Net Worth: $ 80 million

Who is David Schwimmer?

David Schwimmer  is an American actor, director and producer. He is widely recognized for his portrayal of the character of Ross Geller in the immensely popular sitcom series “Friends”.

Early Life

David Schwimmer was born David Lawrence Schwimmer  in Flushing Queens in New York City to Arthur and Arlene Colman-Schwimmer, who were both attorneys. Schwimmer also has an older sister named Ellie.

His family moved to Los Angeles and it is there, at the age of 10, that Schwimmer had his first acting experience when he played the fairy godmother in a Jewish version of Cinderella. In 1979, one of his most profound acting experiences happened when Schwimmer went to a Shakespeare workshop by celebrated English actor Ian McKellen in Los Angeles. Schwimmer then entered a contest in the Southern California Shakespeare Festival three years in a row and won two first prizes.

As his mother’s career as a divorce attorney became successful, his family moved to Beverly Hills. He was good at science and math and thought he would become a doctor. He enrolled in a drama class, where he appeared in stage productions. On his school drama teacher’s encouragement, he went to Chicago for an acting workshop. In 1984, Schwimmer finished his high school and wanted to pursue acting, but his parents insisted he go to college first so he would have something to fall back on, in case his acting career did not work out. He moved to Chicago to attend Northwestern University where he enrolled as a theater major and graduated in 1988, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in theater and speech. He then returned to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career.

Career

“Friends”

After a couple of small, insignificant roles and some unsuccessful auditions, it was only in 1994 Schwimmer was cast as Ross Geller in channel NBC’s situation comedy Friends, the series that propelled him into success. He played a hopeless-romantic paleontologist who works at a museum and later becomes a professor at a university. He has admitted that when he was first approached for the role, he turned it down, but accepted it later. Executive producer of the series, Kevin S. Bright said that he had created the role of Ross with Schwimmer in mind and hence, he was the first actor to be finalized.

“Friends” debuted on September 22, 1994 and was watched by almost 22 million American viewers. Friends soon became an immensely popular and successful show and quickly developed a loyal audience. Schwimmer received great reviews. For his performance, he was nominated for an Emmy Award in the category of Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series in 1995.

While he was still a part of Friends, Schwimmer starred in Hollywood films such as The Pallbearer, opposite Gwyneth Paltrow, Kissing A Fool, Six Days Seven Nights and Picking Up The Pieces. At this time, he admitted that he was ”frustrated” at being typecast due to his role in Friends.

Post Friends

In 2005, Schwimmer starred in the drama Duane Hopwood, as the alcoholic protagonist and he received rave reviews for his acting, and was even mentioned as a “career-transforming performance”. In 2005, he lent his voice to the character of a giraffe named Melman in the commercially successful animated film, “Madagascar”. It went on to become one of the biggest hits of that year. He has since then appeared in several theatre and Broadway productions and also directed some ventures.

Money Matters

For the last season of the series “Friends”, each cast member, including Schwimmer was paid $1 million for each episode, making it a total of $22 million for the last season alone. He, along with the rest of the cast also received a portion of the syndication profits from the show. At the end of the series, Schwimmer received a whooping $89 million.

Season 1:  $ $22,500 per episode

Season 2: $ around $30,000 per episode

Season 3: $40,000 an episode

Season 4: $85,000 per episode

Season 5: $100,000 per episode

Season 6: $125,000 per episode

Season 7-8: $750,000 an episode

Season 9-10: $1 million an episode

House

David Schwimmer was the proud owner of this 11,000-square-foot Mediterranean styled gated mansion in Hancock Park, Los Angeles.

The nine-bedroom mansion was designed in the 1920s by architectural firm Koerner & Gage, which also designed the Beverly Hills’ City Hall. He purchased the lavish home in 2001 for $5.5 million.

The house features a wood paneled library, a screening room, a pool, a spa and a tennis court.

Recently, Schwimmer and his wife decided to sell the home because they  started a family and hope to pick out a new home together.

They listed the house for a price of $10.7 million and settled on a deal of $ 8.8 million.

Relationships

In the early, 2000s, David Schwimmer dated Australian pop singer Natalia Imbruglia, Israeli actress Mili Avital and American actress Rochelle Ovitt.

In 2007, Schwimmer and English part-time photographer Zoe Buckman got into a romantic relationship and in March 2010, Schwimmer announced their engagement. They were married in a small private ceremony in June that year.

On May 8, 2011, the couple was blessed with a daughter whom they named Cleo Buckman Schwimmer.

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PROFESSION: PRODUCER, DIRECTOR, SCREENWRITER, ACTOR AND COMEDIAN

Chris Rock as Christopher Julius “Chris” Rock (III) was born on 7^th February,1965. He came up as an American actor, film producer, screenwriter, standup comedian , television producer . In early 1990’s, he became more famous as being a member of The Saturday Night Live. He had   produced a lot of movies and acted in a lot of TV serials, movies, stage plays. He has been a stand-up comedian for over twelve years, and he even made his big screen debut in the movie Beverly Hill Cop II  He had been bestowed with many awards and recognitions. In 2007, he had been labeled as the fifth greatest stand-up comedian by The Comedy Central and also as the ninth greatest standup comic on Channel 4’s 100 Greatest Stand-Ups in 2007. But in 2010, Chris Rock came on the eighth position.

EARLY LIFE AND CHILDHOOD

Chris Rock was born and brought up in Andrews, South Carolina. His mother “Rosalie” was a teacher and also worked as a social worker for the mentally handicapped. His father “Julius Rock” was a truck driver and later he became a newspaper deliveryman. Chris had three younger brothers Tony, Kenny and Jordan who are in the same profession as he is. He had one older brother Charles who suffered from alcoholism died in 2006. After Chris was born, the family shifted to Brooklyn in New York and later relocated themselves in the working class area of Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn.

