Male Actors

Gregory Peck Gregory Peck (April 5, 1916 – June 12, 2003) was a two-time Academy Award-winning and four-time Golden Globe Award-winning American film actor. He was one of 20th Century Fox's most popular film stars, from the 1940s to the 1960s, and played important roles well into the 1990s. One of his most notable performances was as Atticus Finch in the 1962 film version of To Kill a Mockingbird, for which he won his Academy Award. President Lyndon Johnson honored Peck with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1969 for his lifetime humanitarian efforts. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Peck among the Greatest Male Stars of All Time, ranking at No. 12. Biograp…

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I thought that with the premiere of "Black Swan" coming soon, it would be nice to start thread for Sebastian Date of Birth 13 August 1983 (Friday), Constanta, Romania Nickname Sebs Baz Height 5' 10¾" (1.80 m) Early life Stan was born in the Romanian city of Constanţa. At age 8, he and his mother moved to Vienna, where she was employed as a pianist. Four years later (age 12), his mother moved with him to Rockland County, New York after she married the headmaster of an American private school. During his years at the Rockland Country Day School, he starred in productions such as Harvey, Cyrano de Bergerac, Little Shop of Horrors, Over Here, and West Side Stor…

Callum Robilliard Turner (born 15 February 1990) is a British actor. After beginning a career as a fashion model, he began working in film and television. He had lead roles in the drama film Queen and Country (2014) and the mystery miniseries Glue (2014), and played Theseus, the brother of Newt Scamander, in the fantasy films Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018) and Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022). Turner's performance in the mystery series The Capture (2019) earned him a nomination for the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor. He has since starred as Joe Rantz in the biographical film The Boys in the Boat (2023) and…

A couple of years ago I had such a huge crush on him ...on the young him, of course. He's one of my favorite actors and practically a living legend. I love Dirty Harry, The Good The Bad and the Ugly, Coogan's Bluff, The Beguiled...and Rawhide was cool too. Anyone with me?

Sir Alec Guinness, CH, CBE (2 April 1914 – 5 August 2000) was an English actor. He was featured in several of the Ealing Comedies, including Kind Hearts and Coronets in which he played eight different characters. He later won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Colonel Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Kwai. His most prominent role in his later career was as Obi-Wan Kenobi in the original Star Wars trilogy. Early yearsGuinness was born at 155 Lauderdale Mansions South, Lauderdale Road, Maida Vale, London as Alec Guinness De Cuffe.[1] His mother's maiden name was Agnes Cuff. She was born 8 December 1890 to Edward Cuff and Mary Ann Cuff Benfield. On Guinness…

Anthony Hopkins Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins, CBE (born 31 December 1937) is a Welsh film, stage and television actor. Considered to be one of film's greatest living actors,he is best known for his portrayal of cannibalisticserial killer Hannibal Lecter in the 1991's The Silence of the Lambs, its sequel, Hannibal, and its prequel, Red Dragon. His other notable film credits include The Elephant Man, Dracula, Legends of the Fall, The Remains of the Day, The Mask of Zorro, The World's Fastest Indian, Hearts in Atlantis, Nixon and Fracture. Hopkins was born and raised in Wales, and also became a U.S. citizen on 12 April 2000. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame …

Sir Thomas Sean Connery (born 25 August 1930), more commonly known as Sean Connery, is a retired Scottish actor and producer who has won an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards and three Golden Globes. He is best known for portraying the character James Bond, starring in seven Bond films between 1962 and 1983. In 1988, Connery won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Untouchables. His film career also includes such films as Marnie, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, The Hunt for Red October, Highlander, Murder on the Orient Express, Dragonheart, and The Rock. Connery has been polled as "The Greatest Living Sc…

Jason Isaacs was born 6 June 1963, in Liverpool, England, and is one of four brothers. "We moved to London in the mid-70s when I was 11, and I didn't want people teasing me for my voice," he says. "I had that Liverpool accent, and kids hate to stand out, so almost immediately I developed a thick Cockney accent. It was probably the first sign of acting ability I ever displayed." Isaacs discovered his love of acting at university, where he directed and acted in more than 20 plays in Bristol and each summer at the Edinburgh Festival. "I did a three-year law degree (at Bristol University) but all the time I was constantly off somewhere in a room screaming and shouting…

