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Boardwalk Empire (season 2)
The second season of the HBO television series ''Boardwalk Empire'' premiered on September 25, 2011, and concluded on December 11, 2011, consisting of 12 episodes. The series was created by Terence Winter and based on the book ''Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times and Corruption of Atlantic City'' by Nelson Johnson. Set in Atlantic City, New Jersey, during the Prohibition era, the series stars Steve Buscemi as Enoch "Nucky" Thompson (based on the historical Enoch L. Johnson), a political figure who rose to prominence and controlled Atlantic City, New Jersey, during the Prohibition period of the 1920s and 1930s. The second season takes place between February and August 1921. The second season was released on DVD and Blu-ray in region 1 on August 28, 2012. Cast Main Jack Huston and Gretchen Mol were promoted to series regulars for the second season after appearing in several episodes during the first season. *Steve Buscemi as Enoch "Nucky" Thompson *Michael Pitt as James "Jimm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boardwalk Empire
''Boardwalk Empire'' is an American period crime drama television series created by Terence Winter and broadcast on the premium cable channel HBO. The series is set chiefly in Atlantic City, New Jersey, during the Prohibition era of the 1920s and stars Steve Buscemi as Nucky Thompson. Winter, a Primetime Emmy Award-winning screenwriter and producer, created the show, inspired by Nelson Johnson's 2002 non-fiction book ''Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times, and Corruption of Atlantic City'', about the historical criminal kingpin Enoch L. Johnson. The pilot episode was directed by Martin Scorsese and produced at a cost of $18 million. On September 1, 2009, HBO picked up the series for an additional 11 episodes. The series premiered on September 19, 2010, and its five-season run of 56 episodes ended on October 26, 2014. ''Boardwalk Empire'' received widespread critical acclaim, particularly for its visual style and basis on historical figures, as well as for Buscemi's lead perf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Stuhlbarg
Michael Stewart Stuhlbarg ( ; born July 5, 1968) is an American actor. He is known as a character actor having portrayed a variety of roles in film, television and theatre. He has received several awards including two Screen Actors Guild Awards with nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards, four Tony Awards, and a Golden Globe Award. He rose to prominence as troubled university professor Larry Gopnik in the 2009 dark comedy film ''A Serious Man'', directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. Stuhlbarg has since become known as a character actor and has appeared in numerous films and television series portraying real life figures, such as George Yeaman in ''Lincoln'' (2012), Lew Wasserman in ''Hitchcock'' (2012), Andy Hertzfeld in ''Steve Jobs'' (2015), Edward G. Robinson in '' Trumbo'' (2015), Abe Rosenthal in '' The Post'' (2017), and Stanley Edgar Hyman in ''Shirley'' (2020). His other supporting roles include ''Hugo'' (2011), ''Men in Black 3'' (2012), ''Blue Jasmine'' (2013), ''Pawn Sac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlie Cox
Charlie Thomas Cox (born 15 December 1982) is an English actor. He is known for portraying Matt Murdock / Daredevil in several projects of the Marvel Cinematic Universe franchise, including lead roles in the television series '' Daredevil'' (2015–2018) and '' The Defenders'' (2017). Cox portrayed Owen Sleater in the second and third seasons of HBO's ''Boardwalk Empire'' (2011–2012) and Jonathan Hellyer Jones in the 2014 film '' The Theory of Everything''. More recently, he starred in the RTÉ drama series ''Kin'' (2021) and the Netflix spy miniseries ''Treason'' (2022). Cox's breakout role was as Tristan Thorn in the 2007 fantasy film '' Stardust'', one of a series of roles he had in predominately British productions during the first decade of his career. He made his West End debut the following year in a revival of the Harold Pinter plays '' The Lover'' and '' The Collection''. Following his successes on-screen in the 2010s, he acted in a 2019 stage production of Harold P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dabney Coleman
