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Blue Bloods (season 2)
The second season of ''Blue Bloods'', a police procedural drama series created by Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess, premiered on CBS September 23, 2011 and ended May 11, 2012. Ed Zuckerman served as executive producer and showrunner for the season after Green and Burgess departed the show at the end of the first season. Cast Donnie Wahlberg, Bridget Moynahan, Will Estes, Len Cariou are first credited, with Tom Selleck receiving an "and" billing at the close of the main title sequence. Jennifer Esposito retains her "also starring" credit from the first season, whilst Amy Carlson and Sami Gayle are also credited as "also starring" during the episodes that they appear. The cast for season 2 includes: Main *Tom Selleck as New York City Police Commissioner Francis "Frank" Reagan *Donnie Wahlberg as Detective 1st Grade Daniel "Danny" Reagan *Bridget Moynahan as ADA Erin Reagan *Will Estes as Officer Jamison "Jamie" Reagan *Len Cariou as New York City Police Commissioner Henry R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blue Bloods Season 1
The first season of ''Blue Bloods'', an American police procedural–family drama television series, aired in the United States on CBS between September 24, 2010, to May 13, 2011. The series was created and along with Leonard Goldberg and Michael Cuesta, executively produced by Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess. The show revolves around the Reagan family, consisting of the retired police commissioner, current police commissioner, police officers, and an assistant district attorney, all working with the New York City Police Department (NYPD). Actors Donnie Wahlberg, Bridget Moynahan, Will Estes, Len Cariou and Tom Selleck make up the main cast as the Reagan family—Danny, Erin, Jamie, Henry and Frank. ''Blue Bloods'' first season aired during the 2010–11 television season on Fridays at 10:00 p.m. EST. The series debuted with the pilot episode, which was viewed by 13.01 million viewers. The season ended with the finale "The Blue Templar", which was watched by 11.79 mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amy Carlson
Amy Lynn Carlson (born July 7, 1968) is an American actress known for her roles as Linda Reagan in the CBS police procedural ''Blue Bloods,'' Alex Taylor on the NBC drama ''Third Watch'', and Josie Watts in the NBC daytime soap opera ''Another World''. Early life Carlson was born in Elmhurst, DuPage County, Illinois, near Chicago, and was raised in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, the daughter of schoolteacher parents, Barbara Jane (Hultman) and Robert Eugene Carlson. She is of Swedish descent, with roots in Småland. Career 1986–1992: College and early career Her first acting job was as a background actor in the film ''Lucas'' starring Charlie Sheen, Corey Haim, and Winona Ryder. Later she followed her older sister Betsy to Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois. While in college, Carlson was active in the school's theatre department, appearing in ''Fifth of July'', ''Noises Off'', ''A Lie of the Mind'', and ''The School for Scandal''. She directed the play ''Aunt Dan and Lemon'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Burns (screenwriter)
Brian Burns is an American screenwriter and producer. Career After graduating from college, Burns moved to Washington, D.C., to pursue a career in political journalism. He served as a copy writer and Segment Producer while covering Capitol Hill and the Clinton White House for ''The Fox Morning News'' at the Washington, D.C., affiliate WTTG. Burns then wrote and produced the popular political roundtable discussion, '' Off the Record'', which aired as part of ''The Fox Morning News''. Burns then returned to New York City, where he made the transition from political journalism to Hollywood screenwriter. Along with his brother, he created '' That's Life'' and '' The Fighting Fitzgeralds'', which starred Brian Dennehy and Connie Britton. In 2002, Brian wrote and directed '' You Stupid Man'', starring David Krumholtz, Milla Jovovich, William Baldwin, and Denise Richards. Burns spent the next several years in Los Angeles while serving as a writer and Supervising Producer on the H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Polson
