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Amadeus

1984

Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the hedonistic and remarkably talented young Salzburger composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Amadeus August

Amadeus August was a German actor and singer. Promoted as a womanizer but actually homosexual, he died of complications from HIV infection.

Johnny 'Bananas' Devenanzio

John Amadeus "Johnny Bananas" Devenanzio is a contestant from The Real World: Key West. He is the champion of The Island, The Ruins, Rivals, Battle of the Exes, Free Agents, Rivals III, Champs vs. Stars, and Total Madness

Martin Cavani

Cast · Known for Amadeus

Martin Cavina is known for Amadeus (1984).

Lance Baker

Lance Baker is an award winning Chicago based actor whose career has spanned over 25 years. Chicago credits include: Thom Pain (based on nothing) (Theater Wit); King Lear, Henry VIII and Amadeus (Chicago Shakespeare Theater); Invisible Man and Travesties (Court Theatre); The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs (16th Street Theater); Becky Shaw and Hunger and Thirst (A Red Orchid Theatre); The Humans and Speed the Plow (American Theater Company); Mauritius and Lady (Northlight Theatre); A Steady Rain (Chicago Dramatists); Dollhouse and Lobby Hero (Goodman Theatre); Up Against It (Lookingglass Theatre); This is Our Youth and Dealer's Choice (Roadworks Productions); Mad Forest (Remains Theatre). Regional credits include: Around the World in 80 Days (Lookingglass Theatre/Kansas City Repertory); Fanny Brice: The Real Funny Girl (Asolo Repertory Theatre/Maltz Jupiter Theatre); Sleuth and The Fox on the Fairway (Theatre at the Center); and Ecstasy (Odyssey Theatre Ensemble). He has received one Joseph Jefferson Award and one After Dark Award. He was the director for The Earl and co-director of A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant, both at A Red Orchid Theatre, where he is an ensemble member. He has a B.F.A. in Acting from the Theatre School of DePaul University.

Tom Hulce

Cast · Known for The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Amadeus

Thomas Edward Hulce (born December 6, 1953) is an American actor and theater producer. He is best known for his portrayal of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in the Academy Award-winning film Amadeus (1984), as well as the roles of Larry "Pinto" Kroger in Animal House (1978), Larry Buckman in Parenthood (1989), and Quasimodo in Disney's animated film The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996). Awards include an Emmy Award for The Heidi Chronicles, a Tony Award for Spring Awakening, an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor for Amadeus, and four Golden Globe nominations. He retired from acting in the mid-1990s to focus on stage directing and producing. In 2007, he won the Tony Award for Best Musical as a lead producer of Spring Awakening.

Nicholas Kepros

Cast · Known for Amadeus

Nicholas Kepros (November 8, 1932 – January 26, 2023) was an American film, television and theatre actor. He was known for playing the role of Joseph II in the Broadway play Amadeus, for which he was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play. Kepros was born in Salt Lake City, Utah. He attended medical school at the University of Utah. Kepros began his career in 1958, appearing in the stage play The Golden Six. He appeared in such other plays as Saint Joan, Peer Gynt, The White Rose and the Red, The Plough and the Stars, Henry IV, Part 1, Henry IV, Part II, Hamlet and Execution of Justice. Kepros appeared in television programs including The Golden Girls, Equal Justice, You Are There, and Star Trek: The Next Generation, and also in films such as The Associate, Amadeus, Identity Crisis and Quiz Show. Kepros died on January 26, 2023, in New York City, at the age of 90.

