Coordinates	41°52′55″N87°37′40″N
Name	Michelle Pfeiffer
Birth name	Michelle Marie Pfeiffer
Birth date	April 29, 1958
Birth place	Santa Ana, California, U.S.
Years active	1978–present
Occupation	Actress, singer
Spouse	Peter Horton (1981–1988)David E. Kelley (1993–present)
Children	2
Relatives	Dedee Pfeiffer (sister) }}

Michelle Marie Pfeiffer (; born April 29, 1958) is an American actress. She made her film debut in 1980 in ''The Hollywood Knights'', but first garnered mainstream attention with her performance in Brian De Palma's ''Scarface'' (1983). Pfeiffer has won numerous awards for her work. She received six consecutive Golden Globe Award nominations, winning the Best Actress in a Motion Picture Drama award in 1990 for ''The Fabulous Baker Boys''. She also won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for ''Dangerous Liaisons'', and the Silver Bear for Best Actress for ''Love Field'', and has been nominated for three Academy Awards for the same films.

Pfeiffer rose to prominence in the late 1980s and early 1990s with critically acclaimed performances in the films ''Dangerous Liaisons'' (1988), ''Married to the Mob'' (1988), ''The Fabulous Baker Boys'' (1989), ''The Russia House'' (1990), ''Frankie and Johnny'' (1991), ''Love Field'' (1992), ''Batman Returns'' (1992), and ''The Age of Innocence'' (1993).

She received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on August 6, 2007. The star is located at 6801 Hollywood Boulevard.

Early life

Pfeiffer was born in Santa Ana, California, the second of four children of Richard Pfeiffer, a heating and air-conditioning contractor, and Donna (née Taverna), a homemaker. She has one elder brother, Rick, and two younger sisters, Dedee Pfeiffer, a television and film actress, and Lori Pfeiffer. Her father was of Dutch, German, and Irish descent, and her mother was of Swiss and Swedish ancestry. The family moved to Midway City, where Pfeiffer spent her childhood. She attended Fountain Valley High School, graduating in 1978. She worked as a check-out girl at Vons supermarket, and attended Golden West College. After a short stint training to be a court stenographer, she decided upon an acting career. She won the Miss Orange County beauty pageant in 1978, and participated in Miss California the same year, finishing in sixth position. Following her participation in these pageants, she acquired an acting agent and began to audition for television and films.

Film career

First television and film appearances

Pfeiffer's early acting appearances included television roles in ''Fantasy Island'', ''Delta House'' and ''BAD Cats'', and small film roles in ''Falling in Love Again'' (1980) with Susannah York, ''The Hollywood Knights'' (1980) opposite Tony Danza, and ''Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen'' (1981), none of which met with much critical or box office success. Pfeiffer later said of her early screen work: "I needed to learn how to act... in the meantime, I was playing bimbos and cashing in on my looks." She appeared in a television commercial for Lux soap, and took acting lessons at the Beverly Hills Playhouse, before appearing in three further television movies – ''Callie and Son'' (1981) with Lindsay Wagner, ''The Children Nobody Wanted'' (1981), and a remake of ''Splendor in the Grass''. She then landed her first major film role as Stephanie Zinone in ''Grease 2'' (1982), the sequel to the smash-hit musical ''Grease'' (1978). The film was a critical and commercial failure, although Pfeiffer herself received some positive attention, notably from the ''New York Times'', which said "although she is a relative screen newcomer, Miss Pfeiffer manages to look much more insouciant and comfortable than anyone else in the cast." Despite escaping the critical mauling, Pfeiffer's agent later admitted that her association with the film meant that "she couldn't get any jobs. Nobody wanted to hire her."

Mainstream attention

Director Brian De Palma, having seen ''Grease 2'', refused to audition Pfeiffer for ''Scarface'' (1983), but relented upon the producer's insistence. She was cast as cocaine-addicted trophy wife Elvira Hancock. The film was considered excessively violent by most critics, but became a commercial hit and gained a large cult following in subsequent years. Pfeiffer received positive reviews for her supporting turn; Richard Corliss of ''Time Magazine'' wrote, "most of the large cast is fine: Michelle Pfeiffer is better..." while Dominick Dunne, in an article for ''Vanity Fair'' titled "Blonde Ambition", wrote, "[s]he is on the verge of stardom. In the parlance of the industry, she is hot."

Following ''Scarface'', she accepted the roles of Isabeau d'Anjou in Richard Donner's fantasy film ''Ladyhawke'' (1985) opposite Rutger Hauer and Matthew Broderick, Diana in John Landis' comedy ''Into the Night'' (1985) opposite Jeff Goldblum, Faith Healy in Alan Alda's ''Sweet Liberty'' (1986) opposite Michael Caine, and Brenda Landers in a segment of the 1950s sci-fi parody ''Amazon Women on the Moon'' (1987), all of which, despite achieving only modest commercial success, helped to establish her as an actress. She finally scored a major box-office hit as Sukie Ridgemont in the 1987 adaptation of John Updike's novel ''The Witches of Eastwick'', alongside Jack Nicholson, Cher and Susan Sarandon. The film grossed $63,766,510 domestically (equivalent to $}} million in dollars ).

Critical acclaim

Pfeiffer was cast against type, as a murdered gangster's widowed moll on the run, in Jonathan Demme's mafia comedy ''Married to the Mob'' (1988), opposite Matthew Modine, Dean Stockwell and Mercedes Ruehl. For the role of Angela de Marco, she donned a curly brunette wig and a Brooklyn accent, and received her first Golden Globe Award nomination as Best Actress in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, beginning a six-year streak of consecutive Best Actress nominations at the Golden Globes. Pfeiffer then appeared as chic restauranteuse Jo Ann Vallenari in ''Tequila Sunrise'' (1988) opposite Mel Gibson and Kurt Russell, but experienced creative and personal differences with director Robert Towne, who later described her as the "most difficult" actress he has ever worked with.

