The Satellite Awards are an annual award given by the International Press Academy. The awards were originally known as the Golden Satellite Awards.

Award categories

Film

Best Actor – Drama

Best Actor – Musical or Comedy

Best Actress – Drama

Best Actress – Musical or Comedy

Best Animated or Mixed Media Feature

Best Art Direction (and Production Design)

Best Cast (or Best Ensemble) (2004–present)

Best Cinematography

Best Costume Design

Best Director

Best Documentary Film

Best Editing (or Film Editing)

Best Film – Drama

Best Film – Musical or Comedy

Best Foreign Language Film

Best Original Score

Best Original Song

Best Screenplay – Adapted

Best Screenplay – Original

Best Sound (1999-present)

Best Supporting Actor (2006–present)

Best Supporting Actor – Musical or Comedy (1996–2005)

Best Supporting Actor – Drama (1996–2005)

Best Supporting Actress (2006–present)

Best Supporting Actress – Drama (1996–2005)

Best Supporting Actress – Musical or Comedy (1996–2005)

Best Visual Effects

Television

Best Actor – Drama Series

Best Actor – Musical or Comedy Series

Best Actor – Miniseries or TV Film

Best Actress – Drama Series

Best Actress – Musical or Comedy Series

Best Actress – Miniseries or TV Film

Best Cast (or Best Ensemble) (2005–present)

Best TV Series – Drama

Best TV Series – Musical or Comedy

Best Miniseries or TV Film (1996–1998)

Best Miniseries (1999–present)

Best TV Film (1999–present)

Best Supporting Actor (2001–present)

Best Supporting Actress (2001–present)

External links

International Press Academy website

Name	Heath Ledger
Alt	Close up of a man's face with brown eyes, tousled brown hair and scraggly beard growth. He is looking toward his left. He is wearing a grey jumper with an orange stripe near his left shoulder and upper left arm. The background is blue with out of focus writing.
Caption	Ledger at the 2006 Berlin International Film Festival.
Birth name	Heath Andrew Ledger
Birth date	April 04, 1979
Birth place	Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Death date	January 22, 2008
Death place	New York City, New York, United States
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1992–2008
Domesticpartner	Michelle Williams(2005–2007, 1 child)

Heath Andrew Ledger (4 April 1979 – 22 January 2008) was an Australian television and film actor. After performing roles in Australian television and film during the 1990s, Ledger moved to the United States in 1998 to develop his film career. His work encompassed nineteen films, including 10 Things I Hate About You (1999), The Patriot (2000), Monster's Ball (2001), A Knight's Tale (2001), Brokeback Mountain (2005), and The Dark Knight (2008). as well as the 2006 BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role.

He died at the age of 28, Ledger attended Mary's Mount Primary School, in Gooseberry Hill, His parents separated when he was 10 and divorced when he was 11. and he had a serious on-and-off-again long-term relationship with actress Naomi Watts, whom he met during the filming of Ned Kelly and with whom he lived at times from 2002 to 2004. With Trevor DiCarlo, his best friend since he was 3, Ledger drove across Australia from Perth to Sydney, returning to Perth to take a small role in Clowning Around (1992), the first part of a two-part television series, and to work on the TV series Sweat (1996), in which he played a gay cyclist. From 1993 to 1997, Ledger also had parts in the Perth television series Ship to Shore (1993); in the short-lived Fox Broadcasting Company fantasy-drama Roar (1997); in Home and Away (1997), one of Australia's most successful television shows; and in the Australian film Blackrock (1997), his feature film debut. In 1999, he starred in the teen comedy 10 Things I Hate About You and in the acclaimed Australian crime film Two Hands, directed by Gregor Jordan.

2000s

From 2000 to 2005, he starred in supporting roles as Gabriel Martin, the eldest son of Benjamin Martin (Mel Gibson), in The Patriot (2000), and as Sonny Grotowski, the son of Hank Grotowski (Billy Bob Thornton), in Monster's Ball (2000); and in leading or title roles in A Knight's Tale (2001), The Four Feathers (2002), The Order (2003), Ned Kelly (2003), Casanova (2005), The Brothers Grimm (2005), and Lords of Dogtown (2005). In 2001, he won a ShoWest Award as "Male Star of Tomorrow".

