English Movie Review Ben-Hur - Cast & Crew

Roma Downey is a Northern Irish actress and producer. She was born on 6th May, 1960 in Derry, Northern Ireland. Interestingly, her name “Roma” is derived from the names of her two grandmothers- Rose (Ro) and Mary (Ma). Roma got enrolled at a Catholic girls’s school: Thornhill College. She suffered a personal loss at the age of ten when her mother Maureen died. She lost her father Patrick Downey ten years later. Planning to pursue her career in painting, she got a BA degree at Brighton College of Arts. She also learned BA (Hons) in Expressive Arts at Brighton Polytechnic.

Late, she decided to shift her focus to acting and went to Drama Studio, London where she was active in plays by Shakespeare and Chekov. She teamed up with Dublin-based...

Nazanin Boniadi is an Iranian born British Film and Television Actress. Nazanin was born on the 22nd of May in the year 1980. She was born in Tehran, Iran. Her parents moved to London, United Kingdom because of the Iranian Revolution, which was going while Nazanin was born. Nazanin went to a private high school. She later moved to the United States. She got her Bachelor’s Degree with honours in Biological Science from the University of California in Irvine. At a point, she dated the supreme actor Tom Cruise.

Nazanin took a turn from Science and became an actress with the TV show “General Hospital” (2007-2009), where she played the role of Leyla Mir. She later appeared in the TV shows “The Game” (2007), “The Deep End” (2010), “How I Met Your Mother” (2011 and 2014), “Gr...

Ayelet Zurer is an Israeli actress born on 28th June 1969. She was born in Tel Aviv, Israel. She has completed her military service in the Israel Defense Forces. Currently, she lives in California, where she came to pursue a career in Hollywood. She has acted in a lot of Israeli TV shows and movies. She won an Israeli Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as Nina in the 2003 film, Nina’s Tragedies. 

Her first role in Hollywood was as Daphna Kaufman in Steven Spielberg’s Munich which was released in 2005. She played the role of Michaela in the 2007 Canadian drama film, Fugitive Pieces. She starred in two movies in 2008: Vantage ...

Born in London, England, on July 17, 1960, James Mark Burnett is a British author, director, TV, and filmmaker. He is the son of Jean and Archie Burnett; both were an employee at Ford Motors factory. He was brought up in Dagenham. He entered in the British Army at the age of 17 and turned into a Section Commander in the Parachute Regiment.

He presented with the third Battalion, Parachute Regiment in C Company and saw activity amid the Falklands War from 1978 to 1982. Burnett shifted to Los Angeles in October of 1982, where he filled in as a caretaker and T-shirt sales representative on close-by Venice Beach.

In the mid-1990s. Burnett thought about the Eco-Challenge, a global outrageous sports competition. It first aired in 1995; the Eco-Challenge TV arrangement highlighted blended sex groups in strenuous multisport game...

Sean Daniel is a renowned American film producer and film executive. He is in the news again for 'Ben-Hur' which is an upcoming 2016 American historical epic action film to be released in August this year. The film is being directed by Timur Bekmambetov. The script is written by John Ridley based on an original screenplay by Keith Clarke. Based on the 1880 novel Ben-Hur, the film is creating a lot of buzz in Hollywood now. The film is being produced by Sean Daniels Productions and Lightworkers Media and the film is to be released in 2D, RealD 3D, 3D,and Digital 3D format. The film is being distributed by Paramount Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures and is considered to be the biggest risk in the box office.

Sean Daniel is also co-producing another blockbuster movie ’The Mummy’ which i...

Jarreth Merz is famous Swiss stage and film actor cum director. He is a person of Swiss nationality and a citizen of a country in West Africa named Ghana. For a span of seven years, they lived in Ghana, the home of his mother. They stayed in Germany for a very short time during 1980-81, in a place called Hamburg. Later in 1981, they went back to Switzerland. He completed his graduation in the year 1990 after which he started studying acting course in Zurich at the actor school named European Film Actor School.

He shifted to the New York City in the year 1992 and continued his studies in the studio named Herbert Berghof Studio at the famous New York University. He started his acting career in Germany in the year 1996, when he went to Germany, and he found a house for hims...

A well-known actor Moises Arias was born on April 18, 1994, in New York City. Moises's parents are Colombian and, because of this, he knows two languages. Moises graduated from Barbizon Modeling and Acting School in Tampa, Florida. He is a well-known director, Producer, and Actor. Moises’s debut show is Everybody Hates Chris, released in 2005 and, his debut movie is Nacho Libre (2006). Moses is famous for his role of Rico in the show Hannah Montana which used to come on Disney Channel. He also played the character of Biaggio in the film The Kings of Summer in the year 2013. His role of Poe is one of the most loved roles from the movie Five Feet Apart. Moises’s brother’s name is Mateo Arias, who is also a successful actor like him.

Moises and his brother had also directed a series of YouTube films under the...

One of his notable films “The Shawshank Redemption” known to be one of the best movies of all time. He is considered to be one of the best actors in Hollywood history. His name is Morgan Freeman.

He is a well-known actor, director and narrator. He was born in Tennessee, U.S. on January 1, 1937. He attended his class from Broad Street High School also known as Threadgill Elementary School in Mississippi. His all-time-dream was to become a fighter pilot. This is the reason why he turned down the scholarship after winning a drama competition. He worked as Automatic Tracking Radar Repairman and as Airman First Class. He worked as a clerk in LA City College. He is also training that time as an opera dancer. He was married twice with Jeanette Adair Bradshaw from 1967 to 1979 and got divorced. He got married again on 1984 to 2010 with M...

Rodrigo Junqueira dos Reis Santoro is an artist and actor from Brazil. He was born in Petropolis (The Imperial City of Brazil), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. His mother is a Brazilian of Portuguese origin and father an Italian. In 1993, when Santoro was studying Journalism at Pontifical Catholic University-PUC in Rio de Janeiro, he joined Rede Globo’s Actor’s workshop. He then played parts in many of the telenovelas of Globo. Some of them are- Olho no Olho in 1993, Patria Minha in 1994, Explode Coração in 1995, O Amor Esta no Ar in 1997, Hilda Furacao in 1998 (miniseries), Suave Veneno in 1999, and Mulheres Apaixonadas in 2003. From there onwards, his interest in acting intensified. Santoro got his first break in the mainstream cinema with Lais Bodansky’s Brainstorm (Bicho de Sete ...

"Toby" Kebbell is an English performing artist. Kebbell was born on 9 July in 1982  in South Elmsall. However, he spent his childhood in the city of Nottinghamshire. He was raised by his mom, Michelle, who was a cook and a gardener. His parents were separated when he was at the age of eighteen months. His dad, Robert Kebbell was an engineer. He finished his schooling in the Catholic essential school. 

Kebbell first came into light through the famous director Shane Meadows. He played the role of the character Anthony in the movie Dead Man's Shoes. He was selected as the Most Promising Newcomer in the British Independent Film Awards and was broadly commended for his delicate, moving depiction of a young fellow with a learning trouble. He then showed...