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Autómata
''Autómata'' is a 2014 English-language Spanish-Bulgarian science fiction action film directed by Gabe Ibáñez starring Antonio Banderas (who also co-produced). The film is co-written by Ibáñez with Igor Legarreta and Javier Sánchez Donate, and co-stars Birgitte Hjort Sørensen, Melanie Griffith, Dylan McDermott, Robert Forster, and Tim McInnerny. Plot About 20 years before the story takes place, solar flares irradiate the Earth, killing over 99% of the world's population. The survivors gather in a network of safe cities and build primitive humanoid robots, called Pilgrims, to help rebuild and operate in the harsh environment. These robots have two unchangeable protocols: they cannot harm any form of life and may not repair, modify, or alter themselves or other robots in any way. Initially seen as mankind's salvation, they are relegated to manual labor when they fail to stop the advance of desertification. Society has regressed due to lack of technology besides the Pilgrims ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melanie Griffith
Melanie Richards Griffith (born August 9, 1957) is an American actress. She began her career in the 1970s, appearing in several independent thriller films before achieving mainstream success in the mid-1980s. Born in Manhattan, New York City, to actress Tippi Hedren and advertising executive Peter Griffith, she was raised mainly in Los Angeles, where she graduated from the Hollywood Professional School at age 16. In 1975, 17-year-old Griffith appeared opposite Gene Hackman in Arthur Penn's neo-noir film '' Night Moves''. She later rose to prominence as an actor in films such as Brian De Palma's thriller ''Body Double'' (1984), which earned her a National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress. Griffith's subsequent performance in the comedy '' Something Wild'' (1986) attracted critical acclaim before she was cast in 1988's ''Working Girl'', which earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress and won her a Golden Globe. In the 1990s Griffith ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dylan McDermott
Dylan McDermott (born Mark Anthony McDermott; October 26, 1961) is an American actor. He is known for his role as lawyer and law firm head Bobby Donnell on the legal drama series ''The Practice'', which earned him a Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Drama and a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series. McDermott is also known for his roles in four seasons (first, second, eighth and ninth) of the FX horror anthology series ''American Horror Story'', subtitled '' Murder House'', ''Asylum'', '' Apocalypse'', and ''1984'' portraying Ben Harmon, Johnny Morgan and Bruce, respectively. He also starred as narcotics crime lord Richard Wheatley on the '' Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'' spinoff '' Law & Order: Organized Crime''; Lt. Carter Shaw on the TNT series '' Dark Blue''; in two short-lived CBS dramas, ''Hostages'' and '' Stalker''; and in the 1994 remake of the film ''Miracle on 34th St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Tiernan
Andrew James Tiernan (born 30 November 1965) is a British actor and director. Biography Theatre Tiernan began acting with the Birmingham Youth Theatre and moved to London in 1984 to study a three-year diploma in acting at the Drama Centre London run by Christopher Fettes and Yat Malmgren. His theatre work has included Joe Penhall's ''The Bullet'' at the Donmar Warehouse, and a long-term collaboration with the Tony-nominated director Wilson Milam, including Ché Walker's ''Flesh Wound'' at the Royal Court Theatre and two critically acclaimed productions of Sam Shepard's plays: ''A Lie of the Mind'' at the Donmar Warehouse and '' True West'' at the Bristol Old Vic. In 2008, Tiernan returned to the theatre in Dorota Maslowska's ''A Couple of Poor, Polish-Speaking Romanians'' at the Soho Theatre. Film Tiernan played Piers Gaveston in Derek Jarman's controversial film of Christopher Marlowe's ''Edward II'' in 1991, after appearing in Lynda La Plante's award-winning drama ''Prime ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andy Nyman
