KATE BECKINSALE

Kathrin Romary “Kate” Beckinsale (born 26 July 1973) is an English actress. After some minor television roles, she made her film debut in Much Ado About Nothing (1993) while still a student at Oxford University. She then appeared in British costume dramas such as Prince of Jutland (1994), Cold Comfort Farm (1995), Emma (1996), and The Golden Bowl (2000), in addition to various stage and radio productions. She began to seek film work in the United States in the late 1990s and, after appearing in small-scale dramas The Last Days of Disco (1998) and Brokedown Palace (1999), she had a break-out year in 2001 with starring roles in the war film Pearl Harbor and the romantic comedy Serendipity. She built on this success with appearances in the biopic The Aviator (2004) and the comedy Click (2006).

Beckinsale appeared in 2003’s Underworld and has since starred in many action movies including Van Helsing (2004),Underworld: Evolution (2006), Whiteout (2009), as well as Contraband, Underworld: Awakening, and Total Recall (all in 2012). She also makes occasional appearances in smaller dramatic projects such as Snow Angels (2007), Winged Creatures (2008), Nothing but the Truth (for which she earned a Critic’s Choice Award nomination in 2008), andEverybody’s Fine (2009).

Modeling career

Beckinsale has worked occasionally as a model. In 1997, she appeared in the music video for George Michael‘s Waltz Away Dreaming.^[58] She starred oppositeOrlando Bloom in a 2002 Gap television advert directed by Cameron Crowe.^[167] She appeared in a Diet Coke television advert in 2004, directed by Michael Gondry.^[168][169] She advertised Absolut Vodka in a 2009 print campaign photographed by Ellen von Unwerth.^[170][171] She has also promoted Lux shampoo in a Japanese television advert.^[172]

Relationships[edit]

Beckinsale in 2008

Beckinsale had an eight-year relationship with actor Michael Sheen from 1995 until 2003. They met when cast in a touring production ofThe Seagull in early 1995 and moved in together shortly afterwards.^[173] She has said it was “love at first sight”^[174] and that he saved her from “a hospital for the criminally insane”.^[175] In 1997, they appeared in a radio production of Romeo and Juliet.^[51] Their daughter, Lily Mo Sheen, was born in London in 1999. The actress has said she was “embarrassed” that Sheen never proposed^[38][176] but felt as though she were married: “If you keep a library book out long enough, you feel it’s yours.”^[177]

Their relationship ended in early 2003, after the filming of Underworld.^[178] Beckinsale had persuaded director Len Wiseman to cast Sheen in the film,^[179] but, while on set, she and Wiseman (who was married) began a relationship. All parties, aside from Wiseman’s first wife,^[180]have maintained that there was no infidelity.^[179] Wiseman married Beckinsale on May 9, 2004 in Bel-Air, California. ^[181] They live in Los Angeles. Beckinsale and Wiseman both remain friends with Sheen.

CAMERON DIAZ

Cameron Michelle Diaz (born August 30, 1972)^[3] is an American actress and former model. She rose to stardom in the 1990s with roles in The Mask (1994), My Best Friend’s Wedding (1997) and There’s Something About Mary(1998). Other high-profile credits include Charlie’s Angels (2000) and its sequel Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle (2003), voicing the character of Princess Fiona in the Shrek series (2001–10), The Holiday (2006), Knight and Day (2010),The Green Hornet (2011), Bad Teacher (2011), and The Other Woman (2014).

