Emmanuelle Sophie Anne Chriqui (English pronunciation: /ɨˈmænjuːl ˈʃriːki/; born December 10, 1977) is a Canadian actress who has appeared on both television and in cinema. She is perhaps best known for her role on HBO's Entourage as Sloan McQuewick, as well as the love interest of Adam Sandler in the movie You Don't Mess with the Zohan. In May 2010, she topped the AskMen.com Most Desirable Women of 2010 list.
Emmanuelle Chriqui Elektra Luxx
GQ / Emmanuelle Chriqui / June 2008
Emmanuelle Chriqui "Don't Mess with the Zohan" Jimmy Kimmel
Emmanuelle Chriqui - "Entourage" Red Dress Cleavage
Emmanuelle Chriqui on The Borgias
Call Of Duty: Black Ops Emmanuelle Chriqui
Early life
Chriqui was born in Montreal, Quebec, the daughter of Moroccan Jewish immigrants. Her mother was born in Casablanca and her father in Rabat,[5] and Chriqui has relatives in Israel.[3] Her family practised Orthodox Judaism in the Sephardic tradition.[6] Chriqui has an older brother, Serge, and an older sister, Laurence. When she was almost two, her family moved to Toronto, Ontario. She grew up in Markham-Unionville, a suburb northeast of the city.[7] Her mother, who once told her she would become an actress, died when Chriqui was very young. As a child, she took acting classes, for which her older brother paid. Chriqui attended the drama program at Unionville High School.[9] After high school, Emmanuelle decided to pursue a career in acting. [edit]Career
Chriqui began acting as a 10-year-old in a McDonald's commercial. She moved to Vancouver in the mid-1990s, guest-starring in series such as Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Forever Knight, Once a Thief, and Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal. Her first Hollywood role was as a supporting character in Detroit Rock City (1999). Chriqui later appeared in several movies such as 100 Girls, Wrong Turn, On the Line, and In the Mix. She starred opposite Cameron Douglas in the movie National Lampoon's Adam & Eve and played the character of Eve. One of her more significant parts was in the film You Don't Mess with the Zohan, where she played a Palestinian immigrant living in New York, who is the star's (Adam Sandler) love interest. Chriqui was nominated for a Best Actress DVD Exclusive Award for her performance in 100 Girls and was nominated, with Lance Bass, for a Choice Liplock Teen Choice Award in On the Line.[10] Recently, she won the Standout Performance Trophy at the Young Hollywood Awards.[11] Chriqui also starred in Hinder's "Lips of an Angel" music video as well as in the Zac Brown Band's "Whatever It Is" music video. She threw out the ceremonial first pitch at a Los Angeles Dodgers game on June 8, 2008. Chriqui was on the cover of the Autumn 2008 issue of Naked Eye. She acted in the movie Cadillac Records (2008) as Revett Chess, where she performed with Beyoncé Knowles. Chriqui was seen in 2009 as one of several women whose lives interconnect in the comedy Women in Trouble and will appear in its sequel, Elektra Luxx, its release in 2010. Chriqui has joined Showtime's 2011 series, The Borgias.[12] She has also been confirmed as the voice of Cheetara in the upcoming ThunderCats animated series.[citation needed] [edit]Filmography
Year Title Role Notes 1995 Harrison Bergeron Jeannie TV movie Forever Knight Jude Deshnell TV series; "The Black Buddha: Part 2" (Season 3, Episode 2) The Donor Patty 1996 Are You Afraid of the Dark? Amanda TV series; "Tale of the Night Shift" (Season 5, Episode 11) A Champion's Fight Cindy TV movie 1998 Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County Renee Laurent TV movie 1998 Principal Takes a Holiday Roxane TV movie 1999 Detroit Rock City Barbara 2000 Snow Day Claire Bonner Ricky 6 Lee 100 Girls Patty 2001 On the Line Abbey 2003 Wrong Turn Carly Shay Rick Duke's Long-Suffering Wife 2005 The O.C. Jodie TV series; 2 episodes Candy Paint Angela Martinez Unscripted Emmanuelle TV series; 3 episodes Waiting... Tyla The Crow: Wicked Prayer Lilly Entourage Sloan McQuewick TV series; Recurring character; 26 episodes; 2005–present National Lampoon's Adam & Eve Eve In the Mix Dolly 2006 Waltzing Anna Nurse Jill 2007 After Sex Jordy 2008 August Morela Sterling You Don't Mess with the Zohan Dahlia Tortured Becky Cadillac Records Revetta Chess 2009 Women in Trouble Bambi Taking Chances Lucy Saint John of Las Vegas Tasty D Lite 2010 13 Aileen Completed Elektra Luxx Bambi Completed Call of Duty: Black Ops Numbers Video game voice-over 2011 Science Ninja Team Gatchaman Post-production Girl Walks Into a Bar Teresa 5 Days of August Tatia The Borgias Sancia Thundercats Cheetara TV series, Post-production 2012 Tron: Uprising Page TV series, upcoming
Marisa Tomei (pronounced /məˈrɪsə toʊˈmeɪ/; born December 4, 1964) is an American stage, film and television actress. Following her work on As The World Turns, Tomei came to prominence as a supporting cast member on The Cosby Show spinoff A Different World in 1987. After appearing in a few films, her breakthrough came in 1992 with the comedy My Cousin Vinny, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Following other films, Tomei appeared in the cult film Slums of Beverly Hills in 1998. Appearing in many films in the past fifteen years, her most commercially successful films to date are What Women Want (2000), Anger Management (2003), and Wild Hogs (2007). She received critical acclaim for her performances in Unhook the Stars (1996), Slums of Beverly Hills (1998), Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007) and received subsequent Academy Award nominations for her performances in In the Bedroom (2001) and The Wrestler (2008).
[edit]1964–83: Early life and career beginnings Tomei, an Italian American,[3][4] was born in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of Patricia "Addie," an English teacher, and Gary A. Tomei, a trial lawyer.[5] She has a younger brother, actor Adam Tomei, and was partly raised by her paternal grandparents, Rita and Romeo Tomei.[6] Tomei grew up in the Midwood neighborhood of Brooklyn.[7] While there, she became captivated by the Broadway shows that her theater-loving parents took her to and became drawn to acting as a career. At Andries Hudde Junior High School, she played the part of Hedy LaRue in a school production of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. She graduated from Edward R. Murrow High School in 1982 and she attended Boston University for a year.[6] [edit]1984–2002: Breakthrough and critical success Tomei followed up As the World Turns, in 1986, with a role on the sitcom A Different World as Maggie Lauten during the first season. Her film debut was in a minor role in the 1984 comedy film The Flamingo Kid, with Matt Dillon. Following several small films, her breakthrough comedic performance[8] came in My Cousin Vinny (1992), where she received critical praise for her performance. Critic Vincent Canby wrote, "Ms. Tomei gives every indication of being a fine comedian, whether towering over Mr. Pesci and trying to look small, or arguing about a leaky faucet in terms that demonstrate her knowledge of plumbing. Mona Lisa is also a first-rate auto mechanic, which comes in handy in the untying of the knotted story."[9] For her performance, Tomei was named Best Supporting Actress at the 1993 Academy Awards, prevailing over Miranda Richardson, Joan Plowright, Vanessa Redgrave and Judy Davis. American film critic Rex Reed created controversy (and a minor Hollywood myth)[10][11][12] when he suggested that Jack Palance had announced the wrong name after opening the envelope.[13][14] While this allegation was repeatedly disproved[15][16] – even the Academy officially denied it[17] – Tomei called the story "extremely hurtful." A Price Waterhouse accountant explained that if such an event had occurred, "we have an agreement with the Academy that one of us would step on stage, introduce ourselves, and say the presenter misspoke."[18] After her Oscar win, Tomei appeared as silent film star Mabel Normand in the film Chaplin, with her then-boyfriend Robert Downey Jr. as the title character. The following year she starred in the romantic drama Untamed Heart with Christian Slater where they won the MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss, Tomei had won the previous year for Best Breakthrough Performance for My Cousin Vinny. The following year Tomei appeared alongside Downey again in the romantic comedy Only You. She then appeared in Nick Cassavetes's Unhook the Stars opposite Gena Rowlands. Of Tomei's performance, The New York Times wrote, "Ms. Tomei is equally fine as Mildred's younger, hot-tempered neighbor, whose raw working-class feistiness and bluntly profane vocabulary initially repel the genteel older woman."[19] She received her first Screen Actor's Guild Award nomination for Outstanding Female Supporting Actor for her performance. In 1998, she received an American Comedy Award nomination for Funniest Supporting Actress for Tamara Jenkins's cult film Slums of Beverly Hills, in which she appeared alongside Natasha Lyonne and Alan Arkin. The independent film was well received by critics and the public.[20] The New York Times writes, "Jenkins makes the most of an especially ingratiating cast, with Ms. Tomei very charming and funny as Rita"[21] while another critic states Tomei is "spunky and sexy, . . . more subdued than she usually is."[22] Tomei spent several years away from high-profile roles and major motion pictures in the late 1990s, before rising again to prominence in the early 2000s.[23] Tomei appeared in the 2000 film What Women Want with Mel Gibson and Helen Hunt, which was a commercial success, and had a supporting role in the romantic comedy Someone Like You with Hugh Jackman and Ashley Judd. In 2001, Tomei appeared in Todd Field's Best Picture nominee In the Bedroom opposite Sissy Spacek and Tom Wilkinson, earning several awards including a ShoWest Award for Best Supporting Actress in 2002. Variety wrote, "Tomei is winning in what is surely her most naturalistic and unaffected performance,"[24] while The New York Times writer Stephen Holden exclaimed, "Ms. Tomei's ruined, sorrowful Natalie is easily her finest screen role."[25] In the Bedroom earned Tomei a second Academy Award nomination and her first Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Tomei also shared a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for Outstanding Performance by a Cast. In 2002 she appeared in the Bollywood-inspired film The Guru and voiced the role of Bree Blackburn, the main antagonist in the animated feature film The Wild Thornberrys Movie. During the latter part of the 1990s Tomei made several television appearances. In 1996 she made a guest appearance on the sitcom Seinfeld, playing herself in the two-part episode "The Cadillac." In the episode, George attempts to get a date with Tomei through a friend of Elaine's. She also made an appearance on The Simpsons as movie star Sara Sloane, who falls in love with Ned Flanders. Former Saturday Night Live cast member Jay Mohr wrote in his book Gasping for Airtime that, as guest host in October 1994, Tomei insisted that a proposed sketch about another actress not be used because she did not like the idea of making fun of her; that stand displeased the writers and performers, given the show's penchant for satirizing celebrities.[26] [edit]2003–present In 2003, Tomei appeared in one of her biggest commercial hits, Anger Management. The following year, she appeared in the film Alfie based on the 1966 British film of the same name, opposite Jude Law. In 2005, she was featured in an ad campaign for Hanes with the slogan "Look who we've got our Hanes on now", featuring various other celebrities including Michael Jordan, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Damon Wayans, Matthew Perry and, on Spanish-language advertising, Aracely Arambula and Pablo Montero. In 2006, Tomei had a recurring role on Rescue Me, playing Johnny Gavin's ex-wife Angie. She won a Gracie Allen Award for Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her work in the four episodes she appeared in. The following year she appeared in the comedy Wild Hogs alongside John Travolta, Tim Allen, William H. Macy and Martin Lawrence. The film was the 13th highest-grossing movie of 2007 ($168,273,550 domestic box office). She also starred in the Sidney Lumet-directed Before the Devil Knows You're Dead opposite co-stars Philip Seymour Hoffman and Ethan Hawke. The film was released to critical acclaim.