At Demme's personal recommendation, Pfeiffer joined the cast of Stephen Frears's ''Dangerous Liaisons'' (1988) alongside Glenn Close and John Malkovich, playing the virtuous victim of seduction, Madame Marie de Tourvel. Her performance won her widespread acclaim; Hal Hinson of the ''Washington Post'' saw Pfeiffer's role as "the least obvious and the most difficult. Nothing is harder to play than virtue, and Pfeiffer is smart enough not to try. Instead, she embodies it. Her porcelain-skinned beauty, in this regard, is a great asset, and the way it's used makes it seem an aspect of her spirituality." She won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role and received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Pfeiffer then accepted the role of Susie Diamond, a hard-edged former call girl turned lounge singer, in ''The Fabulous Baker Boys'' (1989), which co-starred Jeff Bridges and Beau Bridges as the eponymous Baker Boys. She underwent intensive voice training for the role for fourth months, and performed all of her character's vocals. The film was a modest success, grossing $18,428,904 domestically (equivalent to $}} million in dollars ). Pfeiffer's portrayal of Susie, however, drew raves from critics. Janet Maslin, from ''The New York Times'', wrote of the performance "[...]she proves to be electrifyingly right. Introducing Ms. Pfeiffer's furiously hard-boiled, devastatingly gorgeous Susie into the Bakers' world affects the film the way a match might affect a fuse," while Roger Ebert compared her to Rita Hayworth in ''Gilda'' and Marilyn Monroe in ''Some Like It Hot'', and described the film as "one of the movies they will use as a document, years from now, when they begin to trace the steps by which Pfeiffer became a great star." ''Variety'' singled out her performance of 'Makin' Whoopee', writing that Pfeiffer "hits the spot in the film's certain-to-be-remembered highlight... crawling all over a piano in a blazing red dress. She's dynamite." During the 1989–1990 awards season, Pfeiffer dominated the Best Actress category at every major awards ceremony, winning awards at the Golden Globes, the National Board of Review, the National Society of Film Critics, the New York Film Critics Circle, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress and the Chicago Film Critics Association. At the Academy Awards, she was favored to win the Best Actress Oscar, but the award went to Jessica Tandy for ''Driving Miss Daisy'' in what was considered a surprise upset. The only other major acting award for which she was nominated that she did not take home for ''The Fabulous Baker Boys'' was the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, which also went to Tandy.

International success

Pfeiffer continued to build on her A-list status in Hollywood, accepting and also turning down many high-profile roles, beginning with the title role in ''Pretty Woman'' (1990), which earned Julia Roberts a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She took the part of the Soviet book editor Katya Orlova in the 1990 film adaptation of John le Carré's ''The Russia House'', opposite Sean Connery, a role that required her to adopt a Russian accent. For her efforts, she was rewarded with a Golden Globe nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama. Pfeiffer then landed the role of damaged waitress Frankie in Garry Marshall's ''Frankie and Johnny'' (1991), a film adaptation of Terrence McNally's Broadway play ''Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune'', which reunited her with her ''Scarface'' co-star, Al Pacino. The casting was seen as controversial by many, as Pfeiffer was considered far too beautiful to play an "ordinary" waitress; Kathy Bates, the original Frankie on Broadway, also expressed disappointment over the producers' choice. Pfeiffer herself stated that she took the role because it "wasn't what people would expect of [her]." Pfeiffer was once again nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama for her performance. During this period, she turned down the role of Clarice Starling in ''The Silence of the Lambs'' (1991), which won Jodie Foster the Academy Award for Best Actress, the role of Catherine Tramell in ''Basic Instinct'' (1992), ultimately played by Sharon Stone, and the role of Louise in Ridley Scott's ''Thelma & Louise'', that eventually went to Geena Davis.

Pfeiffer earned an Academy Award nomination for Actress in a Leading Role and a Golden Globe nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture Drama for her performance as Lurene Hallett in the nostalgic independent drama ''Love Field'' (1992). The film that had been temporarily shelved by the financially-troubled Orion Pictures. It was finally released in late 1992, in time for Oscar consideration. The ''New York Times'' review wrote of Pfeiffer as "again demonstrating that she is as subtle and surprising as she is beautiful." For her portrayal of the eccentric Dallas housewife, she won the Silver Bear Best Actress award at the Berlin Film Festival.

Pfeiffer took the role of Catwoman (Selina Kyle) in Tim Burton's ''Batman Returns'' (1992) opposite Michael Keaton and Danny DeVito. For the role of Catwoman, she trained in martial arts and kickboxing; one co-star stated that "Michelle had four stunt doubles – but she did all her own whippin'." Peter Travers of ''Rolling Stone'' praised her for giving the "feminist avenger a tough core of intelligence and wit" and called her a "classic dazzler." Premiere retrospectively lauded her performance: "Arguably the outstanding villain of the Tim Burton era, Michelle Pfeiffer's deadly kitten with a whip brought sex to the normally neutered franchise. Her stitched-together, black patent leather costume, based on a sketch of Burton's, remains the character's most iconic look. And Michelle Pfeiffer overcomes ''Batman Returns''' heavy-handed feminist dialogue to deliver a growling, fierce performance." The movie met a big office success, grossing over $103 million worldwide (equivalent to $}} million).

The following year, she played Countess Ellen Olenska in Martin Scorsese's film adaptation of Edith Wharton's ''The Age of Innocence'' (1993) opposite Daniel Day-Lewis and Winona Ryder, receiving the Elvira Notari Prize at the Venice Film Festival, and a Golden Globe nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture. That same year she was awarded the Women in Film Los Angeles' Crystal Award for outstanding women who, through their endurance and the excellence of their work, have helped to expand the role of women within the entertainment industry.

