- 5.Rutger Hauer: dopo una adolescenza movimentata, si arruola in marina; constatato che quella vita non faceva per lui, ebbe la brillante idea di farsi passare per pazzo, con tanto di periodo d'internamento in ospedale psichiatrico. Funzionò, e diventò un feticcio del cinema.
- 4.Masi Oka: laurea in informatica, autore di software di simulazione dei fluidi per la Industrial Light & Magic, decide di capitalizzare la propria facciotta pacioccosa e diventa famoso come Hiro Nakamura.
- 3.Johnny Weissmuller: atleta eccezionale e mitico Tarzan (suo, il celebre urlo) restò schiavo del suo personaggio, tanto da continuare ad interpretarlo anche nella vita reale, per qualche tempo.
- 2.Asia Carrera: un QI di 156, a 13 anni suonava il piano alla Carnegie Hall; ben altre doti quelle mostrate nei circa 300 porno girati in dieci anni di carriera cinematografica.
- 1.Dolph Lundgren: un metro e novanta di muscolosa mascella, cintura nera di karate e... laurea in ingegneria chimica, con studi a Stoccolma, Sydney ed il MIT. Noi lo preferiamo come Ivan Drago, c'è poco da dire...
Lundgren, Dolph
Nome di battesimo: Lundgren, Hans Dolph
Data di nascita: 3 November 1957
Altezza: 6' 5¼" (1.96 m)
Coniuge: Anette Qviberg::(27 February 1994 - present) 2 children
Ultimi lavori:
- Tokyo Suckerpunch (2008) .... Chaka (rumored) [attore]
- Tumbling Dice (2008) .... (attached) [regista]
- Diamond Dogs (2007) .... (executive producer) [produttore]
- Missionary Man (2007) .... (producer) [produttore]
- L'Inchiesta (2006) .... Brixos [attore]
- The Mechanik (2005) .... (story) [scrittore]
- The Defender (2004) .... [regista]
- Direct Action (2004) .... Frank Gannon [attore]
- Fat Slags (2004) .... Randy [attore]
- Retrograde (2004) .... John Foster [attore]
Biografia:
Dolph Lundgren attended the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. He received a master's degree in chemical engineering from the University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, in 1982, and the next year was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to MIT. In New York City, he met drama coach Warren Robertson and decided to try his luck as an actor in action movies. His film The Shooter (1995) was shot mainly in Prague, Czech Republic. Lundgren has a second-degree black belt in karate and is aiming for his third-degree black belt.
Trivia random: Said to have an I.Q. of 160, but according to himself this is untrue.
Citazione random: "I was a movie star before having the chance to become an actor, so now I'm trying to backtrack." (in "Vanity Fair", 1995)
Salario massimo: FRF 15,000,000, per The Shooter (1995)
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Hauer, Rutger
Nome di battesimo: Hauer, Rutger Oelsen
Data di nascita: 23 January 1944
Altezza: 6' 1" (1.85 m)
Coniuge: Ineke ten Kate::(22 November 1985 - present) 1 child, Heidi Merz::(? - ?) (divorced) 1 child
Ultimi lavori:
- Happiness Runs (2008) .... Insley [attore]
- 7eventy 5ive (2007) .... Detective Criton [attore]
- Goal II: Living the Dream (2007) .... Rudi van der Merwe [attore]
- Magic Flute Diaries (2007) .... Dr. Richard Nagel [attore]
- Moving McAllister (2007) .... McAllister [attore]
- Spoon (2007) .... Victor Spoon [attore]
- Tonight at Noon (2007) .... Diego [attore]
- Crusade of Vengeance (2006) (V) .... Grekkor [attore]
- The Hunt for Eagle One (2006) (V) .... Gen. Frank Lewis [attore]
- The Hunt for Eagle One: Crash Point (2006) (V) .... Gen. Frank Lewis [attore]
Biografia:
Blonde, blue-eyed, tall and handsome Dutch actor Rutger Hauer has an international reputation for playing everything from romantic leads to action heroes to sinister villains. The son of actors, Hauer was born in Breukelen, Holland. Because his parents were often touring, he and his three sisters were raised by a nanny. A bit of a rebel during his childhood, he chafed at the rules and rigors of school and was often getting into mischief. His grandfather had been the captain of a schooner and at age 15, Hauer ran away to work on a freighter for a year. Like his great-grandfather, Hauer is color-blind, which prevented him from furthering his career as a sailor. Upon his return he attended night school and started working in the construction industry. When he again bombed at school, his parents enrolled him in drama classes. Fancying himself a poet, he spent most of his time writing poetry and hanging out in Amsterdam coffee houses instead of studying. He got expelled for poor attendance and afterward spent a brief period in the Dutch navy. Deciding he didn't like military life, he convinced his superiors that he was mentally unfit and was sent to a special home for psych patients. It was an unpleasant place, but Hauer remained there until he convinced his ranking officers that the military really did not need him.
