În spatele cortinei ... cine sunt cei pe care îi admirăm pe marele ecran?

BELLE_ · October 25, 2015

Thomas Cruise Mapother IV s-a nascut pe 3 iulie 1962, in Syracuse, New York. Mama sa, Mary Lee Mapother, l-a parasit pe tatal sau, cand Tom avea doisprezece ani, luandu-i pe Tom si pe sora lui, Lee Anne, cu ea. In perioada urmatoare, a locuit in Ottawa, Ontario, Louisville, Kentucky, Illinois si New Jersey. A studiat timp de un an intr-un seminar franciscan. A absolvit liceul Glen Ridge din New Jersey, in anul 1980. Cruise a afirmat ca a fost abuzat in copilarie de tatal sau si ca a invatat de la acesta din urma ca nu toata lumea din jur ii vrea binele. Tatal sau, Thomas Cruise Mapother III, inginer electrician, a decedat in anul 1984, de cancer. Sora sa, Lee Anne Mapother, nascuta in 1959, lucreaza in publicitate si marketing pentru compania lui Tom. Mai are doua surori - Marian Mapother (care s-a nascut in 1961 si are diploma de invatatoare) si Cass Mapother (care s-a nascut in 1963 si are proprietara unui restaurant in New Jersey). Cruise are un var, William Mapother care este tot actor si este cunoscut datorita personajului Ethan Rom pe care l-a interpretat in "Lost".Tom Cruise a avut o relatie cu actrita Rebecca De Mornay, in perioada 1983-1985. A fost casatorit cu Mimi Rogers, de care s-a despartit in 1990 si cu Nicole Kidman (24 Decembrie 1990-2001). Impreuna cu Nicole Kidman a adoptat doi copii - Isabella Jane (1993) si Connor Anthony (1995). In anul 1996, Cruise a gasit o femeie ranita intr-un accident de masina, a transportat-o pina la spital si a platit costul operatiilor si a salvat cativa oameni dintr-un incendiu iscat pe un yacht. Momentul de cotitura in cariera sa il constituie rolul cadetului din filmul "Taps" (1981), rol care l-a adus in atentia producatorilor. In anul 1990 a primit premiul People's Choice la categoria Actorul Favorit si Chicago Film Festival la categoria Cel mai Bun Actor pentru filmul "Born on the Fourth of July". Patru ani mai tarziu, "National Board of Review" il desemneaza Cel mai Bun Actor pentru rolul din filmul "Jerry Maguire", iar "Golden Satellite" ii acorda acelasi premiu. In anul 1997 primeste premiul pentru Cea mai Buna Interpretare Masculina la MTV Movie Awards pentru "Jerry Maguire".In 1998 primeste premiul John Huston pentru Drepturile Artistilor. A fost nominalizat de trei ori la premiul Oscar cu rolurile sale din "Born on the Fourth of July" (1989), "Jerry Maguire" (1996) si "Magnolia" (1999) si a castigat trei Globuri de Aur cu aceleasi filme.In 2006 Tom Cruise se casatoreste cu Katie Holmes si cei doi devin parintii biologici ai unei fetite pe nume Suri Cruise nascuta pe data de 18 aprilie 2006 si parintii adoptivi ai celor doi copii adoptati de acesta impreuna cu Nicole Kidman.

http://www.cinemarx.ro/persoane/Tom-Cruise-49.html?biografie

FLOW · October 25, 2015

Sergiu Nicolaescu

De la Wikipedia, enciclopedia liberă

Senator de Brașov
Sergiu Nicolaescu

În funcție 1990 – 1992
Senator de Vrancea
În funcție 1992 – 1996
În funcție 1996 – 2000
Senator de Arad
În funcție 2000 – 2004
Senator de București
În funcție 2008 – 2012

Născut	13 aprilie 1930 Târgu Jiu, România
Decedat	3 ianuarie 2013 (82 de ani) București
Partid politic	Frontul Salvării Naționale Frontul Democratic al Salvării Naționale Partidul Democrației Sociale din România Partidul Social Democrat
Soție	Dana
Părinți	Sevastița Cambrea
Frați	Iolanda Nicolaescu
Alma mater	Universitatea Politehnica din București
Ocupație	actor regizor de film om politic
Profesie	Regizor de film, scenarist, actor, politician
Etnie	aromână
Site oficial	http://sergiunicolaescu.ro/
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Sergiu Florin Nicolaescu (n. 13 aprilie 1930, Târgu Jiu, România – d. 3 ianuarie 2013, București, România^[1]) a fost un regizor,scenarist, actor și, după 1989, politician român. Este de departe cel mai prolific și mai vizionat regizor român din toate timpurile: 54 filme, plus 27 coproducții și peste 1 miliard de spectatori (majoritatea din China și Rusia, dar și 130 milioane de spectatori din România)^[2].

Pe 30 mai 2015 Sergiu Nicolaescu a primit postum, în semn de recunoaștere și respect, o stea pe Wake of Fame (Aleea Celebrităților) din Bucuresti. Cu această ocazie, actorul Vladimir Găitan a adus un omagiu marelui regizor: "Pe Sergiu Nicolaescu, ultraperfecționist, sever, profesionist de excepție, l-a cunoscut întreaga suflare artistică a României și, de ce nu, a Europei, să nu uităm filmele sale cu marii actori ai lumii".^[3]

Sergiu Nicolaescu a debutat "fulminant" in filmele de lung metraj cu o "co-producție monumentală, cu filmul Dacii", constata Grid Modorcea^[2]. Acesta continuă: "Sergiu Nicolaescu este primul cineast român care introduce în filmul românesc luptele dintre armate, mari armate, ca în legende. De fapt el reînnoadă un fir istoric, cel început cu Independența României (1912)."^[2]

A devenit cunoscut prin mega-producții istorice ca Dacii (1966) și Mihai Viteazul (1970), precum și pentru seria de filme polițiste centrate în jurul personajului fictiv Comisarul Moldovan. Nicolaescu a interpretat de asemenea rolul ilegalistului comunist Andrei în serialul de propagandă Pistruiatul (1973). Un alt gen predilect al lui Nicolaescu a fost filmul de război, pentru care a folosit adesea efectivele Armatei Române ca figurație.

Stilul său regizoral este caracterizat de o tendință bombastică spre auto-înscenare, Nicolaescu jucând adesea eroii principali ai filmelor pe care le regiza (seria Comisarul Moldovan, Nemuritorii, Mircea, Carol I etc). Andrei Gorzo, criticul de film al revisteiDilema Veche, scria despre Nicolaescu în rolul lui Carol I „Regele lui Nicolaescu e doar o altă fantezie de-a lui Nicolaescu despre sine, cum era și prințul lui din Orient Express (care la un moment dat se declara «un model vetust», înțelegînd prin asta că e prea mare pentru spiritele meschine ale generațiilor mai tinere) sau comisarul lui din Supraviețuitorul (care la rîndul lui se prezenta ca un anacronism, înțelegînd prin asta că oameni de calibrul lui nu se mai fac). În fanteziile lui, el a fost întotdeauna the king - de fapt, King Kong: un uriaș care e singurul din specia sa, care, supraviețuind, a ajuns într-un timp care nu e timpul său, într-o lume care nu-l mai vrea”.^[4]

După Revoluția din 1989, a fost senator din partea FSN, PDSR și PSD. A condus Comisia Senatorială de cercetare a evenimentelor din 1989, care a fost acuzată de falsificarea adevărului.^[5]^[6] De altfel, în ședința Senatului din 29 martie 1994, Nicolaescu a propus ținerea unui moment de reculegere pentru generalul Ștefan Gușe,^[7]^[8] unul dintre responsabilii represiunii sângeroase de la Timișoara din decembrie 1989.

Ultimele sale filme, printre care Orient Express, 15, Supraviețuitorul, Carol I și Poker au fost considerate eșecuri critice,^[9]^[10]^[11]^[12]^[13]^[14]^[15] Nicolaescu fiind de asemenea criticat pentru câștigarea preferențială de finanțări publice prin CNC pentru filmele sale.^[16]^[17] Indiferent de criticile aduse activității sale politice, colaborării sale cu regimul comunist și punerii în practică a liniei naționalist-comuniste în cinematografie^[18] sau neajunsurilor sale ca regizor,^[19] multe din filmele sale au păstrat o veritabilă popularitate la public,^[20]^[21] impunând în folclorul urban^[22] citate repetate și parodiate precum „Un fleac, m-au ciuruit.”^[23] sau „Nu trage dom Semaca, sunt eu Lăscărică”^[24] și personaje memorabile ca legionarul Paraipan (jucat de Gheorghe Dinică) și țiganul Limbă (Jean Constantin).

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Sergiu Nicolaescu s-a născut la Târgu Jiu într-o familie de aromâni.^[25] A fost după mamă, Sevastița Cambrea, nepotul comisarului de poliție Gheorghe Cambrea, care a fost arestat de regimul comunist în 1952 și condamnat la 15 ani închisoare la Făgăraș, devenind mai târziu modelul pentru personajul căpitanul Moldovan.^[26] Tot după mamă a fost și nepotul colonelului Nicolae Cambrea,^[27] avansat de Iosif Vissarionovici Stalin la gradul de general, un apropiat al Anei Pauker,^[28] numit de NKVD în funcția de comandant alDiviziei de voluntari Tudor Vladimirescu, fiind supranumit „generalul roșu”. ^[29]

La vârsta de cinci ani, părinții săi au părăsit orașul Târgu Jiu și s-au stabilit la Timișoara. A absolvit Universitatea Politehnica București ca inginer mecanic,^[30] iar după absolvire a lucrat inițial la Buftea, apoi la filmări combinate în cadrul Studioul cinematografic Alexandru Sahia, specializat în filme documentare și jurnale de actualități. Era curios, inteligent, bine organizat, neobosit și dornic de invatatură. În cursul acestor ani a deprins multe dintre competențele care s-au dovedit atât de utile în realizarea filmelor sale viitoare.

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Sergiu Nicolaescu mărturisea în interviurile sale că în tinerețe a practicat mai multe sporturi: atletism, călărie, box, tir și rugbi. Conform informațiilor public disponibile, Sergiu Nicolaescu a fost o persoana foarte activă cu un stil de viață foarte disciplinat. În fiecare zi, chiar și la 82 de ani, practica cel putin 1 oră de activitate fizică (gimnastică, etc.).

Sergiu Nicolaescu a fost căsătorit de trei ori. Soția lui la data decesului era Dana Nicolaescu, cu care se căsătorise în anul 2005, după ce avuseseră o relație din 1996.^[31] A avut o soră, Iolanda Nicolaescu. Nu a avut copii, iar acesta a fost principalul său regret. Cu toate acestea, el acepta punctul de vedere că filmele sale sunt copiii săi și, mulțumită filmelor sale el va fi etern.

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Sergiu Nicolaescu a fost internat la Spitalul de Urgență Elias la data de 26 decembrie 2012 pentru o afecțiune digestivă cronică. Ulterior medicii i-au diagnosticat cu totul o altă boală. Nicolaescu a fost operat laparoscopic în data de 28 decembrie. Intervenția chirurgicală a fost impusă de evoluția clinică în contextul afecțiunii digestive cronice benigne cunoscute. Intraoperator a fost descoperită o peritonită localizată cu punct de plecare apendicular, care a fost rezolvată laparoscopic. Intervenția chirurgicală a decurs fără incidente. În dimineața zilei de 3 ianuarie 2013 la ora 08.24 cineastul a încetat din viață.

El a fost incinerat sâmbătă, 5 ianuarie 2013 orele 12.00, la crematoriul Vitan-Bârzești din București, după cum a fost dorința lui,^[32]^[33] deși s-a iscat un scandal public imens, chiar Biserica Ortodoxă Română făcând presiuni pentru înhumarea sa conform tradiției ortodoxe. Controversele cu privire la dorința de a fi inmormântat sau incinerat continuă deoarece, Sergiu Nicolaescu cerea în testamentul său legalizat în 2008 la notărița Mircia Elena: „să mă înmormânteze după datinile creștinești."^[2]

Conform declarației de avere din 2008, Sergiu Nicolaescu poseda la acel moment două terenuri, trei apartamente și un cont de bancă la Deutsche Bank din Berlin, unde era depusă suma de €103.000.^[34] Dana Nicolaescu, soția de la data decesului său, a anunțat că urna cu cenușa regizorului Sergiu Nicolaescu, care a decedat pe 3 ianuarie 2013, la vârsta de 82 de ani, a fost înhumată la Cimitirul Bellu Militar din București unde văduva sa i-a construit, post-mortem, în acest scop un frumos mormânt din marmură albă.

6horses · October 25, 2015

Martin Fitzgerald Lawrence^[2] (born April 16, 1965) is an American comedian, actor, and filmmaker. He came to fame during the 1990s, establishing a Hollywood career as a leading actor, most notably in the films House Party, Boomerang, Bad Boys, Nothing to Lose, Blue Streak, Life, Big Momma's House, and A Thin Line Between Love & Hate.

Contents
1 Early life
2 Career
3 Personal life
3.1 Relationships and family
3.2 Legal issues and health problems
4 Television
5 Filmography
6 Albums
7 Awards and nominations
8 References
9 External links

Early life
Lawrence, the fourth of six children, was born in Frankfurt, West Germany (now Germany) on April 16, 1965, to African American parents serving in the U.S. military in Germany at the time of Martin's birth.^[2] He was named after civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., and U.S. President John F. Kennedy.^[2] Divorced when he was eight years old,^[3] Lawrence rarely saw his father, who worked as a police officer.^[4] His mother, Chlora Lawrence (née Bailey, July 24, 1930 – August 28, 2008), began working several jobs to support her family.^[5]^[6] During his teen years Lawrence excelled at boxing.^[2] He lived in Queens, New York, and Landover, Maryland,^[7] and he attended: Thomas G. Pullen School of Creative and Performing Arts (Landover, Maryland); Fairmont Heights High School (Fairmont Heights, Maryland); Eleanor Roosevelt High School;^[2] and Friendly High School in Fort Washington, Maryland, becoming a Mid-Atlantic Golden Gloves boxing contender. He seriously considered a professional career until he suffered a broken eye that prompted him to reconsider.^[8]
Career
Lawrence ended up moving to New York City and found his way to the legendary The Improv. Shortly after appearing at The Improv, Lawrence won a performance spot on Star Search.^[2] He did well on the show and made it to the final round, but didn't win. However, executives at Columbia Pictures Television saw Martin's performance and offered him the role of "Maurice" on the television sitcom What's Happening Now!!; this was his first acting job.^[2] Upon cancellation of that show, Lawrence found bit parts in various films and television series. His breakthrough role was as Cee in the Spike Lee film Do the Right Thing. Other roles followed in films such as the House Party series, Talkin' Dirty After Dark, and the Eddie Murphy vehicle Boomerang. During this period, entertainment mogul Russell Simmons selected him to host the groundbreaking series Def Comedy Jam on HBO. Def Comedy Jam gave many comedians (including Chris Tucker, Dave Chappelle, Mike Epps, Bernie Mac and Cedric the Entertainer) mainstream exposure.
During his stint with Def Comedy Jam, Lawrence appeared in his own hit series, Martin, which aired on Fox TV.^[2] The show ran from 1992 to 1997 and was an enormous success. Martin was the flagship of Fox's Thursday-night line-up, which drew millions of viewers away from NBC's "Must See TV" line-up. He hosted Saturday Night Live on February 19, 1994, where he made crude remarks about women's genitalia and personal hygiene; the monologue was completely edited out of NBC reruns and syndicated versions, and Lawrence was banned from the show for life. Martin's ratings continued to skyrocket so much that Fox became more of a contender against NBC and came closer to being considered among the top television networks.
After Martin ended its run in 1997, Lawrence found work in comedy films. He often starred as the second lead opposite actors including Eddie Murphy, Danny DeVito, and Tim Robbins.^[2] Many of his films were blockbusters at the box office, including Nothing to Lose, Life, Blue Streak, and Big Momma's House. He also starred in critical- and box-office failures, including Black Knight and National Security. Regardless, his salary steadily increased to over $10 million per film role. He continues to work in film, with such films as Big Momma's House 2, which opened at No. 1 at North American box office and grossed almost $28 million its first weekend,^[9] and Wild Hogs (2007), in which he played a bored suburbanite seeking adventure on the open road in a biker comedy alongside John Travolta, Tim Allen and William H. Macy.
In 2006, Lawrence appeared on Inside the Actors Studio, during which Lawrence briefly brought back to life some of the characters he'd portrayed on Martin.
In 2008, Lawrence starred in Disney's College Road Trip co-starring with Raven-Symoné. It was his first G-rated film, but not his first appearance in a children's film: he supplied a voice for Open Season (2006) opposite Ashton Kutcher.
At the 2009 BET Awards he appeared in a spoof movie trailer with Jamie Foxx for a fictional movie, The Skank Robbers, that featured their respective television characters Sheneneh Jenkins and Ugly Wanda. In 2010, Fox announced that it was producing a film based on the sketch, featuring Foxx, Lawrence, and actress Halle Berry.^[10]
In 2011, Lawrence reprised his role as FBI agent Malcolm Turner in Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son, the third film in the Big Momma's House series.^[11]
In January 2013, it was announced that Lawrence and Kelsey Grammer are considering pairing up to star in a comedy for Lionsgate TV. The series will likely follow the same production model as Charlie Sheen's Anger Management, which is also produced by Lionsgate TV. That show was recently given a hardy back-90 pickup following its initial 10-episode order.^[12] In March 2013, it was announced that television producers/writers Robert L. Boyett and Robert Horn are on board, writing and executive producing. They have worked on the popular hit sitcoms Family Matters, Perfect Strangers, Full House, and Designing Women.^[13]Partners, pairs the two actors as Chicago lawyers from "vastly different backgrounds who unexpectedly meet in court on the worst day of their lives," according to a network description. David A. Arnold has been tapped to write. Arnold has written for television shows including: Raising Whitley, Meet the Browns, The Rickey Smiley Show and more.^[14] Edi Patterson has been cast as a regular and will play Verushka, a busty, sexy Russian woman who co-owns the massage shop next door.^[15]Danièle Watts will play the daughter of Lawrence's character.^[16] The show premiered August 4, 2014.
In August 2014, Martin Lawrence confirmed, on Conan O'Brien, that Bad Boys 3 is almost done being written.^[17]
Personal life
Relationships and family
Lawrence was engaged to actress Lark Voorhies in 1993. He married Patricia Southall, a former Miss Virginia USA, in 1995. Lawrence and Southall have one child together, daughter Jasmin Page (born January 15, 1996). They divorced in 1997.^{[citation needed]} In 1997, Lawrence began a relationship with Shamicka Gibbs. They married on July 10, 2010, at Lawrence's Beverly Hills home. Actors Eddie Murphy and Denzel Washington were among the 120 wedding guests;^[18] R&B singer Shanice serenaded the couple with the Minnie Riperton classic "Lovin' You."^[19] Lawrence and Gibbs have two daughters: Iyanna Faith (born November 9, 2000) and Amara Trinity (born August 20, 2002).^[20] Lawrence filed for divorce from Gibbs on April 25, 2012, citing irreconcilable differences and asking for joint legal and physical custody of the children.^[21]
Lawrence owns a farm near Purcellville, Virginia.^[22]^[23] For many years, he owned a large mansion in the exclusive Beverly Park community, but sold it in June 2012 following his divorce.^[24] His oldest daughter Jasmine is currently a freshman at Duke.
Legal issues and health problems
In July 1995, while on the set filming A Thin Line Between Love and Hate, Lawrence lashed out in a violent rage and was then hospitalized at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.^[25]
On May 8, 1996, he became increasingly erratic and was arrested after he brandished a pistol in the middle of an intersection on Ventura Boulevard in Los Angeles, screaming, "They're trying to kill me!" He was again hospitalized, with his public-relations agent citing exhaustion and dehydration as the reasons for this episode.^[2]
In March 1997, Lawrence was arrested after punching a man in a Hollywood nightclub.^[2] During August 1999, Lawrence slipped into a three-day coma after collapsing from heat exhaustion while jogging in 100-degree heat in preparation for Big Momma's House while wearing heavy clothing and a "plastic suit."^[2]^[26] He recovered in the hospital after nearly dying due to a body temperature of 107 °F (41.7 °C), his breathing assisted by a respirator.^[27]
Television
What's Happening Now!! (cast member from 1987 to 1988) – Maurice Warfield
A Little Bit Strange (1989) (unsold pilot) – Sydney Masterson
Kid 'n Play – Wiz
Hammer, Slammer, & Slade (1990) – Willie
Private Times (1991) (unaired TV pilot)
Def Comedy Jam (host from 1992 to 1993)
Martin (1992–1997) – Martin Payne
Love That Girl! (2010–2011) (executive producer) – Uncle Gerald
Untitled Martin Lawrence / CBS Sitcom (2012) (unsold pilot) – Ray Barker
The Soul Man (2014) - Crazy Rudy (1 episode)
Partners (2014) – Marcus Jackson
Filmography
Year Title Role Notes
1989 Do the Right Thing Cee
1990 House Party Bilal
1991 Talkin' Dirty After Dark Terry Wilson
1991 House Party 2 Bilal
1992 Boomerang Tyler Hawkins
1994 You So Crazy Himself Stand-up film
Executive producer and writer
1995 Bad Boys Det. Marcus Burnett Nominated —MTV Movie Award for Best On-Screen Duo (with Will Smith)
Nominated —MTV Movie Award for Best Action Sequence
1996 A Thin Line Between Love and Hate Darnell Wright Also director
Narrator, executive producer, writer and music supervisor
1997 Nothing to Lose Terrence "T-Paul" Paul Davidson
1999 Life Claude Banks Nominated—Blockbuster Entertainment Awards for Favorite Comedy Team (with Eddie Murphy)
Nominated—NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Motion Picture
1999 Blue Streak Miles Logan/Detective Malone
2000 Big Momma's House Malcolm Turner/Big Momma Also executive producer
Nominated – Blockbuster Entertainment Awards for Favorite Actor – Comedy
Nominated – Teen Choice Award for Film – Wipeout Scene of the Summer
Nominated – MTV Movie Award for Best Comedic Performance
Nominated – Kids' Choice Awards for Favorite Movie Actor
2001 What's the Worst That Could Happen? Kevin Caffrey Also executive producer
2001 Black Knight Jamal Walker/Skywalker Also executive producer
2002 Martin Lawrence Live: Runteldat Himself Stand-up film
Also executive producer and writer
2003 National Security Earl Montgomery Also executive producer
2003 Bad Boys II Detective Marcus Burnett Nominated – MTV Movie Award for Best On-Screen Duo (shared with Will Smith)
2005 Rebound Coach Roy McCormick
Preachor Don Also executive producer
2006 Big Momma's House 2 Malcolm Turner/Big Momma Also executive producer
2006 Open Season Boog Voice only
2007 Wild Hogs Bobby Davis
2008 Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins Dr. RJ Stevens/Roscoe Jenkins, Jr.
2008 College Road Trip Chief James Porter
2010 Death at a Funeral Ryan Barnes
2011 Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son Malcolm Turner/Big Momma
N/A Bad Boys 3^[28] Detective Marcus Burnett

Fury · October 26, 2015

Christoph Waltz

Christoph Waltz (n. 4 octombrie 1956, Viena, Austria) este un actor austriac, cel mai bine cunoscut pentru rolul standartenführerului Hans Landa din filmul Inglourious Basterds, pentru care a câştigat Cel mai Bun Actor la Festivalul de Film de la Cannes, BAFTA, Globul de Aur, Screen Actors Guild şi Premiul Academiei Americane de Artă Cinematografică pentru cel mai bun actor în rol secundar în 2009. Acest ultim premiu l-a primit din nou patru ani mai târziu şi pentru rolul dr. King Schultz din filmul Django Unchained.

Cariera

Christoph Waltz a studiat actoria la Seminarul Max Reinhardt din Viena şi la Institutul de Teatru şi Film Lee Strasberg din New York. A început ca actor de teatru, jucând la Schauspielhaus Zürich, la Burgtheater în Viena şi la Salzburg Festival, după care a jucat în producţii de televiziune. În 2000, a regizat primul său film TV, Wenn man sich traut. În filmul lui Quentin Tarantino din 2009, Inglourious Basterds, Waltz a jucat rolul standartenführerului Hans Landa „vânătorul de evrei”. Pentru acest rol, a primit premiul pentru cel mai bun actor la Festivalul de Film de la Cannes 2009 şi a fost lăudat de critici şi de public. În 2009, a obţinut numeroase distincţii pentru acest rol, cum ar fi Premiul Cercului Criticilor de Film din New York pentru cel mai bun actor în rol secundar, Premiul Societăţii Criticilor de Film din Boston, Premiul Asociaţiei Criticilor de Film din Los Angeles, Globul de Aur pentru cel mai bun actor în rol secundar şi Premiul Sindicatului Actorilor de Film. În cele din urmă, a primit şi Premiul Academiei Americane de Film pentru cel mai bun actor în rol secundar la cea de-a 82-a ediţie a acestor premii.

sursa + filmografie : https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christoph_Waltz

odysey_5 · October 26, 2015

Oana Pellea

Oana Pellea s-a născut la 29 ianuarie 1962 în București. Este fiica Domnicăi Mihaela, născută Policrat, și a actorului român Amza Pellea (7 aprilie 1931 — 12 decembrie 1983).