Pfeiffer's subsequent career choices have met with varying degrees of success. After ''The Age of Innocence'', she played the role of Laura Alden opposite Jack Nicholson in ''Wolf'' (1994), a horror film that garnered a mixed critical reception. The ''New York Times'' wrote: "Ms. Pfeiffer's role is underwritten, but her performance is expert enough to make even diffidence compelling". The movie engrossed US$65 million (equivalent to $}} million) in the domestic box office and US$131 million worldwide (equivalent to $}} million). Her next role was that of high school teacher and former US Marine LouAnne Johnson in the surprise box office hit ''Dangerous Minds'' (1995). She appeared as her character in the music video for the soundtrack's lead single, 'Gangsta's Paradise' by Coolio (featuring L.V.), which was used by the producer Jerry Bruckheimer for television advertising. A 60-second version was aired on music channels, while a 30-second cut was aired in the rest of the networks. The song won the 1996 Grammy Award for Best Rap Solo Performance, and the video won the MTV Video Music Award for Best Rap Video. In 1996, she turned down the Golden Globe Award-winning role of Eva Perón in the biopic ''Evita'', which went to Madonna. Pfeiffer then portrayed Sally Atwater in the romantic drama ''Up Close & Personal'' (1996) opposite Robert Redford; the film's screenplay, co-written by husband and wife team John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion, was intended to be a biographical account of the career of news anchor Jessica Savitch, but the final version had almost nothing to do with Savitch's life, leading Dunne to write an exposé of his eight-year battle with the Hollywood producers, ''Monster: Living Off the Big Screen''.

She took the role of Gillian Lewis in ''To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday'' (1996), which was adapted by her husband David Kelley from Michael Brady's play of the same same She served as an executive producer and starred as the divorced single mother architect Melanie Parke in the romantic comedy ''One Fine Day'' (1996) opposite George Clooney, Subsequent performances included Rose Cook Lewis in the film adaptation of Jane Smiley's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel ''A Thousand Acres'' (1997) with Jessica Lange and Jennifer Jason Leigh, Beth Cappadora in ''The Deep End of the Ocean'' (1998) about a married couple who found their son who was kidnapped nine years ago, Titania the Queen of the Fairies in ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' (1999) with Kevin Kline, Rupert Everett and Stanley Tucci, and Katie Jordan in Rob Reiner's comedy-drama ''The Story of Us'' (1999) opposite Bruce Willis.

During the 1990s, Pfeiffer attracted comment in the media for her beauty. In 1990, she appeared on the cover of ''People'' magazine's first ''50 Most Beautiful People In The World'' issue. She was again featured on the cover of the annual issue in 1999, having made the "Most Beautiful" list a record six times during the decade (1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1996, 1999). Pfeiffer is the first celebrity to have appeared on the cover of the annual issue twice, and the only person to be featured on the cover twice during the 1990s.

The Hitchcockian thriller ''What Lies Beneath'' (2000) with Harrison Ford, was a commercial success, opening number one at the box office in July 2000. She then accepted the role of highly-strung lawyer Rita Harrison in ''I Am Sam'' (2001) opposite Sean Penn. The movie received unfavorable critics, The ''Seattle Post-Intelligencer'' wrote: "Pfeiffer, apparently stymied by the bland clichés that prop up her screechy role, delivers her flattest, phoniest performance ever".

For her performance as murderous artist Ingrid Magnussen in ''White Oleander'' (2002), alongside Alison Lohman in her film début, Renée Zellweger and Robin Wright Penn, Pfeiffer garnered a substantial amount of critical praise. Stephen Holden of the ''New York Times'' wrote that "Ms. Pfeiffer, giving the most complex screen performance of her career, makes her Olympian seductress at once irresistible and diabolical." Kenneth Turan of the ''Los Angeles Times'' described her as "incandescent," bringing "power and unshakable will to her role as mother-master manipulator" in a "riveting, impeccable performance." She earned Best Supporting Actress Awards from the San Diego Film Critics Society and the Kansas City Film Critics Circle, as well as a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination.

Pfeiffer also did voice work in two animated films during this period, voicing Tzipporah in ''The Prince of Egypt'' (1998), in which she introduced the Academy Award–winning song, 'When You Believe', and Eris in ''Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas'' (2003).

Return to film

After a four-year hiatus, during which she remained largely out of the public eye to devote time to her husband and children, she turned down the role of the White Witch in the 2005 fantasy film ''The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe'', Pfeiffer returned to the screen in 2007 with villainous roles in two major summer blockbusters, as Velma Von Tussle in the film adaptation of the Broadway musical ''Hairspray'' (2007) with John Travolta, Christopher Walken and Queen Latifah, and as ancient witch Lamia in fantasy adventure ''Stardust'' (2007) opposite Claire Danes, Charlie Cox and Robert De Niro.

Pfeiffer then accepted the roles of Rosie in Amy Heckerling's ''I Could Never Be Your Woman'' (2007) with Paul Rudd and Saoirse Ronan, and Linda in ''Personal Effects'' (2009), which she starred opposite Ashton Kutcher and Kathy Bates, and was premiered at Iowa City's Englert Theatre. Her next film, an adaptation of Colette's ''Chéri'' (2009), reunited her with the director (Stephen Frears) and screenwriter (Christopher Hampton) of ''Dangerous Liaisons'' (1988), a film for which all three were nominees for (and, in Hampton's case, recipient of) an Academy Award. Pfeiffer played the role of Léa de Lonval opposite Rupert Friend in the title role, with Kathy Bates as his mother. ''Chéri'' premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in February 2009, and received a nomination for the Golden Bear award. ''The Times'' of London reviewed the film favorably, describing Hampton's screenplay as a "steady flow of dry quips and acerbic one-liners" and Pfeiffer's performance as "magnetic and subtle, her worldly nonchalance a mask for vulnerability and heartache." Roger Ebert in the ''Chicago Sun-Times'' wrote that it was "fascinating to observe how Pfeiffer controls her face and voice during times of painful hurt." Kenneth Turan in the ''Los Angeles Times'' praised the "wordless scenes that catch Léa unawares, with the camera alone seeing the despair and regret that she hides from the world. It's the kind of refined, delicate acting Pfeiffer does so well, and it's a further reminder of how much we've missed her since she's been away." After another short break from film, it had been announced Pfeiffer has signed up for Garry Marshall's romantic comedy ''New Year's Eve'' (Marshall also directed Pfeiffer in 1991's ''Frankie and Johnny'') as well as Chris Pine's ''Welcome to People.'' She will also appear in an adaptation of former television series ''Dark Shadows'' directed by Tim Burton (who Pfeiffer has previously worked with in 1992's ''Batman Returns'') alongside Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, and Chloe Moretz, in which she will portray the family Matriarch Elizabeth Collins Stoddard.

