Melanie Lynskey
Melanie Jayne Lynskey (born 16 May 1977) is a New Zealand actress best known for playing Charlie Harper’s neighbor/stalker Rose on Two and a Half Men, and a range of characters in films such as Up in the Air, The Informant!, Away We Go, Flags of Our Fathers, Shattered Glass, Sweet Home Alabama, Ever After and Heavenly Creatures. Read More →
Amy Ryan
Amy Ryan (born November 30, 1969) is an American actress. She has been nominated for an Academy Award and Golden Globe for her performance in Gone Baby Gone (2007) and is also known for her role in HBO series The Wire, playing Port Authority Officer Beadie Russell, and currently In Treatment, playing psychiatrist Adele Brousse, as well as The Office, playing human resources representative Holly Flax.Born in Queens, New York City, Ryan...
Kimberley Nixon
Born in Bristol, Nixon and her six brothers were brought up in Pontypridd, Wales,[1] where she attended CCS Nixon trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff, where before graduation in 2007 she secured an agent who signed her up to Universal Studios after appearing in a college production of Quadrophenia Read More →
Carice van Houten
Carice Anouk van Houten (Dutch pronunciation: [kaˈris ˈanuk fɑn ˈhʌutɛn]; born 5 September 1976) is a Dutch stage and film actress. She won four Golden Calves for her roles in Suzy Q (1999), Undercover Kitty (2001), Black Book (2006) and most recently for De Gelukkige Huisvrouw (2010). Her role in Black Book launched her international career. She acted in the American films Valkyrie (2008), Komt een vrouw bij de dokter (Love Life)...
Joan Cusack
Joan Mary Cusack (born October 11, 1962) is an American film, stage and television actress. A well-respected comedic character actor,[1] she has twice been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her roles in the movies Working Girl and In & Out and is a three-time winner of the American Comedy Award as “Funniest Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture.” Cusack was a cast member of the sketch comedy...
Virginia Madsen
Madsen was born in Chicago, Illinois, the daughter of Elaine (née Melson), an Emmy-winning poet, producer and playwright who often works for PBS, and Calvin Madsen, a fireman. Madsen’s mother left a career in corporate business to pursue a writing career. Madsen’s brother is actor Michael Madsen. Her paternal grandparents were Danish and her mother has Irish and Native American ancestry. Madsen is a graduate of New Trier...
Julie Christie
.Christie was born in 1941 in Singlijan Tea Estate, Chabua, Assam, India, then part of the British Empire, the first of two children of Rosemary (née Ramsden) and Frank St. John Christie. Christie’s father ran the tea plantation where Christie grew up, and her mother was a painter from Hove.Christie has a brother and a half-sibling from her father’s affair with an Indian mistress. Christie’s parents separated during...