Kathryn Felicia Day (born June 28, 1979) is an American actress and writer. She played the character "Vi" on the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and acted in movies such as Bring It On Again and June, as well as the Internet musical, Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog. She is the star, writer, and producer of the original web series The Guild, a show loosely based on her life as a gamer. She also wrote and starred in the Dragon Age web series Dragon Age: Redemption. Day was a member of the board of directors of the International Academy of Web Television beginning December 2009 until the end of July 2012
Friday, 28 June 2013
Thursday, 27 June 2013
June 27
Tobey Maguire
Tobey Maguire
Tobias Vincent "Tobey" Maguire (born June 27, 1975) is an American actor and producer. He began his career in the late 1980s. While perhaps best known for his role as Peter Parker/Spider-Man in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man film trilogy (2002–2007), he has also appeared in films such as Pleasantville (1998), Ride with the Devil (1999), The Cider House Rules (1999), Wonder Boys (2000), Seabiscuit (2003), The Good German (2006), Tropic Thunder (2008), and Brothers (2009). He has been nominated for Screen Actors Guild and Golden Globe Awards and received two Saturn Awards, including one for Best Actor.
Maguire solidified his stardom in 2003 with a leading role as the jockey John M. "Red" Pollard in the acclaimed film Seabiscuit, about the famous racehorse Seabiscuit. In 2006, Maguire starred in his first villainous role as Corporal Patrick Tully opposite George Clooney and Cate Blanchett in Steven Soderbergh's The Good German, based on the Joseph Kanon novel of the same name.
He is also a producer whose production credits include 25th Hour (2002), Whatever We Do (2003), and Seabiscuit (2003), for which he served as executive producer.
In 2009, he starred alongside Jake Gyllenhaal and Natalie Portman in the Jim Sheridan-directed war drama Brothers as Sam Cahill, a prisoner of war. He received critical acclaim and a Golden Globe nomination for his dramatic performance in the film.
Maguire's company is co-producing an adaptation of a mystery novel by Isaac Adamson called Tokyo Suckerpunch with Sony Pictures. The film, scheduled to be released in 2011, will star Maguire in the role of American reporter Billy Chaka, who investigates the murder of a Japanese friend in Tokyo.
Maguire and DiCaprio will once again star together in Baz Luhrmann's remake of The Great Gatsby; DiCaprio plays the title role while Maguire plays the story's narrator, Nicholas "Nick" Carraway. The movie is due for release in May 2013.
Tuesday, 25 June 2013
June 25
National Catfish Day
It is a national observance of the United States celebrating "the value of farm-raised catfish." The day was designated as June 25, 1987, by President Ronald Reagan, who issued the Presidential Proclamation after the U.S. Congress called for the day to be established in House Joint Resolution 178.Linda Edna Cardellini
(born June 25, 1975) is an American television and film actress. She is known for her television roles Lindsay Weir on Freaks and Geeks, Samantha Taggart on ER, as well as the voices of Hot Dog Water on Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated and Wendy on Gravity Falls, and the film role of Velma Dinkley in the live-action Scooby-Doo films.
Monday, 24 June 2013
June 24
Minka Dumont Kelly (born Minka Dumont Dufay; June 24, 1980) is an American actress. She
is perhaps best known for her roles in Charlie's Angels, Friday Night Lights,
and The Roommate.
Early life
Kelly was born in Los Angeles. She is the only child
of former Aerosmith guitarist Rick Dufay and Maureen Dumont Kelly, an exotic
dancer. Her
parents split up when she was young, and she was raised by her mother. Her paternal grandfather was an actor and investment
advisor Richard Ney. Kelly and her mother often moved to different communities,
before settling in Albuquerque, New Mexico by the time Kelly was in junior high
school. She has French and Irish ancestry.
Career
When Kelly was 19, after graduating from Valley High
School in Albuquerque, she returned to Los Angeles. While on a test shoot for a
modeling agency, she was approached by a former Playboy Playmate who was
interested in managing her, and who placed Kelly as a receptionist at a
surgeon's office who would provide Kelly breast augmentation in exchange for
hours worked. She ultimately decided against the procedure, leading to her
being fired. However, that exposure to the medical field prompted her to attend
school for a year to become a surgeon's assistant; afterward, she worked as a
scrub tech. During the four years she spent in that vocation she continued
auditioning for film and television roles.
In 2003 Kelly made her
acting debut as an extra in the short film Turbo-Charged Prelude a six-minute
introduction to the action film 2 Fast 2 Furious. This was followed by a guest
appearance on Cracking Up. She has since appeared in a number of television
shows such as Entourage, Drake & Josh, and American Dreams. In 2005 Kelly
landed a three-episode recurring role on The WB Sitcom What I Like About You.
In April 2006 Kelly was
cast as a series regular on the NBC Teen Drama television series Friday Night
Lights. The show, based on the high school football movie of that name, follows
a high school football team in the fictional small town of Dillon. Kelly played
the role of high school student and cheerleader Lyla Garrity. In preparation
for her role as a cheerleader she trained with the Pflugerville High School
cheerleading squad. The series premiered on October 3, 2006 with Kelly
receiving praise for her performance with The New York Times calling her
performance "heartbreaking". At the end of the show's third season Kelly left the
series as her character left for University."