Tomei at the 81st Academy Awards in February 2009 In 2008, Tomei played Cassidy/Pam, a struggling stripper in the Darren Aronofsky independent film The Wrestler opposite Mickey Rourke. She appeared in several nude scenes performing dance numbers in the film, on working with Tomei, director Aronofsky said, "This role shows how courageous and brave Marisa is. And ultimately she's really sexy. We knew nudity was a big part of the picture, and she wanted to be that exposed and vulnerable."[27] Numerous critics heralded this performance as a standout in her career, The Hollywood Reporter states, "Tomei delivers one of her most arresting performances, again without any trace of vanity."[28] Ty Burr of The Boston Globe writes, "Tomei gives a brave and scrupulously honest performance, one that's most naked when Pam has her clothes on."[29] Variety exclaimed, "Tomei is in top, emotionally forthright form as she charts a life passage similar to Ram's."[30] For her performance she was nominated for her first BAFTA, second Golden Globe and third Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Tomei was included at #18 on the FHM annual list of "100 Sexiest Females in the world" in 2009.[31] The following year she appeared in two films, the first a comedy-drama, Cyrus and a cameo in the comedy film, Grown Ups. Tomei hosted the 2011 Scientific and Technical Awards, which was followed by an appearance at the 83rd Academy Awards.[32] Recently, she starred alongside Matthew McConaughey and Ryan Phillippe in the mystery suspense film, The Lincoln Lawyer, though the film was met with mixed reviews. The Hollywood Reporter states that Tomei's character was "brutally underused".[33] She also appeared in Salvation Boulevard with Jennifer Connelly, Pierce Brosnan and Greg Kinnear, which premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. Tomei's upcoming films include, Crazy, Stupid, Love with Steve Carell, Julianne Moore, Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone, and the George Clooney film, The Ides of March with Clooney, Ryan Gosling and Paul Giamatti. She is in talks to star alongside Sarah Jessica Parker in the indie comedy, Married and Cheating.[34] In an interview, Lady Gaga stated that she would want Tomei to portray her in a film about the singer, Tomei responded saying, "I was thrilled when I heard. I love her. I love her music. And she's a smart businesswoman. So I was so touched, really. I think it's incredible that she likes my work and that she'd think of me."[35] [edit]Theatre Tomei has also done substantial work in the theater, including taking lead roles on Broadway in Wait Until Dark (1998) and Oscar Wilde's Salomé (2003) alongside Al Pacino and Dianne Wiest as well as many Off-Broadway plays. [edit]Personal life In the early 1990s, Tomei dated Robert Downey, Jr. (her co-star in Chaplin and Only You).[36] In 1999, she dated actor Dana Ashbrook[36][37] and had a relationship with playwright Frank Pugliese, living with him in Greenwich Village.[36][38] Tomei was the recipient of an honorary degree from Boston University.[39] She has been dating actor Logan Marshall-Green.[40] [edit]Awards
[edit]Academy Award Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress Wins 1992: My Cousin Vinny Nominations 2001: In the Bedroom 2008: The Wrestler [edit]Filmography
Film Year Title Role Notes 1984 The Flamingo Kid Mandy 1984 The Toxic Avenger Health Club Girl uncredited[41] 1986 Playing for Keeps Tracy 1991 Oscar Lisa Provolone Nominated—Razzie Award for Worst Supporting Actress 1991 Zandalee Remy 1992 My Cousin Vinny Mona Lisa Vito Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Most Promising Actress (also for Chaplin) MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Performance Nominated—Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress 1992 Equinox Rosie Rivers 1992 Chaplin Mabel Normand Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Most Promising Actress (also for My Cousin Vinny) 1993 Untamed Heart Caroline MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss (shared with Christian Slater) 1994 Only You Faith Corvatch 1994 The Paper Martha Hacket 1995 The Perez Family Dorita Evita Perez 1995 Four Rooms Margaret 1996 Unhook the Stars Monica Warren Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Supporting Female Actor - Motion Picture 1997 A Brother's Kiss Missy 1997 Welcome to Sarajevo Nina 1998 Slums of Beverly Hills Rita Abromowitz American Comedy Awards for Funniest Supporting Actress – Motion Picture Nominated—Teen Choice Award — Film — Funniest Scene (shared with Natasha Lyonne) 1998 My Own Country Mattie Vines TV movie 1998 Since You've Been Gone Tori TV movie uncredited 1998 Only Love Elvie TV movie 2000 Happy Accidents Ruby Weaver 2000 The Watcher Dr. Polly Beilman 2000 What Women Want Lola Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Blockbuster Entertainment Awards — Favorite Supporting Actress — Comedy/Romance 2000 King of the Jungle Det. Costello 2000 Dirk and Betty Paris 2001 In the Bedroom Natalie Strout Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress Southeastern Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated—Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated—Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated—Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated—Chlotrudis Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture Nominated—Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated—Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture Drama Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Cast - Motion Picture 2001 Someone Like You Liz 2001 Jenifer Nina Capelli TV movie 2002 The Wild Thornberrys Movie Bree Blackburn voice 2002 Just a Kiss Paula 2002 The Guru Lexi 2003 Anger Management Linda 2004 Alfie Julie 2005 Loverboy Sybil 2005 Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing and Charm School Meredith Morrison 2005 Factotum Laura 2006 Danika Danika 2007 Grace Is Gone Woman at Pool 2007 Wild Hogs Maggie 2007 Before the Devil Knows You're Dead Gina Hanson Gotham Award for Best Cast Nominated—Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female 2007 The Rich Inner Life of Penelope Cloud Penelope Cloud TV movie 2008 War, Inc. Natalie Hegalhuzen 2008 The Wrestler Cassidy/Pam Central Ohio Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress International Cinephile Society for Best Supporting Actress Detroit Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actress Florida Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress Hollywood Film Festival Award for Supporting Actress of the Year Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actress Oklahoma Film Critics Circle for Best Supporting Actress Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actress Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actress San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actress San Francisco Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated—Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated—BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role Nominated—Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated—Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture Nominated—Houston Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated—Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress 2010 Cyrus Molly Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy 2010 Grown Ups Spectator Cameo 2011 The Lincoln Lawyer Margaret McPherson 2011 Salvation Boulevard Honey Foster post-production 2011 Crazy, Stupid, Love Kate post-production 2011 The Ides of March Ida Horowicz Filming Television Year Title Role Notes 1983–1985 As the World Turns Marcy Thompson 1987 ABC Afterschool Special Noelle Crandall 1 episode: "Supermom's Daughter" 1987 Leg Work Donna Ricci 1 episode: "Pilot" 1987 A Different World Maggie Lauten 21 episodes 1996 Seinfeld Herself 1 episode: "The Cadillac" 2003 The Simpsons Sara Sloane Voice 1 episode: "A Star Is Born Again" 2006 Rescue Me Angie Gavin 4 episodes Gracie Allen Awards — Outstanding Supporting Actress — Drama Series
Ali Landry (born July 21, 1973) is a former Miss USA (1996), model and actress. She is perhaps best known as the Doritos Girl from her 1998 Super Bowl commercial, and for her portrayal of Rita Lefleur on the UPN sitcom Eve. In 1998, she was named by People magazine as one of 50 most beautiful people in the world.