Trivia random: Is color blind.
Citazione random: "I have a lot of energy. I'm a lot stronger than most people."
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Carrera, Asia
Nome di battesimo: Steinhauser, Jessica Andrea
Data di nascita: 6 August 1973
Altezza: 5' 8½" (1.74 m)
Coniuge: Don Lemmon::(19 December 2003 - 10 June 2006) (his death) 2 children, Bud Lee::(27 February 1995 - 29 September 2003) (divorced)
Ultimi lavori:
- Award Winning Sex Stars 2 (2006) (V) .... [attrice]
- Banzai Babes (2006) (V) .... [attrice]
- Bondage Babes (2006) (V) .... [attrice]
- Chock Full of Asians 2 (2006) (V) .... [attrice]
- Double Trouble (2006) (V) .... [attrice]
- Fantastic 4 on the Floor (2006) (V) .... [attrice]
- Forever Asia (2006) (V) .... [attrice]
- Girl Gasms 3 (2006) (V) .... [attrice]
- Hot Cherry Pies 3 (2006) (V) .... [attrice]
- Forever Jessica (2005) (V) .... [attrice]
Biografia:
Asia Carrera's stunning curves can be seen in more than 250 hardcore movies. Asia's looks combine delicate Asian features with voluptuous silicone breasts. Her fans not only admire her mouth-watering body but also her brains - Asia is known to be a very intelligent person. At the tender age of 13 the daughter of a German father and a Japanese mother already played J. S. Bach on the piano in Carnegie Hall. Thanks to a federal grant she was able to study Japanese language and Economics at Rutgers University in the USA. But this was only after she had run away from home as a teenager because of the pressure her demanding parents put on her. By the age of 17 she was homeless. To get through her studies at the university she turned to stripping. After becoming one of New Jersey's best-paid exotic dancers she decided to devote her life to getting richer and richer. She never wanted to live out on the street again. When she heard about girls making thousands of dollars in the porn biz she moved to Los Angeles. A mutual friend introduced her to director Bud Lee who instantly put her in one of his feature films. The rest - as they say - is history... Today Asia has retired from making adult movies and only ever returns to do the occasional big-budget flick. She runs her own homepage and spends her time chatting with fans via email or day trading shares at the stock exchange.
Trivia random: Gave birth to her first child, a daughter named Catalina Lemmon, on 4th March 2005 at 11:17am.
Citazione random: I've always been an atheist. Science explains everything. There is no meaning in life except to be the best at something. If only I could be the best at something, perhaps my parents would love me.
