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Sierra Mccormick was born in Asheville, NC and grew up in Palm Springs, CA. She began performing in film and television at a young age, and had a number of roles on different network TV shows throughout the late 2000s, including Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader, Criminal Minds, Supernatural, Monk, and Curb Your Enthusiasm. Later, she worked on larger studio films including Land of the Lost and 20th Century Fox's Ramona & Beezus. From 2011 to 2013 she was a series regular on the TV show ANT Farm, and in 2014 starred in the horror film Some Kind of Hate, for which she was nominated for the Fright Meter Award. Following this, she worked in many genre-spanning features including Lionsgate's The Honor List and Lifetime's Sorority Nightmare. She is starring in the upcoming film The Vast of Night, (which won the Slamdance Film Festival audience award and the Overlook Film Festival grand jury prize) as well as the ensemble horror piece V.F.W.- Actress
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Born in Asheville, North Carolina, Bellamy is a graduate of Yale University. She also studied at Oxford University in England. In New York, she starred on Broadway as Mary in Cy Coleman's "The Life" and also as Meg in the revival of Stephen Sondheim's "Merrily We Roll Along". Other notable theater credits include Margaret in the world premiere of Randy Newman's "Faust" and LouAnn in the world premiere of Lanford Wilson's "Book of Days".- Actor
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Paul Schneider was born on 16 March 1976 in Asheville, North Carolina, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Lars and the Real Girl (2007), Elizabethtown (2005) and All the Real Girls (2003).- Actress
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Hannah Kepple (Born Nov. 2000) is an upcoming and rising American Actress, and she is known primarily for her recurring role as "Moon" on the American web series titled "Cobra Kai." She also has worked on some smaller projects and TV Shows, including documentaries and some other TV Series. Also made an appearance as Emily on "Tell Me Your Secrets"(2019) and Kristy Ray on "Your Worst Nightmare,"(2019) one of which is a Mini Series and the other being a documentary made and filmed for Television.- Actor
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Chris Chalk was born on 7 December 1977 in Asheville, North Carolina, USA. He is an actor and director, known for IT: Welcome to Derry (2025), Perry Mason (2020) and Our Deadly Vows (2023). He is married to Kimberley Dalton Mitchell.- Actress
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Jessy Hodges was born in Asheville, North Carolina, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Barry (2018), Indebted (2020) and PEN15 (2019). She has been married to Beck Bennett since 25 August 2018. They have one child.- Pat Finley was born on 14 October 1938 in Asheville, North Carolina, USA. She is an actress, known for The Rockford Files (1974), The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970) and The Bob Newhart Show (1972).
- Trinity Whiteside was born in Asheville, North Carolina. His father is Mickie Whiteside of Lake Lure, North Carolina and his mother is Cynthia Ray of Asheville. His father is African-American and his mother is Caucasian. He was identified as an intellectually gifted child early on in life, scoring in the top eight percent in the nation on the California Achievement Test given to elementary school students. He was also deemed to be gifted artistically as well, with a fondness of illustration. He married his wife, Nikkia Whiteside, on September 13, 2002. They have three children, Makaiya Young, Nikolas Trinity Whiteside and Skye Jordan Whiteside. He decided to pursue a career in acting in 2013 upon the suggestion of his wife after revealing it to be his life's passion. His first appearance was as a football player on BET's "The Game" during 2013. Shortly after he landed several other parts including roles on the CW's "The Originals", "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay", "Lila and Eve", "Masterminds" and "Barbershop 3". It wasn't until he began working on "The Fate of The Furious", that he landed his biggest role yet, receiving his SAG-AFTRA eligibility for his work.
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Shirley Hemphill was born on 1 July 1947 in Asheville, North Carolina, USA. She was an actress, known for What's Happening!! (1976), What's Happening Now! (1985) and The Love Boat (1977). She died on 10 December 1999 in West Covina, California, USA.- Thomas Rickman was born on 17 August 1982 in Asheville, North Carolina, USA. Thomas is an actor, known for Stream (2024) and Terrifier 2 (2022).
