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Bug (2002 Film)
''Bug'' is a 2002 American comedy film, directed by Phil Hay and Matt Manfredi. It was released on February 28, 2002. Plot A young boy steps on a bug, killing it. A man getting into his car witnesses the senseless murder and crosses the street to chastise the boy. In the extra minute this takes, his parking meter expires and a meter maid is right there to issue a ticket. The now angry man throws the ticket into the storm drain. The ticket clogs a pipe, causing water damage elsewhere. This series of cause-and-effect chain reactions propels an eclectic group of individuals in Silver Lake, Los Angeles, to a common destiny. Cast As credited, in order of appearance: * John Carroll Lynch * Megan Cavanagh * Grant Heslov * Brian Cox * Alexis Cruz * Jamie Kennedy * Sarah Paulson * Ed Begley Jr. * Phil Hay * Jon Huertas * Alexandra Wescourt * Christopher Thornton * Steven Shenbaum * Chris Bauer * Christina Kirk * Hedy Burress * John Doe * John Lehr * Kent Faulcon * Juliette Jeffers * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phil Hay (screenwriter)
Phil Hay is an American screenwriter. His credits include ''Destroyer'', '' The Invitation'', ''Æon Flux'', '' Clash of the Titans'', ''R.I.P.D.'', and ''Ride Along''. Biography Hay was raised outside of Akron, Ohio. While in college at Brown University, he joined an improv comedy group where he met his future writing partner Matt Manfredi. Most of his film screenwriting work has been with Manfredi. Their technique for joint screenwriting is to each write separate scenes and trade them to each other for further rewrites. In 2002, Hay and Manfredi directed the film ''Bug (2002 film), Bug'' with Manfredi being credited as the sole screenwriter of the film. Hay has been married to filmmaker Karyn Kusama since 2006. He co-wrote the screenplays for ''Æon Flux ''Æon Flux'' is an American avant-garde science fiction adventure animated television series that aired on MTV from November 30, 1991, until October 10, 1995, with film, comic book, and video game adaptations following ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steven Shenbaum
Steve Shenbaum is a former actor and founder and president of Game on Nation, a communication, leadership, and business consultancy best known for its work with corporations, collegiate, and professional athletes and athletic teams. Early life and education Shenbaum grew up in West Covina, California but moved to Chicago, Illinois to attend college at Northwestern University. He graduated from Northwestern with a degree in Theatre and Performance. He later trained at the British American Drama Academy. Career Game On Nation Shenbaum founded Game On Nation in 1997. In 2003, Game On Nation partnered with IMG Academy and relocated to IMG’s Bradenton, Florida campus. The company’s partnership with IMG ended in 2012 when game on expanded its presence nationwide, adding clients including the United States military The United States Armed Forces are the military forces of the United States. The armed forces consists of six service branches: the Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Ai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wade Williams
Wade Andrew Williams (born December 24, 1961) is an American actor. He is known for his various character roles, and for a major supporting role as correctional officer Brad Bellick on the Fox television series '' Prison Break'' and Father Cronin on ''The Bernie Mac Show'' (2001–2004). Williams also voiced Two-Face in '' Batman: The Dark Knight Returns'' (2012–2013). Life and career Williams was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He studied theatre at the University of Tulsa. He began his acting career at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park in ''The Taming of the Shrew'' with Morgan Freeman and Tracey Ullman. Williams also had a role with Denzel Washington in '' Richard III''. Williams then continued with performances on and off Broadway and toured nationally in productions such as ''Guys and Dolls'', ''Les Misérables'', '' Kiss of the Spider Woman'', ''Ragtime'', and ''Show Boat''. His film credits include ''Flicka'', ''Collateral'', ''Ali'' and ''Erin Brockovich''. Additionally ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judy Prescott