Andrew Nyman (born 13 April 1966) is an English actor, director, writer and magician. Early life and career Nyman was born on 13 April 1966 in Leicester, Leicestershire. His first noteworthy performance was in 2000 as Keith Whitehead in '' Dead Babies'', an adaptation of the Martin Amis novel of the same name. Soon after he appeared alongside Jon Voight, David Schwimmer and Leelee Sobieski in Jon Avnet's 2001 Emmy award-winning film ''Uprising'' as a Polish-Jewish freedom fighter. His next film role was in the 2003 film ''Coney Island Baby'' as a gay French gun dealer. In 2006 he appeared in horror-comedy ''Severance'', Herman Brood biopic '' Wild Romance'' and British romcom ''Are You Ready for Love?''. That same year Nyman won the award for best actor at the 2006 Cherbourg-Octeville Festival of Irish & British Film for his role as Colin Frampton in ''Shut Up and Shoot Me''. In 2007, Nyman appeared as one of the leads in the Frank Oz film '' Death at a Funeral,'' starring oppo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christa Campbell
Christa Campbell (born December 7, 1972) is an American actress and producer. Campbell is best known for her roles in '' 2001 Maniacs'', '' Mozart and the Whale'', '' Lonely Hearts'', ''The Wicker Man'', ''Cleaner'', ''Day of the Dead'', '' Lies & Illusions'', '' The Mechanic'', ''Drive Angry'', '' Straight A's'', ''The Big Wedding'', and '' The Iceman''. In 2011 Campbell partnered up with producer Lati Grobman to form Campbell-Grobman Films, which has produced numerous films such as ''Texas Chainsaw 3D'', '' Straight A's'', and '' The Iceman''. Campbell-Grobman Films Founded by executives Campbell and Lati Grobman, Campbell-Grobman Films has produced seven films, including ''Texas Chainsaw 3D'' and '' The Iceman'', starring Michael Shannon and Winona Ryder Winona Laura Horowitz (born October 29, 1971), professionally known as Winona Ryder, is an American actress. Originally playing quirky roles, she rose to prominence for her more diverse performances in various genre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bashar Rahal
Bashar Mounzer Rahal ( bg, Башар Мунзер Рахал, ar, بشار رحال; born 20 October 1974) is a Bulgarian actor. Life and career Early life Bashar Rahal was born in Dubai, UAE, the son of Lebanese father Mounzer Rahal and Bulgarian mother Mariana Rahal. His sister, Carla Rahal, also an actress, is mostly known for her roles in the National Theater of Bulgaria. Carla is also a pop and R&B singer, songwriter, and producer. She is best known for two of Bulgaria's most popular songs, "Lie to Me" and "I Wish U". The family moved from UAE to Bulgaria when Bashar was only six years old. He first started acting in TV sketches when he was 12. At the age of 13 he became a member of Tears and Laughs, a professional theater group, with which he took part in more than 15 performances. He also attended numerous international film and theater festivals, including the ones in Avignon, France and Thun, Switzerland. His first major film role was in 1989, in the controversia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Ryall
David John Ryall Retrieved 28 December 2014 (5 January 1935 – 25 December 2014) was an English stage, film and television character actor. He had leading roles in ''Lytton's Diary'' and '' Goodnight Sweetheart'', as well as memorable roles in 's '''' and Andrew Davies's adaptation of '' |
Birgitte Hjort Sørensen
Birgitte Hjort Sørensen (born 16 January 1982) is a Danish actress. She has been nominated for three Robert Awards and one Bodil Award. Born in Hillerød and raised in Birkerød, Sørensen aspired to an acting career after watching the West End production of the musical ''Chicago'' while at school. She graduated from the Danish National School of Performing Arts. Her acting debut was in a minor role in the television series ''The Eagle'' in 2005. She followed this by playing Roxie Hart in a Copenhagen production of ''Chicago'', and later on the West End. Sørensen's breakthrough role was as journalist Katrine Fønsmark in the television political drama ''Borgen'' (2010–2013, 2022). Early life Sørensen was born in Hillerød on 16 January 1982. She grew up in Birkerød. Both her parents are doctors and she has two elder sisters. Her early education was at the Bistrup School in Birkerød and Øregård Gymnasium in Hellerup. At the latter, she was the student council chairman an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Forster