Dabney Wharton Coleman (born January 3, 1932) is an American actor. Coleman's best known films include '' 9 to 5'' (1980), '' On Golden Pond'' (1981), ''Tootsie'' (1982), ''WarGames'' (1983), '' Cloak & Dagger'' (1984), ''The Beverly Hillbillies'' (1993), ''You've Got Mail'' (1998), '' Recess: School's Out'' (2001), '' Moonlight Mile'' (2002), and ''Rules Don't Apply'' (2016). Coleman's television roles include the title character in '' Buffalo Bill'' (1983–1984), Burton Fallin in ''The Guardian'' (2001–2004), the voice of Principal Peter Prickly in '' Recess'' (1997–2001), and Louis "The Commodore" Kaestner in ''Boardwalk Empire'' (2010–2011). He has won one Primetime Emmy Award from six nominations and one Golden Globe Award from three nominations. Career Coleman is a character actor with roles in well over 60 films and television programs to his credit. He trained with Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theater in New York City from 1958 to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Harrow
Richard Harrow is a fictional character on the television series ''Boardwalk Empire'', played by the actor Jack Huston. Fictional biography Backstory Richard was a sharpshooter in the US Army during World War I. He was badly disfigured during the war, losing his eye, upper jaw and most of the cheekbone on the left side of his face. He has also suffered some throat damage which causes him to speak in a low, muffled voice. Because of his appearance, Harrow wears a tin mask in public that is molded to mirror the intact right side of his face. After the war he returned to Plover, Wisconsin where his twin sister, Emma (Katherine Waterston), cared for him while his wounds healed. Once he was able to care for himself he left to live in Chicago. Season 1 Richard meets fellow veteran Jimmy Darmody (Michael Pitt) in an army hospital in Chicago, and they become fast friends. To prove his loyalty, Richard kills a local gangster who had disfigured a young prostitute with whom Jimmy was close. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mickey Doyle
Mieczyslaw "Mickey Doyle" Kuzik is a fictional character in the HBO TV series ''Boardwalk Empire''. He is played by Paul Sparks. Mickey Doyle is loosely based on Polish American mobster Mickey Duffy. Mickey is a gangster in Prohibition-era Atlantic City. For the first two seasons, he is the main rival of harlem liquor kingpin Chalky White. He is known for his distinctive, nasal laugh, and serves as the series' comic relief. Appearances Season one In the first episode of season one, Mickey is introduced as a Polish-American gangster trying to establish himself as a power in the illegal alcohol trade following the passage of the Volstead Act, which outlaws the sale of alcohol. It is revealed that his real name is Mieczyslaw Kusik, and he changed it to "Mickey Doyle" to pass himself off as Irish-American. He meets with Atlantic County Treasurer and political boss Nucky Thompson (Steve Buscemi) to show him his bootlegging operation. Mickey tells Nucky that he expects to produc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Sparks
Paul Sparks (born October 16, 1971) is an American actor. He is known for his roles as gangster Mickey Doyle in the HBO period drama series ''Boardwalk Empire'', writer Thomas Yates in the Netflix political drama series ''House of Cards (American TV series), House of Cards'', mall owner John Breem in the Apple TV+ comedy-drama series ''Physical (TV series), Physical'', attorney David Tellis in the Starz anthology drama series ''The Girlfriend Experience (TV series), The Girlfriend Experience'', and a recurring role in the limited series ''The Night Of''. Sparks has also starred in the films ''Deception (2008 film), Deception'' (2008), ''Afterschool'' (2008), ''The Missing Person'' (2008), ''Mud (2012 film), Mud'' (2012), ''Parkland (film), Parkland'' (2013), ''Stealing Cars'' (2015), ''Thoroughbreds (2017 film), Thoroughbreds'' (2017), and ''The Greatest Showman'' (2017). Early life and career Sparks is a native of Marlow, Oklahoma, and attended Marlow High School, where his fat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Laciura
Anthony Laciura (born September 27, 1951) is an American actor and operatic tenor. Laciura is often noted for his abilities as a comprimario, and actor. Born in New Orleans, he studied voice there with Charles Paddock, also the teacher of Ticho Parly. He is also well known for playing Eddie Kessler in ''Boardwalk Empire'' (2010–13). Career As a boy soprano, Laciura made his operatic debut in a small role in ''Louise (opera), Louise'', in March 1965, at the New Orleans Opera Association, opposite the last performances in this opera of Dorothy Kirsten and Norman Treigle. As an adult, he would give many performances with that company, and would earn music degrees from Loyola University of the South and Tulane University. On the Opening Night of the 1982–83 season, the tenor debuted with the Metropolitan Opera, where he appeared well over 800 times. That first role was the Major-domo in ''Der Rosenkavalier'', with Dame Kiri Te Kanawa. In fact, that production was televised, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael K
