Cast (in credits order) complete, awaiting verification. Mel Gibson. ... Nick Marshall. Helen Hunt. ... Darcy Maguire. Marisa Tomei.
Mar 20, 2020 · Bette Midler made a very small (and uncredited) appearance in What Women Want as Dr. J.M. Perkins. Of course, Bette Midler is one of the most legendary entertainers of all time and needs no introduction. But did you know that she is still working?
Cast. Mel Gibson as Nick Marshall: A Chicago advertising executive, who acquires the gift to hear what women are thinking. Helen Hunt as Darcy McGuire: Nick's co-worker who later becomes his love interest. Marisa Tomei as Lola: Nick's former love interest, who works in a coffee shop and is trying to become an actress.
2. Ally McBeal – Ally McBeal. Loosely based on the personal traits of his stunning, neurotic wife, Michelle Pfeiffer (well, ‘allegedly’), David Kelley dreamed up one of the most famous and memorable lawyers of all time – the ditzy, quirky, charming, paranoid (hallucinations anyone?) wisp of a woman, Ally McBeal.
Did you know that Ellie was in What Women Want? Well, she was! She played Lola, Nick's estranged daughter. Ashley Johnson is now one of the biggest names in the voice acting and motion capture industry, and she has lent her voice to countless TV shows and video games.
Comment. What Women Want was released back in 2000 and served as director Nancy Meyers' second directorial output (the first being The Parent Trap in 1998). The movie saw Mel Gibson as Nick Marshall, a man who earns the ability to read women's thoughts after accidentally shocking himself in the bathtub.
10 Mel Gibson. Mel Gibson is being Mel Gibson, AKA one of the most popular yet most controversial people in Hollywood. Gibson directed Hacksaw Ridge back in 2016, earning himself an Academy Award nomination for Best Director. Since 2017 he has been credited in three movies - Daddy's Home 2, Dragged Across Concrete, and The Professor and the Madman. ...
Hunt returned to television after twelve years to star in the Fox drama Shots Fired, which chronicled the police shooting of a teenager. She also plays Nancy Campbell on BBC One's World on Fire, which concluded in November of 2019. However, a second series was recently commissioned by the BBC.
Playing Nick's ex-love interest and current coffee shop worker Lola is Marisa Tomei. Tomei remains very active within the entertainment sphere, starring in big-name movies, TV shows, and theatrical productions. For example, in 2019 she played Serafina Delle Rose in a Broadway production of The Rose Tattoo. But perhaps she's most well known as the modern May Parker, whom she has portrayed in Captain America: Civil War, Spider-Man: Homecoming, Avengers: Endgame, and Spider-Man: Far From Home.
But perhaps she's most well known as the modern May Parker, whom she has portrayed in Captain America: Civil War, Spider-Man: Homecoming, Avengers: Endgame, and Spider-Man: Far From Home.
Playing Nick's boss Dan is Alan Alda, an actor forever known as Hawkeye on the seminal M*A*S*H. Despite being in his mid-80s, Alda is still performing at unbelievable speed. In 2015 he appeared in Spielberg's Bridge of Spies, and in 2019 he played goofy lawyer Bert Spitz in Netflix's acclaimed Marriage Story.
Cameron Diaz was courted to star as its lead. The film was released in 2019 as What Men Want with Taraji P. Henson in the lead role.
What Women Want is a 2000 American romantic fantasy comedy film written by Josh Goldsmith , Cathy Yuspa, and Diane Drake, directed by Nancy Meyers, and starring Mel Gibson and Helen Hunt . The film earned mixed reviews from critics but was a box office success, with a North American domestic gross of $182 million and a worldwide gross ...
The film earned mixed reviews from critics but was a box office success, with a North American domestic gross of $182 million and a worldwide gross of $374 million against a budget of $70 million. A loose remake, What Men Want, was released in 2019, starring Taraji P. Henson and Aldis Hodge .
Nick Marshall, a Chicago advertising executive , was raised by his Las Vegas showgirl mother. Nick is a chauvinist skilled at selling products to men and seducing women. He expects to get a promotion at the advertising firm Sloane Curtis, but his manager Dan instead announces that he is hiring Darcy McGuire to broaden the firm's appeal to women.
