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You will find on these pages astrological charts of thousands of celebrities with Fortune in Taurus. Just click on the celebrities of your choice to get their horoscope, excerpts of astrological portrait, natal chart, positions of planets and astrological houses, biography, and photo. in ![]() Add to favourites (10 fans)Biography of Ali MacGraw
Alice MacGraw (born April 1, 1938 in Pound Ridge, Westchester County, New York) is an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe-winning American model and actress. Born to an Irish-American father, whom she recently described as "violent" (New York magazine, April 3, 2006, pp. 69-70), and a Jewish mother, she has one sibling, a brother. An alumna of Wellesley College, she began working in 1960 as a photographic assistant at Harper's Bazaar, as an assistant to the legendary fashion maven, Diana Vreeland, at Vogue, and as a fashion model, and as a photographer's stylist. During this time, she was married to banker Robin Hoen. She gained notice in Goodbye, Columbus, but real stardom came in 1970 with Love Story, for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. MacGraw's keen... Add to favourites (26 fans)Biography of Yul Brynner
Yul Brynner (Russian: Юлий Борисович Бринер, Julij Borisovič Briner; July 11, 1920 – October 10, 1985) was a Russian-born actor of stage and film. He was best known for his portrayal of Mongkut, king of Siam, in the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The King and I on both stage and screen, as well as Rameses II in the 1956 Cecil B. DeMille film The Ten Commandments and Chris Adams in The Magnificent Seven. Brynner was noted for his deep, rich voice and for his shaven head, which he maintained as a personal trademark after adopting it for his role in The King and I. He was also a photographer and the author of two books. Early life Yul Brynner was born Yuliy Borisovich ... Add to favourites (21 fans)Biography of Boy George
George Alan O'Dowd, better known as Boy George (born June 14, 1961 in Eltham) is a pop singer-songwriter. George grew up in a large, working-class Irish family, which originated in Thurles, in Co. Tipperary. O'Dowd gained fame with his group Culture Club during the 1980s. His music is often classified as blue-eyed soul, since he was heavily influenced by Rhythm and Blues and reggae. Early recordings with Culture Club showed that O'Dowd's vocals had an emotional quality which was reminiscent of American soul music of the 1960s and 1970s. His later solo work has also touched on glam rock influences and was particularly influenced by David Bowie and Iggy Pop. Boy George is also known for his flamboyant and androgynous appearance back in the 80s and early 90s. Personal life Drug u... Add to favourites (29 fans)Biography of Glenn Gould
Glenn Herbert Gould (birth name "Glenn Herbert Gold") (September 25, 1932 – October 4, 1982) was a Canadian pianist, noted especially for his recordings of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. He gave up concert performances in 1964, dedicating himself to the recording studio for the rest of his career, and performances for television and radio. Life Glenn Gould was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on September 25, 1932, to Russell Herbert ("Bert") Gould and Florence ("Flora") Emma Greig Gould, Presbyterians of Scottish extraction. (Greig is the original Scottish spelling of this name, unlike the Norwegian variant Grieg.) His mother's grandfather was a cousin of Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg. Gould's first piano teacher was his mother. From the age of ten he began attending the ... Biography of Ryan O'Neal
Ryan O'Neal (born Patrick Ryan O'Neal on April 20, 1941 in Los Angeles, California (birth time source: Robert Paige, Gauquelin, Astrodatabank)) is an Oscar-nominated American actor. Early life Born in Los Angeles, California to Irish-American Hollywood movie screenwriter Charles O'Neal and actress Patricia Callaghan, O'Neal first became famous on the soap opera Peyton Place. Hollywood career His role in Love Story gained him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. Further starring roles have been in Paper Moon (co-starring his daughter, Oscar-winner Tatum O'Neal), the Stanley Kubrick directed Barry Lyndon, and the Love Story sequel, Oliver's Story. O'Neal starred in a series of films directed by Peter Bogdanovich and was the second highest grossing movie star in 1972. How... Add to favourites (24 fans)Biography of Yvan Attal
