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Perfect Blue

1998

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Rising pop star Mima Kirigoe quits singing to pursue a career as an actress. After she takes up a role on a popular detective show, her handlers and collaborators begin turning up murdered. Harboring feelings of guilt and haunted by visions of her former self, Mima's reality and fantasy meld into a frenzied paranoia.

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R. Martin Klein

R. Martin Klein was born on May 11, 1957 as Robert Mark Klein. He is an actor and casting director, known for Perfect Blue (1997), Digimon Adventure Tri. 2: Decision (2016) and The Bouncer (2000).

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Junko Iwao

Cast · Known for Perfect Blue, Chibi Maruko-chan

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Junko Iwao (岩男 潤子, Iwao Junko, born February 18, 1970 in Beppu, Ōita) is a Japanese voice actress and singer. Her most notable role is in Cardcaptor Sakura, providing the voice to Sakura's best friend and cousin, Tomoyo Daidōji. She also voiced lead character Mima Kirigoe in Perfect Blue,[3] Ceres in Ceres, Celestial Legend, and Kikyo in Hunter x Hunter. In video games, she voiced Pai Chan in Virtua Fighter, Mint in Tales of Phantasia and Serika in To Heart.

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Christopher Carroll

Christopher Carroll (born March 11, 1937) is an American character actor known for a wide range of roles in television, film, and voice acting. He is recognized for his portrayal of Adolf Hitler in the Adam Sandler comedy "Little Nicky" (2000) and has appeared in films such as "Perfect Blue" (1997) and "Primal Fear" (1996). Carroll has guest-starred on numerous popular TV shows including "The Waltons," "Cheers," "Hunter," "Saved by the Bell," "Friends," "The West Wing," "Charmed," "Desperate Housewives," and many others. He is also known for his voice work in the English version of "Perfect Blue" and voice roles in Star Trek video games. Carroll’s career spans decades, showcasing his versatility across various genres and media.

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Bridget Hoffman

Bridget Hoffman (born 1961/1962) is an American voice actress and ADR writer who has provided voices for a number of English-language versions of Japanese anime films and television series, usually under an alias such as Ruby Marlowe. Prior to her involvement in anime, she had some on-screen acting roles in films and television including Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and other media produced by Sam Raimi. Some of her major voice roles are title characters such as Belldandy in Ah! My Goddess: The Movie, Mizuho Kazami in Please Teacher!, Mima Kirigoe in Perfect Blue, and Lain Iwakura in Serial Experiments Lain. She also voiced lead ensemble characters as Rune Venus in El Hazard, Miaka Yuki in Fushigi Yûgi, Raquel Casull in Scrapped Princess, Fuu Hououji in Magic Knight Rayearth, Shinobu Maehara in Love Hina, Nia Teppelin in Gurren Lagann, and Irisviel von Einzbern in Fate/Zero. She served as the ADR director for the Fushigi Yûgi series and films, Ah! My Goddess: The Movie, and a series of shorts called The Adventures of Mini-Goddess. She also provides background voices in a number of animated films recorded in the Los Angeles area, including Frozen, Epic and Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2. In video games, she provides the voice of KOS-MOS in the Xenosaga series as well as Atoli in the .hack//G.U. series. ... Source: Article "Bridget Hoffman" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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Emma Tate

Cast · Known for Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom, Pinocchio: Unstrung

Emma Tate is a British voice actress. She is known for many roles including the voice of Perfect Peter in Horrid Henry, Harry in Harry and His Bucket Full of Dinosaurs, Raggles and Bluebird in Everything's Rosie, Katsuma and Luvli in Moshi Monsters: The Movie, Kipper in The Magic Key and Gran in Kazoops.

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Stacey Sargeant

Stacey Sargeant is an actress. She can be seen in the critically acclaimed Netflix film, The Forty-Year-Old Version, and in the third season of Nat Geo's, Genius: Aretha as Dinah Washington. She most guest starred on CBS’ Blue Bloods and had a recurring role on Bull. Her filmmaking debut, Though I'm Not Perfect, an autobiographical documentary short about the physical and psychological dangers of the ballet world to young girls, won the Honolulu Film Award for Best Educational Film.

