Post by Haley Summers on May 14, 2008 4:06:50 GMT -6
[/b][/size]He's replacing Doug
Valkyrie Academy
About The Roleplayer:
Name: Anna
Age: 17
Gender: female
Years Roleplaying: 346543234
Some Basic Interests: Yummy men and women
About The Character
Name:
William Glenn Hartman
Gender:
Male
Age:
20
Grade:
Part time freshman in college
Major:
Undeclared, but looking into US History
Minor:
film studies
Occupation:
Actor/Movie Star
Originated From:
Brooklyn, New York
Parents:
Ellen Hartman - deceased - birthmother
George Parker - 50 - birthfather
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Mitch and Sarah Collins - foster parents #1
Dan Cleaver - foster parent #2
and so on and forth...
Hanson and Ellie Farber - foster parents #6
a few more...
Maggie Marsters - foster parent #10
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Linda Howell - 34 - Agent, bosses him around as though a mother but less loving
Siblings:
Bailey Mitchell - 16 - Half Sister
Adrian Mitchell - 18 - Half Brother
Jenny Mitchell - 14 - Half Sister
Hannah Parker - 2 - Half Sister
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Eric Faden - 16 - Ex-Foster Brother
Portrayed By:
Joshua Jackson
Picture:
Appearance:
Now, Will's look changes depending on the role he's in. For instance when he was in the movie Betrayed he was a blonde for quite some time, and yes it was supposed to look unnatural. But, offset and when his hair doesn't have to be a specific way, his look is... very un-movie starish. He is a really down to earth guy and his personal appearance definitely reflects that calmness in his personality. He has this very casual college boy thing going look going for him. A lot of jeans and vintage t-shirts. He dresses up when the occasion suits. He doesn't dislike dressing up at all. In fact he loves it, lookin' sharp for those occasions, he just doesn't wear a tux to a place that only requires a suit not does he wear a suit to a place that only requires jeans. He also is not the type of celebrity who buys their jeans and t-shirts at famous boutiques that charge $200 for a pair of jeans, he grew up on the streets, he shops at Target people. 3 t-shirts for five bucks. Can't get a better deal.
Now as for this movie star's mug, he has been blessed. He has been compared to men like George Clooney and Ewan McGregor. Will has naturally dark brown hair and even darker eye brows. Will has these eyes. Gorgeous crystal blue eyes. Soft, non intrusive. Very sexy, he was complimented on his eyes when he was young kid in school productions even. He has a rounded jaw which give him a very boy-ish grin, his cheeks rising on both sides in a very cute smile. He definitely has a versatile face. He seems to age with his beard. He can look mid-thirties when his beard is full, mid twenties with stubble and late teens when he's cleanly shaven. This of course is a plus in his line of work. He tends to like a bit of stubble on a day to day basis, mainly because he doesn't like shaving each morning and thinks a full grown beard makes his face look fat. A lot of directors and movie producers love this quality, because the fact that this picture and this picture were taken in the same year, is pretty astounding.
Will has a decent build. He's not over muscled at all, not to say he doesn't look good with his shirt off. He's got a toned firm build. More muscle man than a swimmers build but far less than a weight lifters body. He weighs about 167 pounds and is about 6'1" in height. He has a scar on his left side, just below his ribs from a beating he took from Hanson Farber, one of his very drunk foster parents although he tells the public it was from a stunt gone wrong on the set of one of his movies.
Personality:
William Hartman is a very calm person, very down to Earth and kind of just lets things flow. He's never one you see stressed and over worked. He lived his childhood nervous and scared. Acting saved him from that, the theatre... Since than he has been trying very hard to live his life in a way that kept him calm and happy. Part of remaining calm is being understanding to those who do things that would normally upset you. He does get embarrassed when a girl asks him to marry him as a hello but he understands he asked for it when he accepted a role directed by a main stream director. Besides he loves his work so he is accepting of it. He is not one for confrontation. He acts out some major drama on screen, he doesn't need it in his real life.
Although he is very easy going, and is hard to anger, when he does get angry it is hard to control. He doesn't know where to stop once he gets started. He pushes anger deep down so when it comes out it comes out in the bucket loads. He can be rather frightening. It is a very rare moment though. It's like he's backed into a corner, and he turns in a caged animal and then he comes to and looks at what he said or did and he'll feel so guilty for everything. He will apologize with all his heart but really what he needs to do is start telling people when they bother him so that when some one goes too far, he doesn't snap. It's not fair to him, or them.
