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Garon Grigsby

Garon Michael

Garon Akbar Clark

Armen Garo

Armen Garo is an American actor born Troy, New York. He holds a BS in Speech Communication from Emerson College. In 1985, he joined the East Providence Police Department in East Providence. While there he earned his BS Degree in Criminal Justice from Roger Williams College and MS Degree in the Administration of Justice from Salve Regina.

Gabrielle Garo

Janeane Garofalo

Cast · Known for Ratatouille, Stranger Things: Tales from '85

Janeane Garofalo (born September 28, 1964) is an American stand-up comedian, actress, political activist and writer. She is the former co-host on the now defunct Air America Radio's The Majority Report. Garofalo continues to circulate regularly within New York City's local comedy and performance art scene. Description above from the Wikipedia article Janeane Garofalo, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Matt Garofalo

Richard Garon

Lauren Garofalo

Mika Hijii

Cast · Known for GARO

Mika Hijii is a Japanese actress and gravure idol best known for her role as Kaoru Mitsuki in the Garo series. She is also known in the western world for her role as Namiko Takeda in the 2009 martial arts film Ninja and its 2013 sequel Ninja: Shadow of a Tear. Mika Hijii is affiliated with Stardust Promotion.

Alexia Traverse-Healy

Alexia Traverse-Healy grew up in Kennington, South London and the Tarn et Garonne, South of France. Her parents were sometime school teachers, shop managers, hotel owners, PR consultants. She attended Woldingham School in Surrey and later several schools in France. She returned to England and studied first at Cardiff University and later at Central School of Speech and Drama. Alexia's first professional show was Silviu Purcarete's 'Scapino' at the Chichester Festival. Her breakthrough moment was joining Michael Boyd's 'Histories' - a two year ensemble, which won an Olivier for 'Best Ensemble Performance'.

Yukijiro Hotaru

Cast · Known for GARO

Born 1951 in Saitama, Japan, Yukijiro Hotaru (螢雪次朗) is a Japanese actor. He is best known for the role of Gonza Kurahashi in the Garo television franchise.

Hiroyuki Watanabe

Hiroyuki Watanabe was a Japanese actor. He primarily acted in dramas, of which a handful are tokusatsu series. One of his latest roles was as Taiga Saejima in the tokusatsu series GARO. He also played Kamen Rider Gaoh in the Kamen Rider Den-O movie, Kamen Rider Den-O: I'm Born!.

Malia Baker

Cast · Known for Descendants: The Rise of Red, Descendants: Wicked Wonderland

Malia Baker (born December 18, 2006) is a Motswana-Canadian actress. Born in Garobone, Botswana and then moved to Vancouver, Canada at a young age, Malia Baker is the eldest daughter of a Motswana man and a Jewish-Canadian woman. She is best known for her roles as Mary Anne Spier in the Netflix series The Baby-Sitters Club (2020-2021) and Chloe Charming in the Disney Channel franchise Descendants.

Masakazu Katsura

Masakazu Katsura is a Japanese manga artist, known for several works of manga, including Wing-Man, Shadow Lady, DNA², Video Girl Ai, I"s, and Zetman. He has also worked as character designer for Iria: Zeiram the Animation, Tiger & Bunny and Garo -Guren no Tsuki-, as well as the video game Astral Chain.

Paula Patton

Cast · Known for Déjà Vu, Warcraft

Paula Maxine Patton (born December 5, 1975) is an American actress and producer. She's known for her roles as Daniella Hernandez on BET’s film Sacrifice and its' subsequent series, Brea in Traffik, Laura Price on ABC's series Somewhere Between, Garona Halforcen in Warcraft, Alison in the 2014 remake of About Last Night, Deb Rees in 2 Guns, Jane Carter in Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, Morgan Alexander in Just Wright, Blu Rain in Precious, Claire Kuchever in Déjà Vu, Angel in Idlewild, and Mandy in Hitch. In 1991, at age 15, she met recording artist Robin Thicke, who was then 14, at an under-21 hip-hop club called Balistyx (co-founded and co-hosted by David Faustino) on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles, when he asked her to dance. According to Thicke, he sang Stevie Wonder's "Jungle Fever" to her as they danced. The couple did not begin dating until 1993 and married on June 11, 2005. She gave birth to their son, Julian Fuego, on April 6, 2010. They announced their separation on February 24, 2014, after 21 years together and almost nine years of marriage. On October 8, 2014, she officially filed for divorce and joint custody of their son. The divorce was finalized on March 20, 2015.

