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Samuel L. Jackson is an American producer and highly prolific actor, having appeared in over 100 films, including Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995), Unbreakable (2000), Shaft (2000), Formula 51 (2001), Black Snake Moan (2006), Snakes on a Plane (2006), and the Star Wars prequel trilogy (1999-2005), as well as the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Samuel Leroy Jackson was born in Washington, D.C., to Elizabeth (Montgomery) and Roy Henry Jackson. He was raised by his mother, a factory worker, and his grandparents. At Morehouse College, Jackson was active in the black student movement. In the seventies, he joined the Negro Ensemble Company (together with Morgan Freeman). In the eighties, he became well-known after three movies made by Spike Lee: Do the Right Thing (1989), Mo' Better Blues (1990) and Jungle Fever (1991). He achieved prominence and critical acclaim in the early 1990s with films such as Patriot Games (1992), Amos & Andrew (1993), True Romance (1993), Jurassic Park (1993), and his collaborations with director Quentin Tarantino, including Pulp Fiction (1994), Jackie Brown (1997), and later Django Unchained (2012). Going from supporting player to leading man, his performance in Pulp Fiction (1994) gave him an Oscar nomination for his character Jules Winnfield, and he received a Silver Berlin Bear for his part as Ordell Robbi in Jackie Brown (1997). Jackson usually played bad guys and drug addicts before becoming an action hero, co-starring with Bruce Willis in Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995) and Geena Davis in The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996).
With Jackson's permission, his likeness was used for the Ultimate version of the Marvel Comics character, Nick Fury. He later did a cameo as the character in a post-credits scene from Iron Man (2008), and went on to sign a nine-film commitment to reprise this role in future films, including major roles in Iron Man 2 (2010), The Avengers (2012), Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) and Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) and minor roles in Thor (2011) and Captain America: The First Avenger (2011). He has also portrayed the character in the second and final episodes of the first season of the TV show, Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2013). He has provided his voice to several animated films, television series and video games, including the roles of Lucius Best / Frozone in Pixar's film The Incredibles (2004), Mace Windu in Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008), Afro Samurai in the anime television series Afro Samurai (2007), and Frank Tenpenny in the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (2004).Films Seen:
1. GoodFellas (1990)
2. Jurassic Park (1993)
3. Pulp Fiction (1994)
4. A Time to Kill (1996)
5. Jackie Brown (1997)
6. Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999)
7. Unbreakable (2000)
8. Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002)
9. Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)
10. The Incredibles (2004)
11. Mr. Incredible and Pals (2005)
12. Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005)
13. Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008)
14. Iron Man 2 (2010)
15. The Other Guys (2010)
16. Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)
17. The Avengers (2012)
18. Django Unchained (2012)
19. Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
20. Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014)
21. Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)
22. Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (2016)
23. The Hitman’s Bodyguard (2017)
24. Unicorn Store (2017)
25. Incredibles 2 (2018)
26. Glass (2019)
27. Captain Marvel (2019)
28. Avengers: Endgame (2019)
29. Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019)
30. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)
31. Death to 2020 (2020)- Producer
- Actor
- Writer
An actor, comedian and writer, Seth Rogen has come a long way from doing stand-up comedy as a teen.
Rogen was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, to Sandy (Belogus), a social worker, and Mark Rogen, who worked for non-profits. His father is American-born and his mother is Canadian. He is of Russian Jewish descent. He attended Vancouver Talmud Torah Elementary School and Point Grey Secondary School (although he dropped out of high school to move to Los Angeles) and was known for the stand-up comedy he performed at Camp Miriam, a Habonim Dror camp. At sixteen, Rogen placed second in the 1998 Vancouver Amateur Comedy Contest.
Soon after that he landed his first role in Judd Apatow's short-lived but well regarded TV series Freaks and Geeks (1999), taking on the role of Ken Miller. Though the show only lasted one season, it was the launching pad for many careers, including Rogen, Apatow, James Franco, and Jason Segel. This early work sharpened Rogen's keen improvisational skills, which he's used on many projects since.
Following Freaks and Geeks (1999), he participated in a few unsuccessful television projects, and then joined the American television version of Da Ali G Show (2000) as a writer during its second and last season, along with his childhood friend and writing partner Evan Goldberg. The writing team received an Emmy nomination. As a huge fan of the first season, Rogen was thrilled to get the chance to work with Sacha Baron Cohen.
Continuing his work with Apatow, he joined the cast of Apatow's debut film The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005) and is credited as co-producer. After that he took the lead in Knocked Up (2007), Apatow's second movie and a huge success. He's since been a frequent collaborator with Apatow, in projects such as Superbad (2007), Pineapple Express (2008) and Funny People (2009). He co-wrote Superbad (2007), with Goldberg; the pair started the project when they were teens. They won the Canadian Comedy Award for Best Writing in a Film in 2008. They later wrote Pineapple Express (2008) and The Green Hornet (2011), also starring Rogen.
A talented voice artist, Rogen is in the animated films Horton Hears a Who! (2008), Kung Fu Panda (2008), and Monsters vs. Aliens (2009), and has voiced characters for The Simpsons (1989) and American Dad! (2005).
