* STORY * CHARACTERS * FIRST MOVIE * NEW MOVIE * NEW CAST * GALLERY * LINKS *
The new
cast of To Kill a Mockingbird consists of an all-star
ensemble
of Oscar and Emmy Award winning actors and
actresses.
Tom
Robinson -Taye Diggs
Raised in Rochester, New
York, Diggs received a BFA degree in musical theater from
Syracuse University. He made his show business debut in the
ensemble cast of the five-time Tony Award winning play
"Carousel." Taye Diggs is the oldest of five. His two
brothers are musicians, one sister is a dancer and the other is
going to college to be a veterinarian. He made his film debut
with Angela Bassett in How Stella Got her Groove Back.
He has since then starred in 8 movies.
Helen
Robinson - Aaliyah
Aaliyah broke through the
music scene in 1994 with her debut album, Age Aint Nothin'
but a Number. She then got into some trouble with the law
after declaring that she was married, at the age of 14, to her
debut album's producer, R. Kelly. After the breakup, she followed
up her debut with a sophomore album, One in a Million,
which she worked with the hitmaking team Missy
"Misdemeanor" Elliott, and Timbaland. The album was a
multiplatinum success, with many chart-topping hits such as 4-page
letter, Hot Like Fire, and The One I Gave My
Heart To. Then, she sang Journey to the Past, the
theme from the animated movie, Anastassia. The #1 hit Are
You that Somebody from the Dr. Dollitle Soundtrack
soon followed. Last year, Aaliyah made her film debut as a mob's
daughter, Trish O'Day, in Romeo Must Die, a Romeo and
Juliet update set between feuding Chinese and African-American
Gangs (Delroy Lindow portrayed her father). She kicked some butt
using martial arts along with her costar, Jet Li. She gained a
lot of popularity from the movie as well as the soundtrack in
which she sang four songs (including another #1 hit, Try
Again). Aaliyah is currently in Australia filming the sequel
to Interview with a Vampire, titled Anne Rice's
Queen of the Damned. She portrays the queen of all vampires.
She has also been contacted to film an update of A Star is
Born with Jamie Foxx. Her third album is also in production.
Reverend
Sykes - Delroy Lindo
On stage & on the big
screen, Delroy Lindo projects a powerful presence that is almost
impossible to ignore. Though it was not his first film role, his
portrayal of manic/depressive numbers boss West Indian Archie in
Spike Lee's Malcolm X (1992) is what first attracted
attention to Lindo's considerable talents. Since then his star
has slowly been on the rise. Lindo is typecast into forever
playing drug lords and gangsters, that year he also played
baseball player Satchel Paige in the upbeat Baseball in Black
and White (1996) winning himself a NAACP image nomination in
the process. Lindo won the prestigious award for his work in Malcolm
X. Since then, the versatile Lindo has shown himself equally
adept at playing characters on both sides of the law. In 1997, he
essayed an angel opposite Holly Hunter in Danny Boyle's off-beat
romantic fantasy A Life Less Ordinary. In 1999, he was
nominated for an Oscar for his role in The Cider House Rules.
Bob
Ewell - Jack Nicholson
Abandoned by his father in
his childhood, he was raised believing his grandmother was his
mother and his mother was his older sister. The truth was
revealed to him years later when a Time magazine researcher
uncovered the truth while preparing a story on the star. Jack had
a 17 year relationship with actress Anjelica Houston which ended
in 1990 after Rebecca Broussard was carrying his child. He has
recieved an astounding total of 8 Oscar Nominations and 3 Wins
(for As Good as It Gets , Terms of Endearment,
and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest). In 1994 he
received the American Film Institute Life Achievement Award,
reaffirming his unique status as a counterculture hero who has
managed to function extraordinarily well in the movie mainstream
Mayella
Ewell - Katie Holmes
Born and raised in Toledo,
Ohio. Katie Holmes acted in High School theatre productions
before meeting a manager who encouraged her to go to LA for
television's pilot season. She won a part in the acclaimed
feature film "The Ice Storm" in her very first
audition, but she didn't stop there. A videotape was sent to
"Dawson's Creek", a new production by the acclaimed
writer Kevin Williamson, which landed her to the series regular
role of Joey Potter.