In his next to last film performance, Ledger played the Joker in The Dark Knight, directed by Christopher Nolan, first released, in Australia, on 16 July 2008, nearly six months after his death. While still working on the film, in London, Ledger told Sarah Lyall, in their interview published in the New York Times on 4 November 2007, that he viewed The Dark Knight's Joker as a "psychopathic, mass murdering, schizophrenic clown with zero empathy."

At the time of his death, on 22 January 2008, Ledger had completed about half of the work for his final film performance as Tony in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. On 13 January 2006, "Several members of the paparazzi retaliated ... squirting Ledger and Williams with water pistols on the red carpet at the Sydney premiere of Brokeback Mountain."

Prior to his return to New York from his last film assignment, in London, in January 2008, while he was apparently suffering from some kind of respiratory illness, he reportedly complained to his co-star Christopher Plummer that he was continuing to have difficulty sleeping and taking pills to help with that problem: "Confirming earlier reports that Ledger hadn't been feeling well on set, Plummer says, 'we all caught colds because we were shooting outside on horrible, damp nights. But Heath's went on and I don't think he dealt with it immediately with the antibiotics.... I think what he did have was the walking pneumonia.' [...] On top of that, 'He was saying all the time, "dammit, I can't sleep"... and he was taking all these pills to help him.' "

In talking with Interview magazine after his death, Ledger's former fiancée Michelle Williams "also confirmed reports the actor had experienced trouble sleeping. "For as long as I'd known him, he had bouts with insomnia. He had too much energy. His mind was turning, turning turning — always turning."

According to the police, Wolozin, who had arrived early for a 3:00 p.m. appointment with Ledger, called Ledger's friend, actress Mary-Kate Olsen, for help. Olsen, who was in California, directed a New York City private security guard to go to the scene. At 3:26 p.m., "[fewer] than 15 minutes after Wolozin first saw him in bed and only a few moments" after first calling Olsen and then calling her a second time to express her fears that Ledger was dead, Wolozin telephoned 9-1-1 "to say that Mr. Ledger was not breathing." At the urging of the 9-1-1 operator, Wolozin administered CPR, which was unsuccessful in reviving him.

Memorial tributes and services

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On the right side is a straw hat.]] As the news of Ledger's death became public, throughout the night of 22 January 2008, and the next day, media crews, mourners, fans, and other onlookers began gathering outside his apartment building, with some leaving flowers or other memorial tributes. It states definitively: "We have concluded that the manner of death is accident, resulting from the abuse of prescription medications." The medications found in the toxicological analysis are commonly prescribed in the United States for insomnia, anxiety, depression, pain, and/or common cold symptoms. Although the Associated Press and other media reported that "police estimate Ledger's time of death between 1 p.m. and 2:45 p.m." (on 22 January 2008), and subsequent reports citing Ledger's father, which do not include his actual posthumous earnings, "his entire fortune, mostly held in Australian trusts, is likely to be worth up to [A]$20 million." and also both the production and marketing of Terry Gilliam's film The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, with both directors intending to celebrate and pay tribute to his work in these films. he expressed determination to "salvage" it, perhaps using computer-generated imagery (CGI), and dedicated it to Ledger. All of Ledger's scenes appear as he completed them in the filming; in editing the film, Nolan added no "digital effects" to alter Ledger's actual performance posthumously.Nominated — Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role |- | 10 Things I Hate About You | Patrick Verona | Nominated — MTV Movie Award for Best Musical Sequence |- | 2000 | The Patriot | Gabriel Martin | Blockbuster Entertainment Awards — Favorite Male — Newcomer |- | rowspan="2" |2001 | Monster's Ball | Sonny Grotowski | |- | A Knight's Tale | Sir William Thatcher / Sir Ulrich von Lichtenstein of Gelderland | Nominated — MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss Nominated — MTV Movie Award for Musical Sequence |- | 2002 | The Four Feathers | Harry Faversham | |- | rowspan="2" | 2003 | The Order | Alex Bernier | |- | Ned Kelly | Ned Kelly | Nominated — Film Critics Circle Award for Best ActorNominated — Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role |- | rowspan="4" | 2005 | Casanova | Giacomo Casanova | |- | The Brothers Grimm | Jacob Grimm | |- |Lords of Dogtown | Skip Engblom | |- | Brokeback Mountain | Ennis Del Mar | Australian Film Institute International Award for Best ActorAustralian Film Institute Awards – Reader's Choice Best ActorCentral Ohio Film Critics Association Award for Best Lead PerformanceCentral Ohio Film Critics Association Award for Actor of the YearLas Vegas Film Critics Society Award for Best ActorMTV Movie Award for Best Kiss New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best ActorPhoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best ActorSan Francisco Film Critics Circle Award for Best ActorSanta Barbara International Film Festival Performance of the Year AwardNominated — Academy Award for Best ActorNominated — BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading RoleNominated — Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best ActorNominated — Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best ActorNominated — Chlotrudis Award for Best ActorNominated — Independent Spirit Award for Best Male LeadNominated — Inside Film Award for Best ActorNominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture DramaNominated — London Film Critics' Circle Award for Actor of the YearNominated — Online Film Critics Society Award for Best ActorNominated — Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading RoleNominated — Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion PictureNominated — Satellite Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture DramaNominated — Washington DC Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor |- | 2006 | Candy | Dan |Nominated — Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actor in a Leading RoleNominated — Inside Film Award for Best ActorNominated — Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor |- |2007 | I'm Not There | Robbie Clark | 2007 Independent Spirit Robert Altman Award |- | 2008 | The Dark Knight | The Joker | Academy Award for Best Supporting ActorAustralian Film Institute International Award for Best ActorBoston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting ActorBAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting RoleBroadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting ActorCentral Ohio Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting ActorChicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting ActorDallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting ActorFlorida Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting ActorGolden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor - Motion PictureGQ Australia Men of the Year Awards (Best Actor)Iowa Film Critics Award for Best Supporting ActorKansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting ActorLas Vegas Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting ActorLos Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting ActorMTV Movie Award for Best VillainOnline Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting ActorPeople's Choice Award for Best Ensemble CastPeople's Choice Award for Best On-Screen Match-Up Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting ActorSan Francisco Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting ActorSaturn Award for Best Supporting ActorScream Award for Best Fantasy ActorScream Award for Best VillainScream Award for Best Line Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting RoleSoutheastern Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting ActorToronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting ActorWashington DC Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting ActorNominated — Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best CastNominated — London Film Critics' Circle Award for Actor of the YearNominated — Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor - Motion PictureNominated — MTV Movie Award for Best Fight |- | 2009 | The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus | Tony | |}

