Sunday 30 December 2007

Jason Cook

Jason John Cook (born September 13, 1980) is an American actor best known for playing the role of Shawn-Douglas Brady on the soap opera Days of Our Lives.

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Cook was born in Somerdale, New Jersey to Bill Cook (an engineer for amusement parks) and JoAnne (a pre-school teacher); he has two sisters, Michelle and Jenean, and a brother, Michael. When he was very young, his family moved to California. At an early age, Jason began studying the piano. As his musical skills improved, he got jobs performing at occasional weddings. He did not consider acting until high school, when he served as an emergency replacement in Whodunnit. He knew from then on that he wanted to be an actor. His father had a friend who was a theatre manager and he happened to be in the audience that night, who helped him get other jobs.

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Cook portrayed Shawn-Douglas Brady on Days of Our Lives from October 1999 and was very popular with fans, especially in Shawn's relationship with Belle Black. When Cook's contract with Days of our Lives expired in September 2006, he left the show. Actor Brandon Beemer has been recast as Shawn and debuted in the role September 28, 2006.

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Cook has turned his attentions to writing and directing films, recently making the indie film Social Security Guard, starring his former Days of Our Lives co-star John Ingle.

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Cook's other acting credits include the film The Wizard of Loneliness and the TV movie Club Med.

Ryan Corr

Ryan Corr (born. 15 January 1989 in Melbourne) is an Australian actor.

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Ryan started his acting career at the age of thirteen with the Film Opraholic. His first television performance was on The Sleepover Club with a supporting role as Matthew McDougal.

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Later on, after filming The Sleepover Club he got a lead role as Sheng Zamett on Silversun. Soon after, Ryan had many guest appearances on shows such as Scooter: Secret Agent, Blue Heelers and Neighbours. Ryan has also done a lot of voice work and recently was the voice of a sheep in Charlotte's Web.

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In 2006, the second series of Blue Water High aired on Australian TV in which he has a lead role.

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Saturday 29 December 2007

Sam Clark

Sam Clark (born 18 October 1987) is an actor from Adelaide, South Australia. He is best known for portraying Ringo Brown on Neighbours.

 

Clark is a graduate of St Peter's College, Adelaide, and was a keen participant in several high school theatre productions.

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Clark won the role of Ringo after auditioning for a nation-wide Dolly Magazine competition; as the winner, he won a three month contract with the show, which has since been extended.                                  sam clark4

Clark made his Neighbours debut on 24th January, 2007. The character Ringo on Neighbours is actually three years younger than Clark's actual age.

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Friday 28 December 2007

Dan Wells

Dan Wells is an American television and motion picture actor and reality television participant from Orange County, California.

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Wells is perhaps best known for his role of "Stan," the alter-ego of Sami Brady on NBC's Days of our Lives. Wells appeared as a regular on FOX's prime-time comedy Free Ride and has guest-starred on series including Will & Grace and Gilmore Girls.

He appeared in the MyNetworkTV telenovela Watch Over Me, which premiered December 6, 2006. Behind the camera, Wells wrote and produced the 2004 short film Down the Rabbit Hole, in which he also appeared.

Wells is a veteran of reality television, having been one of the straigit "mates" on the Bravo gay dating series Boy Meets Boy. Wells was also a contestant on the short-lived 2001 reality show Lost.

Thursday 27 December 2007

Peter Mooney

Peter Mooney is a Canadian actor, (born in Winnipeg, Manitoba). He recently starred in the television series Falcon Beach on Global Television and ABC Family in the role of Dr.Adrian Keeper (2006 Season).

 

He has also starred in stage productions such as Romeo & Juliet, The Tempest, Measure For Measure, and The Goat Or Who Is Sylvia.

 

At a young age he became involved in the Manitoba Theatre For Young People.

Peter is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada in Montreal, Quebec (2004), and now resides in Toronto, Ontario.

Wednesday 26 December 2007

Jeremy Sumpter

Jeremy Robert Myron Sumpter (born February 5, 1989) is an American actor. He is known for playing the title role in the 2003 film version of Peter Pan.