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David S. Lee

Cast · Known for The Librarians, Black Panther

David was born in 1971. David's career started in theater in South Africa in 1990. His most recent stage credits include :"I love you, You're perfect, Now change"; "The Official Tribute to the Blues Brothers"; "The Return to the Forbidden Planet" and "The Rocky Horror Show". He has an extensive list of commercial credits, a few of which have garnered awards world-wide. "Final Solution" is his first major film credit. His performance in the film has stirred up enough interest in The United States to land him a top U.S. Agent. He has just completed a co-starring role in the hit television series "Fastlane" on the Fox network for Warner Bros. and guest appearance in the series “Charmed”. He recently returned home to star in the “Isidingo” mini series “THE TRUTH” and will be shooting in Maputo on Ed Zwick’s film “Blood Diamond”.

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Vincent Ticali

Vincent Ticali is a NY actor, singer, musician, commercial print model and voice actor. His recent film work includes Every Little Thing We Kill, Who Killed Pushkin? and Ali and the Queens. Festival award winning films include: In Sickness, Black N Blue, The Last Taxi Driver and A Box Came to Brooklyn. For television and the web, he has appeared on Blindspot, The Perfect Murder and on Nickelodeon. On stage, Vincent has most recently been seen in the original drama, Delta in The Sky With Diamonds...or Maybe Not (starring Austin Pendleton). Vinny also enjoys his work in front of a microphone as bassist/vocalist in the popular NY party band, Current Affair!

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Ursula Andress

Ursula Andress (born 19 March 1936) is a Swiss actress and former model who has appeared in American, British, and Italian films. Her breakthrough role was as Bond girl Honey Ryder in the first James Bond film, Dr. No (1962). She later starred as Vesper Lynd in the 1967 Bond parody Casino Royale. Other credits include Fun in Acapulco (1963), 4 for Texas (1963), She (1965), The 10th Victim (1965), The Blue Max (1966), The Southern Star (1969), Perfect Friday (1970), Red Sun (1971), The Sensuous Nurse (1975), Slave of the Cannibal God (1978), The Fifth Musketeer (1979), Clash of the Titans (1981), and Peter the Great (1986). Ursula Andress, the third of six children, was born on 19 March 1936 in Ostermundigen, Canton of Bern, to a Swiss mother, Anna, and Rolf Andress, a German diplomat. Her father was expelled from Switzerland for political reasons and her grandfather, a garden designer, became her guardian. She has a brother, Heinz, and four sisters, Erika, Charlotte, Gisela, and Kàtey. Andress went to school in Bern until she was 16 and learned several languages, including English, French, German, and Italian. She studied art in Paris for a year, then went to Rome, where she worked various jobs including being a children's nanny. Andress was at a party when she met a film producer who offered her a screen test for a role in an Italian film. She was successful and was cast in walk-on parts in An American in Rome (1954) (starring Alberto Sordi), Sins of Casanova (1955) (starring later Bond ally Gabriele Ferzetti), and La catena dell'odio (1955). She was seen by a Hollywood executive who persuaded her to try her luck in Hollywood. Andress arrived in Hollywood in late 1955. That spring she was signed to a seven-year contract with Paramount Pictures, starting at $287 a week. The contract brought no acting roles, owing to her reluctance to learn English. "I spent most of my time watching old Marlene Dietrich movies", she said. Andress received some publicity for dating James Dean shortly before the actor's death. She bought herself out of her contract and in 1956 signed with Columbia Pictures. She made no films for them either. She stayed in Hollywood when she married John Derek in 1957. In 1959, it was announced she and Derek would star in a film, High Variety, but no film resulted. Source: Article "Ursula Andress" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.

