Monday, June 13, 2011

Who is Michael Elliot Epps?

Who is Michael Elliot Epps? The entertainment and comedy world knows Mike Epps as an American stand-up comedian, actor, film producer, writer, singer, musician, and rapper, best known for playing Day-Day Jones in Next Friday and the sequel-to-the-sequel, Friday After Next, and also starring alongside Ice Cube in All About The Benjamins. He is known as the new voice of Boog in Open Season 2 and Open Season 3.
As of 2010, Epps was the executive producer on a documentary about the life story of a former member of Tupac Shakur's Outlawz, Napoleon: Life Of An Outlaw.

Early life

Epps was born November 18, 1970  in Indianapolis, Indiana on November 18, 1970 into a large family.
Epps' natural comedic ability was encouraged at an early age, and he began performing stand-up as a teenager. Epps moved to Atlanta where he worked at the Comedy Act Theater, before moving to New York City to star in Def Comedy Jam in 1995. Epps ended up on the Def Comedy Jam tour and starred in two of HBO's Def Comedy Jam broadcasts.

Career

Stand-Up Comedy

Epps began his professional career by joining the Def Comedy Jam tour in 1995 and starred in two of HBO's Def Comedy Jam broadcasts. He later appeared in Vin Diesel's directorial debut, Strays in 1997.
In 1999, Epps was then cast as Ice Cube's co-star (effectively, Chris Tucker's replacement) in the sequel, Next Friday. This came after weeks of auditions after Ice Cube attended a stand-up set Epps did, and then asked Epps to try out for the part of Day-Day Jones. His role as Day-Day Jones was a breakthrough for the new actor, who was already familiar to much of the audience from his stand-up work. Later that year, Epps had a cameo in 3 Strikes, and supported Jamie Foxx in Bait.
Epps had a voice role in the 2001 movie Dr. Dolittle 2 as Sonny, and finished the year with a featured role as comical pimp Baby Powder in How High, starring Method Man and Redman. Epps reunited with Ice Cube in 2002 as the bumbling thief to Ice Cube's bounty hunter in All About the Benjamins, and again re-teamed with Cube in the continuing Friday saga's latest entry Friday After Next.
Epps also got to voice another bear character—Boog—in the 2008 film Open Season 2 and its sequel two years later, Open Season 3, after Martin Lawrence declined the role. In 2010, Epps also released a stand-up comedy special, Under Rated &Never Faded and hosted the 2010 BET Hip Hop Awards.
Epps' name has become synonymous with a particular style of humor, through his appearance with several other African-American artists in the same genre.[citation needed] Aside from featuring Cube, the common thread of these films was the hilarious prominence of marijuana-smoking comic characters, like the ones portrayed by Epps.

Music

Epps recently had a small part in the song A Bay Bay by Hurricane Chris, doing the Rick James move. He also hosted a Jim Jones and Skull Gang album entitled Jim Jones & Skull Gang Present A Tribute To Bad Santa Starring Mike Epps. Epps has also made a song called Trying To Be a Gangsta with Pooh Bear.
Epps also has a song called Big Girls, which came out in 2008. It was originally recorded by Bow Wow, and featuring Yung Joc. The song is currently on iTunes and can be found on his album, Funny Bidness - Da Album, which was released October 27, 2009. Epps also has featured in rapper French Montana's 'Mac Wit Da Cheese' mixtape which was released April 19, 2009.

Personal life

Filmography

Epps married Michelle McCain in July 2006. He had met her while filming The Fighting Temptations (in which they appeared alongside Cuba Gooding, Jr. and Beyonce). McCain had a minor, non-speaking role in the movie as Epps' character's girlfriend. Epps has also dedicated his time and money to the Tupac Amaru Shakur Foundation for the Arts in Georgia.
Year Title Role Note
1997 Strays Mike
2000 Next Friday Day-Day Jones
2000 3 Strikes Crackhead
2000 Bait Stevie Sanders
2001 Dr. Dolittle 2 Sonny Voice only
Credited as Michael E. Epps
2001 How High Baby Powder
2002 All About the Benjamins Reggie Credited as Michael Epps
2002 Friday After Next Day-Day Jones/Old Man with Shotgun
2003 Malibu's Most Wanted Rap-Battle Host Uncredited
2003 The Fighting Temptations Lucius
2004 Still 'Bout It Bobby Ray
2004 Resident Evil: Apocalypse L.J.
2005 Guess Who The Cab Driver Uncredited
2005 The Honeymooners Ed Norton
2005 Roll Bounce Byron
2006 The Unsuccessful Thug

