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Peter Julian Robin Morgan CBE ( born 10 April 1963 ) is a British film writer and playwright . Morgan is best known for writing the historical films and plays " The Queen ", " Frost / Nixon ", " The Damned United " and " Rush ". He is the creator of Netflix ' s ___MASK71___ series " The Crown ". Antonia Eugenia " Nia " Vardalos ( born September 24 , 1962 ) is a Canadian - American actress , screenwriter , director , and producer of Greek descent . Her most notable work is the 2002 Academy Award  nominated film " My Big Fat Greek Wedding ", which was based on a one - woman stage ___MASK14___ she dramatized and in which she starred . Hayden Leslie Panettiere ( born August 21 , 1989 ) is an American actress , model , singer , and activist . She is known for her roles as cheerleader Claire Bennet on the NBC sci - fi series " Heroes " ( 2006  10 ), Juliette Barnes in the ABC / CMT ___MASK89___ - drama series " Nashville " ( 2012  present ) and Kairi in the video game series " Kingdom Hearts ". The National Broadcasting Company ( NBC ) is an American commercial broadcast ___MASK60___ network that is the flagship property of NBCUniversal , a subsidiary of Comcast . The network is headquartered in the Comcast Building ( formerly known as the GE Building ) at Rockefeller Center in New York City , with additional major offices near Los Angeles ( at Universal City Plaza ), Chicago ( at the NBC Tower ) and soon in Philadelphia at Comcast Innovation and Technology Center . The network is part of the Big Three ___MASK60___ networks . NBC is sometimes referred to as the " Peacock Network ", in ___MASK86___ to its stylized peacock logo , which was originally created in 1956 for its then - new color broadcasts and became the network ' s official emblem in 1979 . Zombieland is a 2009 American ___MASK69___ ___MASK83___ directed by Ruben Fleischer and written by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick . The film stars Woody Harrelson , Jesse Eisenberg , Emma Stone and Abigail Breslin as survivors of a ___MASK69___ apocalypse . The film follows a geeky college kid making his way through the ___MASK69___ apocalypse , meeting three strangers along the way and together taking an extended road trip across the Southwestern United States in an attempt to find a sanctuary free from zombies . The film premiered at Fantastic Fest on September 25 , 2009 and was theatrically released on October 2 , 2009 in the United States by Columbia Pictures . " Zombieland " was a critical and commercial success , grossing more than $ 60 . 8 million in 17 days and surpassing the 2004 film " Dawn of the Dead " as the top - grossing ___MASK69___ film in the United States until " World War Z " in 2013 . ___MASK34___ ___MASK39___ is a ___MASK47___ of United States ___MASK37___ that originated in the southern United States in the 1920s . It takes its roots from the southeastern ___MASK47___ of United States , such as folk ___MASK39___ ( especially Appalachian folk ___MASK39___ ), and blues ___MASK39___ . Blues modes have been used extensively throughout its recorded ___MASK90___ . ___MASK34___ ___MASK39___ often consists of ballads and dance tunes with generally simple forms and harmonies accompanied by mostly string instruments such as banjos , electric and acoustic guitars , dobros and fiddles as well as harmonicas . According to Lindsey Starnes , the term " country ___MASK39___ " gained popularity in the 1940s in preference to the earlier term " hillbilly ___MASK39___ "; it came to encompass Western ___MASK39___ , which evolved parallel to hillbilly ___MASK39___ from similar roots , in the mid - 20th century . The term " country ___MASK39___ " is used today to describe many styles and subgenres . The origins of country ___MASK39___ are the folk ___MASK39___ of working - class Americans , who blended popular songs , Irish and Celtic fiddle tunes , traditional English ballads , and cowboy songs , and various ___MASK89___ traditions from European immigrant communities . In 2009 country ___MASK39___ was the most listened to rush hour radio ___MASK47___ during the evening commute , and second most popular in the morning commute in the United States . Raising Helen is a 2004 American ___MASK95___ - ___MASK71___ film directed by Garry Marshall and written by Jack Amiel and Michael Begler . It stars Kate Hudson , John Corbett , Joan Cusack , Hayden Panettiere , siblings Spencer and Abigail Breslin , with Helen Mirren . It grossed $ 37 , 486 , 138 in its domestic box office . Garry Marshall ( born Garry Kent Masciarelli ; November 13 , 1934  July 19 , 2016 ) was an American actor , director , producer , writer , voice artist , and ___MASK59___ , best known for creating " Happy Days " and its ___MASK42___ spin - offs , developing Neil Simon ' s 1965 ___MASK14___ " The Odd Couple " for television , and directing " Pretty Woman ", " Runaway Bride ", " Valentine ' s Day ", " New Year ' s Eve ", " Mother ' s Day ", "" The Princess Diaries ", and "". He provided the voice of Buck Cluck in " Chicken Little " and its video game adaptation . Kate Garry Hudson ( born April 19 , 1979 ) is an American actress . She rose to prominence in 2000 for playing Penny Lane in " Almost Famous ", for which she won a Golden Globe and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress . Her other films include " How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days " ( 2003 ), " Raising Helen " ( 2004 ), " The Skeleton Key " ( 2005 ), " You , Me and Dupree " ( 2006 ), " Fool ' s Gold " ( 2008 ), " Bride Wars " ( 2009 ), " Nine " ( 2009 ), " The Killer Inside Me " ( 2010 ), " The Reluctant Fundamentalist " ( 2012 ), " Wish I Was Here " ( 2014 ), " Kung Fu Panda 3 " ( 2016 ) and " Deepwater Horizon " ( 2016 ). Happy Days is an American ___MASK60___ sitcom that aired first - run from January 15 , 1974 , to September 24 , 1984 , on ABC , with a total of 255 half - hour episodes spanning over eleven seasons . The show was originally based on a segment from ABC ' s " Love , American Style " titled " Love and the ___MASK60___ Set ", later retitled " Love and the Happy Days " for syndication , featuring future cast members Ron Howard , Marion Ross and Anson Williams . Little Miss Sunshine is a 2006 American ___MASK95___ - ___MASK71___ road film and the directorial debut of the husband - wife team of Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris . The ___MASK53___ was written by first - time writer Michael Arndt . The film stars Greg Kinnear , Steve Carell , Toni Collette , Paul Dano , Abigail Breslin and Alan Arkin , and was produced by Big Beach Films on a budget of US $ 8 million . Filming began on June 6 , 2005 and took place over 30 days in Arizona and Southern California . Nim ' s Island is a 2008 American - Australian ___MASK43___ ___MASK70___ comedy - drama fantasy film produced by Walden Media , written and directed by Jennifer Flackett and Mark Levin and starring Abigail Breslin , Jodie Foster , and Gerard Butler . The story is based on the children ' s story of the same name by Wendy Orr . A young girl , Nim , seeks help from the author of her favorite ___MASK70___ series when her scientist father goes missing . Nim , though , lives on an island in the South Pacific . The author , Alexandra Rover , is agoraphobic and lives in San Francisco . While Rover attempts to overcome her agoraphobia in order to set out in search of her , Nim tries to overcome her fear of losing her father . In the meantime , a cruise ship company attempts to invade Nim ' s island with uncouth Australian tourists . " Nim ' s Island " was released on 4 April 2008 by 20th Century Fox . The film received mixed reviews from critics and earned $ 100 , 076 , 342 on a $ 37 million budget . Northern Exposure is an American ___MASK95___ - ___MASK71___ Northern television series that ran on CBS from 1990 to 1995 , with a total of 110 episodes . It received a total of 57 award nominations during its five - year run and won 27 , including the 1992 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding ___MASK71___ Series , two additional Primetime Emmy Awards , four Creative Arts Emmy Awards , and two Golden Globes . Critic John Leonard called " Northern Exposure " " the best of the best television in the past 10 years ". John Joseph Corbett ( born May 9 , 1961 ) is an American actor and ___MASK34___ ___MASK39___ singer . He is best known for playing Chris Stevens on " Northern Exposure " from 1990 to 1995 ; and Aidan , Carrie Bradshaw ' s boyfriend , on " Sex and the City " a role which he reprised for the series movie ___MASK99___ " Sex and the City 2 ". He also played the leading male role opposite Nia Vardalos in Vardalos ' s film , " My Big Fat Greek Wedding " ( 2002 ). He starred in " United States of Tara " as Max Gregson , and has appeared on NBC dramedy " Parenthood " as Seth Holt . Corbett started his acting career in television commercials , and in recent years , he has done TV and radio voiceovers for Applebee ' s Restaurants and Walgreens drug stores , among others . Aside from acting , Corbett has recorded and released two ___MASK34___ ___MASK39___ albums . You , Me and Dupree is a 2006 American ___MASK40___ film directed by Anthony Russo and Joe Russo and written by Mike LeSieur . It stars Owen Wilson , Kate Hudson , Matt Dillon , Seth Rogen , Amanda Detmer , Todd Stashwick and Michael Douglas . Abigail Kathleen Breslin ( born April 14 , 1996 ) is an American actress and singer . She appeared in her first commercial when she was three years old , and in her first film , "" Signs "" ( 2002 ), at the age of five . Her other film roles include " Little Miss Sunshine " ( 2006 ), for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress , " No Reservations " ( 2007 ), " Nim ' s Island " ( 2008 ), " Definitely , Maybe " ( 2008 ), " My Sister ' s Keeper " ( 2009 ), " Zombieland " ( 2009 ), and " Rango " ( 2011 ). In September 2015 , she began acting