Channing Tatum

I came across him the other day, well that's not true, I noticed him ages ago, its only just I decided to have a look and see how hot he was.

Channing Matthew Tatum (born April 26, 1980) is an American actor, producer, and former model. After beginning his career as a fashion model, he has branched out into acting roles, appearing in the films Havoc (2005), Coach Carter (2005), Supercross (2005), She's the Man, then Step Up, and A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, all of which were released in 2006.

Born in Cullman, a small city in Alabama, Tatum has one sister. He has French, Irish, and Native American ancestry. His family moved to Mississippi when he was six, although he visits Alabama, where his mother's family still lives. Tatum grew up in the bayous near the Mississippi River, where he enjoyed a rural existence, including "All the rattlesnakes and alligators a boy could possibly chase, fishing every day, Pop Warner football league, stuff like that."

Tatum has been added to the cast of writer/director/producer Michael Mann's 2009 crime drama Public Enemies, in which will play the ill-fated 1930s American gangster Pretty Boy Floyd. Tatum is also slated for the coveted role of Duke in 2009's G.I. Joe, Paramount Pictures' live-action film based on the popular Hasbro action figures.

Kutcher, Leigh set to star in 'Spread'

Ashton Kutcher and Jennifer Jason Leigh will star in the indie sex comedy "Spread," which Kutcher's Katalyst banner is producing.   Story chronicles the adventures of a serial womanizer (Kutcher); Leigh will play a thwarted lover. Jason Dean Hall penned the screenplay in his feature film debut.

Scottish helmer David MacKenzie, who is known for such sexually charged dramas as "Young Adam," "Hallam Foe" and "Asylum," is directing. Shooting begins later this month in Los Angeles.

"I am exceptionally excited to be shooting in Hollywood, but with an outsider's eye," MacKenzie said.   Katalyst's Jason Goldberg and Peter Morgan are producing. Barbarian Films' Aaron Kaufman exec produces.

"Spread," which was put together quickly, beats out of the gate a similarly themed project that Katalyst is developing for Columbia Pictures as a Kutcher starring vehicle. That untitled project centers on an L.A. florist who specializes in orchestrating makeups, breakups and hookups throughout the city.

Kutcher's upcoming films include 20th Century Fox's romantic comedy "What Happens in Vegas."

Paul Rudd

Paul Stephen Rudd (born April 6, 1969) is an American film, television, and stage actor.

Rudd was born in Passaic, New Jersey, the son of Jewish immigrants from England; his family's original surname was "Rudnitzky". His father, Michael Rudd, is a historical tour guide who was formerly the vice president of World Airways, while Rudd's mother managed a television station.  He was raised in Overland Park, Kansas. He attended high school at Shawnee Mission West, and college at the University of Kansas, where he was a member of Sigma Nu fraternity

In 2006, he appeared in several episodes of Reno 911! as the coach of a birthing class, and portrayed a drug lord in the film Reno 911!: Miami. In 2007, he appeared in the films Knocked Up (his third collaboration with Judd Apatow and Seth Rogen), and The Ten (which reunites him with frequent collaborators David Wain and Michael Showalter).

The same year, Rudd provided his voice for the narration of the HBO/NFL Films series Hard Knocks: Training Camp With The Kansas City Chiefs. In 2008, Rudd appeared in Over Her Dead Body, opposite Eva Longoria, and will star in I Could Never Be Your Woman opposite Michelle Pfeiffer (reuniting him with Clueless director Amy Heckerling), and My Achilles Heart.

Shia Labeouf

Shia Saide LaBeouf (born June 11, 1986) is a Daytime Emmy Award-winning American actor and comedian. After growing up in California, he became known with a starring role in the Disney Channel series Even Stevens. He made the transition to film roles with Holes, a box office success, and has since appeared in several Hollywood films, including Constantine, I, Robot, and The Greatest Game Ever Played.

