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Power (TV Series)
''Power'' is an American crime drama-thriller television series created and produced by Courtney A. Kemp in collaboration with Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson. It aired on the Starz network from June 7, 2014 to February 9, 2020. Upon release, ''Power'' gained positive reviews and is one of Starz's highest-rated shows and one of cable's most-watched shows. Prior to the fifth-season premiere, Starz renewed the show for a sixth and final season, which premiered on August 25, 2019. Overview ''Power'' tells the story of James St. Patrick, an intelligent, smooth yet ruthless drug dealer who goes by the alias of "Ghost." He wishes to leave the criminal world to pursue legitimate business interests as a nightclub owner. St. Patrick aims to balance those two lives, while also avoiding police capture, trying to navigate his crumbling marriage and manage shifting economic alliances. The show features James' family, which consists of his wife Tasha, twins Tariq and Raina and baby Yasmine. ''P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crime Drama
Crime film is a film belonging to the crime fiction genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and fiction. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combine with many other genres, such as Drama (film and television), drama or gangster film, but also include Comedy film, comedy, and, in turn, is divided into many sub-genres, such as Mystery film, mystery, suspense or Film noir, noir. Screenwriter and scholar Eric R. Williams identified crime film as one of eleven super-genres in his Screenwriters Taxonomy, claiming that all feature-length narrative films can be classified by these super-genres. The other ten super-genres are action, fantasy, horror, romance, science fiction, slice of life, sports, thriller, war and western. Williams identifies drama in a broader category called "film type", mystery and suspense as "macro-genres", and film noir as a "screenwriter's pathway" explaining that these categories are additive rather than exclusionary. ''China ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Callan Mulvey
Callan Mulvey (born 23 February 1975) is an Australian actor. He gained widespread recognition for his performances as Mark Moran on the Australian drama '' Underbelly'', Sergeant Brendan 'Josh' Joshua in '' Rush'', and as Bogdan Drazic in the popular series ''Heartbreak High''. In the United States, Mulvey has appeared in notable films such as '' 300: Rise of an Empire'', Jack Rollins in '' Captain America: The Winter Soldier'' (2014) and '' Avengers: Endgame'' (2019), Anatoli Knyazev in '' Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice'' (2016), and Dean/Milan in ''Power'' (2016). Early life Of Scottish, Irish and Māori descent, Mulvey was born in Auckland, New Zealand, and moved to Australia when he was eight years old, growing up in the northern beaches of Sydney. Career Mulvey's personal interest in skateboarding and rollerblading led him to work as a stunt double about two years prior to winning the role of Drazic in ''Heartbreak High''. His first role was of a victim of a robber ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeff Russo
Jeff Russo (born August 31) is an American composer, songwriter, guitarist, vocalist and music producer, and one of the two founding members of the rock band Tonic. He is also a founding member of the Americana band Low Stars. Russo is also known for his work as a composer on various films and television series, notably ''Snowfall'', '' Fargo'', '' Legion'', and '' Counterpart'', as well as the Star Trek series '' Star Trek: Discovery'', '' Star Trek: Picard'', and '' Star Trek: Strange New Worlds'', and '' For All Mankind''. He also scored the miniseries '' The Night Of'' and the acclaimed video game '' What Remains of Edith Finch''. For his work on ''Fargo'', he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Limited Series, Movie, or Special in 2017. Biography Russo began his music career as a rock musician, co-founding the band Tonic. In 2006 he was invited (by his friends, Wendy & Lisa) to assist in the studio while they worked on multiple film and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe (singer)
