo Weaving
Hugo Wallace Weaving (born 4 April 1960) is an Australian film and stage actor, as well as a voice actor, best known for his roles as Agent Smith in "The Matrix" and Elrond in "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy of films, the title character of "V for Vendetta" and the voice of Megatron in "Transformers".
- Davis Guggenheim
Davis Guggenheim (1964-) is an Academy Award-winning American film director and producer.
- Darren Star
Darren Star (born 1961) is an American television and film producer and screenwriter best known for the hugely successful television series "Beverly Hills 90210", "Melrose Place" (both of which were co-produced with Aaron Spelling), and "Sex and the City" which was based on a book of the same name by Candace Bushnell. As well as creating these series, he personally wrote a number of scripts and directed some episodes.
- Peter Stormare
Peter Stormare (born August 27, 1953) is a Swedish film and television actor. With his fluency in English and his skill for mimicking accents, he has become much in demand in Hollywood productions, where he usually plays Europeans of various nationalities and often of dubious morality. Many of Stormare's characters are highly eccentric.
- Marti Noxon
Marti Noxon (born 25 August 1964) is a television and film writer perhaps best known for her work as a writer and executive producer on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer". She is a graduate of Kresge College at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Besides her work on "Buffy", she co-wrote the 1999 movie "Just A Little Harmless Sex". When the WB television network accepted the "Buffy" spin-off series "Angel", Joss Whedon, …
- Cary Elwes
Ivan Simon Cary Elwes (born October 26, 1962) is an English actor credited as Cary Elwes, known for his performances in "The Princess Bride", "Robin Hood: Men in Tights" and "Saw".
- Abel Ferrara
Abel Ferrara (born July 19, 1951 in The Bronx) is an American movie screenwriter and director. At the age of 15, he moved upstate where he met Nicholas St. John, a fellow classmate in high school who would go on to write several of his movies. Ferrara started out as a director by making amateur films on Super 8 including a five-minute short that would provide the basis for his 1979 film, "The Driller Killer", …
- Chazz Palminteri
Chazz Palminteri (b. May 15, 1952) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor and writer, best known for his performances in "The Usual Suspects", "A Bronx Tale" and "Mulholland Falls".
- Jane Espenson
Jane Espenson is an American writer who has worked on several television series and comic books, as well as on a variety of other projects. She is perhaps best known for her five-year stint (from 1998 to 2003) as a writer and producer on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer".
- Wendy Neuss
Wendy Neuss (born 1958 in Livingston, New Jersey) is an American film producer. Neuss was the executive producer of several TV movies starring her then-husband Patrick Stewart, including "A Christmas Carol", "The Lion in Winter" and "King of Texas". She produced these films as the president of Flying Freehold Productions, a company she co-founded with Stewart.
- Jack Giarraputo
Jack Giarraputo is a prolific film producer have been involved in the creation of more than 30 films in a little over a decade. Most of his work has been with comedy films. Two of his films have been nominated for Razzies.
- Miles Millar
Miles Millar (born c. 1970) is a screenwriter and producer. He is a graduate from the USC School of Cinematic Arts from the The Peter Stark Producing Program as his writing partner Alfred Gough. With him, he wrote the Jackie Chan vehicles "Shanghai Noon" and "Shanghai Knights". The pair have also worked on several superhero-themed projects. They created and produced the show "Smallville" on the WB network, …
- Nastassja Kinski
Nastassja Kinski (born Nastassja Aglaia Nakszynski, January 24, 1961) is a prolific German actress, having appeared in more than 60 movies. Her starring roles include her Golden Globe Award-winning portrayal of 'Tess Durbeyfield' in Roman Polanski's film "Tess" and her parts in Wim Wenders' films "The Wrong Move", "Paris, Texas", and "Faraway, So Close!".
- Donal Logue
DONAL LOGUE is well known to both film and television audiences for his work in a wide range of projects. He recently completed production on two upcoming film projects: the action thriller "Ghost Rider," with Nicolas Cage ; and Edward Burns ' comedy "The Groomsmen." Both films are due out in 2006. He is also currently developing "El Centro" for the FX Network, a one-hour series he will write, produce and star in.