In 2007, LaBeouf starred in Disturbia, Transformers, and provided voicework in Surf's Up, and is due to appear in 2008's Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Several media publications have speculated that LaBeouf, whose screen persona was described by Time magazine as that of the "scrappy kid next door", might become a major film star throughout 2008

LaBeouf bought his own house at the age of eighteen, lives in Burbank, California and remains close to both his parents;^[ his mother now lives nearby in Tujunga, Los Angeles, California and his father in Montana. LaBeouf is a smoker, drives a Nissan Maxima, and has two bulldogs named Brando and Rex. He has said that "sports is so big in my life" and that he is a "film junkie".He enjoys the music of The Shins, CKY, and the hip-hop label Definitive Jux.

LaBeouf has cited actors Dustin Hoffman, Jodie Foster, Jon Voight and John Turturro as inspirations, and has said that he is "very serious" about his career and has made "a calculated effort to stay away from the party scene", believing that "if the industry takes you lightly because you're always partying, then they will take your work lightly as well". Interviewer Jamie Portman of The Vancouver Sun described LaBeouf as seeming to have a "love-hate relationship with the teenage culture that has spawned him".

LaBeouf has said that although he does not devoutly practice Judaism, he has a "personal relationship with God that happens to work within the confines of Judaism".   On November 4, 2007, LaBeouf was arrested for misdemeanor criminal trespassing in a Chicago Walgreens after refusing to leave when asked by a security guard. LaBeouf was due in court on November 28, 2007. The criminal charges were dropped on December 12.

Steve Byers

Steve Byers (born December 31, 1979 in Scarborough, Ontario, Canada), is an actor. At a young age he had a passion for acting. Graduating with the top award for Excellence in Drama from the Arts program at Unionville High School, Byers continued his study of the acting craft at the University of Western Ontario's Film Program.

Steve was named by People Magazine as one of the Stars to watch of 2007 alongside Ashton Kutcher and Miley Cyrus. Known for good looking characteristics including blonde hair, sapphire blue eyes, and his physique, he landed the lead role of Jason Tanner on the hit tv show Falcon Beach. Among his first professional roles were guest parts on La Femme Nikita and A Simple Wish. After a move to Vancouver landed him a recurring role on MTV's comedy series 2Gether, Steve returned to his hometown of Toronto to star with

Rachel McAdams of Wedding Crashers in MTV's Shotgun Love Dolls. Steve has since worked on many network television series including Kevin Hill, Glory Days, and the Dresden Files. His experience continues to grow with the success of 26 episodes of Falcon Beach airing in over 40 countries around the world and a budding feature film career. Steve recently starred in Left for Dead with Danielle Harris (of Halloween fame)as well as completing the film "My Daughter's Secret".

Steve is currently shooting a feature film entitled "Static" co-starring Kathleen Robertson, better known for her role on Beverly Hills 90210. Interestingly, one of his co-stars in "My Daughter's Secret", Jennifer Grant was also a series regular on 90210.

Tad Hilgenbrink

Tad Hilgenbrinck (born 9 October 1981) is an American actor, known for his role as Matt Stifler in American Pie Presents: Band Camp. He was chosen for Matt Stifler due to his resemblance to Sean William Scott, replacing Eli Marienthal who portrayed the character in the official American Pie trilogy.

He also appeared in the 2006 film The Curiosity of Chance, a movie in which he stars as a gay high school student who moved to a new school and must learn to fit in. His next film will be Lost Boys 2: The Tribe.

Hilgenbrinck was born in Quincy, Illinois and attended Quincy Senior High School, where he was an actively involved in music and theater. He performed as part of the resident company for Summer 2003 at Music Theatre of Wichita in Wichita, Kansas, where he performed in the musicals Footloose, Oklahoma!, Good News, Chicago, and The Scarlet Pimpernel.

He has a BFA Musical Theatre and Dance minor from Millikin University and IES London. Tad has performed in roles such as The Artful Dodger in Oliver!, Gideon in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, and Chuck Cranston in Footloose.

Ephraim Ellis

Ephraim Todd Ellis (born February 23, 1985 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian actor. He is known for playing Rick Murray in the television show Degrassi: The Next Generation.

