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Joe Pantoliano is an American actor of the screen and stage, Joe has over 150 credits to his name. On the big screen, he is known for his roles in such films as "The Goonies," "La Bamba," "The Fugitive," "The Matrix," "Memento," and the "Bad Boys" trilogy. Pantoliano has also appeared on numerous television series over the years, including "Hill Street Blues," "NYPD Blue," "The Sopranos," and "Sense8." Some of his best career roles include Ralph Cifaretto on The Sopranos, Bob Keane in La Bamba, Cypher in The Matrix, Teddy in Memento, Francis Fratelli in The Goonies, Guido "the Killer Pimp" in Risky Business and Jennifer Tilly's violent mobster boyfriend Caesar in Bound. He also played Deputy U.S. Marshal Cosmo Renfro in both The Fugitive and U.S. Marshals. He won an Emmy in 2003 for Best Supporting Actor for his work on The Sopranos. He is often referred to as "Joey Pants", because of the difficulty some people have pronouncing his Italian surname Pantoliano.

Early Life Joe Pantoliano was born in Hoboken, New Jersey to Italian-American parents Dominic and Mary. His father was a factory foreman and hearse driver, while his mother was a seamstress and bookie. As a youth, Pantoliano moved with his family to the New Jersey borough of Cliffside Park, where he went to Cliffside Park High School. Later, he studied at the performing arts organization HB Studio in New York City.

Ezra Matthew Miller was born in Wyckoff, New Jersey, to Marta (Koch), a modern dancer, and Robert S. Miller, who has worked at Workman Publishing and as former senior V.P. for Hyperion Books. Ezra has two older sisters and is of Ashkenazi Jewish (father) and German-Dutch (mother) ancestry. Ezra has described themselves as Jewish and "spiritual".

As a child, Miller sang with the Metropolitan Opera and attended Rockland Country Day School and The Hudson School. Miller's first feature film was the independent Afterschool (2008), with subsequent appearances on the television series Californication (2007), Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999), and Royal Pains (2009), and in the films City Island (2009), Every Day (2010), Beware the Gonzo (2010), and Another Happy Day (2011).

Miller drew critical praise playing Kevin Khatchadourian, the homicidal son of Tilda Swinton's character, in the dramatic thriller We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011). Miller subsequently played Patrick in the well-received teen drama The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012), opposite Logan Lerman and Emma Watson.

Ezra's other roles include the period piece Madame Bovary (2014), Judd Apatow's comedy Trainwreck (2015), and the psychological thriller The Stanford Prison Experiment (2015). Miller has been cast as superhero The Flash in The Flash (2023), scheduled for release in 2022.

Laura San Giacomo was born in West Orange, New Jersey, to MaryJo and John San Giacomo. She was raised in the nearby city of Denville. She went to Morris Knolls High School in Denville, where she got the acting bug and had the lead in several school plays. Laura got a Fine Arts degree, specializing in acting, at Carnegie Mellon School of Drama (Pittsburgh). After graduation, she moved to New York.

During the late 1980s (1987-89) before starting her film career, she appeared on Spenser: For Hire (1985), Crime Story (1986), The Equalizer (1985), All My Children (1970) and Miami Vice (1984). Her breakout film was her first credited role in Steven Soderbergh's Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989). The movie won the Cannes Film Festival's Grand Prize, the Palme d'Or. Laura received a Los Angeles Film Critics Association's New Generation Award and a Golden Globe nomination for her role. Next, she was Kit De Luca in Pretty Woman (1990) (1990) opposite Julia Roberts and Richard Gere. The film won the People's Choice Awards for Best Comedy and Best Film.

On stage, Laura has appeared in many theater productions. She was on the Los Angeles stage in the Garry Marshall-Lowell Ganz production of "Wrong Turn at Lungfish", in "North Shore Fish" (WPA Theatre), in "Three Sisters" (Princeton/McCarter Theatre, New Jersey, 1992) and in "Beirut" (Off-Broadway, Westside Arts Theatre, New York City, 1987). She also starred in "Italian American Reconciliation" (Manhattan Theatre Club, New York City, 1988) and "The Love Talker" (Off-Broadway in 1988). In regional theater, Laura was in Shakespeare's "The Tempest", "As You Like It" and "Romeo and Juliet". She also starred in "Crimes of the Heart".