John Polson (born 6 September 1965) is an Australian actor, director and founder of Tropfest. Polson is perhaps best known for his role starring opposite Russell Crowe and Jack Thompson in '' The Sum of Us'' (1994). In February 2001, Polson attended the 12th Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival in Hokkaidō, Japan, where his film ''Siam Sunset'' won the Minami Toshiko Award. In 2005 he directed the film '' Hide and Seek'', which achieved number one box-office status in America. He also directed the feature film '' Tenderness'' starring Russell Crowe and Laura Dern, which was released in 2009. Polson is the creative founder of Tropfest, the world's largest short film festival. In 2007, Tropfest partnered with the Tribeca Film Festival to present Tropfest@Tribeca in Battery Park. He is also a saxophone player. At the APRA Music Awards of 2013 The Australasian Performing Right Association Awards of 2013 (generally known as APRA Awards) are a series of related awards ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carrie Underwood
Carrie Marie Underwood (born March 10, 1983) is an American singer and songwriter. She rose to prominence after winning the fourth season of ''American Idol'' in 2005, returning as a judge beginning with the twenty-third season. Underwood's first single, " Inside Your Heaven" (2005), made her the first-ever country artist to debut atop the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart and the only solo country artist to top the Hot 100 in the 2000s. Bolstered by further crossover singles " Jesus, Take the Wheel" and " Before He Cheats", Underwood's debut studio album, '' Some Hearts'' (2005), became the best-selling debut album of all time by a solo female country artist, was ranked by ''Billboard'' as the top country album of the 2000s, and won her three Grammy Awards, including Best New Artist. She followed it with '' Carnival Ride'' (2007), which sold over half a million copies in its first week and won two Grammy Awards. Her third studio album, '' Play On'' (2009), yielded the chart-top ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Bennett
Anthony Dominick Benedetto (August 3, 1926 – July 21, 2023), known professionally as Tony Bennett, was an American jazz and traditional pop singer. He received many accolades, including 20 Grammy Awards, a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, Lifetime Achievement Award, and two Primetime Emmy Awards. Bennett was named a NEA Jazz Masters, National Endowments for the Arts Jazz Master and a Kennedy Center Honors, Kennedy Center Honoree. He founded the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts in Astoria, Queens, New York, along with Exploring the Arts, a non-profit arts education program. He sold more than 50 million records worldwide and earned a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Bennett began singing at an early age. He fought in the final stages of World War II as a United States Army, U.S. Army infantryman in the European theatre of World War II, European Theater. Afterward, he developed his singing technique, signed with Columbia Records and had his first number-one popular song wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Wade
Kevin Wade (born March 9, 1954) is an American screenwriter and television producer. Early life and career Wade was born in Chappaqua, New York, and attended Connecticut College. Before his writing career, Wade acted in two films for Mark Rappaport, including ''The Scenic Route'' (1978). He wrote the play ''Key Exchange'', which was produced off-Broadway in 1981 and released as a film in 1985. Seven years later he received his first screen credit for ''Working Girl'', which earned him nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay and the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay. Additional film credits include '' True Colors'', ''Mr. Baseball'', ''Junior'', ''Meet Joe Black'', and ''Maid in Manhattan''. For television, Wade created and executive produced the short-lived ABC drama series ''Cashmere Mafia''. He also wrote the seven episodes that were broadcast by the network before the show was canceled. He joined the writing staff of the CBS drama ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Pressman
Michael Pressman is an American film and television producer and director. Early life A native of Manhattan, Pressman was born into a theatrical family. His mother, Sasha, a modern dancer, was an original member of Martha Graham's first dance troupe. His father, David Pressman, was a theatrical and television director who helped launch Boston University’s distinguished school of theater and helmed Broadway plays, including ''The Disenchanted'', Jason Robards' first Broadway appearance; and the original '' Actor’s Studio'' Anthology Series in the late 1940s, for which he discovered and cast an unknown Grace Kelly. David Pressman’s pioneer career in live television in the early 1950s was suddenly derailed when he was targeted by Senator Joseph McCarthy during his blacklisting of alleged communist sympathizers. Unable to work in television for close to 15 years, he survived the blacklist by teaching. When the Blacklist itself derailed in the early 1960s, he began working re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ato Essandoh