Robert Wallace Forster Jr. (July 13, 1941 – October 11, 2019) was an American actor, known for his roles as John Cassellis in ''Medium Cool'' (1969), Captain Dan Holland in ''The Black Hole'' (1979), Abdul Rafai in ''The Delta Force'' (1986), and Max Cherry in ''Jackie Brown'' (1997), for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Forster's varied filmography includes: '' Reflections in a Golden Eye'' (1967), ''Alligator'' (1980), ''Me, Myself & Irene'' (2000), ''Mulholland Drive'' (2001), ''The Descendants'' (2011), '' Olympus Has Fallen'' (2013), ''London Has Fallen'' (2016), ''What They Had'' (2018), and ''The Wolf of Snow Hollow'' (2020). He also had prominent roles in television series such as ''Banyon'' (1971–1973), ''Heroes'' (2007–2008), ''Twin Peaks'' (2017) and the ''Breaking Bad'' episode " Granite State" as Ed Galbraith, for which he won the Saturn Award for Best Guest Starring Role on Television. He reprised the role in the film '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim McInnerny
Tim McInnerny ( ; born 18 September 1956) is an English actor. He is known for his many roles on stage and television, including as Lord Percy Percy and Captain Darling in the 1980s British sitcom ''Blackadder''. Early life McInnerny was born on 18 September 1956 in Cheadle Hulme, Cheshire, the son of Mary Joan (née Gibbings) and William Ronald McInnerny. He was brought up in Cheadle Hulme, and Stroud, Gloucestershire, and educated at Marling School, a grammar school in Stroud, and read English at Wadham College, Oxford, matriculating in 1976 after taking a gap year backpacking around the world. Career Television McInnerny's first role was in ''Blackadder'' during the 1980s. He played the two bumbling related aristocrats with the same name of Lord Percy Percy in the first series (''The Black Adder'') and the second series (''Blackadder II''); he declined to appear in the third series for fear of being typecast, though he did make a guest appearance in one episode and retu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandra Hermida Muñiz
Sandra Hermida Muñiz (born 22 July 1972) is a Spanish film producer and production manager. She has produced more than 30 domestic and international films, such as ''The Impatient Alchemist'' (2002), '' The Orphanage'' (2007), '' The Impossible'' (2012), and '' A Monster Calls'' (2016). Career Sandra Hermida Muñiz holds a licentiate in image and sound from the Complutense University of Madrid. She began her film career in 1998 as coordinator ( es, regidora, links=no) of the film ''La primera noche de mi vida'', directed by Miguel Albaladejo. In 2000, she worked as head of production on the film ''The Other Side'', directed by . She has been a producer on numerous films, such as ''The Impatient Alchemist'' by Patricia Ferreira, and '' The Orphanage'', '' The Impossible'', and '' A Monster Calls'' by J. A. Bayona. Her other film credits include '' Marrowbone'', ''Aloft'', '' Carmina y amén'', '' La torre de Suso'', ''Return to Hansala'', '' Mediterranean Food'', '' Spanish M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Javier Bardem
Javier Ángel Encinas Bardem (; born 1 March 1969) is a Spanish actor. Known for his roles in Blockbuster (entertainment), blockbusters and foreign films, he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance as the psychopath, psychopathic assassin Anton Chigurh in the Coen Brothers' modern western drama film ''No Country for Old Men'' (2007). He also received critical acclaim for his roles in films such as ''Jamón jamón'' (1992), ''Boca a boca'' (1995), ''Carne trémula'' (1997), ''Los lunes al sol'' (2002), and ''Mar adentro'' (2004). Bardem also starred in Woody Allen's romantic drama ''Vicky Cristina Barcelona'' (2008), Sam Mendes's James Bond spy film ''Skyfall'' (2012), Terrence Malick's drama ''To the Wonder'' (2013), Darren Aronofsky's psychological horror film ''mother!'' (2017), Asghar Farhadi's mystery drama ''Everybody Knows (film), Everybody Knows'' (2018) and Denis Villeneuve's science fiction drama ''Dune (2021 film), Dune'' (2021). Bardem has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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