Event class: film, role, played, starred, appeared, directed, alongside, starring, first, opposite

Events with high posterior probability

Peter Weir	Weir's major breakthrough in Australia and internationally was the lush, atmospheric period mystery Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), made with substantial backing from the state-funded South Australian Film Corporation and filmed on location in South Australia and rural Victoria.
Val Emmich	In the summer of 2008, he shot his first film, playing the lead role in the independent feature Fighting Fish.
Moira Shearer	She came to international attention for her first film role as Victoria Page in the Powell & Pressburger ballet - themed film The Red Shoes, (1948).
Michael Douglas	In 1989 he starred in Ridley Scott's international police crime drama Black Rain opposite Andy García and Kate Capshaw ; the film was shot in Osaka, Japan.
Martin Benson (actor)	He also had an uncredited role in MGM's hit historical film, Ivanhoe, and in 1963 he acted in another historic film, as Ramos in Cleopatra (which also starred Elizabeth Taylor).
Amy Brenneman	Brenneman starred in ensemble cast film Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her directed by Rodrigo García in 2000.
Jaime King	King was cast as Sarah Palmer in the horror remake of My Bloody Valentine 3D, which opened in January 2009.
Zo? Bell	Bell also played a medical technician who moonlights as'' Bloody Holly'', a roller derby star, in Drew Barrymore's 2009 directorial debut, Whip It.
Dolph Lundgren	In 1998 he appeared in Jean-Marc Piché's action / supernatural horror film The Minion alongside Françoise Robertson Lundgren portrays Lukas Sadorov, a middle eastern templar and member of an order who are charged with guarding the gateway to Hell that, if opened, will unleash all evil.
Leo Rossi	Rossi began his career with small roles in successful films, such as the Rick Rosenthal - directed -- John Carpenter - scripted -- Halloween II (1981) with Jamie Lee Curtis and Donald Pleasence, in which he falls victim to the suburban maniac Michael Myers.
John de Rantau	De Rantau made his featured film debut in 2005 with Mencari Madonna (Looking for Madonna), a film about a Papuan teenager who becomes infected with AIDS and seeks a cure.
Stacey Dash	Dash received her big break with the 1995 film Clueless, which starred Alicia Silverstone and Brittany Murphy.
Josh Stewart	Stewart made his mainstream feature film debut in 2008's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button playing the character of Benjamin's crewmate, Pleasant Curtis.
Kristin Kreuk	She also tested for 2011 film Mission : Impossible -- Ghost Protocol, with the role going to Paula Patton.
Megan Gale	In August 2009, Gale completed filming a role in her first Australian feature film, the romantic comedy I Love You Too.
Bradley Gregg	In 1987, Gregg starred in the hit horror film A Nightmare on Elm Street 3 : Dream Warriors as Phillip Anderson.
David Duchovny	In 2000 he starred in the feature film Return to Me, a romantic comedy/drama directed by Bonnie Hunt and co-starring Minnie Driver and Carroll O'Connor.
Alicia Keys	In the same year, Keys earned further praise for her second film, The Nanny Diaries, based on the 2002 novel of the same name, where she co-starred alongside Scarlett Johansson and Chris Evans.
Marley Shelton	In 2001, Shelton had her first starring role in the black comedy Sugar & Spice, and appeared as one of the main characters in the teen horror film Valentine.
Jimmy Bennett	In 2005, Bennett appeared in the film Hostage, where he starred with Bruce Willis, and The Amityville Horror remake, where he played the role of the middle child of a family moving into a haunted house.
Helen Vinson	Another stand-out role for Vinson was as an undercover federal agent posing as a femme fatale opposite Richard Cromwell in Universal Pictures's anti- Nazi action drama entitled, Enemy Agent (1940).
Bar Refaeli	In 2013, she played a starring role in the Israeli crime-caper film Kidon, a comedy in which she stars as a Mossad assassin involved in liquidating a Hamas terrorist in Dubai.
Anne Hathaway	In 2002, she appeared in Douglas McGrath's comedy-drama Nicholas Nickleby, opposite Charlie Hunnam and Jamie Bell, which opened to positive reviews.
Jolene Blalock	Blalock had a supporting role as Stacy in the William Kaufman action thriller Sinners And Saints, set in post-Katrina New Orleans, which prémiered in Los Angeles on June 30, 2010.
