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- Brandon Sklenar was born and raised in northern New Jersey. His father a carpenter and his mother a hair dresser. With an intense passion for both film and music, at a young age he decided to pursue a career as an actor and filmmaker.
In 2018 Brandon worked with revered international filmmaker Amir Naderi (99 Homes), on his next directorial effort, Magic Lantern. He filmed a supporting role in the highly acclaimed Dick Cheney biopic VICE, with Academy Award Winners Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Sam Rockwell and writer/director Adam McKay. Brandon also starred opposite Matt Smith (The Crown) as real life artist Edward Mapplethorpe, in the film Mapplethorpe, about the life and death of controversial photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, which premiered in competition at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival.
In 2019 Brandon filmed Lead roles in three feature films. He starred as Texas moonshiner, Deke Jones in the dark comedy, Jonesin'. He starred opposite Rosie Day (Outlander) as a concert violinist in Jaclyn Bethany's relationship drama, Indigo Valley. He played West Virginia oil man, Junior Lawford, in the western, London Calling, opposite Nick Braun (Succession) and Ron Perlman. As well as a supporting role portraying real life Torpedo Bomber and World War 2 hero, George Gay, in Roland Emmerich's upcoming World War 2 epic Midway. - Teri Polo was born in Dover, Delaware, to Jane (Gentry) and Vincent Polo, a stereo systems designer. Her ancestry includes Italian (from her paternal grandfather), German, and English. She has two brothers, Mike and Steve. Polo studied ballet for twelve years and was a dancer for the Delaware Regional Ballet at age 15. She dropped out of high school at 16 because she won a local modeling contest for a blue jeans advert in Seventeen magazine. Polo tried her hand at modeling, and was signed to Elite petite division.
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Doug grew up in Detroit and Minneapolis and eventually moved to New York City and briefly attended the Juilliard School. After studying with Sanford Meisner for two years and working at a plethora of oddball jobs (including dressing as a giant Citibank card to hand out flyers in Times Square), he worked in regional and Off-Broadway theater before landing his first feature supporting role in Fresh Horses (1988).- Actress
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Sonita Henry was born in Dover, Kent, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Black Cake (2023), The Chelsea Detective (2022) and Silo (2023).- Actor
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Shane was born on the south coast of England, although his family line is also Scottish and American. He attended the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Arts in London and received the Cameron Mackintosh Scholarship Award.
Shane's extensive screen credits include the regular role of Cpl. Eugene "Doc" Roe in Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg's commercially and critically acclaimed Band Of Brothers. He played Osman in The Day Of The Triffids alongside Dougray Scott, Vanessa Redgrave and Joely Richardson; and Craig Hanson, a season regular alongside Philip Winchester, Sullivan Stapleton and Charles Dance in Strike Back: Vengeance.
Shane also played the character of Andy Stafford alongside Gabriel Byrne and Michael Gambon in Quirke for the BBC; and as Captain Thomas Preston, in the History Channel's Sons Of Liberty, starring Ben Barnes, Henry Thomas, Rafe Spall and Dean Norris.
Shane's film credits include the award winning independent, Bomber; Devil's Playground; Walking With The Enemy alongside Ben Kingsley; and Hunter Killer with Gerard Butler, Linda Cardellini and Gary Oldman.- Music Artist
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Joscelyn Eve Stoker (born 11 April 1987), better known by her stage name Joss Stone, is an English singer, songwriter and actress. She rose to fame in late 2003 with her multi-platinum debut album, The Soul Sessions, which made the 2004 Mercury Prize shortlist. Her second album, the similarly multi-platinum Mind Body & Soul (2004), topped the UK Albums Chart for one week and spawned the top ten hit "You Had Me", Stone's most successful single on the UK Singles Chart to date.
Both the album and single received one nomination at the 2005 Grammy Awards, while Stone herself was nominated for Best New Artist, and in an annual BBC poll of music critics, Sound of 2004, was ranked fifth as a predicted breakthrough act of 2004. She became the youngest British female singer to top the UK Albums Chart. Stone's third album, Introducing Joss Stone, released in March 2007, achieved gold record status by the RIAA and yielded the second-ever highest debut for a British female solo artist on the Billboard 200, and became Stone's first top five album in the US. She released her fourth album, Colour Me Free!, on 20 October 2009, which reached the top 10 on Billboard. Stone released her fifth album, LP1, on 22 July 2011, which reached the top 10 on Billboard. Throughout her career, Stone has sold 14 million records worldwide, establishing herself as one of the best-selling soul artists of the 2000s, and the best-selling British artists of her time. Her first three albums have sold over 2,722,000 copies in the US, while her first two albums have sold over 2 million copies in the UK. Stone has earned numerous accolades, including two Brit Awards and one Grammy Award out of five nominations.
She made her film acting debut in 2006 with the fantasy adventure film Eragon, and made her television debut portraying Anne of Cleves in the Showtime series The Tudors in 2009. Stone was the youngest woman on the 2006 Sunday Times Rich List-an annual list of the UK's wealthiest people. In 2012, her net worth was estimated to be 10 million, making her the fifth richest British musician under 30. The Soul Sessions Vol. 2 (2012) is her fourth consecutive album to reach the top 10 on the Billboard 200.
