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You've seen him. You've heard him. Appearing across platforms such as television, feature film, animation, video games, commercials, talking toys, promotion, narration, and internet; as a result, Mars is affectionately referred to as "That Guy From That Show".
Originally from Warwick, RI, Marsden and his family relocated to Los Angeles and soon he was thrust into the entertainment business. Quickly landing commercials, on-camera and radio. Marsden's first recurring role was on "General Hospital" as Alan Quartermaine Jr.. Soon after, Mars was cast as Eddie Munster on the 80's revamp, "The Munsters Today" with John Schuck and Lee Meriwether, in an 86 episode, three season run! Marsden's career continued to blossom when he joined the cast of the critically respected "Eerie Indiana" (now on Amazon). From there, Marsden continued to work on pilots and series, guest staring and recurring roles, and appearances in feature films through the mid 90s! To name a few, "Blossom","Baywatch" "Tales from the Crypt", "Ally McBeal", "Will & Grace", "Just Shoot Me", and most notably his recurring appearances in "Full House", "Boy Meets World", and ultimately joined the cast of "Step by Step".
In feature films; Jason played a young Billy Crystal in Crystal's directorial debut "Mr. Saturday Night". You might have spotted Jason in "Fun With Dick and Jane", as a Convenience Clerk who botches Jim Carrey's shoplifting attempt. At age 20, Jason landed the job of a lifetime when Sir Ridley Scott cast him in "White Squall", opposite Jeff Bridges along with an ensemble of talent. The film shot in 8 countries around the world in 4 months. Marsden also appeared in Steve Taylor's indie hit, "Blue Like Jazz" and will appear in the upcoming indie horror "The Other People".
During his 35-plus-years as an actor, Jason built an outstanding legacy in Voice Over. Performing in hundreds of animated cartoon series, feature films, video games, toys, and counting! Amongst the most popular, Mars is the voice of Goofy's son, Max, in "A Goofy Movie" and the follow up "Extremely Goofy Movie", Thackery Binx in "Hocus Pocus", "Kovu" the rogue lion in "Lion King 2", Chester McBadbat in "Fairly Odd Parents", Nermal in "The Garfield Show", Conrad 'Duke' Hauser in "GI JOE: Renegades", and appearing in episodes of "Ultimate Spiderman","Batman: Brave and Bold", "Avatar: Legend of Korra" to name a few more. A fan fave is Jason's performance in Hayao Miyazaki's Academy Award winning "Spirited Away", as Haku the mysterious boy/dragon. Jason absolutely loves working in animation! Getting to working with the talented voice over artists that he used to listen to while watching Saturday morning cartoons as a kid is a dream come true! Notable projects include: futuristic speedster, Impulse/Kid Flash in DC's "Young Justice", "Transformers - Rescue Bots", "Monsters U", "Secret Life of Pets", "DuckTales", and the popular video game, "Skyrim".
Marsden lives in Nashville, TN and produces The Mars Variety Show now on YouTube.- Actress
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Kali Reis was born on 24 August 1986 in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for Catch the Fair One (2021), True Detective (2014) and Asphalt City (2023). She is married to Brian Cohen.- Producer
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Damien Sayre Chazelle is an American director and screenwriter. He was born in Providence, Rhode Island. His mother, Celia Sayre (Martin) Chazelle, is an American-Canadian writer and professor of history at The College of New Jersey. His father, Bernard Chazelle, is a French-American Eugene Higgins Professor of computer science at Princeton University, originally from Clamart, France. Chazelle has a sister, Anna, who is an actress and circus performer.- Actress
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Zoë Chao was born in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for Love Life (2020), Downhill (2020) and Strangers (2017).- Albert David Hedison Jr. was born in Providence, Rhode Island, the elder son of Albert and Rose Hedison, naturalized United States citizens from Armenia. His father owned a jewelry enameling business and his son was expected to follow in his footsteps. Young Al had other ideas, having put his sights on an acting career after seeing Tyrone Power on the screen in Blood and Sand (1941).
Following the completion of military service in the navy (as a Seaman 2nd Class, working on mothballing decommissioned warships), he enrolled at Brown University. Three years later, he joined the Neighborhood Playhouse School in Manhattan and studied acting under Sanford Meisner. He then underwent further training at the Actor's Studio with the legendary Lee Strasberg.
When he finally made his theatrical debut he was billed as 'Al Hedison'. Voted most promising newcomer for his performance in the off-Broadway play "A Month in the Country", he received a Theatre World Award. More importantly, this opened the doors to work in the film business, albeit slowly. One of a myriad of struggling actors, Hedison had taken a temporary job as a radio announcer for a local station in North Carolina to make ends meet. Upon his return to New York, the offers began to come in and he made his screen bow in 1954.
His first significant role was as the unfortunate scientist André Delambre whose matter transmitter experiments end up with him being turned into The Fly (1958). It did not end well for the poor man. For the actor, however, it set the tone for other forays into the genres of fantasy and science fiction, notably as Ed Malone in The Lost World (1960) and as Captain Lee Crane in Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964) (arguably his most famous role), both Irwin Allen productions. He later recalled really 'hitting it off' with co-star Richard Basehart, saying "Richard and I had real chemistry. He taught me so much about being camera ready when I needed to be. Television filming is so very fast, we always had to keep moving on."
