- Kate Beckinsale
Kathryn Bailey "Kate" Beckinsale (born July 26, 1973) is an English actress, known for her roles in the films "Pearl Harbor" (2001), "Van Helsing" (2004), and "Underworld" (2003). - Underworld
- Len Wiseman
Len Ryan Wiseman (born March 4, 1973) is an American film director and screenwriter, known best for the movie "Underworld", which he co-wrote and directed, and its sequel, "Underworld: Evolution". He began his career in film as a property assistant in the movie "Stargate" (1994) and also " Independence Day" (1996). His movies show a penchant for prop work and his filming style draws attention to many of the "hero props" seen on screen. - Scott Speedman
Scott Speedman (born September 1, 1975) is an English-born Canadian actor. He is probably best known for his role in the coming-of-age television drama "Felicity", where he played Ben Covington, and his role as Michael Corvin in the "Underworld" films. Speedman was born Robert Scott Speedman in London, England, but raised in Toronto, Canada. - Bill Nighy
Bill Nighy is a Golden Globe and BAFTA-award winning English actor. He started working in theatre and television, before his first cinema role in 1981. He is perhaps best known for his roles in "Love Actually", the "Underworld" movies, "Shaun of the Dead" and as Davy Jones in the Pirates of the Caribbean films. - Michael Sheen
Michael Sheen (born 5 February 1969) is an award-winning Welsh actor, known for his work on stage and film, best known for his portrayal of Tony Blair in the Stephen Frears 2006 British film "The Queen". - Darren Emerson
Darren Emerson (born 30 April 1971, in Hornchurch, England) is a dance music DJ, and former member of the UK electronic music outfit, Underworld. - Shane Brolly
Shane Brolly (born March 6, 1970) is a British actor. Brolly comes from a family of Irish actors, although he's done most of his film work in the US. He started his career in made-for-cable crime dramas in the late 1990s. After some independent films, he played a small role in the sci-fi thriller "Impostor", based on a story by Philip K. Dick. He was born and raised in Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK) and now lives in Los Angeles. - Patrick Tatopoulos
Patrick Tatopoulos is a renowned French-American production designer. He is considered by many as a visionary, creating innovative, exciting concepts for filmed and computer generated environments. His unique designs, rich with mood, character and distinction, have appeared in numerous box office hit motion pictures, including such movies as "Underworld", "I, Robot", "The Chronicles of Riddick", "Independence Day", "Bram Stoker's Dracula", … - Darren Price
Darren Price is a DJ, and a member of Underworld, an electronic music group. - James Gandolfini
Although he acted on Broadway and in various films in the 1990s, Gandolfini's most-acclaimed role is that of Tony Soprano, the Mafia boss and family man in the multi-award-winning HBO series The Sopranos, which debuted in 1999. He has since starred in films such as 8 MM and The Mexican. He was born in Westwood, New Jersey, grew up in New Jersey, and currently lives in New York City. - Kevin Grevioux
Kevin Grevioux (born in Chicago, Illinois, but spent most of his childhood in Minnesota, Boston, and New Jersey) is an American actor, screenwriter, and comic book writer. He has been seen in such films as "The Mask", "Steel", "Congo", Tim Burton's "Planet of the Apes" remake and the 2003 vampire vs. werewolf film, "Underworld", starring actress Kate Beckinsale. He has also worked as a stuntman on occasion. - Abu Salem
Abu Salem (born 1968) is an underworld don originally from Azamgarh district in Uttar Pradesh, India. He has been accused in the 1993 Bombay serial blasts case and killing of India's music baron Gulshan Kumar 1997. He has unsuccessfully attempted to kill Bollywood film directors Rajiv Rai and Rakesh Roshan. At one time was a close associate of Dawood Ibrahim and later fell off when he seemed too-big-for-his-boots. - Josef von Sternberg
Josef von Sternberg (29 May 1894 - 22 December 1969) was an Austrian-American film director. He is one of the earliest examples of auteur filmmakers, and performed many other duties on his films besides directing, including cinematographer, writer, and editor. Von Sternberg's style has had a vast influence on later directors, particularly during the "film noir" movement. His mastery of mise-en-scene, lighting and soft lense is unrivaled, … - Robbie Gee
Robbie Gee (born 24 March 1970) is a British actor, well-known and well-loved for his "Desmond's" character Lee Graham, and for turning in a fine comedic performance in Guy Ritchie's crime caper "Snatch", he also appeared in the movie "Mean Machine" playing Trojan. In 2003 he starred in the BBC sitcom The Crouches as Roly Crouch, the father in a "triple-generation family sandwich". - Zita Görög
