What American actor, playwright, director and producer, best known for playing Morpheus in "The Matrix Trilogy" also starred as Dr. Joshua Larabee in the 2006 film Akeelah and the Bee?
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Akeelah and the Bee Akeelah and the Bee is a 2006 American drama film written and directed by Doug Atchison. It tells the story of Akeelah Anderson (Keke Palmer), an 11-year-old girl who participates in the Scripps National Spelling Bee, her mother (Angela Bassett), her schoolmates, and her coach, Dr. Joshua Larabee (Laurence Fishburne). The cast also features Curtis Armstrong, J.R. Villarreal, Sean Michael Afable, Erica Hubbard, Lee Thompson Young, Julito McCullum, Sahara Garey, Eddie Steeples, and Tzi Ma.
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Laurence Fishburne Laurence John Fishburne III (born July 30, 1961) is an American actor, playwright, director and producer, best known for playing Morpheus in "The Matrix trilogy", Jason "Furious" Styles in the 1991 drama film "Boyz n the Hood" and Tyrone "Mr. Clean" Miller in the 1979 war film "Apocalypse Now".
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Andrew Koenig Joshua Andrew Koenig ( ; (August 17, 1968 – approximately February 25, 2010), was an American character actor, film director, editor, writer, and human rights activist.
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Jeff Judah Jeff Judah is an American film and television producer and writer. Along with his writing/producing partner Gabe Sachs, Judah serves as creator and executive producer of the NBC medical drama series "The Night Shift". The two also created ABC's teen drama series "Life As We Know It". Judah also worked as a producer on the remake of 90210 and screenwrote the film "Diary of a Wimpy Kid", released on March 19, 2010.
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Jeff Barker (playwright) Jeff Barker (born 1954) is an American playwright, director, professor, and actor. He has written plays such as "Kin", "Unspoken for Time", and "September Bears". He is an advocate for the restoration of the ancient plays of Israel, co-creating "Terror Texts" (with composers Joseph Barker and Heather Josslyn-Cranson) and "And God Said" (with composer Ron Melrose).
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The Wachowskis Lana Wachowski (formerly Laurence "Larry" Wachowski, born June 21, 1965) and Lilly Wachowski (formerly Andrew Paul "Andy" Wachowski, born December 29, 1967) are American film directors, screenwriters, and producers. They are siblings, and are both trans women. Collectively known as The Wachowskis ( ) and formerly as The Wachowski Brothers, the pair made their directing debut in 1996 with "Bound", and achieved fame with their second film "The Matrix" (1999), a major box office success for which they won the Saturn Award for Best Director. They wrote and directed its two sequels: "The Matrix Reloaded" and "The Matrix Revolutions" (both in 2003), and were deeply involved in the writing and production of other works in that franchise.
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Sarah Morton Sarah Morton is an American playwright, actor, educator and activist and a native of Cleveland, Ohio.
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Adam Smoluk Adam Smoluk (born June 17, 1980) is a Canadian screenwriter, director, actor, and community leader. His work in media productions often explores themes of alienation and isolation. He has cited Jim Thompson, James M. Cain and Eugene O'Neill as influences.
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Adam Brody Adam Jared Brody (born December 15, 1979) is an American actor, writer, musician and producer. He is best known for his role as Seth Cohen on "The O.C.". Brody has appeared in the films "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" (2005), "Thank You for Smoking" (2006), "In the Land of Women" (2007), "Jennifer's Body" (2009), "Cop Out" (2010), "Scream 4" (2011), "Lovelace" (2013), "Life Partners" (2014), and "Sleeping with Other People" (2015).
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Persephone (The Matrix) Persephone is a fictional character in "The Matrix" franchise. She is portrayed by Monica Bellucci. In the films "The Matrix Reloaded" and "The Matrix Revolutions", Persephone is the wife of the Merovingian. She seems bored with her existence in the Matrix, and is dissatisfied with her husband (possibly because of his infidelity).
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James Cameron filmography James Cameron is a Canadian director, screenwriter, and producer who has had an extensive career in film and television. Cameron's debut was the 1978 science fiction short "Xenogenesis", which he directed, wrote and produced. In the early part of his career, he did various technical jobs such as special visual effects producer, set dresser assistant, matte artist, and photographer. His feature directorial debut was the 1981 release "". The next film he directed was the science fiction action thriller "The Terminator" (1984). It starred Arnold Schwarzenegger as the titular cyborg assassin, and was Cameron's breakthrough feature. In 1986, he directed and wrote the science fiction action sequel "Aliens" starring Sigourney Weaver. He followed this by directing another science fiction film "The Abyss" (1989). In 1991, Cameron directed the sequel to "The Terminator", "" (with Schwarzenegger reprising his role), and also executive produced the action crime film "Point Break". Three years later he directed a third Schwarzenegger-starring action film "True Lies" (1994).
