American actor Peter Dinklage is 4ft 5ins but has had a string of well-received performances.
So too, alas, does the incrementalist approach of that other American actor, Bill Clinton.
Action comedy Rush Hour 2, co-starring American actor Chris Tucker, is the sequel to Chan's first successful collaboration with Hollywood.
In 1891, distinguished American actor, Edwin Booth, made his final stage appearance in a production of "Hamlet" at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
Upon American actor Kevin Spacey's appointment this winter as artistic director of London's famed Old Vic theatrical company, newspaper comment focused on the troupe's dire financial straits.
Los Angeles (CNN) -- Acura apologized Wednesday for a casting document that called for an African-American actor who was "not too dark" in the car company's Super Bowl ad.
His visitors may be well-known, but are not always of global significance: the past fortnight brought Bill Cosby, an American actor, Gloria Estefan, a Cuban-American singer, Britain's Princess Diana, and Hillary and Chelsea Clinton.
The director discusses why he chose the actors he did for his six Dylans, including Cate Blanchett as the "electric" Dylan who alienated so many fans and Marcus Carl Franklin, an African-American actor who plays a younger Dylan.
You know you have reached a certain level of immortality when your name becomes a verb, and I can think of no better example than the American actor Humphrey Bogart, perhaps best known for his role in that all-time classic Casablanca.
Other high-profile stars who have previously shown support for the strike include American Beauty actor Kevin Spacey.
American singer, actor and attorney Paul Robeson was taken in by the Soviet Union and proclaimed its lack of segregation was evidence of freedom's progress while millions were being murdered by Joseph Stalin in gulags.
In 1985, Phil Silvers, American film and TV actor noted for his Sergeant Bilko character, died.
Tall, slim and rakishly elegant, he could be the American reincarnation of British actor David Niven.
American stage and screen actor, John Kerr who starred in the 1958 musical film South Pacific, has died aged 81.
The Sony party is packed with denizens of the gossip columns: the gorgeous Oscar winner Charlize Theron, actor David Spade, American Idol hottie Constantine Maroulis and rapper Eve.
He had named himself after seeing a photograph of the actor Morgan Freeman in an American magazine.
He's perhaps best known for playing JD in the American comedy series Scrubs, but now actor Zach Braff is preparing for his UK theatre debut.
In a recent article, Korean-American comedienne Margaret Cho explains candidly why actor Andrew McCarthy (The Joy Luck Club) is the Asian female's dream Caucasian male.
He is the first African American to be nominated and win a Best Actor Academy Award.
The most obvious flaw is the ardent young man, Tom Fennel, an Englishman in Maugham's book but now an American played, perfunctorily, by an English actor named Shaun Evans.
Robert Downey Jr. urged the crowd at the American Cinematheque award ceremony to forgive the embattled actor and move past the ugliness that has plagued his personal life and career in recent years.
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As an actor, he was the handsome all-American good guy, which in his case required knowing his lines and being himself.
"Lost in Translation, " a 2003 movie starring Bill Murray as a fading actor and Scarlett Johansson as a lonely young American newlywed whose husband is busy working, uses the Park Hyatt Tokyo to tremendous effect.
The indefatigable Werner Herzog has made a brilliant documentary about an American saint and fool Timothy Treadwell, a failed actor and California surfer who fell in love with the grizzly bears in Alaska and who spent a dozen summers with the bears, usually alone and always unarmed.
Our Reader Comments of the Week come from a story about actor Alec Baldwin, who apparently freaked out on an American Airlines flight when an attendant asked him to turn off his mobile device.
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Los Angeles (CNN) -- An American Airlines pilot booted Alec Baldwin off a flight Tuesday because the actor refused to turn off his cell phone after the plane's doors were closed for departure, the airline said Wednesday.
Less fortunate are Andrew Garfield, the Anglo-American Social Network star who misses out on a nomination for best supporting actor, and Another Year's Lesley Manville.
Although the actor, like the Lincolns, entered Ford's after Our American Cousin started, he was still on schedule.
Other showbusiness names honoured include actor Chiwetel Ejiofor - who has appeared in Inside Man, Love Actually and American Gangster - and Rising Damp star Don Warrington.
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