Katie Aselton was born on 1 October 1978 in Milbridge, Maine. She is an American film director, producer, and actress best known for 2005's The Intervention, which she produced and starred on alongside husband Mark Duplass. She directed and co-starred in The Freebie, which will be shown in the non-competition 'Next' category at the Sundance Film Festival in 2010. She and Duplass previously showed a short f ...

Ever since his emergence onto the world stage with "Trainspotting" (1996), his stark, but viciously funny look at a group of heroin-addicted friends living in Edinburgh, Boyle managed to chart his own unique path without having to bow to studio pressures. Though he dipped his toe into Hollywood waters with his underwhelming adaptation of "The Beach" (2000), Boyle nonetheless created frenzied and highly-styl ...

Perky, red-haired actress Bonnie Franklin is best remembered regarding playing plucky unique mom Ann Romano on the long-running sitcom a exclusive Day at a Time (1975-1984). Franklin started her carrying out career at age 12 when she appeared in a Alfred Hitchcock made-for-television motion picture The Wrong Man in 1956; that year she furthermore appeared in a feature-film episode of the Kettle family saga, ...

Lena Dunham was born and raised in New York City by two artists, the painter Carroll Dunham and his wife, the photographer Laurie Simmons. Though she grew up in SoHo, Dunham attended St. Ann’s School in Brooklyn Heights. After graduating, Dunham briefly attended the New School before transferring to Oberlin College, where she graduated with a degree in creative writing in 2008. After graduating from college ...

Sci-fi filmmaker J.J. Abrams will direct "Star Wars: Episode VII," Walt Disney Co said after days of speculation, giving hope to many long-suffering fans who were disappointed by the last three installments in the iconic franchise. The announcement was greeted with celebrations on online networks by the films' army of enthusiasts who have already watched Abrams rescue the aging "Star Trek" series with a hig ...

Tony Scott, director of such Hollywood hits as "Top Gun," ''Days of Thunder" and "Beverly Hills Cop II," died Sunday after jumping from a Los Angeles County bridge, authorities said. The 68-year-old Scott's death was being investigated as a suicide, Los Angeles County Coroner's Lt. Joe Bale said. "I can confirm that Tony Scott has passed away. The family asks that their privacy is respected at this time," S ...

Melanie Laurent was born on February 21, 1983, in Paris, France. A chance meeting with one of France's most celebrated actors in 1998 resulted in the launching of her own career as an actress soon after. During a visit to the set of Asterix et obelix contre Cesar, Gerard Depardieu noticed the then 15-year-old Melanie Laurent, and asked her to appear in his upcoming project Un pont entre deux rives (A Bridge ...

With her blue eyes, pillow lips and sex-kitten-on-helium voice, Joey Lauren Adams looks and sounds like Melanie Griffith's long-lost little sister. Adams, however, is an actress in her own right, having done solid work in a number of films, including Dazed and Confused and Chasing Amy. Hailing from North Little Rock, Arkansas, where she was born January 6, 1971, Adams began acting early in her life, perform ...

A graduate of Brown University, JoBeth Williams launched her acting career on the East Coast repertory theater circuit. Williams made her Broadway bow in 1980's A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking and gained a TV following as a regular on the daytime serials The Guiding Light and Somerset. She made an impressible film debut in a "flash part" in the Oscar-winning Kramer vs. Kramer (1979). Williams' ...

A goggle-eyed, ditzy blonde, Goldie Hawn's looks alone make her a natural for the kind of breathless comedy in which she originally made her name. Though she has built a lucrative career with her screen persona of a vivacious, giggly, and befuddled naif, Hawn's onscreen antics conceal her real-life level-headedness: Beneath the wide expanse of her blue eyes lies a shrewd, intelligent, and multi-talented wom ...