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Eugene Allen Hackman was born in San Bernardino, California, the son of Ann Lydia Elizabeth (Gray) and Eugene Ezra Hackman, who operated a newspaper printing press. He is of Pennsylvania Dutch (German), English, and Scottish ancestry, partly by way of Canada, where his mother was born. After several moves, his family settled in Danville, Illinois. Gene grew up in a broken home, which he left at the age of sixteen for a hitch with the US Marines.

Moving to New York after being discharged, he worked in a number of menial jobs before studying journalism and television production on the G.I. Bill at the University of Illinois. Hackman would be over 30 years old when he finally decided to take his chance at acting by enrolling at the Pasadena Playhouse. Legend says that Hackman and friend Dustin Hoffman were voted "least likely to succeed."

Hackman next moved back to New York, where he worked in summer stock and off-Broadway. In 1964 he was cast as the young suitor in the Broadway play "Any Wednesday." This role would lead to him being cast in the small role of Norman in Lilith (1964), starring Warren Beatty. When Beatty was casting for Bonnie et Clyde (1967), he cast Hackman as Buck Barrow, Clyde Barrow's brother. That role earned Hackman a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, an award for which he would again be nominated in Je n'ai jamais chanté pour mon père (1970). In 1972 he won the Oscar for his role as Detective Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle in French Connection (1971). At 40 years old Hackman was a Hollywood star whose work would rise to new heights with La fugue (1975) and La Chevauchée sauvage (1975), or fall to new depths with L'aventure du Poséidon (1972) and Eureka (1983). Hackman is a versatile actor who can play comedy (the blind man in Frankenstein junior (1974)) or villainy (the evil Lex Luthor in Superman (1978)). He is the doctor who puts his work above people in Mesure d'urgence (1996) and the captain on the edge of nuclear destruction in USS Alabama (1995). After initially turning down the role of Little Bill Daggett in Clint Eastwood's Impitoyable (1992), Hackman finally accepted it, as its different slant on the western interested him. For his performance he won the Oscar and Golden Globe and decided that he wasn't tired of westerns after all. He has since appeared in Geronimo (1993), Wyatt Earp (1994), and Mort ou vif (1995).

Born 25th November 1961. London UK. Character Actor, forte comedy but equally at home with drama. Extensive experience across the whole spectrum of the Industry from Shakespeare to Panto, film, TV Radio and Web series.

Best known for, Puppy Love (BBC), Doctor Who (BBC), 3Some (Web), Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001), Les Miserable (2012).

Could conduct a full Symphony and Choir.

Public Motivational Speaker with own One Man Shows.

Trachtenberg grew up in Brooklyn and started her acting career young; she began appearing in commercials at the age of 3.

She continued to act and dance through her school years, making regular television appearances from the age of 10. She landed a recurring role in the kids' TV show The Adventures of Pete & Pete (1992) and starred in Harriet la petite espionne (1996), but it was her role as Buffy's sister Dawn from the fifth season of Buffy contre les vampires (1997) that really brought her to worldwide attention, and all before she was 18 years old.

More high profile TV and movie work followed.

Internationally recognized actress, Pamela Bach-Hasselhoff was the recipient of Germany's Otto Award (in recognition of her status as one of Germany's favorite actresses). Pamela was among just a handful of actresses who have done two television series, concurrently. This multi-talented actress learned how to balance her successful career as well as her personal life. She starred in the motion picture, Castle Rock (2000), with Ernest Borgnine and Alana Austin, Wolf Larson and Frank Gorshin for "TAG Entertainment" (Show Time), under the direction of Craig Clyde. Pamela starred in the comedy, "The Sicilian Bachelor", as "Millian Black" at the American Renegade Theatre in the NoHo Arts District of Los Angeles.

Pamela was best-known for her roles on Alerte à Malibu (1989) and Les anges de la ville (1993). Pamela managed to create two significant different characters and make them believable on these two series for several seasons (10 years on "Baywatch"). As "Kaye Morgan", she portrayed a cafe owner on "Baywatch" who stays in the mix of things and always lends a helping hand when she feels the necessity. On "Sirens", she portrayed "Ellen Baskin", the top ranking police psychologist, candid and to the point. Up until the final season ago, she was a frequent flyer between the beaches of Los Angeles, to the city of Montreal.