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Weissmuller, Johnny
Nome di battesimo: Weissmuller, Janos
Data di nascita: 2 June 1904
Data di morte: 20 January 1984
Altezza: 6' 3" (1.91 m)
Coniuge: Maria Brock Mandell Bauman::(1963 - 20 January 1984) (his death), Ailene Gates::(29 January 1948 - 1962) (divorced), Beryl Scott::(20 August 1939 - 29 January 1948) (divorced) 3 children, Lupe Velez::(8 October 1933 - 1939) (divorced), Bobbe Arnst::(28 February 1931 - October 1933) (divorced), Camilla Louiee::(? - ?) (divorced)
Ultimi lavori:
- Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976) .... Stagehand #2 [attore]
- Devil Goddess (1955) .... Johnny Weissmuller [attore]
- Jungle Moon Men (1955) .... Johnny Weissmuller [attore]
- Cannibal Attack (1954) .... Johnny Weissmuller [attore]
- Jungle Man-Eaters (1954) .... Jungle Jim [attore]
- Killer Ape (1953) .... Jungle Jim [attore]
- Savage Mutiny (1953) .... Jungle Jim [attore]
- Valley of Head Hunters (1953) .... Jungle Jim [attore]
- Jungle Jim in the Forbidden Land (1952) .... Jungle Jim [attore]
- Voodoo Tiger (1952) .... Jungle Jim [attore]
Biografia:
Johnny Weissmuller was born in Timisoara, Romania, then a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, though he would later claim to have been born in Windber, Pennsylvania, probably to ensure his eligibility to compete as part of the US Olympic team. A sickly child, he took up swimming on the advice of a doctor. He grew to be a 6' 3", 190-pound champion athlete - undefeated winner of five Olympic gold medals, 67 world and 52 national titles, holder of every freestyle record from 100 yards to the half-mile. In his first picture, Glorifying the American Girl (1929), he appeared as an Adonis clad only in a fig leaf. After great success with a jungle movie, MGM head Louis B. Mayer, via Irving Thalberg, optioned two of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan stories. Cyril Hume, working on the adaptation of Tarzan the Ape Man (1932), noticed Weissmuller swimming in the pool at his hotel and suggested him for the part of Tarzan. Weissmuller was under contract to BVD to model underwear and swimsuits; MGM got him released by agreeing to pose many of its female stars in BVD swimsuits. The studio billed him as "the only man in Hollywood who's natural in the flesh and can act without clothes". The film was an immediate box-office and critical hit. Seeing that he was wildly popular with girls, the studio told him to divorce his wife and paid her $10,000 to agree to it. After 1942, however, MGM had used up its options; it dropped the Tarzan series and Weissmuller, too. He then moved to RKO and made six more Tarzans. After that he made 16 Jungle Jim (1948) programmers for Columbia. He retired from movies to run private business in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Trivia random: His younger brother, Peter Jr., was born in the United States (Chicago). Both boys were strong, assertive swimmers.
Citazione random: "I started out as a scrawny kid in Chicago, and even that was lucky. It got me to swimming. Then all the good breaks in the world happened-and kept on happening."
Salario massimo: $75,000, per Swamp Fire (1946)
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Oka, Masi
Nome di battesimo: Oka, Masayori
Data di nascita: 27 December 1974
Altezza: 5' 6½" (1.69 m)
Ultimi lavori:
- GS: Get Bruce and Lloyd (2008) (V) .... Bruce [attore]
- Get Smart (2008) .... Bruce [attore]
- The Promotion (2008) .... [attore]
- Balls of Fury (2007) .... Jeff – Bathroom Attendant [attore]
- Jane Doe: Ties That Bind (2007) (TV) .... Agent Osaka [attore]
- One Sung Hero (2006) .... KJ [attore]
- God Wears My Underwear (2005) .... Brother Eo (voice) [attore]
- House of the Dead 2 (2005) (TV) .... Stanley Tong [attore]
- The Proud Family Movie (2005) (TV) .... Japanese Kid/Announcer (voice) [attore]
- Along Came Polly (2004) .... Wonsuk [attore]
Trivia random: In an interview with TV Guide's Michael Ausiello, he said that as of November 2006, he still works one or two days a week as a CGI artist for George Lucas's special effects company Industrial Light & Magic (at which Oka worked on the effects for such films as Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006), War of the Worlds (2005), the three most recent Star Wars movies, and The Perfect Storm (2000)). He also still drives his old car, a 2000 Honda Accord.
Citazione random: You know, I've actually been very good about not going on the Internet, I only look at things that my publicist and my friends send me, although I did see this one thing that my publicist sent me, I went online and it said, "oh my god, Hiro Nakamura, I love him so much. I want to make him my pet. I want to lock him up, talk to him, kiss him, I want to make him literally my pet." You know what, as long as they feed me, I'm all for it.
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
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