Date of Birth: 10 November 1964

Mini Biography:

Glenn Richard Cote earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from the USC School of Cinema-Television, where he studied under such noted golden-era Hollywood directors as Edward Dmytryk, Richard Brooks, and Franklin J. Schaffner. During his undergraduate studies, Cote received numerous honors — including a coveted Jack Nicholson directing scholarship and a FOCUS Award for excellence in cinematography for the short film, ‘Three Piece’. He apprenticed at ILM in the summer of 1988, and after matriculating in 1990 with a Master of Fine Arts degree, Cote was soon hired as an executive assistant to the post-production supervisor at Warner Bros. He continued as assistant to director/editor Stuart Baird on Executive Decision (1996), then moved up to Associate Producer on U.S. Marshals (1998) and Senior Production Associate on Star Trek: Nemesis (2002) – taking on numerous insert unit, video unit, and 2nd unit directing assignments. He shares writing credit on the feature screenplays ‘Police State,’ ‘Grave Misgivings,’ and ‘Hit Me.’ Glenn Cote has lived in Southern California since 1978, is married, and has two sons, Graeme and Griffin.

Spouse:

Abbe Murray (6 July 2002 – present)

Trivia:

While he was a student at the University of Southern California, Glenn Côté secretly attended a recruited-audience screening of Terry Gilliam’s then-unreleased Brazil (1985), and afterward invited Gilliam to screen his landmark film at USC’s cinema school. Months later, when it seemed Gilliam’s own “American cut” would not be released by Universal Pictures, Gilliam accepted Côté’s invitation. It became the first salvo in Gilliam’s celebrated public battle with the Hollywood studio system — documented by Jack Mathews in the book “THE BATTLE OF BRAZIL”.

Birth Name: María Concepción Cesarano

Nickname: Conchetta

Mini Biography:

Sensual, multi-talented actress-singer-dancer. She played her first film role in Pampa bárbara, with her uncle Francisco Petrone. Leopoldo Torres Ríos directed her in some movies during late forties (including the classic El crimen de Oribe). Successful in TV during the sixties, she played Marilyn Monroe in a theatrical version of Arthur Miller’s After the Fall.

Mini Biography:

Her career began with bit parts at the theatre, and she considered that she made her debut in 1905. Just like Edvard Persson she worked at the Apollo Theatre in Helsinki, Finland, during WWI. When she came back she worked in Stockholm’s popular park theatres, such as Tantolunden or Vita Bergsparken. When it comes to making movies, she is second only to Hjördis Petterson. Her first major role was as Mrs. Loevdal in Anderssonskans Kalle (1922). With her strong voice and rough appearance she was usually cast as the landlady, the mother-in-law or the troublesome wife. Notable appearances include Pensionat Paradiset (1937), Ebberöds bank (1935) and O, en så’n natt! (1937).

Trivia:

Has a street in Stockholm (in Tantolunden where she worked a lot) named after her; Julia Caesars väg.

Nora Carpena belongs to a very important family of actors from show business and has been not only a star on TV, but also in theater. As a matter of fact, she has worked with Thelma Biral, Susana Campos, Moria Casan, and Graciela Dufau on one of the most popular shows in the theater industry, “Brujas”. This magnificent show kept her working for 10 years receiving great acceptance for the public. She also starred in two more important shows in the theater with the leading actress Thelma Biral, “Chispas” and Soufle” among others. Nora Carpena is one of the favorite actresses of writer Alberto Migré. In fact, she starred in several soap operas written by him.Mrs. Carpena has been married for more than 30 years to actor and producer Guillermo Bredeston. They are believed to be a great example of marriage stability in show business in Argentina. She is now leading the cast of the soap opera” Padre Coraje”, 2004.

Trivia:

Daughter of Argentine actor Homero Cárpena; sister of actress Claudia Cárpena.
Wife of the actor Guillermo Bredeston. Mother of the actress Lorena Bredeston.

