Love at first sight in Rhode Island: the characters
STEVE CARELL (Dan)
Steve Carell is a very popular American comedian comedian. Coming from the Second City of Chicago, he has performed in various theaters in this city including the Goodman Theater and the Wisdom Bridge Theater. He made his television debut as screenwriter and performer of "The Dana Carvey Show" and acted as "Over the Top", before making his name as a correspondent for "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" . Since then, he has built a solid reputation on the small as well as the big screen.
He had his first big film success in 2005 as a co-writer with Judd Apatow, executive producer and performer of the 40-YEAR comedy, ALWAYS PUCEAU, with Catherine Keener, directed by Apatow. The movie remained in the US box office for two weeks and grossed more than $ 175 million worldwide, rising to first place in 12 countries on release. Success continued on DVD with more than $ 100 million worth of recipes in North America alone. The movie received an AFI Award, being elected as one of the top 10 movies of the year, and won the Best Award movie 11 comedye Critics' Choice Awards. Carell and Apatow have been named to the Writers Guild Association's Best Screenplay Award.
Steve Carell is currently an interpreter of the American adaptation of the comic series "The Office". The show is in its third season and continues to gather a large audience. Carell was named to the Emmy for Best Actor in a comedy. In 2006, he received the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a television series, comedy or musical category, for his portrayal of Michael Scott, a stuck and pretentious boss of a Pennsylvania-based company.
Next summer, he will be the star of movie Peter Segal's action and comedy GET SMART, based on characters created by Mel Brooks, with Anne Hathaway.
In 2006, he was one of the LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE performers, alongside Greg Kinnear and Toni Collette, among others. The movie was nominated for the Oscar for Best movie and is the winner of the SAG Award for Best Overall Performance.
He lent his voice to Hammy's character in the movie animation NOS NEIGHBORS MEN and had previously played in MY WELL-LOVED SORCER Nora Ephron, with Nicole Kidman, Will Ferrell, Shirley MacLaine and Michael Caine. He was already playing with Will Ferrell in the comedy FEATURED PRESENTER: THE LEGEND OF RON BURGUNDY by Adam McKay. He previously played presenter Evan Baxter in Tom Shadyac's BRUCE ALL-POWERING, with Jennifer Aniston, Jim Carrey and Morgan Freeman. He also played with Ferrell in MELINDA AND MELINDA of Woody Allen.
Born in Massachusetts, Steve Carell lives in Los Angeles with his wife, actress Nancy Walls ("Saturday Night Live").
JULIETTE BINOCHE (Marie)
Juliette Binoche is one of the very few actresses to be as successful in Europe as in the United States. She received an Oscar for THE ENGLISH PATIENT from Anthony Minghella. She also won the Silver Bear in Berlin, the European Movie Award, and the National Board of Review for Best Supporting Actor.
Born on March 9, 1964 in Paris, Juliette Binoche has been passionate about theater since childhood. At 16, she staged "The King is dying" of Eugene Ionesco in his high school. She studied drama at the Conservatoire and in private lessons. She started at the cinema in LIBERTY BELLE by Pascal Kané in 1983, then took her first major role under the direction of Jean-Luc Godard in JE VOUS SALUE MARIE.
In 1985, she plays an aspiring actress in RENDEZ-VOUS by André Téchiné, and the intensity of her performance earned her a César nomination for best actress. The following year, she won the Prix Romy Schneider, and gave two years later the replica Daniel Day-Lewis in his first movie American, The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Philip Kaufman. She then returns to Paris to play at the theater of the Odeon the role of Nina in "The Seagull" by Anton Chekhov, directed by Andrei Konchalovsky. She also directs the short film HBO "Mara" directed by Mike Figgis.
Leverage of Leos Carax, she turns with him BAD BLOOD then LES AMANTS DU BRIDGE NEUF, an atypical project that will require three years of work. It is then found in two movies in English, FATALE by Louis Malle with Jeremy Irons and Leslie Caron, and LES HAUTS DE HURLEVENT by Peter Kosminsky, with Ralph Fiennes.