in the ___MASK54___ - comedy " Scream Queens " on Fox , in which she has her first regular role on a television series . The Skeleton Key is a 2005 American ___MASK35___ ___MASK87___ directed by Iain Softley , written by Ehren Kruger and starring Kate Hudson , Gena Rowlands , John Hurt , Peter Sarsgaard and Joy Bryant . The film centers on a young hospice nurse who acquires a job at a Terrebonne Parish plantation home , and becomes entangled in a ___MASK35___ mystery involving the house , its former inhabitants and the hoodoo rituals and spells that took place there . It was released in the United States on August 12 , 2005 . Dame Helen Lydia Mirren ( née Mironoff ; born 26 July 1945 ) is an English actor . Mirren began her acting career with the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1967 , and is one of the few performers who have achieved the Triple Crown of Acting , having won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 2007 , after two previous nominations , for her performance as Queen Elizabeth II in " The Queen ". She received an Olivier Award for Best Actress in 2013 for her West End performance in " The Audience ", in which she also portrayed Elizabeth II , and in 2015 she won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a ___MASK14___ for her Broadway performance in the ___MASK14___ . " The Audience " was written by Peter Morgan , who also wrote " The Queen ". Mirren won three consecutive BAFTA Awards for Best Actress between 1992 and 1994 and her first of several Emmy Awards in 1996 for her performance as police detective Jane Tennison on the British television series " Prime Suspect ", which ran for seven seasons between 1991 and 2006 . The Killer Inside Me is a 1952 ___MASK8___ by American writer Jim Thompson published by Fawcett Publications . Working Girl is a 1988 ___MASK40___ - drama film directed by Mike Nichols and written by Kevin Wade . It tells the story of a Staten Island - raised secretary , Tess McGill ( Melanie Griffith ), working in the mergers and acquisitions department of a Wall Street investment bank . When her boss , Katharine Parker ( Sigourney Weaver ), breaks her leg skiing , Tess uses Parker ' s absence and connections , including her errant beau Jack Trainer ( Harrison Ford ), to put forward her own idea for a merger deal . Sex and the City 2 is a 2010 American ___MASK40___ - drama film written , co - produced , and directed by Michael Patrick King . It is the sequel to the 2008 film " Sex and the City ", which is based on the 1998 - 2004 HBO comedy series of the same name ( itself based on the book of the same name by Candace Bushnell ). The Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a ___MASK14___ is an honor presented at the Tony Awards , a ceremony established in 1947 as the Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre . The award is given to actresses for quality leading roles in a Broadway ___MASK14___ . Despite the award first being presented in 1947 , there were no nominees announced until 1956 . There have been two ties in this category , and one three - way tie . The series consists of eight games across multiple ___MASK98___ ___MASK9___ consoles , and future titles are planned . Most of the games in the series have been both critically acclaimed and commercially successful . As of October 2013 , the " Kingdom Hearts " series has sold over 25 million copies worldwide . A wide variety of related merchandise has been released along with the games , including soundtracks , figurines , companion books , novels and manga series . Pretty Woman is a 1990 American ___MASK40___ film directed by Garry Marshall from a screenplay written by J . F . Lawton . The film stars Richard Gere and Julia Roberts , and features Hector Elizondo , Ralph Bellamy ( in his final performance ), Laura San Giacomo and Jason Alexander in supporting roles . Its story centers on down - on - her - luck Hollywood hooker Vivian Ward , who is hired by Edward Lewis , a wealthy businessman , to be his escort for several business and social functions , and their developing relationship over the course of her week - long stay with him . Bride Wars is a 2009 American ___MASK40___ film directed by Gary Winick and written by Greg DePaul , June Diane Raphael and Casey Wilson . My Big Fat Greek Wedding is a 2002 Canadian - American ___MASK40___ film directed by Joel Zwick and written by Nia Vardalos , who also stars in the film as Fotoula " Toula " Portokalos , a middle class Greek American woman who falls in love with a non - Greek upper middle class " White Anglo - Saxon Protestant " Ian Miller . The film received generally positive reviews from critics and , at the 75th Academy Awards , it was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay . Caroline " Carrie " Marie Bradshaw is a fictional character and lead character of the ___MASK62___ ___MASK51___ sitcom " Sex and the City ", as well as the CW series " The Carrie Diaries ", portrayed by actresses Sarah