She starred in the motion picture, More Than Puppy Love (2002) (Show Time), that was shot entirely on location in Kansas City, with Diane Ladd, and in a motion picture, Route 66 (1998), in which she starred as the Stepmother, with an all-star cast that includes Diane Ladd, Alana Austin, Richard Moll, Mat McCoy and Bruce Weitz, under the direction of Steve Austin and written and produced by Shauna Leigh Austin.

Pamela made her motion picture debut when legendary director Francis Ford Coppola went to Oklahoma to shoot the hit film, Rusty James (1983), co-starring Matt Dillon, Vincent Spano and Mickey Rourke. He auditioned the locals for the other roles and she was hired. Encouraged by professionals about her abilities, she decided to relocate to Los Angeles. To make an income and to continue her education while pursuing her career, Pamela worked as a page on several popular hit series. After a year in California, she moved to New York to pursue her first love, the theatre. Immediately she signed with the Ford Petite Modeling Agency and, shortly thereafter, became one of the top petite models in the Big Apple, and soon adorned the covers of magazines. She co-starred off-Broadway in "Crimes of the Heart" and continued to study and act in various plays for the next two years. Comedy became one of Pamela's foundations, she worked with Joe Piscopo for over two years which included: stage, concert and night club appearances, television specials and guest appearances on the major talk show. She was polishing her craft as Piscopo's side-kick. Then, she landed a special with George Burns, on her own. With Burns, Pamela learned several tricks of the trade and fine-tuned her timing.

Returning to Los Angeles, she accomplished becoming a working actress, guest-starring on several TV shows, specials, MOWs, including George Burns Comedy Week (1985), Cheers (1982), Les feux de l'amour (1973), L'homme qui tombe à pic (1981), Superboy (1988), The Joe Piscopo New Jersey Special (1986), Sanglantes confessions (1981), Hooker (1982), K 2000 (1982), etc. She starred in several plays, including "Dora", "I Remember Mama" and "Lilion", to name a few. Pamela co-starred in the motion picture, The Appointment (1982) and Men's Club (1986). Hailing from Tulsa, Oklahoma, she was the middle child of three sisters. Her mother and stepfather were ideal role models and unique parents; they raised 37 foster children throughout the years. Actually, Pamela's performing debut occurred at age nine, when she sang "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head" and realized that she loved the stage. Pamela completed two years as an engineering major at Northeastern Oklahoma Junior College and she was an accredited lifeguard, an avid diver (certified scuba diver), skier as well as a top marksman.

Pamela was a working actress/producer... also being a mother of two daughters... as well as president of her own production company.

Kim Sae-Ron is a popular South Korean actress who first debuted at the age of 9. She is best known for her roles in Korea and the films, "A Brand New Life" and "The Man From Nowhere". She won the Best New Actress award at the 8th Korean Film Awards for her role in the film, "The Man From Nowhere". She attended the Cannes Film Festival when the film, "A Brand New Life", was shown there is a special screening, becoming the youngest actress to be invited to the festival.

Born in precisely the kind of small-town American setting so familiar from his films, David Lynch spent his childhood being shunted from one state to another as his research scientist father kept getting relocated. He attended various art schools, married Peggy Lynch and then fathered future director Jennifer Lynch shortly after he turned 21. That experience, plus attending art school in a particularly violent and run-down area of Philadelphia, inspired Eraserhead (1977), a film that he began in the early 1970s (after a couple of shorts) and which he would work on obsessively for five years. The final film was initially judged to be almost unreleasable weird, but thanks to the efforts of distributor Ben Barenholtz, it secured a cult following and enabled Lynch to make his first mainstream film (in an unlikely alliance with Mel Brooks), though Elephant Man (1980) was shot through with his unique sensibility. Its enormous critical and commercial success led to Dune (1984), a hugely expensive commercial disaster, but Lynch redeemed himself with the now classic Blue Velvet (1986), his most personal and original work since his debut. He subsequently won the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival with the dark, violent road movie Sailor & Lula (1990), and achieved a huge cult following with his surreal TV series Mystères à Twin Peaks (1990), which he adapted for the big screen, though his comedy series On the Air (1992) was less successful. He also draws comic strips and has devised multimedia stage events with regular composer Angelo Badalamenti. He had a much-publicized affair with Isabella Rossellini in the late 1980s.