Heck
Tate - Tom Hanks
The success of this college
dropout is based on his breezy, spontaneous acting style, best
exemplified in his triumphant, Oscar-nominated performance as a
man who behaves like a young boy in Penny Marshall's Big (1988).
This thin, curly-haired brunet actually made his film debut in
the slasher thriller He Knows Youre Alone eight years
earlier, but didn't hit the big time until he accepted the role
of reluctant cross-dresser Kip Wilson in the TV sitcom
"Bosom Buddies" (1980-82). The show's success led to
his being cast in the raucous Bachelor Party (1984), a
witless but lighthearted comedy that launched him as a screen
star.Hanks cemented his superstardom with a sly comic portrayal
of a slowwitted but fast-running innocent in the blockbuster Forrest
Gump (1994); it earned him a second Best Actor Oscar. He
followed this with Apollo 13 (1995, as astronaut Jim
Lovell). His wife is actress Rita Wilson, with whom he starred in
Volunteers (1985); she contributed a hilarious scene to Sleepless
in Seattle.
Mr.
Walter Cunningham Sr. - Robert
DeNiro
Arguably the most impressive
actor working in films today, De Niro has managed to limn a whole
gallery of fascinating, fully developed characters while exposing
very little of himself. His willingness to submerge himself
totally in any part-even to the point of physical
metamorphosis-accounts for much of his success, but De Niro's
passion, intensity, and animal magnetism come through in every
film assignment he's undertaken, giving his screen performances a
welcome consistency regardless of the role he's playing.De Niro's
breakthrough role was that of the young Vito Corleone in the
flashback sequences of The Godfather, Part II (1974),
which won him a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award. He has
recieved a total of 4 Oscar nominations and 2 wins.
Walter
Cunningham Jr. - Erik Per Sullivan
Erik Per Sullivan has a
first-degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do and speaks fluent Swedish
and English. He appeared in Cider House Rules as an
orphan, alongside Delroy Lindo, and currently plays Dewey, the
youngest brother in Malcolm in the Middle.
The
Judge - Lewis Arquette
Father of Rosanna Arquette,
Patricia Arquette, Alexis Arquette, Richmond Arquette, and David
Arquette. He has appeared in over 50 TV and movie roles,
including Scream 2 and Ready to Rumble, with
his son David.
Mr.
Gilmer - Josh Brolin
He lives on a ranch in
California with his signigicant other and their two children. He
spent five years performing in and directing plays at the
Reflections Festival at the GeVa Theater in Rochester, N.Y.
Brolin said, " If I'm any kind of actor now it's because of
Rochester." He has starred in 14 movies, including this
summer's hit Hollow Man.
Mr.
Raymond - Micheal
Richards
Micheal Richards is best
known for his role as the wacky Cosmo Kramer in Seinfeld.
He has since then appeared in about 12 TV Shows and movies,
including his new TV show, The Micheal Richards Show.
Francis - Frankie Muniz
Frankie has been
home-schooled since Grade Six. He started his acting career
performing the role of Tiny Tim in "A Christmas Carol"
for three years. Nominations for his performances include
"The Hollywood Reporter Young Star Award", as well as
"The Young Artist of Hollywood Award". Frankie is quite
a good golfer and has been playing since his grandfather taught
him at the age of 5. Frankie was raised in Knightdale, North
Carolina. He currently resides with his family in New Jersey. He
currently stars in the hit FOX show, Malcolm in the Middle.
Miss
Caroline - Rebecca Gayheart
This former model
(dubbed as the "Noxzema Girl") attended Knott County
Central High School, Hindman, Kentucky. She has appeared in 14
movies, including the upcoming Harvard Man with Sarah
Michelle Gellar (Aunt Alexandra Finch), whom she also cosarred
with in Scream 2.
Lula
- Tyra Banks
Tyra is the is the CEO of
her own company TYInc. She dated John Singleton and is named one
of the "50 Most Beautiful People in the World" by
People magazine.(1994) In 1994 she started the Tyra Banks
Scolarship. She is the first African American model to appear on
the cover of Sports Illustrated's swimsuit edition. She is a
"Youth Correspondent" for The Oprah Winfrey Show,
and there is speculation that Oprah is training Tyra to
eventually take over the show. She has appeared in 7 movies and
TV roles including Coyote Ugly, and the upcoming Larceny.
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