Happy Birthday: Aida Turturro

September 25, 2016 festreviews Happy Birthday actor, Aida Turturro, Happy Birthday

Aida Turturro

Born: September 25, 1962 in New York City, New York, USA

She was a long-time friend of her The Sopranos (1999) co-star James Gandolfini. In addition to their work on this hit show, they appeared in three feature films together: Angie (1994), Fallen (1998) and Romance & Cigarettes (2005), and have co-starred in a 1992 Broadway revival of “A Streetcar Named Desire”, which also starred Jessica Lange and Alec Baldwin.

Sopranos
Season 2
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Sopranos
Season 5
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Sopranos
Season 6
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Bringing out the Dead
1999
dir. Martin Scorsese
Starring
Cage
Patricia Arquette

CELEBRITY
1998
dir. Woody Allen
Stars:
Leonardo DiCaprio
Kenneth Branagh

FADING GIGOLO
2014
dir. John Turturro
Stars:
Sofia Vergara
Sharon Stone

Sopranos
Season 3
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Season 4
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Happy Birthday: Tate Donovan

September 25, 2016 festreviews Happy Birthday, Uncategorized actor, Happy Birthday, Tate Donovan

Tate Donovan

Born: September 25, 1963 in Tenafly, New Jersey, USA

When I told everybody I was doing Hercules (1997), they felt really sorry for me. They thought I was so down on my luck that I was having to do extra work on the TV series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (1995).

ARGO
dir. Ben Affleck
Stars:
Ben Affleck
Bryan Cranston

Best of DECEPTION TV show

24: LIVE ANOTHER DAY
Stars:
Kiefer Sutherland
Yvonne Strahovski

NANCY DREW
dir. Andrew Fleming
Ryan Fleck
Cast
Emma Roberts

DAMAGES Season 2
Starring:
Timothy Olyphant
Marcia Gay Harden

HOSTAGES TV SHOW PILOT
2013
Creators: Alon Aranya, Omri Givon,Rotem Shamir

Shooter
2007
dir. Antoine Fuqua
Starring
Mark Wahlberg
Danny Glover

DAMAGES Season 3
Starring:
Martin Short
Tate Donovan

DAMAGES Best of the Show
Created by
Glenn Kessler
Todd A. Kessler
Daniel Zelman

Good Night and Good Luck
2005
dir. Clooney
starring
David Strathairn
Jeff Daniels

DAMAGES Season 1
Starring:
Glenn Close
Rose Byrne

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Happy Birthday: Pedro Almodóvar

September 25, 2016 festreviews Uncategorized actor, director, ha, Happy Birthday, Pedro Almodovar

Pedro Almodóvar

Born: September 25, 1949 in Calzada de Calatrava, Ciudad Real, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain

[2016 interview] Reality always filters through into my films, even when I try to reject it. It finds a crack to seep in through. The climate of the last four years in Spain has been of enormous unhappiness and even though I haven’t personally suffered from the harshness of the economic situation, I’m surrounded by people who have. I don’t think Julieta (2016) is a metaphor for Spain today but it’s no accident that my 80s films were much happier.

VOLVER
2006
dir. Pedro Almodovar
Stars:
Penelope Cruz
PEDRO ALMODOVAR

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Happy Birthday: Michael Madsen

September 25, 2016 festreviews Happy Birthday actor, Happy Birthday, Michael Madsen

Michael Madsen

Born: September 25, 1958 in Chicago, Illinois, USA

Married to:
DeAnna Madsen (15 April 1996 – present) (3 children)

[2004] Maybe I was just born in the wrong era, man. I’m a bit of a throwback to the days of black-and-white movies. Those guys back then, they had a certain kind of directness about them. A lot of the screenplays, the plots were very simplistic – they gave rise to a type of anti-hero that maybe I suit better.

L.A. Confidential (1997) was written with me in mind, but Russell Crowe got the part. Go figure.

LOOSIES
2012
dir. Michael Corrente
Stars:
Peter Facinelli
Jaimie Alexander

Reservoir Dogs
1992
dir. Quentin Tarantino
Starring
Harvey Keitel
Tim Roth
Steve Buscemi

Kill Bill: Volume 1
2003
dir. Tarantino
starring
Uma Thurmon
Lucy Lui
Vivica A Fox

Kill Bill: Volume 2
2004
dir. Tarantino
starring
Uma Thurman
David Carradine

CHASING GHOSTS
2005
dir. Kyle Dean Jackson
starring
Michael Madsen
Meat Loaf
Gary Busey

THE NATURAL
1984
dir. Barry Levinson
Stars:
Robert Redford
Robert Duvall

24 SEASON 8
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SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR
2013
dir. Frank Miller
Robert Rodriguez
Stars:
Clive Owen

SCARY MOVIE 4
2006
dir. David Zucker
Stars:
Anna Faris
Regina Hall

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Happy Birthday: Christopher Reeve (1952–2004)

September 25, 2016 festreviews Happy Birthday actor, Christopher Reeve (1952–2004), Happy Birthday

Christopher Reeve (1952–2004)

Born: September 25, 1952 in New York City, New York, USA
Died: October 10, 2004 (age 52) in Mount Kisco, New York, USA

Married to: Dana Reeve (11 April 1992 – 10 October 2004) (his death) (1 child)

[on the reshoots of Superman II (1980) after changing directors] It was usually done whenever a set doubled or we had a problem with expensive actors being available. I remember we did many scenes from the Daily Planet, if not all of them, while we were doing Part One. So those were pretty much in the bank. Gene Hackman, to the extent that he was in Part Two, was also done while he was around for Part One. I don’t remember that he came back again.

