- Michael Jackson
Michael Joseph Jackson (born August 29, 1958), commonly known as MJ as well as the "King of Pop", is an American musician, entertainer, and global icon whose successful career and controversial personal life have been a part of pop culture for almost 40 years. Michael Jackson is widely regarded as one of the greatest entertainers and most popular recording artists in history, displaying complicated physical techniques, … - Uma Thurman
Uma Karuna Thurman (born April 29 1970) is an American film actress. She performs predominantly in leading roles in a variety of films, ranging from romantic comedies and dramas to science fiction and action thrillers. She is best known for her films directed by Quentin Tarantino. Her most popular films include "Dangerous Liaisons" (1988), "Pulp Fiction" (1994), "Gattaca" (1997) and the two "Kill Bill" movies (2003–04). - Quincy Jones
Quincy Delightt Jones Jr. (born March 14, 1933) is an American music impresario, conductor, record producer, musical arranger, film composer and trumpeter. During five decades in the entertainment industry, Jones has earned more than 70 Grammy Award nominations, more than 25 Grammy Awards, and a Grammy Legend Award in 1991. He is best known as the producer of two of the top-selling records of all time: the album "Thriller", by pop icon Michael Jackson, … - Lee Child
Lee Child (born 1954, Coventry, England) is a British thriller writer currently living in New York City. His first novel, "Killing Floor", won the Anthony Award for Best First Novel. Each of Child's novels follows the adventures of a former American Military Policeman named Jack Reacher who is wandering the United States. - Robert Ludlum
Robert Ludlum was an American author of 29 thriller novels. There are more than 210 million copies of his books in print, and translated into 32 languages. Ludlum also published books under the pseudonyms Jonathan Ryder and Michael Shepherd. Some of Ludlum's novels have been made into films and mini-series, including "The Osterman Weekend", "The Holcroft Covenant", "The Apocalypse Watch", "The Bourne Identity", … - Cillian Murphy
Cillian Murphy (born May 25, 1976) is an Irish actor noted for his intense, risky performances in diverse roles, as well as his distinctive blue eyes. He got his start on stage in 1996 and first appeared onscreen in 1997, acting in a number of Irish and British film and stage productions throughout the late 1990s and early 2000s, but first came to international attention in 2003 as the hero in the post-apocalyptic movie "28 Days Later". - Louis Leterrier
Louis Leterrier (born June 17, 1973 in Paris, France) is a Hollywood film director whose most notable films include "The Transporter" and "Transporter 2", starring Jason Statham, as well as "Danny the Dog", a thriller starring Jet Li and Morgan Freeman. He's a friend of Luc Besson. In July 2006, Marvel Studios announced that Louis Leterrier will direct the new "The Incredible Hulk" film. - Ken Follett
Ken Follett (born June 5, 1949) is a British author of thrillers and historical novels. - John Landis
John David Landis (born August 3, 1950) is an American movie actor, director, writer, and producer. Although he is mostly known for his influential comedies, Landis has also done many horror related projects. - Doug Liman
Doug Liman (born 1965) is an American film director and producer. Liman began making short films while still in junior high school and studied at International Center of Photography in New York City. While attending Brown University, he helped to co-found the student-run cable television station and served as its first station manager. Liman attended the graduate program at University of Southern California, where he was tapped to helm his first project in 1993, … - Meat Loaf
Michael Lee Aday (born), better known as Meat Loaf, is an American rock singer and actor of stage and screen. He is noted for his albums "Bat Out Of Hell I, II, and III" and several famous songs from movies. The Neverland Express is the name of the band he fronts, as its lead singer. In 2001, he changed his first name to Michael. Despite setbacks (including bankruptcy, on more than one occasion), … - James Wan
James Wan (born 1977) is a film director from Perth, Australia of Chinese Ethnicity. He was born in Kuching, Malaysia, but grew up in Perth. Wan is best known for the 2004 horror/thriller "Saw" which he made with Leigh Whannell, whom he met while in film school. Before that he made his first feature film "Stygian" with Shannon Young that won Best Guerilla Film at the Melbourne Underground Film Festival in 2000. - David Ayer
David Ayer is an American screenwriter, respected for his insight into the dual worlds of L.A. street life and submarines, both of which he knows very well. Ayer was born in 1968 in Champaign, Illinois where he was kicked out of his house by his parents as a teenager. Ayer then lived with his cousin in L.A. His experiences in South Central Los Angeles is the inspiration for many of Ayer's films. Ayer wrote the screenplay for crime drama "Dark Blue", … - Alex Proyas
