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Character Information
Auspice:	Ithaeur
Tribe:	Storm Lords
City:	Los Angeles, CA
Cunning:	•
Glory:	••
Honor:	•••
Purity
Wisdom	•••••
Player:	Ash Avery
Storyteller:	Seth Ford

Real Name: Ash Avery

Position: Movie Star

Notes: Fame 3, Movie Star

Deed Name: Winter's Voice

Lodge: Lodge of Thunder

Pack: Hollywood Elite

Position: Beta

Age: Believed to be mid 30's

Character Livejournal: <unknown>

Backstory and Personality

Ash Avery is an Iminir Ithaeur, known for his sharp tongue and incisive wit, as well as the fact that he is one of the most high-profile Uratha in modern America. What follows is information from the General Wikipedia on Ash Avery, the actor...

Ash Avery is a American actor, born July 4, 1970 in Chicago, the United States of America.

Background

The son of drama teacher Andrea and insurance broker Ron Avery, Ash grew up in Chicago. From an early age, young Avery loved drama classes, and devoted himself to studying performance arts. He attended drama classes at night school all through high school. He moved to Los Angeles when he turned 18 to study at the Academy of Musical and Dramatic Arts. After graduation, Ash got the lead role in the mildly successful 1987 movie Sorority Party Massacre 3, a low-budget slasher flick, which gave ash his first start in the motion picture industry.

Film career

It was in the Sylvester Stallone vehicle Wanted: Dead (1987) that he finally made his big debut. Cast as a psychotic cold-blooded cowboy named Randall, he made a strong impression, which was confirmed by a major role the following year as the deranged infantry scout (pitted against Harrison Ford) in Stanley Kubricks's infamous film Apocalypse 2 (1989). While the film was a flop, Avery's strong performance launched him into prominence as a dramatic actor.

He went on to be the knight paired with Michelle Pfeiffer in the medieval action flick Fury of the Silver Fangs (1989), the Zombie/Bat creature in Abomination (1991) and the atheistic wise-cracking British Agent in God Can't Save the Queen, so I'll Do It. (1992). He continued to make an impression on audiences, especially in The Eye of the Storm (1994), in which he was the mysterious Hitchhiker intent on murdering C. Thomas Howell's lone motorist and anyone who crossed his path en route out of the hurricane. As his star rose, he won critical acclaim for his brooding depressive performance as the embittered rancher in Thunderstruck (1996), for which he received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

Italian director Ermanno Olmi mined the gentler, more mystic and soulful side of Avery's personality in Shadowworlds (1996), the story of a lost soul who dies of exposure in Montana while attempting to pay a debt of honor to a Native American tribe. Phillip Noyce also attempted to capitalize, with far less success, on Avery's spiritual qualities in the martial arts action adventure Knockin' on Hell's Gate (1997). He returned to drama opposite Joan Chen with Peerless and Beerless (1990), in which he played a former alcoholic champion in a post-apocalyptic world. He and Chen would again work together in two science fictions films -- Alien Necromancer (1999) and 51 Reasons to Leave Nevada (1999) which while not a critical or commercial success, established a strong cult following for Avery.

By the 2000s, Avery was as well known for his humorous appearances in Mastercard commercials as for his screen roles. It seemed that he had increasingly become involved in larger budget films, including Kodos the Conqueror, which was set in a flooded London after global warming, The Last Words of Volokov, another post-apocalyptic story in which he plays a soldier-robot, and recently Wrathful Fire of Damning Vengeance, starring opposite Catherine Zeta-Jones as the lone Priest fighting a town full of Demons.

Recent activities

Outside of his normal philanthropy, in October of 2004, Ash canceled all his pending product endorsement deals and spent 6 months on hiatus from film-making, studying meditation with monks in Tibet as part of his self-proclaimed 'spiritual awakening'. Upon his return, he signed a deal to be the new spokesman for BMW.

Although he did not film any major roles during the next few years, he did capitalize on his cult following by playing "Han Solo" in a short Star Wars fan film Noir Wars. The film was a tremendous success and Ash was greeted by a full-to-capacity crowd at San Diego's ComicCon, a crowd that so adored his turn as "Han turned Private Dick" that they started one of ComiCon's only riots when the panel's time was over before those waiting to ask a question were finished.

