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Morse was born in Hamilton, Massachusetts, the son of Jacquelyn, a school teacher, and Charles Morse, a sales manager. He has three younger sisters. Morse is 6 feet 4 inches (1.9 m) tall, and has blue eyes. Morse has been married to actress Susan Wheeler Duff since June 19, 1982. They have three children. In 1994, Morse moved to Philadelphia with his family after the 1994 Northridge earthquake to be near his wife's family. Morse stated that out of all of the films he's done, his favorites are The Green Mile, The Crossing Guard and The Indian Runner. Quick Info Born David Morse October 11, 1953, Hamilton, Massachusetts, United States Spouse(s) Susan Wheeler Duff (1982–present) 3 children

Born as Clea Helen D'Etienne DuVall on, September 25, 1977 in Los Angeles, California, the only child of Rosemary (née Hatch) and Stephen DuVall. Her parents divorced when she was 12. After her mother remarried, DuVall dropped out of high school and moved into her own apartment. She sought entertainment in movies and television programs, memorizing entire scenes. DuVall decided she wanted to be an actress, and returned to high school, this time the Los Angeles County High School of the Arts, while working to support herself. She is not related to actors Robert Duvall or Shelley Duvall, who share their surnames with her.

Born April 27, 1976 Dulwich, England, UK. Is a British actress best known for her performances as Susan in the Academy award-nominated Mike Leigh production Vera Drake (2004), as Sue Trinder in the BBC's Fingersmith (2005) and for her Silver Bear winning performance as Poppy in Mike Leigh's Happy-Go-Lucky (2008). The daughter of well known authors and illustrators of children's books, Jacqui and Colin Hawkins, she was raised in Dulwich, south-east London where she attended James Allen's Girls' School (JAGS), leaving in 1994. Hawkins then went on to study at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (RADA), graduating in 1998.

Born in Los Angeles, California, Jolie is the daughter of actors Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand. She is the niece of Chip Taylor, sister of James Haven and the god-daughter of Jacqueline Bisset and Maximilian Schell. On her father's side, Jolie is of Slovak and German descent, and on her mother's side she is French Canadian and is said to be part Iroquois, although Voight claims Bertrand is "not seriously Iroquois," and they merely said it to enhance his ex-wife's exotic background. After her parents' separation in 1976, Jolie and her brother were raised by their mother, who abandoned her acting ambitions and moved with them to Palisades, New York. As a child Jolie regularly saw movies with her mother and later explained that this had inspired her interest in acting; she had not been influenced by her father. When she was eleven years old, the family moved back to Los Angeles and Jolie decided she wanted to act and enrolled at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Ins

Born 7 December 1979, in Louisville, Kentucky. Graduated from Sacred Heart Academy in Louisville. She trained at the Walden Theatre Conservatory in Louisville, later the Juilliard School in New York City. Already before graduation she was cast in the Broadway revival of Arthur Miller's The Crucible starring Liam Neeson and Laura Linney. Carpenter currently plays the role of Debra Morgan in the Showtime television series Dexter which premiered 1 October 2006. She took home the 2006 MTV Movie Award for 'Best Frightened Performance.' for her role in The Exorcism of Emily Rose. She also received a Hollywood Life Breakthrough Award. It was widely reported in 2007 that she is dating her Dexter co-star Michael C. Hall.

Quaid was born in Houston, Texas, the son of Juanita Bonniedale "Nita" (née Jordan), a real estate agent, and William Rudy Quaid, an electrician. He is the younger brother of actor Randy Quaid. Quaid has Irish and Cajun ancestry. He attended Pershing Middle School in Houston. He studied drama at Bellaire High School in Bellaire, Texas and later in college, at the University of Houston, under drama coach Cecil Pickett. Quaid was raised Baptist and is a practicing Christian. Quaid married actress P.J. Soles on November 25, 1978 (Thanksgiving Day). The two divorced on January 23, 1983. Quaid's second marriage was to Meg Ryan on February 14, 1991 (Valentine's Day). Quaid and Ryan have a son, Jack Henry (born April 24, 1992). Their marriage ended on June 16, 2001. Quaid was also engaged for three years to actress Lea Thompson (Back to the Future, Caroline in the City), whom he met on the movie set of Jaws 3-D in 1983. Quaid married Kimberly Buffington, an Austin, Texas rea

