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STAR BIOS:
| Jeff Goldblum - With
a career spanning film, television, and theater, Jeff Goldblum is one of the
most talented and respected actors of his generation. Earlier this year, Goldblum wrapped production on Barry Levinson’s film for Universal Studios, MAN OF THE YEAR, starring opposite Robin Williams, Christopher Walken, Laura Linney and Lewis Black. He also just wrapped Hal Hartley’s independent film FAY GRIM, starring with Parker Posey. In 2005, Goldblum received critical praise for his return to Broadway, starring in Martin McDonagh’s “The Pillowman” with Billy Crudup, Zeliko Ivanek and Michael Stuhlbarg. He received an Outer Critics Circle Award for his performance and was nominated for a Drama Desk and Drama League Award. The play received a Drama Critics Award and was nominated for a Tony, Outer Critics Circle, Drama Desk and Drama League Award. That same year, Goldblum garnered an Emmy nomination for a guest appearance on NBC’s “Will & Grace. In 2004, Goldblum starred in Wes Anderson’s THE LIFE AQUATIC with Bill Murray, Anjelica Huston, Owen Wilson, William Dafoe and Cate Blanchett. Also in 2004, Goldblum received critical attention starring opposite Anthony LaPaglia and Liev Schreiber in Showtime’s “Spinning Boris,” directed by Roger Spottiswoode (TOMORROW NEVER DIES). In 2003, Goldblum starred in “War Stories,” a compelling two-hour television movie for NBC, about journalists risking their lives while covering conflicts in the Middle East. In 2002, Goldblum starred in MGM’s IGBY GOES DOWN opposite Susan Sarandon, Ryan Philippe and Claire Danes. The film was written and directed by Burr Steers, a former acting student of Goldblum’s at Playhouse West. Goldblum’s film career began at the age of seventeen, when he moved to New York City to study acting under Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse. In less than a year, Joseph Papp cast him in the Broadway hit, "Two Gentlemen of Verona." Soon after, he had his first film audition and got cast as the terrifying rapist in DEATH WISH. In contrast to that role, the very next week Robert Altman cast Goldblum as the twenty-year-old boy wonder in CALIFORNIA SPLIT and asked him to play the mysterious biker/magician in NASHVILLE. Goldblum’s long list of film credits include roles in some of the highest grossing films of all time, including Steven Spielberg's worldwide box-office success, JURASSIC PARK and Roland Emmerich’s science fiction thriller INDEPENDENCE DAY. Other film credits include THE LOST WORLD: JURASSIC PARK, HOLY MAN, THE PRINCE OF EGYPT, Chris Colombus' NINE MONTHS, Woody Allen's ANNIE HALL, Lawrence Kasdan’s THE BIG CHILL, SILVERADO, THE FLY, DEEP COVER, Paul Mazursky's NEXT STOP GREENWICH VILLAGE, REMEMBER MY NAME, THE RIGHT STUFF, THRESHOLD, BETWEEN THE LINES, INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS, THE ADVENTURES OF BUCKAROO BONZAI, INTO THE NIGHT and THE TALL GUY. On television, Goldblum starred in the Showtime original film "Lush Life" with Forest Whitaker and Kathy Baker. Aside from acting, Goldblum was nominated for an Academy Award for directing the live action short film, "Little Surprises." He served on the jury of The 1999 Cannes Film Festivaland occasionally plays piano with Peter Weller on trumpet in their live-performing jazz band, The Mildred Snitzer Orchestra. Goldblum resides in Los Angeles. |
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| Ed Begley Jr. - Inspired by the works of his Academy Award-winning
father, Ed Begley, Jr. became an actor. He first came to audiences’ attention for his portrayal
of Dr. Victor Ehrlich on the long-running hit television series, “St. Elsewhere,” for
which he received six Emmy nominations. Since then Begley has moved easily between
feature, television and theatre projects. Begley is currently working on several film projects, including the comedy RELATIVE STRANGERS, MAKING CHANGE, THE OPTIMIST, THE LEGEND OF WILLIAM TELL, TRIPPING FORWARD and the animated film FLY ME TO THE MOON. Begley was seen recently DESOLATION SOUND and GOING DOWN, as well as A MIGHTY WIND, a follow-up to the American Comedy Award-winning film, BEST IN SHOW with Christopher Guest, Catherine O’ Hara and Parker Posey. His other feature film credits include BATMAN FOREVER, GREEDY, THE ACCIDENTAL TOURIST and THE IN-LAWS. On television Begley recently starred in “Kingdom Hospital”, the new Stephen King mini-series on ABC. He appeared in recurring roles on “Arrested Development,” “Six Feet Under” and “7th Heaven.” He also guest starred in such series as “Boston Legal,” “The West Wing,” “The Practice,” “The Drew Carey Show,” “Touched By an Angel,” and “Providence.” Among his motion pictures for television credits are “Homicide: The Movie,” “Not in This Town,” with Kathy Baker, “World War II: When Lions Roared,” with Bob Hoskins, Michael Caine and John Lithgow, “Running Mates,” “Cooperstown” and “Story Lady,” which starred Jessica Tandy. Begley also starred in the West Coast premiere of David Mamet’s “Cryptogram,” at the Geffen Playhouse, in the role that he originated in Boston and then in New York. |
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| Illeana Douglas - Indy
Queen, Illeana Douglas first came to prominence as Matt Dillon’s
suspicious sister in Gus Van Sant’s TO DIE FOR (NY Film Critic’s
