Happy Birthday: Freida Pinto

October 18, 2016 festreviews Happy Birthday, Uncategorized actor, Freida Pinto, Happy Birthday

Freida Pinto

Born: October 18, 1984 in Bombay, Maharashtra, India [now Mumbai, Maharashtra, India]

This industry is for fighters and those who do not give up! It is very important to believe in yourself. Even when a hundred people rejected me, I did not lose hope and, finally, one of the biggest directors of all times [Danny Boyle] believed in me! Also working in this film [Slumdog Millionaire (2008)] has taught me a lot, not just in terms of acting but also about myself, which is an integral part of being a good actor!

MIRAL
dir. Julian Schnabel
Stars:
Freida Pinto
Hiam Abbass

RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES
dir. Rupert Wyatt
Stars:
James Franco
Andy Serkis

Slumdog Millionaire
dir. Boyle
Starring
Dev Patel
Freida Pinto

IMMORTALS
dir. Tarsem Singh
Stars:
Henry Cavill
Mickey Rourke

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Happy Birthday: Jean-Claude Van Damme

October 18, 2016 festreviews Happy Birthday actor, Happy Birthday, Jean-Claude Van Damme

Jean-Claude Van Damme

Born: October 18, 1960 in Berchem-Sainte-Agathe, Brussels, Belgium

Married to:
Gladys Portugues (25 June 1999 – present)
Darcy LaPier (3 February 1994 – 1997) (divorced) (1 child)
Gladys Portugues (3 January 1987 – 1992) (divorced) (2 children)
Cynthia Derderian (24 August 1985 – 1986) (divorced)
Maria Rodriguez (25 August 1980 – 1984) (divorced)

I took his (Alex Van Damme) name, in fact from his father because his father sent me for the first time in Hong Kong to be a picture model. I’m not enough tall to be a catwalk model, plus too big for that, and we became very good friends and I took his name as an honor. Because my name, by the way, is too complicated, it’s Van Veren Berg, so in America it sounds like “Van Varen Berg” (said with American accent). So Van Damme it’s punchy, short, and clear. – [on adopting the name ‘Van Damme’]

KUNG FU PANDA 2
dir. Jennifer Yuh
Stars:
Jack Black
Angelina Jolie

BLOODSPORT
1988
dir. Newt Arnold
Starring:
Jean-Claude Van Damme
Donald Gibb

UNIVERSAL SOLDIER REGENERATION Movie Poster

Universal Soldier: Regeneration
dir. John Hyams
Cast
Jean-Claude Van Damme
Dolph Lundgren

ie Poster

JVCD
2008
dir. Mabrouk El Mechri
Starring:
Jean-Claude Van Damme
François Damiens

TIMECOP
1994
dir. Peter Hyams
Starring:
Jean-Claude Van Damme
Mia Sara

THE EXPENDABLES 2
dir. Simon West
Stars:
Sylvester Stallone
Liam Hemsworth

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Happy Birthday: Joe Morton

October 18, 2016 festreviews Happy Birthday actor, Happy Birthday, Joe Morton

Joe Morton

Born: October 18, 1947 in Harlem, New York City, New York, USA

One of several actors appearing in both Smallville (2001) and the DC Extended Universe films (he has a role in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)).

THE NIGHT LISTENER
2006
dir. Patrick Stettner
Stars:
Robin Williams
Toni Collette

Best of GOOD WIFE Season 1
Creators:
Michelle King
Robert King

Terminator 2
1991
dir. Cameron
starring
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Linda Hamilton

Speed
1994
dir. Jan de Bont
also starring
Keanu Reeves
Dennis Hopper

Paycheck
2003
dir. John Woo
Starring
Ben Affleck
Uma Thurman

American Gangster
dir. Scott
Starring
Russell Crowe
Washington

Best of GOOD WIFE Season 3
Stars:
Josh Charles
Matt Czuchry

Best of GOOD WIFE Season 2
Stars:
Julianna Margulies
Chris Noth

Best of GOOD WIFE
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Happy Birthday: George C. Scott (1927–1999)

October 18, 2016 festreviews Happy Birthday, Uncategorized actor, George C. Scott (1927–1999), Happy Birthday

georgecscott George C. Scott (1927–1999)

Born: October 18, 1927 in Wise, Virginia, USA
Died: September 22, 1999 (age 71) in Westlake Village, California, USA

