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Supernatural (season 7)
The seventh season of ''Supernatural'', an American dark fantasy television series created by Eric Kripke, premiered September 23, 2011, and concluded May 18, 2012, airing 23 episodes. The season focuses on protagonists Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean Winchester (Jensen Ackles) facing a new enemy called Leviathans, stronger than anything they have encountered so far as well as rendering their usual weapons useless. On January 12, 2012, the season won two People's Choice Awards including Best Network TV Drama. This is the second and final season of Sera Gamble as showrunner, with Jeremy Carver taking over the role for season eight. Warner Home Video released the season on DVD and Blu-ray in Region 1 on September 18, 2012, in region 2 on November 5, 2012, and in Region 4 on October 31, 2012. The seventh season had an average viewership of 1.73 million U.S. viewers. Cast Starring * Jared Padalecki as Sam Winchester * Jensen Ackles as Dean Winchester Special guest stars * Mish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sera Gamble
Sera Gamble is an American television writer and producer, best known for her work on Lifetime/Netflix's ''You'', Syfy's '' The Magicians'' and The CW's ''Supernatural''. Early life Born in New York City, Gamble was briefly raised in Cincinnati before moving to Redlands, California. She graduated from the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. Career Before turning to film and television, Gamble starred in stage productions of ''Will Strip for Food'' in Los Angeles and Dublin, Ireland. She produced and starred in a stage production of ''Eve of Paradise'', written and directed by Raelle Tucker. She also starred in a short film written and directed by Tucker, entitled ''The Clay Man''; the film was based on a short story by Gamble. Gamble has published several works of literary short fiction, including stories published by the journal ''Washington Square'', on nerve.com, and anthologized in the 2006 and 2007 editions of ''The Best American Erotica'' and the "dark, gothic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DVD Region Code
DVD region codes are a digital rights management technique introduced in 1997. It is designed to allow rights holders to control the international distribution of a DVD release, including its content, release date, and price, all according to the appropriate region. This is achieved by way of region-locked DVD players, which will play back only DVDs encoded to their region (plus those without any region code). The American DVD Copy Control Association also requires that DVD player manufacturers incorporate the Regional Playback Control (RPC) system. However, region-free DVD players, which ignore region coding, are also commercially available, and many DVD players can be modified to be region-free, allowing playback of all discs. DVDs may use one code, multiple codes (multi-region), or all codes (region free). Region codes and countries Any combination of regions can be applied to a single disc. For example, a DVD designated Region 2/4 is suitable for playback in Europe, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Pellegrino
Mark Ross Pellegrino (born April 9, 1965) is an American actor of film and television. He is best known for his work as Lucifer in ''Supernatural'', Paul Bennett in '' Dexter'', Jacob in '' Lost'', James Bishop in '' Being Human'', Clayton Haas in '' Quantico'', Joe Messing in '' Mulholland Drive'', and Deputy Bill Standall in ''13 Reasons Why''. Early life, family and education Mark Pellegrino was born in Pasadena, California and grew up in Van Nuys, California. He attended Notre Dame High School. When he was in high school, he co-founded and sang in a heavy metal band, XL. It disbanded after school was finished. Although he enrolled in college and achieved straight As, he dropped out after a year. He saw an advertisement for a modeling agency at a place called John Roberts Powers, where he received some free training. During his training he was picked out for talent by commercial agent Bob Hoover. He was set up with an agent and acting coaches. From there he was sent ou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin McNally