Joscelyn Eve Stone was born on 11 April 1987 at Buckland Hospital in Dover, Kent and spent her teenage years in Ashill, a small pastoral village near Cullompton in Devon. She is the third of four children born to Wendy (Skillin) and Richard Stoker. Her father owns a fruit and nut import-export business; her mother worked as Stone's manager until October 2004. Stone made her first public appearance at the Uffculme Comprehensive School-which she attended-in Uffculme, Devon, with a cover version of Jackie Wilson's 1957 song "Reet Petite". Stone has dyslexia and left school at age sixteen with only three GCSE qualifications. "It wasn't that I was stupid. I'm just a little bit dyslexic and I wasn't very academic. I'm more artistic", she says. Stone grew up listening to a wide variety of music including 1960s and 1970s American R&B and soul music performed by such artists as Dusty Springfield and Aretha Franklin. As a result, she developed a soulful style of singing like her idols. "My first CD that I owned was Aretha Franklin: Greatest Hits. And I saw the advert on TV and it was just like little clips of her songs. I had no idea who she was-I was only like 10 so. I said, 'Oh yeah, that looks really good', so I wrote it down and I said to my mum, 'Can I have that for Christmas?' So she told my friend Dennis, who always gets me good music anyway, and he got that for me. So that was one of my first albums that I loved."
She would later tell MTV News: "I kind of clicked into soul music more than anything else because of the vocals. You've got to have good vocals to sing soul music and I always liked it ever since I was little." Stone possesses the vocal range of a mezzo-soprano and contralto. She's famous for performing barefoot and has been described as "the white Aretha Franklin" since her debut in music industry. However, Stone was the subject of some contention in the United States, where her audience expected soul artists to have been born in poverty and have had a rough and painful life in order to sing soul music due to its emotional nature. People also expected someone with a voice like hers to be black. In 2004, Stone began dating Beau Dozier, with whom she co-wrote the song "Spoiled". Dozier is the son of Motown producer Lamont Dozier, who is best known as part of Holland-Dozier-Holland. The couple ended their relationship in November 2005.
In a 2016 interview, Stone revealed that she was in a relationship with music promoter SiChai for three years. Stone is a lifelong vegetarian, and has taken part in various campaigns for animal rights group PETA, Stone also owns a number of rescue dogs.- Actress
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Stephi Lineburg was born on 16 November 1982 in Dover, New Jersey, USA. She is an actress, known for Blown Away (1994), Richie Rich (1994) and City by the Sea (2002).- Michael Balfour possessed a chubby, lived-in face which seemed to convey a perpetual state of bewilderment. The ubiquitous character actor tended to pop up in just about every second 50's or 60's British B-movie or television episode, which usually found him typecast as obtuse cabbies, wisecracking sidekicks or dumb thugs. When his screen career began to slow down in the late 70's, he went on tour with European circuses as a clown.
Balfour started his acting career on the repertory stage in 1936. Sometime in the mid-40's he decided to pass himself off as a former Detroit-born child actor in order to join the cast of a London production of "Born Yesterday". From then on, the American accent and leather bomber jacket became part of his screen personae. Indeed, he was so convincing, that some reference sources still cite him to this day as being American (he was actually born in Kent). In addition to being a performer, Balfour was also an accomplished painter and sculptor. - Actress
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Mamrie Hart was born on 22 September 1983 in Dover, New Jersey, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for Dirty 30 (2016), Camp Takota (2014) and Epic Rap Battles of History (2010).- Actress
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Adelind Horan was born on 16 April 1988 in Dover, New Jersey, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for The Peripheral (2022), The Deuce (2017) and The Punisher (2017).- Actor
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Murphy Guyer was born on 25 December 1952 in Dover, Delaware, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Arthur (2011), The Jackal (1997) and Batman: The Telltale Series (2016).- Charlotte Bellamy was born in 1973 in Dover, Kent, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Emmerdale Farm (1972), The Broker's Man (1997) and A Touch of Frost (1992). She has been married to Mungo Denison since 28 March 2015. They have three children.
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Stephen Wozniak is an actor known for performing dynamic, intense roles in such national network television series as CBS' NCIS: Los Angeles, NBC's American Dreams, Paramount's Star Trek: Enterprise and CBS' The District, among others. He played the lead role of 'Jesus' in the double Emmy Award-nominated television special, Time Machine: Beyond The DaVinci Code, as well as a key roles in the highly acclaimed theatrical feature The Love Witch ("Impossible to resist." - The New York Times) and Chaos ("Well-shot and convincingly acted." - TV Guide). He has performed lead roles in national commercial campaigns for such brands as CDW, directed by Craig Gillespie (Academy Award-winning I, Tonya) and Apple, directed by John Hillcoat (Triple 9, starring Kate Winslet). Stephen is also a professional media producer, visual artist and screenwriter based in Los Angeles.- Actor
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Born in Kent and raised in Croydon, Surrey, England. An only child. Attended Ashburton High School and Croydon College. Former lead singer of British synth-pop band Blue October UK and more recently singer/songwriter for Passion Flower Storm. He released 4 singles and 3 albums with Blue October UK up until 2010 when he left the band. The first Passion Flower Storm single, 'Adrenaline' was released June 2019. The official music video starring Ross was released shortly after. Although a childhood actor at school, this was not the path he initially followed even though he had a deep and continuing passion for the industry throughout his life. He did however, re-discover acting again later in his career which coincided with his newly galvanized creativity for making music. He has made several appearances in mainstream movies and television and continues to grow his acting achievements- Erik Chitty was born on 8 July 1907 in Dover, Kent, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Please Sir! (1971), Doctor Zhivago (1965) and A Bridge Too Far (1977). He was married to Hester Bevan (actress). He died on 22 July 1977 in London, England, UK.
