Aidan Quinn
Aidan Quinn at the premiere of Handsome Harry at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival.
Born	(1959-03-08) March 8, 1959 (age 53) Chicago, Illinois, US
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1984–present
Spouse	Elizabeth Bracco (September 1, 1987–present; two children

Aidan Quinn (born March 8, 1959) is an Irish-American actor. He made his film debut in 1984 in Reckless. His films include Desperately Seeking Susan, The Mission, Stakeout, Benny and Joon, Legends of the Fall, Mary Shelly's Frankenstein and Michael Collins.

Early life[link]

Quinn was born in Chicago, Illinois to Irish parents.^[1][2] He was brought up as a Roman Catholic^[1] and raised in Chicago and Rockford, Illinois, as well as in Dublin and Birr, County Offaly in Ireland. His mother Teresa, was a homemaker, and his father, Michael Quinn, was a professor of literature.^[3] He has three brothers and a sister. His older brother, Declan Quinn, is a noted cinematographer. Though a roofer by trade, Quinn got his start in the Chicago theater at age 19. He trained at the Piven Theatre Workshop.^[4]

Career[link]

His first significant film role was in Reckless, followed by a breakthrough role in Desperately Seeking Susan as the character "Dez" (the love interest of the character played by Rosanna Arquette). He made a short impressive contribution as Robert De Niros brother in The Mission. He played escaped convict richard stick montgomery in action comedy Stakeout opposite Richard Dreyfuss and Emilio Estevez. Quinn next starred in the controversial TV movie An Early Frost, about a young lawyer dying of AIDS (it was broadcast on NBC on November 11, 1985) and co-starred such luminaries as Gena Rowlands, Ben Gazzara and Sylvia Sidney. He received his first Emmy Award nomination for the role which allowed him to gain recognition in Hollywood.

In 1988 Quinn lost the role of Jesus Christ when Paramount Pictures dropped the controversial Martin Scorsese movie The Last Temptation of Christ. When Universal Pictures picked up the film, the role went to Willem Dafoe. In the meantime, Quinn starred as protagonist in the film Crusoe, finished in 1989.

During the 1990s Quinn's career grew immensely. He found work alongside such Hollywood stars as Brad Pitt in Legends of the Fall, Johnny Depp in Benny & Joon, Robert Duvall in The Handmaid's Tale and John Gielgud in Haunted. He continually starred in films that allowed him to return to his Irish roots, such as Michael Collins, Song for a Raggy Boy, This Is My Father, and Evelyn.He played a small cameo as the captain of a doomed arctic vessel the messy Francis Ford Coppola produced adaptation of Mary Shellys Frankenstein.(1994)

In 2000, Quinn portrayed Paul McCartney in the VH1 television drama, Two of Us. He later met McCartney at a hotel, and they became good friends.^{[citation needed]} Quinn was able to gain his first regular television role as the lead in the short lived and controversial NBC drama The Book of Daniel, in 2006. The show was canceled after the first three weeks of its run, and its last five episodes never aired. In 2007, Quinn received his second Emmy nomination for the television movie Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.

Personal life[link]

Quinn is married to the actress Elizabeth Bracco, sister of actress Lorraine Bracco. They have two daughters, one diagnosed with autism.^[5] The other appeared as a ghost in the supernatural love story film The Eclipse.

Filmography[link]

Film[link]

Television[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Aidan Quinn

• Aidan Quinn at the Internet Movie Database
• Aidan Quinn at the Internet Broadway Database
• Aidan Quinn at the Internet Off-Broadway Database

Daryl Hannah
Hannah in 2009, at TED.com
Born	Daryl Christine Hannah (1960-12-03) December 3, 1960 (age 51) Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1978–present

Daryl Christine Hannah (born December 3, 1960) is an American film actress. After making her screen debut in 1978, Hannah starred in a number of Hollywood films throughout the 1980s, notably Blade Runner, Splash, Wall Street, and Roxanne.

Early life[link]

Hannah was born in Chicago, Illinois, the daughter of Susan Jeanne (née Metzger), a producer and former schoolteacher, and Donald Christian Hannah, a tugboat and barge company owner.^[1][2][3] Her parents divorced and her mother subsequently married Jerrold Wexler, a businessman and brother of Haskell Wexler, a cinematographer. She grew up with siblings Don and Page Hannah and half-sister Tanya Wexler, in Long Grove, Illinois.

Hannah became interested in movies at a young age, partly due to insomnia. She says she was very shy and may have Asperger Syndrome.^[4] Hannah attended the progressive Francis W. Parker School (where she played on the soccer team) before enrolling at the University of Southern California.

Career[link]

Hannah made her film debut in 1978 with a brief appearance in Brian De Palma's horror film The Fury. She turned down many roles early on in her career, including the role of Emmeline Lestrange for The Blue Lagoon (that ultimately went to Brooke Shields). Her first notable role came as the acrobatic and violent replicant Pris in Ridley Scott's 1982 science fiction classic Blade Runner, in which she performed some of her own gymnastic stunts. That same year she appeared in the summer hit release Summer Lovers. She then was cast as a blonde mermaid in Ron Howard's 1984 fantasy Splash, which starred Tom Hanks and was a major financial success,^[5] establishing Hannah as a high-profile film actress.

