Trending
Popular people
Kelsey Grammer
Biography
Allen Kelsey Grammer (born February 21, 1955) is an American actor, producer, and singer. He gained fame for his role as the psychiatrist Dr. Frasier Crane on the NBC sitcom Cheers (1984–1993) and its spin-off Frasier (1993–2004, and again from 2023 to 2024). With more than 20 years on air, this is one of the longest-running roles played by a single live-action actor in primetime television history. He has received numerous accolades, including a total of six Emmy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award and a Tony Award.
Grammer, having trained as an actor at Juilliard and the Old Globe Theatre, made his professional acting debut as Lennox in the 1981 Broadway revival of Macbeth. The following year, he portrayed Cassio acting opposite Christopher Plummer and James Earl Jones in Othello. In mid-1983, he acted alongside Mandy Patinkin in the original off-Broadway production of Stephen Sondheim's musical Sunday in the Park with George. He has since starred in the leading roles in productions of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, My Fair Lady, Big Fish, and Finding Neverland.
In film, he is known for his role as Dr. Hank McCoy / Beast in the superhero films X-Men: The Last Stand (2006), X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) and The Marvels (2023). His other roles include Down Periscope (1996), The Pentagon Wars (1998), and Swing Vote (2008). He is also known for his voice roles in Anastasia (1997), Toy Story 2 (1999), and as Sideshow Bob in The Simpsons (1990–present). He took guest roles in the sitcoms 30 Rock (2010–2012), Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (2016), and Modern Family (2017). For his performance as the corrupt mayor in the Starz political series Boss (2011–2012), he received a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama.
In early 2010, Grammer returned to Broadway in the musical revival of La Cage aux Folles, where he received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Musical. In mid-2016, Grammer won a Tony Award for Best Musical as producer of a musical revival of The Color Purple. In early 2019, he starred as Don Quixote in a production of Man of La Mancha at the London Coliseum. In late 2023, The Telegraph described Grammer as one of "the finest actors" of his generation. He was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on May 22, 2001.
Description above from the Wikipedia article Kelsey Grammer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Read more
Sean Connery
Biography
Sir Thomas Sean Connery (August 25, 1930 – October 31, 2020) was a Scottish actor and producer. He won an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards (one being a BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award), and three Golden Globes, including the Cecil B. DeMille Award and a Henrietta Award. Connery was the first actor to portray the character James Bond in film, starring in seven Bond films (every film from Dr. No to You Only Live Twice, plus Diamonds Are Forever and Never Say Never Again), between 1962 and 1983. In 1988, Connery won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Untouchables. His films also include Marnie (1964), Murder on the Orient Express (1974), The Man Who Would Be King (1975), A Bridge Too Far (1977), Highlander (1986), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), The Hunt for Red October (1990), Dragonheart (1996), The Rock (1996), and Finding Forrester (2000).
Connery was polled in a 2004 The Sunday Herald as "The Greatest Living Scot" and in a 2011 EuroMillions survey as "Scotland's Greatest Living National Treasure". He was voted by People magazine as both the “Sexiest Man Alive" in 1989 and the "Sexiest Man of the Century” in 1999. He received a lifetime achievement award in the United States with a Kennedy Center Honor in 1999. Connery was knighted in the 2000 New Year Honours for services to film drama.
On October 31, 2020, Connery died at the age of 90.
Read more
Abi Van Andel
Biography
After growing up on a small farm in rural Michigan, Abi attended Syracuse University and obtained her BFA in Acting. She has a varied performance background with strengths in Shakespeare and Classical theatre, film and improv/sketch comedy.
Most notably, Abi can be seen alongside Mark Ruffalo and Anne Hathaway in Dark Waters, directed by Todd Haynes. She has recently worked opposite Robert De Niro in Alto Knights, directed by Barry Levinson (premiering Nov 2024). As a producer, her credits include the opioid fueled Appalachian thriller, M30Oxy, and LandLord, a vampire thriller with social justice themes. LandLord will be debuting at the Frontieres Market at Cannes in 2024.
Read more
Duangkamol Limcharoen
Biography
Duangkamol Limcharoen is a former filmmaker and actress. She was a pioneer in making successful Thai movies in the international market.
Duangkamol graduated from the Faculty of Arts Chulalongkorn University Branch of theatrical arts in 1985 and then worked in the television industry. She co-founded Exact, a subsidiary of the GMM Grammy, and produced a television series in 1992. She studied film business management from UCLA in 1997.
Duangkamol died of lung cancer at the age of 39 on December 8 , 2003. Shortly before her death, she was awarded Producer of the Year 2003 on November 20, 2003 at the CineAsia II Film Business Forum.
Read more
Grant Moninger
Biography
Grant Moninger is a voice actor born in the woods of Greene County, Pennsylvania. His closest neighbors lived miles away so his best friend became the television.
Grant spent time as the lead singer of the Pittsburgh underground punk band CHRISTMAS OF TORTURE and then received a B.A. in theatre from THE UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS where he starred in the World Premiere of David Rabe's COSMOLOGIES. He ran theatre companies in both Philadelphia and New York City and studied acting with the legendary Joseph Chaikin.
