Monica Keena Biography
Monica Keena was born in New Jersey on May 25th, 1979 and was raised in Brooklyn. She’s about 5′1 and has an older sister named Samantha. Her mother, Mary is a nurse and her father, Bill, is a financial sales manager. As a child, she was always drawing, painting, dancing and signing.
Monica auditioned for acceptance into LaGuardia High School of Performing Arts at the age of thirteen. Although she chose the drama department as her preference, Monica was accepted in both the dramatic and the vocal arts departments. Soon after starting her classes at LaGuardia Monica played in her first role in a short film entitled “Burning Love,”. She also went on to portray the character Bertha in a stage reading of Strinburg’s “The Father,” with Al Pacino.
She’s had small roles in the Films “The Devil’s Advocate” and “While You Were Sleeping” and starred in the films “Strike, Ripe and Snow White : A Tale of Terror”
Monica has appreared in numerous television and movie projects inclding the TBS Superstation Original Movie “First Daughter” and “Crime and Punishment in Suburbia” which appeared in the 2000 Sundance Film Festival.Also awaiting release are the independent movie “The Simian Line” with Harry Connick Jr. and Lynn Redgrave, and “A Fate Totally Worse Than Death” with Julie Benz, and Jonathan Brandis.
She’s also no stranger to television having a recurring role as Abby Morgan on “Dawson’s Creek” and a starring role on the short-lived “Undeclared” as the college co-ed Rachel. Monica also had guest roles on series such as Law and Order, Homocide: Life on the Street, and Feds.
Before taking a break for new movies and tv, Monica attended New York University as an English major. When she has a bit of extra time on her hands she likes to take writing classes and likes yoga. Monica enjoys reading. One of her favorite authors is William Faulkner. She also likes the books the Bloody Chamger by Angela Carter, and Metamorphisis by Franz Kafka. She likes hanging out with friends and says: “I don’t do anything physical. I’m lazy.”, However Monica does enjoy roller skating with friends at Roller Rinks
Some other things Monica has said to have liked are Bob Dylan, the Police, and Tori Amos (a personal Fav !) The Movie, the Wizard of Oz, especially Judy Garland, of whom she says: “Judy Garland is my favourite. I probably know all her songs and have seen all her movies.” Her favorite T.V Shows include The Simpsons and Charmed.
Monica’s most recent project is the much anticipated summer movie “Freddy vs. Jason” in which she has a starring role. Look for that coming August 2003!. Monica lives in New York while not working on film or movie roles.
Amanda Detmer Biography
A petite blonde actress with pretty, pixiesh features and a high energy presence, California native Amanda Detmer made her debut in the TV-movie “Stolen Innocence” (CBS) in 1995. A local girl (the project was lensed in her native Chico), Detmer impressed with a featured role in the telepic, but resumed her education, earning her BA and later her MFA in theater. In 1998 she spent a summer on stage in Minneapolis and that same year lensed a starring role in the mystical independent drama “Last Seen”. Although she had by now completed her graduate degree at New York University and was in her late twenties, Detmer easily adapted to teen roles, possessing youthful looks and bubbly charm. 1999 saw the actress make her big screen debut playing Miss Minneapolis in the Minnesota beauty pageant-set comedy “Drop Dead Gorgeous”. Television work in the NBC miniseries “To Serve and Protect” (NBC) and the very short-lived series “Ryan Caulfield: Year One” (Fox) put her among fictional police that same year.
Detmer made greater strides in 2000, with a featured role in the ensemble of the teen thriller “Final Destination”. Playing Terry, the agreeable girlfriend of thickheaded jock Carter (Kerr Smith) offered her increased visibility and the chance to suffer what may be the most genuinely startling demise in the contemporary spate of teen scream films. While her character would no doubt stay down, Detmer saw her profile continue to rise that year, starring as an understanding and upbeat teacher with a regular role on Don Roos’ edgy comedy “M.Y.O.B.” (NBC) and taking on a co-starring role alongside hot tickets Claire Forlani, Freddie Prinze Jr. and Jason Biggs in Robert Iscove’s college-set romantic comedy “Boys and Girls”. In 2001, she reteamed with Biggs, playing his love interest (and a would-be nun) in the daffy comedy “Saving Silverman”.