''Life & Times of Michael K'' is a 1983 novel by South African-born writer J. M. Coetzee. The novel won the Booker Prize for 1983. The novel is a story of a man named Michael K, who makes an arduous journey from Cape Town to his mother's rural birthplace, amid a fictitious civil war during the apartheid era, in the 1970-80s. Plot summary The novel is split into three parts. The novel begins with Michael K, a poor man with a cleft lip who has spent his childhood in institutions and works as a gardener in Cape Town. Michael tends to his mother who works as a domestic servant to a wealthy family. The country descends into civil war and martial law is imposed, and Michael's mother becomes very sick. Michael decides to quit his job and escape the city to return his mother to her birthplace, which she says was Prince Albert. Michael finds himself unable to obtain the proper permits for travel out of the city so he builds a shoddy rickshaw to carry his mother, and they go on their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paz De La Huerta
María de la Paz Elizabeth Sofía Adriana de la Huerta y Bruce (; born September 3, 1984), known professionally as Paz de la Huerta, is an American actress and model. She had roles in the films ''The Cider House Rules'' (1999) and ''A Walk to Remember'' (2002), and played Lucy Danziger in the HBO drama series ''Boardwalk Empire''. Early life De la Huerta was raised by her mother, with her older sister, in the New York City neighborhood of SoHo, located in Lower Manhattan. Her parents are Spanish nobleman Íñigo de la Huerta y Ozores, 14th Duke of Mandas, Grandee of Spain and Judith Bruce. De la Huerta was born with recurrent cystic hygroma under her arm, which she has had treated with multiple surgeries. Her mother worked as an authority on birth control and women's issues in Third World countries. She attended private Saint Ann's School in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, with fellow student and future fashion designer, Zac Posen, for whom she has since modeled. She a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucky Luciano
Charles "Lucky" Luciano (, ; born Salvatore Lucania ; November 24, 1897 – January 26, 1962) was an Italian-born gangster who operated mainly in the United States. Luciano started his criminal career in the Five Points gang and was instrumental in the development of the National Crime Syndicate. Luciano is considered the father of modern organized crime in the United States for the establishment of The Commission (mafia), The Commission in 1931, after he abolished the capo di tutti capi, boss of bosses title held by Salvatore Maranzano following the Castellammarese War. He was also the first official crime boss, boss of the modern Genovese crime family. In 1936, Luciano was tried and convicted for forced prostitution, compulsory prostitution and running a prostitution racket after years of investigation by District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey. He was sentenced to 30 to 50 years in prison, but during World War II an agreement was struck with the Department of the Navy through his J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vincent Piazza
Vincent Piazza (born May 25, 1976) is an American film, television and stage actor. He is best known for his portrayal of gangster Lucky Luciano in the HBO television series ''Boardwalk Empire''. He has also played Earl Hefner in the comedy-drama '' Rocket Science'' (2007) and singer Tommy DeVito in Clint Eastwood's film adaptation of ''Jersey Boys'' (2014). Early life and education Piazza was born and raised in Queens, New York. His father is Italian, having immigrated to the United States in the early 1960s. His mother is of German descent. He recalls humble beginnings and a prideful work ethic gained from watching his father work multiple jobs to support the family that included a younger brother and one older sister. Vincent also credits his mother's large German family for allowing several travels across the United States to visit distant relatives who encouraged him to find his passion, and see the world's many treasures. He attended Archbishop Molloy High School in Quee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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