Diaz has received four Golden Globe Award nominations for her performances in Being John Malkovich (1999), Vanilla Sky (2001), Gangs of New York (2002), and There’s Something About Mary (1998) for which she also won the New York Film Critics Best Lead Actress Award. In 2013, Diaz was named the highest-paid actress over 40 in Hollywood.^[Cameron Diaz was born in San Diego, California.^[5][6] Her mother, Billie, was an import-export agent, and her father, Emilio Diaz, worked for the California oil companyUNOCAL as a foreman.^[7][3][8] Diaz has an older sister, Chimene.^[7] Her father’s family was Cuban, and settled in Tampa‘s Ybor City, later moving to California, where Emilio was born (Diaz’s ancestors had originally moved from Spain to Cuba).^[9][10] Her mother has English and German ancestry.^[11][12][13] Diaz grew up in Long Beach, California,^[6][8] and attended Los Cerritos Elementary School, in Los Cerritos, California, and Long Beach Polytechnic High School.^[5]

Diaz has had long-term relationships with video producer Carlos de la Torre,^[62][63] actor Matt Dillon,^[64] actor/singer Jared Leto,^[65][66] singer/actor Justin Timberlake,^[64][67] and New York Yankees baseball star Alex Rodriguez.^[68] On why she has never married, Diaz told Esquire magazine in October 2012, “It just wasn’t the thing I was drawn to.”^[69]

Diaz received substantial defamation damages from suing American Media Incorporated, after The National Enquirer had claimed she was cheating on Justin Timberlake.^[70] She endorsed Al Gore publicly during 2000. Diaz wore a T-shirt that read “I won’t vote for a son of a Bush!” while making publicity visits for Charlie’s Angels.^[71] Diaz has also been involved with the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA), the first and largest nonprofit organization for veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and has spoken as an advocate for military families.^[72] Although she was quoted by a 1997 Time magazine article as saying she wasgermophobic,^[73] Diaz specifically denied this on the June 26, 2009, edition of Real Time with Bill Maher, saying that a small comment she made twelve years earlier regarding public bathroom doorknobs was distorted out of proportion.^[74]

On April 15, 2008, Diaz’s father, Emilio Diaz, died at the age of 58 from pneumonia.^[75]

Cameron Diaz is passionate about the environment and is well known for her green activism. Vogue magazine has even brought attention to her commitment to sustainability. Diaz is an early adopter of the Prius in efforts to take part in reducing carbon emissions. Diaz has also worked with Al Gore on helping to promote hisLive Earth campaign, raising awareness of climate change. In an interview with the Huffington Post, she explains the three-year plan to give everybody the information they need to start making a difference not only as individuals, but as a community, and why these changes need to take place.

WHITE COLLAR

White Collar is a USA Network television series created by Jeff Eastin, starring Tim DeKay as FBI Special Agent Peter Burke and Matt Bomer as Neal Caffrey, a highly intelligent and multi-talented con artist working as Burke’s criminal informant. Willie Garson and Tiffani Thiessen also star. The show premiered on October 23, 2009, and has aired six complete seasons, with the final season concluding on December 18, 2014.

On March 20, 2014, USA Network renewed the series for a six-episode sixth season, which was confirmed the following September as being the series’ last. The season premiered on November 6, 2014.^[1][2] On December 18, after the airing of the last episode of the sixth season, White Collar ended its run.

Premise

Neal Caffrey, a con artist, forger and thief, is captured after a three-year game of cat and mouse with the FBI. With only months left serving a four-year sentence,^[4] he escapes to look for Kate, his girlfriend. Peter Burke, the FBI agent who initially captured Caffrey, finds and returns him to prison. This time, Caffrey proposes a deal with the FBI, as part of a work-release program. After some hesitation, Burke agrees, and thus begins this unconventional arrangement where Caffrey helps Burke apprehend white collar criminals.

AMY ADAMS

Amy Lou Adams (born August 20, 1974)^[1] is an American actress and singer. Adams began her career on stage performing in dinner theatre and later made her feature film debut in Drop Dead Gorgeous. After moving to Los Angelesand appearing in a series of television guest appearances and roles in B movies, Adams appeared as Brenda Strong inSteven Spielberg‘s Frank Abagnale biopic Catch Me If You Can. Her breakthrough role came in the 2005 independent film Junebug, for which she received critical acclaim and her first of five Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress. In 2007, Adams starred in the Disney animated classic musical film Enchanted, a critical and commercial success, and received a Golden Globe Award nomination for her lead performance. She received her second Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations and first BAFTA Award nomination for her supporting role in the 2008 film Doubt.