Under contract to 20th Century Fox from 1958, Hedison next starred in the Cold War spy series Five Fingers (1959) portraying the part of an American counterintelligence officer (the accompanying change of his stage moniker to 'David Hedison' came about at the insistence of NBC and Fox). By the early 60s, Hedison had become a much sought-after, robust lead for made-for-TV films and TV series. He had befriended the actor Roger Moore while filming an episode of The Saint (1962) and this paved the way for him to appear in two James Bond films -- Live and Let Die (1973) and Licence to Kill (1989) -- on both occasions as CIA operative Felix Leiter. Over the years followed numerous guest spots on crime dramas like The F.B.I. (1965), Cannon (1971), Ellery Queen (1975), Barnaby Jones (1973) and Murder, She Wrote (1984). In 2004, he joined the regular cast of the TV soap The Young and the Restless (1973) for some fifty episodes. Ultimately, however, he came to regard the stage as his favorite medium, saying "When I go back to the theater, I feel good about myself. When I do films or TV, it's to make a little bread to pay my mortgage..." - Director
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Brian Helgeland was born in Providence, Rhode Island and raised in New Bedford Massachusetts. A born worker, Helgeland has endeavored to achieve in the following fields: snow shoveler, scrap newspaper collector, dishwasher, nursing home janitor, drug store clerk and unreliable nightshift gas station attendant. Facing unemployment after receiving a degree in English, Helgeland fell back on generations of family tradition and took a site as a 'half-share man' on the fishing vessel Mondego II, working the dredges of a deep sea scalloper over 100 miles offshore for two weeks at a time. Fish School. North Atlantic University. After a year at sea, a chance meeting with a book entitled "A Guide To Film School" changed everything. Ignorant as to the existence of such venerable institutions, he applied to several and was accepted by one. Giving up his now 'full-share man' berth on the fishing vessel Concordia, Helgeland headed west in 1985. After getting his break with several low budget horror films, he made his mark with several spec script sales, the flashiest being "The Ticking Man" which he co-wrote with Manny Coto. Two other specs sales to Warner Bros landed him an exclusive writing deal at what was then the greatest movie studio on earth. That deal resulted in seven produced films starting with two for director (and longtime mentor) Richard Donner and ending with two films for Clint Eastwood. In between came the much lauded "LA Confidential" for which Helgeland won an Academy Award finally living up to his grandmother's nickname for him of 'Golden Boy'.
Helgeland's directing career began when Donner gave him an episode of "Tales From The Crypt" to direct. Tired of Helgeland's relentless script note complaints, Donner was eager for him to see how things looked at the trigger end of the gun instead of the barrel. Next up as writer/director was "Payback" which Mel Gibson committed to after leafing through a rough draft version of the script on a Warners ADR stage. Although the director's cut was eventually released, the experience was bittersweet as Paramount demanded a happier ending which Helgeland refused to direct. With the rug pulled out from under him, Helgeland regained momentum with the spec script for "A Knight's Tale". He envisioned the rags to riches story of a peasant determined to prove himself a knight, as a version of his own humble beginnings before moving to Hollywood, but also as the tale of a lowly screenwriter who wants to become a noble director. Columbia Pictures bought the script in a bidding war and mere months later Helgeland found himself in the Czech Republic with Heath Ledger, Paul Bettany and the gang conjuring the story of William Thatcher - aka Sir Ulrich von Lichtenstein - in what would become his most fan favorite film.
As solely a screenwriter, the great-never-late Tony Scott is the director he felt closest to sensibility-wise, in that both of them believed that any single moment in a film can be ordinary and absurd and funny and tragic all at the same time. They worked on several projects together - produced and unproduced. "Man On Fire" was their crowning achievement. Helgeland also directed and wrote the film "42" with Chadwick Boseman and "Legend" with Tom Hardy. Both were biopics. His most recent film is "Finestkind" with Ben Foster, Toby Wallace and Jenna Ortega. It is full of truth about people he once knew, but crammed with lies about what they got up to. As he likes to say about writing: "It's okay to lie if you reach a higher truth doing so." Helgeland is an admirer of John Huston, Richard Brooks, Walter Hill, Frank Pierson, Curtis Hanson and all screenwriters who knighted themselves into the director's chair.- Producer
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Tom McCarthy is an American film director, screenwriter, and actor. He is best known for direct and write The Station Agent (2003), The Visitor (2007), Win Win (2011), and Spotlight (2015), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, and was nominated for Best Director.
McCarthy co-wrote the film Up (2009) with Bob Peterson and Pete Docter, for which they received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay. He also served as a director and executive producer for the Netflix television series 13 Reasons Why (2017).- A graduate of the University of Michigan School of Drama, Ruth Hussey's first show-business job was as a fashion commentator on a local radio station. She journeyed to New York City, where she was signed as a model by the world-famous Powers agency. She obtained some stage roles with touring companies and was noticed by MGM, which signed her and with whom she made her film debut in 1937. She quickly became a leading lady in MGM's "B" unit, usually playing sophisticated, worldly roles. She was nominated for an Academy Award for her turn as a cynical photographer in The Philadelphia Story (1940). She soon focused her main energies on the stage, however, and returned to the screen only occasionally.
