American Academy Of Dramatic Arts

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Christine McKenna-Tirella is a casting specialist in New York.
Irish casting specialist in New York: ‘This city has a pulse and you can’t kill it’
  • Work
  • November 20, 2020, 05:38

From Bangor to Broadway, casting specialist Christine McKenna-Tirella is weathering the coronavirus storm thanks to a timely career move. The casting(...)

American actor Kirk Douglas in 1955. Photograph: Silver Screen Collection/Hulton Archive/Getty
Kirk Douglas obituary: Ragman’s son who became a Hollywood superstar
  • Film
  • February 6, 2020

Kirk Douglas Born: December 9th, 1916 Died: February 5th, 2020 Kirk Douglas, one of the last surviving movie stars from Hollywood’s golden age, whose(...)

Screen icon of Hollywood’s golden age
  • People
  • August 23, 2014, 01:00

Lauren Bacall, who has died aged 89, was one of the great screen icons of the 20th century but was so nervous aged 19 in To Have and Have Not, her fir(...)

Actress Lauren Bacall has died oaged 89 years old. Photograph: by Baron/Getty Images
Lauren Bacall, star of Hollywood’s golden age, dies

Lauren Bacall, the actress whose provocative glamour elevated her to stardom in Hollywood’s golden age and whose lasting mystique put her on a plateau(...)

Eileen Brennan as Capt Doreen Lewis in a scene from ‘Private Benjamin’. Photograph: AP Photo/Warner Brothers
Oscar-nominated actor and star of ‘Private Benjamin’
  • People
  • August 3, 2013, 01:00

Eileen Brennan, who has died aged 80, had been a stage actor since the late 1950s, but it was as a largely comic presence in US cinema of the 1970s an(...)