Adams received two more Golden Globe, BAFTA and Academy Award nominations for her supporting roles in the 2010 sports drama The Fighter and the 2012 psychological drama The Master. She achieved further success in 2013 for portraying Lois Lane in the Superman movie Man of Steel, a supporting role in the Spike Jonze-directed comedy-dramaHer, and a con artist in David O. Russell‘s crime film American Hustle; the last of these won her a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy along with a fourth BAFTA nomination, and a fifth Oscar nomination, her first in the Best Actress category.

Adams was born in Vicenza, Veneto, Italy,^[2] the fourth of seven children of American parents Kathryn and Richard Kent Adams.^[1] She has four brothers and two sisters.^[3] Her father was a U.S. serviceman stationed at Caserma Ederle at the time of her birth,^[4] and took the entire family from base to base, before settling inCastle Rock, Colorado, when Adams was eight years old.^[5] Thereafter, her father sang professionally in restaurants and her mother was a semi-professionalbodybuilder.^[5][6] Adams was raised in LDS Church until the age of twelve, when her parents divorced in 1985.^[7] Regarding her religious upbringing, Adams said, “I can’t speak for everybody, but I know it instilled in me a value system I still hold true. The basic ‘Do unto others …’—that was what was hammered into me. And love.”^[8]

During her years at Douglas County High School, she was diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and prescribed Ritalin, which she continued taking as an adult. Adams also sang in the school choir and trained as an apprentice at a local dance company with ambitions of becoming a ballerina.^[9] Her parents had hoped that she would continue her athletic training, which she gave up to pursue dance, as it would have given her a chance to obtain a college scholarship. Adams later reflected on her decision not to go to college: “I wasn’t one of those people who enjoyed being in school. I regret not getting an education, though.”^[10] After graduating from high school, she moved to Atlanta with her mother.^[5] Deciding that she was not gifted enough to be a professional ballerina, she entered musical theater, which she found was “much better suited to [her] personality”.^[8] She said that ballet was “too disciplined and too restrained and I was always told off in the chorus lines”^[11][12] and her body at the time was “just wrecked from dancing all these years.”^[8]

When she turned eighteen, Adams supported herself by working as a greeter at a Gap store while performing in community theater.^[9] For a few weeks after graduating from high school,^[13] she took her first full-time job as a hostess at Hooters, a fact that became her “entire press career” for a while.^[14] Adams left the job three weeks later after having saved enough money to buy her first car. She later admitted, “So there was definitely an innocence to my interpretation of what Hooters was about. Though I did learn, quickly, that short shorts and beer don’t mix!”^[5]In 2001, Adams began dating actor and artist Darren Le Gallo,^[5] whom she met in an acting class. Adams and Le Gallo became engaged in July 2008.^[70] In May 2010, Adams gave birth to their daughter.^[71][72]

CHRIS EVANS

Christopher Robert “Chris” Evans (born June 13, 1981)^[1] is an American actor and film director. Evans is best known for his superhero roles as Johnny Storm / Human Torch in Fantastic Four (2005) and Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007); and Steve Rogers / Captain America in Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), Marvel’s The Avengers (2012) and Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014), a role he will reprise in Avengers: Age of Ultron(2015).

Evans began his career on the television series Opposite Sex (2000), moving to film in 2001 with Not Another Teen Movie.

Chris Evans was born in Boston^[2] and raised in the town of Sudbury.^[3] His mother, Lisa (Capuano), is an artistic director at the Concord Youth Theater,^[4][5] and his father, Bob, is a dentist.^[6] He has two sisters, Carly,^[6] a graduate ofNew York University‘s Tisch School of the Arts and a high school drama and English teacher at Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School,^[4][7] Shanna,^[6] and a younger^[8] brother, Scott,^[6] who was featured on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live. Their uncle, Mike Capuano, represents the same Massachusetts Congressional district formerly represented by Tip O’Neill.^[9] His mother is of half Italian and half Irish ancestry.^[9][10][11]

Evans graduated from Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School.^[3] He and his siblings were raised Catholic.