EVERYONE’S HERO
2006
dir. Christopher Reeve
Stars:
Jake T. Austin
Brian Denneh

Superman 2
1980
dir. Richard Lester
Donner
starring
Christopher Reeve
Margot Kidder<

Superman
1978
dir. Donner
starring
Christopher Reeve
Margot Kidder

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Happy Birthday: Clea DuVall

September 25, 2016 festreviews Happy Birthday, Uncategorized actor, Clea DuVall, Happy Birthday

Clea DuVall

Born: September 25, 1977 in Los Angeles, California, USA

[About Little Witches (1996)] “How did you know about ‘Little Witches’?? You’ve seen it? So you’ve seen my ass! Oh my God, I can’t believe this. I did that movie when I was 18. ‘Little Witches’ doesn’t count. It was my first movie and I had no clue what I was doing, I mean, my God, I worked in a coffee house while that film was being shot”.

ARGO
dir. Ben Affleck
Stars:
Ben Affleck
Bryan Cranston

She’s All That
1999
dir. by Robert Iscove
starring
Freddie Prinze Jr.
Cook

The Killing Room
dir. Jonathan Liebesman
Starring
Nick Cannon
Clea DuVall

PASSENGERS
2008
dir. Rodrigo Garc�a
Cast:
Anne Hathaway
Patrick Wilson

CONVICTION
dir. Tony Goldwyn
Stars:
Hilary Swank
Sam Rockwell

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Happy Birthday: Mikael Persbrandt

September 25, 2016 festreviews Happy Birthday actor, Happy Birthday, Mikael Persbrandt

Mikael Persbrandt

Born: September 25, 1963 in Jakobsberg, Stockholms län, Sweden

In 1997, Persbrandt starred for the first time as the tough detective, Gunvald Larsson, the role that ultimately became his major break-through. “Beck” was not only a major hit in Sweden but in Germany as well – and now consists of 24 theatrical and television movies based on the characters created by authors Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöo.

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Happy Birthday: Heather Locklear

September 25, 2016 festreviews Happy Birthday, Uncategorized actor, Happy Birthday, Heather Locklear

Heather Locklear

Born: September 25, 1961 in Westwood, California, USA

Married to: Richie Sambora (17 December 1994 – 11 April 2007) (divorced) (1 child)
Tommy Lee (10 May 1986 – 16 August 1993) (divorced)

[on why she wasn’t invited for a T.J. Hooker (1982) reunion]: They haven’t asked me. I don’t think they’ve asked [former co-star] Adrian Zmed, but I’m sure William Shatner is willing to do it. I can’t see why [he would] not… Maybe I’ll see the film when it comes out on DVD or something.

SCARY MOVIE 5
2013
dir. Malcolm D. Lee
Stars:
Lindsay Lohan
Charlie Sheen

Firestarter
1984
dir. Mark L Lester
Starring
David Keith
Drew Barrymore

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Happy Birthday: Michael Douglas

September 25, 2016 festreviews Happy Birthday actor, Happy Birthday, Michael Douglas

Michael Douglas

Born: September 25, 1944 in New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA

[on his career and his favorite films] I always say you work as hard on your failures as your successes. I like my track record, I like my batting average. I got a real good batting average. A lot of movies. Not a lot of grand-slam home-runs, lot of singles, doubles, triples. Lot of hits, you know? Small but kind of ultimately worked out. Kind of fiduciary responsibilities and budgets. The ones that stick out are the ones nobody wanted to make, from Falling Down (1993) to Fatal Attraction (1987), things like that. Or ones that were so bizarre. The War of the Roses (1989), Wonder Boys (2000).

Wallstreet
1987
dir. Stone
starring
Charlie Sheen
Douglas

WALL STREET 2
dir. Oliver Stone
Stars:
Shia LaBeouf
Michael Douglas

The Ghost and the Darkness
1996
dir. Stephen Hopkins
Cast
Val Kilmer
Michael Douglas

The Game
1997
dir. Fincher
starring
Douglas
Sean Penn

Falling Down
1993
dir. Schumacher
Starring
Douglas
Duvall

Wonder Boys
2000
dir. Curtis Hanson
Starring
Douglas
Katie Holmes

King of California
2007
dir. Mike Cahil
Cast
Douglas
Rachel Evan Wood

Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
2009
Dir. Mark Waters
Starring
Matthew McConaughey
Jennifer Garner

YOU, ME AND DUPREE
2006
dir. Anthony Russo
Joe Russo
Stars:
Kate Hudson
Owen Wilson

HAYWIRE
dir. Steven Soderbergh
Stars:
Gina Carano
Ewan McGregor

THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT
1995
dir. Rob Reiner
Stars:
Michael Douglas
Annette Bening

LAST VEGAS
2013
dir. Jon Turteltaub
Stars:
Robert De Niro
Michael Douglas

AND SO IT GOES
2014
dir. Rob Reiner
Stars:
Michael Douglas

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Happy Birthday: Catherine Zeta-Jones

September 25, 2016 festreviews Happy Birthday actor, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Happy Birthday

Catherine Zeta-Jones

Born: September 25, 1969 in Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales, UK

Married to:
Michael Douglas (18 November 2000 – present) (2 children)

[on landing the role of Velma Kelly in Chicago (2002)] Did I want this role? That’s like saying did I want to wake up in the morning wanting to breathe!

I do think I’m lucky I met Michael. Not just Michael Douglas the actor and producer with two Oscars on the shelf, but Michael Douglas, the love of my life. I really do think it was meant to happen.