In 2006 Kelly starred
in the Horror Slasher film The Pumpkin Karver, and had a bit role in State's
Evidence. In 2007 she
reunited with Friday Night Lights Creator Peter Berg in the film The Kingdom in
a cameo role as Ms. Ross alongside Jamie Foxx and Jennifer Garner. In 2009 she
also made a cameo in the film (500) Days of Summer.
In August 2008 Kelly
was cast as the protagonist in The CW pilot Body Politic. She played the role
of Francesca "Frankie" Foster who moves to Washington to work for a
senator. She befriends a group of eager up-and-comers. Despite acclaim from
critics who viewed the pilot The CW did not pick up the series. Kelly also
appeared in the pilot for the short lived CBS ensemble Comedy series Mad Love
playing the role of Kate, a Midwestern girl who falls in love with Henry at the
top of the Empire State Building. When the show was picked up Kelly was replaced by Sarah Chalke.
In April 2010 Kelly
appeared on the NBC Drama television series Parenthood. She played the role of
a behavioral aide to the child character Max who is diagnosed with Asperger
syndrome. Kelly went on to appear in nine episodes of the show before making
her final appearance in the episode "Taking the Leap" which aired on
March 29, 2011. That same
year Kelly was named "Sexiest Woman Alive" in the annual Esquire
magazine feature. She accepted a role in the Off Broadway play Love, Loss, and
What I Wore for an April 27 through May 29, 2011 run with Conchata Ferrell,
AnnaLynne McCord, Anne Meara, and B. Smith.
In February 2011 Kelly
starred as the protagonist on the Screen Gems Thriller film The Roommate. The
film follows a college freshman whose roommate has an obsession with her that
turns violent. The film also starred Leighton Meester and went on to make over
$15.6 million in its opening weekend and over $40 million worldwide. The film
was universally panned and was considered a "cheap remake" of the
1992 film Single White Female.
In December 2010 ABC
announced Kelly was cast in the planned reboot of the crime drama television
series Charlie's Angels. Kelly played the role of street racer Eva French. The
pilot was filmed in March 2011 and the series was picked up on May 13 2011. Charlie's
Angels premiered on September 22, 2011 to over 8.76 million viewers. Despite
this the series received unanimously negative reviews from critics. Despite a planned thirteen episodes was to air ABC
cancelled the series after the premiere of the fourth episode due to low
ratings.
Variety announced that
Kelly was cast as the lead in the Mystery Comedy film Searching for Sonny. The
film follows two reunited friends who are suspects in a murder mystery that is
similar to a play in which they appeared during High School. Production took
place in May and June 2010 at Fort Worth, TX. The film won the "Best
Narrative Feature" Award at the Festivus film festival. In 2011 Minka
appeared alongside Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston in Just Go With It.
She joined an eight-day, four-country United Service
Organizations tour in December 2011 with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
General Martin Dempsey, Robert Horry, Jordin Sparks, Thomas Miles and Sergeant
Major Bryan Battaglia. In February 2012, she was one of the celebrities who
modeled in red dresses for the Heart Truth Red Dress Collection show, part of
New York Fashion Week. She wore a Diane von Fürstenberg dress. In June 2012,
Kelly was revealed to be the lead actress in the music video for Maroon 5's
second single from the Overexposed album, "One More Night". Minka
will next appear in the upcoming film The Butler, which is set to be released
sometime in 2013.
Saturday, 22 June 2013
June 22
Donald Adeosun Faison (born June 22, 1974) is an American actor, comedian, and voice actor
best known for his role as Dr. Chris Turk in the ABC (formerly NBC)
comedy-drama Scrubs (2001–2010) as a leading role, and as Murray in the film
Clueless (1995) playing a minor role (reprised in the subsequent television
series of the same name). He is a star of the TV Land
situation comedy The Exes.
Faison has also co-starred in the films Remember the
Titans (2000), Uptown Girls (2003), Something New (2006) and Next Day Air
(2009).
Early life
Faison was born in Harlem, New York, the son of
Shirley, a talent agent, and Donald Faison, a building manager. His parents
were active with the National Black Theatre in Harlem.
Career
Before his debut on
Scrubs and Clueless, Faison appeared in a 1991 commercial for Folgers Coffee at
the age of 17, in which he played the younger brother of a soldier returning
from war. The following year, he appeared along with Malik Yoba, in the ABC News
special Prejudice: Answering Children's Questions, hosted by Peter Jennings. He
then became famous for his role as "Murray Lawrence Duvall" in the
film Clueless, the 1995 movie, and its subsequent television series, which ran
from 1996 to 1999. In 1995, he also appeared in Waiting to Exhale as
"Tarik", the son of Loretta Devine's character, "Gloria."
