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Jon Watts is an American filmmaker and screenwriter. He directed Cop Car and Clown before he was picked by Marvel and Sony to direct Spider-Man: Homecoming starring Tom Holland and Zendaya. It's success resulted in two sequels, Far from Home in 2019 and No Way Home in 2021. He was also picked by Marvel to direct a Fantastic Four reboot film following the failure of Josh Trank's Fant4stic, but dropped the directing role in April 2022.- Actress
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Most recently, Keri can be seen starring in "The Diplomat" for Netflix in which Keri plays the titular role of an American Diplomat in London. She also stars in an episode of the limited anthology series "Extrapolations" created by Scott Burns. She also recently starred in "Cocaine Bear" for Universal Pictures from director Elizabeth Banks. Last year, she starred in the supernatural horror thriller "Antlers" for director Scott Cooper and producer Guillermo del Toro, and in "Star Wars: Episode IX" which reunited her with friend and director J.J. Abrams.
For six seasons Keri starred in the critically acclaimed FX series "The Americans" for which she received a Television Critics Association Award for Individual Achievement in Drama, three Emmy Award nominations, two Golden Globe Award nominations, six Critics' Choice Award nominations - one win - and a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination.
Russell's film credits include "We Were Soldiers," "Mad About Mambo," "The Upside of Anger," "Mission Impossible III," "August Rush," "The Girl In The Park," "Bedtime Stories," Extraordinary Measures," "Goats," "Austenland," "Dark Skies," "Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes," "Free State Of Jones," and the romantic comedy "Waitress" for which she received rave reviews.
Keri first garnered attention when she starred in the title role of the hit television series "Felicity" from J.J. Abrams and Matt Reeves. Just four months after the show's acclaimed premiere on the WB, she was honored with a Golden Globe® Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Drama Series.
Keri's other television credits include the miniseries "Into the West," executive produced by Steven Spielberg, the Hallmark Hall of Fame Presentation "The Magic of Ordinary Days," and "Running Wilde" with Will Arnett.
Keri starred alongside Adam Driver in the Broadway revival of Lanford Wilson's "Burn This." The limited engagement play, directed by Tony Award winner Michael Mayer, opened in March 2019 and ran through July 2019.
Russell returned to New York theatre after making her off- Broadway stage debut in production of Neil LaBute's "Fat Pig," in 2005.- Actress
At 5'10", volleyball came naturally to Summer. She lettered for four seasons in the sport at Fountain Valley high school, and signed a letter of intent with San Diego State in the spring of 1997 to play outside hitter for the Aztecs. Ms. Altice competed for two years at SDSU while studying communications. She was named to the All-WAC Academic team in '99 for her sophomore season, during which she maintained in 3.85 GPA. Ms. Altice transferred to UCLA in Spring 2000 to continue her communications studies and further pursue her modeling career. (In '95 she won YM's cover girl contest, and later signed with Elite modeling agency.) Ms. Altice was the Playmate of the Month for August 2000, and is a strong possibility for Playmate of the Year '01.- Chelsea Talmadge was born in Fountain Valley, California, USA. She is an actress, known for Doctor Sleep (2019), Stranger Things (2016) and Still the King (2016).
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Joseph Walter Jackson was born in Fountain Hill, Arkansas, to Crystal Lee (King) and Samuel Jackson, a schoolteacher. Raised during the Depression in Oakland, California, Jackson learned the importance of work at an early age. In the 1950s, he formed and played guitar with his band with his brother. During the early 1960s, he worked two jobs to support his six boys and three girls. He also rehearsed his eldest five boys for years, then entered them in local talent contests. During the mid '60s, he booked the Jackson 5 at gigs all over the Eastern U.S., and they performed with other acts like Gladys Knight & The Pips who were already recording for Motown. Jackson gave up his career as a musician to manage his sons.
After his boys won all the talent contests, including Harlem's Apollo Theater, he signed the Jackson 5 to their first record deal, with Steeltown Records. In 1969, he drove the Jackson 5 to their secret audition at Motown, in Detroit.
Jackson later relocated his family to California and supervised every Jackson 5 recording session. After the Jackson 5's first single, "I Want You Back" hit #1, his group's first four singles sold 10 million copies in 10 months, setting a world record for sales, it becomes clear that his dream to make his sons the first black teenagers to become internationally known recording stars had come true.