 

Sumpter was born in Monterey, California to Gary Sumpter and Sandra Johnson. His siblings, twin sister, Jessica, and younger sister, Gigi, are also actresses. He was raised in the small town of Mount Sterling, Kentucky, until he was eleven. He won IMTA's Pre-Teen Male Model of the Year award in 2000. Soon afterward, he signed with Mark Robert Management and his family moved to Los Angeles, where he currently resides.

Sumpter spent the summer of 2005 in Oregon filming the comedy The Sasquatch Dumpling Gang, which was theatrically released in November, 2007. Sumpter also appears in the independent film An American Crime, where he portrays Coy Hubbard. He also appeared in an episode of CSI Miami as the boyfriend of a girl whose parents they murder together. He recently completed filming "Calvin Marshall" in which he plays "Caselli." He is also attached to appear in "Prep School" and "Word of Mouth."

Sumpter enjoys surfing, as well as basketball, football, baseball, snowboarding, tennis, soccer, hiking, swimming, rollerblading, golf, and watching storm clouds. His favorite movie is "King Kong", he also likes "Unforgiven" and "Twister". He has been cast in numerous athletic roles, including Local Boys (surfing), Peter Pan (sword fighting), Clubhouse (baseball), Cyber Seduction (swimming). In October 2005, Sumpter competed in his first celebrity golf tournament: the Eddie Money Golf Tournament in Northern California. His team placed 3rd out of 24 teams.

Tuesday 25 December 2007

Hugh Dancy

Hugh Dancy (born 19 June 1975) is a British actor.

Dancy was born in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, the son of eminent British philosopher Jonathan Dancy, a professor at the University of Reading and the University of Texas at Austin. His mother, Sarah, is a publisher. He has a brother, Jack, and a sister, Kate. Dancy was educated at Winchester College and St Peter's College, Oxford.

Dancy's first small-screen appearances were in Trial & Retribution II, Dangerfield, The New Adventures of Robin Hood and Kavanagh QC. He is fluent in French, and played a Frenchman fascinated by knights in Relic Hunter. He played the lead in BBC's Daniel Deronda (2002) which was an adaptation of George Eliot's novel based on a young man learning about life, love and ultimately who he really is, Hallmark's David Copperfield (2000), and Danny in Cold Feet.

He has also modelled for Burberry since 2004. He has featured in three Burberry campaigns, alongside Kate Moss.

In July 2006, Dancy received a nomination for the 58th Primetime Emmy Awards, as Best Supporting Actor in a Miniseries, for his role in Elizabeth I.

Dancy recently had a starring role on Broadway as Captain Dennis Stanhope in Journey's End at the Belasco Theatre. In 2008, Hugh is set to star as the dark poet Edgar Allan Poe in the film Poe, an animated feature. He'll also portray the character of Adam in the upcoming 2008 indie, Adam, a man stricken with Aspergers Syndrome.

Monday 24 December 2007

Patrick Flueger

Patrick Flueger (born December 10, 1983 in Red Wing, Minnesota) is an American actor.

He received his big break when he auditioned for the 2001 family hit, The Princess Diaries. He and four others competed for the leading male role, but that part went to Robert Schwartzman. Patrick made his mark with director, Garry Marshall, though, and Marshall wrote him a part as Jeremiah, a fun-loving card-trick master who charmed the lead character's best friend.

Flueger is a graduate of Red Wing High School and has two younger siblings.

He is making his mark, slowly but surely, in the acting world with small parts in television shows, such as Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and most recently, as a star in the series The 4400. He is currently appearing in the 4th season of The 4400.

Aside from his acting career, Flueger is also an accomplished musician writing music and playing guitar. He was the lead singer for the band Sleeper 7.

Sunday 23 December 2007

Sean Faris

Sean H. Faris (born March 25, 1982 in Houston, Texas) is an American actor.

Faris moved from Houston to Parma, Ohio, at age 12 with his mother. He attended Padua Franciscan High School, and was one of the few non-Catholic students on the campus. He graduated with honors in 2000.