Music videos

(2006) "Cause an Effect" and "Seduction is Evil (She's Hot)", songs by N'fa, videos directed by Ledger.

(2006) "Morning Yearning," song by Ben Harper, video directed by Ledger.

(2007) "Black Eyed Dog," song written by Nick Drake (1948–1974), video directed by and featuring Ledger. (2009) "King Rat", song by Modest Mouse and conceived by Ledger.

See also

List of oldest and youngest Academy Award winners and nominees

List of posthumous Academy Award winners and nominees

References

Additional resources

Adler, Shawn."Heath Ledger Said He Hoped to Evolve as an Actor and Person in 2005 Interview: Late Actor Was Intelligent, Self-Aware during 'Brokeback Mountain' Chat." MTV.com, 22 January 2008. Accessed 18 March 2008. (Excerpts from transcript of interview with Heath Ledger conducted by John Norris in 2005.)

Arango, Tim. "Esquire Publishes a Diary That Isn't". The New York Times, nytimes.com, 6 March 2008, Books. Accessed 25 July 2008. (Rev. of Taddeo.)

"Death of a Star: Unsolved Mysteries". Newsweek, 4 February 2008: 62, Newsmakers. Both Web and print versions. Accessed 5 August 2008.

The Joker vs. The Real Heath: Entertainment Tonight Looks Back at the Career of Heath Ledger, etonline.com (CBS Studios Inc.), July 2008. Accessed 8 August 2008. ("ET takes a look back at Heath Ledger's career amid the hugely successful launch of 'The Dark Knight,' which features the late actor portraying the Joker"; includes photo album.)

McShane John. . London: John Blake, 2008. ISBN 1844546330 (10). ISBN 978-1844546336 (13). (Excerpt listed below.)

–––. "Loves of Heath Ledger's Life". The Courier-Mail, news.com.au, 20 April 2008. Accessed 21 April 2008. (Book excerpt.)

Nolan, Christopher. "Transition: Charisma as Natural as Gravity: Heath Ledger, 28, Actor". Newsweek, 4 February 2008: 9, Periscope. Both Web (updated 26 January 2008) and print versions. Accessed 5 August 2008. (Eulogy.)

Norris, Chris. "(Untitled Heath Ledger Project): In Which the Protagonist Dies Mysteriously, and the Audience Analyzes His Final Days for Clues to His Real Character". New York, nymag.com, 18 February 2008. Accessed 21 April 2008.

