Ken Leung was raised in the Two Bridges section of the Lower East Side in New York City. His family moved to Midwood, Brooklyn where he grew up before finishing high school in Old Bridge, New Jersey. He attended NYU and studied acting with Catherine Russell and Nan Smithner, then briefly with Anne Jackson at …
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Shane West
Shane West was born Shannon Bruce Snaith in 1978 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the son of Leah (Launey), a lawyer, and Don Snaith, a drugstore owner. Shane began to pursue an acting career at the age of fifteen, gaining bit parts on various television shows, but it was not until 1999 when West appeared in …
Saïd Taghmaoui
Saïd Taghmaoui was born July 19th 1973 in Villepinte, Seine-Saint-Denis, France, to Moroccan immigrant parents. He has 9 siblings. He dropped out of school at a young age and became a boxer; at one point ranking number 2 in France in his category. He met Mathieu Kassovitz with whom he co-wrote the 1995 French film …
Beau Bridges
Beau Bridges was born in Hollywood, and is the son of actor Lloyd Bridges and his wife, who was his college sweetheart, Dorothy Dean Bridges. Born just two days after the attack on Pearl Harbour, he was delivered by candlelight because of a power blackout. Named Lloyd Vernet Bridges III, his parents immediately started calling …
Douglas Henshall
Douglas Henshall was born in Glasgow, Scotland in November 1965. His mother was a nurse and his father a salesman. He is the youngest of three children and has two older sisters. He grew up in Barrhead and attended Barrhead High School. Whilst at school a friend asked him to join The Scottish Youth Theatre …
August Diehl
August Diehl was born on January 4, 1976 in Berlin, Germany. He is an actor and writer, known for Inglourious Basterds (2009), 23 (1998) and A Hidden Life (2019). He has been married to Julia Malik since 1999. They have two children.
Slaine
Slaine was born as George Carroll. He is an actor, known for The Town (2010), Gone Baby Gone (2007) and Killing Them Softly (2012).
Raúl Méndez
Raul Mendez is considered by many in Mexico as one of the best actors of his generation. Classically trained, he is often referred to as a chameleon, working steadily in film, television and theater. In Oct 2014, he worked on two Netflix Original Series, taking on totally different characters; An unstable antagonist, Joaquin, on “Sense8” …
Jim Sturgess
Jim was born in London, the son of Jane O. (Martin) and Peter J. S. Sturgess. He was raised in Surrey. First and foremost his interest was music. However, he began to develop a secret passion for acting, at age 8, when he auditioned for local theatre to get out of class. Whilst music appeared …
Michael Hitchcock
Michael Hitchcock was born in Defiance, Ohio and later raised in Western Springs, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. He attributes many of his offbeat characters on his midwestern upbringing. Hitchcock received his Bachelor of Science degree from Northwestern University’s School of Speech and a Master of Fine Arts degree from U.C.L.A.’s film school. Hitchcock is …
Will Rothhaar
Will Rothhaar was born in New York City on January 12, 1987. He made his stage debut in 1991. At the age of 4, he made his acting debut as Sonny in “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” at Pennsylvania’s Allenberry Playhouse. Since then, his career has grown to include extensive work in film, television, …
Trever Ou0027Brien
Trever O’Brien was born on January 19, 1984 in Newport Beach, California, USA as Trever Branden O’Brien. He is an actor and producer, known for In Time (2011), Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace (1996) and Gridiron Gang (2006).