Judy Prescott is an American actress and poet. She has performed many roles on stage and screen since 1987 and is the author of the book ''Searching For Cecy: Reflections on Alzheimer's''. Early life Judith Neal Prescott, daughter of Mary Boodell Prescott and R. Donald Prescott Jr., was born in Glen Ridge, New Jersey. She grew up in Mountain Lakes, New Jersey, less than an hour outside of New York City, with her brothers Tom and John. Life and career After graduating college, Prescott moved to New York City, where she began work as an actress in the theater. Upon her agent’s suggestion, she moved to Los Angeles, where she got her first television job in the pilot episode of ''Roseanne''. From here, Judy landed a series regular role on NBC's ''Working Girl'' alongside Sandra Bullock. Her most recent work includes episodes of ''True Blood'', ''Grey’s Anatomy'', ''Cold Case'', ''Bones A bone is a rigid organ that constitutes part of the skeleton in most vertebr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arabella Field
Arabella Field (born February 5, 1965) is an American actress and film producer known for her roles in films such as ''Dante's Peak'', '' Feeling Minnesota'', ''Godzilla'', ''National Treasure'', '' Paper Man'' and as Melinda Bitterman in the animated television version of Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott's daily comic strip ''Baby Blues''. Career She has guest starred in a number of notable television series, including ''The Sopranos'', ''Seinfeld'', ''Law & Order'', ''Numb3rs'', ''House'', ''Rules of Engagement'', ''In Case of Emergency'' and other shows. She had a recurring role playing Patsi Moosekian in the show '' Under Suspicion''. In 2010, Field starred in the web series ''Sex and the Austen Girl'' on ''Babelgum Babelgum was a free-to-view Internet television platform supported by advertising. The project was set up in 2005 by Italian media and telecommunications entrepreneur Silvio Scaglia (one of the founders of Italian TelCo FASTWEB) and scientist Eri ...'', produc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Hitchcock
Michael Hitchcock (born July 28, 1958) is an American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and television producer. Early life Hitchcock received his Bachelor of Science degree from Northwestern University and a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of California, Los Angeles. He is a graduate of Lyons Township High School in LaGrange, Illinois. Career Hitchcock was a writer and executive producer on seasons 3 and 4 of the CW television series ''Crazy Ex-Girlfriend''. He also served as a writer and co-executive producer on seasons 1 and 2. In addition, he has played the role of water conspiracy theorist Bert. Hitchcock served as a writer and co-executive producer on seasons 5 and 6 of the FOX television series ''Glee''. Hitchcock served as a writer and supervising producer on season 4, and became a writer and consulting producer for season 3 of the show after previously appearing in a guest role season 1 as rival glee club director Dalton Rumba. Hitchcock reprised this role ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guy Siner
Guy Domville Siner (born 16 October 1947) is an American-born English actor best known for his role as Oberleutnant Hubert Gruber in the British television series '''Allo 'Allo!'' and Dr. Mittenhand in '' Leprechaun 4: In Space''. Early life Siner was born in New York City. His father was American, born in Manhattan, New York, and his mother was English, born in Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex. His mother wanted him to be educated in the United Kingdom, and the family returned there when he was five. After attending St Edmund's School, Hindhead, he trained for the stage at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London. He is a cousin of the actress Selina Cadell and her brother, the late Simon Cadell. Career Siner's TV credits include '' Z Cars'', '' Softly, Softly: Taskforce'', ''Doctor Who'' (''Genesis of the Daleks''), ''I, Claudius'', '' Secret Army'', ''You Rang, M'Lord?'', '''Allo 'Allo!'', '' The Brittas Empire'', ''Seinfeld'', '' Knots Landing: Back to the Cul-de-Sac'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dearbhla Molloy