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Brian Baumgartner Brian Bruce Baumgartner (born November 29, 1972) is an American actor and director. He is best known for playing Kevin Malone in the American adaptation of "The Office".
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Aaron Latham Aaron Latham (born October 3, 1943) is an American journalist who wrote the article that inspired the movie "Urban Cowboy" and co-wrote its script with director James Bridges. He also co-wrote the book for the short-lived 2003 Broadway musical version.
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Asher Hartman Asher Hartman is a multidisciplinary artist, author, and playwright based in Los Angeles. His work often explores personal and emotional history in relation to the ideologies that structure Western culture. Trained in theater as an undergraduate at UCLA, Hartman later received an MFA in painting from CalArts. Hartman's plays eschew linear narrative, opting for more experimental approaches to meaning-making. He has cited Richard Schechner and The Living Theatre as influences, as well as the contemporary performance landscape in Los Angeles. Hartman's work has been shown at LACMA, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), and Machine Project, among other venues.
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Ned Manning Ned Manning is an Australian playwright, actor and teacher, whose film credits include the lead role in "Dead End Drive-In" (1986) and an appearance in the teen film "Looking for Alibrandi" (2000). Manning's television credits include "Bodyline", "The Shiralee", "Prisoner"", and "Brides of Christ". His first major play was "Us or Them", and its production by Griffin Theatre Company marked the company's transition to being staffed by professional actors. Other plays have included "Milo", "Kenny's Coming Home" and "Close to the Bone"; in 2007 Manning played the lead in his own play "Last One Standing" at the Old Fitzroy theatre in Sydney. The plays have received mixed reviews, with "Last One Standing" in particular being criticised for its formulaic and predictable narrative. Manning has written for the Bell Shakespeare Company's "Actors at Work" program, a travelling community and schools theatrical education initiative.
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Bee Season (film) Bee Season is a 2005 American drama film adaptation of the 2000 novel of the same name by Myla Goldberg. The film was directed by Scott McGehee and David Siegel and written by Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal. It stars Richard Gere and Juliette Binoche.
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One Man Star Wars Trilogy One Man Star Wars Trilogy is an Off-Broadway play based on the original "Star Wars" trilogy, written and performed by Canadian actor Charles Ross, and directed by TJ Dawe. It premiered in Toronto, Ontario in January, 2001, and has since toured worldwide, with over 1,000 performances in 119 cities as of March 2007.
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The Dance: The History of American Minstrelsy The Dance: The History of American Minstrelsy is an American stage play written by Jason Christophe White and co-directed by Aaron White, which opened in 2005 in the KAOS Cinefreestyle Theatre in Los Angeles. The play follows two characters as they relay the history of American Minstrelsy, as both main characters perform in blackface.
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Neil Peter Jampolis Neil Peter Jampolis is a light designer, set designer, and stage director. He is best known for the light designing he did for the Royal Shakespeare Theatre’s 1975 production of "Sherlock Holmes" for which he won a Tony Award and a Drama Desk Award. Jampolis went on to win an American Theatre Wing Hewes Design Award in 1982 and three more Tony Award nominations for "The Innocents", "Black and Blue", and "Orpheus Descending". He also won a Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for lighting Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner's "Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe". Jampolis has also worked as either a light designer, set designer, or stage director with Pilobolus Dance Theatre the Vienna State Opera, La Scala, the Metropolitan Opera, the Santa Fe Opera, Opera Pacific, the New York City Opera, Pasadena Playhouse, and Hollywood's Matrix Theatre among others. He is currently one of the main light designers for the Seattle Opera and a distinguished professor of theatre at UCLA's School of Theatre, Film, and Television. He also occasionally works as a stage director and set designer for Seattle Opera as well.
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David Dorfman David Dorfman (born February 7, 1993) is an American actor. He portrayed Aidan Keller in the 2002 horror film remake "The Ring", and its 2005 sequel "The Ring Two". His other film roles include Sammy in "Panic", Joey in "Bounce", and Jedidiah Hewitt in "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre". He has also portrayed the character "Charles Wallace Murry" in the film version of "A Wrinkle in Time". In 2008, Dorfman appeared in the film "Drillbit Taylor". He has been cast alongside Thomas Haden Church in "Zombie Roadkill".
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Leslie Jordan Leslie Allen Jordan (born April 29, 1955) is an American actor and playwright.
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Kerr Smith Kerr Van Cleve Smith (born March 9, 1972) is an American actor known for playing Jack McPhee on The WB drama series "Dawson's Creek", Kyle Brody in The WB supernatural drama "Charmed" and more recently Axel Palmer in "My Bloody Valentine 3D". He is also known for portraying Carter Horton in "Final Destination" (2000).