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• Melissa McCarthy
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• Phil Reeves
• Pumpkin (film)
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  Amy Adams
  Amy Lou Adams (born August 20, 1974) is an American actress and singer. Adams was born in Vicenza, Italy to American parents, and began her performing career on stage in dinner theaters, before making her screen debut in the 1999 black comedy film Drop Dead Gorgeous. After a series of television guest appearances and roles in B movies, she was cast in the role of Brenda Strong in 2002's Catch Me If You Can, but her breakthrough role was in the 2005 independent film Junebug, playing Ashley Johnsten, for which she received critical acclaim and an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.
  Adams subsequently starred in Disney's 2007 film Enchanted, a critical and commercial success, and received a Golden Globe Award nomination for her performance as Princess Giselle. She received her second Academy Award and Golden Globe Award nominations the following year for her role as a young nun, Sister James, in Doubt. Though she has appeared in a range of dramatic and comedic roles, Adams has gained a reputation for playing characters with cheerful and sunny dispositions. Adams starred in Sunshine Cleaning with Emily Blunt and Alan Arkin, and the following year appeared as Amelia Earhart in Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian. She appeared in Julie & Julia in 2009 portraying writer Julie Powell followed by Leap Year in 2010. Her recent role as Charlene Fleming in The Fighter earned Adams her third Academy Award nomination, her third Golden Globe Award, second BAFTA Award, and fifth Screen Actors Guild Award nominations. In 2011, Adams appeared in the critically acclaimed musical film The Muppets alongside Jason Segel. She is scheduled to play Lois Lane in the upcoming Superman reboot Man of Steel in 2013.
  
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• Andrea Sperling
  Andrea Sperling is an American independent film producer based in Los Angeles. Films she has produced include Totally Fucked Up, But I'm a Cheerleader, D.E.B.S. and Itty Bitty Titty Committee.
  Sperling graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1990 with a Bachelor of Arts in Film History, Theory and Criticism. While she was at college, she interned at Avenue Pictures.Gregg Araki, who was Sperling's professor, asked her to work with him on The Living End.
  Sperling is on the board of directors of non-profit organization and film production company POWER UP. Founded in 2000 by Stacy Codikow and Amy Shomer, POWER UP promotes the visibility of lesbians in entertainment and the media.
  Sperling has two children with director Jamie Babbit.
  
  
  
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  Brenda Blethyn
  Brenda Anne Blethyn, OBE (born Brenda Anne Bottle; 20 February 1946) is an English actress who has worked in theatre, television and film. Blethyn has received two Academy Award nominations, two SAG Award nominations, two Emmy Award nominations and three Golden Globe Award nominations, winning one. In addition, she has won a BAFTA, an Empire Award and a Golden Lion, and has earned a Theatre World Award and both a Critics' Circle Theatre Award and a Laurence Olivier Award nomination for her theatrical work.
  Born into a working class home, Blethyn pursued an administrative career until her early 30s before enrolling in the Guildford School of Acting after the dissolution of her marriage in 1973. She subsequently joined the Royal National Theatre and received credits for her performances in Troilus and Cressida (1976) and Mysteries (1979). In 1981, Blethyn earned her first critical acclaim for Steaming.
  In 1980, Blethyn made her television debut in Mike Leigh's film Grown-Ups; then, after a modest number of guest spots in several productions, in the mid-1980s she garnered leading roles in the short-living sitcoms Chance in a Million and The Labours of Erica. Having followed her big screen debut with smaller supporting roles in films such as The Witches (1990) and A River Runs Through It (1992), she made her real cinema breakthrough with her role in the 1996 dramedy Secrets & Lies, for which she received rave reviews.
  
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• Caroline Aaron
  Caroline Aaron (born August 7, 1952) is an American actress and producer. She is best known for her role as acid-tongued talk show host Mary Pat Lee on Wings.
  Aaron was born as Caroline Sidney Abady in Richmond, Virginia of Jewish heritage. Her mother, Nina Friedman Abady, was a civil rights activist in the American South. She attended American University in Washington, D.C., studying performing arts. Aaron has been married to James Foreman since 1981 and they have two children together, Ben and Sydney.
  Her elder sister, Josephine Abady, a theatre director and producer, died from breast cancer on May 25, 2002, aged 52.
  
