American television actors

From Performing in plays around the world with the National Theatre of the Deaf to sharing a screen with characters such as Oscar the Grouch, Bert, Ernie, and Cookie Monster, Linda Bove has become an inspiration to many Deaf actors and actresses. Born into a Deaf family November 30, 1945, Bove began her education at St. Joseph’s School for the Deaf in the Bronx, New York. From there she continued her education at the Marie Katzenbach School for the Deaf in Trenton, New Jersey graduating later…

professional actors should be aware of how pivotal casting directors are to getting work in the theatre, film, and television business. Casting directors are the first “friend” you meet when an actor is looking for work, the casting directors are scouting for fresh new talent that they could cast in their upcoming projects that they are casting at the time. Usually, casting directors are hired by television studios, networks, production companies, and producers of Broadway shows to give actors…

they examine on their screen? A viewer would be watching a comedy show with primarily young white men, some white women, and very few African Americans. There is a problem with the low levels of diversity within Saturday Night Live, otherwise called SNL. Since the show’s beginning, Saturday Night Live has had a very long history with not displaying actors from a variety of races and backgrounds. I, Hannah Rabitoy, head writer for SNL, am writing to the executive producer, Lorne Michaels, to…

Movies were America’s form of visual entertainment before the invention of TV. Today, movies are seen as a lucrative and popular media industry. However, movies make less money than newspapers, television, and publishing. They are expensive, and they do not promise a return of profit. The technology behind movies had a long evolution. It first started with the invention of the photographic gun camera. This camera was used by Etienne- Jules Marey and Edward Muybridge. These men worked on…

as Sam Seaborn on the popular television show The West Wing, or the eloquently speaking, super fit, Chris Traeger from the NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation. People over forty however, will most likely know him as a former heartthrob from the eighties that swept the women off their feet in movies like The Outsiders and St. Elmo's Fire. They will also however, remember him as the focal point in a leaked tape, who's outcomes nearly ruined his life and career. The actor being referred to is none…

25 year old Ashley Benson, one of the stars of "Pretty Little Liars", has three movies coming out soon. "Chronically Metropolitan" and "Elvis and Nixon" are currently in post-production. "Chronically Metropolitan", a comedy drama that is due out in 2016, was written by Nicholas Schutt and directed by Xavier Manrique. The film is about a young author named Fenton Dillane (Fernandez) writing his first novel, who goes home to face his various personal problems. It stars Benson, Shiloh Fernandez,…

dominated the Tony awards and is completely sold out in every venue for the foreseeable future. This is an American story told in the American medium of the musical and features a diverse American cast. Hamilton is a nearly all black cast. Founding fathers like Thomas Jefferson and George Washington are played by black actors. These past few years have been celebrated as the best time for minority actors in Broadway history. “Tonys made history by giving the awards in all four of its musical…

Carlos Irwin Estevez, also known as Charlie Sheen is a popular American Actor who was born on September 3, 1965 in New York. He was born to Martin Sheen, who was also an actor, and Janet Templeton, who was an artist. He has two brothers whose names are Emilio and Ramon. He also has a sister whose name is Renee. All of them are actors. He first appeared in a movie at his age of 9. The name of the movie was ‘The Execution of Private Slovik’ which was his father’s movie which was in 1974. When he…

The world is always evolving in every aspect, whether it be technology or people, there is no denying it. However, the film industry moves at a much slower pace that it seems frozen in time. Everyone is much more open minded now than in the past. For instance, Tattoos were considered rebellious but now considered as body art. Society has learned to adapt with the times and gained the ability to accept everyone for who they are. Whereas, the film industry continues to judge people according to…

The movies Sweet Home Alabama and Just Like Heaven have further in common than just the leading lady, Reese Witherspoon. These two movies represent the romantic ideals of society in appropriately similar ways. Both movies teach valuable lessons in telling how Hollywood chooses to portray what the concept of love is and how it develops in romantic films. In Sweet Home Alabama the first concept of love is the chemistry between the two characters. Right off the bat, the chemistry between the two…