2006 Something New Walter
2007 Talk to Me Milo Hughes
2007 Resident Evil: Extinction L.J.
2008 Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins Reggie Jenkins
2008 Shelly Fisher Esquire Jones
2008 Hancock Criminal Uncredited
2008 Bigg Snoop Dogg Presents: The Adventures of Tha Blue Carpet Treatment

2008 Soul Men Duane Henderson
2008 Open Season 2 Boog Voice only
Replacing Martin Lawrence
2009 Next Day Air Brody
2009 The Hangover Black Doug
2009 The Janky Promoters Jellyroll
2010 Love Chronicles: Secrets Revealed Thomas Black
2010 Lottery Ticket Reverend Taylor
2010 Ghetto Stories: The Movie Janitor Cameo
2010 Faster Grone
2010 Open Season 3 Boog Voice only
2011 Jumping the Broom Unknown
2012 Last Friday Day-Day Jones

Television

Music videos

Discography

Official studio albums

2009: Funny Bidness - Da Album

Collaboration albums

2008: A Tribute to Bad Santa Starring Mike Epps (with Jim Jones & Skull Gang) (2010)

Singles

 
















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Who is Jason Isaac Cutler?

Who is Jason Isaac Cutler? The professional bodybuilding world know Jay Cutler as an IFBB professional bodybuilder and the current Mr. Olympia, a title he has won four times.

Height: 5'9" (175 cm)[1] Vital statistics

  • Thighs: 31 inches (79 cm)[1]
  • Calves: 20 inches (51 cm)[1]
  • Arms: 22.5 inches (57 cm)[1]
  • Neck: 19.5 inches (50 cm)[1]
  • Chest: 60 inches (150 cm)
  • waist:34 inches (86 cm)

Biography






Cutler was born August 3, 1973 in Sterling, Massachusetts), he started working in his family's concrete construction business, Cutler Bros. Concrete, at the age of 11, and started training when he was 18 years old as a senior at Wachusett Regional High School. He graduated from Quinsigamond Community College in 1993 with a degree in criminal justice with the intent to work as a guard for a maximum security prison. Cutler quickly excelled in bodybuilding, and took his first overall win in 1993 at the Iron Bodies Invitational. His first contest was the 1992 Gold's Gym Worcester Bodybuilding Championships, at which he took second place. He won consecutive Arnold Classic titles in 2002, 2003, and 2004, and placed 2nd to Ronnie Coleman in the Mr. Olympia four times before claiming the title in 2006. Cutler won the Olympia for a second consecutive year in 2007. Jay Cutler became the 3rd Mr.Olympia in history (along with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Franco Columbu) to reclaim the title, and the only Mr. Olympia in history to reclaim the title after having lost, returning on stage, and defeating the reigning champion Dexter Jackson in 2009. In 2010, he went on to win his fourth Olympia title, defeating Phil Heath. He was inspired to enter bodybuilding after meeting personal trainer, Marcos Rodriguez.

Personal

Cutler endorses MuscleTech supplements[2] and has been featured on the cover of several fitness magazines such as Muscle and Fitness and Muscular Development. He currently lives in Las Vegas with his wife Kerry, and trains at several Gold's Gym locations in the area.

