Robert De Niro Jr. (born August 17, 1943), is a two-time Academy Award-winning, iconic American film actor, director, producer and founder of the Tribeca Film Festival. He is critically acclaimed as one of the finest motion picture actors and among the most famous actors of all time having starred in many movies. He is particularly noted for his portrayal of mobsters in the gangster underworld, and conflicted, troubled characters, and for his enduring collaboration with director Martin Scorsese, and early work with director Brian De Palma.
Robert Redford (born Charles Robert Redford, Jr. on August 18, 1936), is an award-winning American motion picture actor, director, producer, businessman, model, environmentalist, and philanthropist. One of Hollywood's biggest superstars, famous for his blonde, perennially boyish handsomeness, Redford's appeal has lasted several decades.
Samuel Leroy Jackson (December 21, 1948) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor. Jackson came to fame in the early 1990s, after a series of well-reviewed performances, and has since become a major film star and cultural icon, having appeared in a large number of high-grossing films. He is currently working on seven films that will debut in 2006 and 2007. His most recent film, Snakes on a Plane, was released in August of 2006 and his next film, the drama Home of the Brave, will be released on December 15, 2006. Jackson's films have grossed between $2.1 billion (as either lead actor or co-lead actor) and $3.8 billion, (films that feature Jackson as either lead or supporting) placing him as either the 7th highest-grossing actor (as strictly lead) or the 1st highest-grossing actor (counting supporting roles) of all time.
Sandra Bullock won over scores of filmgoers and critics with her wholesome, exuberant portrayals of ordinary women in extraordinary circumstances. Since her breakthrough role as Speed's unwitting heroine, Bullock has enjoyed the type of popularity that was in the past reserved for actresses along the lines of Mary Pickford or Shirley Temple.
Sir Thomas Sean Connery KBE (born August 25, 1930 in Edinburgh, Scotland) is an Oscar-winning Scottish actor and producer who is best known for his portrayal of James Bond. His character's catchphrase 'Bond, James Bond', has become particularly famous. Connery is known for his trademark Scottish accent and saturnine good looks. He is repeatedly mentioned as one of the most attractive men alive by magazines, even though he is considerably older than most other sex symbols.
Selma Blair Beitner (born on June 23, 1972) is an American actress. Blair's best known film roles were in Cruel Intentions (1999), which also starred Sarah Michelle Gellar and Reese Witherspoon. Both Blair and Witherspoon later starred together in Legally Blonde (2001). More recently she appeared alongside Cameron Diaz and Christina Applegate in The Sweetest Thing (2002), and in Hellboy (2004). She played the character of "Zoe" in the year-long TV series, Zoe, Duncan, Jack and Jane.
Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone (born July 6, 1946) is an American Academy Award-nominated film actor, director, producer, and screenwriter. He is often referred to by his nickname, "Sly". He achieved his greatest successes in a number of action films, notably the Rocky and Rambo series. His trademark sneery, lazy eyes, and slurred speech are the result of paralysis in the left side of his face caused by birth complications.
Thora Birch (born March 11, 1982) is an American actress. She was one of the leading child actors of the 1990's, starring in movies such as Hocus Pocus (1993), Now and Then (1995), and Alaska (1996). Since the 1990's she has moved on to more mature roles, with notable performances in films such as American Beauty (1999), and the acclaimed cult film Ghost World (2001).
Tim Robbins ranks among contemporary cinema's most acclaimed and provocative voices; a multifaceted talent, he has proved so adept at wearing the various hats of actor, writer, and director that no less a figure than the legendary filmmaker Robert Altman declared him the second coming of Orson Welles. Born October 16, 1958, in West Covina, CA, he was the son of folk singer Gil Robbins; raised in Greenwich Village, he made his performing debut alongside his father on a duet of the protest song "Ink Is Black, Page Is White."