Cutthroat Island

Geena Davis (Actor) .. Morgan Adams

Born: January 21, 1956 in Wareham, Massachusetts

Best Known For: Being half of Thelma and Louise.

Early-life: Born Virginia Elizabeth Davis on January 21, 1956, in Massachusetts, USA. She has a brother called Dan; their mother was a teacher's assistant, their father a civil engineer and church deacon. Geena caught the acting bug at a young age, but was also a talented musician - she plays the flute, piano and organ. She spent time as an exchange student in Sweden before graduating from Boston University with a degree in drama in 1979.

Career: Davis relocated to New York and worked as a sales assistant, waitress and model before landing a small role in Tootsie. More TV and film roles followed, but it was 1986's remake of The Fly that put her on the map. Beetlejuice helped her career no end too, and she won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for 1988's The Accidental Tourist. Since then she's starred in Quick Change, Thelma and Louise, A League of Their Own, Speechless, Accidental Hero, The Long Kiss Goodnight and the Stuart Little movies. Davis has also appeared regularly on TV in the series Commander in Chief and Coma.

Quote: "I have an elbow that bends the wrong way. I'd do things like stand in an elevator and the doors would close, and I'd pretend that my arm had got caught in it."

Trivia: Away from acting, she's a skilled archer and has even tried out for America's Olympic archery team.

Matthew Modine (Actor) .. William Shaw

Born: March 22, 1959 in California

Best Known For: Full Metal Jacket and Memphis Belle.

Early-life: Matthew Avery Modine was born on March 22, 1959, in Loma Linda, California. He's the youngest of seven children - he has four brothers and two sisters. The family moved around a lot when he was younger due to his father's job as a drive-in movie operator. A documentary about the film Oliver! inspired him to become an actor. After moving to New York, he worked as a chef before taking lessons from famous drama coach Stella Adler.

Career: Modine made his TV debut in 1982's Amy and the Angel. His first film, Baby It's You, followed a year later. Roles in Birdy and Mrs Soffel raised his profile, while 1987's Full Metal Jacket made him famous. Movies such as Married to the Mob, Memphis Belle, Pacific Heights, Short Cuts and The Browning Version came next. His other work includes Any Given Sunday, Hitler: The Rise of Evil, Funky Monkey, Transporter 2, Mary, Go Go Tales, The Trial and The Dark Knight Rises. On the stage he has appeared in Arthur Miller's Finishing the Picture, Miller's Resurrection Blues, and The Miracle Worker.

Quote: "I never set out to be rich and famous. I wanted to follow my own path."

Trivia: Modine has two grown-up children, loves the New York Knicks, enjoys painting, and is a neighbour of Liam Neeson.

Frank Langella (Actor) .. Dawg Brown

Born: January 01, 1938 in New Jersey

Best Known For: Being a versatile stage and screen actor.

Early-life: Frank A Langella Jr was born in New Jersey on January 1, 1938. He graduated from Syracuse University in 1959 with a degree in drama. He made his Broadway debut in a 1966 production of Yerma. He followed this with a role in A Cry of Players.

Career: Despite a career largely spent on the stage, Langella has appeared in a number of films, including Diary of a Mad Housewife (1970), Dracula (1979), Superman Returns (2006), Frost/Nixon (2008), Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010), and Robot & Frank (2012). He won his first Tony Award on Broadway for his 1975 performance in Seascape. Other wins came in 2002 for Fortune's Fool, and in 2007 for Frost/Nixon.

Quote: "Actors want to show off and dance in front of you and get your love, because they don't think they're worthy of it in any other way."

Trivia: He played the role of Skeletor in Masters of the Universe (1987) as a gift to his children who were fans of He-Man.

Maury Chaykin (Actor) .. John Reed

Patrick Malahide (Actor) .. Ainslee

Born: March 24, 1945 in Reading

Best Known For: Playing Detective Sergeant Chisholm in Minder and a string of other roles.

Early-life: Born Patrick Gerald Duggan in Reading on March 24, 1945. In 1976, he made his TV acting debut in The Flight of the Heron. Since then, the prolific character actor has appeared in a number of TV shows.

Career: Perhaps best known for playing Detective Sergeant Chisholm in the hugely popular ITV comedy drama Minder, Malahide's credits also include The Singing Detective, Middlemarch, Alleyn Mysteries, Five Days, Law & Order: UK, The Paradise and Hunted. More recently, he has starred in Game of Thrones, Indian Summers and Luther. His film credits include The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996), The World is Not Enough (1999) and Billy Elliot (2000). Writing as PG Duggan, he created the BBC TV movie Reasonable Force and the miniseries The Writing on the Wall. Malahide's numerous stage credits include roles in The Crucible, Twelfth Night, The Tempest, Beauty and the Beast, The Cherry Orchard, Uncle Vanya and Mutabilitie.

Quote: "If I'm walking past a building site, I get `Oi, Chisholm" from Minder fans. But if I go to a library, a female librarian will flutter her eyelashes at me because she remembers Middlemarch."

Trivia: Malahide was nominated for a Bafta TV Award for his role in The Singing Detective.

Stan Shaw (Actor) .. Glasspoole

Rex Linn (Actor) .. Mr Blair

Paul Dillon (Actor) .. Snelgrave

Christopher Masterson (Actor) .. Bowen

Renny Harlin (Director)

12:00 pm - 2:25 pm, Sunday, December 21 on Film4 +1 (47)

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