Alex Proyas (born September 23 1963) is an Australian film director, writer, and producer. He was born to Greek parents in Egypt but moved to Sydney when he was 3 years of age. The director of numerous music videos and commercials frequently works with production designer Patrick Tatopoulos. His first movie directorial project was a movie adaptation of the comic book "The Crow" starring Brandon Lee. Tragically, Lee was killed in an accident during filming, … - Karin Slaughter
Karin Slaughter, is a highly praised US author who debuted with her novel "Blindsighted" in 2001. It became an international success and made the Dagger Award shortlist for "Best Thriller Debut" of 2001. Published in 23 countries, she is both a New York Times and a number one London Times bestseller. Karin Slaughter was born in Georgia in 1971 and now resides in the state's capital, Atlanta. - Sandra Brown
Sandra Brown, (born March 12, 1948 in Waco, Texas) is an American bestselling author of romantic novels and thriller suspense novels. Brown has also published works under the pen names of Rachel Ryan, Laura Jordan, Erin St. Claire and her married name Sandra Brown. - John Lee
John Lee is an American writer of thrillers, many of them set in Second World War settings, as well as non-fiction books. He is also a lecturer in journalism, distinguished by his conscious decision not to take up a doctorate despite having made all the preparations for it. He is married to Barbara Moore and regularly commutes between Memphis, Tennessee and Texas. - Dina Meyer
Dina Meyer (born December 22, 1968) is an American film and television actress, perhaps best known for her roles in "Starship Troopers" and the "Saw" films. - Daniel Silva
Daniel Silva (born 1960) is an American author of thriller/espionage novels. - Nicci French
Nicci French is the pseudonym of London journalists, Nicci Gerrard and Sean French, who write psychological thrillers together. They were married in 1990 and since 1999 they live in a village in Suffolk a little over 100 kilometers to the north of London together with the two children from Nicci's first marriage, the two daughters they had together, and a couple of cats. - Vince Flynn
Vince Flynn is a best-selling American author of political thriller novels. He lives with his family in the Twin Cities, where he is working on a series of political thriller novels. He also serves as a story consultant for the "24" television series. - J.A. Konrath
Joseph Andrew Konrath (born 1970, in Skokie, Ill.) is a fiction writer working in the mystery, thriller, and horror genres. He writes as J.A. Konrath. - Stephen Coonts
Stephen Coonts (born July 19, 1946) is an American thriller and suspense novelist. Coonts grew up in Buckhannon, West Virginia, a small coal-mining town and earned an A.B degree in political science at West Virginia University in 1968. He entered the Navy the following year and flew an A-6 Intruder medium attack plane during the Vietnam War, where he served on two combat cruises aboard the USS "Enterprise" (CVN-65). After being honorably discharged from duty in 1977, … - Elizabeth Peters
Elizabeth Peters (a pen-name of Barbara Mertz, born 29 September 1927 in Canton, Illinois, USA) has written many books in the mystery genre, featuring strong female protagonists and many archaeological connections. The name Elizabeth Peters was created for her two children, Elizabeth and Peter. Her Amelia Peabody series, involving the exploits of an entire family of Egyptologists in the early 1900s, is her most popular work. - James Siegel
James Siegel is a thriller novelist and Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of BBDO New York. He holds a B.A. from the York College 1977, City University of New York, and lives in Long Island. He is an advertising executive in New York City, with writing credits from the "Yo, Yao" ad that aired during Super Bowl XXXVII. He is also responsible for advertisements for Eliot Spitzer's gubernatorial campaign in New York. - Colin Forbes
Colin Forbes was the principal pseudonym of British novelist Raymond Harold Sawkins (born in Hampstead, London on 14 July 1923, died on 23 August 2006). Sawkins wrote over 40 books, mostly as Colin Forbes. He was most famous for his long-running series of thriller novels in which the principal character is Tweed, Deputy Director of the Secret Intelligence Service. - Wendy Williams
Wendy Williams is a British actress. She is best known for her work on television, with credits including: "Danger Man", "Z Cars", "The Regiment", "The Pallisers", "The Carnforth Practice", "Thriller", "Doctor Who" (in the serial "The Ark in Space"), "Survivors", "Poldark", "Tenko" and "The Darling Buds of May". - John Saul
John Saul (born February 25, 1942) is an author of thriller novels. John was born in Pasadena, grew up in Whittier, California, and graduated from Whittier High School in 1959. He went on to several colleges, variously majoring in anthropology, liberal arts and theater, but never obtained a degree. After leaving college, he decided that he wanted to become a writer, and spent fifteen years working in various jobs while trying to improve his craft. - Jack Finney