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Sam Irvin is a veteran film and television director, producer, screenwriter, author, journalist and educator.
After beginning his career as the assistant to Brian De Palma on "Dressed to Kill," Irvin has directed many movies, including "Guilty as Charged" (Rod Steiger, Lauren Hutton, Heather Graham, Isaac Hayes), "Acting on Impulse" (C. Thomas Howell, Linda Fiorentino, Nancy Allen, Paul Bartel Isaac Hayes, Cassandra Peterson), "Out There" (Billy Campbell, Rod Steiger, Billy Bob Thornton, Jill St. John, Paul Dooley, Robert Picardo, Julie Brown), "Fat Rose and Squeaky" (Louise Fletcher, Cicely Tyson, Julie Brown, Lea DeLaria), "Magic Island" (Zachery Ty Bryan, French Stewart, Isaac Hayes, Martine Beswick), "Oblivion" and its sequel "Oblivion 2: Backlash" (George Takei, Julie Newmar, Isaac Hayes, Meg Foster, Maxwell Caulfield), "A Very Cool Christmas" (George Hamilton, Donna Mills), "Deadly Skies" (Antonio Sabato Jr., Rae Dawn Chong, Michael Moriarty), "Proof of Innocence" (Joely Fisher, Denise Richards, Patrick Muldoon, Jim O'Heir, Debra Wilson), "My Santa" (Samaire Armstrong, Matthew Lawrence, Julie Brown, Jim O'Heir, Paul Dooley), and "Kiss of a Stranger" (Mariel Hemingway, Dyan Cannon, David Carradine) for which he also wrote the original screenplay.
Irvin has also produced a dozen additional films, including co executive producing Bill Condon's Academy Award winning motion picture, "Gods and Monsters"(Sir Ian McKellen, Brendan Fraser, and Lynn Redgrave).
For television, Irvin directed three entire seasons of the supernatural series "Dante's Cove"(Tracy Scoggins, Charlie David, Thea Gill, Stephen Amell, Booboo Stewart, Reichen Lehmkuhl), for which he also co wrote the theme song. Irvin has also directed all episodes of the comedy series "From Here! On OUT" (Terry Ray, T. J. Hoban, Juliet Mills, Suzanne Whang, Julie Brown). He also directed several episodes of Comedy Central's "Strip Mall"(Julie Brown, Cindy Williams, Stella Stevens, Maxwell Caulfield, Jim O'Heir, Carolyn Hennesy).
Irvin's first book "Kay Thompson: From Funny Face to Eloise" was published by Simon & Schuster and honored by Kirkus Reviews and the Theatre Library Association Awards as one of the "Best Biographies of the Year." While researching the life of Thompson, Irvin served as a historical consultant for the Tony Award winning Broadway event "Liza's at the Palace"(a recreation of Thompson's nightclub act performed by her goddaughter Liza Minnelli). Irvin also produced and annotated the 3 CD compilation "Think Pink! A Kay Thompson Party"(Sepia Records).
Between projects, Irvin is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts where he teaches graduate courses on directing. He resides in Los Angeles.
Biography in more detail:
Sam Irvin was born and raised in Asheville, North Carolina. In 1964, when he was eight years old, Irvin went on a family trip to California where he was able to tour various movie studios. At Warner Brothers, he watched an elaborate sequence being filmed for Blake Edwards's "The Great Race" starring Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon and Natalie Wood. In a giant water tank on a sound stage, Irvin watched with wide eyes as a nighttime storm scene unfolded, featuring antique cars floating across the Bering Strait on icebergs. From that moment on, he decided he wanted to direct movies. Commandeering his father's Super 8mm home movie camera, Irvin directed numerous horror movie shorts, including one starring his younger brother, Tim, as Dracula wearing a black beach towel for a cape, plastic fangs, and lots of ketchup.
