Bryan Cranston: 
Is an American actor, voice actor, producer, director, and screenwriter. 

Born: March 7, 1956 (age 61)
Hollywood, California, U.S.  

He is best known for portraying Walter White on the AMC crime drama series Bre2011, he also won the award for Outstanding Drama Series twice. aking Bad, Hal on the Fox comedy series Malcolm in the Middle, and Dr. Tim Whatley on the NBC comedy series Seinfeld. For Breaking Bad, Cranston won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series four times (2008–2010, 2014), including three consecutive wins (the second time in television history after Bill Cosby in I Spy during the 1960s). After becoming one of the producers of Breaking Bad in 

Early life: 

Cranston spent much of his early childhood watching his father, Joe, live a disappointed life for failing to achieve the big-screen stardom he longed for.

Eventually his father left show business, but his still-inconsistent earnings put too heavy a strain on the family and his marriage. At the age of 12, Bryan Cranston weathered his parents.  

At the age of 16, Cranston joined the Los Angeles Police Department's Law Enforcement Explorer Program. He rose to the top of his class, setting his sights on earning a political science degree and embarking on a career as a cop. But when a guidance counselor said he needed to add an elective to his course work, Cranston opted for acting and quickly found he had a gift for stage work. By the time he graduated from high school, in 1976. 

Early acting Career: 

Cranston began his acting career in local and regional theaters, getting his start at the Granada Theater in the San Fernando Valley. He had previously performed as a youth, but his show business parents had mixed feelings about their son being involved in the profession, so he did not continue until years later. Cranston was ordained as a minister by the Universal Life Church, and performed weddings for $150 a service to help with his income. He started working regularly in the late 1980s, mostly doing minor roles and advertisements."citation needed" He was an original cast member of the ABC soap opera Loving, where he played Douglas Donovan from 1983 to 1985. He starred in the short-lived series Raising Miranda in 1988. Cranston's voice acting includes English dubbing of Japanese anime (under the pseudonym Lee Stone), including Macross Plus and Armitage III: Poly-Matrix, and most notably, the children's series Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. 

"Malcoln in the Middle": 
By the late 1990s, Cranston had assembled a respectable, low-key career. His credits from this period include recurring parts on Seinfeld and King of Queens. Additionally, he played Buzz Aldrin in the Tom Hanks television miniseries From the Earth to the Moon (1998), and portrayed an American colonel in Saving Private Ryan (1998).


His profile received a big boost in 2000 when he signed on to play Hal, opposite Jane Kaczmarek's Lois, as the father of five boys, on the hit FOX sitcom Malcolm in the Middle. The role garnered three supporting actor Emmy Award nominations for Cranston. 

"Breaking Bad": 
after the end of Malcolm in the Middle in 2006 that Cranston got his first look at the Breaking Bad script. The show's creator, Vince Gilligan, had first met Cranston in 1998.  As he began putting together the pieces for his new show, Gilligan kept coming back to Cranston as the central character, Walter White, a high school chemistry teacher diagnosed with lung cancer who starts cooking meth in order to leave his family with enough money after his death. Cranston has said that upon reading the show's initial script, he was determined to play White, because he felt it would change the life of whomever landed the role. For Cranston, it certainly did. Critics hailed the show, which debuted in 2008, as one of the best on TV, and it landed the thespian three straight Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series. Then, he won the award in three consecutive years and also he received an emmy in 2014 for his role in Breaking bad.  

Recent Work: 

In 2011, Cranston had supporting roles in three successful films, the drama The Lincoln Lawyer, as well as the thrillers Drive and Contagion. He voiced James Gordon in the animated film Batman: Year One (2011). In 2012, he had supporting roles in John Carter, Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted as Vitaly the tiger, and Rock of Ages, and a major role in the hostage drama Argo. He also lent his voice to several episodes of the animated series Robot Chicken. In 2012, he starred in the remake of the 1990 film Total Recall, as Chancellor Vilos Cohaagen, the corrupted president of a fictional war-ravaged United Federation of Britain. In the same year, he made a guest appearance as Kenneth Parcell's step-father, Ron, on the NBC sitcom 30 Rock, and was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 

