favourite actors

Jodie Foster started her career at the age of two. For four years she made commercials and finally gave her debut as an actress in the TV series Mayberry R.F.D. (1968). In 1975 Jodie was offered the role of prostitute Iris Steensma in the movie Taxi Driver (1976). This role, for which she received an Academy Award nomination in the "Best Supporting Actress" category, marked a breakthrough in her career. In 1980 she graduated as the best of her class from the College Lycée Français and began to study English Literature at Yale University, from where she graduated magna cum laude in 1985. One tragic moment in her life was March 30th, 1981 when John Warnock Hinkley Jr. attempted to assassinate the President of the United States, Ronald Reagan. Hinkley was obsessed with Jodie and the movie Taxi Driver (1976), in which Travis Bickle, played by Robert De Niro, tried to shoot presidential candidate Palantine. Despite the fact that Jodie never took acting lessons, she received two Oscars before she was thirty years of age. She received her first award for her part as Sarah Tobias in The Accused (1988) and the second one for her performance as Clarice Starling in The Silence of the Lambs (1991).

Christoph Waltz is an Austrian-German actor. He is known for his work with American filmmaker Quentin Tarantino, receiving acclaim for portraying SS-Standartenführer Hans Landa in Inglourious Basterds (2009) and bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz in Django Unchained (2012). For each performance, he won an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor. Additionally, he received the Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival and a Screen Actors Guild Award for his portrayal of Landa.

Christoph Waltz was born in Vienna, Austria, into a theatrical family, his mother Elisabeth Urbancic, an Austrian-born costume designer, and Johannes Waltz, a German-born stage builder. He has three siblings. His maternal grandmother was Viennese Burgtheater actress Maria Mayen, and his step-grandfather was fellow Burgtheater actor Emmerich Reimers. His maternal grandfather, Rudolf von Urban, was a psychologist and psychiatrist who wrote the 1949 book "Sex Perfection and Marital Happiness".

Waltz attended the Theresianium and Billrothstrasse in Vienna. Upon graduation, he attended the Max-Reinhardt-Seminar before going to New York to the Lee Strasberg Institute. While in New York, Christoph met his first wife, and moved back to Vienna, then to London.

During the 80s, Christoph worked primarily in theatre, commuting from his home in London to Germany. Slowly Waltz began to work in TV, taking one-off roles in series, and TV movies. Film roles soon followed. Attempts to break into English-speaking film and TV were, however, unsuccessful. Waltz has expressed his gratitude to have been able to make a living and support his family through acting. For thirty years he worked steadily, tirelessly, in this manner.

It was not until he met Quentin Tarantino that his career in Hollywood took off. The role of Colonel Hans Landa in Inglourious Basterds (2009) catapulted Waltz from a lifetime working in German TV/film to the new life of an international superstar and Academy Award-winning actor. He won 27 awards for his performance as Hans Landa, including the Cannes prix d'interpretation Masculin for 2009, the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor, the BAFTA Best Supporting Actor award, and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor (which he won again for 2012's Django Unchained (2012)).

He also has portrayed computer genius Qohen Leth in the film The Zero Theorem (2013), American plagiarist Walter Keane in the biographical film _Big Eyes (2014), and 007's nemesis and head of SPECTRE Ernst Stavro Blofeld in _Spectre (2015)_. In Quentin Tarantino's 2009 film Inglourious Basterds, Waltz portrayed SS-Standartenführer Hans Landa, aka "The Jew Hunter". Clever, courteous, and multilingual - but also self-serving, cunning, implacable, and murderous. Waltz played gangster Benjamin Chudnofsky in The Green Hornet (2011). That same year, he starred in Water for Elephants (2011), Roman Polanski's Carnage (2011), and a remake of The Three Musketeers (2011). He played German bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz in Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained (2012), a role Tarantino wrote specifically for Waltz.

Waltz resides in Berlin and Los Angeles. His wife is costume builder Judith Holste.

Quentin Jerome Tarantino was born in Knoxville, Tennessee. His father, Tony Tarantino, is an Italian-American actor and musician from New York, and his mother, Connie (McHugh), is a nurse from Tennessee. Quentin moved with his mother to Torrance, California, when he was four years old.

In January of 1992, first-time writer-director Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs (1992) appeared at the Sundance Film Festival. The film garnered critical acclaim and the director became a legend immediately. Two years later, he followed up Dogs success with Pulp Fiction (1994) which premiered at the Cannes film festival, winning the coveted Palme D'Or Award. At the 1995 Academy Awards, it was nominated for the best picture, best director and best original screenplay. Tarantino and writing partner Roger Avary came away with the award only for best original screenplay. In 1995, Tarantino directed one fourth of the anthology Four Rooms (1995) with friends and fellow auteurs Alexandre Rockwell, Robert Rodriguez and Allison Anders. The film opened December 25 in the United States to very weak reviews. Tarantino's next film was From Dusk Till Dawn (1996), a vampire/crime story which he wrote and co-starred with George Clooney. The film did fairly well theatrically.