Like the young boy in "Cinema Paradiso," Irvin spent much of his youth in movie theaters. His grandfather, Warren Irvin, was the district manager for Wilby-Kincey Theaters, a chain of cinemas throughout the Southeast. And his father, Sam Irvin Sr., co owned Irvin-Fuller Theaters, a competing chain with cinemas in North and South Carolina. During his youth, Irvin worked in these theaters in every capacity, from popping popcorn to tearing tickets to organizing horror movie kiddie matinées (with an emphasis on Vincent Price, Roger Corman, and Hammer Films). Later, during his college years, he worked for Irvin-Fuller Theaters as its Advertising and Publicity Manager, spearheading a record breaking year long run of "Silver Streak"(Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor) at the Gamecock Cinema in Columbia, South Carolina.
As a teenager, he edited and published Bizarre (1972 to 1975), a fanzine on fantasy, horror and science fiction films, for which he traveled to England to conduct in-person interviews with the likes of Vincent Price, Christopher Lee (on the set of the James Bond movie "The Man with the Golden Gun"), Peter Cushing, Diana Rigg, Ingrid Pitt, Jane Seymour, Joan Collins, Terence Fisher, Freddie Francis, and Sir James Carreras and his son, Michael Carreras (of Hammer Film Productions), among many others. (See retrospective 13 page spread on the history of Bizarre in Richard Klemensen's Little Shoppe of Horrors, issue number 27, October 2011.)
In 1978, Irvin graduated from the University of South Carolina with a Bachelor of Arts in Media Arts. While attending the university, he was the film critic for the Gamecock, the campus newspaper, and won a student film award for his thesis short film. He was also chairman of the University of South Carolina Film Committee that ran a year round cinema program at the campus theater.
During his summer break in 1977, Irvin interned on the Chicago location shooting for Brian De Palma's "The Fury" (Kirk Douglas, John Cassavetes, Amy Irving, Charles Durning). He worked on the feature as a production assistant and extra, and also wrote a journal on the making of the movie that was published in Cinefantastique magazine, Vol. 7, No. 2, 1978. Irvin also conducted an exclusive interview with Amy Irving in which, for the first time anywhere, she discussed her relationship with Steven Spielberg; it was published in Cinefantastique, Vol 6, No. 4 and Vol. 7, No. 1 (a special double "Star Wars" issue, 1978).
Irvin next served as Associate Producer and Production Manager on Brian De Palma's "Home Movies" starring Kirk Douglas, Nancy Allen, and Keith Gordon. Then, Irvin worked as De Palma's assistant on "Dressed to Kill" starring Michael Caine, Angie Dickinson, Nancy Allen and Keith Gordon.
He also worked closely with De Palma on several projects in development, including "Blow Out"(which eventually De Palma directed, starring John Travolta and Nancy Allen), and "Prince of the City"(which was originally going to star Robert De Niro from a script by David Rabe, but was ultimately directed by Sidney Lumet starring Treat Williams).
Irvin gave up his position as De Palma's assistant to produce "The First Time," a coming of age comedy for which De Palma served as a credited Creative Consultant. Executive produced by Robert Shaye and released by New Line Cinema, the film starred Tim Choate, Wendie Jo Sperber, Wallace Shawn, Cathryn Damon and Jane Badler.
During the 1980s, Irvin served as Vice President of Marketing for three film distributors: United Artists Classics, Spectrafilm, and Vestron. During this period, Irvin won Hollywood Reporter Key Art Awards for designing the movie posters for Francois Truffaut's "Confidentially Yours" and Paul Verhoeven's "The Fourth Man." He also helped spearhead the record breaking year long run of Jean-Jacques Beineix's "Diva" in New York City.
Irvin's first directorial effort, which he also wrote and produced, was the 1985 dark comedy short "Double Negative" starring Bill Randolph, Justin Henry, Wayne Knight, and William Finley. It premiered as an official selection at the Sundance Film Festival and subsequently played theatrically in New York and Los Angeles. Janet Maslin of the New York Times wrote that it was "an exceptionally promising first effort." This short film has been included as an extra bonus featurette on the 2013 European Blu-Ray DVD release of Brian DePalma's "The Fury."