He was featured in New Jersey Drive. He also starred in Big Fat Liar alongside
Frankie Muniz, Paul Giamatti, and Amanda Bynes. He had a recurring role as,
"Tracy," on Felicity, appeared in Remember the Titans, as the running
back-turned-cornerback Petey Jones, and provided voice work for various
characters in the MTV animated series Clone High. He had minor roles in the
sitcoms Sister Sister and Sabrina, the Teenage Witch and in the film Josie and
the Pussycats. In 2005, Faison produced one episode of MTV's Punk'd involving
his Scrubs co-star Zach Braff. He has also appeared in the music videos for
Brandy's "Sittin' Up In My Room", Fall Out Boy's cover of Michael
Jackson's "Beat It," and Gavin Degraw's "Chariot."
On February 13, 2009,
Faison participated in the NBA All-Star Weekend's Celebrity Game. Other
celebrities participating include: NBA Hall of Famers Clyde Drexler and
Dominique Wilkins, NFL wide-receiver Terrell Owens, actor Chris Tucker and four
Harlem Globetrotters.
In 2010, Faison starred alongside Scottie Thompson,
Brittany Daniel, Eric Balfour, Laz Alonso and Crystal Reed in the Brothers
Strause science fiction thriller Skyline.
Faison was in the 2010 CBS comedy pilot The Odds.
As of March 2011, Faison appeared in commercials for
The Sims Medieval.
Personal life
Faison was married to
Lisa Askey from 2001 to 2005. After
six years of dating, Faison married his second wife, CaCee Cobb, on December
15, 2012. The wedding was held at the home of Faison's former Scrubs co-star
and best friend Zach Braff, who also served as a groomsman. Serving as a
bridesmaid was singer Jessica Simpson, for whom Cobb formerly worked as a personal
assistant. In January 2013, it was announced that Faison and Cobb are expecting
a baby. The child will be the first for Cobb, but the fifth for Faison. He
currently has four children: son Dade and daughter Kaya (fraternal twins, born
circa 1999) and son Kobe (born 2001), with Askey; and son Sean (born circa
1997), from a previous relationship.
Friday, 21 June 2013
June 21
Douglas Peter
"Doug" Savant (born June 21,
1964) is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Matt Fielding on
Melrose Place and Tom Scavo on the ABC dramedy series Desperate Housewives.
Career
Doug Savant first gained notice for playing a younger
version of Mac McKenzie (played by Kojak alumnus Kevin Dobson) on the CBS night
time soap opera Knots Landing. He was paired with future Desperate
Housewives co-star Nicollette Sheridan, who played a younger version of the
Anne Matheson character portrayed by Michelle Phillips.
In the 1980s, he
appeared in such films as Masquerade starring Rob Lowe, Teen Wolf with Michael
J. Fox, and Trick or Treat with Marc Price and Ozzy Osbourne. Additionally, he
was the central character in an episode of The Outer Limits called "The
Hunt." In the episode, he played an android that is being hunted for
sport.
From 1992 to 1997,
Savant starred as Matt Fielding on Melrose Place, a role that was notable for
being one of the first mainstream openly gay characters on television. However,
his role was censored greatly by the network - notably a kiss between Matt and
guest star Ty Miller during the season two finale was edited out at the last
minute by FOX. Savant left the series after five seasons and, a year later, his
character was killed off-screen in a car crash.
After this, Savant
guest starred on series such as Profiler, Harsh Realm, Firefly, JAG, NCIS,
Nip/Tuck, NYPD Blue, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, and a four-episode arc on
24. He also appeared as Sgt. O'Neal in the film Godzilla.
In 2008, Savant starred
in the television movie What Color Is Love? He played a lawyer named Peter
Marcheson helping a girl, Nicole Alpern (Jennifer Finagan), win back her son in
a custody battle.
Savant played Tom Scavo
on ABC's Desperate Housewives from 2004 to 2012. In the first season (2004–05),
Tom was a recurring character, credited as a guest-star in the episodes where
he appeared. Married to Lynette Scavo (Felicity Huffman), he was out of town
regularly on business. Viewer response to Savant and his character led the
producers to contract him as a series regular from season two onwards, and Tom
and Lynette were portrayed as the most stable couple on the series.
Personal
life
In May 1998, he married
his Melrose Place co-star Laura Leighton. They have two children together: Jack
(born October 10, 2000) and Lucy (born June 9, 2005). Savant also has two
children from a previous marriage, Arianna (born January 17, 1992) and Madeline
(born July 20. 1993).
Thursday, 20 June 2013
20 June
Nicole Mary Kidman, AC (born 20 June 1967) is an Australian actress, singer and film producer.
Nicole Kidman’s first acting role was as a sheep in a
school nativity play. She was five years old. By l0 she had
joined an acting school and by 14 she had her first lead role in the Australian
film Bush Christmas. By the time Nicole was 19 the acclaimed Hollywood director
George Miller (Babe, Happy Feet) had written the TV mini-series Vietnam and
Bangkok Hilton for her to star in.
Nicole says she is lucky because she knew from a very
young age that she wanted to build her life around acting. Her
dream has come true.