Born on March 1984, in Harlem and raised in Brooklyn, New York, where he graduated from Poly Prep in 2002. He is also a member of the academic program Prep for Prep, which provides opportunities for minorities in New York City and its surrounding area. Brown attended Amherst College, where he played football and graduated in 2008. He is the spokesperson for "Light the Night", a walk supporting the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. In 2008, Rob Brown was named the official spokesman of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's Light the Night Walk. As spokesman, Brown appears in Light The Night publicity materials and public service announcements to help spread the word about the program.

Born 26 October 1974, Flushing, Queens, New York, USA She is a granddaughter of James J. Braddock. She played the role of neighbor "Sara Wilson" in the movie Cinderella Man, which depicted the life of her grandfather. Rosemarie lived in Hanover Township, NJ and is a graduate of Whippany Park High School. She performed in several high school productions including the role of Princess Puffer in the "Mystery of Edwin Drood" She attended New College of Hofstra University where she majored in creative studies and was a member of Alpha Phi. She had additional training at the Actors Center in New York.

Born on November 12, 1982, in Brooklyn, New York, and moved to Millburn, New Jersey, when she was six years old. She is the daughter of Gerald Hathaway, a lawyer, and Kate McCauley, an actress who inspired Hathaway to follow in her footsteps. She was named after the wife of playwright William Shakespeare. She has an older brother, Michael, and a younger brother, Thomas. Hathaway has mainly Irish and French ancestry, with more distant German and Native American roots. Hathaway was raised a Catholic with what she considered "really strong values," and has stated she wanted to be a nun during her childhood. However, at the age of fifteen she decided not to become a nun after learning that her brother Michael was gay. Despite her Catholic upbringing, she felt that she could not be part of a religion that disapproved of her brother's sexual orientation. She has stated that she is a non-denominational Christian. As a teenager, she actually spent many of her summers going to a C

Born October 18, 1950 in Ambala, is an Indian actor who has appeared in both mainstream Indian Cinema films as well as art films. His credits also include appearances in British and American films. He has also received an honorary OBE. Puri spent early part of his life in Sanaur, Punjab, India. He graduated from the Film and Television Institute of India. He is also an alumnus of the 1973 batch of National School of Drama where Naseeruddin Shah was a co-student.

Naseeruddin Shah aka Nasiruddin Shah (Hindi: नसीरुद्दीन शाह) (b. 20 July 1950) is an Indian film actor. He has seen success in both mainstream Bollywood cinema as well as in Parallel Cinema. He also appeared in many international films most notably playing Captain Nemo in the Hollywood comic book adaptation The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. He became active in mainstream movies, popularly known as Bollywood with the 1980 film Hum Paanch. His next major success in mainstream films was the 1986 multi-starrer film Karma where he acted alongside veteran Dilip Kumar. Sole hero films such as Ijaazat (1987), Jalwa (1988) and Hero Hiralal (1988) followed. In 1988 he played opposite his wife Ratna Pathak as Inspector Ghote, the fictional detective of H. R. F. Keating's novels in the Merchant-Ivory English language film The Perfect Murder. He acted in several multi-starrer Bollywood films as well such as Ghulami (1985), Tridev (1989) and Vishwatma (1992). In 1994, he acted as the villai

Born Sadie Liza Vaughan, her parents were psychedelic artist David Vaughan, who did work for The Beatles, and his then-16-year-old muse, actress Mary Davidson. Her childhood she describes as "chaotic but positive experience," being born in Primrose Hill, but spending much of her youth in Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester after her parents separated. Her parents had six relationships between them, and although Sadie is the oldest they produced four sisters and five brothers for her: including fellow actresses Holly Davidson and Jade Davidson; a brother called Gabriel Jupiter and a sister named Sunshine Purple Tara Velvet. According to Frost, one of her stepfathers was a follower of the Bhagwan cult, who forbade the children to say the words “No” or “Sorry”, and during her father's colour-therapy phase, he insisted that everybody in the house wear orange, and wouldn’t let them eat anything that was red. They also had to take showers wearing tracksuits and were made to r