Gary Oldman taken from wikipedia and imdb Birth name: Leonard Gary Oldman Born: March 21, 1958 Spouse(s): Lesley Manville (1988-1990) Uma Thurman (1990-1992) Donya Fiorentino (1997-2001) Leonard Gary Oldman is an English actor, writer and director. He has garnered critical acclaim for his diversity of roles, starring in films such as Dracula, Léon, JFK and the Harry Potter film series. Oldman collected the Saturn Award for Best Actor for his performance in the title role of Dracula, and received an Emmy Award nomination for his guest appearance in a 2001 episode of Friends. His 1997 foray into writing and directing, Nil By Mouth, won the 1998 BAFTA Award for B…

Harris Dickinson (born 24 June 1996) is an English actor. He began his career in British television and had his first starring role in the drama film Beach Rats (2017), for which he was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead. He played John Paul Getty III in the FX drama series Trust (2018). Dickinson has since starred in the films Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (2019), The King's Man (2021), Triangle of Sadness (2022), Where the Crawdads Sing (2022), and The Iron Claw (2023), along with the miniseries A Murder at the End of the World (2023). He has received two BAFTA Awards nominations, one for film and one for television. …

Archibald Alexander Leach (January 18, 1904 – November 29, 1986), better known by his stage name Cary Grant, was a British-American actor. With his distinctive yet not quite placeable Mid-Atlantic accent, he was noted as perhaps the foremost exemplar of the debonair leading man: handsome, virile, charismatic and charming. He was named the second Greatest Male Star of All Time by the American Film Institute. His popular classic films include The Awful Truth (1937), Bringing Up Baby (1938), Gunga Din (1939), Only Angels Have Wings (1939), His Girl Friday (1940), The Philadelphia Story (1940), Suspicion (1941), Arsenic and Old Lace (1944), Notorious (1946), To Catch A Thief…

Richard Burton, CBE (10 November 1925 – 5 August 1984) was a Welsh actor. He was nominated seven times for an Academy Award (without success) and was at one time the highest-paid actor in Hollywood. He remains closely associated in the public consciousness with his second wife, actress Elizabeth Taylor; the couple's turbulent relationship was rarely out of the news Childhood and education Richard Burton was born Richard Walter Jenkins in the village of Pontrhydyfen, near Port Talbot in Wales. He grew up in a working-class, Welsh-speaking household, the twelfth of thirteen children.[2] His father, Richard Walter Jenkins, was a short, robust coal miner, a “twelve-pints a-…

Bruce Willis (born March 19, 1955 as Walter Bruce Willis in Idar-Oberstein, West Germany) is an American actor and singer. Early life Bruce Willis, was born in an American military base in Idar-Oberstein, Germany, to an American father, David Willis, and a German mother, Marlene Willis. After being discharged from the military in 1957, David took his family back to Penns Grove, New Jersey, and he worked as a welder and factory worker. Bruce was the oldest of four children. He was always an outgoing youngster, although he grew up with a stutter. Finding it easy to express himself on stage, Willis began performing on stage and his high school memberships were marked by su…

Paul Leonard Newman (January 26, 1925 – September 26, 2008)[1][2][3] was an American actor, film director, entrepreneur, humanitarian and auto racing enthusiast. He won numerous awards, including an Academy Award, two Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Cannes Film Festival Award, and an Emmy award, along with many honorary awards. He also won several national championships as a driver in Sports Car Club of America road racing and his race teams won several championships in open wheel IndyCar racing. He was also the founder of Newman's Own, a food company from which Newman donated all profits and royalties to charity.[4] As of May 2007, these donations hav…