Irvin went on to direct many feature films, including:
"Guilty as Charged" starring Rod Steiger, Lauren Hutton, Heather Graham, and Isaac Hayes. (The film won the Gold Special Jury Award for Best Independent Feature at Houston Worldfest.)
"Out There" a Showtime Original Movie starring Billy Campbell, Billy Bob Thornton, Rod Steiger, Jill St. John, Paul Dooley, Robert Picardo, David Rasche, Bill Cobbs, and Julie Brown.
"Acting on Impulse" a Showtime Original Movie starring C. Thomas Howell, Linda Fiorentino, Nancy Allen, Paul Bartel, Mary Woronov, Isaac Hayes, and Cassandra Peterson.
"Fat Rose and Squeaky" a Showtime Original Movie starring Louise Fletcher, Cicely Tyson and Julie Brown.
"A Very Cool Christmas" (aka "Too Cool for Christmas") starring George Hamilton and Donna Mills.
"Deadly Skies"(aka "Force of Impact") starring Antonio Sabato Jr., Rae Dawn Chong and Michael Moriarty.
"Elvira's Haunted Hills" starring Cassandra Peterson as Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, and Richard O'Brien. (The film won the Audience Award at the 2002 Provincetown International Film Festival.)
"My Santa" starring Samaire Armstrong, Matthew Lawrence, Julie Brown, Jim O'Heir, and Paul Dooley.
"Proof of Innocence" starring Joely Fisher, Denise Richards, Patrick Muldoon, Jim O'Heir, and Debra Wilson.
From his own original screenplay, Irvin directed the Showtime Original Movie "Kiss of a Stranger" starring Mariel Hemingway, Dyan Cannon, Corbin Bernsen and David Carradine.
Irvin directed the cult science fiction westerns "Oblivion" and its sequel "Oblivion 2: Backlash" starring Julie Newmar, George Takei, Isaac Hayes, Meg Foster and Maxwell Caulfield. ("Oblivion" won the Gold Award for Best Fantasy / Science Fiction Feature at Houston Worldfest.)
He also directed the Disney Channel time travel pirate fantasy "Magic Island" starring Zachery Ty Bryan and French Stewart.
For television, Irvin directed several episodes of Comedy Central's "Strip Mall" starring Julie Brown, Cindy Williams, Stella Stevens, Maxwell Caulfield, Jim O'Heir, and Carolyn Hennesy.
Irvin has directed all episodes of the comedy series "From Here! On OUT" starring Terry Ray, T. J. Hoban, Juliet Mills, Suzanne Whang, Julie Brown.
Irvin directed three full seasons of "Dante's Cove" starring Tracy Scoggins, Charlie David, Jenny Shimizu, Thea Gill, Stephen Amell, Booboo Stewart, and Reichen Lehmkuhl. (Irvin also co wrote the series' international hit theme song, "Dying to Be with You").
Also for television, Irvin directed the opening of the 100th Anniversary of the World Series (2003), for Fox Television (a "through the ages" montage featuring the music of and starring Sheila E.).
Irvin directed several segments for the 2004 Super Bowl including a comedy sketch starring Eugene Levy as a scientist trying to improve the entertainment value of football. Other vignettes included Will Smith, Drew Barrymore and Jimmy Fallon.
And, for the Fox Sports opening of the 2007 Sugar Bowl, Irvin directed "Dueling Musicians," shot on the streets of New Orleans.
After directing several American financed films in Romania, Irvin was invited by Romanian based Mediapro Studios to direct "Garcea si oltenii," a spin-off of Romania's most popular television show, starring a Monty Python-like sketch comedy group known as Vacante Mare. It became the highest grossing motion picture in Romanian history up to that time, beating previous record holder, James Cameron's "Titanic."
Also in Romania, Irvin directed "I Will Return a Man," a rock opera performed by the Romanian rock group Vama Veche, broadcast live on television from the National Theater in Bucharest. It was an anti war musical in the same genre as Pink Floyd's "The Wall."
His credits as a producer include:
Associate producing Brian De Palma's "Home Movies" starring Kirk Douglas, Nancy Allen and Keith Gordon. (Irvin also served as Production Manager.)
