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Thora Birch is a Actor and Producer American born on 11 march 1982 at Los Angeles (USA)
Thora Birch (born March 11, 1982) is an American actress. She made her early roles in the short-lived sitcom Day by Day and in Purple People Eater (1988), in which she won a Young Artist Award for "Best Young Actress Under Nine Years of Age". Her profile was raised significantly with major parts in films, such as All I Want for Christmas (1991), Patriot Games (1992), Hocus Pocus (1993), Monkey Trouble (1994), Now and Then (1995) and Alaska (1996).
Her breakthrough role came in 1999 with the Academy Award winning film, American Beauty. Her performance was well received by both critics and audiences and brought Birch to international recognition. She later played the lead role in Ghost World (2001) for which she received a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. She appeared in independent films, such as Dark Corners (2006), Train (2008) and Winter of Frozen Dreams (2009). Birch took a break from acting to focus on her personal life, but decided to resume her acting career in 2015.
Elle commence sa carrière à 4 ans en auditionnant pour des publicités. À 6 ans, elle tourne dans son premier film Purple People Eater (1988) et gagne un Young Artist Award pour ce rôle. Elle tourne ensuite dans plusieurs séries télévisées, ainsi que dans plusieurs autres films comme Hocus Pocus (1993). Mais c'est le rôle de Jane Burnham dans le film de Sam Mendes American Beauty (1999) qui la révèle au public. Le film est salué par la critique et remporte cinq Oscars dont celui du meilleur film en 2000.
Elle obtient ensuite le rôle d'Enid, une adolescente sarcastique et un peu perdue, dans Ghost World (2001) aux côtés de Scarlett Johansson et Steve Buscemi, puis se fait remarquer la même année dans The Hole, un thriller horrifique qui remporte un petit succès critique et commercial. Dès lors, l'actrice apparaît surtout dans des films de genre comme Deadline, Train et Vision des ténèbres (Dark Corners). Depuis, sa carrière semble à l'arrêt.
En 2016, elle participe en tant que personnage récurrent à la série Colony, où elle interprète le rôle de Morgan, une informaticienne en lutte contre l'occupant.
Elle a un frère, l'acteur et assistant réalisateur Bolt Birch.
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Her breakthrough role came in 1999 with the Academy Award winning film, American Beauty. Her performance was well received by both critics and audiences and brought Birch to international recognition. She later played the lead role in Ghost World (2001) for which she received a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. She appeared in independent films, such as Dark Corners (2006), Train (2008) and Winter of Frozen Dreams (2009). Birch took a break from acting to focus on her personal life, but decided to resume her acting career in 2015.
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D'ascendance scandinave, italienne et allemande, elle est la fille de Jack Birch et de Carol Connors, acteurs de films pornographiques dans les années 1970 (notamment dans Gorge profonde).Elle commence sa carrière à 4 ans en auditionnant pour des publicités. À 6 ans, elle tourne dans son premier film Purple People Eater (1988) et gagne un Young Artist Award pour ce rôle. Elle tourne ensuite dans plusieurs séries télévisées, ainsi que dans plusieurs autres films comme Hocus Pocus (1993). Mais c'est le rôle de Jane Burnham dans le film de Sam Mendes American Beauty (1999) qui la révèle au public. Le film est salué par la critique et remporte cinq Oscars dont celui du meilleur film en 2000.
Elle obtient ensuite le rôle d'Enid, une adolescente sarcastique et un peu perdue, dans Ghost World (2001) aux côtés de Scarlett Johansson et Steve Buscemi, puis se fait remarquer la même année dans The Hole, un thriller horrifique qui remporte un petit succès critique et commercial. Dès lors, l'actrice apparaît surtout dans des films de genre comme Deadline, Train et Vision des ténèbres (Dark Corners). Depuis, sa carrière semble à l'arrêt.
En 2016, elle participe en tant que personnage récurrent à la série Colony, où elle interprète le rôle de Morgan, une informaticienne en lutte contre l'occupant.
Elle a un frère, l'acteur et assistant réalisateur Bolt Birch.
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Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Danny Glover, Tichina Arnold, Mike Epps, Finn Wittrock, Thora Birch, Jello Biafra
Roles Becca
Rating72%
Avec l'aide de son meilleur ami, Jimmie Fails tente de récupérer la maison construite par son grand-père à San Francisco.