Cast. Mel Gibson as Nick Marshall: A Chicago advertising executive who acquires the gift to hear what women are thinking. Helen Hunt as Darcy McGuire: Nick's co-worker who later becomes his love interest. Marisa Tomei as Lola: Nick's once love interest who works in a coffee shop and is trying to become an actress.
A Chinese remake directed by Chen Daming starring Andy Lau and Gong Li was released in 2011. Aga Bai Arrecha! in 2004 is a Marathi film directed by Kedar Shinde from India.
2. Ally McBeal – Ally McBeal. Loosely based on the personal traits of his stunning, neurotic wife, Michelle Pfeiffer (well, ‘allegedly’), David Kelley dreamed up one of the most famous and memorable lawyers of all time – the ditzy, quirky, charming, paranoid (hallucinations anyone?) wisp of a woman, Ally McBeal.
Whilst the wildly popular SATC is firmly focused on sex, ‘Rabbits’, love and other bedroom dramas, who can forget one its favourite characters, Miranda Hobbes, the hard working, fiery haired lawyer who famously quits her job because of her misogynistic boss.
Jessica Pearson – Suits. The Managing Partner of big city law firm, Pearson Specter Litt, Pearson sassily sways around the office commanding respect from all who report to her – she’s a control freak whohas worked hard to build a legal life she’s proud of and she won’t let anyone stand in her way.
Ally McBeal – Ally McBeal. Loosely based on the personal traits of his stunning, neurotic wife, Michelle Pfeiffer (well, ‘allegedly’), David Kelley dreamed up one of the most famous and memorable lawyers of all time – the ditzy, quirky, charming, paranoid (hallucinations anyone?) wisp of a woman, Ally McBeal.
What a Girl Wants. The New York-based teen set off across the pond in order to meet and try to impress her estranged politician father (Colin Firth). The teen comedy, based on a 1955 play called The Reluctant Debutante by William Douglas-Home, hit theaters on March 27, 2003, and earned Bynes a Kids' Choice Award in 2004 for favorite movie actress.
Amanda Bynes had her breakout film performance in What a Girl Wants as Daphne Reynolds, who jumps on a flight to London to find her long-lost father, Lord Henry Dashwood. In the 2000s, Bynes became known for her portrayal of eccentric teenage girls, including Viola, who joins the men’s soccer team in She’s the Man, and the ditzy Penny in Hairspray alongside Zac Efron. However, the pious Marianne in 2010’s Easy A was Bynes’ most recent role. In the years since, Bynes experienced what The Hollywood Reporter called a “ career-ending meltdown ,” following an arrest for drunk driving and an alleged hit-and-run. She’d begun filming for the raunchy Hall Pass in 2010, but was replaced by Alexandra Daddario ( Baywatch ). In 2014, Bynes pursued her interest in fashion by attending the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising in Los Angeles. However, she told Hollyscoop in June 2017 that she was looking to get back into acting on television, so fans might be seeing more of her on the platform where she originally rose to fame with The Amanda Show and All That.
Amanda Bynes as Daphne Reynolds. Amanda Bynes had her breakout film performance in What a Girl Wants as Daphne Reynolds, who jumps on a flight to London to find her long-lost father, Lord Henry Dashwood. In the 2000s, Bynes became known for her portrayal of eccentric teenage girls, including Viola, who joins the men’s soccer team in She’s the Man, ...
The next year, he won both awards for his acclaimed performance as King George VI in The King’s Speech. On top of his own acting career, Firth co-founded Raindog Films in 2012 with executive Ged Doherty. With more than 80 credits under his belt, Firth is adding to the list with the upcoming Mamma Mia!
Colin Firth stepped into the dad role for What a Girl Wants as the high-profile Lord Henry Dashwood, who worries about his political career when he discovers his less-than-debutante-ready daughter. Firth previously starred in several romantic films like the Pride and Prejudice miniseries as Mr. Darcy and the reinterpreted version, Bridget Jones’s Diar y, as Mark Darcy. He's embraced a few quirky roles since his What a Girl Wants days, including the father Mr. Brown on Nanny McPhee and Harry in Mamma Mia!, and he earned his first Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations for A Single Man in 2010. The next year, he won both awards for his acclaimed performance as King George VI in The King’s Speech. On top of his own acting career, Firth co-founded Raindog Films in 2012 with executive Ged Doherty. With more than 80 credits under his belt, Firth is adding to the list with the upcoming Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, Mary Poppins Returns and Kursk .