Rock was bullied and beaten by the white students when he was doing his schooling which was dominated by the white neighborhoods in Brooklyn. But later as he grew up, his parents dropped him out of the school after the worse attitude of the whites. Rock worked at many fast food restaurants. He had also received a diploma of general education.

CAREER

Chris Rock is a man of talent. He is an all rounder as he presented himself as an actor, comedian, screenwriter, producer, stage player, etc. He began his stand up comedy in 1984.

SATURDAY NIGHT LIFE

In 1990, he joined a sketch comedy series of comedy night life. He and other cast members formed a group known as the bad boys of Saturday Night Life. It included  Chris Farley, Adam Sandler, Rob Schneider and David Spade. His first comedy movie was released in 1991 and was applauded for the dramatic role. The Saturday Night Life gave him more national exposure .

FILM STAR

Rock had increasingly worked behind the camera as both screenwriter and producer. Two of his movies which he directed and played the lead role like Head Of The State and I Think I love My Wife.  Also working as a  producer and director, he had done voice work in Madagascar animated film franchise. His first documentary was released in 2009 as “Good Hair”. After he got success in his standup comedy , he started receiving the offers for movies. In 2010, he appeared in many movies like Death at a funeral, Grown Ups, 2 Days in New York.

FILM PRODUCER

Despite of being a film star, he had produced many comic series. One of his very famous comic series called “Everybody hates Chris” was all about his old school days when he was bullied. The show got all the critic success high ratings. It got a 2006 People’s Choice Award for the best television comedy and two Emmy Awards in 2006 for costuming and cinematography. Most recently in 2012, he produced the series “Totally biased with W. Kamau Bell”.

MUSIC VIDEOS

Rock is a man of many talents. Rock’s first music video was his own song “Your Mother’s Got a Big Head” from his own album born suspect. He appeared in  many videos of his own such as “Hump De Bump”,Big Daddy Kane music video “Smooth Operator”.

STAGE PLAYS

He also showed his interest in stage plays for which he got nominated for a Drama League Award. In 2011, he acted in Stephen Adly’s play “The Motherfucker With a Hat” with Bobby Cannavale and Annabella Sciora.

COMEDIC STYLE

Rock’s subject matter typically involves family, politics, romance, music, class relationships, and race relations in the United States. Although he never showed interest in writing autobiography but many of his comics revolved around his childhood about his schooldays when he was bussed in a white neighborhood school in Brooklyn and his parents were concerned about the inadequacies of the local school system. He recalls as a memory that what he got was a worse education in a worse neighbourhood rather than a good education in a good neighborhood. In 2007 in London at the live concert which was flashing live on BBC , Rock called the crowd “motherfucker” and “shit” and after a pause he said he was joking. Rock cutoff from the  broadcast of BBC and later the management apologized Rock for using the word “motherfucker”.

PERSONAL LIFE

Chris Rock married a girl named Malaak Compton who was the founder and executive director of Styleworks. It is a non-profit, full-service salon that provides free services for women leaving welfare and entering the workforce. They have two daughters together, Lola Simone and Zahra Savannah. Rock resides with his wife in Alpine, New Jersey.  Rock’s great-great-grandfather known as Julius Caesar Tingman, was a slave for 21 years before serving as a part of the United States Colored Troops until 1866. Tingman fought in the American Civil War.

CONTROVERSIES

In November 2006, the words were spread that Rock had filed a divorce approximately after ten years of his marriage to Malaak. But however, after two weeks the news came that rock had not filed a divorce and the couple had solved their issues and differences and stayed together. With this Rock claimed it to be as the untrue rumors and lies.

Another controversy came in 2007, a former actress Kali Bowyer, filed a case against Rock saying that he is the father of her son. But later, DNA test results showed that Rock was  not the child’s father.

FILMOGRAPHY

He has a got a lot of fame, popularity, respect, fan following through his different works in movies. In 1989, his documentary short movie “Who is Chris Rock” in which he played a role of himself. His another documentary was also a hit named as “Comedian” . Also in 1989, paparazzi was released in which he played a cameo role of a pizza delivery boy. Documentaries like “Good Hair”, “Torrance Rises”, “The N-Word”, “Aristrocrats” were huge hits. He was nominated for the voice in Teen Choice Awards for Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted which was released in 2010. He came as director, producer, and writer in movies like “I think I love my wife”, “Head of state”, “Pootie Tang” and many other.

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Profession: Actor, Voice Actor, Film Producer, Film Director

“As an actor, there’s a bit of you that’s decided you want to be looked at and watched, but there’s a paradoxical bit that wants to run away”- Ralph Fiennes

He is lord of all things dark and scary. He is the God of the underworld and death, he is an evil nazi and he is He-who- must- not- be- named. And He-who-must-not-be-named’s name happens to be- Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes.

Ralph Fiennes is a British actor who is well known for portraying dark, dangerous, villain roles to such perfection that a lot of people are afraid to meet him in person.

Early Life-

Fiennes was born in Ipswich, Suffolk, England on 22 December 1962 to Mark Fiennes and Jennifer Lash. His father is a farmer and photographer and his mother is a writer. He is the eldest of six children and he has English, Irish, and Scottish ancestry. His family moved to Ireland in 1973. Fiennes was educated at St Kieran’s College and Newtown School in County Waterford. He finished his schooling at Bishop Wordsworth’s School when his family moved back to England. He went to Chelsea College of Art to learn painting before deciding to take up acting.