Jack Finney was an American author. His best-known works are science fiction and thrillers. Finney was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was given the name John Finney. After his father died when he was three years old, he was renamed Walter Braden Finney in honor of his father, but continued to be known as "Jack" throughout his life. He attended Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois. He married Marguerite Guest and they had two children, Kenneth and Marguerite. - Cécile de France
Cécile de France (born July 17, 1975, Namur, Belgium) is a Belgian actress. She left Belgium at the age of 17 to go to Paris where she studied "l'art dramatique" for two years at Jean Paul Denizon while preparing the ENSATT ("École Nationale Supérieure des Arts et Techniques du Théâtre"), the "National Superior School of Arts and Techniques of Theatre". - Eric van Lustbader
Eric Van Lustbader (1946 -) is a writer of fantasy and thriller novels. He is a graduate of Columbia College, with a degree in Sociology, and is a second-level Reiki master. - Alistair MacLean
Alistair Stuart MacLean (April 28, 1922 - February 2, 1987) was a Scottish novelist who wrote successful thrillers or adventure stories, the best known of which are perhaps "The Guns of Navarone" and "Where Eagles Dare". He also used the pseudonym Ian Stuart. - Alan Rudolph
Alan Rudolph is an American film director and screenwriter. Rudolph is the son of Oscar Rudolph (1911-1991), a television director and actor. He was a protégé of Robert Altman, and worked as an assistant director on Altman's film of Raymond Chandler's "The Long Goodbye". Rudolph's own films tend to focus on isolated or eccentric characters and their relationships, and are frequently ensemble pieces including prominent elements of romanticism and fantasy. - Michael White
Michael White is a British writer based in Perth, Australia. He has been a science editor of British "GQ", a columnist for the "Sunday Express" in London and, 'in a previous incarnation', he was a member of the band the Thompson Twins (1982). Between 1984 and 1991 he was a science lecturer at d'Overbroeck's College in Oxford before becoming a full-time writer. He is the author of twenty-five books: these include the international best-sellers, … - Kyle Mills
Kyle Mills (born 1966) is an American writer of thriller novels including "Rising Phoenix", "Fade", and "The Second Horseman". Several of his books ("Rising Phoenix", "Storming Heaven", "Sphere of Influence", and "Free Fall") include a character "Mark Beamon", an FBI special agent. Mills lives in Jackson Hole, Wyoming with his wife and they are both avid rock climbers. - Donna Mills
Donna Mills (born Donna Jean Miller on December 11 1940 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American actress who began her career onstage in the late 1950s, but who first gained prominence as ex-nun Laura Donnelly on the soap opera "Love is a Many Splendored Thing" in the 1960s, before playing Michele Lee's conniving sister-in-law Abby Fairgate Cunningham Ewing Sumner on "Knots Landing" for almost a decade in the 1980s. - Wesley Strick
"Wesley Strick" is an American screenwriter. He specializes in thrillers. He has written such films as the comic-horror hit "Arachnophobia", the Martin Scorsese remake of "Cape Fear" and the videogame adaptation "Doom". Strick is a graduate of U.C. Berkeley, where he studied creative writing with the poet Thom Gunn. Prior to his Hollywood career, he worked as a rock journalist in New York City, contributing features and reviews to Circus, … - Peter Abrahams
Peter Abrahams is an American writer of crime thrillers. His works include "Oblivion", "The Tutor", "The Fury of Rachel Monette", "Hard Rain", "The Fan", "Crying Wolf", "Last of the Dixie Heroes", "Down the Rabbit Hole", and "Lights Out", the last of which was nominated for an Edgar Award for best novel. His literary influences are Vladimir Nabokov, Graham Greene and Ross Macdonald. - Ingrid Noll
Ingrid Noll is a German thriller writer. She has written several novels, including "Head Counter" and "Die Apothekerin", as well as one television drama, "Bommels Billigflüge". Several of her novels have been subsequently adapted as films, including "Die Apothekerin", which was released in the United States as "The Pharmacist" and was nominated for the German Film Award in Gold for outstanding feature film. - Eric O'Neill
Eric M. O'Neill (born 1973) is a former American FBI operative. He worked as an Investigative Specialist, of the Special Surveillance Group (SSG), and played a role in the arrest and life imprisonment conviction of FBI agent Robert Hanssen for spying on behalf of the Soviet Union and Russia. O'Neill graduated from Gonzaga College High School in Washington, D.C. in 1991, and earned dual degrees in political science and psychology from Auburn University in 1995.
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