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Barbara Crampton&#8216;s career as an iconic figure in the horror/thriller genres has spanned five decades and continues to gain momentum. Currently, she is starring in the horror films Alone with You and King Knight, and she recently starred in and produced the genre thriller Jakob&#8217;s Wife and produced a remake of the Stuart Gordon classic Castle Freak, based on the H.P. Lovecraft story. Other recent titles as an actress include We Are Still Here, Little Sister, Sun Choke and Adam Wingard’s You’re Next. Barbara guest-starred on the last season of Channel Zero: The Dream Door and starred in the Culture Shock episode of the highly acclaimed film series Into the Dark. Barbara can also be seen in the latest season of Creepshow from award-winning producer and SFX wiz Greg Nicotero. She made her screen debut in 1984’s Body Double, and Stuart Gordon’s 1985 cult classic Re-Animator, in which Barbara portrayed the leading role of Megan Halsey, continues to be a huge fan favorite. Other films Crampton starred in during her early career include From Beyond, and the original versions of Puppet Master and Castle Freak. Barbara lives in California with her husband, Robert.

Barbara Crampton

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Three Great Things: Barbara Crampton

Award-winning actor Patrick Wilson, who has tackled lead roles in major Broadway musicals, as well as starring in big-budget blockbusters, currently stars in the new movie <a href="https://moonfall.movie/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Moonfall</a>, also starring Halle Berry and John Bradley, out February 4 through Lionsgate. He recently wrapped Aquaman 2, opposite Jason Momoa, and will star and make his directorial debut in the fifth film in the Insidious horror franchise. He previously starred in The Conjuring franchise and his other film credits include Aquaman, The Founder, Prometheus, Young Adult, Watchmen, Little Children. Hard Candy and The Phantom of the Opera. He starred in the TV series Fargo, opposite Kirsten Dunst, Jesse Plemons and Ted Danson, and received Emmy and Golden Globe nominations for his performance in the HBO miniseries Angels in America, based on Tony Kushner’s play. Wilson earned two consecutive Tony Award nominations for Best Actor in a Musical, the most recent coming for his performance as Curly in the 2002 Broadway revival of Oklahoma!, starred in the revival of the Neil Simon comedy Barefoot in the Park, opposite Amanda Peet, and acted in the 2008/2009 revival of Arthur Miller’s All My Sons, with John Lithgow, Dianne West and Katie Holmes.

Patrick Wilson

Three Great Things: Patrick Wilson

Vincent D’Onofrio is currently appearing as Jelly Fallwell in the biopic <a href="https://www.searchlightpictures.com/films/theeyesoftammyfaye/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Eyes of Tammy Faye</a>, out now through Searchlight Pictures. He can currently be seen in EPIX’s new drama series The Godfather of Harlem starring opposite Forest Whitaker, and recently made his directorial debut with The Kid, starring Ethan Hawke, Dane DeHaan and Chris Pratt. D’Onofrio first gained attention for his haunting portrayal of an unstable Vietnam War recruit in Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket; his other early film appearances include Mystic Pizza, JFK Oliver Stone’s and Robert Altman’s The Player. His recent major films include The Magnificent Seven and Jurassic World, and he played Kingpin in Netflix’s popular Marvel series Daredevil. D’Onofrio starred as Detective Robert Goren in over 100 episodes of the series Law &amp; Order: Criminal Intent and received an Emmy nomination in 1998 for his guest appearance in the Homicide: Life on the Street episode “The Subway.” D’Onofrio directed, produced and starred in the short film Five Minutes, Mr. Welles and recently appeared in the Academy Award-winning short The New Tenants. (Image by Todd Williamson / January Images.)

