Showing posts with label Actors. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Actors. Show all posts

March 24, 2009

Corbin Bleu


Date of Birth
21 February 1989, Brooklyn, New York, USA

Birth Name
Corbin Bleu Reivers

Nickname
Bleu Man
Corbie
The Bleu

Height
5' 10" (1.78 m)

Corbin Bleu Reivers Born: February 21, 1989 in Brooklyn, New York, Corbin Bleu followed in his father's footsteps and began appearing in television commercials at the age two, for products such as Life cereal, Bounty, Hasbro, and Nabisco. It was at that time he also discovered his love for dance when he began taking jazz and ballet classes, usually the only boy in the class. By the age of four he was a model with the Ford Modeling Agency in New York. He appeared in print ads for stores such as Macy's, Gap, Target, and Toys R Us, and fashion spreads in Child, Parent, and American Baby magazines, as well as having his image on toys and game packaging. At age six Corbin appeared in his first professional theater production off Broadway playing an abandon homeless mute in the play "Tiny Tim is Dead".

Corbin and his family moved to Los Angeles in 1996 and he quickly landed a recurring role on the television series "High Incident" (1996). He continued to land small roles in such feature films as Soldier (1998/I) with Kurt Russell, Mystery Men (1999) with Ben Stiller, William H. Macy, and Greg Kinnear, and Galaxy Quest (1999) with Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, and Alan Rickman. He also guest starred on such television shows as "ER" (1994), "Malcolm & Eddie" (1996), "Cover Me" (1999), and "The Amanda Show" (1999). Corbin also continued dancing, eventually becoming one of the first students at the prestigious Debbie Allen Dance Academy. He then attended the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts as a theater major, this time following in his mother's footsteps who attended New York City's famed High School of Performing Arts. While in his freshman year Corbin was cast in his first lead role in the feature film Catch That Kid (2004). Back in school in his sophomore year he played the lead role of Ren in the musical "Footloose" and the role of Sonny in the musical "Grease". That same year Corbin was honored with the award of Theatre Student of the Year. In the summer of 2004 Corbin became a part of the ensemble cast for the new Discovery Kids television series "Flight 29 Down" (2005), filmed on location in Hawaii on the island of Oahu. During the summer of 2005 Corbin was cast as Chad in the Disney Channel Original Movie High School Musical (2006) (TV) which was directed by Kenny Ortega. Being a big fan of musical theater, Corbin was thrilled to be a part of this musical movie project in which he gets to showcase his dance skills.

March 20, 2009

Cody Linley


Date of Birth
20 November 1989, Lewisville, Texas, USA

Birth Name
Cody Martin Linley

Height
5' 8" (1.73 m)

Cody Matteo Linley is an American actor. He is perhaps best known for his recurring role as Jake Ryan in the television series Hannah Montana and for being a contestant on the seventh season of Dancing With The Stars. Linley was partnered with Julianne Hough. He was eliminated in the semifinals, finishing fourth.


Career

Linley made his acting debut in the 1994 made-for-television film Still Holding On: The Legend of Cadillac Jack. Subsequently, he had supporting roles in four films released in 2000: My Dog Skip, Where the Heart Is, Walker, Texas Ranger, and Miss Congeniality. In 2003, Linley had a major role in the independent film When Zachary Beaver Came to Town and appeared in the movie Cheaper by the Dozen.

Most recently, Linley appeared on Disney Channel in seven episodes of Hannah Montana as Jake Ryan. He also appeared in That's So Raven, in the episode "Five Finger Discount" as Daryl. Linley appeared during the world premiere of The Cheetah Girls 2, while conversing alongside hit Disney Channel celebrity, Brenda Song, opening the film with their comments. When Brenda introduced him, she said "Hannah Montana Star" which arose rumors that he may receive a spot on the show.

He appeared in the children's film Hoot, which opened on May 5, 2006, portraying Mullet Fingers and co-starring with Logan Lerman and Brie Larson as three youngsters who try to save a local colony of Burrowing owls. The movie is an adaptation of the children's book by Carl Hiaasen. In 2007, he had a lead role in the movie The Haunting Hour: Don't Think About It alongside Emily Osment. He has also appeared in the movie Where the Heart Is alongside Natalie Portman and Ashley Judd where he played Ashley Judd's oldest son Brownie Coop. He played the son of the Vikings coach in the film Rebound.

Linley helped host the 2008 Disney Channel Games alongside Brian Stepanek from The Suite Life of Zack and Cody and Meaghan Jette Martin from the Disney Channel movie Camp Rock.

As of June 2008, he is filming Forget Me Not, a thriller in which he plays Eli Channing. Linley's co-stars include Hannah Montana veteran Brie Gabrielle and Disney alumna Carly Schroeder (Melina from Lizzie McGuire).

It is unclear if Linley will have any involvement whatsoever with Hannah Montana: The Movie. On the IMDB cast list, Linley was not listed,[1] although he does still participate on the television show.

He also appeared in commercials for Zaxby's, some alone and some with Alyson Stoner.