Yvan Attal (born January 4, 1965) is a Israeli Born-French actor and director. Born in Tel-Aviv, Israel to French-Algerian Jewish parents, he grew up in the Paris suburbs. His acting debut was in Éric Rochant's Un monde sans pitié (1989), which earned him a César Award for Most Promising Actor. His first feature film as director was Ma femme est une actrice (2001), which co-starred Charlotte Gainsbourg, Attal's real-life wife. They have two children: Ben and Alice. He also acted in The Interpreter. He has also dubbed the voice of Tom Cruise in the French versions of Eyes Wide Shut (1999), Mission: Impossible II (2000) and Vanilla Sky (2001).... Add to favourites (17 fans)Biography of Roberto Benigni
Roberto Remigio Benigni (born October 27, 1952) is an Academy Award-winning Italian film and television actor, writer and director. Early years Benigni was born in Misericordia, a frazione of Castiglion Fiorentino, province of Arezzo (Tuscany) and raised in Manciano. In 1958 Roberto's family moved to Vergaio, near Prato. When he was fourteen he joined the circus, where he learned some gymnastics and pantomime. His first experiences as a theatre actor began in 1972, in Prato. In the autumn of the same year he moved to Rome where he took part in some experimental theatre spectacles, some of which he also directed. In 1975 Benigni met his first theatrical success with Cioni Mario di Gaspare fu Giulia, written by Giuseppe Bertolucci. Benigni became famous in Italy in the 1970s for a ... Add to favourites (15 fans)Biography of Guillaume Apollinaire
Guillaume Apollinaire (August 26, 1880 – November 9, 1918) was a French poet, writer, and art critic born in Italy to a Polish mother. Among the foremost poets of the early 20th century, he is credited with coining the word surrealism and writing one of the earliest works described as surrealist, the play Les Mamelles de Tirésias (1917). Two years after being wounded in World War I, he died at 38 of the Spanish flu during a pandemic. Life Born Wilhelm Albert Vladimir Apollinaris Kostrowitzky / Wąż-Kostrowicki in Rome, Italy, and raised speaking French, among other languages, he emigrated to France and adopted the name Guillaume Apollinaire. His mother, born Angelica Kostrowicka, was a Polish noblewoman born near Nowogródek (now in Belarus). His father is unknown but may have ... Biography of Yuri Gagarin
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (Russian: Ю́рий Алексе́евич Гага́рин, Yuriy Alekseyevich Gagarin IPA: ; 9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968), Hero of the Soviet Union, was a Soviet cosmonaut. On 12 April 1961, he became the first man in space and the first human to orbit the Earth. He also received many medals from his home country, for his first tour in space. Early life Yuri Gagarin was born in a village of Klushino near Gzhatsk (now in Smolensk Oblast), Russia, on 9 March 1934 and was partly Armenian. The adjacent town of Gzhatsk was renamed Gagarin in 1968 in his honor. His parents worked on a collective farm. His father, Peter Eyruero Gagarin, and mother ... Add to favourites (15 fans)Biography of Christian Dior
Christian Dior (January 21, 1905 – October 23, 1957), was an influential French fashion designer. He was born in Granville, Manche, Normandy, France. Dior boutiques can be found in numerous cities around the country with their main flagship stores in New York, Beverly Hills, Waikiki, Houston, Short Hills, New Jersey, Boston, and San Francisco. Early life Under his parents' wishes he attended his parents Ecole des Sciences Politiques from 1920 to 1925. The family had hopes he would become a diplomat, but Dior only wished to be involved in the arts. After leaving school he received money from his father so that in 1928 he could open a small art gallery in Darfur. Under his father's compromise for the money, the family name did not appear on the gallery. The walls were covered... Add to favourites (11 fans)Biography of Henri Salvador
Henri Salvador (born July 18, 1917, died February 13, 2008) was a French singer. His father, Clovis, and his mother, Antonine Paterne, daughter of a native Indian from the Caribbean, were both from Guadeloupe, France. Born in Cayenne, French Guiana, his musical career began as a guitarist accompanying other singers. He had learned the guitar by imitating Django Reinhardt's recordings, and was to work alongside him in the 1940s. Salvador recorded several songs written by Boris Vian with Quincy Jones as arranger. He is known to have recorded the first French rock and roll song in 1956 written by Boris Vian and Michel Legrand. In the sixties Salvador was the host of several popular television variety shows on French TV. In 1964 he scored a hit with "Zorro est arrivé", which was in... Add to favourites (15 fans)Biography of Sidney Poitier
