Actor Sam Rockwellattends the 2018 Film Independent Spirit Awards on March 3, 2018 in Santa Monica, California. Miller appeared in the horror film The Messengers, co-starring Dylan McDermott and Kristen Stewart. He was born in July 1938 in Bridgeport, CT, and attended Columbia University in New York City on a football scholarship. Its not my bag, he told the Guardian, adding, Its weird, I dont get children, I dont quite understand it. He has since left his modeling career and has worked on Gladiator (2000) Steve Buscemi was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Dorothy (Wilson), a restaurant hostess, and John Buscemi, a sanitation worker. It is somewhat a subjective exercise in defining exclusively, "character actor", as opposed to leading actor, therefore, what might appear as glaring omissions, e.g., Michael Caine, Anthony Quinn, Walter Huston, P.S. She is also Editor of the White Solidarity with Black Power column that appears in The Burning Spear newspaper. In Tom DiCillo's film, he found himself playing an eccentric named the Kid, a man-child living in a half-built mobile home in the middle of nowhere with a penchant for dressing like Davy Crockett, who manages to bring some much-needed chaos into the life of an electrical engineer played by John Turturro. He has two older brothers named Alex and Doug Pepper. His talents extended to the authoring of the novel "Mr. Cartonwine: A Moral Tale" as well as his autobiography. William Claude Rains, born in the Clapham area of London, was the son of the British stage actor Frederick Rains. is the ultimate destination for Red Carpet coverage. In 2002, Miller starred in the film Dead in a Heartbeat and in a two-part episode of A&E's series A Nero Wolfe Mystery. His parents both have careers in the entertainment industry. Rockwell eventually appeared in Iron Man 2, released in 2010, as Tony Stark's rival weapons developer, Justin Hammer. After more than ten years in the business, Sam has earned his success. He has won two OBIE awards for Best Actor -- for the off-Broadway plays "Fool for Love" (by Sam Born in Los Angeles but raised in Manhattan and educated at Middlebury College and Carnegie-Mellon University, James Cromwell is the son of film director John Cromwell and actress Kay Johnson. Pete Rockwell, Sams father, has also found some success in Hollywood. Rockwell has never been married and stated in a 2007 interview, "I definitely don't want to become a parent. Though a native of South Africa, Cecil Kellaway spent many years as an actor, author and director in Australian live theatre until he tried his luck in Hollywood in the 1930s. In 2020, he had a voice role in DreamWorks Animation's Trolls World Tour, also serving as a performer on the film's soundtrack; and also voiced Ivan the gorilla in the 2020 Disney+ film The One and Only Ivan. In 2005, Philip Seymour Hoffman directed him in Stephen Adly Guirgis' hit play The Last Days of Judas Iscariot. He dropped out of school when he was 15, and fronted a series of music-garage bands, including one Viola Davis is a critically revered actress of film, television, and theater and has won rave reviews for her multitude of substantial and intriguingly diverse roles. Donnie Brasco (1997). According to an interview on The Howard Stern Show, director Jon Favreau considered casting him as the titular character in Iron Man as the studio was initially hesitant to work with Robert Downey Jr., who had been considered for his role in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. [11], Miller married James Huggins, and they have two daughters: Eloisa May and Maria Adela. His parents were students at the University of Texas at the time but divorced when Ethan was 5 years old. During this period he appeared in a variety of roles, such as the ABC Afterschool Specials (1972): Over the Limit (1990) (TV) and HBO's Lifestories: Families in Crisis (1992): Dead Drunk: The Kevin Tunell Story (Season 1 Episode 7: 15 March 1993); the head thug in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990); and a guest-star turn in an Emmy Award-winning episode of Law & Order (1990), while working a string of regular day jobs and performing in plays.In 1994, a Miller Ice beer commercial finally enabled him to quit his other jobs to concentrate on his acting career, which culminated in him having five movies out by 1996: Basquiat (1996); The Search for One-eye Jimmy (1994); Glory Daze (1995); Mercy (1995); and Box of Moonlight (1996). In August 2017, Rockwell was cast to play George W. Bush in Adam McKay's Vice, a biopic of Dick Cheney; he received his second nomination for the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award as a result. He is of Italian (father) and English, Dutch, and Irish (mother) descent. Her mother, Helga Bullock (ne Helga Mathilde Meyer), was a German opera singer. In 1979 he was nominated for Best Actor Antonino Giovanni Ribisi is an American actor who was born in Los Angeles, California. Memorable role: Carl Showalter in "Fargo" (1996). Alan Rickman had an older brother (David), a younger brother (Michael), and a younger sister (Sheila). Born in Chicago in 1926, Richardson trained for the stage at the Goodman Theatre there. Once again, he portrayed a societal outcast as Trent, a working-class man living in a trailer, earning a living mowing lawns inside a wealthy, gated Kentucky community. He was raised in Florida. She was born in Smyrna, Georgia, to Betty Lou (Bredemus) and Walter Grady Roberts, one-time actors and playwrights, and is of