- Sandra Bullock
Sandra Annette Bullock (born July 26, 1964) is an American film actress. She came to fame in the 1990s, after roles in successful films like "Speed" and "While You Were Sleeping", and has since established a career as a well-known Hollywood leading actress, with the box office comedy hit "Miss Congeniality" and one of her most recent film roles, in 2004's "Crash", receiving critical acclaim.
- Darby Crash
Darby Crash (born Jan Paul Beahm (September 26, 1958 – December 7, 1980) was an American punk rock musician who co-founded (with long time friend, Pat Smear) The Germs.
- Matt Dillon
Matthew Raymond "Matt" Dillon (born February 18, 1964) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor. He began acting in the late 1970s, gained fame as a teen idol during the 1980s, and developed a successful career as an adult actor in the decades following, culminating in an Oscar nomination for his performance in the film "Crash".
- Terrence Howard
Terrence Dashon Howard (born March 11, 1969) is an Academy Award-nominated American film and stage actor. Having appeared in film and on television since the late 1980s, Howard had his first major role in the 1995 film "Mr. Holland's Opus", which subsequently led to a number of roles in films and high visibility among African-American audiences. Howard broke into the mainstream with a succession of well-reviewed television and film roles between 2004 and 2006, …
- Ryan Phillippe
Ryan Phillippe (born Matthew Ryan Phillippe on September 10, 1974) is an American actor. After appearing on the soap opera "One Life to Live", he came to fame in the late 1990s, after starring in a string of teen-oriented films, including "I Know What You Did Last Summer", "Cruel Intentions", and "54".
- J. G. Ballard
James Graham Ballard (born November 15, 1930 in Shanghai) is a British writer. He was a prominent member of the New Wave in science fiction. His best known books are the controversial "Crash", and the autobiographical novel "Empire of the Sun", both of which have been adapted to film. The adjective "Ballardian", defined as "resembling or suggestive of the conditions described in JG Ballard's novels and stories, especially dystopian modernity, …
- Tony Danza
Tony Danza (born Anthony Salvatore Iadanza April 21, 1951 in Brooklyn, New York), is an American actor best known for starring in two popular TV series, "Taxi" and "Who's the Boss?", as well as appearing in the Academy Award-winning motion picture, "Crash". He also hosted his own talk show, "The Tony Danza Show".
- Seann William Scott
Seann William Scott (born October 3, 1976) is an American actor perhaps best known for portraying Steve Stifler in the "American Pie" series of teen films. He also played Bo Duke in the film adaptation of "The Dukes of Hazzard".
- William Fichtner
William Edward "Bill" Fichtner (born November 27, 1956 in East Meadow, New York) is an American actor. He is often credited as "William Fichtner" and occasionally as "Bill Fichtner". After graduating from State University of New York at Brockport with a Bachelor of Arts degree in criminal justice in 1978, Fichtner decided to study at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York.
- Elias Koteas
Elias Koteas was born on March 11, 1961, in Montreal, Canada. Both his parents are of Greek descent. Elias attended Vanier College in Montreal before leaving to attend the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City in 1981, of which he is a graduate. He also attended the Actors Studio in New York City, where he studied acting under Ellen Burstyn and Peter Masterson . His film debut was in ... show all
- Shaun Toub
Shaun Toub is a film and television actor. He was raised in Manchester, England. At the age of 14, he moved to Switzerland and after a two year stay, he crossed the Atlantic to Nashua, New Hampshire to finish his last year of high school. His high school yearbook notes: "The Funniest guy in school and the most likely to succeed in the entertainment world." After two years of college in Massachusetts, Shaun transferred to USC.
- Cathy Schulman
Cathy Schulman is an American film producer. She has won a 2006 Academy Award, for producing "Crash".
- Marina Sirtis
Marina Sirtis (born March 29 1955) is a British actress who is most noted for playing the half-human half-Betazoid Counselor Deanna Troi on the television and film series "Star Trek: The Next Generation". She also provided the voice of Demona in the animated series, "Gargoyles". She is also noted for appearing in the Oscar winning movie "Crash" as well as a semi regular on "Girlfriends".
- Robert Moresco
Robert "Bobby" Moresco is a Hollywood screenwriter. His credits include "10th & Wolf" and "Crash", the latter of which he won an Academy Award for. He also was a producer of "Crash" and has acted in three films. He wrote scripts for the television series "EZ Streets", "Millennium" and "The Black Donnellys".