Hannah's successes in the remainder of the 1980s ranged from 1986's film version of the best seller The Clan of the Cave Bear and also in 1986 Legal Eagles and the Academy Award-winning Wall Street (for which she received her Razzie Award). She starred in the title role of Fred Schepisi's 1987 film Roxanne (also 1987), a modern retelling of Edmond Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, a performance described as "sweet" and "gentle" by film critic Roger Ebert.^[6] and ended the decade with Crimes and Misdemeanors (alongside Woody Allen) and Steel Magnolias (both 1989).

She also appeared in The Pope of Greenwich Village with co-stars Mickey Rourke and Eric Roberts and played the daughter of Jack Lemmon's character in both of the Grumpy Old Men comedies. In 1995, Hannah was chosen by Empire magazine as #96 of the "100 Stars in Film History." That year she appeared as homicidal sociopath Leann Netherwood in The Tie That Binds.

Of her most recent roles the most memorable may be that of the one-eyed assassin, Elle Driver, in Kill Bill, directed by Quentin Tarantino. Her performance in this film and her appearances in Speedway Junky, Northfork, Michael Radford's Dancing at the Blue Iguana, John Sayles' Casa de los Babys and Silver City, have been described by some as a comeback.^[7]

Hannah wrote, directed and produced a short film, The Last Supper, which won an award at the Berlin Film Festival. She directed, produced and was cinematographer for the documentary Strip Notes. It aired on Channel 4 in the UK and on HBO and was about the research Hannah did for her role as a stripper in Dancing at the Blue Iguana. Hannah currently has several projects in post-production, including Shannon's Rainbow and A Closed Book.^[8]

She appeared in Robbie Williams' video for the song "Feel", portraying Williams' love interest.

Hannah also is an accomplished theatre actress, reprising Marilyn Monroe's starring role in The Seven Year Itch in 2000 at London's West End. Reviews of the play commended Hannah's performance, with Lizzie Loveridge of Curtain Up! saying that the play was the "perfect vehicle" for Hannah to "show her talents as a comedienne."^[9] She was also in films Cord^{[disambiguation needed ]} and First Target in the same year.^[10]

Personal life[link]

Hannah and actress Hilary Shepard Turner created two board games, "Love It Or Hate It" and "LIEbrary", with Hannah previewing the latter on Ellen DeGeneres' talk show in 2005.^{[citation needed]}

Hannah, an active environmentalist, has her own weekly video blog called DHLoveLife^[11] on sustainable solutions. She is often the sound recordist, camera person and on-screen host for the blog.^[12] Her home runs on solar power and is built with green materials. She drives a car that runs on biodiesel.^[13] In late 2006, she volunteered to act as a judge for Treehugger.com's^[14] "Convenient Truths" contest.^[15] On December 4, 2008, Hannah joined Sea Shepherd's crew aboard the MV Steve Irwin, as part of Operation Musashi.^[16]

Hannah with Jackson Browne at the Academy Awards 1988

Hannah has never married, although she had long-term relationships with singer Jackson Browne and John F. Kennedy, Jr. She is the sister-in-law of music producer Lou Adler, who is married to Hannah's sister, Page.

Hannah is a strict vegan.

On June 13, 2006, Hannah was arrested, along with actor Taran Noah Smith, for her involvement with over 350 farmers, their families and supporters, confronting authorities trying to bulldoze the nation's largest urban farm in South Central Los Angeles. She chained herself to a walnut tree at the South Central Farm for three weeks to protest the farmers' eviction by the property's new owner, Ralph Horowitz. The farm had been established in the wake of the 1992 LA riots to allow people in the city to grow food for themselves. However, Horowitz, who had paid $5 million for it, sought to evict the farmers to build a warehouse. He had asked for $16 million to sell it but turned down the offer when the activists raised that amount. Hannah was interviewed via cell phone shortly before she was arrested, along with 44 other protesters, and said that she and the others are doing the "morally right thing".^[17] She spent some time in jail.^[18]

Hannah has also worked to help end sexual slavery and has been traveling around the world to make a documentary.^[19]

Hannah was among 31 people arrested on June 23, 2009, in a protest against mountaintop removal in southern West Virginia, part of a wider campaign to stop the practice in the region. The protesters, who also included NASA climate scientist James E. Hansen, were charged with obstructing officers and impeding traffic after they sat in the middle of State Route 3 outside Massey Energy's Goals Coal preparation plant on Tuesday, the The Charleston Gazette reported.^[20] In a Democracy Now! phone interview on June 24, 2009, Hannah spoke briefly on why she went to West Virginia and risked arrest.^[21]

In 2010 and in 2011, Hannah supported environmental activist Tom Weis' project Ride for Renewables to promote renewable energy.^[22]

On May 14, 2011, Hannah and actress Sheryl Lee attended the iMatter March in Denver, Colorado to raise awareness about climate change.^[23]

She was arrested on August 30, 2011 in front of The White House as part of a sit-in to protest the proposed Keystone oil pipeline from Canada to the U.S. Gulf Coast.^[24] In October 2011, Hannah and other pipeline opponents rode horses and bicycles and walked from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation to the Rosebud Reservation to protest the project.^[25]

She is a member of the World Future Council.

