English Movie Review The Dark Tower - Cast & Crew

Born on December 17, 1977, in Ontario, Canada, Katerena Anna Vinitska is a Canadian on-screen character. She is of Ukrainian descent. She is the daughter of Roman and Lesya Winnicki. Ukrainian was her first language till she was eight years old and then she started speaking English. She began learning martial arts at seven years of age and got the first black belt at the age of 13.. Winnick holds a black belt in Karate and Tae Kwon Do. She learned acting from William Esper Studio at New York. She also spent much of her time living and studying outside of Seoul in a Buddhist sanctuary, yet needed to leave for a motion picture part.

Akiva Goldsman is an American television writer, film writer, producer, and a director. Akiva has worked for many movies as a screenwriter. Some of those films are ‘Batman Forever’, ‘Cindrella Man’, ‘I am Legend’, and many rewrites. In the year 2006, he worked with the famous director Ron Howard to make the movie ‘The Da Vinci Code’ which is based on author Dan Brown’s novel. He received mixed reviews for his work for this film. Akiva has won an Academy Award in the year 2001 for the movie ‘A Beautiful Mind’ which is an Oscar-winning film. Akiva belongs to a Jewish Family.

Brian Thomas Grazer, an American film producer, was born on 21 July 1951, in Los Angeles. He is also the co- founder of Imagine Entertainment, Hollywood's most successful and prolific production companies. The movies produced under that have collected about $13 billion. He announced himself as 'half- Jewish' in 2001 as his mother was a Jew and father was a Catholic. He has two siblings, Nora Beth Grazer and Gavin Grazer, who is an actor and a director, by profession. They grew up in Sherman Oaks and Northridge. He earned a major in Psychology from University of South California. In 1974, he completed his graduation from USC's School of Cinema- Television. When he was in high school, his parents got divorced. He started his Hollywood career in 1975, quitting his law studies.

Ron Howard was born in Oklahoma, U.S. on 1st March 1954. He is a director by profession and has also acted in many movies. Ron has been a part of two major sitcoms which have brought him immense popularity. His mother is an actress, and Rance Howard, his father is a writer and director. Ron and his family had spent a lot of time in Hollywood since they stayed there for years before they decided to move to Burbank. Ron received his primary education in Desilu Studios and later attended John Burroughs High School from where he graduated.

Stephen King is a renowned American novelist, columnist, actor, TV producer, musician, and writer of modern horror, suspense, sci-fi, fantasy, and supernatural fiction. Many of his books were sold and adapted into feature films, TV shows, miniseries, and comic books. He was born as Stephen Edwin King on September 21, 1947, in Portland, Maine in the United States. At the age of 2, his father left them and so he was raised by his mother together with his adopted brother, David.

Idrissa Akuna Elba, most widely known as Idris Elba is an award-winning British actor. He is popularly known around for his roles in “The Wire,” “Luther,” “Thor,” and “Mandela: Long walk to freedom.” Idris Elba started out as a British actor and gradually made his way to Hollywood. He won a Golden Globe award for his performance in “Luther”. An only child, Elba was born in Newham, London, England. His father, Winston, and mother, Eve married and moved to London.

Matthew McConaughey is an American actor. He was born as Matthew David MacConaughey on November 4, 1969 to Kathleen Kay and James Donald McConaughey at Uvalde Texas. He was raised as a Methodist. Matthew shifted to Longview, Texas in year 1980 where he studied at Longview High School. Later, he moved to Warnervale, NSW in Australia for one year as an exchange student of the Rotary Foundation. He also went to University of Texas at Austin College of Communication. From there, he become a member of the Delta Tau Delta International Fraternity. He took up a Radio-Television-Film degree in 1989 and graduated in 1993. Initially, he aims to study in a law school, but later, he realized that he is not interested anymore.

He initiated his career in acting in year 1991 after doing many television commercials like the Austin American-Statesmen. Later, he was cast in the 1993 comedy film, Dazed and Confused as David Wooderson. He has done small roles in Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation, Unsolved Mysteries, Angels in the Outfield and Boys on the Side. He also bagged the male lead in the music video, Walkaway Joe by Trisha Yearwood. He got his breakthrough in the 1996 drama film, A Time to Kill as Jake Brigance. He was cast in the lead roles in late 1990’s through the movies’ U-571, Amistad, Contact, EDtv and a lot more.

In year 2000, he was regularly seen in romantic comedy films like How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days and The Wedding Planner, which made it to the box-office success. During this time, Matthew was starred in a low-budget film, Tiptoes in 2003. He was also co-starred in the psychological film, Frailty in 2001 and in the drama-sports film, Two for the Money in year 2005. In the same year, he was featured in the action-comedy film, Sahara which also stars Penélope Cruz and Steve Zahn. He was considered as the ‘Sexiest Man Alive’ by People’s magazine in 2005. Later, he bagged the role of Tripp opposite with Sarah Jessica Parker in Failure to Launch. In 2006, he essayed the role of Jack Lengyel, a head coach in the historical drama film, We Are Marshall. He also voiced for the Peace Corps ad campaign in the same year. In the 2008 action comedy film, Tropic Thunder by Ben Stiller, he replaces Owen Wilson after his suicide attempt.

In 2012, he was starred in Steven Soderbergh’ comedy drama film, Magic Mike together with Channing Tatum. Matthew came back to East Texas and worked with Director Richard Linklater in 2011’s black comedy film, Bernie. In 2013, the brilliant actor loses 38-pounds to play the role of Ron Woodroof, a real-life AIDS patient in the biographical drama film, Dallas Buyers Club. This film was critically acclaimed and earned several awards. He won the Best Actor – Drama in the Golden Globe Awards and the Best Actor at the Academy Award.

Recently, he played as Rustin Spencer Cohle, a detective in the crime drama series, True Detective. He was also starred as Joseph Cooper, an astronaut in the box-office science fiction film, Interstellar along with Anne Hathaway which was released last November 7, 2014.

Matthew received the Best Actor award at the academy Award for Dallas Buyers Club. He also earned the Critics’ Choice Television Award for Best Actor in a Drama Series for bagging the role of Rustin Cohle. He got married to Brazilian model, Camila Alves on June 9, 2012 in Texas. The couple has three children namely, Levi Alves, Vida Alves and Livingston Alves McConaughey.

Dennis Haysbert was born on 2nd June 1954 in San Mateo, Californio, U.S. He is an American actor and voice actor and well-known for playing lead roles in various films and television series. He completed his graduation from San Mateo High School and then studied acting at the American Academy of Dramatics Arts. Dennis stepped into the world of acting in 1978 by playing a guest role in The White Shadow. In 1993, he played the role of Cherokee Jack Jackson in Return to Lonesome Dove. He has been a popular actor since then.

Jackie Earle Haley is a prominent American actor, who was born in Northridge, which is in California, in USA. He was born on the 14th in the month of July, 1961, to Haven Earle ‘Bud’ Haley, an actor, radio DJ and host. Jackie has done a number of films including the post-apocalyptic film, Damnation Alley, in 1977, John Schlesinger’s The Day of the Locust, in 1975, and the comedy film, Losin’ It, in 1983. He also donned several television guest appearances.