New turning point in his career in 1993 with the trilogy of Krzysztof Kieslowski, THREE COLORS: BLUE, WHITE and RED. She wins for the first movie several awards, including the César Award for Best Actress, the Félix Award for Best Actress in Europe and the Interpretation Award at the Venice Film Festival.
She has a new success thanks to her Oscar winner portrait of the PATIENT ANGLAIS nurse, opposite Ralph Fiennes and Kristin Scott-Thomas. Now consecrated as an international star, Juliette Binoche chaines Chantal Akerman's A DIVAN A NEW YORK, Jean-Paul Rappeneau's THE HUSSARD ON THE ROOF, Lasse Hallström's CHOCOLATE, for which she is nominated for the Oscar, two Screen Actors Guild Awards and the Golden Globe, and LA WIDOW OF SAINT-PIERRE by Patrice Leconte, with Daniel Auteuil. She was applauded at the same time on stage in "Naked" by Luigi Pirandello at the Almeida Theater in London.
She plays George Sand in THE CHILDREN OF THE CENTURY by Diane Kurys, and makes an incursion into the comedy with DIFFERENCE HOURS by Danièle Thompson. It turns IN MY COUNTRY under the direction of John Boorman, finds André Téchiné and the auteur cinema with ALICE ET MARTIN, then turns two movies under the direction of Michael Haneke, CODE UNKNOWN then HID, crowned in Cannes, the British Independent Movie Awards and by the Los Angeles Movie Critics Association Award. She is Richard Gere's partner in Scott McGehee's WORDS RECOGNIZED.
She then takes the title role of MARY of Abel Ferrara, plays in a segment of PARIS, I LOVE YOU, and interprets SOME DAYS IN SEPTEMBER of Santiago Amigorena, with John Turturro.
She was last seen in BY EFFRACTION, written and directed by Anthony Minghella, whom she co-starred with Jude Law, Robin Wright Penn, and Martin Freeman.
She has toured since THE JOURNEY OF THE RED BALL of the Taiwanese director Hsiao-hsien Hou, DISENGAGEMENT of Amos Gitai and PARIS of Cédric Klapisch.
She will also be featured in L'Heure d'été by Olivier Assayas, The Other Man by Richard Eyre, Another Form of Silence by Santiago Amigorena, SOCIALISM by Jean-Luc Godard and COPIE CONFORME by Abbas Kiarostami.
DANE COOK (Mitch)
A stand-up star in the United States, Dane Cook has also established himself as a talented comedian in a wider field of cinema and television. In 2006, he starred as Zack in Greg Coolidge's romantic comedy EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH.
He was playing recently in the MR thriller. BROOKS, directed by Bruce A. Evans, starring Kevin Costner, Demi Moore and William Hurt. His interpretation was welcomed by the New York TimeAs one of the best five of the summer of 2007. He was also the hero of the comedy CHARLIE, THE GIRLS SAY IT THANKS Mark Helfrich, with Jessica Alba.
Through his production company, SUperFInger Entertainment, he will produce and be the star of EX-FAMILY, and an untitled comedy about the father-son relationship with Disney and producer David Hoberman. He also works on a movie of his shows in Boston played in April 2006.
In the cinema, we could see him in movies like WAITING ... by Rob McKittrick, with Ryan Reynolds and Anna Farris, LONDON by Hunter Richards, with Jessica Biel and Chris Evans, TORQUE, ON THE ROAD INFLAMES by Joseph Kahn, with Ice Cube, MYSTERY MEN by Kinka Usher, with Ben Stiller, Greg Kinnear, Geoffrey Rush and Claire Forlani, or SIMON SEZ, EXPLOSIVE SAVING by Kevin Elders, with whom he co-starred with Dennis Rodman.
He signed a production contract with HBO in early 2006, after which he created, directed, and performed the nine-episode comedy series "Tourgasm", and was a screenwriter, executive producer and performer of "Vicious Circle". , a 90-minute stand-up show filmed by 18 cameras.