Married to: Trish Van Devere (14 September 1972 – 22 September 1999) (his death)
Colleen Dewhurst (4 July 1967 – 2 February 1972) (divorced)
Colleen Dewhurst (1960 – 1965) (divorced) (2 children)
Patricia Reed (1 March 1955 – 5 June 1960) (divorced) (2 children)
Carolyn Hughes (30 August 1951 – 1 January 1955) (divorced) (1 child)

[when asked for suggestions on how to judge acting] I have three tests. First, which dominates, the character or the actor? With very few exceptions it should be the character. Second, on film – as opposed to stage – we’re pretty much playing basic emotions: love, anger, fear, pity. So the trick is whether you can come up with any fresh choices to present these common emotions. Third – and this is the quality that separates the great ones from the good ones – I look for a “joy of performing” quality. Who had that quality? As much as anyone, Jimmy Cagney [James Cagney].

Anatomy of a Murder
1959
dir. Otto Preminger
Starring
James Stewart
Ben Gazzara

The Hustler
1961
dir. by Robert Rossen
starring
Paul Newman
Jackie Gleason

Dr. Strangelove
1964
dir. Stanley Kubrick
starring
Peter Sellers
Scott

TAPS
1981
dir. Harold Becker
Starring:
George C. Scott
Timothy Hutton

Patton
1970
dir. Franklin J. Schaffner
Cast
George C Scott
Karl Madden

The Changeling
1980
dir. by Peter Medak
starring
Melvin Douglas

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

THE HINDENBURG
1975
dir. Robert Wise
Starring:
George C. Scott
Anne Bancroft

THE EXORCIST III
1990
dir. by William Peter Blatty
Stars:
George C. Scott
Ed Flanders >

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Happy Birthday: Arthur Miller (1915–2005)

October 17, 2016 festreviews Uncategorized actor, Arthur Miller (1915–2005), Happy Birthday

Arthur Miller (1915–2005)

Born: October 17, 1915 in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Died: February 10, 2005 (age 89) in Roxbury, Connecticut, USA

Married to: Inge Morath (17 February 1962 – 30 January 2002) (her death) (2 children)
Marilyn Monroe (29 June 1956 – 20 January 1961) (divorced)
Mary Grace Slattery (5 August 1940 – 11 June 1956) (divorced) (2 children)

[on Marilyn Monroe] If she was simple, it would have been easy to help her. She could have made it with a little luck.

[on approaches to acting] ‘The Method’ is in the air. The actor is defending himself from the Philistine, vulgar public. I had a girl in ‘After the Fall’ I couldn’t hear. I kept on saying, ‘I can’t hear you’. She finally got furious and said to me, in effect, that she was acting the truth, and that she was not going to prostitute herself to the audience. That was the living end.

[on working in radio with Orson Welles]: I was amazed at Welles’s genius with the microphone; he seemed to climb into it, his word-carving voice winding into one’s brain. No actor had such intimacy and sheer presence in a loudspeaker.

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Happy Birthday: Wood Harris

October 17, 2016 festreviews Uncategorized actor, Happy Birthday, Wood Harris

Wood Harris

Born: October 17, 1969 in Chicago, Illinois, USA

Married to: Rebekah Harris (2001 – present) (2 children)

THE BABYMAKERS
2012
dir. Jay Chandrasekhar
Stars:
Paul Schneider
Olivia Munn

THE WIRE SEASON 1
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REMEMBER THE TITANS
2000
dir. Boaz Yakin
Stars:
Denzel Washington
Will Patton

THE WIRE season 2
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THE WIRE season 5
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Best of THE WIRE TV Show
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THE WIRE season 4
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Next Day Air
dir. by Benny Boom
Starring
Donald Faison
Omar Epps

THE WIRE season 3
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Happy Birthday: Matthew Macfadyen

October 17, 2016 festreviews Happy Birthday, Uncategorized actor, Happy Birthday, Matthew Macfadyen

Matthew Macfadyen

Born: October 17, 1974 in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England, UK

Married to:
Keeley Hawes (8 October 2004 – present) (2 children)

[on approaching the character of Mr. Darcy for Pride and Prejudice:] I find Darcy very sympathetic, I find it heartbreaking that he’s seen as very haughty and proud – and he is those things – but he’s a young man who is still grieving for his parents. He’s from an ancient family and has this huge responsibility, but it seemed to me that he’s still trying to work out who he is and how to be in the world. I found that very interesting, and I found him very sympathetic.

