- Sir Ben Kingsley
Sir Ben Kingsley, CBE, (born December 31, 1943) is a British actor. Kingsley is perhaps best known for his portrayal of Mahatma Gandhi in Richard Attenborough's 1982 biopic, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Actor. - Jennifer Connelly
Jennifer Lynn Connelly (born December 12 1970) is an American film actress and former child model. Although she has been working in the film industry since she was a teenager and catapulted to fame on the basis of her appearances in films like "Labyrinth" and "Career Opportunities", she did not receive wide exposure for her work until the 2000 drama "Requiem for a Dream", and the 2001 biopic "A Beautiful Mind", … - Eric Bana
Eric Bana (born Eric Banadinovich on August 9, 1968) is an Australian film and television actor. He began his career as a comedian in the sketch comedy series "Full Frontal" before gaining critical recognition in the biopic "Chopper" (2000). After a decade of critically acclaimed roles in Australian television shows and films, … - Iggy Pop
James Newell Osterberg, Jr. (born April 21, 1947), better known by his stage name Iggy Pop, is an American rock singer, songwriter, and occasional actor. Although he has had only limited commercial success, Iggy Pop is considered one of the most important innovators of punk rock and related styles. He is sometimes referred to by the nicknames "the Godfather of Punk" and "the Rock Iguana", … - Taylor Hackford
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, … - Bennett Miller
Bennett Miller (born December 30, 1966) is an Academy Award-nominated American film director. He was born in New York City to a Jewish family, and has known writer Dan Futterman and actor Philip Seymour Hoffman since their childhood. He and Futterman were classmates at Mamaroneck High School, where both participated in the PACE performing arts program. Miller is the director of the feature biopic "Capote" (2005) and the documentary film "The Cruise" (1998). - Richard Eyre
Sir Richard Charles Hastings Eyre CBE (born 28 March, 1943) is an English theatre, television, film director. - Robert Towne
Robert Burton Towne (born November 23, 1934) is an American actor, screenwriter and director. He is the author of many notable film scripts, including "Chinatown" (1974), for which he received an Oscar, its sequel, "The Two Jakes" (1990), and "Shampoo" (1975), as well as the first two "Mission Impossible" films. He is also noted as an uncredited script doctor who has worked in such a capacity for "The Godfather" and other notable movies. - Greg Dulli
Greg Dulli (born May 11 1965) is an American singer and instrumentalist. Dulli was born and brought up in a working-class suburb of Hamilton, Ohio. He is of German (father) and Irish (mother) descent. He first came to public attention in Cincinnati in the late 1980s with The Afghan Whigs, when Dulli joined D.C. transplant bassist John Curley and Louisville, Kentucky, guitarist Rick McCollum. The band was comic punk rock. - Michael Wincott
Michael Anthony Claudio Wincott (born January 21, 1958 or 1959) is a Canadian actor, known for appearing in several supporting roles in Hollywood films. He is highly recognized for his rough, gravelly voice. Wincott was born in Scarborough, Ontario. His father, an English immigrant from Blackpool, England, worked as a constructor, welder and salesman, and his mother was an Italian immigrant from Milan; the two met in England and immigrated to Canada in 1952. - Jeff Nathanson
Jeff Nathanson is an American film writer, film producer, and director. He is best known for his work on the "Rush Hour" series, "Catch Me if You Can", "The Terminal", and "The Last Shot", and had also written a rejected draft for the upcoming "Indiana Jones 4" film. Currently, he is currently developing a Milli Vanilli biopic for Universal Pictures and a screenplay based on Michael Panzarella, the youngest ever broker on Wall Street. - Johnathan Rice
Johnathan Rice is a singer/songwriter. His first album "Trouble Is Real" was released on April 26, 2005. Born in Alexandria, Virginia on 27 May 1983, he is a graduate of Gonzaga College High School in Washington, DC. He also played Roy Orbison in the 2005 Johnny Cash biopic "Walk the Line". He is currently signed to Warner Bros. Records. - Peter Cincotti
Peter Cincotti (b. July 11, 1983 in New York City) is a rock/pop singer, songwritter, and pianist. He attended the Horace Mann School in Riverdale, a section of The Bronx, and Columbia College in New York City. Cincotti started playing a toy piano at the age of three. While in high school, he regularly performed at clubs throughout Manhattan, participated in "Our Sinatra" and performed at the White House. - Melinda Dillon
Melinda Rose Dillon (born October 13, 1939 in Hope, Arkansas) is an American actress. Though best known for her supporting performances in films, Dillon got her start as an improvisational comedian and stage actress. Her first major role was as Honey in the original 1962 Broadway production of Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf", for which she was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress (Dramatic) Tony Award. - Dolores Fuller