Filmography[link]

As Director[link]

In the theatre[link]

Awards[link]

• Best Short—The Berlin Film Festival "The Last Supper", 1994
• Best Fight—MTV Movie Awards Kill Bill Vol. 2, 2005
• Best Supporting Actress—Saturn Award Kill Bill Vol. 2, 2004
• Best Actress—Saturn Award Splash, 1984
• Influencer Of The Year Award—National Biodiesel Board, 2004
• Ongoing Commitment Award—Environmental Media Award, 2004
• Environmental Activism—Water Quality Awards, 2006
• Environmental Preservation—Artivist Awards, 2006

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Daryl Hannah

• Daryl Hannah at the Internet Movie Database
• Daryl Hannah's Weekly Environmental Video Blog - DHLoveLife.com
• 10/03/03, IGN Films
• "SWINDLE Magazine Interview"^{[dead link]} with Daryl Hannah
• Liebrary, Daryl Hannah's Board Game
• Daryl Hannah interview from Democracy Now!, August 27, 2008

Michael Fassbender
Fassbender in March 2012.
Born	(1977-04-02) 2 April 1977 (age 35) Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, West Germany
Nationality	Irish, German
Alma mater	Drama Centre London
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1994–present

Michael Fassbender (born 2 April 1977) is an Irish-German actor. He is perhaps best known for having played Lieutenant Archie Hicox in the war film Inglourious Basterds (2009), Magneto in the superhero film X-Men: First Class (2011), and the android David in the science fiction film Prometheus.

His other credits include the fantasy action film 300 (2007); the drama film Fish Tank (2009); the romantic drama film Jane Eyre (2011); the historical film A Dangerous Method (2011), directed by David Cronenberg, in which he plays psychologist Carl Jung; as well as the biographical film Hunger (2008) and the drama film Shame (2011), both directed by Steve McQueen. For his role in Shame, he won the Volpi Cup best-actor award at the 68th Venice International Film Festival held in August 2011 along with being nominated for a Golden Globe Award and BAFTA.

Early life and education[link]

Fassbender was born in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, West Germany (now Germany). His mother is from Larne, County Antrim in Northern Ireland, and his father, Josef Fassbender, is German.^[1][2] According to Fassbender's "family lore", his mother is the great-great-niece of Michael Collins, an Irish leader during the War of Independence.^[1][3] When he was two years old, his parents moved to Killarney, County Kerry, in the Republic of Ireland, where they ran the West End House, a restaurant where his father worked as a chef.^[1][2] Fassbender was brought up as a Roman Catholic and served as an altar boy.^[4]

He attended St. Brendan's, Killarney (The Sem) and the Drama Centre London.^[5]

Career[link]

Early work[link]

Fassbender first played the part of Burton "Pat" Christenson in Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg's award-winning television miniseries Band of Brothers. He played the character of Azazeal in both series of Hex on Sky One and he also starred as the main character in the music video for the song "Blind Pilots", by the British band The Cooper Temple Clause. In the video, he plays the part of a man on a stag night with his friends, only to slowly transform into a goat due to wearing a cowbell necklace.

Fassbender played the part of Jonathan Harker in a ten-part radio serialization of Dracula produced by BBC Northern Ireland and broadcast in the Book at Bedtime series between 24 November and 5 December 2003. He was also seen in early 2004 in a Guinness television commercial, The Quarrel, playing a man who swims across the ocean from Ireland to apologize personally to his brother in New York.

During the 2006 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Fassbender played Michael Collins in Allegiance, a play by Mary Kenny based on the meeting between Winston Churchill and Collins, of whom Fassbender's mother is a great-niece.^[6] In addition, he produced, directed and starred in the stage version of Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs, along with his production company.

He appeared in Angel (UK title: The Real Life of Angel Deverell), about the rise and fall of an eccentric young British writer (played by Romola Garai) in the early 20th century. Fassbender plays her love interest and average painter Esmé. The drama – the first English-language effort by French director François Ozon and based on the novel by Elizabeth Taylor – premiered on 17 February 2007 at the Berlin International Film Festival and on 14 March 2007 in Paris. He then made a brief appearance in Wedding Belles as Barney, speaking with a Scottish accent.

Mainstream success[link]

Michael Fassbender at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival

In 2006, Fassbender played the role of Stelios, a young Spartan warrior, in 300, a fantasy action film directed by Zack Snyder. The film was a commercial success.^[7]

In preparation for his role as Provisional Irish Republican Army prisoner Bobby Sands in Steve McQueen's 2008 film Hunger, Fassbender underwent a crash diet that restricted him to 600 calories a day. He received the British Independent Film Award for his performance.^[8]

One year after his success at the Cannes Film Festival with Hunger, he appeared in two films. The first was Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds, in which he played the British officer Lieutenant Archie Hicox. The other film was Fish Tank directed by Andrea Arnold. Both films were critically acclaimed and Fassbender's work in them also well received.

