A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Sydney Cross began with a Toronto talent agency at the tender age of two; when she was two and a half she had her first job - a small walk-on role in the Dustin Hoffman movie, "Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium". Since then, she has appeared in feature films, made-for-television movies, television series, short films, commercials, and both print and internet advertisements. Sydney has appeared in several student films, allowing her to work with many up-and-coming producers and directors. In 2011 she was invited to the Toronto International Film Festival to attend a screening for "Adventures of Owen", which was chosen by the Toronto Film Critics Association as best short film. In addition to performing for the camera she also participates in live productions, and has been a member of the Milton Youth Theatre Productions since 2009. Sydney also received first place honours at the Canadian Model and Talent Convention, beating out forty six other contestants to win the award for best television commercial. Sydney continues to hone her acting skills through attendance at various workshops and private instruction. In the 2011 - 2012 season she was instructed by Michael Caruana of Bongo Productions, and she continues to work on improving her acting skills through the study of role play, improvisation, and scene study.
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.