Park, Michael Y. "Christian Bale on 'Kindred Spirit' Heath Ledger". Web. People, 25 June 2008. Accessed 5 August 2008. (See Wolf below.)

Robb, Brian J. Heath Ledger: Hollywood's Dark Star. London: Plexus Publishing Ltd, 2008. ISBN 0859654273 (10). ISBN 978-0859654272 (13).

Scott, A. O. "An Appraisal: Prince of Intensity with a Lightness of Touch". The New York Times, nytimes.com, 24 January 2008, Movies. Accessed 27 April 2008.

Sessums, Kevin, with photographs by Bruce Weber. "We're Having a Heath Wave". Vanity Fair, August 2000, vanityfair.com, August 2008. Web. (4 pages.) Accessed 21 April 2008. (Interview with Heath Ledger; illustrations in "Perth Album", by Bruce Weber.)

Taddeo, Lisa. "The Last Days of Heath Ledger". Esquire (April 2008), esquire.com, 5 March 2008. (Updated 21 July 2008.) Accessed 25 July 2008. (Fictional account; cf. rev. by Arango.)

Travers, Peter."Sundance: Shock". The Travers Take: News and Reviews from Rolling Stone's Movie Critic, Rolling Stone (Blog), rollingstone.com, 22 January 2008. Includes hyperlinked feature: Video Review: A Look at Heath Ledger's Best Performances (video by Jennifer Hsu, with audio commentary provided by Travers), 1 February 2008. Accessed 21 April 2008.

Wolf, Jeanne. "Christian Bale: 'Life Should Never Be Boring' ". Parade, 29 June 2008: 8–9. Both Web and print formats. Accessed 3 August 2008. (See Park above.)

External links

Heath Ledger at BBC In Pictures

Heath Ledger at CNN Topics

Heath Ledger at The Huffington Post

Heath Ledger at MSN Movies

Heath Ledger at MTV Movies

Heath Ledger at New York Times Topics

Heath Ledger at The Daily Telegraph obituary

Ledger, Heath (1979-2008) National Library of Australia, Trove, People and Organisation record for Heath Ledger

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Name	Stephen Colbert
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Caption	Stephen Colbert at the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear in 2010.
Birth name	Stephen Tyrone Colbert Aasif MandviStrangers with CandyStephen Colbert inThe Daily Show andThe Colbert ReportWriter,I Am America (And So Can You!)Co-writer,America (The Book)Phil Ken Sebben and Myron Reducto in Harvey Birdman, Attorney at LawProfessor Richard Impossible in The Venture Bros.
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}} Stephen Tyrone Colbert ( or born on May 13, 1964) is an American political satirist, writer, comedian and television host. He is the host of Comedy Central's The Colbert Report, a satirical news show in which Colbert portrays a caricatured version of conservative political pundits.

Colbert originally studied to be an actor, but became interested in improvisational theatre when he met famed Second City director Del Close while attending Northwestern University. He first performed professionally as an understudy for Steve Carell at Second City Chicago; among his troupe mates were comedians Paul Dinello and Amy Sedaris, with whom he developed the critically acclaimed sketch comedy series Exit 57.

Colbert also wrote and performed on the short-lived Dana Carvey Show before collaborating with Sedaris and Dinello again on the cult television series Strangers with Candy. He gained considerable attention for his role on the latter as closeted gay history teacher Chuck Noblet. It was his work as a correspondent on Comedy Central's news-parody series The Daily Show, however, that first introduced him to a wide audience.

In 2005, he left The Daily Show with Jon Stewart to host a spin-off series, The Colbert Report. Following The Daily Show's news-parody concept, The Colbert Report is a parody of personality-driven political opinion shows such as The O'Reilly Factor. Since its debut, the series has established itself as one of Comedy Central's highest-rated series, earning Colbert three Emmy nominations and an invitation to perform as featured entertainer at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner in 2006. Colbert was named one of Time's 100 most influential people in 2006. Stephen started using later in life when he transferred to Northwestern University, taking advantage of the opportunity to reinvent himself in a new place where no one knew him. Stephen's brother Ed, an intellectual property attorney, retained ; this was shown in a February 12, 2009 appearance on The Colbert Report, when his youngest brother asked him, " or ?" Ed responded "", to which Stephen jokingly replied, "See you in Hell". Colbert later described himself during this time as detached, lacking a sense of importance regarding the things with which other children concerned themselves.