In 2010, Fassbender appeared as Burke in Jonah Hex, a Western film.^[9] In an interview at San Diego Comic-Con International, a comic book convention, Fassbender commented of the role: "I kind of developed this character and really pushed it – I’ll see how far I pushed it ... I had this idea about the character, he’s kind of psychotic, he gets his kicks in perverted ways. I didn’t want to make it very obvious or like something you’ve seen before".^[10] Hex received predominately negative reviews.^[11] Responding to criticism of Jonah Hex in 2011, Fassbender commented: "Pretty awful, was it? I haven't seen it myself."^[12]

He also portrayed Quintus Dias in Neil Marshall's war-thriller-drama film Centurion.^[13] and was cast as 'Richard Wirth' in the Joel Schumacher film Blood Creek alongside Dominic Purcell. The story centers on a West Virginia man who comes to terms with his moral qualms and helps his brother wipe out a family that had been protecting a Nazi occultist and who had kept his brother captive for him to feed off for years.

Fassbender played Edward Rochester in the 2011 film Jane Eyre, featuring Mia Wasikowska in the title role, with Cary Fukunaga directing.^[14]

Fassbender (right), Josh Brolin and Megan Fox promoting the 2010 film Jonah Hex at Comic-Con in 2009.

Fassbender portrayed Magneto in the superhero blockbuster X-Men: First Class, the prequel to X-Men. Set in 1962, it focuses on the friendship between Charles Xavier (played by James McAvoy) and Magneto and the origin of their groups, the X-Men and the Brotherhood of Mutants. The film was released on 3 June 2011 to general acclaim and financial success and promoted Fassbender to being more of a popular movie star.

In 2011, Fassbender starred in A Dangerous Method by director David Cronenberg, playing Swiss psychiatrist and psychologist Carl Jung. The film premiered at the 2011 Venice Film Festival.^[15] He also starred in Shame, as a man in his thirties struggling with his sex addiction. Shame reunited him with director Steve McQueen and premiered at the 2011 Venice Film Festival, where Fassbender won a Volpi Cup best actor award for his portrayal of Brandon.^[16] Fassbender was a serious contender for an Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, but he was not nominated, and according to various sources his full-frontal nudity and depiction of sexual encounters inspired voters "to fantasize, and not actually vote."^[17][18] Fassbender achieved critical acclaim for his performance in Shame and received nominations for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama and a BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role.

In 2012, he appeared in Haywire, an action-thriller directed by Steven Soderbergh.^[19]

Future projects[link]

Due to a schedule conflict, Fassbender had to pull out of negotiations to work with Oscar-winning director, Danny Boyle, in his new film, Trance.^[20]

Fassbender signed to star in actor Brendan Gleeson's directorial debut of At Swim-Two-Birds,^[21] a film adaptation of Irish author Flann O'Brien's novel. He will also team up for a third time with McQueen to co-star in a yet-to-be-determined role, with Chiwetel Ejiofor, portraying Solomon Northup, in Twelve Years A Slave, filming to commence in late summer of 2012.

Together with a screenwriter Ronan Bennett, Fassbender formed a production company Finn McCool Films. Fassbender and Bennett are currently developing a film about the Irish mythological hero Cú Chulainn.^[22]

In February, Fassbender signed on to play a title role as a lawyer in The Counselor, a film directed by Ridley Scott and based on the Cormac McCarthy script, filming is to start in mid-June.^[23]

He is also going to play Thomas Wolfe in a movie Genius about a famous literary editor Max Perkins, to be played by Colin Firth.^[24]

In 2013, Fassbender is set to take on the role of Harry Flashman in a film adaptation of the books by George MacDonald Fraser.

Personal life[link]

Shifting between British films and American films, Fassbender resides in London, England where he has lived for the last 15 years, while making career-related visits to Los Angeles, California.

He speaks conversational German, though he has stated that he needed to brush up a bit on his spoken German before filming Inglourious Basterds, as it was a bit rusty.^[25][26] He has also expressed interest in performing in a German-language film or theater production one day.^[27]

Fassbender is currently dating his Shame costar Nicole Beharie. ^[28]

Filmography[link]

Television[link]

Fassbender was at the Top Gear studios in Surrey, England, on 8 February 2012 to film Star in a Reasonably Priced Car, where celebs try to set a fastest lap time of the Top Gear test track in a low-spec family hatchback. The lap and his interview with Jeremy Clarkson was aired on BBC2 on 19 February 2012.

See also[link]

• List of awards and nominations received by Michael Fassbender

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Michael Fassbender

• Michael Fassbender at the Internet Movie Database

Ciarán Hinds
Ciarán Hinds, 2008
Born	(1953-02-09) 9 February 1953 (age 59) Belfast, Northern Ireland
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1976–present
Partner	Hélène Patarot (1987–present)

Ciarán Hinds (English pronunciation: /ˈkɪərɔːn ˈhaɪndz/ KEER-awn HYNDZ; born 9 February 1953) is an Irish film, television and stage actor. He has built up a reputation as a versatile character actor appearing in such high profile films as Road to Perdition, The Phantom of the Opera, Munich, There Will Be Blood, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2, and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. His television roles include Gaius Julius Caesar in Rome and DCI James Langton in Above Suspicion. As a stage actor, Hinds has enjoyed spells with the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal National Theatre in London and six seasons with Glasgow Citizens' Theatre.^[1][2]

