This news summary on the tenth 21st Century season of Doctor Who will be updated regularly as more details are revealed. Pre-order the new season on DVD on Amazon here. As the first season of HBO's Ballers draws to a close, we're left with just one question: did the series' creators expect to get a second season? Drama scoffs at the. Created by Colette Burson, Dmitry Lipkin. With Thomas Jane, Jane Adams, Charlie Saxton, Sianoa Smit-McPhee. A former high school sports legend turned middle-aged high. ![]()
Hollywood Reporter . Here's an alphabetical listing of all our TV: "Homeland"--"A Gettysburg Address": Die Another Day "Homeland"--"The Clearing": A Place in the Sun. The official website for Entourage on HBO, featuring videos, images, schedule information and episode guides. List of recurring Entourage characters. This is the list of major and minor recurring characters in the HBOcomedy- drama television series Entourage. This list focuses on the characters themselves whether they are real people or fictional characters. For the complete list of celebrity appearances and cameos see the List of celebrities appearing on Entourage. Characters with links indicate the actual actor/actress in the role. Major recurring characters. Unlike with Ari's previous assistants, he is able to endure his boss' frequent barbs at his sexual orientation and ethnicity. When Ari is fired in the episode . Over the course of the season, he continues to prove himself on the job, booking Drama's role in the new NBC series Five Towns. Ari eventually earns Lloyd's gratitude when he rescues Lloyd from a gay TV writer who wanted to take advantage of him and reunites him with his boyfriend after a breakup in the fourth season. Having spent years as Ari's assistant by the time of the sixth season, Lloyd tries to talk to him about a promotion. Ari makes him endure a series of challenges over 1. Lloyd that he leaves Ari to take up Adam Davies' offer to work at TMA. Ari responds in the episode . When the Miller- Gold Agency merges with TMA in the season 6 finale . ![]() Lloyd continues to work under him into the seventh season. In the final season, Ari makes Lloyd the interim chief of TMA's TV division upon the condition that he will task the Mad Men production staff to derail the audition of a waiter Ari mistakes as dating his wife. As Ari steps down from TMA in the series finale, Lloyd is surprised and confronts Ari for not letting him know early on, telling Ari that he was his inspiration. Ari exhorts Lloyd to continue working at TMA under Babs Miller. In the movie, Ari agrees to give away Lloyd at his wedding. Played by Rex Lee (7. Episodes)Melissa 'Mrs Ari' Gold. She is strong enough to stand up to Ari's intimidating personality, and is in charge of the homestead. It is revealed in season 3 that the two first met at Harvard years before the events of the series and that she came from a rich Jewish family who left her a sizable trust fund (which Ari dips into to finance his new agency). In season 4, she receives a call from the producers of the soap opera. The Young and the Restless to reprise her old role of Kendall Scott for a one- day comeback but turns down a full- time role to concentrate on raising her children. In season five, it is revealed that Melissa once featured in an erotic film that Ari tried to hide, but Adam Davies posted a picture from the film on the web. Mrs Ari has been shown to fully support her husband in his decisions through thick and thin, although in season 6, she is disgusted with Ari lying to her about Andrew Klein cheating on his wife Marlo (whom she had become close friends with). In the season 6 finale . The marital problems that built up in season 7 prompts Mrs Ari to separate from Ari and files for divorce while seeing Bobby Flay for most of the eighth season. However, Mrs Ari breaks up with Flay and reconciles with Ari in the series finale. Mrs. Ari is a recurring guest star in the first three seasons and a credited star in the intro of Season 4. Creator/Producer/Head Writer Doug Ellin stated that the change in the introduction credits is the work of HBO. He added in many interviews and on various DVD commentaries that Mrs. Ari will never get a first name in the show. In the eighth season, however, it is finally revealed that her first name is Melissa. Ellin based Mrs Ari's name on his wife, Melissa Hecht. Reeves was brought into the cast while she was shooting Mr and Mrs Smith. She is a recurring guest star over the course of the show. While working in Vince's camp, she is seen to have raised two children. In the fifth season, Shauna steps in to help Vince's income stream by encouraging him to appear at a sweet sixteen party for USD2. In the final season, she assists Vince with the damage control in light of an article Vanity Fair reporter Sophia Lear wrote about him. Creator/Producer/Head Writer Doug Ellin has stated the change in the introduction credits is the work of HBO. Although they hit it off well in seasons 2 and 3, Sloan is disappointed when E moves in with her by the end of the season 3 finale but does not fully unpack his belongings. They broke up in the period between seasons 3 and 4 when E returns from the Medellin shoot and