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William Bradley "Brad" Pitt was born on December 18, 1963 in Shawnee, Oklahoma and raised in Springfield, Missouri to Jane Etta Pitt (née Hillhouse), a school counselor & William Alvin "Bill" Pitt, a truck company manager. At Kickapoo High School, Pitt was involved in sports, debating, student government and school musicals. Pitt attended the University of Missouri, where he majored in journalism with a focus on advertising. He occasionally acted in fraternity shows. He left college two credits short of graduating to move to California. Before he became successful at acting, Pitt supported himself by driving strippers in limos, moving refrigerators and dressing as a giant chicken while working for El Pollo Loco.
Pitt's earliest credited roles were in television, starting on the daytime soap opera Another World (1964) before appearing in the recurring role of Randy on the legendary prime time soap opera Dallas (1978). Following a string of guest appearances on various television series through the 1980s, Pitt gained widespread attention with a small part in Thelma & Louise (1991), in which he played a sexy criminal who romanced and conned Geena Davis. This led to starring roles in badly received films such as Johnny Suede (1991) & Cool World (1992).
But Pitt's career hit an upswing with his casting in A River Runs Through It (1992), which cemented his status as an multi-layered actor as opposed to just a pretty face. Pitt's subsequent projects were as quirky and varied in tone as his performances, ranging from his unforgettably comic cameo as stoner roommate Floyd in True Romance (1993) to romantic roles in such visually lavish films as Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994) and Legends of the Fall (1994), to an emotionally tortured detective in the horror-thriller Se7en (1995). His portrayal of frenetic oddball Jeffrey Goines in 12 Monkeys (1995) won him a Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role.
Pitt's portrayal of Achilles in the big-budget period drama Troy (2004) helped establish his appeal as an action star and was closely followed by a co-starring role in the stylish spy-versus-spy flick Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005). It was on the set of Mr. & Mrs. Smith that Pitt, who married Jennifer Aniston in a highly publicized ceremony in 2000, met Angelina Jolie. Pitt left Aniston for Jolie in 2005, a break-up that continues to fuel tabloid stories years after its occurrence.
He continues to wildly vary his film choices, appearing in everything from high-concept popcorn flicks such as Megamind (2010) to adventurous critic-bait like Inglourious Basterds (2009) and The Tree of Life (2011). He has received two Best Actor Oscar nominations, for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) and Moneyball (2011). In 2014, he starred in the war film Fury (2014), opposite Shia LaBeouf, Logan Lerman, Jon Bernthal, and Michael Peña.
Pitt and Jolie have 6 children, 3 adopted & 3 biological.- Mason Andrew Dye is an American actor known for his roles in Teen Wolf, Flowers in the Attic, and in season four of Stranger Things. Mason Dye was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma. He grew up in Ada, Oklahoma with older brother Preston and younger sister Taylor, who is known for being one half of the country duo Maddie & Tae.
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- Camera and Electrical Department
Kristin Richardson was born on 4 August 1970 in Shawnee Mission, Kansas, USA. She is an actress, known for Jarhead (2005), Rock Star (2001) and Shut Up and Kiss Me! (2004). She has been married to Kevin Scott Richardson since 17 June 2000. They have two children.- Cece Whitney was born on 22 December 1929 in Shawnee, Oklahoma, USA. She was an actress, known for Bullet for a Badman (1964), Ben Casey (1961) and The Third Man (1959). She was married to Bernie Kopell and Jimmy Zito. She died on 5 October 2013 in Chatsworth, California, USA.
- Joe Cobb was born on 7 November 1916 in Shawnee, Oklahoma, USA. He was an actor, known for Uncle Tom's Uncle (1926), Good Cheer (1926) and The Buccaneers (1924). He died on 21 May 2002 in Santa Ana, California, USA.