Early life[link]

Hinds was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Brought up as a Catholic^[3] in North Belfast, he was one of five children and the only son of his doctor father and schoolteacher mother. His mother, Moya, was also an amateur actress. He was an Irish dancer in his youth and was educated at Holy Family Primary School and St. Malachy's College. After leaving St. Malachy's, he enrolled as a law student at Queen's University, but was soon persuaded to pursue acting and abandoned his studies at Queen's to enroll at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA).^{[4][5][6][7][8]}

Career[link]

Hinds began his professional acting career at the Glasgow Citizens' Theatre in a 1976 production of Cinderella. He remained a frequent performer at the Citizens' Theatre during the late 1970s and through the mid-1980s. During this same period, Hinds also performed on stage in Ireland with the Abbey Theatre, the Field Day Theatre Company, the Druid Theatre, the Lyric Players' Theatre and at the Project Arts Centre. In 1987, he was cast by Peter Brook in The Mahabharata, a six hour theatre piece that toured the world, and he also featured in its 1989 film version. Hinds almost missed the casting call in Paris due to difficulties renewing his Irish passport.^[9] In the early 1990s, he was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. He appeared in the title role of the RSC's 1993 production of Richard III, directed by Sam Mendes; Mendes turned to Hinds as a last minute replacement for an injured Simon Russell Beale. Hinds gained his most popular recognition as a stage actor for his performance as Larry in the London and Broadway productions of Patrick Marber's Tony Award-nominated play Closer. In 1999, Hinds was awarded both the Theatre World Award for Best Debut in NYC and the Outer Critics Circle Award for Special Achievement (Best Ensemble Cast Performance) for his work in Closer. He was on stage in 2001 in The Yalta Game by Brian Friel at the Gate Theatre in Dublin. He appeared in the Broadway production of The Seafarer by Conor McPherson, which ran at the Booth Theatre from December 2007 through March 2008. In February 2009 Hinds took the leading role of General Sergei Kotov in Burnt by the Sun by Peter Flannery at London's National Theatre.^[10] Hinds returned to the stage later in 2009 with a role in Conor McPherson's play The Birds, which opened at Dublin's Gate Theatre in September 2009.

Hinds made his feature film debut in John Boorman's Excalibur (1981). He played Captain Frederick Wentworth in Jane Austen's Persuasion (1995), Jonathan Reiss in Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003), John Traynor in Veronica Guerin (2003), and Firmin in the film version of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera (2004). Hinds also played Carl, a cover-up professional assisting a group of assassins, in Steven Spielberg's political thriller, Munich (2005). In 2006, he appeared in Michael Mann's film adaptation of the 80's television show, Miami Vice, and as Herod the Great in The Nativity Story.^[11] In the 2006 film Amazing Grace, Hinds portrayed Sir Banastre Tarleton, one the chief opponents of abolition of the slave trade in parliament. He starred in Margot at the Wedding, alongside Nicole Kidman, Jack Black and Jennifer Jason Leigh, in a drama-comedy about family secrets and relationships. He also appeared in There Will Be Blood (2007) directed by Paul Thomas Anderson.

On television, Hinds portrayed Gaius Julius Caesar in the first season of BBC/HBO's series, Rome (2006). He has also been featured in a number of made-for-television movies, including the role of Michael Henchard in Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge (2004), for which he received the Irish Film and Television Award for Best Actor in a Dramatic Series. Additional television performances include Edward Parker-Jones in the crime drama series Prime Suspect 3 (1993), Abel Mason in Dame Catherine Cookson's The Man Who Cried (1993), Jim Browner in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes episode The Cardboard Box (1994), Fyodor Glazunov in the science fiction miniseries Cold Lazarus (1996), Edward Rochester in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre (1997), the Knight Templar Brian de Bois-Guilbert in Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe (1997) and a portrayal of the French existentialist Albert Camus in Broken Morning (2003). Hinds has also featured in two notable television docudramas: Granada Television's 1990 docudrama Who Bombed Birmingham? in which Hinds portrayed Richard McIlkenny, a Belfastman falsely imprisoned for an IRA bombing; and HBO's 1993 docudrama Hostages, where he portrayed Irish writer and former hostage Brian Keenan. Hinds starred opposite Kelly Reilly in Above Suspicion, a TV adaptation of Lynda La Plante's detective story, which aired in the United Kingdom in January 2009; he came back again as DCI Langton for Lynda La Plante's sequels The Red Dahlia in 2010, Deadly Intent in 2011 and Silent Scream in 2012.

Hinds has performed in audiobook and radio productions as well. He performed as Valmont in the BBC Radio production of Les Liaisons Dangereuses, and Hinds also narrated the Penguin Audiobook Ivanhoe. He also performed in Antony and Cleopatra and The Winter's Tale as part of The Complete Arkangel Shakespeare, an audio production of Shakespeare's plays which won the 2004 Audie Award for Best Audio Drama. He read the short story "A Painful Case" for the Caedmon audio version of James Joyce's Dubliners.