Dolores Fuller (born 1923) is best known as the one-time girlfriend of the low-budget film director Edward D. Wood, Jr. She played the protagonist's girlfriend in "Glen or Glenda" and a filing clerk in "Bride of the Monster". According to Fuller, the female lead in the latter film was written for Fuller but Wood gave it to Loretta King instead when she offered to help "finance" the movie. King denies the allegation to this day. - Larry Parks
Larry Parks (13 December 1914, Olathe, Kansas - 13 April 1975, Studio City, California), was an American stage and movie actor. His career was virtually ended when he admitted to having once been a member of a Communist party cell, an admission that led to his blacklisting by all Hollywood studios. Parks grew up in Joliet, Illinois, and graduated from Joliet Township High School in 1932. He attended the University of Illinois as a pre-med student, … - John Benjamin Hickey
John Benjamin Hickey (born June 25, 1963) is an American actor with a career in stage, film and television. On Broadway, he originated the role of Arthur in Terrence McNally's Tony Award-winning play "Love! Valour! Compassion!" in 1995, a role he would recreate for the 1997 film version. He played Clifford Bradshaw in the 1998 revival of Cabaret, which won the Tony for Best Revival of a Musical, … - Vivian Liberto
Vivian Liberto was the first wife of country singer Johnny Cash. Liberto met Johnny Cash in 1950 at a roller skating rink in San Antonio, Texas three weeks before the Air Force deployed him to Germany. At the time, she was still a senior at Providence High School, an all-girl Catholic school in San Antonio. During Cash's military tour overseas, the couple wrote each other over 10,000 pages of love letters. On July 3, 1954, Cash was discharged from the Air Force. - Sylvia Kristel
Sylvia Kristel (September 28, 1952 in Utrecht), pronounced "kri-STELL", is a Dutch actress, model and singer. She is the daughter of a Skeet shooting champion. Her parents ran a hotel in Utrecht. In her new autobiography "Nue" she claims to have been sexually abused by an elderly guest at the age of nine, an event which she still refuses to discuss in detail. - Keeley Hawes
Keeley Hawes (born 1 January 1977 in London) is an English actress, best known for her role as Zoe Reynolds in the BBC One drama series "Spooks" (2002-2004). She has also appeared in a number of other television dramas, including Dennis Potter's "Karaoke" (BBC One / Channel 4, 1995), and "Othello" (ITV, 2001). - Conrad Brooks
Conrad Brooks (born Conrad Biedrzycki on January 3, 1931 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American actor. He moved to Hollywood, California in the early 1950s to pursue a career in acting. He got his start in movies appearing in Ed Wood films such as "Plan 9 from Outer Space", "Glen or Glenda", and "Jail Bait". He took a break from acting during the 1960s and 1970s but due to the ongoing interest in the films of Ed Wood, … - Oscar Isaac
Oscar Isaac (born c.1980) is an American actor. Isaac was born in Guatemala to a Cuban father and a Guatemalan mother. He is also of French, Israeli, and other European descent. He has described his evangelical upbringing as "very Christian" and was raised in Miami. In Miami, he played lead guitar and sang vocals for his band "The Blinking Underdogs." A 2005 graduate of the Juilliard School, … - Kate Magowan
Kate Magowan is a British actress. She made her stage debut in a production of Caryl Churchill's "Top Girls" and has gone on to work consistently in film, theatre, television and radio. Her film credits include leading roles in "Is Harry on the Boat?", Michael Winterbottom's "24 Hour Party People",Sonya in Michael Dowse's fictional biopic "It's All Gone Pete Tong" and as Lady Una in the forthcoming "Stardust". - Lowell Fulson
Lowell Fulson was a big-voiced blues guitarist in the West Coast tradition. He was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He also recorded for business reasons as Lowell Fullsom and Lowell Fulsom. At the age of eighteen, Fulson joined Alger "Texas" Alexander but later moved to California, forming a band which soon included a young Ray Charles and tenor saxophone great Stanley Turrentine. He recorded for Swing Time in the 1940s, … - Jamia Simone Nash
Jamia Simone Nash (born August 21, 1996 in Norfolk, Virginia) is an American child singer and actress. She has sometimes been billed as Jamia. Nash began singing at the age of two; her first national appearance was on "Showtime at the Apollo" in 2002, where she sang the Alicia Keys song "Fallin'". She performed at the 2003 Essence Awards, singing Mary J. Blige's "Who's Lovin You". - Michael McCusker
Michael McCusker (Mike McCusker) is the Academy Award-nominated American film editor of the Johnny Cash biopic, "Walk the Line" and winner of the prestigious ACE Eddie Award (American Cinema Editors) for Best Edited Feature Film (Comedy or Musical). Mike McCusker was mentored by Academy Award-winning film editor, David Brenner. Mike McCusker is married to film producer Deirdre Morrison, whom he met while he was additional editor on the film, … - Julie Bishop
Julie Bishop (August 30, 1914 - August 30, 2001) was an American film and television actress. She appeared in over 80 films between 1923 and 1957. Bishop was born Jacqueline Wells and used her birth name professionally through 1941. She also appeared on stage (and in one film) as Diane Duval. She settled on the name by which she is best remembered when offered a contract by Warner Bros. on the condition that she change her name, … - Michael Horowitz