Nicole was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, to Australian
parents Anthony (a biochemist and clinical psychologist) and Janelle (a nursing
instructor). The Kidman family moved to Sydney when Nicole was
three and she soon developed an early love for ballet, mime and drama. Her
dedication to acting led to Australian Film Industry Award nominations when she
was just 14 (BMX Bandits). She won an AFI Best Actress award at age 17 for the
TV mini-series Vietnam.
Nicole first came to the attention of American
audiences with her critically acclaimed performance in the riveting 1989
psychological thriller Dead Calm. She has since become an
internationally recognized, award-winning actress known for her range and
versatility.
In 2003, Nicole won an
Academy Award, a Golden Globe, a BAFTA Award and a Berlin Silver Bear for her
portrayal of Virginia Woolf in The Hours. (She is the only Australian to win a
Best Actress Oscar.) In 2002, she was honored with her first Oscar nomination
for her performance in the innovative musical, Moulin Rouge! For that role and
her performance in the psychological thriller, The Others, she received dual
2002 Golden Globe nominations and won for Best Actress in a Musical. She was
awarded her first Golden Globe for a pitch-perfect, wickedly funny portrayal of
a woman obsessed with becoming a TV personality at all costs in To Die For,
directed by Gus Van Sant. She has been nominated for Golden Globes three other
times for her performances in Birth (2004), Cold Mountain (2003) and Billy
Bathgate (1991).
She recently completed filming Just Go With It, slated
for release in 2011, opposite Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston. She
starred in the film adaptation of the musical Nine with Daniel Day Lewis,
Penelope Cruz, Marion Cotillard, Sophia Loren and Kate Hudson. The film
received a SAG nomination for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion
Picture, a BFCA nomination for Best Picture/Best Acting Ensemble and a Golden
Globe nomination for Best Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical. In 2008, Nicole
reunited with her friend, Moulin Rouge! director Baz Luhrmann, and fellow
Australian actor Hugh Jackman for Luhrmann’s World War II love story,
Australia. In 2007, Kidman teamed with Jennifer Jason Leigh and Jack Black in
Margot at the Wedding, and with Daniel Craig in a screen adaptation of the
fantasy novel, The Golden Compass. She also voiced the role of Norma Jean in
the Academy Award-winning animated musical Happy Feet, which reunited her with
George Miller, the Australian director most responsible for launching her
career. She narrated the Sundance Grand Jury Award and Audience Award-winning
documentary God Grew Tired of Us, and also narrated the film biography of Simon
Wiesenthal entitled I Have Never Forgotten You.
Nicole recently completed
shooting Rabbit Hole, opposite Aaron Eckhart. Rabbit
Hole was developed by Nicole’s Blossom Films production company and was
directed by John Cameron Mitchell. The cast includes Dianne Wiest, Tammy
Blanchard, Sandra Oh, Giancarlo Esposito and Jon Tenney.
Nicole made a highly lauded London stage debut in the
fall of 1998, starring with Iain Glenn in The Blue Room. She
won London’s Evening Standard Award and was nominated for a Laurence Olivier
Award in the Best Actress category. The Blue Room moved to Broadway for a
sold-out, limited run in 1998-99.
Nicole says she is as excited to step onto a film set
today as she was on the day she started her first movie back in Australia. She
believes she is incredibly blessed, not only because she has the career she
dreamed of when she was a schoolgirl but because it has exceeded her wildest
expectations. As an actor she
has been fortunate to travel the world and meet people from so many different
cultures. Her career has given her the opportunity to cultivate an
understanding of how she can best lend her support and make a difference.
In January of 2006, Nicole was awarded Australia’s
highest honor, the Companion in the Order of Australia. She was also named, and
continues to serve, as Goodwill Ambassador of UN Women, the United Nations
Development Fund for Women, whose goals are to foster women’s empowerment and
gender equality, to raise awareness of the infringement on women’s human rights
around the world and to end violence against women.
Nicole serves as an Ambassador of the Sydney
Children’s Hospital, Randwick, and has served as patron of the Australian
Theatre of Young People, which she attended as an aspiring young actor. She is
a UNICEF Ambassador for Australia and, most recently, she voiced her support of
the Women’s Cancer Program at Stanford University with Dr. Jonathan Berek.
Along with her husband, Keith Urban, she helped raise nearly half a million
dollars for the Women’s Cancer Program, a world-renowned center for research
into the causes, treatment, prevention, and eventual cure of women’s cancer.
Award-winning actress, activist and Goodwill
Ambassador, Nicole is above all things a devoted wife and mother. She
is never happier than when she’s spending time with her family. She is married
to country music star Keith Urban and they have a 2 daughters, Sunday Rose,3,
and Faith Margaret, born in December 2010. Nicole has two teenage children,
Isabella and Connor, from her first marriage to Tom Cruise.
Wednesday, 19 June 2013
june 19
Atticus R. Shaffer (born June 19, 1998) is an American actor, known for portraying Matty Newton in the 2009 supernatural horror-thriller film The Unborn, and Brick Heck in the ABCsitcom The Middle.
Shaffer was born in Santa Clarita, California, to Debbie and Ron Shaffer, with whom he lives. He is home-schooled.
