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Tru Calling
''Tru Calling'' is an American Supernatural fiction, supernatural Drama (film and television), drama television series which aired on Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox. Original episodes aired between October 30, 2003, and April 21, 2005; however, the final episode was shown in other territories before it was aired in the United States due to lower-than-anticipated ratings. The show starred Eliza Dushku as Tru Davies, a twenty-two-year-old medical school student who takes a job at the city morgue when her internship falls through. When the corpse of a deceased woman seems to awaken and asks for her help, Tru discovers that she has the incredible power to relive that day in order to try to prevent that death. Over the course of the series, Tru struggles to keep her secret, juggle her responsibilities with her complicated personal life, and learn to control her power. Created by Jon Harmon Feldman, the show was produced by Original Film, Oh That Gus!, Inc., and 20th Century Fox Televi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Supernatural Fiction
Supernatural fiction or supernaturalist fiction is a subgenre of speculative fiction that is centered on supernatural themes, often contradicting Naturalism (philosophy), naturalist assumptions of the real world. Description In its broadest definition, supernatural fiction overlaps with examples of weird fiction, horror fiction, vampire literature, ghost story, and fantasy. Elements of supernatural fiction can be found in writing from the genre of science fiction. Amongst academics, readers and collectors, however, supernatural fiction is often classed as a discrete genre defined by the elimination of "horror", "fantasy", and elements important to other genres. The one genre supernatural fiction appears to embrace in its entirety is the traditional ghost story. The fantasy and supernatural fiction genres often overlap and may be confused for each other, though there exist some crucial differences between the two genres. Fantasy usually takes place in another world, where fantast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zack Estrin
Zack Estrin (September 16, 1971 – September 23, 2022) was an American television producer and screenwriter. Estrin began his career as a writer and producer on ''Charmed'', ''Dawson's Creek'', and ''Tru Calling'', before serving as a co-executive producer of ''Prison Break''. He was set to write the script of an ultimately unproduced spin-off, '' Prison Break: Cherry Hill'', along with ''Prison Break'' executive producer Matt Olmstead, both of whom conceived the idea for the spin-off with fellow executive producer, Dawn Parouse. He was also a producer on the film '' Stranger than Fiction''. From 2018 to 2021, he served as showrunner on the Netflix show ''Lost in Space''. Personal life and death Estrin was born in Woodland, California, and raised in Brooklyn, New York. His father, Jonathan, was also a screenwriter. Estrin attended the University of Southern California. He and his wife, Kari, had two daughters. On September 23, 2022, Estrin died while jogging in Hermosa Bea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeff Woolnough
Jeff Woolnough is a Canadian film and television director. His career began in the early 1990s and has won numerous awards directing multiple episodes of a variety of television series. His most prolific work has been with '' The Expanse'' and ''Vikings'', for which he directed ten episodes of each. He has been a three-time Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Direction in a Drama Series for his work on ''Vikings'', with nods at the 5th Canadian Screen Awards in 2017, the 6th Canadian Screen Awards in 2018, and the 7th Canadian Screen Awards in 2019. He was also a Gemini Award nominee for Best Direction in a Dramatic Program or Miniseries at the 25th Gemini Awards in 2010 for '' Keep Your Head Up, Kid: The Don Cherry Story''.Michael Oliveira"Flashpoint leads with 15 Gemini nominations" ''Toronto Star The ''Toronto Star'' is a Canadian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper. It is owned by Toronto Star Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary of Torstar Corporation and part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Shapiro (director)
Paul Shapiro (born 1955) is a Canadian television director, producer and writer, who has worked in both Canada and the United States. Life and career He began his career in 1973 on the film '' Life Times Nine'', an anthology of short films by high school students in Toronto which garnered a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film in 1974. While a student at Ryerson Polytechnical Institute, he made the film ''The Understudy'', which aired as a television film in 1976."The Understudy: First Feature From Paul Shapiro". ''Motion'', Vol. 5 No. 2 (1976). His early credits included the television series '' Street Legal'', '' Adderly'', '' Road to Avonlea'', '' Mom P.I.'' and '' The Campbells'', and the television films ''Clown White'' (1981), '' Hockey Night'' (1984), '' Miracle at Moreaux'' (1986) and '' The Truth About Alex'' (1988). He went on to amass number of notable television credits, including ''The X-Files'', ''Millennium'' '' Dark Angel'', '' Roswel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Brancato
Chris Brancato (born July 24, 1962) is an American television and film writer and producer. Brancato grew up in Teaneck, New JerseyProfile of Chris Brancato: Writer / Creator of Sci Fi Channel (United States), Sci Fi Channel's ''First Wave (TV series), First Wave'', accessed January 1, 2007. "Brancato always knew he was going to be a writer – but not for the movies. He grew up in Teaneck, N.J., with school-teacher parents." and graduated in 1980 from Teaneck High School. He subsequently attended and graduated from Brown University. Career Brancato wrote or was story editor for several episodes of the 1992 season of ''Beverly Hills, 90210''. He co-wrote the ''X-Files'' episode ”Eve (The X-Files), Eve“, which first aired on December 10 ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas J
