Jeffrey Wright
Wright at the Tribeca Film Festival April 28, 2007
Born	(1965-12-07) December 7, 1965 (age 46) Washington, D.C., United States
Occupation	Actor, film producer
Years active	1990–present
Spouse	Carmen Ejogo (m. 2000–present)

Jeffrey Wright (born December 7, 1965) is an American film, television, and stage actor and film producer.

Early life[link]

Wright was born in Washington, D.C. to a mother who worked as a customs lawyer and a father who died when Wright was a child.^[1][2] He graduated from St Albans School and attended Amherst College, receiving a bachelor's degree in political science and planning to continue on to law school; however, he decided to study acting instead. After attending New York University for two months, he decided to leave and became a full time actor.^[3]

Career[link]

Wright began appearing off-Broadway in New York City and Washington, D.C., and in 1990, he appeared in his first major film as an attorney in Presumed Innocent, which starred Harrison Ford. In 1991, Wright joined John Houseman's national touring repertory company The Acting Company with productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream and Athol Fugard's Blood Knot. Wright continued with his stage performances and in 1994 was cast as Norman 'Belize' Arriaga in Tony Kushner's award-winning play Angels in America. His portrayal of a gay nurse forced to take care of the homophobic Roy Cohn as he lay dying from AIDS won him the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play.

In 1996, Wright had another breakthrough performance on the big screen, portraying painter Jean-Michel Basquiat in the film Basquiat. Wright's performance was again critically acclaimed and the movie gave him the chance to work alongside veterans such as Gary Oldman, Willem Dafoe, Dennis Hopper, David Bowie, and Christopher Walken.

Throughout the 1990s and early 2000s Wright appeared in both leading and supporting roles in such films as Woody Allen's Celebrity (1998), Ang Lee's Ride with the Devil (1999), Shaft (2000), and Boycott (2001), where he gave an AFI Award-winning performance as Martin Luther King, Jr. In 2003 Wright reprised his role as Norman 'Belize' Arriaga in HBO's award-winning adaptation of Angels in America starring alongside screen veterans Al Pacino, Emma Thompson and Meryl Streep and directed by Mike Nichols. His performance garnered him an Emmy award as well as a Golden Globe award for Best Supporting Actor in a Miniseries. In 2004, he appeared in Jonathan Demme's remake of The Manchurian Candidate opposite Denzel Washington, Meryl Streep, and Liev Schreiber. In February 2005, Wright returned to HBO Films in his friend George C. Wolfe's directorial debut, Lackawanna Blues, which starred many notable African-American actors. He also guest starred on The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles and Homicide: Life on the Street.

Among his most notable film roles was the Washington attorney Bennett Holiday in Stephen Gaghan's Syriana (2005), where he was the co-lead along with George Clooney and Matt Damon. The same year he played Bill Murray's eccentric Ethiopian neighbor Winston in Jim Jarmusch's existential road movie, Broken Flowers. In 2005, he starred in the play This Is How It Goes, alongside Ben Stiller and Amanda Peet. He also appeared as one of the tenants in M. Night Shyamalan's Lady in the Water.

In 2006, Wright featured as Felix Leiter in the 21st James Bond movie, Casino Royale. This makes him the first African-American to play the character in an official Bond film (Bernie Casey played Leiter in the unofficial Never Say Never Again). He reprised the role in Quantum of Solace, making him the second actor to appear as Leiter twice since David Hedison played the character in Live and Let Die and Licence to Kill, and the first to play him in consecutive films.^[4]

In 2007, Wright was reunited with Casino Royale co-star Daniel Craig for the alien invasion suspense thriller, The Invasion, with Nicole Kidman. In 2008, Wright portrayed George W. Bush's former Secretary of State Colin Powell in Oliver Stone's biographical film W. Also, Wright portrays Muddy Waters in Cadillac Records, a biopic about the rise and fall of Chess Records. In 2010 Wright originated the role of the titular character, Jacques Cornet, in the world premiere run of John Guare's A Free Man of Color at the Vivian Beaumont Theater of the Lincoln Center for Performing Arts in New York CIty.

Personal life[link]

Wright married actress Carmen Ejogo in August 2000. They have a son named Elijah and live in Brooklyn, New York.^[1] In 2004, Wright received an honorary degree from his alma mater, Amherst College.^[5]

On July 12, 2008, Wright was arrested, along with actor Josh Brolin and five other crew members of W., after an altercation at the Stray Cat Bar in Shreveport, Louisiana.^[6][7] Charges against all seven men were later dropped by Shreveport prosecutors.^[8]

Filmography[link]

Awards[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Jeffrey Wright at the Internet Broadway Database
• Jeffrey Wright at the Internet Movie Database
• Jeffrey Wright at AllRovi
• HBO cast page for Angels in America

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Nicole Sullivan
Sullivan in 2003
Born	Nicole Julianne Sullivan (1970-04-21) April 21, 1970 (age 42) Manhattan, New York, U.S.
Occupation	Actress, comedian, voice artist
Years active	1990–present
Spouse	Jason Packham (m. 2006) «start: (2006)»"Marriage: Jason Packham to Nicole Sullivan" Location: (linkback:http://en-wiki.pop.wn.com/index.php/Nicole_Sullivan)

Nicole Julianne Sullivan (born April 21, 1970) is an American actress, comedian and voice artist. Sullivan is best known for her six seasons (1995–2001) on the sketch comedy series MADtv and five seasons (2001–2005, 2007) on the CBS sitcom The King of Queens.