Rogen was named the Canadian Comedy Person of the Year by the Canadian Comedy Awards in both 2008 and 2009.
Rogen lives in Los Angeles with Lauren Miller Rogen, whom he met in 2004. They became engaged in September 2010 and married in October 2011.Films Seen:
1. Donnie Darko (2001)
2. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004)
3. The 40 Year Old Virgin (2005)
4. Knocked Up (2007)
5. Superbad (2007)
6. Shrek the Third (2007)
7. The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008)
8. Horton Hears a Who! (2008)
9. Kung Fu Panda (2008)
10. Step Brothers (2008)
11. Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008)
12. Monsters vs Aliens (2009)
13. Funny People (2009)
14. The Green Hornet (2011)
15. Paul (2011)
16. Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011)
17. 50/50 (2011)
18. This Is the End (2013)
19. Steve Jobs (2015)
20. The Night Before (2015)
21. Kung Fu Panda 3 (2016)
22. Sausage Party (2016)
23. The Disaster Artist (2017)
24. Seth Rogen’s Hilarity for Charity (2018)
25. Long Shot (2019)
26. The Lion King (2019)
27. Chip ’n Dale: Rescue Rangers (2022)
28. The Fabelmans (2022)
29. The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023)
30. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (2023)- Actor
- Writer
- Producer
Bill Murray is an American actor, comedian, and writer. The fifth of nine children, he was born William James Murray in Wilmette, Illinois, to Lucille (Collins), a mailroom clerk, and Edward Joseph Murray II, who sold lumber. He is of Irish descent. Among his siblings are actors Brian Doyle-Murray, Joel Murray, and John Murray. He and most of his siblings worked as caddies, which paid his tuition to Loyola Academy, a Jesuit school. He played sports and did some acting while in that school, but in his words, mostly "screwed off." He enrolled at Regis College in Denver to study pre-med but dropped out after being arrested for marijuana possession. He then joined the National Lampoon Radio Hour with fellow members Dan Aykroyd, Gilda Radner, and John Belushi. However, while those three became the original members of Saturday Night Live (1975), he joined Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell (1975), which premiered that same year. After that show failed, he later got the opportunity to join Saturday Night Live (1975), for which he earned his first Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing in a Comedy-Variety or Music Series. He later went on to star in comedy films, including Meatballs (1979), Caddyshack (1980), Stripes (1981), Tootsie (1982), Ghostbusters (1984), Ghostbusters II (1989), Scrooged (1988), What About Bob? (1991), and Groundhog Day (1993). He also co-directed Quick Change (1990). Murray garnered additional critical acclaim later in his career, starring in Lost in Translation (2003), which earned him a Golden Globe and a BAFTA Award for Best Actor, as well as an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. He also received Golden Globe nominations for his roles in Ghostbusters, Rushmore (1998), Hyde Park on Hudson (2012), St. Vincent (2014), and the HBO miniseries Olive Kitteridge (2014), for which he later won his second Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or a Movie.Films Seen:
1. Ghostbusters (1984)
2. Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
3. Scrooged (1988)
4. Ghostbusters II (1989)
5. Groundhog Day (1993)
6. Ed Wood (1994)
7. Space Jam (1996)
8. Rushmore (1998)
9. The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
10. Lost in Translation (2003)
11. Garfield (2004)
12. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)
13. Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties (2006)
14. The Darjeeling Limited (2007)
15. Zombieland (2009)
16. Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
17. Moonrise Kingdom (2012)
18. The Monuments Men (2014)
19. The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
20. A Very Murray Christmas (2015)
21. The Jungle Book (2016)
22. Isle of Dogs (2018)
23. The Dead Don’t Die (2019)
24. Zombieland: Double Tap (2019)
25. The French Dispatch (2021)
26. The Greatest Beer Run Ever (2022)
27. Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023)- Actor
- Producer
- Writer
Paul Stephen Rudd was born in Passaic, New Jersey. His parents, Michael and Gloria, both from Jewish families, were born in the London area, U.K. He has one sister, who is three years younger than he is. Paul traveled with his family during his early years, because of his father's airline job at TWA. His family eventually settled in Overland Park, Kansas, where his mother worked as a sales manager for TV station KSMO-TV. Paul attended Broadmoor Junior High and Shawnee Mission West High School, from which he graduated in 1987, and where he was Student Body President. He then enrolled at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, majoring in theater. He graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts-West in Los Angeles and participated in a three-month intensive workshop under the guidance of Michael Kahn at the British Drama Academy at Oxford University in Britain. Rudd helped to produce the Globe Theater's production of Howard Brenton's "Bloody Poetry," which starred Rudd as Percy Bysshe Shelley.Films Seen:
1. Wet Hot American Summer (2001)
2. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004)
3. The 40 Year Old Virgin (2005)
4. Night at the Museum (2006)
5. Knocked Up (2007)
6. Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)
7. Role Models (2008)
8. Monsters vs Aliens (2009)
9. Wanderlust (2012)
10. The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)
11. This Is the End (2013)
12. Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (2013)
13. They Came Together (2014)
14. Ant-Man (2015)
15. Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp (2015)
16. Sausage Party (2016)
17. Captain America: Civil War (2016)
18. Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later (2017)
19. Ideal Home (2018)
20. Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018)
21. Avengers: Endgame (2019)
22. Between Two Ferns: The Movie (2019)
23. Chip ’n Dale: Rescue Rangers (2022)
24. The Bob’s Burgers Movie (2022)
25. Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023)
26. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (2023)- Actor
- Producer
- Writer
Jonah Hill was born and raised in Los Angeles, the son of Sharon Feldstein (née Chalkin), a fashion designer and costume stylist, and Richard Feldstein, a tour accountant for Guns N' Roses. He is the brother of music manager Jordan Feldstein and actress Beanie Feldstein. He graduated from Crossroads School in Santa Monica and went on to The New School in New York to study drama.