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  Christina Ricci
  Christina Ricci (born February 12, 1980) is an American actress. Ricci received initial recognition and praise as a child star for her performance as Wednesday Addams in The Addams Family (1991) and Addams Family Values (1993), and her role as Kat Harvey in Casper (1995). Ricci made a transition into more adult-oriented roles with The Ice Storm (1997), followed by an acclaimed performance in Buffalo 66 (1998) and then The Opposite of Sex (1998), for which she received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress. She continued her success with well-received performances in Sleepy Hollow (1999), Monster (2003), Penelope (2006) and Black Snake Moan (2007). In 2006 Ricci was nominated for an Emmy award for her role as a paramedic in the ABC drama Grey's Anatomy. She currently stars as Maggie Ryan in the television show Pan Am.
  Ricci was born in Santa Monica, California, the fourth and youngest child of Sarah (née Murdoch), a former Ford Model and real estate agent, and Ralph Ricci, a lawyer and psychiatrist. Regarding her ancestry, Ricci has stated that "the Italian blood has been bred out of me. There's an Italian four or five generations back who married an Irish woman and they all [sic] had sons. So they married more Irish women, there were more sons, and more Irish women. Now I'm basically Scots-Irish."
  
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• Dominique Swain
  Dominique Ariane Swain (born August 12, 1980) is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as the title character in the 1997 film adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's novel Lolita, and as Jamie Archer in the film Face/Off.
  Swain was born in Malibu, California, the daughter of Cindy (née Fitzgerald) and David Swain, Sr., an electrical engineer. Swain grew up with four siblings and was a student at Malibu High School. In 1993, Swain was a stunt double in the film The Good Son. Her sister is the actress Chelse Swain.
  In 1995, Swain was chosen from 2,500 girls to star in the controversial remake of Lolita; the film was released in 1997. Shortly after, Swain starred as the rebellious daughter of John Travolta's character in the action film Face/Off. After Face/Off, she starred in many independent and low-budget films including the award winning Southern Gothic suspense movie Plain Dirty, in which she played the lead role as the battered wife Inez.
  In 1998 Swain appeared in "Girl" with Sean Patrick Flannery being her love interest, Tara Reid, Selma Blair and John Philbin were also in the film.
  
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• Hank Harris
  Hank Harris is an American actor who has been working in movies and television since the late 1990s. He grew up in Duluth, Minnesota and Santa Fe, New Mexico.
  He is perhaps best known for his role as Emory Dick in Popular. His other projects have included: Mercury Rising, Pumpkin, HellBent and the television series Dirty Work.
  Harris lives in Los Angeles, California with his wife, Elizabeth Timme.^{[citation needed]}
  
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  Julio Oscar Mechoso
  Julio Oscar Mechoso (born May 31, 1955) is an American actor. He is occasionally credited as Julio Mechoso.
  Mechoso is a character actor in both television and film. He has appeared in several high-profile films, such as Grindhouse, Bad Boys and the controversial Ken Park. His television credits include Miami Vice, Seinfeld and Greetings from Tucson. He has appeared in two Martin Lawrence films, Bad Boys and Blue Streak. He played a Police Detective in both.
  Mechoso is a Cuban American.
  
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• Karen Barber
  Karen Barber (born 21 June 1961 in Manchester) is a British ice dancer.
  With partner Kim Spreyer, she is the 1977 World Junior silver medalist. With partner Nicky Slater, she is the 1983 European bronze medalist. They represented Great Britain at the 1980 Winter Olympics, placing 12th, and at the 1984 Winter Olympics, where they placed 6th.
  Following her retirement from competitive skating, Barber worked as a coach and skated professionally.
  She has appeared on Dancing on Ice and Torvill and Dean's Dancing on Ice as a judge/coach. She also appeared with her husband and two daughters as contestants on the All Star Family Fortunes UK game show.^{[citation needed]}
  In 2010 Barber announced she was separating from her husband Stephen Pickavance. She is presently in a relationship with Christopher Dean.
  (with Slater)
  (with Spreyer)
  
