Skeet Ulrich Biography (1970-)

His roles in the horror films Scream and The Craft made 1996 the year Skeet Ulrich captured the hearts of excitable teens. His appearance in Scream as Billy, the boyfriend of Neve Campbell’s plucky Sidney, was a particular success. After appearing in As Good As it Gets (1997, starring Jack Nicholson) and The Newton Boys (1998, directed by…

Blake Clark Biography (1946-)

Comedian and actor Blake Clark grew up in Georgia and fought in the Vietnam War before hitting the small screen in the early 1980s in a string of guest starring spots on shows like M*A*S*H, Moonlighting, and St. Elmo’s Fire. During this time, he was also featured in comedy specials on HBO, NBC, and ABC. The roles kept…

Tom Selleck Biography (1945-)

Tom Selleck is the veteran and mustachioed actor who is still known best for playing hot Hawaii detective Thomas Magnum on the TV show Magnum, PI. Brawny, rascally and devilishly handsome, Magnum zoomed around Oahu in a Hawaiian shirt and a Ferrari, solving crimes and wowing the ladies. The show ran from 1980-88 and made Selleck a big…

Jason Segel Biography (1980-)

Jason Segel is a comic actor of TV and film who wrote and starred in the movie Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Segel was a regular cast member in the short-lived Judd Apatow series Freaks and Geeks (1999, with James Franco and Seth Rogen). Segel played Nick, the tall, awkward drummer smitten with Lindsay (played by Linda Cardellini). The show…

Eddie Cibrian Biography (1973-)

Cuban-American actor Eddie Cibrian was born in California, where he got a taste for show business early on. Like a lot of good-looking young actors, he got his feet wet in the business with a role on a soap opera, playing Matt Clark on The Young and the Restless. He’d eventually take on the starring role of Griff…

Orlando Bloom Biography (1977-)

Orlando Bloom began reading J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy as a teenager before abandoning the books in favor of sports and girls. He did not complete the three volumes until his early twenties: first in print, and then on camera as one of a handful of actors carefully selected for New Line Cinema’s highly anticipated,…

Wesley Snipes Biography (1962-)

Actor. Wesley Trent Snipes was born July 31, 1962, in Orlando, Florida. Raised with his three sisters in the South Bronx by his grandmother and mother, Snipes attended the High School for the Performing Arts in New York City.

After attending the State University of New York at Purchase, he pursued his acting career in earnest.

Snipes made his film…

Adam Lambert Biography (1982-)

Before becoming a front-runner in the eighth season of American Idol, Adam Lambert made his name in the theater world, where he performed alongside Val Kilmer in the debut production of Ten Commandments: The Musical and landed an understudy role in a touring production of Wicked. The California native then parlayed his theater background into a multi-month run…

John Malkovich Biography (1953-)

One of the leading actors of his generation and an important figure in world cinema, John Malkovich made the term “icy calm” his trademark. After winning acclaim for his characterization of the scheming Vicomte de Valmont in Dangerous Liaisons, he became associated with a series of roles that, to put it plainly, essentially required him to be an evil…

Leslie Nielsen Biography (1926-2010)

Actor. Born on February 11, 1926, in Saskatchewan, Canada. Nielsen and his three younger brothers, the sons of a Royal Canadian Mountie, were raised in a tiny hamlet near the isolated Arctic Circle, where supplies reached them only two months out of the year. Later, the family relocated to the town of Edmonton, where the Nielsen boys could…

John Cena Biography (1977-)

Professional wrestler, actor. Born John Felix Anthony Cena on April 23, 1977, in West Newbury, Massachusetts, the second of John, Sr. and Carol Cena’s five boys.

At an early age, Cena showed a passion for sports and working out. By the time he was 15 he was a regular gym rat and, after graduating high school, Cena headed off…