Hard Lessons

Tall, strikingly handsome leading man of films and television in the 1980s and 1990s, Denzel Washington was born in 1954 in Mount Vernon, New York. He was the middle child of the 3 children of a Pentecostal minister father and a beautician mother. After graduating from high school, Denzel enrolled at Fordham University intent on a career in journalism...(imdb)

Credits include: Antwone Fisher, Stakeout, One False Move, Larger Than Life and Jimmy Hollywood

Credits include: Collateral, Patch Adams, The Ladykillers, Backdraft and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

Credits include: Stepmom, Head of State, In the Army Now, The Rebound and Eve's Bayou

Credits include: The Thing, My Girl, Risky Business, Encino Man and Multiplicity

Akosua Busia grew up in Ghana, and began her acting career at the age of 16, attending London's Central School of Speech and Drama on scholarship. Her first acting role was as Juliet in an otherwise white cast performing Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet at Oxford University, where her siblings were studying. The daughter of Kofi Abrefa Busia, the ex-prime minister of the Republic of Ghana, Akosua is the daughter of a prince of the royal family of Wenchi, a subgroup of the Ashanti. Akosua

Credits include: Moneyball, Witness, Red Heat, Another 48 Hrs. and The Serpent and the Rainbow

Credits include: The Toy, What's Love Got to Do with It, Big Jake, Lady Sings the Blues and The Great White Hope

Credits include: The Jayne Mansfield Story, Hard Lessons and Take My Life... Please!/Devil's Alphabet/The Library

Credits include: Hard Lessons and Guilty as Charged

Credits include: Hard Lessons and Kandyland

Credits include: Hard Lessons and The Classified Materials Turbulence

Credits include: After MASH and Hurricane - August 17, 1969