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Thomas Jeffrey Hanks was born in Concord, California, to Janet Marylyn (Frager), a hospital worker, and Amos Mefford Hanks, an itinerant cook. His mother's family, originally surnamed "Fraga", was entirely Portuguese, while his father was of mostly English ancestry. Tom grew up in what he has called a "fractured" family. He moved around a great deal after his parents' divorce, living with a succession of step-families. No problems, no alcoholism - just a confused childhood. He has no acting experience in college and credits the fact that he could not get cast in a college play with actually starting his career. He went downtown, and auditioned for a community theater play, was invited by the director of that play to go to Cleveland, and there his acting career started.
Ron Howard was working on Splash (1983), a fantasy-comedy about a mermaid who falls in love with a business executive. Howard considered Hanks for the role of the main character's wisecracking brother, which eventually went to John Candy. Instead, Hanks landed the lead role and the film went on to become a surprise box office success, grossing more than $69 million. After several flops and a moderate success with the comedy Dragnet (1987), Hanks' stature in the film industry rose. The broad success with the fantasy-comedy Big (1988) established him as a major Hollywood talent, both as a box office draw and within the film industry as an actor. For his performance in the film, Hanks earned his first Academy Award nomination as Best Actor.
Hanks climbed back to the top again with his portrayal of a washed-up baseball legend turned manager in A League of Their Own (1992). Hanks has stated that his acting in earlier roles was not great, but that he subsequently improved. In an interview with Vanity Fair, Hanks noted his "modern era of movie making ... because enough self-discovery has gone on ... My work has become less pretentiously fake and over the top". This "modern era" began for Hanks, first with Sleepless in Seattle (1993) and then with Philadelphia (1993). The former was a blockbuster success about a widower who finds true love over the radio airwaves. Richard Schickel of Time magazine called his performance "charming", and most critics agreed that Hanks' portrayal ensured him a place among the premier romantic-comedy stars of his generation.
In Philadelphia, he played a gay lawyer with AIDS who sues his firm for discrimination. Hanks lost 35 pounds and thinned his hair in order to appear sickly for the role. In a review for People, Leah Rozen stated, "Above all, credit for Philadelphia's success belongs to Hanks, who makes sure that he plays a character, not a saint. He is flat-out terrific, giving a deeply felt, carefully nuanced performance that deserves an Oscar." Hanks won the 1993 Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in Philadelphia. During his acceptance speech, he revealed that his high school drama teacher Rawley Farnsworth and former classmate John Gilkerson, two people with whom he was close, were gay.
Hanks followed Philadelphia with the blockbuster Forrest Gump (1994) which grossed a worldwide total of over $600 million at the box office. Hanks remarked: "When I read the script for Gump, I saw it as one of those kind of grand, hopeful movies that the audience can go to and feel ... some hope for their lot and their position in life ... I got that from the movies a hundred million times when I was a kid. I still do." Hanks won his second Best Actor Academy Award for his role in Forrest Gump, becoming only the second actor to have accomplished the feat of winning consecutive Best Actor Oscars.
Hanks' next role - astronaut and commander Jim Lovell, in the docudrama Apollo 13 (1995) - reunited him with Ron Howard. Critics generally applauded the film and the performances of the entire cast, which included actors Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton, Gary Sinise, Ed Harris, and Kathleen Quinlan. The movie also earned nine Academy Award nominations, winning two. Later that year, Hanks starred in Disney/Pixar's computer-animated film Toy Story (1995), as the voice of Sheriff Woody. A year later, he made his directing debut with the musical comedy That Thing You Do! (1996) about the rise and fall of a 1960s pop group, also playing the role of a music producer.
As of 2022, Hanks is 66-years-old. He has never retired from acting, and has remained active in the film industry for more than four decades.- Actor
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Steve Carell, one of America's most versatile comics, was born Steven John Carell on August 16, 1962, in Concord, Massachusetts. He is the son of Harriet Theresa (Koch), a psychiatric nurse, and Edwin A. Carell, an electrical engineer. His mother was of Polish descent and his father of Italian and German ancestry (Steve's grandfather had changed the surname from "Caroselli" to "Carell"). Steve was educated at The Fenn School, an all-boys private school in Concord, Massachusetts, then at Middlesex School in Concord. After graduating from Denison University in Granville, Ohio, he moved to Chicago where he taught an improvisational comedy class and performed with The Second City troupe, alongside Stephen Colbert.
