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Jodie Foster (Actor) .. Linda

Born: November 19, 1962 in Los Angeles

Best Known For: Winning Oscars for The Accused and The Silence of the Lambs.

Early-life: Born Alicia Christian Foster in Los Angeles on November 19, 1962, but nicknamed Jodie by her three older siblings. Her father was a US Air Force officer-turned-real estate agent who left his wife, Brandy, before Jodie was born. She made her professional debut aged three in an advert; her first film, Disney movie Napoleon and Samantha, came seven years later. After her appearance in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Martin Scorcese cast her as teen prostitute Iris in Taxi Driver, for which she received her first Oscar nomination in 1977. Other early roles came in Bugsy Malone and Freaky Friday. She briefly turned her back on Hollywood to study literature and film at Yale University.

Career: Foster resumed her career after graduating, but failed to match her success as a child star until she won an Oscar in 1989 for her portrayal of a rape victim in The Accused. She won a second Oscar for her performance in the 1991 blockbuster The Silence of the Lambs. In the same year she made her directorial debut with Little Man Tate, the story of a child prodigy. She received another Academy Award nomination for Nell and has subsequently appeared in Contact, Anna and the King, Panic Room, Flightplan, Elysium and Carnage. She's also acted in an executive capacity in a handful of projects, such as 2007's The Brave One (in which she also starred) and 2002's The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys.

Quote: 'I've been in the public eye pretty much since I was conscious, and I'm sure that makes me completely neurotic.'

Trivia: In 1981, John Hinckley Jr claimed he tried to assassinate then-US President Ronald Reagan in an attempt to impress Foster.

Tim Robbins (Actor) .. Harry

Born: October 16, 1958 in California

Best Known For: The Shawshank Redemption.

Early-life: Timothy Francis Robbins was born in West Covina, California, on October 16, 1958. He has a brother and two sisters. The son of a folk singer and an actress, Tim was interested in politics and theatre at a young age, and at 12 was already a member of the Theatre for the New City, an avant-garde acting troupe. He studied drama at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), graduating in 1981, the same year he founded The Actors' Gang, which specialised in radical political observations.

Career: Robbins began appearing in films and on TV in the early 1980s before hitting the big time in 1988 baseball movie Bull Durham. He had a successful streak in the early 90s thanks to such films as The Player, Short Cuts, Pret-a-Porter, The Shawshank Redemption and Arlington Road. He's also a talented director, with Bob Roberts and Dead Man Walking among his credits. He won a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for Mystic River - at 6ft 5 he is the tallest-ever winner of an acting Oscar. His more recent work includes Green Lantern, TV movie Cinema Verite, Thanks for Sharing and Life of Crime.

Quote: 'Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.'

Trivia: An avid baseball and ice hockey fan, he supports the New York Mets and the New York Rangers.

John Turturro (Actor) .. Heinz

Todd Graff (Actor) .. Jamie

Michael R Howard (Actor) .. Murray

Pierre Epstein (Actor) .. George

Jery Hewitt (Actor) .. Mr Glascow

Rodney Harvey (Actor) .. Castro

Tony Bill (Director)

11:37 pm - 01:23 am, Saturday, August 1 on wedotv Movies UK (98)

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