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Dakota Mayi Johnson (born October 4, 1989) is an American fashion model and actress. She is the daughter of actors Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith and the granddaughter of actress Tippi Hedren.^[1]

Career[link]

In 1999, she made her film debut in Crazy in Alabama where she and her half-sister, Stella Banderas, played daughters to their real-life mother, Melanie Griffith. The film was directed by her stepfather, Antonio Banderas.

She was voted Miss Golden Globe, 2006, where she served as the first second-generation Miss Golden Globe in the Globes' history.^[2][3]

In 2006, she signed with IMG Models^[4] In 2009, she modeled for MANGO brand's jeans line.^[5] Once she graduated from high school she signed with William Morris Agency and started her acting career. She had her first box office hit in 2010 with David Fincher's film The Social Network, in which she had a scene with Justin Timberlake. The film received eight Oscar nominations, including one for Best Picture.^[6] She also appeared in four additional films: Beastly, alongside Vanessa Hudgens and Mary-Kate Olsen;^[7] Ezna Sands' film Theo;^[8] So Yong Kim's film For Ellen; and Larry Clark's film Savage Innocent.^[5] She has roles in several 2012 films: Christopher Neil's film Goats, with David Duchovny; Nicholas Stoller's film Five Year Engagement for producer Judd Apatow, and the feature film version of the 1987 hit television show 21 Jump Street that made Johnny Depp a star.^[9] She also won the female lead in Chris Nelson's film "Gay Dude," written by Alan Yang.^[10] Her first television show Ben & Kate, where she plays Kate, is scheduled to air on Fox during the Fall 2012 season.^[11]

In 2010, Dakota traveled to Sydney, Australia, where she shot the "Rising Star" campaign for fashion label Wish.^[12]

Filmography[link]

Personal life[link]

She checked into rehab for drug and alcohol addiction for 30 days in late 2007.^[13][14]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Dakota Johnson at the Internet Movie Database

Charlie Hunnam
Hunnam at the San Diego Comic-Con International in July 2011.
Born	Charles Matthew Hunnam (1980-04-10) 10 April 1980 (age 32) Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, England, UK
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1989–present
Spouse	Katharine Towne (1999–2002)

Charles Matthew "Charlie" Hunnam (born 10 April 1980) is an English actor. He is perhaps best known to UK audiences as Pete Dunham in Green Street and as Nathan Maloney in the Channel 4 hit drama Queer as Folk and to United States audiences as Vice President/President of the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club Redwood Original Jackson "Jax" Teller in the FX network series, Sons of Anarchy.

Life and career[link]

Hunnam was born in Newcastle, England on 10 April 1980. He is the second oldest of four boys. Hunnam stated that growing up, his favorite actors were Daniel Day-Lewis and Sean Penn.

Discovered while clowning around in a shoe shop by a production manager for the British children's show Byker Grove, Charlie Hunnam was cast in his first role as the long-locked child model "Jason" in three episodes of the show. His first major role came soon after as Nathan Maloney in the Channel 4 drama Queer as Folk (UK). He followed this up with his role as "Daz" in the British film Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?. Upon completion of both projects, Hunnam relocated to Los Angeles, California to pursue his acting career.

His career, meanwhile, expanded to include a recurring role as Gregor Ryder in a TV Series for The WB network called Young Americans. He then appeared in the short-lived Fox series Undeclared as the British drama student Lloyd Haythe. The series was cancelled after one season, despite critical acclaim. Following Undeclared, he appeared in Abandon, Nicholas Nickleby (2002), and Cold Mountain.

Hunnam has stated that he does not wish to simply take any role that he is offered: "I have 60 years to make the money, but the choices I make in the next five years are really going to define my career."^[1] This decision resulted in his return to the United Kingdom to take the lead as Pete Dunham in Green Street (also known as Green Street Hooligans, Hooligans, and The Yank).

Hunnam played the role of Patric, a member of "The Fishes", in Children of Men (2006) directed by Alfonso Cuarón. Hunnam states that this role was the final part in his "trilogy of mad men". "I played the psycho in Cold Mountain, my character in Green Street is fairly psychotic and now I've got this role."^[2]

Hunnam currently stars as Vice President Jackson "Jax" Teller in the FX network series, Sons of Anarchy, a prominent motorcycle club in a small fictional California town.

Hunnam was voted ninth in Elle Girl's top 100 sexiest men in 2005.^[3]

In 2011, Hunnam appeared in The Ledge, a layered love story with themes of religious faith co-starring Liv Tyler, Patrick Wilson, and Terrence Howard. In 2009, Hunnam sold his screenplay, Vlad, to Summit Entertainment with Brad Pitt's Plan B Studios co-producing.^[4] The film is being directed by music video director and photographer Anthony Mandler and will focus on Dracula as a young prince.^[5]

Personal Life[link]

Hunnam married Katharine Towne in 1999. The couple divorced in 2002.

