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William Levy

Levy was born in Cojimar, Havana, Cuba, and is the oldest of four siblings. He is of Jewish ancestry on his paternal grandfather's side.  Levy migrated to Miami, Florida, when he was 14. He attended high school, after which he studied business administration on a baseball scholarship. He subsequently went to Los Angeles to study acting and continued his acting studies in Miami and Mexico City (CEA, Televisa)

 

 

Career

Levy worked as a model for the agency Next Models and was featured later in two reality shows broadcast by Telemundo: Isla de la Tentación and Protagonistas de Novela 2 In 2005 he performed at the Centro de Bellas Artes in San Juan Puerto Rico, starring in the play La Nena Tiene Tumbao.
His first debut on the Spanish language channel Univision was in the Venevision International production of Olvidarte Jamas. He later appeared in Mi Vida Eres Tu and Acorralada.

In 2008, he appeared in his first film Retazos de Vida directed by Viviana Cordero.
He was invited by television producer Carla Estrada to star in Pasión, his breakthrough in Mexican soap operas. His performance was so well received that Televisa later cast him as the lead in Cuidado con el Angel with actress and ex-RBD singer Maite Perron The show was first broadcast in Mexico in June 2008 and began airing in the United States in September 2008 on Univision. It averaged 45.7 million viewers per evening.
Levy finished filming Sortilegio with actress Jacqueline Bracamontes on October 9, 2009. Sortilegio aired on Univision, and the finale drew 6.6 million viewers, beating ABC and CBS.
In November 2009, the actor lent his voice to the animated movie Planet 51 in its Spanish version. The movie opened on November 27 in Mexico and won an award for best animated Spanish-language film of 2009 (Premios Goya).  From November 2009 to February 2010, Levy toured several Mexican cities with the play Un Amante a la Medida, which later toured in the United States in June 2010

Levy is currently shooting the Mexican telenovela Triunfo del Amor, a remake of the Venezuelan classic Cristal, in which he once again shares credits with Maite Perroni. The telenovela aired on October, 25, 2010 in El Canal de las Estrellas. Pedro Torres, executive producer of Mujeres Asesinas, confirmed Levy's role in the third season of the popular Mexican series.
Levy stars as Jennifer Lopez's love interest in her music video I'm Into You, from her album Love?. It aired on the NBC Today Show on May 2, 2011.

Jamie Bamber

Biography from, and further info about Jamie at "Jamie Bamber, this is your website"

Jamie St. John Bamber Griffith, was born on April 3, 1973 in Hammersmith, London. His father, Ralph is an American. His mother, Elizabeth is Irish and she trained as an actress. He has 5 brothers and one sister (we'd like to see the brothers too). The family lived in France for Jamie's first few years. He attended a bilingual school there until the family moved back to England when he was eight.

Jamie's first part was that of a woman! He played the wicked witch in the "Wizard of Oz" at school - his hair was probably long at the time. In 1996, Jamie went to the London Academy of Dramatic Arts (LAMDA) where he completed a post graduate course. Before that he received a first Class Honours Degree in Modern Languages (Italian and French) at St. Johns College, Cambridge University.

Not only is he handsome but very smart too!! He speaks French and Italian fluently, - and if he took his role as Archie Kennedy really serious - a little Spanish. After leaving LAMDA, Jamie almost immediately got his first part, the role of Archie Kennedy in the glorious, dashing and daring adventures of "Hornblower".

Between filming the episodes of "Hornblower", Jamie had a small but memorable part in "The Scarlet Pimpernel" , playing Lord Tony Dewhurst. But his character was shot, but not before he showed us his bum! So that was the end of that. After Hornblower and Pimpernel, he played in an episode of "Poirot, the Murder of Roger Ackroyd" - in which he disappears a lot - and in "Lady Audley's Secret" - in which he waves his hair around a lot, and disappears again!

The producers of "Hornblower" were bombarded with letters from Jamie's fans to continue the part of Archie in the new episodes and they did... His performance was a major success, but Archie dies, so that was sadly the end of that too. We need to do some serious talking to those producers. At the end of Hornblower...... well.... thanks to special effects........ he sort of disappears again!! He could teach Houdini some tricks!!

He had a role in "Band of Brothers" a series about WW II directed by Steven Spielberg which has been aired on HBO and the BBC. He played Lt. Jack Foley. Jamie finished "Band of Brothers" and went on to film a movie in Scotland called "Ghost Rig". That's where he met Kerry Norton. Next came a part in British series "Peak Practice" playing Doctor Matt Kendal - so for once he's not the patient - and this could get interesting. (He gets to snog ... what could be more interesting than that?) Sadly "Peak Practice" met the axe after 12 seasons, so it was on to other things for Jamie. No...he didn't kill it... ITV did!

