A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Icelandic-American actor Alyssa Thordarson grew up in the American Midwest and studied acting at The Lee Strasberg Institute in New York City and at Columbia College Chicago. TV credits include a top-of-show guest star on Chicago Med's 100th episode on NBC and appearances on Empire on Fox and Showtime's The Chi. She has trained and performed extensively in Shakespeare and other classic texts, and works in commercials, TV, film, and theatre.
Director:
2023 Paper Planes
2024 Chronic
Producer:
2023 Paper Planes
2024 Chronic
2024 Handle with Care
Writer:
2022 After (A Love Story)
2023 Paper Planes
2024 Chronic
2024 Handle with Care
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.