Bodybuilding titles

  • 1993 NPC Iron Bodies Invitational, 1st place Teenage & 1st place Men's Middleweight
  • 1993 NPC Teen Nationals, 1st place Middleweight
  • 1995 NPC U.S. Tournament of Champions, 1st place Men's Middleweight and overall winner
  • 1996 NPC Nationals, 2nd place Light Heavyweight (earned IFBB pro card)
  • 2000 IFBB Night of Champions, 1st place
  • 2002 Arnold Classic, 1st place
  • 2003 Arnold Classic, 1st place
  • 2003 Ironman Pro Invitational, 1st place
  • 2003 San Francisco Pro Invitational, 1st place
  • 2003 Dutch Grand Prix, 1st place
  • 2003 British Grand Prix, 1st place
  • 2004 Arnold Classic, 1st place
  • 2006 Austrian Grand Prix, 1st place
  • 2006 Romanian Grand Prix, 1st place
  • 2006 Dutch Grand Prix, 1st place
  • 2006 Mr. Olympia, 1st place
  • 2007 Mr. Olympia, 1st place
  • 2009 Mr. Olympia, 1st place
  • 2010 Mr. Olympia, 1st place

Competitive placings

  • 1992 Gold Gym Worcester Bodybuilding Championships – 2nd
  • 1998 IFBB Night of Champions – 11th
  • 1999 Arnold Schwarzenegger Classic – 4th
  • 1999 IFBB Ironman Pro Invitational – 3rd
  • 1999 Mr. Olympia – 14th
  • 2000 English Grand Prix – 2nd
  • 2000 Joe Weider's World Pro Cup – 2nd
  • 2000 Mr. Olympia – 8th
  • 2000 Mr. Olympia Rome – 2nd
  • 2001 Mr. Olympia – 2nd
  • 2003 Mr. Olympia – 2nd
  • 2003 Russian Grand Prix – 2nd
  • 2003 GNC Show of Strength – 2nd
  • 2004 Mr. Olympia – 2nd
  • 2005 Mr. Olympia – 2nd
  • 2008 Mr. Olympia – 2nd

DVDs

  • Jay Cutler - A Cut Above (Filmed in 1999, released in 2002)
  • Jay Cutler – New Improved and Beyond (2004)
  • Jay Cutler – Ripped to Shreds (2005)
  • Jay Cutler – One Step Closer (2006)
  • Jay Cutler – From Jay To Z (2007)
  • Jay Cutler – My House (2007)
  • Jay Cutler – All Access (2008)
  • Jay Cutler – Undisputed (2010)
  • Jay Cutler - The Ultimate Beef: A Massive Life in Bodybuilding (2010)

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Who is Eric Hamilton Stoltz?

Who is Eric Hamilton Stoltz? [1][2] The entertainment and directing world knows Eric Stoltz as an American actor and director. He is known for playing sensitive misfits (Mask, Kicking and Screaming, The Waterdance, Killing Zoe). He was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture for Mask. He recently starred in the science fiction television series Caprica.

Early life

Stoltz was born September 30, 1961 in Whittier, California, the son of Evelyn B. (née Vawter), a violinist and schoolteacher who died in 1994, and Jack Stoltz, an elementary school teacher.[3][4][5] He has two sisters, mezzo soprano Catherine Stoltz[6][7][8][citation needed] and writer Susan R. Stoltz[9] Eric was raised in both American Samoa and Santa Barbara, California, where as a child, he once earned money playing piano for local musical theatre productions.[10] He attended the University of Southern California but dropped out after his junior year.[citation needed]