Acting career-

Fiennes began his acting career onstage and is a noted Shakespeare interpreter. He achieved success onstage at the Royal National Theatre before achieving prominence in the Royal Shakespeare Company. Fiennes has portrayed various major and minor  Shakespearean characters in stage productions like Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet, Richard II, Julius Caesar, The Tempest, Much Ado About Nothing, King Lear, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Hamlet and many more.

He made his film debut in 1992 as Heathcliff in Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights.  In 1993, he achieved international prominence for portraying the role of a Nazi commandant Amon Goeth in Schindler’s List. In 2005, Fiennes became popular for playing the role of Lord Voldemort in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. He played Voldemort in the rest of the Harry Potter films. Coriolanus, The Duchess, Bernard and Doris, The Constant Gardener, The Prince of Egypt, The English Patient are some of his notable films.

Personal life-

Fiennes married English actress Alex Kingston in 1993, after dating her for ten years. They met while they were both students at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. They divorced in 1997.

Fiennes had an affair with Francesca Annis- she played his mother Gertrude in the play Hamlet. The couple separated in February 2006 after 11 years together.

Richness-

Ralph Fiennes has an estimated net worth of approximately $25 million. Predictably, his money came from a long and quality-filled career in stage and more specifically, films. He is also into voice acting, directing and production. Ralph Fiennes is a much sought after ‘villain’. And after playing such intense and dark roles as Hades and Voldemort to perfection, he is proven that he is any director’s best bet of a villain.

Assets-

Ralph Fiennes keeps an apartment in New York and is said to have bought a 1,220-square-foot condo unit in the Gansevoort building in Greenwich Village for $2 million.

Richmond House-

This blushing pink town house is the Fiennes family house, situated in one of the loveliest towns in Suffolk, England. The houses here are ancient and the area is said to be once inhabited by cloth workers and sheep farmers. Richmond House is on the market for £855,000.

Causes-

Ralph Fiennes supports the following charities and trust:

The Constant Gardener Trust-

The trust was set up by the cast and crew of the film The Constant Gardener during filming in Kenya. It aims to help improve basic sanitation and education for those that are most in need of help.

Active Conservation Awareness Program(ACAP)-

ACAP has been working with governments, celebrities, media and other partners to reduce consumer demand for threatened wildlife products globally since 1996.

Artist Against Racism-

The foundation teaches youths to avoid adopting prejudiced attitudes rooting from differences in religion, ethnicity, nationality or skin colour.

Environmental Investigation Agency-

EIA is a UK-based Non Governmental Organisation and charitable trust that investigates and campaigns against a wide range of environmental crimes, including illegal wildlife trade, illegal logging, hazardous waste, and trade in climate and ozone-altering chemicals.

Shakespeare Schools Festival –

Fiennes is also a patron of the Shakespeare Schools Festival, a charity that enables school children across the UK to perform Shakespeare in professional theatres.

Fun facts-

-          Ralph Fiennes convinced producers of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince to cast his nephew- Hero Fiennes-Tiffin- for the role of young Tom Riddle.

-          He lost the part of Robert Langdon to Tom Hanks in the movie “The Da Vinci Code”.

-          He holds the record of being the first actor to ever receive a Tony Award for playing the part of “Hamlet”.

-          He almost turned down the role of Voldemort as he was not impressed with the style of the first three films.

-          Ralph Fiennes is the 8th cousin of Prince Charles.

 Fun quote-

-          So much of movie acting is in the lighting. And in loving your characters. I try to know them, and with that intimacy comes love. And now, I love Voldemort.

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Martin Freeman was born on 8 September 1971 in Aldershot, Hampshire, England. His full name is Martin John Christopher Freeman. He is an English actor and is best known for his portrayals of Tim Canterbury in The Office. Also, Dr. Watson in Sherlock and Bilbo Baggins in Peter Jackson’s   The Hobbit film triology. He worked in many films like Love actually in the year 2003, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the galaxy in the year 2005, Nativity! In the year 2009 and the Three Flavours Cornetto triology. He is very much famous for his film The World’s End which was out in the market in the year 2013. Moreover, he is known for his role on the BBC comedy “The Office”, the sci-fi comedy “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” and Peter Jackson’s Tolkien triology “The Hobbit”. He married to Amanda Abbington. His recent film projects are HIV: The Musical, Swinging with the Finkels, Wild Target, What’s Your Number? And many more. Now moving on to the next, in the year 2007, he was in the film “The All Together” and appeared in the TV comedy “Boy Meets Girl” and Christmas comedy ‘Nativity!’ in the year 2009. Currently he is working I Sherlock series and earned allot.

Life:

Martin was born to parents Philomena and Geoffrey Freeman who was a naval officer. His father died, when he was only ten due to heart attack. Talking about his education, he attended the Salesian School, Chertsy and attended Brooklands College for the media studies. His brother is a musician and he was raised in Roman Catholic. His family was not very much particular for their religion and live freely. Martin when a child, suffered from asthma, due to which he had to go a hip operation for that he was described as “Dodgy leg”. Moving on to his personal life, he lived with his partner, Amanda Abbington. He met this girl on the set of Channel 4’s Men Only in the year 2000. They together have two children, Joe and Grace. He is totally a vegetarian. He was in relationship with Amanda since summer 2000. The first single he bought was “Ghost Town” by The Specials. It was reported that, his father was born blind and had been a piano tuner and organist St. Andrew’s Church, West Tarring. After that, he became a music teacher in Kingston upon Hull. It will be shocking o know that he doesn’t drive and owns two rescued miniature long-haired dachshunds named Archie and Jodie. He was on the bRitish national squash squad from the age of nine to fourteen.