suddenly goes with the gang to Italy. Sloan reappears in the fifth season as E seeks her help in convincing Seth Green - who taunts E about his supposed past with her - to accept a role in a new show. Despite helping E lease one of her friends' houses to him in the sixth season and also land him a new job with her godfather, Sloan admits that she cannot get back with him unless they can really determine what they want from each other. A long fight on the road in the season 6 finale results in Sloan accepting E's marriage proposal. The couple plan their wedding for most of the seventh season, but they break up again during the interim of Seasons 7 and 8 because of Terrance's prenup demand as well as the takeover at Murray Berenson. In the final season, it is revealed that Sloan and E did not part amicably and spend one romantic moment together before E discovers Sloan will move to New York. When she is found to be carrying Eric's baby, Turtle, Drama, and Vince ask her to give E - whom she still loves - another chance and gets on a plane with him to an undisclosed location when Vince goes to Paris to get married. Played by Emmanuelle Chriqui. He partially rewrites the script to include a scene in which Vince's character has a homosexual encounter. The boys worry over the scene, but Walsh persuades Vince of its viability as a test of his commitment to the project - by admitting that the scene will not be made at all. The team shoots the movie in New York during the interlude between Seasons 1 and 2. In season 2, Walsh aims for a second Sundance trophy by successfully submitting Queens Boulevard for exhibition, but defiantly insists that James Cameron - whom Vince wants to meet to firmly land the title role in Aquaman - watch it at the festival instead of sending him a print. The movie is eventually well received. In the third season, the studio prepares to release QB for a wider audience, but Walsh seeks an injunction because the general- release version would be colorized; it is implied that he was denied the injunction. Late in the season, the gang brings back Walsh - who is working as a porn film director - to direct the shooting of Medellin after he reads the script, knowing his ability to make quality films with small budgets. He agrees on the condition that he will have final cut. He later decides it will be shot in Spanish. In the fourth season, the gang goes down to Colombia to shoot Medellin. However, Walsh falls apart on the set over the course of the shoot, with some of his antics include banning cellphones during production meetings, violently firing a director of photography for poorly shooting a scene, conducting witch hunts to see who may have seduced a local woman (Sofia Vergara) hired for the shoot, and tapping Stephen Gaghan to help him rewrite the ending when he already revised it. Billy finishes filming the final scene of the movie, a military assault scene that he is pleased with. Walsh's conflicts in Colombia with E, whom he derisively calls . Per his final cut authority, he avoids Vince and E from showing them the first cut and also refuses to consider editing it further after they see it. The Cannes Film Festival committee also accepts Medellin for screening, but not before Walsh gets angry at E for supposedly leaking the copy of a trailer (it is revealed that an editor's girlfriend did). Walsh hires Ari as his agent after Ari signs him, Vince and E to do a new movie, Lost in the Clouds. Knowing E's pledge to never work with Walsh again, Vince tries to get Walsh off the movie. Walsh fires Ari over a threat about being sued for breach of contract because he disposed the Lost in the Clouds script to make an entirely new script for a sci- fi film called Silo. Upon learning that Anna Faris is being managed by E, Walsh tries to get her aboard for the film, but she does not understand the script. He joins the gang in flying to Cannes for the Medellin premiere in the season finale . E's warnings about a failure to edit the film come back to haunt him as the audience jeers away at Medellin after the world premiere. It is implied that this failure has resulted in the cancellation of the Silo project and it effectively ends Walsh's movie career. Billy returns in the season 7 episode . He explains that he had spent the past two years reforming his ways - including being an ordained minister - and specifically approaches E for help. Over the rest of the season, Billy works with Drama to create a new animated series called Johnny's Bananas. In the final season, Walsh is temporarily rankled that Drama and Andrew Dice Clay's labor strike could cost him his job. He also steps in to fix Vince's miner movie script and to direct it as well. The final fate of the project is left unknown with the ending of the series. According to interviews on the season 2 DVD, the Billy character was inspired mainly by Entourage writer Rob Weiss as well as Vincent Gallo. Played by Rhys Coiro (2. Episodes)Barbara . In the first half of season 3, Babs alerts Ari about the growing opposition to his creation of a new agency and comes to his aid after Terrence Mc. Quewick denies him the money. Ari and Babs agrees to a 5. Miller- Gold Agency (MGA), where they must both