Career

In the 1970s Stoltz joined a repertory company that performed ten plays at the Edinburgh Festival. He returned to the United States in 1979, when he entered USC as a drama student, but subsequently dropped out to pursue film and TV roles. In the late 1970s he was cast as Carol Burnett and Charles Grodin's son in the TV adaptation of Erma Bombeck's "The Grass Is Always Greener Over The Septic Tank". In 1981 he studied with Stella Adler and Peggy Feury in New York.
Director Cameron Crowe and Stoltz became friends while making Stoltz's first feature film, Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982). According to Stoltz, Crowe promised Stoltz a role in all of his future films, but that did not happen.[10]
Originally cast as Marty McFly in Back to the Future (1985), he was replaced after five weeks of filming, when Michael J. Fox (the director's first choice for the role) agreed to divide time between the movie and his television sitcom, Family Ties. The director, Robert Zemeckis, said that while Stoltz provided an admirable performance, it lacked the precise comedic sense that Zemeckis was looking for.[11] Some of the original footage, where Stoltz does not appear but was on set, was used in the film.[12][13] This was referenced in a 2010 episode of Fringe where, in an alternate universe, a theater marquee reads "Back to the Future starring Eric Stoltz".[14]
In 1985, Stoltz garnered attention with a Golden Globe nomination starring as Rocky Dennis in Mask. Among other roles in the 1980s, he appeared in the 1987 hit, John Hughes's Some Kind of Wonderful.
During the 1990s, Stoltz went back and forth between stage, film, and television, appearing in studio and independent films such as Independent Spirit Award Winner Pulp Fiction (1994) and Sundance Festival Winner The Waterdance (1992). He was also a production assistant on Say Anything and Singles, and produced the films Bodies, Rest & Motion in 1993, Sleep with Me in 1994, and Mr. Jealousy in 1997. He continued to appear on the New York stage both on Broadway (Three Sisters, Two Shakespearean Actors, Arms and the Man) and off-Broadway (The Importance of Being Earnest, The Glass Menagerie, Sly Fox and Our Town). He was nominated for a Tony Award as Featured Actor for his performance as George Gibbs in the 1989 Broadway revival of Thorton Wilder's Our Town.[15] A performance of this production was featured on Great Performances: Live From Lincoln Center, which received a 1989 Emmy nomination.[16]
On television, he had a recurring role as Helen Hunt's character's ex-boyfriend on Mad About You (5 episodes, 1994–1998), spent a year on Chicago Hope (1994), and did some TV and cable movies such as Inside (1996) (TV) (directed by Arthur Penn) and The Passion of Ayn Rand (1999) (with Helen Mirren).
Stoltz received the Indie Support Award at the 1998 Los Angeles Film Festival.
During the first part of the 2000s, he starred with Gillian Anderson in The House of Mirth (2000), based on the novel by Edith Wharton. From 2001 to 2002, he had a recurring role as the English teacher-poet August Dimitri in ABC's Once and Again, where Julia Whelan's character, a teenager, fell in love with him. He directed an episode of the show in 2002.
In 2003, he played his first leading TV role in Out of Order, which was canceled after five episodes. In 2004, he appeared in The Butterfly Effect as a child molester; the following year, he guest-starred in the NBC sitcom Will & Grace as Debra Messing's love interest.
He was nominated for a daytime Emmy for his direction of the cable movie My Horrible Year! (2001). He also directed a short film entitled The Bulls, as well as the highest rated episode of Law & Order in 2005, entitled "Tombstone."
He appeared in the music video of The Residents' "Give it to Someone Else," featured on The Commercial DVD.
He has contributed essays to the books City Secrets — New York as well as Life Interrupted by Spalding Gray, and appears on the children's CD Philadelphia Chickens.
Beginning in 2007, Stoltz directed episodes of the 20-something drama Quarterlife, which began airing as webisodes and were then picked up to air on the NBC network in 2008.
Stoltz played a serial killer in need of medical attention in three episodes of the fifth season of Grey's Anatomy.[17] He has also directed two episodes of Grey's Anatomy. The actor is currently shooting the film Fort McCoy.
Stoltz recently starred as Daniel Graystone, the inventor of Cylons, in the canceled science fiction television series Caprica, a prequel set 58 years before the Battlestar Galactica series.

