Harvey Weinstein CBE (born March 19, 1952) is an American former film producer. He and his brother Bob Weinstein co-founded the entertainment company Miramax, which produced several successful independent films, including Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989), The Crying Game (1992), Pulp Fiction (1994), Heavenly Creatures (1994), Flirting with Disaster (1996), and Shakespeare in Love (1998).
Weinstein won an Academy Award for producing Shakespeare in Love, and garnered seven Tony Awards for a variety of plays and musicals, including The Producers, Billy Elliot the Musical, and August: Osage County. After leaving Miramax, Weinstein and his brother Bob founded The Weinstein Company, a mini-major film studio. He was co-chairman, alongside Bob, from 2005 to 2017.
Brooklyn Nine-Nine and Homicide: Life On The Street actor André Braugher died from lung cancer a few months after he was diagnosed with the disease, his representative confirmed to Deadline Thursday.
The 61-year-old died Monday. At the time his representative said the actor had died from a brief illness. The two-time Emmy winning Braugher was perhaps best known his lead role Det.
Frank Pembleton on David Simon’s dark police drama Homicide: Life On The Street, which focused on the homicide unit of the Baltimore Police Department.
It ran for seven seasons on NBC. In a statement Tuesday, NBC Entertainment remembered Braugher as an “actor that others in the profession would always aspire to be.” “In addition to his prowess as a dramatic actor, his comedy chops were also on full display as the determined and passionate Capt.
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