Ken Kwapis is an award-winning director of motion pictures and television. He has directed eleven feature films, among them A Walk In The Woods, based on Bill Bryson's acclaimed comedic memoir; He's Just Not That Into You, inspired by the New York Times bestselling advice book; and The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, adapted from the beloved young adult novel. Other films include the rescue adventure Big Miracle, and the romantic comedies License to Wed and He Said, She Said (co-directed with Marisa Silver). His feature debut was Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird, starring Jim Henson's Muppets. For television, Kwapis helped launch nine series, including the groundbreaking HBO comedy The Larry Sanders Show, Fox's Emmy Award-winning The Bernie Mac Show, and NBC's The Office. Kwapis directed the pilot of The Office and its series finale, along with many memorable episodes -"Casino Night," Booze Cruise," "Diversity Day," to name a few. He earned an Emmy nomination for directing the episode "Gay Witch Hunt." Kwapis also earned an Emmy nomination for his work as a producer-director of Fox's Malcolm In The Middle. Other series Kwapis helped launch include NBC's Outsourced, Showtime's Happyish, and Netflix's #blackAF. He directed numerous episodes of shows such as Freaks and Geeks, One Mississippi, and Santa Clarita Diet. Kwapis studied filmmaking at Northwestern University and the University of Southern California. He won the Student Academy Award in Dramatic Achievement for his USC thesis film "For Heaven's Sake," an adaptation of Mozart's one-act comic opera Der Schauspieldirektor ("The Impresario").
Ken La Kier is known for For the Love of Zeus (2015), The Terrible Adventure (2020) and For the Love of Zeus (2018).
Ken Lally is the son of a spy and a child of the Cold War. His father was recruited by the N.S.A. as a teen, served in China and Berlin, where he met Ken's mother. His father raised him to follow in his footsteps, but his first love was Shakespeare; and he tackled the hardest role of his career, playing "Macbeth" in Las Vegas where he performed in front of more than 3,000 people a night for the very successful, and critically acclaimed month long run. Ken was trained in London at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre and the University of Westminster; also, in NYC at the National Shakespeare Conservatory and the London Classic Theatre School. In LA he trained for film and TV under master coach, Cameron Thor. He also has a B.A. in Theatre from St. Lawrence University. Ken has been in dozens of plays in NYC and LA, but his two favorite roles were on TV: the first on "General Hospital", where he played "Greg", a mob accountant for the show's resident gangster, "Sonny Corinthos"; the second on ""Heroes", where he played a notorious super villain known only as "The German". For most of his life, Ken's love of Shakespeare has been the driving force behind his career as an actor. His life long love of Martial Arts took him to Benny "The Jet" Urquidez's "Jet's Gym", 23 years ago; where he fine tuned his action and fight skills under the 5 time world champion--and action legends--watchful eye. Ken still spends his off days training, fighting and fencing with former Jet's gym team mates and a local sword master.
Ken Laurence is known for Project Runway All Stars (2012) and Project Runway (2004).
Originally from Scotland, Ken is a Vancouver based actor, improviser, comedian and musician. Ken won a Leo award for best performance in a music, comedy or variety program for his performance in the short film, Irregardless ( which he co-wrote with Jason Cermak & Nathan Clark). He is a long time improviser with Vancouver TheatreSports and has toured with the Second City throughout the Caribbean. Ken is a founding member and improviser/performer in the Canadian Comedy Award winning The Comic Strippers: a Male Stripper Parody & Improv Comedy Show. He has appeared at improv comedy festivals throughout North America and was a cast member of the critically acclaimed hit Gutenberg The Musical! (Vancouver). Having been a guitarist all of his life, Ken has shredded on his Flying V in the comedy metal band, The Knights of the Night, and created instant hits in the improvised Brit Pop band, Mirage. Ken was also the singer/songwriter/guitarist for the Vancouver based band, Good Night Mars. Ken has also worked internationally as an acclaimed storytelling and improv based leadership development workshop facilitator.
Ken Leads is an actor, known for Taking Liberty (2016).
Ken Lerner is known for The Affairs of Aphrodite (1970).