From September 2013 to June 2014, Cranston played U.S. president Lyndon B. Johnson in the American Repertory Theater and Broadway productions of All the Way, in a performance that has received widespread acclaim, and he later won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for the role. He also played scientist Joe Brody in the 2014 reboot of Godzilla. Month later, it was announced that Cranston would star in an HBO adaptation of his hit play All the Way. Steven Spielberg was set to be an executive producer on the film. Following the film's premiere on May 21, 2016. Cranston's performance was widely praised by critics, garnering eight Primetime Emmy Award nominations and a Television Critics Choice Award nomination. In 2015, Cranston starred as screenwriter Dalton Trumbo in the biopic Trumbo, for which he received his first Academy award nomination. At the same year, he made the voice of Li, the biological father of Po, in Kung Fu Panda 3. Also that year, he appeared in many films, including The Infiltrator and Wakefield. Cranston's memoir, A Life in Parts, was published on October 11, 2016, became a New York Times bestseller, and received positive reviews. 

On January 27, 2017,  it was announced that Cranston would star in a stage adaptation of the 1976 film Network playing Howard Beale, directed by Ivo van Hove at the Royal National Theatre in London. 

Personal Life: 

Cranston lives in Southern California with his second wife, Robin Dearden. The couple has a daughter, Taylor Dearden.

Steve Martin:

Is an American actor, comedian, writer, producer and musician.

Birth Name: Stephen Glenn Martin 

Born: August 14, 1945 (age 72)

Waco, Texas, U.S. 

 Martin came to public notice in the 1960s as a writer for The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, and later as a frequent guest on The Tonight Show. In the 1970s, Martin performed his offbeat, absurdist comedy routines before packed houses on national tours. Since the 1980s, having branched away from comedy, Martin has become a successful actor, as well as an author, playwright, pianist, and banjo player, eventually earning him an Emmy, Grammy, and American Comedy awards, among other honors. 

As a teenager, Martin sold guidebooks and performed magic tricks at Disneyland and at Knotts Berry Farm. He enrolled in Long Beach State College to study philosophy, but soon transferred to the theater program at the University of California, Los Angeles. He left college altogether to be a comedy writer for The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (1967-68), winning an Emmy Award in 1969

In 2004, Comedy Central ranked Martin at sixth place in a list of the 100 greatest stand-up comics. He was awarded an Honorary Academy Award at the Academy's 5th Annual Governors Awards in 2013.  

Early Career: 

Steve Martin's first feature, a short film he wrote called The Absent-Minded Waiter (1977), was nominated for an Academy Award. In 1979, he starred in his first full-length feature film, The Jerk, the first of many collaborations between Martin and director Carl Reiner, including the lampoon of detective thrillers Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982), the sci-fi comedy The Man With Two Brains (1983) and the identity-swapping comedy All of Me (1984) with Lily Tomlin.  In 1986, Martin joined fellow Saturday Night Live veterans Martin Short and Chevy Chase in ¡Three Amigos!, directed by John Landis, and written by Martin, Lorne Michaels, and singer-songwriter Randy Newman; and in the same year he  was in the movie musical film version of the hit Off-Broadway play Little Shop of Horrors (based on a famous B-movie), playing the sadistic dentist, Orin Scrivello. The film was the first of three films teaming Martin with Rick Moranis. 

In 1987, Martin joined comedian John Candy in the John Hughes movie Planes, Trains and Automobiles. He stretched his talent even further by co-writing, executive-producing and starring in Roxanne (1987), a modern interpretation of the story of Cyrano De Bergerac. For his work in Roxanne he won a Best Actor award from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association as well as an award for Best Screenplay from the Writers Guild of America. In 1991, Martin wrote, starred in and co-executive produced L.A. Story. In 1988, he performed in the Frank Oz film Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, a remake of Bedtime Story, alongside Michael Caine. Also in the same year, he appeared at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater at Lincoln Center in a revival of Waiting for Godot directed by Mike Nichols. He played Vladimir, with Robin Williams as Estragon and Bill Irwin as Lucky.  He also starred in the Disney remake of Father of the Bride (1992) and its 1995 sequel. 

