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Ed Harris

Four-time Oscar nominee Ed Harris is often cast in the movies as a thoughtful tough guy with a steely stare. A veteran character actor and sometime lead, his best-known early movies include The Right…

Laurence Fishburne Biography

Laurence Fishburneactor, writerBorn: 7/30/1961Birthplace: Augusta, Georgia Intense African-American actor whose work has ranged from Shakespeare's Othello (1995) to the urban mini-classic Boyz N The…

Roberta Flack

Roberta Flack is known as a singer of soulful jazz and pop ballads, especially hits from the 1970s that include "Feel Like Makin' Love," "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" and "Killing Me Softly…

Hilary Swank

Hilary Swank won two Oscars for best actress by the time she was 30 years old, for Boys Don't Cry (1999) and Million Dollar Baby (2004). Swank got her start in the early 1990s with small roles in…

George Kennedy

Name at birth: George Harris Kennedy, Jr.Character actor George Kennedy won an Oscar for his supporting role opposite Paul Newman in Cool Hand Luke (1967), the pinnacle of a long on-screen career…

Laura Linney

Laura Linney has been on stage and screen since the early 1990s. A New York-raised and Julliard-trained actress, she is especially known for playing restrained and earnest roles in melodramas such…

Tommy Lee Jones

Tommy Lee Jones won an Oscar for his supporting role in The Fugitive (1993), and got just as much attention as the movie's star, Harrison Ford. Jones played Samuel Gerard, the relentless U.S.…

Sofia Coppola

Sofia Coppola is the writer and director of the critically acclaimed movies The Virgin Suicides (1999, starring Kirsten Dunst) and Lost in Translation (2003, starring Bill Murray). The daughter of…

Lisa Gay Hamilton Biography

Lisa Gay HamiltonactressBorn: 3/25/1964Birthplace: Los Angeles, Calif. Raised on Long Island, Hamilton contracted the acting bug at an early age. A graduate of fine arts from New York…

Wild Wild West

Director: Barry SonnenfeldWriter: S.S. Wilson, Brent Maddock, Jeffrey Price, and Peter S. SeamanWarner Bros; PG; 107 minutesRelease: 7/99Cast: Will Smith, Kevin Kline, Kenneth Branagh, Salma…