Theater

In 1989, Pfeiffer made her stage debut in the role of Olivia in ''Twelfth Night'', a New York Shakespeare Festival production staged in Central Park. Other film actors appearing in the play included Jeff Goldblum as Malvolio and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio as Viola. Frank Rich's review in the ''New York Times'' was extremely critical of the production, stating "Ms. Pfeiffer offers an object lesson in how gifted stars with young careers can be misused by those more interested in exploiting their celebrity status than in furthering their artistic development." Rich praised Pfeiffer's performance in what was then her most recent film, the screwball comedy ''Married to the Mob'', but stating it was "unfortunate that the actress has been asked to make both her stage and Shakespearean comic debut in a role chained to melancholy and mourning."

Personal life

At the start of her career, Pfeiffer met actor Peter Horton at an acting class taught by Milton Katselas in Los Angeles. They married in Santa Monica when Pfeiffer was 22, and it was on their honeymoon that she discovered she had won the lead role in ''Grease 2''. Horton directed Pfeiffer in a 1985 ABC TV special, ''One Too Many'', in which she played the high school girlfriend of an alcoholic student (Val Kilmer); and in 1987, the real-life couple then played an on-screen couple in the 'Hospital' segment of John Landis's comedy skit compilation, ''Amazon Women on the Moon''. However, they decided to separate in 1988, and were divorced two years later; Horton later blamed the split on their devotion to their work rather than their marriage.

In between her marriages to Horton and Kelley, Pfeiffer had a three-year relationship with actor/producer Fisher Stevens. They met when Pfeiffer was starring in the New York Shakespeare Festival production of ''Twelfth Night'', in which Stevens had the part of Sir Andrew Aguecheek.

In 1993, Pfeiffer was set up on a blind date with television writer and producer David E. Kelley, who took her to the movies to see ''Bram Stoker's Dracula'' the following week, and they began dating seriously. They married on November 13, 1993. Since then, she has made an uncredited cameo appearance in one episode of Kelley's television series ''Picket Fences'' and played the title character in ''To Gillian On Her 37th Birthday'', for which Kelley wrote the screenplay. Pfeiffer and Kelley have two children, a daughter named Claudia and a son named John. Pfeiffer, who was by her own admission desperate to start a family, had entered into private adoption proceedings before she met Kelley. Claudia, the biracial baby girl she adopted was born in March 1993. She was christened Claudia Rose in November 1993, the same day that Pfeiffer and Kelley were married. In August 1994, Pfeiffer gave birth to a son, John Henry.

Having being a smoker for ten years and having a niece who suffered from leukemia for ten years, she decided to support the American Cancer Society. Her charity work also includes her support for the Humane Society.

Filmography

! Year	! Title	! Role	Notes
1980	''''	Suzie Q
1980		Sue Wellington
1981	''Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen''	Cordelia Farenington
1982	''Grease 2''	Stephanie Zinone	Nominated—Young Artist Award for Best Young Motion Picture Actress
1983		Elvira Hancock
1985		Diana
1985	''Ladyhawke''	Isabeau d'Anjou	Nominated—Saturn Award for Best Actress
1986	''Sweet Liberty''	Faith Healy
1987	''''	Sukie Ridgemont
1987	''Amazon Women on the Moon''	Brenda Landers
1988	''Married to the Mob''	Angela de Marco	Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
1988		Jo Ann Vallenari
1988	''Dangerous Liaisons''	Madame Marie de Tourvel	BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting RoleNominated – Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
1989	''''	Susie Diamond	Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture DramaChicago Film Critics Association Award for Best ActressLos Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best ActressNational Board of Review Award for Best ActressNational Society of Film Critics Award for Best ActressNew York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress	Nominated—Academy Award for Best ActressNominated—BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role
1990	''''	Katya Orlova	Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama
1991		Frankie	Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
1992	''Batman Returns''		Nominated—MTV Movie Awards – Most Desirable Female and Best Kiss (with Michael Keaton)
1992		Lurene Hallett
1993	''''	Countess Ellen Olenska	Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama
1994		Laura Alden	Nominated—Saturn Award for Best Actress
1995	''Dangerous Minds''	LouAnne Johnson
1996	''Muppets Tonight''	Herself	Guest star; first episode
1996	''Up Close & Personal''	Sally 'Tally' Atwater
1996	''To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday''	Gillian Lewis
1996		Melanie Parker	Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Actress (Comedy/Romance)Executive producer
1997	''''	Rose Cook Lewis	Producer (uncredited)
1998	''''		Voice
1999	''''	Beth Cappadora
1999	''''	Titania
1999	''''	Katie Jordan
2000	''What Lies Beneath''	Claire Spencer	Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Actress (Suspense)Nominated—Saturn Award for Best Actress
2001	''I Am Sam''	Rita Harrison Williams
2002		Ingrid Magnussen	Kansas City Film Critics Circle Best Supporting ActressSan Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting ActressNominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role - Motion Picture
2003	''Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas''	Eris	Voice
2007			Nominated—Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress
2007		Velma Von Tussle	Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best CastNominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Cast in a Motion Picture
2007	''I Could Never Be Your Woman''	Rosie
2009	''Personal Effects''	Linda
2009		Lea de Lonval
2011		Ingrid
2012	''Welcome to People''	Lillian
2012		Elizabeth Collins Stoddard

+ Television credits	! Year	! Title	! Role	Notes
1978	''Fantasy Island''	Athena	Episode: "The Island of Lost Women/The Flight of Great Yellow Bird"
1979	''Delta House''	The Bombshell	2 episodes ("Hoover and the Bomb", "The Legacy")
1979	''''	Tricia
1979	''CHiPs''	Jobina	Episode: "The Watch Commander"
1980		Joy	1 episode
1980	''B.A.D. Cats''	Samantha "Sunshine" Jensen
1981	''Fantasy Island''	Deborah Dare	Episode: "Elizabeth's Baby/The Artist and the Lady"
1981	''Callie & Son''	Sue Lynn Bordeaux	credited as Michele Pfeiffer
1981		Ginny Stamper
1981	''''	Jennifer Williams
1985	''One Too Many''	Annie	ABC Afterschool Special
1987	''Tales from the Hollywood Hills: Natica Jackson''	Natica Jackson
1993	''''	Mindy Simmons	Episode: "The Last Temptation of Homer"
1993	''Picket Fences''	Client	Episode: "Freezer Burn"
1996	''Muppets Tonight''	Herself	1 episode