Colbert attended Charleston's Episcopal Porter-Gaud School, where he participated in several school plays and contributed to the school newspaper but, by his own assessment, was not highly motivated academically. During his time as a teenager, he also briefly fronted a Rolling Stones cover band. he found the curriculum rigorous but was more focused than he had been in high school and was able to apply himself to his studies. Despite the lack of a significant theater community at Hampden-Sydney, Colbert's interest in acting escalated during this time. After two years, he transferred to Northwestern University's School of Speech (later named School of Communication) to study performance, emboldened by the realization that he loved performing even when no one was coming to shows.

Career

Early career in comedy

While at Northwestern, Colbert studied with the intent of becoming a dramatic actor; mostly he performed in experimental plays and was uninterested in comedy. He began performing improvisation at the Annoyance Theatre in Chicago as a part of Del Close's ImprovOlympic at a time when the project was focused on competitive, long form improvisation, rather than improvisational comedy. "I wasn't gonna do Second City", Colbert later recalled, "because those Annoyance people looked down on Second City because they thought it wasn't pure improv—there was a slightly snobby, mystical quality to the Annoyance people". After Colbert graduated in 1986, however, he was in need of a job, and a friend who was employed at Second City's box office offered him work answering phones and selling souvenirs. Colbert accepted, and discovered that Second City employees were entitled to take classes at their training center for free. Despite his earlier aversion to the comedy group, he signed up for improvisation classes, and enjoyed the experience greatly.

Shortly thereafter, he was hired to perform with Second City's touring company, initially as an understudy for Steve Carell. It was there he met Amy Sedaris and Paul Dinello, with whom he often collaborated later in his career. By their retelling, the three comedians did not get along at first—Dinello thought Colbert was uptight, pretentious and cold, while Colbert thought of Dinello as "an illiterate thug"

When Sedaris and Dinello were offered the opportunity to create a television series for HBO Downtown Productions, Colbert left The Second City and relocated to New York in order to work with them on the sketch comedy show Exit 57. The series debuted on Comedy Central in 1995 and aired through 1996. Despite only lasting for 12 episodes, the show received favorable reviews Only two of the segments he proposed were ever produced, and only one aired, but the job led his agent to refer him to The Daily Show's then-producer, Madeline Smithberg, who hired Colbert on a trial basis in 1997.

Strangers with Candy was conceived of as a parody of after school specials, following the life of Jerri Blank, a 46-year-old dropout who returns to finish high school after 32 years of life on the street. Most noted by critics for its use of offensive humor, it concluded each episode by delivering to the audience a skewed, politically incorrect moral lesson. Another running joke throughout the series was that Noblet, a closeted homosexual, was having a "secret" affair with fellow teacher Geoffrey Jellineck despite the fact that their relationship was apparent to everyone around them. This obliviousness also appears in Colbert's Daily Show and Colbert Report character.

Thirty episodes of Strangers with Candy were made, which aired on Comedy Central in 1999 and 2000. Though its ratings were not remarkable during its initial run, it has been characterized as a cult show with a small but dedicated audience.

Unlike Stewart, who essentially hosts The Daily Show as himself, Colbert was frequently pitted against knowledgeable interview subjects, or against Stewart in scripted exchanges, with the resultant dialogue demonstrating the character's lack of knowledge of whatever subject he is discussing. Colbert also made generous use of humorous fallacies of logic in explaining his point of view on any topic. Other Daily Show correspondents have adopted a similar style; former correspondent Rob Corddry recalls that when he and Ed Helms first joined the show's cast in 2002, they "just imitated Stephen Colbert for a year or two". Correspondent Aasif Mandvi has stated "I just decided I was going to do my best Stephen Colbert impression".

Colbert has appeared in several recurring segments for The Daily Show, including "Even Stephven" with Steve Carell, particularly cable-personality political talk shows like The O'Reilly Factor and Glenn Beck. He appeared in a series of TV commercials for General Motors, as a not-too-bright investigator searching for the elusive (and non-existent in real life) "Mr. Goodwrench". He also portrayed the letter Z in Sesame Street: All-Star Alphabet, a 2005 video release.

Colbert is a producer of The 1 Second Film, the world's largest nonprofit collaborative art film. His video request that IMDb list his credit for The 1 Second Film ("it is as valid as most of my credits") enabled thousands of the film's producers to be listed in the massive movie database until they were removed in early 2007. as well as a Sunday school teacher.

