Semi Pro upcoming new movie releases starring Will Ferrell, Woody Harrelson and Andre Benjamin as a team of ABA basketball players
New Movies: Official Semi-Pro Movie Stars Will Ferrell, Woody Harrelson, Andre Benjamin, Maura Tierney and Jackie Earle Haley
Semi Pro Movie Stars:
Will FerrellWoody Harrelson
Andre Benjamin
Maura Tierney
Jackie Earle Haley
Will Ferrell (Jackie Moon)
Will Ferrell has come a long way since his days on "Saturday Night Live," crossing over from television icon to motion picture star shortly after joining the "SNL" cast in 1995.Recently, in demonstrating that his dramatic gifts equal his comedic talents, Ferrell earned his second Golden Globe nomination (Best Actor in a Comedy or Musical) for his portrayal of IRS agent Harold Crick in last year's Stranger Than Fiction, starring opposite Emma Thompson, Dustin Hoffman, Queen Latifah and Maggie Gyllenhaal for director Marc Forester.
Last summer, Ferrell starred in the hit comedy Talladega Nights: The Ballad Of Ricky Bobby with co-stars John C. Reilly and Sacha Baron Cohen. Earning nearly $150 million at the U.S. box office, the film became the season's #1 comedy (non-animated) and continues to set records on DVD.
In the summer of 2004, Ferrell starred in the comedy Anchorman: The Legend Of Ron Burgundy for DreamWorks Pictures, which grossed over $85 million domestically. Ferrell co-wrote the script with "SNL" writer Adam McKay. Judd Apatow ("Freaks and Geeks") produced, with David O. Russell (Three Kings) executive producing. Ferrell portrayed Ron Burgundy, a 1970s anchorman with an inflated ego threatened by the arrival of an ambitious female newscaster who, unlike him, has mastered journalism.
Ferrell completed his seventh and final season on the legendary NBC late-night hit "Saturday Night Live" in 2002, having taken the nation by storm during "Indecision 2000" by impersonating President George W. Bush on the show. Some of his most memorable "SNL" characters include Craig the Spartan Cheerleader, musical middle school teacher Marty Culp, and Tom Wilkins, the hyperactive co-host of "Morning Latte." Among his many cross-gender impressions are Janet Reno, Alex Trebek, Neil Diamond and the late, great Chicago Cubs sportscaster Harry Caray. His work on "SNL" earned two Emmy nominations in 2001 (Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program, and Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Program).
Ferrell is currently in production for New Line Cinema on the basketball comedy Semi-Pro, set in the last year of the now-defunct American Basketball Association. Previous film credits include Zoolander, Elf, the Woody Allen feature Melinda And Melinda, the comedies Bewitched and Old School, and the screen adaptation of The Producers, which earned Ferrell his first Golden Globe nomination in 2006 for Best Supporting Actor.
Raised in Irvine, California, Ferrell attended USC and graduated with a degree in sports information. Upon graduation, he worked as a sportscaster on a weekly show broadcast over a local cable channel. Soon after, he enrolled in acting classes and stand-up comedy workshops at a nearby community college and was eventually asked to join the esteemed comedy/improv group The Groundlings after just one year of training. It was at The Groundlings that Ferrell was discovered for "Saturday Night Live."
Woody Harrelson (Monix)
An accomplished actor in film, television and on the stage, Woody Harrelson has received Academy Award, Golden Globe, and Screen Actors Guild Nominations as Best Actor for his critically-acclaimed portrayal of controversial magazine publisher Larry Flynt in Milos Forman's drama, The People Vs. Larry Flynt. Set for release in 2007 are The Grand, an ensemble comedy for director Zak Penn and No Country For Old Men, directed by Ethan and Joel Cohen and costarring Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin and Tommy Lee Jones. Past film credits include After The Sunset, Play It To The Bone, The Thin Red Line, The Hi-Lo County, Ed TV, Wag The Dog, Welcome To Sarajevo, Kingpin, Natural Born Killers, Indecent Proposal, White Men Can't Jump, The Big White, A Scanner Darkly, North Country, The Prize Winner Of Definance, Ohio and A Prairie Home Companion. Harrelson recently wrapped Transsiberian for director Brad Anderson and Semi Pro with Will Ferrell and Andre Benjamin.Harrelson first endeared himself to millions of viewers as a member of the ensemble cast of NBC's long-running hit comedy, Cheers. For his work as the affable bartender Woody Boyd, he won an Emmy in 1988 and was nominated four additional times during his eight-year run on the show. In 1999, he gained another Emmy nomination when he reprised the role in a guest appearance on the spin-off series Frasier. He later made a return to television with a recurring guest role on the hit NBC series, Will And Grace.