- Also Credited As:Amanda J. Detmer
- Born:on 09/27/71 in Chico, California
- Job Titles:Actor
Significant Others
- Companion: Benjamin King.
Milestones
- 1995 Featured as a runaway in the CBS TV-movie “Stolen Innocence”
- 1998 Spent the summer acting in productions at Minneapolis’ Guthrie Theater
- 1999 Acted in the NBC miniseries “To Serve and Protect”, chronicling a family of New York City police officers
- 1999 Played Miss Minneapolis in the beauty pageant-set comedy “Drop Dead Gorgeous”
- 1999 Starred in the mystical drama “Last Seen”; screened at the Independent Feature Film Market (IFFM)
- 1999 Was a regular on the short-lived Fox police drama series “Ryan Caulfield: Year One”
- 2000 Co-starred as one of a group of high school students spared from a plane crash death because of a peer’s preminatory vision in the supernatural thriller “Final Destination”
- 2000 Featured in the romantic comedy “Boys and Girls”
- 2000 Was a regular on the summer replacement sitcom “M.Y.O.B.” (NBC)
- 2001 Co-starred with Jim Carrey in “The Majestic”
- 2001 Had a supporting role in “Saving Silverman”, playing a young woman ready to take religious vows who is the dream girl of the Jason Biggs’ titular nice guy
- Acted the independent features “X-Girlfriends” and “Something Sweet” (both lensed 1999)
Julie Delpy Biography
Delpy was born in Paris, the daughter of Albert Delpy and Marie Pillet, both of whom were actors in both feature films and in the avant-garde underground theater; her father grew up in Vietnam, Cambodia and West Africa, where her paternal grandfather worked in administrative positions in the French colonial government. Encouraged to perform by her bohemian-minded parents, Delpy made her stage debut at the age of 5, and at 14 obtained a role in the film Detective, directed by Jean-Luc Godard.
Two years later, Delpy was cast in the title role in the film La Passion Béatrice, and used the money she earned to pay for her first trip to New York City. Delpy continued making regular trips to New York over the next few years, before finally moving there in 1990.
Delpy gained international celebrity after starring in the 1991 film Europa Europa, with her portrayal of a pro-Nazi girl, Leni, who falls in love with the hero, Solomon Perel, not knowing that he is Jewish. Delpy was subsequently offered to appear in several Hollywood and European films. In 1993, she was cast by director Krzysztof KieÅ›lowski to play the female lead in Three Colors: White, the second film of KieÅ›lowski’s Three Colors Trilogy; Delpy also appeared in the other films in the series, albeit in smaller sized roles.
Delpy, who has had an interest in a career as a film director since her childhood, enrolled in a summer directing course at New York University; she made her directorial debut in 1995, with a short film entitled Looking for Jimmy, which she also wrote and produced.
Delpy may be best known in the United States for her co-starring role with Ethan Hawke in director Richard Linklater’s 1995 film, Before Sunrise. The film received glowing reviews and was considered one of the most interesting films of the independent film movement of the 1990s. Its success led to the casting of Delpy in the 1997 American film, An American Werewolf in Paris, which was generally considered a disappointment by critics.
Delpy reprised her Before Sunrise character, Celine, in a 2004 sequel, Before Sunset. The film was well-received and earned Delpy, who co-wrote the script, her first Academy Award nomination for Writing Adapted Screenplay.
Delpy is also an accomplished musical artist. She released a self-titled CD in 2003. Three tracks from the album, “A Waltz For A Night”, “An Ocean Apart” and “Je T’Aime Tant” were featured in Before Sunset.