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Robert began his acting career when he was eight years old by enrolling in an after school drama program sponsored by Trinity Repertory Company. Later that year he landed a role as Turkey Boy in Trinity's production of A Christmas Carol. Since that time Robert has performed a variety of roles on stage. Recently, Robert has turned his efforts to film. Robert's first principal role was in Bride Wars where he played Robert. Shortly thereafter he earned a role as Young Dave's Pal in the movie Sorcerer's Apprentice.
Robert's role as Rowley in Fox's three-movie franchise Diary of A Wimpy Kid (2010,2011) is perhaps his most recognized role to date. The third installment, Dog Days, was released in August 2012.
Robert landed his first voiceover role as Bob in the Tim Burton directed movie Frankenweenie which was released in October 2012. In April 2012, Robert played Young Curly in the movie The Three Stooges. In 2013, Robert played Kyle in the Faxon/ Nash directed movie The Way, Way Back. Also during 2013, Robert had his first experience in motion-capture 3D CGI as he played Derek in the motion-capture version of Tarzan. In 2015, Robert played Jake alongside Bailey Madison in the Indie feature Annabelle Hooper and The Ghosts of Nantucket. In 2016, Robert landed the role of Jack Black's son Dave in the feature film The Polka King. The film also also stars Jenny Slate, Jackie Weaver and Jason Schwartzman.
In addition to theater, and film, Robert currently is a returning guest star on CBS's Elementary, where he plays the role of one of Sherlock's "irregulars" known as Mason. He has s also appeared on television as a guest star on ABC's The Middle, and as the lead on two episodes of The Hub Network's The Haunting Hour.
Robert is passionate about reading, acting, history, watching movies, and reading and writing his own screenplays. He also loves swimming, tennis, and playing video games.
Robert is a freshman at Brown University majoring in theater, film studies and screenwriting.- Actor
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Nicholas Colasanto, the actor and television director who achieved his greatest success as "Coach" on the TV series Cheers (1982) at the end of his career, was born January 19, 1924 in Providence, Rhode Island, one of seven children. He attended Providence's Central High School but did not graduate due to World War II, as he joined the Navy. After being discharged at the end of the war, Colasanto returned to Little Rhody and finished his high school education, then went on to Bryant College, earning money for tuition and board by working construction jobs. He worked as an accountant for an oil company after graduating from Bryant in 1949.
At the age of 28, he saw Henry Fonda perform on Broadway and was infected by the acting bug. He joined a theater company in Phoenix, Arizona before moving back to New York, where he performed in off-Broadway productions and appeared in TV commercials. He relocated to Hollywood in 1965 and began to appear on TV, were he also made his mark as a TV director. Eventually, he directed over 100 episodes of series TV in the 1960s and 70s, including episodes of Bonanza (1959), Columbo (1971), S.W.A.T. (1975) and Starsky and Hutch (1975). His two most memorable film roles were the the boxing manager in John Huston's Fat City (1972) and the mob boss in Martin Scorsese's Raging Bull (1980).
Colasanto was primarily a dramatic actor but the producers of the TV comedy Cheers (1982) cast him as Ernie "Coach" Pantusso, the absent-minded and dumb but lovable bartender. The role made him famous and he earned an Emmy nomination as Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series each of the three years that he appeared on the show.
Sadly, at the height of his fame, he died from a heart ailment at his home on February 12th, 1985. Much beloved by the cast, the picture of the Apache warrior Geronimo that Colasanto had kept in his dressing room as a good luck charm was hung on the wall of the primary set of Cheers (1982). The picture of was not only a tribute to "Nicky", as he was known to his friends and co-workers, but was a reminder that "Coach" was still around. On the final episode of Cheers (1982), eight years after his death, Nicky Colasanto was acknowledged when series star Ted Danson, in the final scene, straightens the Geronimo picture before walking off stage for the last time.- George Macready--the name probably does not ring any bells for most but the voice would be unmistakable. He attended and graduated from Brown University and had a short stint as a New York newspaperman, but became interested in acting on the advice of colorful Polish émigré classical stage director Richard Boleslawski, who would go on to Hollywood to direct some notable and important films, including Rasputin and the Empress (1932)--the only film in which siblings John Barrymore, Ethel Barrymore and Lionel Barrymore appeared together--and Clive of India (1935) with Ronald Colman. Perhaps acting was meant for Macready all along--he claimed that he was descended from 19th-century Shakespearean actor William Macready.
In 1926 Macready made his Broadway debut in "The Scarlet Letter". His Broadway career would extend to 1958, entailing 15 plays--mainly dramas but also some comedies--with the lion's share of roles in the 1930s. His Shakespearean run included the lead as Benedick in "Much Ado About Nothing" (1927), "Macbeth" (1928) and "Romeo and Juliet" (1934), with Broadway legend Katharine Cornell. He co-starred with her again in "The Barretts of Wimpole Street" and with with Helen Hayes in "Victoria Regina" twice (1936 and 1937).