Sir Sidney Poitier KBE, (born February 20, 1927), is an Academy Award-winning Bahamian American actor, film director, and activist. He broke through as a star in acclaimed performances in American films and plays, which, by consciously defying racial stereotyping, gave a new dramatic credibility for black actors to mainstream film audiences in the Western world. In 1963, Poitier became the first black actor to win the Academy Award for Best Actor - for his role in Lilies of the Field. The significance of this achievement was later compounded in 1967 when he starred in three very well received films - To Sir, With Love, In the Heat of the Night, and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner - making him the top box office star of that year. Poitier has also directed a number of popular movies suc... Add to favourites (21 fans)Biography of Lucille Ball
Lucille Désirée Ball (August 6, 1911 – April 26, 1989) was an iconic American comedian, actress and star of the landmark sitcoms I Love Lucy, The Lucy Show, and Here's Lucy. A thirteen-time Emmy Award winner (awarded 1953, 1956, 1967, 1968, 1976 ) with more than twenty-three other nominations. She was a charter member of the Television Hall of Fame. A major movie star, radio star, and "glamour girl" of the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. She also achieved success as a television actress from 1951 to the time of her passing in 1989. She received the Kennedy Center Honors in 1986. Ball, known as the "Queen of Comedy," was also responsible with her then-husband, Desi Arnaz, for the foundation of Desilu Studios, a pioneering studio in American television production in the 1950s and 60s. Hei... Add to favourites (22 fans)Biography of Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis (Balfour) Stevenson (November 13, 1850–December 3, 1894), was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a leading representative of Neo-romanticism in English literature. He was greatly admired by many authors, including Jorge Luis Borges, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling and Vladimir Nabokov. Most modernist writers dismissed him, however, because he was popular and did not write within their narrow definition of literature. It is only recently that critics have begun to look beyond Stevenson's popularity and allow him a place in the canon. He prepared for a law career but never practiced. He traveled frequently, partly in search of better climates for his tuberculosis, which would eventually contribute to his death at age 44. Early life Stevenson was born Robert... Add to favourites (13 fans)Biography of Joe Biden
Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. (born November 20, 1942 (birth time source: Astrodatabank)) is the senior United States Senator from Delaware. He is a member of the Democratic Party, and is currently serving his sixth term. Biden has served for the sixth-longest period among current Senators (fourth among Democrats) and is Delaware's longest-serving Senator. He is the Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations in the 110th Congress. Biden has served in that position in the past, and he has served as Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary. The Borgen Project has ranked Biden one of the Top 5 Best Senate Leaders of all time. He was a candidate for the Democratic Party's nomination in the 2008 presidential election, but dropped out after the caucuses in Iowa on Jan... Biography of Gustave Eiffel
Alexandre Gustave Eiffel (December 15, 1832 – December 27, 1923) was a French structural engineer and architect and a specialist of metallic structures. He is famous for designing the Eiffel Tower, built 1887-1889 for the 1889 Universal Exposition in Paris, France, and the armature for the Statue of Liberty, New York Harbor, USA.... Biography of Allan Kardec
Allan Kardec was a pseudonym of the French teacher and educator Hippolyte Léon Denizard Rivail (Lyon, October 3, 1804 — Paris, March 31, 1869), who is known today as the systematizer of Spiritism. Rivail was born in Lyon, France, in 1804. Rivail was a disciple and collaborator of Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, and a teacher in courses in mathematics, physics, chemistry, astronomy, physiology, comparative anatomy and French in Paris. For one of his research papers, he was inducted in 1831 into the Royal Academy of Arras. He organized and taught free courses for the underprivileged. On February 1832 he married Amélie Gabrielle Boudet. He was already in his early fifties when he became interested in the wildly popular phenomenon of spirit-tapping. At the time, strange phenomena attribut... Add to favourites (12 fans)Biography of Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