Career:

Martin is an outstanding actor and his notable win in the year 2001 as Tim Canterbury in ‘The Office’. he also appeared on the show Cohen’s ‘Ali G Indahouse’ and ‘Love Actually’. In the year 2003, he took on the role as Lord Shaftesbury in BBC mini series ‘Charles II: The Power and the Passion’. When he was just 15, he joined the theatre group. Also, he went to join the Central School of Speech and Drama. He appeared in the Sitcom, Hardware. In the year 2007, he appeared in The All Together which was written by and directed by Gavin Claxton. Also, he was featured in the video cover of “I started a Joke” for Faith No More. His performance in the Sherlock’s first episode “A Study in Pink” was aired in the year 2010 for which he got the BAFTA award for best Supporting actor,2011. He e was also nominated for the Prime time Emmy award for outstanding Supporting actor in a Miniseries or a movie. He was very much dedicated towards his work. The acting part has always been his passion and he performed it beautifully. His work in Sherlock is really outstanding and the breakthrough performance made him win many awards. Moreover, the performance in his part of An Unexpected Journey garnered him at the 2013 MTV Movie awards as the best hero. Part from these, he has won many awards and various awards function. He is a very charming guy and very much attentive towards his family. He knows the work-life balance. Not only is this, he appeared in all the three of Simmon Pegg’s Three Flavors Cornetto triology. In the year 2013, he was the cast member in the 2013 finale called The World’s End. He was presented with a fellowship by the members of University College Dublin’s Literary and Historical Society on 5 October 2013.

Richness and Assets:

Martin is a rich multi-millionaire with net worth of $15 million. His main source of wealth is acting. Martin Freeman lives in a very luxurious home and drive luxurious cars. His house has super interiors and exteriors. He has given his all the comforts of life. He also been to holiday vacations on exotic locations along with his family. Recently he has been to Venice vacation with his family and spent a quality time together. Venice beach is a very elegant place for the holiday vacations. This BAFTA wining award loves to wear the branded pieces and seems that he was wearing gingham, tartan and buttoned up shirts while his wife was wearing a loose linen and a straw trilby hat when caught up at the Venice vacation

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PROFESSION: Actor, Screenwriter, Producer, Comedian and Activist

Do you like laughing? Do you absolutely love comedy movies? If you have answered yes to these questions, then I am so sure that you already know who Vince Vaughn is. He makes us laugh. He makes us cry happy tears too sometimes. He brings hope and sunshine. Vaughn is the ultimate gentle giant. I say this because he stand 6’5” and is among the tallest leading men in the Hollywood industry. This charming man has done a lot of movies like Rudy, Return To Paradise, Old School, The Break Up, Fred Claus, Couples Retreat, The Watch, The Internship, Four Christmases and Wedding Crashers. I am sure the majority of you readers have seen all these movies I just mentioned.

EARLY LIFE

Vincent Anthony Vaughn was born in Minnesota, in the year 1970. His father is Vernon Lindsay Vaughn, who is a salesman for a toy company and his mother is Sharon Eileen, who is a stockbroker and a real estate agent. Vaughn’s parents got divorced in the year 1991. He has two elder sisters named Victoria and Valerie. He was brought up by his Catholic mother and Protestant father. Vaughn has always been into a lot of sports. While living in Illinois, he played football, baseball and also wrestled. But, he says that he was not really that good in sports. He decided to become an actor when he was seventeen years old. He lists his mother as his main source of inspiration.

CAREER

After being cast in a Chevrolet commercial, Vaughn decided to move to Hollywood. He appeared in the TV series China Beach and three CBS Schoolbreak Specials. He debuted with the movie Rudy where he played the character of Jamie O’Hare. After this, he was cast Swingers. It was a successful independent film. He received a lot of critical appreciation for his acting in the movie Return to Paradise. Following this movie, he starred in movies like The Cell, Made and South of Heaven, West of Hell. From 2003 to 2005, Vaughn starred in movies like Old School, Starsky & Hutch, Dodgeball, Be Cool, Thumbsucker Mr. & Mrs. Smith and Wedding Crashers. After doing such movies, Vaughn became known as a Frat Pack. In 2006 came the movie The Break-Up alongside Jennifer Aniston.

Vaughn has always been a good actor. Following 2007, he starred in movies like Fred Claus, Into The Wild, Couples Retreat, The Dilemma, Four Christmases. He was honored to sing in the charity-single remake of We Are The World, in the year 2010. Vaughn turned producer with the movie The Risk Agent. He also developed a reboot produced by CBS to the series The Brady Bunch.

ASSETS

- La Canada Flintridge home

- Pontiac Firebird

PERSONAL LIFE

Vince Vaughn started dating Jennifer Aniston in the year 2005. However, they broke up the following year, in 2006. During this phase, there were rumors that Vaughn had cheated on Aniston and because of this reaason, Vaughn filed a lawsuit against the involved three tabloid magazines. In 2009, he started dating Kyla Weber and tied the knot in 2010, in Illinois. The couple has two children: Daughter, Locklyn Kyla Vaughn and son, Vernon Lindsay Vaughn, born in 2010 and 2013, respectively.

Vaughn supported libertarian republican presidential candidate Ron Paul in both 2008 and 2012 elections. He is a fan of University of Notre Dame and is often seen cheering for the Fighting Irish. He is a really strong supporter of Chicago Cubs. Vaughn also supports Chicago Blackhawks and is an avid hockey lover. He almost never misses home games at the United Center.