English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, German, and Swedish descent. Often plays characters from small towns and/or with simple backgrounds, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005), Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017), Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Untitled Confessions of a Dangerous Mind project. Rockwell gushed about Bibb from the podium. Red Carpet and Award Shows: E! His parents introduced him to acting, Image: Sam Rockwell's Father Pete Rockwell. His parents were both from upper-class families, and his maternal great-grandmother, Cynthia Roche, was the sister of Princess Diana's maternal grandfather, Barry Robert Pepper was born on April 4, 1970, in Campbell River, British Columbia, Canada. Memorable film: For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943). Character actor Kenneth McMillan was born on July 2, 1932 in Brooklyn, New York. Audiences across the United States and internationally have admired her for her work- including her celebrated, Oscar-nominated Matthew Paige Damon was born on October 8, 1970, in Boston, Massachusetts, to Kent Damon, a stockbroker, realtor and tax preparer, and Nancy Carlsson-Paige, an early childhood education professor at Lesley University. Sam Rockwell is an American actor, producer. At age 12, she Paul Giamatti is an American actor who has worked steadily and prominently for over twenty years, and is best known for leading roles in the films American Splendor (2003), Sideways (2004), and Barney's Version (2010) (for which he won a Golden Globe), and supporting roles in the films Cinderella Ewan Gordon McGregor was born on March 31, 1971 in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland, to Carol Diane (Lawson) and James Charles McGregor, both teachers. It was the latter film that would prove to be his real break-out in the industry. The son of a career army officer, Morley was expected to join the diplomatic corps. His parents Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Memorable film: Dog Day Afternoon (1975). Memorable role: As Melvin Belli in "Zodiac" (2007). Penny Hess is the Chairwoman of the African People's Solidarity Committee (APSC), the organization of white people under the direct leadership of the African People's Socialist Party. He is an actor, known for The Day After Tomorrow (2004), Kiss the Girls (1997) and Edge of Darkness (2010). Memorable film: An Officer and a Gentleman (1982). They are the most talented and popular movie actors/actresses in their 50's. Log In or Sign Up Penny Hess See Photos Penny Hess See Photos Penny Hess See Photos Penny Hess See Photos Penny Hess See Photos Penny Hess See Photos Penny Hess See Photos Penny Hess See Photos Penny Hess He played a bar owner named Doc who joins in the pursuit of the aliens. I suppose the end result is I feel I have too much to do. Memorable role: As Billy Budd in "Billy Budd" (1962). (1984). After a recurring role on the ABC soap series Mistresses, Miller was cast in 2015 as a regular in the first season of ABC's drama series American Crime. Rockwell has also received positive notices for his role opposite Nicolas Cage in Ridley Scott's Matchstick Men (2003), with Entertainment Weekly calling him "destined by a kind of excessive interestingness to forever be a colorful sidekick. (I've included a memorable role or two for each). [26], Rockwell re-teamed with McDonagh for the 2017 film Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. His mother was of Polish descent and his father of Italian and Laura Dern was born on February 10, 1967 in Los Angeles, the daughter of actors Bruce Dern and Diane Ladd. Her father died when she was seven and she With her expressive blue eyes, soft, Southern-tinged voice and an acting range that can carry her from hysterically funny to terrifying in seconds, Patricia Arquette is one of the most underrated and talented actresses of her generation. But after this, I've really got to play some lawyers, or a British aristocrat, or they'll put a label on me."[9]. He was the son of John Hobart Rockwell, Sr. and Mary Margaret Rockwell, he died in 1956 in Fallon, Churchill County, Nevada, United States from a plane crash. Rugged features and a natural charm have worked for Josh Brolin, the son of actor James Brolin. In 1994, a Miller Ice beer commercial finally enabled him to quit his other jobs to concentrate on his acting career, which culminated in him having five movies out by 1996: Basquiat (1996); The Search for One-eye Jimmy (1994); Glory Daze (1995); Mercy (1995); and Box of Moonlight (1996). Rockwell was cast along with other Marvel Cinematic Universe actors. Dern was exposed to movie sets and the movie industry from infancy, and obtained several bit parts as a child. APSC works under the leadership of the Uhuru Movement, led by the African People's Socialist Party. His performance as a racist, bullying police officer Jason Dixon won several accolades, including his first Academy Award, as well as the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor Motion Picture,[27] two Screen Actors Guild Awards and the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. At the time of the film's shooting, Rockwell explained why he was attracted to playing such unlikable characters. His parents, Pete and Penny, were both actors when they lived in boho New York in the early Seventies His parents split when he was five and he went to San Francisco to live with his dad, who gave up acting to become a breadwinner. 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