Carell made his film debut as "Tesio" in Curly Sue (1991). In 1996, he became a cast member of The Dana Carvey Show (1996), and provided the voice for Gary, opposite Colbert in "The Ambiguously Gay Duo". This animated short series produced by Robert Smigel continued on Saturday Night Live (1975), but Carell has joked that he auditioned for SNL and lost the job to Will Ferrell. Carell made a number of guest appearances on such shows as Come to Papa (2004), Just Shoot Me! (1997), and Watching Ellie (2002), before landing a regular stint as a correspondent on The Daily Show (1996) from 1999 until 2005.
Carell played Evan Baxter opposite Jim Carrey in Bruce Almighty (2003), and Uncle Arthur opposite Nicole Kidman and Will Ferrell in Bewitched (2005). He broke out as a leading man after starring in the summer box-office hit The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005), which he also co-wrote; the film was chosen as one of the Top Ten movies of 2006 by the American Film Institute. He next starred in the critically acclaimed Little Miss Sunshine (2006), an indie dark comedy which became a surprise hit and earned four Oscar nominations, and won two (Best Supporting Actor for Alan Arkin and Best Screenplay for Michael Arndt). In 2007, Carell reprised his role as Evan Baxter, filling Jim Carrey's leading-man shoes as a politician asked by God to build a giant ark in Evan Almighty (2007), the second installment of the "Almighty" franchise, co-starring Lauren Graham and Morgan Freeman. In 2008, he re-united with Jim Carrey in the highly successful animation hit Horton Hears a Who! (2008), then appeared as Agent Maxwell Smart in the popular comedy Get Smart (2008).
Throughout this time, Carell maintained a successful career in television, starring as Michael Scott in the American remake of the Britain's existential comedy, The Office (2005). He received the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in Television Comedy for this leading role in 2006, and earned both Emmy and Golden Globe nominations each consecutive show until he departed in 2011.
In 2010, Carell announced he was leaving "The Office" to concentrate on his film career, and has made steady appearance in such films as Date Night (2010), Despicable Me (2010), Crazy, Stupid, Love. (2011), and Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012). Carell's most recent roles are the comedies Despicable Me 2 (2013), Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (2013), and Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (2014), and the drama Foxcatcher (2014), and the more serious Beautiful Boy (2018) and Vice (2018).
Steve Carell has been enjoying a happy family life with his wife, actress Nancy Carell, whom he met when she was a student in an improv class he was teaching at The Second City comedy troupe in Chicago. The couple have two children, daughter Elizabeth (born in May 2001), and son John (born in June 2004). Steve Carell lives with his family in Los Angeles, California.- Actress
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Paget Brewster is an American actress. Her career started in the early 1990s, but her breakthrough was portraying FBI agent Emily Prentiss in the long-running police procedural series "Criminal Minds" (2005-2020, 2022-). Prentiss was introduced as the replacement to the character of Elle Greenaway (played by Lola Glaudini) who resigned in the 2nd season. Brewster portrayed the character regularly from 2006 to 2012, and again since 2016.
Brewster is also a prominent voice actress in animation. Her most prominent voice roles so far were portraying the reporter Audrey Timmonds in "Godzilla: The Series" (1998-2000), the super-heroine Birdgirl/Judy Ken Sebben in "Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law" (2000-2018) and the sequel series "Birdgirl" (2021-2022), bounty hunter Rona Vipra in "Duck Dodgers" (2003-2005). Lana Lang in "Batman: The Dark Knight Returns" (2012), Lois Lane in "Justice League: Gods and Monsters" (2015), Poison Ivy in "Batman and Harley Quinn" (2017) , and the adventurer Della Duck in "DuckTales" (2017-2021). Della was depicted as the twin sister of Della Duck. The character of Della was created for the "Donald Duck" comic strip in 1937, but had been limited to minor appearances until her re-introduction in "DuckTales" .
In 1969, Brewser was born in Concord, Massachusetts, to Galen Brewster and his wife Hathaway Tew. Both of her parents worked as school administrators at Middlesex School, a non-sectarian high school located in Concord. Brewster spend most of her early life in Massachusetts. She moved to New York City for her college education, as a design student at the Parsons School of Design. During her first year there, she took some acting roles. She eventually decided to drop out of the design school, and to pursue acting as a full-time career.
