1. Laurence Berkani
Laurence Berkani is a famous visual effects producer, who predominantly works in the Hollywood film industry. She works in Hollywood films since 2000. Laurence Berkani was known for her films, 6 Underground and The Mandalorian in 2019, Mary Poppins Returns in 2018, Rush Hour 3 in 2007, Scary Movie V in 2013, Wonder Woman in 2017, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children and A Monster Calls in 2016. Her recent projects, A Quiet Place Part II and Jungle Cruise are scheduled to release in 2021. A Quiet Place Part II is an American series directed by John Krasinski. Jungle Cruise is an upcoming television film that would release on July 30, 2021. Jaume Collet-Serra directed the film.
...2. Emily Blunt
Emily Blunt, also known as Emily Olivia Leah Blunt is a British actress, born on 23rd February 1983, in West London. She was born to Joanna Mackie, a former actress and teacher and Oliver Simon Peter Blunt, a banister. She received her primary education at Ibstock Place School, Roehampton. Blunt was initially struggling with stammering (a speech disorder). She underwent several therapies that ended in vain. Finally, Blunt’s teacher asked her to play the role of a character but with a different voice. It worked well, and her stammering disappeared. She had two years of drama studies at Hurtwood’s theater course.
In 2000, she was nominated to perform at the Edinburgh Festival. In November 2001, she made her professional debut in the play ‘The Royal Family’. After a stunning performance in ...
3. Emily Mortimer
Emily Kathleen Anne Mortimer was born on 1st December to John Mortimer (a lawyer and writer, who made the TV show Rumple of the Bailey), in London, England. She is an English actress and screenwriter as well. Her younger sister is named Rosie. She did her schooling from St. Pauls Girls High School and completed her graduation from Lincoln College, Oxford. Emily got married to Alessandro Nivola (an actor who was her co-star in Love's Labours Lost film) in January 2003 and had two children named Sam and May. Emily performed in several plays while studying at Oxford University and while acting in a student production, a producer spotted her, who later cast her in the lead of a TV show The Glass Virgin (1995). Before getting into acting, she wrote a column for the Daily Telegraph and also worked as a s...
4. Julie Walters
Julie Walters is an English writer and a film actress. She is a very famous actress who went on to win two BAFTA Awards for her acting in movies, four BAFTA Awards for her acting in TV. She recently got the BAFTA Fellowship in the year 2014. She first got name and fame in the year 1983 for portraying the lead part in the movie Educating Rita. It was a part she had made on West End stage which earned her a nomination for Best Actress for the Academy Awards. It likewise won her a BAFTA award and also a Golden Globe award. She got a second nomination for the Academy Award as the Best Supporting Actress, for her part in the movie Billy Elliot, which was released in the year 2000 which likewise won her another BAFTA award. Her other acting roles incorporate movies like Personal Services in the year 1987, Buster ...
5. Meryl Streep
She’s not just Hollywood giant but also a winner of “Medal of Freedom” and Commander of the Arts in France. An award winning queen and a versatile actress known as Meryl Streep. Born on June 22nd 1949 in New Jersey – United States. She made her first film in 1977 as Anne Marie in the movie “Julia.” Made her break-through performance in the movie “The French Lieutenant’s Woman” in 1981 and “Silkwood” in 1983. A bio-film of Karen Silkwood - a metallurgist in a plutonium plantation. She made also a great performance in a plantation set movie lustrous love movie “Out of Africa” in 1985 with Robert Redford.
She fought back for her innocence in as the accused murderer in the movie “A Cry in the Dark” in 1988 with Sam Neil. She also made a social-awareness movie as a drug-addicted-dependent actress Suzanne Vale in the movie “Postcards f...