Ali Landry Doritos Commercial
Ali Landry Doritos Commercial #2
Ali Landry Sexy
Clip #2 of Ali Landry, from the movie "RepliKate"
ALI LANDRY (Miss USA 1996) Interview at MOVIEGUIDE AWARDS 2010
Early life
Landry grew up in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana. This southern region of Louisiana is referred to as "Acadiana", or Cajun country. Landry is of French (Cajun) descent.[2][3] She attended Cecilia High School, graduating in 1991. In high school, she was captain of the cheerleaders. She attended the University of Southwestern Louisiana and majored in mass communication. She is an alumnus of Kappa Delta Sorority. [edit]Pageantry
Her first foray into pageantry came in 1990 when she was crowned Miss Louisiana Teen USA. She represented Louisiana in the 1990 Miss Teen USA pageant held in Biloxi, Mississippi in July 1990, where she placed first in the preliminary swimsuit and evening gown competitions, but was ranked seventh during the final competition and couldn't reach the final 6. In 1995, Landry won the 1996 Miss Louisiana USA title, becoming the first former Miss Louisiana Teen USA to win the Miss crown. She went on to compete in the 1996 Miss USA pageant, which was broadcast live from South Padre Island, Texas in February 1996 — she placed third highest after the preliminary competition and second highest on average during the final Top 10 competition. She was the highest placed of the Top 6 finalists and eventually went on to win the 1996 title. She is the first former Miss Teen USA delegate to actually win the Miss USA crown (her predecessor Shanna Moakler, previously Miss Rhode Island Teen USA, Miss New York USA and first runner-up to Miss USA Chelsi Smith, only inherited the title after Smith became Miss Universe). Landry competed in the 1996 Miss Universe pageant held in Las Vegas in May that year. She placed first in the preliminary competition and was ranked second in the evening gown and interview events during the final competition. She was second going in to the next round of six delegates, but she was eliminated after the judges' questions. Until 1999, Landry was the only former Miss Teen USA delegate to compete at Miss Universe. Her record at all three pageants was not surpassed until 2000 when Miss USA 2000, Lynnette Cole made the top 5 at all three pageants. [edit]Post pageants
Landry has done much modeling for photographers and magazines. As a spokeswoman for the Doritos chips brand, she appeared in celebrated TV commercials airing during the 1998, 1999 and 2000 Super Bowl football games. She was named by People magazine as one of 50 most beautiful people in the world in 1998.[4] Her house was featured on E!'s celebrity homes and on MTV's Cribs. She has been listed as one of FHM magazine's 100 Sexiest Women in the World numerous times. She was twice named on Stuff Magazine's 100 Sexiest Women list. Askmen.com has named her one of the 50 Most Beautiful Women and 99 Most Desirable Women in the World. In 2002, she hosted the second season of the hidden-camera series Spy TV. From 2003 to 2006, she was a regular cast member of the UPN sitcom Eve. Landry has participated in the show Fear Factor and was runner-up. She is an avid athlete and also participated in the Boston Marathon. Currently, she hosts the English and Spanish-language versions of Spotlight to Nightlight, an interview show on Yahoo where she talks with celebrity mothers about parenting issues. She also launched a lifestyle line, Belle Parish in 2009. Belle Parish launched with a children's clothing line in September 2009 and will be in stores Spring 2010. The line is inspired by her Southern upbringing and the keepsake items her mother saved from her childhood. [edit]Personal life
Landry later met actor and TV personality Mario Lopez when he MC-ed the Miss Teen USA 1998 pageant and she was a commentator. They were engaged during the summer of 2003 and married on April 24, 2004, in a Roman Catholic ceremony in front of 50 guests at the exclusive Las Alamandas resort outside Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.[5] Two weeks later she had the marriage annulled over infidelities committed by Lopez during the relationship.[5][6] She married film director Alejandro Gomez Monteverde on April 8, 2006 in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.[7][8] Their daughter Estela Ines Monteverde was born on July 11, 2007.[9] On April 22, 2011, People magazine was the first to announce that she was three months pregnant with a second child due in autumn 2011.[10][11] [edit]Filmography
Landry at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival Landry and her husband Alejandro Monteverde made the film Bella together. Bella was directed by Monteverde and was produced by their business partners Sean Wolfington, Eduardo Verastegui, Leo Severino, and Denise Pinckley.[12] Monteverde and the filmmakers received honors for Bella from the Toronto Film Festival, the Smithsonian and the White House. The Smithsonian Latino Center honored Monteverde with their "Legacy Award."[13] The director of the Department of Citizenship also gave Monteverde the "American by Choice" award for Bella's positive contribution to Latino art and culture in the U.S.[14] US President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush saw the film and invited Bella's director to sit with Laura Bush in her private box during the annual State of the Union speech in 2007.[15] [edit]Films Bella (2006) Who's Your Daddy? (2003) (V) Outta Time (2002) Repli-Kate (2002) Soulkeeper (2001) Beautiful (2000) Hung Tom Chung (2000) [edit]Television The Superstars (2009) (ABC) Eve (2003–2006) (TV series, playing Rita) (UPN) Beach Week (Travel Channel) Will You Marry Me? (2003) (TV) Spy TV (2002) (TV series, host of second season) Full Frontal Fashion (host) Fastlane (recurring role) Farmclub.com (2001) (TV series) Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve (co-host) Fear Factor Felicity Inside Schwartz Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place Popular Significant Others Bold and the Beautiful Clueless Dorito's commercials Pensacola: Wings of Gold (1998–1999) (TV series, regular guest star) America's Greatest Pets (1998) (TV series, host) Sunset Beach (1997) (TV series) Secret's Out (ReelzChannel) The Best Commercials You've Never Seen (and Some You Have) 2 (1999) (TV Special, host) The Smoking Gun Presents: World's Dumbest... (2008) (TV series, commentator)
Kristin Chenoweth (born July 24, 1968) is an American singer and actress, with credits in musical theatre, film and television. She is best known on Broadway for her performance as Sally Brown in You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown (1999), for which she won a Tony Award, and for originating the role of Glinda in the musical Wicked (2003). Her best-known television role is Annabeth Schott in NBC's The West Wing. As Olive Snook on the ABC comedy-drama Pushing Daisies, she won a 2009 Emmy Award. An Oklahoma native, Chenoweth sang gospel music as a child and studied opera before deciding to pursue a career in musical theatre. In 1997, she made her Broadway debut in Steel Pier. Besides You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown and Wicked, Chenoweth's stage work includes five City Center Encores! productions, Broadway's The Apple Tree in 2006 and Promises, Promises in 2010, as well as Off-Broadway and regional theatre productions. Chenoweth had her own TV series Kristin in 2001, and has guest starred on many shows, including Sesame Street and Glee, for which she was nominated for Emmy awards in 2010 and 2011. In films, she has played mostly character roles, such as in Bewitched (2005), The Pink Panther (2006) and RV (2006). She has also played roles in made-for-TV movies, done voice work in animated films and the animated TV series Sit Down, Shut Up, hosted several award shows and released several albums of songs, including A Lovely Way to Spend Christmas (2008). Chenoweth also penned a memoir, A Little Bit Wicked: Life, Love, and Faith in Stages.
Kristin Chenoweth - "That's How You Know" (Live at the Academy Awards)
Early life
Adopted at birth, Kristi Dawn Chenoweth was born and grew up in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, a suburb of Tulsa, Oklahoma. She has said that she is one-quarter Cherokee. At an early age, she performed gospel songs for local churches. A performing highlight of her childhood was a solo appearance at the Southern Baptist Convention national conference at the age of 12, where she performed the Evie Tornquist-Karlsson song "Four Feet Eleven". The chorus begins, "I'm only 4 feet 11, but I'm going to Heaven" (Chenoweth is 4 ft 11 in (150 cm) in height). After graduating from Broken Arrow Senior High, where she participated in school plays, Chenoweth attended Oklahoma City University, where she was a member of Gamma Phi Beta (Beta Omicron) sorority.[4][5] She earned a BFA degree in musical theatre[6] and a master's degree in opera performance, studying under voice instructor Florence Birdwell, who also trained Miss America 1981, Susan Powell, and three-time Tony nominee Kelli O'Hara.[4] It was Birdwell who suggested to Chenoweth that she add an "n" to her first name.[7] While at OCU, Chenoweth competed in beauty pageants, winning the title of "Miss OCU" and was the first runner-up in the Miss Oklahoma pageant in 1991.[2] In 1992, Chenoweth participated in a studio recording of The Most Happy Fella.[8] Chenoweth participated in a number of vocal competitions and was named "most promising up-and-coming singer" in the Metropolitan Opera National Council auditions, which came with a full scholarship to Philadelphia's Academy of Vocal Arts.[9] Two weeks before school started, however, she went to New York City to help a friend move. While there, she auditioned for the 1993 Paper Mill Playhouse production of the musical Animal Crackers and got the role of Arabella Rittenhouse. She turned down the scholarship and moved to New York to do the show and pursue a career in musical theatre.[9] [edit]Career
Chenoweth has appeared in theater, television,film and on the concert stage. She was awarded an honorary doctorate in Performing Arts from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts on May 30, 2009, where she was the commencement speaker.[10] [edit]Theatre
Chenoweth (holding her dog, Madeline Kahn "Maddie" Chenoweth) joins Laura Bush and celebrity models to raise awareness of heart disease in the Red Dress Collection Celebrity Fashion Show After Animal Crackers, Chenoweth continued to appear in regional theatre productions, such as Babes in Arms and Phantom (as Christine; also touring in Germany in this role),[11] also taking roles in Off-Broadway productions like Luisa in The Fantasticks,[2] and Kristy in Box Office of the Damned (1994).[11] In 1997, she appeared as Hyacinth in the Roundabout Theater Company production of Moliere's farcical Scapin, earning her first New York Times review, with Ben Brantley writing "Kristin Chenoweth's sob-prone ingenue ... [is] delightful".[12] She made her Broadway debut in the spring of 1997 as Precious McGuire in the musical Steel Pier by Kander and Ebb, for which she won a Theatre World award.[2] In 1998 she appeared in the City Center Encores! staged concert of the George and Ira Gershwin musical Strike up the Band as Anne Draper[13] and the Lincoln Center Theatre production of William Finn's A New Brain.[14] In 1999, Chenoweth performed in the Broadway revival of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown as the title character's little sister, Sally, a character that was not present in the original production. She won the Tony, Drama Desk, Clarence Derwent, and Outer Critics Circle Awards for Best Featured Actress in a Musical.[15] Later that year, she starred on Broadway in the short-lived comic play Epic Proportions,[16] followed by starring as Daisy Gamble in the "Encores!" production of On a Clear Day You Can See Forever in February 2000.[17] After this, Chenoweth split her time between stage and TV or film roles and released her first solo album, Let Yourself Go (2001). In 2002, she performed in the City Center Encores! 10th Anniversary Bash.