Chris Evans

Christopher Robert “Chris” Evans (born June 13, 1981) is an American actor. Often recognized for appearing in films adapted from comic books, he is perhaps best known for his roles in the films Not Another Teen Movie and as the Human Torch in the Fantastic Four films.

Trivia

Read for a role in Cameron Crowe’s Elizabethtown (2005) but lost out to Orlando Bloom.

He has a dog named East, that is half American bulldog and half English bulldog

Former vegetarian.

Is of Irish and Italian descent.

Scored 1180 on his SATs.

Has a younger sister named Shanna, a younger brother named Scott, and an older sister named Carly.

Has signed on to do three Fantastic Four films.

Ranked #18 on E! Television’s 2006 101 Sexiest Celebrity Bodies

Has played the role of boyfriend/ex-boyfriend of real-life girlfriend Jessica Biel twice: once in Cellular (2004) and again in London (2005/I).

Split with Jessica Biel, his girlfriend of two years [June 2006].

Named one of People Magazine’s “Hottest Bachelors” in 2006.

Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#99). [2007].

Brother of Scott Evans.

Son of Lisa Evans.

Malcolm McDowell

Malcolm McDowell (born 13 June 1943) is an English actor with a career spanning over forty years.

McDowell is principally known for his roles in the controversial films If…., Caligula and A Clockwork Orange, as well as O Lucky Man!. His versatility as an actor has led to his presence in many films and television series of different genres, including Tank Girl, Star Trek Generations, the TV serial Our Friends in the North, Entourage, Heroes, Metalocalypse, animated film Bolt and the 2007 remake of Halloween and the 2009 sequel Halloween II.

Trivia

His first wife, Margot Bennett, was Keir Dullea’s ex wife. Keir was the main character in Stanley Kubrick’s “2001″, while McDowell was the main character in Kubrick’s next film, “A Clockwork Orange”.

Father of actress Lilly McDowell, born in 1981.

Uncle of Alexander Siddig (“Star Trek: Deep Space Nine” (1993)).

Father of producer/director Charlie McDowell, born in 1983.

Along with Sir John Gielgud, he is one of only two actors to play both King Arthur and Merlin. He played King Arthur in Arthur the King (1985) (TV) and Merlin in Kids of the Round Table (1997).

13 of his films shown at retrospective tribute at NYC’s Walter Reade Theatre in May 2002, where he introduces the least known of these, The Connection.

Has said that his favorite actor of all time is James Cagney.

Received death threats from overzealous Star Trek fans after his character killed Captain Kirk in Star Trek: Generations (1994).

He and Wife, Kelley McDowell, had a son, Beckett Taylor McDowell (born January 29, 2004).

Claims Gangster No. 1 (2000) to be his best work since A Clockwork Orange (1971).

Was the first well-known actor to appear non-animated and in the flesh for “South Park” (1997) because he is one of Trey Parker’s favorite actors and he was specifically requested.

Has appeared in three different films involving time travel: Time After Time (1979), Star Trek: Generations (1994) and Just Visiting (2001).

His performance as Alex DeLarge in A Clockwork Orange (1971) was ranked 100 on the list of the “100 Greatest Film Performances of All Time”.

His performance as Alex De Large in A Clockwork Orange (1971) is ranked #68 on Premiere Magazine’s “100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time”.

Lives in Santa Barbara, CA.

Owns another home in Britain and a summer retreat in Tuscany.

Good friends with Christine Noonan and David Sherwin.

Was captain of the rugby and cricket teams at his high school.

As he wanted to get into the SAG, he took his mother’s maiden name McDowell because there was another British actor called Malcolm Taylor.

Born to Charles Taylor, a pub owner, and his wife Edna McDowell, a hotelier, he grew up with an older (Gloria) and a younger sister.

He and Wife, Kelley McDowell, had a son, Finnian Anderson McDowell (born December 23, 2006).

His job as a coffee salesman provided inspiration for O Lucky Man! (1973).

In an interview he said that a magazine named him “King Of Punk” after his appearance in “A clockwork orange”. This is probably because of the punk references that appears in the movie, such as the droogies costume style.

Has been a friend of Aubrey Morris ever since they worked together in A Clockwork Orange (1971).