Shaffer has Osteogenesis Imperfecta, type IV, a genetic condition inherited from his mother, who has type I. His small stature from this condition helps him portray a character on The Middle, four years younger than his actual age.
Sunday, 16 June 2013
Cushman Kellog Davis.
Saturday, 15 June 2013
June 15
Denzel Dominique Whitaker (born June 15, 1990) is an American film and television actor.
His notable film appearances include The Great Debaters and Training Day, as well as TV shows ER, Brothers & Sisters and The War At Home. He was a featured cast member during the tenth and final season of the Nickelodeon sketch-comedy series All That. He was in the Disney Channel Original Movie, Dadnapped. He also appeared on The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, as a player on Zack and Cody's basketball team, and in Werner Herzog'sBad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans. He appeared in the 2011 film Abduction, in season 3 of The Boondocks as character Sgt. Gutte, and on Black Dynamite: The Animated Series as Donald The Accountant.
Whitaker was born in Torrance, California, the son of Younalanda and Dale Whitaker.
He was named after Denzel Washington. He disputed this fact on The Oprah Winfrey Show while promoting the movie The Great Debaters, only to learn later from his father that, in fact, Washington was his namesake.
Thursday, 13 June 2013
June 13
Timothy Alan Dick (born June 13, 1953) known professionally as Tim Allen, is an
American comedian, actor, voice-over artist, and entertainer, known for his
role in the sitcom Home Improvement. He is also known for his starring roles in
several popular films, including the Toy Story film series (as the voice of
Buzz Lightyear), The Santa Clause film series, and Galaxy Quest. Allen
currently stars as Mike Baxter in the ABC sitcom Last Man Standing.
Early
life
Born in Denver, Colorado, Allen is the son of Martha
Katherine (née Fox), a community-service worker, and Gerald M. Dick (1923-1964),
a real estate agent. He is the third oldest of five brothers. His father died
in a car accident, colliding with a drunk driver, when Allen was 11. Two years
later, his mother married her high school sweetheart, a successful business
executive, and moved with her six children to Birmingham, Michigan, a suburb of
Detroit, to be with her new husband and his three children. Allen attended
Ernest W. Seaholm High School in Birmingham, where he was in theater and music
classes (resulting in his love of classical piano). He then attended Central
Michigan University and transferred to Western Michigan University in 1974. At
Western Michigan, Allen worked at the student radio station WIDR and received a
bachelor of science degree in communications specializing in radio and
television production in 1976 with a split minor in philosophy and design. In
1998, Western Michigan awarded Allen an honorary fine arts degree and the
Distinguished Alumni Award.
Career
Allen started his career as a comedian in 1975. On a
dare from one of his friends, he participated in a comedy night at a comedy
club in Detroit. While in Detroit he began to get
recognition appearing in local television commercials and appearing on cable
comedy shows such as Gary Thison's Some Semblance of Sanity. He later moved to
Los Angeles and became a regular performer at The Comedy Store. He began to do stand-up appearances on late-night talk
shows and specials on record and film. Allen rose to fame in acting with the
television series Home Improvement (1991–1999) produced for ABC by Wind Dancer
Productions, a company he co-founded with producer Carmen Finestra. Allen
played Tim "The Tool-Man" Taylor. During one week in November 1994,
he simultaneously starred in the highest grossing film (The Santa Clause),
topped the New York Times best-seller list with his book Don't Stand Too Close
to a Naked Man, and appeared in the top rated television series (Home
Improvement). The following year, he provided the voice of Buzz Lightyear in
the blockbuster Toy Story. Simultaneous with his time acting in Home
Improvement, Allen formed a race team with Steve Saleen and race driver Bob
Bondurant, called the Saleen/Allen "RRR" Speedlab. The
team raced Saleen Mustangs in the SCCA World Challenge, with Allen and Saleen
as the team's drivers.
In 1997 he starred in
the family comedy Jungle 2 Jungle from Disney. The film was poorly received by
critics. The next year marked the final year of Home Improvement, for which he
was paid $1.25 million per episode. The next year he returned to voice Buzz
Lightyear in Toy Story 2 which was a financial and critical hit. Also in 2000
he starred in the sci-fi parody Galaxy Quest alongside Sigourney Weaver, Alan
Rickman and Sam Rockwell. The movie was a critical hit and connected with
audiences as well. In 2003 he had a cameo as Seann William Scott's father in
American Wedding.
In 2006, Zoom was
released, featuring Allen as Jack Shepard. The same year, he also starred in
The Santa Clause 3 and The Shaggy Dog.
Allen began narrating
the "Pure Michigan" television and radio commercials for the
"Travel Michigan" agency. These commercials can be seen and heard
throughout the Midwest and began airing nationally in 2009.
In December 2009, Allen
started a preview tour of Crazy on the Outside, a film that debuted in January
2010. Allen accompanied the film, helping promote it with a series of stand-up
acts beforehand. During the performances he told audiences that he planned a
2010 comedy tour. Allen also
directed the film, marking his film directorial debut.
