Isabelle Adjani
Isabelle Adjani - Actors and Actresses
Nationality: French. Born: Paris, 27 June 1955. Education: Attended Courbevoie public school. Family: Son, Barnabe, with film director Bruno Nuytten; son with actor Daniel Day Lewis. Career: 1969—debut in first film, Le Petit Bougnat , during school holiday; 1970—stage debut in Lorca's The House of Bernada Alba at Reims; 1973—became member of Comédie Française, Paris. Awards: Prix Suzanne Bianchetti, 1974; Best Actress, New York Film Critics, National Society of Film Critics Best Actress Award, and National Board of Review Best Actress Award, for The Story of Adèle H. , 1975; Best Actress, Cannes Festival, for Possession and Quartet , 1981; César Awards for Best Actress, for Possession , 1981, L'Été meutrier , 1983, Camille Claudel , 1989, and La Reine Margot , 1995; Silver Berlin Bear, Berlin International Film Festival, for Camille Claudel , 1989. Agent: c/o Artmedia, 10 av. George V, F-75008 Paris, France.
Victoria Abril
Victoria Abril - Actors and Actresses
Nationality: Spanish. Born: Victoria Merida Rojas in Madrid, 14 July 1959. Education: Began studying dance at age eight, focused on ballet at Conservatory of Madrid until age 14. Family: Married Gustavo Lauve, 1976 (divorced 1981); two sons by current companion the cinematographer Gerard de Battista. Career: 1974—host of Spanish TV game show at age 15; 1976—English-language debut in Robin and Marian ; 1978—in TV mini-series The Bastard ; 1980s—top box-office attraction in Spain; 1990–93—international stardom
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Alan Arkin
Alan Arkin - Actors and Actresses
Nationality: American. Born: Alan Wolf Arkin in New York City, 26 March 1934. Education: Attended Los Angeles City College. Family: Married Barbara Dana, 1964; sons: the actor Adam and Matthew from previous marriage, and Anthony. Career: Late 1950s—member of folk singing group the Tarriers; early 1960s—member of Chicago improvisational acting company Second City, a group including Mike Nichols and Elaine May; 1963—Broadway debut in Enter Laughing received much critical attention; mid-1960s—stage directing career began with off-Broadway production of Little Murders ; 1966—feature film debut in The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming ; 1971—directed first feature film, Little Murders ; 1987—in TV series Harry . Awards: Best Actor, New York Film Critics, for The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter , 1968; Best Supporting Actor, New York Film Critics, for Hearts of the West , 1975; Golden Globe for Comedy Performance, for The Russians Are Coming , 1966; Canadian Genies, for Best Actor for Improper Channels , 1981, and for Best Supporting Actor for Joshua Then and Now , 1985. Address: c/o William Morris Agency, 151 El Camino, Beverly Hills, CA 90212.
Films as Actor:
- 1962
That's Me (short)
- 1963
The Last Mohican (short)
- 1966
The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming (Jewison) (as Rosanov)
- 1967
Wait until Dark (Young) (as Roat); "The Suicides" ep. of Woman Times Seven (De Sica) (as Fred)
- 1968
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Miller) (as John Singer); Inspector Clouseau (Yorkin) (as title role)
- 1969
Popi (Hiller) (title role); The Monitors (Shea) (cameo)
- 1970
Catch-22 (Nichols) (as Yossarian)
- 1972
The Last of the Red Hot Lovers (Saks) (as Barney Cashman); Deadhead Miles (Zimmerman)
- 1974
Freebie and the Bean (Rush) (as Bean); It Couldn't Happen to a Nicer Guy (Cy Howard—for TV)
- 1975
Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins (Richards) (as Rafferty); Hearts of the West (Zieff) (as Kessler)
- 1976
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (Ross) (as Freud)
- 1978
The Defection of Simon Kudirka (Rich—for TV) (title role)
- 1979
The Magician of Lublin (Golan) (as Yasha); The In-Laws (Hiller) (as Sheldon Kornpett, + exec pr)
- 1980
Simon (Brickman) (as Simon Mendelssohn)
- 1981
Chu Chu and the Philly Flash (Rich); Improper Channels (Till) (as Jeffrey)
- 1982
The Last Unicorn (Rankin and Bass) (as voice of Schmendrick, the Magician)
- 1983
The Return of Captain Invincible ( Legend in Leotards ) (Mora) (title role)
- 1984
A Matter of Principle (Arner)
- 1985
Big Trouble (Cassavetes) (as Leonard Hoffman); Bad Medicine (Miller) (as Dr. Madera); Joshua Then and Now (Kotcheff) (as Reuben Shapiro); The Fourth Wise Man (Michael Ray Rhodes—for TV)
- 1986
A Deadly Business (Korty—for TV)
- 1987
Escape from Sobibor (Gold—for TV) (as Feldhendler); Necessary Parties (Arner—for TV) (+ sc)
- 1990
Coupe de Ville (Roth) (as Fred Libner); Too Much Sun (Downey); Edward Scissorhands (Burton) (as Bill Boggs); Havana (Pollack) (as Joe Volpi); The Rocketeer (Johnston) (as Peevy)
- 1992
Glengarry Glen Ross (Foley) (as George Aaronow)
- 1993
So I Married an Axe Murderer (Schlamme); Indian Summer (Binder) (as Uncle Lou); Taking the Heat (Tom Mankiewicz—for TV) (as Tommy Canard); Cooperstown (Haid—for TV) (as Harry Willette)
- 1994