Film Success:

In 1993, Martin had success as a playwright with Picasso at the Lapin Agile, which opened at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre, moving to Boston and Los Angeles as well as running off-Broadway.

In 1998, Martin guest starred with U2 in the 200th episode of The Simpsons titled "Trash of the Titans", providing the voice for sanitation commissioner Ray Patterson. In 1999, Martin and Hawn starred in a remake of the 1970 Neil Simon comedy, The Out-of-Towners. By 2003, Martin ranked fourth on the box office stars list, after starring in Bringing Down The House and Cheaper by the Dozen, each of which earned over $130 million at U.S. theaters. That same year, he also played the villainous Mr. Chairman in the animation/live action blend, Looney Tunes: Back in Action.

 

More recent work included David Mamet's The Spanish Prisoner (1997), a voice role in the animated Dreamworks film The Prince of Egypt (1998) and a co-starring role with Goldie Hawn in a remake of The Out of Towners (1999). Martin wrote and starred in the comedy Bowfinger with Eddie Murphy in 1999. In 2005, Martin wrote and starred in Shopgirl, based on his own novella (2000), and starred in Cheaper by the Dozen 2. In 2006, he starred in the box office hit The Pink Panther, as the bumbling Inspector Clouseau. He reprised the role in 2009's The Pink Panther 2. When combined, the two films grossed over $230 million at the box office. In Baby Mama (2008), Martin played the founder of a health food company, and in It's Complicated (2009), he played opposite Meryl Streep and Alec Baldwin. In 2009, an article in The Guardian listed Martin as one of the best actors never to receive an Oscar nomination. 

Recent Work: 

In 2011, he appeared with Jack Black, Owen Wilson, and JoBeth Williams in the birdwatching comedy The Big Year. After a three-year hiatus, Martin returned in 2015 when he voiced a role in the animated film Home. In 2016, he played a supporting role in the war drama Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk. 

Writting and Music Career: 

A frequent contributor to The New Yorker magazine, Martin published Shopgirl, a novella, to great acclaim in 2001. (A collection of his New Yorker writings was published as Pure Drivel in 1998.) The story of a disenchanted saleswoman struggling to choose between a would-be musician and a wealthy married man, the book was adapted to film in 2005 starring Martin and Claire Danes. He followed that work with The Pleasure of My Company (2003), which also topped best-seller lists, and his autobiography, Born Standing Up: A Comic’s Life (2007). 

Personal Life:

In 1986, Martin married actress Victoria Tennant, his future co-star in L.A. Story (1991), but the couple divorced in 1994.

In the early 2000s, Martin began dating Anne Stringfield, a former staffer at The New Yorker. He and Stringfield wed in 2007 before 75 guests at a surprise ceremony, and in 2012 they welcomed their first child—a girl—marking Martin's entrance into fatherhood at age 67.  

     

Michael Caine:
Is an English actor
Birth Name: Maurice Joseph Micklewhite

Born:   March 14, 1933 (age 83), Rotherhithe, London, 


He went on to pursue a varied acting career. His first acclaimed role was as agent Harry Palmer in 1965's The Ipcress File, and he went on to be featured in films like Alfie, The Italian Job, Sleuth, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight series and many more. He’s won two Oscars, one for Hannah and Her Sisters and the other for The Cider House Rules.

Early Life:

 After completing Wilson's Grammar School, he went to work around age 16. Caine, interested in show business from an early age, got an office job with Peak Films and then a position with the J. Arthur Rank company. In the early 1950s, Caine had to do two years of national service, becoming a member of the Queens Royal Regiment and the Royal Fusiliers and spending time in Germany and Korea while in the military. After completing his service, Caine worked in regional theater and took odd jobs to make ends meet. the Humphrey Bogart classic The Caine Mutiny ,El motín del Caine  (1954). He made his film debut in 1956's A Hill in Korea, but for many years, Caine struggled as an actor.