Joseph Lewis Thomas (born July 5, 1973), known mononymously as Joe, is an American R&B singer. He signed to Polygram Records in 1992, and rose to prominence after releasing his debut album '' Everything'' the following year. He followed it with a series of successful albums under Jive Records, including '' All That I Am'' (1997), the international bestseller '' My Name Is Joe'' (2000) as well as the multi-certified albums '' Better Days'' (2001) and '' And Then...'' (2003). Several songs from these albums became hit singles on the pop and R&B record charts, including the number-one hit " Stutter", the top-ten entries " All the Things (Your Man Won't Do)", " Don't Wanna Be a Player", and " I Wanna Know" as well as his collaborations "Faded Pictures" and " Thank God I Found You", the latter of which he performed alongside Mariah Carey, also a number-one hit, and " Still Not a Player". Since his departure from Jive, Joe has released most of his projects independently through vent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evan Handler
Evan Handler (born January 10, 1961) is an American actor who is best known for playing Harry Goldenblatt, a divorce attorney and later husband of Charlotte York, on '' Sex and the City'' (2002–2004) and its revival series '' And Just Like That...'' (2021–present), and Charlie Runkle, Hank Moody's comically bumbling friend and agent, on ''Californication'' (2007–2014). Recently, he starred as Eastern District US Attorney Jacob Warner in the Starz drama ''Power''. Early life Handler was born in New York City, to secular Jewish parents Enid Irene, a mental health administrator, and Murry Raymond Handler, an agency owner and advertising designer. He was raised in the Town of Cortlandt, New York, near Croton-on-Hudson, New York, and attended Hendrick Hudson High School in Montrose, New York. After graduating from high school a year early, Handler moved to New York City and worked as an intern at the Chelsea Theater Center. During that time he appeared in the Off-Broadw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monique Gabriela Curnen
Monique Gabriela Curnen (born September 7, 1970) is an American actress. Early life and education Curnen was born on September 7, 1970. Her mother is from Puerto Rico, and her father is of German and Irish descent. She grew up in Framingham, Massachusetts and went to Williams College, where she concentrated on other studies. After college, she spent a year (1992–93) as a full-time intern at Unity House, the Minority Cultural Center, at Connecticut College in New London. She then moved to New York and started taking acting classes and going to auditions.Quintala, Lisa (August 20, 2008)"Monique Curnen, una hispana en Ciudad Gótica", ''People en Español'' (in Spanish). Career Curnen has appeared in several films including '' Bollywood Calling'' (2001), '' Half Nelson'' (2006) and ''The Dark Knight'' (2008), in which she played corrupt Police Detective Anna Ramirez. She also played the colleague of Paul Walker's character Brian O'Connor in ''Fast & Furious'' (2009) in a cameo. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cynthia Addai-Robinson
Cynthia Addai-Robinson (born January 12, 1980) is a British-American actress. She is known for her roles as Naevia in the Starz television series ''Spartacus'', DC Comics character Amanda Waller in The CW TV series ''Arrow'', and Nadine Memphis on the USA Network series '' Shooter''. She currently plays the role of Tar-Míriel on the Amazon Prime ''The Lord of the Rings'' series '' The Rings of Power''. Early life and education Cynthia Addai-Robinson was born in London to a Ghanaian mother and American father. She moved to the U.S. when she was 4 and was raised by her mother in a suburb of Washington, D.C. She graduated from Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, Maryland, and Tisch School of the Arts with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theater. In addition, she trained at Lee Strasberg Theater Institute. Career After participating in several various Off-Broadway plays, Addai-Robinson got her first role on television in 2002 in an episode of '' The Education of Max Bickfo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Dopud
Mike Dopud (, ''Мајк Допуђ'') is a Canadian actor, stuntman, and former gridiron football and ice hockey player. His best known roles include Vic Hadfield in the miniseries '' Canada Russia '72'', Jason Micic on ''Power'', Kimbo Comstock on ''Arctic Air'', Roy McAfee on '' Cedar Cove'', Viktor Mikalek on ''Arrow'', and Michael Vinson on '' The 100''. He also took on several minor roles on ''Stargate SG-1'' and ''Stargate Atlantis'', as well as performing many stunts on both shows, before taking on a bigger role as Varro on ''Stargate Universe''. He was nominated for a Taurus World Stunt Award in 2005 for his work in '' Walking Tall''. Biography Of Serbian descent, Dopud was born in Montreal, Quebec. He attended Southern Illinois University on a football scholarship, earning a degree in physical education. Out of college, he was drafted by the Saskatchewan Roughriders in 1991 as a tailback, but was cut due to injury during the offseason. He later played for the Bi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Larenz Tate