Combining energy-filled visual comedy, puns and sharp observations of human behavior, Dane Cook's particular humor on stage and its accessibility appealed to audiences of all ages. He was very applauded for his second album / double CD / DVD, "Retaliation", which ranked fourth in Billboard 200. The album was double platinum and made Dane Cook the best-ranked comedian for 29 years, alongside comedy legends like Bill Cosby, George Carlin and Steve Martin. His first CD / DVD, "Harmful If Swallowed", was classified in eight different tops of Billboard and was platinum record.
In 2006, Dane Cook hosted the first episode of the "Saturday Night Live" season, and helped to make it the highest audience rate of the year for a show other than a sports event, all cable channels confused. A highly sought-after talk show host, he has appeared several times at "Jimmy Kimmel Live", "The Late Show With David Letterman", "Late Night With Conan O'Brien", "The Tonight Show" and "The Late Show" With Craig Killbourne ". He hosted the "Comedy Central's Insomniac Tour Movie" and lent his voice to "Crank Yankers" and "Shorties Watchin 'Shorties".
In addition to his performances at Carnegie Hall or the Chicago Allstate Arena, Dane Cook has given two record shows in front of 38,000 people at the Boston Garden, one in front of 39,000 people in Madison Square Garden and another in front of 50,000 at Gator Growl University of Florida.
Born in Arlington, a suburb of Boston, Massachusetts, Dane Cook began at the age of 18 performing at his university and cabaret shows. He then moved to New York, signed a contract with ABC Television and played in his first feature film, MY COPAIN BUDDY by Caroline Thompson. A year later, he settled in Los Angeles, signed with NBC and played in the sitcom "Susan! ".
He won second place at the prestigious Stand-Up Comedy Competition in 1995.
Desiring to stay close to his audience, he was one of the first comedians to develop his own website. Its website, www.danecook.com, lists more than 500,000 connections per month and its space on MySpace has a community of 1,800,000 people.
He put a foot in the music with the release of his first single rock, "I'll Never Be You".
He wrote, directed and produced the short comedy "8 Guys" and the short film "Spiral", for which he won the Pixie Award for best actor.
Of all the awards he has received as a stand-up comedian, Dane Cook has been named "Hot Comic" by Rolling Stone Magazine, "Coolest Comic of the Year" by Stuff Magazine, and he won the Comedy Central's Standup Showdown.
Steve Carell is a very popular American comedian comedian. Coming from the Second City of Chicago, he has performed in various theaters in this city including the Goodman Theater and the Wisdom Bridge Theater. He made his television debut as screenwriter and performer of "The Dana Carvey Show" and acted as "Over the Top", before making his name as a correspondent for "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" . Since then, he has built a solid reputation on the small as well as the big screen.
He had his first big film success in 2005 as a co-writer with Judd Apatow, executive producer and performer of the 40-YEAR comedy, ALWAYS PUCEAU, with Catherine Keener, directed by Apatow. The movie remained in the US box office for two weeks and grossed more than $ 175 million worldwide, rising to first place in 12 countries on release. Success continued on DVD with more than $ 100 million worth of recipes in North America alone. The movie received an AFI Award, being elected as one of the top 10 movies of the year, and won the Best Award movie 11 comedye Critics' Choice Awards. Carell and Apatow have been named to the Writers Guild Association's Best Screenplay Award.
Steve Carell is currently an interpreter of the American adaptation of the comic series "The Office". The show is in its third season and continues to gather a large audience. Carell was named to the Emmy for Best Actor in a comedy. In 2006, he received the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a television series, comedy or musical category, for his portrayal of Michael Scott, a stuck and pretentious boss of a Pennsylvania-based company.
Next summer, he will be the star of movie Peter Segal's action and comedy GET SMART, based on characters created by Mel Brooks, with Anne Hathaway.
In 2006, he was one of the LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE performers, alongside Greg Kinnear and Toni Collette, among others. The movie was nominated for the Oscar for Best movie and is the winner of the SAG Award for Best Overall Performance.
He lent his voice to Hammy's character in the movie animation NOS NEIGHBORS MEN and had previously played in MY WELL-LOVED SORCER Nora Ephron, with Nicole Kidman, Will Ferrell, Shirley MacLaine and Michael Caine. He was already playing with Will Ferrell in the comedy FEATURED PRESENTER: THE LEGEND OF RON BURGUNDY by Adam McKay. He previously played presenter Evan Baxter in Tom Shadyac's BRUCE ALL-POWERING, with Jennifer Aniston, Jim Carrey and Morgan Freeman. He also played with Ferrell in MELINDA AND MELINDA of Woody Allen.
