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----CHRISTOPHER GORHAM----

  • Born on August 14, 1974 in Fresno, California.
  • Current Residence: San Fernando Valley
  • First Taste of Fame: received the Best Actor Award in his fourth grade production of "Through the Looking Glass" (as the Mad Hatter), hooking him on acting.
  • Kids' Stuff: performed with a local dinner theatre company during the formative years of sixth grade, and of course acted in his high school's plays.
  • High School: Roosevelt School of the Arts
  • College: UCLA, chosen to participate in a select, experimental conservatory program and graduated with a BA in film and theatre arts
  • Awards: "Young Male Talent of the Year" at an International Modeling Talent Association competition in New York (CG was still in high school at the time)
  • Current Interests: golf, online investing, learning Spanish
  • Strange Talents: auctioneering (he's licensed, following in the footsteps of his grandfather)
  • Marital Status: married to actress Anel Lopez Gorham
  • Pets: Cuba the dog
  • on 'Harrison John': "Harrison's banner is that it's important to stay truthful. He tries to stay honest with himself, but he has a crush on Brooke McQueen that he can't get over, so as a result he has a big chip on his shoulder about the popular kids."

    ?#060;p> ----EDWARD JAMES NORTON JR----

  • Born on August 18, 1969 in [Columbia/Baltimore, MD / Boston, MA].
  • Height is 185 cms (6'1"); weight is 70 kgs.
  • Currently resides in an apartment in Manhattan, NY, and is using a small Los Angeles ranch house.
  • Occupations: actor, writer, musician, director, producer
  • His agent is Brian Swardstrom of Endeaver Talent Agency.
  • His claim to fame was his part as the maniacal murderer Aaron Stampler in Primal Fear, 1996.
  • Significant Other(s): Salma Hayek, actor (co-star in Frida Kahlo), 1999; no longer together Courtney Love, actress, singer; reportedly dated 1996-98; Norton made appearances with Love's band Hole, playing guitar and singing Drew Barrymore
  • Friends: Kevin Spacey, Drew Barrymore, Stuart Blumberg, Courtney Love, Salma Hayek, Matt Damon, Woody Harrelson, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Warren Beatty, Sean Penn, Marlon Brando Family:
  • Nationality: English American
  • Grandfather: James Rouse, former real-estate developer (notable architect); born 1914, died April 1996; sometimes called the "inventor" of the shopping mall because of his designs.
  • Grandmother: Patricia Rouse (n? Traugott), former philanthropist; with husband, co-founded the Enterprise Foundation
  • Father: Edward Norton Sr., attorney; vice president for law and public policy at the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
  • Mother: Robin Norton (n? Rouse), former Enterprise Foundation executive, English teacher; died of brain cancer March 6, 1997.
  • Siblings: James and Molly, both younger.
  • Pets: Maggie, a stray tabby cat ("I came home one day, and the cat just walked into the house. It was all flea-ridden and hungry, so I cooked it a hot-dog in the microwave, took it to a vet, and it hasn't left since."). She was named after the character in Tennessee Williams' play "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof."
  • Religion: Raised as a Protestant.
  • Hobbies: reading, playing the guitar ("I think music is the great relaxer in a way"), photography, running, seeing films, writing, rally racing
  • Music: Radiohead, Hole, Tom Waits, Elliot Smith, Buena Vista Social Club jazz artists, Red Hot Chili Peppers, R.E.M.
  • Books: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Ernest Hemingway, Joseph Conrad, JD Salinger, Tom Wolfe
  • Education: Columbia School for Theatrical Arts, Columbia, Maryland Attended Wilde Lake High School, Columbia, Maryland, 1987 Graduated from Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut; majored in History (BA, 1991)
  • Other School Activities: Basketball, acting. At Yale, which is known for its excellent undergrad drama program as well as the prestigious graduate school, Norton rounded out his studies with lauded performances in numerous plays. He performed in such campus plays as Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Allen's Don't Drink the Water. He also did a student film. "A parody of old Bogart and noir movies, which I've gotten the rights to and buried. It was fun. We showed it in Davies Auditorium and it was kind of a cult hit around school for two years."
  • First job: Following graduation, he worked in Osaka, Japan, consulting for his grandfather's company, Enterprise Foundation, which works to create decent, affordable housing for low-income families. On his return to New York, it took less than two years of waitering before the young thespian to capture the eye of Richard Albee, one of the most celebrated playwrights of the 20th century. Albee was working with the Signature Theater Company on a new production of Fragments. One audition and Norton landed the role, as well as a slot in Signature's repertory company. He currently serves on its board of directors.
  • Projects: Fight Club Keeping the Faith (Father Brian Kilkenney Finn).
  • Awards: 1996: National Board of Review: Best Supporting Actor, Primal Fear, Everyone Says I Love You and The People vs. Larry Flynt; cited for work in all three films 1996: Los Angeles Film Critics Association: Best Supporting Actor, Primal Fear, The People vs. Larry Flynt and Everyone Says I Love You; cited for all three films 1996: Boston Society of Film Critics: Best Supporting Actor, The People vs. Larry Flynt, Primal Fear and Everyone Says I Love You; cited for all three films 1996: Society of Texas Film Critics: Best Supporting Actor, Primal Fear and The People vs. Larry Flynt; cited for both films 1996: Golden Globe: Best Supporting Actor, Primal Fear 1996: Chicago Film Critics Association: Most Promising Actor, Primal Fear, The People vs. Larry Flynt and Everyone Says I Love You; cited for work in all three films 1998: Golden Satellite: Best Actor in a Motion Picture (Drama), American History X
  • He started out at Yale studying astronomy, but quickly discovered that physics was "a hurdle too difficult to vault," so he majored in history.