He began writing and performing in plays while at college in New York, and managed to get himself introduced to Dustin Hoffman, through whom he got an audition for his first film role in I Heart Huckabees (2004). A succession of increasingly high-profile film and TV parts followed until he eventually landed one of the starring roles in the teen hit, Superbad (2007). Continuing to write and act, more roles followed as well as popular appearances on US TV talk shows.Films Seen:
1. The 40 Year Old Virgin (2005)
2. Click (2006)
3. Knocked Up (2007)
4. Superbad (2007)
5. Evan Almighty (2007)
6. Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007)
7. Horton Hears a Who! (2008)
8. Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)
9. Funny People (2009)
10. The Invention of Lying (2009)
11. How to Train Your Dragon (2010)
12. Megamind (2010)
13. Moneyball (2011)
14. 21 Jump Street (2012)
15. The Watch (2012)
16. Django Unchained (2012)
17. This Is the End (2013)
18. The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
19. The Lego Movie (2014)
20. How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014)
21. 22 Jump Street (2014)
22. Hail, Caesar! (2016)
23. Sausage Party (2016)
24. The Lego Batman Movie (2017)
25. How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019)
26. Don’t Look Up (2021)- Producer
- Actor
- Director
Benjamin Edward Meara Stiller was born on November 30, 1965, in New York City, New York, to legendary comedians Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara. His father was of Austrian Jewish and Polish Jewish descent, and his mother was of Irish Catholic descent (she converted to Judaism).
His parents made no real effort to keep their son away from the Hollywood lifestyle and he grew up among the stars, wondering just why his parents were so popular. At a young age, he and his sister Amy Stiller would perform plays at home, wearing Amy's tights to perform Shakespeare. Ben also picked up an interest in being on the other side of the camera and, at age 10, began shooting films on his Super 8 camera. The plots were always simple: someone would pick on the shy, awkward Stiller ... and then he would always get his revenge. This desire for revenge on the popular, good-looking people may have motivated his teen-angst opus Reality Bites (1994) later in his career. He both directed and performed in the film, which co-starred Winona Ryder and Ethan Hawke.
Before he got to Hollywood, he put in several consistently solid years in the theater. After dropping out of UCLA, he performed in the Tony Award winner, "The House of Blue Leaves". While working on the play, Stiller shot a short spoof of The Color of Money (1986) starring him (in the Tom Cruise role) and his The House of Blue Leaves (1987) costar John Mahoney (in the Paul Newman role). The short film was so funny that Lorne Michaels purchased it and aired it on Saturday Night Live (1975). This led to his spending a year on the show in 1989.
Stiller made his big screen debut in Steven Spielberg's Empire of the Sun (1987) in 1987. Demonstrating early on the multifaceted tone his career would take, he soon stepped behind the camera to direct Back to Brooklyn for MTV. The network was impressed and gave Stiller his own show, The Ben Stiller Show (1992). He recruited fellow offbeat comedians Janeane Garofalo and Andy Dick and created a bitingly satirical show. MTV ended up passing on it, but it was picked up by Fox. Unfortunately, the show was a ratings miss. Stiller was soon out of work, although he did have the satisfaction of picking up an Emmy for the show after its cancellation.
For a while, Stiller had to settle for guest appearance work. While doing this, he saved up his cash and in the end was able to scrape enough together to make Reality Bites (1994), now a cult classic which is looked upon favorably by the generation it depicted. Ben continued to work steadily for a time, particularly in independent productions where he was more at ease. However, he never quite managed to catch a big break. His first big budget directing job was Jim Carrey's The Cable Guy (1996). Although many critics were impressed, Jim Carrey's fans were not. In 1998, There's Something About Mary (1998) had propelled Stiller into the mainstream spotlight. He also starred in such hit movies as Keeping the Faith (2000) and Meet the Parents (2000).Films Seen:
1. The Cable Guy (1996)
2. Meet the Parents (2000)
3. The Independent (2000)
4. Zoolander (2001)
5. The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
6. DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story (2004)
7. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004)
8. Meet the Fockers (2004)
9. Madagascar (2005)
10. Night at the Museum (2006)
11. The Heartbreak Kid (2007)
12. Tropic Thunder (2008)
13. Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008)
14. Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009)
15. Merry Madagascar (2009)
16. Megamind (2010)
17. Little Fockers (2010)
18. Tower Heist (2011)
19. Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted (2012)
20. The Watch (2012)
21. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013)
22. While We’re Young (2014)
23. Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (2014)
24. Zoolander 2 (2016)
25. Don’t Think Twice (2016)
26. The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) (2017)- Actor
- Producer
- Writer
Having made over one hundred films in his legendary career, Willem Dafoe is internationally respected for bringing versatility, boldness, and daring to some of the most iconic films of our time. His artistic curiosity in exploring the human condition leads him to projects all over the world, large and small, Hollywood films as well as Independent cinema.
