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YoungStar Award
The YoungStar Awards, presented by ''The Hollywood Reporter'', honored young American actors and actresses from ages 6–18 in their work in film, television, stage and music. Winners were chosen via a poll of 3,500 entertainment industry insiders who read ''The Hollywood Reporter''. The awards ceremony was held from 1995 until 2000; there was no ceremony in 1996. First Annual YoungStar Awards The First Annual YoungStar Awards were held in 1995. Best Performance by a Young Actor in a Comedy Film * Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Roger Bomman, '' Angels in the Outfield -'' won * Jonathan Taylor Thomas as Ben Archer, '' Man of the House'' Best Performance by a Young Actress in a Comedy film * Christina Ricci as Kat, ''Casper'' Best Performance by a Young Actress in a Drama Film * Kirsten Dunst as Claudia, ''Interview with the Vampire'' Best Performance by a Young Actor in a Drama Film * Brad Renfro as Erik, ''The Cure'' - won * Elijah Wood as Stu Simmons, '' The War'' Best Y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film Actor
An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), literally "one who answers".''Hypokrites'' (related to our word for hypocrite) also means, less often, "to answer" the tragic chorus. See Weimann (1978, 2); see also Csapo and Slater, who offer translations of classical source material using the term ''hypocrisis'' ( acting) (1994, 257, 265–267). The actor's interpretation of a rolethe art of actingpertains to the role played, whether based on a real person or fictional character. This can also be considered an "actor's role," which was called this due to scrolls being used in the theaters. Interpretation occurs even when the actor is "playing themselves", as in some forms of experimental performance art. Formerly, in ancient Greece and the medieval world, and in England at the time of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Cure (1995 Film)
''The Cure'' is a 1995 American drama film directed by Peter Horton and written by Robert Kuhn. The film stars Brad Renfro and Joseph Mazzello and follows an unlikely friendship between two boys, one of whom is suffering from AIDS. When the boys hear of a possible cure for the disease, they set out on a quest to find it. The film was distributed by Universal Pictures and was released to theaters on April 21, 1995. It was not a box office success, earning only $2.57 million. Although ''The Cure'' received mixed reviews from critics, the performances of Mazzello and Renfro received acclaim and both actors earned Young Artist Awards nominations. Horton received the Audience Award at the Cinekid Festival and Renfro won an award for Best Performance in a Drama Film at the first annual YoungStar Awards. The film also received a Grammy Award nomination for its score by Dave Grusin. Plot Erik is an eleven-year-old loner who has just moved to a small town in Stillwater, Minnesota. Ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kimberly McCullough
Kimberly Anne McCullough (born March 5, 1978) is an American actress and television director. She is best known for her role as Robin Scorpio on the soap opera ''General Hospital'', a role which she originated at age seven, playing the character on and off from 1985 to 2001 with a stint in 2004. McCullough later returned to the show in 2005 as a doctor and departed in 2012. She has made sporadic guest appearances since July 2012. She returned to the show in August 2013, but went off-contract in 2018 and has subsequently retired from acting to focus on a directing career. McCullough has also played the character in one episode of the ''GH'' spinoff '' Port Charles'', and in a few episodes of ''All My Children''. In summer 2007, again as Robin, she played one of the leads in the primetime ''GH'' spinoff, '' General Hospital: Night Shift''. McCullough is also an ABC Director Fellow, shadowing other directors. Career In 1985, after failing to land a role on the TV sitcom ''Webster ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
General Hospital
''General Hospital'' (often abbreviated as ''GH'') is an American daytime television soap opera. It is listed in ''Guinness World Records'' as the longest-running American soap opera in production, and the second in American history after '' Guiding Light''. Concurrently, it is the world's third longest-running scripted drama series in production after British serials ''The Archers'' and '' Coronation Street'', as well as the world's second-longest-running televised soap opera still in production. ''General Hospital'' premiered on the ABC television network on April 1, 1963. ''General Hospital'' is the longest-running serial produced in Hollywood, and the longest-running entertainment program in ABC television history. It holds the record for most Daytime Emmy Awards for Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series, with 14 wins. The show was created by husband-and-wife soap writers Frank and Doris Hursley, who originally set it in a hospital, in an unnamed fictional c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucky Spencer
Lucky Spencer is a fictional character from the ABC Daytime soap opera, ''General Hospital''. He is the son of Luke (Anthony Geary) and Laura Spencer (Genie Francis). His birth having been announced on-screen in 1985, a ten-year-old Lucky was cast in 1993, played by newcomer at the time, Jonathan Jackson. Jackson left the series in 1999, and the character was played by Jacob Young and later Greg Vaughan, who was let go in 2009 to allow Jackson to reprise the role. Lucky's characterization changed throughout the different portrayers; originally a street-smart con artist, Lucky develops an edge during Young's tenure and more drastically changes during Vaughan's portrayal, as Lucky becomes a struggling police officer. With Jackson's reprisal, Lucky begins showing some of the character's original quick-witted qualities, but after a series of harrowing storylines, Jackson left the series in December 2011 and the role was not recast. Jackson briefly reprised the role in July 2015. Wif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Jackson (actor)
Jonathan Stevens Jackson (born May 11, 1982) is an American actor, musician, and author. He is best known for his role as Lucky Spencer in the television soap opera '' General Hospital'' (1993–1999, 2009–2011, 2015), which won him five Daytime Emmy Awards. He is also known for his roles in the films ''The Deep End of the Ocean'' (1999), '' Tuck Everlasting'' (2002), '' Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights'' (2004), and ''Riding the Bullet'' (2004), as well as the television series '' Nashville'' (2012–2018), for which he received a Critics' Choice Television Award nomination. Early life Jackson was born in Orlando, Florida, the son of Jeanine (née Sharp), an amateur ventriloquist and businesswoman, and Dr. Rick "Ricky Lee" Jackson, a family physician, country musician and Congressional candidate in the state of Washington. Jackson was raised in Battle Ground, Washington, with his brother Richard Lee Jackson, now an actor and musician, and his sister Candice Jackson, now a law ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