Above Suspicion (2019)
, 2h22Directed by Phillip Noyce
Genres Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Emilia Clarke, Jack Huston, Thora Birch, Johnny Knoxville, Sophie Lowe, Karl Glusman
Roles Jolene
Rating58%
Un agent de communication pour le FBI récemment marié est envoyé dans une ville montagneuse du Kentucky où il se retrouve impliqué dans une affaire illégale.
Petunia (2013)
, 1h47Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Tobias Segal, Thora Birch, Michael Urie, Brittany Snow, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Christine Lahti
Roles Vivian Petunia
Rating51%
The film relates simultaneously the lives and romantic/sexual relationships of the Petunias: the parents, Felicia and Percy, and their three sons, Michael, Adrian and Charlie. The film also features the wife of Michael, Vivian, and her cousin George.
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Kevin Zegers, Hilary Duff, Richard Tyson, Rance Howard, Kate Maberly, Lee Majors
L'histoire de Bonnie et Clyde, un couple de criminels américains spécialisé dans le braquage de banques.
The Pregnancy Pact (2010)
, 1h27Directed by Rosemary Rodriguez
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Pregnancy films, Films about sexuality
Actors Thora Birch, Madisen Beaty, Camryn Manheim, David Clayton Rogers, Marcus Lyle Brown, Max Ehrich
Roles Sidney Bloom
Rating48%
28-year-old Sidney Bloom, an alumna of Gloucester High, publishes a video blog about teen issues. Learning that her old high school has reported ten to eighteen teen pregnancies in the last eight weeks, Sidney investigates the situation. Gloucester High nurse Kim tells Sidney that students have requested 150 pregnancy test kits in recent weeks. Nurse Kim requests birth control provided in the school, but her request is declined. When Sidney interviews local students, she encounters Sara, Karissa, Iris and Rose, who imagine an ideal life as mothers. Three of the four are already pregnant and urging the fourth, Sara, to imitate them.
Winter of Frozen Dreams (2009)
, 1h32Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Historical, Crime
Actors Thora Birch, Keith Carradine, Brendan Sexton III, Scott Cohen, Leo Fitzpatrick, Dean Winters
Roles Barbara Hoffman
Rating46%
Le film retrace l'histoire vraie de Barbara Hoffman, une étudiante en biochimie qui se prostituait dans le Wisconsin et fut condamnée pour les meurtres de deux de ses clients par empoisonnement au cyanure, durant l'hiver 1980, lors du premier procès criminel télévisé des États-Unis.
Deadline (2009)
, 1h29Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Themes Ghost films
Actors Brittany Murphy, Thora Birch, Marc Blucas, Tammy Blanchard
Roles Lucy Woods
Rating46%
Alice Evans (Brittany Murphy) needs to complete a screenplay, which she has not finished due to a psychological breakdown after her boyfriend, Ben, tried to kill her. With the deadline for the screenplay approaching, she accepts an offer by a producer friend to let her stay in a Victorian-style home he has recently purchased, so she can focus on her work. She insists on staying there alone, and her friend Rebecca (Tammy Blanchard) reluctantly agrees and leaves her there.
Capitalism: A Love Story (2009)
, 2h7Directed by Michael Moore
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Documentary
Themes Films about religion, Films about the labor movement, Documentary films about business, Documentary films about historical events, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Documentary films about politics, Documentary films about religion, Documentaire sur le monde du travail, Political films
Actors Thora Birch, Michael Moore, Robert Powell, Wallace Shawn, Ronald Reagan, Arnold Schwarzenegger
Roles Self
Rating73%
The film begins with a series of security footages of armed bank robberies (one of the robbers was on a crutch) accompanied by the song Louie, Louie. Moore then uses an Encyclopædia Britannica archive video to compare and view modern-day America with the Roman Empire, by juxtaposing depictions of the fall of the Roman Empire with similar modern-day American issues. The film then depicts home videos of families being evicted from their homes, as well as the "Condo Vultures," a Florida real estate agency whose business flourished with the increasing number of foreclosures.
Train (2008)
, 1h34Directed by Gidi Raff
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Themes Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Transport films, Rail transport films, Serial killer films, Films about psychiatry, Film se déroulant dans un train
Actors Thora Birch, Gideon Emery, Derek Magyar, Kavan Reece, Gloria Votsis, Ivan Barnev
Roles Alex
Rating47%
In Eastern Europe, a group of US college athletes unknowingly board a train that will become one deadly ride. The students are participating in a wrestling championship; they include Todd (Derek Magyer) and his girlfriend Alex (Thora Birch), Sheldon (Kavan Reece), Claire (Gloria Votsis), and young assistant coach Willy (Gideon Emery). After a hard match, they sneak away from their hotel to an underground club. However, the next morning, they return too late for their train to Odessa.