Valeria Bruni Tedeschi (born 16 November 1964), is an Italian actress. Like her younger sister, model-turned-singer Carla Bruni, she has settled in France, though being raised bilingual by her French mother and Italian father. She regularly acts also in Italy. Valeria Bruni Tedeschi was born in Turin, Piedmont. Although she began acting in 1986, only recently has she been chosen to play in top roles of internationally acclaimed movies. These include Ten Minutes Older (2002); If I Were a Rich Man (2002); Bernardo Bertolucci's "Histoire d'eaux" segment in the movie The Cello; and 5x2 (2004) and Le Temps qui reste (2005) by François Ozon, in which she played the main female role. She stars in the 2006 A Good Year directed by Ridley Scott. Bruni Tedeschi was present at the 2005 Berlin... Add to favourites (22 fans)Biography of Bridget Fonda
Bridget Jane Fonda (born January 27, 1964) is an American actress. Early life Fonda was born in Los Angeles, California, USA, into a family of actors, including her grandfather Henry Fonda, father Peter Fonda, and aunt Jane Fonda. Her mother, Susan Jane Brewer, is an artist. She was named after Bridget Hayward, with whom her father was in love at one time. Peter and Susan Brewer divorced and he married Portia Rebecca Crockett (aka Becky McGuane), who brought up Bridget and her brother, Justin, in the Coldwater Canyon section of Los Angeles. Fonda attended Westlake School for Girls in Los Angeles. During this time, Bridget and Justin had little contact with their father or any of the Fonda family, recalling in an interview: When I was a kid, the most important thing for me was my hom... Add to favourites (12 fans)Biography of Charlemagne
Charlemagne (En: ; Fr: ; Latin: Carolus Magnus, meaning Charles the Great) (742/747 – 28 January 814) was King of the Franks from 768 to his death. He expanded the Frankish kingdoms into a Frankish Empire that incorporated much of Western and Central Europe. During his reign, he conquered Italy and was crowned Imperator Augustus by Pope Leo III on 25 December 800, in an attempted revival of the Roman Empire in the West. Through his foreign conquests and internal reforms, Charlemagne helped define Western Europe and the Middle Ages. His rule is also associated with the Carolingian Renaissance, a revival of art, religion, and culture. His original name in the Old Frankish language was never recorded, but early instances of his name in Latin read "Carolus" or "Karol's". The son of King Pep... Add to favourites (14 fans)Biography of Jean-François Champollion
Jean-François Champollion (23 December 1790 – 4 March 1832) was a French classical scholar, philologist and orientalist, and is credited as the father of Egyptology. Champollion deciphered the Egyptian hieroglyphs with the help of groundwork laid by his predecessors: Silvestre de Sacy, Johan David Akerblad, Thomas Young, and William Bankes. Champollion translated parts of the Rosetta stone in 1822, showing that the written Egyptian language was similar to Coptic, and that the writing system was a combination of phonetic and ideographic signs. Champollion was born at Figeac, Lot, in France, the last of seven children (two of whom were already dead before his birth). He lived in Grenoble for several years, and even as a child showed an extraordinary linguistic talent. By the age of 16 ... Add to favourites (17 fans)Biography of Sylvie Testud
Sylvie Testud is a French actress and writer, born January 17, 1971 in Lyon. Filmography 1996 : Au-delà du silence (Jenseits der Stille) de Caroline Link 1998 : Karnaval de Thomas Vincent 2000 : Les Blessures assassines de Jean-Pierre Denis 2001 : The Château de Jesse Peretz 2001 : Je rentre à la maison de Manoel de Oliveira 2002 : Der Gläserne Blick de Markus Heltschl 2002 : Jedermanns Fest de Fritz Lehner 2002 : Un moment de bonheur de Antoine Santana 2002 : Les Femmes... ou les enfants d'abord... de Manuel Poirier 2002 : Tangos volés de Eduardo de Gregorio 2002 : Aime ton père de Jacob Berger 2002 : Vivre me tue de Jean-Pierre Sinapi 2003 : Stupeur et tremblements d'Alain Corneau 2003 : Filles uniques de Pierre Jolivet 2003 : Dédales de René Manzor 20... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Arsène Jiroyan
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Michel Galabru is a French actor born on October 27, 1922 in Safi, Morocco, at the time part of French North-Africa. Over the course of his career, Galabru appeared in over 200 movies and worked with renowned directors such as Bertrand Blier, Costa Gavras, Luc Besson for Subway and Jean-Luc Godard. He is also known for his numerous collaboration with Louis de Funès " le gendarme de St Tropez, le gendarmes se marie, Le gendarme et les extra-terrestres, le gendarme en balade, le gendarme à New York, le gendarme et les gendarmettes, le petit baigneur, l'avare, nous irons a Deauville ( with Michel Serrault ) , JO "... In 1977, Galabru received a César for best actor for his portayal of Joseph Bouvier in Bertrand Tavernier's The Judge and the Assassin. And actor collaboration with Michel Ser... Add to favourites (36 fans)Biography of Sarah Silverman
