Her U.S. film debut was in 1997's Paradise Road and she's gone on to star in a number of lauded projects, including The Talented Mr. Ripley, The Aviator, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and two films about Queen Elizabeth I. In 2005, she won an Academy Award (best supporting actress) for her role as Katharine Hepburn in The Aviator. She received another Oscar in 2014, this time for best actress for her performance in Blue Jasmine (2013), and has earned further acclaim for her role in 2015's romantic drama Carol. Early Career: Began making a name for herself in theater soon after graduating from Australia's National Institute of Dramatic Art in 1992. She quickly won roles with the Sydney Theater Company, first in its production of Top Girls and then in Kafka Dances. For her latter performance, Blanchett won the Sydney Theatre Critics Circle Newcomer Award in 1993. She also received critical acclaim for roles in productions of Hamlet, The Tempest and The Seagull. She then co-starred in the ABC Television's prime time drama Heartland (1994), again winning critical acclaim. In 1995, she was nominated for Best Female Performance for her role as Ophelia in the Belvoir Street Theatre Company's production of "Hamlet". Other theatre credits include Helen in the Sydney Theatre Company's "Sweet Phoebe", Miranda in "The Tempest" and Rose in "The Blind Giant is Dancing", both for the Belvoir Street Theatre Company. Other television roles, Blanchett starred as Bianca in ABC's Bordertown (1995), as Janie Morris in G.P. (1989) and in ABC's popular series Police Rescue (1994).
Golden Globe for Elizabeth: She made her U.S. feature film debut in 1997's Paradise Road, about a group of women imprisoned in Japan during WWII. Later that year, then cate grabbed Hollywood's attention with her performance opposite Ralph Fiennes in Oscar and Lucinda (1997). In 1998, Blanchett's Golden Globe-winning portrayal of England's Queen Elizabeth I in Elizabeth earned the actress her first Academy Award nomination. In a superb supporting performance in 1999's The Talented Mr. Ripley, a film also featuring Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow and Jude Law. In 2000, she played a psychic woman in a small Southern town in the thriller The Gift, starring alongside Katie Holmes and Greg Kinnear and then co-starred with Bruce Willis and Billy Bob Thornton in the comic caper Bandits, and with Kevin Spacey and Julianne Moore in The Shipping News.
"Lord of the Rings" and Oscar win: The following year, Blanchett appeared in the first installment of The Lord of the Rings franchise, directed by Peter Jackson and based on the novel by J.R.R. Tolkien. She played the benevolent royal elf Galadriel in The Fellowship of the Ring (2001). Returned to the character for the second and third installmentsof the trilogy (reuniting with Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Orlando Bloom and Liv Tyler, among other recurring Lord of the Rings cast members): The Two Towers, released in 2002, and The Return of the King, released in 2003. In 2005 garnered her biggest cinematic accolade to date: She earned an Academy Award for best supporting actress for portraying Katharine Hepburn in the Howard Hughes biopic The Aviator, directed by Martin Scorsese. the rude, hustling wife in Atando cabos (2001), and the dangerous Russian villain in Indiana Jones y el reino de la calavera de cristal (2008). Blanchett returned to one of her most famous characters, Queen Elizabeth, in the film Elizabeth: TheGolden Age (2007), and then Blanchett earned Screen Actors Guild Award, Golden Globe and Oscar nominations for her performance.
Blanchett won another Oscar in 2014, this time for best actress, for her enthralling, not-to-be-missed performance as a delusional New York socialite in Woody Allen's Blue Jasmine (2013). She starred in the film alongside Sally Hawkins, Alec Baldwin and Annie McNamara. She also performed in several productions that included Jean Genet's The Maids, which appeared at the 2014 Lincoln Center Festival in New York.
Blanchett once again inhabited an iconic role, this time as the wicked stepmother in Disney's 2015 non-animated film adaptation of the fairy tale Cinderella, directed by Kenneth Branagh. Later that year she portrayed 60 Minutes producer Mary Mapes in James Vanderbilt's Truth, co-starring Robert Redford as Dan Rather.