6. Noma Dumezweni
Noma Dumezweni is a British theatre actor and was born in 1969 in Swaziland, Africa. Dumezweni moved to the UK, with her mother and sister when she was a child, around 7 or 8 years old. Before moving to the UK, they moved base to different African nations. They were refugees. In the UK, her family initially lived in Suffolk, where she attended school before moving to London. She attended acting classes at the Wolsey Youth Theatre during her school summer holidays as a child. From there on she became acutely interested in theatre. She is motivated more by the quality of work rather than the quantity. “It boils down to participating in a great bit of storytelling. It has been a real pleasure; I have been so lucky. My idea of hell is doing one play for ever; (because) you get stuck and bored; it is not s...
7. Rob Marshall
Born in Madison, Wisconsin in the USA on October 17, 1960, Rob Marshall is a renowned director in Hollywood and has directed both musical plays and movies. Not only a director, but he has also been a choreographer. Marshall was born to Robert D. Marshall and Anne Marshall. Rob’s father served as a professor. Although Rob was born in Madison, Wisconsin he grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He has two siblings- ‘Kathleen Marshall’ and Maura Marshall. Rob’s younger sister, Kathleen, is also a famous director, choreographer and also a script consultant. He did his schooling from Taylor Allderdice High School in Pittsburgh and finished school in 1978. Rob completed his graduation from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh. He had an inclination towards musicals since childhood.
Rob a...
8. Marc Platt
Marc Platt is an American producer who has dabbled in all forms of entertainment like films, TV shows, and theater. His birth date fell on April 14, 1957, and he was born in Pikesville, Maryland, United States of the America into a Jew family. His father worked in a shoe shop while his mother taught in a nearby school.
He also has two siblings, one brother, and a sister. During their childhood, Marc's mother would cajole her children into donation their unused toys to the needy. He studied in Pikesville High School and later in the University of Pennsylvania.
While studying at the University of Pennsylvania, he was an active member of the college's Glee Club and would direct his school plays. He then took up law and enrolled himself in New York University. After graduating from there, he began to work with a fir...
9. Marc Shaiman
Marc Shaiman was born on October 22, 1959 in Newyork, New Jersy in the US. His parents are Claire and William Robert Shainman. He completed his schooling at Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School. But he did not finish his school and left the school at the age of sixteen. After that, he started to work in a theater situated in New York. He lived in both New York City and Los Angeles. On March 26, 2016, he married Lieutenant Louis Mirabal.
He started his career as a music director. After that, he worked as a vocal organizer for Bette Midler. Later he became musical director and co-producer for many of her movies and recordings. The Recordings include From a Distance and The Wind Beneath My Wings. His performance on the ultimate The Tonight show starred Johnny Carson. After tha...
10. Scott Wittman
Scott Wittman is an American filmmaker by profession. He is also a lyricist plus writer who works for Broadway theatres, concerts and in television shows. He was born on 16 November in 1954. He grew up and spent his childhood in Nanuet which is situated in New York, US. He completed his graduate degree in the year 1972 from Nanuet Senior High School and later went on to attend Emerson College situated in Boston for the next two years of his life.
After that, he left the place and moved back to New York City to pursue a further career in the field of musical theatres. Due the period when he was working as a director for a show of Greenwich Village club, he has a meeting with Marc Shaiman and soon, they both became professional partners plus collaborators. While Shaiman did the work of writing for television show...
11. Ben Whishaw
Ben Whishaw is a versatile English actor. He was born as Benjamin John Whishaw on October 14, 1980, in Clifton, Bedfordshire in England. He has a twin brother named James Whishaw. Ben studied at Henlow Middle School. He was a member of Big Spirit, a theatre company in Samuel Whitbread Community College, Shefford, where he also studied. In 2003, he graduated at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. Ben got involved in several Big Spirit productions, mainly for “If This is a Man”, which is based on Primo Levi’s book of the same name.
Later, it was adapted into the theatre and was taken at the Edinburgh Festival in 1995, where it earned 5-star reviews and became critically acclaimed. Ben’s performance as the lead actor in Tevor Nunn’s Ha...