AWARDS

People’s Choice Awards, USA Favorite On-Screen Match-Up for: Wedding Crashers (2005) Shared with Owen Wilson

MTV Movie Awards Best On-Screen Team for: Wedding Crashers (2005) Shared with: Owen Wilson

Teen Choice Awards Movies – Choice Chemistry for: The Break-Up (2006) Shared with: Jennifer Aniston

ShoWest Convention: Special Award – Comedy Star of the Year (2006)

33rd People’s Choice Awards: Favorite Leading Man

Spike TV’s First Annual “Guys Choice” Guy Movie Hall of Fame” for Swingers along with Jon Favreau.

FUN FACTS

- Is considered the leader of “Frat Pack” which includes actors like Will Ferrell, Jack Black, Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, and Luke Wilson.

- He had a terrible accident in which he lost a piece of his thumb.

- He is a fan of Chicago Blackhawks.

- Was included as one of 10 Sexiest Men of 1998 in Playgirl magazine.

- His father, Vernon Vaughn, appeared as the man sitting at the “$100 minimum bet table” in “Swingers” (1996).

- He is called “Mr. Sunshine” by loved ones.

- He is a dog lover and has three dogs named Viking, Vero, and Vladimir.

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Danny Glover

Danny Glover is a famous actor, director and activist from America. He was born on 22 July 1946, in San Francisco, CA, United States. He has acted in many movies such as Predator 2, The Color Purple, Witness, Saw and Lethal Weapon. He has appeared on various Television shows as well. He is an political and social activist. He has stood up for various important issues.

Early life and Career

Danny Glover.

Glover was born and raised in San Francisco. He is the child of Carrie and James Glover. His parents were active members for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Danny Glover attended the George Washington High school in San Francisco. He went to  San Francisco State University though he dropped out of the college. The university later awarded him a Honorary Degree. As a young man, Glover began to learn acting in a theatre nearby. Glover suffered from epilepsy as a Teenager.

Glover joined  the Conservatory Theater at first. He even trained at the Shelton Actors Lab along with Jean Shelton. Glover has credited Jean Shelton for the development in his acting skills. Soon, Glover resigned from his administration job and decided o become an actor. In search of more opportunities, Glover moved to Los Angeles. He has done various Television shows. He portrayed the role Sergeant Roger Murtaugh in the Lethal weapon series. He even portrayed the role of Celie’s husband in ‘The color Purple’. In the film ‘Witness’, he played the role of Lieutenant James McPhee. He made his directorial debut in 1994 with the film ‘Override’. He formed the Robey Theatre Company in 1994 which focused on providing acting platforms to Black People. Glover was widely appreciated for his role in Predator 2. He won the  Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead for his lead role in ‘To sleep with anger’. He played the role of ‘redwing’ in the 1995 series ‘Fallen angel’. Glover has executively produced various movies. He has provided his voice in many children movies such as ’The Royal Tenebaums’. In 2004, he appeared in the movie ‘Saw’. He played the role of Detective David Tapp. He played the role of President Wilson in the movie ’2012′. In 2010, he acted in a Spanish movie named ‘ I want to be a soldier’. He starred in the film Donovan’s Echo in 2012.

Glover began his debut directorial venture in 2006. It was a film biography of Toussaint Louverture. He included the cast members Wesley Snipes, Angela Bassett, Don Cheadle, Mos Def and Jonathan Rhys Meyers for the movie. In 2008, the President of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, annoucned to pay $ 18 Million for the movie. Many Venezuela citizens opposed his decision. However, in the Venezuela assembly, an additional fund of  $9,840,505 was announced to be paid for the movie.

Activism

Danny Glover criticized the policies of George Bush when he was the president. He called him ‘racist and unfair’. He was an outspoken critic of the Iraq-America war. Glover supported California Proposition 7 (2008) and gave his voice for the automated phone calls before the elections. Glover was given the title of Enyioma of Nkwerre in East Nigeria. Enyioma of Nkwerre means A good friend. He is a board member of TransAfrica Forum.

Richness

Danny Glover’s house.

Danny Glover has a net worth of $ 40 Million. He has garnered this treasure as a result of his acting and business ventures. He owns a  6,000 square feet in Oregon which he purchased in 1999. He has played important roles in many movies and is a highly respected actor in the United Sates.

Famous Quotes By Danny Glover

“But I think it’s very key that there’s a plan for Haiti. And we have to begin to – as progressives and people who are concerned about Haiti and have been concerned about Haiti, we have to begin to build some sort of consensus, a movement around the Haiti that the Haitians envision.”

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PROFESSION: Actor

Rupert Grint is famous all over the world for his portrayal of Ron Weasley in the brilliant Harry Potter series, authored by J.K. Rowling. This character, as everyone knows, was one of the three main characters in the entire series. Grint started acting as Ron in the Harry Potter series at the age of 11. Before that, he had acted only in school plays. He rose to fame and success with his co stars Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson. Apart from the Harry Potter series, Grint has starred in movies like Thunderpants, Driving Lessons, Cherrybomb, Wild Target and Into The White. He made his debut in the world of stage and theatre with Mojo, in 2013.

CHILDHOOD

Grint was born in Essex to the proud parents Joanna Grint and Nigel Grint, in the year 1988. He is the eldest of five siblings. While attending Dorothy Stringer High School, Grint developed a lot of interest in theatre. Because of this, he started participating in a lot of school plays. Rupert Grint acted professionally for the first time with the movie Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, in 2001. While asking him about his school, he says that he didn’t really like it as such.