Blanchett was also reunited with director Haynes in another drama for the 2015 season, Carol, in which she plays a suburban housewife who becomes romantically involved with a store saleswoman (Rooney Mara). The project was adapted from a 1952 novel (originally titled The Price of Salt) by Patricia Highsmith, the same author who'd penned The Talented Mr. Ripley. Both Blanchett and Mara received Golden Globe actress nominations,
Personal Life:
Blanchett's husband is playwright and screenwriter Andrew Upton. They met in 1996 on the set of a TV show and were married on 29 December 1997.Blanchett and Upton have four children: biological sons Dashiell John (b. December 2001), Roman Robert (b. April 2004),Ignatius Martin (b. April 2008),and adopted daughter Edith Vivian Patricia, whose adoption was confirmed on 6 March 2015.Blanchett said that she and her husband had been wanting to adopt ever since the birth of their first child
martes, 8 de marzo de 2016
Ian Mckellen: Is an English actor Birth Name: Ian Murray Mckellen
became an acclaimed thespian of the British stage with his performances in such works as Edward II. He also became a popular film actor, earning an Oscar nomination for his role in Gods and Monsters. The venerable actor has since cemented his iconic status by starring as Magneto in the X-Men films and Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings franchise. Early Life:
McKellen attended the Bolton School -- of which he remains a supporter -- and his acting career began at Bolton Little Theatre. His parents and sister encouraged his early interest in acting, taking him to many theatrical productions, including Shakespearean plays. In addition to his interest in acting, McKellen was a strong student. At the age of 18, he won a scholarship to study at the University of Cambridge's St. Catharine's College, where he befriended actor Derek Jacobi.
Appearing in such productions as Henry IV and Doctor Faustus. In 1961, he appeared in his first professional production, A Man for All Seasons. McKellen moved from regional repertory theaters to the West End, earning acclaim for the wide range of his performances. Also a commanding film actor, McKellen became widely recognized for his work on the silver screen in the 1990s, following several roles in Hollywood and television projects. In 1993, McKellen played a supporting role as a South African tycoon in Six Degrees of Separation. The same year, he appeared in the television movie And the Band Played On, about the AIDS epidemic, for which he garnered an Emmy Award nomination, also starred in the major studio film Apt Pupil, based on a Stephen King novel.
In 2013, McKellen reunited with his old friend Jacobi on the British sitcom Vicious. Two years later, he brought his trademark gravitas to the big screen to play literature's most famous detective in Mr. Holmes.
McKellen and his first partner, Brian Taylor, a history teacher from Bolton, began their relationship in 1964. Their relationship lasted for eight years, ending in 1972. They lived in London, where McKellen continued to pursue his career as an actor. For over a decade, he has lived in a five-storey Victorian conversion in Narrow Street, Limehouse.In 1978 he met his second partner, Sean Mathias, at the Edinburgh Festival. This relationship lasted until 1988. According to Mathias, the ten-year love affair was tempestuous, with conflicts over McKellen's success in acting versus Mathias's somewhat less-successful career. Mathias later directed McKellen in Waiting For Godot at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in 2009. The pair entered into a business partnership with Evgenyev, purchasing the lease on The Grapes public house in Narrow Street.
Benedict Cumberbatch: Is an English actor and film producer Birth Name: Benedict Timothy CarltonCumberbatch
best known for his role in the BBC television show Sherlock. He has also appeared in Hollywood films such as Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, War Horse,Star Trek: Into the Darkness and The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. He has won several stage and screen acting awards and received both Golden Globe and Oscar nominations for his role in the acclaimed 2014 Alan Turing biopic The Imitation Game. Early Years:
they tried to steer young Benedict away from the stage and sent him to Harrow public school, where he had been awarded an arts scholarship. At Harrow, he displayed an interest in rugby and painting, but it was theater that captured his imagination. Under the mentorship of Martin Tyrrell, Cumberbatch's first role was as Titania, Queen of the Faeries, in the William Shakespeare play A Midsummer's Night Dream. Cumberbatch left Harrow, spent a year teaching English in Tibet, and then returned to England to study drama at the University of Manchester. After graduation, he spent a year at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.
Professional Success:
Cumberbatch's television work includes appearances in Heartbeat (2000), Silent Witness (2002) and Fortysomething (2003) Cumberbatch began his career with roles in classic plays and small television shows. His breakthrough on the big screen came in 2004 when he portrayed Stephen Hawking in the television movie Hawking (2004), Cumberbatch's performance earned him a BAFTA nomination. His first film was the 2006 college comedy Starter for 10. A year later, he appeared in the film Atonement and played opposite Tom Hardy in the TV movie Stuart: A Life Backwards. He unexpectedly got dual voice roles on Los Simpson (1989) when he visited Fox's studio for a completely unrelated appointment. He first performed at the Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park in Shakespearean productions such as Love's Labour's Lost (2001), A Midsummer Night's Dream (2001), and Romeo and Juliet (2002). He also portrayed George Tesman in Richard Eyre's revival of Hedda Gabler in 2005 and since then has starred in the Royal National Theatre productions After the Dance (2010) and Frankenstein (2011). In 2015, he played William Shakespeare's Hamlet at the Barbican Theatre. In 2010, he became a household name as Sherlock Holmes on the British television series Sherlock (2010). The BBC aired a modern adaptation of the story, which won widespread praise and granted stardom to Cumberbatch, who plays Sherlock. Martin Freeman plays Holmes's sidekick, Dr. Watson. In 2011, Cumberbatch seemed locked in a Hollywood trajectory with roles in the Cold War thriller Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and Steven Spielberg's World War I drama, War Horse, Caballo de guerra ,El topo . The role required him to alternate playing Victor Frankenstein and playing his monster on opposite nights, and earned him an Olivier Award for Best Actor jointly with his co-star Jonny Lee Miller.
