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Cradle 2 The Grave (2003 Film)
''Cradle 2 the Grave'' is a 2003 American action film directed by Andrzej Bartkowiak and starring Jet Li and DMX. The film was released in the United States on February 28, 2003. Plot Anthony Fait and his crew of thieves attempt to steal diamonds for a Frenchman named Christophe, who serves as the middleman for a mysterious employer. When Fait contacts Christophe, a Taiwanese intelligence agent named Su intercepts the conversation and attempts to identify the criminals. While the crew gathers up as many diamonds as they can, including a bag of black diamonds, Agent Su calls Fait and demands that he and his crew leave the diamonds in the vault, warning him that the police are on the way. However, Fait ignores this warning, and the criminals attempt a daring escape past a SWAT team blockade. While Fait, and his crew members Daria and Tommy, all manage to escape, Agent Su captures Miles and recovers Miles' share of the diamonds. Su is disappointed to find that Miles does not have ...
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Andrzej Bartkowiak
Andrzej Bartkowiak, A.S.C. (born 6 March 1950) is a Polish cinematographer and film director. Career In the early 1980s, Bartkowiak was cinematographer on three films that received Academy Award nominations for Best Picture: ''The Verdict'', ''Terms of Endearment'', and ''Prizzi's Honor''. During that decade, Bartkowiak also developed a close working relationship with director Sidney Lumet, acting as director of photography on almost all of Lumet's movies between 1981 (''Prince of the City'') and 1993 (''Guilty as Sin''). Bartkowiak made his directorial debut with ''Romeo Must Die'' a martial-arts action film starring Jet Li and Aaliyah, which grossed $91 million at the box office. A year later he made the action thriller film ''Exit Wounds'' starring Steven Seagal, the film was a hit in theaters. ''Cradle 2 the Grave'' was a moderate success at the box-office. Later he teamed up with Ashok Amritraj's Hyde Park Entertainment and Capcom to direct '' Street Fighter: The Leg ...
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SWAT
In the United States, a SWAT team (special weapons and tactics, originally special weapons assault team) is a police tactical unit that uses specialized or military equipment and tactics. Although they were first created in the 1960s to handle riot control or violent confrontations with criminals, the number and usage of SWAT teams increased in the 1980s and 1990s during the War on Drugs and later in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks. In the United States by 2005, SWAT teams were deployed 50,000 times every year, almost 80% of the time to serve search warrants, most often for narcotics. By 2015 that number had increased to nearly 80,000 times a year. SWAT teams are increasingly equipped with military-type hardware and trained to deploy against threats of terrorism, for crowd control, hostage taking, and in situations beyond the capabilities of ordinary law enforcement, sometimes deemed "high-risk". SWAT units are often equipped with automatic and specialized fir ...
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Julie Du Page
Julie Pichard du Page (born 6 October 1973) is a Canadian actress and model. Early life and career Du Page was born in Paris into a family of French nobility but spent the most of her life in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, later moving back to Paris to pursue her acting career. Filmography * ''Scoop'' (unknown episodes, 1992) .... Sophie / Carla * '' Au nom du père et du fils'' (unknown episodes, 1993) .... Léonie Lafresnière (25 years old) * '' Monsieur Ripois'' (1993) ( TV) .... Nancy * '' Highlander'' (1 episode, "Warmonger", 1994) .... Nicole * '' L'ours en peluche'' (1994) .... * '' Extrême limite'' (42 episodes, 1994–1995) .... Juliette * ''The Hardy Boys'' (1 episode, "No Dice", 1995) .... Jeanette Nordeau * '' Les steenfort, maîtres de l'orge'' (1996) TV mini-series .... Adrienne * ''Le jour et la nuit'' (1997) .... Norma * '' Hors limites'' (2 episodes, "Le piège" and "Mariages à la bulgare", 1997) .... Juliette Renaud * '' Les cordier, juge et flic'' (1 episode, "L' ...