In 2006, Ash had a surprising turn of luck when the film Buy Two, Get One Dead was suddenly released. The film, which had been shot nearly 3 years earlier, had been caught in a legal battle between the producers and the other star of the film, Sean Connery (in his last role before his retirement). Avery had even been quoted as saying "I think this one's never going to see the light of day. Which is a damn shame, as it's a great f***ing movie." The battle suddenly resolved at the end of 2005, and the producers lined the film up for a July 4th weekend release in 2006.

To many reviewers' surprise, Ash's comment turned out to be accurate. Buy Two (as the film is often called by its fans) was a story about a father and son assassin team trying to pull off their one, last hit before the father (played by Connery) died of lung cancer. Directed by Martin Scorsese, the film managed to balance hard-nosed action with the crisis of trying to resolve family issues before a loved one's death. Such a film had rarely been done, and nearly every reviewer called it one of their "Top 10" films. Scorsese and Connery each received an Oscar for the film; surprisingly, Ash did not even get nominated.

Many Ash fans believe it was this lack of a nomination that precipitated his often-reported strange behavior in the next couple of years, events that seem to show a star spiraling out of control (much like Lindsey Lohan or others). Ash was praised for his visit to a gay pride event in West Hollywood, but only a few days later was accused of a hate crime and ended up arrested for supposedly attacking other people. That particular case was thrown out when it was discovered that a stalking fan had gotten plastic surgery performed on him to look exactly like Ash Avery and was pretending to be the star while getting drunk and starting fights in bars. However, a pall has continued to hang over his personal life recently, with rumors of him having parties late into the night and hiring inexperienced people to his 'entourage'

In the Spring of 2008, Ash was announced as one of the leads for the upcoming 2010 release of the "WoW" film, but he was fired for not showing up for the first day of shooting. His publicity agent reported that Ash had gotten a very bad flu and had, indeed, informed the producer that he was too sick to shoot, but the legal battles are still continuing.

Ash has announced recently that he intends to do another film starting later this year, but has so far refused to give any idea of what that film is about or where the money is coming from to produce it. "Wait and see," his publicist has quoted Ash as saying. "This film is going to be my Citizen Kane. That much I guarantee."

Although he's dated many of the Hollywood female stars, Ash has never appeared to get serious with any of them and remains unmarried.

Selected filmography

• Sorority Party Massacre (1987 film)
• Wanted: Dead (1987 film)
• Escape from Nij'Leam Island (1987)
• Apocalypse 2 (1989)
• Fury of the Silver Fangs (1989)
• Cowboys and Indian Food (1989)
• Abomination (1991)
• Run, Don't Walk (1992)
• God Can't Save the Queen, so I'll Do It. (1992)
• Home Alone on the Range (1994)
• The Eye of the Storm (1994)
• A Life Less Frightening (1994)
• Thunderstruck (1996)
• Shadowworlds (1996)
• Dimitri's Bloody Vengeance (1996)
• Knockin' on Hell's Gate (1997)
• Peerless and Beerless (1998)
• Alien Necromancer (1999)
• 51 Reasons to Leave Nevada (1999)
• Kodos the Conqueror (2000)
• The Last Words of Volokov (2002)
• Driven to Excess (2002)
• Salem's Backyard (2004)
• Sin City (film) (2005)
• Wrathful Fire of Damning Vengeance (2005)
• Noir Wars (2006)
• Buy Two, Get One Dead (2006)

Personal quotes

• "Look, acting isn't all about education at a school of fine arts. Some skills just come in the blood."

• "'Good guy' or 'bad guy', hero or anti hero; doesn't matter to me, what role I play, just that the paycheck has the right number of Zeros."

• "Dating in Hollywood is like trying to choose a building site on a minefield. Pick the wrong one, and you'll lose your home, your money, and a chunk of your sanity."

Rumors

• - Ash has given blood to the blood god
• - Ash is really Elvis in disguise

OOC information

Player Name: Erik Blair, US2002021327

Location: Los Angeles, CA