Titanes del Pacífico

Charlie Hunnam (Actor)

Born: April 10, 1980
Birthplace: Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, England

Trivia: Fair-haired, hunky British performer Charlie Hunnam began life in Newcastle, England, and moved to Hollywood at the age of 19 (around 1999) in a quest for movie and television stardom. He found it almost instantly as homosexual character Nathan on the first two seasons of the groundbreaking Showtime series drama Queer as Folk (1999-2001), then signed on to work for executive producer Judd Apatow and others with a role as a college student in the short-lived but critically worshipped situation comedy Undeclared (2001). Hunnam's feature film contributions began shortly thereafter and witnessed him specializing in intense, angry, often psychotic characterizations; memorable assignments included a portrayal of the nasty villain in Anthony Minghella's period drama Cold Mountain (2003) and a gold-toothed, dreadlocked psychopath in the dystopian saga Children of Men (2006). The role that truly rocketed Hunnam to acclaim, however, cut closest to his British roots: a scarily accurate evocation of a thuggish English footballer in the gritty drama Green Street Hooligans (2005). He appeared in the well-regarded dystopian sci-fi film Children of Men as well as Robert Towne's long-planned adaptation of the novel Ask the Dust. He appeared in the first season of the TV series Sons of Anarchy in 2008, and had a major role in the 2011 thriller The Ledge.

Idris Elba (Actor) .. Sensi

Born: September 06, 1972
Birthplace: London, England

Trivia: Born in London on September 6, 1972, and raised in the Hackney borough, Elba pursued acting as a high school student at the behest of a drama teacher. Elba paid his dues with many supporting roles on British television, including such series as Bramwell, The Bill, Degrees of Error, The Ruth Rendell Mysteries, and The Governor. The actor grew deeply frustrated, however, over the seemingly irrepressible tendency of British casting directors to peg him in supporting roles. "Back in London," he later recalled, "I was always just going to be the best friend, or the crook or the detective on the side." When Elba could take no more of this, he immigrated to the United States. Within a few years, Elba landed a starring role on what would come to be known as one of the best TV series of all time, The Wire.Elba's performance as pusher "Stringer" Bell attained widespread popularity with viewers and helped put Elba on the map. Elba then transitioned into big-screen roles in movies like The Gospel, The Reaping, Tyler Perry's Daddy's Little Girls, 28 Weeks Later, and the Alien prequel Prometheus. Elba also enjoyed more stateside TV success on shows like The Office and Luther.

Rinko Kikuchi (Actor)

Born: January 06, 1981
Birthplace: Kanagawa, Japan

Trivia: Actress Rinko Kikuchi has been bewitching the camera with her enigmatic presence since she was a teenager, working as a model and appearing in commercials in her native Japan. Despite the demands of her education and blossoming career, Kikuchi developed tremendous skills in the arts of traditional Japanese dance and archery, as well as horseback riding and motorcycling. The well-roundedness of her life seemed to imbue her with a realness and believability, and she landed her first film role in 1999's Ikitai. Directed by veteran filmmaker Kaneto Shindo, the film followed two Japanese families along different timelines, exploring the way Japan's changing traditional values have effected family life. Kikuchi was just 18, but Shindo was so pleased with her performance that he had her return for the next year's Sanmon Yakusha, a biopic about character actor Taiji Tonoyama. The exposure was dynamite for Kikuchi, who next found a starring role in 2001's romantic drama Sora no Ana, playing a street-smart waif who unexpectedly falls in star-crossed love with a fast-food worker. Set against the backdrop of the Japanese countryside, the poignant film was a hit, garnering her a slew of supporting roles in films like 2004's Cha no Aji and 2005's Taga Tameni. In 2004, Kikuchi found herself faced with a serious challenge as a performer. Her agent told her about the role of Chieko, a deaf, mute, and emotionally disturbed character in Alejandro González Iñárritu's upcoming film Babel. As the star of one of the film's three interconnected storylines, Kikuchi would be tackling teenage Chieko's emotional turmoil over her mother's recent suicide, her emerging sexuality, and her place in the film's overall message -- all without the use of her voice. Kikuchi was determined to win the role, and so she enrolled in a sign-language school. A year-long audition process followed, and though the film's casting agents had planned to cast an actual deaf actress, she was given the part. The young actress was placed on the Hollywood radar as soon as the film hit theaters, and she was praised for delivering compellingly raw emotions through a subtle performance, and for submerging herself completely into the role. She was nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress, but despite the free pass this bought her into American film, Kikuchi remained interested in both American and Japanese film, considering projects from both nations.In 2008 she joined the cast of The Brothers Bloom to play the character of Bang Bang, and starred in Norwegian Wood (2010), celebrated Vietnamese director Tran Anh Hung's critically acclaimed adaptation of Haruki Murakami's nostalgic 1987 novel following a new relationship plagued by memories of a death from years before.