What would go along with him beginning to feel more would probably be him taking a stand in his own life. He had to grow up fast in the foster care system. As a child there was always to control or too much control in his life. From one foster home he would be neglected and have to take care of himself, including giving the bullies at school black eyes. But then in other homes if he put one foot out of line a bombardment of discipline would find it's way too him. When he got his first agent, the stable structure of her leadership gave was attractive so he latched on but he has latched on too tight. He lets his agent run his life, even let her talk him into fake dating a model for appearances. Point being, he doesn't like it but most of the time when his agent says Jump. he says how high?
As easy going as Will is, he doesn't really know how to let loose and have fun. As a child he was struggling to survive, no time for fun. And then acting, that was fun for him, still is but it is also his work. He can't remember the last time he went snow boarding or rollerblading or something else you do for the sake of having fun. He has been snowboarding and rollerblading for movies. He has done a lot for movies. But not for fun, no never for fun. It'll be a lessen he needs to learn.
Flattering. Will loves to flatter people. He hates seeing people doubt themselves when they shouldn't be. Now if a person has an inflated ego he won't make it any bigger. But lets say a girl truly thinks she's hideous, he will be the first telling her she's beautiful. He is not an arrogant bastard as many people see movie stars being. Quite the opposite. You know, he's a celebrity that does charity work because he cares and because now that he's a multi-millionaire and a public image he has the resources to really help some people out. Some of his main causes being the foster care system, public health care, and the poverty in some parts of Africa. He helps however he can. Plus the only magazine article that mentions him, out of the hundreds of them, he only put one on his wall. He was on the cover of September 2006 issue of National Geographic. His picture was on the cover and a few on the inside but mainly the article was about the cause and it mentions his donated time and money. Charity is the one thing his agent can't sway him on. He gives all he wants not just the minimum to look like he cares, like his agent wants.
Despite having millions of fans and a bunch of people doing their best to be in his life, he is a very lonely guy. He does love his work and he likes being a celebrity, he has fun at photoshoots and is always very personable with the fans. He is not one of those annoying celebrities always crying oh woe is me. He has fun with the limelight but that doesn't mean things like marriage proposals from strangers don't get old. And the thing is, it's hard to let yourself get close to someone because you never know if it's for the fame and attention or if it's for you. So he just pushes people away when they get to close. He'll hang out and chill with people but at the end of the day he goes home (where ever home is for the night) alone and he wakes up alone. He is alone, even when people are bustling all around him.
Likes:
- Coffee and Tea of all sorts
- Fruit Smoothies
- Most types of blended beverages
- Cameras
- Photography
- Art of all sorts
- Acting
- Charity
- People who act like he's a human
- Talk Show Appearances, says they're a lot of fun
- Vintage T-shirts and jeans
- Green Eyes
- The Show House MD
- The Band Three Dog Night
- Old war movies
- History
Dislikes:
- Making an idiot of himself
- Dark Chocolate
- V8 Juice
- Apple Juice
- Being photographed through the windows of his house
- Celebrities who take advantage of the girls that idolize them
- Celebrities who treat non-celebrities like peasants
- Drawing, he loves to look but hates to take part because he's really bad
- Selfishness
- People treating him like he's a product
- His agent and publicity people's constant control,
- bathroom humor
- Show's like Flavor of Love, and I Love New York
- The Band Panic At The Disco
- Movies about nothing that aren't even funny, like Epic Movie and Date Movie
- Math
Flaws:
- Lets his agent run his life
- Has a hard time trusting new people
- Ashamed of his past
- Has a weakness to alcohol
- Can have some anger issues
- Can be too calm, forget about the nonsensical fun life has to offer
Secrets:
- His being violent as a young child
- The scar on his side isn't from an on-set accident, but from his old foster father Hanson Farber
Film History:
(all made up films for a made up actor)
Underwater(2006)
The Peace Keeper(2003)
John Martin's Pet (2004)
Not Here(2005)
The Federalist(2006)
Flying High(2007- in production)
History:
Ellen Hartman was born in a small town in Kansas believe it or not. She was born into a family with one husband, one wife and one son. It was picture perfect but if we learn anything in life it's that appearances usually lie. While growing up in this picture perfect family, in the picture perfect house in the picture perfect town, some not so perfect relations were forming when a bad boy named Dan started attending ellen's high school. Gorgeous and dangerous the boy had asked ellen out and she had accepted. But when his hands kept trying to go to far for her liking and when she tried to get away he forced her back down and raped her. She tried to tell her family and the police but no one believed her. Things like that don't happen. Only her older brother William seemed to care. She was ashamed and scared and she kept seeing him. She did everything this boy said, sex, drink and eventually drugs. Soon Dan was gone and she was too far ruined to come back. She dropped out of high school and got a job as a bartender. Drug addicted or not, she was still beautiful and good for the horny male customers to look at as they drank away the memories of the wife they had back home.