From 2004 to 2006, Evans dated actress Jessica Biel^[34] He also dated actress Minka Kelly,^[35] in September 2012 after briefly dating her in 2007 but broke up again in October 2013.^[36]

He is also a supporter of LGBT rights,^[37] and has a great interest in the philosophies of Buddhism.^[38]

RYAN GOSLING

Ryan Thomas Gosling (born November 12, 1980)^[1] is a Canadian actor, film director, screenwriter, and musician. He began his career as a child star on the Disney Channel‘s Mickey Mouse Club (1993–95) and went on to appear in other family entertainment programs including Are You Afraid of the Dark? (1995) and Goosebumps (1996). He starred in the television series Breaker High (1997–98) as Sean Hanlon and Young Hercules (1998–99) as the title role. His first starring role was as a Jewish neo-Nazi in The Believer (2001), and he then built a reputation for starring in independent films such as Murder by Numbers (2002), The Slaughter Rule (2002), and The United States of Leland (2003).

Gosling came to the attention of a wider audience in 2004 with a leading role in the romantic drama The Notebook, for which he won four Teen Choice Awards and an MTV Movie Award. His performance as a drug-addicted teacher in Half Nelson (2006) was nominated for an Academy Award and his performance as a socially inept loner in Lars and the Real Girl (2007) was nominated for a Golden Globe Award. Also in 2007, he starred in the courtroom thriller Fracture. After a three-year acting hiatus, Gosling starred in Blue Valentine, earning him a second Golden Globe nomination. 2011 proved to be a landmark year for Gosling as he co-starred in three mainstream films that were the romantic comedy-drama Crazy, Stupid, Love, the political drama The Ides of March and the action thriller Drive – and received two Golden Globe nominations. In 2013, he starred in the crime thriller Gangster Squad, the generational drama The Place Beyond the Pines, and the violent revenge film Only God Forgives. His directorial debut Lost River was released in 2014.

Gosling’s band, Dead Man’s Bones, released their self-titled debut album and toured North America in 2009. He is a co-owner of Tagine, a Moroccan restaurant in Beverly Hills, California. He is a supporter of PETA, Invisible Children and the Enough Project and has travelled to Chad, Uganda and eastern Congo to raise awareness about conflicts in the regions.

Gosling resided in New York City with his mixed-breed dog, George.^[15][183] He co-owns Tagine, a Moroccan restaurant inBeverly Hills, California.^[184] He bought the restaurant on an impulse and said he spent “all [his] money” on it^[185] and spent a year doing the renovation work himself and now oversees the restaurant’s menus.^[185][186]

Relationships

Gosling dated his Murder by Numbers co-star Sandra Bullock for a year from 2002 to 2003.^[187] He also dated his The Notebook co-star Rachel McAdams from mid-2005 to mid-2007,^[188][189] and they briefly reunited in mid-2008.^{[190][191][192]}

In September 2011, Gosling began dating his The Place Beyond the Pines co-star Eva Mendes.^[193] They live together in Los Feliz, California.^[194] In September 2014, Mendes gave birth to their daughter Esmeralda Amada.^[195][196]

RYAN REYNOLDS

Ryan Rodney Reynolds (born October 23, 1976) is a Canadian actor. Reynolds is known for playing Michael Bergen on the ABC sitcom Two Guys and a Girl (1998–2001), Billy Simpson in the YTV Canadian teen soap opera Hillside(1991-1993), as well as Marvel Comics characters Hannibal King in Blade: Trinity (2004) and Wade Wilson in X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009). He has starred in films such as Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story,National Lampoon’s Van Wilder, Finder’s Fee, Just Friends, Definitely, Maybe, The Proposal, The Amityville Horror,The Change-Up, Smokin’ Aces, Adventureland, Buried, and Safe House.

