'Life Begins At 40' : 4 Gifted Actors Born In 1980

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Channing Matthew Tatum was born in Cullman, Alabama. His father, Glenn Tatum, worked in construction. His mother, Kay Tatum (née Faust), was an airline worker. He is predominantly of English ancestry.

'The Son Of No One' (2011 - Dito Montiel) : Crime thriller set in Queens, New York in which a policeman haunted by a violent incident from his past finds himself being shackled by his own department's chain of corruption.

'Side Effects' (2013 - Steven Soderbergh) : Crime mystery in which a woman in psychotherapy undergoes experimental drug treatment to deal with the demons of her past when her husband is released from prison.

'Foxcatcher' (2014 - Bennett Miller) : Sports drama examining status and privelege, based upon the real-life 1996 case of John du Pont, heir to the Du Pont family fortune. In 2009, Robert H. Richards IV, great-grandson of chemical magnate Irenee du Pont and heir to the Du Pont family, was convicted of child rape yet afforded leniency (apparently on grounds of being considered too delicate for prison life).

'The Hateful Eight' (2015 - Quentin Tarantino) : Panoramic western about a group of disparate strangers seeking refuge from a heavy blizzard at a stopover cabin on the lonesome trail. 

'Hail, Caesar!' (2016 - Coen Brothers) : Colourful film industry satire focusing on the work of a Hollywood studio fixer in the 1950's.

Need to see ... 'Haywire' (2011), 'Logan Lucky' (2017) ...

* Jason Schwartzman (born June 26, 1980, Cancer (age 40), Los Angeles, California, U.S.) *

Jason Francesco Schwartzman was born in Los Angeles, California. His father, film producer Jack Schwartzman, was of Polish descent. His mother, Talia Shire (née Coppola), was an actress born into a Catholic family of Italian immigrant ancestry - her mother Italia (née Pennino) was a singer, her father was composer Carmine Coppola and her uncle was composer Anton Coppola; her brothers are filmmaker Francis Coppola and film executive August Coppola, actor Nicolas Cage is one of her nephews, and filmmaker Sofia Coppola is her niece.

Eight artistic works by filmmaker Wes Anderson that employ the talents of stock company player and screenwriter Jason Schwartzman.

'S1m0ne' (2002 - Andrew Niccol) : Science-fiction fantasy about a filmmaker who becomes intent upon creating a virtual star to headline his latest movie, unwittingly inviting analysis from the emerging spectrum of "male gaze" feminist theory.

'Spun' (2003 - Jonas Akerlund) : Crime picture about the activities of small-time drug dealers and hardcore users pushing methamphetamine on the streets, inspired by real-life experiences in Eugene, Oregon.

'I Heart Huckabees' (2004 - David O'Russell) : Schwartzman plays Polish-American powerplayer Albert Markovski in this existential satire of corporate greed, customer research and new age executive culture.

'Bewitched' (2005 - Nora Ephron) : Meta-reimagining of the supernatural sitcom 'Bewitched' (1964 - 1972) centred around the production of a remake of 'Bewitched'.

'Shopgirl' (2005 - Anand Tucker) : Adaptation of comedian Steve Martin's novella 'Shopgirl' (2000) in which a potential menage a trois threatens to engulf the lives of an aspiring artist, a hapless graphic designer and a veteran logician.

'Marie Antoinette' (2006 - Sofia Coppola) : Schwartzman portrays King Louis XVI of France in this irreverent take on revolutionary politics in monarchic France.

'The Marc Pease Experience' (2009 - Todd Louiso) : High school musical about fate and destiny in which a failed actor and struggling chorus girl seek redemption through the art of performance.

'Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World' (2010 - Edgar Wright) : Freewheeling gamer adapation of the graphic novel series 'Scott Pilgrim' by Canadian cartoonist Bryan Lee O'Malley; Schwartzman also worked on the animated short subject tie-in, 'Scott Pilgrim Vs. The Animation' (2010).