Actrița a studiat la Institutul de Artă Teatrală și Cinematografică, actualul UNATC și a terminat studiile în promoția 1984, la clasa prof. Sanda Manu. Colegii săi de promoție au fost Carmen Trocan, Mioara Ifrim, Luminița Stoianovici, Răzvan Popa, Cristian Rotaru, Adrian Păduraru și Claudiu Istodor. Din clasa condusă de Olga Tudorache, colegii de generație au fost Carmen Tănase, Bogdan Gheorghiu, Carmen Ciorcilă, Marina Procopie, Radu Duda, Mihai Verbițchi, Patricia Grigoriu și Dan Bădărău.

Majestatea Sa Regele Mihai I al României i-a acordat Oanei Pellea decorația Crucea Casei Regale a României la 25 Octombrie 2012.

Academia Română i-a acordat Oanei Pellea premiul Aristizza Romanescu pentru cariera teatrală și cinematografică la 16 decembrie 2010.

Oana Pellea a primit de două ori titlul de cea mai bună actriță de teatru din România. Oana Pellea a câștigat de două ori premiul Uniunii Oamenilor de Teatru din România (UNITER) pentru cea mai bună actriță și i s-a acordat premiul Fundației Culturale Române pentru Carieră Internațională Remarcabilă.

Oana Pellea a primit numeroase premii internaționale pentru rolul principal din Stare de fapt, regia Stere Gulea, inclusiv premiile pentru Cea mai bună Actriță la Festivalul de Film de la Geneva, premiul Orașului Geneva, la Festivalul Filmului Politic de la San Marino și la Festivalul Internațional de Film "Vulturul de Aur" din Batumi, Georgia. Munca sa cinematografică a inclus "Unde la Soare e frig" al lui Bogdan Dreyer, la fel ca și filmele regizate de Alexandru Tatos, Dan Pița, Stere Gulea și Ion Popescu Gopo

În perioada 1984–1987 a fost actriță la Teatrul din Piatra Neamț. A jucat la Teatrul Bulandra din 1987 până în 1999 și a participat la numeroase turnee din America de Nord, America de Sud, Japonia și Europa. Din 1999, Oana Pellea este liber profesionistă. Performanțele sale notabile au inclus, printre altele, rolurile Mașei din Trei surori a lui Cehov, al lui Lucius din "Iulius Cezar" de W. Shakespeare — pentru care i-a fost acordat Premiul Criticii Internaționale pentru „Cea mai bună actriță”. Alte roluri importante în teatru: Julieta din Mefisto a lui Klaus Mann, Catarina din producția lui Mihai Măniuțiu, Îmblânzirea Scorpiei după Shakespeare și Drussila din Caligula a lui Albert Camus, Timpul din Poveste de iarnă a lui Shakespeare, în regia lui Aleaxandru Darie.

Cariera Oanei Pellea cuprinde peste 50 de roluri importante în teatru și 20 în film.

În 2006 a jucat alături de Clive Owen în filmul "Children of men", în regia lui Alfonso Cuaron (OSCAR 2013) , produs al studiourilor Universal Picture. Acest film a fost realizat în întregime la Londra și a fost nominalizat pentru premiile Oscar la 3 categorii.

În 2007 a fost distribuită în producția britanică "I really hate my job", regia Oliver Parker.

În 2007 a fost distribuită în producția americană "Fire and Ice", regia Jean-Christophe Comar ("Pitof").

Este prezentă, într-un rol important, în distribuția filmului "Biblioteque Pascal", în regia lui Szabolcs Hajdu [1].

Oana Pellea joacă în româna, franceza, engleza și italiana, participând la numeroase producții internaționale, inclusiv producția româno-franceză "Ioana d'Arc-Extrase dintr-un dosar" și producția teatrală francezo-canadiană, în regia lui Marc Doré Mă tot duc, aici alături de Sandu Gruia.

Oana Pellea a avut onoarea de a reprezenta România la mai multe festivaluri internaționale de teatru inclusiv la festivalul anual al Uniunii Teatrelor Europene, Festivalul Klang Bogen de la Viena, Festivalul Internațional Francofon din Franța și Festivalul Americilor din Canada. Face parte din Jurii internaționale de film.

Începând cu stagiunea 2004-2005, joacă la teatrul Bulandra în spectacolul "Scaunele", la Teatrul Foarte Mic în spectacolul "Mă tot duc" și la teatrul Metropolis în "Buzunarul cu pâine".

La 13 mai 2009, Oana Pellea a primit Marele Premiu al Festivalul Comediei Românești "FestCO", ediția a VII-ea pentru "Cel Mai Bun Spectacol" cu piesa "Buzunarul cu Pâine" de Matei Vișniec, traducerea Virgil Tănase. Titlul piesei în franceză este "Du pain plein les poches".

În iunie 2009 a apărut prima carte semnată Oana Pellea la editura Humanitas: "Jurnal 2003-2009". ^[1]

"Jurnal 2003-2009" devine Cartea cea mai bine vândută a Editurii Humanitas cu peste 15.000 de exemplare cumpărate în mai puțin de trei luni (august 2009), iar în octombie (același an) "Jurnalul" ajunge la un tiraj record de 32.000 de exemplare

În martie 2010 Oana Pellea revine pe scena Teatrului Bulandra cu rolul Tanti Roz din Oscar și Tanti Roz de Eric-Emmanuel Schmidt.

În noiembrie 2011 joacă în Vocea Umană de Jean Cocteau în regia Sandei Manu, la Teatrul Metropolis, rol pentru care este nominalizată la premiul UNITER pentru cea mai buna acriță.

2014 premiera spectacolului N(AUM) in regia Mariana Camarasan. Spectacol invitat la festivaluri din tara si din strainatate. Se joaca la Teatrul Mignon din Bucuresti.

2015 premiul Omul Anului la sectia Actor, premiu oferit de Ziarul Cotidianul.

6horses · October 26, 2015

Biografie

S-a nascut pe 22 aprilie 1966 la Seattle, Washington, SUA. Mama sa, Sandy Thomas declara pentru publicatia Seatle Times ca Jeffrey a urmat scolile Ben Franklin Elementary School, Rose Hill Junior High iar in 1984 a absolvit la Lake Washington High School.

Aspira la o cariera in baschet. Dupa cum el declara, va merge la liceu doar pt a juca baschet, insa din cauza unei rani la genunchi va trebui sa renunte la acest sport. Atunci va parasi scoala pt a-si atinge alte aspiratii ale vremii: pictura si scrisul.

In domeniul actoriei a intrat, intr-un fel sau altul mai mult accidental. Ajuta un prieten sa se mute de la Seattle la LA unde se gandea ca va ramane doar un Week-end, insa nu a mai plecat. A simtit o atractie, a descoperit putin talent si a progresat, dupa cum el declara. Inca din 1991, o data cu filmul Uncaged, va aparea in peste 15 filme si va aduce o mare contributie si in televiziune.

In 1996-1997 a jucat in The Burning Zone, apoi din 2000 in numeroase seriale ca JAG, ER, Walker Texas Ranger, CSI, Tru Calling, Sliders, The OC si Monk.

In 2005-2006 va aparea simultan in trei seriale tv: In Supernatural unde va interpreta personajul John Winchester, in serialul de mare succes Grey's Anatomy unde va fi un pacient ce va suferi un transplant de inima, Denny (unde va aparea de-a lungul mai multor sezoane) si in productia Weeds.

In 2008 va face un rol de exceptie pt filmul Accidental Husband unde va juca alaturi de Uma Thurman. Pt 2009 il va interpreta pe The Comedian in superproductia Watchman si ne vor mai fi rezervate alte 4 productii si inca una pt 2010.

Actorul, cum el insusi declara, a fost insurat la un moment dat in viata sa, insa detaliile lipsesc cu desavarsire, nimic ce poate fi oferit publicitatii. Tot ce se cunoaste este ca nu va reusi iar casnicia lor va lua sfarsit printr-un divort.

Din decembrie 2006 isi va da intalniri cu fosta colega din Weeds, Mary-Louise Parker pt ca apoi in iunie 2007 sa anunte despartirea lor. Se vor impaca apoi iar pe 12 februarie 2008 isi vor anunta logodna. Nu va tine decat pana in aprilie a aceluiasi an, moment in care anunta din nou despartirea lor.

Din cauza aspectului sau, actorul va fi de nenumarate ori confundat cu Javier Bardem si actorul Robert Downey JR insa personalitatea sa si talentul sau va face din el o persoana unica si apreciata cu un viitor luminos in industria filmului.

LeviS · October 27, 2015

Macaulay Culkin

De la Wikipedia, enciclopedia liberă

Macaulay Culkin
Macaulay Culkin la Festivalul Internațional de Film de la Berlin în 2010
Născut	Macaulay Carson Culkin 26 august 1980 (35 de ani) Manhattan, New York, SUA
Cetățenie	Statele Unite ale Americii^[1]^[2]^[3]
Ocupație	Actor, muzician
Ani de activitate	1985–prezent
Soț(ie)	Rachel Miner (1998–2002)
Partener(ă)	Mila Kunis (2002–2010) Jordan Lane Price (2013 - prezent)
Părinți	Kit Culkin[*]
Frați	Shane Culkin[], Kieran Culkin[],Christian Culkin[], Rory Culkin[]
Rude	Rory Culkin (frate) Kieran Culkin (frate)
modifică

Macaulay Carson Culkin (născut 26 august 1980) este un actor și muzician american. A devenit cunoscut datorită personajului Kevin McCallister din Singur Acasă și Singur Acasă 2: Pierdut în New York, devenind unul dintre cei mai de succes tineri actori după Shirley Temple.^[4] Bun prieten cu Michael Jackson, Macaulay Culkin a apărut în videoclipul piesei Black or White. Macaulay se clasează pe poziția a doua a două topuri realizate de VH1 ("100 Greatest Kid Stars")^[5] și E! ("50 Greatest Child Stars").^[6]

Filmografie[modificare | modificare sursă]

Macaulay Culkin după decernarea Premiilor Emmy, 25 august 1991

The Midnight Hour (1985) (Film) - Haloween Kid
The Equalizer (1988) (Serial TV) - Paul Gephardt (1 episod)
Rocket Gibraltar (1988) (Film) - Cy Blue Black
See You in the Morning (1989) (Film) - Billy Livingstone
Uncle Buck (1989) (Film) - Miles Russell
Jacob's Ladder (1990) (Film) - Gabe Singer
Singur acasă (1990) (Film) - Kevin McCalister
Wish Kid (1991) (Serial TV) - Nicholas McClary (voce) (Toate cele 13 episoade)
Only the Lonely (1991) (Film) - Billy Muldoon
My Girl (1991) (Film) - Thomas J. Sennett
Black or White (1992) (TV Special) - Kid
Singur acasă 2 - Pierdut în New York (1992) (Film) - Kevin McCalister
Bob Hope's Cross-Country Christmas (1992) (Film) - Mike Harry
Dangerous: The Short Films (1993) (Film) - El însuși
The Good Son (1993) (Film) - Henry Evans
The Nutcracker (1993) (Film) - Nutcracker Prince
Getting Even with Dad (1994) (Film) - Timmy Gleason
Stăpânul cărților (1994) (Film) - Richard Tyler
Frasier (1994) (Serial TV) - Elliot (voce) (1 episod)
Richie Rich (1994) (Film) - Richie Rich
Singur Acasă 4 (2002) (Film) - Vânzător
Party Monster (2003) (Film) - Michael Alig
Will & Grace (2003) (Serial TV) - Jason "J.T." Towne (1 episod)
Foster Hall (2004) (Film) - Clark Hall
Saved! (2004) (Film) - Rolan
Jerusalemski sindrom (2004) (TV Special) - El însuși
Robot Chicken (2005-2010) (Serial TV) - Kevin McCallister, Bastian Bux, Billy, Kid, So Hungry, Luke Duke, Prince Adam, Farmer, Dean Devlin, Sponge, Little Boy, Bullied Kid, Vampir #2, Co-anchor, El însuși (voce) (14 scurtmetraje)
Sex and Breakfast (2007) (Film) - James Fitz
Kings (2009) (Serial TV) - Andrew Cross (5 episoade)
The Wrong Ferarri (2011) (Film) - El însuși
Adam Green's Aladdin (2015) (Film) - Ralph
The Jim Gaffigan Show (2015) (Serial TV) - El însuși (3 episoade)
Singur Acasă 6 (2016) (Film) - Kevin McCallister

BELLE_ · October 27, 2015

Colin Farrell s-a nascut in Castleknock, Dublin, Irlanda si este fiul lui Rita si Eamon Farrell. Farrell are doua surori, Claudine (care este asistenta personala) şi Catherine, si un frate, Eamon Og. Farrell a primit educatia la Scoala Nationala Castleknock Sf. Brigid, urmat de Colegiul Castleknock si Colegiul Gormanston. La sfarsitul anilor 1980 şi inceputul anilor 1990, el a fost un promitator jucator de fotbal pentru echipa Castleknock Celtic din Dublin, cu rol de portar. In aceasta perioada se intalnea cu Angie Miller.

Farrell da proba pentru grupul irlandez Boyzone cand era inca necunoscut, dar nu a avut succes ca era incapabil sa distinga notele muzicale. Farrell a participat la Gaiety School of Acting, dar a renuntat si la scurt timp a primit roluri mici in diverse filme, printre care si rolul Danny Byrne in Ballykissangel, o drama de pe postul BBC in care a aparut timp de un an, in 1998-1999. In iulie 2001 Farrell se casatoreste cu actrita englezoaica Amelia Warner, de care divorteaza 4 luni mai tarziu. Farrell are un fiu, James (nascut la 12 septembrie 2003), cu modelul american Kim Bordenave, de care se desparte.

In decembrie 2005, Farrell in mod voluntar intra intr-un centru de tratament de reabilitare pentru dependenta de droguri calmante. Publicistul lui a specificat ca Farrell a inceput sa ia calmante datorita unei rani de pe spate. Este eliberat in ianuarie 2006, iar in mai 2006, Farrell a început participarea la sedintele de reabilitare. El detine în prezent o proprietate ij aproprierea de Parcul Phoenix din Dublin, dar locuieste intr-o casa din Los Angeles pentru a fi aproape de fiul sau James.

http://www.cinemagia.ro/actori/colin-farrell-3834/

Chani · October 27, 2015

John Travolta

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John Travolta
Travolta in 2013
Born	John Joseph Travolta February 18, 1954 (age 61) Englewood, New Jersey, U.S.
Residence	Jumbolair subdivision; Ocala, Florida Los Angeles
Occupation	Actor, producer, writer, singer, dancer, pilot
Years active	1969–present
Religion	Roman Catholic (1954–75) Scientologist (1975–present)
Spouse(s)	Kelly Preston (m. 1991)
Children	3
Relatives	Ellen Travolta (sister)
Website	travolta.com

John Joseph Travolta (born February 18, 1954)^[1]^[2] is an American actor, dancer, and singer. Travolta first became known in the 1970s, after appearing on the television series Welcome Back, Kotter (1975–1979) and starring in the box office successes Saturday Night Fever (1977) and Grease (1978). His acting career declined through the 1980s, but enjoyed a resurgence in the 1990s with his role in Pulp Fiction (1994), and he has since starred in films such as Face/Off (1997), Swordfish(2001), Wild Hogs and Hairspray (both 2007).

Travolta was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for Saturday Night Fever and Pulp Fiction. He won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for his performance in Get Shorty. In 2014, he received the IIFA Award for Outstanding Achievement in International Cinema.^[3]

Early life

Travolta, the youngest of six children,^[4] was born^[1] and raised in Englewood, New Jersey, an inner-ring suburb of New York City. His father, Salvatore Travolta (November 1912 – May 1995),^[5] was a semi-professional American football player^{[citation needed]} turned tire salesman and partner in a tire company.^[1] His mother, Helen Cecilia (née Burke, January 1912 – December 1978),^[5] was an actress and singer who had appeared in The Sunshine Sisters, a radio vocal group, and acted and directed before becoming a high school drama and English teacher.^[6] His siblings, Joey, Ellen, Ann, Margaret, and Sam Travolta, have all acted.^[6] His father was a second-generation Italian American and his mother was Irish American;^[7]^[8] he grew up in an Irish-American neighborhood and has said that his household was predominantly Irish in culture.^[9]^[10] He was raised Roman Catholic, but converted to Scientology in 1975.^[8]^[11] Travolta attended Dwight Morrow High School, but dropped out as a junior at age 17 in 1971.^[12]

Career

Early career

Travolta as Vinnie Barbarino in the ABC comedy Welcome Back Kotter, c. 1976

After attending Dwight Morrow High School,^[13] Travolta moved across the Hudson River to New York City and landed a role in the touring company of the musical Grease and on Broadway in Over Here!, singing the Sherman Brothers' song "Dream Drummin'".^[14]^[15] He then moved to Los Angeles to further his career in show business.

Travolta's first California-filmed television role was as a fall victim in Emergency! (S2E2), in September 1972,^[16] but his first significant movie role was as Billy Nolan, a bully who was goaded into playing a prank on Sissy Spacek's character in the horror film Carrie (1976).^[17] Around the same time, he landed his star-making role as Vinnie Barbarinoin the TV sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter (1975–1979), in which his sister, Ellen, also occasionally appeared (as Arnold Horshack's mother).^[18] The show aired on ABC.

1970s stardom

Travolta had a hit single entitled "Let Her In", peaking at number ten on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in July 1976.^[19]^[20]^[21] In the next few years, he appeared in two of his most noted screen roles: Tony Manero in Saturday Night Fever (1977) and as Danny Zuko in Grease (1978).^[6] The films were among the most commercially successful pictures of the decade and catapulted Travolta to international stardom.^[22] Saturday Night Fever earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor.^[23] At age 24, Travolta became one of the youngest performers ever nominated for the Best Actor Oscar.^[24] His mother and his sister Ann appeared as extras in Saturday Night Fever and his sister Ellen appeared as a waitress in Grease. Travolta performed several of the songs on the Grease soundtrack album.^[25] In 1980, Travolta inspired a nationwide country music craze that followed on the heels of his hit film, Urban Cowboy, in which he starred with Debra Winger.^[26]

Downturn

Travolta in 1983

After Urban Cowboy, Travolta starred in a series of financial and critical failures that sidelined his acting career. These included Perfect, co-starring Jamie Lee Curtis, and Two of a Kind, a romantic comedy reteaming him with Olivia Newton-John. During that time he was offered, but turned down, lead roles in what would become box office hits, including American Gigolo^[27] and An Officer and a Gentleman, both of which went to Richard Gere.^[28]

Resurgence

Travolta in 1997

In 1989, Travolta starred with Kirstie Alley in Look Who's Talking, which grossed $297,000,000, making it his most successful film since Grease. Travolta continued to the two sequels Look Who's Talking Too (1990) and Look Who's Talking Now (1993). But it was not until he played Vincent Vegain Quentin Tarantino's hit Pulp Fiction (1994), for which he received an Academy Award nomination, that his career revived.^[6]^[29]^[30] The movie shifted him back onto the A-list, and he was inundated with offers. Notable roles following Pulp Fiction include a movie-buff loan shark in Get Shorty (1995), an FBI agent and terrorist in Face/Off (1997), a desperate attorney in A Civil Action (1998), a Bill Clinton-esque presidential candidate in Primary Colors(1998),^[6] and a military investigator in The General's Daughter (1999).

2000–present

Travolta also starred in and co-produced Battlefield Earth (2000), based on a work of science fiction by L. Ron Hubbard, in which he played the leader of a group of aliens that enslaves humanity on a bleak future Earth. The film received almost universally negative reviews and did very poorly at the box office.^[31] Travolta's performance in Battlefield Earthalso earned him two Razzie Awards. In 2007, he starred in Wild Hogs and played Mrs. Edna Turnblad in the remake of Hairspray, his first musical since Grease.^[32] In 2008 he lent his voice for the film Bolt, in which he played the title role. Similarly, he is to play the voice of Gummy Bear in an animated film release scheduled for late 2015, Gummy Bear the Movie 3D, a film that may be noted more for its associated merchandise revenues.

Personal life

Relationships

Travolta dancing with Diana, Princess of Wales, at the White House, November 9, 1985. She is wearing herTravolta dress.

Travolta was in a relationship with actress Diana Hyland, whom he met while filming The Boy in the Plastic Bubble; Hyland died of breast cancer in 1977.^[33]

Travolta married actress Kelly Preston in 1991. The couple had a son, Jett (April 13, 1992 – January 2, 2009).^[34] Their daughter, Ella Bleu, was born in 2000 and a third child, a son named Benjamin, was born in 2010 in Florida.^[35] Travolta and Preston have regularly attended marriage counseling; Travolta has stated that therapy has helped the marriage.^[36]

Travolta and wife Kelly Preston at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival.

In May 1991, Time magazine published a cover story entitled "The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power". In the article, former Church of Scientology Executive Director William Franks alleged that Travolta was wary of leaving the faith because he feared the Church would publish detailed revelations of his private life, to include homosexual behavior.^[37] These claims were reiterated by Franks and other Scientology defectors in Lawrence Wright's 2013 book Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief, and former Church official Marty Rathbun claimed that he worked with Travolta's attorneys several times to keep allegations about Travolta's homosexuality out of the press and resolve lawsuits against the star.^[38]^[39]

In May 2012, an anonymous masseur filed a lawsuit against Travolta citing claims of sexual assault and battery. A lawyer for Travolta said that the allegations were "complete fiction and fabrication" and someone wanting their 15 minutes of fame. Travolta's counsel also stated that his client would be able to prove that he was not in California on the day in question and asserted that Travolta would "sue the attorney and Plaintiff for malicious prosecution" after getting the case thrown out.^[40] A second masseur later joined the lawsuit making similar claims.^[41]^[42] Both lawsuits were subsequently dropped by the complainants and dismissed withoutprejudice.^[43]

A judge ruled to dismiss a defamation lawsuit against Travolta and his attorney Marty Singer by writer Robert Randolph. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Malcolm Mackey dismissed the case on September 27, 2012, because he found that a letter, written by Singer in response to allegations in a book by Randolph, had free speech protection.^[44]

In September 2014, Travolta denied claims made in January 2014 by his former pilot, Douglas Gotterba, that they had shared a sexual relationship while working for Travolta's aircraft company, Alto, for six years before leaving voluntarily in 1987. Gotterba argued that he was not bound by any confidentiality agreement during his term in the position.^[45]

Son's death

In 2009, Travolta's son, Jett, died while on a Christmas vacation in The Bahamas.^[46]^[47] A Bahamian death certificate was issued, attributing the cause of death to a seizure.^[48] Jett, who had a troubled history of seizures, reportedly suffered from Kawasaki disease at the age of two.^[49]^[50] Travolta confirmed speculation that his son had autism and suffered regular seizures and immediately made his public statements while giving testimony after a multimillion-dollar extortion plot against him in connection to his son's death.^[51] After a mistrial, Travolta dropped the charges and has credited his immediate family and faith in helping him survive the premature death of his son and in moving forward with his film career.^[52]^[53]^[54]

Religion

Travolta has been a practitioner of Scientology since 1975 when he was given the book Dianetics while filming the movie The Devil's Rain in Durango, Mexico.^[55] After the 2010 Haiti earthquake, joining other celebrities in helping with the relief efforts, Travolta flew his Boeing 707 full of supplies, doctors, and Scientologist Volunteer Ministers into the disaster area.^[56]

Pilot

Travolta in 2002, in the cockpit of his Boeing 707

Travolta is an accomplished private pilot, with multiple certifications and extensive experience.^[57]^[58] He owns five aircraft, including an ex-Qantas Boeing 707-138 airliner that bears the name Jett Clipper Ella in honor of his children.^[59] Pan American World Airways was a large operator of the Boeing 707 and used Clipper in its names. The 707 aircraft bears the marks of Qantas, as Travolta acts as an official goodwill ambassador for the airline wherever he flies.^[60]

His $4.9 million estate in the Jumbolair subdivision in Ocala, Florida, is situated on Greystone Airport with its own runway and taxiway right to his house, with two outbuildings for covered access to planes.^[57]^[61]^[62]

On November 24, 1992, Travolta was piloting his Gulfstream N728T at night above a solid undercast, when he experienced a total electrical system failure, while flying underinstrument flight rules into Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. During the emergency landing, he almost had a mid-air collision with a USAir Boeing 727, an event attributed to a risky decision by an air traffic controller.^[63]

Travolta was inducted into the Living Legends of Aviation in 2007 and acts as the award show's official ambassador.^[64]

On September 13, 2010, during the first episode of the final season of her talk show, Oprah Winfrey announced that she would be taking her entire studio audience on an 8-day expenses-paid trip to Australia, with Travolta serving as pilot for the trip. He had helped Winfrey plan the trip for more than a year.^[65]

He is the author of the book Propeller One-Way Night Coach, the story of a young boy's first flight.^[66]

