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Jordana Brewster
Jordana Brewster
Jordana Brewster (Chrissie) recently completed production on the feature film Annapolis, for Disney, opposite James Franco. The film is a drama set against the backdrop of boxing at the Annapolis Naval Academy, and Brewster stars as 'Ali,' an upperclassman and boxing trainer/mentor to 'Jake,' played by James Franco. The film is due out in January 2006. Justin Lin is directing.
Jordana was recently seen in Nearing Grace, an indy film adapted from Scott Sommer's novel Nearing's Grace. Nearing Grace is the tale of an eccentric teenager who nearly drops out of life after the death of his mother, but who rediscovers life in the arms of a woman named 'Grace' (Jordana). Jordana was also recently seen in the Sundance 2004 hit D.E.B.S., based on Angela Robinson's comedy short, which was released by Samuel Goldwyn Films in March 2005.
Prior to that, Jordana starred in Universal Pictures' box office hit The Fast and The Furious for director Rob Cohen. She also starred in The Invisible Circus for director Adam Brooks. The film, which premiered at Sundance 2001, also starred Cameron Diaz, Blythe Danner and Christopher Eccleston. Brewster also starred as 'Delilah' in the science fiction thriller The Faculty, for director Robert Rodriguez and Miramax's Dimension Films. She also received critical praise for her work in the highly rated NBC mini-series, The Sixties.
Brewster sharpened her acting skills on the daytime drama As the World Turns. She divided her time between high school and her role as 'Nikki Munson' on the Emmy Award winning series.
Brewster took some time off after The Fast and The Furious to complete her degree at Yale University and graduated in 2003. She has lived in Brazil, England and New York.
Diora Baird
Diora Baird
Although painfully shy as a child, Diora Baird (Bailey) began her career in show business in Miami, Florida when she was just a few months old doing campaigns for Osh Kosh and Kmart. By the time she was ten, her mother, in an effort to help her overcome the shyness, pushed her into theater. By high school, she was totally hooked and packed her bags for Los Angeles.
While taking classes with The Groundlings, Baird worked in the obligatory out-of-work actor trades, from catering and washing dishes, to being a clown at children's parties and even working in construction. On one construction job, however, she was discovered by a talent manager who helped to put her on her real career path. Soon after Baird was selected to model for a Guess Clothing campaign, the pictures for which currently appear on billboards and buses throughout the United States. She also made appearances in several independent features including 50 Pills with Kristen Bell (Veronica Mars) and Rachel Boston (American Dreams) and Hot Tamales starring Carmen Electra and Jason Priestly.
Baird's major motion picture debut, New Line Cinema's Wedding Crashers starring Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson, was the hit of the summer and is currently the #3 box office grosser of 2005. Since then, she has appeared on UPN's South Beach produced by Jennifer Lopez, and recently wrapped production on Accepted, opposite Justin Long, Jonah Hill and Blake Lively. The film is due out in April 2006.
R. Lee Ermey
R. Lee Ermey
After more that 25 years in the entertainment industry, Golden Globe nominee and Boston Society of Film Critics award winner for Best Supporting Actor in director Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket, R. Lee Ermey (Hoyt), is one of the most successful and talented actors working in film and television today.
His numerous roles in feature film include The 2004 The Texas Chainsaw Massace for New Line Cinema; Switchback, starring opposite Dennis Quaid and Danny Glover; Dead Man Walking; Seven; Leaving Las Vegas; Murder In The First; Life; The Frighteners and Sommersby; as well as his critically acclaimed role opposite Jared Leto in Prefontaine. He also lends his voice to a wide variety of projects, from The Simpsons to Toy Story and Toy Story 2.
Ermey served 11 years active duty with the U.S. Marine Corps. He rose to the rank of staff NCO, served two years as a drill instructor and completed a tour of duty in Vietnam. Medically retired in 1971, he used his G.I. Bill benefits, and enrolled at the University of Manila in the Philippines where he studied drama. Francis Ford Coppola was filming Apocalypse Now in the area and cast Ermey in a featured role. He has since gone on to star or appear in approximately sixty films.
Ermey is no stranger to prestigious television either. He has starred in numerous telefilms including HBO's Weapons of Mass Distraction, TNT's The Rough Riders and TNT's You Know My Name, starring Sam Elliot, as well as Showtime's The Apartment Complex.
Ermey starred with Elizabeth Pena in the feature On the Borderline. Just before that, he was in the feature film Skipped Parts, with Jennifer Jason Leigh and Drew Barrymore.
