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...planned path to becoming a serious actress. She reportedly took a pay cut from her million-plus fee on Hide and Seek to get her name above the title right next to De Niro's. She took the movie, she told reporters, because she had "never done a psychological thriller before." On Feb. 23 she got a camcorder for her 11th birthday from Spielberg. "I used to say she was 30," says her agent, Cindy Osbrink. "Now, after Hide and Seek, I say she's 105. She gets more mature and thoughtful and expressive...
...claim her for good. "It wasn't planned that way, but being in three films in a single year produced maximum exposure," De France recalls. That interest hasn't waned since. In 2003, she won the lead role in Haute Tension (High Tension) - an aptly titled, gore-drenched thriller successfully released in Europe as Switchblade Romance and set to appear in U.S. theaters in June. She has also clocked up an English-language debut in Frank Coraci's 2004 remake of Around the World in 80 Days, starring Jackie Chan. It was, says De France, a "big door of opportunity...
...reserve since appearing in La Balia (The Nanny) in 1999. Critics liken her to her iconic compatriots Anna Magnani and Sophia Loren. This year everyone else will understand why. Sansa will appear in three films in Europe: the romantic drama L'Amore Ritrovato (An Italian Romance); the psychological thriller Contronatura (Unnatural); and her English-language debut, The Listening, a tale of espionage with Michael Parks (Kill Bill...
...makeup first." This stage-trained son of Nigerian refugees first turned heads in 2002, when Stephen Frears' Dirty Pretty Things came out. Ejiofor's intense, understated performance as Okwe, the Nigerian exile who discovers an organ-trading ring operating in London, lifted what might otherwise have been a routine thriller into high drama. This year he'll be tough to avoid. In Woody Allen's Melinda and Melinda, he plays a flirtatious pianist; in Red Dust, he stars alongside Oscar-winner Hilary Swank as a South African political activist called before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission; in sci-fi feature...
Coming off the biggest win in recent memory, a 61-57 thriller over league-nemesis Princeton, the Crimson will hit I-95 for games against Brown and Yale this weekend. In 1999, the last year Harvard beat the Tigers, the Crimson was able to convert the momentum from that overtime victory into a road sweep of Brown and Yale to finish at 7-7 in league play...