Allen hosted the 8th Annual TV Land Awards on April
25, 2010.
As of September 2010,
Tim Allen is the official voice of the Chevrolet Cruze, narrating commercials
for the vehicle. Also in
September 2010, Allen was named the voice of Campbell Soup's new "It's
Amazing What Soup Can Do" campaign.
Allen currently stars
in another ABC sitcom, Last Man Standing. He plays the role of Mike Baxter, a dad who is
fighting for his manhood in his house filled with women.
Wednesday, 12 June 2013
June 12
George Herbert Walker Bush (born June 12, 1924) is an American politician who served as the 41st President of the United States (1989–93). A Republican, he had previously served as the 43rd Vice President of the United States (1981–89), a congressman, an ambassador and Director of Central Intelligence; he is currently the oldest surviving President. He became involved in politics soon after founding his own oil company, serving as a member of the House of Representatives, among other positions. He ran unsuccessfully for president of the United States in 1980, but was chosen by party nominee Ronald Reagan to be the vice presidential nominee, and the two were subsequently elected. During his tenure, Bush headed administration task forces on deregulation and fighting the "War on Drugs". In 1988, Bush launched a successful campaign to succeed Reagan as president, defeating Democratic opponent Michael Dukakis. Foreign policy drove the Bush presidency; military operations were conducted in Panama and the Persian Gulf at a time of world change; the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 and the Soviet Union dissolved two years later. Domestically, Bush reneged on a 1988 campaign promise and after a struggle with Congress, signed an increase in taxes that Congress had passed. In the wake of economic concerns, he lost the 1992 presidential election to Democrat Bill Clinton.
John Enos III (born June 12, 1962) is an American actor born in Boston, Massachusetts. He is perhaps most popular to soap opera fans for his portrayal of Bobby Marsino on “The Young and the Restless” : a role he played from 2004 to 2005, and for his recurring role of Bobby Parezi on “Melrose Place” from 1995 to 1996. He has also guest starred in “Murder, She Wrote,” “Sex and the City,” “NYPD Blue” and “CSI: NY,” among other TV series. His film credits include “Death Becomes Her” (1992), “Demolition Man” (1993), “The Rock” (1996), “Blade” (1998), “Flawless” (1999), “Phone Booth” (2002), “Everybody Wants to Be Italian” (2007) and “Toxic” (2008). In addition, he appeared in the short “Knocked Down” (2008).
Tuesday, 11 June 2013
June 11
Джеймс «Джим» Алгар (англ. James Algar; 11 июня 1912, Модесто, штат Калифорния — 26 февраля 1998, Кармел-ба-зе-Си, Калифорния) — американский кинорежиссёр, сценарист, продюсер и мультипликатор, работавший на студии Уолта Диснея. Его режиссёрские работы о дикой природе были удостоены 8 премий «Оскар». Он получил награду Disney Legends Award в 1998 году.
Алгар родился в Модесто (штат Калифорния), учился в Стэнфордском университете, был редактором студенческого юмористического журнала. Рисуя для журнала иллюстрации, Джим увлёкся мультипликацией и в 1934 году, после получения им диплома журналиста, пришёл работать на студию Уолта Диснея. В качестве мультипликатора работал над мультфильмом «Белоснежка и семь гномов».
От работы мультипликатором Алгар перешёл к режиссуре, создав для мультфильма «Фантазия» ставший классикой мультипликации эпизод «Ученик чародея», рассказывающий о приключениях Микки Мауса. Также Джим работал над эпизодами мультфильма «Бэмби», а в годы Второй мировой войны снял для ВВС документальный фильм «Победа через мощь в воздухе».
После войны Уолт Дисней стал снимать фильмы о дикой природе, и главным режиссёром студии в данном жанре стал Джим Алгар, принесший студии 8 премий «Оскар». В 1960-е годы Алгар работал над телевизионным сериалом «Удивительный мир Диснея». Также Джим разработал аттракцион «Величайшие моменты Мистера Линкольна» для Всемирной выставки 1964 года и участвовал в создании Диснейленда.
Проработав 43 года на студии Уолта Диснея, Алгар вышел на пенсию 31 октября 1977 года.
Monday, 10 June 2013
10 June
Caroline Louise Dudley was born on June 10.
Caroline Louise Dudley (June 10, 1857 – November 13, 1937) was an American silent film and stage actress who used her married name, Mrs. Leslie Carter, as her stage name to spite her former husband. She was called "The American Sarah Bernhardt".
Caroline Louise Dudley (June 10, 1857 – November 13, 1937) was an American silent film and stage actress who used her married name, Mrs. Leslie Carter, as her stage name to spite her former husband. She was called "The American Sarah Bernhardt".
Sunday, 9 June 2013
June 9
Depp has gained acclaim for his portrayals of such people as Ed Wood, in Ed Wood,Joseph D. Pistone in Donnie Brasco, Hunter S. Thompson in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, George Jung in Blow, and the bank robber John Dillinger in Michael Mann's Public Enemies. Films featuring Depp have grossed over $3.1 billion at the United States box office and over $7.6 billion worldwide.
