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Before (TV Series)
''Before'' is an American psychological thriller television miniseries created by Sarah Thorp, who also serves as showrunner and is an executive producer, along with Billy Crystal, Adam Bernstein, Eric Roth, and Jet Wilkinson. It stars Billy Crystal as a child psychiatrist, and features Judith Light, Rosie Perez, and Jacobi Jupe. ''Before'' premiered on October 25, 2024, on Apple TV+. Premise A recently widowed child psychiatrist named Eli meets with his next client, Noah, who mysteriously shows up at his house and appears to know things about him. The child appears to have psychotic episodes that result in harm to himself or others, but the psychiatrist senses something in these episodes that appear to point to a "source" which the psychiatrist appears to relate to. Cast Main * Billy Crystal as Eli * Jacobi Jupe as Noah * Maria Dizzia as Barbara * Ava Lalezarzadeh as Cleo * Rosie Perez as Denise * Judith Light as Lynn Recurring * Sakina Jaffrey as Gail * Robert Tow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drama (film And Television)
In film and television show, television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or docudrama, semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humour, humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-genre, macro-genre, or micro-genre, such as soap opera, police procedural, police crime drama, political drama, legal drama, historical drama, domestic drama, Drama (film and television)#Teen drama, teen drama, and comedy drama (dramedy). These terms tend to indicate a particular Setting (narrative), setting or subject matter, or they combine a drama's otherwise serious tone with elements that encourage a broader range of Mood (literature), moods. To these ends, a primary element in a drama is the occurrence of Conflict (process), conflict—emotional, social, or otherwise—and its resolution in the course of the storyline. All forms of Film industry, cinema or television that involve Fiction, fiction ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Townsend (actor)
Robert Townsend (born February 6, 1957) is an American actor, director, comedian, and writer. Townsend is best known for directing the films '' Hollywood Shuffle'' (1987), '' Eddie Murphy Raw'' (1987), '' The Five Heartbeats'' (1991) and various other films and stand-up specials. He is especially known for his portrayal of The WB's sitcom '' The Parent 'Hood'' 's main character Robert Peterson, the series he created and directed select episodes of ran from 1995 to 1999. He later wrote, directed and produced ''Making the Five Heartbeats'' (2018), a documentary film about the production process and behind the scenes insight into creating the film. Townsend is also known for his production company Townsend Entertainment which has produced films '' Playin' for Love'', '' In the Hive'' and more. During the 1980s and early–1990s, Townsend gained national exposure through his stand-up comedy routines and appearances on ''The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson''. Townsend has worked wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zetna Fuentes
Zetna Fuentes is an American television director. She was nominated for three Daytime Emmy Awards for work on the soap opera ''One Life to Live'', as a part of the directing team. She was nominated for Best Director – Television at Imgen Awards in 2022 for ''This Is Us''. Fuentes is also a theatre director, having directed a number of New York Off-Broadway productions. She was born and raised in the Bronx, New York. Directing credits *The Agency *''Guiding Light'' *''One Life to Live'' *''Pretty Little Liars'' *''The Carrie Diaries'' *'' Switched at Birth'' *'' The Fosters'' *''Grey's Anatomy'' *''Jane the Virgin'' *'' iZombie'' *''Forever'' *''How to Get Away with Murder'' *'' Longmire'' *'' Pitch'' *'' Shameless'' *''Ray Donovan'' *''The Chi'' *'' Bosch'' *''The Nevers'' *'' The Great'' *''Scandal'' *''This Is Us ''This Is Us'' is an American drama television series created by Dan Fogelman that aired on NBC from September 20, 2016, to May 24, 2022. The series follo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Petrarca