Awards and honors

In 2000 Colbert and the other Daily Show writers were the recipients of three Emmy Awards as writers for The Daily Show and again in 2005 and 2006. In 2005 he was nominated for a Satellite Award for his performance on The Colbert Report and again in 2006.

He was also nominated for three Emmys for The Colbert Report in 2006, including Best Performance in a Variety, Musical Program or Special, which he lost to Barry Manilow. Manilow and Colbert would go on to jokingly sign and notarize a revolving biannual custody agreement for the Emmy on the Colbert Report episode aired on October 30, 2006. He lost the same category to Tony Bennett in 2007 and Don Rickles in 2008.

In January 2006, the American Dialect Society named truthiness, which Colbert coined on the premiere episode of The Colbert Report, as its 2005 Word of the Year. Colbert devoted time on five successive episodes to bemoaning the failure of the Associated Press to mention his role in popularizing the word truthiness in its news coverage of the Word of the Year. in May 2006, New York magazine listed Colbert (and Jon Stewart) as one of its top dozen influential persons in media. | 1997–2005 (regular)2005–Present (recurring) |- | rowspan=3|1999 | Let It Snow | Happy Successful Guy | Also known as Snow Days |- | Whose Line is it Anyway | Stephen Colbert | |- | Strangers with Candy | Chuck Noblet | 1999–2000 |- | 2000 | ''Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law | Myron Reducto / Phil Ken Sebben / The Eagle of Truth | 2000–2007 |- | 2003 | Nobody Knows Anything | TV Newsman | |- | 2003 | ''Chalkzone | Himself (paring-up w/ Kurtwood Smith) | |- | rowspan=3|2004 | Curb Your Enthusiasm | Tourist Man | |- | | James Bennett | |- | The Venture Bros. | Professor Richard Impossible | 2004–2006 |- | rowspan=4|2005 | The Great New Wonderful | Mr. Peersall | |- | Bewitched | Stu Robison | |- | Outlaw Tennis | Announcer | Video game |- | The Colbert Report | Stephen Colbert | 2005–Present |- | 2006 | Strangers with Candy | Chuck Noblet | Feature film based on TV show |- | rowspan=2|2008 | The Love Guru | Jay Kell (Hockey Announcer) | |- | | Santa Claus, Stephen Colbert | |- | rowspan=2|2009 | Monsters vs. Aliens | The President (voice) | |- | The 1 Second Film | Self/Producer | |}

Bibliography

Colbert, Dinello, Sedaris. Wigfield: The Can-Do Town That Just May Not (Hyperion, May 19, 2004) ISBN 0-7868-8696-X

I Am America (And So Can You!) (Grand Central Publishing, October 9, 2007) ISBN 0-446-58050-3

Discography

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References

External links

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The Colbert Report Official Site

Stephen Colbert Producer Profile for The 1 Second Film

Wikiality.com, a wiki dedicated to Stephen Colbert and The Colbert Report

Collected news and commentary at The New York Times

Stephen Colbert: His Many Faces - slideshow by Life magazine

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Colbert interview transcript, 60 Minutes. (April 30, 2006)

Colbert in an open, hour-long interview and Q & A session arranged by Harvard's Institute of Politics. He speaks about the nature of his TV-show character and the interplay between wearing the mask and using it to make political points.

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A 2007 appearance at the Glamour magazine Women of the Year Awards to honor Nancy Pelosi.

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Name	Kristen Bell
Caption	Bell at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival
Birthname	Kristen Anne Bell
Birth date	July 18, 1980
Birth place	Huntington Woods, Michigan, United States
Occupation	Actress
Yearsactive	1992–present

Kristen Anne Bell (born July 18, 1980) is an American actress. Although her first film role was an uncredited appearance in Polish Wedding, Bell previously acted in stage and musical productions. In 2001, she made her Broadway début as Becky Thatcher in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. After moving to Los Angeles, Bell landed various television guest appearances and small film parts before appearing in a lead role in the David Mamet film Spartan. She gained fame as the title role on the critically acclaimed television series Veronica Mars from September 2004 to May 2007.