Announced that wife, Kelley, is expecting their third child, a boy, in January 2009. [September 8, 2008].

Third son, Seamus Hudson McDowell, was born on January 7, 2009.

When he went to meet with Stanley Kubrick for the first time, he had little knowledge of film and confused him with Stanley Kramer. In preparation, McDowell’s friend and mentor, Lindsay Anderson, showed him all of Kubrick’s films from Paths of Glory (1957) to 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).

Tim Curry

Timothy James “Tim” Curry (born 19 April 1946) is an English actor, singer, composer and voice actor, known for his work in a diverse range of theatre, film and television productions. He currently resides in Los Angeles, California.

Curry first became known to audiences with his breakthrough role as Dr. Frank N. Furter in the 1975 cult movie The Rocky Horror Picture Show, then later for his roles as Rooster in the film adaption of Annie, Lord of Darkness in the film Legend (1985), Wadsworth in the movie Clue, and as Pennywise the Dancing Clown in the horror film Stephen King’s It. He played Nigel, the father in the Nickelodeon children’s TV show The Wild Thornberrys. He has performed the role of King Arthur in the Broadway hit Monty Python’s Spamalot.

Trivia:

Provided the voice of “Sir” who welcomed visitors to the Alien Encounter attraction in Tomorrowland at Walt Disney World. The Alien Encounter ride was replaced after a few years.

Tim Curry in Legend as Darkness

Has read several times for “The Great Writers Series” in Los Angeles

Performed in Roger Waters’ historic production of “The Wall: Live in Berlin” in July, 1990

Appears as both subject and author in the photography book “Double Exposure, Take Four” by Roddy McDowall.

Was Tim Burton’s second choice for the role of the Joker on Batman (1989). He did go on to playing a crazed “clown” in Stephen King’s It (1990) (TV).

Tim Curry as Pennywise in Stephen King's It

A close friend of Carly Simon and sang backing vocals on her 1979 album “Spy”.

Turned down the role of Mitzi in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994)

Studied Drama & English at Cambridge and at Birmingham University, from which he graduated with Combined Honors.

Tim Curry Rocky Horror

Has earned three Tony Award nominations, the first in 1981 as Best Actor (Play) for portraying the title character Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in “Amadeus” – the second in 1993 as Best Actor (Musical) for “My Favorite Year” – and the third in 2005 for Best Actor (Musical) for his role of King Arthur in “Spamalot”.

Personally paid for his cousin, Keighley Twocker frontman Michael Loftus to have cosmetic surgery

Already an accomplished singer, he performed a cover of the theme song to Disney’s “Davey Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier”.

In a Fresh Air interview in 2005, he reported meeting Princess Diana. It turned out she was such a fan of The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), she told him, “Thank you for completing my education.”.

Not only was he Tim Burton’s second choice for the role of The Joker, he was the producers’ first choice for the role in the animated television series, until Mark Hamill was cast. Tom Hulce succeeded him in the role of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in Amadeus.

Don’t Look Now (1973) is one of his favorite films.

He was presented with an honorary citizenship of New Orleans and key to the City of New Orleans by Angela Baham, Administrative Assistant to the Chief Administrator Officer Reynard J. Rochon to Mayor Ernest Morial on October 8, 1979 following a concert in New Orleans.

Was working on an album project with Lou Adler in 1976. However only four songs were completed. The best is a cover of The Supremes’ “Baby Love.” Also recorded three albums for A&M Records. “Ready My Lips” (1978), “Fearless” (1979), and “Simplicity” (1981). Though only one charting song, “I Do the Rock,” both it at “Paradise Garage” [from "Fearless"] have become cult hits, having two music videos made for MTV which were often played before showings of The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975). His best album is often praised “Fearless,” and his best songs are “Birds of a Feather,” “Alan,” “Sloe Gin,” “I Do the Rock,” “S.O.S.,” “Cold Blue Steel and Sweet Fire,” “Paradise Garage,” “No Love on the Street,” “Something Short of Paradise,” “Working on My Tan,” “Simplicity,” “On a Roll,” “Take Me I’m Yours,” “Out of Pawn,” and “I Put a Spell on You.”.