- Michael Peña
Michael Anthony Peña is an American actor. Peña, a Mexican American, was born in Chicago, Illinois, where his father worked at a button factory and his mother was an assistant to a social worker, although both of Peña's parents were originally farmers. Peña attended Marist High School in Chicago. Though Peña has been a regular in independent productions since 1994, his breakthrough performances came in 2004 in two Best Picture Oscar-winning Paul Haggis penned films, …
- Trevor Brown
Though presently living in Japan, Trevor Brown is an English artist from London whose work explores paraphilias, such as pedophilia, BDSM, and other fetish themes. Trevor Brown's art has been featured in Adam Parfrey's Apocalypse Culture II, and in Jim Goad's ANSWER Me! zine, as well as a variety of other publications. His work has been featured as cover art for a number of bands, including Coil, Deicide, Whitehouse, GG Allin, John Zorn, Kayo Dot, Venetian Snares, …
- Hughes Winborne
Hughes Winborne is a Hollywood Film editor. He has edited twenty films, including Crash, for which he won an Oscar for film editing in the 78th Academy Awards. He also worked on Sling Blade and the current movie Pursuit of Happyness
- Bahar Soomekh
Bahar Soomekh born March 30, 1975) is an Iranian-born Jewish American Screen Actors Guild Award-winning actress. She began acting in the early 2000s, and is perhaps best known for her limited, supporting, and leading roles in the films "Crash" (2004), "Syriana" (2005), "Mission: Impossible III" (2006), and "Saw III" (2006).
- Kathleen York
Kathleen York (aka Bird York) is an Academy Award-nominated artist singer-songwriter and actor. After spending years in the indie circuit, York achieved global recognition with her song "In the Deep", which appears on her album "Wicked Little High" and was written for the 2004 film "Crash". "In the Deep" debuted at #64 on the Billboard chart and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Song.
- Colin Richardson
Colin Richardson is a British record producer, mixer and recording engineer.
- Chloe
Chloe Skipp. is an Australian pop singer-songwriter born in Melbourne. Chloe made her debut in 2004 on Australian Idol, she made it into the top thirty but failed to get through. Her debut song "Stars" was released in Australia on September 24, 2004 through Sony BMG but did not get much success on the charts only peaking at number sixty-six on the ARIA singles chart. In 2005 Chloe released a cover of The Primitives song "Crash", …
- John Matos
Crash (b. John Matos, Bronx, New York, Oct. 11, 1961) is a famous graffiti artist. As early as 13, John Matos was spray painting New York City trains, the full image art as opposed to simpler tagging soon transferred to silk screened canvas. He was first noticed through his murals on subway cars and dilapidated buildings, he is now regarded as a pioneer of the Graffiti art movement.
- Beverly Todd
Beverly Todd (born July 11, 1946, in Chicago, Illinois, USA) is an American actress, producer and writer. Todd gained major work during the 1970s, appearing in notable film "The Lost Man" (1969), "They Call Me MISTER Tibbs!" (1970), "Brother John" (1971) and "A Piece of the Action" (1977). This eventually led to other distinguished and more important work. Her more memorable roles came in "Lean on Me" and the film "Crash".
- David Dodd
David LeFevre Dodd was an American educator, financial analyst, author, economist, professional investor, and in his student years, a protégé of, and as a postgraduate, close colleague of Benjamin Graham at Columbia University. The Wall Street Crash of 1929 (Black Thursday) almost wiped out Graham, who had started teaching the year before at his alma mater, Columbia. The Crash inspired Graham to search for a more conservative, safer way to invest.
- Robert Lantos
Robert Lantos is a film producer
- Kevin Spencer
Kevin Spencer is a Canadian singer-songwriter born December 22, 1978. He began his career in music as a member of the Hamilton, Ontario pop band The Misunderstood as 1996 CFNY New Music Search Finalists. In 1997, after that band broke up, Spencer moved to Vancouver, …
- Chris Pierce
Chris Pierce is a renowned soul singer and songwriter born in Pasadena, California. He is most noted for his song "Are You Beautiful" which was featured on the soundtrack for the Oscar award winning movie "Crash". He currently resides in Los Angeles, California and spends a significant amount of time touring around the world and spreading positivity through his music. His most recent album entitled "Walking on the Earth" is available on his website.