CAREER

We all know Rupert Grint’s acting career started with the Harry Potter movie: Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. The entire series is based on a novel written by J.K. Rowling. Grint wanted to audition for his role as he too has ginger colored hair like Ron Weasley and also, he really admired the book series. An interesting fact is that out of the three main roles in the movie, Grint was the oldest of the three. When the first movie was released in 2001, it became the highest grossing film of that year. Not only was it commercially successful, it also brought a lot of fame and critical acclaim to all the cast members, specially the main three roles. The movie also brought a lot of awards along Grint’s way. He won the award for the Most Promising Young Newcomer. The other movies included in this series were-

- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

- Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Each and every movie of the entire season was successful and Rupert’s acting flourished with time and every movie brought him a lot of critical acclaim. J.K. Rowling said in her speech that Grint’s character is included in her “The Big Seven” list- a list which basically involved the names of Harry Potter film series cast members. The other actors included are Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Tom Felton, Matthew Lewis, Evanna Lynch and Bonnie Wright.

OTHER WORK

Grint started acting in films other than the Harry Potter series in the year 2002 with the movie Thunderpants.  It received mixed reviews by the critics but his acting was praised. Some other films include Cherrybomb, Wild Target, and Into The White. He also lent his voice in the film Postman Pat: The Movie- You Know You’re The One. He also appeared in Ed Sheeran’s song Lego House. Apart from this, he has been a few advertisements and magazine covers as well. He had the honor of carrying the Olympic Torch during the relay in 2012. He made his stage debut with Mojo in 2013.

PERSONAL LIFE

Grint has a close friendship with his co-stars Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson. He suffers from arachnophobia. He believes in giving back to the community and has donated money and even clothes for charitable purposes. In 2011, Rupert Grint was a part of the Make Mine Milk campaign, which basically aimed at promoting the habit of drinking milk daily.

ASSETS

- Hertfordshire Manor House

- Ice Cream Truck

- Hovercraft

- Range Rover

FUN FACTS

- His favorite character has always been that of Ron.

- He thinks that the slugs in CoS tasted very nice!

- He bought his family a house in a private island.

- He sent a video of himself, dressed as a girl, while rapping about how much he wanted the part of Ron Weasley.

- He likes to draw.

FUN QUOTES

- “After being in Harry Potter, I believe a bit more in magic than I did before.”

- “The characters in the book grow up with us. My voice has broken as well.”

- “It is always in the back of my mind that acting might come to an end for me when Harry Potter finishes. I don’t know if I am good enough to have a long career. I have got a bit of an inferiority complex about my acting. My self-esteem is quite low in that sense.”

- “I have known Emma Watson since she was 9, we have watched each other grow up, formed this sort of brother-sister bond, and suddenly I am leaning in to kiss her. Well, it felt completely wrong… but, you know, you try to sink into the character and divorce yourself from it. We ended up laughing hysterically afterwards.”

- “Yeah, my parents help me keep my feet on the ground.”

- “I always wanted to go into acting.”

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Career/Profession: Actor, Comedian, Voice Actor

Kenan Thompson is widely known for his stand up comedy all over the country. He is an eminent and identified personality who is known for his acting capabilities. He has been a wide impact on the people’s life by making them laugh since from his teenager. He came into spotlight with his role in NBC’s Saturday Night Live. He made his career a big time success by collaborating with many fellow comedians. He has spent his whole life in entertaining audiences by working with various sitcoms like Kenan & Kel etc.

The encouragement of his mother led him to work for The Mighty Ducks:

Born on May 10^th, 1978 Thompson grew up in Atlanta, Georgia. He was born to Elizabeth Ann Thompson and Fletcher. He has only one sibling named Kevin. In 2011, Thompson got married to model Christina Evangeline in Georgia Aquarium, Atlanta. Since from his childhood, he was encouraged by his mother Elizabeth to pursue his career as an actor. He was sent to acting coaching classes and also took part in plays at the school level.  His acting abilities were carved by a teacher Freddie Hendricks, whom he met in school.  He gave him drama classes and allowed him to join a theatre group. He felt confident when he won the title of Gingerbread Man school. He completed his schooling from Tri-Cities High School and during his graduation, he was offered a role in the movie D2: The Mighty Ducks. It was released in 1994 and in this film he worked against Emilio Estevez as a role of Russ Tyler. It was featured around one of the hockey team. In the same year he got a small role to be played in Heavy weights and also in the D3: The Mighty Ducks.

Began his career with a hit show: All That

Kenan had soon built up an image as a comedy star on the small screen. He now boosted up by the appreciation from the fan following and decided to move towards something big. So in 1995, here came a chance for him in the Nickelodeon’s comedy show All That. He took part in its auditions and got selected. This show featured the entire children cast member. He soon set his image as a teenager comedian after getting into this show. Here while working for this show he met his best friend Kel Mitchell. He was an African comedian and it was a somewhat weird combination of American-African comedian.  They both worked hard for the very first season of this show as it was a very different role for both of them. This Nickelodeon’s show became a hit on the small screen and also cemented the relationship of this weird combo.  And it was confirmed that this couple would surely have their own show in the near future. After working for this show they both were nominated for various big awards and finally in 1998 they entitled to Kid’s Choice Award for Television show.

Saturday Night Live:

This success continued to be in his arms after he joined the cast of Saturday Night Live in 2003. Kenan and Kel both took part in its audition, but only Kenan got selected. He spent half of his career on this show, i.e. A period of ten years. He had made a record for continuing being a cast member on one show after Tim Meadows. He was the senior cast member along with Armisen and Seth Meyers. Saturday Night Live was the late night Television comedy show. Thompson once in his interview said that in this show they are like free bird and can do any type of comedy stuff that they want to while in All That show they were bound to the script that was given to them. In this show they had to write their own script, otherwise they end up playing the role of someone’s daughters etc. This had made him more creative and left a great impression on the mind of viewers. He worked on this show for more than eight seasons.