Eileen Atkins as Jocelyn Dashwood. Eileen Atkins has a knack for portraying the British upper-class, and is in fact a dame herself. In What a Girl Wants, she played Jocelyn Dashwood, the mother of Colin Firth’s character who urges him to get to know his daughter.
Every girl trying to connect with her separated father needs an evil stepmother to stand in her way. Anna Chancellor’s Glynnis Payne is just that — Lord Dashwood’s fiancee and daughter of the prime minister. Just two years after co-starring with Amanda Bynes, Chancellor landed her best-known role as Questular Rontok in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. However, her background lies principally in television, with her first recurring role as Miss Bingley on Pride and Prejudice alongside Colin Firth. She also starred on Fortysomething, Suburban Shootout and The Hour, for which she received a BAFTA television nomination. Chancellor voiced characters for BBC audiobooks and, in 2012, acted in Private Lives in London’s West End. She appears in the television series Trust, which premiered March 25.
In 1886, Lettie Burlingame, a stanch suffragette, started an organization at the University of Michigan called The Equity Club. Originally intended solely for female law students and law alumnae, the organization grew, making it the first professional organization for women lawyers. Burlingame eventually went into private practice and was regarded as a highly skilled lawyer until her death in 1890.
Lyda Burton Conley. In 1910, Lyda Burton Conley became the first Native American female lawyer in America. Her motivations were pure; she taught herself the law to protect her tribe’s cemetery burial land located in Huron Park Indian Cemetery from being sold.
Lemma Barkaloo was the first woman to apply for admission to Columbia University Law School when her application was rejected in 1868. Two other women applied and were also immediately denied entry. George Templeton Strong of Columbia wrote at the time: “Application from three infatuated young women to the law school.
Few lawyers can match the professional debut made by Sarah Weddington. The late 1960’s were not necessarily an inclusive environment for women lawyers, so she had her work cut out for her. Luckily, she became interested in a case that caught her eye and agreed to take it pro bono. Sarah Weddington was only 26 years old when she became the youngest person ever to argue and win a Supreme Court case. You may have heard of the case; the caption was Roe v. Wade.
After earning her law degree from Stanford in 1952 and serving two terms in the Arizona state senate, Sandra Day O’Connor worked her way through the legal system as an attorney and ultimately a judge.
In 1993, Janet Reno became the first female Attorney General of the United States. She went on to serve for both terms of Bill Clinton’s presidency, making her the longest-serving Attorney General in U.S. history.
She served for twenty-four years, during which she established herself as one of the most influential voices on the Court until her retirement in 2006.
American actor and producer Matthew David McConaughey was born in Uvalde, Texas. His mother, Mary Kathleen (McCabe), is a substitute school teacher originally from New Jersey. His father, James Donald McConaughey, was a Mississippi-born gas station owner who ran an oil pipe supply business. He is ...
In 1976, if you had told fourteen-year-old Franciscan seminary student Thomas Cruise Mapother IV that one day in the not too distant future he would be Tom Cruise, one of the top 100 movie stars of all time, he would have probably grinned and told you that his ambition was to join the priesthood. ...
It was after the 1968 Democratic convention and there was a casting call for a film with several roles for the kind of young people who had disrupted the convention. Two recent graduates of Catholic University in Washington DC, went to the audition in New York for Joe (1970). Chris Sarandon, who ...
Denzel Hayes Washington, Jr. was born on December 28, 1954 in Mount Vernon, New York. He is the middle of three children of a beautician mother, Lennis, from Georgia, and a Pentecostal minister father, Denzel Washington, Sr., from Virginia. After graduating from high school, Denzel enrolled at ...
Matthew Paige Damon was born on October 8, 1970, in Boston, Massachusetts, to Kent Damon, a stockbroker, realtor and tax preparer, and Nancy Carlsson-Paige, an early childhood education professor at Lesley University. Matt has an older brother, Kyle, a sculptor. His father was of English and ...
