1. Connie Nielsen
Connie Neilson’s full name is Connie Inge- Lise Neilson. Neilson is a Danish and an American actress who is remembered for her exceptional work in the movie The Devil’s Advocate. She entered the Entered the American Film Industry with this film. She was recognized as an International actress after her performance in the movie Gladiator. Some of her most successful movies include Basic, The Ice Harvest, One Hour Photo, The Haunted and Mission to Mars. She is known for playing the lead role in the famous television series the Following. Neilson was born on 3 July 1965 in Frederikshavn, Denmark.
Her father’s name was Bent Nielson and was a bus driver. Her mother used to write musical reviews and also worked as an insurance clerk. Nielson started her a...
2. Sienna Miller
Born on the eve of December 28, 1981, in the streets of New York, Sienna Rose Miller, was blessed with a great fortune and beauty. Though she was born in the US, she spent her early life in London with her parents and four siblings.
Miller, made her debut in the year 2001, with the film South Kensington. She had also played cameos in the movies like Stardust and The Interview. Not only in movies, Miller has tried her hand but in Television serials, also.
Casanova and Keen Eddie were her initial television soaps. She was seen in many other films and television shows, playing a big and crucial role. Sienna has done a total of thirty-five movies and television serials, and her schedule is jam packed till 2017.
3. Ben Lewin
Not only one of the most renowned Australian writer and director, but Ben Lewin is also a person more than that. He was born in Poland in 1946, brought up in Australia but is working in California since 1994. At the age of 6, he was prone to one of the highest contagious disease – Polio. He completed his education in Princes Hill Secondary College. His strengths are his children and his wife – Judi Levine – who is his producing partner also.
He has not only worked in films but also contributed majorly to documentaries, series, episodes, short stories, feature stories, and TV movies. Talking about his past life, since beginning his passion lied in photography and creative writing but he completed his law studies.
Later on, Ben left Australia in the 70’s for making his film career. He joined BBC Te...
4. Robert Ogden Barnum
Robert Ogden Barnum is a famous English producer. He has made many films, out of which the movie Margin Call was given the Best First Feature award by the Independent Spirit Award and was nominated for Best Film by the AACTA International Award. The names of his other movies are Deltopia (2023), The Tutor (2023), A Little White Lie (2023), Little Dixie (2023), On the Line (2022), Mending the Line (2022), Candy Land (2022), Collide (2022), Abandoned (2022), Corner Office (2022), 9 Bullets (2022), Heart of Champions (2021), Ida Red (2021), Lansky (2021), Body Brokers (2021), Echo Boomers (2020), Into the Ashes (2019), Drunk Parents (2019), Night Hunter (2018), The Con is On (2018), The Catcher Was a Spy (2018), Backstabbing for Beginners (2018), Submergence (2017), Dear Dictator (2017), The Neighbor (2017), T...
5. Howard Shore
Howard Leslie Shore was born on 18th October 1946 to a Jewish family. He was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. His star sign is Libra. The Canadian composer is married to Elizabeth Cotnoir, who herself is a writer documentary filmmaker and a producer.
He has one daughter, Mae, whom he is very close to and is the uncle of the composer Ryan Shore. His early life went smooth as he started learning music since he was 8. By the time he became of 13, Shore started playing as a member of bands.
He made music as his passion. He started working in 1970’s by becoming a member of Lighthouse. He did some television shows and theatre acts too. What made him recognized was composing music for Doug Henning who was a stage magician.
Immediately he got work in televisions and worked for the show “Saturday Night Live&...
6. Paul Giamatti
Paul Giamatti is an American actor. He was born in Connecticut on 6 June 1967 to A. Bartlett Giamatti and Toni Marilyn Giamatti. He is of English, Scottish, Irish, French and Dutch descent. He is the younger brother of actor Marcus Giamatti. He studied at Yale where he got his Master’s Degree in Fine Arts. He was actively involved in theatre during the early days of his career. He appeared on Broadway and some small roles in television and movies like Donnie Brasco (1997). His first major role was in 1997 in the movie adaptation of Private Parts. His performance was lauded by the book’s author Howard Stern. He later played roles in movies like The Truman Show (1998), Saving Private Ryan (1998), The Negotiator (1998), Man on the Moon (1999), Planet of the Apes (2001). He played the antagonist in Big Fat Liar...
7. Paul Rudd
The handsome and charming, Paul Rudd born on 6th April 1969, is an American actor, writer, producer and comedian. He was born in New Jersey to Michael Rudd, who was the former Vice President of Trans World Airline, later on, died of cancer and his mother Gloria Rudd, a sales manager at a television station in Kansas City. He studied in Broadmoor Junior High and later on in Shawnee Mission West High school. He did his major in theater at the University of Kansas. After his graduation, he studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Los Angeles. He also did a three-month course of Jacobean Drama at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford, UK. Before his career in films began, he was a Bar Mitzvah Disc Jockey. Regarding his film career, there is an array of good movies worth mentioning.
His debut was i...
8. Giancarlo Giannini
Giancarlo was born on 1 August, 1942, in Italy. He graduated from Academia Nazionaledi Arte Drammatica. He started his career by the year 1965, as a debut for a movie named, "I Criminali Della Metropolis". After that, he appeared in several supporting roles in many films that introduced him to this field of work. His first appearance on the stage was "Swept Away", in the year 1971. Later, he started to act in several TV shows, and one of them was based on a novel called "The Stars Look Down". By the year 1976, his first award nominating film was released, named "Seven Beauties". His performance in this show was different from all his movies. He also worked as a dubbing artist where he dubbed the voices of several personalities. One of his dubbed movies is called "The Shining...