After a successful 12-year run as a radio personality in the Midwest and New York City, Dave moved to Los Angeles in 1984 to pursue a career in voice acting that has included commercials, film dubbing, looping, narration and voice characterization in countless cartoons. Dave provided the daily intros and voice of Baboo in Power Rangers (1993) for Saban Productions and in 2007, was nominated for both Best Actor and Best Actor in a Comedy for the 1st Annual American Anime Awards held in New York City.

Geneviève Page was born on 13 December 1927 in Paris, France. She was an actress, known for Belle de jour (1967), La vie privée de Sherlock Holmes (1970) and Fanfan la Tulipe (1952). She was married to Jean-Claude Bujard. She died on 14 February 2025 in Paris, France.

Sinasi Yurtsever was born on 16 July 1973 in Erzincan, Turkey. He graduated from theatre department of Dokuz Eylul University. He is best known for role "Hilmi" in hit comedy series Kardes Payi and as "Hakki" in hit comedy series Isler Gucler. He worked with Selcuk Aydemir, director of Kardes Payi and Isler Gucler, for many times. He played in many franchise films. He was cast in hit series and movies such as Yilan Hikayesi, Yabanci Damat, Bir Bulut Olsam, Avrupa Yakasi, Kapali Carsi, Sen de Gitme, Ask ve Ceza, Çalgi Çengi, and Dügün Dernek. Yurtsever died on 13 March 2025 in Istanbul, Turkey.

New York City born David Johansen sang in Rock & Roll dance bands as a teenager, joining Charles Ludlum's Ridiculous Theater and starting the New York Dolls.

The highly influential Dolls made two iconic Rock & Roll records before disbanding in the mid seventies. At this time he created the David Johansen Group which recorded six highly acclaimed albums and toured hits such as "Funky but Chic" for the next ten years. Simultaneously he began performing Jump Blues, Calypso, and "Pre-Hayes code Rock & Roll" under the name Buster Poindexter The success of these shows led to Buster Poindexter's touring four swinging internationally acclaimed CD's.

During this time, in addition to his musical career, Johansen started appearing in various movies , including Deux dollars sur un tocard (1989) and Fantômes en fête (1988), as well as making various television appearances, including a season on Saturday Night Live (1975).

Dame Joan Ann Plowright, the Baroness Olivier, is one of the most distinguished actors of her generation. She may be best remembered as the third wife and widow of Laurence Olivier, generally considered the greatest anglophone actor of the 20th Century, but she had a distinguished career of her own on stage and screen spanning six decades.

Born in Brigg, Lincolnshire on October 28, 1929, she received her training at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and made her professional stage debut at Croydon in 1948. Her London debut came in 1954, and two years later, she joined George Devine's English Stage Company at the Royal Court Theatre, which would change her life just as the drama at the Royal Court revolutionized the English theater.

The Royal Court's 1956 production of John Osborne's 'Look Back In Anger' was a watershed in English theatrical history, ushering in the 'Angry Young Man" era in British cultural life. In 1957, Plowright first co-starred with her future husband Olivier in the Royal Court's production of Osborne's Le cabotin (1960) when she took over the role of Archie Rice's daughter Jean Rice when the play transferred to a commercial venue in the West End. She recreated the role in Tony Richardson's 1960 film of the play.

To escape the notoriety from Olivier's divorce from Vivien Leigh, Plowright and Olivier went to New York, where they appeared on Broadway, he in Becket (1964) and she in Un goût de miel (1961). For her performance as Josephine, which Rita Tushingham played in the movie version, she won a 1961 Tony Award as Best Actress in a Play. (She had first appeared on Broadway in a twin bill of Eugène Ionesco's "The Chairs" and "The Lesson" in January 1958, a month before she appeared with Olivier in "The Entertainer".) When his divorce from Leigh came through, they were married in March 1961 in New York with Richard Burton as Larry's best man.

