Insights from the Cinematic World: Actors /Directors

January 2011 Ed Gass-Donnelly was selected as one of the top ten film makers to watch

Ed Gass-Donnelly

Ed Gass-Donnelly (born August 17, 1977 in Toronto, Ontario) is an award-winning Canadian film director, screenwriter and producer. His work often explores themes of death, colliding worlds and the darker sides of human nature. His characters are every-day people who are put in extraordinary situations and left to fend for themselves.

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Exploring work behind the camera, as well, Kirsten Dunst made her directorial debut with the short film Welcome, starring Winona Ryder, which screened at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival

Kirsten Dunst

Kirsten Caroline Dunst (born April 30, 1982) is an American actress, singer and model. Kirsten Dunst got her showbiz start at the age of three, when she began filming television commercials. With more than 50 commercials under her belt, she made the jump to the big screen in 1989 in Woody Allen’s New York Stories.

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In January 2012,Anthony Hopkins released an album of classical music, entitled Composer, performed by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra released by Decca.

Anthony Hopkins

Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins, CBE best known as Anthony Hopkins, is a Welsh actor of film, stage, and television, and a composer. Considered to be one of the greatest living actors, Hopkins is perhaps best known for his portrayal of Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs.

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Daniel Craig

Daniel Wroughton Craig (born 2 March 1968) is an English actor best known for playing British secret agent James Bond since 2006. Daniel Craig was born in West Cheshire Hospital. His mother, Carol Olivia (née Williams), was an art teacher. Both of Daniel Craig’s parents were of half Welsh descent.

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Brad Pitt

William Bradley “Brad” Pitt (born December 18, 1963) is an American actor and film producer. Pitt has received four Academy Award nominations and five Golden Globe Award nominations, winning one Golden Globe. He has been described as one of the world’s most attractive men, a label for which he has received substantial media attention.

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