Hinds played the role of Albus Dumbledore's brother Aberforth (replacing Jim McManus, who played him in a cameo in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix) in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2, the final film in the Harry Potter franchise. Also in 2011, he appeared as David Peretz in the 1997 sections of The Debt along side Helen Mirren and Tom Wilkinson. Hinds played Roy Bland in the 2011 adaptation of the John le Carré's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.

In September 2011, Hinds returned to the Abbey Theatre Dublin, to star as Captain Jack Boyle in an acclaimed revival of Sean O Casey's Juno and the Paycock alongside Sinead Cusack as Juno. The production transferred to the National Theatre of Great Britain in November 2011 for a three month run. He played the role of Joe in the film The Shore (2011) directed and written by Terry George. The Shore won the Best Short Film, Live Action category at the 84th Annual Acadamy Awards (The Oscars) in 2012.

Personal life[link]

Hinds lives in Paris with his long-time partner, Hélène Patarot; they met in 1987 while in the cast of Peter Brook's production of The Mahabharata. They have a daughter, Aoife, born in 1991.^[12]

Hinds is close friends with fellow Irish actor Liam Neeson and served as a pallbearer at the funeral of Neeson's wife, Natasha Richardson, in upstate New York, on 22 March 2009.^[13]

Other[link]

Hinds has become Patron of the charity YouthAction Northern Ireland.^[14] YouthAction's Rainbow Factory School of Performing Arts is a youth arts projects with 450 young people taking part in a range of workshops and classes. His mother Moya also one of the charity's Patrons, has been a supporter of the charity's work for many years.

Filmography[link]

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Film[link]

Television[link]

• Our Boys (1981)
• The Long March (1984)
• Tales From The Crypt (Season 7, episode 11, Confession, 1989)
• The Mahabharata (1989)
• Who Bombed Birmingham? (1990)
• Yellobacks (1990)
• Perfect Scoundrels (TV series), (Season 3, episode 6, The Good-Bye Look, 1992)
• Between the Lines, (Season 1, episode 1, Private Enterprise, 1992)
• Hostages (1993)
• The Man Who Cried (1993)
• Prime Suspect 3 (1993)
• Soldier, Soldier (Season 3, episode 7, Trouble and Strife, 1993)
• The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, (Season 1, episode 6, The Cardboard Box, 1994)
• A Dark-Adapted Eye (1994)
• Seaforth (1994 TV series)
• Rules of Engagement (1995)
• The Affair (1995)
• Persuasion (1995)
• Testament: The Bible in Animation Episode: Creation and the Flood (1996)
• Cold Lazarus (1996)
• Jane Eyre (1997)
• Ivanhoe (1997)
• Getting Hurt (1998)
• Jason And The Argonauts (2000)
• The Sleeper (2000)
• Thursday the 12th (2000)
• Broken Morning (2003)
• The Mayor of Casterbridge (2004)
• Rome (2005–07)
• Above Suspicion (2009)
• The Red Dahlia – Above Suspicion II (2010)
• Deadly Intent – Above Suspicion III (2011)
• Political Animals (2012)

Theatre[link]

Glasgow Citizens Theatre Company[link]

1976–77

• Sid Colin/David Wood Cinderella Giles Havergal Albert the Horse, Courtier
• William Wycherley The Country Wife Philip Prowse Mrs. Dainty Fidget
• Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest Giles Havergal Lane
• William Shakespeare Macbeth Giles Havergal Malcolm/Third murderer
• Robert David MacDonald Chinchilla Philip Prowse Tancredi
• Pierre de Beaumarchais Figaro Robert David MacDonald An policeman/a lawyer

1977–78

• Noël Coward Semi-Monde Philip Prowse Freddy Palmer
• Honoré de Balzac Vautrin Robert David MacDonald Joseph
• Joe Orton Loot Giles Havergal McLeavy
• Myles Rudge Mother Goose Giles Havergal Villager
• Robert David McDonald/James Hadley Chase No Orchids for Miss Blandish Robert David MacDonald Johnny Frisk
• John Ford/John Webster Painter's Palace of Pleasure Philip Prowse Giovanni

1978–79

• Bertold Brecht/Kurt Weill The Threepenny Opera Philip Prowse J. J. Peachum
• Anton Chekhov The Seagull Philip Prowse Dr Dorn
• Miles Rudge Dick Whittington Giles Havergal The Emperor of Morocco
• Carlo Goldoni Country Life Robert David MacDonald Guglielmo

1980–81

• Carlo Goldoni The Battlefield Robert David MacDonald Faustino
• Bertold Brecht The Caucasian Chalk Circle Giles Havergal Shauva, the policeman/Prince Georgi
• Robert David MacDonald Don Juan Philip Prowse Father Juan
• Shawn Lawton Desperado Corner Di Trevis Frank
• Vernon Sylvaine Madame Louise Giles Havergal Bishop of Porchester