She has played a recurring character on Scrubs and voiced the villainous Shego in Disney's Kim Possible. She had recurring voice roles on Family Guy and voiced "Franny Robinson" in Disney's Meet the Robinsons. From 2008 to 2009, Sullivan starred and was the lead of her own Lifetime television series Rita Rocks. Currently, she voices Marlene in series The Penguins of Madagascar.

Early life[link]

Sullivan was born in Manhattan, New York, the daughter of Edward C. Sullivan, a New York State assemblyman.^[1] She took dance classes at age 7 and performed in Off Broadway and Broadway productions with the First All-Children's Theatre. Sullivan's mother, a business woman, and her father, who represented Manhattan's 69th Assembly District in the New York State Assembly from 1977 to 2002, moved the family upstate to Middleburgh, New York, in 1982. During high school, Nicole was class treasurer throughout her junior year. She played soccer in high school, recorded statistics for the boys’ basketball team and was a member of student council.

After graduating from Middleburgh in 1987,^[2] she attended Northwestern University as a theatre major. She studied William Shakespeare, Harold Pinter, Anton Chekhov, Henrik Ibsen and Greek tragedies, while working two jobs to pay her way through college and writing plays and sketches for the student theatre. Sullivan spent her junior year in London, studying at the British American Drama Academy and became a member of the Greenwich Shakespeare Company. Sullivan graduated from Northwestern with honors, and then moved to Los Angeles before getting sporadic guest-starring roles.

Career[link]

MADtv[link]

Sullivan was among the original cast members on MADtv when it premiered in 1995. She created numerous characters; her most popular was the mean-spirited Vancome Lady. Sullivan's other characters included X-News reporter Amy, dimwitted Antonia, Eracists leader Debbie, News at 6's Diane Lawyer-Trabajo (pronounced "trebalyo"), racist country singer Darlene McBride, and Latina bimbo Lida. Sullivan appeared with Michael McDonald in a MADtv sketch about making an audition tape to appear on Law & Order that mocked their acting prowess; she later guest-starred in the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Contact". Sullivan was featured in the Nov/Dec 2009 issue of Making Music Magazine.^[3]

Impersonations[link]

Sullivan's impersonations included Britney Spears, Drew Barrymore, Justin Timberlake, Hillary Clinton, Mary-Kate Olsen, Jennifer Aniston, Nancy Reagan, Meg Ryan, Celine Dion, Melanie Griffith, Jenna Elfman, Uma Thurman, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Kim Cattrall, Beth Broderick, Anne Robinson, Helen Hunt, Edie Falco (as Carmela Soprano from The Sopranos), Emma "Baby Spice" Bunton, and Lucille Ball (as Lucy Ricardo in a trio of I Love Lucy parodies), and Julia Louis-Dreyfus.

Voice acting projects[link]

Sullivan was originally cast as Turanga Leela, one of the main characters in the animated series Futurama, which premiered in 1999.^[4] Due to a casting change, Katey Sagal was instead given the role before the series even aired.^[5]

Sullivan has voiced Marlene the Otter on The Penguins of Madagascar, a spin-off series from the successful hit movies, Madagascar and Madagascar Escape 2 Africa, which aired on Nickelodeon, Shego on Kim Possible; Joan of Arc on Clone High; Mira Nova on Buzz Lightyear of Star Command; and Joan on the Family Guy episode, "I Take Thee Quagmire", along with several other one time voices on the show. Sullivan has also starred in a pilot called, Me and My Needs, that was rejected by ABC. She played Franny Robinson in Meet the Robinsons. Also, Sullivan was a voice actor in the Monsters, Inc. video game. She played Luna in the 2007 video game Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters. In 2012, she also provided the voice of Supergirl in Super Best Friends Forever, a series of animated shorts airing on Cartoon Network's DC Nation block.^[6]

Personal life[link]

Sullivan is married to actor Jason Packham.^[7] They have two sons named Dashel Pierce and Beckett Edward.^[8] The Packham family currently lives in California.

Sullivan won the first edition of Celebrity Poker Showdown. Her charity was Alley Cat Allies, a nonprofit advocacy organization dedicated to transforming communities to protect and improve the lives of cats, which received $100,000 as a result of her victory. She has most recently become the latest in a long line of celebrities to endorse the Jenny Craig weight loss system after losing 35 pounds while on the program as of October 2009.

Selected filmography[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Nicole Sullivan at the Internet Movie Database
• Nicole Sullivan's video interview with The Futon Critic

Travis Scott (born September 14, 1975) is a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender who is currently playing for Traktor Chelyabinsk of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL).