Corey Landis

Corey Landis has had an extensive range of careers in acting, writing and music. Landis studied theatre at Ohio University where he was also a member of the sketch comedy troupe The Comedy Sloth. On screen, he may be recognized for his early work on That '70s Show (1998) playing the younger version of Kurtwood Smith's character 'Red Forman'. Other screen credits include the Sci-Fi film Chrysalis (2008) and the family film Lost in the Woods (2009) where he co-starred with 'Michael Madsen'. Landis made noticeable appearances in several uniquely-different Sci-Fi creature/horror films starting with Jim Wynorski's Dinocroc vs. Supergator (2010), starring the late David Carradine, Camel Spiders (2011), Dracula: Reborn (2012) and Sharkansas Women's Prison Massacre (2015). He has appeared in several pilots including "Paulie" with Paul Sorvino and Janeane Garofalo. He's been in many short films including the award-winning The Man from Mars (2016), and has appeared in over 150 commercials, frequently as the spokesman--most notably Overstock, Bridgestone, 5 Hour Energy, Taco John's, and Papa Murphy's Pizza. He co-directed the feature documentary "Toy Masters" about the creation of the He-Man toy line. Landis is a piano player and singer-songwriter and has released five albums of original material, the most recent of which ("Corey Landis & The Attacks") was produced by Beatles engineer and legendary Grammy Award winner Geoff Emerick. He also composed the songs for the the award-winning jazz musical short Funky Butt (2018).

Tony Spiridakis

Tony Spiridakis (born in Queens, New York City) is an American - Greek film director, writer, actor, producer and playwright best known for such films as Queens Logic, Tinseltown, The Last Word, If Lucy Fell and Ash Tuesday. He is the writer of Ezra, which he produced with director Tony Goldwyn, William Horberg, and Jon Kilik. The film, which stars Bobby Cannavale, Robert DeNiro, Rose Byrne, Whoopi Goldberg and Vera Farmiga, follows a struggling comedian and his autistic son on a cross-country road trip. It premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and is being released theatrically by Bleecker Street nationwide in May 2024. Spiridakis has developed scripts for Dustin Hoffman, Richard Dreyfuss, and Diane Keaton as well as for iconic producers such as Laura Ziskin, Stacey Snider, Mary Parent, and Warren Littlefield. Other films include Tinseltown, based on his acclaimed play Self Storage, both starring Ron Perlman and Joe Pantoliano; Noise, which he directed and produced, starring Ally Sheedy and John Slattery; the documentary road trip film Driving to Ground Zero; and If Lucy Fell, starring Sarah Jessica Parker and Ben Stiller. Spiridakis’ play The Last Word had a successful run in Los Angeles before he adapted, produced, and directed the film starring Timothy Hutton. His post-9/11 drama, Beyond The Ashes, co-starred Spiridakis with Giancarlo Esposito, Janeane Garofalo, and Tony Goldwyn. Spiridakis’ TV credits include co-creating and producing the Fox series The Heights with Academy Award-winning screenwriter Eric Roth, the CBS crime drama Falcone with Academy Award-winning screenwriter Robert Moresco, and the Netflix legal drama Justice with Emmy-winning writer William Finkelstein. Spiridakis studied at the Yale School of Drama and has appeared in dozens of TV and films, including House, L.A. Law, The Equalizer, Bay City Blues, and Death Wish 3. Additionally, he produced and acted in Academy and Tony Award-winning writer Doug Wright’s play Callbacks and worked with Stanley Kubrick on the film Full Metal Jacket. Currently, Spiridakis is a writer and consulting producer on the MGM+ apocalyptic drama series Earth Abides, based on the 1949 sci-fi novel by George R. Stewart.. He is also adapting Sandy Greenberg’s acclaimed memoir, Hello Darkness, My Old Friend, for Wayfarer Studios. Projects in development include The Angry One, Sospiro Di Vita (Breath of Life), and Mike's Place, the true story of a blues bar in Tel Aviv during the Second Intifada that survives the devastation of a suicide bombing, for director Todd Komarnicki, with Antoine Fuqua and Andrew Levitas producing. A longtime educator who is passionate about working with emerging filmmakers, Spiridakis is the Founder and Executive Director of the North Fork Arts Center in Greenport, N.Y. In 2012 he co-founded the Manhattan Film Institute, an intensive film workshop and mentorship program that has produced nearly 300 short films and transformed the lives of many filmmakers. Spiridakis is a father of two and a strong advocate for autism awareness.

Gil Perkins

Gilbert Vincent Perkins (24 August 1907 – 28 March 1999) was an Australian film and television actor. A champion athlete and trackman in his native northern Australia, Gil Perkins always wanted to get into films; as a teenager he virtually ran away from home, taking a job as a deck hand on a Norwegian freighter. He eventually landed in Hollywood in the late '20s, during the era of part-silent, part-talkie movies, and (because his accent was mistaken for English) he played young Englishmen in some of his first films. He soon drifted into stuntwork, regularly doubling cowboy star William Boyd and putting a red toupee over his own blond hair to double 'Red Skelton', among others. Some of his most notable stunt jobs were in the sci-fi/horror field. He doubled star Bruce Cabotthroughout King Kong (1933), stood in for Spencer Tracy as Mr. Hyde in Dr. Jekyll et Mr. Hyde (1941) and replaced Bela Lugosi as the Monster in the climactic battle sequence of Frankenstein rencontre le loup-garou (1943). In addition to his feature films, Perkins turned up regularly in serials and on TV. On many occasions he worked with special effects and rigging departments, setting up large action scenes. By the 1960s he was doing more acting than stunts; he "officially" retired in 1972, although he took a number of subsequent jobs. - IMDb Mini Biography