Explored the field of Production:

After quitting Nickelodeon’s show ‘All That’ he took the transition from small screen to the big screen. He wanted himself to be launched in films. In 2000, he appeared in Rocky and Bullwinkle followed by Love Don’t Cost a Thing in 2003 which was further followed by Barbershop 2 in 2004. In 2004, his dream came true, he got the opportunity to work with his idol Bill Cosby in the movie Adaptation produced by Fat Albert. In 2006, he was launched in Snakes on a Plane. In 2012, he started producing his own show with TV producer Lorne Michaels. In 2000, the couple Kenan and Kel together worked for a movie named Two Heads are better than One. He was also starred in The Steve Harvey show, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Sister and The Parkers and Sister.

Awards and Achievements:

Kenan was nominated for various big awards, but captured only a few of them. Kenan won a Cable ACE Award and Best Children Series Award for All That show. He was also awarded with Kid’s Choice Award for Nickelodeon’s show.

Assets and Property:

Kenan was least interested in doing any endorsement deals with the big names. He only wants to earn his wealth with his acting capabilities by performing on the show Saturday Night Live. He earned millions of dollars through this show and invested that money in building a great apartment for his family. He has invested this money in collaboration with certain brands too.

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Dustin Diamonds was born on 1 January 1977. He was born on San Jose, California, U.S. His birth name was Dustin Neil Diamond. Dustin was an American actor, musician, director and stand-up comedian. He is the rich personality of the era. Dustin is best known for his role as Samuel “Screech” Powers in the television. He is a famous actor of the television series. He worked in so many television series and is famous worldwide. His work is appreciated all over the world and is a very talented man. He worked in so many TV series, some of them are Saved the Bell, Good Morning, Miss Bliss, Saved the Bell: The College Years and the last one Saved by the Bell: The New Class. He started his career in the year 1987 and has received a lot of appreciation for his work worldwide.

Early Life

He was born in California to a very loving family. His father was very caring and taught him digital electronics for a computer processing firm. Not only is this, his mother was a computer operator for Pacific Bell. Talking about his education, he studied in the Zion Lutheran School. He started his career in acting when he was only a child. He became famous for his nerdy play, “Screech” on the television. He played this role in the television show, Saved by the Bell, he played this role for around 13 years from the starting of his career. He worked in Good Morning, Miss Bliss for one year 1988-1989. He worked in Saved by the Bell: The New Class during the period 1994-2000.

In the year 2006, he did a mind-blowing task and directed as well as released his own sex tape called Screeched- Saved by the Smell. In the year 2013 December he gave an interview on the OWN network and gave a statement that he regretted doing the video and also hired the porn performer for the video to play the sex scenes with him.

Apart from these he started doing stand up comedy after his show Saved by the Bell. Not only is this he has been featured in many game and reality shows on the television. He really made public enjoy with his acts. His reality shows include The Weekest Link and Celebrity Boxing 2. Apart from these acting tasks, he made various cameo appearances in many films like Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star in the year 2003 and the Made in the year 2001. Next in the year 2009, he played the part of “Alumnus Guy #1” in the act American Pie Presents: The Book of Love. In the year 2010, he had a supporting role in the sports comedy called Tetherball: the Movie. Recently, in the year 2014, he played the castle guard , Bernardo in the partially animated scene fiction comedy called Hamlet A.D.D.

Career

In the year 2007 he worked a s a cast member in the fifth season of Celebrity D=Fit Club. During this time he became aloof and uncooperative and his nature got aggressive and that led to conflicts between his other mates. Particularly he came into conflict with Kimberley Locke who was the American Idol finalist and with Cleudus T. Judd. Not only is this he came into conflict with rapper Da Brat who was the host of the program and also with Harvey Walden IV who was the programmer’ strainer and the former USMC sergeant. Dustin also made appearance on Hulk Hogan’s Celebrity Championship Wrestling as a contestant which is broadcast on CMT. He was a huge fan and the supporter of professional wrestling. In the March 2000 he was involved with Memphis Championship Wrestling. His other wrestling events are there in which he played a role as referee, manager and a tag team player.

Other Ventures

Apart from these acting shows he is also involved in music, he was a musician and made his own band o perform on the stages and to shake the legs of the audience. The name of his band is Salty the Pocketknife. Not only is this he played bass and wrote several music as well. Due to some internal disagreements his band members split up soon after the first release of his album. Not only is this he los worked as a commentator in Tru TV’s The Smoking Gun Presents: World’s Dumbest. On the 12^th annual Gathering of the Juggalos he appeared as a host. On August 2013, on the twelfth series of Celebrity Big Brother he became the housemate on that.

Richness

Dustin Diamond is a rich personality his net worth is $500 thousand and is close to became a millionaire. His main source of wealth is acting. He was ranked in the list of top 100 annoying people list of 2006 by BBC. He is currently living in Washington, Wiscosin from April 2005. He announced his marriage in 2009. Not only is this, he received a number of titles in his life, he is also a black belt in karate and defeated Ron Palilo on Fox’s Celebrity Boxing 2. Talking about his likes he loves to play chess and work on computers. In the year 1988 he appeared in the television series of The Wonder Years.