During the early 1990s, she was busy making movies (Vital Signs (1990), Quigley Down Under (1990), Once Around (1991) (where she played Holly Hunter's sister), Under Suspicion (1991), Where the Day Takes You (1992) and Nina Takes a Lover (1994)). In 1994, she also appeared in Stephen King's television miniseries, The Stand (1994). During the mid 1990s, she also provided her voice to an animated series Gargoyles (1994). Offscreen, Laura got married to Cameron Dye in 1990 (and divorced in 1998). They had a son, Mason, in 1996. Having a child influenced Laura to make the transition to television. She started in the sitcom Just Shoot Me! (1997), which also starred George Segal (as her father, Jack), Wendie Malick, Enrico Colantoni and David Spade. Television gave her a more regular work schedule and less traveling. The series lasted for seven seasons and 148 episodes. She appeared in all of them together with the other four regular cast members.

After Just Shoot Me! (1997) was canceled in 2003, Laura appeared infrequently on television and in feature films. She was the narrator for Snapped (2004), a true crime series. In 2005, she appeared in two feature films (Checking Out (2005) and Havoc (2005)). In 2006, she was reunited with her Just Shoot Me! (1997) co-star Enrico Colantoni in Veronica Mars (2004), where she played Harmony Chase for three episodes. In September 2006, she secured a starring role in Saving Grace (2007) as Grace's (Holly Hunter's) best friend, Rhetta Rodriguez. Laura continued to play the role through all three seasons.

Frank Sinatra was born in Hoboken, New Jersey, to Italian immigrants Natalina Della (Garaventa), from Northern Italy, and Saverio Antonino Martino Sinatra, a Sicilian boxer, fireman, and bar owner. Growing up on the gritty streets of Hoboken made Sinatra determined to work hard to get ahead. Starting out as a saloon singer in musty little dives (he carried his own P.A. system), he eventually got work as a band singer, first with The Hoboken Four, then with Harry James and then Tommy Dorsey. With the help of George Evans (Sinatra's genius press agent), his image was shaped into that of a street thug and punk who was saved by his first wife, Nancy Barbato Sinatra. In 1942 he started his solo career, instantly finding fame as the king of the bobbysoxers--the young women and girls who were his fans--and becoming the most popular singer of the era among teenage music fans. About that time his film career was also starting in earnest, and after appearances in a few small films, he struck box-office gold with a lead role in Anchors Aweigh (1945) with Gene Kelly, a Best Picture nominee at the 1946 Academy Awards. Sinatra was awarded a special Oscar for his part in a short film that spoke out against intolerance, The House I Live In (1945). His career on a high, Sinatra went from strength to strength on record, stage and screen, peaking in 1949, once again with Gene Kelly, in the MGM musical On the Town (1949) and Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949). A controversial public affair with screen siren Ava Gardner broke up his marriage to Nancy Barbato Sinatra and did his career little good, and his record sales dwindled. He continued to act, although in lesser films such as Meet Danny Wilson (1952), and a vocal cord hemorrhage all but ended his career. He fought back, though, finally securing a role he desperately wanted--Maggio in From Here to Eternity (1953). He won an Oscar for best supporting actor and followed this with a scintillating performance as a cold-blooded assassin hired to kill the US President in Suddenly (1954). Arguably a career-best performance--garnering him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor--was his role as a pathetic heroin addict in the powerful drama The Man with the Golden Arm (1955).