agree on hiring or firing employees. They periodically get at odds with each other over various company issues during the next two seasons. In the fifth season, after she discovers Ari being offered the presidency of Warner Brothers, Babs tells Ari she will pay him ten cents per every dollar he invested in the agency. Actors You Completely Forgot Started As Comedy Stars. While comics love to make people laugh, a great movie career isn’t just based on how many chuckles you can get. Over the years, some of the most talented comedy stars have effectively made the leap into more dramatic waters. Adam Sandler wowed audiences with Punch Drunk Love, Will Farrell confounded expectations with Stranger Than Fiction, and Bill Murray blew everyone away with his performance in Lost in Translation. However, some comedians have such a knack for drama, that their emotional performances eventually eclipse their slapstick shenanigans. Certain actors can pull off playing against type to enormously successful results, so successful, in fact, that we completely forget there was time when they made us laugh instead of cry. For this list, we’re counting down the names of well- known dramatic actors who surprisingly got their start in comedy. To qualify, the actors must be well known for their dramatic roles, as opposed to their humorous offerings. That means that actors like Jim Carrey, whose comedic stylings outshine his more dramatic efforts, are not eligible. Also, actors whose comedy careers are still well known, like Jamie Foxx and Will Smith, will also not be included. With that out of the way, here are the 1. Actors You Completely Forgot Started Out As Comedy Stars. Robert Downey Jr. Although there are moments of humor in his Iron Man series, nowadays, Robert Downey Jr. The actor has made a name for himself for portraying addictedly riddled characters (Zodiac) or clever adventurers (Sherlock Holmes), but despite a string of critically acclaimed performances, the actor began his career with laughs, not gasps. Though he was only part of the cast for the 1. Downey Jr. Although brief, the gig did land him roles in the teen comedy Weird Science, along with the Rodney Dangerfield led Back to School. It wasn’t until the next few years that the actor finally started to dabble in high- stakes dramas, starting with the crime driven film Less Than Zero in 1. Oscar- nominated performance in Chaplin in 1. Alan Arkin. Actor, director, producer, singer, and composer, Alan Arkin is a man of many talents, including the ability to make people laugh. Arkin received his big break in 1. Inspector Jacques Clouseau in Inspector Clouseau, a role that comedy legend Peter Sellers had made so famous with The Pink Panther series. Afterwards, Arkin took a string of comedy parts, including roles in Improper Channels and Fire Sale, until his career moved into more dramatic territory. In 1. 99. 2, he starred alongside Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, and Kevin Spacey in Glengarry Glen Ross, a high- caliber drama which earned Arkin critical acclaim. Since then, the actor has dabbled in both comedy and drama, which parlayed into an Academy Award win for Best Supporting Actor for his role of Grandpa Hoover in 2. Little Miss Sunshine. Chris Evans. When you think of Chris Evans, it’s hard not to imagine the actor in his Captain America outfit with his red, white, and blue shield. Evans’ face has become synonymous with the MUC, but before he was fighting for truth, justice, and the American way, Evans was busy making people laugh. While he had a handful of roles on TV, Evan’s big break came in 2. Not Another Teen Movie as Jake Wyler, the clueless jock who tries to transform the school’s biggest nerd into prom queen. While the film did okay at the box office, it was enough to establish Evans as a bankable leading man. Since his comedic breakout, Evans’ career has taken a dramatic turn. The actor has been in everything from sci- fi epics like Sunshine to indie dramas like Gifted, and we can’t wait to see what he brings to the table as Captain America in next year’s Avengers: Infinity War. Bob Odenkirk. Actor Bob Odenkirk got his start in show business by writing for a number of different late- night programs, including Saturday Night Live, Late Night with Conan O’ Brien, The Dennis Miller Show, and the short- lived The Ben Stiller Show. While he would still write, Odenkirk started to take a stab at acting, earning bit parts in all sorts of comedy shows, including Futurama and Entourage. He finally landed his signature role in in the second season of the critically acclaimed drama Breaking Badas seedy criminal lawyer Saul Goodman. As a fan favorite, Saul was given his own spinoff show after Breaking Bad ended, resulting in the highly successful Better Call Saul, which just wrapped its third season. Since his breakout performance as Saul Goodman, Odenkirk has further branched out into dramatic territory, landing a role on FX’s series Fargo, as well as a supporting performance in Alexander Payne’s Nebraska. Woody Harrelson. Nominated for two Oscars, Woody Harrelson is known for taking big, bold roles and knocking them out of the park. However, before he was taking on huge blockbuster