Sarah Kate Silverman (born December 1, 1970) is an American Emmy Award-nominated comedian, writer, singer, guitarist, and actress. Although usually credited as Sarah Silverman, she is sometimes credited by her nickname, Big S. Her satirical comedy addresses social taboos and controversial topics such as racism, sexism, and religion. The source for her birth time is her autobiography "The Bedwetter". She often performs her act as a caricature of a Jewish-American princess, mocking bigotry and stereotypes of ethnic groups and religious denominations, by endorsing them ironically. Silverman was first noticed as a writer and occasional performer on Saturday Night Live. She now stars in and produces The Sarah Silverman Program, which debuted February 1, 2007, on Comedy Central. Early life... Biography of Zizi Jeanmaire
Renée Marcelle Jeanmaire, known as Zizi Jeanmaire, (born April 29, 1924) is a ballet dancer and wife of renowned dancer and choreographer Roland Petit. She became famous in the 1950s because of her titular role in the ballet Carmen, produced in London in 1949. Born in Paris, France, she met her future husband and long-time collaborator Roland Petit at the Paris Opera Ballet at the age of nine. In 1954 they married, and their successful shows put her on the road to stardom. By this time she was the prima ballerina at Les Ballets des Champs-Elysées. She became noted for her energy and passion. This led to a brief stint in Hollywood (where she was credited as Jeanmaire), appearing in the musicals Hans Christian Andersen (1952) and Anything Goes (1956). After that, she concentrated on ba... Add to favourites (11 fans)Biography of Romane Bohringer
Romane Bohringer (born August 14, 1973 in Pont-Sainte-Maxence, Oise, France) is a French actor, film director, screenwriter and costume designer. She is the daughter of Richard Bohringer and sister of Lou Bohringer. Her parents named her after Roman Polanski. She won the César Award for Most Promising Actress for her role in Savage Nights.... Biography of Salman Rushdie
Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie (Hindi: अख़्मद सल्मान रश्दी Urdu:سلمان رشدی; born 19 June 1947 (birth time source: Catriona Mundle, Astrodatabank)) is a British-Indian novelist and essayist. He first achieved fame with his second novel, Midnight's Children (1981), which won the Booker Prize. Much of his fiction is set on the subcontinent of India. Increasingly, however, the dominant theme of his work has become the long, rich and often fraught story of the many connections, disruptions and migrations between the East and the West. His fourth novel, The Satanic Verses (1988), provoked violent reactions from Muslims all over the world. After ... Biography of Florence Aubenas
Florence Aubenas (born February 6, 1961 in Brussels) is a Belgian journalist, who worked until 2006 for the French newspaper Libération. She was taken hostage on January 5, 2005, in Iraq along with her translator Hussein Hanoun Al-Saadi. On March 1, 2005, a video tape was found in Iraq, in which Aubenas asked for help. She spoke English and declared she was unhealthy. In the end of the 26-second video, she mentioned the name of Didier Julia. The French authorities and Florence Aubenas' family were given another video (on CD-ROM) a week earlier. Florence and Hussein were freed on June 11, 2005.... Add to favourites (14 fans)Biography of Pelé
Edson Arantes do Nascimento, KBE (born October 23th 1940 in Três Corações, Brazil), best known by his nickname Pelé, is a former Brazilian football player. In his native Brazil, Pelé is hailed as a national hero for his accomplishments and contribution to the game, in addition to being officially declared the football ambassador of the world by FIFA and a national treasure by the Brazilian government. He is also acknowledged for his vocal support of policies to improve the social conditions of the poor (when he scored his 1,000th goal he dedicated it to the poor children of Brazil). During his career, he became known as "The King of Football" (O Rei do Futebol) or simply "The King Pelé" (O Rei Pelé). He was given the title of Athlete of the Century by the International Olympic Committee. ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Elodie Franquin
Elodie Franquin, born April 3, 1980 in Marseille, was a member of the cast for the French reality TV show Les Colocataires, in 2004.... Add to favourites (23 fans)Biography of Bernard Werber