Career Breakthrough:

This breakout role, Caine portrayed a spy in The Ipcress File, The Ipcress File  (1965) based on the book by Len Deighton (a role for which he was nominated for a BAFTA). He then epitomized the swinging 1960s as the ultimate ladies' man in Alfie, Alfie, el seductor irresistible  (1966), and for this film brought him his first Academy Award nomination. His first American accent was in the film Hurry Sundown (1967), his memorable films such as  The Italian Job (1969), and Get Carter (1971)

In 1972, Caine more than held his own against legendary actor Laurence Olivier in Sleuth. He starred with friend Sean Connery in the adventure drama The Man Who Would Be King, El hombre que sería Rey (1975). And later  Caine appeared in the Neil Simon ensemble comedy California Suite (1978) with Jane Fonda, Alan Alda and Maggie Smith. El detective (1972) were both remade with Jude Law taking over his role. Así nacen los héroes (1970), The Last Valley (1971).

Later Films:

Caine's roles were a perfect mix of high and low, as he appeared in such box office duds as The Swarm (1978), Ashanti (1979), The Island, La isla  (1980) and Jaws: The Revenge (1987) while also hitting the big screen in such films as A Bridge Too Far (1977), and Dressed to Kill, Vestida para matar  (1980). He also turned in a strong performance in Educating Rita, Educando a Rita (1983) for this film earning him the BAFTA and Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, and his first Academy Award was a result of his stellar work in Woody Allen's Hannah and Her Sisters ,  Hannah y sus hermanas (1986). He appeared in others films The Jigsaw Man (1984), with co-started Laurence Olivier: La batalla de Inglaterra, Battle of Britain  (1969).

Caine's career hit a bit of a lull in the 1990s, in this decade he played different roles, Caine played Ebenezer Scrooge in The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992). receiving his second Golden Globe Award for his performance in Little Voice in 1998 and receiving his second Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for The Cider House Rules the following year.  He played the mysterious bartender Mike in Mr. Destiny in 1990, also he played the beleaguered stage director Lloyd Fellowes in the film adaptation of Noises Off (1992). And then he won him a Golden Globe Award. Better parts followed, including The Cider House Rules (1999), for which he won his second Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor


Recent Work 2000s:

In the 2000s, Caine appeared in Miss Congeniality (2000), Last Orders (2001), The Quiet American and the same year was the first for role of  Marvin in The City of  the Shadows, La ciudad de las sombras (2002) that went to James Caan.
Which he was Oscar-nominated, and others. Several of Caine's classic films have been remade, including The Italian Job, Get Carter, Alfie and Sleuth. In the 2007 remake of Sleuth. Also starred in Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002) as Austin's father and in 2003 he co-starred with Robert Duvall in Secondhand Lions,
in the 2004 film, Around the Bend. In 2005, he was cast as Bruce Wayne's butler Alfred Pennyworth in the first production of the new Batman film series, Batman Begins.

In 2006, he appeared in the films Children of Men and The Prestige. In 2007 he appeared in Flawless, and in 2008 and 2012 he reprised his role as Alfred in Christopher Nolan's critically acclaimed Batman sequels, The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises as well as starring in the British drama Is Anybody There?, which explores the final days of life. He appeared in several other of Nolan's films including The Prestige (2006), Inception (2010), and Interstellar (2014). He also appeared as a supporting character in Alfonso Cuarón's Children of Men and Pixar's 2011 film Cars 2. As of 2015, films in which he has starred have grossed over $7.4 billion worldwide. Caine is ranked the ninth highest grossing box office star.



Awards and Honors:
 Caine has been Oscar-nominated six times, winning his first Academy Award for the 1986 film Hannah and Her Sisters, and his second in 1999 for The Cider House Rules, in both cases as a supporting actor. His performance in Educating Rita in 1983 earned him the BAFTA and Golden Globe Award for Best Actor.
Was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1992 Queen's Birthday Honours, and in the 2000 New Year Honours he was knighted as Sir Maurice Micklewhite CBE by Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace. Then In 2000 he received a BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award. 

Personal Life:

Caine was married to actress Patricia Haines in the 1950s, and they had a daughter together named Dominique. In 1973, Caine married his second wife, Shakira Baksh. They have one child, a daughter named Natasha.
In 2000, Queen Elizabeth granted Caine a knighthood under his real name. He chose to use his birth name in tribute to his father.