Filmography

Film
Year	Title	Role	Notes
1975	The Tenth Level	John	TV movie
1975	The Devil's Rain	Danny
1976	The Boy in the Plastic Bubble	Tod Lubitch	TV movie Nominated—TV Land Award
1976	Carrie	Billy Nolan
1977	Saturday Night Fever	Tony Manero	National Board of Review Award for Best Actor Nominated—Academy Award for Best Actor Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy 3rd place—National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor 3rd place—New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor
1978	Moment by Moment	Strip Harrison
1978	Grease	Daniel "Danny" Zuko	Henrietta Award – World Film Favorite Actor Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
1980	Urban Cowboy	Buford 'Bud' Uan Davis
1981	Blow Out	Jack Terry
1983	Staying Alive	Tony Manero
1983	Two of a Kind	Zack Melon
1985	Perfect	Adam Lawrence
1987	Basements	Ben	TV segment "The Dumb Waiter"
1989	Look Who's Talking	James Ubriacco
1989	The Experts	Travis
1990	Look Who's Talking Too	James Ubriacco
1991	Shout	Jack Cabe
1991	Eyes of an Angel	Bobby	Aka The Tender
1991	Chains of Gold	Scott Barnes	TV movie; also writer
1992	Boris and Natasha: The Movie	Himself	Cameo
1993	Look Who's Talking Now	James Ubriacco
1994	Pulp Fiction	Vincent Vega	MTV Movie Award for Best Dance Sequence (shared with Uma Thurman) David di Donatello Award for Best Foreign Actor London Critics Circle Film Award for Actor of the Year Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor Stockholm International Film Festival for Best Actor Nominated—Academy Award for Best Actor Nominated—BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role Nominated—Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor Nominated—Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama Nominated—MTV Movie Award for Best Performance Nominated—MTV Movie Award for Best On-Screen Duo (shared with Samuel L. Jackson) 3rd place—National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
1995	Get Shorty	Chili Palmer	American Comedy Award for Funniest Actor in a Motion Picture (Leading Role) Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Southeastern Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
1995	White Man's Burden	Louis Pinnock
1996	Michael	Michael
1996	Phenomenon	George Malley
1996	Orientation: A Scientology Information Film	Himself	Short subject
1996	Broken Arrow	Maj. Vic 'Deak' Deakins	Nomination—MTV Movie Award for Best Villain Nomination—MTV Movie Award for Best Fight (shared with Christian Slater)
1997	Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's	Himself	Documentary
1997	Mad City	Sam Baily
1997	Face/Off	Sean Archer/Castor Troy	MTV Movie Award for Best On-Screen Duo (shared with Nicolas Cage) Nomination—Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Actor – Action/Adventure Nomination—MTV Movie Award for Best Performance Nomination—MTV Movie Award for Best Villain (shared with Nicolas Cage) Nomination—Saturn Award for Best Actor
1997	She's So Lovely	Joey Giamonti	Also executive producer
1998	A Civil Action	Jan Schlichtmann
1998	The Thin Red Line	Brigadier General Quintard	Satellite Special Achievement Award for Outstanding Motion Picture Ensemble
1998	Junket Whore	Himself	Documentary
1998	Primary Colors	Governor Jack Stanton	Nomination—Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
1999	The General's Daughter	Warr. Off. Paul Brenner/Sgt. Frank White
1999	Our Friend, Martin	Kyle's dad	Animated educational film, voice only
2000	Battlefield Earth	Terl	Razzie Award for Worst Actor
2000	Lucky Numbers	Russ Richards	Razzie Award for Worst Actor
2000	Welcome to Hollywood	Himself	Mockumentary; cameo
2001	Domestic Disturbance	Frank Morrison
2001	Swordfish	Gabriel Shear
2002	Austin Powers in Goldmember	"Austinpussy" Johann van der Smut (Goldmember) / Himself	Cameo
2003	Basic	Tom Hardy
2004	Ladder 49	Captain Mike Kennedy
2004	A Love Song for Bobby Long	Bobby Long
2004	The Punisher	Howard Saint
2005	Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D	James Benson "Jim" Irwin	Narrator; documentary
2005	Be Cool	Chili Palmer
2006	Lonely Hearts	Elmer C. Robinson
2007	Wild Hogs	Woody Stevens
2007	Hairspray	Edna Turnblad	Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Cast Hollywood Film Festival for Ensemble of the Year Hollywood Film Festival for Supporting Actor of the Year Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture Nominated—Palm Springs International Film Festival Ensemble Cast Award Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
2008	Bolt	Bolt	Voice
2009	The Taking of Pelham 123	Benard Ryder
2009	Old Dogs	Charlie Reed
2010	From Paris with Love	Charlie Wax
2012	Savages	Dennis
2013	Killing Season	Emil Kovac
2014	The Forger	Ray Cutter
2015	Gummy Bear the Movie 3D	Gummy Bear	Voice
2015	Criminal Activities	Eddie	Post-production
2015	In a Valley of Violence	The Marshal	Post-production
2016	I Am Wrath		Filming

Television
Year	Title	Role	Notes
1972	Emergency!	Chuck Benson^[67]	Episode: "Kids"
1972	Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law		Episode: "A Piece of God"
1973	The Rookies	Eddie Halley	Episode: " Frozen Smoke"
1974	Medical Center	Danny	Episode: "Saturday's Child"
1975–1979	Welcome Back, Kotter	Vincent "Vinnie" Barbarino	Main Role (Seasons 1–3) / Special Guest Star (Season 4); 79 episodes
2014	Kirstie	Mickey	Episode: "Mickey & Maddie"
2015	American Crime Story	Robert Shapiro	Miniseries

Discography

Albums

Year	Album	US
1974	Over Here!	—
1976	John Travolta	39
1977	Can't Let You Go	66
1978	Travolta Fever	161
1978	Grease	1
1983	Two of a Kind	26
1986	The Road to Freedom	—
1996	Let Her In: The Best of John Travolta	—
2003	The Collection	—
2007	Hairspray	—
2012	This Christmas (with Olivia Newton-John)	81

Singles

Year	Title	USBillboard	US Cash Box	USRecord World	US AC	CAN	CAN AC	UK
1974	"Dream Drummin'"
1975	"Easy Evil"
1975	"Can't Let You Go"
1976	"You Set My Dreams to Music"
	"Goodnight Mr. Moon"
	"Rainbows"
	"Settle Down"
	"Moonlight Lady"
	"Right Time of the Night"
	"Big Trouble"
	"What Would They Say"
	"Back Doors Crying"
	"Let Her In"	10	5		16	7	12
	"Whenever I'm Away from You"	38	62			61
	"Slow Dancin'"
	"It Had to Be You"
	"I Don't Know What I Like About You Baby"
1977	"All Strung Out on You"	34	28			30
	"Baby, I Could Be So Good at Lovin' You"
	"Razzamatazz"
1978	"You're the One That I Want" (with Olivia Newton-John)	1	3			2		1
	"Summer Nights" (with Olivia Newton-John)	5	3			3		1
	"Sandy"	—	—	—	—		—	2
	"Greased Lightnin'"	47	45					11
1980	"Never Gonna Fall in Love Again"				—	—	—	—
1983	"Take a Chance" (with Olivia Newton-John)			—		—		—
1997	"Two Sleepy People" (with Carly Simon)			—		—	—	—
2008	"I Thought I Lost You" (with Miley Cyrus)			—

Biografie

S-a născut la Râmnicu Vâlcea într-o familie de negustori. După terminarea liceului la Râmnicu Vâlcea, „Bibanul” (poreclă primită în liceu) a trebuit să aleagă între sportul de performanţă şi actorie. El a obţinut chiar o stea de aur, la un campionat de amatori, la Râmnicu Vâlcea; a luptat în ring la categoria mijlocie. A debutat ca amator la vârsta de 17 ani, la un bal organizat de fanfara gării.

În 1956 a câştigat premiul I pentru interpretare cu piesa Steaguri pe turnuri (îl interpreta pe „banditul” Rijikov), la un concurs pentru tineri actori. A fost remarcat de Sică Alexandrescu; practic acesta a fost debutul carierei sale.

A fost prieten cu Ion Cojar şi Liviu Ciulei; cu ultimul a colaborat pentru Farfuridi din „O scrisoarea pierdută”, unde a avut colegi de excepţie: Rodica Tapalagă, Petre Gheorghiu, Ştefan Bănică, Mircea Diaconu, Octavian Cotescu, Cioranu şi Ciulei însuşi. Liviu Ciulei l-a numit „Un actor de geniu”.

Dem Rădulescu a fost unul dintre marii actori de comedie români de teatru, film şi televiziune, profesor la Universitatea Naţională de Artă Teatrală şi Cinematografică „I. L. Caragiale” din Bucureşti.

A fost casatorit cu actrita Paula Radulescu, de care mai apoi a divortat, casatorindu-se cu eleva sa de la I.A.T.C., actrita Adriana Schiopu, urmasa lor fiind Irina Radulescu.

S-a stins din viaţă în Bucureşti, la 17 septembrie 2000.

FLOW · October 28, 2015

Stela Popescu

Pentru alte persoane având același prenume, a se vedea pagina Stela.

Stela Popescu
Stela Popescu (în decembrie 2011)
Născută	21 decembrie 1935 (79 de ani) Orhei, Basarabia
Ocupație	actor
Ani de activitate	1958 - prezent
Cetățenie	România
modifică

Stela Popescu (n. 21 decembrie 1935, Orhei, Basarabia) este oactriță română de teatru, film și televiziune. A realizat cupluri celebre alături de Ștefan Bănică și Alexandru Arșinel.

Cuprins

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Biografie

Stela Popescu s-a născut într-o familie de învățători modești, iar prima amintire pe care o are bine întipărită în memorie este invadarea Basarabiei de către armata rusă. Atunci, în 1940, tatăl ei considerat intelectual, deci dușman de clasă, este deportat în Siberia, iar mama se refugiază, împreună cu fiica în România, laBrașov. În 1953, susține examenul de admitere la facultate și este repartizată la Facultatea de Limbă Rusă „Maxim Gorki“, la care renunță după un an și jumătate când intră în echipa Teatrului Ministerului de Interne. În 1956 este admisă la Institutul de Artă Teatrală și Cinematografică, iar în paralel continuă să susțină spectacole de teatru. La sfârșitul facultății, este repartizată la Teatrul din Brașov, acolo unde ajunge să susțină 400 de spectacole pe an. Din 1963 până in 1969 joacă la Teatrul de Revistă "Constantin Tănase". În 1969, Stela părăsește Revista și se angajează la Teatrul de Comedie, ceea ce nu o impiedică să continue colaborarea cu Radiodifuziunea Română (pe atunci Radioteleviziunea) din 1963 până în prezent. În paralel, susține și o colaborare cu Revista Românească, sub condeiul lui Mihai Maximilian, cu care avea să se căsătorească în 1969, la puțin timp după divorțul de Dan Puican. Totodată, joacă în celebra serie de spectacole "Boema" de la Grădina Boema, spectacole care se înscriu în peisajul anti-putere pentru vremea aceea, cu succes de public foarte mare. Timp de 24 de ani cât a jucat la Teatrul de Comedie, vara, când se încheia stagiunea teatrală, juca la Revistă la Grădina Boema. La Teatrul de Comedie joacă din 1969 până în 1993, când revine la Teatrul de Revistă "Constantin Tănase", unde lucrează și în prezent. Pe scena Teatrului de Revistă "Constantin Tănase" și pe cea a Teatrului de Comedie, Stela Popescu strălucește în piese precum "Omul care a văzut moartea", "Mama Boema", "Boema, slăbiciunea mea" etc. A jucat 18 ani în "Preșul", 12 ani în "Pețitoarea" și 10 ani în "Plicul". A avut șansa de a lucra cu mari regizori, precum: Sanda Manu, Ion Cojar, Lucian Giurchescu, Valeriu Moisescu.

Între anii 1971 și 1979 face cuplul, pe scenă și la televiziune, cu Ștefan Bănică. Cât despre longevivul cuplu umoristic Stela - Alexandru Arșinel, care a început în 1979, acesta a fost garanția umorului de calitate și în prezent, dar și în trecut, când textele scenetelor erau semnate Mihai Maximilian.

În 1958, debutează în cinematografie în pelicula "Alo? Ați greșit numărul". A jucat în peste 25 de filme precum Nea Mărin miliardar (1979), "Pe malul stîng al Dunării albastre" (1983), "În fiecare zi mi-e dor de tine" (1988), etc.

Stela Popescu a făcut o carieră și în televiziune. A jucat în televiziune de la înființare până în prezent, în piese de teatru și emisiuni de divertisment, reușind să transmită ceva din spiritul satiric și contestatar al Revistei prin textele unor scriitori de valoare: Mihai Maximilian, Grigore Pop, Octav Sava sau Dan Mihăescu. TVR a scos pe piață DVD-urile "O stea printre stele" (2006) și "Stela și Arșinel" (2005) care reunesc o parte dintre aparițile televizate ale Stelei Popescu.

Începând jumătatea anilor '90, Stela Popescu a fost moderatoarea unor emisiuni TV pentru femei pe posturile TVR,Realitatea și Național TV

Joacă în serialul TV "Cuscrele" (2005-2006) precum și în telenovelele "Râzboiul sexelor" (2007-2008), "Regina" (2008-2009) și "Aniela" (2009-2010) în rolul Coanei Chiva. În 2011 revine cu o participare specială în telenovelaIubire și Onoare.

Teatru]

Teatrul de Revistă Constantin Tănase (1963-1969 și 1993-prezent)- selectiv

Aplauze, Aplauze (2010)
Revista revistelor
Omul care a văzut moartea
Te aștept diseară pe Lipscani
Nevestele vesele..la Boema (1979)
Boema, slăbiciunea mea (1980)
În grădina bucuriilor (1975)
Constelația Boema (1984)
Boema, bucuria mea (1985)
Stela, stelele și Boema (1987)
Buna seara,Boema (1989)

Teatrul de comedie (1969-1993) - selectiv

Dispariția lui Galy (Brecht)
Un om egal un om (Brecht)
Mutter Courage (Brecht)
Mandragora (Machiaveli)
Steaua fără nume (Mihail Sebastian)
Preșul (Ion Băieșu) - piesă care s-a jucat 18 ani
Pețitoarea (Thornton) - piesă care s-a jucat 12 ani
Plicul (Rebreanu) - piesă care s-a jucat 10 ani
Trei surori (Cehov)
Marele feudal (Al. Mirodan)
Curcanul
Turnul de fildeș - Premiul pe țară pentru cel mai bun rol secundar
Sfăntul Mitică Blajinul (Aurel Baranga)
Capcană pentru un bărbat singur (Neil Simon)

Opera Comică pentru Copii - selectiv

Piatra din casă
Cântăreț
Chirița

Teatru Radiofonic

Agachi
Flutur
Avarul
Burghezul gentilom
Cafeneaua cea mică
Catrina din Heilbrunn
Caviar, vodka si bye bye
Cinci cânticele
Coana Chirița cântăreță
Dimineața pierdută
Din nou... Caragiale
Divanul Persian
Doamna ministru
Fata cinstită
Ferma de struți
Filantropul actor
Franțuzitele și un poet romantic
Gaițele (varianta 1964)
Gaițele (varianta 2002)
Hangița
Hades în război
Încurcă lume
Leac pentru chelie
Mânastirea din Parma
Mizantropu
Nunta lui Figaro
O viață pe roată
Rinocerii actor
Sânziana și Pepelea
Stăpânul tăcerii actor
Suflete moarte
Trenurile mele
Un cuib de nobili

Seriale TV

2011 - Iubire și Onoare-Zahira
2009-2010 - Aniela-Coana`Chiva
2008-2009 - Regina-Sofia Rădulescu
2007-2008 - Războiul Sexelor-Tincuța
2005 - Cuscrele

Filmografi

Mamaia (2013)
Rămâi cu mine (2013)
Toată lumea din familia noastră (2012)
Mașini și Mașini 2 - dublaj Flo (voce vers.română)(2006), (2011)
Sexy Harem Ada-Kaleh (2001)
A doua cădere a Constantinopolului (1994)
Maria Mirabela în Tranzistoria (1989)
În fiecare zi mi-e dor de tine (1988)
Figuranții (1987)
Secretul lui Nemesis (1987)
Vară sentimentală (1986)
Galax, omul păpușă (1984)
Un petic de cer (1984)
Zbor periculos (1984)
Pe malul stîng al Dunării albastre (1983)
Căruța cu mere (1983)
Am o idee (1981)
Ana și hoțul (1981)
Grăbește-te încet (1981)
Nea Mărin miliardar (1979)
Drumuri în cumpănă (1978)
Tufa de Veneția (1977)
Ultima noapte a singurătății (1976)
Elixirul tinereții (1975)
Despre o anumită fericire (1973)
Dimitrie Cantemir (1973)
Astă seară dansăm în familie (1972)
Recomandări (1971) (TV)
Pantoful Cenușăresei (1969)
Vin cicliștii (1968)
Faust XX (1966)
Sărutul (1965)
Omul de lângă tine (1961)
Alo? Ați greșit numărul (1958)

Premii și distincți

Președintele României Ion Iliescu i-a conferit la 7 februarie 2004 Ordinul Meritul Cultural în grad de Comandor, Categoria D - "Arta Spectacolului", „în semn de apreciere a întregii activități și pentru dăruirea și talentul interpretativ pus în slujba artei scenice și a spectacolului”.^[1]

În data de 10 septembrie 2013 fostul rege Mihai I al României i-a conferit, prin fiica sa, principesa Margareta) într-o ceremonie care a avut loc la Castelul Peleș din Sinaia, decorația „Nihil Sine Deo”.^[2]

Bibliografie

Rhea Cristina; "Stela Popescu - Povestea succesului", Editura Curtea Veche, 2002

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odysey_5 · October 28, 2015

Ce nu știai despre Marilyn Monroe

Să facem o călătorie în lunga listă de nume: Norma Jean Mortenson, pe certificatul de naștere, Norma Jean Baker, numele de botez, Norma Jean, nume de model, Mona Monroe sau Zelda Zonk la hoteluri și Faye Miller, atunci când s-a internat la o clinica psihiatrică.

Chiar și astăzi, actrița este considerată un simbol al feminității absolute. Să aflăm ce se află dincolo de această imagine iconică.

A fost plătită mai prost decât alte actrițe ale acelei perioade dar a murit bogată. Fox au dat-o afară cu patru zile înainte să moară dar au reangajat-o și i-au făcut un contract de 1 milion de dolari.

A luat lecții de yoga de la Indra Devi, o vedetă de film Bollywood de origine suedezo-rusească. Indra le-a dat lecții și lui Greta Garbo sau Gloria Swanson.

Marilyn i-a obținut faimoasei cântărețe de jazz Ella Fitzgerald primul mare contract promițîndu-le patronilor unui bar celebru că va sta în primul rând timp de o săptămână, la toate concertele muzicienei.

Era goală foarte frecvent, atât în fața menajerelor, cât și în fața colegelor de platou, ceea ce sugera că se simțea bine în pielea ei.

A spus că președintele Abraham Lincoln îi semăna foarte mult la caracter, mai ales în copilărie, motiv pentru care a fost eroul ei personal.

sursa: http://www.axnwhite.ro/programs/vedete/galleries/ce-nu-stiai-despre-marilyn-monroe?img=3056&title=photo-3056

Marilyn a fost o bucătăreasă foarte bună și foarte apreciată, renumită pentru bouillabaisse-ul ei.

Deși a popularizat zicala „Diamantele sunt cele mai bune prietene ale unei fete”, nu a fost niciodată pasionată de bijuterii și singura piesă cu diamante pe care a purtat-o cu drag a fost un inel de la Joe DiMaggio.

În decembrie 1953, a devenit primul Playmate din istorie apărând în primul număr al revistei „Playboy”.

Unul dintre cele mai mari vise ale lui Marilyn era să devină mamă, dar a pierdut o sarcină în 1957. Biograful ei, Norman Mailer, a declarat că ea a suferit peste 12 avorturi înainte să împlinească 29 de ani, dar nu există nicio dovadă.

Se spăla pe față de cel puțin 15 ori pe zi deoarece ura sudoarea.

Pentru primul său job de model a obținut 5 dolari.

Era o cititoare avidă și adora scriitorii ruși, ca Tolstoy. Citea foarte mult Walt Whitman și a urmat chiar și un curs de literatură la facultate.

BELLE_ · October 29, 2015

A fermecat publicul cu vocea sa în filme precum "Sunetul muzicii" sau "Mary Poppins". Actriţa scrie despre copilărie în "Home. A Memoir of My Early Years".

Autobiografia lui Julie Andrews nu face parte din această categorie. Ea recunoaşte că doi dintre bunicii ei au murit de sifilis şi povesteşte că în cadrul faimoasei scene din "Sunetul muzicii", filmată pe vârf de munte, elicopterul în care era camera o tot dărâma cu vârtejul creat. Dar, în general, viaţa actriţei a fost una fericită. Ea îşi descrie copilăria ca fiind una "magică". Iar cele trei sau patru dezvăluiri şocante nu pun în umbră momentele fericite, mult mai multe.

Sărutată de tatăl vitreg

Descoperită de soţul mamei ei, Ted Andrews, viitoarea mare actriţă a pornit în turnee de vodevil prin Marea Britanie. Tatăl vitreg i-a dat lecţii de canto, dar a şi pus-o în câteva situaţii cel puţin dubioase. Cei doi călătoreau singuri prin ţară, iar tatăl vitreg, un alcoolic incurabil, i-a spus într-o seară că "vrea să-i arate cum o îmbrăţişează pe mama ei". Actriţa avea pe atunci nouă ani şi povesteşte că s-a simţit "în capcană şi claustrofobică". Un alt incident a avut loc în 1951, când actriţa laureată cu Oscar avea 16 ani. Ted Andrews, în stare de ebrietate, a sărutat-o cu forţa pe buze, în dormitorul ei din casa familiei, sub pretextul ca voia s-o înveţe cum se sărută. Mama actriţei, o pianistă de succes, a fost distrusă de soţul său, ajungând şi ea alcoolică şi cu depresii îndelungate. Când avea 14 ani, actriţa se temea că va înnebuni şi ea, spunând că într-o noapte "auzea voci".

Copilărie săracă, dar fericită

În ciuda problemelor familiei, care sunt tratate într-un singur capitol din carte, Julie Andrews se gândeşte cu plăcere la copilăria sa. A crescut într-un sătuc din sudul Angliei şi şi-a iubit mama la nebunie, chiar dacă s-a scufundat, practic, în alcoolism. Cu toate acestea, Andrews mărturiseşte că nu avea cu adevărat încredere în Barbara şi în raţionamentul acesteia. Tatăl său era Ted Wells, un om mult mai blând şi mai raţional decât Ted Andrews, de care mama sa divorţase când Julie avea 4 ani. În carte, actriţa din "Mary Poppins" mai face o dezvăluire şocantă, de care nu ştiau nici fraţii ei. Într-o seară, când avea 14 ani, Julie şi mama sa se întorceau de la o petrecere, Barbara Andrews i-a spus fiicei sale că Ted Wells nu era tatăl ei, ci bărbatul de la a cărui petrecere abia plecaseră. Julie a refuzat să-l cunoască pe acesta.

Cariera unei artiste totale

A învăţat să cânte la pian de la mama sa, o foarte talentată pianistă. A câştigat Oscarul de la al patrulea film în care a jucat - "Mary Poppins", în 1965. În 1966 şi 1983, a mai primit două nominalizări la Oscar, pentru "Sunetul muzicii" şi "Victor/Victoria". Alături de fiica ei, Emily, Julie Andrews a scris o serie de cărţi pentru copii de mare succes.

http://adevarul.ro/news/societate/marturisiri-copilaria-julie-andrews-1_50abae1c7c42d5a6637e64f2/index.html

6horses · October 29, 2015

Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins, CBE (born 31 December 1937) is a Welsh actor of film, stage, and television, and a composer and painter. After graduating from the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama in 1957, he trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, and was then spotted by Laurence Olivier who invited him to join the Royal National Theatre. In 1968, he got his break in film in The Lion in Winter, playing Richard I.

Considered to be one of the greatest living actors,^[1]^[2]^[3] Hopkins is well known for his portrayal of Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor, its sequel Hannibal, and the prequel Red Dragon. Other notable films include The Mask of Zorro, The Bounty, Meet Joe Black, The Elephant Man, Magic, 84 Charing Cross Road, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Legends of the Fall, Thor, The Remains of the Day, Amistad, Nixon, The World's Fastest Indian, Instinct, and Fracture.

Along with his Academy Award, Hopkins has also won three BAFTA Awards, two Emmys and the Cecil B. DeMille Award. In 1993, Hopkins was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for services to the arts.^[4] He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2003, and was made a Fellow of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 2008

Anakin · October 30, 2015

Sean Harris

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Born1966 (age 48–49)
Bethnal Green, London,England, UK

Occupation: Actor

Years active: 1994–present

Sean Harris (born 1966) is an English actor, best known for his role as Micheletto Corella in Showtime's television series The Borgias.[1] Harris has appeared in several independent British films, most notably his performance as the Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis in the film 24 Hour Party People and in the critically acclaimed '71 which earned him a British Independent Film Award nomination for supporting actor. He's also appeared in Brothers of the Head, Harry Brown, Brighton Rock and critically acclaimed miniseries Red Riding Trilogy and Southcliffe. He broke into the mainstream with supporting roles as Fifield in Ridley Scott's Prometheus and Neil Jordan's The Borgias, and as the lead villain opposite Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation.

