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Actor and model Kellan Lutz was born in Dickinson, North Dakota, to Karla (Theesfeld) and Bradley Lutz. He has six brothers and a sister, and is of German, as well as smaller amounts of English, Swedish, and Dutch, descent. As a child, his family moved around, and he grew up in North Dakota, the Midwest and Arizona. Upon high school graduation, Lutz relocated to California to attend Chapman University and study Chemical Engineering, but left in order to pursue a career in acting.
Lutz had picked up a few modeling jobs as a teenager, but got his first TV break with a small role in The Bold and the Beautiful (1987) in 2004. More television success followed, including parts in The Comeback (2005) and Generation Kill (2008). He was also cast in some film roles, including Accepted (2006) and Prom Night (2008), but his major break came in 2008 when he won the role of vampire Emmett Cullen in the smash hit Twilight (2008), and its subsequent sequels.- Actress
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Stickney, who was born in Dickinson, North Dakota, studied acting in Minneapolis, after which she spent several years in summer stock and vaudeville. Her father, Victor Hugo Stickney, was a doctor who made house calls on horseback; he was among the first 10 elected to the National Cowboy Hall of Fame.
She attended the North Western Dramatic School in Minneapolis, and was one of the four singer/dancer "Southern Belles" in vaudeville. Her initial failure to obtain acting roles in New York in the 1920s led her to write a poem, "You're Not the Type", published in Liberty magazine. Her 1926 Broadway debut was a bit part in "The Squall", after which she often played character roles as an eccentric.
She created the role of Mollie Molloy (who jumps out of the window) in "The Front Page." Other plays included "Chicago," "Another Language," and "On Borrowed Time." "Life With Father," written by her husband Howard Lindsay, was turned down by everyone (including Lunt and Fontanne), so she and Lindsay played the parts in summer stock, bringing it finally to Broadway's Empire Theater on November 8, 1939. It closed seven years and 3,224 performances later, still the longest running non-musical on Broadway. When the Empire was demolished, she and Lindsay put two salvaged orchestra seats in their East Side townhouse; she died there, aged 101.- An American actress, Carlotta Schock, aka Carlotta Schoch, has appeared on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and in regional theaters, including the internationally acclaimed Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis as a 2-year acting company member. She has worked with fellow actors Mary McDonnell, Stanley Tucci, Kathy Bates, Bradley Whitford, Bill Pullman, Wesley Snipes, and John Spencer.
Ms. Schoch has developed and workshopped new material with screenwriters and playwrights for over 15 years, including the workshop production of Peter Allen's Broadway musical Legs Diamond. She has been a member of New Dramatists in New York City, one of the most respected and well-known playwriting organizations in the country, and was employed as the only actress in the original acting company of the Playwrights Center in Minneapolis.
Mark Frost, co-creator with David Lynch and writer of Twin Peaks fame, cast Ms. Schoch as his female lead in his independent movie filmed in Minneapolis; Mr. Frost didn't complete the film when Hollywood called.
In Woody Allen's film Another Woman, Mr. Allen personally cast Ms. Schoch for a 2-character scene with Philip Bosco. She played the character of a psychiatrist who was seeing her psychiatrist, played by Mr. Bosco. Mr. Allen also cast her in The Purple Rose of Cairo in the coffee shop scene with Mia Farrow.
In Mike Nichols' Heartburn, Ms. Schoch was cast in the now famous dinner party scene with Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson.
Blindfaith, a TV Mini-series starring Robert Urich and a young Johnny Galecki, was the true story of a wealthy business accused of murdering his wife to collect insurance money and included a subplot featuring Ms. Schoch.
Carlotta's first paying acting job was for the Czechoslovakian Exhibit at Expo '74, the 1974 World's Fair, in Spokane, Washington, as a solo performer. The exhibit was a movie filmed in such a way that during certain scenes of the movie, the "live," onstage actress appears to be inside the film as one of the characters. At certain other intervals, Ms. Schoch would also come on stage to ask the viewers to vote on selected action sequences as to how they wanted the story to unfold. Votes were tallied and scenes would change accordingly.
Carlotta is one of nine children, raised in the tiny town of New England, North Dakota. She received a scholarship to a drama conservatory in Spokane, Washington, graduating with a BFA in Theater, summa cum laude. Ms. Schoch's teachers, former Broadway actors and members of the Group Theatre, taught The Method as they had been trained by Lee Strasburg himself - their fellow classmates were Marlon Brando, Walter Matthau, Tony Curtis, Lee Grant.
She spent 3 months in London, England, in 1978 to study voice and speech at RADA (Royal Academy of Dramatic Art). Upon arrival at Heathrow Airport, Carlotta was detained and interrogated by British Customs for 8 hours. To this day, she still does not know why; the assumption is that she must have looked like someone on their watch list - they were still on high alert from the IRA detonating bombs in London in 1977.
For personal details about Ms. Schoch, see the ABOUT section. - Costume and Wardrobe Department
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- Costume Designer
Courtney Hess was born on 4 January 1981 in Dickinson, North Dakota, USA. She is a costume designer, known for Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022), The Love Guru (2008) and CHIPS (2017).- Kelly Armstrong was born on 8 October 1976 in Dickinson, North Dakota, USA. He has been married to Kjersti Høiby since 2004. They have two children.
- Byron Dorgan was born on 14 May 1942 in Dickinson, North Dakota, USA.
- Doug Beaudoin was born on 19 May 1954 in Dickinson, North Dakota, USA.
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Heather Bowen was born on 2 June 1981 in Dickinson, North Dakota, USA. She is known for Reel Comedy (2002) and Viva la Bam (2003).- Experienced horseback rider background stunt performer. Specialties ranges fight scene, saddle falls, foot falls, period piece tomahawk knife fight choreography, flint/black powder period rifle trained. Experience in training background artists in period fight scene and choreography using black powder rifle and tomahawk knife routine. Experienced working close up to camera with Actor talent for featured spot performing stunts.
- Terry Sticka was born on 19 November 1954 in Dickinson, North Dakota, USA. He is an actor, known for The Cutter (2005), The Basket (1999) and Spokane's Legendary Davenport Hotel (2001).
- George Scherger was born on 10 November 1920 in Dickinson, North Dakota, USA. He died on 13 October 2011 in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA.
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Josh Rice was born on November 11, 1983 in Dickinson, North Dakota, USA as Joshua Allan Rice. He grew up in the Midwest, and has traveled extensively. He is a US Army veteran, and works in a variety of production roles. He has also acted in several short films. He is known for his work on The Last Conception (2019), Study Abroad (2019), She is a Felon of Life (2019), The last note (2018), and Hank (2018). He lives between Los Angeles CA USA & Taipei, Taiwan.