He has been nominated for top awards many times, winning the Best Actor Awards from the Golden Globes for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street and from the Screen Actors Guild for Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. He also has garnered a sex symbol status in American cinema, being twice named as the "Sexiest Man Alive" by People magazine in 2003 and 2009. He has been listed in the 2012 Guinness Book of World Records as the highest paid actor, with $75 million.
Michaela Conlin (born June 9, 1978) is an American stage and television actress best known for her work as Angela Montenegro on the Fox TV series Bones.
In addition to her television work, Conlin has appeared in a few features, including Garmento, Love the Hard Way (starring Adrien Brody) and the independent film Open Window opposite Robin Tunney.
She portrayed May in Enchanted, starring Amy Adams, but her lines were trimmed for the final cut. The deleted scene is included among the DVD bonus features.
Conlin appears in the 2011 drama film, The Lincoln Lawyer, with Matthew McConaughey and Marisa Tomei.
Saturday, 8 June 2013
June 8
Julianna Luisa Margulies (born June 8, 1966) is an American actress and producer.
After several small television roles, Margulies achieved both critical and commercial success in her role as Nurse Carol Hathaway on NBC's long-running medical drama ER, for which she won an Emmy Award. After her departure from ER in 2000, Margulies appeared in the 2001 miniseries The Mists of Avalon and voiced the role of Neera in Disney's CGI film Dinosaur. In 2009 she took the lead role of Alicia Florrick in the American legal drama The Good Wife on CBS, for which she has won a Golden Globe, a Television Critics Association Award and the 2011 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. She is one of only two people who hold the record of winning (eight) more Screen Actors Guild Awards (the other being Alec Baldwin) than any other actors or actresses. Margulies, the youngest of three daughters, was born in Spring Valley, New York. Her mother, Francesca (née Gardner), was a ballet dancer and eurythmy teacher, and her father, Paul Margulies, was a writer. Her parents were Jewish, descended from immigrants from Austria, Hungary, and Romania (her mother later converted to Christianity, during Margulies's childhood). The family lived in Israel for a time before Margulies was born, before moving back to the Upper West Side of New York City. Margulies attended grade school at Green Meadow Waldorf School and high school at High Mowing School. As a child, she lived in New York, France and England. Margulies obtained a B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College, where she appeared in several campus plays. Julianna lived in Wilton, New Hampshire (USA) while she attended the Waldorf School and High Mowing.
Thursday, 6 June 2013
6 June
John Trumbull.
Wednesday, 5 June 2013
June 5
Mark Robert Michael Wahlberg (born June 5, 1971) is an
American actor, film and television producer, and former rapper. He was known
as Marky Mark in his earlier years, and became famous for his 1991
debut as frontman with the band Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch. He
was named No. 1 on VH1's
40
Hottest Hotties of the 90s. Wahlberg is well known for his roles in films such
as Fear (1996), Boogie
Nights (1997), Three Kings (1999),The Perfect Storm (2000), Planet of the Apes (2001), Rock Star (2001), The Italian Job (2003), I
Heart Huckabees (2004), Four Brothers (2005), The
Departed (2006), Invincible (2006), Shooter (2007), Max
Payne (2008), The Fighter (2010), Date Night (2010),
and Ted (2012).
He has also served as the executive producer of the TV series Entourage, Boardwalk
Empire and How to Make It in America. Music
Wahlberg first came to fame as the younger brother of Donnie
Wahlberg of the successful 1980s and 1990s boy band New Kids on the Block. Mark, at age thirteen,
had been one of the group's original members, along with Donnie, Danny Wood, Jordan
Knight, and Jonathan Knight. However, he soon quit. It was his
departure that eventually allowed Joe
McIntyre to take his place as the fifth member of the group.
Wahlberg began recording as Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch,
earning a hit with "Good Vibrations"
from the album Music for the People. The record was produced by brother
Donnie and later hit No.1 on the Billboard Hot
100, later becoming certified as a platinum
single. The second single,
"Wildside", peaked at No. 5 on Billboards Hot Singles Sales chart and at No. 10 on theBillboard Hot
100. It was certified as a gold single. Marky Mark opened for the
New Kids on the Block during their last tour. The second Marky Mark and the
Funky Bunch LP, You Gotta Believe, was not as successful as the
prior, yielding only a minor hit single in the title track. Wahlberg later
collaborated with the late reggae/ragga singer Prince
Ital Joe on the album Life in the Streets. The project combined rap
and ragga vocals with strong eurodance music
(as in the singles Happy People, German No. 1 hit United, Life
in the Streets, and Babylon) courtesy of Frank Peterson and Alex
Christensen as producers.
He was also
featured in the Black
Label Society music
video for "Counterfeit
God", as a
stand-in for the band's bassist.
Wahlberg dropped the "Marky Mark" moniker and
began an acting career, making his debut in the 1993 TV movie The
Substitute. His big screen debut came the next year, with the Danny DeVito feature Renaissance Man. A basketball fanatic, he
caught the attention of critics after appearing in The Basketball Diaries in 1995,
playing the role of Mickey alongside Leonardo
DiCaprio, in a film adaptation of the Jim Carroll book
of the same name. He also starred in the 1996 James Foley thriller Fear.