My So-Called Life
''My So-Called Life'' is an American teen drama television series created by Winnie Holzman and produced by Edward Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz. It originally aired on ABC from August 25, 1994, to January 26, 1995. It is distributed by The Bedford Falls Company with ABC Productions. Set at the fictional Liberty High School in a fictional suburb near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania called Three Rivers, it follows the emotional travails of several teenagers in the social circle of main character Angela Chase, played by Claire Danes. The show was officially canceled on May 15, 1995, despite being critically praised for its realistic portrayal of adolescence and the commentary of its central character Angela, and the series' reception of several major awards, which included a Golden Globe Award for Danes. Besides Danes, the show also launched the careers of several other major actors of her generation, including Jared Leto and Wilson Cruz. The show became a cult classic and has been fre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claire Danes
Claire Catherine Danes (born April 12, 1979) is an American actress. She is the recipient of three Primetime Emmy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards. In 2012, ''Time'' named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world, and she was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2015. Danes gained early recognition as Angela Chase in the 1994 teen drama series ''My So-Called Life''. The role won her a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress and a Primetime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. She made her film debut the same year in '' Little Women'' (1994). Her other films include '' Home for the Holidays'' (1995), ''Romeo + Juliet'' (1996), '' The Rainmaker'' (1997), ''Les Misérables'' (1998), ''Brokedown Palace'' (1999), the 1999 English dub of ''Princess Mononoke'' (1997), '' The Hours'' (2002), '' Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines'' (2003), ''Shopgirl'' (2005), '' Stardust'' (2007), and ''A Kid Li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholle Tom
Nicholle Marie Tom is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as Ryce Newton in ''Beethoven'' (1992), '' Beethoven's 2nd'' (1993), ''Beethoven'' (1994–1995), and as Maggie Sheffield on '' The Nanny''. She is also known for voicing Supergirl in the DC Animated Universe. Early life Tom has a twin brother, David Tom, best known for his role as Billy Abbott on ''The Young and the Restless'', and an older sister, Heather Tom, who is best known for her roles as Katie Logan on '' The Bold and The Beautiful'' and as Victoria Newman on ''The Young and the Restless'' from 1990-2003. Career In 1992, Tom played the small role of Scott Scanlon's sister, Sue, on '' Beverly Hills, 90210''. In 1992 and 1993, she played Ryce Newton in the successful family movies ''Beethoven'' and '' Beethoven's 2nd''. She reprised her role as the voice of Ryce in the cartoon spinoff. From 1993 to 1999, she played Mr. Sheffield's eldest daughter, Maggie Sheffield in '' The Nanny''. Tom was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Nanny
''The Nanny'' is an American television sitcom that originally aired on CBS from November 3, 1993, to June 23, 1999, starring Fran Drescher as Fran Fine, a Jewish fashionista from Flushing, Queens, New York, who becomes the nanny of three children from the New York–British high society. The show was created and produced by Drescher and her then-husband Peter Marc Jacobson, taking much of its inspiration from Drescher's personal life growing up in Queens, involving names and characteristics based on her relatives and friends. The show earned a Rose d'Or, and one Emmy Award, out of a total of twelve nominations; Drescher was twice nominated for a Golden Globe and an Emmy. The sitcom has also spawned several foreign adaptations, loosely inspired by the original scripts. Plot Jewish-American Fran Fine turns up on the doorstep of British Broadway producer Maxwell Sheffield ( Charles Shaughnessy) to sell cosmetics after having been dumped, and subsequently fired by, her bridal- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madeline Zima
Madeline Zima (born September 16, 1985) is an American actress. She portrayed Grace Sheffield on the CBS sitcom ''The Nanny'' (1993–1999), Mia Lewis on the Showtime comedy drama series ''Californication'' (2007–2011), and Gretchen Berg on the NBC series '' Heroes'' (2009–2010). Early life Zima was born in New Haven, Connecticut, the daughter of Marie and Dennis. Her surname means "winter" in Polish and comes from her maternal grandfather, who was of Polish descent. Zima has two younger sisters, Vanessa and Yvonne, both of whom are also actresses. Career Zima began her career when she was two years old with an appearance in a television commercial for Downy fabric softener. From 1993 to 1999 she played the role of Grace Sheffield on the television show ''The Nanny'' throughout its six seasons. Zima, then aged 22, played Mia Lewis on the first two seasons of the series ''Californication'' and overall appeared in the series from 2007 to 2011. In promotion of the fiction ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benjamin Salisbury
Benjamin David Salisbury (born October 19, 1980) is an American actor and dancer best known for playing the role of Brighton Sheffield on the CBS television sitcom ''The Nanny'' from 1993 to 1999. Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on October 19, 1980, to parents David Arthur Salisbury and Mindy Jo (née Schneidewind) Salisbury. In 1998, he graduated from Wayzata High School in Plymouth, Minnesota, and enrolled in American University in Washington, D.C., that fall. An accomplished dancer, Salisbury would often treat ''The Nanny'' studio audiences to improvisational routines when the cameras were not rolling. Salisbury also played Martin Short's son in the 1992 film ''Captain Ron'', and appeared in '' D3: The Mighty Ducks'' (1996) as the sports announcer. Benjamin played the voice of Tin Boy on ''The Oz Kids'' in 1996. Salisbury was a contestant on ''Jeopardy!'' where he competed in a very special ''Teen Celebrity Jeopardy!'' against Kirsten Dunst and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Salisb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