Dearbhla Molloy (; born 1946) is an Irish actress. Early life Molloy was born to John Molloy and Evelyn Ryan and grew up on Yellow Walls Road in Malahide, County Dublin, Ireland, the eldest of seven children. She attended an Irish-language school and finished her Leaving Certificate exams at the age of 16. As she was too young for university, she took a drama course at the Brendan Smith Academy before being accepted by the Abbey Theatre when she was 18. Career Molloy consolidated her stage reputation at both the Abbey and Gate theatres in Dublin, then she toured with an Abbey production to Britain. She was invited to join the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon in England, and has played Gertrude to Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet in the West End in London. In 1991, she was in the company that performed Brian Friel's ''Dancing at Lughnasa'', on Broadway in New York City, about the sad lives of a group of sisters in pre-war rural Ireland. She was nominated for a Tony a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trudie Styler
Trudie Styler (born 6 January 1954) is an English actress and film producer. Early life and family Styler was born in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, the daughter of Pauline and Harry Styler, a farmer and factory worker. When Styler was two years old, she was hit by a van. She received severe facial injuries that left her badly scarred and required several plastic surgery operations up until the age of 18. Her classmates nicknamed her "scarface", which caused her to feel for many years that she was "not a very attractive person". She attended North Bromsgrove High School, where one of her teachers was the singer-songwriter Clifford T. Ward. Acting career Styler trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and went on to appear in various period BBC productions. She joined the Royal Shakespeare Company, in which she played multiple major roles. Her theatre credits also include ''The Vagina Monologues'', ''Twin Spirits'', and ''The Seagull''. She has appeared in many British te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Ortlieb
James Ortlieb (born June 19, 1956) is an American film, television and theatre actor known for his roles in ''Roswell'' and ''Felicity''. Ortlieb has also appeared in Broadway productions of ''Guys and Dolls'' and ''Of Mice and Men'', ''Billy Elliot the Musical'', and ''The Farnsworth Invention''. Raised in Hazlet, New Jersey, Ortlieb graduated from Raritan High School in 1974. He attended Glassboro State College (now Rowan University), planning to study music and play soccer, but dropped out shortly after suffering an injury on one of the first days of team practice and started acting. After a few years on the stage, he earned a degree in drama from the Mason Gross School of the Arts of Rutgers University. '' |
Juliette Jeffers
Juliette Jeffers is a Caribbean–American actress of St. Kitts and Nevis descent. Jeffers has appeared on several TV shows, films and TV commercials. Jeffers has also appeared in several theatre performances. including ''Batman and Robin in the Boogie Down'' where she won the BRIO award for Excellence in Acting. Early life Jeffers was raised in The Bronx, New York. She attended the High School of Performing Arts where she majored in drama. Jeffers received a Bachelor of Arts from Hofstra University in languages. She also studied in Spain and France and speaks fluently in both languages. Career Jeffers moved to Los Angeles in the early 1990s and guest-starred on several TV shows such as ''Fresh Prince of Bel Air'', ''Martin'', ''Murder She Wrote'' and ''Silk Stalkings''. She also appeared on '' ER'' and ''Grey's Anatomy''. In film, Jeffers appeared in ''The Surgeon'', starring Malcolm McDowell and more recently played Geoffrey Owens' wife in '' Play the Game'' starring And ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kent Faulcon
Kent Faulcon (born 1971) is an American actor, director, and writer. He has made several contributions to Black independent film festivals. Early life Faulcon was born in 1971 and grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. Faulcon graduated from University of North Carolina School of the Arts with a bachelor's degree in Fine Arts. Career In 1985, Faulcon's acting career started as a child actor in Sparks, a TV series. Personal life Faulcon is married with two children. Filmography Awards and nominations ; Arizona Black Filmmakers Showcase * Nominated, "Best Film" ; Hollywood Black Film Festival The Hollywood Black Film Festival (HBFF), dubbed the "Black Sundance," is an annual six-day film festival held in Los Angeles, California dedicated to enhancing the careers of new and established black filmmaking professionals by bringing their w ... * 2007: Won, "Audience Choice Award" – ''Sister's Keeper'' ; San Diego Black Film Festival * Nominated, "Best Film" * Nomin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |