A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Walid Amini
Birthplace:
New York City, New York
Leo Solomon is an award-winning actor with a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree in acting & theater performance from the Actors Studio Drama School in New York and is a Finalist to become a Lifetime member at the world renowned The Actors Studio where he studies with Academy Award winner Estelle Parsons; a former student and protege of legendary acting teacher and founder of the Method Acting - Lee Strasberg. Leo is conversational in Dari/Farsi, Hindi, Spanish, and French. Leo and his seven brothers grew up in Minnesota and all attended the University of Minnesota, graduating with 18 degrees between them, ranging from PHDs to JDs, MDs and MBAs. Leo is also passionate about playing classical piano. Recognized notably for his recurring role as Rahim on Veep (HBO), his TV credits include Homeland, Blue Bloods, NCIS, Lie to Me and he's won several awards in various feature films under the Best Lead Actor category. Leo's recent performances on Broadway includes performing a reading of Playing Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain by award winning writer Jamil Jan Kochai at The Symphony Space, and Off-Broadway in Sex Work Sex Play by Caytha Jentis.
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.