Zita Görög " (born September 27,1979 in Pásztó, Hungary) is a Hungarian actress and model, often credited as "Zita Gorog". Görög specialized in drama at the Bródy Imre Grammar School in Budapest. She started modelling when she was 18 and first job was the Agnés B. fashion-show in Paris with fellow model Laetitia Casta. She worked in 24 countries as a model, among them one year in the USA, one year in Italy and a half year in France. - Sam La More
Sam Littlemore, also known as Sam La More, is an Australian record producer and recording artist working in Hollywood, Sydney and London. Sam is best known for Tonite Only and his production work with Nellee Hooper and Gwen Stefani, including Gwen's debut solo hit "What You Waiting For?" from "Love. Angel. Music. Baby." (2004). His production work with Rick Nowels can be heard on Nelly Furtado's album "Loose" (2006). - George Bancroft
George Bancroft (September 30, 1882 - October 2, 1956) was an American actor. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he graduated from the United States Naval Academy, but left the Navy to become one of the top Hollywood stars of the 1920s. Bancroft's first starring role was in "Pony Express" (1925), and the next year he headed a cast including Wallace Beery and Charles Farrell in the period naval epic "Old Ironsides" (1926), … - Johnette Napolitano
Johnette Napolitano (born September 22, 1957, Hollywood, California) is an American singer, songwriter and bassist best known for her work with the alternative rock group Concrete Blonde. She has also recorded as a solo artist, with the albums "Sketchbook" (2002), "Sketchbook 2" (2006), "Scarred" (2007) and as a member of: * Dream 6 (a precursor to Concrete Blonde). - Frank Tieri
Frank Tieri is a comic book writer. He has written "New Excalibur", "Wolverine", "Underworld", and "Dracula versus Apocalypse" for Marvel Comics. - Bobby Thomson
Robert Brown "Bobby" Thomson (born October 25, 1923 in Glasgow, Scotland), nicknamed The Staten Island Scot, is a Scottish-American former Major League Baseball outfielder and right-handed batter who played for the New York Giants (1946-53, 1957), Milwaukee Braves (1954-57), Chicago Cubs (1958-59), Boston Red Sox (1960) and Baltimore Orioles (1960). Thomson became a celebrity for hitting a game-winning home run in a playoff game, … - Averno
Averno is a Mexican professional wrestler currently performing for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre. His ring name is the Spanish rendering of Avernus, the crater where Aeneas descended into the underworld in Virgil's Aeneid. - Daya Nayak
Daya Nayak is a sub-inspector with the Mumbai police force. He is known for eliminating gangsters of the Mumbai underworld, acting on tip-offs from a well-developed intelligence gathering network. There are allegations that these shootouts, known as encounters, are staged. He is often referred to by the print media as an "Encounter Specialist" for this reason. He has shot dead 83 gangsters to date and arrested over 300 criminals. - Bob Baker
Bob Baker (born in Bristol, England in 1939) is an accomplished television and film writer. His most famous contributions have been as the author of three scripts for the Wallace and Gromit films "The Wrong Trousers", "A Close Shave" and "Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit". - Dave Martin
Dave Ralph Martin (born in Birmingham, England, January 1 1935 - March 30 2007) was an accomplished television and film writer. - Lenny McLean
Leonard McLean (April 9, 1949 - July 28, 1998), better known as "The Guv'nor", was a famed East End of London bareknuckle fighter, often referred to as "the hardest man in Britain". McLean made his name in the late 1960s and remained famous in the 1970s through to the mid 1980s. Mclean stated that he had been involved in between 2,000 to 3,000 fights in his life on the streets or "cobbles", in pubs and clubs and in the ring. - Jack McManus
Jack McManus, also known as "Eat 'Em Up", was a noted New York City gangster around the turn of the last century. Noted as one of the premier boxers of the underworld, rivaled only by Monk Eastman, McManus started off as a prize fighter only to begin work in as a bouncer in the dives of lower Manhattan, including Suicide Hall and New Brighton. Eat 'Em Up Jack became known as the right hand man of Paul Kelly, leader of the Five Points Gang. - Greg Puciato