In 1979, he was given a role in Michael's Cimino's Heaven's Gate, from which he was fired. Since then, he has collaborated with directors who represent a virtual encyclopedia of modern cinema: James Wan, Robert Eggers, Sean Baker, Kenneth Branagh, Kathryn Bigelow, Sam Raimi, Alan Parker, Walter Hill, Mary Harron, Wim Wenders, Anton Corbijn, Zhang Yimou, Wes Anderson, Martin Scorsese, David Lynch, Oliver Stone, William Friedkin, Werner Herzog, Lars Von Trier, Abel Ferrara, Spike Lee, David Cronenberg, Paul Schrader, Anthony Minghella, Theo Angelopoulos, Robert Rodriguez, Phillip Noyce, Hector Babenco, John Milius, Paul Weitz, The Spierig Brothers, Andrew Stanton, Josh Boone, Dee Rees and Julian Schnabel.
Dafoe has been recognized with four Academy Award nominations: Best Actor in a Supporting Role for Platoon, Best Actor in a Supporting Role for Shadow Of The Vampire, for which he also received Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild nominations, Best Actor in a Supporting Role for The Florida Project, for which he also received Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild nominations, and most recently, Best Leading Actor for At Eternity's Gate, for which he also received a Golden Globe nomination. Among his other nominations and awards, he has received two Los Angeles Film Critics Awards, a New York Film Critics Circle Award, a National Board of Review Award, two Independent Spirit Awards, Venice Film Festival Volpi Cup, as well as a Berlinale Honorary Golden Bear for Lifetime Achievement.
Willem was born in Appleton, Wisconsin, to Muriel Isabel (Sprissler), a nurse, and William Alfred Dafoe, a surgeon. He is of mostly German, Irish, Scottish, and English descent. He and his wife, director Giada Colagrande, have made three films together: Padre, A Woman, and Before It Had A Name.
His natural adventurousness is evident in roles as diverse as Marcus, the elite assassin who is mentor to Keanu Reeves in the neo-noir John Wick; in his voice work as Gil the Moorish Idol in Finding Nemo and Ryuk the Death God in Death Note; as Paul Smecker, the obsessed FBI agent in the cult classic The Boondock Saints; and as real life hero Leonhard Seppala, who led the 1925 Alaskan dog sled diphtheria serum run in Ericson Core's Togo. That adventurous spirit continues with upcoming films including Wes Anderson's The French Dispatch, Abel Ferrara's Siberia, and Paul Schrader's The Card Counter.
Dafoe is one of the founding members of The Wooster Group, the New York based experimental theatre collective. He created and performed in all of the group's work from 1977 thru 2005, both in the U.S. and internationally. Since then, he worked with Richard Foreman in Idiot Savant at The Public Theatre (NYC), with Robert Wilson on two international productions: The Life & Death of Marina Abramovic and The Old Woman opposite Mikhail Baryshnikov and developed a new theatre piece, directed by Romeo Castellucci, based on Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Minister's Black Veil. He recently completed work on Marina Abramovic's opera 7 Deaths of Maria Callas.Films Seen:
1. American Psycho (2000)
2. Spider-Man (2002)
3. Finding Nemo (2003)
4. Spider-Man 2 (2004)
5. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)
6. Mr. Bean’s Holiday (2007)
7. Spider-Man 3 (2007)
8. Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
9. Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant (2009)
10. John Carter (2012)
11. The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
12. The Fault in Our Stars (2014)
13. John Wick (2014)
14. Finding Dory (2016)
15. Death Note (2017)
16. Murder on the Orient Express (2017)
17. Aquaman (2018)
18. The Lighthouse (2019)
19. The French Dispatch (2021)
20. Nightmare Alley (2021)
21. Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)
22. The Northman (2022)
23. Asteroid City (2023)
24. Poor Things (2023)- Producer
- Actor
- Director
Vin Diesel was born Mark Sinclair in Alameda County, California, along with his fraternal twin brother, Paul Vincent. He was raised by his astrologer/psychologist mother, Delora Sherleen (Sinclair), and adoptive father, Irving H. Vincent, an acting instructor and theatre manager, in an artists' housing project in New York City's Greenwich Village. He never knew his biological father. His mother is white (with English, German, Scottish, and Irish ancestry), and his adoptive father is African-American; referring to his biological father's background, Diesel has said that he himself is "definitely a person of colour".
