Trending

Popular people

Yuriy Borisov

Biography

Yuriy Alexandrovich Borisov (Russian: Ю́рий Алекса́ндрович Бори́сов; born December 8, 1992; Reutov) is a Russian actor. Winner of the Golden Eagle Award – 2021. He was nominated at the European Film Awards (2021) as Best European Actor for "Compartment No. 6" (2021). Borisov was born in Reutov, Moscow Oblast near Moscow. In 2013 he graduated from the Shchepkin Higher Theater School (course of Vladimir Mikhailovich Beilis and Vitaly Nikolayevich Ivanov), and won the Golden Leaf award in the Best Actor category for the role of Alexander Tarasovich Ametistov in the play Zoykina's Apartment. Yura started working as a film actor in 2010, and played main roles in various television series. In 2013–14 he worked at the Moscow theater "Satyricon". In 2019, he starred in the film The Bull, for which he was nominated for the 18th Golden Eagle Awards 2020 in the category Best Leading Actor, and also received an award "Event of the Year" from the magazine "Kinoreporter" in the category "Discovery of the Year". He also played minor roles in the films T-34 (2019 film), Union of Salvation (2019 film), and Invasion (2020 film). In February 2020, the film AK-47 was released, in which Yura Borisov played the main role – Mikhail Kalashnikov, and received positive reviews from film critics. For this role he was awarded the Golden Eagle Award – 2021. 2021 was a very busy year for Yura Borisov – he played in 8 feature films released in 2021. In 2021 Yura played the lead role in Finnish-Russian film Compartment No. 6 directed by Juho Kuosmanen, which won the Grand-Prix at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival.
Read more

Greg Travis

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Greg Travis is a well recognised actor who has appeared in over 40 feature films and internationally recognised stand-up comedian. Based in the U.S. he created the comedy character David Sleaze, The Punk Magician, in which he puts on a punk rock-style wig and does a variety of bad magic tricks using audience participation. This routine appeared on "Rodney Dangerfield's HBO Specials" and quickly became a classic. Description above from the Wikipedia article Greg Travis, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.​
Read more

George Cukor

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia George Dewey Cukor was an American film director. He mainly concentrated on comedies and literary adaptations. His career flourished at RKO and later MGM, where he directed What Price Hollywood? (1932), A Bill of Divorcement (1932), Dinner at Eight (1933), Little Women (1933), David Copperfield (1935), Romeo and Juliet (1936) and Camille (1936). He was replaced as the director of Gone with the Wind (1939), but went on to direct The Philadelphia Story (1940), Adam's Rib (1949), Born Yesterday (1950), A Star Is Born (1954) and My Fair Lady (1964). He continued to work into the 1980s. Description above from the Wikipedia article George Cukor, 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 who 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 31 October 2020, it was announced that Connery had died at the age of 90. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sean Connery, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Read more

Taylor Kinney

Biography

Taylor Kinney is an American actor and model, known for his starring role as Kelly Severide in NBC's Chicago Fire. He also starred as Mason Lockwood in The Vampire Diaries, as Glen Morrison in Trauma, and Luke Gianni in Fashion House. He's also appeared in films including Zero Dark Thirty, The Other Woman, and Here and Now. In 2011, Kinney was featured in Lady Gaga's music video "Yoü and I". Soon after, he and Lady Gaga started dating and they became engaged in February 2015, but ended up calling off their engagement in July 2016.
Read more

Víctor Manuelle

Biography

Víctor Manuel Ruiz (born September 27, 1968 in The Bronx, New York City), known professionally as Víctor Manuelle, is a successful Latin Grammynominated American-born Puerto Rican salsa singer, songwriter, and improvisational son singer, known to his fans as El Sonero de la Juventud ("The Singer Of Youths"). He is identified primarily with salsa romantica or "salsa monga", but has also experimented with styles ranging from Colombian vallenato to reggaeton. Unlike other salsa performers such as Marc Anthony, he has neither recorded in English, nor made a Latin pop album, nor (with rare exceptions) ventured into acting, preferring to remain a musician grounded within salsa music.
Read more

Debbie Gibson

Biography

Deborah Ann "Debbie" Gibson (born August 31, 1970) is an American singer-songwriter and actress. She became famous at the age of 16. The following year, she was pronounced the youngest artist to write, produce, and perform a No. 1 single on the Billboard Hot 100, with her song "Foolish Beat" and she remains the youngest female to write, record, and perform a No. 1 single to date. She appeared on the covers of teen magazines (in the USA), such as Tiger Beat. She has gone on to starring roles on Broadway and touring musicals, as well as independent film and television work. She continues to record, and reached the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart as high as No. 24 during 2006 in a duet with Jordan Knight titled "Say Goodbye." Description above from the Wikipedia article Deborah Gibson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Read more

Andrew Lawrence

Biography

Andrew James Lawrence (born January 12, 1988) is an American actor, singer and filmmaker. He is the youngest brother of actors Joey Lawrence and Matthew Lawrence. He is known for his roles as Andy Roman on Brotherly Love (starring with his real life brothers Joey and Matthew) and Ted Beene on the sitcom Oliver Beene, as well as voicing T.J. Detweiler on the cartoon Recess, and Vinnie Nasta on the cartoon The Kids from Room 402. Outside of his acting and music career, Lawrence made his directorial debut with the 2020 film The Office Mix-Up.
Read more

Zack Shada

Biography

Zachary David "Zack" Shada (born November 25, 1992) is an American teen actor. He appeared as Thin Boy (young Thin Man) in Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003). He next appeared as Nick Davis in the 2005-2007 TV movie series including Jane Doe: Vanishing Act; Jane Doe: Now You See It, Now You Don't; Jane Doe: Till Death Do Us Part; Jane Doe: The Wrong Face; Jane Doe: Yes I Remember It Well; Jane Doe: The Harder They Fall; He has appeared in two episodes of Lost, and voiced the role of Slightly in Tinker Bell, and Comet in Space Chimps. Shada has also starred as Dean's best friend, Joey, in Disney series Wizards of Waverly Place. His brothers are the actors Josh Shada and Jeremy Shada.
Read more

Bill Dawes

Biography

Bill Dawes is an American actor and stand-up comic. He graduated cum laude with an aerospace engineering degree from Princeton University and holds an MFA In acting from NYU. While living in New York, Bill starred in 3 Broadway plays and over a dozen Off-Broadway plays as well as appearing in over 50 films and television shows. As a comic, he has toured nationally as well as internationally with the USO and considers the Hollywood Laugh Factory his home club. He is best known for "Mo," "Alaska Daily," "City on a Hill," "Damages," "Before the Sun Explodes," "Law and Order: Special Victims Unit," and "Encounter" with Riz Ahmed. Bill tours nationally and internationally as a headlining comic and considers the Laugh Factory his home club.
Read more