English Movie Review Bad Santa 2 - Cast & Crew

Kathy Bates is a prominent American actress and film director. She was born as Kathleen Doyle ‘Kathy’ Bates on June 28, 1948 at Memphis, Tennessee. She is the youngest daughter of Langdon Doyle Bates and Bertye Kathleen. She studied at White Station High School and later moved to Southern Methodist University with a major in Theatre. She is a member of Alpha Delta Pi, a popular sorority. In year 1970, Kathy moved to New York to pursue her career in acting. 

She started acting in the Broadway and some of her appearances includes the Fifth of July by Lanford Wilson and ‘Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean’ by Robert Altman. She is also part of the ‘night, Mother; the play that won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1983. Kathy got a nomination in the Tony Award for her performance in the play. She also ap...

Christina Rene Hendricks is an American actress. She was born on 3rd May 1975 in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States. She is well recognized for her role in "Mad Men" as Joan Holloway, for which she nominated for six Emmy Awards. Her mother, Jackie Sue, was a psychologist. Her family moved because her father, Robert, worked for the U.S Forest service living in Fairfax, Portland and Twin Falls. She has both U.S and U.K nationality through her father. She began appearing on television, landing a recurring role in "Beggars and Choosers". She has also appeared on "ER", "Firefly", "Cold Case" and "Without a Trace", but she received her breakthrough role in "Mad Men". She parlayed that into a film career that includes appearances in "I Don...

Octavia Lenora Spencer born in Montgomery, Alabama, the US on May 25, 1972, is an author and American actress. Spencer has six siblings which include her sisters named Areka and Rosa. Her mother’s name is Dellsena Spenser who died in the year 1988 and worked as a maid when she was alive. Jefferson Davis High School was the school from where Spencer has completed her graduation in the year 1988. She has also studied at Auburn University and has a Bachelor’s degree in Liberal Arts. Spencer has worked on the set of “The Long Walk Home,” at the age of 19. The film has an actor named Whoopi Goldberg Her debut film name was- “A Time to Kill” in which she played the role of a nurse based on John Grisham’s book. In 2011, she acted in the period film named “The Help” as Minny Jackson for whi...

Doug Ellin is an executive producer and creator of the well-known comedy-drama television series 'Entourage'. His birth name was Douglas Reed Doug Ellin, he was born in Brooklyn to the couple June and Marvin Ellin. He attended Tulane University.

He was Nominated thrice for an Emmy award. He shifted from his native New York to Los Angeles to start his Hollywood career as a stand-up comedian in the early 90's. He has worked in some venues such as The Comedy Store, The Improv. Ellin stated in an interview that his parents really didn't appreciate his job as a stand-up comedian. It was that time Ellin took a position in the Mailroom of New Line Cinema. After watching his stand-up routine Mike DeLuca, the Vice President of the New Line funded for Ellin's first short film 'The Pitch' starring David Schwimm...

Glenn Ficarra had perceived his education in film from Pratt Institute, a non-profit institution, situated at Clinton Hill, near Brooklyn, New York, United States; there he encountered John Requa, a screenwriter who works in association with Glenn. Post College, the team of two, worked for the Nickelodeon channel, they managed the department of animation for it.

The two later took up as writers and worked in a joint partnership. Together, they wrote the script of the comedy film titled, Cats and Dogs. Cats and Dogs was also produced by Glenn and was released in 2001. They also contributed as screenwriters in a Terry Zwigoff film, Bad Santa. The duo featured as writers in a film titled Bad News Bears, too, which was directed by Richard Linklater.

The duo had even scripted for the film I Love You Philip Morris, and they d...

John Requa is an accomplished Screen Writer. He was brought up in Washington in Burien. It is a hinterland of Seattle. In 1985 he graduated from Burien’s Highline High School. He is a talented writer since his childhood. This writing talent came to light when he performed and wrote a skit. The skit was for Fernbusters. It was the title of his Homecoming Assembly in the senior year. It was a morphed skit which includes Saturday Night Live sketch of Christmas tree and Ghostbusters.

John Requa played the character of Killer Fern in the skit. Later he wrote the skit for another assembly. The skit was about Sven, an almighty creator. John Requa went to Highland High School along Dana Newton, Randy Dixon, Mike Starr. Dana Newton is a chief producer of Oprah Winfrey Show. Randy Dixon is an internationally popular improvisation a...

Billy Bob Thornton is a popular American director, producer, singer-songwriter and also an eminent actor. He was born on August 4, 1955 at Hot Springs, Arkansas in USA to Virginia Roberta and William Raymond Thornton. His father died when he was 18 years old. Billy is one of the three brothers in their family. He wrote several songs like Island Avenue and Emily. He also recorded his very own albums. When he was a child, he lives in Alpine and Malvern in Arkansas and he was brought up as a Methodist. He finished high school in 1973 and he was good in playing baseball. In fact, he tried out on one of the professional baseball team, the Kansas City Royals but he got injured so he was released. After some time of working for the Arkansas State Transportation Department, he went to Henderson State University to study Psychology, but he dr...

Brett Kelly is a Canadian actor born on 30 October 1993 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Brett was raised by his parents in the Vancouver itself. Brett made his debut in the film industry with the movie with the film Kill Me Later in 2001. In 2001, Brett bagged four roles on the big screen including two roles on the TV. Currently, Brett lives in Surrey, British Columbia. He is famous for his role as Thurman Merman in the movie Bad Santa in 2003.

Brett was nominated for the Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award for Youth in Film Bad Santa in the year 2002. In 2007, he was nominated for the Young Artist Award and Leo Award for Unaccompanied Minors and Birthdays and Other Traumas respectively. Brett is the recipient of Phoenix Film Critic Society Award for Best Youth ...

Ryan Hansen is a famous actor and comedian. He's well known for his role in the series Veronica Mars, comedy series party down, and as Nolan in the horror film Friday the 13th. Moreover, Ryan worked in the comedy series,two broke girls. He was born in Fountain Valley, California. He started his acting career from series like grounded for life, so Raven and Las Vegas. Hanson is married to Amy Russell, they have three daughters.

He is actively supporting the invisible children campaign, found by his brother-in-law Jason Russell. In 2017, Ryan started a series called Ryan Hansen solves crimes on television. It consists of two seasons, in a total of 16 episodes. It is a mysterious crime-related,action-packed comedy show.

Joseph Anthony “Tony” Cox was born in Manhattan, New York, USA on 31st March 1958. His father is Joe Cox, and his mother is Henrietta Cox. Tony had his schooling and spent the early days of childhood in Alabama where he lived with his grandparents. He became an excellent drummer at the age of 10, his mother Henrietta lived with his stepfather in Georgia. Tony married Otelia in 1981. He attended the Alabama University and studied music there. Since his debut in 1980, Tony has been playing a variety of comic characters on screen and has been a part of various projects.

In 1976, Tony moved to Los Angeles when his friends and family encouraged him to pursue acting as a career. Tony joined Merrick Studio School of Acting and started to learn drama along with De Ti...