Life and career

Harris was born in Bethnal Green, London, but grew up in Norwich, Norfolk.[1] At age 23, Harris moved to London to train at the Drama Centre London from 1989 to 1992.[1] Notable roles include the cult horror film Creep, in which he played a psychopathic killer stalking the London Underground. Harris appeared in his first British feature film lead in the independent film Saxon, released in 2007. In Saxon, Harris plays a newly released inmate who returns home owing an accumulating debt

Other notable roles include serial killer Ian Brady, one of the notorious culprits of the Moors Murders, on ITV1's See No Evil: The Moors Murders, and Nick Sidney in thecult mockumentary Brothers of the Head. Harris played Joy Division singer Ian Curtis in Michael Winterbottom film 24 Hour Party People. He has also appeared in the 2007 film Outlaw and in the television film Wedding Belles by Irvine Welsh and Dean Cavanagh. Harris played the drug dealer Stretch in Harry Brown. Harris played small-time criminal Fred Hale in a new film adaptation of Brighton Rock, released in February 2011. Harris appeared in the British thriller film A Lonely Place to Die previously known as The Grave at Angel's Peak directed by Julian Gilbey.[2]

Another notable performance came in 2002. Harris appeared in a short film, directed by Kevin Thomas, True Love (Once Removed). He played a troubled and lonely young man, Steven, with no prospects, who finds, via an illegal time-machine, the young woman who will grow up to become his eventual "true love", except that she is now only an 8-year-old girl. Steven must find a way to place himself in a position to meet her in the future. The film won Best Short Film at both the Palm Springs and Houston Film Festivals and was selected for the Clermont-Ferrand, London Raindance and Los Angeles Short Film festivals and qualified for Oscar nomination in 2004.[3]

Harris gave another noteworthy performance in the short film Native Son in 2010, playing a troubled potato picker whose loneliness, social awkwardness and isolation from the townspeople leads to a one-time road-side event, and a quick decision that has tragic consequences. The film was written and directed by Scottish director Scott Graham and premiered at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival.[4] He played Fifield in the Ridley Scott 2012 science fiction film, Prometheus.

After The Borgias, Harris went on to play Campbell in the film Serena (2014), based on the bestselling novel of the same name by Ron Rash. The cast includes Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence. Harris then filmed Deliver Us From Evil with Eric Bana and Olivia Munn, directed by Scott Derrickson, and based upon the 2001 novel "Beware the Night" by Ralph Sarchie and Lisa Collier Cool. Harris was cast by Derrickson forDeliver Us from Evil, without an interview, based upon Derrickson having seen Harris' performance in Harry Brown.[5] His next role, in 2013, was for The Goob, a feature film in which Harris plays a womanizing stock car driver. The Goob is directed by Guy Myhill (who directed Harris in 1997 in a short film Two Halftimes to Hell and in 2001 Harris also appeared in Myhill's The Bilsons about an unfunny small caravan of travelling circus clowns). In 2010, Harris again worked with Myhill. Harris did a cameo appearance in a music video for the Norwich band the Black Sharks' debut album titled Lose Control.[6]

Known as an intense actor of Stanislavski's system, Harris frequently remains unavailable for interviews while filming, preferring not to break with character.[7] However, his "method" allows him to film with few takes.[8] It was said that in preparing to play Brian Tobin of the Iceni Project for the TV Series, Five Daughters, Harris followed the real Brian Tobin around during pre-production.[9]

Harris has been collaborating with Montserrat Lombard. Together they are working on the screen plays for two short films called White and Imager. Harris will play the lead in the first installment in the series, and Montserrat Lombard (who directed Harris in the music video "Battles"), will direct. This will be Harris' first collaborative screen play in which he will also act. The first short film, White, has completed filming. Harris also has completed filming of Macbeth, directed by Justin Kurzel with the film company See-Saw Films.[10] Summer 2014, Sean Harris filmed "Trespass Against Us", a feature film about three generations of an outlaw family, and conflicting cross-generational loyalties.[11]

At the British Film Institute event of 8–19 October 2014, Harris had 3 films being presented in which he had a role, '71; Serena and The Goob.[12]

Television

Harris' television credits include Channel 4's drama series Cape Wrath as Gordon Ormond, the BBC series Ashes to Ashes as Arthur Layton, the Waking the Dead episode "Pietà" as former Serb war criminalRadovan Sredinić and as the corrupt Inspector Bob Craven in Channel 4's critically acclaimed Red Riding series. In the recent BBC TV drama Five Daughters, he played Brian Tobin, co-founder of The Iceni Project, a drugs treatment facility based in Suffolk. He appeared as the assassin Micheletto in The Borgias, a historical television series created by Neil Jordan. In 2013 he starred in the Channel 4 drama Southcliffe.[13] In 2014, he appeared as Joss Merlyn in the BBC's poorly received adaptation of Jamaica Inn.[14]

Notable appearances

Music video for Mark Ronson's 2007 single "Stop Me".[15]

Svengali, an Internet comedy series written by Dean Cavanagh. Harris played photographer Anton Blair.[16]

Short film for Barbarossa's song "Battles", directed by Montserrat Lombard.[17]

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes

1997Two Half-Times to HellTomShort film

1997Wet WorkSeanShort film

2001The Discovery of HeavenBart Bork

2001The BilsonsPerryShort film

2002True Love (Once Removed)StevenShort film, won Best Short Film at Palm Springs and Houston Film Festivals

2002Tom & ThomasKevin

200224 Hour Party PeopleIan Curtis

2002Pay DayAndyShort film

2003Nicotine YellowDiggieShort film

2004TraumaRoland

2004CreepCraig, the "Creep"

2004The HareSoldier

2005AsylumNick

2005FrozenHurricane Frank

2005Brothers of the HeadNick Sidney

2005IsolationJamie

2007OutlawSimon Hillier

2007SaxonEddie

2009Harry BrownStretch

2010Native SonJohnShort film

2010Brighton RockHale

2011A Lonely Place to DieMr Kidd

2012PrometheusFifield

2014Deliver Us from EvilSantino

2014The GoobGene WomackThe Goob was nominated and won the award for Best Achievement in Production at the British Independent Film Awards

2014'71Captain Sandy BrowningNominated - British Independent Film Award for Best Supporting Actor

2014SerenaCampbell

2015White[18]SamuelShort film co-written by Sean Harris and Montserrat Lombard; post-production

2015MacbethMacduffOpening 2 October (UK); 4 December (U.S.)

2015Mission: Impossible – Rogue NationSolomon Lane

2015Trespass Against UsPost-production

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes

1994MinderDeanTV series (1 episode: "Bring Me the Head of Arthur Daley")

1994The BillMatthew / Russell Hines / Stuart KennedyTV series (3 episodes)

1995Signs and WondersCarl MaynardTV film

1995The VetNeil FairbrotherTV series (1 episode: "Home Truths")

1996A Mug's GameConTV series

1998Kavanagh QCMark HolmesTV series (1 episode: "Care in the Community")

1999JesusThomasTV film

1999Hot HouseCheddarTV film from a BBC series entitled "Acts of Passion"

2000CasualtyTim VannerTV series (1 episode: "Starting Over")

2001The HuntClem MackieTV film

2002Judge John DeedGerry HewittTV series (1 episode: "Political Expediency")

2003The ViceMiles WilsonTV series (1 episode: "Control")

2003StrangeRobin ThomasTV series (1 episode: "Asmoth")

2006See No Evil: The Moors MurdersIan BradyTV film

2007Wedding BellesAdrian CollinsTV film

2007Ashes to AshesArthur LaytonTV series (2 episodes)

2007MeadowlandsGordon OrmondTV series (3 episodes)

2009Red Riding TrilogyDetective Superintendent Bob CravenTV film

2009Law & Order: UKRoland KirkTV series (1 episode: "Community Service")

2009Waking the DeadRadovan SredinicTV series (2 episodes)

2010Five DaughtersBrian TobinTV series (3 episodes)

2011–2013The BorgiasMicheletto CorellaTV series

2013SouthcliffeStephen MortonTV Miniseries
British Academy Television Award for Best Actor

2014Jamaica InnJoss MerlynTV Miniseries

Screen plays

YearTitleNotes

2014White[18]Original story by Sean Harris; screen play co-written with Montserrat Lombard; short film

2015Imager[18]Short co-written by Sean Harris and Montserrat Lombard; expected release 2015

Awards and nominations[edit]

YearAwardCategoryWorkResult

2014British Academy Television AwardsBest ActorSouthcliffeWon

2014British Independent Film AwardBest Supporting Actor'71Nominated

Chani · October 30, 2015

Eric Roberts

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Eric Roberts
Roberts at the Florida SuperCon, June 2015
Born	Eric Anthony Roberts April 18, 1956 (age 59) Biloxi, Mississippi, U.S.
Education	Henry W. Grady High School
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1977–present
Home town	Atlanta, Georgia
Spouse(s)	Eliza Garrett (m. 1992)
Children	Emma Roberts
Parent(s)	Walter Grady Roberts Betty Lou Bredemus
Relatives	Julia Roberts (sister) Lisa Roberts Gillan (sister) Keaton Simons (stepson)
Website	www.ericrobertsactor.com

Eric Anthony Roberts (born April 18, 1956) is an American actor. His career began with King of the Gypsies (1978), earning a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actor Debut. He earned both a Golden Globe and Academy Award nomination for his supporting role in Runaway Train (1985). Through the 1990s and 2000s he maintained dramatic film and TV film roles while appearing in TV series. His TV work includes three seasons with the sitcom Less than Perfect and a recurring role on theNBC drama Heroes. His sisters Julia Roberts and Lisa Roberts Gillan, and daughter Emma Roberts, also have acting careers. He achieved recent recognition for his feat of acting in over 150 films between 2013 and 2015.

Early life[edit]

Roberts was born in Biloxi, Mississippi to Betty Lou Bredemus (1934-2015) and Walter Grady Roberts (1933-1977), one-time actors and playwrights, who met while touring a production of George Washington Slept Here for the armed forces.^[1] In 1963, they co-founded the Atlanta Actors and Writers Workshop in Atlanta, Georgia, off Juniper Street in Midtown. They ran a children's acting school in Decatur, Georgia while they were expecting Julia. Roberts' mother became a church secretary and real estate agent, and his father, a vacuum cleaner salesman.^[2] Roberts' younger siblings, Julia Roberts (from whom he was estranged until 2004) and Lisa Roberts Gillan, are also actors.

Roberts' parents filed for divorce in 1971 and it was finalized early in 1972.^[3] Eric stayed with his father Walter in Atlanta, estranged from his sisters.^[1] Walter died of cancer in March 1977.^[1]^[4] Lisa, Julia and Betty moved to Smyrna, Georgia, after the divorce.^[1] In 1972, Betty married Michael Motes, and had a daughter with him in 1976,^[1] Nancy Motes, who died February 9, 2014, at age 37, of an apparent drug overdose.^[5] Motes was abusive and often unemployed. In 1983, Betty divorced Motes, citing cruelty and stating that marrying him was the biggest mistake of her life.^[6]

Roberts is of English, Scottish, Irish, Welsh, German, and Swedish descent.^[7]^[8]

Career[edit]

Roberts got his start on the now-defunct NBC daytime soap opera Another World originating the role of Ted Bancroft from February 14, 1977, to June 17, 1977.

Roberts received Golden Globe Award nominations for his early starring roles in King of the Gypsies (1978) and Star 80 (1983). He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1985 for his role as the escaped convict Buck in the film Runaway Train; the award went to Don Ameche in Cocoon. In 1987, he won the Theatre World Award for his Broadwaydebut performance in Burn This.

Roberts's other starring roles included Raggedy Man (1981), The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984), The Coca-Cola Kid (1985), Nobody's Fool (1986), Best of the Best (1989), By the Sword (1991), Best of the Best 2 (1993), The Immortals (1995), La Cucaracha (1998), Purgatory (1999), and Stiletto Dance (2001). He also had major supporting roles in the films Final Analysis (1992), The Specialist (1994), and Shannon's Rainbow (2009). He played the Archangel Michael in The Prophecy II (1997).

In 1996, he appeared in the Doctor Who Television film in the role of the Master. When SFX listed previous Masters in Doctor Who, the magazine said of Roberts: "Out-acted by a CGI snake in the same production." In a darkly comic touch, the onscreen wife of Roberts' human character, who is killed by her newly possessed husband (who is taken over by the Master in the form of the above-mentioned CGI snake), is played by his real-life wife.

His recent projects include A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, DOA: Dead or Alive and Royal Kill. He appeared in The Dark Knight as Sal Maroni, a Gotham City Mafia boss who hires The Joker to kill the titular superhero and a renegade mob accountant.^[9]

Roberts co-starred on the ABC situation comedy Less than Perfect. He appeared in an episode of CSI: Miami as Ken Kramer, a murderer on death row convicted of killing a young couple. Another notable TV appearance was the episode "Victims" of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit where he played Sam Winfield, a former cop turned vigilante. In the same year, he was also guest starred on The L Word as Gabriel McCutcheon, the father of Shane McCutcheon. In early January 2007, Roberts starred in the two-part miniseries Pandemic as the mayor of Los Angeles.

Roberts voiced the Superman villain Mongul in the animated series Justice League, and reprised his role in Justice League Unlimited in the episode "For the Man Who Has Everything". He performed the voice ofDark Danny in Nickelodeon's Danny Phantom. He appeared in the first season of Heroes as Thompson, an associate of Mr. Bennet.^[10] He then reprised the role in the third-season episode "Villains" and in the fourth-season "The Wall".

In 2002 Roberts portrayed a FBI detective in Ja Rule's music video for his song "Down Ass Bitch", as well as its sequel "Down 4 U". Roberts also appeared in The Killers' music video for their song "Mr. Brightside" and "Miss Atomic Bomb" as well as in the music videos for Mariah Carey's "We Belong Together" and "It's Like That". In 2006, he appeared in the video for Akon's "Smack That", featuring Eminem. In 2007, he appeared in the video for Godhead's "Hey You". In 2015 he appeared in the Rihanna video "Bitch Better Have My Money". He appeared as a panelist on the television game show Hollywood Squares. In February 2009, Oscar nominee Mickey Rourke, who starred with Roberts in The Pope of Greenwich Village, said he hoped that Roberts would soon be offered a role which would resurrect his career in the way that The Wrestler rejuvenated Rourke's.^[11]

He portrayed Seth Blanchard on the second season of the Starz series Crash, from 2009. In 2009, Roberts appeared as himself in "Tree Trippers", a season five episode of Entourage. He is portrayed as a mushroom and drug fanatic as he gives the boys mushrooms and joins them to Joshua Tree National Park to trip as they contemplate Vince's next movie decision. It was announced in June 2010 that he would be joining the cast of the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless starting July 12.^[12] In 2010, he appeared in the action film The Expendables. Later that year, he appeared alongside Steve Austin and Gary Daniels, his co-stars from The Expendables, in the 2010 action film Hunt to Kill. December 2010 saw the premiere of the fourth season of Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew, which documented Roberts' struggle with dependency on medical marijuana. Roberts starred in the 2012 mystery thriller Deadline, playing the role of politically incorrect reporter Ronnie Bullock.

In 2015, he starts his appearance in season 5 of Lost Girl, a very appreciated Canadian TV show by Showcase (Canadian TV channel), as main character's father, Bo. He plays an Ancient god of Darkness and calls himself "The Darkness".

Personal life[edit]

Roberts's daughter Emma Roberts, with his then-girlfriend Kelly Cunningham,^[13] was born on February 10, 1991. Emma eventually became an actress as well, making her major-film debut at age 10 in the 2001 drama Blow.^[13]

On January 12, 2001, Roberts visited The Howard Stern Radio Show with his wife during a segment called "The Gossip Game" with Mike Walker of the National Enquirer. He confirmed that he and Julia had been estranged for several years. The source of the estrangement had been his past drug abuse and her siding with his ex-girlfriend over the custody of his daughter. In 2004, he told People magazine that he and his sister were reconciled when he visited her in the hospital after she gave birth to twins.^[14]

Roberts is a vegan and supporter of animal rights.^[15]^[16]^[17]^[18]

Arrests and drug problems[edit]

In 1987, Roberts was arrested for possession of cocaine and marijuana, and resisting arrest after he tried to assault a New York police officer.^[19] He spent 36 hours in jail, pleaded guilty to harassment, and had all other charges dropped.^[20]

In February 1995, Roberts was arrested for shoving his wife, Eliza Garrett, into a wall.^[19] He subsequently announced that he was giving up drug use entirely.^[20]

In 2010, Roberts appeared as a cast member in the fourth season of the VH1 reality television series Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew, for dependency on medical marijuana.^[21] His wife, Eliza, and his stepson, Keaton Simons, appeared in episode 6 to discuss the effects of his addiction on their lives.^[22]

odysey_5 · October 30, 2015

Totul despre Lucy Liu

Lucy Liu a devenit cunoscută datorită rolului din serialul „Ally McBeal”, în care a jucat-o pe răutăcioasa și nepoliticoasa Ling Woo. cu toate acestea, actrița și-a spălat păcatele interpretând un Înger al lui Charlie în filmul omonim, alăuri de Cameron Diaz și Drew Barrymore. Acum, Lucy apare în filmul „Sherloc Holmes și Dr.Watson”

Atât Lucy, cât și colegul ei Jonny Lee Miller din „Sherlock Holmes și Dr. Watson” au jucat rolul unui personaj negativ numit Oren.

Lucy a interpretat-o pe O-Ren Ishii în filmul „Kill Bill”, în timp ce Jonny l-a jucat pe Oren Goodchild în „Aeon Flux”, alături de Charlize Theron

Lucy este adepta unui stil de viață activ și practică echitația, cățărarea și ski-u.

Aveți nevoie de un bun lăutar? Aflați că Lucy este maestră la acordeon!

Este practicantă de kali-eskrima-silat, un tip de arte marțiale cu bețe și cuțite

Vorbește fluent chineza, engleza, italiana, spaniola și japoneza.

Este artist plastic. A avut numeroase expoziții cu picturile ei.

Cele mai bune prietene ale ei sunt Cameron Diaz și Drew Barrymore, cu care a jucat în „Îngerii lui Charlie”

A lucrat ca instructoare de aerobic

Este născută în aceeași zi cu starul pop Britney Spears.

A fost prima femeie americană de origine asiatică invitată să fie gazda show-ului de comedie Saturday Night Live

In 2007, s-a clasat pe un loc fruntaș în topul celor mai sexy 100 de femei din film, realizat de revista „Empire”.

După ce și-a arătat interesul de a juca în serialul „Dirty Sexy Money”, producătorii i-au și oferit un rol, fără să stea pe gânduri

În 2010 a debutat și pe Broadway cu un rol în „God of Carnage”, în care a jucat-o pe Annette.

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LeviS · October 30, 2015

mza Pellea

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Amza Pellea
Actorul Amza Pellea în rolul Nea Mărin
Născut	7 aprilie 1931 Băilești, Dolj
Decedat	12 decembrie 1983 (52 de ani) București
Ocupație	actor
Copii	Oana Pellea
Cetățenie	România
Roluri importante	Decebal, Mihai Viteazul, Ipu, Manlache Preda, Nea Mărin, Pârvu;
modifică

Amza Pellea (n. 7 aprilie 1931 în Băilești, Dolj - d. 12 decembrie 1983, București) a fost un actor român de teatru și film. A fost creatorul și interpretul personajului Nea Mărin, care i-a relevat atât de bine disponibilitățile pentru comedie. A fost actorul care a interpretat unele dintre cele mai strălucite figuri ale istoriei românilor, precumDecebal sau Mihai Viteazul.

Cuprins

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Biografie[modificare | modificare sursă]

S-a născut la Băilești, într-o familie cu cinci copii, tatăl său s-a numit tot Amza Pellea și a fost directorul cooperativei "Munca Noastră" din Băilești în anul 1933. A absolvit cursurile Colegiului Național Carol I din Craiova, și Școala tehnică de electrotehnică din Craiova. Un reprezentant al Promoției de aur a teatrului românesc, Amza Pellea a jucat la Teatrul Național din Craiova, Teatrul Mic, Teatrul Nottara, Teatrul de Comedie și Teatrul Național din București, unde s–a impus ca unul dintre actorii cei mai dotați ai scenei românești. A fost profesor la IATC.

Pe scena craioveană realizează, în perioada stagiaturii de trei ani (1957-1959), nu mai puțin de 14 roluri, între care Jack Worthing (Ce înseamnă să fii onest de Oscar Wilde), Vedernikov (Ani de pribegie de Aleksei Arbuzov), Vladică Ilarion (Tudor din Vladimiri de Mihnea Gheorghiu), Comandantul vasului (Tragedia optimistă de Vsevolod Visnevski), Bepe (Galcevile din Chioggia de Carlo Goldoni), Horatio (Hamlet de Shakespeare), Colonelul Dobre (Ecaterina Teodoroiu de Nicolae Tăutu), Otto Katz (Soldatul Svejk de Jaroslav Hašek), Esteban (Fântâna turmelor de Lope de Vega).

Pe scena Teatrului de Comedie creează alte personaje, printre care Brettschneider (Svejk în al doilea război mondial de Brecht- 1962), Pietro (Umbra de E. Svart- 1963), Manole (Somnoroasa aventură de Teodor Mazilu- 1964), Subcomisarul (Capul de rățoi de G. Ciprian- 1966), Platonov(Un Hamlet de provincie de Cehov- 1967), Voievodul Basarab (Croitorii cei mari din Valahia de Al. T. Popescu- 1969), Noah (Arca bunei speranțe de I.D. Sîrbu- 1970), Hrisanide (Interesul general deAurel Baranga- 1972), Hickok (Buffalo Bill și indienii de A. Kopit- 1973),"inginerul" din Nic Nic.

Pe scena Teatrului Național din București dă viață lui Petre Dinoiu (Comoara din deal de Corneliu Marcu- 1977) și lui Vlad Țepeș (A treia țeapă de Marin Sorescu - 1979).

Ultimul rol creat la teatru îl readuce pe scena Teatrului de Comedie, realizând - în regia lui Gheorghe Harag - personajul bătrânului moșier Muromski în Procesul de Suhovo-Kobilin - 1983.

Amza Pellea a interpretat atât personaje istorice (Vladica Hariton din Tudor din Vladimiri de Mihnea Gheorghiu, Voievodul Basarab din Croitorii cei mari din Valahiade Al. Popescu, rolurile din Tudor, Răscoala, Haiducii, Dacii, Columna, Mihai Viteazul), cât și personaje contemporane (Ailincii din Secunda 58 de Dorel Dorian, Manole din Somnoroasa aventură de T.Mazilu), dar și personaje din repertoriul clasic universal (Esteban din Fântâna turmelor de Calderon, Horațiu din Hamlet, Platonov din Un Hamlet de provincie de Cehov).

Rămas probabil în conștiința publicului prin rolul domnitorului din Mihai Viteazul și prin Nea Mărin, reușește în Atunci i-am condamnat pe toți la moarte să atingă ambele personaje. Umilul, și câteodată veselul Ipu recapătă, în finalul filmului, figura dârză și tragică a soldatului țăran din primul război.

Mormântul actorului Amza Pellea din Cimitirul Bellu ortodox

A câștigat în 1977 premiul de interpretare masculină, cel mai bun actor, la Festivalul Internațional de Film de laMoscova, pentru rolul său excepțional (Manlache Preda) din filmul Osânda, unde a jucat alături de Gheorghe Dinică șiErnest Maftei, într-o ecranizare de Sergiu Nicolaescu după "Velerim și Veler Doamne" de Victor Ion Popa.

Între 22 martie 1973 și 24 septembrie 1974 a fost director al Teatrului Național Craiova.

A fost căsătorit timp de 25 de ani din 1958 până la moartea sa în 1983 cu Domnica Mihaela din familia Policrat dinCraiova. Este tatăl actriței Oana Pellea.

A decedat în data de 12 decembrie 1983 la București în vârstă de 52 de ani. Este înmormântat la cimitirul Bellu.