[18] In October 2003, she returned to Broadway (after the San Francisco tryout) in Wicked, the musical about the early years of the witches of Oz, in the joint-leading role of Glinda, the Good Witch of the North. She was nominated for a 2004 Tony Award as Best Leading Actress in a Musical for her performance, losing to her co-star Idina Menzel (who played Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West).[19] Chenoweth was also nominated for the Drama Desk Award[20][21] and the Drama League Award for this role.[22] After playing Glinda for nine months, Chenoweth left Wicked, on July 18, 2004,[23] soon joining the cast of The West Wing in Los Angeles. Chenoweth played Cunegonde in the New York Philharmonic revival of Candide, directed by Lonny Price, in May 2004.[24] The production was also broadcast on PBS's Great Performances. A performance of the rarely sung duet "We Are Women", between Cunegonde and the Old Lady (played by Patti Lupone), was included in the production.[25][26] From December 2006 to March 2007, she starred on Broadway as Eve in a revival of The Apple Tree with co-stars Brian d'Arcy James and former fiancé Marc Kudisch.[27] She received nominations for the Drama Desk Award[28] and the Drama League Award. She hosted that year's Drama Desk Awards ceremony.[28] Chenoweth played Elizabeth in a 2006 workshop of Mel Brooks's musical theatre adaptation of his film Young Frankenstein,[29] but due to other commitments, she was unable to appear in the Broadway production.[30] In 2008 she was scheduled to reprise her role as Cunegonde in an English National Opera production of Candide, but she had to pull out.[31] She appeared in the Encores! semi-staged production of Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's Music in the Air in February 2009.[32] Chenoweth was scheduled to return to The Metropolitan Opera in 2010 to play Samira in John Corigliano's opera The Ghosts of Versailles.[33] The Met cancelled the expensive production in 2008 as the U.S. economy weakened.[34] Chenoweth starred as Fran Kubelik in the 2010 Broadway revival of the musical Promises, Promises, opposite Sean Hayes, which opened on April 25, 2010.[35] The songs "I Say a Little Prayer" and "A House Is Not a Home" were added for her to sing.[36] Chenoweth and Hayes remained in the cast until the show closed on January 2, 2011,[37] although she missed performances from December 29, 2010 to January 1, 2011 to perform a New Year's Eve concert at Walt Disney Concert Hall on December 31, 2010.[37][38] Chenoweth took part in a reading of the musical On the Twentieth Century for the Roundabout Theatre Company in early 2011 with Hugh Jackman and Andrea Martin.[39][40] She played televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker in a reading of a new musical called Rise in spring 2011.[41] [edit]Television work After a guest appearance on LateLine, a role in the short-lived Paramour (1999) and several roles in television films such as Annie (as Lily St. Regis), Chenoweth starred in her own NBC sitcom, the semi-autobiographical Kristin in 2001. It was short-lived, with thirteen episodes filmed, but only six episodes aired.[42] Chenoweth appeared in the lead role of Marian in the 2003 television film, The Music Man, opposite Matthew Broderick.[43] She also guest-starred on such shows as Frasier (2001), Sesame Street (2004) and Ugly Betty (2007).[44] In 2004, Chenoweth began playing the recurring role of media consultant Annabeth Schott in The West Wing.[45][46] For her performance, she was nominated twice, along with the cast, for a Screen Actors Guild Award. She appeared in the final two seasons of the program, through 2006.[47][46] From 2007 to 2009, Chenoweth played Olive Snook in the television series Pushing Daisies. For her performance she received critical acclaim and was nominated two years in a row for an Emmy Award, winning in 2009 as Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series.[48]The series was cancelled after two seasons.[2] In 2009, Chenoweth lent her voice to the animated comedy series Sit Down, Shut Up as Miracle Grohe, a science teacher who does not believe in science.[6] The series lasted just thirteen episodes. Later that year, Chenoweth guest starred as April Rhodes in Glee, singing several songs, earning enthusiastic notices. The character is a former member of the glee club who never finished high school and ended up hitting rock bottom.[49] A review in USA Today observed, "Her presence may not make much sense, but [if] it means hearing Chenoweth sing, we can put up with any explanation the show cares to offer."[50][51] She received a Satellite Award for Outstanding Guest Star.[52] In April 2010, Chenoweth returned to Glee as April Rhodes, singing more songs.[53] The Los Angeles Times review commented, "the best part about 'Home' was undoubtedly the return of Kristin Chenoweth as April. ... From her spunky duet of 'Fire' with Schue, to the heart-achingly lonely coo of 'One Less Bell to Answer' which segued into a fantastic reprise of 'A House Is Not a Home' and of course her bone-chilling take on 'Home' ... I fell in love with her again."[54] She was nominated for both 2010 and 2011 Emmy Awards for her performances on Glee.[55][56] Chenoweth returned to Glee in 2011.[citation needed] In 2011, Chenoweth joined the cast of an upcoming pilot for ABC called Good Christian Bitches as a character named Darlene.[57] On May 13, 2011, ABC picked it up and changed the title to Good Christian Belles.[58] [edit]Films Chenoweth made her film debut in the film Topa Topa Bluffs in 2002 playing the role of Patty.[citation needed] After several years away from film she returned to the big screen in the 2005 film version of Bewitched, directed by Nora Ephron. The film's star, Nicole Kidman, had attended a performance of Wicked and was so impressed with Chenoweth that Kidman asked Ephron to cast Chenoweth in the film.[citation needed] Chenoweth played the part of Maria Kelly, the Kidman character's neighbor. In 2006, Chenoweth played supporting roles in five films, The Pink Panther, RV, Running with Scissors, Deck the Halls, and Stranger Than Fiction. On February 24, 2008, Chenoweth sang "That's How You Know" from the film Enchanted at the 80th Academy Awards in the Kodak Theater.[59] She also voiced Rosetta, the garden fairy in the 2008 animated film Tinker Bell.[6] Later that year, Chenoweth appeared in the 2008 holiday romantic comedy film Four Christmases, playing the sister of Reese Witherspoon's character. In 2009, Chenoweth starred as a "suicidal prostitute" in the indie drama Into Temptation, written and directed by Patrick Coyle. The film was screened at the Newport Beach Film Festival and since then has been released on DVD.[60] Also in 2009, Chenoweth reprised her voice role of Rosetta in Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure and filmed the Disney comedy You Again (released in 2010). Chenoweth hosted the 15th Annual Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards which aired January 15, 2010, on VH1.[61] [edit]Other media Chenoweth often appears on Prairie Home Companion.[62] On August 27, 2008, Chenoweth released an internet video with Funny or Die titled Intervention with Kristin Chenoweth.[63] The video parodied A&E's show Intervention, with Chenoweth starring as a singing, dancing interventionist. The song was composed by Andrew Lippa, Chenoweth's frequent musical director and composer for her concert songs as well as the composer of "My New Philosophy", which she sang in the revival of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown. The lyrics are by Amy Rhodes, who also wrote the clip.[63][64] Chenoweth admitted that she was hesitant about performing the lyrics.[64] In 2010, she appeared in a three-minute video short for Glamour Magazine entitled "iPad or Bust".[65] Chenoweth posed for the cover and a photo spread in the March 2006 edition of FHM magazine.[66] In 2011, Chenoweth released her first televised music video on Country Music Television, directed by Roman White, "I Want Somebody".[67] The video for the single peaked at #19 on CMT's Top Twenty Countdown.[68] [edit]Recordings and concerts Chenoweth has a distinctive speaking voice, one she has compared to that of Betty Boop.[69] She is a classically trained coloratura soprano, able to sing the note "F6" (also known as "F above High C").[70] Among other early recordings, Chenoweth participated in a studio cast recording of The Most Happy Fella in 1992. She was also in the cast recordings of A New Brain (1998) and You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown (1999) and a studio cast recording of 110 in the Shade (1999). In 2000, she was featured on the album Grateful: The Songs of John Bucchino. The next year, with Mandy Patinkin, she was featured on the album entitled "Kidults".[8] Also in 2001, she released her debut album Let Yourself Go, which was a collection of standards from the musicals of the 1930s. One of the tracks featured a duet with Jason Alexander. In October 2002, Chenoweth performed songs from her solo album, Let Yourself Go, in concert for Lincoln Center's American Songbook concert series.[71] The same year, she appeared as Fanny Brice in the Actor's Fund Benefit Concert of the musical Funny Girl in New York City. In 2003 in London, she performed a solo concert as part of the Divas at Donmar series for director Sam Mendes. Later that year, she sang Glinda in the cast recording of Wicked and the soundrack recording of Disney's The Music Man. In 2004, she released her second album As I Am, which was a Christian music album containing various spiritual songs. The album peaked at number 31 on the U.S. Christian Albums Chart. The same year, Chenoweth gave a concert at Carnegie Hall.[8] On January 19, 2007, Chenoweth performed a solo concert at The Metropolitan Opera in New York, only the third musical theatre star ever to present a solo concert at that location, following Barbara Cook and Yves Montand.[72] The same year, she was featured in songs with Nathan Gunn on an album entitled Just Before Sunrise. The next year, she released her third solo studio album, entitled A Lovely Way to Spend Christmas. The album was much anticipated by both her fans and Chenoweth herself; she had expressed her desire in the past to produce a Christmas album. The album included a duet with John Pizzarelli and there are several modern holiday tunes, but many traditional carols as well including The Lord's Prayer. This album has been her best seller, reaching number 77 on the U.S. Billboard Albums Chart, climbing to number 7 on the U.S. Holiday Albums chart and to number 1 on the U.S. Heatseekers Chart. Among many other solo concerts around the U.S., Chenoweth performed her own concert in 2009 with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, at the Fox Theatre.[73] Starting in August 2010, during her nights off from Promises, Promises, she talked of flying to Nashville to record songs for her upcoming fourth recording.[74] In an interview with the Los Angeles Times in December 2010, she revealed her next studio album would be a country pop collaboration with songwriter Diane Warren that would also contain self-written songs. Speaking about the new tracks, the remainder of which are planned to be recorded in Nashville in 2011, Chenoweth plans to address more serious themes of men and relationships.[75] [edit]Special events and appearances
Chenoweth and the cast of the Broadway musical Wicked performed the song "One Short Day" in the 2003 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.[76] In the 2005 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, Chenoweth performed the song "Oklahoma" while riding aboard the "Oklahoma Rising" float. The float was making the first of three annual appearances commemorating the state of Oklahoma's statehood centennial in 2007.[77][78] She was the star performer of the opening ceremony of the 2007 Tournament of Roses Parade. She sang "Our Good Nature," an original composition written to coincide with the Oklahoma centennial celebration and the theme of the parade.[79] In the 2008 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, she performed the song "The Christmas Waltz" from her "A Lovely Way to Spend Christmas" album while riding aboard the "The Care Bears Winter Fun-Derland" float.[80] She sang with Il Divo as part of Il Divo's Christmas Tour 2009 on December 15, 16 and 17 in New York City and December 18 in Boston.[81][82] [edit]Personal life