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PROFESSION: ACTOR, DIRECTOR, COMEDIAN & SCREENWRITER

BORN: OCTOBER 8, 1943

OVERVIEW

Birth name Cornelius Crane Chase has spent most of his career working in comedy. His very first works were small comedy gigs here and there, which eventually transitioned to comedy full time in 1973 while working on “The National Lampoon Radio Hour”. He became one of the original members of the show Saturday Night Live.  He gave huge hits such as Caddyshack in 1980, the National Lampoon’s Vacation in 1983, National Lampoon’s European Vacation in 1985, Fletch in 1985 and Amigos in 1986. Eighties was Chevy’s highpoint. Chase’s career took a down turn in the 1990′s where none of the films he starred in did well at the box office. He is quite active in politics when he is not acting. He has campaigned for Bill Clinton and John Kerry during there respective campaigns.

EARLY LIFE

Chevy Chase was born in Lower Manhattan, New York City. Born to a prominent book editor and magazine writer. father and a concert pianist and librettist mother. Chase was named after his grandfather Cornelius. His grandmother gave him the nickname Chevy. When Chase was four years old, his parents divorced. Both of his parents remarried. Chase has claimed in his biography to be abused as a child by his mother and stepfather, John Cederquist. Both his parents died in 2005.

Chase graduated from Stockbridge School in Stockbridge, Massachusettes. He attended the Haverford college. He was popular in college for his slapstick comedy and a weird sense of physical humour.

Chase played drums with his college band ‘The Leather Canary.’ Chase also used to play drums and keyboards for a rock band called ‘Chamaeleon Church’. They recorded an album for MGM Records before they disbanded in 1969. Chase has worked in many odd jobs, before he became famous as a writer, actor and comedian. Some of his odd jobs included working as a cab driver,  motorcycle messenger, audio engineer,  waiter, product manager of a supermarket, fruit picker, truck driver, salesman in a wine store, construction worker, a theater usher and a busboy.

Saturday Night Live

Chase was one of the original cast members of Saturday Night Live, NBC’s late night comedy television show, which started in October 1975. His catchphrase introduction “I’m Chevy Chase… and you’re not” on the ‘Weekend Update’ segment of SNL became well known. He was the original anchor of the show. Chase also produced a late night talk show “The Chevy Chase Show” which was broadcast by Fox Broadcasting Company.

Chevy left the show in 1976, after his contract ended. He was the first member of the original cast to leave Saturday Night Live. He says he left the show because he wanted to be with his girlfriend, Jacqueline Carlin, who did not want to move to New York. After leaving SNL, Chase moved to Los Angeles and married Carlin. Chevy was offered starring movie roles because of his SNL fame.

TV Commercials and Films

Chase has done various commercials. He appeared in two television commercials for the soft drink Cola Turka in 2003. It was a soft drink developed to be in direct competition with both Coca-Cola and Pepsi, while keeping the money in the Turkish economy. Chase plays a confused American who notices his friend and family using Turkish idioms and exhibiting Turkish customs after consuming the drink. The commercials were comic and nationalistic in theme. The commercials were exclusively shown in Turkey, although they were filmed in New York in English. They had Turkish subtitles. Other commercials that Chase has to his credit are ’Dollar Rent-a-Car’, Doritos in 1996, History Channel in 1999, T-Mobile and Chase Manhattan Bank.

Chase earned around US$7 million per film at the peak of his career in the late eighties. He was a highly visible celebrity. Some of his early films are Foul Play and Oh Heavenly Dog. In 1985, he starred in Fletch, the first of two films based on Gregory McDonald’s Fletch books. Chase did the comedy film Three Amigos in 1986 with SNL veterans Steve Martin and Martin Short produced by Lorne Michaels. Chase hosted the Academy Awards for two consecutive years; 1987 and 1988.

At a time in his career, Chase had three consecutive flop films. Nothing But Trouble in 1991, 1992′s Memoirs of An Invisible Man and Cops and Robbersons in 1994.

He made guest appearances and starred in different TV series. He has guest starred on Law & Order, ABC’s drama series Brothers & Sisters. He had a recurring role on the NBC spy comedy Chuck. Chase has also lent his voice for an episode of Family Guy in 2009.

Chey Chase most recently starred in the NBC sitcom Community, as a business tycoon Pierce Hawthorne. Chase left the show in 2012 after he completed majority of the episodes of Season 4. He returned on the show for a cameo appearance in the Season 5 premiere.

WEALTH AND EARNINGS

Chevy owned a 12,000-sq ft, 10-bedroom estate in East Hampton, New York. It was 2.3 acre property, which he sold it to  Rallye Motors founders, Peter and Julianna Terian, for $10.1 million.

Chase’s home in East Hampton

He owns a house in Bedford, New York. Recently, in 2013, Chevy Chase put his pool house in Mt. Kisco, New York, for rent. A large separate house and a pool house at 48 Fox Lane in Bedford Corners were put up for rent last summer. The main house rented for $20,000 a month while the pool house rents for $1,800.

Chevy Chase’s house in Mt. Kisco, New York

TRIVIA

Chase prefers to do family-oriented movies and has turned down roles in several films including the lead in American Beauty (1999).

Suffers from a fear of snakes.

Chase is a huge jazz fan.

At 6′ 4″, he was the tallest original Saturday Night Live cast member and was the first “tall guy” on the show.

He has streets named after him in Cochranton, Pennsylvania; Brea, California; Port Charlotte, Florida; and New Orleans, Louisiana.

He plays piano, drums and saxophone.

PERSONAL LIFE

Chevy Chase with wife Jayni Chase and one of their daughters

Chase has three daughters with wife Jayni Chase. He currently lives with wife Jayni in Bedford, New York.Chase has been married twice before; once to Susan Hewitt  and the second time with Jacqueline Carlin.

He is an environmentalist and charity fundraiser. He raised money and campaigned for Bill Clinton in the 1990′s and John Kerry in the 2004 Presidential Election.

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