Morgan J. Freeman

Morgan J. Freeman (born December 5, 1969) is an American film director. In 1997, his debut feature, Hurricane Streets, became the first narrative film to win three awards at the Sundance Film Festival (Audience Award, Best Director, and Best Cinematography). The film was bought by MGM/UA and distributed the following year. Morgan received a BA in film studies from UC Santa Barbara in 1992. Morgan spent the following year in Paris studying film theory at the Sorbonne. In 1993, he entered NYU's's Graduate Film Program where he earned his MFA. During the summer of 1994, Morgan interned at a small production company where he was introduced to Todd Solondz, who was prepping to shoot Welcome to the Dollhouse. Morgan was an Assistant Director on Dollhouse, which went on to win the 1996 Grand Jury Prize at Sundance. It was on this film that he befriended actor Brendan Sexton III, the eventual star of Hurricane Streets. Following the critical success of Hurricane Streets, Freeman wrote and directed Desert Blue. The film was distributed by the Samuel Goldwyn Company and reteamed Freeman with Brendan Sexton III. The film starred Christina Ricci, Casey Affleck, Ethan Suplee, Peter Sarsgaard and Kate Hudson (in her film debut). In 2000, Freeman wrote and directed The Cherry Picker for Showtime starring Janeane Garofalo. He directed several music videos, including two for the breakout indie band Rilo Kiley, and directed the teen hit Dawson's Creek for The WB. In 2001, Freeman directed American Psycho 2 for Lions Gate Entertainment. In 2003, he helmed the independent feature Piggy Banks, which starred Gabriel Mann, Kelli Garner and Tom Sizemore. Later that year, Freeman produced the MTV reality TV show Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County. In 2007, he created and executive produced the television series Maui Fever, another MTV reality series. Just Like the Son, premiered to immediate audience and critical acclaim at the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival and won the Alice Nella Citta Prize for Best Feature Film at its European debut in Italy at the 2006 Rome Film Festival. The film stars Mark Webber, Brendan Sexton III and Rosie Perez. Freeman most recently directed the 2009 film Homecoming, starring Mischa Barton. He produces the new MTV reality shows 16 and Pregnant and Teen Mom. Freeman currently lives in New York City where he is writing his next screenplay. Description above from the Wikipedia article Morgan J. Freeman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Marguerite Duras

Marguerite Germaine Marie Donnadieu (4 April 1914 – 3 March 1996), known as Marguerite Duras, was a French novelist, playwright, screenwriter, essayist, and experimental filmmaker. Her script for the film Hiroshima mon amour (1959) earned her a nomination for Best Original Screenplay at the Academy Awards. Duras was born Marguerite Donnadieu on 4 April 1914, in Gia Định, Cochinchina, French Indochina (now Vietnam). Her parents, Marie (née Legrand, 1877–1956) and Henri Donnadieu (1872–1921), were teachers from France who likely had met at Gia Định High School. They both had previous marriages. Marguerite had two brothers: Pierre, the older, and the younger Paul. Duras' father fell ill and he returned to France, where he died in 1921, when Duras was seven years old. Between 1922 and 1924, the family lived in France while her mother was on administrative leave. They then moved back to French Indochina when she was posted to Phnom Penh followed by Vĩnh Long and Sa Đéc. The family struggled financially, and her mother made a bad investment in an isolated property and area of rice farmland in Prey Nob, a story which was fictionalized in Un barrage contre le Pacifique (The Sea Wall). In 1931, when she was 17, Duras and her family moved to France where she successfully passed the first part of the baccalaureate with the choice of Vietnamese as a foreign language, as she spoke it fluently. Duras returned to Saigon in late 1932 where her mother found a teaching post. There, Marguerite continued her education at the Lycée Chasseloup-Laubat and completed the second part of the baccalaureate, specializing in philosophy. In autumn 1933, Duras moved to Paris, graduating with a degree in public law in 1936. At the same time, she took classes in mathematics. She continued her education, earning a diplôme d'études supérieures (DES) in public law and, later, in political economy. After finishing her studies in 1937, she found employment with the French government at the Ministry of the Colonies. In 1939, she married the writer Robert Antelme, whom she had met during her studies. During World War II, from 1942 to 1944, Duras worked for the Vichy government in an office that allocated paper quotas to publishers and in the process operated a de facto book-censorship system. She then became an active member of the PCF (the French Communist Party) and a member of the French Resistance as a part of a small group that also included François Mitterrand, who later became President of France and remained a lifelong friend of hers. Duras' husband, Antelme, was deported to Buchenwald in 1944 for his involvement in the Resistance, and barely survived the experience (weighing on his release, according to Duras, just 38 kg, or 84 pounds). She nursed him back to health, but they divorced once he recovered. In 1943, when publishing her first novel, she began to use the surname Duras, after the town that her father came from, Duras, Lot-et-Garonne. In 1950, her mother returned to France from Indochina, wealthy from property investments and from the boarding school she had run. ... Source: Article "Marguerite Duras" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.