Known as "One-Take Charlie" for his approach to acting that strove for spontaneity and energy, rather than perfection, Sinatra was an instinctive actor who was best at playing parts that mirrored his own personality. He continued to give strong and memorable performances in such films as Guys and Dolls (1955), The Joker Is Wild (1957) and Some Came Running (1958). In the late 1950s and 1960s Sinatra became somewhat prolific as a producer, turning out such films as A Hole in the Head (1959), Sergeants 3 (1962) and the very successful Robin and the 7 Hoods (1964). Lighter roles alongside "Rat Pack" buddies Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. were lucrative, especially the famed Ocean's Eleven (1960). On the other hand, he alternated such projects with much more serious offerings, such as The Manchurian Candidate (1962), regarded by many critics as Sinatra's finest picture. He made his directorial debut with the World War II picture None But the Brave (1965), which was the first Japanese/American co-production. That same year Von Ryan's Express (1965) was a box office sensation. In 1967 Sinatra returned to familiar territory in Sidney J. Furie's The Naked Runner (1967), once again playing as assassin in his only film to be shot in the U.K. and Germany. That same year he starred as a private investigator in Tony Rome (1967), a role he reprised in the sequel, Lady in Cement (1968). He also starred with Lee Remick in The Detective (1968), a film daring for its time with its theme of murders involving rich and powerful homosexual men, and it was a major box-office success.

After appearing in the poorly received comic western Dirty Dingus Magee (1970), Sinatra didn't act again for seven years, returning with a made-for-TV cops-and-mob-guys thriller Contract on Cherry Street (1977), which he also produced. Based on the novel by William Rosenberg, this fable of fed-up cops turning vigilante against the mob boasted a stellar cast and was a ratings success. Sinatra returned to the big screen in The First Deadly Sin (1980), once again playing a New York detective, in a moving and understated performance that was a fitting coda to his career as a leading man. He made one more appearance on the big screen with a cameo in Cannonball Run II (1984) and a final acting performance in Magnum, P.I. (1980), in 1987, as a retired police detective seeking vengeance on the killers of his granddaughter, in an episode entitled Laura (1987).

Sam Esmail was born on 17 September 1977 in Hoboken, New Jersey, USA. He is a producer and writer, known for Mr. Robot (2015), Homecoming (2018) and Leave the World Behind (2023). He has been married to Emmy Rossum since 28 May 2017. They have two children.

Ames McNamara is a high schooler from Hoboken, New Jersey. He has been acting in local musical theater since age 5 and professionally since age 8. He stars as Mark Conner-Healy on "The Conners." When he's not acting, McNamara likes to direct his friends in short movies, go on hikes with his family, read fantasy novels, and play tennis and soccer. He's a huge Premier League and Formula 1 fan. Besides continuing to act and direct, McNamara hopes to work in environmental justice when he's older, and ultimately to become president.

Pia Zadora was born on 4 May 1954 in Hoboken, New Jersey, USA. She is an actress, known for The Lonely Lady (1983), Butterfly (1981) and Voyage of the Rock Aliens (1984). She has been married to Michael Jeffries since 7 January 2006. She was previously married to Jonathan Kaufer and Meshulam Riklis.