Nominee). Since then she has been a staple on the independent film scene
with memorable performances in GHOST WORLD, HAPPY TEXAS, WEDDING BELL BLUES,
DUMMY, HACKS and many more. While working for a New York film publicist, Illeana was asked to dub screams and provide additional dialogue for Martin Scorsese’s, THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST. This led to a long association with Scorsese, acting in NEW YORK STORIES, GOODFELLAS and CAPE FEAR, and developing and co-producing SEARCH AND DESTROY, THE LOST ARMY and GRACE OF MY HEART (London Film Critics Nominee). With Scorsese’s encouragement Douglas also began writing and directing. Her first effort, THE PERFECT WOMAN won “Best Short” at Aspen Shorts Fest and was a nominee for a Cable Ace Award. Another of Douglas’ projects, EVERYBODY JUST STAY CALM was a documentary made for Bravo, about the comedic trials of independent filmmaking. BOY CRAZY, GIRL CRAZIER and the television pilot CONFESSIONS OF A MOVIE LOVER were made for Bravo and IFC. She was Executive Producer on the film LIFE WITHOUT DICK starring Sarah Jessica Parker. She premiered her short, DEVIL TALK at Sundance Film Festival 2000 and later created SUPERMARKET, a collection of shorts for the Sundance Channel. SUPERMARKET was nominated for a regional Emmy and later developed into ILLEANARAMA, a comedy pilot for the Oxygen Network. Illeana wrote, produced, directed and starred in the pilot, which costars Jeff Goldblum, Ed Begley Jr., Justine Bateman and Jane Lynch. Douglas continued to thrive as a film actor with such hits as STIR OF ECHOES, ALIVE, PICTURE PERFECT, MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE (Blockbuster Award) and THE NEXT BEST THING to name a few, but her heart lies in the indie film world having completed 8 independent films in the past two years including WALK THE TALK, BONDAGE, I’M PERFECT, ALCHEMY, FIRED, THE CALIFORNIANS, PITTSBURGH with Jeff Goldblum and the highly anticipated biopic FACTORY GIRL, with Sienna Miller where Douglas plays Diana Vreeland. This summer’s films OSSO BUCCO and LIFE IN CRACKTOWN will make it 10. Perhaps that’s why she was recently dubbed “The Female William H. Macy.” Illeana began her career as a stand up and sketch comedian at “Stand Up New York” and “Manhattan Punchline,” so situation comedy was an easy transition. She was Gary Shandling’s girlfriend on the final season of THE LARRY SANDERS SHOW (Emmy nomination for episode) and starred in Fox’s ahead-of-it’s-time comedy, ACTION, with Jay Mohr (Golden Satellite Award). She’s had memorable roles on SEINFELD and THE DREW CAREY SHOW and was much loved for her Emmy Nominated portrayal of “Angela” on SIX FEET UNDER. Douglas’ notable films for television include HBO’s, POINT OF ORIGIN, WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRACTION, LANSKY and ROUGH RIDERS for TNT. Illeana is a graduate of the Neighborhood Playhouse and studied with Sanford Meisner.She first worked professionally at the Hartford Stage Company and Premiered BLACK EAGLES at the Manhattan Theater Club. Recent theater includes James Lapine’s THE MOMENT WHEN with Mark Ruffalo at Playwright’s Horizon, THE MUSIC MAN with Jeff Goldblum at Pittsburgh CLO, SURVIVING GRACE at Union Square Theater and FIRED: STORIES OF JOBS GONE WRONG, at the Skirball Center, HBO Workspace, Second Stage in New York and most recently the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival. Currently Douglas can be seen on VH1’s #1 SINGLE and has just completed the pilot WOMEN OF A CERTAIN AGE with Heather Locklear for ABC. Acting runs strong in the blood, as Douglas is the granddaughter of Academy Award Winning Actor and screen legend Melvyn Douglas. |
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| Moby - In these days of fly-by-night musicians, Moby is somewhat of an anomaly. His
first solo release, Go (voted one of Rolling Stone's top 200 records of all time),
was released in 1991. In the ensuing 14 years, he has had one of the strangest
careers in contemporary music. He has made dance records and rock records and
ambient records and heavy metal records. He has written classical music for movies
and had platinum albums in almost every country in the Western world. He has DJ'ed in clubs for 100 people and headlined a Glastonbury show for 125,000 people. He has played punk rock in tiny bars in Germany and he has performed at the closing ceremonies of the Olympics for an audience of 2 billion people. He has had albums that have sold less than 100,000 copies worldwide (1996's Animal Rights) and albums that have sold in the millions (1999's Play and 2002's 18). He has remixed and produced everyone from David Bowie to Metallica to the Beastie Boys to Aerosmith to New Order. He has toured with David Bowie. He has sung duets with Elton John, Bono, Michael Stipe, Lou Reed, and many others. Yet he still makes all of his records at home in his bedroom. And he is also the proprietor of a tea house in New York called Teany; has his own line of iced teas with the same namesake; authored a lifestyle book/cook book called Teany. But he doesn’t stop there, Moby is well known advocate for a variety causes working with MoveOn.org, PETA, The Humane Society, The Institute for Music and Neurologic Function promoting music therapy, Amend.org a nonprofit that implements injury prevention programs in Africa. |
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