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Doug Spearman
Doug Spearman (born September 3, 1962, in Washington, D.C.) is an American actor. His career highlights include work on such television shows as ''Noah's Arc'', '' Star Trek: Voyager'', ''The Drew Carey Show'', ''The Hughleys'', '' Charmed'', ''Gideon's Crossing'', ''MAD TV'', '' Girlfriends'' and '' Profiler''. Career He has starred in such productions as the American premiere of the AIDS drama ''The Ice Pick,'' ''The Men's Room,'' ''Moscow,'' ''The Bullpen Boys,'' ''A Few Good Men,'' and the world premiere of South Coast Repertory's production of ''The Hollow Lands.'' Doug co-starred in the motion picture ''Cradle 2 the Grave'' with Jet Li and DMX and '' Any Day Now'' with Alan Cumming and Frances Fisher. On television Spearman starred as Professor Chance Counter in the groundbreaking series ''Noah's Arc'' on ''LOGO'' and the feature film continuing the TV show's story, '' Noah's Arc: Jumping the Broom''. Spearman also worked as a writer/producer/director and creative dire ...
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Johnny Trí Nguyễn
Johnny Trí Nguyễn is a Vietnamese–American actor, martial artist, action choreographer and stuntman who is mainly active in the Vietnamese film industry. Born in Bình Dương, Saigon, Vietnam, Nguyễn and his family immigrated to the United States of America when he was 9. He competed as a martial artist on the U.S. national team, and then transitioned into a career as a stuntman in Hollywood, working on films such as ''Spider-Man 2'' and '' Jarhead''. Nguyễn later returned to Vietnam and starred in '' The Rebel'', a period martial arts film released in 2007 and directed by his brother Charlie Nguyễn. It was a massive success in Vietnam, garnering unprecedented attention for a locally made film.The Hollywood ReporteVietnamese censors ban local gangster film 'Chinatown'Patrick Brzeski, June 11, 2013 Filmography References External links {{DEFAULTSORT:Nguyen, Johnny Tri Living people 21st-century Vietnamese male actors Vietnamese male film actors People ...
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Martin Klebba
Martin Klebba (born June 23, 1969) is an American actor and stunt performer. He has a form of dwarfism called acromicric dysplasia; he is . Klebba is best known for his role as Marty in the ''Pirates of the Caribbean'' franchise. Personal life Klebba was born and grew up in Troy, Michigan, graduating from Athens High School. , Martin was engaged to Michelle Dilgard, mentioning in an interview that in his free time, he likes to play video games with his son when he visits and spend time with his fiancée. Martin is the father of son Alec and daughter Makenzie. Klebba runs a nonprofit foundation called Coalition for Dwarf Advocacy, which gives 100% of its donations to the cause of helping little people. Career Early career Klebba was an occasional guest on The Howard Stern Show in the 1990s, and was given the nickname "Marty the Midget". Film Martin Klebba has acted in various productions, most notably the ''Pirates of the Caribbean'' series as Marty, a dwarf pirate member ...
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Randy Couture
Randall Duane Couture (; born June 22, 1963) is an American actor, former United States Army, U.S. Army sergeant, former mixed martial arts, mixed martial artist and former Collegiate wrestling, collegiate and Greco-Roman wrestling, Greco-Roman wrestler. During his tenures in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), he became a three-time UFC Heavyweight Championship, UFC Heavyweight Champion, two-time List of UFC champions, UFC Light heavyweight Champion, an interim UFC Light heavyweight Champion, making him a six-time UFC Champion and the List of UFC champions#Tournament winners, UFC 13 Heavyweight Tournament winner. He is the first of seven fighters to hold two UFC championship titles in two different divisions (along with B.J. Penn, Conor McGregor, Georges St-Pierre, Daniel Cormier, Amanda Nunes and Henry Cejudo). Couture has competed in a record 16 title fights. He is tied for the record for the most wins in UFC Heavyweight Championship bouts (6) with former UFC Heavyweight ...
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Lester Speight
Lester Speight (born August 28, 1963), also known as Rasta, is a former American football player who has had subsequent careers as a professional wrestler and then actor. He achieved significant recognition for his portrayal of '' Terry Tate: Office Linebacker'' in a series of Reebok commercials that debuted during Super Bowl XXXVII, and received further recognition for his portrayal of Augustus Cole in the ''Gears of War'' series of video games. Early life, family and education Lester Speight was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of Gussie Watson and Walter Speight. He graduated from Old Mill High School in Millersville, Maryland in 1981, where he is in its Hall of Fame for three sports: football, track, and basketball. He attended Morgan State University from 1981 to 1985 and was a Division 1 All-American Linebacker. Professional football and professional wrestling After graduating college in 1985, he attempted to play in the NFL but did not. He tried out for the United St ...