One of the leading European newspapers, Le Matin of Paris, describes G. Gordon Liddy as "a man of fantastic intelligence and complexity." Educated privately by Benedictines and Jesuits, Liddy earned a B.S. degree from Fordham University and an Ll.D. from the Fordham Law School, graduating as an editor of The Fordham Law Review. After two years service as an Army artillery officer during the Korean War, Liddy entered the FBI as a Special Agent, rapidly earned multiple commendations from the late J. Edgar Hoover and, at age 29, became the youngest Bureau Supervisor at FBI national headquarters in Washington, DC, where he served during the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations. Liddy resigned from the FBI in 1962 to practice international law in Manhattan. Thereafter he served as a prosecutor, ran unsuccessfully for Congress from the 28th district of New York, then in 1968 ran the presidential campaign of Richard Nixon in that district. In the Nixon administration Liddy served first as Special Assistant to the Secretary of the Treasury, was then appointed Enforcement Legislative Counsel, authored the Explosives Control Act and, in 1971, was sent to the White House as Staff Assistant to the President of the United States. At the White House Liddy had oversight responsibility for Treasury policy on firearms and explosives and authored the memorandum that led to the creation of the Drug Enforcement Administration. Subsequently he was assigned additional special duties as a member of the top-secret White House Special Investigations Group. He resigned his White House post to accept the positions of General Counsel of the 1972 Republican presidential campaign and the campaign finance committee, with additional duties as campaign political intelligence director. The rest is history. For his role in Watergate, and for refusing to testify against co-conspirators, Liddy was sentenced to over 20 years in prison. He served nearly five years, many in maximum security, including 106 days of solitary confinement, before his release by President Jimmy Carter "in the interests of justice". Rated by the Treasury Department as a pistol expert whose draw and hit was timed electronically by the FBI at 60/100 of a second, Liddy was once assigned by the Secret Service to protect President Dwight D. Eisenhower. He is an FAA licensed pilot and a life member of the Special Operations Association. Today he is the host of "The G. Gordon Liddy Show", a radio program syndicated to 600+ markets that is now in its 13th year. His books have appeared on the "New York Times" best-seller lists and has written four book reviews for the newspaper, in addition to authoring numerous magazine articles, has lectured extensively, from Berkeley to The Oxford Union, and is an actor in motion pictures and television, including guest-starring roles in Miami Vice (1984), Airwolf (1984), MacGyver (1985), Feds (1997), several "Perry Mason" TV movies and and 18 Wheels of Justice (2000). He is also a frequent guest on Fox Television's Hannity & Colmes (1996) and MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews (1994). In 1992 Liddy enrolled at the Israeli Defense Force Paratroop School at Tel Nov, qualified for and was awarded his wings. He has re-qualified and jumped twice more since, and was given the honor of leading the stick out of the aircraft on his jump in January 2003, with the elite IDF parachute regiment. In August 2003 he rode his Harley-Davidson motorcycle the full 1,846 miles from Washington, DC, to Sturgis, SD, for the 63rd Annual motorcycle festival. He's also ridden with the Los Angeles chapter of Hell's Angels and is a member of the Honor Legion of the New York City Police Department. Liddy and his wife have three sons and two daughters. Four of the five have served as officers in the military. One son is a lawyer who is a two-war combat veteran reserve Lieutenant Colonel in the US Marine Corps, just returned from Baghdad. Another is a career Commander in the US Navy SEALs who is currently assigned to the Pentagon, holds a masters degree from Johns Hopkins and is a Ph.D. candidate at Tulane. Liddy's lecture audiences have ranged from an association of independent over-the-road truck drivers to the Oxford Union and, according to "The Wall Street Journal", he is "one of the most sought-after speakers in the nation."

Abby Espiritu was born on 23 December 1996 in Hoboken, New Jersey, USA. She is an actress, known for Yu-Gi-Oh! Sevens (2020), Hamster & Gretel (2022) and The First Slam Dunk (2022).

Darlene originated the popular contract character of 'Anita Santos' on the ABC Daytime Drama, All My Children, and some of her numerous guest stars on television have included hit shows, Power, Criminal Minds, Bones and How I Met Your Mother. Darlene's feature film appearances have been in studio films such as J.J. Abrams' Star Trek; Starsky & Hutch; and I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry. Darlene just completed shooting the new Milli Vanilli Biopic "Girl You Know It's True."

Darlene recently graced the stage in John Patrick Shanley's world premiere play, Candlelight, originating the role of 'Colette' with a raw and haunting performance."

Stuart Cooper's films have won more than twenty international awards. Notably the Silver Medal at the Venice Film Festival, the Gold Medal at the Moscow Film Festival, the Prix CIDALC Gandhi Peace Award and in consecutive years two Silver Bears at the Berlin International Film Festival. Cooper trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London and appeared in films with Orson Welles and as one of the dozen in "The Dirty Dozen."

He established a London based production company where he began writing and directing documentaries and features. Cooper established his partnership with the late Oscar-winning photographer John Alcott who also collaborated and served as Stanley Kubrick's longtime cinematographer on "A Clockwork Orange," Barry Lyndon" and "The Shining."