During her time on Veronica Mars, Bell appeared as Mary Lane in the film , a reprise of the role she had played in the New York theatrical production of the musical on which the film was based. She also portrayed the lead role in Pulse, a remake of a J-Horror film. In 2007, she joined the cast of Heroes playing the character Elle Bishop, and Gossip Girl as the off-screen titular narrator. In 2008, she played the title character in the comedy movie Forgetting Sarah Marshall. She has since appeared in a number of comedy films, such as Fanboys, Couples Retreat, and When in Rome. Bell was also the voice of Cora in Astro Boy and is the voice and face of Lucy Stillman in the Assassin's Creed video game series. Bell has received a Satellite Award and Saturn Award, and has been nominated several times for Television Critics Association Awards and Teen Choice Awards.

Early life and family

Bell was born and raised in Huntington Woods, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. She is the daughter of Tom Bell, the television news director for WOAI-TV in San Antonio, and Lorelei "Lori" Bell, a registered nurse.

Shortly after her high school graduation, Bell moved to New York City to attend the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, majoring in musical theater. to take a role in the Broadway musical version of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

Career

Early work (1992–2003)

In 1992, Bell went to her first audition and won a dual role as a banana and a tree in a suburban Detroit theater's production of Raggedy Ann and Andy. Her mother had established her with an agent before Bell was 13, which allowed her to appear in newspaper advertisements for several Detroit retailers and television commercials. She also began private acting lessons. In 1998, she appeared with an uncredited role in the locally filmed movie Polish Wedding.

Kristen Bell also portrays Sally Wister in The History Channel’s Choosing Sides: Young Voices on the Revolution currently showing at Independence Hall visitors center in Philadelphia.

In 2001, Bell left New York University to take a key role as Becky Thatcher in the short-lived Broadway musical of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. That same year she made her credited film debut in Pootie Tang. Her one line in the film was cut and her appearance exists only as a scene shown during the credit sequence. and appeared in a handful of television shows as a special guest, finding trouble gaining a recurring role in a television series. Bell had "tested like eight times and booked nothing and every show [she] tested for got picked up," including auditions for Skin and a Norm Macdonald series. The series earned positive reviews from television critics, as did Bell's performance. Some critics felt that she was overlooked, however, and deserved an Emmy Award nomination.

Following the cancellation of Veronica Mars, Bell had voiced interest in appearing on Heroes because she was a fan previous to being cast. She did not have to audition for the role of Elle, who made her first appearance in an October 2007 episode, and will appear in at least thirteen episodes during the run of the series. Concurrently with filming on Heroes, she narrates as title character in the CW series Gossip Girl.

Shortly after the cancellation of Veronica Mars in early 2007, Bell filmed on location in Hawaii for her starring role as the title character in the Judd Apatow comedy Forgetting Sarah Marshall. She noted that the improvisational comedy in the film was "a lovely experience". The film, written by and also starring Jason Segel, was released theatrically on April 18, 2008. Bell lent her voice and likeness to the video game Assassin's Creed which was released on November 13, 2007 for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 and April 8, 2008 for the PC. and in 2006, Bell was selected "World's Sexiest Vegetarian" on PETA's yearly poll. She was placed #68 on Maxim's 2005 "Hot 100" list, In 2008, she was featured at #59 on Ask Men's Top 99 Women of 2008 List.

Bell has been associated with the idea that "nerdy is the new cool", and she explains, "what was previously perceived as nerdy is now viewed as original. What I like about nerdiness, geekiness, is it doesn’t really matter what you’re into — it just means you’re not a follower." She has also said, "I love nerds. Comic-Con junkies are the tastemakers of tomorrow. Isn't that funny? The tables have turned." Vanessa Juarez of Entertainment Weekly commented that Bell's role on Veronica Mars, Heroes and as a Star Wars fanatic in Fanboys has "solidif[ied] her placement at the center of the geek universe", while Rodney Rothman stated, "I guess she's cornered the market on losers."

Despite "new celebrity" status, Bell claims that she is not concerned because "no one ever recognizes [her] anyway". As Bell explains, "I hang out with Hayden quite a bit — they never take pictures of me. I just step to the side, and I push myself in front of her when she wants to get out of it, or put her in the car." Bell is a recurring guest on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, appearing in interviews as well as sketches. On the Late Late Show, she is shown to have garnered a humorous hostility towards Craig's robot skeleton sidekick Geoff Peterson, claiming that she had wanted to be Craig's sidekick on his show and taking it upon herself to cut Geoff down every chance she gets.

Personal life

At age 11, Bell became a vegetarian. and went on to date actor Dax Shepard.

As she is a Detroit native, she is also an avid fan of the Detroit Red Wings hockey team.

