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Calista Kay Flockhart was born 11 November, 1964 in Freeport, Illinois. Her mother, Kay (Honohan), was a school teacher, and her father, Ronald Flockhart, worked for Kraft Foods Inc. She has Irish, Scottish, German, and English ancestry. Calista was named after her great-grandmother.

Flockhart attended Rutgers University in New Jersey to study acting. After college, she worked in regional theatre in Cleveland, Louisville, Chicago and Houston for $400 for eight weeks of work. In 1994, she got her first Broadway role playing "Laura" in Tennessee Williams' "The Glass Menagerie", for which she was recognized with the Theater World and Clarence Darwent Awards. She's also played in an all-star production of Anton Chekhov's "The Three Sisters" playing "Natasha". She wasn't too fond of TV before Ally McBeal (1997), but did take part in a 1992 episode of the HBO series Lifestories: Families in Crisis (1992). She did take part in many movies, but among them is the remake of The Birdcage (1996). Calista played the fiancée of Robin Williams's son. In 1997, she appeared in Telling Lies in America (1997) as the object of Brad Renfro's obsession.

Calista has established herself in New York, Chicago and elsewhere with an impressive stage and theater repertoire. She worked in the off-Broadway productions of "The Loop", "All for One", "Sophistry", "Wrong Turn at Lungfish", "Beside Herself" and "Bovver Boys". She also starred in non-NYC productions, such as "The Three Sisters" in Chicago, and "Our Town" and "Death Takes a Holiday" at the Williamstown Theater Festival.

Ravi Patel was born on 18 December 1978 in Freeport, Illinois, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Transformers (2007), Meet the Patels (2014) and Master of None (2015). He has been married to Mahaley Patel since 8 November 2015. They have one child.

Louella Parsons was born on 6 August 1881 in Freeport, Illinois, USA. She was an actress and writer, known for Hollywood Hotel (1937), Without Reservations (1946) and Starlift (1951). She was married to Dr. Henry Watson Martin, John McCaffrey Jr. and John Demont Parsons. She died on 9 December 1972 in Santa Monica, California, USA.

Geoff Rodkey was born on 6 November 1970 in Freeport, Illinois, USA. He is a writer, known for RV (2006), Daddy Day Care (2003) and Daddy Day Camp (2007).

Michael Krebs has portrayed Lincoln for various occasions throughout the United States since 1994. Most recently appearing in The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln (2016) and Field of Lost Shoes (2015). As producer of With Lincoln Productions, an artist ensemble, Krebs appeared in President Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address 150th Anniversary (2015) (TV)_ and President Lincoln's Inauguration Re-enactment (2011) in Washington DC. Krebs has performed for the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum, the Hoover Presidential Library, Gerald Ford Museum, Gettysburg, New Salem Historic Site, and educational programs to hundreds of schools throughout the U.S. Working at Chicago Historical Society from 1996-2005, Krebs appeared weekly in the Voices From History Program, portraying President Lincoln in the highly successful exhibits "The Last Best Hope of Earth: Abraham Lincoln and the Promise of America" and "The American Presidency: A Glorious Burden," also with their Distance Learning Center in opening Wet with Blood, an examination of Lincoln's assassination archives. He participated with Library of Congress on Mr. Lincoln's Virtual Library. As a guest speaker at Carl Sandburg College, he was part of President Clinton's address in January of 1995. Prior, he portrayed candidate Lincoln in the 1994 C-Span live broadcast re-enactment of the Lincoln-Douglas Galesburg Debate (1994) held at Knox College. Appearing as Lincoln in _"Conspiracy?" (2004) (TV) {The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln (#1.8)}_ qv. Also in Hatchett Books Group's Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (featured in demo reels) Like Mr. Lincoln, Michael stands 6'4" without his boots.

Logan Wolfe Edler was born on 25 March 1977 in Freeport, Illinois, USA. Logan Wolfe is an assistant director, known for Jumper (2008), I Am Legend (2007) and Men in Black³ (2012).

Tiffany Thayer was born on 1 March 1902 in Freeport, Illinois, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for Chicago Deadline (1949), Fatal Lady (1936) and King of Gamblers (1937). He was married to Tanagra. He died on 23 August 1959 in Nantucket, Massachusetts, USA.

American circus star Margaret Nearing was 4 when she sang for the troops in WWI. At 7, she and her sister Rose (9), without benefit of poles or umbrella's, were the youngest and only "song and dance" tight wire act in the world. The Davies Sisters grew up on the road, working circuses, rodeos, theaters and State Fair's across the country and in Hawai'i. While in San Francisco in 1930, and now known as the Nearing Sisters, they had their own show on radio KFWI, sang and danced tap and soft shoe at the Casino Theater, and appeared on opening night at the new Fox Theater. In 1933, the beautiful, blue eyed, curly haired, platinum blonde soprano started working the major movie studios where she was known as "The little lady with the big voice". In 1935, she sang in the first coast to coast radio broadcast (San Francisco to New York). In 1936, she moved to Hawai'i and married famed hula dancer, legislator and Real Estate Broker Kenneth Olds (a descendant of the royal houses of Tahiti and Hawai'i). They have four children, Nalani-Alua Napoleon, Kenneth Olds Jr., Francine McLaughlin and Mauliola Aspelund. Nearing spent the rest of her life in Lanikai on the Island of O'ahu where in 1961 she co-founded the "Mortgage Players" which she directed, choreographed, and costumed until 1983 when she died of throat and lung cancer at the age of 70.

