Leonardo DiCaprio has solidified his place as an iconic actor of his generation with a career that has spanned four decades.
He started his career as a child in the TV series Romper Room but honed his acting skills in the Growing Pains. His breakout film role came in the biographical coming-of-age drama This Boy’s Life (1993), based on the eponymous memoir by author Tobias Wolff, where he starred opposite Robert De Niro. DiCaprio continued to collaborate with De Niro on other projects, including Marvin’s Room (1996) and Martin Scorsese’s true-life murder mystery adaptation Killers of the Flower Moon (2023.)
DiCaprio would go on to star in Scorsese other feature films including Gangs of New York (2002), Shutter Island (2010) and The Wolf of Wall Street (2013.)
His critically acclaimed peformance in The Revenant (2015) earned him an Academy Award for Best Actor. He received nominations for Best Supporting Actor in What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (1994) and...
He started his career as a child in the TV series Romper Room but honed his acting skills in the Growing Pains. His breakout film role came in the biographical coming-of-age drama This Boy’s Life (1993), based on the eponymous memoir by author Tobias Wolff, where he starred opposite Robert De Niro. DiCaprio continued to collaborate with De Niro on other projects, including Marvin’s Room (1996) and Martin Scorsese’s true-life murder mystery adaptation Killers of the Flower Moon (2023.)
DiCaprio would go on to star in Scorsese other feature films including Gangs of New York (2002), Shutter Island (2010) and The Wolf of Wall Street (2013.)
His critically acclaimed peformance in The Revenant (2015) earned him an Academy Award for Best Actor. He received nominations for Best Supporting Actor in What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (1994) and...
- 1/13/2023
- by Robert Lang
- Deadline Film + TV
Sonia Manzano played Maria on “Sesame Street” for over 40 years, becoming a household name in the U.S. and a trailblazing Latina in the burgeoning public television landscape. Now, Manzano is trading Muppets for the mofongo-loving Alma Rivera, a six-year-old animated Puerto Rican girl of her own invention (and heavily based on her own experience), who lives in the Bronx with her parents, brother and a host of colorful neighbors.
“Alma’s Way” engages directly with viewers as its optimistic and confident protagonist works through challenges and spends time with her diverse friend group, showcasing various aspects of Latin culture, food and music along each episode’s 11-minute trajectory. Co-executive produced by Manzano and Ellen Doherty, chief creative officer of Fred Rogers Productions, and animated by Pipeline Studios, the series hopes to teach children social awareness through the characters’ modeling of empathetic decision-making processes and “Think-Through” moments.
Ahead of the series debut of “Almas Way,...
“Alma’s Way” engages directly with viewers as its optimistic and confident protagonist works through challenges and spends time with her diverse friend group, showcasing various aspects of Latin culture, food and music along each episode’s 11-minute trajectory. Co-executive produced by Manzano and Ellen Doherty, chief creative officer of Fred Rogers Productions, and animated by Pipeline Studios, the series hopes to teach children social awareness through the characters’ modeling of empathetic decision-making processes and “Think-Through” moments.
Ahead of the series debut of “Almas Way,...
- 10/4/2021
- by Mónica Marie Zorrilla
- Variety Film + TV
If you consider yourself “obsessed” with television, you’re not alone. Five of TV’s top showrunners recently spoke with Gold Derby (watch above) about their early careers and when they knew they wanted to work in Hollywood: Eric Kripke (“The Boys”), Billy Ray (“The Comey Rule”), Liz Feldman (“Dead to Me”), Prentice Penny (“Insecure”) and Lee Eisenberg (“Little America”). Click each name above to watch their individual interviews separate from our Meet the Btl Experts: TV Showrunners group panel.
“I am one of those people who have always known what I wanted to do,” Feldman readily admits. “I was absolutely obsessed with TV from the first moment I ever saw it.” She cites children’s series “Romper Room” and sitcom “Family Ties” as big inspirations when she was growing up. “I read an article about Gary David Goldberg in People magazine … and it talked about what a showrunner was,...
“I am one of those people who have always known what I wanted to do,” Feldman readily admits. “I was absolutely obsessed with TV from the first moment I ever saw it.” She cites children’s series “Romper Room” and sitcom “Family Ties” as big inspirations when she was growing up. “I read an article about Gary David Goldberg in People magazine … and it talked about what a showrunner was,...
- 12/15/2020
- by Marcus James Dixon
- Gold Derby
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