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• Lisa Banes
  Lisa Banes (born July 9, 1955) is an American stage and screen actress. She played Lady Croom in the U.S. premiere of Tom Stoppard's Arcadia in 1995 and won a 1981 Theatre World Award for her performance in Look Back in Anger. A graduate of the Juilliard School, she appeared on Broadway in the 2010 revival of Present Laughter with Victor Garber, and in 2009's "Accent on Youth" with David Hyde Pierce.
  She has also appeared in many movies and television series. She loves playing strong ladies.
  Banes had a regular role as Mayor Anita Massengil on the television comedy series Son of the Beach, and also had recurring roles on The King of Queens as Carrie's boss Georgia Boone, Six Feet Under as Victoria and One Life to Live as Eve McBain.
  Banes starred as Mrs. Berry in the 1984 film The Hotel New Hampshire, Bonnie in the 1988 film Cocktail, Flora in the 2002 movie Dragonfly, and also guest starred as a Trill doctor in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode Equilibrium. She appeared in the Broadway musicals High Society (1998) and Isn't It Romantic (1984), for which she received a Drama Desk Award nomination.
  
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• Marisa Coughlan
  Marisa Christine Coughlan (born March 17, 1974) is an American actress.
  Coughlan was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She went to and graduated from Breck School, a small private school in Minneapolis. When she moved to Los Angeles, she enrolled in a BFA program at the University of Southern California.
  She has appeared in top 100 "hot" lists put out by numerous men's magazines in recent years and graced the cover of Stuff magazine in May 2001.
  Coughlan's first film appearance to gain mainstream attention was Teaching Mrs. Tingle in 1999, in which she co-starred alongside Katie Holmes. Other films she appeared in included Pumpkin (co-starring with Christina Ricci), a drama about sorority girls, New Suit, a satirical comedy about the inner workings of Hollywood, Super Troopers, playing Officer Ursula Hanson, and Freddy Got Fingered as Betty.
  She had a recurring role on the television series Boston Legal as secretary Melissa Hughes in seasons two and three. In 2007, she starred as Jenny McIntyre in Lifetime Television's original series Side Order of Life. Lifetime did not pick the series up for a second season despite a strong following. In 2008-09, she appeared on three episodes of the hit TV show Bones.
  
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• Melissa McCarthy
  Melissa Ann McCarthy (born August 26, 1970) is an American film and television actress, comedian, writer and producer.
  McCarthy is known for her role as Sookie St. James on the The WB television series Gilmore Girls, where she starred from 2000 to 2007. From 2007 to 2009, she portrayed Dena on the ABC sitcom Samantha Who?. She currently stars in the CBS sitcom Mike & Molly, for which she won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series in 2011. She is also known for her performances in the films The Nines, The Back-up Plan, Life as We Know It, and her breakthrough role in the 2011 comedy hit Bridesmaids, which garnered numerous award nominations including BAFTA and Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress.
  Melissa Ann McCarthy was born in Plainfield, Illinois, the daughter of Sandra and Michael McCarthy. She is a first cousin of actress Jenny McCarthy. McCarthy was raised on a farm, in a Irish-American family. She graduated from St. Francis Academy (now Joliet Catholic Academy) in Joliet, Illinois. Her career started with stand-up comedy and includes film, television and theater. McCarthy is an alumna of The Groundlings, an improvisational and sketch comedy troupe based in Los Angeles, California,
  
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• Michael Bacall
  Michael Bacall (born Michael Stephen Buccellato; April 19, 1973) is an American screenwriter and actor, known for having co-written the films Scott Pilgrim vs. the World and 21 Jump Street.
  Bacall was born in Los Angeles, California, to a family of Italian descent. He acted in movies and television from an early age. Turning to writing in the 2000s, he co-wrote and co-starred in Manic. As of 2007, Bacall has sold a number of scripts to major studios, including Psycho Funky Chimp and In Search of Captain Zero.
  In June 2007, New Line announced that Bacall will be writing a feature adaptation of the documentary The King of Kong. He co-wrote the adaptation of the Canadian graphic novel series Scott Pilgrim, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, with its director, Edgar Wright.
  He is also writing an upcoming Tropic Thunder spin-off, with Tom Cruise in the lead reprising his role as Les Grossman.
  