Clarence Thomas (born June 23, 1948) is an American lawyer and jurist who has served since 1991 as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. President George H. W. Bush Clarence Thomas Supreme Court nomination, nominated him to succeed Thurgood Marshall. After Marshall, Thomas is the second African Americans, African American to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court and has been its List of United States Supreme Court justices by time in office, longest-serving member since Anthony Kennedy's retirement in 2018. He has also been the Court's oldest member since Stephen Breyer retired in 2022. Thomas was born in Pin Point, Georgia. After his father abandoned the family, he was raised by his grandfather in a poor Gullah community near Savannah, Georgia. Growing up as a devout Catholic, Thomas originally intended to be a priest in the Catholic Church but became dissatisfied with its efforts to combat racism and abandoned his aspiration to join the clergy. He gradua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phillip Noyce
Phillip Roger Noyce (born 29 April 1950) is an Australian film and television director. Since 1977, he has directed over 19 feature films in various genres, including historical drama ('' Newsfront'', '' Rabbit-Proof Fence'', '' The Quiet American''); thrillers ('' Dead Calm'', '' Sliver'', '' The Bone Collector''); and action films ('' Blind Fury'', '' The Saint'', ''Salt''). He has also directed the Jack Ryan adaptations '' Patriot Games'' (1992) and '' Clear and Present Danger'' (1994), as well as the 2014 adaptation of Lois Lowry's '' The Giver''. Noyce has worked at various times with such actors as Val Kilmer, Harrison Ford, Denzel Washington, Michael Caine, Angelina Jolie, Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep, Rutger Hauer and three films with Thora Birch over 25 years. He has also directed, written and executive-produced television programmes in both Australia and North America, including '' The Cowra Breakout'', ''Vietnam'', ''Revenge'', ''Roots'', and Netflix's '' What/If ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parry Shen
Parry Shen (born June 26, 1973) is an American actor, author, screenwriter, and producer. Shen's first major acting role was in '' Better Luck Tomorrow'' as Ben Manibag, the film's leading character. He also starred in another Asian American film, '' Surrogate Valentine''. He has since starred in the horror film ''Hatchet'' and its sequels '' Hatchet II'', '' Hatchet III'', and '' Victor Crowley''. He had a recurring role as Tyler Li in the television series '' Tru Calling''. He has portrayed the role of Brad Cooper on ''General Hospital'' since 2013. He is also known for his voice acting in the video games '' Sleeping Dogs'', ''Mortal Kombat X'', and ''Mortal Kombat 1''. Early life Shen was born June 26, 1973, in New York City, in the borough of Queens. He went to Archbishop Molloy High School, then an all-boys (but now co-educational) Roman Catholic school in Briarwood, in Queens, New York, and at the University at Buffalo. His mother is from Hong Kong. His father is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lizzy Caplan
Elizabeth Anne Caplan (born June 30, 1982) is an American actress. Her performances as Virginia E. Johnson in the Showtime series '' Masters of Sex'' (2013–2016) and as Libby Epstein in FX on Hulu's '' Fleishman Is in Trouble'' (2022) have earned her nominations at the Primetime Emmy Awards. Her first acting role was on the television series ''Freaks and Geeks'' (1999–2000). Since then, she had series-regular roles in several television series including '' Related'' (2005–2006), '' Party Down'' (2009–2010; 2023), ''Das Boot'' (2018), '' Castle Rock'' (2019), '' Truth Be Told'' (2019), ''Fatal Attraction'' (2023), and '' Zero Day'' (2025). Caplan's film breakthrough came with her role as Janis Ian in '' Mean Girls'' (2004). Her other film appearances include '' My Best Friend's Girl'' (2008) ''Cloverfield'' (2008), '' Hot Tub Time Machine'', ''127 Hours'' (both 2010), '' Save the Date'', ''Bachelorette'' (both 2012), '' The Interview'' (2014), ''Now You See Me 2'', '' A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Christian Olsen
Eric Christian Olsen (born May 31, 1977) is an American actor, writer and producer. He is known for his portrayals of Investigator Marty Deeks on the CBS television series '' NCIS: Los Angeles'', Austin in the film '' Not Another Teen Movie'', Lloyd Christmas in '' Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd'' and as producer/executive producer on the 2024 reboot of '' Matlock''. Early life Olsen was born in Eugene, Oregon, the son of Jeanne (née Donstad), a non-denominational chaplain, and Paul V. Olsen, a professor of English, and head track and cross country coach of Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois. He has an older brother, David, who acts as his stunt double; David is married to actress and Olsen's '' NCIS: Los Angeles'' costar Daniela Ruah. Olsen is of Norwegian descent. Olsen spent most of his childhood in Bettendorf, Iowa, and attended Bettendorf Middle and High School, where he pursued interests such as sports, Japanese, and Chinese. In addition to many loc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cotter Smith
Joseph Cotter Smith (born May 29, 1949) is an American stage, film, and television actor. Early life He was born in Washington, D.C., the son of Madeline (née Cotter) and John Lewis Smith, Jr., who was a federal judge. He graduated from the Lawrenceville School in 1968. In 1972, he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in literature at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut. Smith's grandfather was an attorney, as are his brother and sister, and he said, "It was sort of assumed that I would be a lawyer, too." Instead, when he finished college, he became a teacher. After a few years, however, his interest turned to acting. Career He began his acting career in New York City in 1978, studying with Stella Adler and at the Actors Studio. His New York theater credits include the Broadway premiere productions of '' Next Fall'', which was a 2010 Tony Award nominee for Best New Play, Wendy Wasserstein's ''An American Daughter'') and Lanford Wilson's ''Burn This''. He also co-starred ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