Cox was born in Dundee, Scotland, the youngest of 5 children. His mother, Mary Ann Guillerline (née McCann), was a Roman Catholic spinner who worked in the jute mills and suffered several nervous breakdowns during Cox's childhood. His father, Charles McArdle Campbell Cox, was a weaver who died when Cox was nine years old, and Cox was subsequently raised by a sister and an aunt. Cox's ancestors were 19th century Irish immigrants to Scotland. Cox joined the Dundee Repertory Theatre at the age of fourteen while at school with his best friend, famed poet Justin Ryan Fyfe. He spent a season with the Birmingham Repertory Theatre in 1966. Cox is a diabetic and has worked to promote a diabetes research facility in his home town of Dundee. The producers of Super Troopers found this out the hard way, as one scene called for Cox to eat a white chocolate prop that resembled a bar of soap. Production was halted until a sugar-free substitute could be found. He is a patron of "THE SPACE&

Born on August 11, 1965, in South Carolina; her family moved to Central Falls, Rhode Island when she was quite young, a town which at the time Davis experienced as a "rough, all-white community where the racism was naked as a newborn piglet." Her involvements in Upward Bound and Student Support Services were important steps in her academic and social development. Davis majored in theatre at Rhode Island College, graduating in 1988; in 2002 she received an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts from the college. She also attended The Juilliard School for four years, characterizing the experience as a "mixed blessing": I'm happy that I went there. The school does what it says it wants to do, which is to stretch you as an actor, make you break old habits, expand you and make you more versatile. The problem is that it doesn't celebrate the individual. It stifles everything about you that makes you uniquely you. Davis has been married to actor Julius Tennon since 2003. Th

Amy Adams was born in Aviano, Italy, but grew up in Vicenza, Italy, the daughter of American parents Kathryn and Richard Adams, who was a U.S. serviceman stationed in Italy. She grew up as one of seven children in Castle Rock, Colorado and was raised in the Mormon religion, although her family left the church after Adams' parents divorced when she was 11 years old. Throughout her years at Douglas County High School, she sang in the school choir and trained as an apprentice at a local dance company with ambitions of becoming a ballerina. However, after graduating from high school, she decided that she was "never going to be that good [at ballet], no matter how hard [she] work[ed]" and entered musical theater, which she found was "much better suited to [her] personality". Adams is engaged to her boyfriend of six years, Darren Le Gallo. Quick Info Born Amy Lou Adams August 20, 1974, Vicenza, Italy Domestic partner(s) Darren Le Gallo (2002-)

Hoffman was born in Rochester, New York, the son of Marilyn L. O'Connor, a family court judge, lawyer and civil rights activist, and Gordon S. Hoffman, a former Xerox executive. He has two sisters, Jill and Emily, and a brother, Gordy Hoffman, who scripted the 2002 film Love Liza, in which Philip starred. Hoffman has Irish ancestry; his father was Protestant and his mother was Catholic, but Hoffman was not raised with a deep commitment to either religious tradition. Hoffman's parents divorced when he was nine years old. His first acting role was as Radar O'Reilly in Fairport High School's production of MASH directed by Marjorie Marshall in 1982. Hoffman attended the 1984 Theater School at the New York State Summer School for the Arts. He received a BFA in drama in 1989 from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. At NYU, he was a founding member of the notoriously short-lived and volatile theater company the Bullstoi Ensemble with actor Steven Schub and dire

