Frank Miller is a comic book writer and artist, a screenwriter, a film director, and a movie producer. Originally from just down the street in Olney, MD, Frank was raised in Montpelier, VT, and eventually found his way to New York City and the comic book industry in the late 1970s. Finding work in Gold Key Comics initially, he went on to work with DC and Marvel. At the latter, after recurring fill-in and cover artist gigs, he took over art and, eventually, writing duties on Daredevil. He co-plotted the Wolverine limited series with Chris Claremont, and would continue working on titles (his own and those of the companies for which he worked) including Ronin, Daredevil: Born Again, Elektra Lives Again, The Dark Knight Returns, Sin City, and 300. In addition to his comic book work, Miller wrote the scripts for Robocop 2 and 3, directed the film version of The Spirit, shared directing duties with Robert Rodriguez on the Palme d’Or-nominated Sin City and Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, and produced the film 300. Eagle-eyed viewers can spot him in cameo roles in Robocop 2, Daredevil, Sin City, Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, and The Spirit. Miller is known for creating Elektra for Marvel Comics’ Daredevil series, and a female version of the Robin character, Carrie Kelley, for DC Comics.
Giancarlo Esposito is a celebrated film, television and stage actor, director and producer with a career spanning nearly five decades.
Esposito is well known by television audiences for his iconic portrayal of drug kingpin Gustavo “Gus” Fring in AMC’s critically acclaimed award-winning series Breaking Bad, for which he won the 2012 Critics Choice Award and earned a 2012 Emmy® nomination. He can currently be seen reprising his role in AMC’s critically acclaimed prequel, Better Call Saul, which was nominated for an Emmy® Award in the category of Outstanding Drama Series, and will be returning for a fourth season in 2018.
Esposito most recently appears in The Death Cure, the third film in 20th Century Fox’s hit blockbuster action franchise The Maze Runner. The film releases in January 2018. He also starred in the second film in the trilogy, The Scorch Trials, which was released in 2015. It has also been announced that Esposito will star in the upcoming film, Shriver, alongside Thomas Haden Church.
Esposito currently narrates the Netflix series, Dear White People, which launched on the platform on April 28, 2017. The 10-episode season is based off of the critically acclaimed 2014 film of the same name and is currently in production for a second season.
He also had a recurring role in Baz Luhrmann’s critically acclaimed Netflix series The Get Down, which looks at the birth of hip hop in New York in the 1970s.
Esposito is also the 2014 and 2018 voice of the Winter Olympics for NBC.
Under his production company, Quiet Hand Productions, Esposito made his feature directorial debut with the film Gospel Hill, which won over nine awards at various acclaimed film festivals. In the film, he co-starred with Danny Glover, Angela Bassett, Julia Stiles, Taylor Kitsch and Samuel L. Jackson. Quiet Hand Productions aspires to make “conscious content” films that focus on the inspirational. It was announced that Esposito will direct, produce & star as Frederick Douglass in the independent historical drama Patriotic Treason opposite 4-time Academy Award® nominee Ed Harris, who will play abolitionist John Brown.
Esposito recently directed his second feature, The Show, in which he also stars. The drama centers around a disturbing reality game show in which contestants end their lives for viewer entertainment. The film had its world premiere at the 2017 SXSW Festival, and was released by Grindstone in theaters and on demand on September 15, 2017.
Esposito can currently be seen in director Bong Joon-Ho’s new sci-fi film Okja, alongside Jake Gyllenhaal, Tilda Swinton and Paul Dano. The film was released globally by Netflix on June 28. The story follows a Korean girl who risks everything to prevent a multinational company from kidnapping her best friend, a beast called Okja. The film had its world premiere at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival to rave reviews.
Esposito recently wrapped production on director Claude Lalonde’s The Gift, opposite Sir Patrick Steward and Katie Holmes.
Esposito’s most memorable performances can be seen in films such as Rabbit Hole, The Usual Suspects, Smoke, The Last Holiday and Spike Lee’s films Do the Right Thing, Mo’ Better Blues, School Daze and Malcolm X. Esposito’s other film credits include The Jungle Book, Money Monster, Poker Night, Alex Cross, SherryBaby, Ali, Nothing to Lose, Waiting to Exhale, Bob Roberts, King of New York and Cotton Club. In 1995, Esposito was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for his work in Fresh.
His other television credits include Revolution, Community, Once Upon a Time, Homicide: Life on The Streets, Law and Order, Bakersfield PD, Touched by an Angel, and Kidnapped.
Giancarlo’s notable roles extend to Broadway as well. In 2012, he starred in Atlantic Theatre Company’s world premiere of “Storefront Church,” which was the final installment of the trilogy “Church & State.” Esposito won two Obie Awards for “Zooman and The Sign” at the Negro Ensemble Company and “Distant Fires” at The Atlantic Theatre Company, where he continues to perform and teach as a company member. His list of Broadway credits include productions of “Sacrilege”, “Seesaw”, “Merrily We Roll Along” and “Lost In The Stars.” He also co-starred on Broadway with James Earl Jones, Terrence Howard and Phylicia Rashad in Debbie Allen’s rendition of the great classic Tennessee Williams play, “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.”
Esposito is a yoga enthusiast and spends his free time riding his motorcycle and practicing the saxophone. He lends his support to various charitable organizations that support the arts and education, including the Waterkeeper Alliance, Kids for Peace & World Merit USA.