Recently, Ermey starred in Saving Silverman, with Jason Biggs, Jack Black, Steve Zahn and Amanda Peet. He appears opposite Jeff Bridges in Scenes of the Crime and with Harvey Keitel in Taking Sides. For New Line he appeared in Run Ronnie Run, and starred in the remake of Willard opposite Crispin Glover. Ermey also is hosting Mail Call for the History Channel, which focuses on military technology past, present and future. It is the History Channel's highest rated series.
Cyia Batten
Cyia Batten
A classically trained dancer, Cyia Batten (Alex) expanded her studies to include acting and never looked back. Applying the same drive and focus needed to become a professional ballerina, her career in television and film took off immediately and continues to flourish.
In 2005, she won the Best Actress Award for her performance in the surreal thriller Cookers at Screamfest in Los Angeles. The film also won several awards at the Milan Film Festival. Recently she costarred in the thriller American Crime with Annabella Sciorra, Cary Elwes, Kip Pardue and Rachel Leigh Cook. Her other feature film appearances include the mystery Black and White, starring Gina Gershon and Alison Eastwood, and Paramount's Senseless, starring Marlon Wayans and David Spade. As a dancer, she can be seen in Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, The Sweetest Thing and Bubble Boy.
Batten has also starred in several telefilms, including At Any Cost with James Franco, and Sins of the Mind with Jill Clayburgh. She has also guest starred on such series as CSI, CSI: NY, NYPD Blue, Strong Medicine, The Guardian, and Profiler, and had a recurring role on Star Trek: Deep Space 9.
Batten was an original member of the enormously popular Pussycat Dolls, with which she danced throughout the U.S., Europe and Asia. Prior to that, she danced at Lincoln Center in The Nutcracker. She also danced the title role in Festival of the Siren, which aired live on television throughout Europe, and in Aida with the Teatro Comunale di Firenze.
Batten studied dance at several institutions in New York City, including the prestigious School of American Ballet, and the New York State School of the Arts, in which she was one of 50 students accepted from a pool of a thousand applicants.
Cyia is also co-owner of the recently launched line of jewelry "T. Cyia" that has been featured in Lucky, In Touch and Us Weekly magazines. The line is a sought-after favorite in the Hollywood crowd.
Matthew Bomer
Matthew Bomer
Matthew Bomer (Eric) recently appeared in the futuristic thriller, Flight Plan, starring Jodie Foster, Peter Sarsgaard and Sean Bean.
The son of former Dallas Cowboy John Bomer and his wife Sissi, Matthew is a native of Spring, Texas. He earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts in acting from the prestigious Carnegie Mellon University where he also underwent extensive voice and dance training. After graduation, Bomer moved to New York, where he worked on stage and before long landed a recurring role on the ABC daytime drama All My Children. He next joined the cast of CBS' Guiding Light for a successful two-year run as series regular Ben Reade.
Other television roles include a season the Fox series Tru Calling, about a young woman with the extraordinary ability to repeat the same day over again in hopes of preventing needless tragedies, opposite Eliza Dushku. Most recently he starred with Tom Berenger, Bill Bellamy and Ashley Williams in the one-hour Fox pilot for Amy Coyne.
His stage work includes appearances in Roulette, written by Paul Weitz (About A Boy) for director Jace Alexander at New York Stage & Film in New York City; Spring Awakening, directed by Michael Mayer at the Sundance Theatre Lab; A Streetcar Named Desire at the Alley Theatre in Houston; plus several adaptations of Romeo &
Bomer has two siblings, brother Neill, an engineer, and a sister Megan, who is a college student. His hobbies include sports (especially football and golf) and music. Juliet, including one for director Terence Mann in New York, another for director Peter Frisch at Heinz Hall, and with the Utah Shakespeare Festival, for which Bomer also starred in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. He is currently work- shopping a stage version of Grey Gardens, written by Doug Wright (Quills, Memoirs of a Geisha), directed by Michael Greif at Playwrights Horizons.
Taylor Handley
Taylor Handley
A veteran of the summer stock program in his native Santa Barbara, 21-year-old Taylor Handley (Dean Hill) began acting at age 8. He currently stars as the charming, yet enigmatic 'Oliver' on Fox's smash hit The O.C. No stranger to memorable recurring arcs, Handley previously starred on The WB's Dawson's Creek.
Handley most recently wrapped work on back-to-back features -- The Standard, a high school drama, followed by Chris Cain's September Dawn, about a deadly clash between a wagon train of settlers and a group of renegade Mormons. He also starred in the indie film Zerophilia, a romantic comedy that takes an unusual look into gender roles and gender identity.