In the 2012 film The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Cumberbatch provided the voice for the Necromancer, and the dragon, Smaug. He also played the villain in J.J. Abrams' Star Trek sequel, Star Trek: Into the Darkness, Star Trek: En la oscuridad (2013). continued to thrive in 2013 with such films as Steve McQueen's true life drama 12 Years a Slave, 12 años de esclavitud . He also stars in The Fifth Estate (2013), playing Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. the second half of 2013 premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival: The Fifth Estate, in which he played WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
In 2014, Cumberbatch won his first Emmy after three nominations for his lead role in PBS' Sherlock, a modern take on the classic detective. The same year he starred in the WWII drama The Imitation Game, El código enigma as trailblazing mathematician Alan Turing, earned him a Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild Award, British Academy of Film and Television Arts and an Academy Award nominations for Best Actor in a Leading Role. In January 2014, Gary Oldman confirmed that Cumberbatch, Ralph Fiennes and Amanda Seyfried are to star in Oldman's next directorial project, Flying Horse, about the life of English photographer Eadweard Muybridge. In May 2014, he joined the cast of the film Black Mass opposite Johnny Depp which was distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures worldwide.
Personal Life:
Cumberbatch is married to theatre and opera director Sophie Hunter. Their engagement was announced in the "Forthcoming Marriages" section of The Times on 5 November 2014, after a 17-year friendship. On 14 February 2015, the couple married at the 12th century Church of St. Peter and St. Paul on the Isle of Wight followed by a reception at Mottistone Manor. They have a son, Christopher Carlton (b. 2015).
lunes, 7 de marzo de 2016
Sylvester Stallone: Is an American actor, screenwriter, producer and director Birth Name: Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone Born:July 6, 1946 (age 69), Hell's Kitchen, New York City, New York, United States. Rose to fame as the writer and lead of the Academy Award-winning boxing film Rocky (1976). He went on to become one of the biggest action stars in the world, reprising his characters from Rocky and First Blood (1982) for several sequels. Following a mid-career decline, he rediscovered box-office success with a series of action films that included The Expendables (2010) and has earned critical acclaim reprising his Rocky role in Creed (2015), winning his first Golden Globe and receiving another Oscar nomination. Background and Early life: he attended a special high school for troubled youth.
After graduation, Stallone eventually went on to college. First, he attended the American College in Switzerland, where he studied drama. Stallone then went to the University of Miami, again choosing to focus on the dramatic arts. He left school before completing his degree to move to New York City to pursue an acting career.
is best known for portraying two heroic characters on the big screen—boxer Rocky Balboa and Vietnam War veteran John Rambo.
Aspiring Actor:
He cleaned up the lions’ cages at the Central Park Zoo, ushered at a movie theater and even made an appearance in an adult film called The Party at Kitty and Stud's (1970). A few uncredited parts in mainstream films, such as Woody Allen’s Bananas (1971) and Klute (1971), He had a more substantial role playing a tough guy in the 1974 independent film The Lords of Flatbush with Henry Winkler and Perry King.
He got a crucial career break alongside fellow young actor Henry Winkler, sharing lead billing in the effectively written teen gang film La pandilla del barrio (1974). Further film and television roles followed, most of them in uninspiring productions except for the opportunity to play a megalomaniac, bloodthirsty race driver named "Machine Gun Joe Viterbo" in the Roger Corman-produced Carrera mortal 2000 (1975).
Action Hero:
Stallone was also keen to be recognized as a screenwriter, not just an actor, and, inspired by the 1975 Muhammad Ali-Chuck Wepner fight in Cleveland, Stallone wrote a film script about a nobody fighter given the "million to one opportunity" to challenge for the heavyweight title. Rocky (1976) became the stuff of cinematic legends, scoring ten Academy Award nominations, winning the Best Picture Award of 1976 and triggering one of the most financially successful movie.