References

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Coordinates	41°52′55″N87°37′40″N
name	Zac Efron
birth name	Zachary David Alexander Efron
birth date	October 18, 1987
birth place	San Luis Obispo, California
occupation	Actor, singer
yearsactive	2002–present }}

Zachary David Alexander "Zac" Efron (born October 18, 1987) is an American actor. He began acting professionally in the early 2000s and became known to young audiences after his roles in the Disney Channel Original Movie ''High School Musical'', the WB series ''Summerland'', and the 2007 film version of the Broadway musical ''Hairspray''. In 2007, before the release of ''High School Musical 2'', ''Rolling Stone'' declared him the "poster boy for tweenyboppers" and featured him in their late August 2007 issue. Efron has since starred in the films ''17 Again'', ''Me and Orson Welles'', and ''Charlie St. Cloud'', and is due to star in ''New Year's Eve'' and ''The Lucky One''.

Early life

Background

Efron was born in San Luis Obispo, California, and later moved to Arroyo Grande, California. His father, David Efron, is an electrical engineer at a power station, and his mother, Starla Baskett, is a former secretary who worked at the same power plant. Efron has a younger brother, Dylan, and had, as he described it, a "normal childhood" in a middle class family. He is an agnostic, having never been religious. His surname, "Efron", means "lark" in Hebrew (his paternal grandfather was Jewish).

Efron has said that he would "flip out" if he got a "B" and not an "A" in school, and has also described himself as having been a class clown. His father encouraged him to begin acting when he was 11 years old. Efron subsequently appeared in theater productions at his high school, worked in the theater The Great American Melodrama and Vaudeville, and began taking singing lessons. He performed in shows such as ''Gypsy''; ''Peter Pan; or, The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up''; ''Little Shop of Horrors''; and ''The Music Man''. He was recommended to an agent in Los Angeles by his drama teacher, Robyn Metchik (the mother of actors Aaron Michael Metchik and Asher Metchik). Efron was later signed to the Creative Artists Agency.

Education

Efron graduated from Arroyo Grande High School in 2006 and was then accepted into the University of Southern California, but has deferred his enrollment to work on film projects. He also attended Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts, a community college located in Santa Maria, California, which provided him with the opportunity to perform as a "young player" during the years of 2000 and 2001.

Career

Early work

In 2002, Efron began to appear in guest roles on several television series, including ''Firefly'', ''ER'', and ''The Guardian''. He portrayed Cameron Bale on the now-cancelled WB series ''Summerland''. Originally introduced as a recurring character, Efron became a regular cast member on the show in the second season in 2004, starring opposite the likes of Kay Panabaker, Lori Loughlin and Jesse McCartney. Since appearing in ''Summerland'', he has also had guest roles on the shows ''CSI: Miami'', ''NCIS'', ''The Suite Life of Zack & Cody'' and ''The Replacements''. In 2003, Efron starred in the Lifetime original television movie ''Miracle Run''. He played Steven Morgan, one of two autistic twins. For his performance, he was nominated for a Young Artist Award for Best Performance in a TV Movie, Mini-series or Special — Supporting Young Actor. In 2005, he played a main character in Hope Partlow's music video for her song "Sick Inside." Also in 2005, he played horse-loving Patrick McCardle in ''The Derby Stallion'', where his character wants to beat the town bully at the steeple chase race.

Breakthrough

In 2006, Efron starred in the Disney Channel original movie ''High School Musical'' as Troy Bolton, a popular student and captain of the basketball team. The film, which he initially made with "low expectations", helped Efron gain recognition among teenage audiences as both an actor and a singer, even though his singing voice was overdubbed. As a result, he placed as high as #4 on the IMDBPro's STARMeter for the week of January 29, 2006. In August 2006, Efron won a Teen Choice Award in the Breakout Star and the TV — Choice Chemistry categories, shared with Vanessa Hudgens. The film's cast, along with Efron, toured Sydney, Australia, London, England, and other locations to promote the film.

Shortly after ''High School Musical'' aired, on February 4, 2006, Efron debuted with two simultaneous charted songs on Billboard Hot 100 from the film: "Get'cha Head in the Game" and "Breaking Free", a duet with Hudgens. On the following week's chart, Efron had five simultaneous song credits from ''High School Musical'': "Get'cha Head in the Game", "Start of Something New", "What I've Been Looking For: Reprise", "We're All in This Together" and "Breaking Free." "We're All in This Together" was credited to the whole ''High School Musical'' cast. "Breaking Free", at the time, made the fastest climb in the history of the Billboard charts, from #86 to #4 between the two weeks; the record was beaten by Beyoncé and Shakira's "Beautiful Liar". Efron also appeared in the 2006 ''Disney Channel Games'' as captain of the Red Team.

Efron's singing talents were disputed when it was revealed that Drew Seeley's voice was blended with his on the soundtrack of ''High School Musical''. An August 23, 2007 interview in ''Rolling Stone'' magazine revealed that he had been cast in ''High School Musical'' after the songs were written, and the songs (written for a tenor) were somewhat out of his baritone vocal range.

2007 – present

On April 7, 2007, Efron appeared in an episode of ''Punk'd''. Efron also starred in the music video for Vanessa Hudgens's single "Say OK", in which he played her love interest. The video aired on March 16, 2007 on the Disney Channel. That year, he was named one of ''People'' magazine's 100 Most Beautiful People in 2007. A picture and short profile of him was in the section "Coming of Age". In it, he related how he was always the shortest kid in school (as of August 2007, he was 5'8") and was teased for the "huge gap" in his teeth.