Fundația Enciclopedică „Amza Pellea” a realizat un film documentar numit „Douăzeci de ani fără Amza”.^[1]

Filmografie[modificare | modificare sursă]

Neamul Șoimăreștilor (1965)
Haiducii (1966)
Dacii (1967)
Columna (1968)
Mihai Viteazul (1971)
Atunci i-am condamnat pe toți la moarte (1972)
Ciprian Porumbescu (1973)
Ultimul cartuș (1973)
Un comisar acuză (1974)
Stejar – extremă urgență (1974)
Nemuritorii (1974)
Tată de duminică (1975)
Osînda (1976)
Accident (1977)
Eu, tu, și... Ovidiu (1978)
Pentru patrie (1978)
Melodii, melodii (1978)
Revanșa (1978)
Ecaterina Teodoroiu (1978)
Nea Mărin miliardar (1979)
Mihail, cîine de circ (1979)
Capcana mercenarilor (1981)
Cucerirea Angliei (1982)

1961 Setea
1963 Tudor
1964 Pisica de mare
1965 Camera albă
1966 Răscoala
1969 Războiul domnițelor
1972 Puterea și adevărul, Săgeata căpitanului Ion
1973 Aventurile lui Babușcă
1974 Proprietarii, Porțile albastre ale orașului
1975 Cantemir, Ulzana, căpetenia apașilor, Evadarea
1976 Lumina pe coline, Trei zile și trei nopți
1977 Boschet de Veneția, Împușcături sub clar de lună
1979 Brațele Afroditei
1980 Duios Anastasia trecea, Casa dintre câmpuri
1981 Poarta de aur a incașilor, Șantaj, Spectacolul spectacolelor, Detașamentul „Concordia”, Ana si „hoțul”
1983 Imposibila iubire

6horses · October 31, 2015

Robert De Niro (/dəˈnɪroʊ/; born August 17, 1943) is an American actor and producer who has starred in over 90 films. His first major film roles were in the sports drama Bang the Drum Slowly (1973) and Martin Scorsese's crime film Mean Streets (1973). In 1974, after being turned down for the role of Sonny Corleone in the crime film The Godfather (1972), he was cast as the young Vito Corleone in The Godfather Part II (1974), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

De Niro's longtime collaboration with Scorsese later earned him an Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Jake LaMotta in the 1980 film Raging Bull. He also earned nominations for the psychological thrillersTaxi Driver (1976) and Cape Fear (1991), both directed by Scorsese. De Niro received additional Academy Award nominations for Michael Cimino's Vietnam war drama The Deer Hunter (1978), Penny Marshall's dramaAwakenings (1990), and David O. Russell's romantic comedy-drama Silver Linings Playbook (2012). His portrayal of gangster Jimmy Conway in Scorsese's crime film Goodfellas (1990) earned him a BAFTA nomination in 1990.[1] De Niro has earned four nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, for his work in the musical drama New York, New York (1977), opposite Liza Minnelli, the action comedy Midnight Run (1988), the gangster comedy Analyze This (1999), and the comedy Meet the Parents (2000). He has also simultaneously directed and starred in films such as the crime drama A Bronx Tale(1993) and the spy film The Good Shepherd (2006). De Niro has also received the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2003 and the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2010.

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Chani · November 1, 2015

Clark Gable

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Clark Gable
Gable in 1940
Born	William Clark Gable February 1, 1901 Cadiz, Ohio
Died	November 16, 1960 (aged 59) West Hollywood, California
Cause of death	Coronary thrombosis
Resting place	Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale
Other names	The King (of Hollywood)
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1924–1960
Spouse(s)	Josephine Dillon (m. 1924; div. 1930) Maria Langham (m. 1931; div. 1939) Carole Lombard (m. 1939; wid. 1942) Sylvia Ashley (m. 1949; div. 1952) Kay Williams (m. 1955; his death 1960)
Children	John Gable Judy Lewis
Parent(s)	William Henry Gable Adeline Hershelman
Relatives	Clark James Gable (grandson)
Military career
Allegiance	United States of America
Service/branch	United States Army Air Forces
Years of service	1942–44
Rank	Major
Unit	351st Bomb Group
Battles/wars	World War II
Signature

Clark Gable (February 1, 1901 – November 16, 1960) was an American film actor, often referred to as "The King of Hollywood" or just simply as "The King".^[1] Gable began his career as a stage actor and appeared as an extra in silent films between 1924 and 1926, and progressed to supporting roles with a few films for MGM in 1931. The next year he landed his first leading Hollywood role and became a leading man in more than 60 motion pictures over the next three decades.

Gable won an Academy Award for Best Actor for It Happened One Night (1934),^[2] and was nominated for leading roles in Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) and for his, arguably best-known, role as Rhett Butler in the epic Gone with the Wind (1939).

Gable also found success commercially and critically with films like Red Dust (1932), Manhattan Melodrama (1934), San Francisco (1936), Saratoga (1937) Boom Town (1940), The Hucksters (1947) Homecoming (1948) and The Misfits (1961) which was his final screen appearance.^[3]

Gable appeared opposite some of the most popular actresses of the time: Joan Crawford, who was his favorite actress to work with,^[4] was partnered with Gable in eight films; Myrna Loy worked with him seven times, and he was paired with Jean Harlow in six productions. He also starred with Lana Turner in four features, and with Norma Shearer and Ava Gardner in three each. Gable's final film, The Misfits (1961), united him with Marilyn Monroe (also in her last screen appearance). Gable is considered one of the most consistent box-office performers in history, appearing on Quigley Publishing's annual Top Ten Money Making Stars Poll sixteen times. He was named the seventh greatest male star of classic American Cinema by the American Film Institute.^[2]

Life and career

Early life

William Clark Gable was born in Cadiz, Ohio, to William Henry "Will" Gable (1870–1948), an oil-well driller,^[4]^[5] and his wife, Adeline (née Hershelman; 1869–1901^[6]). He was named William after his father, but even in childhood he was almost always called Clark.^[7] He was mistakenly listed as a female on his birth certificate. Among Gable's ancestors were Pennsylvania Dutch (German), Native Americans,^{[citation needed]} Rhinelanders and Bavarians.^[4]^[8]^[9] When he was six months old, his mother had him baptized as a Catholic. She died when he was ten months old,^{[citation needed]} possibly from a brain tumor. Gable's father refused to raise him as a Catholic, provoking scorn and criticism from his mother's side of the family. The dispute was resolved when his father's family agreed to allow Gable to spend time with his uncle, Charles Hershelman, and his wife on their farm in Vernon Township, Pennsylvania.^{[citation needed]}

In April 1903 Gable's father married Jennie Dunlap (1874–1924), whose family came from the small neighboring town of Hopedale. Will's marriage to Jennie produced no half brothers or sisters for Clark. Gable was a tall, shy child with a loud voice. After his father purchased some land and built a house, the new family settled in. Jennie played the piano and gave her stepson lessons at home; later he took up brass instruments. She raised Gable to be well-dressed and well-groomed; he stood out from the other kids. Gable was very mechanically inclined and loved to strip down and repair cars with his father. At thirteen he was the only boy in the men's town band. Even though his father insisted on Gable doing "manly" things, like hunting and hard physical work, Gable loved language. Among trusted company, he would recite Shakespeare, particularly the sonnets. Will Gable did agree to buy a seventy-two volume set of The World's Greatest Literature to improve his son's education, but claimed he never saw his son use it.^[10] In 1917, when Gable was in high school, his father had financial difficulties. Will decided to settle his debts and try his hand at farming and the family moved to Ravenna, Ohio, near Akron. He had trouble settling down in the area. Despite his father's insistence that he work the farm, Gable soon left to work in Akron's B.F. Goodrich tire factory.^{[citation needed]}

Early career

"The Wife Gable Forgot"

At seventeen, Clark Gable was inspired to be an actor after seeing the play The Bird of Paradise, but he was not able to make a real start until he turned 21 and inherited some money. By then his stepmother Jennie had died and his father moved to Tulsa to go back to the oil business. He toured in stock companies as well as working the oil fields and as a horse manager. Gable found work with several second-class theater companies and thus made his way across the Midwest to Seaside, Oregon, working as a logger and to Portland, Oregon, where he then took work as a necktie salesman in the Meier & Frank department store. While there he met Laura Hope Crews, a stage and film actress, who encouraged him to return to the stage and into another theater company. Many years later Crews would play Aunt Pittypat in Gone With the Wind (1939).^{[clarification needed]}

His acting coach was a theater manager in Portland named Josephine Dillon, who was 17 years his senior. She paid to have his teeth repaired and his hair styled. She guided him in building up his chronically undernourished body, and taught him better body control and posture. She spent considerable time training his naturally high-pitched voice, which Gable slowly managed to lower, and to gain better resonance and tone. As his speech habits improved, Gable's facial expressions became more natural and convincing. After the long period of rigorous training, Dillon eventually considered him ready to attempt a film career.^[11]

Stage and silent films

In 1924, with Dillon's financial aid, the two went to Hollywood, where she became his manager—and first wife. He changed his stage name from W. C. Gable to Clark Gable.^[12] He found work as an extra in such silent films as Erich von Stroheim's The Merry Widow (1925), The Plastic Age (1925), which starred Clara Bow, Forbidden Paradise (1924) starring Pola Negri, plus a series of two-reel comedies called The Pacemakers. He appeared as an extra in Fox's The Johnstown Flood (1926) and, by coincidence, 17-year-old Carole Lombard also appeared as an extra in the film, although they were not in the same scene. Gable also appeared as a bit player in a series of shorts.

However, he was not offered any major roles in Hollywood and so he returned to the stage. He became lifelong friends with Lionel Barrymore, who in spite of his bawling Gable out for amateurish acting initially, urged Gable to pursue a career on stage.^[13]^[14] During the 1927–28 theater season, Gable acted with the Laskin Brothers Stock Company in Houston, where he played many roles, gained considerable experience and became a local matinee idol. Gable then moved to New York and Dillon sought work for him on Broadway. He received good reviews in Machinal; "He's young, vigorous and brutally masculine", wrote the critic at the Morning Telegraph.^[15] The start of talking pictures and the beginning of the Great Depression caused a cancellation of many plays in the 1929–30 season and acting work became harder to get.

Early success and rising star

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Clark Gable and Mary Astor in Red Dust, 1932

In 1930, after his impressive appearance as the seething and desperate character Killer Mears in the Los Angeles stage production of The Last Mile, Gable was offered a contract with MGM. His first role in a sound picture was as the unshaven villain in a low-budget William Boyd western called The Painted Desert (1931). He received a lot of fan mail as a result of his powerful voice and appearance; the studio took notice.

In 1930, Gable and Josephine Dillon were divorced. A few days later, he married Texas socialite Maria Franklin Prentiss Lucas Langham, nicknamed "Rhea". After moving to California, they were married again in 1931, possibly due to differences in state legal requirements. "His ears are too big and he looks like an ape", said executive Darryl F. Zanuck, then at Warner Bros., about Clark Gable after testing him for the lead in the studio's gangster drama Little Caesar (1931).^[16] The same year, in Night Nurse, Gable played a villainous chauffeur who was gradually starving two adorable little girls to death, then knocked Barbara Stanwyck's character unconscious with his fist, a supporting role originally slated for James Cagney until the release of The Public Enemy abruptly made Cagney a leading man. After several failed screen tests for Barrymore and Zanuck, Gable was signed in 1930 by MGM's Irving Thalberg. He became a client of well-connected agent Minna Wallis, sister of producer Hal Wallis and a very close friend of Norma Shearer. Gable's timing in arriving in Hollywood was excellent, as MGM was looking to expand its stable of male stars and he fitted the bill. Gable first worked mainly in supporting roles, often as the villain. He made two pictures in 1931 with Wallace Beery, a supporting role in The Secret Six, then with his part increasing in size to almost match Beery's in the naval aviation film Hell Divers. MGM's publicity manager Howard Strickling developed Gable's studio image, playing up his he-man experiences and his 'lumberjack in evening clothes' persona.^{[citation needed]}

Clark Gable and Jean Harlow in Hold Your Man, 1933

To bolster his increasing popularity, MGM frequently paired him with well-established female stars. Joan Crawford asked for him as her co-star in Dance, Fools, Dance (1931). He built his fame and public visibility in such movies as A Free Soul (1931), in which he played a gangster who shoved the character played by Norma Shearer (Gable never played a supporting role again). The Hollywood Reporter wrote "A star in the making has been made, one that, to our reckoning, will outdraw every other star... Never have we seen audiences work themselves into such enthusiasm as when Clark Gable walks on the screen".^[17] He followed that with Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise) (1931) with Greta Garbo, and Possessed (1931), in which he and Crawford (then married to Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.) steamed up the screen. Adela Rogers St. Johns later dubbed Gable and Crawford's real-life relationship as "the affair that nearly burned Hollywood down".^[18]Louis B. Mayer threatened to terminate both their contracts, and for a while they kept apart. Gable shifted his attentions to Marion Davies. On the other hand, Gable and Garbo disliked each other. She thought he was a wooden actor while he considered her a snob.^{[citation needed]}

Gable was considered for the role of Tarzan the Ape Man but lost out to Johnny Weissmuller's more imposing physique and superior swimming prowess. However, Gable's unshaven lovemaking with braless Jean Harlow in Red Dust (1932) soon made him MGM's most important male star. After the hit Hold Your Man (1933), MGM recognized the goldmine of the Gable-Harlow pairing, putting them in two more films, China Seas (1935; with Gable and Harlow billed above Wallace Beery) and Wife vs. Secretary (1936) with Myrna Loy and James Stewart. An enormously popular combination, on-screen and off-screen, Gable and Harlow made six films together, the most notable being Red Dust (1932) and Saratoga (1937). Harlow died during production of Saratoga. Ninety percent completed, the remaining scenes were filmed with long shots or the use of doubles like Mary Dees; Gable would say that he felt as if he was "in the arms of a ghost".^[19]

Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert in It Happened One Night, 1934

According to legend, Gable was lent to Columbia Pictures, then considered a second-rate operation, as punishment for refusing roles; however, this has been refuted by more recent biographies. MGM did not have a project ready for Gable and was paying him $2,000 per week, under his contract, to do nothing. Studio head Louis B. Mayer lent him to Columbia for $2,500 per week, making a $500 per week profit.^[7]

Gable was not the first choice to play the lead role of Peter Warne in It Happened One Night (1934). Robert Montgomery was originally offered the role, but he felt that the script was poor.^[20] Filming began in a tense atmosphere,^[7] but both Gable and Frank Capra enjoyed making the movie, although Colbert reportedly did not. Gable and Colbert won the Academy Award for Best Actor and Best Actress for their performances in the film, and the movie itself won the Academy Award for Best Picture. He returned to MGM a bigger star than ever.^[21]

Gable received an Academy Award nomination for his portrayal of Fletcher Christian in Mutiny on the Bounty (1935).

Spencer Tracy collaborations

Lobby card for Test Pilot with Loy and Tracy

Gable made three pictures with Spencer Tracy which boosted Tracy's career and cemented them in the public mind as a team. San Francisco (1936) featured Tracy in a brief but Oscar-nominated role in which he played a priest who knocks Gable, by then the studio's foremost leading man, down in a boxing ring. Despite being onscreen for only seventeen minutes, the appearance immediately catapulted Tracy, whose career had floundered for years despite delivering superb performances in quality films, into major stardom in the wake of the picture becoming the year's biggest box office attraction. Test Pilot (1938) gave Tracy a larger supporting part as the agonizing friend of Gable's glamorous pilot while Boom Town (1940) depicted an epic rivalry between Gable and Tracy's characters over Claudette Colbert and their oil businesses. Each pairing was a box office phenomenon. MGM had teamed Tracy with Gable every two years until Tracy finally insisted upon a star billing clause in his contract, ending any further Gable-Tracy collaborations.

Gone with the Wind

Despite his reluctance to play the role, Gable is best known for his performance in Gone with the Wind (1939), for which he gained a Best Actor Oscar nomination. Carole Lombard may have been the first to suggest that he play Rhett Butler (and she play Scarlett) when she bought him a copy of the bestseller, which he refused to read.^[22]

Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh in Gone with the Wind, 1939

Butler's last line in Gone with the Wind, "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn," is one of the most famous lines in movie history.^[23] Gable was an almost immediate favorite for the role of Rhett with both the public and producer David O. Selznick. But since Selznick had no male stars under long-term contract, he needed to go through the process of negotiating to borrow an actor from another studio. Gary Cooper was Selznick's first choice.^[24] When Cooper turned down the role of Butler, he was quoted as saying, "Gone With the Wind is going to be the biggest flop in Hollywood history. I’m glad it'll be Clark Gable who’s falling flat on his nose, not me."^[25] By then, Selznick had become determined to hire Gable, and set about finding a way to borrow him from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Gable was wary of potentially disappointing an audience that had decided that no one else could play the part. He later conceded, "I think I know now how a fly must react after being caught in a spider's web."^[26]

By all accounts, Gable got along well with his co-stars during filming.^[27] Gable was great friends with actress Hattie McDaniel, and he even slipped her a real alcoholic drink during the scene in which they were supposed to be celebrating the birth of Scarlett and Rhett's daughter. Gable tried to boycott the premiere of Gone with the Wind in Atlanta, Georgia, because the African-American McDaniel was not permitted to attend. He reportedly only went after she pleaded with him to go. Gable remained friends with McDaniel, and he always attended her Hollywood parties, especially when she was raising funds during World War II.^{[citation needed]}

Gable did not want to shed tears for the scene after Rhett inadvertently causes Scarlett to miscarry their second child. Olivia de Havilland made him cry, later commenting, "...Oh, he would not do it. He would not! Victor (Fleming) tried everything with him. He tried to attack him on a professional level. We had done it without him weeping several times and then we had one last try. I said, 'You can do it, I know you can do it and you will be wonderful...' Well, by heaven, just before the cameras rolled, you could see the tears come up at his eyes and he played the scene unforgettably well. He put his whole heart into it."^[28]

Decades later, Gable said that whenever his career would start to fade, a re-release of Gone with the Wind would soon revive his popularity, and he continued as a top leading actor for the rest of his life.

Marriage to Carole Lombard

Clark Gable and Carole Lombard after their honeymoon, 1939

Gable's marriage in 1939 to his third wife, actress Carole Lombard (1908–1942), was the happiest period of his personal life. They met while filming 1932's No Man of Her Own, when Lombard was still married to actor William Powell, but their romance did not take off until 1936. They became reacquainted at a party and soon were inseparable, cited in fan magazines and tabloids as an official couple. Gable thrived being around Lombard's youthful, charming, and frank personality, once stating, "You can trust that little screwball with your life or your hopes or your weaknesses, and she wouldn't even know how to think about letting you down."^[29] Lombard, for her part, seemed to gain personal stability and a contented home life that she had previously lacked. She taught herself how to hunt and fish and accompanied Gable on trips with his hunting companions.

But Gable, who was still legally married, prolonged a lengthy and expensive divorce from his second wife Rhea Langham. His salary from Gone with the Wind enabled him to reach a divorce settlement with Langham, however, on March 7, 1939. On March 29, during a production break on Gone with the Wind, Gable and Lombard were married in Kingman, Arizona. They purchased a ranch previously owned by director Raoul Walsh in Encino, California and made it their home. They raised chickens, horses, and had a menagerie of cats and dogs.

On January 16, 1942, Lombard was a passenger on Trans-World Airlines Flight 3 with her mother and press agent Otto Winkler. She had just finished her 57th movie, To Be or Not to Be, and was on her way home from a successful war bond selling tour when the flight's DC-3 airliner crashed into a mountain near Las Vegas, Nevada, killing all 22 passengers aboard, including 15 servicemen en route to training in California. Gable flew to the crash site to claim the bodies of his wife, mother-in-law, and Winkler, who had been the best man at Gable's and Lombard's wedding. Lombard was declared to be the first war-related American female casualty of World War II, and Gable received a personal condolence note from President Roosevelt. The Civil Aeronautics Board investigation into the crash concluded that pilot error was its cause.^[30]

Gable returned to his and Lombard's Encino ranch and carried out her funeral wishes as she had requested in her will. A month later he returned to the studio to work with Lana Turner in the movie Somewhere I'll Find You. Having lost twenty pounds since the tragedy, it was evident that Gable was emotionally and physically devastated by it. But Turner stated that Gable remained a professional for the duration of filming. He would act in 27 more films and remarry twice more. "But he was never the same," said Esther Williams. "He had been devastated by Carole's death."^[31]

World War II

For details of Gable's combat missions, see RAF Polebrook

Clark Gable with an 8th Air Force B-17 in England, 1943

In 1942, following Lombard's death, Gable joined the U.S. Army Air Forces. Lombard had suggested that Gable enlist as part of the war effort, but MGM was reluctant to let him go, and he resisted the suggestion. Gable made a public statement after Lombard's death that prompted the Commanding General of the U.S. Army Air Forces Henry H. "Hap" Arnold to offer Gable a "special assignment" in aerial gunnery. Gable had earlier expressed an interest in officer candidate school (OCS), but he enlisted on August 12, 1942, with the intention of becoming an enlisted aerial gunner on a bomber. MGM arranged for his studio friend, the cinematographer Andrew McIntyre, to enlist with him and accompany him through training.^[32]

However, shortly after his enlistment, he and McIntyre were sent to Miami Beach, Florida, where they entered USAAF OCS Class 42-E on August 17, 1942. Both completed training on October 28, 1942, commissioned as second lieutenant. His class of about 2,600 fellow students (of which he ranked about 700th in class standing) selected Gable as its graduation speaker, at which General Arnold presented the cadets with their commissions. Arnold then informed Gable of his special assignment: to make a recruiting film in combat with the Eighth Air Force to recruit aerial gunners. Gable and McIntyre were immediately sent to Flexible Gunnery School at Tyndall Field, Florida, followed by a photography course at Fort George Wright, Washington State and promoted to first lieutenants upon its completion.^[32]

Clark Gable and James Stewart in 1943

Gable reported to Biggs Army Air Base,Texas on January 27, 1943, to train with and accompany the 351st Bomb Group to England as head of a six-man motion picture unit. In addition to McIntyre, he recruited the screenwriter John Lee Mahin; camera operators Sgts. Mario Toti and Robert Boles; and the sound man Lt. Howard Voss to complete his crew. Gable was promoted to captain while he was with the 351st Bomb Group at Pueblo Army Air Base, Colorado, a rank commensurate with his position as a unit commander. (As first lieutenants, he and McIntyre had equal seniority.)^[32]

Gable spent most of 1943 in England at RAF Polebrook with the 351st Bomb Group. Gable flew five combat missions, including one to Germany, as an observer-gunner in B-17 Flying Fortresses between May 4 and September 23, 1943, earning the Air Medal and the Distinguished Flying Cross for his efforts. During one of the missions, Gable's aircraft was damaged by flak and attacked by fighters, which knocked out one of the engines and shot up the stabilizer. In the raid on Germany, one crewman was killed and two others were wounded, and flak went through Gable's boot and narrowly missed his head. When word of this reached MGM, studio executives began to badger the Army Air Forces to reassign its most valuable screen actor to noncombat duty. In November 1943, Gable returned to the United States to edit his film, only to find that the personnel shortage of aerial gunners had already been rectified. He was allowed to complete the film anyway, joining the First Motion Picture Unit in Hollywood, California.

In May 1944, Gable was promoted to major. He hoped for another combat assignment but, when the invasion of Normandy came and went in June without any further orders, Gable was relieved from active duty as a major on June 12, 1944 at his request, since he was over-age for combat. His discharge papers were signed by Captain (later U.S. President) Ronald Reagan. Gable completed editing of the film Combat America in September 1944, giving the narration himself and making use of numerous interviews with enlisted gunners as focus of the film.^[32] Because his motion picture production schedule made it impossible for him to fulfill Reserve officer duties, he resigned his commission on September 26, 1947, a week after the Air Force became an independent service branch.

Adolf Hitler favored Gable above all other actors. During World War II, Hitler offered a sizable reward to anyone who could capture and bring Gable to him unscathed.^[33]

Gable's military awards were the Distinguished Flying Cross, Air Medal, American Campaign Medal, European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal and World War II Victory Medal. He also qualified for and received aerial gunner wings.

After World War II

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Clark Gable and Ava Gardner in The Hucksters, 1947

Immediately after his discharge from the service, Gable returned to his ranch and rested. He resumed a pre-war relationship with Virginia Grey and dated other starlets. He introduced his golf caddie Robert Wagner to MGM casting. Gable's first movie after World War II was Adventure (1945), with his ill-matched co-star Greer Garson. It was a critical and commercial failure despite the famous teaser tagline "Gable's back and Garson's got him".

After Joan Crawford's third divorce, she and Gable resumed their affair and lived together for a brief time. Gable was acclaimed for his performance in The Hucksters (1947), a satire of post-war Madison Avenue corruption and immorality. A very public and brief romance with Paulette Goddard occurred after that. In 1949, Gable married Sylvia Ashley, a British divorcée and the widow of Douglas Fairbanks. The relationship was profoundly unsuccessful; they divorced in 1952. Soon followed Never Let Me Go (1953), opposite Gene Tierney. Tierney was a favorite of Gable and he was very disappointed when she was replaced in Mogambo (because of her mental health problems) by Grace Kelly.^[34]Mogambo (1953), directed by John Ford, was a somewhat sanitized remake of his earlier Pre-Code film Red Dust (1932), with Jean Harlow and Mary Astor, which had been a greater success. Gable's on-location affair with Grace Kelly (1929–1982), who was young enough to be his daughter, gradually ended after filming was completed.