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Jacqueline Defferary

Jacqueline Defferary is a British actress. She is married to actor Alasdair Craig. Defferary's first screen role was in 1992 as Daisy in The Ruth Rendell Mysteries serial "Kissing the Gunner's Daughter". She has also appeared in several episodes of ITV police drama The Bill. In 1995 she appeared in two sitcoms starring Rowan Atkinson. In the Mr. Bean: Live Action Series episode Tee Off, Mr. Bean, she played a woman in a launderette, and in The Thin Blue Line episode titled "Yuletide Spirit", she played a homeless woman. The same year she was in an episode of the Gerry Anderson television series Space Precinct as Lynn/Srprite. In 1997 she appeared as Julie (7 episodes) in the short-lived BBC sitcom A Perfect State. In 1997 she had a role in Cadfael (Season 3, Episode 2, "St Peter's Fair") as Emma Vernold, and also played "Cicely" in the comedy sketch "Look Listen & Take Heed – Women Keep Your Virtue" on Harry Enfield and Chums. She originated the role of Sally in the stage play Cleo, Camping, Emmanuelle and Dick (based on the Carry On series of films), and played the role again in 2000 for its television adaptation, renamed Cor, Blimey!. In 2001 she starred in the Urban Gothic episode "The End" as Lucy Morgan. 2006 saw her feature in Elizabeth David: A Life in Recipes. In 2009 she appeared as Mrs Taylor in four episodes of the BBC One soap opera EastEnders. In 2014 she appeared in Agatha Christie: Ordeal By Innocence (TV Mini-Series) as Glenda. In 2018 she appeared in Father Brown "The Devil You Know" (Series 6 Episode 6) as Shirley Krieger. Her film credits include Red Mercury (Amanda),[7] Pandaemonium (Miss Holland) and I'll Sleep When I'm Dead (Annie, waitress).

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Todd Kimsey

Todd Grant Kimsey was an American actor noted for various supporting roles on TV and film. He was born in Athens, GA where he attended high school. Kimsey then attended Davidson College and Florida State University, where he was an intern for the Burt Reynolds Theater in Florida. He then went on to work as an actor and dance in New York, appearing in several stage productions, including a traveling production of Biloxi Blues. Todd moved to Los Angeles and immediately booked his first show Doogie Howser, MD. He has since then been in more than 50 TV shows and movies, most notably The Perfect Storm, Seinfeld, 24, and NCIS LA. Todd was married to Lisa Kimsey and they had three sons, Jackson, Judah, and Kellen. After a three and a half year battle with lymphoma, Todd passed away on September 16, 2016 from complications from a stem cell transplant. He is survived by his wife, children, parents Dr. William and Linda Kimsey, siblings Terri Langford, Tracey Evans, and Dr. Troy Kimsey, and 13 nieces and nephews.

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Rob LaZebnik

Rob LaZebnik (born May 6, 1962) is an American television writer. He graduated from David H. Hickman High School in Columbia, Missouri and Harvard University. He currently works as a co-executive producer on The Simpsons and is credited with having written 20 episodes: "Treehouse of Horror XI" (the "G-G-G-Ghost D-D-D-Dad" segment), "Homer vs. Dignity", "Father Knows Worst", "Boy Meets Curl", "The Blue and the Gray", "The Daughter Also Rises", "The Changing of the Guardian", "The War of Art", "The Kids Are All Fight", "Friend with Benefit", "The Girl Code", "The Burns Cage", "Pork and Burns", "Throw Grampa from the Dane", "Baby You Can't Drive My Car", "101 Mitigations", "E My Sports" and "Frinkcoin". He co-created the Macromedia Flash cartoon series Starship Regulars on Icebox.com, and it was picked up by television network Showtime but never aired. He then co-created the series Greetings from Tucson, which aired for one season on The WB. LaZebnik has also been credited with writing episodes of Monk, The War at Home, Less Than Perfect, The Ellen Show and Empty Nest. His wife, Claire LaZebnik, is an author.

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Peter Friedman

Cast · Known for Succession, Love & Other Drugs

Peter Friedman (born April 24, 1949) is an American stage, screen, and television actor. Born in New York City, Friedman graduated from Hofstra University before making his Broadway debut in The Great God Brown in 1972. Additional theatre credits include The Visit (1973), Piaf and A Soldier's Play (both 1981), The Heidi Chronicles (1989), Ragtime (1998), and Twelve Angry Men (2004). He has been nominated for the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical, Outstanding Actor in a Play, and Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play. On television, Friedman starred as patriarch George Silver in Brooklyn Bridge, has made numerous guest appearances in such series as Miami Vice, Law & Order, NYPD Blue, Without a Trace, Ghost Whisperer, and Damages, and had a featured role in Perfect Murder, Perfect Town: JonBenét and the City of Boulder. Friedman's many feature film credits include Prince of the City, Daniel, The Seventh Sign, Single White Female, I'm Not Rappaport, I Shot Andy Warhol, Safe, Freedomland, The Savages, and I'm Not There. Friedman married actress Joan Allen in 1990. The couple divorced in 2002. They have one daughter, Sadie, born in March 1994.