His next role put him back in uniform, only this time it's modern uniform, as a member of a crack SAS team in the 6 part series "Ultimate Force" for ITV. We have just heard that Jamie did film two episodes of the new series 2 of Ultimate Force.

After Ultimate Force, Jamie had the role of Hans Meyrick in the BBC production of George Eliott's "Daniel Deronda". Upon completing "Daniel Deronda", Jamie took on the very challenging role of Prince Hal in the Bristol Old Vic's production of Shakespeare's "Henry IV". Fans from all over the world made the journey to wish Jamie well in professional stage debut.

Jamie  finished filming "Battlestar Galactica" in which he donned another uniform (gotta love men in uniform) and played the part of Lee "Apollo" Adama. This ran for 4 seasons.

Jamie has blond hair and blue eyes. He likes horseback riding, rugby, golf, scuba diving, tennis, skiing and running. Jamie ran the London Marathon in April 2002 finishing in just under 3 hours.

Too much Tequila can cause some problems so it seems, but he can actually sing!! (can he?) You can listen to his lovely voice elsewhere on this site. He loves to dance and listen to rap-music. Well, My name is Arch and I'm havin' a fit, Horatio is gonna do somethin' about it......... something like that.

Los Angeles is Jamie's home, though he spent a lot of time in Vancouver, Canada filming Battlestar Galactica. Jamie was back in his native London filming Law & Order: UK, but is currently filming "Outcasts" in South Africa.

We can be brief about his love life. He used to be single (and we were happy). Now he's happy (and we're still single) with his wife Kerry Norton and their daughters Isla, and twins Darcy and Ava!!

Just for fun

Duncan James

Born in Dorset April 7th 1978, at 13 he moved to Devon where he was raised by his mother and his grandparents. Music always played a central role in Duncan’s life with his grandfather being a music teacher and his mother’s love of musical theatre, they often travelled to London’s West End together. He studied A level Drama and received great reviews for his amateur dramatic performances. After taking a GNVQ in Leisure and Tourism, he took a job with Haven Holidays, who recognised his talents and soon he became the lead male vocalist for nightly shows at several of their locations around the UK. Whilst on the audition circuit, Duncan encountered Lee Ryan, Simon Webbe and Antony Costa, discovering their shared musical tastes and compatibilities the logical step was to create music and a style that suited the guys talents. Blue was born and was immediately signed to Innocent Records.
Blue was an instant success, the timing was perfect. They exploded on to the scene in May 2001 with the unforgettable All Rise debuting at #4, and follow up single Too Close going straight to the top of the charts. It was a meteoric rise to fame for the foursome becoming the hottest new act to emerge in the UK in years with their unmistakable sound of R&B influence pop and melodious ballads. Blue has amassed huge commercial success, racking up 40 No. 1 singles worldwide, 3 No.1 UK albums and sales of over 13 million records.

There have been many highlights for Duncan during his partnership with Blue, however, dueting with Stevie Wonder on his classic Signed Sealed Delivered and Sir Elton John on Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word , rank in his top ten along with acknowledgement from the industry receiving two BRIT awards for Best Newcomer 2002 and Best Pop Act 2003.
The guys decided to take a break from the band to pursue other interests .Duncan was asked by Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber to record a duet with Pop Opera sensation Keedie I believe my Heart from A Woman in White it reached No.2

In addition to pursuing his music talents, Duncan is a regular host of The National Lottery and has presented on Soapstar Superstar, Capital FM’s Party in the Park, City Hospital, T4, The Clothes Show , GMTV’s Entertainment Today and on Capital Radio where he hosted Duncan's JukeBox

In 2007 Duncan took up the challenge of competing in ITV’s Dancing on Ice where he became a finalist and participated in the following sell out tour in arenas across the UK.

Duncan was thrilled to be offered the part of Billy Flynn in the hit musical Chicago, which he starred in during summer 07, reprising the role for an additional 10 week run from December to February 08.

Posted especially for DreamingDan

Anton Hysén

Anton Hysén (born December 13, 1990) is a Swedish football player who plays in the Swedish fourth division for Utsiktens BK, which is coached by his father Glenn Hysén. Anton is a former member of the Swedish national under-17 association football team and was given a trainee contract with BK Häcken from 2007 to 2009, but was hindered by injuries and instead joined Utsiktens BK, for whom he plays in his third season. He was previously a member of Torslanda IK. His older brothers are football players Tobias Hysén and Alexander Hysén.