Victor Cardenas was born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela. He is the youngest son of Colombian parents (along with his twin brother) of a six-sibling-family. He studied in several Catholic and military schools. His acting career started when he was thirteen years old with his high school version of Hitchcock’s “Dial M for a murder.” In his teenager years he made three 8mm short films. Soon after that, he enrolled at the College of Performing Arts “Juana Sujo”, the best drama school in Venezuela. He also graduated from law school. Having won the Venezuelan National Theatre Award for best actor, he found himself leading his own sitcom, TV dramas and the popular “Telenovelas”. Fed up with soaps, he took a long break before moving to the United States where he was hired by Universal Pictures and Fortune Pictures to play one of the leading roles in the movie “Dona Barbara” for which he got rave reviews. The film adaptation was based on the popular Latin American novel. He completed the Film and TV program at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Extension to shoot “The Groom”, which he wrote, produced, directed and starred in. It had a theatrical release in Venezuela and stayed in theaters for seven weeks. HBO released the short film on TV.

Mini Biography:

Born into a lower-middle class family in the village of Jiquilpan, Michoacan, Lazaro Cardenas was the oldest of seven children. He was forced to become the sole support of his family at age 16, when his father died, and he took such jobs as tax collector and jailer. He had always wanted to be a teacher, although he had to leave school at 11 years of age, but that dream went by the wayside during the turbulent years of the Mexican Revolution in the early 20th century, after renegade Gen. Victoriano Huerta overthrew and assassinated President Francisco I. Madero.Cardenas became a supporter of Plutarco Elías Calles. Huerta was eventually overthrown and Calles was elected President. Cardenas became governor of his home state of Michoacan, and became known for his incorruptibility — a rare character trait in Mexican politicians of the time — his program of road- and school-building, his land reform program and the implementation of a social security system, among other things.When Calles’ term was up, however, he was unwilling to let go of the reins of power and used a succession of front men in the office of President while he actually ran the country from behind the scenes. Calles’ party, the PNR, selected Cardenas as its presidential candidate in 1934 and Calles assented, believing that he could control Cardenas in much the same way as he had his predecessors. He was in for a surprise, however. In 1936 Cardenas had Calles and several dozen of his cronies arrested for corruption and jailed or deported to the US. It was a move that was wildly popular among the Mexican public, which had seldom — if ever — seen its politicians punished for the endemic corruption that characterized Mexican politics. He also ended capital punishment (a policy that stands to this day). Cardenas and his party managed to maintain control of Mexico without resorting to harsh, oppressive and usually bloody military solutions, which many of his predecessors had done during times of crisis, and this policy effectively put an end to the era of seemingly endless rebellions, uprisings and civil wars that had racked the country since 1910.Cardenas’ popularity became so widespread that he soon became the first Mexican President to travel the country without armored cars or convoys of bodyguards as an escort. In the 1934 election he did what few other Mexican Presidents had done — campaign in many virtually inaccessible regions of the country, often on horseback, and accompanied by only a few aides and a driver. This won him even more respect from the population. After his election he moved the presidential headquarters from the historic — and somewhat palatial — Chapultepec Castle into a newly built, and less regal, residence called Los Pinos, and turned the former presidential palace into the National Museum of History.When Rusian Communust boss Leon Trotsky was exiled after falling out of favor with dictator Joseph Stalin, Cardenas gave him sanctuary in Mexico. His purpose was twofold — it effectively neutralized his opponents’ claims that he was a Stalinist and gave him credibility among labor unions and workers’ organizations, which he needed in order to break the power of the old, corrupt CROM umbrella labor organization and promote the newly organized Confederation of Mexican Workers to take its place, which was headed by a socialist, Vicente Toledano.During the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s, Cardenas was a strong supporter of the Republican government and a fierce opponent of fascist leader Gen. Francisco Franco. When Franco eventually defeated the loyalist forces, Cardenas instructed his ambassadors in Europe to offer asylum and protection to any Spanish loyalist who asked for it, and many Republican officials and ex-soldiers took refuge in Mexico’s European embassies. Cardenas also allowed thousands of Spanish refugees to settle in Mexico, including many artists, writers and filmmakers, who came to have a strong influence on Mexico’s cultural life.Another policy of Cardenas’ government was land reform, and it seized and re-distributed to landless farmers and sharecroppers millions of acres of land, much of it from wealthy “hacendados” who had illegally seized or stolen it in the first place. He also championed workers’ rights and had legislation passed that guaranteed the rights of workers to unionize. He nationalized the hodgepodge of private railroads that crisscrossed Mexico in 1938 and consolidated them into one federally-administered railway system, the Ferrocarriles Nacionales de Mexico.In the 1940 presidential elections — by law he could not run for re-election — Cardenas was not happy with his party’s nominee, Manuel Avila, and demanded that Avila and his opponent, Juan Andreu, have public debates, which had been unheard of in previous elections, and that the ensuing elections be open and transparent — again, an unheard-of situation in Mexican politics. Cardenas’ wishes were ignored, however, and Election Day was marred by violent incidents across the country in which people were killed and injured, polling places were attacked and ballot boxes stolen. Each side released its own results showing that it had won, but eventually an official count determined that Avila, the PRI candidate, was the victor. Andreu thundered about leading a revolt and setting up a parallel government, but nothing came of it and Avila was inaugurated as President.If there was one single action that marked Cardenas’ administration, however, it was the nationalization of the oil industry. Vast quantities of oil had been discovered in Mexico at the turn of the century, and by 1921 it was the world’s second-largest producer (it supplied more than 20% of the oil used in the US). The Cardenas administration had been negotiating with a consortium of American, Mexican and European oil companies that controlled the production and distribution of Mexican oil, attempting to get more control over the industry and a bigger cut of the profits for Mexico, but the oil cartel refused to consider any change in the system as it was. As a last resort the government proposed a solution devised by a presidential commission, but it was rejected out of hand by the oil companies. On March 18, 1938, Cardenas announced the nationalization of Mexico’s oil reserves and the seizure of all equipment from foreign-owned oil companies in the country. It was an expensive action, but one that was so popular with the Mexican populace that the country began a national fund-raising campaign to raise money to compensate the oil companies for the seizures of its properties and equipment. Nevertheless, many European governments severed diplomatic relations with Mexico because of the nationalization and instituted a boycott of Mexican oil and oil products. However, the outbreak of World War II meant a huge demand for oil, and if America and Europe wouldn’t buy Mexico’s oil, it would look for customers elsewhere, and it soon found one — Nazi Germany. That was enough for the Americans and Europeans. They patched up their differences with Mexico, ended their boycott and Mexico in turn stopped selling oil to Germany. Cardenas named the government oil company Pemex (Petroleos Mexicanos) and founded the National Polytechnic Institute to ensure that the country had a steady supply of experts to manage and improve its oil industry.When Cardenas’ presidential term expired in 1940, he was appointed as Mexico’s Secretary of Defense, a post he held until 1945. Unlike many Mexican presidents, he did not enrich himself while in office, and upon retirement he took up residence in an unpretentious home by Lake Patzcuaro and spent his time supervising local irrigation projects and building schools and free medical clinics in areas that had neither.He died of cancer in Mexico City in 1970.

