Amanda Plummer
Amanda Michael Plummer (born March 23, 1957) is an American actress.
Life and career
Plummer was born in New York City, New York, the daughter of actors Tammy Grimes and Christopher Plummer. Plummer attended Middlebury College in Vermont and acting classes at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York. Early in life, her interest was in riding and tending to horses on the East Coast and in Ireland. Read the rest of this entry »
Rosanna Arquette
Rosanna Lauren Arquette (born August 10, 1959) is an American actress, film director, and film producer.
Life: Arquette was born in New York City, the daughter of Brenda “Mardi” Olivia (nee Nowak), an actress, poet, theater operator, activist, acting teacher and therapist, and Lewis Arquette, an actor and director. Read the rest of this entry »
Eric Stoltz
Eric Cameron Stoltz (born September 30, 1961) is an American actor. He is known for playing either sensitive misfits (Mask, Kicking and Screaming, The Waterdance) or sociopathic criminals (Killing Zoe). He was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture for Mask.
Early life
Stoltz was born in Whittier, California, the [...]
Danny DeVito
Daniel Michael “Danny” DeVito, Jr. (born November 17, 1944) is an American actor, director and producer, who first gained prominence for his portrayal of “Louie De Palma” on the ABC and NBC TV series Taxi (1978–1983). Along with wife Rhea Perlman, he founded Jersey Films, a production company famous for producing films such as Pulp [...]
Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Jerome Tarantino (born March 27, 1963) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer and actor. In the early 1990s he was an independent filmmaker whose films used nonlinear storylines and aestheticization of violence. His films include My Best Friend’s Birthday (1987), Reservoir Dogs (1992), Pulp Fiction (1994), Jackie Brown (1997), Kill Bill (Vol. [...]
Quentin Tarantino
When I’m getting serious about a girl, I show her Rio Bravo and she better fucking like it.
— Quentin Tarantino
IN this age of rampant computer literacy, it is noteworthy that Quentin Tarantino, the much-ballyhooed point man for ’90s filmmakers, still writes the old-fashioned way — using a pen (to be precise, he ritualistically purchases three [...]
Christopher Walken
I tend to play mostly villains and twisted people. Unsavory guys. I think it’s my face, the way I look.
— Christopher Walken
CHRISTOPHER WALKEN’s sunken eye sockets, prodigious forehead, and thin lips have set his career on a track lined with villainy and psychosis. And while his features have placed him on the spooky-guy A-list, Walken’s [...]
Ving Rhames
I didn’t choose acting. Acting chose me. I’m basically a vessel to spread God’s word. My purpose on this planet is to teach human beings about being human to one another.
— Ving Rhames
INTERVIEWERS frequently assert that actor Ving Rhames, the man who brought to life such memorably villainous cinematic rogues as Con Air’s hulking, tattooed [...]
Samuel L. Jackson
What kills me is that everybody thinks I like jazz.
— Samuel L. Jackson
BEFORE emerging as a star with his performance as a Jherri-Curled, Bible-thumping hit man in Pulp Fiction (1994), Samuel L. Jackson had immersed himself so completely in his 30 previous roles that moviegoers rarely recognized him from one film to the next. Jackson [...]
Steve Buscemi
When I was a fireman I was in a lot of burning buildings. It was a great job, the only job I ever had that compares with the thrill of acting. Before going into a fire, there’s the same surge of adrenaline you get just before the camera rolls.
— Steve Buscemi
STEVE BUSCEMI has been called [...]