Eldred Gregory Peck was born on April 5, 1916 in La Jolla, California, to Bernice Mary (Ayres) and Gregory Pearl Peck, a chemist and druggist in San Diego. He had Irish (from his paternal grandmother), English, and some German, ancestry. His parents divorced when he was five years old. An only ...
Thomas Jeffrey Hanks was born in Concord, California, to Janet Marylyn (Frager), a hospital worker, and Amos Mefford Hanks, an itinerant cook. His mother's family, originally surnamed "Fraga", was entirely Portuguese, while his father was of mostly English ancestry. Tom grew up in what he has ...
The primary one, however, is Arnie Becker. Becker was the lead divorce attorney and partner for McKenzie, Brackman, Chaney, and Kuzak. As a defense attorney, he was the best; but his love life was in as much of a shambles as the those of his clients.
Ben Matlock, “Matlock”. A gentlemanly Southern lawyer , Matlock may have moved slow and was tight with a buck, but he always got his man or woman. The homespun philosophy that you received every episode was a bonus as was the ability to watch Andy Griffith continue to ply his trade. 6. Jackie Chiles, “Seinfeld”.
When it comes to television attorney, there are well-respected attorneys and there is Perry Mason. Mason is the attorney that all other small-screen attorneys wish they could be and, even more than 50 years since the original series went off the air, remains that standard for all other TV courtroom dramas.
Andy Gillin received his Bachelor’s Degree from the University of California at Berkeley and his law degree from the University of Chicago. He is the managing partner of GJEL Accident Attorneys and has written and lectured in the field of plaintiffs’ personal injury law for numerous organizations. Andy is a highly recognized wrongful death lawyer in California.
Some of the names that I bandied about to consider on this list included: 1 Alexandra Cabot from “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,” 2 Bobby Donnell from “The Practice,” 3 Charles W. Kingfield Jr. from “The Paper Chase, 4 ” Harmon Rabb from “JAG, 5 ” Lawrence Preston from “The Defender,” 6 Oliver Babish from “The West Wing 7 Patty Hewes from “Damages,” 8 Sandy Cohen from “The O.C.,” 9 Will Gardner from “The Good Wife,” 10 Hyper-Chicken from “Futurama.”
Voiced by the late, great Phil Hartman, Hutz was your typical ambulance-chasing attorney whom every town has and most tend to loathe. We learn that Hutz should not be trusted, considering his practice is located in a shopping mall under the name I Can't Believe It's a Law Firm!" Due to their modest income, Hutz is the preferred lawyer of choice for the Simpsons.
We were first introduced to Saul (Bob Odenkirk) during "Breaking Bad," and thrilled when he got his own stage to shine. Goodman is not really a good lawyer but more of a scam artist who still has a soft spot for criminals and pushes the edge of the law in both his practice and life. Goodman is fun to watch mostly because Odenkirk seems made for this part.
Beckett was the brilliant lawyer living with AIDS, who sues the firm that recently promoted him and then fired him for what he believed was a wrongful dismissal because he was a homosexual dealing with a controversial incurable disease.
Brigance (Matthew McConaughey) endures plenty (threats, burning crosses and his house set on fire) while defending a black man from a murder charge in front of an all-white jury, Yet Brigance stands tall throughout and is rewarded in the end. 5 of 25.
Jackie Chiles ("Seinfeld") A shyster of an attorney, Chiles (Phil Morris) represented Kramer in such cases as going after a coffee company, Sue Ellen Mischke, the Oh Henry! candy bar heiress, and the tobacco companies.
Atticus Finch ("To Kill a Mockingbird") One of the most famous fictional attorneys spanning literature, stage and screen, Finch (most notably and successfully portrayed by Gregory Peck) is there for the little man — and woman. He's a champion of civil justice in a time when such thinking was unacceptable in most parts of the country, ...
Josh Charles was stellar in the role of Gardner, a shrewd lawyer and frequent object of Alicia Florrick's affection — for better or worse. Gardner is good at his job but also has his issues, usually with women. His complex relationship with Alicia can be frustrating and entertaining at the same time.