In 2009, Chenoweth wrote a memoir entitled A Little Bit Wicked: Life, Love, and Faith in Stages,[83] describing her adoption, her turn in Wicked and her time in Hollywood. She has stated that the book is not a "tell all", and instead focuses on "how I got where I am so far".[84] The book was released on April 14, 2009.[85] The book spent two weeks on The New York Times Best Seller List.[citation needed] She has spoken publicly about her religious faith; she describes herself as a "non-judgmental, liberal Christian".[86] Raised as a Southern Baptist, she later chose to have a personal connection to a faith that is not based in any one denomination.[citation needed] According to The New York Times, when Chenoweth "assured her theater fans that she supports gay rights her Christian base was outraged; she was disinvited from performing at a Women of Faith conference in September 2005."[87][88] Chenoweth released an album in April 2005 called As I Am, a mixture of hymns and contemporary Christian music, with adult contemporary arrangements. To promote the album, she made an appearance on The 700 Club that upset some of her gay fans.[6][89] She later said she thought that the "Pat Robertsons and Jerry Falwells of the world are scary" and that she regretted appearing on the show.[90] She dated producer/writer Aaron Sorkin.[91] In Sorkin's Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, the character of Harriet Hayes bears significant resemblances to Chenoweth, and the relationship between the Christian Hayes and "East coast liberal Jewish atheist" (her description) Matt Albie is modeled after that of Chenoweth and Sorkin. For example, Chenoweth's decision to appear on The 700 Club and her falling out with Women of Faith were depicted with the Hayes character.[6][92] Chenoweth has Ménière's disease, an inner-ear disorder that can cause vertigo, headaches and nausea, among other symptoms. She has said that, during some performances, she has had to lean on her co-stars to keep her balance and that it has caused her to miss performances.[6] In May 2010, Chenoweth wrote in response to an article in Newsweek by Ramin Setoodeh, an openly gay writer. Setoodeh thought that her Tony-nominated Promises, Promises co-star, Sean Hayes, "comes off as wooden and insincere" in playing the straight character Chuck, and that Jonathan Groff has a similar credibility problem in the TV show Glee. He questioned whether any openly gay actor could acceptably portray a straight character.[93] Chenoweth called the article "horrendously homophobic" and criticized Setoodeh's view as rationalizing "the same kind of bullying" that gay youths face in high school. Chenoweth argued that audiences "come to the theater to go on a journey" and do not care about an actor's sexual orientation.[94] The story was picked up approvingly by major media including The New York Times[95] and the Los Angeles Times.[96] [edit]Credits
[edit]Broadway Year Title Role Venue Notes 1997 Steel Pier Precious McGuire Richard Rodgers Theatre Theatre World Award 1999 You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown Sally Brown Ambassador Theatre Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical Epic Proportions Louise Goldman Helen Hayes Theatre 2003–2004 Wicked Glinda George Gershwin Theatre Broadway.com Audience Award for Best Onstage Pair (shared with Idina Menzel) Nominated—Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical Nominated—Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical 2006–2007 The Apple Tree Eve Princess Barbára Ella / Passionella Studio 54 Broadway.com Audience Award for Best Diva Performance Nominated—Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical Nominated—Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical Nominated—Broadway.com Audience Award for Best Leading Actress in a Broadway Musical 2010–2011 Promises, Promises Fran Kubelik The Broadway Theatre Broadway.com Star of the Year Award Broadway.com Audience Award for Best Leading Actress in a Broadway Musical Broadway.com Audience Award for Best Diva Performance Nominated—Broadway.com Audience Award for Best Onstage Pair (shared with Sean Hayes) [edit]Other theatre Year Title Role Venue 1994 The Fantasticks Luisa Sullivan Street Playhouse 1994 Box Office of the Damned Kristy CSC Theatre 1997 Scapin Hyacinth Laura Pels Theatre 1998 A New Brain Nancy D / Waitress Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre [edit]New York City Center Encores Year Title Role 1998 Strike up the Band Anne Draper 2000 On a Clear Day You Can See Forever Daisy Gamble / Melinda 2005 The Apple Tree Eve Princess Barbára Ella / Passionella 2007 Stairway to Paradise Female Star 2009 Music in the Air Frieda Hatzfeld [edit]Filmography Film Year Film Role Notes 1999 Annie Lily St. Regis TV film 2001 Seven Roses TV film 2002 Topa Topa Bluffs Patty 2003 The Music Man Marian Paroo TV film 2005 Bewitched Maria Kelly 2006 The Pink Panther Cherie RV Mary Jo Gornicke Stranger Than Fiction Book Channel host Running with Scissors Fern Stewart Deck the Halls Tia Hall A Sesame Street Christmas Carol Christmas Carole Voice role 2008 Space Chimps Kilowatt Voice role Tinker Bell Rosetta Voice role Four Christmases Courtney 2009 Into Temptation Linda Salerno Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure Rosetta voice role 12 Men of Christmas E.J. Baxter Lifetime movie 2010 Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue Rosetta voice role You Again Georgia King 2011 Tinker Bell and the Pixie Hollow Games Rosetta in production –voice role TBA Family Weekend[97] pre-production Television Year Title Role Notes 1999 LateLine Kristin "The Christian Guy" Paramour Mini-series 2001 Kristin Kristin Yancey Thirteen episodes Frasier Portia Sanders Season 9 episode 10, "Junior Agent" 2002 Baby Bob Crystal Carter "Talking Babies Say the Darndest Things" 2003 Fillmore! Museum Guide Voice role, "Masterstroke of Malevolence" 2005 Great Performances Cunegonde Candide 2004–2006 The West Wing Annabeth Schott Thirty-four episodes, main character Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series (2004, 2005) (shared with the cast) 2003–2006 Sesame Street Ms. Noodle Two episodes 2001–2007 Elmo's World Ms. Noodle Two episodes 2007 Ugly Betty Diane "East Side Story" Robot Chicken various "Squaw Bury Shortcake" 2007–2009 Pushing Daisies Olive Snook Twenty-two episodes, main character Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series (2009) Nominated—Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series (2008) Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress - Series, Miniseries or Television Film (2008) 2009 Sit Down, Shut Up Miracle Grohe Voice role, eleven episodes, main character Legally Mad Skippy Pylon Pilot, never aired on television 2009–present Glee April Rhodes 4 episodes, including "The Rhodes Not Taken", "Home" and "Rumours".[98] Special Achievement Satellite Award for Outstanding Guest Star (2009) Nominated—Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series (2010) Pending—Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series (2011) 2010 American Idol Herself (guest judge No. 1) "Orlando Auditions" 2010 The Apprentice Herself Season 10 Episode 7 2010 When I Was 17 Herself Season 1 Episode 20 2011 So You Think You Can Dance Herself (guest judge No. 3) Season 8 Top 16 2012 Good Christian Belles Darlene Cockburn Main character [edit]Discography [edit]Studio albums List of albums, with selected chart positions Title Album details Peak chart positions US [99] US Christian [100] US Holiday [101] Let Yourself Go Released: May 29, 2001 Label: Sony Music Entertainment (#89384) Format: CD, digital download — — — As I Am Released: April 5, 2005 Label: Sony Music Entertainment (#94384) Format: CD, digital download — 31 — A Lovely Way to Spend Christmas Released: October 14, 2008 Label: Sony Masterworks (#8869734256) Format: CD, digital download 77 — 7 Some Lessons Learned[102] To be released: September 13, 2011 Label: Sony Masterworks "—" denotes releases that did not chart. [edit]Singles List of singles, with selected chart positions Title Year Peak chart positions Album US [103] AUS [104] CAN [105] IRL [106] UK [107] "Maybe This Time" (Glee Cast featuring Kristin Chenoweth) 2009 88 100 — — 87 Glee: The Music, Volume 1 "Alone" (Glee Cast featuring Kristin Chenoweth) 51 94 58 25 47 "Last Name" (Glee Cast featuring Kristin Chenoweth) — — — 44 83 Glee: The Music, The Complete Season One "Fire" (Glee Cast featuring Kristin Chenoweth) 2010 64 — 52 — 93 "One Less Bell to Answer / A House Is Not a Home" (Glee Cast featuring Kristin Chenoweth) 53 — 63 — 77 Glee: The Music, Volume 3 Showstoppers "Home" (Glee Cast featuring Kristin Chenoweth) 90 — 92 — 116 "Dreams" (Glee Cast featuring Kristin Chenoweth) 2011 92 — — — — Glee: The Music, Volume 6 "I Want Somebody (Bitch About)"[108]A — — — — — Some Lessons Learned "—" denotes a release that did not chart. A To be released July 18, 2011.[109] [edit]Awards and nominations
Year Award Title Work Result 1997 Theater World Award Outstanding Broadway Debut Steel Pier Won 1999 Drama Desk Award Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown Won Outer Critics Circle Award Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical Won Tony Award Best Featured Actress in a Musical Won 2004 Broadway.com Audience Award Best On Stage Duo (with Idina Menzel) Wicked Won Drama Desk Award Outstanding Actress in a Musical Nominated Drama League Award Distinguished Performance Nominated Outer Critics Circle Award Outstanding Actress in a Musical Nominated Tony Award Best Leading Actress in a Musical Nominated 2005 Screen Actors Guild Award Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series The West Wing Nominated 2006 Screen Actors Guild Award Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series Nominated 2007 Broadway.com Audience Award Best Diva Performance The Apple Tree Won Best Leading Actress in a Broadway Musical Nominated Drama Desk Award Outstanding Actress in a Musical Nominated Drama League Award Distinguished Performance Nominated Outer Critics Circle Award Outstanding Actress in a Musical Nominated 2008 Emmy Award Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series Pushing Daisies Nominated Gold Derby TV Award Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series Won Breakthrough Performer of the Year Nominated Satellite Award Best Supporting Actress in a TV Series, Mini-Series or TV Movie Nominated 2009 Emmy Award Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series Won Gold Derby TV Award Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series Won Satellite Award Outstanding Guest Star Glee Won 2010 Emmy Award Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series Nominated Gold Derby TV Award Best Guest Actress in a Comedy Series Won Broadway.com Audience Awards Best Leading Actress in a Broadway Musical Promises, Promises Won Best Diva Performance Won Best On-Stage Pair (with Sean Hayes) Nominated Broadway.com Star of the Year for being voted most popular Broadway star of the year Won 2011 GLAAD Media Award Vanguard Award for making a significant difference in promoting equal rights for LGBT people Won Emmy Award Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series Glee Pending
Mary Rose Byrne (born 24 July 1979) is an Australian actress. Byrne made her screen debut in 1994 with a small role in the film Dallas Doll. In 2000 she played a leading role in the Australian film The Goddess of 1967, which brought her a Venice Film Festival award for Best Actress. She appeared in the movies Troy (2004), Wicker Park (2004), Marie Antoinette (2006), 28 Weeks Later (2007), Sunshine (2007), Knowing (2009), Adam (2009), Get Him to the Greek (2010), Insidious (2011) and Bridesmaids (2011). Since 2007, she has played Ellen Parsons in the cable television series Damages, which has earned her two Golden Globe Awards nominations and two Emmy Awards nominations. In 2011, she starred in the financially successful films Insidious, X-Men: First Class and Bridesmaids.