He also portrayed the DC Comics superhero Hal Jordan / Green Lantern in Green Lantern (2011) and made cameos in two well known films: Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle and Ted. In 2013, he starred in the lead voice role as the title. Ryan Rodney Reynolds was born on October 23, 1976, in Vancouver, British Columbia. His father, Jim, is a food wholesaler, and his mother, Tammy, is a retail salesperson.^[1] He is of Irish ancestry and was raised as a Roman Catholic.^[2][3] The youngest of four brothers,^[4] he graduated from Kitsilano Secondary School in Vancouver in 1994. He later attended Kwantlen Polytechnic University, also in Vancouver, until dropping out.^[5] Two of his elder brothers work as police officers in British Columbia,^[6] one of whom is a Royal Canadian Mounted Police member.^[7]

In 2002, Reynolds began dating Canadian artist Alanis Morissette. They announced their engagement in June 2004.^[16] In February 2007, representatives for Morissette and Reynolds announced they had mutually decided to end their engagement.^[17] Morissette said her album Flavors of Entanglement was created out of her grief after the breakup. The song “Torch” was written about Reynolds.^[18] Soon after the end of his relationship with Morissette in 2007, Reynolds began dating American actress Scarlett Johansson.^[19] The couple announced their engagement in May 2008,^[20] and married on September 27, 2008 in a quiet ceremony near Tofino, British Columbia.^[21] On December 14, 2010, Reynolds and Johansson announced that they had separated.^[22] Reynolds filed for divorce in Los Angeles on December 23, 2010;^[23] Johansson filed her response simultaneously.^[24] The divorce was finalized on July 1, 2011.^[25]

Reynolds first met his Green Lantern co-star Blake Lively whilst filming in early 2010.^[26] In October 2011, it was reported that they had begun dating.^[27] In June 2012, Reynolds and Lively purchased a home in Bedford, New York.^[28] The couple married on September 9, 2012, at Boone Hall Plantation in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina.^[29] On October 6, 2014, it was announced that Lively and Reynolds are expecting their first child.^[30]

In the media[edit]

In October 2008, Reynolds wrote for The Huffington Post regarding his plan to run the New York City Marathon for his father, who suffers from Parkinson’s disease.^[31] Reynolds appeared in People ’​s Sexiest Man Alive lists in 2008^[32] and 2009,^[33] and was awarded the top honor in 2010.^[34] In April 2011, he was ranked #15 on People’s Most Beautiful 2011 list.^[35]

On February 12, 2012, Reynolds appeared on the BBC‘s Top Gear as the Star In a Reasonably-Priced Car. He posted a time of 1:43.7

THE MENTALIST

The Mentalist is an American police procedural television series that debuted on September 23, 2008, on CBS.^[3] The show was created by Bruno Heller, who is also its executive producer. The show follows former “psychic” Patrick Jane (Simon Baker), who is a consultant to the California Bureau of Investigation (CBI) (and beginning with season six, theFBI), using the highly developed observational skills he previously employed to “read” people’s minds.

On May 10, 2014, CBS renewed the series for a 13-episode seventh season, which premiered on November 30, 2014 and will be the series’ final season.^[4][5][6]

The series follows Patrick Jane, an independent consultant for the California Bureau of Investigation (CBI) based inSacramento, California. Although not an officer of the law, he uses skills from his former career as a successful, yet admittedly fraudulent, psychic medium to help a team of CBI agents solve murders. The real reason for Patrick Jane’s involvement with law enforcement is to track down the serial killer known as Red John, who was responsible for the brutal murders of his wife and his daughter.

Before the murders, Jane had a lucrative career as a con man, successfully posing as a psychic medium and enjoying near-celebrity status. Five years before the events in the show’s pilot episode, he appeared on television to claim that his paranormal abilities helped the police profile a serial killer named Red John. Red John, angered by the perceived slight, murdered Jane’s wife and his young daughter in revenge.

Jane subsequently abandoned his career and teamed with the CBI, using his skills to help them solve various crimes. His main focus is on the cases involving Red John or Red John copycats. He admits to faking the supernatural aspects of his skills, often asserting that “there’s no such thing as psychics.” yet he has finely honed skills in cold reading,hypnosis, and picking pockets, as well as powerful observational skill and a deep insight into the human psyche andbehavior.