Lee Pace	Pace first gained recognition for his role in the 2003 film Soldier's Girl, based on fact, in which he played the central role of Calpernia Addams, a transgender woman dating Army soldier Barry Winchell, played by Troy Garity.
Keisha Castle-Hughes	She also played the main role of the Virgin Mary in the 2006 film The Nativity Story.
Frankie Muniz	His first starring role in a feature film was as Willie Morris in the 2000 family period piece My Dog Skip, which was released at the same approximate time as the pilot for Malcolm in the Middle.
Constance Worth	Her next role was in Willis Kent's 1938 exploitation quickie, The Wages of Sin, playing a young woman lured into prostitution.
Matthew James Thomas	In November 2009 He played Seth the leading role in Karen Wilson's short film Possessions alongside Rosalind Halstead, best known for her portrayal as Isabella in Wuthering Heights.
Scott Speedman	In 2003 he landed a role opposite Kurt Russell in the police drama Dark Blue, portraying an inexperienced L. A. P. D. detective caught in a web of corruption.
Tommy Lee Jones	In 1970 he landed his first film role, coincidentally playing a Harvard student in Love Story (Erich Segal, the author of Love Story, said that he based the lead character of Oliver on the two undergraduate roommates he knew while attending Harvard, Jones and Gore).
Jane Seymour (actress)	In 1975, Seymour was cast as Princess Farah in Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger, the third part of Ray Harryhausen's Sinbad trilogy.
James Shigeta	The 1961 romantic comedy Cry for Happy had Shigeta co-starring with Glenn Ford, Donald O'Connor and Miyoshi Umeki in a tale about Korean War era United States Navy photographers in Japan.
Edie Falco	Tom Fontana, executive director of Homicide, cast Falco as Eva Thormann, the wife of an injured police officer, after watching Falco's performance in Laws of Gravity, a 1992 film directed by Nick Gomez.
Tatjana Alexander	In 2011 she played the lead character in Anja Salomonowitz first feature film SPAIN, Magdalena a mysterious woman caught up in a story between her ex-husband who is stalking her and Sava, played by French actor Grégoire Colin, a foreigner whom she falls in love with.
Michelle Pfeiffer	Pfeiffer was cast against type, as a murdered gangster's widowed moll on the run, in Jonathan Demme's mafia comedy Married to the Mob (1988), opposite Matthew Modine, Dean Stockwell and Mercedes Ruehl.
Rob Brown (actor)	In 2005, he played the role of Kenyon Stone, a basketball player for the Richmond High School Oilers in Coach Carter, starring Samuel L. Jackson.
Petr Shelokhonov	In 1974 Shelokhonov played the leading role as industrialist Peresada, opposite another Russian film star Natalia Fateeva, in political drama Reprisal (Otvetnaya mera) based on real historic events of the cold war.
Steve Reevis	In 1993 he was cast as the Apache scout, Chato, in Geronimo : An American Legend starring Wes Studi as the titular warrior, another role that brought recognition to Steve as an actor.
Stuart Townsend	In 1997 he landed a lead role in the British film Shooting Fish.
Kate Winslet	In 2001's Enigma, Winslet played a young woman who finds herself falling for a brilliant young World War II code breaker, played by Dougray Scott.
Tabrett Bethell	After Legend of the Seeker, Bethell played Beth in James Rabbitts's 2010 Australian thriller The Clinic, which was shot in Deniliquin, NSW, Australia.
Neil Morrissey	In 1990, he played the lead role of Noddy in the British spoof horror film I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle which involved many of the actors from Boon.
Gus Lewis	In 2005, Lewis played a young Bruce Wayne in the blockbuster film Batman Begins, whose adult counterpart was Christian Bale.
Lela Rochon	In 1989, she played opposite Eddie Murphy in Harlem Nights as the memorable'' Sunshine'' and later again with Murphy in the successful romantic comedy Boomerang.
Mary Stuart Masterson	In 1996, Masterson acted alongside Christian Slater in the romantic drama Bed of Roses.
Mena Suvari	She next was cast in a supporting role in the independent dramedy Slums of Beverly Hills, which was released in 1998.
Mark Stevens (actor)	He played an FBI man going undercover to arrest a gangster played by Richard Widmark in The Street With No Name (1948), and appeared as Olivia de Havilland's loyal husband in The Snake Pit (1948).
Toni Collette	In 1999, she was nominated for an Academy Award for her role as the mother of a troubled boy in the U. S. film The Sixth Sense, which also starred Bruce Willis and Haley Joel Osment.