Additional television roles include turns on C.S.I., Becker, Touched by An Angel, NYPD BlAfter more that 25 years in the entertainment industry, Golden Globe nominee and Boston Society of Film Critics award winner for Best Supporting Actor in director Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket, R. Lee Ermey (Hoyt), is one of the most successful and talented actors working in film and television today. ue, and Fraiser. In addition to starring in various pilots, Handley was a regular as Kiernan Culkin's happily oblivious best friend on the NBC sitcom Go Fish. He also starred as Academy Award-winner Marcia Gay Harden's emotionally traumatized nephew in the Hallmark Hall of Fame telefilm, In From The Night.
He made his motion picture debut opposite Michael Keaton in Warner Bros.' Jack Frost, and went on to appear as the lead in the Disney Channel original telefilm, Phantom of the Megaplex.
Handley, whose father founded the popular sportswear company, Pornstar, has older twin brothers with whom he shares a passion for extreme sports including surfing, snowboarding, and skateboarding. In his spare time, he also sings in a band he started with friends.
Lee Tergesen
Lee Tergesen
Lee Tergesen (Holden) currently costars as 'U.S. Marshal Eddie Drake', part of an elite team selected from various law-enforcement agencies to track down the 100 most heinous criminals in the TNT series Wanted. Gary Cole, Ryan Hurst, Rashida Jones, Benjamin Benitez and Josey Scott also star.
He has worked extensively in both television and film, exhibiting a wide range of characters -- from his role as Wayne and Garth's sidekick 'Terry' in the hit comedy Wayne's World to his riveting portrayal of inmate 'Tobias Beecher' in the critically acclaimed HBO series Oz.
More recently, he portrayed 'Vincent Corey' who sets Aileen Wournos (played by Academy Award-winner Charlize Theron) on her killing spree by raping and torturing her in the critically acclaimed Monster. Among Tergesen's other credits are roles in The Forgotten, Wayne's World 1 and 2, Shaft, Bark!, Mergers & Acquisitions, The Boys of Sunset Ridge and Diamonds, to name a few.
On television, Tergesen temporarily replaced series star Dennis Leary in three episodes on the F/X series Rescue Me, which aired this past summer. He was a series regular on the USA Network's Weird Science (1994-1997) and on UPN's The Beat (2000) and also had a recurring role on NBC's Homicide: Life on the Street. Tergesen appeared in such telefilms as Darkness Before Dawn for NBC, Black Iris for Showtime and Shot in the Heart for HBO, as well as in numerous guest-starring roles on JAG, C.S.I. and Third Watch among others.
Last fall, Tergesen took to the New York stage, starring with Matthew Broderick in the Roundabout Theatre's production of The Foreigner.
Born July 8 in Ivoryton, Connecticut, Tergesen is a graduate of the American Musical and Dramatic Academy. While working part time on stage and part time as a waiter in New York, he met producer Tom Fontana, which led to his first television credit in 1990 on an episode of the long-running series Law & Order. In 1991, he landed his first big part in the feature film Point Break and has worked steadily ever since.
Born and raised in Johannesburg, South Africa, Jonathan Liebesman (Director) was always interested in the arts and dreamed of someday working in the film industry. After high school, he attended the South African School of Film and Drama before moving to the U.S. to study at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. His short thesis film, Genesis and Catastrophe, has been screened at numerous festivals around the world, winning top awards at both the Hollywood Film Festival and the Austin Film Festival.
In 2003, at 26-years-old, he directed his first feature film, Darkness Falls, which opened at number one at the box office, for Revolution Studios. The film was nominated for Best Horror/Thriller at the Teen Choice Awards, while the film's star, Emma Caulfield (Caitlin Greene), won Face of the Future from the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films that year.
Liebesman's next film, Rings, which he co-wrote with Ehren Kruger, was a short that garnered high praise from fans of both feature length films, The Ring and The Ring 2, as it offered an insightful transition between the two movies.
Filmmaker Michael Bay's (Producer) five movies have grossed over $1.75 billion in worldwide ticket sales. His newest film, The Island, starring Ewan McGregor, Scarlett Johansson, Djimon Hounsou, Sean Bean and Steve Buscemi is still in release around the world, earning receipts well beyond $100 million.
While Bay Films remains one of the hottest production entities in Hollywood today, the director saw the need to begin another arm of his company, Platinum Dunes, as a way to help new talent hone their skills on smaller projects before being subjected to larger scale, high-budget movies. His first offering with producing partners Andrew Form and Brad Fuller was The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, a remake of the 1974 cult classic. The film opened to excellent reviews and grossed over $110 million worldwide. The company's second film, still in theatres worldwide, The Amityville Horror, continues it's earning potential with current box office receipts over $110 million.
