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Thursday, July 31, 2008
David William Duchovny (Ducovny)
Born: August 7, 1960. New York City, New York, USA.
Is a two-time Golden Globe Award-winning American television and film actor, best known for his roles as FBI Special Agent Fox Mulder on The X-Files and as Hank Moody on Californication.
His father dropped the "h" in his surname because of frequent mispronunciations of the name. He is graduated from Princeton University.He also holds a Master's degree in English Literature from Yale University and began work on a Ph.D. that remains unfinished.The title of his uncompleted doctoral thesis was "Magic and Technology in Contemporary Poetry and Prose." At Princeton, Duchovny was a member of the Charter Club, one of the University's eating clubs, where upperclassmen take their meals. In 1982, while at Princeton, his poetry received an honorable mention for a college prize from the Academy of American Poets and the title of his senior thesis was The Schizophrenic Critique of Pure Reason in Beckett's Early Novels. Also while at Princeton, he played a season of varsity basketball, as a shooting guard, and two playing center field for the varsity baseball team.
Recent filmography: Trust the Man - Pedigree Petfoods - The TV Set - Things We Lost in the Fire - The Secret (Si j'étais toi) - Californication - The X-Files: I Want to Believe
Biography by Wikipedia
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Jared Tristan Padalecki
Born: July 19 1982. San Antonio, Texas, USA
Is an American actor. He grew up in Texas and came to fame in the early 2000s after appearing on the television series Gilmore Girls but Padalecki has most recently become known for his starring role as Sam Winchester on the CW television series Supernatural.
Padalecki's first credit was a minor role in the 1999 film A Little Inside. In 2000, he was cast as Dean Forester on the successful series Gilmore Girls, a role he played until 2005. Throughout the early 2000s, he also appeared in several made-for-television films, including Silent Witness (2000), Close to Home (2001), A Ring of Endless Light (2002) and Young MacGyver (2003).
Padalecki had an uncredited part as a high school bully in 2003's comedy Cheaper by the Dozen. In 2004, he appeared in the Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen comedy New York Minute, and also had a role in the thriller Flight of the Phoenix. In 2005, Padalecki starred opposite Elisha Cuthbert, Chad Michael Murray and Paris Hilton in the horror film House of Wax, and appeared in another horror film, Cry Wolf.
The same year, Padalecki was cast as Sam Winchester on the WB series, Supernatural. The second season of Supernatural began airing on September 28, 2006 on the CW, with the third beginning on October 4, 2007. The show has also been renewed for a fourth season. The show is filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Padalecki also serves as the host of MTV's horror reality series, Room 401.
He currently has two movies in post-production. Thomas Kinkade's Home for Christmas—in which Jared plays Thomas Kinkade—set for release late 2008, and Friday the 13th which will open on Friday, February 13, 2009.
Last filmography: House of Wax - Supernatural - ROOM 401 - Thomas Kinkade's Home for Christmas - Friday the 13th
Biography by: Wikipedia
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Patrick Galen Dempsey
Born: January 13, 1966, Lewistong, Maine USA
Is the youngest of three children born to Amanda and William Dempsey, an insurance agent.
Dempsey attended St. Dominic Regional High School for his senior year, where his mother worked as a secretary, but dropped out before he graduated. He was an adept juggler, tying for second in a national juggling competition.
Dempsey also spent some of his school years in the town of Buckfield, Maine, where he attended Buckfield High School in the Maine School Administrative District (MSAD). His mother was secretary to the high school principal there and still resides in the area.
Last filmography: Scream 3 - Blonde - Cass Chaplin - Sweet Home Alabama - Lucky 7 - Iron Jawed Angels - Brother Bear 2 - Freedom Writers - Enchanted - Made of Honor
Biography by Wikipedia
Monday, July 28, 2008
Patrick Marcus Osbourne
Born: 5 June 1974, Bath, England
Is a British actor who has been based in the United States for several years.
He has appeared in such American television series.
Aside from acting, Marcus Patrick has had a singing career, firstly with the boyband Worlds Apart and then as a solo career. He has also practiced Tae Kwon Do, winning championships at junior and men's heavyweight level.
Patrick, who was fired in November 2007 from NBC, was also discovered stripping at a Homosexual Bar.
Sunday, July 27, 2008
Christian Charles Philip Bale
Born: 30 January 1974. Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Wales
Christian Bale was born in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Wales to entrepreneur, commercial pilot, and talent manager David Bale and circus clown and performer Jenny James, both English. He is the youngest of four children. After leaving Wales, Bale spent his childhood in several countries, including England, Portugal, and the United States.
In 1976, when Bale was two years old, his family left Wales and returned to England. They settled for four years in Bournemouth, where Bale attended Bournemouth School and participated actively in rugby union. Bale has described his childhood, with respect to his mother being in the circus, as interesting. He recalled his first kiss was with an acrobat named Barta.As a child, he trained in ballet and guitar. His sister Louise's work in theatre also influenced his decision to become an actor. Furthermore, in an interview Bale speaks of his grandfather being a stand up comedian, ventriloquist, and magician. Bale's father David was very supportive of his son's acting, resigning from his job as a commercial pilot to travel and manage Bale's burgeoning career. David later married feminist icon Gloria Steinem on September 3, 2000 (he had previously divorced Bale's mother Jenny). He died on December 30, 2003, from brain lymphoma, aged 62.
Bale's first foray into acting was a commercial for the fabric softener Lenor in 1982, when he was eight years old. He appeared in a Pac-Man cereal commercial playing a child rock star a year later and in 1984 made his stage debut in the The Nerd, opposite Rowan Atkinson.
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