Mr Peabody and Sherman

Ty Burrell (Actor) .. Mr Peabody

Born: August 22, 1967 in Grants Pass, Southern Oregon

Best Known For: Playing Phil Dunphy in Modern Family.

Early-life: Ty Burrell was born on August 22, 1967, in Grants Pass, Southern Oregon. He attended Hidden Valley High School in Grants Pass, where he played football and was a lineman for the Hidden Valley Mustangs. After leaving high school, he attended Southern Oregon University in Ashland and graduated with a degree in theatre arts in 1993. While in college, he worked as a bartender at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.

Career: Burrell's early work includes several stage performances, including playing Lennox in Macbeth on Broadway in 2000. A number of smaller roles followed in films and on TV. He appeared in Ridley Scott's Black Hawk Down in 2001 and the 2004 remake of Dawn of the Dead. He was a shallow but well-meaning plastic surgeon on CBS sitcom Out of Practice in 2005. He played Doc Samson in the movie adaptation of The Incredible Hulk in 2008. In the same year, he played a field reporter in Fox sitcom Back to You. It was cancelled after one season. Back to You was created by former Frasier writers Christopher Lloyd and Steven Levitan. Burrell joined Lloyd and Levitan's ABC sitcom Modern Family in 2009.

Quote: On why he is so drawn to moustaches: "I find them appealing because it's the only facial hair I can grow. I can't grow a beard."

Trivia: Burrell supports the New York Mets baseball team.

Max Charles (Actor) .. Sherman

Ariel Winter (Actor) .. Penny Peterson

Stephen Colbert (Actor) .. Paul Peterson

Leslie Mann (Actor) .. Patty Peterson

Born: March 26, 1972 in Los Angeles

Best Known For: Knocked Up and This is 40.

Early-life: Leslie was born in Los Angeles on March 26, 1972 and grew up in Newport Beach. She went on to study acting at the Joanne Baron/DW Brown Acting Studio and with the comedy improv troupe The Groundlings. In her late teens, she began appearing in TV commercials.

Career: In 2004, Mann played a nurse in short-lived medical drama Birdland and a year later she was chosen from an open audition of 500 candidates to star in The Cable Guy (1996). Since then she has starred in a number of big-screen comedies, including George of the Jungle (1997), Big Daddy (1999), The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005), Knocked Up (2007), 17 Again (2009) and This Is 40 (2012). A number of her films have been directed by her husband, Judd Apatow. Her recent credits include The Bling Ring (2013), Mr Peabody & Sherman (2014) and The Other Woman (2014).

Quote: "I don't take anything at face value. I always look for the reasons people are the way they are."

Trivia: She is a supporter of 826LA, a Los Angles-based organisation dedicated to helping teachers inspire their students to write.

Allison Janney (Actor) .. Ms Grunion

Born: November 19, 1959 in Dayton, Ohio

Best Known For: Playing CJ in The West Wing.

Early-life: Allison Brooks Janney was born in Dayton, Ohio, on November 19, 1959 to a jazz musician and an actress. Her two brothers are also musicians. A keen skater in her youth, she switched to acting after suffering a debilitating injury. Her mother, who had trained at New York's Academy of Dramatic Arts alongside Golden Girl Rue McClanahan, inspired her to take up the profession. Allison studied at Kenyon College, where she was discovered by former pupil Paul Newman when he returned to direct a play there.

Career: On Newman and his wife Joanne Woodward's advice, Janney enrolled at New York's Neighbourhood Playhouse, but she struggled to land decent roles. She made her big-screen debut in 1989's Who Shot Patakango? and also enjoyed a two-year stint in TV soap opera The Guiding Light. Small parts followed in Wolf (1994), The Ice Storm (1997), Primary Colors (1998) and American Beauty (1999). She won four Emmy awards for her role as CJ in The West Wing. She's since appeared in Hairspray (2007), Juno (2007), The Help (2011) and The Way Way Back (2013). Her recent TV credits include Mom and Masters of Sex.

Quote: "Years ago, one casting agent told me that the only roles I could play were lesbians and aliens."

Trivia: Janney voiced the character Peach in Finding Nemo (2003).

Stanley Tucci (Actor) .. Leonardo da Vinci

Born: November 11, 1960 in Peekskill, New York

Best Known For: Scene stealing in a number of movies.

Early-life: Born in Peekskill, New York, on November 11, 1960, Stanley's parents are of Italian descent and he is the oldest of three children. During the early 1970s, his family spent a year living in Florence, Italy. He majored in acting at the State University of New York at Purchase and graduated in 1982. In the same year, he earned his Actors' Equity card playing a soldier in Broadway play The Queen and the Rebels. He made his film debut in Prizzi's Honor (1985).

Career: Tucci is much in demand as an actor and has had roles in a number of films, including Beethoven (1992), The Pelican Brief (1993), Kiss of Death (1995), Big Night (1996), Road to Perdition (2002), The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004), The Devil Wears Prada (2006), Julie & Julia (2009), The Lovely Bones (2009), Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), The Hunger Games (2012) and its sequel The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013), and Jack the Giant Slayer (2013). He has also turned up on the small screen in Monk, ER, 3lbs and 30 Rock.

Quote: "People like to cast me in a position of power because I'm incredibly smart and I get frustrated really easily."

Trivia: He has won two Golden Globes for his roles in HBO films Winchell (1998) and Conspiracy (2001). He was nominated for an Academy Award for The Lovely Bones.

Mel Brooks (Actor) .. Albert Einstein

Rob Minkoff (Director)

06:30 am - 08:05 am, Friday, January 9 on Sky Cinema Animation (500)

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