Playing career[link]

Scott played in one game with the Los Angeles Kings during the 2000–01 NHL season. He moved on 8 December 2007 from Kölner Haie, Deutsche Eishockey Liga to the Russian Supreme League club Metallurg Magnitogorsk. On December 11, 2008 he signed with EC KAC of the Austrian Hockey League before moving to Hannover Scorpions of Germany in December 2009.

External links[link]

• Travis Scott's career stats at The Internet Hockey Database

Andy García
García at the 2009 Deauville American Film Festival
Born	Andrés Arturo García Menéndez (1956-04-12) April 12, 1956 (age 56) Havana, Cuba
Alma mater	Florida International University
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1978–present
Spouse	Marivi Lorido García (1982-present)

Andrés Arturo García Menéndez (born April 12, 1956), professionally known as Andy García, is a Cuban American actor. He became known in the late 1980s and 1990s, having appeared in several successful Hollywood films, including The Godfather: Part III, The Untouchables, Internal Affairs and When a Man Loves a Woman. More recently, he has starred in Ocean's Eleven and its sequels, Ocean's Twelve and Ocean's Thirteen, and The Lost City.

García was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Vincent Mancini in The Godfather Part III.

Early life[link]

García was born Andrés Arturo García Menéndez in Havana, Cuba.^[1] His mother, Amelie Menéndez, was an English teacher, and his father, René García Núñez, was an avocado farmer and attorney in Cuba, and later owned a fragrance business in the United States.^[2][3] García has an older brother, René. When García was five years old, the family moved to Miami, Florida, after the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion. Over a period of several years, they built up a million-dollar perfume company. García was raised as a Roman Catholic^[4] and attended Miami Beach Senior High School, where he played on the basketball team. During his last year in high school, he became ill with mononucleosis,^[5] which convinced him to pursue a career in acting. He began his acting career taking a drama class with Jay W. Jensen in his senior year at Miami Beach Senior High School. He graduated from Florida International University in Miami.^[6].

Career[link]

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At the flight line tower, İncirlik Air Base, Turkey, December 7, 2001

García began acting at Florida International University but soon went to Hollywood. He had a short role in the first episode of "Murder, She Wrote" as "1st white tough" in 1984. He played the role of a gang member in the first episode of the popular TV series Hill Street Blues. He appeared in a supporting role in 1985's The Mean Season alongside Kurt Russell. Director Brian De Palma engaged him for The Untouchables (1987).

In 1989, Garcia did the Ridley Scott film Black Rain with Michael Douglas. Also in 1989, Francis Ford Coppola was casting The Godfather Part III. García won the part of Vincent Mancini, the illegitimate son of Sonny Corleone, and earned an Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actor for his performance.

In the 1990s, Garcia appeared in Internal Affairs, in which he engages in a battle of wits with a corrupt fellow police officer, played by Richard Gere. He played a conflicted good samaritan in Hero (1992), the enabling husband of an alcoholic in When a Man Loves a Woman (1994), a doomed criminal in Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (1995), a crusading lawyer in the drama Night Falls on Manhattan (1997), and a cop trying to save his gravely ill son in the action thriller Desperate Measures (1998).

He portrayed the ruthless Las Vegas casino owner Terry Benedict in 2001's Ocean's Eleven, a remake of the 1960 Rat Pack caper movie. He also appeared in the sequel, Ocean's Twelve (2004), and in the final film, Ocean's Thirteen (2007).

In 2005, he released The Lost City, which he co-wrote, directed, and starred in, alongside Dustin Hoffman and Bill Murray.

In 2006, he appeared in the last episode of the Turkish TV series Kurtlar Vadisi (Valley of the Wolves) along with Sharon Stone.

Personal life[link]

At the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival with Julianna Margulies (left) and his daughter Dominik Garcia-Lorido.

In 1982, García married María Victoria Lorido.^[7] He is the father of four children: Dominik Garcia-Lorido (b. 1983), an actress, Daniella (b. 1988), Alessandra (b. 1991) and Andres (b. 2002).^[8][9]

Filmography[link]

Other awards and nominations[link]

ALMA Awards

• 2001: Nominated, "Outstanding Host of a Variety or Awards Special" - 1st Annual Latin Grammy Awards (shared w/Gloria Estefan, Jennifer Lopez & Jimmy Smits)
• 2006: Won, "Anthony Quinn Award for Achievement in Motion Pictures"

Nostros Golden Eagle Awards

• 1997: Won, "Outstanding Performer in Film"

References[link]

External links[link]

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• Andy García at the Internet Movie Database
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• Watch: Andy Garcia interviewed at the 2006 Miami Film Festival on independentfilm.com
• Andy Garcia interview for Smokin’ Aces
• Andy Garcia interview on his City Island diet
• Photos "Cristiada": Andy García filming in Durango, México
• Lisa Bradshaw, "Andy Garcia - Film star returns to Ghent after 22 years: "I've come full circle"" - article in Flanders Today