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Tuesday, 2 July 2013
Ron Silver (actor, 1946)
Tony Award-winner Ron Silver is known for work on Broadway, screen and television. On screen, he has given much-acclaimed performances in Paul Mazursky's 'Enemies: A Love Story,and the Oscar winning Reversal of Fortune. His credits also include Silkwood,Blue Steel, Timecop and The Arrival."
Silver was recently praised for his performance as Henry Kissinger in TNT's Kissinger and Nixon and received an Emmy nomination for his work in the television film Billionaire Boys Club.
On stage, Silver won Broadway's Tony Award and a Drama Desk Award for his performance in David Mamet's Speed the Plow. He also starred on Broadway in David Rabe's Hurlyburly and Social Security, both under the direction of Mike Nichols. Silver also appeared in Roger Rosenblatt's one-man play And.
Before becoming an actor, Silver received a Master's Degree in Chinese History, and traveled throughout Asia and Russia for more than a year. Upon returning to this country, he did social work for the Department of Social Services and taught high school before starting acting training with Herbert Berghof, Uta Hagen and Lee Strasberg. Silver currently serves as President of Actors Equity.
Andrew Divoff (actor, 1955)
No stranger to being the guy audiences love to hate, Divoff first gained attention as the murderous, teardrop-tattood Cherry Ganz in Walter Hill's action comedy sequel Another 48 Hrs, reuniting Eddie Murphy and Nick Nolte. He next appeared in Stephen King's Graveyard Shift, marking his first horror film. Divoff then starred in the actioner Toy Soldiers as a Columbian terrorist named Luis Cali whose plans are thwarted by a group of determined youngsters, led by Sean Astin and Louis Gossett Jr. Divoff's portrayal was so convincing that it almost worked against him with casting directors who were convinced that he was a native South American. He followed with the role of Blackbeard the Pirate in the children's adventure film Magic Island, with Zachary Ty Brian and French Stewart.
Proving his versatility, Divoff followed with two good guy parts in Interceptor and Running Cool, before returning to the dark side in Keenan Ivory Wayan's Law Dawn Dirty Shame.
Divoff's other film credits include the recent Harrison Ford film Air Force One, as well as Deadly Voyage, Back in the USSR, and Extreme Justice.
Jerry Hall (model, 1956)
Jerry Hall (born July 2, 1956 in Gonzalez, Texas) is a model and actress best known for being Mick Jagger's long-time companion or wife (in the 1990s, the two were married in Bali but the legal validity of the marriage has since been questioned). Jerry began a secret affair with Jagger while still engaged to fiance Bryan Ferry. As a result, Ferry wrote many songs, such as Kiss and Tell, and Cry, Cry, Cry. Some believe that Ferry's album The Bride Stripped Bare was documentation of his feelings about the breakup with Hall.
She has written her autobiography, entitled Jerry Hall's Tall Tales, published in 1985. In this book, she describes her early life in Mesquite, Texas. She also relates her experiences as a young model, living a fabulous life in Paris.
In 1990 she joined many other guests for Roger Waters' massive performance of The Wall in Berlin.
Her marriage to Jagger was annulled in 1999. They have 4 children together: Elizabeth, James, Georgia, and Gabriel.
Hall was one of the nine judges for the 1999 Whitbread Awards and sided with the majority in the contentious 5-4 decision to award the Book of the Year prize to Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf over J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.
In the early 2000s she was noted for her theatrical performance as Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate, including a nude scene on stage (which horrified Hall's mother).
In 2005, Jerry Hall starred in a new reality series on VH1 called Kept, revolving around her search for a boytoy. The 12 American contestants we asked to transform from boys to refined gentlemen through a series of challenges, and mastering basic skills. At the series finale, Jerry had to pick between Austen Earl, who is a good-looking graduate of Brown University, and a funny-yet-crude 34 year-old unemployed contestant named Seth Frye from Boston. In the end, Seth won the coveted award of being named Hall's Kept man, although many expected Hall to choose the handsome, well-educated Austen.
Kathryn Erbe (actress, 1966)
Born in Newton, Massachusetts, Erbe is a veteran of both film and television and has been a working actress since she graduated from New York University in 1989. Most recently, she appeared in the feature film Speaking of Sex (2001) with Lara Flynn Boyle and Bill Murray.
Erbe also gained notice in the 1999 box office hit Stir of Echoes opposite Kevin Bacon, and Dream with the Fishes (1997) with David Arquette. Her additional film credits include Entropy, Kiss of Death, Mighty Ducks 2, Rich in Love and What About Bob?
Her television credits include playing the infamous death row inmate Shirley Bellenger on the acclaimed HBO series Oz. She also appeared on NBC's Homicide: Life on the Street, the miniseries George Wallace, Showtime's original production of Naked City: Justice with a Bullet, NBC's Another World, and the television movie Breathing Lessons.
Before appearing in feature films, Erbe began her career on the stage. She is a member of the Steppenwolf Theater Company and has starred in many of their productions. She earned a Tony Award nomination in 1991 for her portrayal of Mary in Speed of Darkness.
Erbe currently resides in New York with her two children.
Kathryn Erbe (actress, 1966)
Born in Newton, Massachusetts, Erbe is a veteran of both film and television and has been a working actress since she graduated from New York University in 1989. Most recently, she appeared in the feature film Speaking of Sex (2001) with Lara Flynn Boyle and Bill Murray.
Erbe also gained notice in the 1999 box office hit Stir of Echoes opposite Kevin Bacon, and Dream with the Fishes (1997) with David Arquette. Her additional film credits include Entropy, Kiss of Death, Mighty Ducks 2, Rich in Love and What About Bob?
Her television credits include playing the infamous death row inmate Shirley Bellenger on the acclaimed HBO series Oz. She also appeared on NBC's Homicide: Life on the Street, the miniseries George Wallace, Showtime's original production of Naked City: Justice with a Bullet, NBC's Another World, and the television movie Breathing Lessons.
Before appearing in feature films, Erbe began her career on the stage. She is a member of the Steppenwolf Theater Company and has starred in many of their productions. She earned a Tony Award nomination in 1991 for her portrayal of Mary in Speed of Darkness.
Erbe currently resides in New York with her two children.
Yancy Butler (actress, 1970)
It's not unusual that Yancy Butler chose to be an actor. Born in New York City, Butler is third generation showbiz. Her father, Joe Butler, is the lead singer and drummer for the reunited Lovin' Spoonful; her mother, Leslie, was a company manager for Broadway shows, and her grandparents were also involved in various aspects of the theater. At the age of 13, Butler began studying at the prestigious HB Studios in New York, and continued to do so until entering Sarah Lawrence College.
Upon graduation, and with a dozen stage credits on her resume, she subsequently landed a guest star role in the drama Law & Order, which directly lead to her auditioning for and landing the lead role in the series Mann & Machine. Following this, she appeared as a regular in the Miami Beach-based series South Beach.
Butler later segued into feature films as the female lead opposite Jean-Claude Van Damme in Hard Target, and next took on the role, originally written for a man, opposite Wesley Snipes in the skydiving adventure Drop Zone. Other film credits include The Ex and, most recently, the independent feature film The Treat.
Butler currently resides in Los Angeles. Her birth date is July 2.
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