His last act at CBI was to finally find Red John and kill him. After spending two years off the grid, Jane cut a deal with the FBI to work for them, bringing with him former CBI Senior Special Agent Teresa Lisbon, the only person who seems to be able to keep Jane’s theatrics and lack of boundaries under control. Jane and Lisbon work with their former fellow CBI Agent Kimball Cho, FBI Special Agent Kim Fischer, are supervised by the no-nonsense Supervising Special Agent Dennis Abbott and are now based in Austin, Texas. The rest of the former CBI team, Wayne Rigsby and Grace Van Pelt, have started their own security firm but keep in touch with their former colleagues.

Critical reception 

The first season of The Mentalist received mostly positive reviews, with critics being divided on the procedural format but praising the performance of Simon Baker. On Rotten Tomatoes, season 1 had an overall rating of 59% from 17 critics, and 76% from audiences, with the consensus saying “The setup and episodic storytelling is far from original, but The Mentalist distinguishes itself from other procedurals mostly due to the talents of Simon Baker.”^[14] On Metacritic, season 1 has a score of 65/100, indicating “generally favorable reviews”.^[15] Robert Bianco of USA Today felt the pilot episode lacked in originality but praised Baker, saying “The Mentalist may be a copy, but it’s a well-done copy sparked by an actor who has come into his own as a TV star.”^[16] Matthew Gilbert of The Boston Globe said “the CBS show has very little dramatic heft or distinction, but it’s wily and brisk enough to engage you for an hour.” Gilbert also praised the chemistry between Baker and Tunney, but criticized the crime cases, feeling they were predictable and at times uninteresting.^[17] Mary McNamara of The Los Angeles Times praised Baker as “virtually irresistible” and said “…psychological sleight of hand can’t fill an hour every week. For that you need complicated, interesting crimes and complicated, interesting characters solving them. “The Mentalist” seems prepared to deliver just that.”^[18]

The pilot episode had an audience of 15.6 million viewers in its first airing, and 7.8 million in a re-airing three days later.^[19] The December 2, 2008 episode, “Flame Red”, was the highest-rated television show of the week, marking the first time a program in its first season had achieved that distinction since Desperate Housewives four years earlier.^[20]

CSI: MIAMI

CSI: Miami (Crime Scene Investigation: Miami) is an American police procedural television series that ran from September 23, 2002, to April 8, 2012, on CBS. It is the first spin-off of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.

The pilot episode was first broadcast in the United States on May 9, 2002, as a season 2 episode of CSI. The series was produced in partnership with the Canadian media company Alliance Atlantis and CBS Television Studios.

CSI: Miami follows Crime Scene Investigators working for the Miami-Dade Police Department (MDPD) as they use physical evidence, similar to their Las Vegas counterparts, to solve grisly murders. The series mixes deduction, gritty subject matter, and character-driven drama in the same vein as the original series in the CSI franchise, except that the Miami CSIs are cops first, scientists second.^{[citation needed]}

On February 1, 2012, the network announced that the 10th season of CSI: Miami would be trimmed to 19 episodes to make room for the debut of mid-season replacement NYC 22.^[1] On May 13, 2012, both series were canceled.^[2] 

Production

CSI: Miami was filmed primarily in California. Indoor scenes were shot at Raleigh Manhattan Studios in Manhattan Beach, California. Most outdoor scenes were filmed in Long Beach, as well as portions of Manhattan Beach andRedondo Beach. Beach areas of Marina Green Park and Rainbow Lagoon Park in downtown Long Beach were often used for other outdoor scenes, as the newly constructed high-rise condos there gave the pretense of being in Miami. Many outdoor location shots were also filmed in Miami-Dade County, Florida, including Coconut Grove, Coral Gables, and Miami Beach.^{[citation needed]}