Ato Essilfi Bracato Essandoh (born July 29, 1972) is an American television and film actor. He has appeared in numerous films and TV series, including a major role in the 2023 Netflix political drama series '' The Diplomat''. Early life and education Ato Essilfi Bracato Essandoh was born in Schenectady, New York, on July 29, 1972, the eldest child of Ebow and Monica Essandoh, from Ghana. He graduated from New Rochelle High School in 1990. He received a B.S. in chemical engineering from Cornell University. He first joined theater when he was dared to do so by a girlfriend. He studied acting under James Price at The Acting Studio - New York in New York City. Career In 2020 Essandoh launched a podcast, ''Unrelated'', together with childhood friend Chris Cecot, in which they discuss how race and color shaped their experiences growing up. in the same year, he played an African-British-Jewish astronaut in the 2020 Netflix Netflix is an American subscription video o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas Turturro
Nicholas Turturro Jr. (born January 29, 1962) is an American actor. Turturro is best known for his roles in New York City based films and on the television series '' Blue Bloods'' and ''NYPD Blue''. He has collaborated with director Spike Lee since the late 1980s, starting with voice work for '' Do the Right Thing'', and playing a supporting role in ''BlacKkKlansman''. Nicholas is the younger brother of John Turturro and the cousin of Aida Turturro. Early life Turturro was born in Brooklyn, New York. His mother, Katherine Florence (Incerella), was an amateur jazz singer, who worked in a Navy yard during World War II, and was born in the U.S., to Italian parents, with roots in Sicily.Stated on ''Finding Your Roots'', October 31, 2017 His father, Nicholas Turturro Sr., was a carpenter and shoemaker who emigrated from Giovinazzo, Apulia, Italy, at the age of six and later fought as a US Navy serviceman on D-Day. Career He received an Emmy Award nomination for playing James Martinez ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Clohessy
Robert Clohessy (born June 10, 1957) is an American actor. He is best known for playing Correctional Officer Sean Murphy on the HBO prison drama '' Oz'' from seasons 3–6, in addition to playing Officer Patrick Flaherty on the NBC police procedural ''Hill Street Blues'', Warden Boss James Neary on the HBO crime drama ''Boardwalk Empire'' for the first two seasons and Lieutenant Sid Gormley on the CBS police drama '' Blue Bloods''. Early life Clohessy was born in the Bronx, New York, the son of John Clohessy, a police officer. He fought in the 1975 Golden Gloves in Madison Square Garden. He graduated from Pearl River High School in Pearl River, New York, and from SUNY Purchase where he studied under Walt Witcover. He later obtained Irish citizenship through his grandparents, who immigrated from County Clare. Career Clohessy has had recurring roles in daytime dramas ''All My Children,'' ''Boy Meets World'', and ''Guiding Light''. In primetime, he has become known for his mult ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gregory Jbara
Gregory Jbara (; born September 28, 1961) is an American actor and singer. He is known for his roles as Deputy Commissioner Garrett Moore in the CBS police procedural ''Blue Bloods'' (2010-2023), Dan O'Keefe in the Fox sitcom Grounded for Life, and for his performance as Jackie Elliot in ''Billy Elliot the Musical'' (2009), for which he earned a Tony Award. Early life and education Jbara was born in Nankin Township (now Westland), Michigan, the son of an advertising office manager and an insurance claims adjuster. He is of Lebanese and Irish descent. After graduating from Wayne Memorial High School in Wayne, Michigan, Jbara attended the University of Michigan from 1979 to 1981. He majored in Communication Studies and took classes in Theatre and Musical Theatre. He left Michigan to attend the Juilliard School's drama division (1982–1986, ''Group 15''), where he received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. Both of Jbara's brothers also have careers in the entertainment indu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