THE THREE MUSKETEERS
dir. Paul W.S. Anderson
Stars:
Logan Lerman
Matthew Macfadyen

Incendiary
dir. Sharon Maguire
Starring
Michelle Williams
McGregor

Robin Hood
dir. Ridley Scott
Stars
Russell Crowe
Cate Blanchett

Pride & Prejudice
2005
dir. Joe Wright
Starring
Keira Knightley
Judi Dench

ANNA KARENINA
2012
dir. Joe Wright
Stars:
Keira Knightley
Jude Law

Frost/Nixon
2008
dir. Howard
starring
Langella
Michael Sheen

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Happy Birthday: Caterina Scorsone

October 16, 2016 festreviews Happy Birthday actor, Caterina Scorsone, Happy Birthday

Caterina Scorsone

Born: October 16, 1981 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Married to: Rob Giles (27 June 2009 – present) (1 child)

It wasn’t the ‘miracle of engineering’ that is the human body that was filling me with a mad desire to live my days and nights in a pair of scrubs. The hard truth was I did not remotely want to be a surgeon. I actually just wanted to be on Grey’s Anatomy (2005).

Now most of Alice (2009) isn’t really a political social commentary, but I think a big message, here, is that the culture we’re involved in is fascinated with very quick fixes and instant gratification.

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Happy Birthday: Angela Lansbury

October 16, 2016 festreviews Happy Birthday, Uncategorized actor, Angela Lansbury, Happy Birthday

Angela Lansbury

Born: October 16, 1925 in Regent’s Park, London, England, UK

Married to: Peter Shaw (12 August 1949 – 29 January 2003) (his death) (2 children)
Richard Cromwell (27 September 1945 – 11 September 1946) (divorced)

[Advice to aspiring actors] I really can’t honestly give any tips beyond hang on to your dream. Hang on to what you want, what you feel you want to achieve and go for it. We are all the victims of our own talent and our own shortcomings sometimes, and we have to be aware of those things because they will trip us up and stop us from achieving what our aims are.

MR POPPERS PENGUINS
dir. Mark Waters
Stars:
Jim Carrey
Carla Gugino

State of the Union
1948
dir. Frank Capra
Starring
Spencer Tracy
Katharine Hepburn

Bedknobs and Broomsticks
1971
dir. Robert Stevenson
Starring
Angela Lansbury
David Tomlinson

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST 3D
dir. Gary Trousdale
Kirk Wise
Stars:
Paige O’Hara
Robby Benson

The Manchurian Candidate
1962
dir. John Frankenheimer
starring
Sinatra
Laurence Harvey

The Long Hot Summer, dir. Martin Ritt, starring Paul Newman, Orson Welles, Joanne Woodward

The Long, Hot Summer
1958
dir. Martin Ritt
starring
Paul Newman
Orson Welles
Joanne Woodward

Beauty and the Beast
dir. Gary Trousdale
Kirk Wise
Stars
Paige O’Hara
Robby Benson

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Died Today (October 14th): Elizabeth Peña (1959–2014)

October 14, 2016 festreviews Died Today actor, Died Today, Elizabeth Peña (1959–2014), october 14th

elizabethpena Elizabeth Peña (1959–2014)

Born: September 23, 1959 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, USA
Died: October 14, 2014 (age 55) in Los Angeles, California, USA

Married to: Hans Christian Rolla (1994 – 14 October 2014) (her death) (2 children)

I worked very hard to get Jacob’s Ladder (1990). At first, they wanted Susan Sarandon, Andie MacDowell or Michelle Pfeiffer. At some point, they wanted Susan Sarandon, and Madonna wanted the part. They auditioned all of them. I begged to be auditioned. I begged and begged and when I auditioned, the chemistry was right and Adrian [Lyne] and I were just taken with each other. I auditioned for six months, twice a week. The reason I kept going back was because Adrian was literally fighting for me to get the role.

HOW THE GARCIA GIRLS SPENT THEIR SUMMER
2005
dir. Georgina Riedel

Nothing Like the Holidays
dir. Alfredo De Villa
Starring
Alfred Molina
Elizabeth Pena

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Happy Birthday: Freida Pinto

Happy Birthday: Jean-Claude Van Damme

Happy Birthday: Joe Morton

Happy Birthday: George C. Scott (1927–1999)

Happy Birthday: Arthur Miller (1915–2005)

Happy Birthday: Wood Harris

Happy Birthday: Matthew Macfadyen

Happy Birthday: Caterina Scorsone

Happy Birthday: Angela Lansbury

Died Today (October 14th): Elizabeth Peña (1959–2014)