He has earned many positive reviews after successful movies
like Boogie Nights (as Dirk
Diggler), Three Kings, The Perfect Storm, The Italian Job, andFour Brothers. His performance in I
♥ Huckabees was
voted best supporting performance of the year in the 2004 Village
Voice Critics Poll. Wahlberg was originally cast as Linus Caldwell in Ocean's Eleven; Matt Damon played
the role instead. The two
later worked together in The Departed. Wahlberg was also considered for a
role in the film Brokeback
Mountain. It was
originally intended to star him and Joaquin Phoenix, but Wahlberg was uncomfortable
with the film's sex scenes as was Phoenix (whose role went to Heath Ledger) and
Mark's role ultimately went to Jake Gyllenhaal.
Wahlberg starred in the American football drama, Invincible, based on the true story of
bartender Vince Papale. He is also the executive producer of theHBO series Entourage which is loosely based on his
experiences in Hollywood. He also appeared as a foul-mouthed Massachusetts State Policedetective in Martin
Scorsese's critically acclaimed thriller, The
Departed in 2006, which netted him an Academy
Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor, a Golden
Globe nomination for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
in a Motion Picture, and an NSFC Best Supporting Actor
award. Wahlberg has confirmed that he was approached to star in a sequel to The
Departed, but it is still early in development. The sequel would reportedly revolve around the
Staff Sergeant played by Wahlberg.
To prepare
for his role in Shooter, Wahlberg attended long-range
shooting training at Front Sight Firearms Training Institute near Pahrump, Nevada, and was able to hit a target at
1100 yards on his second day, a feat which usually takes weeks to achieve. He
has said in a number of interviews that he will retire at the age of 40 to
concentrate on parenthood and professional golf. However, in early 2007 he
indicated that the latter was no longer the plan as "his golf game is
horrible". He played Jack Salmon, a leading role in Peter Jackson's film of The
Lovely Bones. In
2007, he starred opposite Joaquin Phoenix in We Own the Night, a movie about a family of police
officers in New York City.
He starred in M. Night Shyamalan's The Happening as Eliot Moore, which
premiered in movie theatres on June 13, 2008. The same year, he played the
title role in Max Payne, based on a video game of the same name.
While promoting Max Payne, Mark became involved in a playful feud with Saturday Night Live's Andy
Samberg and threatened to "crack that big fucking nose of
his". Samberg had done an
impression of Wahlberg in a Saturday Night Live skit titled
"Mark Wahlberg Talks To Animals". However, Wahlberg later
appeared in a follow-up skit parodying both the original skit, Samberg's
impression of Wahlberg, and his own threats to Samberg. Recently, Wahlberg was
cast as the new human lead in the in fourth installment of the Transformers movies.
Tuesday, 4 June 2013
June 4
Angelina Jolie was born on June 4, 1975. She is an
American actress and film director. She has received an Academy Award, two
Screen Actors Guild Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards, and was named
Hollywood's highest-paid actress by Forbes in 2009 and 2011. Jolie promotes
humanitarian causes, and is noted for her work with refugees as a Special Envoy
and former Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for
Refugees (UNHCR). She has often been cited as the world's "most
beautiful" woman, a title for which she has received substantial media
attention.
Jolie made her screen
debut as a child alongside her father Jon Voight in Lookin' to Get Out (1982),
but her film career began in earnest a decade later with the low-budget
production Cyborg 2 (1993). Her first leading role in a major film was in the
cyber-thriller Hackers (1995). She starred in the critically acclaimed
biographical television films George Wallace (1997) and Gia (1998), and won an
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the drama
Girl, Interrupted (1999).
Jolie achieved wide fame after her portrayal of video
game heroine Lara Croft in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001), and established
herself among the highest-paid actresses in Hollywood with the sequel The
Cradle of Life (2003). She continued her action star career with Mr. & Mrs.
Smith (2005) and Wanted (2008)—her biggest non-animated commercial successes to
date—and received further critical acclaim for her performances in the dramas A
Mighty Heart (2007) and Changeling (2008), which earned her a nomination for an
Academy Award for Best Actress. Jolie made her
directorial debut with the wartime drama In the Land of Blood and Honey (2011).
Divorced from actors Jonny Lee Miller and Billy Bob
Thornton, Jolie now lives with actor Brad Pitt, in a relationship notable for
fervent media attention. Jolie and Pitt have three biological
children and have adopted three children.
Monday, 3 June 2013
June 3, 2013
Eddie
Acuff (June
3, 1903 – December 17, 1956) was an American actor. His best-known recurring
role is that of Mr. Beasley, the postman, in the Blondie movie series that starred Penny Singleton and Arthur
Lake.
Born in Caruthersville,
Missouri, Acuff's maternal uncle was a performer on 19th century showboats
along the Mississippi River. Before beginning his Hollywood film
career in 1934, he performed in Broadway
theatre in the early-1930s. He
died in Hollywood, California and is buried in Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery.
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