Personal life

Stoltz has been a vegetarian for 25 years.[18]

Credits

Film acting credits
Year↓ Title↓ Role↓ Notes
1982 Fast Times at Ridgemont High Stoner Bud
1984 The Wild Life Bill Conrad
1984 Surf II Chuck
1985 Mask Rocky Dennis Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture
1985 The New Kids Mark
1985 Code Name: Emerald Lt. Andy Wheeler
1987 Some Kind of Wonderful Keith Nelson
1987 Sister, Sister Matt Rutledge
1987 Lionheart Robert Nerra
1988 Our Town George Gibbs
1988 Haunted Summer Percy Shelley
1989 The Fly II Martin Brundle
1989 Say Anything Vahlere
1990 Memphis Belle Sgt Danny 'Danny Boy' Daly
1991 Money Franck Cimballi
1992 The Waterdance Joel Garcia Also producer
1992 Singles The Mime
1993 Bodies, Rest & Motion Sid
1993 Naked in New York Jake Briggs
1994 Killing Zoe Zed
1994 Pulp Fiction Lance Nominated—Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male
1994 Little Women John Brooke
1994 Sleep with Me Joseph Also producer
1995 Rob Roy Alan MacDonald
1995 Fluke Jeff Newman
1995 The Prophecy Simon
1995 Kicking and Screaming Chet
1996 Don't Look Back Jesse Parish
1996 Grace of My Heart Howard Cazsatt
1996 2 Days in the Valley Wes Taylor
1996 Jerry Maguire Ethan Valhere
1997 Keys to Tulsa Richter Boudreau
1997 Anaconda Dr. Steven Cale
1997 Mr. Jealousy Lester Grimm, aka Vince Also producer
1997 The Rocking Horse Winner The Man
1997 Highball Darien
1998 Hi-Life Jimmy
1998 A Murder of Crows Thurman Parks III
1998 Blackout Effect John Dantley
1999 Our Guys: Outrage at Glen Ridge

1999 The Passion of Ayn Rand Nathaniel Branden
2000 The Simian Line Sam Donovan
2000 The House of Mirth Lawrence Selden
2000 Common Ground Johnny Burroughs
2000 It's a Shame About Ray Mr. Stoltz Short film
2001 Things Behind the Sun Dan
2001 Harvard Man Teddy Carter
2002 The Rules of Attraction Mr. Lawson
2003 When Zachary Beaver Came to Town Otto
2004 The Butterfly Effect George Miller
2005 The Honeymooners William Davis
2006 The Lather Effect Mickey
2007 The Grand Design Josh
2009 Sparks Joseph Short film
2009 Fort McCoy Frank Stirn
Television acting credits
Year↓ Title↓ Role↓ Notes
1983 St. Elsewhere Eddie Carson 3 episodes
1993 Frasier Don 1 episode
1994–1998 Mad About You Alan Tofsky 6 episodes
1995 Partners Cameron 1 episode
1998–1999 Hercules: The Animated Series Theseus 2 episodes
1998–1999 Chicago Hope Dr. Robert Yeats 22 episodes
2001–2002 Once and Again August Dimitri 7 episodes
2002 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Father Michael Sweeney 1 episode
2003 Out of Order Mark Colm 5 episodes
2005 The Triangle Howard Thomas three part TV mini-series
2005 Will & Grace Tom 2 episodes
2007 Medium Sonny Troyer 1 episode
2007 Close to Home Det. Chris Veeder 3 episodes
2009 Grey's Anatomy
3 episodes
2010 Caprica Daniel Graystone 18 episodes
Film directing credits
Year↓ Title↓ Notes
2003 Once and Again
2005 The Bulls short film, 18 min.
2007 Grand Design short film, 18 min., also actor
Television directing credits
Year↓ Title↓ Notes
2001 My Horrible Year! TV film
2002 Once and Again Episode: "Falling in Place"
2005 Law & Order Episode: "Tombstone"
2007 Boston Legal Episodes: "The Object of My Affection", "Dumping Bella"
2008 Quarterlife Episodes: "Anxiety", "Home Sweet Home"
2008 Grey's Anatomy Episodes: "Brave New World", "These Ties That Bind"
2009 Nip/Tuck
2009–2011 Private Practice Episodes: "Do the Right Thing" (2009), "Eyes Wide Open" and "War" (2010), "If You Don't Know Me by Now" (2011)
2010 Huge Episode: "Talent Night"
2010–2011 Glee Episodes: "Duets" (2010), "Blame It on the Alcohol" and "Prom Queen" (2011)
2010 Caprica Episode: "Unvanquished"

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