A university student in 1934, William Vance appeared in the "Summer Festival of Drama" at the Todd School in Woodstock, Illinois, Orson Welles' alma mater. Welles had organized the festival and produced the three plays, "Trilby", "Hamlet", and "Tsar Paul", in all of which Vance performed a principal part. There Vance and Welles shot their short film, "Hearts of Age", reportedly in a single afternoon, using Vance's 16mm camera. Vance had earlier made his own primitive version of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" in 1932, in addition to other student efforts. He later went on to produce and direct commercials for television.

Robert A. Dunn was born on 21 November 1896 in Freeport, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for Walk East on Beacon! (1952), Lost Boundaries (1949) and The Whistle at Eaton Falls (1951). He died on 11 February 1960 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, USA.

Bruce Mitchell was born on 16 November 1880 in Freeport, Illinois, USA. He was an actor and director, known for Three Miles Up (1927), Dynamite Dan (1924) and Speed Madness (1925). He was married to Edith. He died on 26 September 1952 in Hollywood, California, USA.

Sue Lawless was born in Freeport, Illinois, USA. She is known for Cowboy and the Tiger (1963) and The Merv Griffin Show (1962).

Ted Snyder was born on 15 August 1881 in Freeport, Illinois, USA. He is known for Allied (2016), National Lampoon's Animal House (1978) and Magic in the Moonlight (2014). He died on 16 July 1965 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.

Shaun graduated from Parker High School in Janesville, Wisconsin in 2005. His family still lives in Janesville, WI. His father's name is Tom, and his mother's name is Donna and he has one older sister, Andria of Nashville, TN. Shaun moved out to Los Angeles, California in the summer of 2008, and has been a union member of the Screen Actors Guild since 2010.

Alfred Cohn moved to Cleveland, where he got a newspaper job. After getting married, he moved to Galveston, Texas, to run a newspaper. He then moved to Arizona, where he served as secretary to the constitutional convention of Arizona when it was admitted as a state in 1912.

Eventually, he moved to Hollywood and began writing scripts, completing a total of over 100 during his lifetime. He then went on to become head collector for the Port of Los Angeles, and became Commissioner of Police. He also wrote several books, some garnering best-selling labels.

His wife Grace (whom he married in Cleveland) and he had three children: Dorothy, Jackson, and Adrienne. Grace died in the 1940s from dropsy, and he from a heart condition in the early 1950s.

Lenna Paytas was born on 14 August 1958 in Freeport, Illinois, USA.

Terrence Lore Smith was born on 27 October 1942 in Freeport, Illinois, USA. Terrence Lore was a writer, known for The Thief Who Came to Dinner (1973). Terrence Lore died on 7 December 1988 in Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA.

Charles J. Guiteau was born on 8 September 1841 in Freeport, Illinois, USA. He died on 30 June 1882 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA.

Benjamin Danielowski was born on 13 September 1982 in Freeport, Illinois, USA. He is an actor, known for God in Ruins (2012), Reflection (2011) and A Chance to Dance (2012).

Erica Geiger was born on 19 August 1994 in Freeport, Illinois, USA. She was an actress, known for Bad Kids of Crestview Academy (2017), Soul Sessions (2018) and Are You Dead Yet? (2024). She was married to Xavier Geiger. She died on 2 June 2024 in Bellevue, Iowa, USA.

Scott Evers was born on 1 March 1944 in Freeport, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (1994) and True Romance (1993). He died on 20 January 2021 in Freeport, Illinois, USA.

Preston Pearson was born on 17 January 1945 in Freeport, Illinois, USA.

Terry Schoonhoven was born in 1945 in Freeport, Illinois, USA. He is known for Quicksilver (1986) and Mur murs (1981). He was married to Sheila. He died on 21 December 2001 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

Genevieve Townsend was born on 4 December 1897 in Freeport, Illinois, USA. She was an actress, known for A Girl of London (1925), The Qualified Adventurer (1926) and The Wonderful Wooing (1926). She died on 1 May 1927 in Switzerland.

An aspiring filmmaker since the age of 8, but the cards dealt by life kept him away until the age of 40.

As a member of the Top One Percent Society (TOPS), Charles sees the universe in a unique way. The stories he writes and directs are describing that universe with lots of back-story, symbolism, metaphors, witted historical connections and intertwined threads. Watch for the play on words, puns, running gags and obscure references that are all linked and associated with the story behind each movie. Charles' movies aren't just entertainment, they are seeds of thought.