Dark Corners (2006)
, 1h32Genres Thriller, Horror
Actors Thora Birch, Toby Stephens, Christien Anholt, Lorraine Bruce, Jonny Coyne, Jonny Coyne
Roles Karen Clarke / Susan Hamilton
Rating49%
Birch plays two characters, alternating between them each time she falls asleep, each of whom believes that the other is a dream. The first of them, Karen Clarke, is a mortuary worker who awakes to find that she has injuries which she does not recall receiving, and the second is Susan Hamilton, an office worker who is preparing to undergo artificial insemination. As time passes Clarke's world becomes increasingly nightmarish, with a corpse coming to life on her table and a serial killer stalking her, and the line between the two worlds becomes increasingly fragile.
Slingshot (2005)
Directed by Jay Alaimo
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime, Romance
Actors David Arquette, Thora Birch, Balthazar Getty, Julianna Margulies, Joely Fisher, Lillo Brancato
Roles April
Rating45%
Taylor et Ashley ont trouvé le meilleur moyen de se faire facilement de l'argent : séduire des femmes de banlieues riches et les dérober. Tout se passait pour le mieux, jusqu'à ce que Taylor tombe amoureux de l'une d'entre elles...
Silver City (2004)
, 2h8Directed by John Sayles
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Crime
Themes Politique, Political films
Actors Danny Huston, Chris Cooper, Richard Dreyfuss, Thora Birch, Mary Kay Place, Michael Murphy
Roles Karen Cross
Rating60%
Richard "Dicky" Pilager, the dim-witted scion of a powerful political dynasty, is running for Governor of Colorado. One day, while filming a campaign ad that shows him fishing at Arapahoe Lake, Pilager hooks a corpse on location. Chuck Raven, Pilager's campaign manager, hires Danny O'Brien, a former journalist who works as a private investigator, to examine the case. Raven urges O'Brien to find potential links between the body and Pilager's political enemies.
, 1h44Directed by Peter Levin
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry
Actors Thora Birch, Michael Riley, Makyla Smith, Kelly Lynch, Ellen Page, Aron Tager
Roles Liz Murray
Rating71%
Thora Birch stars as Liz Murray, one of two daughters of an extremely dysfunctional Bronx family. As a young girl, Murray lives with her sister, their drug-addicted, schizophrenic mother and their father, also a drug addict who is intelligent, but has AIDS, lacks social skills, and is not conscientious. She is removed from the home and put into the care system as her father cannot take care of her. At 15 she moves in with her mother, sister and Grandfather who sexually abused her mother. After a run-in with her Grandfather she runs away with a girl from school who is being abused at home. After her mother Jean Murray (1954-1996) dies of AIDS, which she got from sharing needles during her drug abuse, she gets a 'slap in the face' by her mother's death and begins her work to finish high school, which she amazingly completed in two years, rather than the usual four. She becomes a star student and earns a scholarship to Harvard University through an essay contest sponsored by The New York Times.
Ghost World (2001)
, 1h51Directed by Terry Zwigoff
Origin German
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Films about families, Feminist films, Political films, Buddy films
Actors Thora Birch, Scarlett Johansson, Brad Renfro, Illeana Douglas, Steve Buscemi, Pat Healy
Roles Enid
Rating72%
Best friends Enid and Rebecca face summer after their high-school graduation. The girls are social outcasts, but Rebecca is more popular with boys than Enid. Enid's diploma is held on the condition that she attend a remedial art class. Even though she is a talented artist, her art teacher, Roberta, believes art must be socially meaningful and dismisses Enid's sketches as "light entertainment."
The Hole (2001)
, 1h42Directed by Nick Hamm
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Crime
Themes Psychologie
Actors Thora Birch, Desmond Harrington, Keira Knightley, Daniel Brocklebank, Embeth Davidtz, Laurence Fox
Roles Liz Dunn
Rating61%
The film opens with the appearance of a dishevelled, blood-soaked Liz (Thora Birch), one of four private school pupils, also including Mike (Desmond Harrington), Geoff (Laurence Fox), and Frankie (Keira Knightley), who have been missing for 18 days. Liz is interviewed by a psychiatrist, Dr. Philippa Horwood (Embeth Davidtz), and describes what has happened to the four.