Was on the 1980 Clash album “Sandinista!” On track 18, “The Sound of the Sinners”, he spoke as a priest mid-song.

Has voiced two royal cats, voicing Prince in “Garfield: A Tail Of Two Kitties” and The Cat King in “The Cat Returns”.

Has a dog named Frank.

Brad Dourif

Bradford Claude “Brad” Dourif (born March 18, 1950) is an American film and television actor, best known for his roles as Younger Brother in Ragtime, Billy Bibbit in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Hazel Motes in Wise Blood, Gríma Wormtongue in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Doc Cochran in the HBO television series Deadwood. Additionally, he portrayed the character of Saavedro in the computer game Myst III: Exile and the Betazoid Lon Suder in the TV series Star Trek: Voyager.

Trivia:

Has heard his own movie Dune (1984) described as “science fiction’s answer to Heaven’s Gate (1980) (which Dourif also starred in),” and he agrees totally with this summation.

Was considered for the role of the Riddler in Batman Forever (1995).

Made five trips to New Zealand while the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy was being filmed. He had to shave his eyebrows off each time.

Has two daughters Fiona Dourif and Kristina Dourif Tanoue.

Grandchild: Caden Kalani Kahalewai Dourif-Tanoue (born 2001).

Many of his co-stars in “The Lord of the Rings” film series were under the impression that he was actually English because of the British accent he used as Wormtongue throughout filming. They were shocked to hear him speak in an American accent after filming was complete.

Was considered for the role of Max Cady in Cape Fear (1991),.

Taught acting and directing classes at Columbia University.

He headed to New York City at 19 and worked with the Circle Repertory Company, appearing in many off-Broadway and Woodstock, NY productions.

His father, who owned and operated a dye factory, died when Brad was 3.

Dropped out of Marshall University of Huntington, West Virginia, at 19.

Adam Baldwin

Adam Baldwin (born 27 February 1962) is a US actor known for his roles as Animal Mother in Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket, Ricky Linderman in My Bodyguard, Knowle Rohrer in The X-Files, and Marcus Hamilton in Joss Whedon’s Angel. He also established a cult following as Jayne Cobb in the series Firefly and the movie Serenity.

He currently stars as NSA agent John Casey on the NBC comedy-spy series Chuck.

He is not related to the Baldwin brothers.

Trivia:

No relation to the Baldwin brothers Alec Baldwin, Daniel Baldwin, William Baldwin and Stephen Baldwin, who are from Long Island, NY (Adam is from the Chicago area).

Alumnus of New Trier Township High School East, Winnetka, Illinois. Other New Trier graduates include Ralph Bellamy, Charlton Heston, Rock Hudson, Hugh O’Brien, Ann-Margret, William Christopher, Bruce Dern, Penelope Milford, Virginia Madsen and Liz Phair.

Avid golfer

Is good friends with Jamie Lee Curtis, and appeared in Molly & Roni’s Dance Party (2005) (V) as a favor to her.

Recorded his own version of the song “The Man They Call Jayne” for use as an easter-egg feature in the DVD collection of “Firefly” (2002).

Son: Devlin Shepard Baldwin (b. October 17, 1996).

Voiced the second Green Lantern Hal Jordan on “Justice League” (2001), and later chosen to voice Superman/Clark Kent for the DVD feature Superman/Doomsday (2007) (V).

One of four actors from “Firefly” (2002) who voiced superheroes on “Justice League” (2001). He voiced Hal Jordan, the Silver Age Green Lantern, while Nathan Fillion voiced the Vigilante, Gina Torres voiced Vixen and Morena Baccarin voiced Black Canary.

According to the commentary track on Superman/Doomsday (2007) (V), he was the original choice to play the voice of Superman on “Superman” (1996): the Animated Series, but was unavailable at the time. The role then went to Tim Daly.

Irish-American.

During his time away from work, Adam likes to mountain bike, go bowling, play Frisbee and baseball.

Frequently participates in celebrity hockey games.

Was named TV Guide’s Sexiest Newcomer in 2005 even though he started his acting career in 1980.

Both Adam Baldwin and “Angel” (1999) co-star David Boreanaz have provided the voice of DC Comics’ Green Lantern Hal Jordan, Baldwin in “Justice League” (2001) and Boreanaz in Justice League: The New Frontier (2008) (V).