David Petrarca (born November 10, 1965) is an American director and producer of theatre, television and film. He was a director at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago from 1988 until 2005. His work as a director includes HBO's ''Boardwalk Empire'', ''Game of Thrones'', ''Big Love'', '' Hung'', and ''True Blood''. '' Before'' for Apple TV, as well as ''Marco Polo'', ''Jessica Jones'' and numerous other projects for Netflix. Other recent projects include ''The Alienist'' and ''Warrior''. He worked as an executive producer on '' Death and Other Details'', '' Those Who Kill'', ABC series ''Eli Stone'' and ''Drop Dead Diva''. He was the recipient of a TCG/NEA Director Fellowship and has served as associate artistic director for the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park and the Chelsea Theatre Centre in New York City, and on the NEA Theatre Panel. He has taught at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, the O'Neill Center and Northwestern University and has developed new work ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Futon Critic
''The Futon Critic'' is a website that provides articles and information regarding prime time programming on broadcast and cable networks in the United States. The site publishes reviews of prime time programming and interviews of people in the television industry, as well as republishing Nielsen ratings data reports, and press releases provided by television networks and streaming television platforms. ''The Futon Critic'' was founded by Brian Ford Sullivan in 1997. History Brian Ford Sullivan, CEO of Futon Media, registered ''The Futon Critic'' on January 14, 1997. From its founding, the site has published reviews on prime time programming, as well as interviews its staff conducted with members of the television industry. The site also contains sections of articles dedicated to republishing press releases, network schedules and Nielsen ratings data, which have been cited by articles on websites such as '' The Huffington Post'' and TV by the Numbers. Its publications ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Writers Guild Of America West
The Writers Guild of America West (WGAW) is a labor union representing film, television, radio, and new media writers. It was formed in 1954 from five organizations representing writers, including the Screen Writers Guild. It has around 20,000 members. The WGAW and the Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE), though independent entities, jointly brand themselves together as the Writers Guild of America (WGA), and cooperate on activities such as launching coordinated strike actions and administering the Writers Guild of America Awards. The WGAE is an affiliate of the International Affiliation of Writers Guilds. Governance The WGAW is governed by its membership. Elections for a board of directors are held annually by secret mail-in ballot. Half of the board is elected each year to a two-year term of office, and a board member may not serve more than four consecutive terms. In 2022 the officers are: * President: Meredith Stiehm * Vice President: Michele Mulroney * Secretary-Treasure ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Wallem
Stephen Wallem (born June 14, 1968) is an American stage and television actor. He is best known for his one-man musical revue, "Off the Wallem", as well as numerous theater productions. Wallem is also a playwright, composer, and director. From 2009 to 2015, he portrayed Thor Lundgren in the Showtime series ''Nurse Jackie''. He is the younger brother of Linda Wallem, who is an actress, a writer, and a producer. Life and career Wallem was born and raised in Rockford, Illinois, and worked as a stage actor and After Dark Award-winning cabaret singer in Chicago before moving to New York to make his television debut on ''Nurse Jackie''. Wallem was influenced by his uncle James Robert Smith to start acting. National tours include '' Forever Plaid'', ''Into the Woods'' and '' Scrooge'' with Richard Chamberlain. He accrued nearly 2,500 performances as both 'Jinx' and 'Sparky' in various companies of ''Forever Plaid'', including Chicago, Las Vegas, Denver and the first national tour. Wal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lenny Venito
Lenny Venito is an American actor, who has made appearances in films such as ''Gigli'', ''Men in Black 3'', and '' War of the Worlds''. He also starred as Marty Weaver in the ABC comedy '' The Neighbors'' and James "Murmur" Zancone on ''The Sopranos''. Career Venito appeared in a recurring role in ''The Sopranos'' as " Murmur." He also appeared as John, an incompetent mugger, in two episodes, " Mugged" and " Wingmen", of another HBO Series, ''Flight of the Conchords''. Venito was cast in one episode of ''Ugly Betty'', as well as in two episodes of ''Bored to Death.'' Venito participated in the 2008 Celebrity Poker Invitational. Venito appeared in five episodes of ''NYPD Blue,'' most notably as Julian Pisano, a snitch with a heart of gold, a role he reprised in '' Blind Justice.'' In 2007, he starred in the short-lived ABC sitcom ''The Knights of Prosperity'' as "Squatch." From 2012 to 2014, Venito starred as Marty Weaver in the ABC comedy '' The Neighbors.'' From 2014 to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jennifer Esposito
