Kenneth Hughes is an actor

Actor

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, dancer, director

Film director

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 and writer

Writer

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 and has a background in film

Film

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, TV and Stage

Theatre

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 internationally.

He should not be confused with Ken Hughes

Ken Hughes

Ken Hughes was a British film director, writer, and producer.-Personal history:Wife Charlotte Hughes living in LA...

 (the now-deceased director of such movies as Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (film)

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is a 1968 musical film with a script by Roald Dahl and Ken Hughes, and songs by the Sherman Brothers, loosely based on Ian Fleming's novel Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: The Magical Car. It starred Dick Van Dyke as Caractacus Potts and Sally Ann Howes as Truly Scrumptious. The...

).

Performance and Biography

Kenneth Hughes has worked with a wide range of recognized names such as Madonna

Madonna (entertainer)

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, Meryl Streep

Meryl Streep

Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep is an American actress who has worked in theatre, television and film.Streep made her professional stage debut in 1971's The Playboy of Seville, before her screen debut in the television movie The Deadliest Season in 1977. In that same year, she made her film debut with...

, Michael Bay

Michael Bay

Michael Benjamin Bay is an American film director and producer. He is known for directing high-budget action films characterized by their fast edits, stylistic visuals and substantial practical special effects...

, Christopher Columbus

Christopher Columbus

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, Tracey Ullman

Tracey Ullman

Tracey Ullman is a British stage and television actress, comedienne, singer, dancer, screenwriter and author ....

, Julie Taymor

Julie Taymor

Julie Taymor is an American director of theater, opera and film. Taymor's work has received many accolades from critics, and she has earned two Tony Awards out of four nominations, the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design, an Emmy Award and an Academy Award nomination for Original Song...

, Jim Carrey

Jim Carrey

James Eugene "Jim" Carrey is a Canadian-American actor and comedian. He has received two Golden Globe Awards and has also been nominated on four occasions. Carrey began comedy in 1979, performing at Yuk Yuk's in Toronto, Ontario...

, the Bee Gees

Bee Gees

The Bee Gees are a musical group that originally comprised three brothers: Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb. The trio was successful for most of their 40-plus years of recording music, but they had two distinct periods of exceptional success: as a pop act in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and as a...

, Robert Zemeckis

Robert Zemeckis

Robert Lee Zemeckis is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. Zemeckis first came to public attention in the 1980s as the director of the comedic time-travel Back to the Future film series, as well as the Academy Award-winning live-action/animation epic Who Framed Roger Rabbit ,...

, Matthew Ralston, Coen Brothers

Coen Brothers

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, the ISO dance company, the Diavalo Dance Theater, the Rogue Go-Go Dance Company, Zubin Mehta

Zubin Mehta

Zubin Mehta is an Indian conductor of western classical music. He is the Music Director for Life of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.-Biography:...

, Mika Kaurismaki

Mika Kaurismäki

Mika Juhani Kaurismäki is a Finnish film director.He is the elder brother of Aki Kaurismäki, and the father of Maria Kaurismäki who graduated from Tampere School of Art and Media in 2008 with her movie Sideline.Mika Kaurismäki has lived in Brazil since approximately 1992 and has made several...

, Amy Brenneman

Amy Brenneman

Amy Frederica Brenneman is an American actress, perhaps best known for her roles in the television series NYPD Blue, Judging Amy and Private Practice...

, Val Kilmer

Val Kilmer

Val Edward Kilmer is an American actor. Originally a stage actor, Kilmer became popular in the mid-1980s after a string of appearances in comedy films, starting with Top Secret! , then the cult classic Real Genius , as well as blockbuster action films, including a supporting role in Top Gun and a...

 and others. Kenneth has studied and attained scholarships at top Los Angeles studios for both acting and dance. He has worked in theatre, film and toured internationally both dancing and acting. He has also choreographed for commercials, theatre, TV and film. He has attained a cinema degree, equine science degree and law degree. He also lectures on the film festival circuit on making independent films and micro/no budget cinema.

Directed and/or Produced

Kenneth Hughes has written and directed a number of short films as well as his first award winning feature film

Feature film

In the film industry, a feature film is a film production made for initial distribution in theaters and being the main attraction of the screening, rather than a short film screened before it; a full length movie...

: BAD DOG AND SUPERHERO released in 2007.
He directed the short film for internet viewing: THE TAPSTER. He is completing production on a short film called The Donkey Punch Produced by: Anthony Russo Written by: John Hlavin and starring: Jay Karnes

Jay Karnes

Jay Karnes is an American actor, born in Omaha, Nebraska. He attended the University of Kansas . He is well known for his role as L.A.P.D. Det...

and Ann_Russo. He has 3 feature films he has produced currently in post-production and expected to be released in 2010/2011. Einstein's God Model, The Bloody Indulgent and Subprime Children.

External links

• Kenneth Hughes official website