Diego Klattenhoff (Actor)

Born: November 30, 1979
Birthplace: Nova Scotia, Canada

Trivia: Originally wanted to be a professional baseball player. Moved to Toronto at the age of 19 to pursue an acting career. Worked as a bartender while studying in theater workshops. Landed his breakout role in the film Mean Girls (2004) as high-school student Shane. Enjoys various athletic activities in his free time, including baseball, golf, hockey and swimming.

Charlie Day (Actor)

Born: February 09, 1976
Birthplace: Bronx, New York, United States

Trivia: New York-born actor Charlie Day appeared in an impressive array of Williamstown Theatre productions before transitioning into television with a brief appearance in the Mary Tyler Moore/Valerie Harper reunion special Mary and Rhoda. Subsequent roles on Madigan Men, Law & Order, and Third Watch helped Day build an impressive list of small-screen credits, and in 2005 he joined the cast of the deliciously warped FX sitcom It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Cast as an inherently good-natured guy often done in by his own shady intentions and poor luck with ladies, Day held his own opposite Danny DeVito, helping to establish himself as a respectable rising talent. Although he tried to stretch out in projects like A Quiet Little Marriage and Going the Distance, it was the 2011 hit Horrible Bosses that earned him his greatest praise apart from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. In 2006 he married his Philadelphia co-star Mary Elizabeth Ellis.

Burn Gorman (Actor)

Born: September 01, 1974
Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, United States

Trivia: Born in Los Angeles, California, where his father was a professor of linguistics at UCLA, the family moved back to their native London when he was 7. Went by the name BB Burn when he competed as a beatboxer. His big television breakthrough came in BBC's Bleak House, an adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel, in the role of William Guppy. Appeared in the 2009 West End revival of Oliver! as Bill Sikes, opposite Rowan Atkinson; he was nominated for Best Supporting Actor in a Musical in the Whatsonstage Theatre Awards for the role. He and his wife had a third child, a daughter, Rosa in 2014. The couple split up in 2017.

Max Martini (Actor)

Born: December 11, 1969
Birthplace: Woodstock, New York, United States

Trivia: Born in upstate New York in 1969, actor Max Martini performed on the stage throughout college before landing small but memorable roles in the high-profile feature films Saving Private Ryan and Contact. A number of TV guest spots followed, including multiple-episode arcs on Fox's 24 and the acclaimed Canadian cop show Da Vinci's Inquest. In 2006, Martini landed a lead role opposite Dennis Haysbert on CBS's The Unit, a military drama from Pulitzer Prize-winning writer David Mamet.

Clifton Collins Jr. (Actor)

Born: June 16, 1970
Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, United States

Trivia: Distinguished by his versatility and uncanny ability to immerse himself in the characters he portrays, filmgoers may recall Clifton Collins Jr. from his role as the intimidating thug Cesar in 187 (1997) or from his numerous other roles in such films as the Hughes brothers' Dead Presidents (1995) and Steven Soderbergh's acclaimed Traffic (2000). A native Angeleno, Collins Jr. is the grandson of actor Pedro Gonzalez. One of the first Mexicans to find Hollywood success, Gonzalez appeared alongside John Wayne in various Westerns and war films. Sometimes credited as Clifton Gonzalez Gonzalez in honor of his grandfather's name, Collins Jr.'s range has found him work in a rich variety of films throughout the 1990s both in television and film. Other roles in The Replacement Killers and Disney's The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit (both 1998) showed great promise for a young actor on the verge of stardom heading into the new millennium. Supporting roles in such wide-release features as The Last Castle, and The Rules of Attraction found the young up-and-comer slowly gaining the momentum to set an enduring career in motion, and in 2004 Collins appeared opposite hot-property Eion Bailey in the thriller Mindhunters and the alcoholism-themed comedy drama Glory Days. That same year also found Collins taking a role in director Troy Duffy's Boondock II: All Saints Day - the eagerly anticipated follow-up to his 1999 cult hit The Boondock Saints.

Ron Perlman (Actor)

Born: April 13, 1950
Birthplace: New York City, New York

Trivia: Ron Perlman grew up in the Washington Heights section of New York City, where his father was a radio/TV repairman and his mother an employee with the city's Department of Health. A profoundly unhandsome youth, Perlman was nonetheless very active in high school theater by virtue of his height (6-foot-2) and his deep, rolling voice. He continued studying drama at Lehman College and later at the University of Minnesota, where he graduated with a master's degree in theater arts. He went to work with New York's Classic Stage Company, an organization specializing in Elizabethan and Restoration plays. Perlman starred in several Manhattan and touring productions staged by Tom O'Horgan of Hair fame before accepting his first film role as a Neanderthal man in 1981's Quest for Fire. Emotionally drained, Perlman backed off from acting after finishing the movie, but was soon back in the groove, essaying such attention-getting roles as the hunchbacked Salvatore in The Name of the Rose (1986). Most often cast as brooding, inarticulate, villainous characters in films (such as Pap in 1993's The Adventures of Huck Finn), Perlman became best known for his performance as the beneficent, albeit hideously ugly, sewer-dwelling Vincent in the late-'80s TV series Beauty and the Beast. Though this remained the actor's defining role for years after the show's run had drawn to a close, he was busier than ever through the '90s. Appearing in everything from obscure arthouse hits (Cronos [1993] and The City of Lost Children [1995]) to voice-over work for television (Aladdin) and video games (Fallout, A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game) to overblown Hollywood blockbusters (Alien Resurrection), Perlman left few stones unturned in terms of flexibility and experimentation in new media. He continued this trend into the early 2000s, alternating between various arenas with remarkable ease and refusing to be pigeonholed, appearing in such high-profile releases as Titan A.E. (2000), Enemy at the Gates (2001), and Blade II (2002). Though his recognition factor seemed higher than ever, few could foresee the opportunity just ahead when Blade II and Cronos director Guillermo del Toro announced that Perlman would star in the film adaptation of Mike Mignola's popular comic book Hellboy, although it seemed highly unlikely that studios would invest the millions of dollars needed to bring the comic to life with an actor of such minimal "marquee value." They wanted Vin Diesel for the role, but del Toro, with the blessing and encouragement of character originator Mignola, eventually won out to have Perlman play the Nazi-creation-turned-superhero in the 2004 fantasy-action film.

