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Judy Dench Biography

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A distinguished and much-heralded actress — widely recognized as one of Great Britain’s greatest living performers — Dame Judi Dench spent much of her career concentrating on stage and television in her native England rather pursuing big screen roles. It was when she hit her fifties that she began to find rich and rewarding movie roles that allowed international audiences the chance to marvel at her gifts. Petite, blonde and husky-voiced, she has proven equally adept at everything from Shakespeare and the classics to musical comedy to contemporary drama. Devotees of British sitcoms will recognize her from her starring turns in “A Fine Romance” (1981-84), opposite her late husband Michael Williams, and “As Time Goes By” (1992-98, 2000- ) with Geoffrey Palmer.

Julie Delpy Biography

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Delpy was born in Paris, the daughter of Albert Delpy and Marie Pillet, both of whom were actors in both feature films and in the avant-garde underground theater; her father grew up in Vietnam, Cambodia and West Africa, where her paternal grandfather worked in administrative positions in the French colonial government. Encouraged to perform by her bohemian-minded parents, Delpy made her stage debut at the age of 5, and at 14 obtained a role in the film Detective, directed by Jean-Luc Godard.

Two years later, Delpy was cast in the title role in the film La Passion BÃ©atrice, and used the money she earned to pay for her first trip to New York City. Delpy continued making regular trips to New York over the next few years, before finally moving there in 1990.

Dana Delany Biography

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This attractive and engaging talent became a TV star as the Vietnam nurse Colleen McMurphy in the acclaimed ABC series “China Beach” (1988-91). Dana Delany is the granddaughter of the inventor of the Delany toilet-flush valve and was raised in upper-middle-class Stamford, Connecticut. After attending prep school, she graduated from Wesleyan University with a degree in drama and headed to NYC where she soon found work in TV commercials and on daytime serials (“Love of Life”, “As the World Turns”), Her first real break, though, came when she was cast as the young version of Roy Dotrice’s wife in the Broadway production of Hugh Leonard’s play “A Life” (1980). Delany segued to the big screen in a bit role in “The Fan” (1981) and went on to play a nun in “Where the River Runs Black” (1986), John Glover’s lover in “Masquerade” (1988) and a member of the SLA who kidnapped “Patty Hearst” (1988), directed by Paul Schrader. At the same time, she found herself cast in the role of the consummate girlfriend in guest spots on “Magnum, P.I.” and “Moonlighting”. Delany headlined the little-seen NBC sitcom “Sweet Surrender” (1987) before finding fame and earning two Emmy Awards for “China Beach”.

Kim Delaney Biography

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A willowy brunette who segued from soap star to primetime performer, Kim Delaney began her career as a model while still attending high school in her native Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. After graduating, she headed to NYC to try her hand at a career and was signed by the prestigious Elite Modeling Agency. Soon, her face was decorating the covers of such popular magazines as Seventeen and Glamour. At the same time, Delaney was training for a crossover career in acting, studying with well-known NYC teacher William Esper. Her determination paid off when she landed the role of the virginal teen heroine Jenny Gardner on the long-running ABC daytime serial “All My Children” in 1981. Over the course of her three years on the show, her character, who was from the wrong side of the tracks, underwent numerous trials as she attempted to hook up with her true love, the all-American Greg Nelson (portrayed by Laurence Lau).

Not one to stay put for very long, Delaney was chafing under the confines of her contract and the rigors of working in daytime. Although she had appeared in the CBS movie “First Affair” in 1983 and earned a Daytime Emmy nod, the actress opted to walk away from “All My Children” while her character was at the height of her popularity. When Jenny was killed by a deranged stalker, fans mourned, but Delaney had already set her sights on feature films.

Deborah Kara Unger Biography

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Deborah Kara Unger most recently starred opposite Sir Ian McKellan in Carl Bessai’s upcoming feature film Emile, and screen legend Sophia Loren in Edoardo Ponti’s Between Strangers, with Mira Sorvino and Gerard Depardieu, for which she received a 2003 Genie Award nomination.

Since graduating from the prestigious National Institute of Dramatic Art, she has co-starred in such films as Norman Jewison’s Hurricane, with Denzel Washington; Payback, with Mel Gibson; David Fincher’s The Game, with Michael Douglas and Sean Penn; David Cronenberg’s Crash, with Holly Hunter and James Spader, which received 1997′s Special Jury Prize at Cannes; and Istvan Szabo’s award-winning epic Sunshine, with Ralph Fiennes and William Hurt, which garnered her a 2000 Genie Award for Best Supporting Actress. Other feature film credits include The Salton Sea, with Val Kilmer; Signs and Wonders, with Stellan Skarsgard and Charlotte Rampling; No Way Home, with Tim Roth; Bette Gordon’s critically acclaimed Luminous Motion; and The Weekend, with Gena Rowlands, which received the 1999 Best Ensemble Acting Award at the Seattle Film Festival. Other films include Leo, with Dennis Hopper and Sam Shepard; Fear X, with John Turturro; Stander, with Thomas Jane; 13, with Holly Hunter; and 1.0, directed by Marteinn Thorsson and Jeff Renfroe. Ms. Unger made her feature film debut in the award-winning WWII drama Prisoners of the Son, with Russell Crowe.

Ellen DeGeneres Biography

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The wonderfully deadpan Ellen DeGeneres began her stand-up career in her native New Orleans, with her first act consisting of consuming a Whopper, fries and a shake. She soon developed her distinctive comedy style: quirky, observational humor grounded in understatement and punctuated with pregnant pauses. One year into her career, a videotape of her comedy club performances sent in to a nationwide search by the cable network Showtime earned her the title of “Funniest Person in America”, enabling her to tour the country, further refine her act, and create one of her signature pieces “a phone call to God”, a monologue about mortality which landed her a spot on Johnny Carson’s “The Tonight Show” (NBC) in 1986. The erstwhile ‘king of late-night’ was so taken with the young comic that he invited her over to the couch. Legend has it that this was the first such occurrence for a female comic on her virgin appearance.

Rebecca DeMornay Biography

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Rebecca was born in northern California, and was raised by her mother Julie and step-father Richard De Mornay until his death when she was 5 years old. Rebecca’s mother then moved her and her half-brother Peter to Europe, where she was raised primarily in England and Austria. Rebecca graduated “summa cum laude” from a German-speaking high school in the Austrian alps, and still speaks fluent German and French.

She began her acting training in Los Angeles at Lee Strasberg’s Institute, became an apprentice at Francis Coppola’s Zoetrope Film Studio, and soon thereafter made her film debut opposite Tom Cruise in the box office hit Risky Business (1983), in which she gave a seductive and critically-acclaimed performance as a street-wise call-girl. She went on to international stardom with her portrayal of a chillingly twisted nanny in the hugely popular Hand That Rocks the Cradle, The (1992). Other acclaimed film work includes Runaway Train (1985) (with Jon Voight), Trip to Bountiful, The (1985) (with Geraldine Page), Backdraft (1991) (with Kurt Russell).