Larenz Tate (born September 8, 1975) is an American film and television actor. He is best known for his roles as O-Dog in ''Menace II Society'', Anthony Curtis in ''Dead Presidents'', and as Councilman Rashad Tate in '' Power''. Tate's other films and television series include the films '' The Inkwell'', '' Love Jones'', '' A Man Apart'', '' Crash'', '' Waist Deep'', '' Ray'' and the television series '' Rush'' and '' Game of Silence''. Early life Tate was born in Chicago, to Peggy and Larry Tate. He is the youngest of three siblings; his two brothers, Larron and Lahmard, are also actors. The family moved to California during the early 1980s. Convinced by their parents to enter a drama program at the Inner City Cultural Center, the trio did not take the lessons seriously until classmate Malcolm-Jamal Warner's ascent to fame after being cast on the sitcom ''The Cosby Show''. Subsequently, realizing that they could parlay their efforts into a tangible form of success, the siblin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brandon Victor Dixon
Brandon Victor Dixon (born September 23, 1981) is an American actor, singer and theatrical producer. As a musical theatre actor, he is known for Tony Award-nominated Broadway performances as Harpo in the 2005 musical '' The Color Purple'', Eubie Blake in '' Shuffle Along, or, the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed'' (2016), and Davis in '' Hell's Kitchen'' (2023). He originated all three roles, as well as the leading role of Berry Gordy Jr. in '' Motown: The Musical'' (2013) on Broadway, which earned a nomination for a Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album. In 2016, Dixon assumed the role of Aaron Burr in the Broadway company of '' Hamilton''. Dixon played the role of Hayward Patterson in '' The Scottsboro Boys'' off-Broadway as well as in London's West End and was nominated for a 2014 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical. As a producer, Dixon's credits include Broadway revivals of '' Hedwig and the Angry Inch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Sadler (actor)
William Thomas Sadler (born April 13, 1950) is an American actor. He has had roles in various Broadway theatre, Broadway productions including Neil Simon's ''Biloxi Blues'' (1985). He portrayed Matthew Ellis (Marvel Cinematic Universe), President Matthew Ellis in various Marvel Cinematic Universe media including ''Iron Man 3'' (2013) and ''Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'' (2015–2016), and also portrayed Gino Fish in the Jesse Stone (character)#Television adaptations, ''Jesse Stone'' television films. He has had starring roles in various television shows including ''Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'' (1998–1999), ''Roswell (TV series), Roswell'' (1999–2002), ''The Pacific (miniseries), The Pacific'' (2010) and ''Hawaii Five-0 (2010 TV series), Hawaii Five-0'' (2010–2020). His film roles include ''Die Hard 2'' (1990), ''The Shawshank Redemption'' (1994), and ''Bill & Ted Face the Music'' (2020). Early life Sadler was born in Buffalo, New York, the son of Jane and William Sadler. From an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sung Kang
Sung-Ho Kang (; born April 8, 1972) is an Americans, American actor. His first major role was as Han Lue in the ''Fast & Furious'' franchise, a character he first portrayed in ''Better Luck Tomorrow'' (2002). Kang also played John Mak in the television series Power (TV series), ''Power''. Early life Kang was born in Clarkston, Georgia, to Korean immigrant parents. He was raised by his Korean mother and his Black American stepfather in Gainesville, Georgia. He moved to Barstow, California, while in high school. Kang attended the University of California, Riverside. While in college, he chose acting over law school. Career Kang's first major role was in ''Better Luck Tomorrow'' (2002), directed by Justin Lin, in which he played Han (character), Han Lue, an aloof gang member. He was one of the stars in ''The Motel (film), The Motel'', in which he played Sam Kim. Kang reprised his role as Han Lue in the ''Fast & Furious'' franchise, first appearing in ''The Fast and the Furious: T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