Stallone next starred as a labor organizer in F.I.S.T. (1978),and La taberna del infierno (1978) . He received some favorable reviews for his work, but the film failed to attract much of an audience. Returning to the film that made him famous, Stallone wrote, directed and starred in Rocky II (1979). He kept the franchise going a few years later with Rocky III (1982).
Stallone introduced a new character to moviegoers—John Rambo, a disenfranchised and troubled Vietnam vet—in First Blood (1982). Rambo ends up going to war with the police in a small town after being mistreated by authorities. Once again, Stallone struck box-office gold. He went behind the scenes for his next effort, Staying Alive (1983), which he wrote and directed. Subsequent films Halcones de la noche (1981) and Victory (1981) failed to ignite with audiences. film was a worldwide smash, and a sequel soon followed with Rambo II (1985), which drew even stronger criticism from several quarters owing to the film's plotline about American MIAs allegedly being held in Vietnam.
Stallone taking up trademark roles in Rocky IV (1985), Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985), Rambo III (1988) and Rocky V (1990). He also starred in the comedy Oscar (1991) as well as the futuristic action flick Demolition Man, El demoledor (1993), which co-starred Wesley Snipes and Sandra Bullock.Stallone continued forward with a slew of macho character-themed films that met with a mixed reception from his fans. Cobra, el brazo fuerte de la ley (1986) was a clumsy mess, Over the Top (1987), and cop buddy film Tango y Cash.
Career Decline: Philadelphia's favorite mythical boxer moved out of the shadows for his fifth screen outing in Rocky V (1990) Stallone’s star power as an action hero had started to fade. He made a series of forgettable films, including Judge Dredd,El juez (1995) and Daylight (1996). Stallone took a supporting role in the independent drama Cop Land (1997), which starred Harvey Keitel, Robert De Niro and Ray Liotta.
Stallone then lent his vocal talents to the animated adventure story Antz (1998), reprised the role made famous by Michael Caine in a terrible remake of Get Carter (2000), He then wrote, co-produced and starred in the car-racing drama Driven, Alta velocidad, (2001). Another effort, Shade (2004). guest-starred as the "Toymaker" in the third chapter of the immensely popular "Spy Kids" film series, Mini espías 3-D, Sky Spies (2003).
he wrote and directed Rambo (2008). The film lived up the gory legacy of its predecessors, will reappear after a 20-year hiatus to once again right wrongs in the jungles of Thailand. In 2010, Stallone starred alongside Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger in The Expendables. The ensemble cast also featured Jason Statham of The Transporter film series. In 2013, Stallone starred in the action film Bullet to the Head, directed by Walter Hill, based upon Alexis Nolent's French graphic novel Du Plomb Dans La Tete.[46] Also in 2013, he starred in the action thriller Escape Plan, along with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jim Caviezel, and in the sports comedy Grudge Match alongside Robert De Niro. Stallone expressed interest in making a remake of the Spanish film No Rest for the Wicked and to star in a fifth Rambo film but both projects are now shelved.
In 2015, Stallone reprised his role as Rocky Balboa in a spin-off-sequel film, Creed, which focused on the son of his deceased friend/rival, Apollo Creed, becoming a boxer. The film, directed by Ryan Coogler, received critical acclaim. Portraying the iconic cinematic boxer for the seventh time, Stallone's portrayal of the character received widespread acclaim and accolades, including the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor, and his third Academy Award nomination; this time for Best Supporting Actor.
Off Camera:
Stallone began to receive some appreciation for his life’s work. He received an honorary Cesar Award, the French equivalent of the Academy Award, in 1992, and an acting award at the Stockholm Film Festival in 1997. In 2008, Stallone became the first person to receive the Golden Icon Award at the Zurich Film Festival, and he later earned lifetime achievement honors at the 2012 Hollywood Film Awards.
Globe win and Oscar nod for "Creed" :
Stallone delivered The Expendables 3 in the summer of 2014, with Harrison Ford and Mel Gibson among the additions to the cast. The film proved to have more modest box office returns domestically than its predecessors, though foreign ticket sales were once again robust.
Stallone won a supporting actor Golden Globe for the part, receiving a standing ovation as he took the podium for his acceptance speech. A few days later he received an Academy Award nomination for the role, thus having earned two Oscar nods for the character of Rocky.