Macready's aquiline features coupled with distinctive high-brow bottom-voiced diction and superior, nose-in-the-air delivery that could be quickly tinged with a gothic menace made him perfect as the cultured bad guy. Added to his demeanor was a significant curved scar on his right cheek, remnant of a car accident in about 1919--better PR that it was a saber slash wound from his dueling days as a youth. He did not turn to films until 1942 and did not weigh-in fully committed until 1944, with a host of both well-crafted and just fair movies until the end of World War II. When he went all in, though, he excelled as strong-willed authoritarian and ambitious, murderous--but well-bred--villains. Among his better roles in that period were in The Seventh Cross (1944), The Missing Juror (1944), Counter-Attack (1945) and My Name Is Julia Ross (1945) with a young Nina Foch. Averaging six or more films per year throughout the 1940s, he appeared not only in dramas and thrillers, but also period pieces and even some westerns. His standout role, however--and probably the one he is best remembered for--was the silver-haired, dark-suited and mysteriously rich Ballin Mundson in Gilda (1946), who malevolently inserted himself into the lives of smoldering Rita Hayworth and moody Glenn Ford.
By the early 1950s he had sampled the waters of early TV. He had many appearances on such anthology series as Four Star Playhouse (1952), The Ford Television Theatre (1952) and Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955), among others. He became a familiar presence in episodic TV series beginning in 1954. He made the rounds of most of the hit shows of the period, including a slew of westerns, including such obscure series as The Texan (1958) and The Rough Riders (1958). He was familiar to viewers of crime dramas--such as Perry Mason (1957)--and such classic sci-fi and horror series as Thriller (1960), The Outer Limits (1963) and Night Gallery (1969). He did some 200 TV roles altogether, but still continued his film appearances. He assayed what many consider his best role as the ambitious French Gen. Paul Mireau, a fanatic and martinet whose lust for fame and glory leads to the deaths of hundreds of French soldiers in a senseless frontal attack on heavily fortified German lines in Stanley Kubrick classic antiwar film Paths of Glory (1957). Macready's performance stood out in a film brimming with standout performances, from such veterans as Kirk Douglas, Adolphe Menjou, Ralph Meeker and Timothy Carey. The film was even more striking when it turns out that it was based on a true incident.
Macready stayed busy into the 1960s, mainly in TV roles. He had a three-year run as Martin Peyton in the hit series Peyton Place (1964), the first prime-time soap opera and a launching pad for many a young rising star of the time. His film roles became fewer, but there were some good ones--the Yul Brynner adventure period piece Taras Bulba (1962) and a meaty role as an advisor to US Prlesident Fredric March attempting to stop a coup by a right-wing general played by Burt Lancaster in the gripping Seven Days in May (1964). His next-to-last film appearance was as a very human Cordell Hull, Secretary of State, in Universal's splashy, big-budget but somewhat uneven story of Pearl Harbor, Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970).
Another role that stands out in his career is a one-in-a-kind film which you would not expect to find George Macready--Blake Edwards' uproarious comedy -The Great Race (1965) -. Macready shined in one of the film's several subplots, this one a spoof of the "Ruritanian" chestnut "The Prisoner of Zenda", in which the racers find themselves in the middle of palace intrigue in a small European monarchy. Macready played a general trying to stave off a coup by using Professor Fate (Jack Lemmon, who is a double for the drunken ruler. Macready held his own with such comedy veterans as Lemmon, Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood and a host of others. To top it of, Macready gets involved in one of the great pie fights in film history, and takes one right in the kisser!
In real life George Macready was as cultured as he appeared to be on-screen. He was a well-regarded connoisseur of art, and he and a fellow art devotee--and longtime friend--Vincent Price, opened a very successful Los Angeles art gallery together during World War II. As far as the villain roles went, Macready was grateful for the depth they allowed him through his years as both film and television actor. "I like heavies," he once said, and to that he added with a philosophic twinkle, "I think there's a little bit of evil in all of us." - Peter Gerety was born on 17 May 1940 in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. He is an actor, known for Flight (2012), Charlie Wilson's War (2007) and Public Enemies (2009). He has been married to Natalie Burton since 27 November 2000.
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Claudia's parents met when her father was in the Air Force, stationed at Brindisi, Italy where he met her mother, an Italian native. She was born and raised in Providence, Rhode Island where as an East Providence High School student, she was selected for the All State Track and Field team. She participated in three Junior Olympics and finished third in the long jump at the East Coast Invitational.
After high school, she attended Baldwin Wallace College in Ohio where she majored in broadcasting and journalism. She had her own campus radio program, worked at the Providence American Newspaper and at the Boston television station WHDH-TV.
She represented Rhode Island as Miss Teen USA in 1991 and Miss USA in 1997. In addition, she has done many commercials for such companies as Coor's Light, Sears, Denny's and Pepsi.- Emma is an American-born New Zealander.
Emma Jenkins-Purro is dual citizen of United Stated of America and New Zealand, born in Providence, Rhode Island the family moved to New Zealand when she was 4 years old. After college, Emma trained for 3-years at one of New Zealand's leading drama schools graduating with a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in Acting at New Zealand Unitec in 2019.