Clark Gable and Grace Kelly in Mogambo, 1953

Gable became increasingly unhappy with what he considered mediocre roles offered him by MGM, while the studio regarded his salary as excessive. Studio head Louis B. Mayer was fired in 1951 amid slumping Hollywood production and revenue, due primarily to the rising popularity of television. Studio chiefs struggled to cut costs. Many MGM stars were fired or their contracts were not renewed, including Greer Garson and Judy Garland. In 1953, Gable refused to renew his contract, and began to work independently. His first two films in this new situation were Soldier of Fortune and The Tall Men (both 1955), which were profitable, although only modest successes. In 1955, Gable married his fifth wife, Kay Spreckels (née Kathleen Williams), a thrice-married former fashion model and actress who had previously been married to sugar-refining heir Adolph B. Spreckels Jr. Gable became stepfather to her son Bunker Spreckels who went on to live a notorious celebrity lifestyle in the late 1960s and early 1970s surfing scene, ultimately leading to his early death in 1977.

Clark Gable and Yvonne de Carlo in Band of Angels, 1957

In 1955, Gable formed a production company with Jane Russell and her husband Bob Waterfield, and they produced The King and Four Queens (1956), Gable's only production. He found producing and acting to be too taxing on his health, and he was beginning to manifest a noticeable tremor, particularly in long takes. His next project was Band of Angels (1957), with relative newcomer Sidney Poitier and Yvonne De Carlo; it was not well received despite Gable's role's similarities to Rhett Butler. Newsweek said, "Here is a movie so bad that it must be seen to be disbelieved."^[35] Next he paired with Doris Day in Teacher's Pet (1958), shot in black and white to better hide his aging face and overweight body.^{[citation needed]} The film was good enough to bring Gable more movie offers, including Run Silent, Run Deep (also 1958), with co-star and producer Burt Lancaster, which featured his first on-screen death since 1937, and which garnered good reviews. Gable started to receive television offers but rejected them outright. At 57, Gable finally acknowledged, "Now it's time I acted my age".^[36] His next two films were light comedies for Paramount: But Not for Me (1959) with Carroll Baker and It Started in Naples (1960) with Sophia Loren. The last one, despite an icy critical reception, was a good box office success and was nominated for an Academy award and two Golden Globes. Filmed mostly on location in Italy, it was Gable's last film released in color.

Gable's last film was The Misfits (1961), with a script by Arthur Miller and directed by John Huston. Co-starring with Gable were Marilyn Monroe, her last completed film; Montgomery Clift; Eli Wallach; and Thelma Ritter. Many critics regard Gable's performance to be his finest, and Gable, after seeing the rough cuts, agreed.^[37]

Portraitist Al Hirschfeld created a drawing, and then a lithograph, portraying the film's stars Clift, Monroe, and Gable with screenwriter Miller, in what is suggested as a typical "on-the-set" scene during the troubled production.^[38] Throughout his life, Gable was fond of the work of artist Reinhold Palenske, and they were close friends.

Politics

Gable was politically conservative, though he never publicly spoke about politics. His third wife, Carole Lombard, was an activist liberal Democrat,^{[citation needed]} and she cajoled him into supporting Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal. In 1944, he became an early member of the conservative Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals, alongside Ronald Reagan, John Wayne, Gary Cooper, and other conservative actors and filmmakers. In February 1952, he attended a televised rally in New York where he enthusiastically urged General Dwight D. Eisenhower to run for President. This was when Eisenhower was still being sought by both parties as their candidate. Despite having suffered a severe coronary thrombosis, Gable still managed to vote by mail in the 1960 presidential election.

Two children and other family members

Clark Gable had a daughter, Judy, with the actress Loretta Young while filming The Call of the Wild (1935) in 1934. In an elaborate scheme, Young took an extended vacation and went to Europe to hide the fact that she was pregnant. After several months, she came back to the United States, and she gave birth to their daughter in Venice, California. Gable had spent much of the pregnancy out of the country, but was in New York City when he received an unsigned telegram that said, "The baby was born, she is beautiful, and has blonde hair." Young and her mother both denied sending the telegram, but Loretta believed that Carter Hermann (her sister Polly's husband, who was also Judy's godfather) had sent it.^[39]

Nineteen months after the birth, Young claimed to have adopted Judy. The girl grew up resembling Gable very much, including having large ears that stuck out. She went by the name Judy Lewis after Ms. Young married Tom Lewis when Judy was four years old. According to Lewis, Gable visited her home once, when she was fifteen, asked about her life, and kissed her on her forehead upon leaving. He did not tell her that he was her biological father. Neither Gable nor Young would ever publicly acknowledge their daughter's real parentage, but many people in Hollywood and in the general public believed that Gable was her father because of their very strong resemblance and the timing of her birth.

Lewis finally confronted her mother about her true parentage when she was thirty-one years old and Gable had been dead for five years. Loretta promptly threw up and confirmed that she was her biological mother and Gable was her father. Young never publicly acknowledged the fact while she was alive, which she said would be admitting to a "venial sin". However, she finally gave her biographer permission to include it, on the condition that the book not be published until after her death. She died on August 12, 2000, at the age of 87 of ovarian cancer. Judy Lewis, Gable's only child born while he was alive, died on November 25, 2011, of cancer. Young's daughter-in-law, Linda Lewis, said in 2015 that Young claimed in 1998 that she was raped by Gable. Young's family chose to stay silent about the claim until after both Young and her daughter had died.^[40]

In 1955 Gable married Kay Williams, who had a son, John Clark Gable, by him on March 20, 1961, after Gable's death.^[41]

In September 2012, Clark James Gable (born September 20, 1988, Gable's grandson and the son of John Clark Gable) became the host of the nationally syndicated reality show Cheaters.^[42] Actress Kayley Gable (born in 1986), is the granddaughter of Clark Gable. Her son, Ocean Clark Gable, was born January 1, 2015.

Death

Crypt of Clark Gable, in the Sanctuary of Trust of the Great Mausoleum, Forest Lawn Glendale.

Gable died at Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital on November 16, 1960, from an arterial blood clot, ten days after a severe heart attack at age 59. There was speculation that Gable's physically demanding role in The Misfits contributed to his sudden death soon after filming was completed. In an interview with Louella Parsons, published soon after Gable's death, Kay Gable said, "It wasn't the physical exertion that killed him. It was the horrible tension, the eternal waiting, waiting, waiting. He waited around forever, for everybody. He'd get so angry that he'd just go ahead and do anything to keep occupied."^[43] Monroe said that she and Kay had become close during the filming and would refer to Clark as "Our Man",^[4] while Arthur Miller, observing Gable on location, noted that "no hint of affront ever showed on his face".^[37] Others have blamed Gable's crash diet before filming began. The 6 ft 1 in (185 cm) Gable weighed about 190 pounds (86 kg) at the time of Gone with the Wind, but by his late 50s, he weighed 230 pounds (104 kg). To get in shape for The Misfits, he dropped to 195 pounds (88 kg).

On March 20, 1961, Kay Williams (Gable) gave birth to Gable's only son, John Clark Gable, at the same hospital in which Gable had died four months earlier. Marilyn Monroe attended his son's christening.

Gable is interred in The Great Mausoleum at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California beside his third wife, Carole Lombard.^[44]

Style and reception

In a photo essay of Hollywood film stars, Life magazine called Gable, "All man... and then some."

Doris Day summed up Gable's unique personality: "He was as masculine as any man I've ever known, and as much a little boy as a grown man could be – it was this combination that had such a devastating effect on women."^[45]

Longtime friend, eight time co-star and on-again, off-again romance Joan Crawford concurred, stating on David Frost's TV show in 1970 that "he was a king wherever he went. He walked like one, he behaved like one, and he was the most masculine man that I have ever met in my life."

Gable in 1938

Robert Taylor said Gable "was a great, great guy and certainly one of the great stars of all times, if not the greatest. I think that I sincerely doubt that there will ever be another like Clark Gable; he was one of a kind."^[46]

In his memoir Bring on the Empty Horses^[47]David Niven states that Gable, a close friend, was extremely supportive after the sudden, accidental death of Niven's first wife, Primula (Primmie) in 1946. Primmie had supported Gable emotionally after Carole Lombard's death four years earlier: Niven recounts Gable kneeling at Primmie's feet and sobbing while she held and consoled him. Niven also states that Arthur Miller, the author of The Misfits, had described Gable as "the man who did not know how to hate".

Gable has been criticized for altering critical aspects of a script when he felt that the script would not fit in with his image. Screenwriter Larry Gelbart, as quoted by James Garner ^[48] once stated that Gable, "...would not go down with the submarine, (referring to Run Silent, Run Deep, where the movie ended differently from the book on which it was based) because Gable doesn't sink."

Eli Wallach, in his autobiography,^[49] also states that Wallach's most dramatic scene in The Misfits was cut from the movie after it had been filmed over several takes. This scene depicts Wallach's character (who secretly loves the character played by Marilyn Monroe), being emotionally crushed when he visits her, hoping to propose to her, and instead sees her with Gable's character. Both Gable and Monroe are offscreen, and Wallach's heartbreak is indicated by his dropping the rose bouquet he had brought for her. Gable ordered the scene removed because he felt that his character would never steal a woman from another man. Wallach, however, refrains from criticizing Gable, noting that he was professional and considerate in his behavior.

Filmography

Main article: Clark Gable filmography

Gable is known to have appeared as an extra in 13 films between 1924 and 1930. He then appeared in a total of 67 theatrically released motion pictures, as himself in 17 "short subject" films, and he narrated and appeared in a World War II propaganda film entitled Combat America, produced by the United States Army Air Forces.

In popular culture

Warner Bros. cartoons sometimes caricatured Gable. Examples include Have You Got Any Castles? (in which his face appears seven times inside the novel The House of the Seven Gables), The Coo-Coo Nut Grove (in which his ears flap on their own), Hollywood Steps Out (in which he follows an enigmatic woman), and Cats Don't Dance in which he appears on a billboard promotion for Gone With The Wind.

The 2003 album Give Up by electronic music group The Postal Service includes a song titled "Clark Gable". The song's narrator says he wants love like something in the movies, and includes the lyrics "I kissed you in a style Clark Gable would have admired, I thought it classic".

In the film Broadway Melody of 1938, Judy Garland (aged 15) sings "You Made Me Love You" while looking at a composite picture of Gable. The opening lines are: "Dear Mr. Gable, I am writing this to you, and I hope that you will read it so you'll know, my heart beats like a hammer, and I stutter and I stammer, every time I see you at the picture show, I guess I'm just another fan of yours, and I thought I'd write and tell you so. You made me love you, I didn't want to do it, I didn't want to do it..."

In an episode of I Love Lucy entitled, "Harpo Marx" that was originally aired in 1955, Lucy Ricardo, portrayed by Lucille Ball dressed-up as Gable to impress her friend, Carolyn Appleby, portrayed by Doris Singleton.

In the film Captain Ron, the Harvey boat was said to be owned by Clark Gable.

Bugs Bunny's nonchalant carrot-chewing standing position, as explained by Chuck Jones, Friz Freleng, and Bob Clampett, originated in a scene in the film It Happened One Night, in which Clark Gable's character leans against a fence, eating carrots rapidly and talking with his mouth full to Claudette Colbert's character. This scene was well known while the film was popular, and viewers at the time likely recognized Bugs Bunny's behavior as satire.

Gable was mentioned along with Cary Grant and Tyrone Power by Etta Candy in a 1977 Hollywood-themed episode of Wonder Woman.

Gable is mentioned in the lyrics, "Between our quests we sequin vests/And impersonate Clark Gable," in the musical number, "Knights of the Round Table," from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

Gable has been portrayed in films by James Brolin in Gable and Lombard (1976), Larry Pennell in Marilyn: The Untold Story (1980), Edward Winter in Moviola: The Scarlett O'Hara War (1980), Boyd Holister in Grace Kelly (1983), Gary Wayne in Malice in Wonderland (1985), Gene Daily in The Rocketeer (1991), Bruce Hughes and Shayne Greenman in Blonde (2001), Charles Unwin in Lucy (2003), and Kyle MacLachlan in "Touch of Pink" (2004).

Gable, along with Ava Gardner appeared on the cover of Robin Gibb's second album How Old Are You? (1983).

In the Star Trek episode "The City on the Edge of Forever," Edith Keeler suggests that she and James T. Kirk see the latest Clark Gable movie. However, Gable had not yet become an established star in 1930, when the majority of the episode is set.

Chani · November 2, 2015

Denzel Washington

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Denzel Washington
Washington in 2000
Born	Denzel Hayes Washington, Jr. December 28, 1954 (age 60) Mount Vernon, New York, U.S.
Alma mater	Fordham University
Occupation	Actor, filmmaker
Years active	1974–present
Spouse(s)	Pauletta Pearson (m. 1983)
Children	4

Denzel Hayes Washington, Jr. (born December 28, 1954) is an American actor and filmmaker. He has received two Golden Globe awards, a Tony Award,^[1] and twoAcademy Awards: Best Supporting Actor for the historical drama-war film Glory (1989) and Best Actor for his role as a corrupt cop in the crime thriller Training Day(2001).^[2]

Washington has received much critical acclaim for his film work since the 1990s, including his portrayals of real-life figures such as South African anti-apartheid activistSteve Biko in Cry Freedom (1987), Muslim minister and human rights activist Malcolm X in Malcolm X (1992), boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter in The Hurricane (1999), football coach Herman Boone in Remember the Titans (2000), poet and educator Melvin B. Tolson in The Great Debaters (2007), and drug kingpin Frank Lucas inAmerican Gangster (2007). He has been a featured actor in the films produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and has been a frequent collaborator of directors Spike Lee and the late Tony Scott.

Early life and education[edit]

Washington was born in Mount Vernon, near New York City. His father, Denzel Hayes Washington, Sr., a native of Buckingham County, Virginia, was an ordainedPentecostal minister, and also worked for the Water Department and at a local department store, S. Klein. His mother, Lennis "Lynne" (née Lowe), was a beauty parlor owner and operator born in Georgia and partly raised in Harlem.^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]

Washington attended Pennington-Grimes Elementary School in Mount Vernon until 1968. When he was 14, his parents broke up, and his mother sent him to a private preparatory school, Oakland Military Academyin New Windsor, New York. "That decision changed my life," Washington later said, "because I wouldn't have survived in the direction I was going. The guys I was hanging out with at the time, my running buddies, have now done maybe 40 years combined in the penitentiary. They were nice guys, but the streets got them."^[7] After Oakland, Washington next attended Mainland High School, a public high school in Daytona Beach, Florida, from 1970 to 1971.^[3] He was interested in attending Texas Tech University: "I grew up in the Boys Club in Mount Vernon, and we were the Red Raiders. So when I was in high school, I wanted to go to Texas Tech in Lubbock just because they were called the Red Raiders and their uniforms looked like ours."^[8] Washington earned a B.A. in Drama and Journalism from Fordham University in 1977.^[9] At Fordham, he played collegiate basketball as a guard^[10] under coach P.J. Carlesimo.^[11] After a period of indecision on which major to study and dropping out of school for a semester, Washington worked as creative arts director at an overnight summer camp, Camp Sloane YMCA in Lakeville, Connecticut. He participated in a staff talent show for the campers and a colleague suggested he try acting.^[12]

Returning to Fordham that fall with a renewed purpose, Washington enrolled at the Lincoln Center campus to study acting, and where he was given the title roles in Eugene O'Neill's The Emperor Jones and Shakespeare's Othello. He then attended graduate school at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, where he stayed for one year before returning to New York to begin a professional acting career.^[13]

Career[edit]

Early work[edit]

Washington at the 62nd Academy Awards, at which he won Best Supporting Actor for the film Glory.

Washington spent the summer of 1976 in St. Mary's City, Maryland, in summer stock theater performing Wings of the Morning,^[14]^[15] the Maryland State play, which was written for him by incorporating an African-American character/narrator based loosely on the historical figure from early colonial Maryland, Mathias Da Sousa.^[14] He also filmed a series of commercials in the Fruit of the Loom ensemble, as Grapes.^{[citation needed]} Shortly after graduating from Fordham, Washington made his screen acting debut in the 1977 made-for-television film Wilma, and his first Hollywood appearance in the 1981 film Carbon Copy. He shared a 1982 Distinguished Ensemble Performance Obie Awardfor playing Private First Class Melvin Peterson in the Off-Broadway Negro Ensemble Company production A Soldier's Play which premiered November 20, 1981.^[16]

A major career break came when he starred as Dr. Phillip Chandler in NBC's television hospital drama St. Elsewhere, which ran from 1982 to 1988. He was one of only a few African-American actors to appear on the series for its entire six-year run. He also appeared in several television, motion picture and stage roles, such as the films A Soldier's Story (1984), Hard Lessons (1986) and Power (1986). In 1987, he starred as South African anti-apartheid political activist Steven Biko in Richard Attenborough's Cry Freedom, for which he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. In 1989, Washington won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of a defiant, self-possessed ex-slave soldier in the film Glory. That same year, he appeared in the film The Mighty Quinn; and in For Queen and Country, where he played the conflicted and disillusioned Reuben James, a British soldier who, despite a distinguished military career, returns to a civilian life where racism and inner city life lead to vigilantism and violence.

1990s[edit]

Washington's signature in front ofGrauman's Chinese Theatre

In 1990, Washington starred as Bleek Gilliam in the Spike Lee film Mo' Better Blues. In 1992, he starred as Demetrius Williams in the romantic drama Mississippi Masala. Washington was reunited with Lee to play one of his most critically acclaimed roles, the title character of 1992's Malcolm X. His performance as the black nationalist leader earned him another nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. The next year he played the lawyer of a gay man with AIDS in the 1993 film Philadelphia. During the early and mid-1990s, Washington starred in several successful thrillers, including The Pelican Brief and Crimson Tide, as well as in the movie of the Shakespearean comedyMuch Ado About Nothing. In 1996, he played a U.S. Army officer who, despondent about a deadly mistake he made, investigates a female chopper commander's worthiness for the Medal of Honor in Courage Under Fire with Meg Ryan. In 1996, he appeared with Whitney Houston in the romantic drama The Preacher's Wife.^[17]

In 1998, Washington starred in Spike Lee's film He Got Game. Washington played a father serving a six-year prison term when the prison warden offers him a temporary parole to convince his top-ranked high-school basketball player son (Ray Allen) to sign with the governor's alma mater, Big State. The film was Washington's third collaboration with Lee.^[18]

In 1999, Washington starred in The Hurricane, a film about boxer Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter, whose conviction for triple murder was overturned after he spent almost 20 years in prison. A former reporter, who was angry that the film portrayed Carter as innocent despite the overturned conviction, began a campaign to pressure Academy Award voters not to vote for the film.^[19] Washington did receive a Golden Globe Award in 2000 and a Silver Bear Award at the Berlin International Film Festival for the role.

2000s[edit]

In 2000, Washington appeared in the Disney film Remember the Titans which grossed over $100 million in the U.S.^[20]

Washington won a Golden Globe award for Best Actor in a Dramatic Movie for his work in The Hurricane in 2000. He was the first black actor to win the award since Sidney Poitier in 1963.^[21]^[22]

Washington won an Academy Award for Best Actor for the 2001 cop thriller Training Day, where he played Detective Alonzo Harris, a corrupt Los Angeles cop with questionable law-enforcement tactics. He was the second African-American performer to win an Academy Award for Best Actor. The first was Sidney Poitier, who was presented with an Honorary Academy Award the same night. Washington currently holds the records for most Oscar nominations (six) and the most wins (two) by an actor of African descent.

After appearing in 2002's box office success, the healthcare-themed John Q., Washington directed his first film, a well-reviewed drama called Antwone Fisher, in which he also co-starred.

Between 2003 and 2004, Washington appeared in a series of thrillers that performed generally well at the box office, including Out of Time, Man on Fire, and The Manchurian Candidate.^[23] In 2006, he starred inInside Man, a Spike Lee-directed bank heist thriller co-starring Jodie Foster and Clive Owen, released in March, and Déjà Vu.

In 2006, Washington worked alongside multitalented Irish off-rock band The Script on a project combining music and Hollywood. The hybrid of genres was critically acclaimed, but didn't receive much mainstream attention because of legal conflicts between The Script's record label and Denzel's studio commitments.

In 2007, Washington co-starred with Russell Crowe, for the second time after 1995's Virtuosity, in American Gangster. He also directed and starred in the drama The Great Debaters with Forest Whitaker. He next appeared in Tony Scott's 2009 film The Taking of Pelham 123 (a remake of the 1974 thriller of the same name), where he played New York City subway security chief Walter Garber opposite John Travolta's villain.^[24]

Return to theater[edit]

Washington after a performance ofJulius Caesar in May 2005.

In the summer of 1990, Washington appeared in the title role of the Public Theater's production of Shakespeare's Richard III. In 2005, he appeared onstage again as Marcus Brutus in a Broadway production of Julius Caesar. Despite mixed reviews, the production's limited run was a consistent sell-out.^[25] In the spring of 2010, Washington played Troy Maxson, opposite Viola Davis, in the Broadway revival of August Wilson's Fences, for which he won a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play on June 13, 2010.^[26]^[27]

From April to June 2014, Washington played the leading role in the Broadway production of Lorraine Hansberry's classic drama A Raisin in the Sun, directed by Kenny Leon.^[28] The show received positive reviews and won the 2014 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play.^[29]

2010s[edit]

In 2010, Washington starred in The Book of Eli, a post-Apocalyptic drama set in the near future. Also in 2010, he starred as a veteran railroad engineer in the action filmUnstoppable, about an unmanned, half-mile-long runaway freight train carrying dangerous cargo. The film was his fifth and final collaboration with director Tony Scott, followingCrimson Tide (1995), Man on Fire (2004), Déjà Vu (2006) and The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009).

In 2012, Washington starred in Flight, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor. He co-starred with Ryan Reynolds in Safe House, where he prepared for his role by subjecting himself to a torture session that included waterboarding.^[30]

In 2013, Washington started in 2 Guns, along side Mark Walberg.

In 2014, Washington starred in The Equalizer, an action thriller film directed by Antoine Fuqua and written by Richard Wenk, based on the television series of same name starring Edward Woodward.^[31]

Personal life[edit]

On June 25, 1983, Washington married Pauletta Pearson, whom he met on the set of his first screen work, the television film Wilma. The couple have four children: John David (b. July 28, 1984), a former footballplayer with the United Football League's Sacramento Mountain Lions (and before that, college football at Morehouse);^[32] Katia (b. November 27, 1986) who graduated from Yale University with a Bachelor of Arts in 2010; and twins Olivia and Malcolm (b. April 10, 1991). Malcolm graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in film studies, and Olivia played a role in Lee Daniels's film The Butler. In 1995, Denzel and Pauletta renewed their wedding vows in South Africa with Archbishop Desmond Tutu officiating.^[33]

Washington is a devout Christian,^[34] and has considered becoming a preacher. He stated in 1999, "A part of me still says, 'Maybe, Denzel, you're supposed to preach. Maybe you're still compromising.' I've had an opportunity to play great men and, through their words, to preach. I take what talent I've been given seriously, and I want to use it for good."^[35] In 1995, he donated $2.5 million to help build the new West AngelesChurch of God in Christ facility in Los Angeles.^[36]^[37] Washington says he reads the Bible daily.^[38]

Washington has served as the national spokesperson for Boys & Girls Clubs of America since 1993^[39] and has appeared in public service announcements and awareness campaigns for the organization.^[40] In addition, he has served as a board member for Boys & Girls Clubs of America since 1995.^[41]

In mid-2004, Washington visited Brooke Army Medical Center (BAMC) at Fort Sam Houston, where he participated in a Purple Heart ceremony, presenting medals to three Army soldiers recovering from wounds they received while stationed in Iraq. He also visited the fort's Fisher House facilities, and after learning that it had exceeded its capacity, made a substantial donation to the Fisher House Foundation. Washington's other charitable contributions include $1 million to the Children's Fund of South Africa^[37] and $1 million to Wiley College to resuscitate the college's debate team.^[42]

Washington is an Independent voter. He supported Barack Obama in 2008.^[43]

The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia named Washington as one of three people (the others being directors Oliver Stone and Michael Moore) with whom they were willing to negotiate for the release of threedefense contractors the group had held captive from 2003 to 2008.^[44]

On May 18, 1991, Washington was awarded an honorary doctorate from his alma mater, Fordham University, for having "impressively succeeded in exploring the edge of his multifaceted talent".^[45] In 2011, he donated $2 million to Fordham for an endowed chair of the theater department, as well as $250,000 to establish a theater-specific scholarship at the school. He also received an honorary doctorate of humanities from Morehouse College on May 20, 2007.^[46] and an honorary Doctor of Arts degree from the University of Pennsylvania on May 16, 2011.^[47]

In 2008, Washington visited Israel with a delegation of African-American artists in honor of the state's 60th birthday.^[48]

In April 2014, Washington presented at Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS Easter Bonnet Competition with Bryan Cranston, Idina Menzel and Fran Drescher, after raising donations at his Broadway show Raisin in the Sun.^[49]

Anakin · November 2, 2015

Dustin Hoffman

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Dustin Hoffman

Dustin Hoffman in 1968

Born

Dustin Lee Hoffman
August 8, 1937 (age 78)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Occupation

Actor, film director

Years active

1960–present

Spouse(s)

Anne Byrne (1969–80)
Lisa Hoffman
(1980–present)

Children

6, including Jake Hoffman

Dustin Hoffman's voice

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from the BBC programme Desert Island Discs, December 2, 2012.^[1]

Dustin Lee Hoffman^[2] (born August 8, 1937) is an American actor and director with a career in film, television, and theatre since 1960. He has been known for his versatile portrayals of antiheroes and vulnerable characters.^[3] He won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1979 (for Kramer vs. Kramer) and 1988 (for Rain Man).