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- Producer
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Katie Groshong was born to Fred and Deanna Groshong. She grew up in the small town of Wellsville, KS with her older sister Holly, and younger brother Noah. After graduating from Wellsville High School, she decided to continue her career as a vocalist while attending Belmont University's School of Music in Nashville, Tennessee. While at Belmont, she had a battle with vocal polyps, and decided surgery was not an option, so she left school in search of a new path. It was then that she discovered her love for acting. While attending a musical theatre rehearsal in 2001, directors Steve and Jeff Wedding saw and cast her in their first feature film, "Blind". Katie moved to Los Angeles for four years to pursue a career in acting, but in 2005 decided to move back to Nashville and start a production company with Jeff Wedding called GypsyRoot Productions. Their first project was a Super 8 short entitled, "Gracie: The Diary of a Coma Patient", which hit the festival circuit and won them a few "Best of the Fest" awards and a "Best Cinematography" award at the Eerie Horror Film Festival. With the accumulated press and industry praise for "Gracie", Jeff and Katie started their second project together in October 2007, a 16mm HD feature, "A Measure of the Sin", which was adapted from an award winning story by Kristy Nielsen. Katie continues to travel for acting, but Nashville is, and always will be her home.- Actress
- Writer
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Nicole Burch was born on 1 February 1982 in Shawnee Mission, Kansas, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for Barry (2018), Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2003) and Nicole Burch: Never Been Kissed (2020).- Actor
- Producer
Christopher Robert (Rob) Bowen is an American actor and producer. Bowen was born in the small town of Shawnee, Oklahoma to Lorna Mae Rosamond, an order controller, and Robert Larry Bowen, a construction worker. Bowen grew up in Bethel, a remote part of town, on 10 acres of land with his parents and older sister Kimberly. Bowen began his acting career as a child doing musical plays at his hometowns' "Shawnee Little Theater". As a teenager, he left acting behind to pursue sports, but returned to acting after rediscovering his love for the craft while performing in his senior class play at Bethel High School. Bowen attended Shawnee High School in Oklahoma until his Junior year. After poor conduct and poor grades, his parents transferred him to a much smaller Bethel High School where he graduated from in 1991. Religion was a big part of his upbringing and he regularly attended both Baptist and Church of Christ churches.
After graduating high school, Bowen left Oklahoma and headed for Dallas, Texas where he quickly landed an agent and went to work. He booked several small projects before securing a single episode role on "Walker, Texas Ranger" starring Chuck Norris. After several years in Dallas, Bowen headed for Los Angeles to pursue his new founded career. Upon arriving in L.A., Bowen went straight to work on several projects including a role opposite of Melissa Joan Hart on the hit television show "Sabrina the Teenage Witch" in 1999. Shortly afterwards Bowen met his future wife and decided to start a family. He took a 10 year hiatus to raise his family before returning to the stage for the musical production of "Evita" in 2010. As a follow up in 2011, Bowen won the "Outstanding Male in a Supporting Role" for his stage performance as "Capt. Jack Ross" in the hard hitting play "A Few Good Men" at the High Street Arts Center in Moorpark, CA.
Bowen's most notable screen time can be seen as the bank manager forced to commit a crime with his family held hostage in the action flick from LionsGate: "Marauders" (2016). Bowen also plays an ex-military wanna-be hero named "Eric" opposite Jeffery Dean Morgan, in the LionsGate movie "Heist/Bus 657" (2015) which also stars Robert De Niro. In some other notable roles, Bowen has acted opposite Adrian Grenier in "Arsenal/Southern Fury" (2017), as well as Bruce Willis in the action/heist movie "Precious Cargo" (2016). Precious Cargo marks Bowen's second film with Bruce Willis, following a supporting role in the movie "Extraction" (2016) where Bowen plays a CIA agent named "Purvis". Behind the camera, Bowen has produced several projects and has several larger ones in development.- Gordon Cooper was born on 6 March 1927 in Shawnee, Oklahoma, USA. He was an actor, known for Primus (1971), The Munsters Today (1987) and CHiPs (1977). He was married to Susan Theresa Taylor and Gertrude Bernice 'Trudy' Olson. He died on 4 October 2004 in Ventura, California, USA.
