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Drea de Matteo

Name at birth: Andrea Donna de MatteoOn the hit TV series The Sopranos, Drea de Matteo played Adriana, the loyal girlfriend/fianceé of mobster Christopher Moltisanti (actor Michael Imperioli). Born…

Julie Delpy

Julie Delpy is a big star in her native France, though slightly less prominent elsewhere in the world. Like her countrywoman Juliette Binoche, Delpy has a delicate, fair-skinned appearance that is…

Kevin Smith

Name at birth: Kevin Patrick SmithAfter finishing film school Kevin Smith made the low-budget comedy hit Clerks (1994), a classic in the cinematic sub-genre of "slacker movies." His other movies,…

Walter Murch

Walter Murch won an Oscar for mixing sound on Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 film Apocalypse Now, then won twin Oscars for sound mixing and film editing on the 1996 drama The English Patient. Murch is…

John Carpenter Biography

John Carpenterdirector, producerBorn: 1/16/1948Birthplace: Carthage, New York Director and producer best known for his work on horror and sci-fi action films, including Halloween (1978), Christine (…

Tak Fujimoto Biography

Tak Fujimotocinematographer Award-winning Japanese-American director of photography who is considered one of the most talented camera operators in Hollywood. His rise to the top was a long…

Mike Leigh

Oscar-nominated filmmaker and playwright Mike Leigh is famous for bittersweet stories of the English working-class, but his best known films in recent years include the optimistic Happy-Go-Lucky (…

Jenna von Oÿ

Jenna von Oÿ is best known as Six LeMeure, the chatty and spunky sidekick on the family-friendly 1990s TV series Blossom. Jenna von Oÿ's on-screen career began in commercials (she was featured in a…

Gregg Araki Biography

Gregg Arakidirector, screenwriterBirthplace: New York City Independent filmmaker Araki has established himself as one of the leading voices of gay cinema. Despite the subversive nature of his…

Ang Lee

Name at birth: Li AnAng Lee has directed a remarkably diverse series of films, including the clash-of-cultures comedy The Wedding Banquet (1993), the Jane Austen period romance Sense and Sensibility…