Faris decided to become an actor at the age of 17. He began his acting and modeling career in Cleveland at Barbizon, and later moved to the International Model and Talent Association with Stone Model & Talent.

Three weeks after high school graduation, Faris and his best friend moved to California. But after three days in Los Angeles, Faris' best friend could not handle the L.A. culture and returned to Ohio. He was cast in the role of Danny's gunner in Michael Bay's blockbuster war film Pearl Harbor along side well-known stars Ben Affleck and Josh Hartnett. It was this role which launched his career.

Faris starred in many different projects, including two television shows, Life As We Know It, and Reunion, both canceled before the end of their first season. He also played William Beardsley in Yours, Mine and Ours and he has been a guest star on other television shows.    Sean has also starred in Sleepover with Alexa Vega in 2004.

Jacob Young

The very attractive Jacob Young is an American TV star who was catupulted to fame in the soap All My Children.  With his good looks and sexy bod he is a huge hit with the bois and girls!

Jacob Wayne Young (born September 10, 1979) is an Emmy Award-winning American actor and singer.

Young portrayed Rick Forrester on the CBS soap The Bold and the Beautiful from December 31, 1997 to September 15, 1999. He was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award as Outstanding Younger Actor in a Drama Series in 1999.

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Young later portrayed Lucky Spencer on General Hospital for three years from February 25, 2000 until February 10, 2003. In 2002, he was named "Sexiest Soap Star" by People magazine, and won a daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Actor.

Even though he does not appear to be a large guy, he is very muscular and well-toned, having been a wrestler in high school. In an interview some years ago, he admitted that he purposely wore a loose-fitting shirt to his GH audition so he wouldn't look too muscular. He was replacing Jonathan Jackson, who was quite thin.

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Saturday 22 December 2007

James D'Arcy

James D'Arcy (birth name Simon D'Arcy 24th August 1975) was born and brought up in Fulham and fell into acting almost by accident. After completing his education at Christ's Hospital (1984-1991), D'Arcy went to Australia for a year and worked in the drama department of a school in Perth, which gave him an interest in acting.

When he returned to London he applied for drama school. He did a three-year course at LAMDA, the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, completing a BA in Acting in 1995. During his time at LAMDA he gained acting experience by appearing in the plays Heracles, As You Like It, Wild Honey, The Freedom of the City and Sherlock Holmes.

 

On leaving drama school: "It was only when I finished the course and left my graduation diploma on the bus that I realised I'd become an actor."

 

On Acting:

I don't have any expectations as an actor and being rich and famous is not my driving force. I'm not really very ambitious. I'm more interested in enjoying my life and looking after my family than being hugely successful. There are lots of people I admire and respect, but I don't necessarily want to be like them. I'm too happy being myself.
The reason I wanted to be an actor is that I don't want to play me for the rest of my life and make money out of that. I'm attracted to seeing how different I can be, pushing the boat out.

Andreas Wilson

Andreas Wilson (born 7 March 1981, Stockholm, Sweden) is a Swedish actor who played the leading role in the Oscar-nominated (for best foreign movie) Evil.

He has also starred in Kill Your Darlings, Babas bilar and Den utvalde. He was named as one of European films' "Shooting Stars" by the European Film Promotion in 2004. He has been modeling for the clothing store Abercrombie & Fitch.

Filmography

  • Stone's War (2008)
  • Colorado Avenue (2007)
  • Kill Your Darlings (2006)
  • Babas bilar (2006)
  • Animal (2005)
  • Den utvalde (2005)
  • Evil (2003)

Friday 21 December 2007

Chris Egan

Christopher Andrew Egan (born June 29, 1984) is an Australian actor probably best known for playing Nick Smith in the Australian soap opera Home and Away for three years. His middle name, Andrew, is the name of his father

Egan was born in Sydney, Australia. During his career as an actor, he has appeared in several commercials and even done some modelling but his ability and ambition for acting came when he performed in the Glen Street production of Les Misérables and West Side Story.

He moved to Los Angeles in 2003. In 2006, he appeared in the film adaptation of Christopher Paolini's novel Eragon.