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Began artistic career as a make up artist/hair stylist in Manhattan's fashion/commercial industry. Spent years behind the camera styling photo shoots for magazines, Television and commercials before switching to a writing career and signing with a literary agent. Kelly began directing, producing and writing screenplays for horror movies in 1999 and hopped onto the indie horror scene with his award-winning debut schlocker I'll Bury You Tomorrow (2002) which has led to a steady and popular directing, producing & acting career in the independent horror industry.- Producer
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Hayes Davenport was born on 23 March 1986 in Dover, Massachusetts, USA. He is a producer and writer, known for Huge in France (2019), Divorce (2016) and Great News (2017). He is married to Geneva Robertson-Dworet.- Producer
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John A. Norris was born in Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, USA. John A. is a producer and writer, known for All American (2018), Deception (2018) and One Tree Hill (2003).- Writer
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John Lloyd was born in 1951 in Dover, Kent, England, UK. He is a writer and producer, known for Not the Nine O'Clock News (1979), Blackadder Goes Forth (1989) and Spitting Image (1984). He has been married to Sarah Wallace since 1989. They have three children.- Actor
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Mark Davison was born on 10 July 1972 in Dover, England, UK. He is an actor and writer, known for Witless (2016), Divine (2020) and Drunk History: UK (2015).- June Ellis was born in 1926 in Dover, Kent, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Theatre Night (1985), Ooh La La! (1968) and Quatermass and the Pit (1967). She was married to Alan Bromly. She died on 26 June 2011 in London, England, UK.
- Matthew Finney was born in 1974 in Dover, Kent, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Still Crazy (1998) and Inspector Morse (1987).
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An American minor leading man of early Depression-era talkies who played earnest, boyish leads, Ohio-born Elliott Nugent would earn more distinction as a writer, producer and director of stage and film after all was said and done. The son of playwright/producer/actor J.C. Nugent, Elliott was born in 1896 and came from pure show business stock, joining his family's vaudeville act, which included both parents and sister Ruth, while still young.
After graduating from Ohio State University Nugent traveled to New York and made his Broadway bow in the George S. Kaufman/Marc Connelly play "Dulcy", in which he enjoyed a personal success. Throughout the 1920s he remained a viable presence on stage, co-authoring and co-starring in nearly ten plays often in tandem with his father.
Nugent eventually took his youthful good looks to Hollywood in 1929 and played young protagonists in both light-hearted and dramatic film features. His first starring role was in Wise Girls (1929), which was based on his own 1922 Broadway play "Kempy." The film also co-starred Elliott's wife Norma Lee (1899-1980) and featured his father. Other celluloid leads would include the musical So This Is College (1929) and the Marion Davies comedy Not So Dumb (1930). He went on to provide second leads alongside Lon Chaney and Lila Lee in the crime drama The Unholy Three (1930); The Sins of the Children (1930) starring Robert Montgomery; Leila Hyams (which was co-written by Elliott and J.C. Nugent), and the opulent Greta Garbo/Lewis Stone drama Romance (1930).
Weary of acting in front of the camera, Elliott formulated a second career as a movie director. His work would include those for such top comedians as Bob Hope, Harold Lloyd and Danny Kaye in their lightweight vehicles. Among the many Broadway projects he and father J.C. corroborated or appeared together in were "Kempy" (which also featured sister vaudevillian Ruth) (1922), "The Poor Nut" (1925), "Take My Advice" (1927, a remake of "Kempy" (1927), "Fast Service" (1931), "All in Favor" (1942) and "A Place of Our Own" (1945).
Nugent's behind-the-scenes career was severely hampered by severe chronic alcohol and psychological problems, prompting his retirement in 1957. He subsequently penned an autobiography entitled "Events Leading Up to the Comedy" in 1965. Long out of the limelight, he died in New York City at age 83 in August of 1980. Wife Norma, whom he married back in 1921, died later that December.- Location Management
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Wes Hagan was born on 25 November 1970 in Dover, Ohio, USA. He is a production manager and producer, known for Ozark (2017), Hidden Figures (2016) and The Accountant (2016).- Michael Vallon was born on 21 July 1897 in Dover, Minnesota, USA. He was an actor, known for Adventures of Superman (1952), Tarnished (1950) and The Dawn Express (1942). He died on 13 November 1973 in Los Angeles County, California, USA.