Since then, Tarantino has helmed several critically and financially successful films, including Jackie Brown (1997), Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003), Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004), Inglourious Basterds (2009), Django Unchained (2012) and The Hateful Eight (2015).

Murugadass is known for 96 (2018), Ghilli (2004) and Visaaranai (2015).

Samuthirakani is a film director, singer, screenwriter, dubbing artist, and an Indian actor who works in the Tamil, Telugu, and Malayalam film industries.

Samuthirakani studied at Rajapalayam Rajus College and completed his B.Sc. in Mathematics. He also studied at Ambedkar Law College and got his Bachelor of Law.

He was an assistant to director Sundar K. Vijayan in 1997. He also worked as an assistant for K. Balachander for Paarthale Paravasam (2001), which was also his acting debut in Tamil movies and Anni (2001 - 2003).

Samuthirakani ventured into the direction in the early 2000s and made Unnai Charanadaindhen (2003) for S.P.B. Charan. His directed movie Naadodigal (2009) got him appreciation as a filmmaker. This movie earned him the Vijay Award for Favourite Director.

Samuthirakani also appeared as ACP Sangayya in the Tamil movie Easan (2010). He received the Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Character Artiste (Male).

He also directed Telegu movies like Sambo Siva Sambho (2010), which was a Remake of Naadodigal (2009), and Janda Pai Kapiraju (2015)

Samuthirakani's Tamil movie Poraali (2011) got him another Vijay Award for Best Dialogue Writer. His other Tamil films, Nimirndhu Nil (2014) and Appa (2016), were later remade in Malayalam, Telugu, and Kannada. Appa (2016) and its Malayalam remake Aakasha Mittayee (2017), was directed by Samuthirakani.

In 2014, Samuthirakani appeared as Raghuvaran's father in the superhit movie Velaiyilla Pattathari (2014). He then appeared in the superhit Tamil film Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara (2011), for which he won the National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor and the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor - Tamil. He also appeared in the blockbuster Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara (2011).

Samuthirakani also got a role in the movie Kaala (2018), which starred Rajinikanth. His film Ala Vaikunthapurramuloo (2020) got him the SIIMA Best Actor in a Negative Role award.

Surathirakani also directed Naadodigal 2 (2020) and appeared as the lead actor in the Telugu film, Aakashavaani (2021). He then directed Vinodhaya Sitham (2021).

In 2022, the actor worked in several Tamil and Telugu movies like Bheemla Nayak Bheemla Nayak (2022) in Telugu, Maaran Maaran (2022), Yaanai Yaanai (2022) in Tamil, Macherla Niyojakavargam Macherla Niyojakavargam (2022) in Telugu, etc.

One of Samuthirakani's most iconic performances remains Venkateswarulu, Sitarama Raju's uncle, in the superhit Telugu movie RRR RRR (2022). S.S. Rajamouli's S.S. Rajamouli RRR RRR (2022) has grabbed attention not only on domestic fronts but also on international grounds by getting an Oscar, the first Indian feature film to do so.

In 2023, Samuthirakani was seen in Thunivu Thunivu (2023), Naan Kadavul Illai Naan Kadavul Illai (2023), Thalaikoothal Thalaikoothal (2023), Vaathi Vaathi (2023) and Dasara Dasara (2023).

Samara Weaving was born on February 23, 1992 in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, but spent the years after that moving around from Singapore, Fiji, Indonesia, and back to Australia with her family. During that time, she attended grade school in Jakarta, Indonesia, eventually going to Pittwater House School in Australia in 2004 prior to then joining the Canberra Girls' Grammar School. With a life of such hectic moving around, it should come as no surprise that the actress spent much time along the way performing in short films, dance and stage shows, and even with the Singapore Dance Company and Canberra Youth Theatre. In 2008, she was cast as Kirsten Mulroney on the BBC series, Out of the Blue (2008). While it only technically ran for a season, the season consisted of 129 episodes, with Samara appearing in 48 of them. That kind of exposure led to her next big gig as Indi Walker on the Australian soap opera Home and Away (1988), a series in which she would star in over 300 episodes. Even with all that success, family connections are never a bad thing. After leaving Home and Away (1988) in 2013, Samara landed her first feature role in Mystery Road (2013) a film which starred her celebrity uncle, Hugo Weaving. From here, she went on to star in the 2015 TV movie Squirrel Boys (2015) and followed that up in a big way with a major role in 2015's Monster Trucks (2016) alongside veteran actors such as Rob Lowe and Danny Glover. Samara also models for Australian underwear brand, Bonds.