The sculptured walkway paying tribute to the old Pike Roller Coaster can be seen in the background in the episodes “Wrecking Crew” and “Under The Influence”. Footage from the Biscayne Courthouse, visible prominently in the episode “Recoil”, among others, was filmed at the Water Garden Park in Santa Monica, at 34.028728, -118.471331.^[4] Other locations of Long Beach are used such as the Naples district, where its canals and upscale homes with large boat docks and palm trees give a feel of Miami.^{[citation needed]}

The building used for exterior shots of the Miami-Dade Police Department crime lab is actually the SkyOne Federal Credit Union headquarters located at 14600 Aviation Boulevard in Hawthorne, California.^{[citation needed]}

The series was canceled by CBS after the 10th season, making it the first series in the CSI franchise to be canceled.^[5]

Plot

Inspired by the series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CSI: Miami follows a South Florida team of forensic investigators/police officers who use both cutting-edge scientific methods and old-fashioned police work to solve crimes. Lieutenant Horatio Caine heads the team of investigators while working crimes in the steamy tropical surroundings and cultural crossroads of Miami. Horatio, his second in command Detective Calleigh Duquesne, and their team (Delko, Boa Vista, Wolfe, Tripp, Simmons, Donner, Speedle, Woods, Price, Salas, Loman, and Cardoza) probe cases similar to those of their Las Vegas counterparts, but Miami CSIs are cops first and scientists second.^{[citation needed]}

AMITABH BACHCHAN

Amitabh Harivansh Bachchan (IPA: [əmɪˈtaːbʱ ˈbəttʃən]; born 11 October 1942) is an Indian film actor. He first gained popularity in the early 1970s for movies like Deewar and Zanjeer, and was dubbed India’s first “angry young man” for his on-screen roles in Bollywood, and has since appeared in over 180 Indian films in a career spanning more than four decades.^[3][4] Bachchan is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential actors in the history of Indian cinema.^[5][6][7] So total was his dominance of the movie scene in the 1970s and 1980s that the French director François Truffaut called him a “one-man industry”.^[8][9]

Bachchan has won many major awards in his career, including three National Film Awards as Best Actor (a record he shares with Kamal Hassan and Mammootty), a number of awards at international film festivals and award ceremonies and fourteen Filmfare Awards. He is the most-nominated performer in any major acting category at Filmfare, with 39 nominations overall. In addition to acting, Bachchan has worked as a playback singer, film producer and television presenter. He also had a stint in politics in the 1980s. The Government of India honoured him with the Padma Shri in 1984 and the Padma Bhushan in 2001 for his contributions towards the arts.

Bachchan made his Hollywood debut in 2013 with The Great Gatsby, in which he played a non-Indian Jewish character, Meyer Wolfsheim.

Bachchan was born in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, in north central India.^[10] His father, Harivansh Rai Bachchan, was aHindi poet, and his mother, Teji Bachchan, was a Punjabi Sikh from Faisalabad, Punjab.^[1] Bachchan was initially named Inquilaab, inspired from the phrase made famous during the Indian independence struggle, Inquilab Zindabad, which means “long live revolution”. However, at the suggestion of fellow poet Sumitranandan Pant, Harivansh Rai changed the name to Amitabh which means, “the light that will never die.”^{[citation needed]}Though his surname was Shrivastava, his father had adopted the pen-name Bachchan (meaning “child-like” in colloquial Hindi), under which he published all his works.^{[citation needed]} It is with this last name that Amitabh debuted in films, and, for all public purposes, it has become the surname of all members of his family.^{[citation needed]} Bachchan’s father died in 2003 and his mother in 2007.^[11]

Bachchan is an alumnus of Sherwood College, Nainital and later attended Kirori Mal College, Delhi University.^[12] He has a younger brother, Ajitabh. His mother had a keen interest in theatre and had been offered a role in a film, but preferred her domestic duties. She had some degree of influence in Bachchan’s choice of career because she always insisted that he should take the centre stage.^[13]

Bachchan is married to actress Jaya Bhaduri. The couple have two children, Shweta Nanda (wife of businessman Nikhil Nanda) and Abhishek Bachchan (actor and husband of actress Aishwarya Rai).