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Carlos Gómez

Carlos Gomez's career spans over twenty years in film, television and theatre. The award winning actor was one of the leads of the A&E series "The Glades". Garnering critical praise prior to its launch, The Glades became the most watched original drama series telecast in A&E network history. Carlos also received a 2011 Imagen Award for best supporting actor in a television series for the show. Audiences will remember Carlos as "Chuy", the ex boyfriend of the talented and beautiful Salma Hayek in the hit romantic comedy Fools Rush In. Other film credits include The Negotiator, Enemy of the State, The Repalcement Killers, A Day Without a Mexican, The Perfect Game, And All About Steve starring Sandra Bullock. In 2003, he appeared as Lieutenant Alvarez in the Academy Award nominated film House of Sand and Fog, starring Sir Ben Kingsley, and Academy Award winner Jennifer Connelly. In television he appeared as paramedic Raul Melendez in the hit series ER which garnered him a Sag Award for best ensemble cast for the episode "The Healers". He has portrayed an extensive variety of roles in some of the highest rated TV shows such as, Friends, Nypd Blue, Boston Legal, Ncis, Criminal Minds, In Plain Sight, Charmed, Shark and the critically acclaimed Showtime series Sleeper Cell and Weeds. In theatre, Carlos completed over three hundred performances as Kevin Rosario on Broadway in the Tony Award winning musical 'In The Heights'. His two songs Inutil and Atencion were both part of the Grammy Award winning soundtrack musical as well. Carlos resides in Los Angeles, New York and Miami. - IMDb Mini Biography

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Sanaa Lathan

Cast · Known for Nip/Tuck

Sanaa McCoy Lathan (/səˈnɑ/ born September 19, 1971) is an American stage, film, television, and voice actress. She is the daughter of actress Eleanor McCoy and film director Stan Lathan. She earned bachelor's degree in English from University of California, Berkeley, and a master's degree in drama from Yale. She is best known for her roles as Robyn in The Best Man films and subsequent TV miniseries on Peacock, Naomi Hicks on Netflix's Hit & Run, Violet Jones in Nappily Ever After, Ashe Akino on Fox's drama Shots Fired, Deputy Director Natalie Austin in Now You See Me 2 (2016), Leah Vaughn in The Perfect Guy (2015), Jenelle Wilson on Showtime's drama The Affair, Mona Fredricks on Starz' drama Boss, Andrea in Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys (2008), Beneatha Younger in ABC's film adaptation of A Raisin in the Sun (2008), Kenya McQueen in Something New (2006), Ann Merai Harrison in Out of Time (2004), Sidney 'Sid' Shaw in Brown Sugar (2002), Monica Wright in Love & Basketball (2000), Zora Banks in Disappearing Acts (2000), Alicia in The Wood (1999), Vanessa Brooks - the mother of Wesley Snipes' title character - in Blade (1998), and Briana Gilliam on NBC's sitcom Lateline. She had recurring roles on HBO's Succession and FX's Nip/Tuck, and starred on NBC's short-lived sitcom Built to Last. In 2022, she received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series, for her work on the television series Succession. Her other movie credits include With/In Vol 1 (2021) and Vol 2 (2022), American Assassin (2017), Contagion (2011), Powder Blue (2009), AVP: Alien vs. Predator (2004), and more. She voiced Catwoman on HBO's animated series Harley Quinn, and Donna Tubbs on The Cleveland Show and on all Family Guy appearances. In 2004, she starred on Broadway as Beneatha Younger in A Raisin in the Sun with Sean Combs, Audra McDonald, and Phylicia Rashad, and received a Tony Award nomination for Best Performance by a Featured Actress. She later reprise her role in the 2008 film adaptation. In 2010, she starred in the all-black performance of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at the Novello Theatre in London. She earned a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for her recurring role on Succession. She received an NAACP Image Award Nomination for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture for her performance in Brown Sugar. She received a NAACP Image Award nomination for her performance in The Best Man. She earned an Essence Award for Best Actress for her performance in Disappearing Acts. She earned the 2001 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture, an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Actress, and a BET Award for her performance in Love & Basketball. In 2000, she was named by Ebony magazine as one of its 55 Most Beautiful People and was honored by Essence magazine and Black Entertainment Television. In 2022, she made her directorial debut with the film On the Come Up, in which she also has a supporting role.