North (Rob Reiner) (as Judge Buckle); The Jerky Boys (Melkonian) (as Lazarro); Doomsday Gun (Robert M. Young—for TV)
- 1995
Steal Big, Steal Little (Andrew Davis) (as Lou Perilli)
- 1996
Mother Night (Gordon) (as George Kraft)
- 1997
Grosse Pointe Blank (Armitage) (as Dr. Oatman); Gattaca (Niccol) (Detective Hugo)
- 1998
Slums of Beverly Hills (Jenkins) (as Murray Abramowitz); Jakob the Liar (Kassovitz) (as Max Frankfurter)
- 2000
Arigo (Arkin and Dana); Magicians (Merendino); Varian's War (Chetwynd—for TV)
Films as Director:
- 1967
T.G.I.F. (short) (+ sc)
- 1969
People Soup (short) (+ sc)
- 1971
Little Murders (+ ro as detective)
- 1977
Fire Sale (+ ro as Ezra Fikus)
- 1987
The Visit
- 1993
Samuel Beckett Is Coming Soon (+ ro as the director)
- 2000
Arigo (+ ro)
Publications
By ARKIN: books—
Tony's Hard Work Day (for children), 1972.
Halfway through the Door: An Actor's Journey Towards the Self , New York, 1979.
The Clearing (for children), New York, 1986.
The Lemming Condition (for children), New York, 1989.
Some Fine Grampa (for children), New York, 1995.
By ARKIN: article—
Interview in Films and Filming (London), November 1967.
On ARKIN: article—
Current Biography 1967 , New York, 1967.
"Alan Arkin," in Film Dope (London), March 1988.
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Alan Arkin is the poor man's Jack Lemmon. Think of Lemmon's major film roles, from It Should Happen to You to The Apartment , Save the Tiger to Missing . Arkin could have played any one of these parts effectively. Both actors can play comical bumblers with serious sides, and both excel as sensitive characters whose nervous temperaments are hair-triggered. Considering Arkin's solid talent and his proven versatility, it is regrettable that this actor has not had Lemmon's opportunities to shine on the silver screen.
Arkin was no novice to acting when he made his feature film debut in the popular satirical comedy The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming . Three years prior to that, he had won a Tony Award for his much acclaimed starring role in the Broadway production of Carl Reiner's autobiographical seriocomedy Enter Laughing . In Russians , Arkin, co-starring with Reiner and a large star cast, won an Oscar nomination playing a zany Russian squad leader who steps off a Soviet submarine which accidentally has been grounded near an island off the Massachusetts coastline. As he communicated with the startled natives, Arkin spoke a blend of strange Russian lingo and broken Russian-English, which left a bizarre, but very comical, impression.
His next effort, Wait until Dark , was a very showy role for the newcomer. In this taut suspense film, he played a psychotic who dresses up as three different people in order to retrieve a cache of drugs unwittingly in the possession of a blind woman (Audrey Hepburn). His menacing leap at the helpless woman's ankles and the unrelieved wickedness of his character even in his death throes gave audiences the dark and dramatic side of the actor's repertoire. After his appearance the following year in The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter , as a lonesome deaf-mute who befriends a young girl, it seemed as though Arkin's new status as a major movie star was cemented. So moving was his portrayal that he received his second Academy Award nomination.
Since then, only a handful of important screen roles have come his way. The most significant of these was in Catch-22 , where he played Captain Yossarian in Joseph Heller's scathing satire of U.S. Army life during World War II, which was presented in a surreal and absurdist style. He also gave outstanding comic performances in The Last of the Red Hot Lovers and The In-Laws , and made an interesting and credible Freud in The Seven-Per-Cent Solution . In fact, Arkin never has done poorly in a film, even when the material was flawed or forgettable. Yet he has been unable to sustain the stardom and attention he obtained so early; the multidimensional, extraordinary roles with which he began his film acting career inexplicably dried up.
Arkin turned to directing in the late 1960s, and in 1971 did a credible job bringing Jules Feiffer's Little Murders to the screen. In the 1970s, he also wrote several books, including an autobiographical work about his involvement with yoga. In the past few years, Arkin has been appearing in films on a steady basis, sometimes enriching mediocre movies with brief but sparkling appearances. His two most significant recent roles have been as the camp director in Indian Summer and a real estate salesman in Glengarry Glen Ross , the film version of David Mamet's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, in which he shares screen time with Jack Lemmon. Nevertheless, it is a shame that an actor of Arkin's caliber has not, over the years, been offered more and better lead roles, and been allowed to fulfill the promise he exhibited in his earliest films.
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