Anton came out as gay to the Swedish football magazine Offside in March 2011 The Daily Mail has described Anton as the "first high-profile Swedish footballer to announce that he is gay" and as the second professional football player to come out, after English footballer Justin Fashanu in 1990. The BBC called him "a global one-off"

Anton was profiled on TV4 on March 9, 2011, in a program moderated by Lennart Ekdal titled "Får även bögar spela fotboll?" ("Can homosexuals play football too?")

Above from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Anton Hysen Encourages Gay Youth To Be Themselves By On Top Magazine

Swedish footballer (European soccer) Anton Hysen encourages gay youth to be themselves in a behind-the-scenes look at an upcoming photo spread for UK gay glossy Attitude.

Hysen, the son of former Liverpool defender Gleen Hysen, announced he's gay in March during an interview with the football magazine Offside, just weeks after English cricketer Steven Davies made a similar announcement.

The 20-year-old Utsiktens BK player is the first high-profile Swedish football player to announce that he is gay. He joins several top European athletes who have publicly outed themselves during their careers, including 24-year-old Davies and Welsh rugby star Gareth Thomas, who came out gay nearly two years ago.

“For the young people that are worried to come out I just have really this to say,” Hysen said in the 1-minute-25-second video. “Just be yourself. Step up. Do not let anybody like take you down or step on you for anything.”

“Just be yourself, that's all that matters,” he added. “They don't like it, then doesn't matter, it's about yourself and being comfortable in [sic] yourself.”

Darren Criss

Darren Criss is a passionate actor/musician/songwriter who has—in the course of one year—gone from YouTube sensation to a 4-time Billboard charting musician and composer to joining the cast of FOX's Emmy® Award-winning series Glee. He currently stars as Blaine Anderson, a charismatic and openly-gay student from a rival glee club, the Dalton Academy Warblers. Criss’ breakout performance of Katy Perry's “Teenage Dream” in his first episode set a milestone for Glee, debuting at #1 on Billboard for the first time in the show’s history and selling over 200,000 tracks in its first week.

Quickly emerging as one the most promising actors and musicians of his generation, Criss made his television debut in 2009 as Josh Burton on ABC’s Eastwick, with Rebecca Romijn, Lindsay Price and Jaime Ray Newman, and also appeared in CBS’ Cold Case.

Growing up in San Francisco, Criss played a variety of instruments including violin, guitar, piano, and drums. He played drums in a small band with his brother Chuck (now member of indie band Freelance Whales) before he went on to pursue his acting degree at the University of Michigan.

In his senior year of college, Criss and his friends created a Harry Potter musical parody entitled, A Very Potter Musical as a fun project for their classmates, friends and other Harry Potter fans. Along with starring as the boy wizard himself, Criss also lent several of his songs to be used in the show. Within weeks of posting the musical online, it became a YouTube hit, garnering millions of views and musical theater-world attention.

Using A Very Potter Musical as a springboard, Criss and his writing partners started StarKid Productions. Within a year, they wrote and produced subsequent online hits, Me and My Dick and A Very Potter Sequel, the latter of which he wrote all the music and lyrics for. As a result, the StarKid brand has grown to become just as popular as the shows themselves, spawning an enormous cult following from all over the world.

Having recently established their home base in Chicago, StarKid Productions will release their next original musical comedy in February. Entitled Starship, Criss will again be fully responsible for the music and lyrics.

Criss and StarKid Productions debuted on three separate Billboard charts – through three separate releases – all within the past year. These include the #11 spot on Billboard's Top Cast Albums with their cast soundtrack for the original musical “Me and My Dick,” along with the #19 spot on the Top Compilations chart for “A Very StarKid Album,” and the #30 spot on Billboard's Heatseekers chart with Criss’ self-released EP “Human.” With much success on the music charts, Criss has defied what many try to achieve under various music genres. “Human” was released as an acoustic collection of 5 original songs, differing greatly from the more Broadway-esque music found on “Me and My Dick” and the pop-rock stylings featured on “A Very Starkid Album.”

When not writing music for StarKid, he continues to write music for himself as an artist, and pending time and availability intends to begin work on a long-anticipated full length studio album. As a songwriter, Criss has been able to draw from his life, relationships, loves, and quirky outlook to pen heartfelt, tender, and raw songs—all of which range from the styles of soul, folk, rock, jazz and even classic show tunes.

Darren's Website:

And for good measure, a couple more of the lovely young Mr Criss.

So what has brought all this about…

Well, it all stems from the fact that I recently realised that I haven’t actually done any blogging in about 3 years.  I used to enjoy it, don’t really know why I stopped; perhaps life just got a little to full, a bit complex or maybe I just became lazy!

Anyway, whatever the reason I figured I’d give it a go again.  This site will more than likely be filled with images, videos and one or two opinions to start with, and well, we’ll see where the wind takes us…