Vincent D’Onofrio

Revisited: Three Great Things: Vincent D’Onofrio

Mireille Enos can currently be seen in the third season of Amazon Prime’s action-thriller series, Hanna, opposite Esmé Creed-Miles, Dermot Mulroney and Ray Liotta. She is best known for her role opposite Brad Pitt in World War Z and for her acclaimed role as Detective Sarah Linden on The Killing. Her other TV credits include Good Omens, opposite Jon Hamm, Michael Sheen and David Tennant, Shonda Rhimes’ The Catch, and HBO’s Big Love, in which she played the breakthrough double role of twins JoDean and Kathy Marquart. Her film work includes the Blumhouse-produced The Lie, opposite Peter Sarsgaard and Joey King, Gangster Squad opposite Josh Brolin, the thriller Never Here, opposite the late Sam Shepard, and Atom Egoyan’s The Captive, starring Ryan Reynolds. She was Tony nominated for her role in the Broadway revival of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, opposite Bill Irwin and Kathleen Turner. She currently lives in Los Angeles with her family.

Mireille Enos

Three Great Things: Mireille Enos

Devon Sawa is currently starring in the comedy horror <a href="https://screenmediafilms.net/film/3371/Black-Friday" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Black Friday</a>, opposite Bruce Campbell, Devon Ivana Baquero and Michael Jai White. He made his film debut in Little Giants in 1994, played the title role as a human boy in Casper the following year and further made his name in the films Wild America, Idle Hands and Final Destination. In 2000, Sawa played the title character of the Eminem music video &#8220;Stan.&#8221; Among his many other TV and film credits, Sawa portrayed the role of Owen Elliott on The CW action drama series Nikita and starred in the thriller The Fanatic, directed by Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst, where he played Hunter Dunbar, an actor who is stalked by John Travolta’s Moose.

Devon Sawa

Three Great Things: Devon Sawa

Krisha Fairchild is currently starring in the drama Freeland, which is now available on demand. She came out of her retirement to play the starring role in Trey Edward Shults’ debut feature, Krisha. Based on a true story, the film was hailed as one of the 10 best films ever made on addiction. It won top honors at American festivals SXSW, Denver, Nashville and Sidewalk, as well as the Taormina Festival in Italy, and Deauville in France, on the heels of its European premiere at Cannes in 2015. Her performance was lauded in feature articles in the Los Angeles Times, Vanity Fair, Vogue, Rolling Stone, and many others. In 2016, she was honored to be selected as a part of the Great Performers issue of the New York Times Magazine. The film Krisha won Spirit and Gotham awards. She also played a lead in the series Butchers Block.

Krisha Fairchild

Three Great Things: Krisha Fairchild

Actress and vocalist Beanie Feldstein is currently starring in <a href="https://a24films.com/films/the-humans" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The H</a><a href="https://a24films.com/films/the-humans" target="_blank" rel="noopener">umans</a>, opposite Jayne Houdyshell, Richard Jenkins, Amy Schumer, Steven Yeun and June Squibb, and recently starred in and produced Ryan Murphy’s limited series Impeachment: American Crime Story, playing the role of Monica Lewinsky. Feldstein previously starred in Olivia Wilde’s hit comedy Booksmart, opposite Kaitlyn Dever, for which she received a 2020 Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture: Musical or Comedy, and in Greta Gerwig’s Oscar-nominated Lady Bird, opposite Saoirse Ronan and Laurie Metcalf. She made her feature film debut in Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising, alongside Seth Rogen, Zac Efron, Rose Byrne and Chloe Grace Moretz and also starred in the comedies How to Build a Girl and The Female Brain, opposite Sofia Vergara, Cecily Strong and James Marsden. Feldstein made her Broadway debut in 2017 in the Bette Midler-led production Hello, Dolly! and in 2020 will play Fanny Brice in the 2022 Broadway production of Funny Girl.

Beanie Feldstein

Three Great Things: Beanie Feldstein

Mike Mills was born in Berkeley, California in 1966. He graduated from Cooper Union in 1989. Mills works as a filmmaker, graphic designer, and artist. Mills is best known for his independent films 20th Century Women (2016), Beginners (2011), and Thumbsucker (2005) as well as his exhibitions at the Alleged Gallery, which were documented in the book, exhibition and film Beautiful Losers. His latest film, <a href="https://a24films.com/films/cmon-cmon" target="_blank" rel="noopener">C’mon C’mon</a>, starring Joaquin Phoenix, Gaby Hoffman and Woody Norman, is out November 24 through A24 Films.

