Michael Shannon
Even as a high school thespian, Michael Shannon conveyed gravitas. "I would always play the old guy; I guess I had a good old-guy voice," he says. Over the telephone, his gravelly timbre does make him seem older than his baby-faced 36 years.
As Nelson Van Alden on HBO's Boardwalk Empire -- a gritty confection of organized crime in 1920s Atlantic City created by The Sopranos' Terence Winter and executive-produced by Martin Scorsese -- that deep voice serves Shannon well. He plays a federal agent tasked with enforcing Prohibition, the so-called "good guy" whose personal faith and unrelenting drive for justice...
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Brittany Murphy and Simon Monjack
Brittany Murphy's husband, Simon Monjack, died of the same two causes as his wife: acute pneumonia and severe anemia, the Los Angeles County Coroner told CNN.
Brittany Murphy's husband found dead
"Just like Brittany," assistant chief coroner Ed Winter said when reporting the 39-year-old screenwriter's cause of death. Though prescription drugs were detected in Monjack's system, the levels ...
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Simon Monjack and Brittany Murphy
The husband of actress Brittany Murphy was found dead in his Hollywood Hills home just five months after Murphy's death, according to the Los Angeles Times.
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British screenwriter Simon Monjack, 39, died at his home on Sunday ...
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Taryn Manning
Taryn Manning is the latest to sign on to CBS' Hawaii Five-O remake, Entertainment Weekly reports.
Manning, 31, joins previously announced stars Alex O'Loughlin (most recently of Three Rivers) and Lost's Daniel Dae Kim. Manning will play Mary Ann, the...
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Brittany Murphy
Brittany Murphy died early Sunday, TVGuide.com has confirmed. She was 32.
A 911 call came from her home about 8 a.m., according to TMZ.com, which first reported the news. Murphy was transported to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center after going into full cardiac arrest...
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Taryn Manning, Banshee
With her modest but pivotal role as Nola, pimp Terrence Howard's cornrowed pro in Hustle & Flow, Taryn Manning made folks sit up and notice. Now she's front and center in Oxygen's Banshee (premiering Saturday at 9:45 pm/ET), playing a tough-talkin' babe who steals cars with the greatest of ease. Alas, on one fateful night, she boosts the wrong ride, shifting into gear a deadly tale of revenge. TVGuide.com gave Manning a call — and caught this "tough gal" just as she was hollering down the hall to Mom.
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