projects like the upcoming Han Solo movie, Harrelson became popular for his perfect comedic timing. The actor rose to fame in the 1. Cheers. After leaving the series, Harrelson starred in a number of comedies, including White Men Can’t Jump and Kingpin, before landing his signature dramatic roles in The People vs. Larry Flint, The Thin Red Line, and The Hunger Games. Today, Harrelson continues to push the bounds of his acting capabilities, starring alongside a completely CGI Andy Serkis in War for the Planet of the Apes,and still managing to wow audiences with his dynamic performance. Emma Thompson. Though she’s certainly known for her dramatic chops, and as the face of Professor Trelawney in the Harry Potter series, British actress Emma Thompson kicked off her career in improvisational comedy. Along with Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, Thompson made her claim to fame in the sketch program Alfresco before receiving her own short- lived show Thompson, which was canceled after just one season. Thompson’s breakout role came in 1. Jeff Goldblum in The Tall Guy. Since then, even though she’s taken a few comedic parts here and there, the actress has set her sights on full- blown dramas. She won an Oscar for her performance in Howard’s End, starred along Daniel Day- Lewis in the thriller In the Name of the Father, and scored another Oscar nod in Sense and Sensibility for acting. On top of it all, Thompson has also proved that she is a great a writer, earning the Oscar for Best Screenplay Based on Previous Material for Sense and Sensibility. Jeff Daniels. Jeff Daniels might be one of the most versatile actors in Hollywood, easily transitioning between comedy and drama. You probably remember that Daniels was in the wildly successful comedy Dumb and Dumber alongside Jim Carrey, but the actor has starred in more than his fair share of dramatic movies and series. Even before he was yucking it up with Carrey, he popped up in notable drams including Terms of Engagement and Woody Allen’s The Purple Rose of Cairo. In the last decade or so, Daniels has been involved with a number of projects, including the short- lived but critically acclaimed television drama The Newsroom, created by Aaron Sorkin. Other roles include a lead in Noah Baumbach’s Oscar nominated film The Squid and the Whale, a supporting part in Rian Johnson’s sci- fi bender Looper, and a role in George Clooney’s political drama Good Night, and Good Luck. Eric Bana. Born in Melbourne, Australia, actor Eric Bana received his big break in show business after joining the sketch comedy series Full Frontal, becoming both a writer and performer for the program. Bana quickly became one of the more popular cast members for his spot- on impressions of Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger, and was able to use that fame to nab his own variety program, which was cancelled after just eight episodes due to low ratings. Despite his show being cancelled, Bana managed to knab the leading role in 1. Chopper, in which the actor played the Australian criminal Chopper Red. It was Bana’s first dramatic performance, and the quirky comedian soon found he had a knack for acting. Since then, Bana has taken roles in several high profile movies, including Ridley Scott’s Black Hawk Down, Steven Spielberg’s Munich, and Guy Ritchie’s latest film King Arthur: The Legend of the Sword. Lily Tomlin. As no stranger to comedy or drama, Lily Tomlin began her career performing Off- Broadway during the late 1. This gave her the opportunity to join NBC’s sketch comedy show Rowan and Martin’s Laugh- In, and became an instant success thanks to her colorful group of characters. After releasing a series of music recordings in the early ’7. Tomlin made her dramatic debut in movies with Nashville. She was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her emotional performance, and went on to collaborate with director Robert Altman again in 1. Short. Cuts. Throughout her career, Tomlin has been in a string of both comedies and dramas, including The Incredible Shrinking Woman, I Heart Huckabees, and the voice of everyone’s favorite teacher Ms. Frizzle on The Magic School Bus. Bryan Cranston. Perhaps no actor has had such a drastic image change from comedy to drama than Brayan Cranston, who went from the dorky dad in Malcom in the Middle, to ruthless kingpin Walter White in Breaking Bad. It doesn’t get more polarizing than that. It’s a testament to Cranston’s dynamic skills as an actor that he’s able to seamlessly blend from one end of the dramatic spectrum to the other. Despite starting off as a voice actor in Mighty Morphin. Power Rangers, Cranston has taken radically different roles throughout his career. From TV shows like Seinfeld to blockbusters like Godzilla, the actor is continually pushing his limitations, earning his first Oscar nomination in 2. Trumbo. While some might always remember him as the goofy Hal, Cranston has become more and more known for his dramatic abilities, taking roles in Drive, Argo, and in Richard Linklater’s upcoming film Last Flag Flying. Michael Keaton. No doubt, Michael Keaton’s most famous role will always be Batman.
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