1982–83

• Philip Massinger The Roman Actor Philip Prowse Paris
• Sean O'Casey Red Roses for Me Giles Havergal Brennan O' the Moor
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Torquato Tasso Robert David MacDonald Antonio Montecatino
• Bertold Brecht The Mother Giles Havergal Savely
• Carlo Goldoni The Impresario from Smyrna Robert David MacDonald Maccario
• William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice Philip Prowse Antonio
• George Bernard Shaw Arms and the Man Giles Havergal Nicola, man-servant
• Noël Coward Sirocco Philip Prowse Tonio
• Robert David MacDonald Webster Philip Prowse Webster

1983 (autumn)

• Karl Kraus The Last Days of Mankind Robert David McDonald A Man of Government
• Hugo von Hofmannsthal Rosenkavalier Philip Prowse Valzacchi
• Sean O'Casey Juno and the Paycock Giles Havergal Captain Jack Boyle
• Thomas Southerne Oroonoko Philip Prowse Lieutenant Governor

1985

• Friedrich von Schiller Mary Stuart Philip Prowse Paulet
• Noël Coward Blithe Spirit Giles Havergal Charles Condomine
• Sean O'Casey The Plough and the Stars Giles Havergal Jack Clitheroe
• Joseph Kesselring Arsenic and Old Lace Giles Havergal "Uncle" Teddy
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Faust MacDonald Minister of State

1986

• Rolf Hochhuth The Representative Robert David MacDonald Pope Pius XII
• Alfred de Musset Hidden Fires Robert David MacDonald Clavaroche

1988

• Henrik Ibsen The Lady from the Sea Tom Cairns The Stranger
• William Shakespeare Richard III Jon Pope Richard III

Other Theatre[link]

Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts[link]

1975

• Anton Chekhov The Seagull Peter Watson Konstantin (Kostya)
• Anonymous Arden of Faversham Geoff Bullen Black Will
• John Wilson Hamp Euan Smith Prosecutive Officer
• Caryl Churchill Objections to Sex and Violence Arrogant pseudo-intellectual

1976

• John Barton When Thou Art King unknown
• Tennessee Williams The Night of the Iguana Nonno

Lyric Theatre, Belfast[link]

1977–78

• Peter Shaffer Equus

1978–79

• Brian Clark Whose Life is it Anyway? Tony Dinner Philip Hill (the solicitor)
• Mary O'Malley Once a Catholic Michael Poynor Derek (a Teddy Boy)

1983

• Jennifer Johnston Indian Summer Robert Cooper Cathal Dillon

Project Arts Centre, Dublin[link]

1979–80

• Jim Sheridan The Ha'penny Place Peter Sheridan Hare Krishna/Yehudi
• Peter Sheridan The Liberty Suit Jim Sheridan

1981

• Martin Sherman Bent Michael Scott Greta/George
• Liam Lynch Krieg Patrick Mason Jet

1982

• Sam Shepard Curse of the Starving Class

Greenwich Theatre, London[link]

1984

• John Webster The White Devil Philip Prowse Lodovico
• William Congreve Way of the World Giles Havergal Fainall
• Anton Chekhov The Seagull Philip Prowse Trigorin

1986

• Thomas Otway The Orphan Philip Prowse Castalio

Royal Shakespeare Company[link]

1990–91

• Tirso de Molina/Nick Dear The Last Days of Don Juan Danny Boyle Don Pedro Tenorio
• Christopher Marlowe Edward II Gerard Murphy Roger Mortimer
• Richard Nelson Two Shakespearean Actors Roger Michell Dion Boucicault
• William Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida Sam Mendes Achilles

1993

• William Shakespeare Richard III Sam Mendes Richard III

Abbey/Peacock Theatres, Dublin[link]

1979

• J. Graham Reid The Death of Humpty Dumpty Patrick Mason Doctor

1987

• Peter Sheridan Dialann Ocrais/Diary Of A Hunger Strike Peter Sheridan O'Connor

1989

• William Butler Yeats Cuchulain Cycle James W. Flannery Cuchulain

2011

• Sean O'Casey Juno and the Paycock Howard Davis Captain Jack Boyle

Royal National Theatre, London[link]

1993

• Sophie Treadwell Machinal Stephen Daldry The Young Man

1997

• Patrick Marber Closer (London production) Patrick Marber Larry

2009

• Peter Flannery Burnt by the Sun Howard Davies Serguei Petrovitch Kotov

2011

• Sean O'Casey Juno and the Paycock Howard Davis Captain Jack Boyle

Others[link]

1981

• Anton Chekhov/Thomas Kilroy The Seagull Patrick Mason Konstantin Grand Opera House, Belfast

1982

• James Ellis/W.B. Yeats On Baile's Strand Christopher Fitz-Simon Cuchulain Belltable Arts Centre, Limerick
• Samuel Beckett Waiting for Godot Ben Barnes Estragon Belltable Arts Centre
• Liz Lochhead Blood and Ice Kenny Ireland Byron/the Monster Traverse Theatre Company, Edinburgh

1984

• Tom Paulin The Riot Act (Antigone) Stephen Rea Chorus Leader Field Day Touring Company, Derry
• Derek Mahon High Time (School for Husbands) Wolk and Long High Tech Field Day Touring Company

1985

• John Ford Tis Pity She's a Whore Garry Hynes Giovanni' Druid Theatre Company, Galway
• Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest Garry Hynes John Worthing Druid Theatre Company