Delpy currently resides in Los Angeles and has been a naturalized United States citizen since 2001, although she also retains her French citizenship.
Bryce Dallas Howard Biography
As the daughter of Oscar-winning director Ron Howard (“Beautiful Mindâ€, “Apollo 13â€), it would have been easy for Bryce Dallas Howard to become a successful actress. Her father would no doubt have done all he could to assure his daughter’s success. Determined to make it on her own, however, Howard opted not to use her father’s influence in her rise to stardom and instead chose to pursue acting on her own terms. For Howard, success—or failure—rested squarely on her own shoulders.
Born to Ron and Cheryl Howard, the actress spent her youth growing up in scenic, but stodgy Connecticut. At 17, she was accepted into the drama program at the esteemed Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. In keeping with her conviction to pursue acting on her own, Howard enrolled as Bryce Dallas, dropping her famed last name to eschew special treatment. Her first play, House Garden, by accomplished director Alan Ayckbourn, challenged the young actress. As two plays—one House, the other Garden—performed simultaneously on adjacent stages, the actors had to move between sets in the telling of two different, yet similarly-themed stories. Though the play received mixed reviews, Howard was noted for her ‘shining’ performance.
Subsequent theater work helped Howard hone her already exceptional talents, including roles in Thornton Wilder’s Our Town and Tartuffe, French dramatist Molière’s masterpiece. Howard then made her film debut in the independent drama “Book of Love†(2004), by director Alan Brown. Though never released, “Book of Love†premiered at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival. Meanwhile, she returned to the stage, playing Rosalind in Shakespeare’s As You Like It. It was during this critically acclaimed performance that Howard’s career took a giant leap, as she was discovered by one of Hollywood’s most prominent directors.
On the advice of big time producer Scott Rudin, director M. Night Shyamalan (“Sixth Senseâ€, “Unbreakableâ€) went to see Howard in As You Like It and was immediately taken by her performance. When Kirsten Dunst, who was previously attached to star in “The Village†(2004), dropped out, Shyamalan offered the unknown Howard the part. She starred alongside such Hollywood heavyweights as Joaquin Phoenix, William Hurt and Sigourney Weaver in the period thriller about an isolated 19th Century village cut off from the rest of the world. Once again, Howard was lauded for her performance as Ivy Walker, a mesmerizing young blind woman with an unusual wisdom beyond her years. To bolster her Hollywood arrival, Howard was cast in Lars Von Trier’s “Manderlay†(2004), the second in the director’s trilogy “U, S and Aâ€. As with “The Villageâ€, Howard was cast to replace a previously attached star—in this case, she took over for Nicole Kidman. In a short time, Howard has gone from virtual unknown to hot commodity entirely on her own terms.
- Job Titles:Actress
Education
- New York University, New York, New York, acting
- Stella Adler Conservatory
Milestones
- — Cast in “Mary Queen of Scots” produced by Ridley Scott (lensed 2005)
- — Replaced Nicole Kidman in “Manderlay,” director Lars von Trier’s Dogville sequel (lensed 2004)
- 1995 Had a small uncredited role in “Apollo 13″ directed by her father Ron Howard
- 2000 Played a minor role in Ron Howard’s “How the Grinch Stole Christmas”
- 2002 Portrayed a haughty, flirtatious teenager in Alan Ayckbourn’s production of “House and Garden” at Manhattan Theatre Club
- 2003 Gained the attention of director M. Night Shyamalan, while performing as Rosalind in the critically lauded Shakespearian comedy “As You Like It”
- 2004 Cast as Ivy, a young blind woman, in the supernatural period drama “The Village,” directed by M. Night Shyamalan; offered the role after Kirsten Dunst dropped out
- Signed on to star in Kenneth Branagh’s adaptation of “As You Like It” (lensed 2005)
- Will co-star with Paul Giamatti in M. Night Shyamalan’s “Lady in the Water” (lensed 2005)