Brandon Baker



Date of Birth
28 April 1985, Orange County, California, USA

Height
5' 9" (1.75 m)

Brandon Baker is an American actor.He is known for the made-for-TV movies, such as Disney movies Johnny Tsunami and its sequel Johnny Kapahala: Back on Board as well as for his role on the short lived NBC sitcom One World. In 2002, he appeared in episodes of the Disney Channel original series Even Stevens.

He was born in Anaheim, California. He is part English, German, and Filipino. Baker lives with his family including his sister, Cassie and his brother, Kullen. He started acting when he was 11 years old after seeing some of his friends going to auditions. At 12 years old, Baker landed his first big break with the starring role of "Mowgli" in Walt Disney's Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story. Baker was invited to the 2007 Disney Channel games after Zac Efron dropped out. He currently lives in Santa Barbara, California. He also starred alongside Jessica Alba in the 1999 movie P.U.N.K.S.

Brian Stepanek


Brian Stepanek is an American actor.He is best known for his role as Arwin in the Disney Channel sitcom The Suite Life of Zack and Cody. He also guest starred in the sixth episode of The Suite Life on Deck, It's All Greek to Me as Arwin and Milos. Other roles include "The Mathter" on Kim Possible, "Nugent the Dog" in Over the Hedge, and Gandu Three Echo in the film The Island and a Sector Seven Agent in Transformers. He played the Riddler in one ad from the Batman OnStar commercials. He did additional voiceovers in the movie Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events. Another appearance is as a strange chef named Lowell in What I Like About You and the sit-com, Malcolm In The Middle. He was also one of the co-hosts for the first ever Disney Channel Games. He also portrayed one of two Caucasian cops in Friday After Next. Another appearance was a few episodes in The West Wing. He is also well known as "The Dex Guy" Dex, and has also done commercials for Ace Hardware, Advil, Toyota, and Dairy Queen as well as radio commercials for Microsoft. Currently he stars in a 5-minute short show called Brian O'Brian, a silent slapstick-style show aired on Disney Channel.He also stars in the new Disney Channel Original Movie Hatching Pete as the Coach.

March 15, 2009

Andrew James Trauth


Date of Birth
14 September 1986, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Birth Name
Andrew James Trauth

Nickname
AJ
Jacks

Height
5' 10" (1.78 m)


AJ Trauth was born on September 14, 1986, in Chicago, Illinois. His acting career began when he landed the role of Ben in Search for the Jewel of Polaris: Mysterious Museum (1999) (TV) at the age of 13. Soon after this, AJ starred as Alan Twitty in the Disney Channel series "Even Stevens" (2000). He has since had numerous appearances and roles in many movies and TV shows. AJ's hobbies include photography, surfing, sailing, playing guitar, and writing music. He has a golden retriever named Dylan. In 2002, AJ and his two brothers formed the rock band Mavin. It can be heard on the Herbie Fully Loaded (2005) soundtrack and it has recorded the theme song "American Dragon: Jake Long" (2005).

Music career

He is currently in the band Mavin (formerly known as Badge) He is influenced by Derek and the Dominos, Jimi Hendrix, Weezer, and The Beatles.
He sang with the Disney Channel Circle of Stars, performing Elton John's "Circle of Life as a bonus music video for the special edition of the DVD release of the Lion King in 2003. He also sang the theme song for "American Dragon: Jake Long" for the first season. His older brothers Chris and Pete are in the band as well.
Acting career

On the TV show Kim Possible he played the character of Josh Mankey, a one-time love interest of Kim (voiced by Christy Carlson Romano).

Trauth also worked with Romano on Even Stevens and did a guest role in The Amanda Show opposite Amanda Bynes and Drake Bell. Later he worked with Bell and Brenda Song in an episode of R. L. Stine's show take from the book series: The Nightmare Room in the episode: "Dear Diary I'm Dead". He also made a guest appearance on Reba as Kyra's 17-year-old date Jake in the episode the "United Front." Trauth starred in the Disney Channel original movie You Wish! alongside Lalaine Vergara, who played Miranda Sanchez on the Disney Channel's Lizzie McGuire.

Adrian R'Mante


Date of Birth
3 February 1978, Tampa, Florida, USA

Height
6' 1" (1.85 m)

R'Mante currently resides in Orange County and is married to Sandra Figueroa. He graduated from the University of Central Florida with a bachelor's degree in Theatre Performance. He got his first break as the host for the game show Game Lab in Orlando, Florida and has also hosted other shows on Nickelodeon and the Discovery Channel.

Later in the 90s, R'Mante hosted wraparound segments for the Kids Zone block on Game Show Network and is also well known for being a minor character on the once-popular (now cancelled) show, Summerland.

He appeared on the popular comedy, Mad TV. For a skit on the Fanta commercials.

R'Mante played Esteban on The Suite Life of Zack & Cody with Cole and Dylan Sprouse, Ashley Tisdale and Brenda Song and was also a guest star in the second episode of season six of 24, as well as in CSI: NY.