WHAT'S NEW? | JANUARY 2009

FEATURED ACTORS / ACTRESSES

GARY OLDMAN
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The ultimate chameleonic character actor whose string of performances during the late 80s and early 90s is only equalled by Marlon Brando in the 50s.

ELLEN BURSTYN
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Perhaps the biggest female talent of them all, but Ellen Burstyn never quite shot to superstardom. Maybe just as well, becase this intelligent, level-headed woman knows more about life than most actresses.

WILLIAM HURT
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One of the classiest classically trained, all-American leading men with a career spanning from sex symbol in the 80s to Cronenberg gangster last year

ALAN ALDA
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One of the most beloved performers of the past thirty years, Alan Alda gained immortality through Hawkeye Pierce one of the best ever acted tv-characters and followed up defining the tolerant, intelligent, middle-aged sensitive man in films from the early eighties.

ROBERT DUVALL
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One of the most prolific, intense and skillful actors of our time, Robert Duvall has been a star for forty years and is still going strong. His depth of character is arguably unequalled.

JENNIFER JASON LEIGH
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This beautiful actress doesn't like to play the girl next door. She liks to dig into the periphery of humans. Roger Ebert dubbed her 'the fearless adventurer of extreme roles'. I dub her the most sexy actress of the past fifteen years.

JOHNNY DEPP
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From enigmatic, alternative leading man to one of the biggest stars in the business. Johnny Depp isn't the archtypical moviestar. He's off-beat, dark, secretive and cameleonic. And not to forget, the sexiest man around.

NATALIE PORTMAN
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This sensual, strikingly beautiful and undeniably talented actress has been a movie star for ten years but has only just started. Check out the future queen of Hollywood.

BURT REYNOLDS
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Perhaps no other actor has conquered the world merely based on charm and charisma in the way Burt Reynolds did in the seventies. His talents have been debated, but his screen presence was singular.

CHRISTIAN BALE
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He came from nowhere to a leading role in Steven Spielberg's Empire of the Sun and has since slowly built a name for himself. Now Christian Bale is ready to conquer the world.

GLENN CLOSE
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A slow starter, but Glenn Close shot to instant stardom in the early eighties displaying a range and understanding of characters that has made her one of the most respected women in the business..

PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN
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Perhaps the best young character actor to emerge in Hollywood during the past twenty years. Hoffman is still only at the start of his career, and his potential is unarguable.

WARREN BEATTY
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Few people in Hollywood have gone their own way to the extent of Warren Beatty. A charismatic actor and a creative filmmaker who has only ever starred in 22 pictures since his debut in 1961.

JAMES STEWART
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"Jimmy Stewart is less a movie star than he is a cultural icon", claimed Leonard Maltin. Here we review the career of one of the most elegant, suave and beloved actors in the history of cinema.

EDWARD NORTON
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Perhaps the greatest acting talent Hollywood has seen since the early days of Marlon Brando. And this versatily and shrewd young man has only just begun.

HARVEY KEITEL
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Scorsese-companion Keitel has built himself a career more patiently than most by focusing on artistic integrity and a willingness to take a chance.

MERYL STREEP
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The determined and unpretensious diva who, despite conveying everything Hollywood is not, has written one of the greatest success stories the city has seen.

JEFF BRIDGES
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The sparkling kid has grown up. Once a prodigal son of the seventies, now one of Hollywood's most innate character actors. Of course, he's also son of one of the most hilarious men in the history of cinema.

SIR JOHN GIELGUD
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Perhaps the last of a tradition of great Shakesperian actors. Gielgud's career has been as assorted and diversed as his private life has been encircled in controversy. Even until his death at 96, the old veteran was highly active.

MARLON BRANDO
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One of, if not the greatest talent in movie history, whose broad range of characters ranges from vulnerable youths to low-lifes in stained raincoats. An eccentric individualist and a media-shy rebel, but also one of the 20th century's greatest men.

ELIJAH WOOD
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Elijah Wood, one of the most talented youngsters Hollywood has seen, started off as an exceptionally emotional child star beforing growing into a hearthrub with the role of Frodo in The Lord of the Rings trilogy.