 

After his character reign on Degrassi, he also appeared in a Disney Channel show by the name of "Naturally Sadie" as Vince in the episodes "Social Climbers," "Unusual Suspects," "Pack of Lies," and "Forest for the Trees." In 2005 he played the role of Riley on Zixx: Level 2.

 

He currently plays the character Danny on the television show Falcon Beach which airs on Global.

 

Ephraim began acting while studying at Earl Haig Secondary School in Toronto, Ontario. He served as a producer for the school's annual film festival, Zoom. His other television credits include an appearance in the television series Zoe Busiek: Wild Card for Lifetime.

 

He has also starred in the Canadian Film Centre's 2004 feature White Out, which was entered in the Toronto International Film Festival. He also played Riley Kineston on Zixx.

Skeet Ulrich

As always the UK is behind the US with getting TV shows, and we are nearly at the end of Jericho.  Season 2 has been confirmed in the US and starts in February 2008.

 

The star of the show is Skeet Ulrich, well I suppose there is more than one star, but hes the one I am concentrating on.

 

In his earliest screen appearance was an uncredited extra in films Weekend at Bernie's and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. After joining the Atlantic Theater Company as an apprentice, Ulrich performed with the group, which got him noticed yet again, this time by director Stacy Cochran. She cast him in a CBS School Break Special. With her help he also received his first notable role on screen in 1996 as the loutish boyfriend of Winona Ryder in Boys. That same year he appeared in The Craft with Neve Campbell. He starred with Neve Campbell again in Wes Craven's hit slasher film Scream released later that same year which became his best known role. In 1998 he starred in The Newton Boys.

Ulrich starred alongside Cuba Gooding Jr. in the action film Chill Factor. He had a small but pivotal role as an emotionally conflicted homosexual hustler in As Good as It Gets, he starred as Juvenal, a young man with stigmata and healing powers in the film Touch, and he appeared in Ride with the Devil, an American Civil War drama directed by Ang Lee. He also played computer hacker Kevin Mitnick in the film Takedown.

On television, Ulrich starred in the short-lived ABC series Miracles, and appeared in TNT's multiple Emmy-nominated miniseries, Into the West. In 2005, Ulrich acted with Keri Russell in the TV movie The Magic of Ordinary Days. Ulrich currently stars as Jake Green on the CBS post-apocalyptic drama Jericho, which premiered on September 20, 2006.

Julian Morris

Julian Morris (born 13 January 1983) is a British actor best known for his role in Cry Wolf.

Morris began acting at the Anna Scher Theatre in London. It was there, when he was thirteen, that a director on the hit British drama The Knock spotted him and asked him to play a boy pushed into the drug trade. Morris continued his intensive training under Anna Scher for the next eight years. In this period more opportunities arose and after appearing in several TV shows, films and commercials; he went on to spend three seasons with the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Working with directors such as Steven Pimlott, Tim Albery and Elijah Moshinsky, and alongside actors as diverse as Simon Russell Beale, Samuel West and Roger Allam. He credits this with being a major influence on his learning and craft.

He is currently in America enjoying a burgeoning film career after playing the lead in the NBC pilot Young Arthur (2002) (TV). Recently, he starred in his biggest film yet, Cry Wolf (2005). Recently, as of December, 2007, Morris signed a deal with Dimension Pictures to star as Dr. Kyle McRae in the remake of Hellbound: Hellraiser 2, set to be released at some moment in 2010.

Dimension is currently producing the remake of the first Hellraiser, and as soon as filming wraps, the production of Hellbound: Hellraiser 2 will start, with Julian Morris confirmed as Kyle and Brian Cox as Dr. Channard. Little is known regarding Julian's personal life, but it's a well-known fact that Julian practices Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu under Roger Gracie, at his academy in London, England. He is also best friends with actress Lindy Booth.

John-Paul Lavoisier

John-Paul Lavoisier (born John-Paul Seponski on March 12, 1980) is an American actor.

Lavoisier is known for his role as Rex Balsom on the ABC soap opera, One Life to Live. He has portrayed this character since 2002. During that same year, he also appeared in the horror movie Wolves of Wall Street. He grew up in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania and attended Phoenixville High School, before going on to the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, where he studied music performance, particularly the drums.