Co-executive producing Bill Condon's Academy Award winning film "Gods and Monsters" starring Sir Ian McKellen, Brendan Fraser and Lynn Redgrave. (Irvin also co directed with David Skal the "Making of" documentary for the DVD, entitled "The World of Gods and Monsters: A Journey with James Whale.")
Co-producing Greg Berlanti's "The Broken Hearts Club" starring Timothy Olyphant, Dean Cain, Zach Braff, John Mahoney, Nia Long and Justin Theroux.
Co-executive producing Bob Clark's "I'll Remember April" starring Haley Joel Osment, Pat Morita, Mark Harmon, Pam Dawber and Paul Dooley. (Irvin also was the second unit director.)
Co-executive producing "Big Monster on Campus" (aka "Boltneck: Teen Frankenstein") starring Ryan Reynolds, Shelley Duvall, Matthew Lawrence and Judge Reinhold.
Associate producing "The Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human" starring Mackenzie Astin, David Hyde Pierce, Carmen Electra and Lucy Liu.
Co-producing "Error in Judgement" starring Joanna Pacula, Joe Montegna, Kate Jackson and Paul Dooley.
Co-producing "When Time Expires" starring Richard Greico, Mark Hamill and Chad Everett.
Associate producing "Sticky Fingers" starring Helen Slater, Melanie Mayron, Eileen Brennan, Carol Kane, Christopher Guest and Loretta Devine.
Producing "The First Time" starring Tim Choate, Wendie Jo Sperber, Wallace Shawn, Cathryn Damon and Jane Badler. Creative Consultant: Brian De Palma.
Irvin's first book "Kay Thompson: From Funny Face to Eloise" was published by Simon & Schuster (November 2010) and was honored by Kirkus Reviews, The Theatre Library Association Awards, Robert Osborne, and Leonard Maltin as one of the "Best Biographies of the Year." Acclaimed by columnist Liz Smith as "a smashing work" and by entertainer Michael Feinstein as "one of the best showbiz bios I've ever read," this comprehensive biography covers the life and career of the legendary singer, actress, composer, arranger, author, fashionista Kay Thompson. She was the mentor and best friend of Judy Garland, the vocal guru to Frank Sinatra and Lena Horne, the mentor and longtime lover of Andy Williams, and the godmother and Svengali to Liza Minnelli (who recreated Thompson's nightclub act in the 2009 Tony Award winning event "Liza's at the Palace").
In connection with his research on the life of Kay Thompson, Irvin served as a historical consultant on the Tony Award winning Broadway event "Liza's at the Palace"; he produced and annotated the 2009 3 CD box set compilation "Think Pink! A Kay Thompson Party"(Sepia Records); and he appeared in and consulted on Paramount Home Entertainment's documentary "Kay Thompson: Think Pink!" (an extra included in Paramount's Centennial Collection DVD edition of Stanley Donen's "Funny Face" starring Audrey Hepburn, Fred Astaire, and Kay Thompson).
As a journalist, Irvin has recently written articles for Little Shoppe of Horrors magazine, including an interview he conducted with Richard O'Brien of "Rocky Horror" fame.
Between projects, Irvin is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts where he teaches graduate courses on directing.
He resides in Los Angeles with Gary Bowers, his partner since 1982.- Writer
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Collier Young was born on 19 August 1908 in Asheville, North Carolina, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for One Step Beyond (1959), The Hitch-Hiker (1953) and Never Fear (1950). He was married to Marjory Ann Marsh, Joan Fontaine, Ida Lupino and Ruth Valerie Edmonds. He died on 25 December 1980 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Stunts
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Actor and stuntman Bill Couch was born on September 3, 1926 in Asheville, North Carolina. The younger brother of fellow stuntman Chuck Couch, Bill was a circus performer who specialized in high wire work which included a sway pole act prior to becoming a stuntman in the early 1960's. Among the actors that Couch doubled for are Spencer Tracy, Buddy Hackett, Richard Jaeckel, and William Shatner. Bill died at age 72 on February 25, 1999 in Studio City, California.- Actor
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Big John Hamilton was born on 29 October 1916 in Asheville, North Carolina, USA. He was an actor, known for Tough Enough (1983), Bandolero! (1968) and Hellfighters (1968). He died on 5 December 1984 in San Antonio, Texas, USA.- Eileen Fulton was born on 13 September 1933 in Asheville, North Carolina, USA. She is an actress, known for As the World Turns (1956), Our Private World (1965) and Girl of the Night (1960).