From 1963 onward, she was a member of the National Theatre, which was headed by Olivier. Plowright created a distinguished stage career and was acclaimed when she began appearing more frequently in movies and television starting in the the 1980s. She was made a Dame Commander of the British Empire, the female equivalent of a knighthood, in the 2004 Queen's New Year Honours.

Plowright divorced her first husband, the actor Roger Gage, to marry Olivier in 1961 and they had three children, Richard Kerr Olivier, Tamsin Olivier and Julie Kate Olivier.

Alice Hirson was born on 10 March 1929 in New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Bienvenue Mister Chance (1979), La Prison de verre (2001) and Les Tronches (1984). She was married to Stephen Elliott and Roger O. Hirson. She died on 14 February 2025 in Motion Picture & Television Country House.

Jeff Baena was born on 29 June 1977 in Miami, Florida, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for Les bonnes soeurs (2017), Life After Beth (2014) and Horse Girl (2020). He was married to Aubrey Plaza. He died on 3 January 2025 in Los Feliz, Los Angeles, California, USA.

Lynne Marie Stewart was born on 14 December 1946 in Lynwood, California, USA. She was an actress and writer, known for Running Man (1987), American Graffiti (1973) and Pee-wee Big Adventure (1985). She died on 21 February 2025 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

Excellent, prolific and versatile character actor Peter Jason was born on July 22, 1944, in Hollywood, CA, and grew up in Balboa. He attended Newport Beach Elementary School, Horace Ensign Junior High and Newport Harbor High School. He originally planned on being a football player, but fell in love with acting after playing the lead in a high school production of "The Man Who Came to Dinner." Following his high school graduation he attended Orange Coast Junior College and did a season of summer stock at the Peterborough Playhouse in New Hampshire. He then studied as a drama major at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, PA. More stage work followed with the acting group the South Coast Repertory Company. He made his film debut in Howard Hawks' final film, Rio Lobo (1970) (which Jason says is one of his favorites).

He worked with Orson Welles on the uncompleted De l'autre côté du vent (2018) as an actor, boom operator, prop man and even cook for the cast and crew.

Jason has appeared in many films for director Walter Hill; he's especially memorable as the racist redneck bartender in 48 Heures (1982). He has also appeared in many films for director John Carpenter: he's very engaging as the jolly Dr. Paul Leahy in Prince des ténèbres (1987) and was terrific as underground guerrilla army leader Gilbert in Invasion Los Angeles (1988).

Other notable roles include a sinister government agent in Dreamscape (1984), rugged Maj. G.F. Devin in Clint Eastwood's Le maître de guerre (1986), jerky detective Fedorchuk in Futur immédiat, Los Angeles 1991 (1988), a newspaper reporter in Pur sang: la légende de Seabiscuit (2003) and the U.S. president in Alien Apocalypse (2005).

Jason recently had a recurring role as dissolute gambler Con Stapleton in the superbly gritty cable Western TV series Deadwood (2004). He also had a regular part as Capt. Skip Gleason on Mike Hammer, Private Eye (1997).

Among the many TV shows Peter has done guest spots on are Desperate Housewives (2004), Sabrina, l'apprentie sorcière (1996), Nash Bridges (1996), Coach (1989), Les craquantes (1985), Arabesque (1984), Mariés, deux enfants (1987), Roseanne (1988), Dear John (1988), Code Quantum (1989), Docteur Quinn, femme médecin (1993), B.J. and the Bear (1978), L'incroyable Hulk (1977), Gunsmoke (1955) and Hawaii police d'état (1968). In addition to his substantial film and TV show credits, Jason has acted in over 150 plays and hundreds of TV commercials. An accomplished baritone vocalist, Jason has sung in such musical stage productions as "The Music Man" (this is one of his favorite plays), "Stop the World, I Want to Get Off," "The Roar of the Greasepaint" and "Threepenny Opera" (as Mack the Knife). He's been married to his wife Eileen for 33 years.

In his spare time he makes his own furniture with found, recycled wood.

George Lowe is an American voice actor and comedian from Florida who is most well-known for voicing the Hanna-Barbera character Space Ghost in Space Ghost Coast to Coast and The Brak Show. He voiced in other projects such as the narrator in the 2000 Grinch video game, Mr. Beefy and other characters in Aqua Teen Hunger Force and Brak's Dad in The Brak Show.