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- Writer
D'Angelo Lacy also known as Black Gatsby is an American songwriter, singer and actor.
Lacy discovered his love of music early in his childhood, while his love for performance came later in life.
As a competitive speech and debate student, Lacy won the 2004 NFL National Championship in Dramatic Interpretation and the 2005 TFA State Championship in Dramatic Interpretation. He was also named a 2005 Young Arts Winner in Theater.
After studying at UCLA's Theater, Film and Television program, Lacy left to pursue his dream of music. Under his stage persona Black Gatsby, the singer/songwriter has claimed a sonic landscape all his own, with a style that blends genres, bends gender and sexuality, and challenges the politics that define them all. He has collaborated extensively with musicians such as Twin Shadow, Justin Tranter, Moon Boots and various artists in multiple genres of music. His song 'Power' with Moon Boots was featured in a UNICEF campaign for women's rights.
The Hater is Lacy's first feature film.- Cinematographer
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Special Effects
Bud Thackery was born on 31 January 1903 in Shawnee, Oklahoma, USA. He was a cinematographer, known for The Crimson Ghost (1946), Women in War (1940) and Kraft Suspense Theatre (1963). He died on 15 July 1990 in Los Angeles County, California, USA.- Tom Brannum was born on 17 June 1935 in Shawnee, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for John Paul Jones (1959), Camera Three (1955) and Naked City (1958). He died on 10 April 2005 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Additional Crew
Lee Berger was born on 22 December 1965 in Shawnee Mission, Kansas, USA. He is known for Unknown: Cave of Bones (2023), Breakthrough Homo Naledi (2017) and Nano (1999).- Visual Effects
- Producer
- Animation Department
Chris Hummel made his life debut in Shawnee Mission, Kansas June of 1964. Moving to Pittsford, New York in 1971 he developed an early visual temperament and love for entertaining the neighborhood with his father's 35mm film projector. The son of a Kodak executive, Chris graduated with a degree in Design from Buffalo State Collage.
Chris's talent directed him to the west coast where he was recruited by several visual effects companies over a number of years to work on such feature film projects as Coneheads, Son of the Pink Panther, Batman Forever and commercial projects for Mitsubishi, British Air and CBS. Walt Disney Feature Animation grabbed him to work on such feature films as Hercules, Dinosaur, Atlantis: The Lost Empire, Lilo & Stitch and Brother Bear.
Chris has also worked with leading artists on feature film projects including Exorcist: The Beginning, The Ant Bully, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Action News 5, The Whisper Home, Free Birds and True Lies. His work on True Lies contributed to the films nomination by The Academy of Motion Pictures Art and Sciences for best Visual Effects in 1994.
Chris made his directorial debut with The Guardians for Ruff House Productions in 2010 serving as the artistic and technical leader for all preproduction, production, post, marketing and distribution.
His awards continued in 2013 with the VES Award for Best Visual Effects in a Special Venue production for Despicable Me: Minion Mayhem 3D at Universal Studios Florida.
Chris is always challenging his art and boundaries with new technologies and efforts to express his vision for entertainment and after 20+ years in the entertainment industry, his eyes are to the future with desires to tackle new projects and horizons. He currently is now working on new areas of the industry while developing projects to entertain the public as it was with the neighborhood children back at that early age.- William Boyce was born on 5 April 1932 in Shawnee, Oklahoma, USA. He was an actor, known for The Slime People (1963), Cafe Purgatory (1999) and The Nation's Health (1983). He died on 29 April 2013 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA.