12. Lin-Manuel Miranda
Lin-Manuel Miranda was born in New York City, New York, United States on 16th January, 1980. He is an actor, playwright and composer by profession. He has his own website named www.linmanuel.com. His mother is Luz Towns who is a psychologist and his father is Luis A. Miranda Jr. who was working as a consultant for Ed Koch, New York City Mayor. CFO of MirRam Group, Luz is his elder sister.
He got his name from a poem “Nana Roja Para MI Hijo Lin Manuel” written by Manuel Torres Santiego about the Vietnam War. After graduation from Hunter College High School, he studied at Wesleyan University and passed out in the year 2002. In the year 1999, he wrote “In The Heights” and co-founded “Freestyle Love Supreme.” While he was studying at the U...
13. Chris O Dowd
Chris O’Dowd is an Irish actor and comedian. He was born on 9th October 1979 in Sligo, Ireland to Sean, a graphic designer, and Denise, a counsellor, and psychotherapist. He grew up in Boyle, Country Roscommon. He was the youngest of five siblings. Later he would say that he was allowed to do many things his elder siblings weren’t allowed to do, and the pressure over him was relatively almost non-existent, which enabled him to explore and choose the career he did. Though he studied politics and sociology at University College Dublin, he didn’t obtain a degree owing to his lack of interest in sociology. He went on to attend the London Academy of Music and Art.
Chris O’Dowd truly wanted to be a serious actor but later realised the potential he had as a comic actor. His first film role was a mino...
14. Colin Firth
He is well-conceived as a genius actor that can reinvent any roles in an artistic level. Well known for the “Pride and Prejudice”, from “Bridget Jones’s Diary” to “The King’s Speech”, he is now a celebrated actor for his warmth and charm no one can repel in his movies. Born as Colin Andrew Firth, CBE on September 10th 1960 in Hampshire, England.
She first made his debut in a television drama called “Crown Court” as PC Franklin in 1984. On the same year he starred in “Another Country” alongside “Camille” as Armand Duval. He also played the character young Alexander Scherbatov in the 1985 film “1919.” This made kept him landing major roles in the movies “Dutch Girls”, 1986 movie “Lost Empires”, his Hallmark Hall of Fame 1987 “The Secret Garden” as Colin Craven, the 1989 movie “Apartment Zero”, played the role “Femme Fatale” in 1990...
15. Dick Van Dyke
Dick Van Dyke took birth on Dec 13, 1925, in Missouri USA, and is an American actor, producer, writer, singer who has appeared numerous movies like ‘Bye Bye Birdie’ which was his debut movie, ‘Mary Poppins’, ‘Chitty Chitty Bang Bang’ and so on. Bye Bye Birdie earned him his very first Tony Award while, he got nominated for a Golden Globe Award in the Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy category. He also starred in the sitcom ‘The Dick Van Dyke Show’ from 1961 to 1966 portraying a comedy writer which won him 3 Emmy Awards For the Outstanding actor in a comedy series and the comedy series received 4 Emmy Awards itself in the comedy category.
He also appeared in the ‘The New Dick Van Dyke Show’ from...
16. Mark Addy
Born in York, England, on January 14, 1964, Mark Ian Addy is an English on-screen character. His family lived in York since 1910, when his extraordinary granddad was living there. His dad Ian went through his working time on earth as a glazier at York Minster. Addy completed his schooling at Nunthorpe Grammar School, and from 1982 to 1984 went to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. In 1987, he debuted on the television with The Ritz, followed by A Very Peculiar Practice in 1988 by Andrew Davies.
This trailed by TV exhibitions in shows, for example, Heartbeat by Gerry Mill and Keith Richardson, Trollied, Band of Gold, Sunnyside Farm, Married... with Children, Too Much Sun, Peak Practice, The Thin Blue Line and most as of late The Syndicate for the BBC channel. Mark acted as a Bill Miller in a sitcom named Still Standing and playe...