Arriving on the acting scene right at the time the world moved into a pandemic was no easy feat, but Emma didn't let that stop her and as soon as New Zealand opened back up in 2020, she hit the stage in Tim Bray's Theatre Company production of Greedy Cat playing the role of Katie as well as the short film Bygones (2022) which Emma won best supporting actor at the Prodigy Film Festival. In 2021 she was cast in the award-winning New Zealand TV drama The Brokenwood Mysteries (2014) playing the role of Olivia for New Zealand's premier production company South Pacific Pictures. Straight after filming Brokenwood Emma was cast in the Ti West directed Feature Film starring Mia Goth, Pearl (2022) landing the major support role of Misty Douglas filmed in New Zealand followed by back-to-back series including My Life Is Murder for Jigsaw Films Australia and the US Netflix series One of Us is Lying playing the role of Giselle Ward.
Emma is represented by Gail Cowan Management (GCM) & Industry Entertainment. - Mark Kiely was born on 16 January 1963 in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. He is an actor, known for The Edge (1997), Bruce Almighty (2003) and The Judge (2014). He is married to Ellen Sue Aarons. They have three children.
- Meghan Leathers was born on 23 September 1990 in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. She is an actress, known for Don't Look Up (2021), For All Mankind (2019) and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999).
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Shanna Moakler was born on 28 March 1975 in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for The Wedding Singer (1998), Back Stabber (2016) and Big Momma's House 2 (2006). She was previously married to Travis Barker.- Actor
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Sam Daly was born in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. Sam is an actor and producer, known for The Office (2005), Bel-Air (2022) and Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox (2013). Sam has been married to Marissa Bataille since 2015. They have one child.- Actress
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Brianne Banigan Leary was born on July 28, 1957 in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. She is an American actress and inventor. She co-hosted the Disney Channel's second season of Walt Disney World Inside Out (1994), with George Foreman and J.D. Roth. She also hosted Animal Planet's Petsburgh USA (1998). She was a gymnastics champion in high school at Canyon Del Oro in Tucson, Arizona, USA, finishing in the top three at the State Championship in 1974. She went to Pima Junior College, also in Tucson, Arizona. She first appeared on television as a contestant on Match Game (1973) in 1976. She won several games, earning in excess of $9,000. She came back to the show, three years later, as a celebrity panelist, becoming the only person to appear on the show as both a contestant and a panelist. Brianne first appeared on television, playing "Lieutenant Nurse Susan Ames" on the NBC series, Black Sheep Squadron (1976) in 1977 to 1978. She is best-known as "Officer Sindy Cahill" in the second season of CHiPs (1977) from 1978 to 1979. Brianne made guest starring appearances on Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979); The Fall Guy (1981); Simon & Simon (1981); as Russian gymnast "Tania" in The Paper Chase (1978) episode, A Case of Detente (1979), in 1979; and 1st & Ten (1984). She also made an appearance on Battle of the Network Stars V (1978) in November 1978 and Battle of the Network Stars VI (1979) in May 1979. In 1996, she created a Canadian children's TV show, "Stickin' Around", with Robin Steele. In early 2000, she was a co-anchor on WNYW New York's "Good Day New York". In 2007, Leary received a patent for her "portable device for cleaning an animal's paw" product, "Pet Plunger". Her mother was the Assistant City Editor for the Arizona Daily Star and she is the cousin of writer Timothy Leary.- Actor
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Paul 'Pauly D' DelVecchio was born on 5 July 1980 in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. He is an actor and music artist, known for Jersey Shore (2009), The Pauly D Project (2012) and Spring Break Zombie Massacre (2016).- Born in Providence, Lovecraft was a sickly child whose parents died insane. When he was 16, he wrote the astronomy column in the Providence Tribune. Between 1908 and 1923, he wrote short stories for Weird Tales magazine and others. He died in Providence, in poverty, on March 15, 1937. His most famous novel is considered to be "At the Mountains of Madness", about an expedition to the South Pole, which discovers strange creatures beneath a mountain.
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Spalding Gray was born on 5 June 1941 in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Swimming to Cambodia (1987), Kate & Leopold (2001) and The Killing Fields (1984). He was married to Kathleen Russo and Renée Shafransky. He died on 10 January 2004 in New York City, New York, USA.- Producer
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Josh Schwartz was born on 6 August 1976 in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. He is a producer and writer, known for The O.C. (2003), Runaways (2017) and Looking for Alaska (2019). He has been married to Jill Stonerock since 20 September 2008.- Writer
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Cormac McCarthy was born on 20 July 1933 in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for The Road (2009), No Country for Old Men (2007) and The Counselor (2013). He was married to Jennifer Claire Winkley, Anne DeLisle and Lee Holleman. He died on 13 June 2023 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.- Actress
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Kathe Mazur was born on 24 August 1961 in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for American Sniper (2014), Major Crimes (2012) and A Marine Story (2010). She has been married to Jeff Sugarman since 29 August 2004. They have one child.- Cameron John "CJ" Adams, was born in Elmhurst, Illinois on April 6, 2000 and raised in Rhode Island and where he started is acting career at age 6 in Disney's "Dan in Real Life". His mother and Father are Donna and Matt Adams. His father is a host of Morning Drive on Golf Channel, book author, golf expert and host of The Fairways of Life show (formerly on SiriusXM satellite radio) now a free Podcast. CJ is best known for his role as Timothy Green in the 2012 film The Odd Life of Timothy Green, which earned him the Young Artist Award for Best Leading Young Actor Age Ten and Under. He also played the title character as Zac Wade in the 2013 film Against The Wild.