His first break in acting happened by chance, when at the age of seven he and his friends broke into a theatre to vandalize it. A woman stopped them and offered them each a script and $20, on the condition that they would attend everyday after school. From there, Vin's fledgling career progressed from the New York repertory company run by his father, to the Off-Off-Broadway circuit. At age seventeen and already sporting a well-honed physique, he became a bouncer at some of New York's hippest clubs to earn himself some extra cash. It was at this time that he changed his name to Vin Diesel.
Following high school, Vin enrolled as an English major at Hunter College, but dropped out after three years to go to Hollywood to further his acting career. Being an experienced theatre actor did not make any impression in Hollywood and after a year of struggling to make his mark, he returned to New York. His mother then gave him a book called "Feature Films at used Car Prices" by Rick Schmidt. The book showed him that he could take control of his career and make his own movies. He wrote a short film based on his own experiences as an actor, called Multi-Facial (1995), which was shot in less than three days at a cost of $3,000. Multi-Facial (1995) was eventually accepted for the 1995 Cannes Film Festival where it got a tumultuous reception.
Afterwards, Vin returned to Los Angeles and raised almost $50,000 through telemarketing to fund the making of his first feature, Strays (1997). Six months after shooting, the film was accepted for the 1997 Sundance Film Festival, and although it received a good reception, it did not sell as well as hoped. Yet again Vin returned disappointed to New York only to receive a dream phone call. Steven Spielberg was impressed by Multi-Facial (1995) and wanted to meet Vin, leading him to be cast in Saving Private Ryan (1998). Multi-Facial (1995) earned Vin more work, when the director of The Iron Giant (1999) saw it and decided to cast Vin in the title role. From there, Vin's career steadily grew, with him securing his first lead role, as Richard B. Riddick in the sci-fi film Pitch Black (2000). The role has earned him a legion of devoted fans and the public recognition he deserves.
Since then, he has headlined a series of blockbusters, often but not only centered on fast-driving motor vehicles: The Fast and the Furious (2001), xXx (2002), The Pacifier (2005), Fast & Furious (2009), Fast Five (2011), Fast & Furious 6 (2013), and Furious 7 (2015). He also voiced Groot in Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) and starred in the lower-budgeted courtroom drama Find Me Guilty (2006), the latter directed by Sidney Lumet.Films Seen:
1. The Iron Giant (1999)
2. The Fast and the Furious (2001)
3. The Turbo Charged Prelude for 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003)
4. Fast & Furious (2009)
5. Fast Five (2011)
6. Fast & Furious 6 (2013)
7. Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
8. Furious 7 (2015)
9. The Last Witch Hunter (2015)
10. The Fate of the Furious (2017)
11. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)
12. Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
13. Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018)
14. Avengers: Endgame (2019)
15. F9 (2021)
16. Thor: Love and Thunder (2022)
17. Magnum Opus (2022)
18. Groot’s First Steps (2022)
19. The Little Guy (2022)
20. Groot’s Pursuit (2022)
21. Groot Takes a Bath (2022)
22. The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special (2022)
23. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023)
24. Fast X (2023)- Actress
- Producer
- Writer
The iconoclastic gifts of the highly striking and ferociously talented actress Tilda Swinton have been appreciated by art house crowds and international audiences alike. After her stunning Oscar-winning turn as a high-powered corporate attorney in the George Clooney starring and critically-lauded legal thriller Michael Clayton (2007), however, her androgynous looks and often bizarre appeal have been embraced by more mainstream crowds as well.
She was born Katherine Mathilda Swinton into a patrician Scottish military family on November 5, 1960, in London, England. Her mother, Judith Balfour, Lady Swinton (née Killen), was Australian, and her father, Major-General Sir John Swinton, an army officer, was English-born. Her ancestry is Scottish, Northern Irish, and English, including a long tapestry of prominent Scottish ancestors. Educated at an English and a Scottish boarding school, Tilda subsequently studied Social and Political Science at Cambridge University and graduated in 1983 with a degree in English Literature.
During her tenure as a student, she performed countless stage productions and proceeded to work for a season with the Royal Shakespeare Company where she appeared in such productions as "Measure for Measure." The rebel insider her, however, was strong and she left the company after a year as her approach and interests began to shift dramatically. With a pungent taste for the unique and seldom tried, Tilda found some gender-bending stage roles come her way. She portrayed Mozart in Pushkin's "Mozart and Salieri", and as a working class woman impersonating her dead husband during World War II, in Manfred Karge's "Man to Man," a role she later committed to film (Man to Man (1992)).