  • He gained 30 pounds of muscle and transformed his look into that of a monstrous skinhead for his role as a violent white supremacist in American History X (1998), and lost 17 pounds for the part of the anesthetized and insomniac narrator of Fight Club.
  • He speaks Japanese fluently.
  • His favorite poet is Dylan Thomas.
  • He's an avid non-smoker.
  • He produced and directed "Keeping the Faith," and dedicated the movie to his late mother.
  • He and Brad Pitt took soap-making classes together while making "Fight Club."
  • He is a member of the Enterprise Foundation Board of Trustees.
  • He once shared an apartment in New York with friend Drew Barrymore.
  • He played guitar with Hole in two gigs in Los Angeles, in December 1997/98.
  • He and "Rounder" co-star Matt Damon competed in World Series of Poker in Las Vegas in May 1998.
  • Before Primal Fear, Mr Norton auditioned for roles in With Honors, Hackers, and Up Close & Personal, but wasn't offered any parts.
  • He co-wrote a screenplay with a college friend, a "Naked Gun type of spoof." He says: "It never got made and never will, if I have anything to do with it."
  • He turned down the opportunity to star in Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line. Norton was asked to play the lead role in the film but chose to pull out of the project, because his mother had died two months earlier.
  • Norton hosted a screening of Rounders at the Senator Theatre to benefit the Howard Hospital Foundation and the Norton-Rouse Family Fund. The fund was established by his family to support the work of the physicians and staff of the Johns Hopkins hospitals who cared for their relatives in recent years. "We've done this every time I've had a film," Norton said referring to screenings of Primal Fear and Everyone Says I Love You that were held to benefit the Enterprise Foundation and the Johns Hopkins Neurosurgical Oncology Center, respectively.
  • In July 1998, after New Yorker jibe in a review of a documentary about Courtney Love, Norton sent the magazine a frameable letter. Norton's missive was in response to "Endless Love," a piece by Daphne Merkin centering on Nick Broomfield's controversial documentary Kurt & Courtney. The film, filled with speculation that Love's husband Kurt Cobain was a murder victim rather than a suicide, features a litany of Love-haters anxious to air their grievances. The magazine's coverage of Broomfield's film -- along with Merkin's thoughtful contributions -- didn't sit well with Norton. "If Nick Broomfield never found anyone with affection for Courtney Love, as Daphne Merkin suggests, it's only because he conspicuously avoided the countless friends, colleagues, and fans who appreciate her talent and admire her as a person," Norton writes. "But then, why would Broomfield have opened up his film to those of us who work with Courtney and are close to her when there were so many bitter left-behinds and desperate attention-seekers eager to validate his attack on her character?" Norton compares Broomfield's documentary to a classic witch-hunt: "Inquisitors in every age, scared of forceful women, have used all kinds of half-baked testimony to whip up chants of 'Burn the witch!'" The actor accused Merkin of "simply capitalizing on the prurience of Broomfield's tabloid trash by repeating it. Her only original contribution is her conclusion that Courtney was of more value as an icon of pain and self-destruction than she is as a complex, evolving, and healthy human being-- a conclusion that is sexist, intellectually shallow, and spiritually bankrupt. In the end, Courtney's achievements will speak louder than any of her critics." Quotes:
  • "On the whole, it's my instinct and my taste not to share my personal life in a public way...It makes me uncomfortable for a number of reasons. One, I have clearly observed--prior to experiencing a little bit of it myself and while working with others who have experienced it a lot--the degree to which fame can be an enormously destructive force. There is no overstating the extent to which it can be corrosive to the thing that I value most, which, much more than my work, is leading a good and happy life." --Interview magazine, January 1997
  • "I hate that. I hate that thing that I'm a wasp. Like, what's a wasp? I'd rather be called a pilgrim or Mayflower rider."
  • "Acting? It's a longstanding compulsion I've had since I was about five or six years old. I can literally identify the moment it struck me. I went to see a play [If I Were a Princess] in which a babysitter of mine [Betsy True, who later acted on Broadway] was performing. I was completely shell-shocked by the magic of this little community-theater play; it just riveted me."
  • "I don't smoke and I don't want to smoke. I am not a fan of gratuitous smoking in films."
  • "Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced."
  • "If I ever have to stop taking the subway, I'm gonna have a heart attack."
  • "I've never felt any particular encroachment of the 'celebrity' stuff into my life."
  • "I'm an actor and, each time out, I'm trying to convince the audience that I'm this character. Every little thing that people know about you as a person impedes your ability to achieve that kind of terrific suspension of disbelief that happens when an audience goes with an actor and character [he's] playing."
  • "The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better."
  • "It's a nice position to be in; I'm lucky. At the same time, all the excitement of that has been put into stark perspective ... In some ways, the highs of it have been blunted, which in a way, is a gift."
  • "First of all, you never make all things for all people and can't always pander to the broadest denominator. I keep an eye toward doing the themes that interest me. Do they move me? Interest me? Make me think? When I run across something that is provocative in an unsettling way, it appeals to me."

     

    ----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.

     

    Woohoo! ----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.

    Fan mail:
    Matt Damon
    C/O Creative Artists Agency
    9380 Wilshire Blvd.
    B.H., CA 90212

     

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