Michael Horowitz is an American author and archivist in San Francisco. He is the husband of Cynthia Palmer and the father of Winona Ryder. A former close associate of Timothy Leary, he is responsible With his wife for the creation of the world's largest library of drug literature, the Fitz Hugh Ludlow Memorial Library. Horowitz and actor Leonardo di Caprio are planning a biopic about Leary to be written by Craig Lucas. - Henry Bromell
Henry Bromell (born 1947) is an American author, screenwriter, and director. Bromell graduated from Amherst College in 1970. He won the Houghton Mifflin Literary Award for his first novel, "The Slightest Distance". His collection of short stories, "I Know Your Heart, Marco Polo", was published by Knopf. Bromell's work has appeared in two O. Henry Award collections. He has written and produced for many television series, including "Chicago Hope", … - John Altman
John Altman (born 2 March 1952) is an English actor best known for playing "Nasty" Nick Cotton in the popular BBC soap opera "EastEnders". - Rachel York
Rachel York (born Rachel Lemanski on August 7, 1971 in Orlando, Florida) is an American actress and singer. She is best known for her roles in "City of Angels", "The Scarlet Pimpernel", "Les Miserables", "Victor/Victoria", "Kiss Me, Kate", "Sly Fox", and "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels". Rachel also has many film and television credits, including her portrayal as Lucille Ball in the CBS biopic "Lucy". - George Weiss
George Weiss (April 9, 1921) is an American film producer who specialized in Z-Movies during the 1950s. Some the movies he made were Test Tube Babies and Racket Girls. He is also the film producer to give Ed Wood Jr. his start by financing the exploitation film Glen or Glenda which rumor has it, was originally conceived as a fictionalized story of the infamous sexual reassignment surgery had by Christine Jorgensen a few months earlier, … - Aidan McArdle
Aidan McArdle is an Irish actor. McArdle was born in Dublin. He studied for an Arts degree at University College Dublin before going on to study at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London, England. As of 2005 his most significant roles have been in television biopics. These roles include Dudley Moore in the 2004 television movie "Not Only But Always", Albert Einstein in the 2005 biography "E=mc²", … - George Kuchar
George Kuchar (born 31 August 1942, New York City) is an American film director, known for his "low-fi" aesthetic, playful use of no-talent actors, plotless plots, and themeless themes. Trained as a commercial artist in a vocational high school, the School of Industrial Art, he drew weather maps for a local news show. - Meredith Henderson
Meredith Henderson (born November 24, 1983 in Ottawa, Ontario) is a Canadian actress best known for playing the title role in "The Adventures of Shirley Holmes". She also had a leading role as wheelchair-using Cleo Bellows in the 2001 children's television series "MythQuest" opposite Christopher Jacot. In 2005, she appeared in "Shania: A Life in Eight Albums", a biopic of country star Shania Twain, in which she played the lead role. - Tom Burlinson
Tom Burlinson (born on February 14 1956 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada), is an actor and singer working in Australia, and has sung in concerts on stage as "Frank Sinatra". He appeared as Jim Craig ("The Man") in both the 1982 Australian movie <br>"The Man from Snowy River", and its 1988 sequel "The Man from Snowy River II", which has the United States title of "Return to Snowy River" and the British title of "The Untamed". - Don Lafontaine
Don LaFontaine (born August 26, 1940 in Duluth, Minnesota), also known as That Announcer Guy, is a voice actor famous for recording over 5,000 movie trailers, television commercials, network promotions, and video game trailers. His signature voice is both ominous and sonorous. He is often nicknamed "The King of Movie Trailers", "Mr. Voice," "Thunder Throat" or "The Voice of God", and credited with helping to create the modern movie trailer. - The Amazing Criswell
Jeron Criswell King born Jeron Criswell Konig, and known by his stage-name The Amazing Criswell, was an American psychic who was famous for his wildly inaccurate predictions. In person, he went by Charles Criswell King, and was sometimes credited as Jeron King Criswell. Criswell said that he had worked as a radio announcer and news broadcaster early in his life. - Anne Alvaro
Anne Alvaro is a French actress whose work spans from the early 1970s through 2006. She is best known for her role as Eleonore in the 1983 biopic "Danton". She also appeared in "The Taste of Others", for which she won a César Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role in 2001. - Maria Perschy
Maria Perschy (23 September 1938 - 3 December 2004) was born in Eisenstadt, Burgenland, Austria and moved to Vienna at the age of 17 to study acting. After completing her education, she moved to Germany for more training, leading to a career which would eventually take her - by way of France, Italy, and Great Britain - to Hollywood. Perschy played in a number of American films, …
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