Balancing his film and television work, in 1999 Harrelson revived a career long commitment to the theatre by directing his own play, Furthest From The Sun at the Theatre de la Juene Lune in Minneapolis. He followed next with the Roundabout's Broadway revival of the N. Richard Nash play The Rainmaker in 2000, Sam Sheperd's The Late Henry Moss in 2001, John Kolvenbach's On An Average Day opposite Kyle MacLachlan in London's West End in the fall of 2002, and in the summer of 2003 Harrelson directed the Toronto premiere of Kenneth Lonergan's This Is Our Youth at the Berkeley Street Theatre. In the winter of 2005/2006 Harrelson returned to London's West End, starring in Tennessee Williams' Night Of The Iguana at the Lyric Theatre.
A committed environmentalist, Harrelson joined his activism with his film efforts in Ron Mann's Go Further, a road documentary following Woody and friends on their bicycle journey down the Pacific Coast Highway from Seattle to Santa Barbara.
Along with being daddy to his three beautiful daughters, closest to his heart is www.voiceyourself.com, a website Harrelson co-created with his wife Laura Louie which promotes and inspires individual action to create global momentum towards simple organic living and to restore balance and harmony to our planet.
Andre Benjamin (Clarence)
Andre Benjamin is best known for his work as half of the world-renowned, pioneering, Grammy Award-winning duo, OutKast. Their album "Speakerboxxx/The Love Below" sold over ten million copies, propelled by Benjamin's number one single, "Hey Ya!" For their distinguished body of work spanning over a decade, OutKast has received multiple Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year for "Speakerboxxx/The Love Below" in 2004.Fueled by his artistic passion, Benjamin now has turned his attention to other creative outlets and is making an indelible mark on the film and television world, having recently starred in Universal Picture's "Idlewild," a musical set in the prohibition-era South in which Benjamin stars and for which he co-created the story and co-wrote the soundtrack with his OutKast partner, Big Boi; the drama "Four Brothers" for director John Singleton, in which he received rave reviews for his portrayal of an adopted brother opposite Mark Wahlberg; and Be Cool the sequel to the smash hit comedy, Get Shorty and co-starring John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Vince Vaughn, and Cedric the Entertainer. Benjamin also lent his voice to the anime feature Whasango and Paramount Picture's live-action/CG feature, Charlotte's Web.
Benjamin will next be seen in the drama, Battle In Seattle, co-starring Charlize Theron and directed by Stuart Townsend.
Benjamin is also creator and executive producer of "Class of 3000," an animated series for the Cartoon Network which is entering its second season. He also provides the voice of the series' main character as well as composes the series' music.
Andre Benjamin is also an accomplished painter and clothing designer, further solidifying his role as a true multi-media artist and entrepreneur. Among his many accolades, Benjamin has been named the World's Best Dressed Man by Esquire Magazine and was named as one of Premiere Magazine's "New Power Players."
Maura Tierney (Lynn)
One of the brightest acting talents to emerge in recent years, Maura Tierney, is currently gracing television screens every week on the top rated NBC series "ER" for which she received her first Emmy nomination. Tierney has successfully managed to juggle both television and film careers.She returns to the big screen in a film for Magnolia Pictures called Diggers where she stars opposite Paul Rudd, Ken Marino, Josh Hamilton, Ron Eldard, Laura Ambrose and Sarah Paulson. The film, set for an April 27th release, is directed by Katherine Dieckmann and is about two generations of clam diggers trying to maintain their way of life in the midst of enormous changes in the Hamptons during the 1970's. Tierney can also be seen in the upcoming films The Go-Getter, which premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, and Finding Amanda with Matthew Broderick.
Tierney has starred in such films as Twentieth Century Fox's comedy Welcome To Mooseport opposite Ray Romano and Gene Hackman, Instinct opposite Sir Anthony Hopkins and Cuba Gooding Jr. and Dreamworks' hugely successful "Forces of Nature" with Ben Affleck and Sandra Bullock. Additional film credits include Primal Fear, The Temp, White Sands, Oxygen, and Scotland, PA.
She earned critical praise for her role in "Primary Colors" as well as for her work opposite Jim Carrey in the smash hit Liar Liar. Tierney also appeared in the Christopher Nolan directed film Insomnia opposite Al Pacino, Hilary Swank and Robin Williams.
This past spring she starred in the Off-Broadway production of Neil LaBute's Some Girl(s) at the Lucille Lortel Theater. She joined a cast which also included Eric McCormack, Fran Drescher, Judy Reyes and Brooke Smith.
Prior to joining the cast of "ER", Tierney spent four years on the critically acclaimed NBC series "Newsradio."
Born and raised in Boston, she currently divides her time between Los Angeles and New York.
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