In the mid-1990s, Brewster moved to San Francisco, in order to take acting classes. In 1995, she became the host of the late-night talk show "The Paget Show" at KPIX-TV. Her first notable acting role in television was portraying the recurring role of the actress Kathy in the fourth season of the sitcom "Friends". She appeared in the series from 1997 to 1998. Kathy was depicted as a love interest to both Joey Tribbiani (played by Matt LeBlanc) and Chandler Bing (played by Matthew Perry). The love triangle caused some problems in the relationship of the two men. Kathy was written out of the series when she left Chandler for another man. Following this role, Brewster started appearing regularly in various films.- Keri Lynn Pratt was born on 23 September 1978 in Concord, New Hampshire, USA. She is an actress, known for A Single Man (2009), America's Sweethearts (2001) and Drive Me Crazy (1999). She has been married to John Barneson since October 2011.
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Julie Strain was born in Concord, California, as Julie Ann Strain. She was an actress, known for Sex Court, (1998), Heavy Metal 2000 (2000) and Double Impact (1991), and Battle Queen 2020. She grew up in Pleasant Hill California and graduated from Diablo Valley College, in that town. Appeared in over 100 movies, was one of the tallest actresses in Hollywood, and performed all her own stunts. Julie was crowned the Queen of the B-movies.- Peter Murnik was born on 14 December 1965 in Concord, Massachusetts, USA. He is an actor, known for Mindhunter (2017), Armageddon (1998) and Granite Flats (2013).
- Larry Bryggman was born on 21 December 1938 in Concord, California, USA. He is an actor, known for Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995), Spy Game (2001) and As the World Turns (1956). He has been married to Tracey Hanley Bryggman since 1999. They have two children. He was previously married to Jacqueline Schultz and Barbara Creed.
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Sonya Eddy, a native of Concord, California, graduated from UC Davis. During her intense studies she began her acting career in the West Coast premiere of "Zora, Is My Name!" (written by the award-winning actress Ruby Dee). Sonya performed several roles in "Zora" including Big Sweet - a bawdy blues singer (Ruby Dee's personal favorite). Sonya continued forth to perform the role of the Courtesan in "Comedy of Errors" as well as performances in productions of "The Crucible", "Pericles", and the Witch in "Into The Woods". Ms. Eddy won an Arty Award for her powerful portrayal of Bloody Mary in "South Pacific".
Sonya's professional acting career in Los Angeles has spanned over a dozen years. Her roles include recurrings on "ER", "Joan of Arcadia", "Seinfeld", "The Drew Carey Show" and others. Having appeared in the Hallmark Movie of the Week "The Reading Room" opposite James Earl Jones, Ms. Eddy was also a series regular on Martin Short's "Primetime Glick" and has also appeared professionally in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" with John Goodman and Brenda Fricker at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles. Most recently, Ms. Eddy can be seen in her recurring role on "General Hospital" as Epiphany Johnson - a no-nonsense head nurse. She will also bring Epiphany to SOAPnet's first serialized drama for primetime "General Hospital: Night Shift", which premieres in July, 2007. Ms. Eddy can also be seen as a guest star on "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation".
Sonya's many guest appearances in other primetime shows include "In Case of Emergency", "Everybody Hates Chris", "Daybreak", "Malcolm In the Middle","Reba",and many others. Her guest star performances include "Strong Medicine", "Still Standing", and "The Hughleys".
In addition to her career successes, Ms. Eddy has recently become the only actor to have been cast twice on "ER". Her work can also be seen in over a dozen National commercials yearly.
Not to be omitted, her versatility as an all around performer can be seen in her most recent feature film roles in "Coach Carter" starring Samuel L. Jackson, "Bad News Bears" with Billy Bob Thornton, "Barbershop", "Daddy Daycare", "Matchstick Men", and "Surviving Christmas". Recently, Sonya completed filming "Year of the Dog" with Molly Shannon and Peter Sarsgaard.