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Tom Downing

Tom Downing is an Irish-American television and film actor, producer, and writer. Along with his work on the Emmy Winning The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Chicago PD, Shameless, and BULL, his first major film was playing the lead in the dark comedy The Life & Death of an Unhappily Married Man. The film went on a 50 city international film festival tour winning over 20 awards including 14 for Best Film and over 30 nominations. Winning Best Actor and Actor of the Year, he garnered acclaim for a "truly great lead performance". That year, Whistler International Film Festival named it a Top Pick alongside Carol (Cate Blanchett), Trumbo (Bryan Cranston), and Born To Be Blue (Ethan Hawke). The film went on to win the Canada Int'l Film Festival "Rising Star Award" and the "Extra Mile Award" from the Sydney Indie Film Festival. Following a worldwide release, it became a "Top-Selling Comedy" distributed through Time-Warner, Sony, Amazon, and iTunes platforms. The following year, he appeared in Keep The Change (Best U.S. Film Winner, Tribeca Film Festival - Kino Lorber North American Theatrical) and Hustlers starring Jennifer Lopez which grossed $157.6 million globally. Tom recently starred in the multi award-winning film Skeletons alongside Robin Lord Taylor (Gotham). Tom is the creator, producer, and writing supervisor of Greetings! From Prison, an award-winning dark comedy series starring himself along with Rusty Schwimmer (The Perfect Storm), John Reynolds (Stranger Things), and Chris Redd (Saturday Night Live). The show is a Silver Award Winner for Excellence in Internet Television (DC Webfest) and winner of Best Premise and Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series (LA Webfest). Tom was born to a large Irish Catholic family in Cleveland, Ohio. At 14, he began his creative work by taking music, singing, and acting classes while making small indie films and running his own radio show in Lafayette, IN. where he spent his formative years. Tom is a graduate of the world famous training centers The Second City Conservatory, The iO Theatre, Chicago's Artistic Home, and Purdue University where he was named the first recipient of their Outstanding Alumni Award in Film & Video Studies. In addition to acting, he is also a country and western singer and guitar player and drummer and is also an experienced acrylic painter. He splits his time between Los Angeles and New York City.

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Anita La Selva

Anita La Selva is a Canadian actress. La Selva was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She began her acting career in the early 1990s, appearing in a number of television shows and films. In 1994, she was cast as Zo'or in Earth: Final Conflict. Zo'or was an androgynous alien who was a member of the alien race known as the Taelons. La Selva's performance as Zo'or was praised by critics, and she won a Gemini Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 1996. La Selva has continued to work in television and film since Earth: Final Conflict. She has appeared in a number of other television shows, including Street Legal (2000-2001), The L Word (2004), and Rookie Blue (2010-2015). She has also appeared in a number of films, including Mommy's Prison Secret (2017) and The Perfect Husband (2018). In addition to her acting career, La Selva is also a singer and songwriter. She has released two albums, Anita La Selva (2004) and The Way I Feel (2010).

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Carlos Saldanha

Director · Executive Producer · Known for 100 Days, Ice Age: Collision Course, Ice Age: Continental Drift

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Carlos Saldanha (born July 20, 1968) is a Brazilian director of animated films. He was the director of Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006) and Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009), and the co-director of Ice Age (2002) and Robots (2005). Saldanha was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He left his hometown in 1991 to follow his artistic instinct and passion for animation. With a background in computer science and a natural artistic sensibility, he found New York City the perfect locale to merge these skills and become an animator. He attended the MFA program at New York's School of Visual Arts, where he graduated with honors in 1993, after completing two animated shorts, The Adventures of Korky, the Corkscrew (1992) and Time For Love (1993). The shorts have been screened at animation festivals around the world. At SVA, Saldanha met Chris Wedge, one of the cofounders of Blue Sky Studios, who invited him to join their growing team of artists. He also worked as animator on Wedge's short film Bunny. Description above from the Wikipedia article Carlos Saldanha, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.​