- Bruce Kirby
Bruce Kirby (born Bruno Giovanni Quidaciolu on April 24, 1928) is an American character actor. Though he has been a working actor since the 1950s, Kirby is most familiar to "Columbo" fans as the gullible Sergeant Kramer. A notable recent appearance was as Pop Ryan, father of Officer John Ryan (played by Matt Dillon) in the 2004 film "Crash".
- Sandy Mölling
Sandy Mölling, known professionally as Sandy, is a German pop singer, songwriter, dancer and occasional presenter and actress. Mölling debuted in 2000 as a member of the all-female "Popstars" quintet No Angels, whose 2001 debut album "Elle'ments" and the single "Daylight in Your Eyes" propelled them to stardom. The group eventually became a quartet, emerging as the most successful German girl band to date with several hit singles, …
- Erica Sakurazawa
is a female Japanese manga author whose works are mostly published in josei magazines. She has some works published in the adult manga magazine "Manga Burikko".
- Harry Golden
Harry Lewis Golden ("né" Harry Goldhirsch was born in the shtetl Mikulintsy, Ukraine, then part of Austria-Hungary. He became a writer and newspaper publisher in Charlotte, North Carolina. In 1904 his father, Leib Goldhirsch, emigrated to Winnipeg, only to move the family to New York City the next year. Harry became a stockbroker but lost his job in the 1929 crash. Convicted of mail fraud, Golden served five years in a Federal prison at Atlanta, …
- Oli Frey
Oli Frey (real name Oliver Frey) worked as a magazine illustrator and comic-strip artist in the 1970s and 1980s. Born in Switzerland in 1948, his family moved to Britain when he was young, then moved back to Switzerland a few years later. As a child he loved "The Eagle" comic, and as an adult was able to fulfil his childhood dream by working on the revived version, drawing the strip "Dan Dare".
- James Ferman
James Ferman was an American television and theatre director. He was also director of the British Board of Film Classification from 1975 to 1999. Before working at the BBFC Ferman worked on TV series such as "Emergency Ward 10" and many documentaries. He also wrote the libretto for the musical "Zuleika".
- Denise Cronenberg
Denise Cronenberg is a costume designer born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She is the sister of the famous Canadian film director David Cronenberg and the mother of Aaron Woodley, also a filmmaker.
- John Fekner
John Fekner (b. October 6th, 1950 NYC), An influential artist in both the street art movement and motion graphic design, anonymously known in the 70s for hundreds of environmental and conceptual works consisting of words, symbols, dates and icons spray painted throughout the five boroughs of New York. Although Fekner’s work has at times been extremely public, media-savvy and technology-driven; he has maintained a low profile and resolute vision throughout his thirty-year career.
- Neil Sutton
Neil Sutton is a long term associate member of the veteran British synthpop group The Human League. He is best known as the on stage and studio keyboard player, but also has written various lyrics and composed instrumental tracks for the band and has numerous Human League album credits. His association with the Human League started in 1986, where he was employed as a session musician for the Crash Tour of late 1986.
- Steuart Campbell
Steuart Campbell (born 16 April 1937) is an Edinburgh-based sceptic and investigative science writer born in Birmingham. Campbell trained as an architect and worked as one until the mid-1970s. He then gained a degree in mathematics and science from the Open University (BA, 1983). He has written books on science and pseudoscience-related matters: * "The Loch Ness Monster: The Evidence". Debunking belief in the Loch Ness Monster by analysis of all the main evidence, …
- Mel Croucher
Mel Croucher is a British businessman and journalist. Originally an architect, he moved into computers and set up the UK's first software company Automata UK. This label published several games for the early home computer market including three award-winners - "Pimania", "Groucho" (aka "My Name Is Uncle Groucho, You Win A Fat Cigar"), and the groundbreaking "multi-media" title "Deus Ex Machina".
- Stephen Crow
Stephen Crow (also known as Stephen J. Crow, Steve Crow, and Steve J. Crow) is a game programmer who worked in the 1980s on the ZX Spectrum platform. He then programmed for companies such as Hewson Consultants and Bubble Bus Software. Even if he wasn't in himself, he has worked with members of the Graftgold team, and has been elected "Best Programmer Of The Year" in 1986 by the readers of CRASH.
- Raffaele Cecco
Raffaele Cecco, born 10th May 1967, is a British video games developer who has created numerous video games since 1984, including "Cybernoid", "Exolon". He grew up in Tottenham in North London. Due to the popularity of Cecco’s video games he was asked to write a monthly diary for CRASH magazine, the first installment being 15th of April 1988. The diary documented the development of "Stormlord".