Bernard Werber (born September 18, 1961 in Toulouse (birth time source: Didier Geslain)) is a famous French writer of science fiction of the 1990s and 2000s. Early life Werber was born in Toulouse (Haute-Garonne) in September 1961. His mother is Israeli, and father a French Jew. From the age of 14, Werber wrote stories for a fanzine. After he finished school, he became a scientific journalist for some ten years. Writing Werber's style mixes different genres, notably the adventure saga, science fiction from between the wars and the philosophical story. His main work is the trilogy Les Fourmis ("The Ants"), which has been translated in many languages, including English as "The Empire of the Ants". Werber has written a dozen books, frequently self- and cross-referencing each oth... Biography of Petula Clark
Petula Clark, CBE (born November 15, 1932), is an English singer, actress and composer best known for her upbeat popular international hits of the 1960s. With more than 70 million records sold worldwide, she is the most successful British female solo recording artist to date, and is cited as such in the Guinness Book of World Records. She also holds the distinction of having the longest span on the international pop charts of any artist — 51 years — from 1954, when "The Little Shoemaker" made the UK Top Twenty, through 2005, when her CD L'essentiel - 20 Succès Inoubliables charted in Belgium. Early years Born to an English father and Welsh mother in Ewell, Surrey, England, she was christened Petula Sally Olwen Clark. Her father Leslie coined her first name, jokingly alleging it was a c... Add to favourites (20 fans)Biography of Errol Flynn
Errol Leslie Thomson Flynn (June 20, 1909 – October 14, 1959) was an Australian-born film actor, most famous for his romantic swashbuckler roles in Hollywood films and his flamboyant lifestyle.... Add to favourites (12 fans)Biography of Stephen Harper
Stephen Joseph Harper PC MP (born April 30, 1959) is the twenty-second and current Prime Minister of Canada, and leader of the Conservative Party of Canada. Harper became Prime Minister after his party won a minority government in the January 2006 federal election. He is the first ever Prime Minister from his current political party, and the first since 1993 from any "Conservative" party, following twelve years of government by the Liberal Party. Harper has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for the riding of Calgary Southwest in Alberta since 2002. Earlier, from 1993 to 1997, he was the MP for Calgary West. He was one of the founding members of the Reform Party, but ended his first stint as an MP to join, and shortly thereafter head, the National Citizens Coalition. In 2002, he succeed... Add to favourites (15 fans)Biography of Brigitte Fontaine
Brigitte Fontaine, born in 1939 in Morlaix, Finistère, in the Brittany region of France, is a singer of avant-garde music. During the course of her career she employed numerous unusual musical styles, melting rock and roll, folk, jazz, spoken word poetry and world rhythms. She collaborated with such celebrated musicians as Stereolab, Michel Colombier, Jean-Claude Vannier, Areski Belkacem, Gotan Project, Sonic Youth, Antoine Duhamel, Archie Shepp and The Art Ensemble of Chicago. Albums 12 chansons d'avant le déluge (with Jacques Higelin and Jimmy Walter), Productions Jacques Canetti, 1965 15 chansons d'avant le déluge (with Jacques Higelin and Michel Colombier), Productions Jacques Canetti, 1966 Brigitte Fontaine est folle (with Jean-Claude Vannier), Saravah, 1968 Comme à la... Biography of Véronique Poivre d'Arvor
Véronique Poivre d'Arvor is the wife of Patrick Poivre d'Arvor, famous French journalist.... Biography of Tyler Perry
Tyler Perry (born September 14, 1969 (source: Imdb)) is an American playwright, screenwriter, actor and director and producer of indie films and stage plays. His best-known character is "Madea", who is a physically imposing and overbearing but well-intentioned woman who serves both as comic relief and as the loud voice of conscience for the protagonists of Perry's works. He is currently single and has never been married. Personal life Perry was born Emmitt R. Perry, Jr. in New Orleans, Louisiana (he now lives in Atlanta, Georgia). He changed his first name to Tyler because of his troubled relationship with his father. His father, Emmitt, Sr., was a carpenter and construction worker, and his mother, Maxine, was a pre-school teacher who worked at the New Orleans Jewish Community Center f... Add to favourites (15 fans)Biography of Otto Von Bismarck
Otto Eduard Leopold, Prince von Bismarck, Duke of Lauenburg, Count von Bismarck-Schönhausen., born Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck (April 1, 1815 – July 30, 1898) was a European statesman of the 19th century, born to a wealthy family. As Minister-President of Prussia from 1862 to 1890, he engineered the Unification of Germany. From 1867 on, he was Chancellor of the North German Confederation. When the German Empire was declared in 1871, he served as its first Chancellor. Bismarck held conservative monarchical views in the tradition of Clemens von Metternich, the Austrian statesman who devised the diplomatic arrangements which governed Europe after the Napoleonic Wars–arrangements which Bismarck upset. Bismarck's primary objectives were to ensure the supremacy of the Prussian state with... Add to favourites (18 fans)Biography of Peter O'Toole