In 2006, Efron was cast as Link Larkin in a film version of ''Hairspray'' released on July 20, 2007. Efron performed all of his own vocals in the role, which was filmed in Toronto, Ontario, from September 5 to December 2, 2006. He cut and dyed his hair dark brown and gained about 15 pounds for the role. His performance and the film received positive reviews. Efron was not able to perform with his fellow castmates in ''High School Musical: The Concert'' because of commitments on the film ''Hairspray''. Drew Seeley took over for him. ''High School Musical 2'' was released in August 2007. Additionally, Lycos reported searches for Efron surged by 81%. The film set a new record, becoming the most watched basic cable program in U.S. history, with 17.2 million viewers. Efron also appeared on the cover of the August 2007 edition of ''Rolling Stone''. The article about him revealed that he hoped to someday play an action hero. Efron presented the 2007 Teen Choice Award for "Favorite Movie" along with Queen Latifah, and later that year, he co-hosted the Nickelodeon Australian Kids' Choice Awards with The Veronicas on October 10 in Sydney.

In early 2008, Efron was cast in the lead role in the film ''Me and Orson Welles''. Based on Robert Kaplow's novel of the same name, the story, set in 1937 New York, tells of a teenager hired to star in Orson Welles' production of ''Julius Caesar'', where he becomes attracted to a career-driven production assistant. The film was shot in the Isle of Man, London and New York, during February — April 2008. It was introduced to North America via the Toronto Film Festival on September 5, 6, and 11, 2008 and was released in 2009. Efron was also scheduled to star in Paramount's musical remake of the film ''Footloose'', and has said that he would like to add his "own little bit of flair" to the role originated by Kevin Bacon. In March 2009, he dropped out of the film. Efron was quoted as saying that while it was a promising gig, he left the project because he "was looking for a new challenge, and this was another musical."

Efron reprised his role in ''High School Musical 3: Senior Year'', which was theatrically released on October 24, 2008. His next role was in 2009's ''17 Again'', a high school-set comedy-drama produced by Adam Shankman and based on a pitch by Jason Filardi; the plot involved an adult who is transformed into a 17-year old (played by Efron).

On April 8, 2009, Efron's participation in a comedic short video entitled "Zac Efron's Pool Party" for the website Funny Or Die was released for public viewing. On April 11, 2009, Efron hosted an episode of ''Saturday Night Live''. In early June 2009 it was confirmed that Efron would be making a guest appearance during the sixth season of HBO's comedy series ''Entourage''.

Efron starred in a series of advertisements, along with Kristen Bell and Sean Combs, promoting the 2010 MTV Movie Awards and the host, Aziz Ansari. In 2009, he signed on to play title character in the movie ''Charlie St. Cloud''. The film was released on July 30, 2010.

Efron was second on ''People''s 2011 Most Beautiful list.

Upcoming roles

Efron is slated to star in the title role of the live-action adaptation of the ''Jonny Quest'' cartoons. Additional projects include ''Einstein Theory'' and an adaptation of ''Fire'', by Image Comics. On February 11, 2011, it was reported that Efron will star in the action romance ''Charlie Countryman''. He is also set to star in and produce the American remake of Swedish crime film ''Easy Money''.

Personal life

Efron owns an apartment in Los Angeles, California. On January 15, 2008, he was hospitalized at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles for an emergency appendectomy. Efron was also on the Forbes Celebrity 100 list in 2008, as number 92 with an estimated earning of $5.8 million from June 2007 to June 2008. As of April 5, 2009, his personal wealth equaled about $10 million. ''People'' magazine said in 2007 that Efron and Vanessa Hudgens began dating in 2005 during the filming of ''High School Musical'', although ''Us'' magazine said, after the two broke up in December 2010, that they "met in 2005 while making the first ''High School Musical'' flick, and became a romantic item about two years later."

Filmography

+ Films	Year	Title	Role
2003	''Melinda's World''	Stuart Wasser
2003	''''	Pete Laemke
2004	''Miracle Run''	Steven Morgan
2004	''Triple Play''	Harry Fuller
2005	''''	Patrick McCardle
2006	''If You Lived Here, You'd be Home Now''	Cody
2006	''High School Musical''	Troy Bolton
2007		Link Larkin
2007	''High School Musical 2''	Troy Bolton
2008	''High School Musical 3: Senior Year''	Troy Bolton
2009		Mike O'Donnell (teen)
2009	''Me and Orson Welles''	Richard Samuels
2010		Charlie St. Cloud
2011		Paul
2012	''''	Logan Thibault
2012	''''	Ted
2012	''''	TBA

+ Television	Year	Title	Role	Episode
2002		Young Simon Tam
2003	''''	Luke Tomello	"Without Consent"
2003		Bobby Neville	"Dear Abby"
2005		Cameron Bale	16 episodes
2005	''CSI: Miami''	Seth Dawson
2005	''''	Davey Hunkerhoff	"Davey Hunkerhoff / Ratted Out"
2006		Pizza Delivery Guy	"Pilot"
2006	''''	Trevor	"Odd Couples"
2006		Danny	"Deception"
2008	''Robot Chicken''	Billy Joel	"Tell My Mom"
2009	''Robot Chicken''	Harry Potter	"I Love Her"
2009	''Saturday Night Live''	Himself	2 episodes
2009		Himself	"Security Briefs"
2010	''Robot Chicken''	Anakin Skywalker	"Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode III"

