Producer and actor Michael Douglas starred and produced in the 1984 romantic adventure comedy Romancing the Stone which launched his name into fame. He starred next to Glenn Close in the horror thriller Fatal Attraction in 1987 and played Gordon Gekko in Wall Street and won an Academy Award for Best Actor. Oliver Stone directed…
Matt Damon started his acting career in 1988 when he had a ‘one liner’ in the comedy, Mystic Pizza. His first big role came in Geronimo: An American Legend alongside Gene Hackman and Jason Patric in 1992. Working with friend Ben Affleck, the pair wrote a script about a young math genius which later was…
Celebrity Speaker Mark Wahlberg didn’t start out as an actor; his first claim to fame came as the younger brother of Donnie Wahlberg of New Kids on the Block. As one of the original members at only 13, Mark along with Donne, Danny Wood, Jordan Knight, and Jonathan Knight became a hit overnight. He then…
Golden Globe Award winner for Best Actor in The Aviator, Leonardo DiCaprio began his acting career appearing in TV commercials and landing roles in the soap opera, Santa Barbara and TV show Growing Pains. Leonardo’s film debut came in the sci-fi horror Critters 3 and he received high praise for This Boy’s Life. Other supporting…
Co-creator, head writer, and executive producer of hit TV series, Seinfeld, celebrity speaker Larry David won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series in 1993. Before Seinfeld, Larry was a standup comedian and then went into TV comedy and wrote and starred in ABC’s Fridays and wrote for Saturday Night Live. Winner of two…
Celebrity Speaker Denzel Washington is a well-respected actor and filmmaker. Attending Fordham University to study journalism, Denzel caught a bug—the acting bug and won a scholarship to the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, and then to the Shakespeare in the Park ensemble. He made his debut appearances in A Carbon Copy and emerged in…