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Chi McBride
Kenneth "Chi" McBride ( ; born September 23, 1961) is an American actor. He has appeared in films, where he is known primarily as a character actor, and in television, where he has had numerous starring roles. In film, he has played prominent roles including ''The Frighteners'' (1996), '' Gone in 60 Seconds'' (2000), ''I, Robot'' (2004), '' Waiting...'' (2005), ''Let's Go to Prison'' (2006), and ''Draft Day'' (2014). On television, he was high school principal Steven Harper on the series ''Boston Public'', Emerson Cod on ''Pushing Daisies'', Detective Laverne Winston on the Fox drama ''Human Target'', Detective Don Owen in the short-lived CBS crime drama '' Golden Boy'', and Captain Lou Grover in ''Hawaii Five-0''. Early life McBride was born in Chicago, Illinois, from which his stage name derives. He was raised in the Seventh-day Adventist religion and attended Shiloh Academy, now known as Chicago SDA Academy, a Seventh-day Adventist school. McBride originally planned to purs ...
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Ron Yuan
Ronald Winston Yuan is an American actor, martial artist, director, and stunt choreographer. He is best known for his roles on '' Sons of Anarchy'', '' Prison Break'', '' Golden Boy'', and '' CSI: NY''. He has acted in numerous films, including an ensemble lead as Sgt. Qiang in Disney's live-action adaptation ''Mulan''. He also supplied the voice of Sgt. Fideltin Rusk in the video game series '' Star Wars: The Old Republic'', and Scorpion in ''Mortal Kombat 11'' (replacing Patrick Seitz) . Early life Yuan was born in New York City, New York, the son of Theresa and Joseph Yuan, and the brother of actor Roger Yuan. Career Acting Film Yuan appeared in Roland Emmerich's ''Independence Day'' sequel, '' Independence Day: Resurgence'', playing Yeong, the main weapons engineer. Before that, Yuan appeared in the film '' The Accountant'' (directed by Gavin O'Connor), with Ben Affleck, J. K. Simmons and Anna Kendrick, playing a reluctant Silat master. Yuan had a cameo in Martin Scorses ...
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Michael Jace
Michael Andrew Jace (born July 13, 1962) is an American convicted murderer and former character actor, best known for his role as Los Angeles Police Officer Julien Lowe in the FX drama ''The Shield''. He also played Andre Tibbs, an ex-convict mover accused of murder, in an episode of ''Cold Case''. On May 20, 2014, Jace was arrested after he fatally shot his wife, April Jace. A jury subsequently convicted him of second-degree murder on May 31, 2016, and on June 10, 2016, sentenced him to 40 years to life in prison. Career Jace began his professional acting career in 1992, appearing in an episode of ''Law & Order''. In 1994, he appeared in several TV shows, including '' Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'', and films including ''Clear and Present Danger'' and ''Forrest Gump'', where he portrayed the leader of the Black Panthers. Jace's other film appearances include '' Strange Days'', playing a bodyguard to a corrupt record executive; '' The Replacements'', playing a prison inmate-tur ...
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Paolo Seganti
Paolo Seganti (born 20 May 1964 in Rovereto, Trentino, Italy), is an Italian actor and model, known for playing Damian Grimaldi in the CBS television soap opera ''As the World Turns''. Career Seganti is known for his portrayal of Damian Grimaldi on the American daytime soap opera ''As the World Turns''. He played the role from 1993 to 1997, returning briefly in 2001, 2006, and from 2009 to 2010. In 2013, he appeared on the soap opera ''One Life to Live'' as Arturo Bandini. In 1996, Seganti made his prime time television debut in the sitcom ''The Nanny''. That same year he debuted on the big screen with a small role in ''Everyone Says I Love You'', directed by Woody Allen. In Italy, he appeared in ''Ultimo'' (1998), directed by Stefano Reali; ''Caraibi'' (1999), directed by Lamberto Bava; ''Tea with Mussolini'' (1999), directed by Franco Zeffirelli; ''Le Stagioni del Cuore'' (2003), directed by Antonio Luigi Grimaldi; and the TV miniseries ''Ho sposato un calciatore'' (2005), d ...
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