He then financed the recording of daughter Janet Jackson's first demo and signed her to A&M Records, which later released her first hit albums "Control" and "Rhythm Nation", which were produced in conjunction with his production company. He also helped daughter La Toya Jackson record her first album at Private I Records and assisted Rebbie Jackson to Michael's label MJJ.
Jackson was awarded a proclamation in the Rock and Roll Hall of fame as the Best Entertainment Manager of All Time by Jane L. Campbell, mayor of Cleveland, Ohio in October 2002. Recently, he's made several trips to Africa, and testified on Michael Jackson's behalf in a trial where a jury agreed with him that Michael co-wrote "We Are the World". He just finished a film as co-producer with Paul D'Angelo (II) [IMDb has problems with within-name apostrophes] and one of his artists, Crystal Marven, called Destination Fame (2012). Jackson also co-created a television sitcom, "Blended", a family comedy, about the life of a young interracial couple and their two opposite families blending.- Actress
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Summer Sveinson was born on 22 May 1985 in Fountain Valley, California, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for Scary Tales (2011), Style Tribe and Stuck (2019).- Producer
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Aaron Schoenke is a fan favorite when it comes to the nerd community and film world. His directing style has created a huge fan following for him and his work. Being a director, actor and stunt man makes him incredible versatile in front and behind the camera.
He owns and operates his own production studio, Bat in the Sun Productions, along side his Father, where together they have produced multiple hit web series, national commercials, and a feature film.
Aaron Schoenke's YouTube channel, Bat in the Sun, has over 2.4 million subscribers and 425 million views. His fan base is built up of passionate, loyal fans who follow him across all his social media platforms.
His series, Super Power Beat Down, is one of the most popular YouTube series of all time and has won for best Web Series at the Geekie's in 2015 and 2019, along with being nominated for multiple awards at the Streamy Awards, including best best stunts, best visual effects, and best series.
Other notable mentions is performing as lead motion capture artist in the 'Amazing' Spider-man games as well as writing a hit comic for Valiant Comics.- Kenny Tran was born on January 21, 1995, in Fountain Valley, CA. Shortly thereafter his family relocated to Kansas City, MO where he would reside until attending college at Illinois Wesleyan University where he studied musical theatre. He is most known for his stage work, culminating in playing the lead role in the US Premiere of the musical Maybe Happy Ending at the Tony-award-winning Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, GA. He can be seen in the short film Isaac (2020) as well as the Netflix Animated series Dead End: Paranormal Park as Logs.
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Matthew Llewellyn was born in Fountain Valley, California, USA. Matthew is a composer, known for The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023), Furious 7 (2015) and Scream (2022).- American poet and writer, several of whose short stories were filmed. The son of a U.S. Army officer who inculcated in Benet and his brother, famed poet William Rose Benet, an appreciation for excellence in literature, Benet was raised around military posts. He attended Yale University, then traveled to Paris, where he met his wife, Rosemary Carr, and began to write professionally. While in Paris again on a Guggenheim Fellowship, he published the story, The Sobbin Women, which later became the basis for the musical Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954). He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1929 for his narrative poem on the American Civil War, "John Brown's Body." He also wrote numerous radio dramas and a few screenplays before his early death at 44.
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Karim Zaid Alkhouli was born on February 12, 1997, in Fountain Valley, California. He is the youngest of three siblings. His father, Hassan Alkhouli, was an immigrant from Damascus, Syria, who came to the United States to practice medicine. His mother, Maria Khani, also a Syrian immigrant, is an educator, a Public Speaker and a Senior Chaplin. Alkhouli is a director, writer, and producer.- Actress
Audra Marie was born on 10 July 1982 in Fountain Valley, California, USA. She is an actress, known for Method (2009), Workshop (2009) and Father of Invention (2010).- Justin began his career as a model for California surf brand Ocean Pacific and appeared in shows with the Tony Award-winning South Coast Repertory and the Royal National Theatre. He attended Newport Harbor High School in Newport Beach, CA and the Orange County High School of the Arts, where he was a student in the coveted musical theatre conservatory program. At 14, Justin auditioned and was cast as part of the ensemble in the Royal National Theatre's production of "An Enemy of the People" with Sir Ian McKellan. His audition piece was a poem by William Yeats, which he read with a British accent for director Trevor Nunn. The only U.S. engagement ran for six weeks in the summer of 1998 at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles. He made a return to the acting world in 2007 as the Finnish video gamer in a U.S. national TV ad campaign for Mountain Dew Game Fuel, directed by Craig Gillespie. Later that year, Justin decided to study political science at Saddleback College.