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Mark Famiglietti was born on 26 September 1979 in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003), Aquarius (2015) and Mad Men (2007).- Actress
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Emme Rylan was born in Providence, North Carolina, USA. Emme is an actor and producer, known for Bring It on: All or Nothing (2006), General Hospital (1963) and Shevenge (2015).- Gorgeously buxom and curvaceous blonde bombshell Taaffe O'Connell was born into an upper class family on May 14, 1951 in Providence, Rhode Island. She primarily grew up in Chattanooga, Tennessee and was a straight-A student in her grade school years. O'Connell received a masters degree in drama from the University of Mississippi.
Taaffe moved to Hollywood, California to pursue an acting career. She started out doing guest spots on such TV shows as Starsky and Hutch (1975), Baretta (1975), Police Woman (1974), Vega$ (1978) and CHiPs (1977). O'Connell made her film debut with an uncredited bit part in Rocky II (1979). Taaffe had a regular role as showgirl "Hillary S. Prentiss" on the short-lived sitcom Blansky's Beauties (1977). She played ill-fated nurse "Jane" in the seasonal slasher opus New Year's Evil (1980).
Taaffe achieved her greatest enduring cult cinema popularity as "Dameia", a spaceship crew technical chief who gets gruesomely raped and killed by a giant slimy maggot in the marvelously warped sci-fi/horror winner Galaxy of Terror (1981). She went on to play wisecracking USO showgirl "Honey" in the trashy women-in-prison exploitation outing Caged Fury (1983) and insatiable German nymphomaniac "Brigitte Fritz" in the amusing lowbrow comedy romp Hot Chili (1985).
Moreover, O'Connell made guest appearances on a handful of TV shows that included Happy Days (1974), The Incredible Hulk (1978), Laverne & Shirley (1976), Archie Bunker's Place (1979), Three's Company (1976), Knight Rider (1982), Dallas (1978) and Dangerous Women (1991).
More recently, Taaffe popped up in minor parts in the low-budget fright features The Stoneman (2002) and Dismembered (2003). Outside of acting, Taaffe O'Connell has developed a special directory to help out her fellow thespians, writes articles for magazines specializing in casting, and makes occasional guest appearances at film conventions. - Actor
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Andy On was born on May 11, 1977, in Los Angeles, California. A non-martial artist, Andy had always loved Jackie Chan movies and emulated his moves from flips and kicks at his home. In early 2000, while working as a bartender in Rhode Island, someone suggested he should become an actor. Andy, who didn't like the bartending job anyway, decided to go with his gut and head for Hong Kong to begin his career. He was approached by Chinastar founder Charles Heung and world renowned filmmaker Hark Tsui to take over the role of one of Jet Li's famous movie character, Black Mask, in Black Mask 2: City of Masks (2002). Andy went to the Shaolin Temple to train for a month in stretching and martial arts for the role. Despite the poor reviews and bad box office, Andy has continued to act and, in fact, improve in not only martial arts but acting as well. He was nominated for Best New Actor for his role in Siu nin a Fu (2003) (aka Star Runner) and shared the screen with the man who influenced him, Jackie Chan, in New Police Story (2004) (aka New Police Story).- Actress
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Emily Donahoe received a 2016 Obie Award for her performance in Lucas Hnath's "The Christians" at Playwrights Horizons in New York, NY.
She received a Helen Hayes Award for her performance in "Shakespeare in Hollywood" at Arena Stage in Washington, D.C.
Emily received a Connecticut Critics Circle Award nomination for her performance in "Mary Jane" at Yale Rep in New Haven, CT. She served as a 2017 Beinecke Fellow at the Yale School of Drama.
Emily appeared in her first Broadway show in 2009; 33 Variations, starring Jane Fonda and Colin Hanks.
Emily has worked extensively Off-Broadway and regionally at theaters including The Signature Theater, The Play Company, The Lucille Lortel, The McGinn-Cazale, The Keen Company, Arena Stage, Yale Rep, Berkeley Rep, American Conservatory Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Center Theater Group (CTG) in Los Angeles. She consistently received glowing notices for her contributions to productions, from magazines and papers such as the NewYork Times, Variety, TimeOut NY, L.A. Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, among many others.
Emily 's first film role was as a lead in Weeki Wachee Girls - which was the winner of 4 "best of" awards, and played in over 70 festivals around the world.
Accepted into the prestigious UCSD graduate acting program, Emily earned her Master of Fine Arts. While a student, she also played lead roles at the Williamstown Theatre Festival and the La Jolla Playhouse (in the world premiere of Charles Mee's Wintertime- L.A. Times Critics' Choice, 2002).