Kevin Robert McNally (born 27 April 1956) is an English actor and writer. He began his acting career in the BBC TV adaptation of ''I, Claudius'' (1976), but is best known for portraying Joshamee Gibbs in the ''Pirates of the Caribbean'' franchise. Early life and education McNally was born in Bristol. McNally spent his early years in Birmingham, attending Redhill Junior School in Hay Mills and Mapledene Junior School (now Mapledene Primary School) in Sheldon. He went to Central Grammar School for Boys on Gressel Lane in Tile Cross. Career McNally's first professional acting work, at age 16, was at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre. In 1973 he received a scholarship to attend the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art where, in 1975, he won the Best Actor Bancroft Gold Medal. In 1976, he appeared in BBC's '' I, Claudius'' and, in 1977, was a regular in the second series of ''Poldark'' playing Drake Carne, younger brother of Demelza Poldark. From 1991 to 1994, he wrote nine epi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crowley (Supernatural)
''Supernatural'' is an American television drama series created by writer and producer Eric Kripke. It was initially broadcast by The WB network from September 13, 2005, but after the first season, the WB and UPN networks merged to form The CW network, which was the final broadcaster for the show in the United States by the series' conclusion on November 19, 2020, with 327 episodes aired. '' The Winchesters'', a spin-off prequel/sequel series to ''Supernatural'' developed by Robbie Thompson, Jensen Ackles and Danneel Ackles, aired on The CW for 13 episodes from October 11, 2022, to March 7, 2023. ''Supernatural'' and ''The Winchesters'' each feature two main characters, Sam Winchester (played by Jared Padalecki) and Dean Winchester (played by Jensen Ackles), and Mary Campbell (played by Meg Donnelly) and John Winchester (played by Drake Rodger). In ''Supernatural'', the two Winchester brothers are hunters who travel across the United States, mainly to the Midwest, in a black 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Sheppard
Mark Andreas Sheppard is an English actor and musician. Sheppard is known for playing the demon/King of Hell Crowley on ''Supernatural'' and for his recurring roles as lawyer Romo Lampkin on the ''Battlestar Galactica'' reboot, Interpol investigator James Sterling on '' Leverage'', and small-time crime lord Badger on Joss Whedon's ''Firefly''. He also plays the character Willoughby Kipling on ''Doom Patrol''. Early life Mark Andreas Sheppard was born in London, England, the son of actor W. Morgan Sheppard and Regina Lisa ( Scherer) Sheppard. He is of Irish and German descent. Career Music Sheppard became a drummer as a teenager, buying his first drum kit in 1976, and spent many years recording and touring with artists including Robyn Hitchcock, the Television Personalities, the Finnish rock band Hanoi Rocks, and the Irish group Light a Big Fire. In 1985, Sheppard played drums on Light a Big Fire's second album, and was with them as the opening act for some stops on U2's 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benito Martinez (actor)
Benito Martinez (born June 28, 1971) is an American actor, best known for his role as LAPD Captain David Aceveda in the FX police drama ''The Shield'', Luis Torres in ''Sons of Anarchy'' (2011–2012), Todd Denver in ''How to Get Away with Murder'' (2016–2018), Sheriff Diaz in ''13 Reasons Why'' (2019–2020), and for his film roles in the movie ''My Family'' (1995) and '' Kill Your Darlings'' (2006). Early life Martinez was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He attended Hollywood High School Performing Arts Center, along with Anthony Anderson. After graduating high school, he went to study at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, where his sister also studied. Besides Martinez, Kim Cattrall, Donald Sutherland and Chiwetel Ejiofor also studied there. Career He returned to the United States and moved to Los Angeles, where he appeared as Fernandez in an episode of '' The Bronx Zoo'', "The Gospel Truth". He has worked in films such as ''Saw'', ''Million Dollar Baby'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Patrick Stuart
James Patrick Stuart (born June 16, 1968) is an American actor. He portrays Valentin Cassadine on the daytime soap opera A soap opera (also called a daytime drama or soap) is a genre of a long-running radio or television Serial (radio and television), serial, frequently characterized by melodrama, ensemble casts, and sentimentality. The term ''soap opera'' originat ... ''General Hospital'', for which he received three consecutive Daytime Emmy Award nominations for Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series, Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 2020, 2021 and 2022. Early life Stuart was born in California to English parents Chad Stuart, Chad and Jill Gibson Stuart. His songwriter father was one-half of the 1960s British Invasion duo Chad & Jeremy; because of this, Stuart spent much of his childhood in recording studios. As a wannabe child actor, he talked his parents into taking him to nighttime tapings of sitcoms such as ''Happy Days'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bobby Singer