In 2024, Justin will be making his television debut as Cody Myers in Oxygen's true-crime series Sin City Murders (2024) and as Detective Tim Brown in Investigation Discovery's popular ongoing true crime series Murder in the Heartland (2017). He can also be seen in Dana Kippel's short Damaged (a Watch The Footage production), which is being submitted to both the Sundance and SXSW film festivals. Justin has made appearances in several music videos - most notably with Nickelodeon alum Drake Bell in "Going Away" (Dir. Chris Applebaum), HUNNY's "Homesick" (Epitaph Records), and in Mallory Merk's "Thorns" (Warner Records).
Justin has walked the runway for L.A. Fashion Week, and in 2023 he booked a print campaign for luxury brand Global Intuition in a collab with Heroes Motors. The brand has been featured in Vogue World (Teyana Taylor and Iman Shumpert Denim Campaign) and the Vogue Fall Fashion issue featuring Taylor Swift. Justin became SAG eligible in 2007 and has been a member of the Actor's Equity Association since 1998. He is represented by Arc Artist Management and Stark Talent Agency in Los Angeles. Justin lives in Sonoma County, just outside of Santa Rosa, California. - Editorial Department
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Tara Nicole Lee was born in Fountain Valley, California, USA. Tara Nicole is a producer and production manager, known for Apples Never Fall (2024), Minx (2022) and Fall City (2018).- Lovely and shapely brunette looker Kimberly Phillips was born on January 9, 1987 in Fountain Valley, California. She grew up in Corona, California. Phillips graduated from high school with straight A's. Kimberly worked her way through college as a waitress and preschool teacher. Phillips has an associates degree in liberal arts. Phillips was chosen to be the Playmate of the Month in the September, 2009 issue of the famous men's magazine despite the fact that she had no previous professional modeling experience. Kimberly has appeared as herself on a few episodes of the reality TV series "The Girls Next Door."
- Rhonda Smith was born on 17 January 1966 in Fountain Hill, Pennsylvania, USA. She died on 23 January 2008 in Fountain Hill, Pennsylvania, USA.
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Hope Lopez is a multidisciplinary filmmaker and Chicana activist born and raised in Southern California. She is a showrunner, director, writer, producer, actor, editor, and musician with the intention of bringing accurate representation to marginalized communities through complex and intersectional characters.
After three years, Hope matriculated from California State University Long Beach with a B.A. in Screenwriting and a minor in Production Management. In addition, she completed her M.F.A. in Screenwriting at California State University Fullerton.
With three development internships under her belt, Hope branches out into the podcast arena with Let's Get Creative (2022-present) which focuses on bringing underrepresented voices to the forefront. Furthermore, she created the organization Latinas in Film which provides a safe space for Latina filmmakers to create, connect, and flourish.
Regarding her work, Hope created a self-portrait called Are You a Revolutionary? (2021) and wrote a short film called A Rose's Thorn (2022). In addition, she co-wrote/produced/acted in a short film, SuperNed (2023). For her latest project, Hope serves as a Showrunner/Executive Producer of the highly anticipated comedy show Funny's Not Dead! (2022-present).- Clayton "Peg Leg" Bates was born and raised in Fountain Inn, South Carolina, in the early 1900s. His parents were sharecroppers. When he was a young child, he would dance for nickels in front of local street audiences. In 1919, Clayton took a job in a farm factory to help his family survive, yet it only lasted a few days when fate struck. He lost his left leg to a cotton gin accident at age 12. Clayton subsequently taught himself to tap dance with a makeshift wooden peg leg from which he took his nickname.
From the 1920s to the 1940s, Peg Leg entertained audiences with his unique brand of tap dancing, traveling all around the US on the Vaudeville circuit. By this time, he had established himself as a world-famous tap dancer, even performing for Queen Elizabeth II. He was landing roles in movies and on TV, especially The Ed Sullivan Show (1948), which was hosted by Ed Sullivan. He was one of the most popular and regular guests of that legendary show, making over 20 fabulous appearances.