- Bob Odenkirk
Robert "Bob" Odenkirk (born October 22, 1962, in Naperville, Illinois) is an American actor, writer, director and producer. Odenkirk is best known as the co-creator and co-star of the HBO sketch comedy series, "Mr. Show".
- Philippa Boyens
Philippa Boyens, MNZM, is an Academy Award winning New Zealand screenwriter who co-wrote the screenplay for Peter Jackson's film series "The Lord of the Rings " with Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh, for which the trio won an Oscar at the 76th Academy Awards in 2004. Boyens worked with the same collaborators on the screenplay for Jackson's version of "King Kong" (2005).
- Don Carmody
Don Carmody (born in New England) is a film producer that started his own production company in 1980. He has produced such films as "Resident Evil: Apocalypse", "Silent Hill", "Chicago", "The Boondock Saints" and "Good Will Hunting".
- Anthony E. Zuiker
Anthony E. Zuiker (born August 17, 1968) is the creator and executive producer of the television show "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation". He produces all three editions of the CSI franchise: "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation", "CSI: Miami" and "CSI: NY". Zuiker was born in Blue Island, Illinois and graduated from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. It is widely believed that Mr.
- Patric Verrone
Patric Verrone (born Patric Miller Verrone on September 29, 1959 in Glendale, Queens, New York) is an American television writer. He served as a writer and producer for several animated television shows, most notably "Futurama".
- Walter Salles
Walter Moreira Salles Jr. (born April 12 1956, Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian filmmaker and film producer of international prominence. He is the son of Walter Moreira Salles, a Brazilian banker and ambassador, and the brother of João Moreira Salles, also a filmmaker.
- Ian Maxtone-Graham
Ian Maxtone-Graham (born on July 3, 1959 in New York City) is an American television writer and producer. He has written for "Saturday Night Live" (1992-1995) and "The Simpsons" (1995-present), and has also served as a co-executive producer and consulting producer for "The Simpsons".
- Mike Mignola
Mike Mignola (born in Berkeley, California on September 16, 1960) is a American comic book artist and writer. He has also worked for animation projects such as "Atlantis: The Lost Empire" and the adaptation of his one shot comic book, "The Amazing Screw-On Head".
- Bobby Farrelly
Bobby Farrelly (born June 17, 1958) is an American film director, screenwriter and producer from Cumberland, Rhode Island. He is a graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Together with his brother, Peter Farrelly, he has written, directed, and produced several comedy films including "There's Something About Mary", "Dumb and Dumber", "Kingpin", "Shallow Hal", "Me, Myself and Irene" and "Stuck on You".
- Jeph Loeb
Joseph "Jeph" Loeb III is an American comic book writer, screen and television writer as well as television and motion picture producer. A three-time Eisner Award Winner and five-time Wizard Award Winner, Loeb has found tremendous success at both Marvel and DC where he has written stories with such diverse characters as the X-Men and Superman as well as Batman and Spider-Man.
- Jay Kogen
Jay Kogen is an American comedy writer. He has co-written several episodes of "The Simpsons" along with former writing partner Wallace Wolodarsky. Since then, he has written for several shows, including an Emmy Award winning stint at "Frasier". He is the son of "Mad" writer Arnie Kogen. Kogen also made an appearance in "The Aristocrats".
- Jon Vitti
Jon Vitti is a writer who is most noted for his well-received scripts for the television series "The Simpsons". He has also written for the "King of the Hill" and "The Critic" series, and has served as a consultant for several animated movies, including "Ice Age" (2002) and "Robots" (2005). He is one of the eleven writers currently working on "The Simpsons Movie".
- Tim Minear
Tim Minear (born October 29, 1963) is an American screenwriter and director. He was born in New York, grew up in Whittier, California, and studied film at California State University, Long Beach. Minear was an assistant director on the film "Platoon", and wrote episodes for several television series including "The X-Files" and "Lois and Clark". He later wrote, executive-produced, and directed episodes of "Strange World", "Angel", …
- Esai Morales
Esai Morales (born October 1, 1962) is an actor who was most recently cast to portray a priest in The Virgin of Juarez and as Lt. Tony Rodriguez on the long-running ABC television police drama "NYPD Blue". He also appeared in the PBS drama "American Family", which was rejected as a series by CBS and later picked up by KCET and PBS and the Showtime series "Resurrection Blvd.".