Filmography[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Charlie Hunnam at the Internet Movie Database

Don Johnson
Johnson in 1986 during an interview aboard the USS Lexington aircraft carrier.
Born	Donnie Wayne Johnson (1949-12-15) December 15, 1949 (age 62) Flat Creek, Missouri, United States
Other names	DJ, The Don
Occupation	Actor Producer Director Singer-songwriter[1]
Years active	1969–present
Spouse	Anonymous Dancer (1968; annulled)[2][3] Anonymous Musician (annulled) Melanie Griffith (1976, 1989-96) Kelley Phleger (1999-present)
Partner	Patti D'Arbanville (1981-85)

Donnie Wayne "Don" Johnson^[1] (born December 15, 1949)^[1] is an American actor known for his work in television and film. He played the lead role of James "Sonny" Crockett in the 1980s TV cop series, Miami Vice, which led him to huge success. He also played the lead role in the 1990s cop series, Nash Bridges. More recently, Johnson played Kenny Powers' father on the HBO series, Eastbound and Down. Johnson is a Golden Globe winning actor for his role in Miami Vice, a winner of the APBA Offshore World Cup, and has received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.^[4] He is also a singer, songwriter, producer, and director.

Early life and education[link]

Johnson was born in Flat Creek, Missouri.^[1] His father, Wayne, was a farmer, and his mother, Nell, was a beautician;^[5] they were 19 and 17 at the time of his birth, respectively. At age six, he moved from Missouri to Wichita, Kansas. A 1967 graduate of South High School, he was involved in the high school's theatre program. As a senior, he played the lead role of Tony in West Side Story. His biography noted that he had previously appeared in "Burnt Cork and Melody" and "The Hullabaloo." He also attended the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas.

In the late 1960s, Johnson was in a psychedelic rock band called Horses. Also in the band were future members of the band Kingfish, which featured Grateful Dead guitarist Bob Weir. The band put out one self-titled record on the White Whale label in 1969, later re-issued on the Gear Fab label in 2004 and then on the Rev-Ola label in 2005. Johnson, as several noteworthy news sources have mentioned over the years, was relieved of his military obligation due to a high lottery number. In a 1970 newspaper article, Johnson stated that, due to his beliefs at that time, he would have become a draft resister.

Johnson is quoted in a 1970 newspaper article, mentioning his draft-exempt status and his dislike for war.^[6]

Acting[link]

Early years[link]

Johnson studied drama at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. His first major role was in the 1969 Los Angeles stage production of Fortune and Men's Eyes in which he played Smitty, the lead role. This exposure led to the quickly forgotten film The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart (1970, based on a novel by Robert Westbrook, son of columnist Sheilah Graham). He continued to work on stage, film and television without breaking out into stardom. His notable films from this period were Zachariah (1971), The Harrad Experiment (1973), Lollipop and Roses (1974), and A Boy and His Dog (1975)

[edit] Miami Vice

From 1984-1989, after years of struggling to establish himself as a TV actor (in such fare as Revenge of the Stepford Wives) and a string of failed pilots which were never followed by an actual TV series, Johnson's fortunes changed when he landed a starring role as undercover police detective Sonny Crockett in the cop series, Miami Vice. He typically wore thousand dollar Versace and Hugo Boss suits over pastel cotton t-shirts, drove a Ferrari 365 GTS/4 Daytona (really a replica kit on a 1981 Corvette chassis), followed by a Ferrari Testarossa and lived on a 42-foot (13 m) yacht with his pet alligator "Elvis". Miami Vice was noted for its revolutionary use of music, cinematography, and imagery as well as a more glitzy take on the police drama genre.

In between seasons, Don Johnson gained further renown through several TV miniseries, such as the 1985 TV remake of The Long, Hot Summer.

[edit] Nash Bridges

Johnson at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival.

Johnson later starred in the 1996-2001 drama Nash Bridges with Cheech Marin, Jeff Perry, Jaime P. Gomez and Jodi Lyn O'Keefe. Johnson played the title role of Nash Bridges, an inspector for the San Francisco Police Department. In Nash Bridges Johnson was again paired with a flashy convertible car, this time an Lemon Twist Yellow 1971 Plymouth Barracuda.

2000s[link]

In the fall of 2005, he briefly starred in The WB courtroom television drama show Just Legal as a jaded lawyer with a very young and idealistic protégé/partner (Jay Baruchel); the show was canceled in October 2005 after just three episodes aired. In January 2007, Johnson began a run in the London West End production of Guys and Dolls as Nathan Detroit.

Don Johnson also has a role in the Norwegian comedy Lange Flate Ballær 2 ("Long Flat Balls II"), directed by Johnson's friend Harald Zwart. Johnson did the movie as a favour to Zwart. The movie was launched March 14, 2008 in Norway, with Johnson making an appearance at the premiere. He next appeared in When in Rome with Danny DeVito, Anjelica Huston and Kristen Bell, and Machete with Robert De Niro and Steven Seagal.^[7]

2010s[link]

Johnson & Jon Heder co-hosted WWE's Monday Night RAW on January 18, 2010.^[8]

Johnson had a small role in Robert Rodriguez's film, Machete. Johnson played Von Jackson, "a twisted border vigilante leading a small army." The film was released on September 3, 2010.