- Editorial Department
Born Donah June Polk in Shawnee, Oklahoma. Her mother moved her to California in 1928. Donah studied art thru high school and community college in Santa Monica, California. She began a career in the Film Industry in 1954, working as a film technician at Technicolor Film Laboratory. She then moved to MGM to become a Negative Film Cutter in 1966 and to Universal Studios in 1971. In 1976, Ms. Bassett founded Donah Bassett & Associates, a Negative Cutting company. She maintained offices at Technicolor, MGM, Consolidated Film Industries and Deluxe Laboratories, contracting with all the major film studios. Her career brought her to work with Film Directors and Cinematographers that were the cream of the film artists. Names like Coppola, Scorsese, Friedkin, Caleb Deschnel, Vittorio Storaro, and Steven Spielberg, just to name a few. Her passion for art and a career in film have prepared Donah for performing her best, on canvas.
Now a resident of Phoenix, Arizona, she has studied painting with Tom Haas, Joni Falk, Heidi Moran, Maxine Johnson and Jane Wingfield at local workshops associated with The Scottsdale Art School. Donah's paintings reflect her love of nature and light. She has shown her work in numerous exhibitions and Galleries in California and Arizona.- Was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma.
His mother Linda, graduated high school with Brad Pitt's aunt Pat, and his aunt Sheryl graduated high school with Brad Pitt's dad, Bill.
Spent nine seasons with Oklahoma Shakespeare In The Park, performing in Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night, Love's Labor's Lost, Macbeth, Richard III, The Tempest and The Merry Wives Of Windsor.
Is an Aquarius. - Benny Joo was born on 17 March 2000 in Shawnee Mission, Kansas, USA. He is an actor, known for Jukka (2009).
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Performed for over 50 years on stage, movies and television. Noted mostly for a novelty act: playing a bicycle pump, and "Pop Goes the Weasel" on his fiddle. He wore oversized shoes -- maybe two-and-a-half feet long -- and he'd stand on tip-toe as he played, causing him to rise and fall in height. He played trombone as sideman. Also performed under the name Willie Hall.- Andy Joo was born on 18 May 1998 in Shawnee Mission, Kansas, USA. He is an actor, known for Jukka (2009).
- Darrien Gordon was born on 14 November 1970 in Shawnee, Oklahoma, USA.
- Caroline Vinciguerra was born on 11 July 1971 in Shawnee Mission, Kansas, USA. She is an actress, known for Suspension (2008), Fling (2008) and Limerence (2017).
- Christophe Murdock was born on 25 May 1978 in Shawnee, Oklahoma, USA. He is an actor and director, known for Breaker One Niner/the Herpees/Civic Minded Five/Jag Offs: Live at Music Dimensions 1/25/00 (2000), I Know What You Need (2005) and Skid (2015).
- Dylan Green was born on 25 April 2002 in Shawnee Mission, Kansas, USA. Dylan is an actor, known for A Day Having Doubts (2022), Inspired (2024) and The Duck and the Dragon (2020).
- Deidra Gevargizian was born on 17 January 1951 in Shawnee Mission, Kansas, USA. Deidra was previously married to Benjamin Gevargizian.
- Cindy Joo was born on 6 June 1996 in Shawnee Mission, Kansas, USA. She is an actress, known for Phoebe in Wonderland (2008).
- Actor
- Casting Director
- Producer
Scott Mitchell Nelson was born on 15 November 1970 in Shawnee Mission, Kansas, USA. He is an actor and casting director, known for The Life Coach (2005), Dead at 21 (1994) and The Hardest Thing to Earn (2015).- Wilbur Swartz was born on 8 August 1913 in Shawnee, Oklahoma, USA. He was an actor, known for The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974), The Night of the Strangler (1972) and Movin' On (1974). He died on 7 July 2011 in Waco, Texas, USA.
- Brad Henry was born on 10 June 1963 in Shawnee, Oklahoma, USA. He is married to Kimberly Blain. They have three children.