1986

• Shane Connaughton I Do Like To Be Jeff Teare David The Irish Company
• Frank McGuinness Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme Michael Attenborough George Anderson Hampstead Theatre, London

1987

• Adapted by Jean-Claude Carrière Mahabharata Peter Brook Ashwattaman/Nakula World Tour

1992

• Stephen Sondheim/John Weidman Assassins Sam Mendes Samuel Byck Donmar Warehouse, London

1995

• Sam Sheppard Simpatico James MacDonald Vinnie Royal Court Theatre, London

1999

• Patrick Marber Closer (Broadway production) Patrick Marber Larry Music Box Theatre, New York

2001

• Chekhov/Brian Friel The Yalta Game Karel Reisz Gurov Gate Theatre, Dublin

2007

• Conor McPherson The Seafarer Conor McPherson Mr Lockhart Booth Theatre, New York

2009

• Conor McPherson The Birds Conor McPherson Nat Gate Theatre, Dublin

Further reading[link]

Ciarán Hinds, entretien réalisé par Andréa Grunert,le 16 décembre 2008 http://www.objectif-cinema.com (March 2009) p. 1–10. [Interview/French]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Ciarán Hinds at the Internet Movie Database
• Website dedicated to his works on stage and screen
• Youthaction.org Northern Ireland Organization Supported by Hinds

Rosanna Arquette
Arquette at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival
Born	Rosanna Lauren Arquette (1959-08-10) August 10, 1959 (age 52) New York City, New York, U.S.
Occupation	Actress, director, producer
Years active	1977–present
Spouse	Anthony Greco (m. 1979–1980) «start: (1979)–end+1: (1981)»"Marriage: Anthony Greco to Rosanna Arquette" Location: (linkback:http://en-wiki.db.wn.com/index.php/Rosanna_Arquette) (divorced) James Newton Howard (m. 1986–1987) «start: (1986)–end+1: (1988)»"Marriage: James Newton Howard to Rosanna Arquette" Location: (linkback:http://en-wiki.db.wn.com/index.php/Rosanna_Arquette) (divorced) John Sidel (m. 1993–1999) «start: (1993)–end+1: (2000)»"Marriage: John Sidel to Rosanna Arquette" Location: (linkback:http://en-wiki.db.wn.com/index.php/Rosanna_Arquette) (divorced)

Rosanna Lauren Arquette (born August 10, 1959) is an American actress, film director, and producer.

Early life[link]

Arquette was born in New York City, the daughter of Brenda Olivia "Mardi" (née Nowak), an actress, poet, theater operator, activist, acting teacher, and therapist, and Lewis Arquette, an actor and director.^[1] Her paternal grandfather was comedian Cliff Arquette. Her mother was Jewish, the daughter of a Holocaust refugee from Poland.^[2] Her father was a convert to Islam and a descendant of explorer Meriwether Lewis.^[3][4][5] Her siblings Patricia, Alexis, Richmond, and David Arquette are also actors.

In 1963, Arquette's family moved to Chicago, where her father managed The Second City theater for several years. When she was eleven years old, her parents moved to a commune in Front Royal, Virginia. Arquette did not do well at school.^{[citation needed]} In 1974, she hitchhiked across the country with three older teenagers, eventually going to San Francisco, where she worked at renaissance and Dickens fairs. Her professional theater debut was May 27, 1977, appearing in the Story Theatre Musical production of Ovid's The Metamorphoses at the Callboard Theatre on Melrose Place in Los Angeles.^{[citation needed]}

Arquette was 19 when she married director/composer Tony Greco; they divorced 2 years later in October 1980.^{[citation needed]}

Career[link]

Arquette has appeared in both television and screen films. In 1982, she earned an Emmy Award nomination for the TV film The Executioner's Song. Arquette's first starring role was in John Sayles's Baby It's You, a highly regarded but little seen film.^{[citation needed]} She starred in Desperately Seeking Susan (1985) alongside pop singer Madonna, for which she won a British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA) for her "supporting" role despite her clearly being the lead. Following the commercial and critical failure of both After Hours and 8 Million Ways to Die, she quit Hollywood to work in Europe where she acted in Luc Besson's The Big Blue (1988).

In 1989, director Martin Scorsese offered her a part in New York Stories. Other movies of note are Pulp Fiction and the David Cronenberg film, Crash and the Australian film Wendy Cracked a Walnut (1990) (also known as …Almost). In 1990, Arquette appeared on the cover and in a nude pictorial in Playboy's September issue, although she claimed it was without her prior knowledge or consent.^[6]

In recent years, Arquette has expanded into directing, including the documentaries Searching for Debra Winger (2002) and All We Are Saying (2005); she also produced both projects.^[7]

Arquette appeared in the short running What About Brian as Nicole Varsi and on Showtime's The L Word as Cherie Jaffe.^{[citation needed]}

In 2009, she joined Fit Parent Magazine, founded by Craig Knight, as Editor at Large.^[8] Arquette stars in the French thriller The Divide, directed by Xavier Gens.^[9]

Actress[link]

Filmography as director/producer[link]

• Searching For Debra Winger (2002)
• All We Are Saying (2005)

References[link]

External links[link]

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