Bridesmaids - Rose Byrne and Melissa McCarthy
Hilarious Jackie Q Audition by Rose Byrne
Rose Byrne 'X-Men: First Class' Interview
Kristen Wiig & Rose Byrne interview on The 7pm Project (Australia) - Bridesmaids
Rose Byrne
Jackie Q (Rose Byrne), is in Los Angeles, - Get Him to the Greek - Jackie Q's "Ring 'Round" Music Video
Early life
Byrne was born in Balmain, a suburb of Sydney, Australia, of Irish and Scottish descent (her grandfather was an Irish immigrant to Australia).[2][3] She is the daughter of Jane, a primary school administrator, and Robin Byrne, a semi-retired statistician and market researcher.[4] She is the youngest of their four children; she has an older brother, George, and two older sisters, Alice and Lucy. Both of her parents are atheists, and she describes herself as agnostic.[5] Byrne attended Balmain Public School and Hunters Hill High School before attending Bradfield College in Crows Nest. She began taking acting classes at age eight, joining the Australian Theatre for Young People and later attended the University of Sydney. In 1999, Byrne studied acting at the Atlantic Theatre Company developed by David Mamet and William H. Macy. [edit]Career
[edit]Acting Byrne was cast in her first film role, Dallas Doll, when she was 13 years old.[6] She has appeared in several Australian television shows including Heartbreak High and Echo Point, and the film Two Hands with Heath Ledger. She appeared in The Date, My Mother Frank, and Clara Law's The Goddess of 1967 for which she was award the Volpi Cup for "Best Actress" at the 2000 Venice Film Festival. She appeared as a guest in an episode of the police drama series Murder Call. On stage, she played a lead role in La Dispute and in a production of Anton Chekhov's classic Three Sisters at the Sydney Theatre Company. In 2002, Byrne made her first appearance in a Hollywood film with a small role as Dormé, the handmaiden to Natalie Portman's Senator Padmé Amidala, in Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones. She appeared the same year in City of Ghosts with Matt Dillon. The year previously she had flown to the UK to shoot I Capture the Castle, Tim Fywell's adaptation of the 1948 novel of the same title by Dodie Smith. In the 2003 release, she portrayed Rose Mortmain, the elder sister of Romola Garai's Cassandra. In 2003, she starred in three Australian films: The Night We Called It a Day with Melanie Griffith and Dennis Hopper; The Rage in Placid Lake for which she was named Best Actress at the Australian Film Institute with singer Ben Lee; and Take Away, another comedy. In 2004, Byrne starred as Briseis, the Trojan priestess who is abducted during the Trojan War by Achilles, played by Brad Pitt, in Wolfgang Petersen's epic Troy,[7] also starring Eric Bana, Peter O’Toole, Sean Bean, and Orlando Bloom. She then reunited with Peter O'Toole in the BBC TV drama Casanova. Byrne appeared with Snoop Dogg in Danny Green's film The Tenants, based on Bernard Malamud's novel, and starred with Josh Hartnett[8] and Diane Kruger in the romantic psychological thriller Wicker Park where she played Alex, the woman who manipulated Josh Hartnett's character to keep him apart from the woman he falls in love with. In 2006, Byrne portrayed Gabrielle de Polastron, duchesse de Polignac, a French aristocrat and friend of Marie Antoinette, in Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette, with Kirsten Dunst, and appeared in The Dead Girl,[9] directed by Karen Moncrieff. In 2007, she played Cassie,[10] the pilot in Danny Boyle's science fiction suspense film[11] Sunshine,[12] Scarlett Ross, an army medical officer in Juan Carlos Fresnadillo's science fiction horror 28 Weeks Later, the sequel to Boyle's 28 Days Later, and appeared in the independent film Just Buried,[13] a Canadian dark comedy written and directed by Chaz Thorne. Since 2007, Byrne has appeared in the FX drama production Damages,[14] playing the regular lead role of Ellen Parsons,[15] a young attorney torn between her new boss, played by Glenn Close, and her own ambitions. She appeared in the Australian film noir The Tender Hook with Hugo Weaving. In 2009, Byrne co-starred with Nicolas Cage in the science fiction thriller, Knowing. Later that year, she appeared in the indie film, Adam, with Hugh Dancy. She appeared in the 2010 comedy film, Get Him to the Greek, starring Russell Brand and Jonah Hill and she was joint lead in the James Wan horror film Insidious, which premiered in September 2010 at the Toronto International Film Festival[16] and went on general release on 1 April 2011.[17] Byrne also starred in the Kristen Wiig comedy, Bridesmaids, released on 13 May 2011.[18][19] On 15 August 2010, it became public that she had been cast in the role of Moira MacTaggert in the X-Men spin-off, X-Men: First Class, directed by Matthew Vaughn. The movie opened 3 June 2011.[20] Byrne has employed several different accents in her films: Australian, English,[6] American,[21] and Canadian.[22] [edit]Other activities Byrne has appeared in the music videos for Darren Hayes's single "I Miss You", M.Craft's "Sweets", and starred with Australian musician Alex Lloyd in the music video for his single "Black The Sun", as well as featuring on the cover artwork for the EP. She also appeared in a television commercial for Sony. Byrne was the face of Max Factor between 2004 and 2006 and named in the Most Beautiful People of 2007 list in Who Magazine.[23] Byrne has supported UNICEF Australia by being the face of the 2007 Designers United campaign and a member of tropfest jury in 2006 and tropfest @ tribeca[24] in 2007. She is a graduate and ambassador for NIDA's (National Institute of Dramatic Art) Young Actors Studio. She was recently named the first patron of Chauvel Cinemas presented by the Brisbane International Film Festival and named in honour of Charles Chauvel. [edit]Personal life
Byrne was in a relationship with Australian writer, director and actor Brendan Cowell for over six years. For much of the time their relationship was maintained at long-distance, with work commitments meaning they were often on separate continents. Cowell moved from Sydney to New York City, following Byrne's success on Damages. The relationship ended in January 2010.[25] Previously she dated Australian writer/director Gregor Jordan, who directed her in Two Hands.[26] [edit]Filmography
List of film credits Year Title Role Notes 1994 Dallas Doll Rastus Sommers 1999 Two Hands Alex 1999 The Date Sophie 2000 My Mother Frank Jenny 2000 The Goddess of 1967 BG Volpi Cup for Best Actress 2001 The Pitch Girl 2002 Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones Dormé 2002 City of Ghosts Sabrina 2003 I Capture the Castle Rose Mortmain 2003 The Night We Called It a Day Audrey Appleby 2003 Monster Uncredited Role 2003 The Rage in Placid Lake Gemma Taylor Nominated—Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role 2003 Take Away Sonja Stilano 2004 Troy Briseis 2004 Wicker Park Alex 2005 The Tenants Irene Bell 2006 Marie Antoinette Gabrielle de Polastron, duchesse de Polignac 2006 The Dead Girl Leah 2007 Sunshine Cassie 2007 28 Weeks Later Major Scarlett Ross 2008 Just Buried Roberta Knickle 2008 The Tender Hook Iris 2009 Knowing Diana Wayland 2009 Adam Beth Buchwald 2010 I Love You Too Drunk Passenger Cameo[27] 2010 Get Him to the Greek Jackie Q 2011 Insidious Renai Lambert 2011 Bridesmaids[19] Helen Harris 2011 X-Men: First Class Moira MacTaggert List of television credits Year Title Role Notes 1995 Echo Point Belinda O Conor Lead character 1997 Fallen Angels Siobhan Guest (1 episode) 1997 Wildside Heidi Benson Guest (2 episodes) 1999 Big Sky Angie Guest (1 episode) 1999 Heartbreak High Carly Whitely Guest (3 episodes) 2000 Murder Call Sarah Watson Guest (1 episode) 2005 Casanova Edith BBC Mini series 2007–present Damages Ellen Parsons Lead character 2009 The Chaser's War on Everything Herself [edit]Awards
Nominated Golden Globe Awards Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television for Damages 2008 2010 Primetime Emmy Awards Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for Damages 2009 2010 Movie Extra Filmink Awards 2008– Best Performance by an Aussie In An Overseas Movie for Sunshine (2007) Australian Film Institute 2003– AFI Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for The Rage in Placid Lake (2003) Film Critics Circle of Australia 2002– FCCA Award for Best Actress for The Goddess of 1967 (2000) Satellite Awards Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series for Damages 2010 Won Australian Film Institute 2007– International Award for Best Actress for Damages (2007) Venice Film Festival 2000– Volpi Cup for Best Actress for The Goddess of 1967 (2000)
Danny Lebern Glover (born July 22, 1946) is an American actor, film director, and political activist. Glover is perhaps best known for his roles as Detective Roger Murtaugh in the Lethal Weapon film franchise.