When not voice acting, Grant is a film programmer and moderator for the American Cinematheque where he has conducted live interviews with luminaries such as Mel Brooks, James Cameron, Dennis Hopper, Jeff Bridges and Ray Harryhausen. He is a founding film programmer and producer of BEYONDFEST, the largest genre film festival in the United States.
Grant has voiced Muckman for TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES, Arnim Zola for THE AVENGERS: EARTH'S MIGHTIEST HEROES, Green Lantern for THE DC SUPER FRIENDS, and several characters on Cartoon Network's UNCLE GRANDPA. His film credits include the Mike Cuenca films LIKE A DIRTY FRENCH NOVEL and I'LL BE AROUND, THE HEIGHT OF THE SKY, and the Luc Besson film VALERIAN AND THE CITY OF A THOUSAND PLANETS. Grant was also a co-host on THE NERDIST podcast, HUMANS FROM EARTH.
Read more
Bill Maxwell
Biography
Bill Maxwell is known for Martin (1992), The Jamie Foxx Show (1996) and The Color Purple (1985).
Bill Maxwell was born and raised in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. His mother was a jazz pianist who died two months after giving birth to him. Encouraged by his Grandparents to study music, Bill entered a music pre-school at two years of age.
Bill started playing drums professionally at the age of twelve. One of his first bands was with legendary blues guitarist Jesse Ed. Davis. Bill was a member of "The Third Avenue Blues Band" whose album was produced by T Bone Burnett in 1969.
Bill moved to Los Angeles in 1972 as a member of Andrae Crouch and the Disciples. He has produced 8 Grammy winning recordings for The Winans, Andrae Crouch and others. Maxwell also formed the band "Koinonia" with his dear friend Abraham Laboriel. Bill was the music director for the television shows The Jamie Foxx Show, Martin, Living Single, For Your Love, Amen, and many more.
Bill has recorded with Cassandra Wilson, T Bone Burnett, Ray Charles, Billy Preston, Quincy Jones, The Crusaders, The Nappy Roots, Freddie Hubbard, Anita Baker, Luther Vandross and many more. Bill worked as a music producer and musician with the Coen brothers on their films The Ladykillers and Romance and Cigarettes, and he worked as a featured musician on the film Walk The Line.
Bill is thrilled to be a member of the new group "Open Hands" with Abraham Laboriel, Justo Almario and Greg Mathieson. In October 2008, Bill was inducted into The Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame, and he is a member of The Gospel Music Hall of Fame.
Read more
Maura Foley
Biography
Maura Foley is an actor, writer, and director. She directed her
debut film, a Film Offaly funded short 'MISSING' in March 2023.
She is the recipient of the Actor as Creator bursary award and with this she is developing a new film project entitled 'Reunion'. Maura also has a podcast & television comedy series in development.
Recent acting credits include Janice Wallace in the upcoming TV drama series 'The Vanishing Triangle', Amy in 'Ray of Sunshine' and the role of Mum in the award-winning podcast "Maddie and Triggs". Maura is currently on post production on a teen drama series, 'Louise Lives Large' for RTE.
Read more
Nicolas Le Guern
Biography
Nicolas was Born in Munich Germany and moved to Mexico with his parents in 1992. He met his wife Alexia in 2011 and they got married in Denver Colorado on January 11. 2012. They live in Denver Colorado and have a YouTube channel called Nicknlex. The have amassed around 60.000 subscribers. They have a dog called Marley. They are both fluent in English and Spanish. Nicola is fluent in is native German. Nicolas and Alexia are both musicians. Alexia plays the bass while Nicolas is a classically trained guitarist.
Read more
Onya Nurve
Biography
Onya Nurve is the stage name of Justin Woody,an American drag performer competing on the upcoming seventeenth season of RuPaul's Drag Race (2025).
Before Drag Race, Onya Nurve was named Cleveland's best drag performer in the Cleveland Scene's 2023 Best of Cleveland issue and won the title of Mx. Zephyr in the first Zephyr Drag Takeover competition in Kent a year prior. Onya Nurve is the inaugural ArtReach fellow for Haus of Transcendent, a Cleveland-based LGBTQ nonprofit. In 2024, she served as a consultant for the Dobama Theatre's production of AT THE WAKE OF A DEAD DRAG QUEEN. She has described herself as the "Andy Warhol of the drag scene".
Read more
Tamer Abdelmonem
Biography
Tamer Abdelmoneaim is an Egyptian actor and screenwriter. He was born in Cairo in 1973. He graduated at the High Cinema Institute of Cairo from the screen writing department. He started working as an actor through minor roles in films like “Edhak Elsoora Tetlaa Helwa” (Smile For A Good Picture) in 1998 and “Etfarrag Ya Salam” in 2001. He co-starred in “Amir Elzalam” (The Prince of Darkness) alongside Adel Imam in 2002, for which he also wrote the screenplay. He also appared as the lead actor in “Al Meshakhasaty” (The Master of Disguise) in 2003, which flopped at the box office.
Read more