Born on June 22, 1949, in Summit, New Jersey, the daughter of Mary W. Streep, a commercial artist, and Harry William Streep, Jr., a pharmaceutical executive. Streep's mother had Swiss, Irish, and English ancestry, and her father's family was of Dutch descent, with distant Sephardic Jewish ancestors from Spain (although Streep was raised Presbyterian). She has two younger brothers, Dana and Harry. Streep was raised in Bernardsville, New Jersey, where she attended and graduated from Bernards High School. She received her B.A. in Drama at Vassar College and earned an M.F.A. from Yale University. Her latest role is Donna in the film version of the ABBA musical Mamma Mia!,which hit theaters in the US on July 18, 2008. For this role she won the award of Best Female Performance at the National Movie Awards (UK). She will play Sister Aloysius in the 2008 film adaptation of John Patrick Shanley's Doubt, which will come to theatres on December 12, 2008. Her future film project is Jul

The son of immigrants fleeing the Nazis -- his father is a Serbian painter and pianist and his mother descended from a rich Austrian Jewish family -- Bogdanovich was conceived in Europe but born in America. He was originally an actor in the 1950s, studying his craft with acting teacher Stella Adler (he was only 16 but had to lie about his age and say he was 18 to qualify), and appearing on television and in summer stock. In the early 1960s, Bogdanovich became known for programming movies at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. An obsessive cinema-goer, sometimes seeing up to 400 movies a year in his youth, Bogdanovich prominently showcased the work of American directors such as John Ford, whom he subsequently wrote a book about based on the notes he had produced for the MoMA retrospective of the director, and the then-underappreciated Howard Hawks. Bogdanovich also brought attention to such forgotten pioneers of American cinema as Allan Dwan. Bogdanovich was influenced by the Fre

Dourif was born in Huntington, West Virginia. His father, Jean Dourif, was an art collector and owned and operated a dye factory. After Dourif's father died in 1953, his actress mother, Joan (née Bradford), remarried champion golfer William C. Campbell, who helped raise Dourif and his five siblings (three sisters and two brothers). From 1963 to 1965, Dourif attended Aiken Preparatory School in Aiken, South Carolina. There he pursued his interests in art and acting. Although he briefly considered becoming an artist, he was eventually inspired to become an actor by his mother's participation as an actress in a community theater. After Aiken Prep, he attended Fountain Valley School in Colorado Springs, Colorado, graduating in 1969. Dourif was formerly married to businesswoman and remote viewer Joni Dourif, with whom he has two daughters, Kristina and Fiona. He lives in Manhattan and plays the didgeridoo, an Australian Aboriginal musical instrument. Quick Info Born Bradford Claude

Born on November 13, 1953, in Monroe, Georgia to a business executive father and a mother who also worked in business. Frances is of Irish and Latvian heritage. Conroy studied drama at the Neighborhood Playhouse and the Juilliard School in New York City. Frances Conroy married Jan Munroe in 1992.

Balk was born as Fairuza Alejandra Feldthouse in Point Reyes, California. Her mother, Cathryn Balk, is of Dutch descent and worked as a belly dancer and teacher of Middle Eastern and Flamenco dancing. Her father, Solomon Feldthouse, is a traveling folk musician who was born in Pingree, Idaho and moved to Turkey at the age of ten, where he lived for six years and learned Greek, Turkish and Persian music. It has been reported that when she was born, her father saw her turquoise eyes and exclaimed, "Fairuza!", meaning "turquoise." Balk lives in Hollywood, California, and has an apartment in New York City. Outside her career, her interests include writing poetry and fiction, playing guitar and violin, singing, and dancing. She was a well known neopagan even before shooting 1996's The Craft. She provided some witchcraft information on set and helped design many of the sets to match real pagan rituals. From 1995 to 2001, she owned Panpipes Magickal Marketplace, billed

Stewart was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. Her father, John Stewart (not to be confused with The Daily Show's Jon Stewart), is a stage manager and television producer who worked for FOX. Her mother is a scriptwriter who comes from Australia. She attended school until the seventh grade, and continued her education by correspondence. She has an older brother, Cameron. Stewart is an avid surfer and currently lives with her family in Los Angeles. Kristen confirmed to Vanity Fair that she is dating actor Michael Angarano. Quick Info Born Kristen Jaymes Stewart April 9, 1990, Los Angeles, California