Lethal Weapon - Roger Murtaugh is too old for this shit.
GRITtv: Danny Glover and Marie St. Cyr on Haiti
Danny Glover speaks on the 12th anniversary of the arrest of the Cuban 5
Danny Glover Reads Frederick Douglass
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Early life
Glover was born in San Francisco, California, the son of Carrie (née Hunley) and James Glover. His parents, postal workers, were active in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), working to advance equal rights.[2] Glover's mother, daughter of a midwife, was born in Louisville, Georgia and graduated from Paine College in Augusta, Georgia. Glover grew up with a love for sports, like his father. Glover suffered from epilepsy in his second decade and as a young adult. According to his own account, he "developed a way of concentrating so that seizures wouldn't happen." Using this technique, which he describes as "a type of self-hypnosis", Glover says he has not suffered a seizure since age 34.[4] Glover graduated from George Washington High School in San Francisco before attending City College of San Francisco for a year; he then matriculated to the American University, where he graduated with a B.A. in economics in 1968. While in college, he met his future wife Asake Bomani, whom he married in 1975, and later divorced. He had one daughter with Asake, her name was Mandisa, and she was born on January 5, 1976. [edit]Career
Danny Glover at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival. Glover originally worked in city administration[citation needed]. In his late 20s he played for the 49ers and went to the super bowl,Conservatory Theater]], a regional training program in San Francisco[citation needed]. Glover also trained with Jean Shelton at the Shelton Actors Lab in San Francisco. In an interview on Inside the Actor's Studio, Glover credited Jean Shelton for much of his development as an actor. Deciding that he wanted to be an actor, Glover resigned from his city administration job and soon began his career as a stage actor. Glover then moved to Los Angeles for more opportunities in acting, where he would later go on to co-found the Robey Theatre Company with actor Ben Guillory in honor of the actor, radical activist, and concert singer Paul Robeson in Los Angeles in 1994[citation needed]. Glover has had a variety of film, stage, and television roles, and is best known for playing Los Angeles police Sergeant Roger Murtaugh in the Lethal Weapon series of action films. During his career, he has made many cameo appearances. For example, he appeared in the Michael Jackson video Liberian Girl of 1987. He has also appeared as the husband to Whoopi Goldberg's character Celie in The Color Purple, and as Lieutenant James McFee in the film Witness. In 1994 he made his directorial debut with the Showtime channel short film Override. Also in 1994, Glover and actor Ben Guillory formed the Robey Theatre Company in Los Angeles, focusing on theatre by and about Black people. Glover earned top billing for the first time in Predator 2, the sequel to the sci-fi action film Predator. That same year he starred in Charles Burnett's To Sleep with Anger, for which he won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead. In common with Humphrey Bogart, Elliott Gould and Robert Mitchum, who have played Raymond Chandler's private eye detective Philip Marlowe, Glover played the role in the episode "Red Wind" of the Showtime network's 1995 series Fallen Angels. In addition, Glover has been a voice actor in many children's movies. Glover was featured in the popular 2001 film Royal Tenenbaums, also starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Anjelica Huston, Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson. In 2004, he appeared in the low-budget horror film Saw as Detective David Tapp. In 2005, Glover and Joslyn Barnes announced plans to make No FEAR, a movie about Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo's experience. Coleman-Adebayo won a 2000 jury trial against the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The jury found the EPA guilty of violating the civil rights of Coleman-Adebayo on the basis of race, sex, color and a hostile work environment, under the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Coleman-Adebayo was terminated shortly after she revealed the environmental and human disaster taking place in the Brits, South Africa, vanadium mines. Her experience inspired passage of the Notification and Federal Employee Anti-discrimination and Retaliation Act of 2002 (No FEAR Act). In 2009, Glover performed in The People Speak a documentary feature film that uses dramatic and musical performances of the letters, diaries, and speeches of everyday Americans, based on historian Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States”.[5] Glover played President Wilson, the President of the United States in 2012, a disaster film directed by Roland Emmerich and released in theaters November 13, 2009. Glover is currently[when?] shooting the film I Want To Be A Soldier in Barcelona, Spain, under director Christian Molina and production Co. Canonigo Films.[citation needed] [edit]Planned directorial debut Glover sought to make a film biography of Toussaint Louverture for his directorial debut. In May 2006, the film had included cast members Wesley Snipes, Angela Bassett, Don Cheadle, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Roger Guenveur Smith, Mos Def, Isaach De Bankolé, and Richard Bohringer. Production, estimated to cost $30 million, was planned to begin in South Africa, filming from late 2006 into early 2007.[6] In May 2007, President of Venezuela Hugo Chávez contributed $18 million to fund the production of Toussaint for Glover, who is a prominent U.S. supporter of Chávez. The contribution annoyed some Venezuelan filmmakers, who said the money could have funded other homegrown films and that Glover's film was not even about Venezuela.[7][8] The following June, some Venezuelan filmmakers petitioned for Glover to reconsider using the funds provided by their president while the actor was scouting locations outside the Venezuelan capital Caracas.[9] The petition resulted in the local film guilds Anac and Caveprol being outlawed by Venezuela; the country's state-backed film institute Cnac was also instructed to sever ties with the guild.[10] In April 2008, the Venezuelan National Assembly authorized an additional $9,840,505 for Glover's film, which is still in planning.[11] [edit]Personal life
On September 2, 2009, Glover signed an open letter of objection to the inclusion of a series of films intended to showcase Tel Aviv at the Toronto International Film Festival.[12] Glover enjoys spending his summers at his lake house in Miami, Florida. His hobbies include skiing, horseback riding, and playing baseball. On April 16, 2010, Glover was arrested in Maryland during a protest by SEIU workers for Sodexo's unfair and illegal treatment of workers.[13] He was given a citation and later released. The Associated Press reports "Glover and others stepped past yellow police tape and were asked to step back three times at Sodexo headquarters. When they refused, Starks says officers arrested them."[14] [edit]Activism
Glover speaks at a March for Immigrants Rights in Madison, Wisconsin, in 2007. While attending San Francisco State University, Glover was a member of the Black Students Union which,[15] along with the Third World Liberation Front and the American Federation of Teachers, collaborated in a five-month student-led strike to establish a Department of Black Studies. The strike was the longest student walkout in U.S. history.[16] It helped create not only the first Department of Black Studies but also the first School of Ethnic Studies in the U.S. Hari Dillon, current president of the Vanguard Public Foundation, was a fellow striker at SFSU. Glover now sits on Vanguard's advisory board. Glover is also a board member of The Algebra Project, The Black AIDS Institute, Walden House, and Cheryl Byron's Something Positive Dance Group. He was charged with disorderly conduct and unlawful assembly after being arrested outside the Sudan Embassy in Washington during a protest over Sudan's humanitarian crisis in Darfur.[17] Glover's long history of union activism includes support for the United Farm Workers, UNITE HERE, and numerous service unions.[18] In March 2010, Danny Glover supported 375 Union workers in Ohio by calling upon all actors at the 2010 Academy Awards to boycott Hugo Boss suits due to Hugo Boss announcement to close a manufacturing plant in Ohio after a proposed pay decrease from $13 to $8.30 an hour was rejected by the Workers United Union.[19] In January 2006, Harry Belafonte led a delegation of activists, including Glover and activist/professor Cornel West, in a meeting with President of Venezuela Hugo Chávez. Glover was an early supporter of former North Carolina Senator John Edwards in the 2008 Democratic presidential primaries until Edwards' withdrawal,[20] although some news reports indicated that he had endorsed Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich,[21] who he had endorsed in 2004.[22] After Edwards dropped out, Glover then endorsed Barack Obama.[23] Glover was an outspoken critic of George W. Bush, calling him a known racist. "Yes, he's racist. We all knew that. As Texas's governor, Bush led a penitentiary system that executed more people than all the other U.S. states together. And most of the people who died were Afro-Americans or Hispanics."[24] Glover's support of California Proposition 7 (2008) led him to use his voice in an automated phone call to generate support for the measure before the election.[25] On April 6, 2009, Glover was given a chieftancy title in Imo State, Nigeria.[26] Glover was given the title Enyioma of Nkwerre, which means A Good Friend in the language of the Igbo people of Eastern Nigeria. Glover has become an active member of Board of Directors of The Jazz Foundation of America.[27] Danny became involved with The Jazz Foundation in 2005, and has been a featured host for their annual benefit A Great Night in Harlem[28] for several years, as well appearing as a celebrity MC at other events for the foundation. In 2006, Britain’s leading African theatre company Tiata Fahodzi appointed Danny Glover as one of its three Patrons, joining Chiwetel Ejiofor and Jocelyn Jee Esien opening the organization’s tenth anniversary celebrations (Sunday 2 February 2008) at Theatre Royal Stratford East, London. Glover is also an active board member of the TransAfrica Forum.