Mel House	In the Summer of 2008, House directed the science fiction/horror film Walking Distance in Houston and Galveston, Texas, prior to the city's destruction from Hurricane Ike.
Vito Scotti	He made his film debut, playing an uncredited role as a Mexican youth in Illegal Entry (1949), with Howard Duff and George Brent.
Jasper Britton	It was on replacing Eddie Izzard in the title role in Brian Cox's 1995 Richard III and opening to rave reviews that Britton emerged as one of the prominent actors of his generation.
Kelly Macdonald	In 2010, she played her first comedy role, in the British independent romantic comedy film The Decoy Bride opposite David Tennant.
William Edwin Self	His first film role was Private Gawky Henderson in The Story of G. I. Joe (1945) directed by William Wellman.
Kathleen Turner	She made her film debut in 1981 as the ruthless Matty Walker in the thriller Body Heat ; the role brought her to international prominence.
Stephen Geoffreys	He also played a supporting part in the critically acclaimed drama At Close Range in 1986.
Abigail Breslin	Her first acting role was in the 2002 science fiction thriller Signs, directed by M. Night Shyamalan, where she played Bo Hess, the daughter of the main character, Graham Hess (Mel Gibson).
Donnie Wahlberg	Wahlberg received attention for his role in the 1999 film The Sixth Sense, playing the patient of Bruce Willis's character in the opening sequence.
James Earl Jones	His first film role was as a young and trim Lt. Lothar Zogg, the B-52 bombardier in Dr. Strangelove or : How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb in 1964.
Byron Thames	The following year, he was cast in the Amy Heckerling - directed comedy film Johnny Dangerously, playing the part of actor Michael Keaton's character as a youngster, In 1985 he received a starring role in the Linda Feferman - directed teen comedy-drama Seven Minutes in Heaven.
Rufus Sewell	He played the lead vampire, Adam, in the film Abraham Lincoln : Vampire Hunter, which was filmed in New Orleans and released in June 2012.
Chlo? Sevigny	She then had a leading role as a Hampshire College graduate in the sardonic period piece The Last Days of Disco (1998), alongside Kate Beckinsale.
Tara Reid	In 2005, she co-starred in infamous German filmmaker Uwe Boll's Alone in the Dark alongside Christian Slater.
Matthew Goode	Goode is known for co-starring opposite Mandy Moore in the 2004 film Chasing Liberty, playing the romantic interest of Moore's character.
Colin Firth	Firth played the painter Johannes Vermeer opposite Scarlett Johansson in the 2003 release Girl with a Pearl Earring.
Caitlin O'Heaney	She played the female lead, Amy, in the horror feature He Knows You're Alone (1980), which was Tom Hanks' first feature film.
George Raft	His big break came later that same year as the nickel-flipping second lead alongside Paul Muni's raging killer in Scarface (1932), and Raft's convincing portrayal led to speculation that Raft was a gangster.
Katy Carmichael	Carmichael also had a lead role in Danny Stack's short supernatural thriller Origin (2010), playing a mother desperate to keep her family together when her son falls ill after being bitten by a mysterious creature.
Crystal Lowe	In 2009, Lowe had a small role in the action film Driven to Kill with Steven Seagal.
Ruco Chan	He was then given a major supporting role in My Date with a Vampire III (2004).
Whitney Houston	In 1995, Houston starred alongside Angela Bassett, Loretta Devine, and Lela Rochon in her second film Waiting to Exhale, a motion picture about four African-American women struggling with relationships.
Katherine Heigl	Heigl appeared as Christina Sebastian in Steven Soderbergh's Depression - era drama King of the Hill before being cast in her first leading role in the 1994 comedy My Father the Hero.
Julia Stiles	In David Mamet's State and Main (2000), about a film shooting on location in a small town in Vermont, she played a teenage girl who seduces a film actor (Alec Baldwin) with a weakness for teen girls.
Calvin Goldspink	In February 2011 he announced via Twitter that he'd booked his first film role he will be playing James Middleton the brother of Kate Middleton in the film William and Kate About the love story between Prince William and Kate Middleton.
Matt O'Leary	O'Leary came into mainstream prominence in the later half of the 2000s for his roles in Brick, a quirky thriller starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and the 2007 films Live Free or Die Hard and Death Sentence.
Frank Whaley	He appeared in his second leading film role in 1994's Swimming with Sharks, in which he starred opposite Kevin Spacey.