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Huey Lewis

Huey Lewis (born Hugh Anthony Cregg III, July 5, 1950) is an American singer, songwriter, and actor, best known as the lead vocalist and harmonica player of the rock band Huey Lewis and the News. The band achieved massive success in the 1980s with hits such as “The Power of Love,” “Hip to Be Square,” and “Stuck with You,” and their album Sports (1983) remains one of the best-selling pop releases of all time. Born in New York City and raised in Marin County, California, Lewis attended Strawberry Point Elementary School (where he skipped second grade) and Edna Maguire Junior High School. His mother, Magda Cregg, was a Polish refugee, and his maternal grandfather invented the red wax sealant used on certain cheeses. After his parents divorced when he was 13, he was sent to the Lawrenceville School in New Jersey, graduating in 1967 with a perfect 800 on the math SAT. He enrolled at Cornell University in the engineering program but dropped out in his junior year in December 1969 to pursue music. As a teenager, Lewis hitchhiked across the country, stowed away on a plane to Europe, and spent time busking in Madrid, Spain, where he became an accomplished blues harmonica player. Upon returning to the U.S., he joined the Bay Area band Clover in 1971, adopting the stage name Huey Lewis (inspired by poet Lew Welch, his mother’s longtime partner). Clover recorded two albums in the UK with producer Mutt Lange but struggled as punk rock overshadowed their pub-rock sound. While Lewis was on vacation, the rest of the band backed Elvis Costello on his debut album My Aim Is True. Clover disbanded in 1979. In 1979, Lewis formed Huey Lewis and the American Express, which soon became Huey Lewis and the News. After a unsuccessful self-titled debut in 1980, the band broke through with Picture This (1982) and exploded with Sports (1983), which sold over 10 million copies in the U.S. and produced multiple Top 10 hits. Their follow-up Fore! (1986) also reached No. 1. Lewis wrote or co-wrote many of the band’s songs and contributed harmonica to notable recordings, including Thin Lizzy’s Live and Dangerous (1978). The band’s music featured prominently in popular culture, most notably with “The Power of Love” in Back to the Future (1985), in which Lewis also had a cameo. They contributed to “We Are the World” and scored 14 Top 20 Billboard Hot 100 hits during the 1980s and early 1990s. In 1995, Lewis sued Ray Parker Jr. over similarities between “I Want a New Drug” and the Ghostbusters theme. The case was settled out of court. Lewis has also produced for artists such as Nick Lowe and Bruce Hornsby. In 2018, Lewis was forced into semi-retirement after being diagnosed with Ménière’s disease, which caused severe hearing loss. By 2025, he reported total deafness, though a cochlear implant has partially restored his ability to hear speech. Despite this, the band continues to tour occasionally, and Lewis remains active in other projects. In 2024, the jukebox musical The Heart of Rock and Roll, based on the band’s catalog, premiered on Broadway. In February 2025, he was the inaugural inductee into the People’s Music Hall of Fame.

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William Ragsdale

William Ragsdale (born Robert William Ragsdale) is an American actor. He graduated from Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas studying religion and humanities. His parents gave him a graduation present in the form of tuition for the Drama Studio London’s American school at Berkeley, California. He's known for playing teenaged vampire slayer Charley Brewster in the horror vampire film Fright Night. He also garnered attention onstage in Neil Simon's plays, Biloxi Blues and Brighton Beach Memoirs, two of the three parts of Simon's trilogy, which ends with Broadway Bound. He starred in the romance comedy movie Mannequin Two: On the Move (1991). He featured for three years as Herman Brooks in the series Herman's Head, had a brief recurring role in the television series Judging Amy, and played television producer Rob Fields on the series Grosse Pointe, which lasted one season. He starred in the short-lived sitcom Brother's Keeper, and appeared on Ellen as the boyfriend of Ellen Morgan (played by Ellen DeGeneres) before her character revealed her homosexuality. He's had numerous guest roles on television throughout the years, including multi-episode stints on Less than Perfect, Necessary Roughness, Mistresses, Search Party, and Younger, as well as small feature movie roles. He played the role of Gary Hawkins in 12 episodes of the drama series Justified, during the series' first three seasons. In 2014, he played Chris Smith in the remake of the movie Left Behind.