  
  
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  Nina Foch
  Nina Foch (April 20, 1924 – December 5, 2008) was a Dutch-born American actress and leading lady in many 1940s and 1950s films.
  Nina Foch was born Nina Consuelo Maud Fock in Leiden, Holland. Her mother was the American actress and singer Consuelo Flowerton, who returned to the U.S. after her marriage to Foch's father, Dutch classical music conductor Dirk Fock ended. They divorced when Nina was a toddler. As Foch grew up in New York, her mother encouraged her artistic talents. She played the piano and enjoyed art but was more interested in acting.
  Foch lived in Beverly Hills, California for 40 years. She married three times. Her first marriage was to James Lipton, the future host of Inside the Actors Studio. She later married Dennis de Brito in 1959. The couple had one child before divorcing in 1963. Her final marriage, to Michael Dewell, began in 1967 but ended in divorce in 1993.
  Foch died December 5, 2008, of complications from the blood disorder myelodysplasia at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. Her only son, Dr. Dirk de Brito, told the Los Angeles Times that "She had become ill while teaching at the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts."
  
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• Phil Reeves
  Phillip Reeves (born July 14, 1946) is an American film and television actor and screenwriter. His major roles so far is that of Charles Swedelson on the sitcom Girlfriends, as General Krieger in Commander in Chief and as the doctor in My Wife and Kids.
  So far he has written the script for one movie - Happy, Texas, from 1999 - and a second film - called The Other Side - is under production.
  Among his minor television appearances are episodes of LA Law, Nowhere Man, 3rd Rock from the Sun, JAG, NYPD Blue, Desperate Housewives, Medium and others.
  Reeves is often seen in the works of Alexander Payne, and has also appeared in minor roles in several feature films, including About Schmidt, Election, 13 Going on 30, Sideways and Fun with Dick and Jane. Reeves plays a regular guest role in the NBC comedy television series Parks and Recreation as Paul Iaresco, the city manager of the fictional Indiana town of Pawnee.
  
  
  
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  Roger Ebert
  Roger Joseph Ebert ( /ˈiːbərt/; born June 18, 1942) is an American journalist, film critic and screenwriter. He is the first film critic to win a Pulitzer Prize for Criticism.
  Ebert is known for his film review column (appearing in the Chicago Sun-Times since 1967, and later online) and for the television programs Sneak Previews, At the Movies with Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert, and Siskel and Ebert and The Movies, all of which he co-hosted for a combined 23 years with Gene Siskel. After Siskel's death in 1999, Ebert teamed with Richard Roeper for the television series Ebert & Roeper & the Movies, which began airing in 2000. Although his name remained in the title, Ebert did not appear on the show after mid-2006 after he suffered post-surgical complications related to thyroid cancer, leaving him unable to speak. Ebert ended his association with the show in July 2008, but in February 2009 he stated that he and Roeper would continue their work on a new show. Ebert's current show, Ebert Presents: At the Movies, premiered on January 21, 2011, with Ebert contributing a review voiced by someone else in a brief segment called "Roger's Office".
  
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• Tim Suhrstedt
  Timothy “Tim” Suhrstedt A.S.C. is a cinematographer with nearly 30 years of film-making experience. His credits include:
  
  
  
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• Todd McCarthy
  Todd McCarthy is an American film critic. He wrote for Variety for 31 years as its chief film critic before being laid-off in 2010. He is currently^[when?] a critic for The Hollywood Reporter.
  McCarthy has also directed four documentaries about film: Visions of Light (1992), Claudia Jennings (1995), Forever Hollywood (1999), and Man of Cinema: Pierre Rissient (2007).
  
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Pumpkin (2002)

Actors

• Christina Ricci
• Hank Harris
• Marisa Coughlan
• Sam Ball
• Dominique Swain
• Brenda Blethyn
• Marisa Parker
• Michelle Krusiec
• Erinn Bartlett
• Lisa Banes
• Nina Foch
• Caroline Aaron
• Julio Oscar Mechoso
• Michael Bacall
• Harry J. Lennix

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• Adam Larson Broder
• Tony Abrams

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