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Connecting Brigitte Nielsen and Matthew Rhys
Brigitte Nielsen
Danish actress, model and singer
She released her debut album '' Every Body Tells a Story'' in that year and recorded a duet with Austrian pop star Falco, Giorgio Moroder's penned "Body Next to Body" which went to No. 22 in Germany and No. 6 in Austria.
Giorgio Moroder
Italian record producer (born 1940)
It features collaborations with Kylie Minogue, Britney Spears, Sia, Charli XCX, Mikky Ekko, Foxes and Matthew Koma, among others.
Britney Spears
In December 1992, she was cast in ''The Mickey Mouse Club'' alongside Christina Aguilera, Justin Timberlake, Ryan Gosling, and Keri Russell.
Brigitte Nielsen
Danish actress, model and singer
Nielsen is also known for her marriage to Sylvester Stallone, with whom she starred in the 1986 film '' Cobra''. She played a villain in '' Beverly Hills Cop II'' (1987) and starred as the Black Witch in the 1990s Italian film series '' Fantaghirò.'' She later built a career starring in B-movies, hosting TV shows, and appearing on reality shows.
That same year, she married Sylvester Stallone; the couple acted in two films together (''Rocky IV'' and ''Cobra'') before divorcing in 1987.
Nielsen became engaged to actor Sylvester Stallone during the production of '' Rocky IV.'' They married after the release of the film, on December 15, 1985, at the Beverly Hills, California home of producer Irwin Winkler.
Sylvester Stallone
Joining him in the film were fellow action stars Jason Statham, Jet Li, and Dolph Lundgren, as well as Terry Crews, Mickey Rourke, Randy Couture, Eric Roberts, and Stone Cold Steve Austin, and cameos by fellow '80s action icons Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
For a scene in ''Rocky IV'', he told Dolph Lundgren, "Punch me as hard as you can in the chest." He later said, "Next thing I know, I was in intensive care at St. John's Hospital for four days. It's stupid!" While filming a fight scene with Steve Austin for '' The Expendables'', he broke his neck, which required the insertion of a metal plate.
Dolph Lundgren
Swedish-American actor and martial artist
In 1987, Lundgren released on home media a workout video called ''Maximum Potential,'' and got his first lead role as He-Man in '' Masters of the Universe'', based on the popular children's toyline and cartoon. He starred alongside Frank Langella, Meg Foster, Chelsea Field, Billy Barty and Courteney Cox.
Frank Langella
American actor (born 1938)
In 2015, Langella joined the cast of FX's critically praised drama '' The Americans'' with Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys.
Brigitte Nielsen
Danish actress, model and singer
She is the daughter of Hanne, a librarian, and Svend Nielsen, an engineer, and the ex-sister-in-law of film director Nicolas Winding Refn.
Nicolas Winding Refn
He wrote and directed ''Bronson'' (2008), which starred Tom Hardy as the title character, the U.K. prisoner Charles Bronson, noted for mental illness, violence and art.
In 2009, Refn expressed high interest in developing a film biopic of notoriously polemic and controversial English occultist, Aleister Crowley, with Bronson star, Tom Hardy, as Crowley.
Tom Hardy
Hardy played a Royal Air Forcefighter pilot in Christopher Nolan's action-thriller '' Dunkirk'' (2017), based on the British military evacuation of the French port of Dunkirk in 1940 during the Second World War. He appeared alongside Mark Rylance, Kenneth Branagh, Cillian Murphy and Harry Styles.
Cillian Murphy
Irish actor
Murphy made a brief re-appearance as the Scarecrow in Nolan's ''The Dark Knight'' (2008), the sequel to ''Batman Begins'', before starring in '' The Edge of Love''—about a love quadrangle involving the poet Dylan Thomas—with Keira Knightley, Sienna Miller and Matthew Rhys.
Sean Penn
In 2004, Penn played Samuel Bicke, a character based on Samuel Byck, who in 1974 attempted and failed to assassinate President Richard Nixon, in ''The Assassination of Richard Nixon'' (2004).
Richard Nixon
In 1971, excerpts from the "Pentagon Papers", which had been leaked by Daniel Ellsberg, were published by '' The New York Times'' and '' The Washington Post''.