Robert Steven Singer is a fictional character in The CW Television Network's horror-drama television series ''Supernatural (U.S. TV series), Supernatural'' portrayed by Jim Beaver. Named after Robert Singer (producer), the show's executive producer, Bobby first appears in the first season finale "Devil's Trap." Although Beaver believed his role would merely be a "one-shot deal," Bobby has become a recurring character on the series, and is one of three characters who has appeared in every season of the show. The character, a "rough but warmhearted" working-class man who hunts supernatural creatures, has evolved over time into a father figure for series protagonists Sam Winchester, Sam and Dean Winchester. Critics have responded favorably to the character. Starting in the Supernatural (season 12), season 12 finale "All Along the Watchtower" and carrying over into Supernatural (season 13), season 13, an alternate reality version of Bobby is introduced. This Bobby is portrayed as th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Beaver
James Norman Beaver Jr. (born August 12, 1950) is an American actor, writer, and film historian. He is most familiar to worldwide audiences as Bobby Singer in ''Supernatural''. He also played Whitney Ellsworth on the HBO Western drama series '' Deadwood'', which brought him acclaim and a Screen Actors Guild Awards nomination for Ensemble Acting, Sheriff Shelby Parlow on the FX series '' Justified'', and Robert "Dakota Bob" Shaefer on the Amazon Prime Video series '' The Boys''. His memoir ''Life's That Way'' was published in April 2009. Early life Beaver was born in Laramie, Wyoming, the son of Dorothy Adell () and James Norman Beaver, a minister. His father was of English and French heritage; the family name was originally de Beauvoir, and Beaver is a distant cousin of author and philosopher Simone de Beauvoir and Pennsylvania governor General James A. Beaver. Beaver's mother has Cherokee, German, and Scottish ancestry, and is a descendant of three-time U.S. Attorney Gene ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DJ Qualls
Donald Joseph Qualls (born June 10, 1978) is an American actor. He is best known for his television roles as Citizen Z on the Syfy horror series ''Z Nation'' (2014–2018) and Ed McCarthy on the Amazon Prime Video series ''The Man in the High Castle (TV series), The Man in the High Castle'' (2015–2018). Qualls gained mainstream recognition after a supporting role in the sex comedy film ''Road Trip (2000 film), Road Trip'' (2000), which he reprised in the sequel, ''Road Trip: Beer Pong'' (2009). This was followed with a lead role in the teen comedy film ''The New Guy'' (2002), alongside starring roles in ''The Core'' (2003) and ''Hustle & Flow'' (2005), the latter of which earned him a Screen Actors Guild Awards, Screen Actors Guild Award nomination. Qualls has also had starring roles in the films ''I'm Reed Fish'' (2006), ''Delta Farce'' (2007), ''Amigo (2010 film), Amigo'' (2010), ''Small Apartments'' (2013), and ''Buster's Mal Heart'' (2016). Qualls had main roles as Police ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charisma Carpenter
Charisma Carpenter (born July 23, 1970) is an American actress. She played Cordelia Chase in the supernatural drama series ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' (1997–1999) and its spin-off series ''Angel'' (1999–2004). She also starred as Kyra in ''Charmed'' (2004), Kendall Casablancas in ''Veronica Mars'' (2005–2006), Rebecca Sewell in '' The Lying Game'' (2012–2013), and Lacy in ''The Expendables'' film series (2010–2012). , her most recent onscreen appearance was a guest role on a 2022 episode of ''Dynasty''. Early life Carpenter was born in Las Vegas, Nevada, the only biological child of Christine, a bird sanctuary worker, and Don Carpenter, a salesman. She is of Spanish (from her maternal grandfather), French, and German descent. Carpenter attended Bishop Gorman High School in Las Vegas; she was also a part of a song-and-dance troupe which performed in the Las Vegas Valley when she was nine years old. When Carpenter was 15, her family moved to Rosarito Beach, Baja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