Among Sonya's many special skills and talents she is also an accomplished Improv\Sketch artist, vocalist (2nd Soprano to 1st Tenor) and voice-over artist.- Producer
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Natalie Nunn is an American reality television star best known for her breakout role in Oxygen's hit series "Bad Girls Club" which premiered to the highest number of viewers in the network's history. Her big personality and ability to draw massive ratings landed Natalie on several of the network's spin-offs; including BGC All-Star Battle, BGC: Redemption, Love Games, and hosting "Top Ten OMG's" & "Making it to the Mansion: ATL".
Natalie later went on to create and executive produce her very own talk show "Tea Party with Natalie Nunn", and the uber successful franchise series "Baddies" and "Bad Boys", partnering with the Zeus network and helping to make their app one of the top media streaming platforms in the United States. Her "Baddies" franchise spawned the spin-offs "Baddies ATL" and "Baddies South", while "Bad Boys" inspired "Bad Boys: Los Angeles" and "Bad Boys: Houston".
Natalie Nunn is a graduate of the University of Southern California (USC) where she attended on a full soccer scholarship.
Natalie has been cast on a number of shows; Celebrity Big Brother, Braxton Family Values, Marriage Bootcamp Reality Stars, The Mother/Daughter Experiment: Celebrity Edition, and Hair Battle Spectacular to name a few.- Actor
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Mitch Mullany was born on 20 September 1968 in Concord, California, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for The Sweetest Thing (2002), Nick Freno: Licensed Teacher (1996) and The Breaks (1999). He died on 25 May 2008 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Casting Department
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Rachel E Reilly is a television personality, producer, actress, fashion designer and host. Rachel is known for Hollywood Today (2013) (2014), The Bold and the Beautiful (1987) (1987), Celebrity Big Brother (2018) (2018), Rachel is best known as a competition queen on reality TV, winning three reality shows, the 13th season of Big Brother, Snake in the Grass and Celebrity Fear Factor. Rachel met and married her husband on the 12th season of Big Brother. She was also on three seasons of Amazing Race seasons 20, 24 and 31.
Rachel has produced and hosted her own shows, Better with the Brenchels', Reality Relapse and Adventures 4 pets. She has also been a host on network and cable TV shows. Rachel is known for being an expert in all things reality TV. She has also been a guest showcase presenter on The Price is Right, a correspondent on ET US and Canada, Global TVs morning show, CTV, numerous local and digital TV networks, as well as, as an author for articles digitally and in print. Rachel also has worked in theatre productions, musicals, movies and as a TV actress. She loves entertainment and even loves to cast for reality TV.- David Oliver was born on 31 January 1962 in Concord, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Night of the Creeps (1986), A Year in the Life (1987) and A Year in the Life (1986). He died on 12 November 1992 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Philip Coolidge was born on 25 August 1908 in Concord, Massachusetts, USA. He was an actor, known for North by Northwest (1959), Inherit the Wind (1960) and The Tingler (1959). He died on 23 May 1967 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Adam Newacheck is a Director/Producer who has worked on television shows such as WORKAHOLICS, ADAM DEVINE'S HOUSE PARTY and IDIOTSITTER. Adam's latest project is a feature film thriller, STRANGER IN THE WOODS, that releases worldwide on February 14, 2024. He has directed commercials for VERIZON, APPLE, MOUNTAIN DEW, CANN, BITGET, KIA, CARNIVAL CRUISE LINES and many others. With over a decade of directing experience, he's earned the opportunity to work with talent such as DENNIS QUAID, BEN STILLER, STEPHEN ROOT, DRAYMOND GREEN, KIRK COUSINS, ADAM DEVINE, BLAKE ANDERSON, TOPHER GRACE and JILLIAN BELL. Adam sets himself apart as a director with his interdisciplinary mindset to filmmaking. Upon graduation from film school, Adam began his career as an editor before becoming a camera operator, and over the last 20 years, he's broadened his skill set to DP, producer and writer.- Actress
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Patterson was born in Concord, California and raised in Pleasant Hill in California's Bay Area. She is the youngest of four children.
Meredith 'Merie' Patterson has been dancing since the age of 2, and excelled at classical ballet, tap, and jazz. She competed in famous dance competitions around the country such as Tremaine & Show Stoppers. She began singing at age 8, and taking acting class at age 9. She made her stage debut at Concord Citi Arts production of "Cinderella" at the age of 13.
Patterson toured the country at age 17 as a teacher for The Universal Dance Association.