Awards and Nominations

! Year !! Award !! Category !! Work !! Result
2005	Young Artist Awards	Best Performance in a TV Movie, Miniseries or Special - Supporting Young Actor	''Miracle Run''
		Choice TV: Chemistry (shared with Vanessa Hudgens)		rowspan="3"
Choice TV: Breakout Star
	Movie Star - Male	''Himself''
	Young Artist Awards	Best Performance in a TV Movie, Miniseries or Special (Comedy or Drama) - Leading Young Actor	''High School Musical''
Young Hollywood Awards	One to Watch		rowspan="6"
Teen Choice Awards	Choice Other: Hottie - Male
Nickelodeon Australian Kids' Choice Awards	Fave Movie Star
Nickelodeon UK Kids' Choice Awards	Best TV Actor	''High School Musical''
Family Television Awards	Best Actor	''High School Musical 2''
Satellite Awards	Best Original Song (shared with Queen Latifah, Nikki Blonsky and Elijah Kelley)	''Come So Far (So Far to Go)''
	TV Star - Male	''Himself''
		Best Song (shared with Queen Latifah, Nikki Blonsky and Elijah Kelley)	''Come So Far (So Far to Go)''
	rowspan="2"	rowspan="3"
Palm Springs International Film Festival
		''You Can't Stop the Beat''
Favorite Star under 35	''Himself''	rowspan="4"
Screen Actors Guild Awards
Grammy Awards		rowspan="2"
Empire Awards
MTV Movie Awards	Breakthrough Performance
ASTRA Awards	Favourite International Personality or Actor	''High School Musical 2''	rowspan="3"
	Choice Other: Male Hottie
Choice Other: Red Carpet Fashion Icon - Male
Nickelodeon Australian Kids' Choice Awards	Fave Movie Star	rowspan="4"
	TV Star
		Breakthrough Performer of the Year
	Best Male Performance
Best Kiss (shared with Vanessa Hudgens)	rowspan="2"
	Choice Movie: Liplock (shared Vanessa Hudgens)
Choice Movie: Actor - Music/Dance
Choice Music: Album - Soundtrack (shared with ''High School Musical 3: Senior Year'' Cast)	''High School Musical 3: Senior Year (soundtrack)''
Choice Movie: Actor - Comedy	rowspan="5"	rowspan="3"
Choice Movie: Rockstar Moment
Nickelodeon Australian Kids' Choice Awards	Fave Movie Star
	Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards	Favorite Movie Actor	rowspan="5"
MTV Movie Awards	Best Male Performance
	Choice Summer: Movie Actor
Choice Other: Male Hottie
Choice Other: Smile
Nickelodeon Australian Kids' Choice Awards	Cutest Couple (shared with Vanessa Hudgens)	rowspan="3"
	Best TV Star - Male
	People's Choice Awards''	Favorite Movie Star Under 25	rowspan="2"
MTV Movie Awards	Best Male Performance
Teen Choice Awards	Choice Other: Red Carpet Fashion - Icon	''Himself''

Discography

Soundtracks

''Hairspray'' (2007)

''High School Musical 2'' (2007)

''High School Musical 3: Senior Year'' (2008)

Charted songs

Year	Single	Peak chart positions				Album
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		—	—	96	—
style="text-align:left;"	6	6	20	20
	46	35	65	—
	31	28	26	86
style="text-align:left;"	—	95	89	—
	34	31	40	—
	65	46	55	—
	style="text-align:left;"	68	41	41	92
style="text-align:left;"	108	—	—	96
style="text-align:left;"	119	—	—	—
	98	—	—	84
	101	—	—	72

References

External links

Zac Efron at TV Guide

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Coordinates	41°52′55″N87°37′40″N
name	Matthew Modine
birth name	Matthew Avery Modine
birth date	March 22, 1959
birth place	Loma Linda, California, U.S.
occupation	Actor, director, writer
spouse	2 children
years active	1983–present }}

Matthew Avery Modine (born March 22, 1959) is an award-winning American actor. His film roles include Private Joker in Stanley Kubrick's ''Full Metal Jacket'', the title character in Alan Parker's ''Birdy'', high school wrestler Louden Swain in ''Vision Quest'', and the oversexed Sullivan Groff in ''Weeds''.

Early life

Modine, the youngest of seven children, was born in Loma Linda, California, the son of Dolores (née Warner), a bookkeeper, and Mark Alexander Modine, who managed drive-in theaters.

The first move for Modine was from his birthplace in Loma Linda to Imperial Beach, California. The family lived in Imperial Beach for two years before Mark was transferred to Salt Lake City, Utah where his father became the District Theater Manager of Sero Amusement Company. Mark was the manager of the Lyric Theater in downtown Salt Lake City. It was here that Matthew met Robert Redford during a publicity visit for the film ''Barefoot in the Park''.

At ten years old, Matthew saw a documentary about the making of the film ''Oliver!''. Inspired by the young actors' performances, Modine decided to become an actor. He found a dance school in Provo, Utah and began taking tap dancing lessons. He also joined the junior high school glee club when his family moved to Midvale, Utah.

At fourteen, his father was transferred back to Imperial Beach, California. Matthew began the eighth grade at Mar Vista Junior High, and his sophomore year at Mar Vista High School. He performed in a production of ''Our Town'' as George Gibbs. In his junior year, Matthew attended Southwest High School, but after the murder of a classmate, the school feared retaliation and gang violence, so his parents chose to send him back to Mar Vista High. Matthew convinced his parents to allow him to attend Marian Catholic High School, but he later graduated from Mar Vista High.

Modine moved to New York to pursue his acting career, but struggled to get a foothold there. After several months he returned to Imperial Beach, where he saw the violence and substance abuse problems plaguing the small border town taking a toll on his friends. It became apparent to Modine that remaining in the San Diego area could prove disastrous.

Modine moved back to New York City more determined to study acting. He began working with legendary acting teacher Stella Adler. He has maintained his residence in New York since 1980.

Career

His first film role was in John Sayles' ''Baby It's You''. His performance caught the eye of director Harold Becker, who cast him in ''Vision Quest (Crazy for You)'' based on the novel by Terry Davis. He appeared in the sex comedy ''Private School'', co-starring Phoebe Cates and Betsy Russell. The director Robert Altman propelled Modine to international stardom with his film adaptation of David Rabe's play ''Streamers''. Modine and his fellow castmates won an unprecedented Best Actor prize from the Venice Film Festival for the tragic story of young American soldiers about to be shipped to Vietnam. Modine played Mel Gibson's brother in ''Mrs. Soffel'' and starred with Nicolas Cage in Alan Parker's ''Birdy''. The film was awarded a prize at the Cannes Film Festival.