Jennifer Esposito (born April 11, 1973) is an American actress. She is known for her roles in the feature films ''Summer of Sam'' (1999), ''Don't Say a Word'' (2001), ''The Master of Disguise'' (2002), ''Welcome to Collinwood'' (2002), ''Crash (2004 film), Crash'' (2004), ''Taxi (2004 film), Taxi'' (2004), and ''Mob Town (2019 film), Mob Town'' (2019). She has also appeared in several television series, most notably ''The Looney Tunes Show'', ''Spin City'', ''Related'', ''Samantha Who?'', ''Blue Bloods (TV series), Blue Bloods'', and ''Mistresses (U.S. TV series), Mistresses''. From 2016 to 2017, she played Special Agent Alexandra Quinn on the CBS series ''NCIS (TV series), NCIS'', while from 2019 to 2020, she played CIA Deputy Director List of The Boys characters#Rayner, Susan Raynor in the Amazon series ''The Boys (TV series), The Boys''. Early life Esposito was born in the Brooklyn borough of New York City and is of Italian descent. She was raised on Staten Island in Bulls Head ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Will Hochman
Will Hochman is an American stage, television and film actor. Early life From Brooklyn, Hochman graduated from Colby College with a degree in Economics. He started acting at the age of twenty years-old, and took an acting course at Colby's Department of Performance, Theater, and Dance and performed as a student at the Powder and Wig, Colby's student-run theatre club. His performances included playing John Proctor in a production of ''The Crucible''. Career Hochman's first professional stage play was a stage adaptation of ''Dead Poets Society'' for Classic Stage Company in New York. He had an early television appearance in CBS series '' The Code''. His early film roles include John Leguizamo's directorial debut ''Critical Thinking'', and the Kevin Costner film ''Let Him Go''. He appeared on Broadway at Studio 54 between October 2019 and January 2020, for a total of 100 performances as Christopher in'' The Sound Inside'', alongside Mary Louise Parker and written by Adam Rapp an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Bain
Barbara Bain (born Mildred Fogel, September 13, 1931 See also: * ) is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Cinnamon Carter Crawford on the action television series '' Mission: Impossible'' (1966–1969), which earned her three Primetime Emmy Awards, as well as a Golden Globe Award nomination. She also starred as Dr. Helena Russell on the British-Italian coproduction science-fiction television series '' Space: 1999'' (1975–1977). Bain has also appeared in the films ''Animals with the Tollkeeper'' (1998), ''Panic'' (2000), '' Forget Me Not'' (2009) and '' On the Rocks'' (2020). Early life Bain was born Mildred Fogel in Chicago, Illinois, the daughter of Russian-Jewish immigrants. She graduated from the University of Illinois with a bachelor's degree in sociology. Developing an interest in dance, she moved to New York City, where she studied alongside Martha Graham. Dissatisfied with her career as a dancer, she went into modelling; jobs with '' Vogue'', '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Itzhak Perlman
Itzhak Perlman (; born August 31, 1945) is an Israeli-American violinist. He has performed worldwide and throughout the United States, in venues that have included a state dinner for Elizabeth II at the White House in 2007, and at the First inauguration of Barack Obama, 2009 inauguration of Barack Obama. He has conducted the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, and the Westchester Philharmonic. In 2015, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Perlman has won 16 Grammy Awards, including a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, and four Emmy Awards. Early life Perlman was born in 1945 in Tel Aviv. His parents, Chaim and Shoshana Perlman, were Jewish natives of Poland and had independently emigrated to Mandatory Palestine in the mid-1930s before they met and later married. Perlman contracted polio at age four and has walked using leg braces and crutches since then and plays the violin while seated. , he uses crutches or an electric scooter for mobility. Wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