Peter Seamus O'Toole (Peter James O'Toole) (b. August 2, 1932 (accepted but presumed date) is an eight-time Academy Award-nominated Irish actor. He has received three Golden Globes and an Emmy Award. He was also awarded an honorary Oscar for his body of work (2003). Despite eight nominations, he has yet to win a Best Actor Oscar. Early life Peter O'Toole was born in 1932, with some sources giving his birthplace as Connemara, County Galway, Ireland, and others as Leeds, in West Yorkshire, England, where he also grew up. O'Toole himself is not certain of his birthplace or date, noting in his autobiography that while he accepts August 2 as his birthdate, he has conflicting birth certificates in both countries, with the Irish one giving a June, 1932 birthdate. He was the son of an Irish... Add to favourites (16 fans)Biography of Lionel Jospin
Lionel Jospin (born 12 July 1937) is a French politician who served as Prime Minister of France, during the third "cohabitation", under Jacques Chirac, from 1997 to 2002. Jospin was the French Socialist Party candidate for President of France in the elections of 1995 and 2002. He was narrowly defeated in the final runoff election by Jacques Chirac in 1995. In 2002 he was stunningly eliminated in the first round after finishing behind both Chirac and the far-right candidate Jean-Marie Le Pen, and immediately announced his retirement from politics, although he briefly campaigned for the 2007 party nomination in the autumn of 2006. Studies and early political career Lionel Jospin was born to a Protestant family in Meudon, a suburb of Paris. He studied at Institut d'études politiques de... Biography of Jean-Marc Barr
Jean-Marc Barr, born on September 27, 1960 in Bitburg, Germany, is a film actor and director. His mother is French. His American father was in the US Air Force and served in the Second World War. Jean-Marc Barr is primarily known as an actor, but is also a director, screenwriter and producer. He studied philosophy at the University of California, Los Angeles, the Paris Conservatoire and the Sorbonne. He went on to pursue an education in drama at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. In London he met his future wife, Irina, a pianist. Jean-Marc Barr began working in theatre in France in 1986. After some television roles and film work, in particular, Hope and Glory (1987) by John Boorman, he was cast in the tremendously successful The Big Blue (1988). Luc Besson cast him i... Add to favourites (31 fans)Biography of Carly Rae Jepsen
Carly Rae Jepsen (born November 20, 1985) is a Canadian recording artist and singer/songwriter from Mission, British Columbia. In 2007, she placed third in the fifth season of Canadian Idol, and was a part of the Canadian Idol Top 3 concert tour. Shortly after competing on Idol, she signed to Fontana and MapleMusic, and released her debut album, Tug of War, on September 30, 2008. Three years later, she released a new single, entitled "Call Me Maybe", which was released by 604 Records, and was followed by the release of her debut extended play, Curiosity, on February 14, 2012. "Call Me Maybe" was met with much success, reaching the Top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 and reaching the number 1 spot on the Canadian Hot 100. The single also went to number 1 in Australia, Ireland and the United ... Biography of Rachel Hunter
Rachel Hunter (born September 9, 1969 in Auckland, New Zealand) is a fashion model, actress and reality TV show host. Rachel Hunter began modelling by age 17 and rose to prominence after posing as a Sports Illustrated model in 1989. She appeared on magazine covers, including Cosmopolitan and on the 1994 "Dream Team" cover of Sports Illustrated's annual swimsuit issue. She was paid a reported $1.8 million to pose nude for Playboy magazine in 2004. She also became the face and body of Ultimo, a Scottish lingerie house, famously replacing Penny Lancaster, the fiancee of Rod Stewart (whom Hunter was married to). She was replaced by Helena Christensen in November 2005. Hunter guest starred in a 1997 episode of The Drew Carey Show as herself, the spokesmodel for fictional beer brand, Ca... Biography of Ron Lafayette Hubbard