[29] On January 13, 2010, Glover compared the scale and devastation of the 2010 Haiti earthquake to the predicament other island nations may face as a result of the failed Copenhagen summit the previous year. Glover said "...the threat of what happens to Haiti is a threat that can happen anywhere in the Caribbean to these island nations... they're all in peril because of global warming... because of climate change... when we did what we did at the climate summit in Copenhagen, this is the response, this is what happens..."[30] In the same statement, he called for a new form of international partnership with Haiti and other Caribbean nations and praised Venezuela, Brazil, and Cuba, for already accepting this partnership. [edit]Activism against Iraq war and invasion Danny Glover has been an outspoken critic of the Iraq war before the war began in March 2003. In February 2003, he was one of the featured speakers at Justin Herman Plaza in San Francisco where other notable speakers included names such as author Alice Walker, singer Joan Baez, United Farm Workers co-founder Dolores Huerta and Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Oakland. Glover was a signatory to the April 2003 anti-war letter "To the Conscience of the World" that criticized the unilateral American invasion of Iraq that led to "massive loss of civilian" and "devastation of one of the cultural patrimonies of humanity".[31] During an anti-war demonstration in Downtown Oakland in March 2003, Danny Glover praised the community leaders for their anti-war efforts saying that "They're on the front lines because they are trying to make a better America... The world has come together and said 'no' to this war – and we must stand with them." [edit]On Obama administration On the foreign policy of Obama administration, Glover said, "I think the Obama administration has followed the same playbook, to a large extent, almost verbatim, as the Bush administration. I don’t see anything different... On the domestic side, look here: What’s so clear is that this country from the outset is projecting the interests of wealth and property. Look at the bailout of Wall Street. Why not the bailout of Main Street? He may be just a different face, and that face may happen to be black, and if it were Hillary Clinton, it would happen to be a woman... But what choices do they have within the structure?".[32] [edit]Activism supporting Cuban political prisoners in US Glover supports the cause of Gerardo Hernández Nordelo, one of the Cuban Five held in a US prison in Victorville, Calif. Glover joined the thesis according with Mr Hernández worked to denounce and prevent acts of terrorism (like hijacking, explosions in touristic sites) organized in the '90s with US government complaisance against Cuba government. The news of their meeting (on August the 8th, 2010) appears in the Cuban press. [edit]Relationship with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Glover has a well-publicized friendship with Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez. Chavez has reportedly approved $18,000,000 to finance Glover's directorial debut in a film about Toussaint Louverture, leader of the Haitian Revolution 1791.[33] [edit]Honors and awards
In 2010, Glover delivered the Commencement Address and was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Utah State University.[34] [edit]Credits in film, television and theatre
List of film credits Year Title Role Notes 1979 Escape from Alcatraz Inmate 1981 Chu Chu and the Philly Flash Morgan 1982 Deadly Drifter Jojo/Roland Alternative title: Out 1984 Iceman Loomis 1984 Places in the Heart Moze 1985 Witness Det. Lt. James McFee 1985 Silverado Malachi 'Mal' Johnson 1985 The Color Purple Albert 1987 Lethal Weapon Sergeant Roger Murtaugh 1988 Bat*21 Capt. Bartholomew Clark 1989 Lethal Weapon 2 Sergeant Roger Murtaugh 1990 To Sleep with Anger Harry Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead 1990 Predator 2 Lt. Mike Harrigan 1991 Flight of the Intruder Cmdr. Frank 'Dooke' Camparelli 1991 A Rage in Harlem Easy Money 1991 Grand Canyon Simon 1991 Pure Luck Raymond Campanella 1992 Lethal Weapon 3 Roger Murtaugh 1993 The Saint of Fort Washington Jerry/Narrator 1993 Bopha! Micah Mangena 1994 Maverick Bank Robber Uncredited 1994 Angels in the Outfield George Knox 1994 Override Director, TV Short 1995 Operation Dumbo Drop Capt. Sam Cahill 1997 Wild America Bigfoot Uncredited 1997 The Rainmaker Judge Tyrone Kipler Uncredited 1997 Gone Fishin' Gus Green 1997 Switchback Bob Goodall 1998 Lethal Weapon 4 Roger Murtaugh 1998 The Prince of Egypt Jethro Voice only 1998 Beloved Paul D. Garner 1998 Antz Barbatus Voice only 1999 Our Friend, Martin Train Conductor Voice only 2000 Boesman and Lena Boesman 2001 3 A.M. Charles "Hershey" Riley 2001 The Royal Tenenbaums Henry Sherman 2002 Just a Dream Director Nominated—Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Children/Youth/Family Special 2004 The Cookout Judge Crowley 2004 Saw Detective David Tapp 2005 Manderlay Wilhelm 2005 Missing in America Jake Neeley 2006 Bamako Cow-boy 2006 Barnyard Miles the Mule Voice 2006 The Shaggy Dog Ken Hollister 2006 Dreamgirls Marty Madison 2007 Shooter Colonel Isaac Johnson 2007 Poor Boy's Game George Nominated—Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role 2007 Battle for Terra President Chen Voice only 2007 Honeydripper Tyrone Purvis 2008 Be Kind Rewind Mr. Fletcher 2008 Gospel Hill John Malcolm 2008 Blindness Old man with the black eye patch/Narrator 2008 The Garden Himself 2008 Saw V Detective David Tapp Cameo 2008 Unstable Fables: Tortoise vs. Hare Walter Tortoise Voice 2009 Night Train Miles 2009 Down For Life Mr. Shannon 2009 The People Speak Himself Documentary 2009 The Harimaya Bridge Joseph Holder 2009 2012 President Wilson Nominated—NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture 2009 At The End of Slavery Narrator 2010 Stride James 'Honeybear' Powell Post-production 2010 Death at a Funeral Uncle Russell 2010 Dear Alice Franzis Original title: För kärleken 2010 Legendary Harry "Red" Newman 2010 Alpha and Omega Winston Voice 2010 Son of Morning Gabriel Peters Post-production 2010 Age of the Dragons Ahab Post-production 2010 Mooz-lum Dean Francis Post-production 2010 Highland Park Ed Post-production 2010 I Want to Be a Soldier The Principal Post-production 2010 Five Minarets in New York Marcus Original title: New York’ta Beş Minare 2010 Bad Luck Snake Bite Ernest Pre-production 2011 Heart of Blackness Vaudreuil 2011 Toussaint Director, producer Pre-production List of television credits Year Title Role Notes 1979 B. J. and the Bear Matt Thomas, TV Reporter 1 episode, uncredited 1979 Lou Grant Leroy 1 episode 1979 Paris 1 episode 1980 Palmerstown, U.S.A. Harley Unknown episodes 1981 Keeping On Lester Television movie 1981 The Greatest American Hero Vice officer 1 episode 1981 Hill Street Blues Jesse John Hudson 4 episodes 1981 Gimme a Break! Bill 1 episode 1983 The Face of Rage Gary Television movie 1983 Chiefs Marshall Peters Miniseries 1983 Memorial Day Willie Monroe Television movie 1985 And the Children Shall Lead William Television movie 1986 Tall Tales & Legends John Henry 1 episode 1987 Place at the Table Television movie 1987 Mandela Nelson Mandela Television movie Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor - Miniseries or a Movie 1989 A Raisin in the Sun Walter Lee Younger Television movie 1989 Lonesome Dove Joshua Deets Miniseries Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor - Miniseries or a Movie 1989 Dead Man Out Dr. Alex Marsh Television movie Alternative title: Dead Man Walking 1989 Saturday Night Live Roger Murtaugh 1 episode 1991 Captain Planet and the Planeteers Professor Apollo (Voice) 1 episode 1992 The Talking Eggs Narrator Television movie 1993 Alex Haley's Queen Alec Haley Miniseries 1995 Fallen Angels Philip Marlowe 1 episode Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor - Drama Series 1996 America's Dream Silas Television movie (segment "Long Black Song") 1997 Buffalo Soldiers Sgt. Washington Wyatt Television movie 2000 Freedom Song Will Walker Television movie Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor - Miniseries or a Movie Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie 2003 Good Fences Tom Spader Television movie 2003 Biography Narrator 1 episode 2003 The Law and Mr. Lee Henry Lee Television movie 2004 Legend of Earthsea Ogion Miniseries 2005 The Exonerated David Television movie 2005 ER Charlie Pratt Sr. 4 episodes 2006 Take 3 Col. Weldon Television movie 2007–2008 Brothers & Sisters Isaac Marshall 6 episodes 2009 My Name Is Earl Thomas Monroe 1 episode 2010 Human Target Client 1 episode 2011 Psych 1 episode 2011 Leverage Charlie Lawson 1 episode, Season 4 Episode 4, "The Van Gogh Job" 2011 Touch[35] Professor Arthur DeWitt Pre-production List of theatre credits Year Title Role Notes 1983 Master Harold...and the Boys Willy 2003 Master Harold...and the Boys Sam [edit]Awards
List of awards Award Year Category Title of work CableACE Award 1989 Actor in a Movie or Miniseries Mandela CableACE Award 1996 Dramatic or Theatrical Special America's Dream (Shared with David Knoller, Carolyn McDonald, Ron Stacker Thompson, and Ashley Tyler) CableACE Award 1996 Actor in a Dramatic Special or Series America's Dream NAACP Image Awards 1989 Outstanding Lead Actor in a Motion Picture Lethal Weapon NAACP Image Awards 1990 Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, Mini-Series or Television Movie Mandela NAACP Image Awards 1995 Outstanding Lead Actor in a Television Movie or Mini-Series Queen NAACP Image Awards 1999 Outstanding Lead Actor in a Motion Picture Beloved NAACP Image Awards 2001 Outstanding Actor in a Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special Freedom Song Independent Spirit Award 1991 Best Male Lead To Sleep With Anger Jamerican International Film Festival 2002 Lifetime Achievement Award Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2008 Festival President's Award Los Angeles Pan African Film Festival 2003 Lifetime Achievement Award MTV Movie Award 1993 Best On-Screen Duo Lethal Weapon 3 (Shared with Mel Gibson) San Francisco International Film Festival 1993 Piper-Heidsieck Award Women in Film Crystal Awards 1994 Humanitarian Award