He first drew critical praise for starring in the play Eh?, for which he won a Theatre World Award and a Drama Desk Award. This was soon followed by his breakthrough 1967 film role as Benjamin Braddock, the title character, in The Graduate. Since then, Hoffman's career has largely been focused on cinema, with sporadic returns to television and the stage. His subsequent notable films include Midnight Cowboy, Little Big Man, Straw Dogs, Papillon, Lenny, Marathon Man, All the President's Men,Kramer vs. Kramer, Tootsie, Rain Man, Hook and Wag the Dog.

Aside from his two Academy award wins, Hoffman has been nominated for seven Academy Awards, plus thirteen Golden Globes, winning six (including an honorary one) and has won four BAFTAs, three Drama Desk Awards, a Genie Award, and an Emmy Award. Hoffman received the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1999, and theKennedy Center Honors in 2012. Hoffman made his directorial debut in 2012, with Quartet.

Early life[edit]

Hoffman was born on August 8, 1937 in Los Angeles,^[2] the second son of Lillian (née Gold; 1909-1981) and Harry Hoffman (1908-1988). His father worked as a prop supervisor (set decorator) at Columbia Pictures before becoming a furniture salesman.^[4] Hoffman was named after stage and silent screen actor Dustin Farnum. His older brother, Ronald, is a lawyer and economist. Hoffman is Jewish, from an Ashkenazi family of immigrants from Ukraine and Romania.^[5]^[6] His upbringing was non-religious; he has said, "I don’t have any memory of celebrating holidays growing up that were Jewish", and that he had "realized" he was Jewish at around age 10.^[7]^[8]^[9] He graduated from Los Angeles High School in 1955 and enrolled at Santa Monica Collegewith the intention of studying medicine. Hoffman left after a year to join the Pasadena Playhouse,^[10] although when he told his family about his career goal, his Aunt Pearl warned him "You can't be an actor. You are not good-looking enough."^[11]^[12] He also took classes at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York City.

Career[edit]

Early work[edit]

Hoffman initially hoped to become a classical pianist, having studied piano during much of his youth and in college. While at Santa Monica College, he also took an acting class, which he assumed would be easy, and "caught the acting bug." He recalls: "I just was not gifted in music. I did not have an ear."^[13] Now an aspiring actor, he spent the next ten years doing odd jobs, being unemployed, and struggling to get any available acting roles.

His first acting role was at the Pasadena Playhouse, alongside future Academy Award-winner, Gene Hackman.^[14] After two years there, Hackman headed for New York City, with Hoffman soon following. Hoffman, Hackman and Robert Duvall lived together in the 1960s, all three of them focused on finding acting jobs.^[15]^[16] Hackman remembers, "The idea that any of us would do well in films simply didn't occur to us. We just wanted to work."^[13] During this period, Hoffman got occasional television bit parts, including commercials but, needing income, he briefly left acting to teach.

In 1960, Hoffman was cast in a role in an Off-Broadway production and followed with a walk-on role in a Broadway production in 1961. Hoffman then studied at Actors Studio and became a dedicated method actor.Sidney W. Pink, a producer and 3D-movie pioneer, discovered him in one of his off-Broadway roles and cast him in Madigan's Millions. Through the early and mid-1960s, Hoffman made appearances in television shows and movies, including Naked City, The Defenders and Hallmark Hall of Fame. His first critical success was in the play Eh?, by Henry Livings, which had its US premiere at the Circle in the Square Downtown on October 16, 1966.

Hoffman made his film debut in The Tiger Makes Out in 1967, alongside Eli Wallach. In 1967, immediately after wrapping up principal filming on The Tiger Makes Out, Hoffman flew from New York City to Fargo, North Dakota, where he directed productions of William Gibson's Two for the Seesaw and William Saroyan's The Time of Your Life for the Fargo-Moorhead Community Theatre. The $1,000 he received for the eight-week contract was all he had to hold him over until the funds from the movie materialized.^[17]

1960s: The Graduate, Midnight Cowboy, John and Mary[edit]

In 1967, director Mike Nichols cast Hoffman in The Graduate (1967), his first major role, for which he received an Academy Award nomination for his performance. Hoffman played the character of Benjamin Braddock, who returns to his wealthy parents' home in California after graduating from college. Confused about what to do with his life, he is seduced into having an affair with Mrs. Robinson, an alcoholic and a neurotic, and the wife of his father's business partner.

Hoffman in 1968

Although Life magazine joked that "if Dustin Hoffman's face were his fortune, he'd be committed to a life of poverty",^[12] The Graduate was a gigantic box-office hit for Embassy Pictures, making Hoffman a major new star at the same time. The film received near unanimous good reviews. Time magazine called Hoffman "a symbol of youth" who represented "a new breed of actors." The film's screenwriter, Buck Henry, notes that Hoffman's character made conventional good looks no longer necessary on screen:

A whole generation changed its idea of what guys should look like. . . I think Dustin's physical being brought a sort of social and visual change, in the same way people first thought of Bogart. They called him ugly.^[18]

Hoffman biographer Jeff Lenburg adds that "newspapers across the country were deluged with thousands of letters from fans," with one example published in the New York Times: "I identified with Ben...I thought of him as a spiritual brother. He was confused about his future and about his place in the world, as I am. It's a film one digs, rather than understands intellectually."^[19]^:35

Turner Classic Movies critic Rob Nixon notes that Hoffman represented "a new generation of actors." He credits Hoffman with breaking "the mold of the traditional movie star and brought to their roles a new candor, ethnicity, and eagerness to dive deep into complex, even unlikable characters."^[20] Nixon expands on the significance of the film to Hoffman's career: "In The Graduate, he created a lasting resonance as Ben Braddock that made him an overnight sensation and set him on the road to becoming one of our biggest stars and most respected actors.^[20]"

Hoffman, however, mostly credits director Mike Nichols for taking a great risk in giving him, a relatively unknown, the starring role: "I don't know of another instance of a director at the height of his powers who would take a chance and cast someone like me in that part. It took tremendous courage."^[18]

Critic Sam Kashner observed strong similarities between Hoffman's character and that of Nichols when he previously acted with Elaine May in the comedy team of Nichols and May. "Just close your eyes and you'll hear a Mike Nichols—Elaine May routine in any number of scenes."^[18]^[21] Buck Henry also noticed that "Dustin picked up all these Nichols habits, which he used in the character. Those little noises he makes are straight from Mike," he says.^[18]

After completing The Graduate, Hoffman turned down most of the film roles offered to him, preferring to go back to New York and continue performing in live theater. He returned to Broadway to appear in the title role of the musical, Jimmy Shine. Hoffman won a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Performance.

I was a theater person. That's how my friends were, too, Gene Hackman and Bobby Duvall. I wasn't going to be a movie star. I wasn't going to sell out. We wanted to be really good actors. I told them, 'I'm going out to make this movie. Don't worry, I'm coming right back.'^[22]

He was then offered the lead in Midnight Cowboy (1969), which he accepted partly to prove many critics were wrong about his acting range and the variety of characters he could portray. As author and critic Peter Biskind explains, "it was the very contrast between his preppy character in The Graduate, and Ratso Rizzo" that appealed to Hoffman. "I had become troubled," recalls Hoffman, "by the reviews that I read of The Graduate, that I was not a character actor, which I like to think of myself as. It hurt me. Some of the stuff in the press was brutal."^[22] Critics assumed that director Mike Nichols got lucky by finding a typical actor with average acting ability to play the part of Benjamin Braddock.

John Schlesinger, who would direct Midnight Cowboy and was seeking lead actors, held that same impression. Hoffman's performance as a button-down college graduate and track star was so convincing to Schlesinger, "he seemed unable to comprehend the fact that he was acting," notes Biskind.^[22] To help the director, whom he had never met, overcome that false impression, Hoffman met him in Times Squaredressed as a homeless person, wearing a dirty raincoat, his hair slicked back and with an unshaven face. Schlesinger was sold, admitting, "I've only seen you in the context of The Graduate, but you'll do quite well."^[22]

Midnight Cowboy, premiered in theaters across the United States in May 1969. For his acting, Hoffman received his second Oscar nomination and the film won the Best Picture. In 1994, this film was deemed "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.^[23]^[24]^[25] Biskind considers Hoffman's acting a major accomplishment:

Midnight Cowboy makes us a gift of one of the landmark performances of movie history: Dustin Hoffman's Ratso Rizzo, with Jon Voight's Joe Buck a close second. From a cesspool of dark, foul, even taboo material, . . . it rescues a true humanism that need not hide its name.^[22]

Also in 1969, Hoffman co-starred with Mia Farrow in John and Mary. He received a 1970 BAFTA Award as Best Actor, although the film received mixed reviews.^[26] He was also nominated for a Golden Globe Awardas Best Actor.

1970s: Lenny, All the President's Men, Marathon Man, Kramer vs. Kramer[edit]

This was followed by his role in Little Big Man (1970), where Jack Crabb, his character, ages from teenager to a 121-year-old man. The film was widely praised by critics, but was overlooked for an award except for a supporting nomination for Chief Dan George. Hoffman continued to appear in major films over the next few years. Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me? (1971), Straw Dogs (also 1971), and Papillon (1973).

Hoffman next starred in Lenny (1974), for which he was again nominated for Best Actor. Lenny was based on the life of stand-up comedian, Lenny Bruce, who died at age 40, and was notable for his open, free-style and critical form of comedy which integrated politics, religion, sex, and vulgarity. Expectations were high that Hoffman would win an Oscar for his portrayal, especially after his similar role in Midnight Cowboy. Film critic Katharine Lowry speculates that director Bob Fosse "never gave him a chance" to go far enough into developing the character. "We never understand what, besides the drugs he injected, made him tick like a time bomb," she says.^[27]

Hoffman on the set of Lenny (1974)

However, notes author Paul Gardner, "directing Lenny, his most ambitious project, exhausted Fosse emotionally and physically. It turned his life inside out," with shooting days often lasting 10 to 12 hours:"^[28]

The Lenny Bruce project, based on Julian Barry's play, had gone through two studios and three scripts, and was a problem child, like Lenny himself. But Fosse wanted to do it, and he wanted Dustin Hoffman.^[28]

Hoffman initially turned the part down: "I didn't think the script was strong enough and I wasn't sure I was the one to play the role." While considering the part, he read Lenny Bruce's autobiography and looked at films with Bruce performing stand-up to live audiences. "I began to feel an affinity with him, a realization that there was a lot of Lenny Bruce in me. My wife felt it too."^[29] "I realized that I'd have to make use of my own spontaneity, because he was so spontaneous. And I admired his guts. . . . That intimacy is what an actor tries to get. . . . It occurred to me that if I had known him, I would have wanted us to be friends. . . . and he was a provocateur, and I love to provoke."^[29] Movie critic Judith Crist gave Hoffman credit for the ultimate success of the film:

What is important is that Bruce's routines are so artfully reconstructed, the juice of his creativity so carefully strained, that the claim to genius is justified. And for that Dustin Hoffman deserves full credit, vanishing into the Bruce persona to simply stunning effectiveness, . . . Hoffman captures the restlessness, the velocity of a man's mouth straining to keep pace with a jet-propelled intelligence . . . "^[30]

Lenny was nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Cinematography.^[31]

All the President's Men (1976) was made less than two years after the Watergate scandal, and starred Hoffman and Robert Redford as the real life journalists, Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, respectively. Based on actual events, Hoffman and Redford play Washington Post reporters who uncover a break-in at the Watergate Hotel and end up investigating a political scandal that reaches all the way to the presidency. The film, as earlier ones, had Hoffman take on a dramatically different character than his previous one (as Lenny Bruce). Author James Morrison compares the two roles: "As Lenny Bruce in Lenny (1974), Hoffman plays a martyr to the cause of establishment oppression, while in All the President's Men, he plays a reporter exposing presidential malfeasance."^[32]

with Bette Midler on Bette Midler TV Special (1977)

Vincent Canby of the New York Times described the film as "a spellbinding detective story." "The strength of the movie", he added, was "the virtually day-to-day record of the way Bernstein and Woodward conducted their investigations."^[33] The characters portrayed by Hoffman and Redford shared the rank of #27 Hero on AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes and Villains list, while Entertainment Weekly ranked All the President's Men as one of the 25 "Powerful Political Thrillers".^[34]

Hoffman next starred in Marathon Man (1976), a film based on William Goldman's novel of the same name, opposite Laurence Olivier and Roy Scheider.^[35] Its director, John Schlesinger also directed Hoffman in Midnight Cowboy in 1969. Described as "Schlesinger's thriller," by author Gene D. Phillips, Hoffman plays the hero, Babe Levy, a part-time long-distance runner and graduate student, who suddenly finds himself being pursued by a fugitive Nazi.^[36] To put himself in the mindset of someone under severe emotional distress, rather than simply acting, Hoffman didn't sleep for days at a time and let his body become disheveled and unhealthy.^[37]

Goldman describes his inspiration for the novel: "What if someone close to you was something totally different from what you thought? In the story, Hoffman thinks his brother (Roy Scheider) is a businessman where the reality is that the man is a spy, who has been involved with the Nazi, Szell."^[38] However, Hoffman remembers a serious disagreement he had with Goldman, who also wrote the screenplay, about how the story ends:

I was called on, as the character, to fire point-blank at the Laurence Olivier character, Dr. Szell, and kill him in that last scene. And I said that I couldn't do it. Goldman was quite upset about it, because first of all, how dare I? He wrote the book. "Your job isn't to rewrite — your job is to play it as written." . . . it got nasty. I said, "Go hire someone else."

I remember Goldman saying: "Why can't you do this? Are you such a Jew?" I said, "No, but I won't play a Jew who cold-bloodedly kills another human being." . . . And that's important to me, that I didn't shoot him in the end. Being a Jew is not losing your humanity and not losing your soul.^[9]

Hoffman's next roles were less successful. He opted out of directing Straight Time (1978), but starred as a thief. His next film, Michael Apted's Agatha (1979), was with Vanessa Redgrave as Agatha Christie.

Hoffman next starred in Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) co-starring Meryl Streep and directed by Robert Benton. The film tells the story of a married couple's divorce and its impact on everyone involved, including the couple's young son. Hoffman won his first Academy Award, and the film also received the Best Picture honor, plus the awards for Best Supporting Actress (Streep) and Best Director.

The film required Hoffman to change his attitude, from being a "desensitized advertising art director" into becoming a "responsive and concerned daddy" after his wife (Streep) walks out on him and their six-year-old son, Billy. Hoffman, during the making of the movie, was also going through his own divorce after a ten-year first marriage. Hoffman has said, "Giving myself permission not only to be present but to be a father was a kind of epiphany for me at that time, that I could get to through my work. . . . I got closer to being a father by playing a father. That's very painful to say."^[29] The role also reminded him of his own love of children in general:

Children are more interesting than anything. I walk my younger child to school every day and I don't like leaving the school. I would like to sit down on those little chairs, at those little tables, and play. And a child's love is like a drug. To have a child throw his arms about you—it's instant stoned. People talk about the rush heroin gives you: I would say children give you that rush.^[29]

Benton's directing has been praised by Hoffman, who credits him for inspiring the emotional level supporting many scenes: "Perfect directors make you emotional. On Kramer vs. Kramer, Robert Benton made me emotional. He was pulling so hard for me. When I didn't think I could do a scene again I'd say, "I can't give it to you, I haven't got it." Then he'd just get this look on his face and roll the camera and I'd say, "Okay, this is yours." That's what he made you want to do for him—to give him one."^[39]

1980s: Tootsie, Death of a Salesman, Rain Man, Family Business[edit]

in Death of a Salesman (1985)

In Tootsie (1982), Hoffman portrays Michael Dorsey, a struggling actor who finds himself dressing up as a woman to land a role on a soap opera. His co-star was Jessica Lange. Tootsie earned ten Academy Award nominations, including Hoffman's fifth nomination.

Under direction by Sydney Pollack, Hoffman's role demanded "a steady bombardment of opposites—edgy then funny, romantic then realistic, soft then quivering."^[40] To film critic David Denby, Hoffman's character "embodies vulnerability and drive in perfect proportion. He has the knack of making everything he does seem perilous, and so audiences feel protective of him and root for him."^[41] Hoffman's acting was made more difficult than necessary, however, as he was not given the rehearsal time Pollock promised:

I like to be very prepared, and I feel that the success or failure of a film is many times determined before you start principal photography. I wanted rehearsal very much. I was promised two weeks and was grieved that I didn't get it. We also followed the risky course of starting to shoot with a screenplay that wasn't completed.^[42]

In 1984, Hoffman starred as Willy Loman in the Broadway revival of Arthur Miller's play, Death of a Salesman^[43] He reprised his role in a TV movie of the same name, for which he won the 1985 Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor along with a Golden Globe.

Hoffman first read the play at age 16, but today considers the story much like his own: "It was a blueprint of my family. I was the loser, the flunky, and my brother, a high-school varsity football player, was Biff."^[13] Author Marie Brenner notes that Hoffman "has been obsessed with the play" throughout his career: "For years he has wanted to be Willy Loman; when he discovered that Arthur Miller was his neighbor in Connecticut, they began to talk about it in earnest."^[44] For Hoffman, the story also left a deep emotional impact from the time he first read it:

I read that play, and I was just destroyed by it. It was like finding out something terrible about my family. I just shook. I felt like my family's privacy had been invaded. I couldn't even talk about it for weeks.^[44]

Hoffman rehearsed for three weeks with the play's original star, Lee J. Cobb, and remembers seeing his stage performance: "I'll never forget that period in my life. It was so vivid, so intense, watching Lee J. Cobb and his sixteen-inch guns as Willy. God, how I think about what I saw on that stage!"^[44] Brenner adds that Hoffman "has been training like a boxer for the role that so exhausted Cobb he had to be replaced after four months."^[44] The original play was directed by Elia Kazan, who Hoffman considers "the perfect director, the best there ever was. . . . God, I would have done anything to have worked with Kazan."^[44]

Hoffman's worst film failure was Elaine May's Ishtar (1987), co-starring Warren Beatty, who also produced it. Hoffman and Beatty play two down-and-out singer-songwriters who've gone to Morocco for a nightclub gig and get caught up in foreign intrigue. Much of the movie was filmed in Africa. The film faced severe production problems, mostly related to its $55 million cost, and received overwhelmingly negative reviews. However, Hoffman and Beatty liked the film's final cut and tried to defend it.^[45]^[46] Hoffman and Beatty were unaffected by the flop, and Ishtar became a cult film. Quentin Tarantino, for one, has called it one of his favorite movies, partly due to the humorous lyrics of the songs written by Paul Williams.^[47] Hoffman describes why he loves the film:

The thing I love about Ishtar, - and I love it with all of its flaws - is that it has a statement to make. And that is: It is far, far better to spend a life being second rate in something that you're passionate about, then to spend a life being first-rate at that which you are not passionate about. I thought that was worth making a movie about. These guys want to be Simon & Garfunkel, but they have no talent at all. They're middle-aged guys, and at the end of the movie they wind up singing "That's Amore" at a Holiday Inn in Morocco. It's fair. It's fair to make a movie about that.^[47]

Next came director Barry Levinson's Rain Man (1988), where Hoffman starred as an autistic savant, opposite Tom Cruise. Levinson, Hoffman and Cruise worked for two years on the film, and Hoffman's performance gained him his second Academy Award. Behind Hoffman's motivation for doing the film, he has said, "Deep inside, Rain Man is about how autistic we all are." In preparation for the part, Hoffman spent two years befriending autistic people, which included taking them bowling and to fast food restaurants. "It fed my obsession," he has stated.^[48]

Hoffman had worked at the New York Psychiatric Institute, affiliated with Columbia University, when he was 21. "It was a great experience for me," he has said. "All my life I had wanted to get inside a prison or a mental hospital. . . . I wanted to get inside where behavior, human behavior, was so exposed. All the things the rest of us were feeling and stopping up were coming out of these people."^[29] He used that experience to help him develop the character of Raymond Babbitt, a high-functioning autistic savant, yet a person who critic David Denby described as "a strangely shuttered genius."^[49] Hoffman created certain character traits for Raymond. Denby noted: "Hoffman, looking suddenly older and smaller, has developed a small shuffling walk for Raymond, with shoulder bent. His eyes don't make contact with anyone else's, and he flattens his voice to a dry nasal bark."^[49]

Rain Man won four Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor for Hoffman, and Best Director for Barry Levinson. Having worked closely with Hoffman for two years on filming, Levinson offered some opinions about his skill as an actor:

You can't define Dustin Hoffman, because he's unique. He's one of a kind and he's not one character. There is no Dustin Hoffman. He is many, many people. . . . He can do comedy and he can do drama. He has an enormous range, and yet he's still Dustin somewhere in there. He's intelligent and has a great sense of how to connect with people, because he's very interesting. On a day-to-day basis, he's like an actor who's making his first movie, with the enthusiasm and energy to want to make things happen and try things and experiment.^[50]

After Rain Man, Hoffman appeared with Sean Connery and Matthew Broderick in Family Business (1989), directed by Sidney Lumet. The story centers on the estrangement between Vito (Hoffman), a middle-age man trying to succeed in a legitimate business, and his "hopelessly corrupt but charming father," Jesse (Connery). Critics were mostly not impressed with the story, although the individual performances were praised, especially Connery's.^[51]

Because of their different acting styles and nationalities, some industry writers thought Connery and Hoffman might not work well together as close family members. "To the surprise of many," note Connery biographers Lee Pfeiffer and Lisa Philip, "the two superstars developed an immediate rapport and chemistry that translates onto the screen." And Lumet remembered: "Sean is extremely disciplined and Dustin is very improvisational, all over the place with his lines. I didn't know where it would end up, but Sean met Dustin improvisation for improvisation, and a great deal of richness and humor came out of it."^[51]

1990s: Dick Tracy, Hook, Outbreak, Mad City, Wag the Dog[edit]

In 1991, Hoffman voiced substitute teacher Mr. Bergstrom in The Simpsons episode "Lisa's Substitute", under the pseudonym Sam Etic. As a reference to this episode, during the episode featuring the Itchy & Scratchy movie, Lisa claims that Dustin Hoffman had a cameo in that movie but didn't use his real name.

Throughout the 1990s, Hoffman appeared in many large, studio films, such as Dick Tracy (1990) (where his Ishtar co-star Beatty plays the titular character), Hero (1992) and Billy Bathgate (1991) co-starring withNicole Kidman who was nominated for a Golden Globe). Hoffman also played the title role of Captain Hook in Steven Spielberg's Hook (also 1991), earning a Golden Globe nomination, and the narrator in Dr. SeussVideo Classics: Horton Hears a Who! (also 1992); in Hook, Hoffman's costume was so heavy that he had to wear an air-conditioned suit under it.

Hoffman played the lead role in Outbreak (1995), alongside Rene Russo, Kevin Spacey, Morgan Freeman, Cuba Gooding Jr. and Donald Sutherland. In the film, Hoffman is a medical doctor who uncovers a newly discovered Ebola-like virus which came to the U.S. from Africa in an infected monkey. Hoffman races to stop the virus's spread and find a vaccine before it becomes a worldwide pandemic with no cure.

The movie is described by critic Roger Ebert as "one of the great scare stories of our time, the notion that deep in the uncharted rain forests, deadly diseases are lurking, and if they ever escape their jungle homes and enter the human bloodstream, there will be a new plague the likes of which we have never seen."^[52] Critic David Denby credits Hoffman with giving the movie much of its thriller-like quality:

Tanks and men pour in to herd the terrified population here and there, and Dustin Hoffman, as the supersleuth Army doctor, gives such a lip-biting, anguished performance he absolves the movie of slickness. Hoffman isn't good, exactly; he's tense, edgy, and righteous, like a B-movie actor from the fifties.^[53]

Following that, he appeared in the 1996 revenge-drama/legal-thriller Sleepers (1996) with Brad Pitt, Jason Patric, and Kevin Bacon.

In the mid-1990s, Hoffman starred in—and was deeply involved in the production of—David Mamet's American Buffalo (also 1996), and an early effort of film editor Kate Sanford. In 1997, Hoffman starred oppositeJohn Travolta in the Costa Gavras film Mad City.

Hoffman gained his seventh Academy Award nomination for his performance in Wag The Dog (1997), in a role that allowed Hoffman the chance to work with both Robert De Niro and Denis Leary. The movie is ablack comedy film^[54] produced and directed by Barry Levinson, who also directed Hoffman in Rain Man in 1988.

The story takes place a few days before a presidential election, where a Washington, D.C. spin doctor (De Niro) distracts the electorate from a sex scandal by hiring a Hollywood film producer (Hoffman) to construct a fake war with Albania. Hoffman, as a caricature of real life producer Robert Evans, according to some, "gives the kind of wonderfully funny performance that is liable to win prizes, especially since its mixture of affection and murderous parody is so precise. Stanley (Hoffman) conducts business meetings in tennis clothes or in robe and slippers," notes critic Janet Maslin.^[55]

He next appeared in another Barry Levinson film, the science fiction psychological thriller, Sphere (1998), opposite Sharon Stone.