Lavoisier is a member of the advisory board of theatre production company Streetlight Productions, Inc, and has performed in various off-Broadway plays including Discordant Duets and Counterfeit Garden.

His hobbies include tennis, skiing, golf and magic tricks. He dislikes running and the suburbs, and claims to be anally retentive. For ABC's Fan February events in 2007, he switched jobs with a fan who is a dance teacher.

Roger Howarth

Howarth is perhaps best remembered for his Daytime Emmy Award winning portrayal of Todd Manning on the ABC soap opera, One Life to Live, a role he played on-and-off from 1992 to 1995, 1996 to 1998 and from 2000 to 2003. His character's pairing with Kassie DePaiva's Blair Cramer won over many fans and the two became a supercouple.

Howarth was strongly praised for his work on OLTL, and won a Daytime Emmy Award for his work, but subsequent attempts to rehabilitate the rapist character of Todd unnerved Howarth. After a female fan shouted "Rape me, Todd!" at a public appearance, his ambivalence about the role deepened.

 

When attempts were made to pair Todd and the woman he raped, Marty Saybrooke, as a romantic couple, Howarth quit the show. He subsequently returned to the show twice, but each time, Todd was portrayed more as a villain than a hero.

Currently, he portrays Paul Ryan on CBS's, As the World Turns, a role he has played since 2003.

Howarth's other television credits include brief roles on the series Dawson's Creek and Prey.

Jeremy Sumpter : Trivia

At age six, Jeremy was the youngest child in Kentucky to be accepted into the state's Gifted Arts program.    Auditioned for the role of Bobby Garfield in Hearts in Atlantis (2001)

Has a twin named Jessica Sumpter and a younger sister, Gigi Sumpter.     Raised in Kentucky until he was 11.     Was named IMTA's Pre-Teen Male Model of the Year in 2000.    His younger sister appeared with him in his "ER" (1994) episode.

His favorite book is "The Giver".     His favorites foods are spaghetti and chili.      He has a dog named Bear.      His favorite subjects in the 9th grade are science and spelling - his least favorite is maths.

During the filming of Peter Pan (2003), he grew 8 inches (from 5' to 5' 8") and the size of the window had to be enlarged 4 times to enable him to "fly" into the house without bumping his head. The boy who "never grew up" did so in reality.

Resides in Los Angeles, California [2004].      Twin brother of actress Jessica Sumpter.      Brother of actress Gigi Sumpter.  
He stated at the end of Peter Pan (2003) that he did 98% of the stunts shown in the movie. He said he was unable to do "like two or three of them because they were too dangerous".

Can be seen on the DVD of _Peter Pan_ (2003) , saying he is spoofing _Moulin Rouge_ (2001) as he sits on a swing singing.
In 11th grade his favorite subject is history and his least favorite is math.    Has an older brother named Travis, who attends college

Austin Peck

Jeffrey Austin Peck (born April 9, 1971 in Hawaii) is an American actor. Peck is best known for his role as Austin Reed on the daytime soap opera Days of Our Lives from April 13, 1995 to April 5, 2002, and from September 20, 2005 to October 26, 2006.

Peck was a recast to the role, and succeeded a popular actor, Patrick Muldoon. Peck became a fan favorite, reportedly getting the most fan mail of anyone in the "Days" cast. He appeared on the cover of "Playgirl" and "YM" covers. In 1997,and" playgirl" in 2002. Peck, along with DAYS co-star Christie Clark, won the Soap Opera Digest Award for Hottest Romance. The actors came back to the show in 2005, but were released from their contracts in 2006.Peck is currently in the process of writing a children book decaded to his son Roman Austin.

It was announced in November 2006 that Peck would be moving to New York to assume the role of Brad Snyder on the CBS daytime drama As The World Turns. He first aired in January 2007.  Austin Peck is very open about being a born again Christian. He is a frequent guest on the Trinity Broadcasting Network and counts Jan Crouch as one of his best friends.