'Big Eyes' (2014 - Tim Burton) : Biopic of artist Margaret Keane.

Need to see ... 'Slackers' (2002), 'Saving Mr. Banks' (2013), 'Listen Up Philp' (2014) ...

Ryan Thomas Gosling was born in London, Ontario in Canada. His father, Thomas Ray Gosling, was a travelling salesman for a paper mill. His mother, Donna (née Wilson), was a secretary. Both of his parents were of part French-Canadian descent, in addition to having German, English, Scottish, and Irish ancestry, and both were Mormons.

'Drive' (2011 - Nicolas Winding Refn) : Minimalistic heist thriller based on the novel 'Drive' (2005) by crime writer James Sallis.

'The Big Short' (2015 - Adam McKay) : Cerebral drama speculating about specific causes behind the financial crisis of 2007–2008, based on the non-fiction book 'The Big Short : Inside The Doomsday Machine' (2010) by financial journalist Michael Lewis.

'La La Land' (2016 - Damien Chazelle) : Picture-book musical that melds Golden Age Hollywood stylings with Fench musical motifs.

'The Nice Guys' (2016 - Shane Black) : Detective mystery centred around a missing persons case that unfolds in Los Angeles, California in 1977.

'Blade Runner 2049' (2017 - Denis Villeneuve) : Pastel-suffused, gloss-neon fantasy sequel to Ridley Scott's influential cyberpunk thriller 'Blade Runner' (1982).

Need to see 'Fracture' (2007), 'First Man' (2018) ...

* Jake Gyllenhaal (born December 19, 1980, Sagittarius (age 40), Los Angeles, California, U.S.) *

Jacob Benjamin Gyllenhaal was born in Los Angeles, California. His mother, Naomi Foner (née Achs), was a screenwriter of Polish and Russian ancestry (la famille née Silbowitz). His father was film director Stephen Gyllenhaal, a poet from Cleveland, Ohio of Swedish and English descent. His older sister Maggie Gyllenhaal is an actress.

'Donnie Darko' (2001 - Richard Kelly) : Post-apocalyptic science-fiction fable in which a high school student fears he's being manipulated by a mysterious intruder.

'Zodiac' (2007 - David Fincher) : Fact-based account of a police investigation into a series of unsolved serial murders, committed by a serial killer known as the "Zodiac Killer", who was active in San Francisco, California in the late 1960's / early 1970's. It's based on the non-fiction book 'Zodiac' (1986) by cartoonist Robert Graysmith.

'Source Code' (2011 - Duncan Jones) : Science-fiction adventure about the virtual search for a bomber.

'End Of Watch' (2012 - David Ayer) : Frank account of the trials and tribulations of day-to-day police work for members of the Los Angeles Police Department working the streets of south L.A.

'Prisoners' (2013 - Denis Villeneuve) : Crime drama about a search for two missing girls in Pennsylvania that leads one desperate man to consider taking the law into his own hands.

'Enemy' (2013 - Denis Villeneuve) : Supernatural mystery about a college professor's interaction with a doppelganger, loosely adapted from the novel 'The Double' (2002) by Portugese author Jose Saramago.

'Nightcrawler' (2014 - Dan Gilroy) : Nocturnal mystery about a freelance journalist's quest for the perfect slice of sensationalism and the lengths he'll go to in order to document it.

'Southpaw' (2015 - Antoine Fuqua) : Sports melodrama about a boxer dealing with grief and loss, both inside and outside the ring.

'Nocturnal Animals' (2016 - Tom Ford) : Surreal mystery about the inner-workings of art and literature in which art starts to imitate life for a gallery owner who finds the line between fantasy and reality becoming irrevocably blurred.

'Life' (2017 - Daniel Espinosa) : Claustrophobic science-fiction horror about a small crew stationed at the International Space Station who believe they might have uncovered evidence of life on Mars.

Need to see ... 'Jarhead' (2005), 'Accidental Love' (2015), 'Velvet Buzzaw' (2018) ...