Born in Massachusetts, Steve Carell lives in Los Angeles with his wife, actress Nancy Walls ("Saturday Night Live").
JULIETTE BINOCHE (Marie)
Juliette Binoche is one of the very few actresses to be as successful in Europe as in the United States. She received an Oscar for THE ENGLISH PATIENT from Anthony Minghella. She also won the Silver Bear in Berlin, the European Movie Award, and the National Board of Review for Best Supporting Actor.
Born on March 9, 1964 in Paris, Juliette Binoche has been passionate about theater since childhood. At 16, she staged "The King is dying" of Eugene Ionesco in his high school. She studied drama at the Conservatoire and in private lessons. She started at the cinema in LIBERTY BELLE by Pascal Kané in 1983, then took her first major role under the direction of Jean-Luc Godard in JE VOUS SALUE MARIE.
In 1985, she plays an aspiring actress in RENDEZ-VOUS by André Téchiné, and the intensity of her performance earned her a César nomination for best actress. The following year, she won the Prix Romy Schneider, and gave two years later the replica Daniel Day-Lewis in his first movie American, The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Philip Kaufman. She then returns to Paris to play at the theater of the Odeon the role of Nina in "The Seagull" by Anton Chekhov, directed by Andrei Konchalovsky. She also directs the short film HBO "Mara" directed by Mike Figgis.
Leverage of Leos Carax, she turns with him BAD BLOOD then LES AMANTS DU BRIDGE NEUF, an atypical project that will require three years of work. It is then found in two movies in English, FATALE by Louis Malle with Jeremy Irons and Leslie Caron, and LES HAUTS DE HURLEVENT by Peter Kosminsky, with Ralph Fiennes.
New turning point in his career in 1993 with the trilogy of Krzysztof Kieslowski, THREE COLORS: BLUE, WHITE and RED. She wins for the first movie several awards, including the César Award for Best Actress, the Félix Award for Best Actress in Europe and the Interpretation Award at the Venice Film Festival.
She has a new success thanks to her Oscar winner portrait of the PATIENT ANGLAIS nurse, opposite Ralph Fiennes and Kristin Scott-Thomas. Now consecrated as an international star, Juliette Binoche chaines Chantal Akerman's A DIVAN A NEW YORK, Jean-Paul Rappeneau's THE HUSSARD ON THE ROOF, Lasse Hallström's CHOCOLATE, for which she is nominated for the Oscar, two Screen Actors Guild Awards and the Golden Globe, and LA WIDOW OF SAINT-PIERRE by Patrice Leconte, with Daniel Auteuil. She was applauded at the same time on stage in "Naked" by Luigi Pirandello at the Almeida Theater in London.
She plays George Sand in THE CHILDREN OF THE CENTURY by Diane Kurys, and makes an incursion into the comedy with DIFFERENCE HOURS by Danièle Thompson. It turns IN MY COUNTRY under the direction of John Boorman, finds André Téchiné and the auteur cinema with ALICE ET MARTIN, then turns two movies under the direction of Michael Haneke, CODE UNKNOWN then HID, crowned in Cannes, the British Independent Movie Awards and by the Los Angeles Movie Critics Association Award. She is Richard Gere's partner in Scott McGehee's WORDS RECOGNIZED.
She then takes the title role of MARY of Abel Ferrara, plays in a segment of PARIS, I LOVE YOU, and interprets SOME DAYS IN SEPTEMBER of Santiago Amigorena, with John Turturro.
She was last seen in BY EFFRACTION, written and directed by Anthony Minghella, whom she co-starred with Jude Law, Robin Wright Penn, and Martin Freeman.
She has toured since THE JOURNEY OF THE RED BALL of the Taiwanese director Hsiao-hsien Hou, DISENGAGEMENT of Amos Gitai and PARIS of Cédric Klapisch.
