Information source: THE HALIFAX HERALD


Key players:

	Kevin Spacey
	Judi Dench
	Julianne Moore
	Lasse Hallström (director)
	Cate Blanchett

 

KEVIN SPACEY

Playing: Quoyle (The Shipping News)

Born: Kevin Spacey Fowler July 26, 1959, South Orange, N.J.

Major Awards: Two-time Oscar winner:
* Best Actor, 2000, American Beauty (for his role as Lester Burnham);
* Best Supporting Actor, 1996, The Usual Suspects (Verbal Kint),
* Tony (1991) for portrayal of Uncle Louie in Neil Simon's Broadway hit
Lost in Yonkers

Trivia: Auditioned for The Gong Show in 1978 and was rejected.


JULIANNE MOORE

Playing: Wavey, Quoyle's love interest (The Shipping News)

Born: Julie Anne Smith, Dec. 3, 1961, Fayetteville, N.C.

Major Awards (and nominations):
* Nominated for Best Actress Oscar 2000 for the End of the Affair (for
her role as Sarah Miles),
* Nominated for Best Supporting Actress Oscar 1998 for Boogie Nights
(Amber Waves/Maggie)
Other Major Films: Hannibal (2001) Clarice Starling; Magnolia (1999)
Linda Partridge; An Ideal Husband (1999) Mrs. Chevely


LASSE HALLSTRÖM (Director)

Born: June 6, 1946, Stockholm, Sweden

Major Awards and Nominations:
* Nominated for 2000 Best Director Oscar for Cider House Rules;
* Nominated for 1988 Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay Oscars
for My Life as a Dog

Major Films: Chocolat (2000); Something to Talk About (1995); What's
Eating Gilbert Grape (1993); Once Around (1991); My Life as a Dog (1987)



CATE BLANCHETT

Playing: Petal Bear (The Shipping News)

Born: May 14, 1969, Melbourne, Australia

Major Nominations:
* Nominated for best actress Oscar 1999 for Elizabeth

Other Major films: The Gift (2000) Annie Wilson; Talented Mr. Ripley
(1999) Meredith Logue; Pushing Tin (1999) Connie Falzone; An Ideal
Husband (1999) Gertrud; Oscar and Lucinda (1997) Lucinda Leplastrier.



JUDI DENCH

Playing: Agnis (The Shipping News)

Born: Dec. 9, 1934, York, England

Major Awards:
* Won 1999 Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for Shakespeare in Love
(Queen Elizabeth);
* Nominated for 2001 Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Chocolat (Armande
Voisin);
* Nominated for 1998 Best Actress Oscar for Mrs. Brown (Queen Victoria).

She was made a member of Order of the British Empire (1970), Dame of the
British Empire (1988)

Major Films: Tea with Mussolini (1999) Arabella; M in Bond films The
World is Not Enough (2000), Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), GoldenEye
(1995); Henry V (1989) Mrs. Quickley; A Room With A View (1986) Miss
Lavish



SCOTT GLENN

Playing: Jack Buggit (The Shipping News)

Born: Jan. 26, 1942, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Major Films: Vertical Limit (2000) Montgomery Wick; Backdraft (1991)
Firefighter John "Axe" Adcox; The Silence of the Lambs (1991) Jack
Crawford; The Hunt for Red October (1990) Commander Bart Mancuso; The
Right Stuff (1983) Alan Shepherd; Apocalypse Now (1979) Colby



RHYS IFANS

Playing: Nutbeem (The Shipping News)

Born: Ruthin, Wales

Major Nominations:
* Nominated for 2000 British Academy of Film and Television Awards for
Best Supporting Actor for Notting Hill (Spike)

Trivia: First language is Welsh



PETE POSTLETHWAITE

Playing: Tert Card, managing editor of the Gammy Bird (The Shipping
News)

Born: Feb. 7, 1945 Warrington, Cheshire, England

Major Awards and Nominations:
* Nominated for 1994 Best Supporting Actor Oscar for In the Name of the
Father (Giuseppe Conlon)



GORDON PINSENT

Playing: Publisher (The Shipping News)

Born: July 12, 1930, Grand Falls, Nfld.

Major Awards and Nominations:
* Won Genie Awards as Best Actor in 1987 for John and the Missus
* Best Supporting Actor in 1980 for Klondike Fever.

Made a member of Order of Canada in 1980


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