Patrice Naiambana
ActingGhana
Ulli Ackermann
ActingGreiz, Germany
Chris Pratt
ActingVirginia, Minnesota, USAChristopher Michael Pratt (born 21 June 1979) is an American actor, known for starring in both television and action films. He rose to prominence for his television roles, particularly in the NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation (2009–2015), for which he received critical acclaim and was nominated for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series in 2013. He also starred earlier in his career as Bright Abbott in The WB drama series Everwood (2002–2006) and had roles in Wanted (2008), Jennifer's Body (2009), Moneyball (2011), The Five-Year Engagement (2012), Zero Dark Thirty (2013), Delivery Man (2013), and Her (2013).Pratt achieved leading man status in 2014, starring in two critically and commercially successful films: The Lego Movie as Emmet Brickowski, and Marvel Studios' Guardians of the Galaxy as Star-Lord. He starred in Jurassic World (2015) and Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018), and he reprised his Marvel role in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017), Avengers: Infinity War (2018), Avengers: Endgame (2019), and the planned Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. Meanwhile, in 2016 he was part of an ensemble cast in The Magnificent Seven and the male lead in Passengers.Description above is from the Wikipedia article Chris Pratt, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Samuel L. Jackson
ActingWashington, D.C., USAIf Hollywood had a final boss, it would be Samuel L. Jackson. The man has been in well over 150 films, holds the world record for the highest-grossing actor of all time, and has uttered a certain twelve-letter expletive more times than the rest of the human race combined.Before he became the undisputed king of cinematic cool, he spent years stealing scenes in minor roles, including getting famously chomped by a dinosaur in Jurassic Park. But everything changed when he teamed up with Quentin Tarantino to play the Jheri-curled, Bible-quoting hitman Jules Winnfield in Pulp Fiction. That single performance didn't just earn him an Oscar nod; it created a template for the modern action anti-hero and proved that nobody delivers a monologue quite like him.From that point on, if a director needed a character who could radiate absolute authority while trading top-tier banter, Sam was the only phone call to make. He brought that exact energy to the blockbuster leagues, trading verbal blows with Bruce Willis in Die Hard with a Vengeance and playing the puppet-master superhero recruiter Nick Fury across a massive chunk of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, starting all the way back with the original Iron Man.He’s also one of the few actors powerful enough to break strict franchise lore just because he felt like it. When joining the Star Wars prequels as Jedi Master Mace Windu in The Phantom Menace, he specifically asked George Lucas for a purple lightsaber just so he could spot himself easily on screen during the massive arena battle scenes. Lucas naturally folded and gave him one. Whether he's surviving genetically modified sharks in Deep Blue Sea or dealing with venomous reptiles in Snakes on a Plane, the man doesn't just act in movies—he completely commands them.3 Deep Cuts You Didn't Know
The Stand-In Days:Long before he was a global icon, he spent three years in the 1980s working as a camera blocking stand-in for Bill Cosby on The Cosby Show, mostly because he was the exact right height and skin tone to wear those notoriously loud sweaters while the crew adjusted the studio lighting.The Ultimate Anchor Word:That famous foul-mouthed catchphrase he uses in almost every movie isn’t just for show. He actually developed a severe stutter as a kid, and after researching speech techniques, discovered that using that specific twelve-letter swear word as an "anchor" helped him completely bypass the stutter and speak fluidly.The Marine Biology Pivot:He originally went to college to study marine biology, planning a quiet life looking at sea life before accidentally joining a local theater group just to earn a few extra credits for a public speaking class.Click the Filmography tab below to see all the Movies & Series linked to Samuel L. Jackson on Insomniacs.
Hannah Waddingham
ActingWandsworth, London, England, UKHannah Waddingham (born 28 July 1974) is an English actress, singer and television presenter. She is known for playing businesswoman Rebecca Welton in Ted Lasso (2020–2023), for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series in 2021 and the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series in both 2021 and 2022.She has also appeared in several West End shows, including Spamalot, the 2010 Regent's Park revival of Into the Woods and The Wizard of Oz as the Wicked Witch of the West. She has received three Olivier Award nominations for her work.Waddingham's film work includes the film adaptation of Les Misérables (2012), the psychological thriller Winter Ridge (2018) and the action comedy The Fall Guy (2024). Other notable television roles include playing Tonya Dyke in Benidorm (2014), Septa Unella in the fifth season of the HBO series Game of Thrones(2015–2016), Jax-Ur in Krypton (2018–2019) and Sofia Marchetti in Sex Education (2019–2023). In 2023, she co-hosted the Eurovision Song Contest. Beginning in 2023, Waddingham began to expand into voice acting, portraying the snarky goddess Deliria in the animated series Krapopolis (2023-present) and earning a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance nomination and Jinx in The Garfield Movie.Description above from the Wikipedia article about Hannah Waddingham, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.