Academy Award winner Morgan Freeman maintains one of Hollywood’s most prolific careers, coupling integrity with elegance. Freeman enjoys a level of respect and admiration within the entertainment industry for his talent, business acumen and integrity. His work has transcended type and redefined variety, with roles ranging from the pimp Fast Black in Street Smart, Sergeant [...]
Paul Wagner, Charlottesville’s first and only Emmy- and Oscar-winning documentary film director, still gives serious meaning to the self-styled guerrilla filmmaker. In 1996, he led a small film crew into Tibet and secretly filmed scenes with a digital video camera in order to produce Windhorse, a gritty and evocative film about the horrors Tibetans still [...]
After a year at London’s Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and an MFA from the Yale School of Drama, Liev Schreiber embarked on his professional career at the Edinburgh Festival in Scotland. The tall (6′2″), brooding actor with the youthful face and resonant voice originally wanted to be a writer, but was drawn to performing. [...]
“Stripping away artifice –it’s the constant standard I aim for in acting, to approximate life. People talk about being bigger than life –but there’s nothing bigger than life.” –quoted in the Los Angeles Times, December 21, 1993.
Virginia resident Robert Duvall is considered by many to be among the finest actors of our time (Vincent Canby [...]
Novelist, screenwriter, producer and director, Michael Tolkin has solidified his reputation as a “feeling intellectual”in the jaded milieu of show business. His father, Mel, was screenwriter and his mother, Edith, a VP at Paramount. His brother, Stephen, is also in active in the movie and television industry.
Tolkin’s early childhood was spent in New York City [...]