Jeffrey Jones

Cast · Known for The Devil's Advocate, Beetlejuice, Sleepy Hollow

Jeffrey Duncan Jones (born September 28, 1946) is an American character actor, best known for his roles as Emperor Joseph II in Amadeus (1984), Edward R. Rooney in Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986), Charles Deetz in Beetlejuice (1988), Dr. Skip Tyler in The Hunt for Red October (1990), Eddie Barzoon in The Devil's Advocate (1997), and A. W. Merrick in both Deadwood (2004–2006) and Deadwood: The Movie (2019). Jones was born in Buffalo, New York, and studied acting at the Putney School, the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, and Lawrence University. He began his acting career in small parts in film and television in the 1970s. In his best-known roles as Emperor Joseph II in Amadeus, Charles Deetz in Beetlejuice, and Edward R. Rooney in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, his dead-pan expression and distinctive face bring a comic flavor to his characters through their reactions to the situations in which they find themselves, more so than the wit in their scripted lines. Jones has also had a successful career on stage, appearing in productions of The Crucible, The Importance of Being Earnest, and The Glass Menagerie. He has been nominated for two Tony Awards, for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his performance in The Crucible (1988) and Best Featured Actor in a Musical for his performance in The Secret Garden (1991). In 2002, Jones was arrested on charges of child pornography. He pleaded guilty to one count of possession of child pornography and was sentenced to two years of probation.

Philip Lenkowsky

Cast · Known for A Knight's Tale, Amadeus

Philip began his performing career as a silent clown and juggler on the streets of his native NYC. His focus changed to film when he was cast as Woody Allen's assassin in STARDUST MEMORIES. He played Salieri's Servant in Milos Forman's AMADEUS as well as a role in Forman's MAN ON THE MOON and Fritz in James Ivory's SLAVES OF NY. He has worked in Prague as The Guild Agent in the mini-series DUNE, in A KNIGHT'S TALE, and as Cipriani in the French production of NAPOLEON and recently in A BOY CALLED CHRISTMAS and WHITE BIRD and in S. Africa as the psycho killer Cole in SUPERNOVA. TV credits include ER, NCIS, JUDGING AMY and CALIFORNICATION. He currently lives in Warsaw, Poland where he has continued his acting career having played the lead, Jack, in the feature film HEL, Wrona in DIVERSION END, Bronson in THE COLDEST GAME and a role in ZIARNO PRAWDY as well as roles in television serials PARADOKS, BARON 24, and M JAK MILOSC.

Trond Fausa Aurvåg

Cast · Known for Greenland 2: Migration

Trond Fausa Aurvåg (born 2 December 1972) is a Norwegian actor and film director. After graduating from the Norwegian National Academy of Theatre in 2001, he has acted at Oslo Nye Teater since 2001. Here he has acted in plays such as Amadeus, Manndomsprøven and Tatt av kvinnen. As a film actor he is best known for his leading roles in the films Andreaskorset (2004), Den brysomme mannen (2006) and Tatt av kvinnen (2007). He won two Amandas – the main Norwegian film award – in 2006, for best actor for his role in Den brysomme mannen, and for the short film Alene menn sammen, which he directed. Aurvåg cohabits with his girlfriend, actress Lena Kristin Ellingsen, in Oslo.

David Rubin

Casting · Known for Gravity, Margo's Got Money Troubles, Matilda

David began his career as a production assistant on "Saturday Night Live". He entered the casting field as an assistant and then associate to Mary Goldberg on such films as "Ragtime", "Silkwood" and "Amadeus". David then moved to Los Angeles to team with veteran casting director Lynn Stalmaster on "The Name of the Rose", "The Big Easy" and many other films. Opening his own casting company, David was responsible for assembling the casts of such films as: "The Addams Family", "The War of the Roses", "Fried Green Tomatoes", "My Cousin Vinny", "The Firm", "Four Weddings and a Funeral", "Get Shorty", "Romeo + Juliet", "The English Patient", "Men in Black", "My Best Friend's Wedding", and "The Talented Mr. Ripley". In partnership with Richard Hicks, David cast the films "Hairspray", "Lars and the Real Girl", "Recount" (HBO), "The Smurfs" and "Game Change" (HBO), for which they received the 2012 Emmy Award. Most recently, David worked with director Jean-Marc Vallee ('Dallas Buyers Club') casting his film 'Wild' for Fox Searchlight and with Warren Beatty on his upcoming Howard Hughes film. In 2001, David was the recipient of the Hollywood Film Festival Award for Outstanding Career Achievement in the Field of Casting, presented by Sydney Pollack. In October 2002, Baz Luhrmann presented him with an Honorary Career Achievement Award from the Casting Society of America.