George Parker was an Investment Banker in Noosa heads, Queensland, Australia. He was wealthy and married. He was also on business in America, New York city to be specific. He wasn't happily married either. And most of that was his fault. And this gorgeous flirtatious bartender was another chance to do the dirty deed with someone other than his wife. Now Ellen was broken, but she tried her best not to sleep around, even with the men constantly around her. She had been focusing on getting her life together while maintaining the drug addiction. She would do a line of cocaine here, a shot of heroin there. Go to work, go home. Men weren't a big issue for her. But this charming man with an Australian accent, hitting on a drunk version of herself was too much to pass up. So when she found out she was pregnant she knew George Parker was the father. But she didn't call him. She didn't look him up to tell him. She gave birth and gave the kid to an orphanage when the baby by was 3 weeks old. His name? William Glenn Hartman. She named him William after her older brother, the only one to believe her, unknowing to the fact that her baby boy would make her brother's name famous.
William Glenn Hartman grew up his first three years in a foster home that was so crowded, it was basically an old fashioned orphanage before he was placed in a real foster care situation with Mitch and Sarah Collins. He really doesn't remember them at all but as a narrater of his story I will tell you, never has a pair of foster parents more adored a child. They say a person's over all disposition is formed in their first five years of life. In his case, this makes all the sense in the world. These are the people responsible for him being a good guy over all. It certainly wasn't most of the foster parents who cam after them. When he was five years old he was placed with Dan Cleaver. Dan was the man who took in foster kids for that five hundred dollar check that came in each month. He was a drunk and he left small five year old Will on his own most of the time.
Will attended a local elementary school. Bad neighborhood, bad funding, a lot of crime and a lot of bullies. Most of the kids at the school were from broken homes and absolutely none of them were wealthy. It was a racially diverse school, so when kids can't choose from wealth or race, they simply chose the kids who's weirdest. Will kinda fit that description. He was always in the corner reading, he was quiet and took no interest in socializing much. He did have friends, usually other quieter smart kids. They were the group that got picked on, but when threatened, young Will would fit back and he was strong for a kid. He could take a punch without crying. This boy got into a fist fight a week, whether it was defending himself or one of his little friends. And then he was sent home to one of various different foster homes around the neighborhood he was sent to.
Hanson and Ellie Farber, foster parents number six. Will was placed with them when he was about 10 years old. Mr. Hanson Farber was not what you would call stable. He was a drunkard and he beat rather heavily on Miss Ellie Farber who then took out her violent frustrations on young William. When Will threatened to tell Hanson Farber took it onto himself to teach the boy a lessen. That lessen is what gave Will that scar on his side, below his rib. He was taught that if you go against Mr. Farber not only will you get a busted lip and a black eye, but he'll through you across the room, where Will fell into the fireplace tools. You know those stands next the fire place that hold a small broom, dust pan, a pick used for tending the fires? He fell right into that. Mr. Farber saw the pick and whipped it at the boys torso causing his side to be cut deeply and causing that scare that is still softly visible even though professionals have tried to make it disappear. After that Will did as he was told and stayed out of their way as much as possible.