9. Guy Pearce
Guy Pearce, also known as Guy Edward Pearce is an Australian musician and an actor. His most famous performances were in the movie The Adventures of Priscilla, L.A Confidential, Memento, Queen of the Dessert and much more. He is known for his acting skills depicted in the movie Iron Man 3, The Count of Monte Cristo, The King’s Speech and much more. Some of his successful Australian movies include Animal Kingdom, Preposition, Holding the Man, The Wizards of the Aus and The Rover. He has received multiple Screen Actors Guild Awards, Golden Globe Awards, AACTA Awards and an Emmy. He also appeared in many television series which include adaptations of stories written by Jack Irish and the famous Australian television series named Neighbours.
Pearce was born on 5th Octo...
10. Hiroyuki Sanada
Hiroyuki Sanada was born on the 12th of October, 1960 in Tokyo. Sanada's father died when he was 11. Sanada joined the Japan Action Club, organized and run by Sonny Chiba, when he was 12. He is known as one of the most talented actors in Japan. He was married to Satomi Tezuka and later got divorced after their 7-years of marriage in 1997. His Ex-wife has custody of their two sons. He is a Graduate of Nihon University, Film Department. He is a close friend of action icon Etsuko 'Sue' Shiomi. Sanada made his English language film debut in the movie “The White Countess”. At a very young age he joined the Japan Action Club, a training school for aspiring martial arts film actors and stunt performers started by legendary Japanese film actor Sonny Chiba.
11. Jeff Daniels
Jeff Daniels, whose full name is Jeffrey Warren Daniels is a playwright, music composer and an actor from America. He was born on the 19th of the month of February, 1955. He studied at the Central Michigan University and was involved in quite some of the theater work while he was there. Further, he studied at the Eastern Michigan University where he went to drama school. He gave his performance in several plays like The Hot I Baltimore while he was there. He got noticed by Marshall Mason, who directed some plays as a guest.
He asked Jeff Daniels to come down to New York City. In New York City, he performed in stage dramas like The Fifth of July. He bagged the Best Supporting Actor Award at the Drama Desk Awards event for his work in this play. He did many Broadway theater shows too, which include Redwood Curtai...
12. Mark Strong
Mark Strong is a well-known television and film actor from Britain known for his excellent performances in the films ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ in 2012, ‘The Imitation Game’ in 2014, etc. He was born as Marco Giuseppe Salussolia in the year 1963 on August 5th, in the city of London in the UK. He was born to a mixed cultural family where his father was an Italian and his mother an Austrian. After his father had abandoned his family soon after Mark’s birth, he was brought up by his mother. His mother changed his name so that it would help him get along with the rest of the children at his school.
Mark attended the Wymondham College in Norfolk, England, and later moved to Germany to study German Law at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. After a year, he returned to London and j...
13. Pierfrancesco Favino
Favino is an Italian actor born in Rome, Italy on 24th August 1969. His career has been vast and versatile. He has done many different roles in films, TV series, and short films. He has around 40 European films in his kitty which includes The Last Kiss by Gabriele Mucchino, The Unknown Woman by Guiseppe Tornatore, Saturn in Opposition by Ferzan Ozpetek, etc. He was the lead in Excellent Cadaver (1999), an HBO film based on Alexander Stille’s novel. He played the part of Christopher Columbus in the film, Night at the Museum (2006). He was awarded David Di Donatello for his portrayal in Romanzo Criminale by Michele Placido. In 2008, he appeared in The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian as the leader of the Telmian group, General Glozelle.
Favino played Inspector Er...
14. Shea Whigham
Franklin Whigham (also known as Franklin Shea Whigham) is an American actor. He was born on 5 January 1969 in Tallahassee, Florida. His father, Frank, was a counselor, and his mother, Beth, was a librarian. Franklin went to Tyler Junior College in Texas. After this, he went to the State University of New York, where he took lessons in acting. Shea also played a part in Ghost Stories (1997) which was his first show on tv. He appeared in the film Tigerland in 2000. He was cast in Submerged, R.U.S.H., and Paradise.
He did a Japanese film Out of This World, and television shows like Medical Investigation, Man of the House, Faith of My Fathers, and South of Heaven. From 2012 through 2017, he appeared in many films like The Wolf of Wall Street, American Hustle, Silver Linings Playbook, and Term Life. In 2018-2019 he did movies l...
15. Tom Wilkinson
Tom Wilkinson, son of farmer Thomas Wilkinson and Marjorie, was born on 5 February 1948, in Wharfedale, England.He completed his graduation from The University of Kent and was also a part of the ancient drama school ‘Royal Academy of Dramatic Art’ in the United Kingdom,.
He started his career in 1976 and worked in many television series, “First Among Equals” (1986) being the most famous one.Tom also appeared in small roles in many films like Sense and Sensibility, The Ghost and the Darkness in 1996 ( as a black hat ), Oscar and Lucinda, directed by Gillian Armstrong, Rush Hour (1998) as a British Ambassador.
His acting skills were praised in the movie “In The Bedroom” and received excellent reviews from the critics for his performance in the movie.Wilkinson’s ot...