Elizabeth Berridge

Cast · Known for Amadeus

Elizabeth Berridge (born May 2, 1962) is an American film and theatre actress. She is best known for playing Constanze Mozart in the Miloš Forman period drama film Amadeus (1984), Melanie in Five Corners (1987), and for her comedic roles as Charlotte on the Norman Lear sitcom The Powers that Be (1992–1993), and Officer Eve Eggers on The John Larroquette Show (1993–1996). Description above from the Wikipedia article Elizabeth Berridge, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Richard Frank

Cast · Known for Amadeus

Richard Edward Frank (January 4, 1953 – August 27, 1995) was an American actor. He was perhaps best known as Father Vogler in the 1984 movie Amadeus.

Miroslav Ondříček

Cinematographer · Known for Amadeus

Miroslav Ondříček (4 November 1934 – 28 March 2015) was a Czech cinematographer who worked on over 40 films, including Amadeus, Ragtime and If..... Miroslav Ondříček was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia (now Prague, Czech Republic). He studied filmmaking at the Barrandov Studio Training School and began making movies during the Czech New Wave. His first feature film work was on Miloš Forman's Talent Competition. He continued his long working relationship with Forman in the US on such films as Hair (1979), Ragtime (1981) and Amadeus (1984). He also collaborated with the British film director Lindsay Anderson on two films: If.... (1968) and O Lucky Man! (1973). Ondříček died in Prague at the age of 80. Description above from the Wikipedia article Miroslav Ondříček, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Peter Shaffer

Writer · Known for Amadeus

Peter Shaffer was an English playwright, screenwriter, and novelist. He wrote numerous award-winning plays, most notably Equus and Amadeus, of which several were adapted into films.

Theodor Pištěk

Costume Design · Known for Amadeus

Theodor Pištěk (born 25 October 1932 in Prague) is a Czech artist known for creating photo-realistic drawings and paintings, movie costumes and decorations. He won the Academy Award for Best Costume Design for the film Amadeus, and received an Academy Award nomination in the same category for the film Valmont. He is the son of actor Theodor Pištěk and Marie Ženíšková. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague as a pupil of Vratislav Nejezchleba. In 1967, he designed the art concept for the pavilion Člověk a jeho svět (Man and his World) at the Expo Montreal. In the 1970s, after he left the career of a car racer, he focused more on painting and art installation. He participated in around 105 films, his works were exhibited at dozens of exhibitions around the world. In the 1970s, Pištěk created cartoons for the children's magazine Ohníček. He is the creator of the Prague Castle Guard uniforms. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Michael Sheen

Cast · Known for Passengers, The Twilight Saga: New Moon, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1

Michael Christopher Sheen (born 5 February 1969) is a Welsh actor and political activist. After training at London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), he worked mainly in theatre throughout the 1990s and made notable stage appearances in Romeo and Juliet (1992), Don't Fool With Love (1993), Peer Gynt (1994), The Seagull (1995), The Homecoming (1997), and Henry V (1997). His performances in Amadeus at the Old Vic and Look Back in Anger at the National Theatre were nominated for Olivier Awards in 1998 and 1999, respectively. In 2003, he was nominated for a third Olivier Award for his performance in Caligula at the Donmar Warehouse. He has become better known as a screen actor since the 2000s through his roles in various biographical films. He has starred in a trilogy of films as British politician Tony Blair: the television film The Deal (2003), followed by The Queen (2006) and The Special Relationship (2010). For the role, he was nominated for both a BAFTA Award and an Emmy. He was also nominated for a BAFTA as the troubled comic actor Kenneth Williams in BBC Four's 2006 Fantabulosa!, and was nominated for a fourth Olivier Award in 2006 for portraying the broadcaster David Frost in Frost/Nixon. He starred as the controversial football manager Brian Clough in The Damned United (2009). In 2009, he appeared in two fantasy films, Underworld: Rise of the Lycans and The Twilight Saga: New Moon. He also appeared in the science-fiction film Tron: Legacy (2010), and Midnight in Paris (2011). He directed and starred in National Theatre Wales's The Passion (2011). He also played a lead role in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 in 2012. In 2013, he received a Golden Globe nomination for his role in Showtime's television drama Masters of Sex (2013–2016). He played an incarcerated serial killer surgeon in Fox's 2019 drama, Prodigal Son, an angel in the 2019 BBC/Amazon Studios miniseries Good Omens, and appeared as Chris Tarrant in Quiz in 2020. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Cynthia Nixon