Jessica Parker and AnnaSophia Robb , respectively . She is a semi - autobiographical character created by Candace Bushnell , who published the book " Sex and the City ", based on her own columns in the " New York Observer ". On the ___MASK62___ series , Bradshaw is a New York City newspaper columnist , fashionista , and later , freelance writer for " Vogue " and a published author . Her weekly column , " Sex and the City ," provides the title , storylines , and narration for each episode . United States of Tara is an American ___MASK60___ comedy - ___MASK71___ created by Diablo Cody , which aired on Showtime from 2009 to 2011 . The series follows the life of Tara ( Toni Collette ), a suburban housewife and mother coping with dissociative identity disorder . Sex and the City is an American ___MASK40___ television series created by Darren Star and produced by HBO . Broadcast from 1998 until 2004 , the original run of the show had a total of 94 episodes . Throughout its six - year run , the show received contributions from various producers , writers , and directors , perhaps most significantly from Michael Patrick King . An Emmy Award , or simply Emmy , recognizes excellence in the ___MASK60___ industry , and corresponds to the Academy Award ( for film ), the Tony Award ( for theatre ), and the Grammy Award ( for music ). Almost Famous is a 2000 American ___MASK95___ - ___MASK71___ film written and directed by Cameron Crowe , and starring Billy Crudup , Kate Hudson and Patrick Fugit . It tells the fictional story of a teenage journalist writing for " Rolling Stone " magazine in the early 1970s while covering the fictitious rock band Stillwater , and his efforts to get his first cover story published . The film is semi - autobiographical , as Crowe himself was a teenage writer for " Rolling Stone ". Definitely , Maybe is a 2008 ___MASK40___ - drama film written and directed by Adam Brooks , and starring Ryan Reynolds , Isla Fisher , Rachel Weisz , Elizabeth Banks , Abigail Breslin , and Kevin Kline . Set in New York City during the 1990s , the film is about a political consultant who tries to help his eleven - year - old daughter understand his impending divorce by telling her the story of his past romantic relationships and how he ended up marrying her mother . The film grossed $ 55 million worldwide . How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days is a 2003 ___MASK40___ film directed by Donald Petrie , starring Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey . It is based on a short cartoon book of the same name by Michele Alexander and Jeannie Long . The Walgreen Company ( Walgreens , or sometimes archaically Walgreen ) is an American company which operates as the second - largest pharmacy store chain in the United States behind CVS ___MASK93___ . It specializes in filling prescriptions , ___MASK93___ and wellness products , ___MASK93___ ___MASK29___ , and photo services . As of February 29 , 2016 , the company operated 8 , 177 stores in all 50 states , the District of Columbia , Puerto Rico and the U . S . Virgin Islands . It was founded in Chicago , Illinois , in 1901 . The Walgreens headquarters office is in the Chicago suburb of Deerfield , Illinois . Prime Suspect is a British ___MASK30___ television ___MASK71___ series . It stars Helen Mirren as Jane Tennison , one of the first female ___MASK1___ Chief Inspectors in Greater London ' s Metropolitan Police Service , as she rises to rank of ___MASK1___ Superintendent whilst confronting the institutionalised sexism that exists within her job . The Odd Couple is a ___MASK14___ by Neil Simon . Following its premiere on Broadway in 1965 , the characters were revived in a successful 1968 film and 1970s television series , as well as other derivative works and spin - offs . The plot concerns two mismatched roommates : the neat , uptight Felix Ungar and the slovenly , easygoing Oscar Madison . Simon adapted the ___MASK14___ in 1985 to feature a pair of female roommates ( Florence Ungar and Olive Madison ) in The Female Odd Couple . An updated version of the 1965 show appeared in 2002 with the title Oscar and Felix : A New Look at the Odd Couple . Joan Cusack ( born October 11 , 1962 ) is an American actress . She received Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress for her roles in the ___MASK40___ - drama " Working Girl " ( 1988 ) and the ___MASK40___ " In & Out " ( 1997 ), as well as one Golden Globe nomination for her performance in the latter . She is also known as the voice of Jessie in the " Toy Story " franchise . Claire Bennet is a fictional character in the NBC ___MASK73___ fiction ___MASK71___ series " Heroes ". She is portrayed by Hayden Panettiere and first appeared on television in the pilot episode of the series , " Genesis " on September 25 , 2006 . She is a high school cheerleader with the power of rapid cellular regeneration . Claire appears in more episodes than any other character ( 72 , plus a 73rd through stock footage ).