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Producer
Matthew (Matt) Edwin Nixon was born in Shawnee Mission, Kansas USA to Karen Jeanette Nixon (Frazer) & Dale Robert Nixon. He attended the University of Kansas and maintains a career in the financial services industry. Early in his career, Matt was approached by Actir/Director Andy Holder and Chris Komsthoef both of Forever Films to partner with them as Executive Producer.- Additional Crew
- Casting Department
- Producer
Kirsten Clevenger was born on 3 May 1984 in Shawnee, Kansas, USA. She is a producer, known for Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001), Made (2003) and World Series of Pop Culture (2006).- Zack Morris was born on 17 September 1948 in Shawnee, Oklahoma, USA. He is an actor, known for Montford: The Chickasaw Rancher (2021).
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- Writer
- Cinematographer
Daniel made his narrative feature producing and directing debut with Comic Evangelists in 2006. In 2002, as a Reuters youth reporter, Jones produced and directed a feature length documentary titled "Two Weeks in Johannesburg." The film followed the experience of young people at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Upon graduating from Hunter College in New York with a degree in Environmental Science, he founded Blanket Statement Productions and worked as an independent producer, cinematographer, and editor for several companies and projects including the Global Lives Project, Generation Excel, and the Morris K. Udall Foundation. While Comic Evangelists was in production in Kalamazoo, Michigan, Jones worked as a supervisor in the Education for the Arts Media Lab, a state-of-the-art media center for high school students.
He is currently an MFA candidate at American University's Film and Video program in Washington, DC, and runs the website www.theblanketstatement.com.- Additional Crew
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Producer
McKenzie Clements was born on 5 June 1994 in Shawnee Mission, Kansas, USA. McKenzie is a producer, known for The Certainty Machine (2017), Occam (2017) and BIFL (2019).- Nick Cockrane was born on 24 July 1907 in Shawnee, Oklahoma, USA. He was an actor, known for Priorities on Parade (1942) and Here Comes Elmer (1943). He died in March 1976 in Mesa, Arizona, USA.
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- Additional Crew
- Director
Krystal Heib was born on 2 September 1986 in Shawnee Mission, Kansas, USA. She is an actress and director, known for Jasmine (2015), The Taking of Savannah (2011) and American Maniacs (2012).- Grant Richey was born on 1 June 1960 in Shawnee, Kansas, USA. He was an actor, known for Homo Heights (1998), Into Temptation (2009) and Overnight Delivery (1998). He died on 26 November 2009 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
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- Writer
- Casting Director
Kellista Rae Sidwell was born on 18 March 1982 in Shawnee Mission, Kansas, USA. Kellista Rae is a director and writer, known for Another Day at the Office (2003).- Director
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- Editor
Woody Lindsey was born on 29 June 1980 in Shawnee, Oklahoma, USA. Woody is a director and writer, known for Angel Trumpets, Devil Trombones (2009).- Patrick Cobbs was born on 31 January 1983 in Shawnee, Oklahoma, USA.
- Bob Welch was born on 20 March 1959 in Shawnee, Oklahoma, USA. He is a producer, known for An Ox's Tale: The John Entwistle Story (2006).
- Max Lale was born on 31 August 1916 in Shawnee, Oklahoma, USA. He died on 22 April 2006 in Fort Worth, Texas, USA.
- Director
- Actor
- Writer
James Edgin was born on 15 December 1948 in Shawnee, Oklahoma, USA. He was a director and actor, known for Desperado (1978). He died on 20 June 2009 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA.- Chris Mcafee was born on 23 February 1987 in Shawnee, Oklahoma, USA.
- Nick Laden was born on 17 March 1981 in Shawnee, Kansas, USA. He is an actor, known for In the Red (2006).
- Will Corker was born on 18 March 1985 in Shawnee Mission, Kansas, USA.
- Anne Haines is a promising newcomer to the realm of screen acting. Ever since the seventh grade, Anne has known that she wouldn't be happy with her life if she wasn't acting or performing. She is building up her film credits in the Kansas City industry with independent films, commercials, and industrials before making the leap to Los Angeles.
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- Publicist
Karen Douglass was born on 5 July 1957 in Shawnee, Oklahoma, USA. She is a publicist, known for For the Boys (1991) and Elvis: The Great Performances (1990).