Bruce Campbell was born June 22, 1958 (the youngest of 3 brothers) in Royal Oak, Michigan. As a child, Bruce watched “Lost in Space” (1965) on TV, and ran around dressed as Zorro. He got the acting bug at age 8; his dad was performing in local community theater. At 14, Bruce got to play the young prince in “The King and I” and even got to sing. He went on to appear in several community theater productions, including “South Pacific”. However, he was also interested in directing, and shot super-8 flicks with a neighborhood pal. Perhaps through fate, he met future director Sam Raimi in a high school drama class in 1975. Soon, along with Sam, and now a bunch of other high school pals, Bruce filmed about 50 super-8 movies. During the summer of 1976, he was an apprentice in northern Michigan at Traverse City’s Cherry County Playhouse, a summer-stock company. Bruce worked 18-hour days putting up sets, being assistant stage manager, doing errands, etc. No money, but it was a learning experience (it was show biz). He attended Western Michigan University and took theater courses. Bruce became a production assistant for a company that made commercials in Detroit. In the early part of 1979, with buddy Sam Raimi, he decided to become a pro filmmaker. Armed with a super-8 horror film Within the Woods (1978) which they showed potential investors, they raised $350,000 to make The Evil Dead (1981) which Bruce co-produced and starred in as “Ash”. Four years later, the completed film became the best-selling video of 1983 in England, and New Line Cinema got it a US release. Around this time, he married his first wife, and they had 2 kids. They raised 10 times as much cash for the sequel Evil Dead II (1987) again co-produced by Bruce and starring him as “Ash”. He moved to L.A. In 1990, while filming Mindwarp (1992), he met his future second wife (costume designer Ida Gearon) on the set. In 1992, he rejoined Sam, and Bruce co-produced and starred as “Ash” in the 3rd of the Evil Dead trilogy, Army of Darkness (1992) for Universal Studios. On TV, Bruce directed many episodes of “Hercules: The Legendary Journeys” (1995). Bruce also acted as the recurring character “Autolycus”, the King of Thieves; he portrayed this villain with zest in both “Hercules: The Legendary Journeys” (1995) and “Xena: Warrior Princess” (1995). Bruce’s latest television venture was starring as the title rogue of “Jack of All Trades” (2000). Everybody loves Jack. And everybody’s heard of him – “There ain’t a French or pirate rogue who don’t know Jack!”
Tom Kenny has voiced SpongeBob since the beginning and is the show’s voice director. After starting as a standup comedian, Tom was featured in Bobcat Goldthwait’s 1992 cult comedy “Shakes the Clown” and in the influential sketch comedy series “Mr. Show with Bob and David”.
His hundreds of Voice Over credits include “Rocko’s Modern Life”, “Adventure Time”, Futurama”, and “Rick and Morty”.
Heard in commercials, video games and movies ranging from Wonderful Halos Oranges, Honda and “Spyro the Dragon” to “Winnie the Pooh” and “Transformers” Tom was recently seen in the Steve Carell/Emma Stone film “Battle of the Sexes”.
His elastic voice and high-energy stage presence are seen to full advantage in the high-octane 12-piece rocknsoul band “Tom Kenny & the Hi-Seas.”
Tom and co-writer Andy Paley wrote the song “Best Day Ever” which is featured in the smash hit “SpongeBob Squarepants The Broadway Musical”. They received the 2018 Outer Critics Circle Award for “Outstanding New Score”. That score is also nominated for the 2018 “Best Original Score” Tony award.
In 2018 Tom Kenny received an Emmy Award for “Best Performer in an Animated Program” for his work on SpongeBob Squarepants”.
Tom Welling is best known for playing “Clark Kent/Superman” on the long-running television series “Smallville.” In addition to acting, he directed multiple episodes of the series and served as an executive producer. Welling recently starred in the film “The Choice.” His other feature film credits include “Draft Day,” “Parkland,” “Cheaper by the Dozen,” Cheaper by the Dozen 2” and “The Fog.” His television credits include “Undeclared” and “Judging Amy,” as well as executive producing the series “Hellcats,” starring Aly Michalka and Ashley Tisdale. Tom can currently be seen playing the role of “Marcus Pierce” in Season Three of “Lucifer”.
ZACHARY LEVI has proven himself to be a triple threat- he is an accomplished actor, singer, and dancer which was displayed with his Tony- nominated performance for “Best Leading Actor in a Musical” in the critically-praised Broadway production, SHE LOVES ME
Levi currently can be seen top lining David F. Sandberg’s highly anticipated film, SHAZAM! for Warner Brothers/ New Line Cinema that has held the #1 spot at the box office for two weeks in a row thus far.
Zac recently took home a SAG Award for “Best Ensemble in a Comedy Series” for his recurring role for season two of Amazon Studios’ Emmy winning series, THE MARVELOUS MRS. MAISEL. The first season of the show won six Primetime Emmys, two Golden Globes, as well as a Peabody Award and two Critics’ Choice Awards. The second season won one Golden Globe, three Screen Actor Guild Awards, one PGA Award, two Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards, one Critics Choice TV Award, and TV Program of the Year at the AFI Awards.
Additional previous film credits include THOR: THE DARK WORLD; ALVIN & THE CHIPMUNKS: THE SQUEAKQUEL; and TANGLED. The song “I See the Light,” written for TANGLED (performed by Levi & Mandy Moore) was nominated that year for an Oscar and Golden Globe for Best Original Song. The pair performed the duet at the 83rd Annual Academy Awards ceremony. “I See the Light” also won the Grammy Award for “Best Song Written for Visual Media” at the 54th Grammy Awards.
Levi is best known for his fan favorite performance as Chuck Bartowski in the hit NBC series, CHUCK.
Other previous TV credits include: the Netflix mini-series ALIAS GRACE & HEROES REBORN.
Levi started his own company, The Nerd Machine in 2010 building a geek culture brand that fosters greater interaction between fans and celebrities, while also giving back. Nerd HQ, the live event and philanthropic division of the geek culture company, hosts celebrity panels where proceeds go to Operation Smile
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