Is the son of a Spanish mother and a Chilean father. His family moved back to Spain when he was 1 year old, and he grew up and studied in Madrid. He wrote, produced and directed his first short film La cabeza at the age of 19, and he was 23 when he directed his feature debut Tesis (1996). His film Abre los ojos (1997) was a huge success in Spain and was distributed worldwide. It was remade in Hollywood by Cameron Crowe as Vanilla Sky (2001), starring Tom Cruise, Penelope Cruz (also the star of the original version) and Cameron Diaz. The Others (2001) is Amenábar's first English language film.
妮可·基德曼出生于美国夏威夷，但她却是澳大利亚人，父亲是个教授，母亲是出版商，家庭生活富足优良。基德曼从小就表现出对艺术的强烈爱好，3岁起开始学习芭蕾舞，10岁就受到专业的表演艺术训练，她的惊人天赋使她的学习既轻松而又进展神速。
Fionnula Flanagan was born and raised in Dublin, Ireland. From an early age she grew up speaking both English and Irish on a daily basis. Her parents weren't native Irish speakers but wanted Fionnula and her four siblings to learn the language. Her mother used to say, "A nation without a language is a nation without a soul". Fionnula has said she will be forever grateful to them for that. She was educated at the Abbey Theatre School in Dublin and in Switzerland. She moved to Los Angeles in 1968 and lives with her husband, psychiatrist Dr. Garrett O'Connor, in Beverly Hills. Of her enormous body of work, including stage, television and film, she might be most well-known for James Joyce's Women (1985), in which she plays six different women who had a profound influence on James Joyce's life. Besides giving an award-winning performance, she also wrote, adapted and produced the piece for the stage, and subsequently as a feature film. She believes Joyce is the most important writer in the English language, most notably for "Ulysses", "Finnegan's Wake" and "The Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man". When she was growing up she thought the much lauded author was a good friend of her parents, because they were always saying, "Joyce said this, Joyce said that". When she was finally old enough to read Joyce for herself, the characters were like old friends.
克里斯托弗·埃克莱斯顿生于英国大曼切斯特地区的一个工人阶级家庭，在学校当过班长，有着为伟大的曼切斯特联队效力的梦想，但渐渐发现自己在演技方面比球技更有作为，这也是受到了当时BBC很多优秀电视剧集以及大导演肯·罗奇作品的影响。埃克莱斯顿的表演事业从戏剧舞台起步，25岁通过《欲望街车》正式登台。之后经历的一段挫折时期中他曾在建筑工地、超市工作以及给画家当模特等积累起丰富的人生经验。1991年，27岁的埃克莱斯顿主演了影片《英伦小霸王》，直到两年后凭借电视剧《Cracker》才开始真正受到关注，同时又主演了丹尼·博伊尔的低成本处女作《同屋三分惊》，年轻的伊万·麦克格雷格也在这部片中展露头脚。之后埃克莱斯顿成攻出演了BBC连续剧《Our Friends in the North》，名字开始在英国家喻户晓，剧中为他配戏的则是另一位日后大红大紫的演员丹尼尔·克雷格。
'Eric Sykes' started as a radio scriptwriter but he soon found he could perform as well as write. The slight handicap of being very hard of hearing doesn't interfere with his wonderful comic timing. The spectacles he wears have no lenses but contain a bone conducting hearing aid.
伊莲·卡西迪，英国演员。父亲是国家公务员，母 亲是美发师。伊莲初次登台表演是在5岁的时候，参加学校组织的改编自《皮诺曹》(Pinocchio)的舞台剧。13岁那年，她在英国导演 Geraldine Creed的短片《心中有鬼》（The Strange...
芮妮·阿萨岑，1915年出生于英国，演员，代表作品《小后屋》等。