Patterson left home at age 18 and headed to New York City intent upon becoming a dancer on Broadway. She was nominated for a Barrymore Award at 19, starring in two national tours at 20, and signing her first Equity production contract with Madison Square Garden's show, "A Christmas Carol", with choreographer Susan Stroman, at 21.
She made her Broadway debut in 2000 in "The Green Bird", a play directed by Julie Taymor. The following year, she made her musical debut in the original chorus of the Tony Award-winning revival of "42nd Street". Three months after opening, she was given the starring role of "Peggy Sawyer", which she performed from August 2001 to August 2002 and her performance was taped for The Lincoln Center Archives. Later, Patterson was asked to star in a production of "42nd Street" in Moscow, Russia, making her the first American actress to star in an English-speaking musical in Russia and the first "Peggy Sawyer" to ever be billed above the title.
In 2003, actress Julie Andrews made her directorial debut with the musical, "The Boy Friend". Ms. Andrews met Patterson and cast her in the starring role of "Miss Polly Browne", coincidentally the same role that Ms. Andrews made her Broadway debut with some 50 years earlier. For this role, Patterson received critical acclaim.
Ms. Andrews took a liking to Ms. Patterson and set up a meeting with film director Garry Marshall for the movie, The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement. Mr. Marshall decided to put Meredith in the movie as Lord Nicholas Chris Pine's girlfriend, "Lady Alyssa Wells". Named after Garry Marshall's daughter-in-law, and Julie Andrews' real last name.
Patterson made her Los Angeles theater debut starring as "Louise Maske" in Steve Martin's adaptation of the play, "The Underpants" at the Geffen Playhouse, for which she received more rave reviews. In addition, she originated the role of "Judy Haynes" in the highly-anticipated world premiere of Irving Berlin's "White Christmas", which she originated on Broadway at The Marquis Theater, November 14 through January 4, 2009.
In addition to stage work, Patterson has made several television and film appearances, including guest starring roles on The Good Wife, Person Of Interest, Made in Jersey, Boston Legal and in the films, Every Little Step, A Secret Promise, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, Broken Flowers, The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement and Company Man. She is making her soap opera debut on Guiding Light and played the recurring role of "Francesca" on ABC's All My Children.
Patterson is a self-taught singer/songwriter. She has been writing music and lyrics since she was 18-years-old. She composed, performed, produced and recorded her own CD of music entitled "MerieNYC", available on ITunes. Autographed hard copies are rare.
Meredith is certified in Holistic Health from The Institute for Integrative Nutrition in NYC and owns her own company, Merie, where she counsels and coaches entertainment professionals how to balance themselves in the entertainment industry; body, mind and spirit.
Meredith resides in Hollywood, CA with her husband, Dustin Brayley and their children Maxwell & William.- Actor
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Edward X. Young studied film & television production, acting, and journalism at Seton Hall University; acting and stage directing at Brookdale College; business administration at Monmouth University; and film production at New York University. He honed his acting skills as a member of the R.I.S.K. Improvisational Theatre Group under the tutelage of Fabir Rodriguez-Ammirato. As a young actor, he performed on-stage in the New York Metropolitan Area in productions of "Amadeus," "Dracula," "Children of a Lesser God," "True West," "The Boys Next Door," and "Modigliani". He also worked in the theater as a director, staging productions of "Waiting for Godot," "Hurlyburly," "Lunchtime," and "Wait Until Dark."
While a part of the Downtown New York City art scene in the late 1970s through the early 1990s, he became heavily involved in punk music, befriending members of Johnny Thunders' band The Heartbreakers, Walter Lure's band The Waldos, and Church Pills. He worked as the publicity manager for the band The Suave Elbows, which featured musicians Christopher Clunie and Marty Byk.
After leaving the performing arts for a decade and moving to New Hampshire to raise a family and work as a journalist, Ed relaunched his acting career, appearing in the radio play "The Death Guard"(based on the science fiction novel by Philip George Chadwick) which was co-produced and directed by Kate Linaker (aka Kate Phillips), who was the screenwriter of "The Blob" (1958) for broadcast on New Hampshire radio stations. Ed then joined the Greenville Shakespeare Festival, of Greenville, New Hampshire.
In 2007, Young relocated back to the New York metro area, where he joined the Celtic Theatre Company in residence at Seton Hall University, his alma mater. His recent film work as an actor is focused on genre horror features.