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Melodie Sisk was born in Asheville, North Carolina, USA. She is known for Ms. Guidance, Little Sister (2016) and White Reindeer (2013).- John Ehle was born on 13 December 1925 in Asheville, North Carolina, USA. He was a writer, known for Winter People (1989), The Journey of August King (1995) and General Electric Theater (1953). He was married to Rosemary Harris and Nancy Gail Oliver. He died on 24 March 2018 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA.
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Barbara O was born on 6 December 1941 in Asheville, North Carolina, USA. She was an actress, known for Maangamizi: The Ancient One (2001), The Quest (1976) and Bush Mama (1979). She was married to Robert Earl "Bashiri" Price and William Jones. She died on 16 April 2024 in Dayton, Ohio, USA.- Actress
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Dayci Brookshire was born in Asheville, North Carolina, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants (2018), Chico Bon Bon: Monkey with a Tool Belt (2020) and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (2018).- Actor
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David Topp is an award-winning American actor and filmmaker. He has a love of all aspects of film and likes working behind the camera as much as in front of it. In 2012, he co-founded his own production company, Topp Scot Productions.
In May of 2014, he won Best Actor at the prestigious Young Artist Awards in Hollywood California for his dual lead roles in his companies' first production, The Box (2013) The Box went on to win a Telly Award for Excellence and to air world wide on the Shorts HD TV Channel; a stellar success for a first film. The second film from his company Topp Scot Productions, which he co-wrote, produced and starred in, entitled Quitter (2014) also won a Telly for Outstanding accomplishment in Health and Wellness and the third, Sangria Lift (2015) is surpassing them both in winning awards.
Coming from a line of performers, films have been his biggest passion from a very young age.
His professional "break" came in the Hallmark Channel movie, The Shunning (2011), directed by Michael Landon Jr. as Daniel Fisher, the love interest to Danielle Panabaker for which he gained a loyal fan following. Immediately afterward followed a nice role in a successful ION Channel Television movie, Mandie and the Forgotten Christmas (2011) in which he also played the love interest to Mandie, the lead character. He has also worked with names such as Michael Madsen, Tom Sizemore , and most recently received accolades for his dramatic role as the grandson to Michael Gross in the multi award-winning film, Our Father (2014)
In acting, his biggest inspirations are Robert Redford, Russell Crowe and Will Smith.
He is a young Renaissance man of many diverse talents and abilities. He grew up outdoors, camping, hiking, climbing, riding dirt bikes, shooting guns, bows & arrows and riding horses. Before his acting career, he apprenticed to be a blacksmith and worked shoeing horses.
He excelled in martial arts and was once a Junior Instructor. He's proficient with many weapons and stage combat, his favorite being sword fighting. He's an expert horseman and survivalist, having learned to live off the land among bears, much in the style of National Geographics' Casey Anderson When he's not working, the wilderness calls him and it's camping there, alone with his dog, hiking and climbing, that he feels the most connected and at home.
Being an only child raised in a somewhat isolated, often harsh mountain environment by a single mother gave him plenty of time alone for self reflection and philosophy, as well as a heart and passion for those less fortunate. Animals have often been his best friends. He loves swimming and canoeing and anything that keeps him in or on the water. He embraces his Scottish heritage. He loves to cook. He loves art and music from all genres with a passion for indie, alternative music and likes to play his guitar.- Actress
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Angela Joann Shelton is an award-winning filmmaker, whose semi-autobiographical movie Tumbleweeds (1999) was awarded the Sundance Film Festival (2000) filmmaker's trophy and earned the lead actress Janet McTeer an Academy Award® nomination and a Golden Globe® win.