Cast · Known for Sex and the City, The Gilded Age

Cynthia Ellen Nixon (born April 9, 1966) is an American actress, activist, and theater director. For her portrayal of Miranda Hobbes in the HBO series Sex and the City (1998–2004), she won the 2004 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. She reprised the role in the films Sex and the City (2008) and Sex and the City 2 (2010), as well as the television show And Just Like That... (2021–present). Her other film credits include Amadeus (1984), James White (2015), and playing Emily Dickinson in A Quiet Passion (2016). Nixon made her Broadway debut in the 1980 revival of The Philadelphia Story. Her other Broadway credits include The Real Thing (1983), Hurlyburly (1983), Indiscretions (1995), The Women (2001), and Wit (2012). She won the 2006 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for Rabbit Hole, the 2008 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, the 2009 Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for An Inconvenient Truth, and the 2017 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for The Little Foxes. Her other television roles include playing political figures Eleanor Roosevelt , Kade Prenall in NBC Hannibal Warm Springs (2005), Michele Davis in Too Big to Fail (2011), and playing Nancy Reagan in the 2016 television film Killing Reagan. In 2020, she appeared in the Netflix drama Ratched. On March 19, 2018, Nixon announced her campaign for Governor of New York as a challenger to Democratic incumbent Andrew Cuomo. Her platform focused on income inequality, renewable energy, establishing universal health care, stopping mass incarceration in the United States, and protecting undocumented children from deportation. She lost in the Democratic primary to Cuomo on September 13, 2018, with 34% of the vote to his 66%. Nixon was nominated as the gubernatorial candidate for the Working Families Party; the party threw its support to Cuomo after Nixon lost in the Democratic primary. Description above from the Wikipedia article Cynthia Nixon, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Amy Irving

Cast · Known for Carrie

Amy Davis Irving (born September 10, 1953) is an American actress and singer, who worked in film, stage, and television. Her accolades include an Obie Award, two Golden Globe Award nominations, and one Academy Award nomination. Born in Palo Alto, California, to actors Jules Irving and Priscilla Pointer, Irving spent her early life in San Francisco before her family relocated to New York City during her teenage years. In New York, she made her Broadway debut in The Country Wife (1965–1966) at age 13. Irving subsequently studied theater at San Francisco's American Conservatory Theater and at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art before making her feature film debut in Brian De Palma's Carrie (1976), followed by a lead role in the 1978 supernatural thriller The Fury (1978). In 1980, Irving appeared in a Broadway production of Amadeus before being cast in Yentl (1983), for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. In 1988, she received an Obie Award for her Off-Broadway performance in a production of The Road to Mecca, and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for her performance in the comedy Crossing Delancey (1988). Irving went on to appear in the original Broadway production of Broken Glass (1994) and the revival of Three Sisters (1997). In film, she starred in the ensemble comedy Deconstructing Harry (1997), and reprised her role in The Rage: Carrie 2 (1999) before co-starring opposite Michael Douglas in Steven Soderbergh's crime-drama Traffic (2000). She subsequently appeared in the independent films Thirteen Conversations About One Thing (2001) and Adam (2009). From 2006 to 2007, she starred in the Broadway production of The Coast of Utopia. In 2018, she reunited with Soderbergh, appearing in a supporting role in his horror film Unsane.

Lawrence McGrandles Jr.