Paul Danan was born on 2 July 1978 in Waltham Forest, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Queen's Nose (1995), Good Girls Club (2015) and Amoc (2017). He died on 16 January 2025 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England, UK.

Stanley R. Jaffe was born on 31 July 1940 in Bronx, New York City, New York, USA. He was a producer and director, known for Kramer contre Kramer (1979), Liaison fatale (1987) and Black Rain (1989). He was married to Melinda Jill Marciano and Joan Ellen Goodman. He died on 10 March 2025 in Rancho Mirage, California, USA.

Angie Stone was born on 18 December 1961 in Columbia, South Carolina, USA. She was an actress and director, known for Une nana au poil (2002), Mise à l'épreuve (2014) and Brown Sugar (2002). She was married to Lil' Rodney Cee. She died on 1 March 2025 in Montgomery, Alabama, USA.

Versatility and ability to portray a variety of characters over four decades on stage, screen, and television have made Tony Roberts one of the busiest actors in America. He is a graduate of the High School of Music and Arts, which merged with the High School of Performing Arts to become LaGuardia High School for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center, where he majored in theater and studied acting with Alvina Krause. Tony is the son of Radio and Television announcer Ken Roberts, one of the founding members of AFTRA, and has himself served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Screen Actor's Guild and Actor's Equity Association. He is currently the President of Theatre Authority - an organization established by the entertainment unions to oversee benefit performances. Tony has appeared in dozens and dozens of films including Stardust Memories (1980), Star Spangled Girl (1971), La cane aux oeufs d'or (1971), Les Pirates du métro (1974), Popcorn (1991), Amityville 3 (1983), Key Exchange (1985), Hannah et ses soeurs (1986), Radio Days (1987) and Dans la peau d'une blonde (1991). His theater credits included "Sugar", "Don't Drink the Water", "Arsenic and Old Lace" and "South Pacific".

Kathryn Apanowicz (born Pudsey, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England) is a British actress best known for her 1980s television appearances in the BBC soap operas, Angels, where she played Nurse Rose Butchins, and EastEnders, where she played the caterer Magda Czajkowski. She has also had minor roles in Emmerdale Farm (1972) and Coronation Street (1960), and as a child appeared in the film Bugsy Malone. Before being cast in these shows, Apanowicz had worked in children's programmes for Yorkshire Television with Mark Curry.

In the early 1990s she presented talk-based magazine programme Afternoon Live for cable channel Wire TV. In 2000, she enjoyed a regular stint as one of the presenters of ITV's daytime magazine show for women, Live Talk. She was both a presenter for BBC Radio Leeds, and a guest presenter for BBC Radio York.

From 1994 to 2005, Apanowicz was the partner of Countdown host Richard Whiteley. After his death, she published a biography of Whiteley titled Richard by Kathryn. Apanowicz donated three pairs of Whiteley's spectacles to optical charity Vision Aid Overseas (VAO), who sent them with a team of optical professionals to Ethiopia, where they were fitted to three locals with the same prescription. The BBC followed this story on their Inside Out programme which was broadcast on 19 September 2007.

Biff Wiff was born on 24 October 1948 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022), iCarly (2007) and Dragnet (2003). He was married to Taylor Ashbrook. He died on 14 February 2025.

Athol Fugard was born on 11 June 1932 in Middleburg, Cape Province, South Africa. He was a writer and actor, known for Gandhi (1982), Mon nom est Tsotsi (2005) and The Guest: An Episode in the Life of Eugène Marais (1977). He was married to Dr. Paula Fourie and Sheila Fugard. He died on 8 March 2025 in Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South Africa.

Craig Richard Nelson was born on 17 September 1947 in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. He was an actor and director, known for La chasse aux diplômes (1973), Trois femmes (1977) and Un mariage (1978). He was married to Stephen Greene. He died on 3 March 2025 in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.

Carl Dean was born on 20 July 1942 in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. He was an actor, known for Vigorish (2003) and New Faces (1973). He was married to Dolly Parton. He died on 3 March 2025 in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.