Brad William Henke (Actor)

Born: April 10, 1966
Died: December 01, 2022
Birthplace: Columbus, Nebraska, United States

Trivia: Attended the University of Arizona on a football scholarship. Played for the Denver Broncos in 1989. Made his film debut in the 1996 Ellen DeGeneres comedy Mr. Wrong. Taught classes for the acting coach Ivana Chubbuck; later opened his own acting studio.

Larry Joe Campbell (Actor)

Born: November 29, 1970
Birthplace: Cadillac, Michigan

Mana Ashida (Actor)

Santiago Segura (Actor)

Joe Pingue (Actor)

Milton Barnes (Actor)

Brian Frank (Actor)

David Fox (Actor)

Jake Goodman (Actor)

Robin Thomas (Actor)

Born: February 12, 1949

Trivia: Supporting actor, onscreen from the late '80s.

Julian Barnes (Actor)

Born: November 08, 1949

David Richmond-Peck (Actor)

Born: April 05, 1974

Charles Luu (Actor)

Lance Lu (Actor)

Mark Luu (Actor)

Robert Maillet (Actor)

Born: October 26, 1969
Birthplace: Ste-Marie-de-Kent, New Brunswick, Canada

Trivia: Started his career as a professional wrestler and worked in Mexico and Japan before joining the WWE. Is seven feet tall. Has an adopted daughter from Ethiopia. His first movie role was in 2007's 300 as Über-Immortal.

Heather Doerksen (Actor)

Born: February 12, 1980

Joshua Peace (Actor)

Sebastian Pigott (Actor)

Born: February 14, 1983

Victoria Marie (Actor)

Roger Wong (Actor)

J.C. Kenny (Actor)

Jane Watson (Actor)

Robert Morse (Actor)

Born: May 18, 1931
Died: April 20, 2022
Birthplace: Newton, Massachusetts, United States

Trivia: A puckish actor/singer, he sprang to national attention when he won the Tony Award for the Abe Burrows/Frank Loesser Broadway hit How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, repeating his role in the film version in 1967. His few film appearances include The Matchmaker (1958), The Loved One (1965), Oh Dad, Poor Dad (1966). Morse won another Tony Award in the '90s for his portrayal of Truman Capote in the one-man show, Tru, and has been nominated another handful of times. His television work has been sporadic, although he did star in the unusual musical-comedy TV series That's Life (1968-69).

Paul Wyers (Actor)

Tyler Stevenson (Actor)

Mike Chute (Actor)

Duncan Mcleod (Actor)

Louis Paquette (Actor)

Matthew G. Taylor (Actor)

Terry Belleville (Actor)

Frank T. Nakashima (Actor)

Farzad Sadrian (Actor)

Mishu Vellani (Actor)

Clive Walton (Actor)

Peter Kosaka (Actor)

Yiren Stark (Actor)

Hubert Tran (Actor)

Trek Buccino (Actor)

Birthplace: Canada

Drew Adkins (Actor)

Kelvin Lum (Actor)

Soo David Chum Ling (Actor)

Randy Lee (Actor)

Jung-Yul Kim (Actor)

Kaelyn Wong (Actor)

Robert Kazinsky (Actor) .. Chuck Hansen

Born: November 18, 1983
Birthplace: Cuckfield, West Sussex, England

Trivia: Took his grandfather's middle name to be his stage name. Studied acting at the Guildford School of Acting in Surrey, England. Has appeared in Israeli TV commercials. Acting debut was on a 2005 episode of the British kids series The Basil Brush Show. Big break came when he was cast as Casper Rose on the British soccer series Dream Team in 2005. Became a household name in England when he appeared on the soap opera EastEnders in 2006 as womanizer Sean Slater. Cast as Ben, a charismatic faerie, on the sixth season of True Blood. Is fluent in Hebrew.

David Richmond-Peck (Actor) .. Canadian UN Representative

Born: April 05, 1974

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