Cooper's war film "Overlord" rediscovered at the Telluride Film Festival has become a classic. "Overlord" has since been distributed theatrically worldwide with an acclaimed DVD distributed by the Criterion Collection. Recently hailed by a laureate of esteemed critics including Roger Ebert, A.O. Scott, Joe Morgenstern and Kevin Thomas, the film has now been included on all time top 10 lists alongside films such as "The 400 Blows," "The Seventh Seal" and "The Seven Samurai." "Overlord" was honored in the 2014 Cannes Classic Film Festival and Lumiere Grand Lyon Film Festival followed by an international Bluray release.

Cooper's film Little Malcolm, produced by George Harrison was remastered by Cooper and released by the British Film Institute on DVD/Bluray in 2011 in conjunction with Martin Scorsese's documentary on George Harrison. Cooper's cult film The Disappearance starring Donald Sutherland and Christopher Plummer has been released on Bluray by Twilight Time to critical acclaim in 2013.

Cooper's mini-series credits includes "The Fortunate Pilgrim" (NBC), Italian Prize winner, based on Mario Puzo's autobiography starring Sophia Loren, Edward James Olmos, Hal Holbrook, John Turturro, and Annabella Sciorra. "The Long Hot Summer" (NBC), Emmy nominated, starring Don Johnson, Cybil Shepherd, Jason Robards, Judith Ivy, and Ava Gardner. "A.D. - Anno Domini" (NBC), the acclaimed twelve-hour, sixty- million dollar mini-series, written by Anthony Burgess, starring James Mason, Ava Gardner, Susan Sarandon, Richard Kiley, Coleen Dewhurst, Jack Warden, John Houseman, and Fernando Rey.

Robert Adler was born on 24 March 1906 in Hoboken, New Jersey, USA. He was an actor, known for Bandolero! (1968), Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959) and The Time Tunnel (1966). He died on 19 December 1987 in Glendale, California, USA.

James Vickery was born on 7 October 1918 in West Hoboken, New Jersey, USA. He was an actor, known for The Secret Storm (1954), The Big Story (1949) and Judd for the Defense (1967). He was married to Diana Muldaur and Colleen Dewhurst. He died on 19 October 1979 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

Buddy Valastro was born on 3 March 1977 in Hoboken, New Jersey, USA. He is a producer and actor, known for Legends of the Fork (2023), Unpolished (2019) and Cooks vs. Cons (2016). He has been married to Lisa Valastro since 14 October 2001. They have four children.

Paul Land was born on 31 January 1956 in Hoboken, New Jersey, USA. He was an actor, known for Spring Break (1983), Wild Orchid (1989) and Riptide (1984). He died on 30 December 2007 in North Bergen, New Jersey, USA.

Dorothy Winnifred Brown was born at the home of her parents, Pauline Caroline Boesen Brown and John Brown on May 17, 1889 at 320 Willow Avenue in Hoboken, New Jersey. John Brown died while she was an infant and Leonard Gibson became her stepfather four years later. She had two siblings but both died in infancy. Later, Pauline and Dorothy moved to Manhattan.

In 1909 Dorothy met George Battier Jr. They were soon married, but the marriage was short-lived. Soon, she became an actress for Eclair Studios, making one-reelers. In 1912, she finished The Easter Bonnet (1912) and traveled to Europe. By April she was ready to return. On April 10, 1912, she and her mother boarded the Titanic in Southampton, England. They occupied a cabin on E-Deck. When the Titanic struck an iceberg at 11:40 p.m. on the 14th, she described it as "a long sickening crunch". She and her mother boarded the first lifeboat to leave with friends William Sloper and Fredrick Seward. She later appeared in the film, Saved from the Titanic (1912), a one-reel quickie. It was to be her last. She soon quit the business and married Jules Brulatour. This marriage was also short, lasting only two years.

In 1928 Dorothy left with her mother for Europe, never to see the States again. She lived in Italy and France. During World War II she was suspected of spying for the Nazis, but this is unsubstantiated. She died in Paris on February 17, 1946, found by a hotel maid.