In 1985, the tall, slender performer with alabaster skin and carrot-topped hair began a professional association with gay experimental director Derek Jarman. She continued to live and work with the groundbreaking writer/director/cinematographer for the next nine years, involving herself in seven of his often notorious films. This quirky, highly fascinating alliance would produce such stark and radical turns as the Berlin International Film Festival winners Caravaggio (1986), The Last of England (1987), The Garden (1990) and Edward II (1991) (playing Isabella, in which she won "Best Actress" at the Venice Film Festival) and Wittgenstein (1993), as well as the films Soursweet (1988) (a movie with no spoken dialogue) and the Stockholm Film Festival Award winner Blue (1993).
Jarman succumbed to complications from AIDS in 1994. His untimely demise left a devastating void in Tilda's life for quite some time. Her most notable performance of her Jarman period, however, came from a non-Jarman film. For the vivid title role in Orlando (1992), her nobleman character lives for 400 years while changing sex from man to woman. The film, which Swinton spent years helping writer/director Sally Potter develop and finance, continues to this day to have a worldwide devoted fan following.
Over the years, Tilda has preferred art to celebrity, opening herself to experimental projects with new and untried directors and mediums, delving into the worlds of installation art and cutting-edge fashion. Consistently off-centered roles in Female Perversions (1996), Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon (1998), Teknolust (2002), Young Adam (2003), Broken Flowers (2005) and Béla Tarr's The Man from London (2007) have added to her mystique. Back in 1995, she delved into a performance art piece in the Serpentine Gallery, London, where she was put on display to the public for a week, asleep (or apparently so), in a glass case.
Following the birth of her twins in 1997, Tilda would leave lean for a time towards Hollywood mainstream filming. The thriller The Deep End (2001), earned her a number of critic's awards and her first Golden Globe nomination. Other visible U.S. pictures included The Beach (2000) with Leonardo DiCaprio, fantasy epic Constantine (2005) with Keanu Reeves, her Oscar-decorated performance in Michael Clayton (2007) and, of course, her iconic White Witch in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005).
Into the millennium, Tilda continued to amaze starring in the crime drama Julia (2008) and in David Fincher's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008). She learned Italian and Russian for Luca Guadagnino's I Am Love (2009), starred in the psychological thriller We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011), Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom (2012) and Bong Joon Ho's Snowpiercer (2013), and earned fine notice in Terry Gilliam's The Zero Theorem (2013). She also starred in the dark romantic fantasy drama Only Lovers Left Alive (2013) directed by Jim Jarmusch, had a small role in Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), starred in Judd Apatow's comedy Trainwreck (2015), and played a rock star in Luca Guadagnino's A Bigger Splash (2015).
Showing no signs of slowing up, Tilda continues to make creative, visual impressions in such films as the Coen Brothers' Hail, Caesar! (2016) where she reunited with Clooney and had a dual role playing twin journalists, and as the wise Asian teacher of Dr. Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) in the Marvel Comics action film Doctor Strange (2016), while repeating the part of The Ancient One in Avengers: Endgame (2019). She gave another eccentric, unhinged performance in the action adventure message movie Okja (2017), played Betsy Trotwood in a contemporary telling of The Personal History of David Copperfield (2019) and teamed up again with writer/director Jim Jarmusch in the thoroughly offbeat fantasy horror comedy The Dead Don't Die (2019).Films Seen:
1. Adaptation. (2002)
2. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005)
3. The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008)
4. Burn After Reading (2008)
5. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
6. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010)
7. Moonrise Kingdom (2012)
8. Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)
9. Snowpiercer (2013)
10. The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
11. Trainwreck (2015)
12. Hail, Caesar! (2016)
13. Doctor Strange (2016)
14. Okja (2017)
15. Isle of Dogs (2018)
16. The Souvenir (2019)
17. Avengers: Endgame (2019)
18. The Dead Don’t Die (2019)
19. Uncut Gems (2019)
20. The Souvenir: Part II (2021)
21. The French Dispatch (2021)
22. Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (2022)
23. Asteroid City (2023)
24. The Killer (2023)- Actor
- Director
- Producer
John started the improvisational duo group, "Sal's Meat Market", in Bridgeport, Connecticut with fellow actor and friend Ray Hassett. He was later affiliated with the ensemble group, "The Downtown Cabaret". Coincidentally, he was a friend of Susan Ryan, the mother of Meg Ryan. A mutual friend, also associated with "The Downtown Cabaret", was the daughter-in-law of actress Mabel Albertson, the sister of actor Jack Albertson.Films Seen:
1. Superman (1978)
2. The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
3. Superman II (1980)
4. Toy Story (1995)
5. A Bug’s Life (1998)
6. Toy Story 2 (1999)
7. Monsters, Inc. (2001)
8. Finding Nemo (2003)
9. The Incredibles (2004)
10. Cars (2006)
11. Ratatouille (2007)
12. WALL·E (2008)
13. Up (2009)
14. Toy Story 3 (2010)
15. Cars 2 (2011)
16. Brave (2012)
17. Monsters University (2013)
18. Inside Out (2015)
19. The Good Dinosaur (2015)
20. Finding Dory (2016)
21. Coco (2017)
22. Incredibles 2 (2018)
23. Toy Story 4 (2019)
24. Luck (2022)- Actor
- Writer
- Producer
Bill Hader is an American comedian and actor who is known for playing in Saturday Night Live from 2005 to 2013. He created and starred in the HBO show Barry. He also played Flint Lockwood from Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Colonel Custer from Night at the Museum 2, Fear from Inside Out and Richie Tozier from It Chapter Two. He was married to Maggie Carey and has three children.Films Seen:
1. Knocked Up (2007)
2. Superbad (2007)
3. Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)
4. Tropic Thunder (2008)
5. Adventureland (2009)
6. Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009)
7. Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009)
8. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009)
9. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010)
10. Paul (2011)
11. Monsters University (2013)
12. Her (2013)
13. They Came Together (2014)
14. Trainwreck (2015)
15. Inside Out (2015)
16. Sausage Party (2016)
17. The BFG (2016)
18. Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (2016)
19. Finding Dory (2016)
20. Toy Story 4 (2019)
21. It Chapter Two (2019)
22. Lightyear (2022)
23. Beau Is Afraid (2023)- Producer
- Actor
- Writer
John William Ferrell was born in Irvine, California, to Betty Kay (Overman), a teacher, and Roy Lee Ferrell, Jr., a musician. His parents were originally from Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina.