Trivia:

Was President of Mexico from 1934 to 1940.

Mini Biography:

He was born in La Rioja (Spain) in 1967. Soon, he went to Madrid and graduated from Dramatic Art School. He worked as an usher in Figaro Theatre in Madrid. His debut in theatre was in El caballero de Olmedo in 1991. He won big success in the TV series “7 vidas” and then worked with Pedro Almodóvar in the film “Hable con ella”.

In 1975, over 5,000 young girls auditioned for the lead role in László Ranódy’s Árvácska (1976). 7-year-old Zsuzsa Czinkóczi got the role. After the critically-acclaimed movie, Zsuzsa became famous. Although she never learnt acting, she appeared in many movies and TV films as a child actress. After she got married and gave birth to a son at the age of 17, Zsuzsa “retired”, and appeared only in Márta Mészáros’ films, including the sequels of the critically acclaimed _Napló gyermekeimnek (1982)_: Napló szerelmeimnek (1987), Napló apámnak, anyámnak (1990) and she even had a cameo in the 4th Diary-film (Kisvilma – Az utolsó napló (2000)). Zsuzsa now lives in Kecskemét as a divorced mom with her son, Tamás and works as a hall porter.

Spouse:

? (? – ?) (divorced) 1 child

Trivia:

She got married and gave birth to his son at the age of 17. Although Zsuzsa apperared in few movies, her family was very poor and they lived in a one-room house. In 1984, shortly after her movie _Napló gyermekeimnek (1982)_ (directed by Márta Mészáros) won the Grand Prize of the Jury at Cannes, reporter András Kepes visited her and conducted a TV interview in their room. The whole country was watching Zsuzsa’s poverty, and 3 days after the interview was released, the local government gave them a bigger house (a 27 square meter bachelor flat)…

Salary:

Árvácska (1976) HUF 8,000