 

   

Tim Robbins:
Is an American actor, screenwriter, director, producer, activist and musiciam
Birth Name: Timothy Francis Robbins

Born: October 16, 1958 (age 57), West Covina, California, United States 

 The son of a folk singer, he grew up in New York City's Greenwich Village. His breakout film role was in Bull Durham (1988), and he gave a notable performance for director Robert Altman in The Player and Shortcuts. Robbins was nominated for an Academy Award for his direction of Dead Man Walking and won an Oscar for best supporting actor for his role in Mystic River. Robbins had a 23-year relationship with actress Susan Sarandon, which ended in 2009. They have two children.

Early Life:

He moved to Greenwich Village with his family at a young age, while his father pursued a career as a member of the folk music group, The Highwaymen. Robbins started performing in theater at age twelve and joined the drama club at Stuyvesant High School. Spent two years at SUNY Plattsburgh and then returned to California to study at the UCLA Film School, graduating in 1982.

Breakthrough Role:

 Began acting as a teenager with the Theatre for the New City.  helped found the theater group known as The Actor’s Gang. After a number of small roles, his first role like a  player in Bull Durham (1988) with Kevin Costner and Susan Sarandon.

 In 1982, he appeared as domestic terrorist Andrew Reinhardt in three episodes of the television program St. Elsewhere. In 1985, he guest-starred in the second episode of the television series Moonlighting, "Gunfight at the So-So Corral". He also took small parts in films, such as the role of frat animal "Mother" in Fraternity Vacation (1985) and "Lt. Sam 'Merlin' Wells" in the fighter pilot film Top Gun (1986).


Career Highlights:

 Showing his great range as a performer. In Jacob’s Ladder (1990). Working with director Robert Altman, Robbins shined as the sharp, but shady movie executive in The Player (1992) and as an unfaithful, power-abusing cop in Short Cuts (1993). Around this time, Robbins also made the political mock documentary Bob Roberts (1992). Robbins then starred alongside Morgan Freeman in the critically acclaimed The Shawshank Redemption (1994), which was based on Stephen King's short story.


Robbins has written, produced, and directed several films , such as the critically acclaimed capital punishment saga Dead Man Walking (1995), starring Sarandon and Sean Penn. The film earned him an Oscar nomination for Best Director.  His next directorial effort was 1999's Depression-era musical Cradle Will Rock. Has also appeared in mainstream Hollywood thrillers,  Arlington Road in 1990 (as a suspected terrorist) and 2001's Antitrust (as a malicious computer tycoon), Is good friends with John Cusack, in addition to being his co-star in six films: Bob Roberts (1992), Abajo el telón (1999), Alta fidelidad (2000), Las reglas del juego (1992), The Sure Thing (1985), and Tapeheads (1988).

Robbins won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar and the SAG Award for his work in Mystic River (2003),directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Sean Penn and Kevin Bacon.  In 2005, he won the 39th annual Man of the Year Pudding Pot Award given by the Hasty Pudding Theatricals of Harvard. His most recent acting roles include a temporarily blind man who is nursed to health by a psychologically wounded young woman in The Secret Life of Words. In early 2006, Robbins directed an adaptation of George Orwell's novel 1984, written by Michael Gene Sullivan. In 2008, Robbins appeared in The Lucky Ones, with co-star Rachel McAdams as well as City Of Ember,  next film role was as Senator Hammond, the disapproving father of the film's villain Hector Hammond, 


Recent Work:

Actually Robbins has appeared in the independent drama The Secret Life of Words (2005), the family friendly fantasy Zathura: A Space Adventure (2005), and War of the Worlds (2005). He also lent his voice to the animated political satire about the Iraqi War, Embedded (2005).

Personal Life:

In 1988 Robbins entered into a relationship with actress Susan Sarandon, whom he met on the set of Bull Durham. They have two sons: John "Jack" Henry (born May 15, 1989) and Miles Guthrie (born May 4, 1992). Robbins, like Sarandon, is a lapsed Catholic, and they both share liberal political views. The end of Robbins' relationship with Sarandon was announced in late December 2009.