Nnamdi Asomugha	In 2012, he made his on-screen feature film debut in Fire with Fire starring Bruce Willis, Rosario Dawson and Josh Duhamel.
Liam Aiken	Aiken's first major film role was playing Susan Sarandon's character's young son in Stepmom in 1998, which also starred Julia Roberts and Jena Malone.
Jill Haworth	Otto Preminger was looking for a new fresh face for the role of Karen, an ill-fated Jewish - Danish refugee girl in love with Dov Landau (Sal Mineo), in his film'' Exodus'' (1960).
Louisa Krause	Krause broke into mainstream films in 2011 with appearances in Young Adult directed by Jason Reitman as the goth clerk at the hotel in which Charlize Theron's character is staying.
Marc Blucas	However, he finally landed his first major role in 1999, as Agent Riley Finn in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Rena Riffel	She also landed the role of Rain in the 1995 thriller Undercover Heat, which opened at # 1 in the U. K. Riffel landed her breakthrough role in the 1995 film Showgirls starring Elizabeth Berkley, Gina Gershon, and Kyle MacLachlan.
Matthew McConaughey	After appearing in some smaller roles in Angels in the Outfield, Texas Chainsaw Massacre : The Next Generation, Boys on the Side, the television series Unsolved Mysteries, and as the male lead in the Trisha Yearwood music video for the song Walkaway Joe, McConaughey's big break came as the lawyer'' Jake Brigance'' in the 1996 film A Time to Kill, based on the John Grisham novel of the same name.
Uri Gavriel	In 1992 he played in the American film'' Blink of an Eye'', and in the American film The Human Shield alongside Albert Illouz.
Robert Carradine	In 1978, Robert landed a demanding role in Hal Ashby's Oscar winning Vietnam War drama, Coming Home, which starred Jane Fonda and Jon Voight.
Patti Austin	She next appeared with Jeff Bridges and Joan Allen in Francis Ford Coppola's critically acclaimed period piece Tucker : The Man and his Dream (1988).
Melanie Griffith	Griffith's next starring role was in the urban thriller Pacific Heights (1990) with Matthew Modine.
Mary Elizabeth Winstead	In 2004 Winstead played a supporting role in MTV's made-for-television film Monster Island.
James Bulliard	His first role in a feature film occurred in 1993, when he appeared in the movie Ordinary Magic, starring Glenn Headly and Ryan Reynolds.
Emma Caulfield	In 2003, Emma landed her first lead role in the horror movie Darkness Falls, which debuted at number one in the U. S. box office.
Kristen Stewart	Stewart appeared as teenager Lucy Hardwicke in In the Land of Women (2007), a romantic drama starring Meg Ryan and Adam Brody.
Mischa Barton	Barton also had a supporting role in the independent teen drama Tart (2001) with Brad Renfro and Dominique Swain.
Whoopi Goldberg	She played Oda Mae Brown a wacky psychic helping a slain man (Patrick Swayze) save his lover (Demi Moore) in the romantic fantasy film Ghost (1990) for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
Lene Elise Bergum	Her breakthrough as an actress came with her role as'' Lene'' in the movie Hodet over vannet (1993), which has later been remade as a Hollywood - movie, Head Above Water, with Cameron Diaz in the lead role.
Tom Schilling	Schilling was later given the role of the young Adolf Hitler in Urs Odermatt's 2009 film'' Mein Kampf'' (the UK DVD release is marketed as Dawn of Evil : Rise of the Reich), co-starring Götz George.
Raffa?la Anderson	Time magazine reviewed the film and noted,'' And as one of the amoral avengers, Raffaela Anderson has true star quality...'' In the 2001 mainstream film, Amour de Femme, she played a dance instructor who falls in love with a married woman.
Hayden Christensen	Christensen appeared opposite Mischa Barton in Virgin Territory, which was released directly-to-DVD in North America on August 26, 2008.
Moosie Drier	A notable movie role from this period includes his appearance as Adam Landers in 1977's George Burns comedy Oh, God !
Jenny Wade (actress)	In 2007, she played the role of Leah in No Reservations, Scott Hicks's remake of the German comedy Mostly Martha starring Catherine Zeta-Jones and Aaron Eckhart.
Chris Tucker	He made his cinematic debut in House Party 3, and gained greater film recognition alongside rapper Ice Cube in the 1995 film Friday.