A graduate of the University of Southern California, Ferrell became interested in performing while a student at University High School in Irvine, where he made his school's daily morning announcements over the public address system in disguised voices. He started as a member of the Los Angeles comedy/improvisation group The Groundlings, where fellow cast members Ana Gasteyer, Maya Rudolph and former Saturday Night Live (1975) repertory players such as Laraine Newman, Jon Lovitz and Phil Hartman began their careers. It was there he met Chris Kattan and the two became good friends and both went on to Saturday Night Live (1975) later. He has also appeared on several television programs, including Strangers with Candy (1999), Grace Under Fire (1993) and Living Single (1993) during his time at The Groundlings. Will also lent his voice to the armless and legless dad of cartoon family "The Oblongs".
In 1995 he became a feature cast member at Saturday Night Live (1975) during the show's rapid re-casting. He was declared quite possibly the worst cast member ever during his first season. However, his talents of impersonations and range of characters shot him forward to making him arguably the greatest Saturday Night Live (1975) cast member ever. During his seven year run he is one of the few cast members to ever be nominated for an Emmy for a performance and played George W. Bush during the 2000 elections. He has appeared in every Saturday Night Live (1975) movie since his premiere on the show in 1995. In 2002 he left Saturday Night Live (1975) and was the only cast member to ever receive a farewell from all the current cast members at the end of the season finale show. Since leaving the show Will has pursued a career in films. In 2000, he married Viveca Paulin, and lives in L.A.Films Seen:
1. Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)
2. Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999)
3. Zoolander (2001)
4. Elf (2003)
5. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004)
6. The Producers (2005)
7. Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006)
8. Stranger Than Fiction (2006)
9. Blades of Glory (2007)
10. Step Brothers (2008)
11. The Other Guys (2010)
12. Megamind (2010)
13. The Campaign (2012)
14. Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (2013)
15. The Lego Movie (2014)
16. Zoolander 2 (2016)
17. Holmes & Watson (2018)
18. Between Two Ferns: The Movie (2019)
19. Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga (2020)
20. Spirited (2022)
21. Barbie (2023)
22. Quiz Lady (2023)- Actor
- Writer
- Producer
English actor, writer, and comedian Simon Pegg was born Simon John Beckingham in Brockworth, Gloucestershire, to Gillian Rosemary (Smith), a civil servant, and John Henry Beckingham, a jazz musician. His parents divorced when he was seven. He later took his stepfather's surname "Pegg." He was educated at Brockworth Comprehensive Secondary School in Gloucestershire and went on to Stratford-upon-Avon College to study English literature and performance studies. He then attended the University of Bristol, and earned a bachelor's degree in drama. In the early 2000s, Pegg moved to London and began forging a successful career in stand-up comedy. Television opportunities followed including roles in Six Pairs of Pants (1995), Asylum (1996), and We Know Where You Live (1997). In 1999, Pegg and Jessica Hynes teamed up to write and star in cult sitcom Spaced (1999), directed by Edgar Wright. The series also featured Pegg's best friend Nick Frost. Pegg's breakthrough in film came with the zom-rom-com Shaun of the Dead (2004), which he also co-wrote with director Edgar Wright. Again, the film featured Nick Frost. The trio also scored a hit with police comedy Hot Fuzz (2007). Further film successes followed for Pegg, notably in the iconic role of Montgomery "Scotty" Scott in Star Trek (2009) and alongside Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible III (2006) and Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011).Films Seen:
1. 24 Hour Party People (2002)
2. Shaun of the Dead (2004)
3. Mission: Impossible III (2006)
4. Hot Fuzz (2007)
5. Run, Fatboy, Run (2007)
6. Star Trek (2009)
7. Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009)
8. Burke & Hare (2010)
9. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010)
10. Paul (2011)
11. The Adventures of Tintin (2011)
12. Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011)
13. Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
14. The World’s End (2013)
15. Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015)
16. Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
17. Star Trek Beyond (2016)
18. Ready Player One (2018)
19. Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018)
20. Slaughterhouse Rulez (2018)
21. Luck (2022)
22. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (2023)- Actor
- Producer
- Writer