He has also worked on numerous experimental film and video projects as director, writer, editor, animator, and make-up special effects artist. Early collaborative efforts include numerous short film subjects produced in partnership with Daniel Acon.
Young continues to write film reviews as a critic for several publications, including the New Hampshire newspaper The Keene Sentinel and its on-line edition SentinelSource.com.- Additional Crew
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Gennifer Hutchison was born on 19 July 1977 in Concord, Massachusetts, USA. She is a producer, known for Breaking Bad (2008), Better Call Saul (2015) and The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (2022).- Actor
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Dick DeCoit was born on 10 September 1946 in Concord, California, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for The Young and the Restless (1973), Little House on the Prairie (1974) and The Practice (1997). He has been married to Cheryl McWilliams since 5 November 1994.- Actor
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Nicholas "Nick" Purcell is an American actor best known for starring on the Nickelodeon series The Troop. He is originally from Concord, the capital city of New Hampshire. He graduated in 2008 from Concord High School. In his Nickelodeon series, The Troop, Nick plays Jake Collins, a Freshman Monster Hunter with his fellow Troop members, Felix, Hayley, and Mr. Stockley. They go on various adventures trying to help save their town from deadly monsters. Also, he plays a role in the 2009 movie Surrogates, as well as other roles listed in the filmography below.- Producer
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Chris Stinson is a Producer and Line Producer who aims to only work with kind human beings. He is from New Hampshire and is a wicked die-hard Red Sox fan who would love to work on more films in New England like his last few, Sound Of Metal, Knives Out and Alexander Payne's The Holdovers, which were filmed in Massachusetts. Of those, Knives Out was nominated for an Academy Award in 2020 and Sound Of Metal was nominated for six Academy Awards in 2021 and went on to win two.
The last four features Chris worked on should be coming to a theater near you in 2023. Those include Somewhere In Queens, with Ray Romano, Untitled Trey Parker Project with the South Park team and the amazing Anne Garefino, Suncoast, made with love with Searchlight and this November Alexander Payne's The Holdovers. He has worked on over 35 feature films and many of his other films including Leave No Trace, Low Down, Me and You and Everyone We Know and Chronic, have gone on to win awards at film festivals like Sundance and Cannes and several have been nominated for Best Feature at the Independent Spirit Awards.
In 2005 he was chosen to participate in the Film Independent Producing Lab and in 2010 he won the Van McLeod film award, named after his NH based mentor. He studied film production at Lyndon State College and Columbia College Chicago but highly recommends watching Lars Von Trier's The Five Obstructions if you want the expedited version of how to make a film.
His production company Live Free Or Die Films has several feature films in development with his producing partner, Amy Greene, and upcoming projects include films with Michael Barnett, Alexander Payne and Azazel Jacobs.
His spirit animals are Mister Rogers and Billy Jack.- Being just a "regular guy" and partying with his friends are two things that Dale Earnhardt, Jr., driver of the #8 Budweiser, likes to do when he has time off from his NASCAR racing schedule.
Outgoing and fond of being out in public, another of his favorite things to do is to hang out with his friends at the local Wal-Mart store. Doing these types of things, the up and coming star of the NASCAR Winston Cup Circuit can relax and feel like just a normal every day type person for awhile.
Dale Jr. (also affectionately called "Little E") has his own Club House of sorts where he and his friends can get together and can party down. Their place is called "Club E" and it's located in the basement of Junior's house, which incidentally is located on his dad's property in the state of North Carolina. Dale claims that it's the only place to be and that "Club E" is decked to the hilt with a big screen television, speakers as high as the ceiling and plenty of refrigeration for the main ingredient of any Dale Jr. party - the beer!
Though it would seem that because of who his daddy is, Dale Jr. would have been popular in high school, that wasn't how it was. He hung out with a small group of friends who pretty much hung tight and away from the so called "in crowd". Needless to say, his popularity status has since changed and all of the recognition he now gets, still catches him off-guard at times. Though he has many fans, he doesn't see himself as anyone "special" though he doesn't mind all the attention he gets from the girls now!
Being the son of the infamous driver of the #3 Goodwrench Chevy, one might think that that Little E would have had an advantage when it come to pursuing a career in NASCAR Racing. Instead of having things handed to him, he got there by starting at the bottom and proving himself all the way up through the ranks to the Winston Cup Circuit.