Enjoys listening to hard rock – his favourite band is Led Zeppelin.

Alan Cumming

Alan Cumming, OBE (born 27 January 1965) is a Scottish stage, television and film actor. His roles have included Boris Grishenko in GoldenEye, Kurt Wagner/Nightcrawler in X2: X-Men United, and Fegan Floop in the Spy Kids trilogy. He has also appeared in independent films like The Anniversary Party, which he wrote, directed and starred in; and Ali Selim’s Sweet Land, for which he won an Independent Spirit award as producer. His London stage appearances include Hamlet, Madman in Dario Fo’s Accidental Death of an Anarchist, for which he received an Olivier award, the lead in Martin Sherman’s Bent, and as Dionysus in The National Theatre of Scotland’s The Bacchae. On Broadway he has appeared as Mac the Knife in The Threepenny Opera and the Emcee in Cabaret, for which he won the Tony in 1998. He has also written a novel, Tommy’s Tale. He has contributed to many publications and regularly performs his cabaret show I Bought A Blue Car Today.

Alan Cumming as Nightcrawler

Trivia:

Dated Circle of Friends (1995) co-star Saffron Burrows after divorcing his wife Hilary Lyon.

Hosted “Saturday Night Live” (1975) in February 2000 when the expected host, Jon Stewart, had to back out at the last minute.

Published his first novel called “Tommy’s Tale”. [2002 in USA and 2003 in Europe]

Graduated from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama with a B.A. and also won the Gordon Bottomley Award for direction, and an award for the speaking of Scots verse in 1985.

Was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award as Most Promising Newcomer for his performance in the production of “The Conquest of the South Pole” in 1988.

Won a Laurence Olivier Award for Comedy Performance of the Year for “Accidental Death of an Anarchist” in 1991.

Was nominated for an Lawrence Olivier award as the Best Film Actor and was nominated for a Scottish BAFTA award as Best Film Actor for his role in Prague (1992) in 1992.

He was nominated for the Richard Burton Award at the Shakespeare Globe Awards for his role as Hamlet in 1993.

Was nominated for an Olivier award in the category of Comedy Perfomance of the Year for “La Bete” in 1993.

Was nominated for an Lawrence Olivier award as Best Actor in a Musical category for “Cabaret” in 1994.

Won Best Actor at the Martini Rossi/TMA awards for “Hamlet” in 1994.

Won the Tony Drama desk award for his performance of the Emcee in “Cabaret” along with New York Free Press, Outer Critics Circle, Theater World and New York Public Advocate’s awards.

Was inducted into the Vanity Fair Hall of Fame for his work in “Cabaret”.

Named one of the 100 most creative people in the world in Entertainment Weekly in 1998.

Came at number 18 in one of the 50 most eligible bachelors of Scotland in 2000.

Was nominated for a GQ magazine Man of the Year award in 2001.

In 2001 Alan was honored with the NY Immigrant Achievement Award.

He was also honored by the Drama League for “Design For Living”.

For The Anniversary Party (2001), he received the National Board of Review Excellence in Filmmaking Award and was nominated for The Indie Spirit Award for Best First Feature and Screenplay.

For Halloween 2002 in Vancouver, Cumming and his “X2″ costar, Ian McKellen, dressed as their characters Fegan Floop (from “Spy Kids”) and Gandalf (from the Lord of the Rings trilogy) respectively. “He carved me this great Nightcrawler pumpkin and helped answer the door so there were Gandalf and Floop handing out candies,” says Cumming.

He was awarded the Laurence Olivier Theatre Award in 1991 (1990 season) for Best Comedy Performance for Accidental Death of an Anarchist.

On Sunday 7 January 2007, he registered his civil partnership with Grant Shaffer at the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich, London.

Has his own cologne called “Cumming.”

Won Broadway’s 1998 Tony Award as Best Actor (Musical) for a revival of “Cabaret.”

Mentioned on The Rosie O’ Donnell show that Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups was one of his favorite things about the United States, after which he was so bombarded by the candy sent to him from fans that he had to stop eating them for a while.

He was awarded the OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2009 Queen’s Birthday Honours List for his services to the arts and civil rights.