In 1999, Hoffman received the AFI Life Achievement Award and recalls the emotional impact that receiving the award had on him:

There was this reel of pictures, me playing all these different roles. I had my first—and only, thank God—panic attack. What followed was depression. . . . It had to do with a central core in me, which was that I never felt I deserved success.^[13]

2000s: Finding Neverland, Meet the Fockers, Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium[edit]

Hoffman during the filming of Last Chance Harvey in 2008

Hoffman next appeared in Moonlight Mile (2002), followed by Confidence (2003) opposite Edward Burns, Andy García and Rachel Weisz. Hoffman finally had a chance to work withGene Hackman in Gary Fleder's Runaway Jury (also 2003), an adaptation of John Grisham's bestselling novel.

Hoffman played theater owner Charles Frohman in the J. M. Barrie historical fantasia Finding Neverland (2004), costarring Johnny Depp and Kate Winslet. In director David O. Russell's I Heart Huckabees (also 2004), Hoffman appeared opposite Lily Tomlin as an existential detective team member.

Seven years after his nomination for Wag the Dog, Hoffman got a second opportunity to perform again with Robert De Niro, co-starring with Barbra Streisand and Ben Stiller in the 2004 comedy Meet the Fockers, a sequel to Meet the Parents (2000). Hoffman won the 2005 MTV Movie Award for Best Comedic Performance. In 2005, he voiced a horse in Racing Stripes, and appeared in cameo roles in Andy García's The Lost City and on the final episode of HBO sitcom Curb Your Enthusiasm's fifth season. Hoffman appeared in Stranger than Fiction (2006), played the perfumer Giuseppe Baldini in Tom Tykwer's film Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (also 2006), and had a cameo in the same year's The Holiday.

In 2007, he was featured in an advertising campaign for Australian telecommunications company Telstra's Next G network,^[56] appeared in the 50 Cent video "Follow My Lead" as a psychiatrist, and played the title character in the family film Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium. In 2008, although he was reluctant to perform in an animated feature film (Although he had previously performed voices in a version of The Point! and in an episode of The Simpsons), Hoffman had a prominent role as Shifu in the acclaimed film Kung Fu Panda, which was praised in part for his comedic chemistry with Jack Black (whom he tutored in acting for an important scene) and his character's poignantly complex relationship with the story's villain. He later won the Annie Award for Voice Acting in an Animated Feature for Kung Fu Panda and has continued into the role in the franchise's subsequent filmed productions outside of the franchise's television series. He next voiced Roscuro in The Tale of Despereaux.

As the title character in Last Chance Harvey, Hoffman acted with co-star Emma Thompson in the story of two lonely people who tentatively forge a relationship over the course of three days. Director Joel Hopkins notes that Hoffman was a perfectionist and self-critical: "He often wanted to try things stripped down, because less is sometimes more. He worries about every little detail."^[13]

2010s: Barney's Version, Kung Fu Panda, Little Fockers, Quartet[edit]

Hoffman in Paris at the French premiere of Quartet, March 2013

He appears in Little Fockers, the critically panned yet financially successful 2010 sequel to Meet the Fockers.^[57] However, his character plays a significantly smaller role than in the previous installment. In 2011, Hoffman reprised his role as Shifu in the commercially and critically successful animated film Kung Fu Panda 2.

Hoffman starred in the HBO horse-racing drama Luck, as a man involved in bookmaking and casino operations. Luck was cancelled in March 2012 after three horses died on set.^[58]Hoffman also directed Quartet, a BBC Films comedy starring Maggie Smith and Tom Courtenay.^[59]

In 2012, Hoffman's audiobook recording of Jerzy Kosinski's Being There was released at Audible.com. His performance was nominated for a 2013 Audie Award for Best Solo Narration – Male.

Personal life[edit]

With Gottsegen (left), and Jake Hoffman (right)

Hoffman married Anne Byrne in May 1969.^[60] Hoffman adopted Karina (b. 1966), Byrne's child from a previous marriage, and with Byrne had daughter Jenna (born October 15, 1970). In 1970, Hoffman and Byrne were living in Greenwich Village in a building next door to a townhouse occupied by members of the Weathermen, when a bomb was accidentally detonated in the townhouse's basement, killing three people. In the 2002 documentaryThe Weather Underground, Hoffman can be seen standing in the street during the aftermath of the explosion^{[citation needed]}. The couple divorced in 1980.

He married businesswoman Lisa Gottsegen in October 1980; they have four children – Jacob Edward (born March 20, 1981), Rebecca Lillian (b. March 17, 1983), Maxwell Geoffrey (born August 30, 1984), and Alexandra Lydia (born October 27, 1987). Hoffman has two grandchildren. In an interview, he said that all of his children from his second marriage had bar or bat mitzvahs and that he is a more observant Jew now than when he was younger; he has also lamented that he is not fluent in Hebrew.^[61]

A political liberal, Hoffman has long supported the Democratic Party and Ralph Nader.^[62] In 1997, he was one of a number of Hollywood stars and executives to sign an open letter to then-German Chancellor Helmut Kohl protesting the treatment of Scientologists in Germany, which was published as a newspaper advertisement in the International Herald Tribune.^[63]

In 2009, he received the freedom of the Italian city Ascoli Piceno for being there during 1972 to shoot the movie Alfredo, Alfredo by Pietro Germi, where he played the role of Alfredo Sbisà.

Hoffman is a lifelong fan of Archie Comics and owns a copy of every single issue ever printed.^{[citation needed]}

Dustin Hoffman received Kennedy Center Honors in 2012, with the following commendation: "Dustin Hoffman's unyielding commitment to the wide variety of roles he plays has made him one of the most versatile and iconoclastic actors of this or any other generation".^[64]

Hoffman was successfully treated for cancer in 2013.^[65]

Filmography and awards[edit]

Year	Title	Role	Director	Notes and awards
1967	The Tiger Makes Out	Hap	Arthur Hiller
1967	The Graduate	Benjamin "Ben" Braddock	Mike Nichols	BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actor Nominated – Academy Award for Best Actor Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Nominated – Laurel Award for Male Comedy Performance
1968	Madigan's Millions	Jason Fister	Stanley Prager
1969	Midnight Cowboy	Enrico Salvatore "Ratso" Rizzo	John Schlesinger	BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role David di Donatello Award for Best Foreign Actor Laurel Award for Male Dramatic Performance Nominated – Academy Award for Best Actor Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama Nominated – New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor Nominated – New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor
1969	John and Mary	John	Peter Yates	BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
1970	Little Big Man	Jack Crabb	Arthur Penn	Nominated – BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role Nominated – Golden Laurel Award for Male Comedy Performance
1971	Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?	Georgie Soloway	Ulu Grosbard
1971	Straw Dogs	David Sumner	Sam Peckinpah
1972	Alfredo, Alfredo	Alfredo Sbisà	Pietro Germi
1973	Papillon	Louis Dega	Franklin J. Schaffner
1974	Lenny	Lenny Bruce	Bob Fosse	Nominated – Academy Award for Best Actor Nominated – BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama Nominated – New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor
1976	All the President's Men	Carl Bernstein	Alan J. Pakula	Nominated – BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
1976	Marathon Man	Thomas Babington "Babe" Levy	John Schlesinger	David di Donatello Award for Best Foreign Actor Nominated – BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama
1978	Straight Time	Max Dembo	Ulu Grosbard	Also producer
1979	Agatha	Wally Stanton	Michael Apted	National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor
1979	Kramer vs. Kramer	Ted Kramer	Robert Benton	Academy Award for Best Actor David di Donatello Award for Best Foreign Actor Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor Nominated – BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role Nominated – Fotogramas de Plata for Best Foreign Performer
1982	Tootsie	Michael Dorsey / Dorothy Michaels	Sydney Pollack	BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor Nominated – Academy Award for Best Actor Nominated – David di Donatello for Best Foreign Actor Nominated – New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor Nominated – Utah Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor
1985	Death of a Salesman	William "Willy" Loman	Volker Schlöndorff	Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie Nominated – Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie Nominated – Silver Ribbon Award for Best Foreign Actor
1987	Ishtar	Chuck Clarke	Elaine May
1988	Rain Man	Raymond "Ray" Babbitt	Barry Levinson	Academy Award for Best Actor David di Donatello for Best Foreign Actor Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor Utah Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor Nominated – BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role Nominated – Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor Nominated – National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor Nominated – New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor
1989	Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt	Narrator	Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman	Documentary
1989	Family Business	Vito McMullen	Sidney Lumet
1990	Dick Tracy	Mumbles	Warren Beatty
1990	The Earth Day Special	Everylawyer
1991	Billy Bathgate	Dutch Schultz	Robert Benton
1991	The Simpsons	Mr. Bergstrom		Episode: "Lisa's Substitute" Credited as Sam Etic
1991	Hook	Captain James Hook	Steven Spielberg	Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
1992	Doctor Seuss Video Classics: Horton Hears a Who!	Narrator
1992	Hero	Bernard "Bernie" Laplante	Stephen Frears
1995	Outbreak	Colonel Sam Daniels	Wolfgang Petersen
1996	American Buffalo	Walt 'Teach' Teacher	Michael Corrente
1996	Sleepers	Danny Snyder	Barry Levinson
1997	Mad City	Max Brackett	Costa-Gavras
1997	Wag the Dog	Stanley Motss	Barry Levinson	Nominated – Academy Award for Best Actor Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Nominated – National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor Nominated – Satellite Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Nominated – Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
1998	Sphere	Dr. Norman Goodman	Barry Levinson
1999	The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc	The Conscience	Luc Besson
2002	Moonlight Mile	Ben Floss	Brad Silberling
2003	Confidence	Winston King	James Foley
2003	Runaway Jury	Wendell Rohr	Gary Fleder
2004	Finding Neverland	Charles Frohman	Marc Forster	Nominated – Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
2004	I Heart Huckabees	Bernard Jaffe	David O. Russell
2004	Meet the Fockers	Bernie Focker	Jay Roach	MTV Movie Award for Best Comedic Performance
2004	Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events	The Critic	Brad Silberling	Uncredited
2005	Racing Stripes	Tucker	Frederik Du Chau	Voice
2005	The Lost City	Meyer Lansky	Andy García
2006	Perfume: The Story of a Murderer	Giuseppe Baldini	Tom Tykwer
2006	Stranger than Fiction	Professor Jules Hilbert	Marc Forster
2006	The Holiday	Himself	Nancy Meyers	Uncredited
2007	Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium	Mr. Edward Magorium	Zach Helm
2008	Kung Fu Panda	Master Shifu	John Stevenson & Mark Osborne	Voice Annie Award for Best Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production
2008	The Tale of Despereaux	Roscuro	Sam Fell & Robert Stevenhagen	Voice
2009	Last Chance Harvey	Harvey Shine	Joel Hopkins	Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
2010	Barney's Version	Israel 'Izzy' Panofsky	Richard J. Lewis	Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Canadian Film
2010	Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story	Narrator	Peter Miller	Documentary
2010	Little Fockers	Bernie Focker	Paul Weitz
2011	Kung Fu Panda 2	Master Shifu	Jennifer Yuh Nelson	Voice
2011–2012	Luck	Chester "Ace" Bernstein		TV series
2012	Quartet		Dustin Hoffman	Directorial debut Chicago International Film Festival Award for Best Narrative Feature Hollywood Film Festival Award for Breakthrough Directing Nominated – David di Donatello Award for Best European Film Nominated – Hawaii International Film Festival Award for Best Film
2014	Chef	Riva	Jon Favreau
2014	Roald Dahl's Esio Trot	Mr. Hoppy	Dearbhla Walsh
2014	The Cobbler	Abraham Simkin	Thomas McCarthy
2014	Boychoir	Carvelle	François Girard
2015	The Program	Bob Hamman	Stephen Frears	Post-production
2016	Kung Fu Panda 3	Master Shifu (voice)	Jennifer Yuh Nelson & Alessandro Carloni	Post-production

odysey_5 · November 2, 2015

Laurence Olivier

Laurence Olivier a fost, poate, actorul britanic de teatru si film cel mai sarbatorit din ultimele decenii. Personalitatea lui este atit de covirsitoare pe planuri multiple(actor si regizor de teatru si film,scenarist), renumele sau atit de universal, incit putini ii pot sta alaturi, chiar in acesti ani din preajma razboiului (si mai ales, dupa razboi) cind atit teatrul su filmul britanic au promovat atitea alte mari personalitati.Destinat scenei inca din copilarie, in ciuda imprejurarii ca provenea dintr-o familie puritana(tatal era preot), la el se poate vorbi de reala vocatie si nu surprinde faptul ca debutul sau pe scena, s-a produs atunci cind abia implinise 10 ani, la o serbare scolara unde avea sa interpreteze rolul lui Brutus, intr-o foarte libera (si scolareasca) adaptare a piesei Julius Caesar de Shakespeare. De altfel, repertoriul shakespearian e cultivat de el la toate virstele(in 1922, la 15 ani joaca chiar , in travesti, rolul Katharinei din Femeia indaratnica).Primele notiuni de dictiune si arta dramatica le invata la scoala lui Elsie Fogerthy si un deceniu intreg va alterna repertoriul Shakespeare cu piesele moderne, in care se va afirma ca junele prim de care avea mare nevoie teatrul englez.In 1930, cind in primele filme vorvitoare se cautau, mai ales, actori de teatru cu o buna dictiune, el este solicitat sa apara pe ecran, nu in patrie, ci in Germania, unde avea sa turneze pentru compania Ufa, alaturi de diva comediilor muzicale, Lilian Harvey.Invitat apoi la Hollywood, L.O. face si aici un promitator debut, in 1931, cu trei filme care aveau sa insemne ceva, in faza de inceput a carierei lui: Biletul galben de Raoul Walsh, Sfinxul a vorbit si Westward Passage.Dar marea lui ambitie era sa joace alaturi de marea Garbo, in Regina Christina, film pentru care fusese special contractat de M.G.M. . Neintelegeri ivite pe platou, raceala ostila a marii vedete, fac ca acest proiect , la care el tinea atit de mult, sa esueze.Afectat de acest esec, Laurence paraseste Hollywoodul, intorcindu-se in Anglia, unde, paralel cu activitatea, apare, din cind in cind, intr-o serie de filme inegale.In 1936, joaca )orin alternanta cu John Gielgud) Romeo si Julieta, dovedindu-se poate cel mai tinar si cu siguranta cel mai pasionat interpret al rolului.Interesat sa participe si la transpunerea teatrului shakespearian pe ecran, el accepta, sa apara in versiunea filmata a comediei Cum va place, alaturi de Elisabeth Bergner, marea actrita germana de teatru si film, jucind cu multa finete si vigoare tinereasca rolul exaltatului indragostit - Orlando.Adevarata consacrare cinematografica o va cunoaste insa in 1937, intr-o remarcabila inscenare istorica Flacari deasupra Angliei, o poveste de capa si spada din vremea reginei Elisabeta. Ocazie pentru el sa apara prima oara alaturi de cea care avea sa ramina marea pasiune a vietii sale, frumoasa Vivien Leigh, actrita pe care o admirase, la inceput, pe scena si o cunoscuse apoi in imprejurari din cele mai romantice.Distinctia si eleganta atitudinii scenice ca si dictia rafinata, ireprosabila, oripregnanta resurselo dramatice,modificate de la rol la rol, ii atrag lui L.O. recunoasterea de mare actor al cinematografului contemporan, aparitiile lui din Cum va place, La rascruce de vinturi si Rebecca(Oscar in 1940)fiind ilustrative in acest sens.Atras de posibilitatile expresive ale filmului,L.O. ecranizeaza piesele shakespeareene Henry V, Hamlet (Oscar 1948- regie si interpretare) si Richard III, opere cinematografice singulare prin originalitatea indrazneata a reconversiunii filmice a modalitatilor de expresie teatrala. In aceste filme, viziunea regizorala realizeaza o perfecta corespondenta cu viziunea interpretativa a actorului.Pentru prodigioasa lui activitate artistica lui L.O. i s-a acordat titlui de baronet (Sir).

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LeviS · November 2, 2015

Jake Gyllenhaal

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Jake Gyllenhaal
Gyllenhaal pe 24 mai 2010
Nume la naștere	Jacob Benjamin Gyllenhaal
Născut	19 decembrie 1980 (34 de ani) Los Angeles, California, Statele Unite
Alma mater	Universitatea Columbia
Ocupație	actor, actor de film[*]
Ani de activitate	1991–prezent
Părinți	Stephen Gyllenhaal[] Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal[]
Frați	Maggie Gyllenhaal[*]
Cetățenie	Statele Unite ale Americii
Site oficial	http://www.jakegyllenhaal.com
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Jake Gyllenhaal (n. 19 decembrie 1980, Los Angeles, California), pe numele său întreg Jacob Benjamin Gyllenhaal, este un actor american. Are origini suedeze si evreiești. Este fiul regizorului Stephen Gyllenhaal și al scenaristei Naomi Foner. Și-a început cariera la vârsta de zece ani. Debutul și l-a făcut în 1999, după care a urmat filmul Donnie Darko în care a jucat rolul unui adolescent cu probleme, jucând alături de sora sa, actrița Maggie Gyllenhaal. A jucat în SF-ul The Day After Tomorrow, interpretând rolul unui student, în mijlocul unui proces de răcire globală, împreună cu Dennis Quaid, care a fost tatăl lui în film. A urmat rolul din Jarhead (2005). În același an a câștigat faima, atenția publicului, a criticii de specialitate și o nominalizare la Premiile Oscar pentru pentru cel mai bun actor în rol secundar pentru interpretarea lui Jack Twist din Brokeback Mountain. Este susținătorul mai multor cauze sociale și politice. A sprijinit campania democraților pentru alegerile din 2004, dar și o campanie pentru promovarea libertăților civile ale americanilor.

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Film

AnTitluRolNote

1991City SlickersDanny Robbins

1993Josh and S.A.M.Leon

1993A Dangerous WomanEdwardca Jacob Gyllenhaal

1998HomegrownJake/Blue Kahan

1999October SkyHomer Hickam Jr.

2001Donnie DarkoDonald J. "Donnie" Darko

2001Bubble BoyJimmy Livingston

2001Lovely & AmazingJordan

2002HighwayPilot Kelson

2002Moonlight MileJoe Nast

2002The Good GirlThomas 'Holden' Worther

2003Abby SingerRolul săuApariție

2004The Day After TomorrowSam Hall

2005Brokeback MountainJack Twist

2005JarheadAnthony "Swoff" Swofford

2005ProofHarold 'Hal' Dobbs

2007ZodiacRobert Graysmith

2007RenditionDouglas Freeman

2009BrothersTommy Cahill

2010Prințul Persiei: Nisipurile timpuluiPrințul Dastan

2010Love and Other DrugsJamie Randall

2011Source CodeColter Stevens

6horses · November 2, 2015

Biografie

Stela Popescu s-a născut într-o familie de învățători modești, iar prima amintire pe care o are bine întipărită în memorie este invadarea Basarabiei de către armata rusă. Atunci, în 1940, tatăl ei considerat intelectual, deci dușman de clasă, este deportat în Siberia, iar mama se refugiază, împreună cu fiica în România, la Brașov. În 1953, susține examenul de admitere la facultate și este repartizată la Facultatea de Limbă Rusă „Maxim Gorki“, la care renunță după un an și jumătate când intră în echipa Teatrului Ministerului de Interne. În 1956 este admisă la Institutul de Artă Teatrală și Cinematografică, iar în paralel continuă să susțină spectacole de teatru. La sfârșitul facultății, este repartizată la Teatrul din Brașov, acolo unde ajunge să susțină 400 de spectacole pe an. Din 1963 până in 1969 joacă la Teatrul de Revistă "Constantin Tănase". În 1969, Stela părăsește Revista și se angajează la Teatrul de Comedie, ceea ce nu o impiedică să continue colaborarea cu Radiodifuziunea Română (pe atunci Radioteleviziunea) din 1963 până în prezent. În paralel, susține și o colaborare cu Revista Românească, sub condeiul lui Mihai Maximilian, cu care avea să se căsătorească în 1969, la puțin timp după divorțul de Dan Puican. Totodată, joacă în celebra serie de spectacole "Boema" de la Grădina Boema, spectacole care se înscriu în peisajul anti-putere pentru vremea aceea, cu succes de public foarte mare. Timp de 24 de ani cât a jucat la Teatrul de Comedie, vara, când se încheia stagiunea teatrală, juca la Revistă la Grădina Boema. La Teatrul de Comedie joacă din 1969 până în 1993, când revine la Teatrul de Revistă "Constantin Tănase", unde lucrează și în prezent. Pe scena Teatrului de Revistă "Constantin Tănase" și pe cea a Teatrului de Comedie, Stela Popescu strălucește în piese precum "Omul care a văzut moartea", "Mama Boema", "Boema, slăbiciunea mea" etc. A jucat 18 ani în "Preșul", 12 ani în "Pețitoarea" și 10 ani în "Plicul". A avut șansa de a lucra cu mari regizori, precum: Sanda Manu, Ion Cojar, Lucian Giurchescu, Valeriu Moisescu.

Între anii 1971 și 1979 face cuplul, pe scenă și la televiziune, cu Ștefan Bănică. Cât despre longevivul cuplu umoristic Stela - Alexandru Arșinel, care a început în 1979, acesta a fost garanția umorului de calitate și în prezent, dar și în trecut, când textele scenetelor erau semnate Mihai Maximilian.

În 1958, debutează în cinematografie în pelicula "Alo? Ați greșit numărul". A jucat în peste 25 de filme precum Nea Mărin miliardar (1979), "Pe malul stîng al Dunării albastre" (1983), "În fiecare zi mi-e dor de tine" (1988), etc.

Stela Popescu a făcut o carieră și în televiziune. A jucat în televiziune de la înființare până în prezent, în piese de teatru și emisiuni de divertisment, reușind să transmită ceva din spiritul satiric și contestatar al Revistei prin textele unor scriitori de valoare: Mihai Maximilian, Grigore Pop, Octav Sava sau Dan Mihăescu. TVR a scos pe piață DVD-urile "O stea printre stele" (2006) și "Stela și Arșinel" (2005) care reunesc o parte dintre aparițile televizate ale Stelei Popescu.

Începând jumătatea anilor '90, Stela Popescu a fost moderatoarea unor emisiuni TV pentru femei pe posturile TVR, Realitatea și Național TV

Joacă în serialul TV "Cuscrele" (2005-2006) precum și în telenovelele "Râzboiul sexelor" (2007-2008), "Regina" (2008-2009) și "Aniela" (2009-2010) în rolul Coanei Chiva. În 2011 revine cu o participare specială în telenovela Iubire și Onoare.

Sursa: https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stela_Popescu

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1989	Do the Right Thing	Cee
1990	House Party	Bilal
1991	Talkin' Dirty After Dark	Terry Wilson
1991	House Party 2	Bilal
1992	Boomerang	Tyler Hawkins
1994	You So Crazy	Himself	Stand-up film Executive producer and writer
1995	Bad Boys	Det. Marcus Burnett	Nominated —MTV Movie Award for Best On-Screen Duo (with Will Smith) Nominated —MTV Movie Award for Best Action Sequence
1996	A Thin Line Between Love and Hate	Darnell Wright	Also director Narrator, executive producer, writer and music supervisor
1997	Nothing to Lose	Terrence "T-Paul" Paul Davidson
1999	Life	Claude Banks	Nominated—Blockbuster Entertainment Awards for Favorite Comedy Team (with Eddie Murphy) Nominated—NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Motion Picture
1999	Blue Streak	Miles Logan/Detective Malone
2000	Big Momma's House	Malcolm Turner/Big Momma	Also executive producer Nominated – Blockbuster Entertainment Awards for Favorite Actor – Comedy Nominated – Teen Choice Award for Film – Wipeout Scene of the Summer Nominated – MTV Movie Award for Best Comedic Performance Nominated – Kids' Choice Awards for Favorite Movie Actor
2001	What's the Worst That Could Happen?	Kevin Caffrey	Also executive producer
2001	Black Knight	Jamal Walker/Skywalker	Also executive producer
2002	Martin Lawrence Live: Runteldat	Himself	Stand-up film Also executive producer and writer
2003	National Security	Earl Montgomery	Also executive producer
2003	Bad Boys II	Detective Marcus Burnett	Nominated – MTV Movie Award for Best On-Screen Duo (shared with Will Smith)
2005	Rebound	Coach Roy McCormick Preachor Don	Also executive producer
2006	Big Momma's House 2	Malcolm Turner/Big Momma	Also executive producer
2006	Open Season	Boog	Voice only
2007	Wild Hogs	Bobby Davis
2008	Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins	Dr. RJ Stevens/Roscoe Jenkins, Jr.
2008	College Road Trip	Chief James Porter
2010	Death at a Funeral	Ryan Barnes
2011	Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son	Malcolm Turner/Big Momma
N/A	Bad Boys 3^[28]	Detective Marcus Burnett

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