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Tyra Ferrell

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Tyra Ferrell (born March 29, 1962) is an American actress. Ferrell was born in Houston, Texas. She moved from Houston to New York after high school and began her career on stage including roles on Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music (1981) and Ain't Misbehavin on Broadway. She made her screen debut in a small role in the 1981 comedy film So Fine, and later appeared in Lady Beware, School Daze, The Mighty Quinn, and The Exorcist III. On television, she guest-starred in Hill Street Blues, The Twilight Zone, and Quantum Leap, and had recurring roles on Square One Television, The Bronx Zoo, and Thirtysomething. In 1990, Ferrell was regular cast member on the short-lived CBS sitcom City starring Valerie Harper. In 1991, Ferrell played supporting roles in the films Boyz n the Hood and Jungle Fever. In the same year, she was listed as one of twelve "Promising New Actors of 1991" in John A. Willis' Screen World. The following year, she starred alongside Wesley Snipes in the comedy film White Men Can't Jump, and later had supporting roles in Equinox, Poetic Justice and The Perfect Score. Ferrell also played the leading role alongside Mare Winningham in the 1993 Lifetime Television movie Better Off Dead. In 1994, she had the recurring role as Dr. Sarah Langworthy during the first season of the NBC medical drama ER, and from 1996 to 1997 she co-starred alongside Corbin Bernsen on the syndicated science fiction series The Cape. In 2000, Ferrell co-starred alongside Khandi Alexander in the HBO miniseries The Corner. She later guest-starred on Soul Food, The Shield and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. In 2004, she was nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special for her role in the ABC television film NTSB: The Crash of Flight 323. She returned to acting ten years later with the leading role in Tasha Smith's directorial debut, Boxed In. In 2015, Ferrell was cast in a recurring role on the second season of Fox's prime-time soap opera Empire.

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Richard Ng Man-tat

Cast · Known for Shaolin Soccer

Richard Ng Man-tat (Chinese: 吳孟達, 2 January 1952 - 27 February 2021) was a veteran actor in the Hong Kong film industry, with dozens of titles under his belt. Ng worked with famous actor and director Stephen Chow in a series of "mo lei tau" movies ("mo lei tau" translates to "brainless"/"senseless or random," and it is a genre of slapstick comedy unique to Hong Kong). Ng co-starred with Stephen Chow in a Hong Kong TVB television series called Dun Fei Final Combat (1989), and also the popular 1990 film All for the Winner, where he played the role of Chow's uncle. From then on, the two would grow to star in many more "mo lei tau" films in the same style as All for the Winner. Although Ng Man-Tat owed much of his popularity from co-starring with Chow in "mo lei tau" films, he showed himself to be a versatile enough actor to successfully portray various different roles. A perfect example of his talent was in his portrayal of Sister 13's father in Portland Street Blues, where he played a man who could not feel anything but abuse and rejection. This role proved to be the perfect complement to his usual "mo lei tau" style with Stephen Chow. He also played Andy Lau's sidekick in the Lee Rock series in a more serious role. In Hong Kong, Ng Man-Tat was often known as "Uncle Tat", a nickname most likely influenced from his roles as Stephen Chow's sidekick (often as his uncle) in their films. Ng was sometimes credited as Richard Ng. Even though he was Stephen Chow's good friend, he stopped starring in his movies because he didn't want to be known as "Stephen Chow's Sidekick".

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Lena Klenke

Lena Klenke is a German actress, born on October 15, 1995, in Berlin as Anna Lena Klenke. She made her film debut at the age of 13 in 2010 in Baran bo Odar’s award-winning drama The Silence, in which she portrayed a teenage girl who disappeared without a trace. She became known for her role as Laura Schnabelstedt in the successful film series Suck Me Shakespeer (parts 1–3, 2013–2017), complemented by appearances in films such as Victoria (2015), Beck’s Last Summer (2015), Rock My Heart (2017), and The Silent Revolution (2018). Her recent roles include series such as How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast) (Netflix, 2019–2024, as Lisa), The Doubters (ARD, 2023–2024, as Alex), The Wedding (ARD, 2024, as Simone Streuble), as well as TV films like Perfect Match (Prime Video, 2023). She has received several awards, including the Bavarian Film Award for Best Young Actress in 2016 for Suck Me Shakespeer 2 and the Hessian Film and Cinema Award in 2024 for The Doubters. Standing 165 cm tall with an athletic build, blonde hair, and blue eyes, she speaks fluent English, masters dialects such as Berlin dialect, and practices sports like boxing and horseback riding; she lives in Berlin and Munich.