She holds an AB from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY.- Actor
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Christopher Stanley was born and raised in working-class Providence, Rhode Island. Christopher is of Irish and Italian descent and one of five brothers. He became interested in acting as a teenager, but could never muster the courage to audition for the school plays he loved to attend. "It just wasn't something you did in my neighborhood, not unless you wanted to be harassed daily". Much to his surprise, it was Christopher's father who encouraged him to pursue his interest in acting. Instilled with his father's blue collar work ethic and his mother's artistic influence, he began to imagine a more artistic life for himself beyond the confines of his Italian/Irish upbringing in New England. Years later, Christopher moved to Los Angeles. He studied acting at the prestigious Loft Studio with Peggy Feury and Bill Traylor. He also studied with Jose Quintero and Bobby Lewis of the Actors Studio. Christopher has worked extensively in both film and television.- Actress
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Amy Van Nostrand has appeared on stage at The Guthrie Theater ("Six Degrees Of Separation"), The Huntington Theatre ("Dead End", "Heartbreak House" and, as of 3/2004, "What The Butler Saw"), Williamstown Theatre Festival ("The Three Sisters"), The Shakespeare Theatre ("The Taming Of The Shrew"), The Westport Playhouse, The George Street Playhouse, The Coast Playhouse ("Colorado Catechism"; Dramalogue Award Outstanding Actress), Pittsburgh Public Theatre, The Delaware Theatre Co., The Weston Playhouse and Trinity Rep., where she was the first Peter Kaplan Fellow in 1978, and a company member for eight seasons. Her Broadway debut was in Harold Pinter's "The Hothouse". She has also appeared in New York at The Pearl Theatre Co. She is a graduate of Brown University and a member of the board of directors of the Weston Playhouse Theatre Co.- Actor
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Gianni Paolo was born in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Power Book II: Ghost (2020), Ma (2019) and Power (2014).- Actor
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Ron McLarty was born on 26 April 1947 in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. He was an actor, known for The Postman (1997), St. Vincent (2014) and Cop Rock (1990). He was married to Kate Skinner and Diane Dorothy Tesitor. He died on 8 February 2020 in New York City, New York, USA.- Otis Young was born on 4 July 1932 in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. He was an actor, known for The Last Detail (1973), The Clones (1973) and The Capture of Bigfoot (1979). He was married to Cara Croninger and Barbara Young. He died on 11 October 2001 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Susanna Fogel was born on 8 October 1980 in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. She is a writer and producer, known for Booksmart (2019), The Spy Who Dumped Me (2018) and The Flight Attendant (2020).- Producer
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Meredith Vieira was born on 30 December 1953 in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. She is a producer and actress, known for Get Him to the Greek (2010), The Stepford Wives (2004) and Shrek Forever After (2010). She has been married to Richard M. Cohen since 14 June 1986. They have three children.- Marc Geller is known for Severance, Katy Keene, A Different Man, Daredevil: Born Again, The Onion and The Eric André Show. Stage credits include The Amazing Karnak in Ride the Cyclone at Arena Stage, Ned Weeks in The Normal Heart, Joshua/Cathy in Cloud 9, Actor 1 in Baskerville, The Ghost of Jacob Marley in A Christmas Carol, Ira in The Tale of The Allergist's Wife and Doc in West Side Story. .
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Bruce MacVittie was born in Providence, RI in 1956. He began acting in high school, attended Boston University, studied with Jerzy Grotowski in 1976 and moved to New York City to pursue a career in acting in 1979. He began his career at the Ensemble Studio Theatre in 1980 in Edward Allen Baker's "Prairie Avenue", where he worked for many years as a member. He was a founding member of Naked Angels Theater Company. Bruce spent over ten years at the Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights' Conference under Lloyd Richards, 10 seasons at the Williamstown Theatre Festival under Michael Ritchie and Jenny Gersten, and was a member of the Blue Light Theatre Company where he began a collaboration with Joanne Woodward for several years on the plays of Clifford Odets. In 1982, he began as understudy to James Hayden in David Mamet's American Buffalo with Al Pacino and J.J. Johnston at Circle In the Square, eventually replacing Hayden in the subsequent Broadway production, national tour, and West End Productions with Pacino and Johnston. MacVittie, a character actor, had a long tenure playing guest-starring roles in television and film beginning with Barney Miller (1975) in 1981 working on both coasts, but predominantly in New York. In New York, he worked in most off-Broadway theaters including the Public, Playwright's Horizons, Manhattan Theatre Club, Signature Theatre, and the Cherry Lane. He appeared in over 75 film and television productions over 32 years.- Uly Schlesinger (September 2nd, 1996) is an actor originally from Providence, Rhode Island; now based in Brooklyn, New York. Uly had a lot of free agency whilst growing up in Providence, often times exploring the arts and the culture of the city. This exploration culminated in a found passion for theatre while attending high school, taking acting and improv classes. This eventually led to his move to New York city to attend school full time for acting.
