A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
تریسی اسپایریداکوس
Birthplace:
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Born:
February 20, 1988
Tracy Spiridakos is a Canadian actress, best known for starring as Detective Hailey Upton in the hit Dick Wolf series "Chicago P.D." for more than 7 seasons. Spiridakos was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, to Greek-born parents. The family moved to the Greek town Skala, near Sparta, when she was four, and returned to Canada when she was nine. She strongly identifies with her Greek heritage and speaks fluent Greek. She graduated from Oak Park High School in Winnipeg in the year 2000. Spiridakos moved to Vancouver in 2007 to pursue acting, and within weeks landed her first television role, a small part on "Supernatural". She continued working in television, and in 2009, won her first starring role in "Majority Rules!". She made her feature film debut in 2011 with "Rise of the Planet of the Apes", and filmed the low-budget thriller, "Kill For Me", with Donal Logue and Katie Cassidy. From 2012-2014, Spiridakos starred as Charlotte "Charlie" Matheson on the NBC post-apocalyptic science fiction series "Revolution". She then guest starred on the critically acclaimed hit series "Bates Motel" before joining the cast of "Chicago P.D" at the end of its fourth season.
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.