Angela followed Tumbleweeds with her highly acclaimed adaptation of Kaye Gibbons's novel Charms for the Easy Life (2002), starring Gena Rowlands.
In 2004 Angela made her directorial debut with Searching for Angela Shelton (2004), a documentary aimed at surveying women across the U.S. who were also named Angela Shelton. However, she soon discovered that 70% of the women she interviewed with the same name had, like Angela, been a victim of rape, childhood sexual abuse or domestic violence. The film received many accolades and went on to begin a grassroots movement of survivors and humanitarian organizations around the world dedicated to exposing the epidemic of abuse.
Her memoir, "Finding Angela Shelton" was published in 2006 and described how her journey across America, whilst making the documentary, changed her life.
Committed to helping others, Angela traveled the world for over a decade as an internationally recognized social activist raising money for rape crisis centers and domestic violence shelters as a public speaker. She collaborated with trauma informed care providers to create a healing program to help abuse survivors move on from trauma.
On film Angela has starred in 9 Line (2014), Comfortably Numb (1995), The Shrink Is In (2001), The Big Time (2002) and her television roles include Pacific Blue, Chicago Hope and Becker. She won a regional EMMY for her portrayal as Safe Side Superchick in the Safe Side Series (2004, 2006) created by Baby Einstein's creator, Julie Clark.
Angela's feature film, Heart, Baby! (2018), starring Gbenga Akinnagbe, Jackson Rathbone, Keir O'Donnell, that she wrote, produced and directed, tells the remarkable true story of a prison boxer who was offered freedom to fight in the 1984 Olympics and refused to go.
In Eagle and the Albatross (2019), Angela used her own experiences with her mentors in the tear-jerking comedy about an orphaned half Korean girl who seeks help from a widowed optometrist with the only thing both of them love - golf. The only problem is, he only has three months to live.- Actor
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Dick Bennick Sr. was born on 3 November 1928 in Asheville, North Carolina, USA. He was an actor and director, known for Creature Feature (1971), Shock Theatre (1966) and Horror, Inc. (1969). He died on 15 February 1995 in Winter Haven, Florida, USA.- Royal R Carter was born on 29 May 1998 in Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina, USA. She is an actress, known for Mustard Feat. Travis Scott: Parking Lot (2024), Ciara & Chris Brown: How We Roll (2023) and Morray & Lil Tjay: High Price (2023).
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Lynn Hobson's film career was launched steps away from the famous Hollywood & Vine intersection while supervising post production and editorial departments for Chanticleer Films' Discovery Program on Showtime. Those early years set the stage for an eclectic mix of Roger Corman action movies, visual effects editing at Warner Brothers, and editing independent cult movie favorites such as "My Life with Morrissey". Her first opportunity to work in the animation industry came with lead editorial duties on Todd McFarlane's animated HBO series "Spawn". With her newfound recognition for her work, she was soon hired as editor for Nickelodeon's newly minted SpongeBob Squarepants series. In 2003 she followed her SpongeBob crew over to Paramount Pictures as the lead editor on The SpongeBob Squarepants Movie. Lynn spent several years working as an associate editor at DreamWorks Animation on "The Penguins of Madagascar", "Shrek Forever After", "Monster vs Aliens" and "MegaMind". In 2012, she embarked on an epic Viking journey as Lead Editor on the "Dragons, Riders of Berk" television series, earning her two Annie award nominations. She returned to live action editing with the 2016 independent feature film "Finding Sofia", forging a lasting creative relationship with Argentine filmmaker Nico Cassavecchia. Lynn returned to feature animation during the 2020-2021 pandemic by working remotely from home on Sony Pictures Animation's "Hotel Transylvania 4: Transformania". Currently, she's working as lead editor on Paramount's latest "Transformers One" animated feature.- Franklin Graham was born on 14 July 1952 in Asheville, North Carolina, USA. He is a producer, known for God's Not Dead (2014), Storms in Latin America (2021) and Light in the Darkness (2021). He has been married to Jane Austin Cunningham since 14 August 1974. They have four children.