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David S. Ward was born on 25 October 1945 in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. He is a writer and director, known for The Sting (1973), Major League II (1994) and Sleepless in Seattle (1993). He is married to Marie-Louis White. He was previously married to Christine Atwood and Rosanna DeSoto.- Susan Eisenberg is an American voice actress. She voiced the superheroine Wonder Woman in the animated series "Justice League" (2001-2004) and its sequel "Justice League Unlimited" (2004-2006). She has since voiced the character in several animated films and video games. Her other notable voice roles include the reformed thief Viper in "Jackie Chan Adventures" (2000-2005), the Jedi master Shaak Ti in "Star Wars: The Force Unleashed" (2008), the superheroine Power Princess in a 2010 episode of "The Super Hero Squad Show", the superheroine Mera in "Lego DC Comics Super Heroes: Aquaman: Rage of Atlantis" (2018), and the Sorceress of Castle Grayskull in "Masters of the Universe: Revelation" (2021).
Eisenberg was born into a Jewish family. She studied acting at the American University (located in Washington, D.C.), the American Academy of Dramatic Arts (located in New York City), and the University of California, Los Angeles (located in Los Angeles). She had bit parts in several films and television series of the 1990s, but did not get a chance at the spotlight until the early 2000s. - Actor
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Ben Ciaramello is an Italian American actor from Manhattan, NY. His lineage traces back to Sicily, Florence and Milan. He began his acting with a lead role in Irvine Welsh's "Ecstasy". This momentous play was directed by the esteemed European filmmaker and actor Pedro Varela, a close confidant of Welsh who also helmed the original "Trainspotting" play in Europe. This fortuitous role led to his cinematic debut in the monumental remake of "War of the Worlds" directed by none other than the legendary Steven Spielberg, and subsequently a series of roles in diverse productions.
Ciaramello's unparalleled versatility and ability to immerse himself wholly into character have earned him well-deserved recognition in the industry. He took on a central role as a drug-dealing club kid from New York City opposite Isabella Rossellini in the pilot "Filthy Gorgeous", a production produced by the Academy Award-winning duo of Neil Meron and Craig Zadan, along with the Academy Award-nominated writer of "Philadelphia", Rob Nyswaner and directed by the legendary theater director Robert Allan Ackerman. Shortly thereafter, he garnered critical acclaim for his portrayal of the elderly and nefarious Jacob Marley in a stage adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic, "A Christmas Carol.", followed by a profoundly moving performance as Angel in "Jesus Hopped the A-Train." Within a month of wrapping up the latter production, he successfully landed the role of Santiago Herrera, the brooding and troubled delinquent on NBC's Emmy Award-winning "Friday Night Lights," becoming an instant hit with audiences.
With the resounding success of the show, Ciaramello was quickly presented with numerous prime-time offers and a contract hold deal with ABC. He was selected for two series regular roles, first in the Hamlet adaptation "The Prince of Motor City" alongside Piper Perabo, Aiden Quinn, and Andy Mcdowell, and then in "See Kate Run" with Amy Smart. Additionally, he has made memorable guest appearances in several network television shows, including "Secrets and Lies" opposite Ryan Philippe and Juliette Lewis, as well as feature films such as "Mosquito" alongside Shawn Hatosy, and the Warner Brothers production "Live by Night" with Ben Affleck and Chris Messina.- Kim Hieora was born on 18 March 1989 in Wonju, Gangwon Providence, South Korea. She is an actress, known for Bad and Crazy (2021), The Glory (2022) and The Uncanny Counter (2020).
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Nick Clifford was born on 4 April 1986 in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for GLOW (2017), Masters of Sex (2013) and Hindsight (2015).- Actress
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Kathrine Barnes was born on 25 November 1990 in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. She is an actress, known for Average Joe (2023), Queer as Folk (2022) and Faceless After Dark (2023).- Gianna Distenca was born on 15 May 1989 in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. She is an actress, known for Fountains of Wayne: Stacy's Mom (2003), Señor Crab (2007) and Making the Video (1999).
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Bill Conti was born on 13 April 1942 in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. He is a composer and actor, known for For Your Eyes Only (1981), Rocky (1976) and The Karate Kid Part II (1986). He is married to Shelby Cox. They have two children.- Actor
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The only career Nelson Eddy ever considered was singing. His parents, Isabel (Kendrick) and William Darius Eddy, were singers, his grandparents were musicians. Unable to afford a teacher, he learned by imitating opera recordings. At age 14 he worked as a telephone operator in a Philadelphia iron foundry. He sold newspaper advertising and performed in amateur musicals. Dr. Edouard Lippe coached him and loaned him the money to study in Dresden and Paris. He gave his first concert recital in 1928 in Philadelphia. In 1933 he did 18 encores for an audience that included an assistant to MGM studio chief Louis B. Mayer, who signed him to a seven-year contract. After MGM acting lessons and initial trials, his first real success came as the Yankee scout to Jeanette MacDonald's French princess in Naughty Marietta (1935), a huge box-office success made on a small budget. Eddy and MacDonald were paired twice more (Rose-Marie (1936), Maytime (1937)) when metropolitan Opera star Grace Moore was unavailable; they became an institution. Their last work together was in 1942. Critics nearly always panned his acting. He did have a large radio following (his theme song: "Short'nin Bread"). In 1959 Eddy and MacDonald issued a recording of their movie hits which sold well. In 1953 he had a fairly successful nightclub routine with Gale Sherwood which ran until his death in 1967. He and his wife Anne Denitz had no children.