She will also be featured in L'Heure d'été by Olivier Assayas, The Other Man by Richard Eyre, Another Form of Silence by Santiago Amigorena, SOCIALISM by Jean-Luc Godard and COPIE CONFORME by Abbas Kiarostami.
DANE COOK (Mitch)
A stand-up star in the United States, Dane Cook has also established himself as a talented comedian in a wider field of cinema and television. In 2006, he starred as Zack in Greg Coolidge's romantic comedy EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH.
He was playing recently in the MR thriller. BROOKS, directed by Bruce A. Evans, starring Kevin Costner, Demi Moore and William Hurt. His interpretation was welcomed by the New York TimeAs one of the best five of the summer of 2007. He was also the hero of the comedy CHARLIE, THE GIRLS SAY IT THANKS Mark Helfrich, with Jessica Alba.
Through his production company, SUperFInger Entertainment, he will produce and be the star of EX-FAMILY, and an untitled comedy about the father-son relationship with Disney and producer David Hoberman. He also works on a movie of his shows in Boston played in April 2006.
In the cinema, we could see him in movies like WAITING ... by Rob McKittrick, with Ryan Reynolds and Anna Farris, LONDON by Hunter Richards, with Jessica Biel and Chris Evans, TORQUE, ON THE ROAD INFLAMES by Joseph Kahn, with Ice Cube, MYSTERY MEN by Kinka Usher, with Ben Stiller, Greg Kinnear, Geoffrey Rush and Claire Forlani, or SIMON SEZ, EXPLOSIVE SAVING by Kevin Elders, with whom he co-starred with Dennis Rodman.
He signed a production contract with HBO in early 2006, after which he created, directed, and performed the nine-episode comedy series "Tourgasm", and was a screenwriter, executive producer and performer of "Vicious Circle". , a 90-minute stand-up show filmed by 18 cameras.
Combining energy-filled visual comedy, puns and sharp observations of human behavior, Dane Cook's particular humor on stage and its accessibility appealed to audiences of all ages. He was very applauded for his second album / double CD / DVD, "Retaliation", which ranked fourth in Billboard 200. The album was double platinum and made Dane Cook the best-ranked comedian for 29 years, alongside comedy legends like Bill Cosby, George Carlin and Steve Martin. His first CD / DVD, "Harmful If Swallowed", was classified in eight different tops of Billboard and was platinum record.
In 2006, Dane Cook hosted the first episode of the "Saturday Night Live" season, and helped to make it the highest audience rate of the year for a show other than a sports event, all cable channels confused. A highly sought-after talk show host, he has appeared several times at "Jimmy Kimmel Live", "The Late Show With David Letterman", "Late Night With Conan O'Brien", "The Tonight Show" and "The Late Show" With Craig Killbourne ". He hosted the "Comedy Central's Insomniac Tour Movie" and lent his voice to "Crank Yankers" and "Shorties Watchin 'Shorties".
In addition to his performances at Carnegie Hall or the Chicago Allstate Arena, Dane Cook has given two record shows in front of 38,000 people at the Boston Garden, one in front of 39,000 people in Madison Square Garden and another in front of 50,000 at Gator Growl University of Florida.
Born in Arlington, a suburb of Boston, Massachusetts, Dane Cook began at the age of 18 performing at his university and cabaret shows. He then moved to New York, signed a contract with ABC Television and played in his first feature film, MY COPAIN BUDDY by Caroline Thompson. A year later, he settled in Los Angeles, signed with NBC and played in the sitcom "Susan! ".
He won second place at the prestigious Stand-Up Comedy Competition in 1995.
Desiring to stay close to his audience, he was one of the first comedians to develop his own website. Its website, www.danecook.com, lists more than 500,000 connections per month and its space on MySpace has a community of 1,800,000 people.
He put a foot in the music with the release of his first single rock, "I'll Never Be You".
He wrote, directed and produced the short comedy "8 Guys" and the short film "Spiral", for which he won the Pixie Award for best actor.
Of all the awards he has received as a stand-up comedian, Dane Cook has been named "Hot Comic" by Rolling Stone Magazine, "Coolest Comic of the Year" by Stuff Magazine, and he won the Comedy Central's Standup Showdown.