Ken Lerner is an American television, stage and film actor who is perhaps most famous for playing "Principal Flutie" in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997), the heartless HMO lawyer in Chicago Hope (1994), Kurt Russell's lawyer in Unlawful Entry (1992) and Rocco Malachi in Happy Days (1974). Lerner was born in Brooklyn, New York and graduated from Brooklyn College . He is the father of actor Sam Lerner and the brother of actor Michael Lerner. Ken Lerner is well known for playing funny characters like the agent Arnold Schwarzenegger stabs in the back with a pen in The Running Man (1987) and the attorney who yells to police "Don't shoot! I'm a lawyer!" in Unlawful Entry (1992). Lerner has appeared in more than 80 television shows and 44 movies. He has had recurring roles on such shows as Desperate Housewives (2004), Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997), Chicago Hope (1994), Beverly Hills, 90210 (1990) and Happy Days (1974). Lerner came to Hollywood and, almost immediately, was cast in the hit show _Happy Days_, in which he played three different characters, Rocco Malachi of the Malachi Brothers, Rocco Boruffi and Frankie Bing Bong. He also starred in Hot Tomorrows (1977), the award-winning American Film Institute student film debut of director Martin Brest. While working steadily as an actor, Ken was asked by his acting teacher Roy London to teach acting classes. He continued in that role until London's death in 1993. He now operates The Ken Lerner Studio, which offers cold reading and scene study classes and frequent free public seminars in which directors, casting directors, managers, agents and publicists give advice to Ken's students and actors in the community at large. Ken's classes are somewhat unusual in that he himself steadily auditions and works as an actor and therefore can impart firsthand knowledge of what it is like in the audition room and on set. Lerner has done numerous notable and funny commercials, including Kitchenaid's "Through the Years" series, the award-winning Federal Express "Gotcha," Visa's "Bill Fight," Imodium's "Carpoo,l" and the award-winning Mars' Snickers "Optometrist," for which Lerner won the Best Actor award of The Association of Independent Commercial Directors. Lerner also has starred in plays at the Pasadena Playhouse, at Garry Marshall's Falcon Theater and at various other venues in Los Angeles and New York City. Lerner teaches seminars for the Screen Actors Guild and the Screen Actors Guild Foundation, for Backstage West's Actorfest and at colleges and universities as a visiting lecturer as well as coaches in person and via Skype. Lerner is frequently called upon by networks, production companies and studios including Disney, ABC, NBC and CBS to privately coach actors for pilots movies and television. Among the actors Ken has taught or coached are Famke Janssen, Sheena Easton, Lisa Edelstein, Mitchel Musso, Nicollette Sheridan, Emily Procter, Dayanara Torres, Christa Miller, Adrienne Wilkinson, Creed Bratton, Byron Mann, Freddie Prinze Jr., Lou Ferrigno, Armin Shimerman, Mike Ditka, Dick Butkus, Sandra Hess, Costas Mandylor, Elizabeth Berkley, Jason Gould and Michael Trucco. Ken also works with motivational speakers, psychologists and lawyers seeking to present a more animated, interesting and professional image.
Ken Leung was raised in the Two Bridges section of the Lower East Side in New York City. His family moved to Midwood, Brooklyn where he grew up before finishing high school in Old Bridge, New Jersey. He attended NYU and studied acting with Catherine Russell and Nan Smithner, then briefly with Anne Jackson at HB Studio. He emerged from Manhattan's downtown theater community in the 1990s and flourished in non-traditional productions that included Jeff Weiss' Hot Keys; Terrence McNally's passion play Corpus Christi; and as Buckingham opposite Austin Pendleton's Richard III. His early career is defined by the relationships he established with theater groups like Ma-Yi, New Perspectives, and STAR, a traveling troupe of actors-educators based in Mount Sinai Hospital. In 2002, he made his Broadway debut in the Tony Award-winning musical, Thoroughly Modern Millie. Leung has gone on to establish himself in mainstream features including two films with Spike Lee.
Ken Levine was born on 14 February 1950 in Santa Monica, California, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Cheers (1982), Frasier (1993) and M*A*S*H (1972).