Modine might be best known for his role as Private Joker, the central character of Stanley Kubrick's 1987 war movie ''Full Metal Jacket''. Subsequently, he played the dangerous young criminal Treat in Alan Pakula's film version of the hugely successful Lyle Kessler stageplay ''Orphans'', and played the goofy, earnest FBI agent Mike Downey in Jonathan Demme's screwball comedy ''Married to the Mob'' opposite Michelle Pfeiffer. In 1990 he led the cast of ''Memphis Belle'', a fictionalized account of the famous B-17 Flying Fortress. Modine was nominated for an Emmy Award for his performances in ''And the Band Played On'' (an HBO TV movie about the early years of the HIV/AIDS epidemic) and the dark comedy ''What the Deaf Man Heard''.

In 1995, he appeared opposite Geena Davis in the romantic action-adventure film ''Cutthroat Island''. Modine made his feature directorial debut with ''If... Dog... Rabbit'', which came after the success of three short films debuting at the prestigious Sundance Film Festival: ''When I Was a Boy'' (co-directed with Todd Field), ''Smoking'' written by David Sedaris, and ''Ecce Pirate'' written by Modine. The dark comedy, ''I Think I Thought'' debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival. The film tells the story of a Thinker (Modine) who ends up in Thinkers Anonymous. Other short films include, ''To Kill an American'', ''Cowboy'', and ''The Love FIlm''. in 2011, he completed ''Jesus Was a Commie'', an avant garde-dialectical conversation about the world and the prominent issues of modern society. Modine co-directed the short film with Terence Ziegler, the editor of ''I Think I Thought''. Modine's short films have played internationally.

In 2003, he guest starred on ''The West Wing'' in the episode "The Long Goodbye". He portrayed the character Marco, who went to high school with Cregg (Allison Janney), and who helped her deal with her father's steady mental decline due to Alzheimer's disease. Modine agreed to the role because he is a longtime friend of Janney. (The two appeared in a theatrical production of the play ''Breaking Up'', directed by Stuart Ross). That same year, he played Fritz Gerlich in the CBS miniseries ''Hitler: The Rise of Evil''.

In 2005, Abel Ferrara's ''Mary'' won the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival. In the film, Modine portrayed a director recounting the story of Mary Magdalene (Juliette Binoche).

In 2010, Modine appeared in ''The Trial'', which was awarded the Parents Television Council's Seal of Approval™. The PTC said: "'The Trial' combines the best features of courtroom drama, murder mystery and character story. 'The Trial' is a powerful drama which shows the power of healing and hope."

Modine played a corrupt Majestic City developer named "Sullivan Groff" throughout Season 3 on ''Weeds''. Groff has affairs with Nancy Botwin (Mary-Louise Parker) and Celia Hodes (Elizabeth Perkins). He also guest starred in the ''Law and Order: Special Victims Unit'' episode "Rage" as a serial killer.

In 2010, Modine worked on HBO's ''Too Big to Fail'', a film about the Wall Street financial crisis. Modine stars as John Thain, former Chairman and CEO of Merrill Lynch, who famously spent millions decorating his office.

In 2011, Modine completed two independent films, ''Family Weekend'' and ''Ansiedad'' opposite Eva Mendes, and commenced work on Christopher Nolan's ''The Dark Knight Rises''.

Theatre

Modine appeared in Arthur Miller's ''Finishing the Picture'' at Chicago's Goodman Theatre, and Miller's ''Resurrection Blues'' at London's Old Vic. He played Atticus Finch in ''To Kill a Mockingbird'' at Connecticut's Hartford Stage. This production became the most successful play in the theatre's 45-year history. In 2010, he starred in the 50th Anniversary Broadway rival of the The Miracle Worker at the Circle in the Square theatre.

Filmography

''Private School'' (1983)

''Streamers'' (1983) by Robert Altman

''Birdy'' (1984)

''The Hotel New Hampshire'' (1984)

''Mrs. Soffel'' (1984)

''Vision Quest'' (1985)

''Orphans'' (1987)

''Full Metal Jacket'' (1987) by Stanley Kubrick

''Married to the Mob'' (1988) by Jonathan Demme

''Gross Anatomy'' (1989)

''Memphis Belle'' (1990)

''Pacific Heights'' (1990) by John Schlesinger

''Wind'' (1992)

''Equinox'' (1992) by Alan Rudolph

''Short Cuts'' (1993) by Robert Altman

''And the Band Played On'' (1993, HBO Cable)

''The Browning Version'' (1994)

''Cutthroat Island'' (1995)

''Bye Bye Love'' (1995)

''Fluke'' (1995)

''What the Deaf Man Heard'' (1996, TV)

''The Maker'' (1997)

''The Blackout'' (1997)

''The Real Blonde'' (1997)

''Any Given Sunday'' (1999) by Oliver Stone

''Flowers for Algernon'' (2000, TV)

''In the Shadows'' (2001)

''The American'' (2001, TV)

''Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story'' (2001, TV)

''Redeemer'' (2002, TV)

''Hitler: The Rise of Evil'' (2003)

''Le Divorce'' (2003) by James Ivory

''Funky Monkey'' (2004)

''The Winning Season'' (2004, TV)

''Opa'' (2005)

''Transporter 2'' (2005)

''Into The West'' (2005, TV)

''Kettle of Fish'' (2006)

''Mary'' (2006)

''The Bedford Diaries'' (2006, TV)

''Go Go Tales'' (2007)

''The Neighbor'' (2007)

''Weeds'' (2007, TV)

''Have Dreams, Will Travel'' (2007)

''PoliWood'' (2009)

''The Trial'' (2010)

''Frenemy'' aka (*''Little Fish, Strange Pond'') (film) (2010)

''Mia and the Migoo'' (English language version) (2011)

''Too Big To Fail'' (2011, HBO)

''Jesus Was a Commie'' (2011)

Winsor McCay's and Bill Plympton's ''The Flying House'' (1921-2011)

''Family Weekend'' (2012)

''Ansiedad'' aka (*"See If I Care") (2011)

''The Dark Knight Rises'' (2012)

References

Flowers for Algernon (2008)

External links

Bicycle for a Day

Full Metal Jacket Diary

OPA! official website

Category:1959 births Category:American film actors Category:American television actors Category:Living people Category:Brigham Young University alumni Category:People from Salt Lake City, Utah Category:People from the Inland Empire (California) Category:People from Imperial Beach, California

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