In October 2010, he began appearing on the HBO series Eastbound & Down, playing Kenny Powers' long-lost father, going by the alias "Eduardo Sanchez". He also reprised his role as Sonny Crockett for a Nike commercial with LeBron James where the NBA player contemplates acting and appears alongside Johnson on Miami Vice.^[9]

In September 2011, Johnson has a cameo in the comedy A Good Old Fashioned Orgy with Jason Sudeikis. ^[10]

Music[link]

Johnson released two albums of pop music in the 1980s, one in 1986 and the other in 1989. His single "Heartbeat", the title track from his first album, and was a collaboration with 80s one hit wonder - Robert Tepper, reached #5 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. Johnson is also a good friend of Willie Nelson and Robert Tepper, and was briefly a part of the "Thailand Pack", alongside Tommy Morrison, and British TV funny man Les Dennis. Previously, Johnson worked with Gregg Allman and Dickie Betts of the Allman Brothers, co-writing the songs "Blind Love" and "Can't Take It with You" with Dickie Betts, which appeared on their 1979 album, Enlightened Rogues.^[1][11]

Personal life[link]

Relationships and family[link]

Johnson with third wife Melanie Griffith in 1990.

Johnson has had four wives in five marriages, three of which were brief.^[12]

His first two marriages, in the late 1960s, were annulled. The names of Johnson's first two wives have not been made public knowledge, although sources state that they were a dancer and a musician, respectively.^[2]

Johnson had a major supporting role in The Harrad Experiment (released 1973), whose female lead was Tippi Hedren.^[13] He met Hedren's daughter, Melanie Griffith^[12][14] around the first half of 1972; she was an uncredited extra.^[15] He was aged 22 and dating and living with groupie Pamela Des Barres^[16] and Melanie was 14 when they began what became a four-year affair, that included marrying, in 1976, for less than a year.^[14][17] Melanie and Don reconciled and conceived a child close to the start of 1989, announced wedding plans in mid-February,^[14] and were married a second time, from that year until 1996. They had a daughter, Dakota Mayi Johnson (born October 4, 1989).

He lived with Patti D'Arbanville^[17] from 1981 to 1985. The couple had a son, Jesse Wayne Johnson (born on December 7, 1982).

He had a relationship with Barbra Streisand, lasting into at least September 1988.^[14] Streisand and Johnson were supposedly secretly engaged at one point. He created a single with her called "Till I Loved You", released that year. Johnson had a relationship with Jeanne Anderson in 1996.^{[citation needed]}

On April 29, 1999, he married San Francisco socialite and former preschool teacher Kelley Phleger. He and Phleger had a daughter, Atherton Grace Johnson (born on December 28, 1999), and two sons, Jasper Breckinridge Johnson (born on June 6, 2002) and Deacon Johnson (born on April 29, 2006).

It has also been revealed on The Real Housewives of New Jersey reunion show that he and housewife Danielle Staub engaged in a brief affair.^{[citation needed]}

Legal problems[link]

In 2001, a 36-year-old woman accused an intoxicated Johnson of squeezing and bruising her wrist and lewdly propositioning her outside a restroom at San Francisco restaurant Mas Sake, and claimed while still firmly squeezing her wrist he began drunkenly singing "Heartbeat". The woman's friends made their way across the restaurant to confront Johnson as he continued to sing but said when he saw them he let go of her and quickly fled out the back door. Johnson said he was considering buying an advertisement in the San Francisco Chronicle to state his side of the story, but later decided to post the notices on his website. Due to insufficient evidence, no charges were filed.^[18][19]

In November 2002,^[20] German customs officers at the Swiss-German^[20] border performed a routine search of Johnson's car.^[20] Bank statements evidencing US$8 billion in transactions were found in the trunk of his car.^[20][21][22] He was accompanied in his black Mercedes-Benz^[21] by three men: an investment adviser,^[21] a personal assistant,^[21] and a third of unknown identity.^[21] Initially it was thought Johnson was involved in money-laundering,^[22] but he was cleared of wrongdoing.^[23] Upon receiving word of the incident, German tabloids began exploiting and perpetuating the story, at times pointing at the irony (as perceived by them) that Don Johnson has frequently portrayed police officers in his acting works. Johnson explained the incident by saying "I was meeting with some American businessmen in Zürich for financing,^[22] for a film fund that I was putting together for my company. They gave me some bank statements and some resumes and some other documents, some things to prove that they could perform as investors."^{[citation needed]} The police found and copied these documents, and the money laundering story grew somehow out of this.^[24]

In May 2008, Johnson came within hours of losing his Woody Creek, Colorado home to foreclosure; he paid off his $14.5 million debts less than 24 hours before a scheduled auction of the property.^[25]

In July 2010, a Los Angeles jury awarded Johnson $23.2 million in a lawsuit against production company Rysher Entertainment, from whom Johnson sought a share of profits commensurate with his ownership of half the copyright of Nash Bridges.^[26] Rysher announced they would appeal the verdict.^[27]

Reception[link]

Awards and recognitions[link]

Filmography[link]