Filmography

;Film and television {| class="wikitable sortable" |- ! Year ! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |- |1998 |Polish Wedding |Teenage Girl (uncredited) | |- |2001 |Pootie Tang |Record Executive's Daughter | |- |rowspan="2"| 2002 |The Cat Returns |Hiromi (voice) |English version |- |People Are Dead |Angela's Friend #1 | |- |rowspan="5"| 2003 |The Shield |Jessica Hintel |Episode: "" |- |American Dreams |Amy Fielding |Episode: "Act of Contrition" |- |The O'Keefes |Virginia's Owner |Episode: "Substitute Teacher"Episode: "Jobs" |- |The King and Queen of Moonlight Bay |Alison Dodge |TV movie |- |Everwood |Stacey Wilson |Episode: "Extra Ordinary" |- |2004 |Gracie's Choice |Gracie Thompson |TV movie |- |2004 |Spartan |Laura Newton | |- |2004 |Deadwood |Flora Anderson |Episode: ""
Episode: "" |- |2004 to 2007 |Veronica Mars |Veronica Mars |64 episodes |- |2005 |Last Days of America |Friend in New York #1 |Video |- |2005 |Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical |Mary Lane | |- |2005 |Deepwater |Nurse Laurie | |- |2005 |The Receipt |Pretty Girl |Short film |- |2006 |Fifty Pills |Gracie | |- |2006 |Pulse |Mattie | |- |2006 |Roman |The Girl / Isis | |- |2007 | |Hex (voice) |Short film |- |2007 to 2008 |Heroes |Elle Bishop |12 episodes |- |2007 to present |Gossip Girl |Gossip Girl (voice) |87+ episodes |- |2008 |Forgetting Sarah Marshall |Sarah Marshall | |- |2008 |Fanboys |Zoe | |- |2009 |Serious Moonlight |Sara | |- |2009 |The Cleveland Show |Mandy (voice) |Episode: "Da Doggone Daddy-Daughter Dinner Dance" |- |2009 |Astro Boy |Cora (voice) | |- |2009 |Couples Retreat |Cynthia | |- |2009 to 2010 |Party Down |Uda Bengt |Episode: "Stennheiser-Pong Wedding Reception" Episode: "Party Down Company Picnic" |- |2010 |When in Rome |Beth | |- |2010 |Astro Boy vs. The Junkyard Pirates |Cora (voice) |Video short |- |2010 |Get Him to the Greek |Sarah Marshall | |- |2010 |Lost Masterpieces of Pornography |June Crenshaw |Video short |- |2010 |You Again |Marni | |- |2010 |Burlesque |Nikki | |- |2010 |Movie 43 |Supergirl |Post-production |- |2011 |Scream 4 |Winifred Hale |Post-production |- |2011 |Dance of the Mirlitons |Corinne |Post-production |- |2012 |Everybody Loves Whales |TBA |Filming |}

; Theatre {| class="wikitable sortable" |- ! Year ! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |- |2001 |The Adventures of Tom Sawyer |Becky Thatcher | |- |2002 |The Crucible |Susanna Walcott | |- |2003 |Sneaux | | |- |2004 |A Little Night Music | | |}

; Video games {| class="wikitable sortable" |- ! Year ! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |- |2007 |Assassin's Creed |Lucy Stillman |Voice & likeness |- |2009 |Assassin's Creed II |Lucy Stillman |Voice & likeness |- |2009 | |Cora | |- |2010 | |Lucy Stillman |Voice & likeness |}

Awards

Wins

;2006 :Saturn Award, for Veronica Mars :Jury Prize at the Austin Fantastic Fest, for Roman :Family Film Award, for Veronica Mars (shared with Enrico Colantoni) ;2005 :Satellite Award, for

Nominations

;2009 :Teen Choice Award, for Heroes :Saturn Award, for Heroes :MTV Movie Award, for Forgetting Sarah Marshall ;2008 :Teen Choice Award, for Forgetting Sarah Marshall ;2007 :Saturn Award, for Veronica Mars ;2006 :Satellite Award, for Veronica Mars :Teen Choice Award, for Veronica Mars ;2005 :Satellite Award, for Veronica Mars :Saturn Award, for Veronica Mars :Teen Choice Award, for Veronica Mars :TCA Award, for Veronica Mars

References

External links

Kristen Bell at Complex

Couples Retreat Video Interview at AMCtv.com

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