----CHRISTOPHER GORHAM----
?#060;p> ----EDWARD JAMES NORTON JR----
----BENICIO FAUST DEL TORO----
Born on February 19, 1967 in San German, Puerto Rico.
Height: 6'4"
Eyecolor: hazel
Status: single
Education: Graduated from Mercersberg Academy and attended the University of San Diego.
Family History: half Puerto Rican/half Italian, father Gustavo is a lawyer, mother Fausta (deceased) was a lawyer, and his brother is a physician in New York City.
Bdt's favorite actor is Marlon Brando to whom BDT is often compared. BDT is often called the 'Latin Brando'
BDT's favorite movie is "PAPILLION" because it was the only movie he ever saw with his mother.
Other Bdt favorite movies: "The Creature from Black Lagoon", "Dracula", "Frankenstein", and "The Wolfman".
BDT's musical tastes include: The Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen, Santana, The Beatles, Lou Reed, The Who, The CLASH*, and Jimi Hendrix.
Projects:
The Way of the Gun
Personal Quotes:
"My life is steeped in tradition. I have to talk Spanish to my father, Spanglish to my brother, and Italian to my mother's family."
BDT on being called "The Latin Brando"-
"Everybody wants to be Brando. He's like the Piccaso of acting."
"No, I'm not Brando, I'm not Jack Nicholson but I do mumble."
"I remember when i got started they wanted to change my name. They said Benicio sounded too Italian and Del Toro sounded too Spanish so they wanted me to change my name to Benny Dell. I was like no! Either you take me how I am or nothing. My name is who I am. My parents gave it to me."
"A good pizza is better that a hundred dollar meal in a expensive restaurant."
*ALSO*:
Benicio is very nice to his fans. I met him in February in New York City at the Guggenheim Modern Art Museum. He signed an autograph for me and asked me for my name and address so he could send me a signed picture when he came back to New York this summer. He's very busy right now because his film career has taken off.
----BENJAMIN G AFFLECK----
Born on August 15, 1972 in Berkeley, CA.
Occupations: Actor, Director, Writer
Claim to Fame: 1997: Cowrote and starred in Good Will Hunting
Significant Other(s):
Cheyenne Rothman: have dated on and off since high school
Gwyneth Paltrow: actress; dated January 1998 to January 1999
Family:
Father: Tim Affleck, social worker, former actor; divorced from Affleck's mother
Mother: Chris, teacher; divorced
Brother: Casey, actor; born 1975
Awards:
1998: Academy Award: Best Original Screenplay, Good Will Hunting (cowritten with Matt Damon)
Factoids:
1993: Directed the short film I Murdered My Lesbian Wife, Hung Her on a Meat Hook
Education:
University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont
Occidental College, Eagle Rock, California (was attending when he made School Ties in 1992)
Projects:
Armageddon
Shakespeare in Love
Good Will Hunting
Dogma
----MATTHEW PAIGE DAMON----
Born on October 8, 1970 in Boston/Cambridge, MA.
Height: 5'10"
Education: Cambridge Rindge, Latin School, and Harvard (2 years; majored in English). Dropped out of Harvard a few credits short of graduating to pursue acting full time.
Family: Brother: Kyle; Parents: Divorced when Matt was two. He was raised in Cambridge, in a communal home with five other families.
Factoids:
- Matt and Ben Affleck have been friends since Matt was 8 years old.
- Matt decided he wanted to become an actor when he was 16.
- One of Matt's first acting jobs was in a TJ Maxx commercial in New York.
- Matt Damon had his debut as badboy Charlie Dillon opposite Brendan Fraiser in 1992's School Ties. He was a natural. He went on to have roles in a couple of made-for-tv movies, and played the narrator in the epic Geranimo. Last year he was seen along side Meg Ryan in Courage Under Fire. This year seems to be Matt's year, though. Previously out in theatres, Matt stared in The Rainmaker. In movie theatres now, Matt stars in Gus Van Sant's Good Will Hunting, based on his own screenplay. "I'd say we wrote a screenplay because we had read so much bad work," said Matt. He has finished filming Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan; and he and Ben are hard at work on their next script.
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