Personal Life:
Stallone has been married three times. At age 28, on December 28, 1974, he married Sasha Czack from Pennsylvania. The couple had two sons, Sage Moonblood (May 5, 1976 – July 13, 2012), who died of heart disease at age 36, and Seargeoh (b. 1979). His younger son was diagnosed with autism at an early age. The couple divorced on February 14, 1985. He married model and actress Brigitte Nielsen, on December 15, 1985, in Beverly Hills, California. Stallone and Nielsen's marriage, which lasted two years, and their subsequent divorce, were highly publicized by the tabloid press. In May 1997, Stallone married Jennifer Flavin, with whom he has three daughters: Sophia, Sistene, and Scarlet.
domingo, 6 de marzo de 2016
Denzel Washington: Is an American actor, and filmmaker Birth Name: Denzel Hayes Washington jr
First studied journalism at Fordham University but then discovered an interest in acting. He made his feature film debut in the comedy A Carbon Copy (1981) and was cast on the hit TV medical drama St. Elsewhere (1982-8). He went on to appear in several hit movies, including Philadelphia, Man on Fire, The Book of Eli, American Gangster and Flight,and won Oscars for his roles in Glory and Training Day.
Washington went to Fordham University, but he proved to be a poor student initially. After taking some time away from college, he returned to the university with a new interest in acting. Washington later won a scholarship to the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, and afterwards worked with the Shakespeare in the Park ensemble. Oscars Wins and Directorial debut:
Washington made his feature film debut in the comedy A Carbon Copy (1981). He also appeared in a number of off-Broadway productions and in television movies before being cast in a starring role in the hit television medical drama St. Elsewhere (1982–88) and grabbed his first of five Oscar nominations for Cry Freedom (1987) as real-life South African apartheid martyr Steve Biko. He later won a best supporting actor Oscar for Glory (1989). He shared a 1982 Distinguished Ensemble Performance Obie Award for playing Private First Class Melvin Peterson in the Off-BroadwayNegro Ensemble Company production A Soldier's Play which premiered November 20, 1981. He also appeared in several television, motion picture and stage roles, such as the films A Soldier's Story (1984), Hard Lessons (1986) and Power (1986). In 1987, he starred as South African anti-apartheid political activist Steven Biko in Richard Attenborough's Cry Freedom, for which he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.That same year (1989), he appeared in the film The Mighty Quinn; and in For Queen and Country He appeared in several notable films throughout the 1990s, including Spike Lee collaborations like the jazz outing Mo’ Better Blues (1990) and work in critically-acclaimed films continued simultaneously, with roles biopic Malcolm X (1992) , another Oscar-nominated performance). Other projects from this era included The Pelican Brief , El informe Pelícano (1993), Philadelphia, Filadelfia (1993), Crimson Tide,Marea roja (1995), Courage Under Fire, Valor bajo fuego (1996) and The Hurricane, Huracán(1999). Turned down Pecados capitales (1995). He opted to do another detective thriller that year, El demonio vestido de azul (1995).
In 2001, Washington received his second Oscar (this time in a leading role) for the cop thriller Training Day,Día de entrenamiento. The following year, he directed his first film, the drama Antwone Fisher, in which he also co-starred. Continued to define his onscreen persona as the tough, no-nonsense hero through the 2000s in films like Lee's Inside Man. Washington would once again step behind the camera for the historical The Great Debaters (2007), which profiled a winning African-American debate team.Between 2003 and 2004, Washington appeared in a series of thrillers that performed generally well at the box office, including Out of Time, Man on Fire, and The Manchurian Candidate
Action hits and 'Flight':
Several hits followed, including Man on Fire,Hombre en llamas (2004), The Manchurian Candidate,(2004). Washington also starred as Frank Lucas, a real-life heroin kingpin from Harlem, in the 2007 film American Gangster, Gánster americano (2007), Melvin Tolson in The Great Debaters (2007). In 2009, Washington starred as MTA Dispatcher Walter Garber in the remake of the classic film The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3, co-starring John Travolta.
During this time period, he also took on the role of producer for some of his films, including El libro de los secretos (2010) and Protegiendo al enemigo (2012). In 2012, Washington starred in Flight, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor. He co-starred with Ryan Reynolds in Safe House, where he prepared for his role by subjecting himself to a torture session that included waterboarding. In 2013, Washington starred in 2 Guns, alongside Mark Walberg. In 2014 he starred in The Equalizer, an actionthriller film directed by Antoine Fuqua and written by Richard Wenk, based on the television series of same name starring Edward Woodward. Had another action hit in 2014 with The Equalizer. In early 2016, Washington received the Cecil B. DeMille Award from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association at its annual Golden Globe telecast.
Personal Life:
Denzel Washington married actress Pauletta Pearson in 1983; they have four children. Their oldest son, John David, was drafted in 2006 by the NFL's St. Louis Rams. He now plays for the Sacramento Mountain Lions in the United Football League. Their other children are daughter Katia and twins Olivia and Malcolm.