Lawrence grew up in London but spent every summer with his grandparents on their farm just outside the small fishing village of Bantry on the west coast of Ireland. Lawrence attended an all boys school until the age of sixteen when, for his drama lessons, he had to attend an all girls school nearby. After working in jobs ranging from selling tents to labouring, Lawrence successfully auditioned for a one year acting course. Shortly after completing the one year course he was accepted at the prestigious theatre school, Drama Centre London where he trained for a further three years. Lawrence graduated on a Friday and started work the following Monday on an opera directed by Drama Centre alumni Simon Callow. Lawrence made his West End theatre debut in Sir Peter Hall's production of Amadeus at The Old Vic, which starred Michael Sheen and David Suchet. Lawrence's television debut came when he worked again with David Suchet on Poirot: Evil Under The Sun (2001). Lawrence has been training in the Japanese martial art of Jiu Jitsu for many years and now holds the rank of Black Belt (4th dan).

Cindy Katz

Cindy Katz is an American actress known for her work in film, television, and theater. She trained at the Yale School of Drama and began her career with important stage roles before transitioning to screen appearances. Katz has appeared in notable films such as The Age of Innocence (1993), I Love Trouble (1994), and Heat (1995). Television credits include guest roles on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Frasier, Friends, Star Trek: Voyager, Fringe, Law & Order, and The Good Wife among others. She has been recognized for her versatility and depth as a performer, and on Broadway she earned an Outer Critics Circle Award nomination for her role as Constanze in Amadeus. Katz remains active in theater and screen acting, continuing to take on a variety of roles across genres and platforms.

Mark Nelson

Cast · Known for Friday the 13th

Mark Nelson (born September 26, 1955) is an American actor mostly known for playing Ned in Friday the 13th (1980). He has appeared in the Broadway productions of Angels in America (2018), Cabaret (2016), After the Fall, The Invention of Love, Three Sisters, Picasso at the Lapin Agile (Obie Award), A Few Good Men, Rumors, Broadway Bound, Biloxi Blues, Brighton Beach Memoirs, and Amadeus. He teaches theater at Princeton University and HB Studio in New York, where he studied acting with Uta Hagen.

Brian McEleney

Brian McEleney is an Actor of both theatre and film. A graduate of Trinity College and the Yale School of Drama, he is founding director of the Brown University/Trinity Rep M.F.A. Acting Program. He has acted in over 75 plays, including An Iliad, King Lear, Richard II, Richard III, Julius Caesar, The Glass Menagerie, …Edgar Allan Poe, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, The Odd Couple, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Cider House Rules, Angels in America, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Threepenny Opera, Cherry Orchard, Amadeus. Director: Over 25 productions as Trinity Rep Associate Director, including Death of a Salesman, To Kill a Mockingbird, Blues for Mister Charlie, Ivanov, The Grapes of Wrath, House & Garden, Absurd Person Singular, The Crucible, Twelfth Night, The Dreams of Antigone, A Raisin in the Sun, All the King’s Men, Our Town, Hamlet, Measure for Measure.

Colin Hoult

Colin is a character actor probably best known for working with Ricky Gervais on Afterlife (Netflix) as dodgy showbiz agent Ken Otley - his improvised 'Taxi Driver the Musical' going viral online. He also worked with Gervais on Netflix's Derek as obnoxious handyman Geoff and in Life's Too Short (BBC2) as camp spiritual guru Bryan, also written by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant. Branching out into more dramatic roles, Colin has recently appeared in Amazon drama A Very Royal Scandal alongside Micheal Sheen, in ITV's Code of Silence, and is soon to appear in Brassic, Amadeus and the latest series of Slow Horses. Colin is known for his many regular and guest television roles in Ghosts, the Flatshare, Black Ops, Being Human, Almost Never, Nurse and Murder in Successville. Colin is also known in live comedy as one of the countries best character comedians. His live shows have received great critical acclaim and a loyal following. His hit Carnival of Monsters trilogy led to two Radio 4 series and his beloved character has-been actress Anna Mann has a huge cult following. Colin's most recent live show 'Colin', a show where he finally played himself telling the funny and moving story of his Nottingham upbringing, is being adapted into a family sitcom, with Colin naturally playing the lead.