Self-proclaimed troublemaker Owen Cunningham Wilson was born in Dallas, to Irish-American parents originally from Massachusetts. He grew up in Texas with his mother, Laura (Cunningham), a photographer; his father, Robert Andrew Wilson, an ad exec; and his brothers, Andrew Wilson (the eldest) and Luke Wilson (the youngest). Expelled from St. Mark's School of Texas (Dallas, TX) in the tenth grade, Wilson finished his sophomore year at Thomas Jefferson School and then headed to a military academy in New Mexico. He then attended the University of Texas at Austin, where he met his future mentor and friend, Wes Anderson. They wrote a screenplay, Bottle Rocket (1996), and sent it to their family friend, screenwriter L.M. Kit Carson, who sent it to producer Polly Platt, who gave it to James L. Brooks, who gave the Texans $5 million to make it into a feature film. Despite critical praise, Bottle Rocket (1996) only grossed one million dollars. After making the film, Wilson moved to Hollywood, setting up house with his two brothers and Anderson. Fairly quickly, Owen found himself acting in a series of big budget films, such as The Cable Guy (1996), The Haunting (1999), Anaconda (1997) and Breakfast of Champions (1999). This led to more work, such as Shanghai Noon (2000), Meet the Parents (2000) and Behind Enemy Lines (2001). He's known not only for his nose, which has been broken several times, but also for his 'free wheeling ways' with a script. He co-wrote the film The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) with his oft partner Wes Anderson.Films Seen:
1. Bottle Rocket (1996)
2. The Cable Guy (1996)
3. Meet the Parents (2000)
4. Zoolander (2001)
5. The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
6. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)
7. Meet the Fockers (2004)
8. Cars (2006)
9. The Darjeeling Limited (2007)
10. Drillbit Taylor (2008)
11. Marley & Me (2008)
12. Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009)
13. Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
14. Marmaduke (2010)
15. Little Fockers (2010)
16. Cars 2 (2011)
17. The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
18. Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (2014)
19. Zoolander 2 (2016)
20. Loki (2021)
21. The French Dispatch (2021)
22. Haunted Mansion (2023)- Actor
- Producer
- Additional Crew
Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch was born and raised in London, England. His parents, Wanda Ventham and Timothy Carlton (born Timothy Carlton Congdon Cumberbatch), are both actors. He is a grandson of submarine commander Henry Carlton Cumberbatch, and a great-grandson of diplomat Henry Arnold Cumberbatch CMG. Cumberbatch attended Brambletye School and Harrow School. Whilst at Harrow, he had an arts scholarship and painted large oil canvases. It's also where he began acting. After he finished school, he took a year off to volunteer as an English teacher in a Tibetan monastery in Darjeeling, India. On his return, he studied drama at Manchester University. He continued his training as an actor at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art graduating with an M.A. in Classical Acting. By the time he had completed his studies, he already had an agent.
Cumberbatch has worked in theatre, television, film and radio. His breakthrough on the big screen came in 2004 when he portrayed Stephen Hawking in the television movie Hawking (2004). In 2010, he became a household name as Sherlock Holmes on the British television series Sherlock (2010). In 2011, he appeared in two Oscar-nominated films - War Horse (2011) and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011). He followed this with acclaimed roles in the science fiction film Star Trek Into Darkness (2013), the Oscar-winning drama 12 Years a Slave (2013), The Fifth Estate (2013) and August: Osage County (2013). In 2014, he portrayed Alan Turing in The Imitation Game (2014) which earned him a Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild Award, British Academy of Film and Television Arts and an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor in a Leading Role.
Cumberbatch was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) by Queen Elizabeth II in the 2015 Birthday Honours for his services to the performing arts and to charity.
Cumberbatch's engagement to theatre and opera director Sophie Hunter, whom he has known for 17 years, was announced in the "Forthcoming Marriages" section of The Times newspaper on November 5, 2014. On February 14, 2015, the couple married at the 12th century Church of St. Peter and St. Paul on the Isle of Wight followed by a reception at Mottistone Manor. They have three sons, Christopher Carlton (born 2015), Hal Auden (born 2017), and Finn (born 2019).Films Seen:
1. Starter for 10 (2006)
2. War Horse (2011)
3. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)
4. Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
5. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)
6. The Imitation Game (2014)
7. The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)
8. Black Mass (2015)
9. Sherlock: The Abominable Bride (2016)
10. Zoolander 2 (2016)
11. Doctor Strange (2016)
12. Sherlock: The Final Problem (2017)
13. Thor: Ragnarok (2017)
14. Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
15. Avengers: Endgame (2019)
16. Between Two Ferns: The Movie (2019)
17. 1917 (2019)
18. The Power of the Dog (2021)
19. Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)
20. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022)
21. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (2023)
22. Poison (2023)