Robert Sean Leonard, the Tony-nominated stage actor now on the Fox medical series "House," plays Jon, an amiable low-budget filmmaker.
Sterling K. Brown (below, right) plays a bulimic cop; Del Pentecost (back right), an obese writer; Laura Benanti (a Tony-nominated stage actress), an anorexic whose occupation isn't specified; and Eric Schaeffer, a commodities broker whose particular problem with food is not clear.
She was also a Tony-nominated stage actor, San Francisco's first black female streetcar conductor, and, in her younger days, a prostitute and brothel manager.
Stratus' Gridlocked stars include Dominic Purcell (TV's Prison Break), Tony-nominated stage actor Stephen Lang (Avatar), Saul Rubinek (Frazier, Warehouse 13) and Vinnie Jones (X-Men: The Last Stand).
It matters little what I or anyone else says about Nicholas Hytner's big-screen version of his 2000, Olivier-nominated staging of Alan Bennett's play.
You are just going to get beat up, and chewed up, and spit out.' You know, I'm thinking, 'and?' You know, like you guys haven't tried to do that every day since that night in '08, when I was on stage nominated for VP, and I got to say, 'yeah, I'll go, send me, you betcha.
But there was fun to be had along the way, in part because each of the nominated directors took the stage.
Get nominated or nominate yourself.
Top film actors are nominated for academy awards; their stage counterparts may receive Tony awards, while musicians are eligible for a Grammy.
Dick Anthony Williams, a prolific actor who created enduring roles in blaxploitation films during the 1970s while simultaneously securing his reputation on the New York stage with Tony-nominated performances and a Drama Desk Award, died on Thursday in Los Angeles.
Page A18 Obituaries DICK ANTHONY WILLIAMS, 77 A prolific actor, he created enduring roles in blaxploitation films during the 1970s while simultaneously securing his reputation on the New York stage with Tony-nominated performances.