Kaz was born on 31 July 1959 in Hoboken, New Jersey, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Phineas and Ferb (2007), Camp Lazlo! (2005) and The Patrick Star Show (2021).

Gorgeous and voluptuous 5'6" blonde bombshell Janet Paula Lupo was born on January 26, 1950 in Hoboken, New Jersey. The daughter of Giuseppe and Pauline Lupo, Janet graduated from Hoboken High School and attended the Parisian Beauty Academy in Hackensack, New Jersey as a cosmetology major. Lupo got a job as a Playboy Bunny at Playboy's Great Gorge Resort hotel in McAfee, New Jersey in April, 1974. Janet achieved her greatest enduring popularity as the Playmate of the Month for November, 1975. In the wake of her Playmate stint Lupo traveled and promoted Playboy in Canada, Japan, and the United States. In January, 1977 Janet moved to Key Biscayne, Florida, where she worked as a flight attendant.

Lupo posed for several Playboy reunion pictorials in the early 1980's. In 1981 Janet returned to New Jersey and got a real estate license (she worked as a real estate sales representative for Liberty Realtors on Washington Street in the Hoboken office for more than twenty years). Lupo became a cosmetologist in 1986 and gave birth to her son Joseph P. Lupo at age 36 on August 20, 1986. Moreover, Janet also founded her own business Fountain of Youth Body Oil as well as was a frequent guest at Glamourcon conventions held in both Chicago, Illinois and Los Angeles, California. Lupo died at age 67 from cancer on November 13, 2017 at the Jersey City Medical Center in Jersey City, New Jersey. She was survived by her son Joseph, brother John P. Lupo, and sister Margaret.

William Roerick was born on 17 December 1912 in Hoboken, New Jersey, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for The Wasp Woman (1959), Playhouse 90 (1956) and Law & Order (1990). He died on 30 November 1995 in Monterey, Massachusetts, USA.

George Palermo was born on 16 March 1967 in Hoboken, New Jersey, USA. He is an actor, known for Loving (1983), Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999) and NYPD Blue (1993). He was previously married to Mary Kelly Curry.

Colette Kilroy was born on 4 February 1960 in Hoboken, New Jersey, USA. She is an actress, known for Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005), The Ice Storm (1997) and Matchbox Circus Train (1997). She has been married to Jamey Sheridan since 15 August 1992. They have three children.

Gaby Leyner is a New York based indie producer & filmmaker. After studying film and philosophy at The New School, she began producing and directing shorts, music videos, and commercials. She is Co-Producer on horror auteur Larry Fessenden's seventh feature film, Blackout, with Glass Eye Pix. Recently, she was a producer on Hank Bedford's Eugene The Marine starring Scott Glenn and Jim Gaffigan.

Ross Evans was born on 12 August 1923 in Hoboken, New Jersey, USA. He was an actor, known for The Gallant Men (1962), The Nude Bomb (1980) and Teenagers from Outer Space (1959). He died on 15 April 2013.

A Television Director who spent most of his career working in the unique area of Live Television. His most memorable run was with Saturday Night Live (1975) from the beginning until his retirement just a couple of years before his death. His son Tommy Wilson went to work in the family trade for SNL. Dave Wilson received an Emmy Award for an Episode of SNL in its second season which featured singer/songwriter, Paul Simon. Before his stint with SNL, Wilson had covered the gamut from the 'Miss America Pageant' to all manner of Live Arts performances in the 60s on NBC at a time when Network presentations of such work was top notch and memorable. Fans of SNL will remember that shots of him behind the control board were frequently played for laughs as parts of skits or gags. He was a generous and inspiring man. He is survived by his wife, Roberta Wilson, his three adult children, Tommy, Danny and Michael.

Lili Flanders was born on 11 January 1960 in Hoboken, New Jersey, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for The Net (1995), ER (1994) and The Ride (2000). She is married to Peter Mackenzie. They have three children.