And as much as this was the worst time of his life, he also says it was the best because, scared age 11 William, still living with the Farber's, found his way to the auditorium one night after he talked back to his foster dad. He had ran as soon as he had, knowing a sound lashing was coming his way. The stage was beautiful and kind of hypnotizing to young boy. And then his real life began. Off he went. He auditioned for the first role he could find. He got it. A small school production of the Importance of Being Earnest, a more kiddie version obviously. He kept performing and kept acting as much as he could, even after he was finally transfered to a new foster home. It was important moment when a 13 year old William Hartman got a job as a permanent cast member at a ensemble theatre in New York. Not a broadway theatre but a more indie, still very reputable. The kid was on fire and he was as happy as ever. He hardly cared about his home life any more. He just wanted to live on the stage. A lot of directors liked him because he had the ability to work hard and not complain. In fact, the young 14 year old boy had a reputation in the Theatre world as being a joy to work with. Always comes to rehearsal happy and ready to work.
Perhaps it was because he was getting away from whatever issues there were at home, but he was basically living for himself. He was even earning enough he and this other stage performer Charles Jacobs who was an 19 year old on broadway, could easily share an apartment but he was still a child of the state. So when he was fifteen years old and living with Maggie Marsters, his 10th and last foster parent, he petitioned for emancipation from the state, which was granted easily. Maggie was a sweet woman, kind and caring, but who's to say he'd be so lucky next time? About a month after the emancipation, and a week after his first performance on a Broadway stage, Linda Howell caught up with him. She took him on as a client and was his first and so far only agent.
At first, getting on screen was a bunch of failure. He auditioned and auditioned for multiple TV roles and was turned down on all of them. He kept busy though. He was cast all over the New York stage, even toured with the musical Wicked where he played Fiero. Then, one night, Linda got a call from someone they never expected to be calling. M. Night Shyamalan who happened to see him in a the Laramie Project on an off-broadway production and happened to be impressed and very desiring to have Will play a specific role in one of his film. It was incredible from stage work and TV rejection to the big screen. He accepted it of course and off to Hollywood he flew. From there on he was offered and auditioned for role after role. He quickly rose to fame and has been one of Hollywood's A-listers for the past three years. He won multiple award. He was nominated for four kids choice awards and won two. And yes he loves that orange blimp to death. He has been nominated for three screen actors guild awards and also won two. And the biggest honor he could imagine, he was nominated for 2 academy awards when he 18. He was nominated for three when he was nineteen and then actually won one for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his performance in The Federalist((made up film for a made up world and actor)). He has also been titled one of the world's 50 sexiest men and is considered top 10 in the U.S.A. which he finds kind of entertaining.
He is definitely a star. As he told Letterman when he did an interview Sept 2006 it's crazy how fast it all happens. It's a rush but he's just doing his best to enjoy the ride. He now even has the ability to pick and choose between offers and whenever he just can't find anything that is of good quality, he goes back to the stage. He's always very open about his love for the work, but is very quiet about his private life. He's not pulling fake stunts or anything for more attention. He has all the attention he wants. It's pretty obvious to anyone who follows his work that, although he's not complaining, he is in this career for the love of the movie making and performance. He loves to act, anyone can see that. And no one can say he does charity for the publicity either because he doesn't just donate his money, he donates his time. Now that he has reached this level of comfyness though, he decided to do something he had always wanted to. Find his real family. So he hired a team of private investigators to find them. And find out what happened they did.
He soon learned that his mother died five years after she left him of a drug overdose, he also learned of her family and soon learned he was named after his uncle, but he still couldn't know the significance for he was dead to, car accident a few years prior. But according to the PI's, his father was still alive. A divorce, remarried. Made since because he had to have cheated to make Will. But apparently he had three kids with his first wife and another with his second, meaning William had siblings. Will contacted his father who was living in Valkyrie, California, near his first three kids, but apparently they lived with their mother. He flew to Valkyrie to meet his father for the first time. After having dinner with him an his younger half sibling, he went back to Hollywood in order to get his schedule set. He wanted to live in Valkyrie for a bit. Get a few classes in. He made all the necessary preparations, rented out a place and enrolled in the University, much to his agents distaste. He had asked his birth father not to say anything about him until he could actually meet the kids. Which he is scheduled to do right after he lands back in Valkyrie. George Parker did organize a dinner for all of them which... oops he's running a few minutes late for.((first thread will be meeting the mitchells))
Living Situation:
Valks, he'll be living in his own High end condo
For The Valkyrie Academy Admin:[/b][/size]
Read the Rules?: hell I helped write one of them so yeah I've read them a good number of times
Name One You Liked: one charrie per account
What Makes Your Character Different Fromt he Rest?: Um movie star? talented down to earth oscar winning movie star
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