In 1951, it was time to settle down and have the world come to him, so Peg Leg and his wife Alice purchased property in the world-renowned Catskill Mountains of New York, where the so-called Borscht Belt of Jewish resorts was located. They established the Peg Leg Bates Country Club, and this made him the first Black resort owner in the US, during a time when racial segregation was still in force. Countless famous musicians, dancers, and performers came to the resort to entertain throughout the 40 years of its operation, which included Ella Fitzgerald, Sammy Davis Jr., Sidney Poitier, Mel Tormé Nat 'King' Cole, Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, and Louis Armstrong. In its heyday, it was the summer hot spot, and the performance hall was always a packed house.
In 1987, Peg Leg suffered the loss of his beloved Alice. Shortly thereafter, he gave up the business and was in the care of Melody, his only daughter and her husband.
Peg Leg met filmmaker Tasciotti in 1997, and, along with Gregory Hines, they had been planning out his biography during what was to be the last days of his life, as well as Hines, who died in 2003. Peg Leg traveled to perform at a fund-raiser in 1998 in his hometown of Fountain Inn, South Carolina, and then collapsed on his way to church the next day, December 8, at age 91.
A section of US Route 209 in New York is named in honor of Peg Leg Bates--from Spring Glen to Kingston, the first state capitol. Tasciotti went on to renovate Peg Leg's original house on the former resort property and establish the site on the National Historic Registry.
Peg Leg is remembered by those who knew him as a great humanitarian and a kind, compassionate man. There are two definitive documentaries of his life, Hudson West Productions' The Dancing Man (1992) (featuring host Gregory Hines) and Silver Spring Studios' "The Legacy of Peg Leg Bates." There is one children's book about him, "Knockin' on Wood" by Lynne Barasch, which was published in 2006.
An annual award is given in his name to outstanding achievement in dance. The first was awarded to James 'Buster' Brown. Today, Peg Leg remains an entertainment giant in tap dancing and inspires many with his memorable style. - Casting Department
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Shane Saunders was born on 12 May 1992 in Fountain Valley, California, USA. He is a producer, known for The Drop (2014), FBI (2018) and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999).- Lester Ferguson was born in Fountain Springs, Pennsylvania as Lester James Ferguson. He moved with his family to Philadelphia where he grew up, but after World War II he stayed in England and became a celebrity as an opera singer.
Ferguson arrived in Britain from the United States with the U.S. Army in 1943. As a Army captain, he was named to the Order of the British Empire (OBE) by Britain's King George VI in 1945 for his military service during World War II.
Ferguson also found work as an actor, known for The Fatal Night (1948), BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950), and Val Parnell's Startime (1956).
He developed cancer in 1965, and had not performed since 1984 when died in England at St. George's Hospital, London on 27 December 1995 at age 78. - Actor
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Evan Wohrman was born on 29 June 1990 in Fountain Valley, California, USA. He is an actor, known for What Goes Up (2014), Mega64 (2004) and Suburban Legends (2008).- Cierra Voelkl grew up living in Tustin, California with her parents Richele and Jim but also has two older half-brothers, Jason and Ryan. Ever since she was a baby, performing has been in her blood. From the Miss Tustin Toddler pageant to dance classes, she couldn't stay off the stage. In 2003, Cierra joined the new local studio, South Coast Performing Arts and soon enough, she was on their competing team living her dream. After leaving her studio after the 8th grade, she wanted to focus on school and pursue acting. In May of 2009, Cierra was an extra in the feature film People Like Us and starting in December starting working on the Nickolodeon show Victorious and soon, iCarly. Around her 16th birthday, Cierra wanted to dance again and joined the local dance crew Smurf Kids as a hip hop dancer and is going far.
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Damien Blaise was born on 16 January 1985 in Fountain Valley, California, USA. He is a composer and actor, known for Ladies of Rap (2012), Workaholics (2011) and Ironside (2013).- Tim had moved to Massachusetts at the age of 5, after graduating from high school in 1993 he moved with his family again this time to Maryland. Off to college in West Virginia for a short time, Tim decided that college wasn't for him and came back home to Maryland. Thats when his career took off.
Tim became a certified personal trainer/strength coach in 1994 working in some of Marylands top clubs. It was here that Tim had started making a name for himself. Tim had the opportunity to train many people in the law enforcement, government, professional and collegiate athletes.
Growing up, Tim was a very accomplished athlete through high school and after college. A natural comedian, he always had the knack to keep his peers on their toes. He has 1 older brother and his parents are still together. - Director
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Chris Bollinger was born on 20 March 1991 in Fountain Valley, California, USA. He is a director and producer, known for Sugar, Silence and Everyday Violence, Merge (2015) and Kilroy (2021).