After high school Dale Earnhardt Jr. went to college and earned a two year automotive degree, after which he was hired to work as a mechanic in his father's Chevy dealership where he made only a little over $15,000 a year. At the age of 17, Dale Jr. began racing in the street stock division at Concord Speedway. It was two seasons later that he moved up into the NASCAR Late Model Stock Division, where he would compete for three seasons. Proving himself by capturing 12 Bud poles in the Late Model Stock Division, Dale Earnhardt Jr. showed himself and everyone else that he was ready to go to the NASCAR Busch Grand Nationals, which he did in 1996. By the start of the 2000 season Dale Jr. was ready to move up to the NASCAR Winston Cup Series and to pursue the title of Rookie of the Year.
Little E is a force to be reckoned with on the racetrack and he has showed that he has what it takes to be a winner. Though his father is a seven time Winston Cup Champion, Dale Jr. has done twice what his father has never done, and that is to win the Busch title!
Fun loving and a party animal off the track, when he straps himself into his race car on Sundays, Dale Earnhardt, Jr. is all business. Though unlike his father in a lot of ways, when it comes to racing, Dale Jr. shows that he can be every bit as aggressive of a driver as his dad is.
Before he was the face of NASCAR's new generation, Dale Earnhardt Jr. was very proud of his skills as an oil changer at his father's car dealership in North Carolina.
His career began meekly, as he and brother Kerry sold a go-kart for $500 so that they could buy an old Monte Carlo racecar for $200. Legend has it that Junior later sold that car to current Busch Series driver Hank Parker Jr.
Earnhardt Jr. took his first green flag at the Concord Speedway in the street stock division at the age of 17. He garnered three feature victories from 1994-96.
Just two years later, Earnhardt Jr. dominated the Busch Series, winning 13 races and two series championships in 1998-99. His first title in 1998 made him the first third-generation NASCAR champion, joining father Dale Sr. and grandfather Ralph. His maternal grandfather, Robert Gee, was a well-known NASCAR fabricator and mechanic.
Junior wasted no time making an impact in NASCAR's elite series when he entered in 2000. He won at Texas in his 12th career start and at Richmond in his 16th start. He also became the first rookie to win NASCAR's all-star race at Lowe's Motor Speedway.
It also didn't take long for Junior to become the unofficial poster boy of the sport. He's appeared on countless magazine covers, numerous television talk shows and was the focus of two MTV documentaries: "Cribs" and "True Life, I'm a Race Car Driver."
Junior is also a co-owner of "Chance 2 Motorsports," a Busch Series race team. - Actress
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Alysha Umphress was born on 9 March 1982 in Concord, California, USA. She is an actress, known for Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999), Blue Bloods (2010) and The Right Girl (2020).- Writer
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Tina Satter was born in 1974 in Concord, New Hampshire, USA. She is a writer and director, known for Reality (2023), Late Night with Seth Meyers Podcast (2016) and Girls on Film (2018).- Actor
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Recent recipient of an MFA in Screenwriting from University of Riverside, Palm Desert. Inspirations include mentor Joshua Malkin, program director Tod Goldberg and his teachers including Mickey Birnbaum and Jill Essbaum. Graduating from Villanova University, he went to New York City and cast in A Midsummer Night's Dream under the direction of Roundabout Theatre's founder Gene Feist. Soon thereafter he worked as a series regular on the Fox show Beetleborgs where he met directors John Putch, Gabe Torres, Bob Hughes, Doug Campbell, Worth Keeter and Jeff Burr. Soon after he worked on Tycus with Dennis Hopper. He worked on the NBC show ER, as well as the TNT show Southland.
He co wrote/directed the micro budget film 818. Having seen it on the big screen, he was inspired by Anthony Giacchino and James Hanlon to go back to school to learn something about writing. He is grateful for his cohorts. Joe Hackett has learned so much from the Lifetime movies has done directed by Doug Campbell..
Joe met his wife doing a Robert Anderson one act at Playhouse West in North Hollywood. Joe Hackett is very happy to be the Dad incredible children.- Jamie Wild was born on 27 March 1975 in Concord, California, USA. He is an actor, known for Overboard (1987), Scandal Sheet (1985) and The Dollmaker (1984).