Michael Bay also directed the summer 2003 hit Bad Boys II, his fifth collaboration with producer Jerry Bruckheimer. Prior to that, he directed Pearl Harbor, on which he shared producer credit with Bruckheimer. The film grossed over $450 million worldwide. His first feature film, the original Bad Boys, starred Will Smith and Martin Lawrence; it wowed critics and audiences alike and grossed over $140 million worldwide, making it Columbia Pictures' top-grossing film of 1995. The following year saw the release of Bay's second film; starring Sean Connery and Nicolas Cage, The Rock eclipsed Bay's blockbuster debut, taking in more than $300 million worldwide. His third directing effort, Armageddon, which he produced with Bruckheimer, starred Bruce Willis, Ben Affleck, and Liv Tyler; it took in over $550 million around the globe.
Bay began his career in the advertising industry, directing commercials and music videos for Propaganda Films. In 1995, he was honored by the Directors Guild of America as Commercial Director of the Year. At age 24, he made his first foray out of film school into the music video business. His works for such acts as Meat Loaf, Aerosmith, Tina Turner, Donny Osmond, and the DiVinyls won him huge recognition and led to a number of MTV Best Music Video nominations, and the coveted prize in 1992.
Bay's first television spot - for the American Red Cross - was a Clio winner, and it heralded an expeditious rise from anonymity to renown. Within three years, the Los Angeles native and Wesleyan University graduate had directed some of the best known and professionally acclaimed advertising campaigns in the world. Nike, Budweiser, Coca Cola, Reebok, and Miller Lite were just a few of his clients.
Bay is the youngest director to have won nearly every award bestowed by the advertising industry. He won the Grand Prix Clio for Commercial of the Year for the irreverent "Got Milk?/Aaron Burr" commercial; this famous spot, along with two others in the "Got Milk?" campaign created by Bay, won Best Campaign of the Year at New York's Museum of Modern Art. In Cannes, the world's largest competition for commercials, Bay won the Gold Lion for "The Best Beer" campaign for Miller, and the Silver Lion for the "Got Milk?" spot.
Bay is already at work on his next movie, Transformers, which is readying to begin production in spring of 2006 for Dreamworks SKG and Paramount Pictures.
Andrew Form and Brad Fuller (Producers) are partners at Platinum Dunes, which has a first look deal with Dimension Films. Along with Michael Bay, the duo produced the company's successful first offering, the 2003 remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, which won the Teen Choice Award for Best Horror/Thriller and was nominated for an MTV Movie Award in the same category. The film grossed more than $110 million worldwide. Their next feature, the 2005 adaptation of The Amityville Horror, which is still playing in theatres around the world, has grossed an impressive $110 million to date.
In 2004 Variety included Form and Fuller among the "Top 10 Producers to Watch," and again, this October they were listed in Fade In Magazine's Mojo Rising piece, "The Top 100 in Hollywood," as newcomers making their mark in the industry.
Upcoming Platinum Dunes projects include remakes of the dramatic thriller, The Hitcher and Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 hit, The Birds. The 1986 version of The Hitcher starred Rutger Hauer as John Ryder, a serial killer trying to frame innocent Jim Halsey, played by C. Thomas Howell, whose only crime was to pick up a seemingly innocent hitchhiker while driving cross-country. Jennifer Jason Leigh played truck stop waitress, Nash, who tries to help Halsey outwit his deadly nemesis. The film is set to go before cameras early in 2006. No cast has yet been finalized.
The filmmakers are currently in talks with Universal to complete plans on The Birds. One of Hitchcock's signature films, the story was conceptualized by novelist Daphne Du Maurier. The movie's advertising tag lines are quintessentially 60s: Suspense and shock beyond anything you have seen or imagined!; Nothing you have ever witnessed before has prepared you for such sheer stabbing shock!; The Birds is coming! . . . And the next scream you hear could be your own! The cast list read like a who's who of Hollywood from Rod Taylor to Jessica Tandy and Suzanne Pleshette to newcomers of the day, Tippi Hedren and Veronica Cartwright. Platinum Dunes plans on recreating an equally compelling cast of veteran actors paired with new, exciting talent, as well as capturing picturesque backdrops equal to those of Bodega Bay in the original.
Prior to becoming partners, Fuller produced the films Emmett's Mark starring Gabriel Byrne and Tim Roth, and A Better Way To Die featuring Natasha Henstridge and Andre Braugher, while Form produced The Shrink Is In, starring Courteney Cox and David Arquette; Kissing A Fool starring Jason Lee, David Schwimmer and Bonnie Hunt; and Do Me A Favor with Rosanna Arquette. He also produced documentaries on the making of Crimson Tide and Bad Boys.
Form earned his bachelor degree at the University of Arizona. Fuller is a graduate of Wesleyan University, and previously worked as a talent manager.
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