Gregory J. Puciato (b. March 27 in Baltimore, Maryland) is the lead singer of the band The Dillinger Escape Plan. He is known for his reckless live performances, intimidating stage presence, wide vocal range, and outspoken views. He joined the group in September of 2001 and first performed with the group weeks later at the CMJ music conference in October 2001. In a scenario mirroring that of young Henry Rollins and Black Flag, … - James Swallow
James Swallow is a British author, journalist and scriptwriter. Author of several original books and tie-in novels, Swallow lives and works in London. His writing includes: *The Sundowners series of Western fiction steampunk novels ("Ghost Town", "Underworld", "Iron Dragon" and "Showdown"), published by Scholastic Press. *The Warhammer 40,000 novels "Deus Encarmine" and "Deus Sanguinius" (featuring the Blood Angels), … - Alan Lake
Alan Lake was a British actor. Lake was born in Stoke-on-Trent. He became a master swordsman with épée and foil. He was also a keen horseman and once broke his back in a riding accident. He is best known as the third husband of the actress Diana Dors. They were married on 23 November 1968 and their stormy marriage produced a son, Jason. Alan Lake committed suicide at their Sunningdale home, five months after her death from cancer. - James Maxwell
James Maxwell was an actor, best known for his television appearances, usually in minor roles. He was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA, but spent most of his career in the UK and died in London. His best-known part was as King Henry VII in a BBC2 drama series, "Shadow of the Tower", but it did not have the same popular success as "The Six Wives of Henry VIII", which was its predecessor drama. - Griselda Blanco
Griselda Blanco (b. 1943 - d. ????), also known as la Madrina, the Godmother, the Black Widow and the Cocaine Queen of Miami, was a drug lord and pioneer in the Miami based cocaine drug trade and underworld. Blanco was best known for her absolute ruthlessness and sociopathic lifestyle. - Polly Adler
Pearl "Polly" Adler (April 16,1900 - June 11,1962) was a Russian-born madam and author. The oldest child of a large family, Polly Adler emigrated to America from Yanow, Russia, near the Polish border at the age of 14 just before World War I. The war stopped her family from joining her. - Stacey Tendeter
Stacey Tendeter is a British actress best known for her performance as Muriel in the 1971 film "Two English Girls". Her other cinema appearances include "White Bird", "Friend or Foe", and "Terminal Game". The majority of her work came in the 1970s on British television when she appeared on "Elizabeth R", "Dead of Night", "The Pallisers", "In This House of Brede", … - Mary Frith
Mary Frith or Moll Cutpurse ("c." 1584-July 26, 1659) was a notorious pickpocket and fence of the English underworld. - Dave Ulliott
David A. Ulliott (born 1 April, 1962 in Hull) is an English professional gambler and poker player. Formerly, Ulliott was a minor figure in the Hull underworld, but went on to become a World Series of Poker bracelet-winner, and a mainstay of televised poker. At the poker table, he is known for wearing orange-tinted prescription sunglasses, a sharp suit (or leather jacket) and gold knuckleduster rings reading "Devil" and "Fish", which he made himself. - Kazimieras G. Prapuolenis
Kazimieras G. Prapuolenis, or Kaz, (born 1959, Hoboken, New Jersey) is an American cartoonist and illustrator. In the 1980s he was a frequent contributor to the influential comics anthologies "RAW" and "Weirdo". Since 1992 he has drawn "Underworld", an adult-themed syndicated comic strip that appears in many alternative weeklies. - Godfrey James
Godfrey James (born 16 April 1931 in London) is an English actor. His film appearances include: "Witchfinder General", "Blood on Satan's Claw", "The Oblong Box", "The Land That Time Forgot", "At the Earth's Core", Television credits include: "The Avengers", "Dixon of Dock Green", "Department S", "Z Cars", "UFO", "The Onedin Line", "Space: 1999", "The Lotus Eaters", … - Danielle Foote
Danielle Foote, born June 8 1987 in Adelaide, Australia, is a singer and former "Big Brother Australia 2006" housemate. She is signed to Secret Days, an independent record label based in Brisbane, Australia, and her debut single, a cover of Underworld's Underneath the Radar, was released on August 7 2006. It debuted at #52 on the ARIA charts, and peaked at #41. - Danny Hogan
"Dapper" Danny Hogan (c. 1880 - December 4, 1928) was a charismatic underworld figure and boss of St. Paul's Irish Mob during Prohibition. Due to his close relationships with the officers of a deeply corrupt Saint Paul Police, Hogan was able to act as a go between, overseeing the notorious O'Connor System. Known as the "Smiling Peacemaker" to local police officials, Police Chief John "The Big Fellow" O'Connor of St.
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