Mike Mills

Three Great Things: Mike Mills

Eleanor Coppola is an accomplished artist and filmmaker. In 2016, at the age of 80, Eleanor directed her first feature film, Paris Can Wait, and her second feature, <a href="https://loveis-film.us/movies/13034" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Love is Love is Love</a>, three stories that explore love, commitment, and loyalty between couples and friends, is out now in theaters and will be on available on VOD on December 14. While living in the Philippines during the making of her husband Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now, she shot the documentary footage for the Emmy award-winning film Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker&#8217;s Apocalypse. She has since made behind-the-scenes documentaries on seven films directed by her family. Eleanor&#8217;s drawings, photos, and conceptual art pieces have been exhibited in many galleries and museums. She created &#8220;Circle of Memory,&#8221; a large-scale straw-bale cairn, installed internationally, built to recall and commemorate children who are missing or have died. She has written two well-received books, Notes on the Making of Apocalypse Now (1979) and Notes on a Life (2008). She designed costumes for ODC/Dance, a contemporary dance company based in San Francisco. She is also actively involved in the Coppola family wine companies.

Eleanor Coppola

Three Great Things: Eleanor Coppola

Frank Grillo is currently starring in the thriller Ida Red, opposite Josh Hartnett, William Forsythe and Melissa. He portrayed the fan-favorite villain Crossbones in Marvel’s Captain America: Civil War and is the face of Universal’s Purge franchise as Sergeant Leo Barnes. His other notable film roles include Warrior, The Grey, Zero Dark Thirty, This is the Night and Donnybrook and he brought his trademark intensity and real-life boxing and martial arts expertise to the small screen playing the lead in the DirecTV series Kingdom. In 2016, Grillo and writer-director Joe Carnahan launched a production company, Warparty, which has produced such projects as the high-concept action thriller Wheelman, the documentary series Fightworld, the action thriller Point Blank, an action thriller starring Grillo and Anthony Mackie, and Boss Level, an action sci-fi thriller starring Grillo, Mel Gibson and Naomi Watts.

Frank Grillo

Three Great Things: Frank Grillo

Hannah Marks’ latest film as writer-director, <a href="https://tv.apple.com/us/movie/mark-mary--some-other-people/umc.cmc.26499jk5s2b09l68elwhf2vka" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mark, Mary and Some Other People</a>, is out now in select theaters and on demand. As an actress, Marks&#8217; recent films include Dinner in America, I Used To Go Here, and Banana Split, which she also co-wrote and produced. Her other acting film credits include Daniel Isn&#8217;t Real, Slash, The Amazing Spider-Man, The Runaways and Accepted, while she starred on TV as the female lead in Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency opposite Elijah Wood. In 2019, Marks made her feature co-directorial debut with the independent film, After Everything starring Maika Monroe and Jeremy Allen, which she also co-wrote. Marks will direct the upcoming film adaptation of John Green’s novel Turtles All The Way Down, is in post-production on the Black List script Don&#8217;t Make Me Go, and at the CW is developing The Untitled Hannah Marks Project, a comedic drama written by her and produced by Ben Stiller&#8217;s Red Hour. A native of Los Angeles, Marks currently resides in New York and L.A.

Hannah Marks

Three Great Things: Hannah Marks

Matthew McConaughey is an Oscar-winning actor, producer, writer and philanthropist who lives in Austin, Texas. He is a creative director at Wild Turkey, and has partnered with the company for the fifth year for its annual give-back campaign, this year recognizing those who have kept the spirit of music alive in their communities during the pandemic. In 2020, his memoir, Greenlights, was published.

Three Great Things