Macaulay Culkin Source: Wikipedia Macaulay Carson Culkin (born August 26, 1980) is an American actor and writer. He is perhaps best known for portraying Kevin McCallister in Home Alone and the title character of Richie Rich. At the height of his fame he was regarded as the most successful child actor since Shirley Temple. He was ranked # 2 in VH1's list of the "100 Greatest Kid Stars". Early life Culkin was born in New York City, the son of Patricia Brentrup and Kit Culkin, a former stage actor with a long career on Broadway. Culkin was the couple's third child of seven children; he has four brothers: Shane (born 1976), Kieran (born 1982), Christian (born 1987) and …

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Kiefer Sutherland Kiefer William Frederick Dempsey George Rufus Sutherland (born December 21, 1966) is an Emmy- and Golden Globe Award-winning Canadian actor, well known for his lead role of Jack Bauer on the television series 24. Sutherland also owns a recording studio and record label, called Ironworks. Biography Early life Sutherland was born in London, England, the son of Donald Sutherland and Shirley Douglas, both of whom are successful Canadian actors. He has Scottish ancestry from both parents and is the grandson of Canadian statesman Tommy Douglas. Sutherland and his twin sister, Rachel, were born in London (in Saint Mary's Hospital, Paddington) while his pa…

Christian Michael Leonard Slater (born August 18, 1969) is an American actor who has starred in films such as Heathers, Kuffs, True Romance, He Was a Quiet Man, Broken Arrow, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, The Legend of Billie Jean, Alone in the Dark and Pump Up The Volume. Early life Slater was born in New York City, the son of Mary Jo Slater, a casting executive and producer, and Michael Hawkins, an actor who is also known as Michael Gainsborough. Slater has a maternal half-brother, Ryan Slater, who is also an actor. Slater attended the Dalton School, the Professional Children's School and the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts. …

NAME: Patrick Wayne Swayze BORN: August 18 1952 in Houston, Texas, USA Has two brothers and one sister (His mother Patsy Swayze is a well known choreographer of among others; Urban Cowboy, Thelma and Louise and Letters from a Killer) DATE OF MARRIAGE: June 12, 1975 to Lisa Niemi EDUCATION: St Rose of Lima Catholic School, Houston Oak Forest Elementary School Black Junior High Waltrip High School San Jacinto College, Houston DANCE SCHOOL OF COMPANIES: Houston Jazz Ballet Company Harkness Ballet Theater School, New York Joffrey Ballet Company Eliot Feld Ballet Company

Birth name Pierce Brendan Brosnan Height 6' 1" (1.85 m) Mini biography Pierce Brosnan was born in Drogheda, County Louth, Ireland on May 16, 1953 and lived in Navan, County Meath until he moved to England, UK at an early age (thus explaining his ability to play men from both backgrounds convincingly). His father left the household when Pierce was a child and although reunited later in life, the two have never had a close relationship. His most popular role is that of British secret agent James Bond. The death, in 1991, of Cassandra Harris, his wife of ten years, left him with three children - Christopher and Charlotte from Cassandra's first marriage and…

Clark Gable (February 1, 1901

(Info from "Wikipedia") Personal life Born in 1962 in Suffolk, England to photographer Mark Fiennes and novelist Jennifer Lash, Ralph Fiennes is a cousin of the adventurer Sir Ranulph Fiennes and an eighth cousin of the Prince of Wales. The eldest of six children, he was raised a Roman Catholic. The actor Joseph Fiennes (Shakespeare in Love, Luther) is his brother. His sister Martha works as a director (in her film Onegin, he acted the title role). His brother, Magnus Fiennes is a composer. His other sister, Sophie Fiennes is also a filmmaker. His other brother, Jacob Fiennes is a conservationist. His foster brother, Michael Emery, is an archaeologist. The Fiennes fam…

Damian Hardung (born September 7, 1998 in Cologne) is a German actor. Life Hardung comes from Cologne and has two brothers. At the age of fourteen, he received a scholarship for gifted students at a private school in New York City. He played football at Fortuna Cologne up to the A-youth level before giving up his involvement with the club in favor of his acting career. He graduated from high school in 2016. He became best known for the Vox series Club of the Red Ribbons. In 2018 he played a leading role in the film The Most Beautiful Girl in the World. He has played the role of Daniel Riffert in the three seasons of the series How to Sell Drugs Online (Fas…