Lafayette Ronald Hubbard (13 March 1911 – 24 January 1986), better known as L. Ron Hubbard, was an American science fiction writer, and creator of Dianetics and founder of the Church of Scientology. Hubbard was a highly controversial public figure during his lifetime. Many details of his life remain disputed; official Scientology biographies present Hubbard as "larger than life, attracted to people, liked by people, dynamic, charismatic and immensely capable in a dozen fields," while independent articles and biographies of Hubbard and accounts by some former Scientologists paint a much less flattering, and often sinister, picture. In many cases they flatly contradict the biographical accounts presented by the Church of Scientology. Early life L. Ron Hubbard was born in 1911 in Tilde... Biography of Camille Saint-Saëns
Charles Camille Saint-Saëns (/ʃaʁl ka.mij sɛ̃.sɑ̃s/) (9 October 1835 – 16 December 1921) was a French composer, organist, conductor, and pianist, known especially for his orchestral works The Carnival of the Animals, Danse Macabre, and Symphony No. 3 ("Organ Symphony"). Early years Saint-Saëns was born in Paris to a government clerk who died three months after his son's birth. His mother, Clémence, sought the assistance of her aunt, Charlotte Masson, who moved in and introduced Saint-Saëns to the piano. One of the most talented child prodigies of his time, he possessed perfect pitch and began piano lessons with his great-aunt at two years old. He almost immediately began composition with his first, a little piece for the piano dated 22 March 1839. This pie... Add to favourites (17 fans)Biography of Cardinal Richelieu
Armand Jean du Plessis de Richelieu, Cardinal-Duc de Richelieu (September 9, 1585 – December 4, 1642), was a French clergyman, noble, and statesman. Consecrated as a bishop in 1607, he later entered politics, becoming a Secretary of State in 1616. Richelieu soon rose in both the Church and the state, becoming a cardinal in 1622, and King Louis XIII's chief minister in 1624. He remained in office until his death in 1642; he was succeeded by Jules Cardinal Mazarin. The Cardinal de Richelieu was often known by the title of the King's "Chief Minister." As a result, he is sometimes considered to be the world's first Prime Minister, in the modern sense of the term. He sought to consolidate royal power and crush domestic factions. By restraining the power of the nobility, he transformed Fra... Biography of Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Jean-Baptiste Colbert (August 29, 1619 – September 6, 1683) served as the French minister of finance from 1665 to 1683 under the rule of King Louis XIV. He was described by Mme de Sévigné as « Le Nord » as he was cold and unemotional. His relentless hard work and thriftiness made him an esteemed minister. He achieved a reputation for his work of improving the state of French manufacturing and bringing the economy back from the brink of bankruptcy. Historians note that, despite Colbert's efforts, France actually became increasingly impoverished because of the King's excessive spending on wars. Colbert worked to create a favourable balance of trade and increase France's colonial holdings. Historians of mercantilism consider Colbert a key figure. Colbert's market reforms included the impor... Add to favourites (11 fans)Biography of Casey Affleck
Casey Affleck (born August 12, 1975) is an American actor. He is the younger brother of actor Ben Affleck. Early life Affleck was born Caleb Casey Affleck in Falmouth, Massachusetts, the son of Chris Boldt, a school district employee and teacher, and Timothy Affleck, a drug counselor, janitor, auto mechanic, bar tender, and former actor with the Theater Company of Boston. When Affleck was five, he broke his arm and almost had to have it amputated; he spent 12 hours in surgery as the doctors worked to repair his severely infected compound fracture. As a child he had numerous pets, including cats, snakes, guinea pigs, turtles and a dog named "Pepper". Affleck went to George Washington University and later transferred to Columbia University in New York City where he majored in Physics, ... Biography of Prince Andrew, Duke of York
The Prince Andrew, Duke of York (Andrew Albert Christian Edward; born 19 February 1960) is a member of the British Royal Family, the third child and second son of Queen Elizabeth II. He has held the title of Duke of York since 1986. The Duke of York has been 4th in the line of succession since the birth of Prince Harry in 1984. The Duke of York married and subsequently divorced Sarah Ferguson. He also served in the Royal Navy, seeing action in the Falklands War aboard HMS Invincible. He currently serves as the United Kingdom's Special Representative for International Trade and Investment. Early life Andrew was born on 19 February 1960 in the Belgian Suite of Buckingham Palace, London. His mother is the reigning British monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, the eldest daughter of King George ... |
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