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You will find on these pages astrological charts of thousands of celebrities with Neptune in Libra. 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 (20 fans)Biography of Alain Juppé
Alain Marie Juppé (French pronunciation: ; born 15 August 1945) is a French right-wing politician currently serving as the Minister of Foreign Affairs. He also served as Prime Minister of France from 1995 to 1997 under President Jacques Chirac and the Minister of Defence and Veterans Affairs from 2010-2011. He had previously served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1993 to 1995, and as Minister of the Budget and Spokesman for the Government from 1986 to 1988. In December 2004, Juppé was convicted of mishandling public funds. His political career was subsequently suspended until he was re-elected as Mayor of Bordeaux in October 2006. He served briefly as Minister of State for Ecology and Sustainable Development in 2007, but resigned in June 2007 after failing in his bid to be re-electe... Add to favourites (19 fans)Biography of Patrick Sébastien
Famous French humorist, actor, TV host, producer and impersonator.... Add to favourites (22 fans)Biography of Patrick Poivre d'Arvor
Patrick Poivre d'Arvor (born Patrick Poivre, September 20, 1947) is a French TV journalist and writer. He is a household name in France, and nicknamed PPDA. With over 30 years and in excess of 4,500 editions of television news to his credit, he is the longest serving current newsreader in the world. Biography PPDA was born in Reims, France. He obtained his Baccalaureat at the age of 15, the same year he became a father. He attended the Institut d'études politiques de Paris, where he studied Law and Oriental Languages at the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales. Journalistic career Poivre started training as a journalist at the Centre de formation des journalistes (CFJ) at age 22. He obtained his first job in 1971 on France Inter as the morning news-reader... Add to favourites (29 fans)Biography of Michel Polnareff
Michel Polnareff, born in Nérac, France on July 3, 1944, is a French singer who was very popular from the mid-60s until the early 80s. While his commercial success is considerably smaller nowadays, he is still active and critically respected. Michel was born into an artistic family: his mother, Simone Lane, was a dancer and his father, Leib Polnareff or Léo Poll worked with Édith Piaf. He learned piano by age five and was a very good music student. He learned the guitar, and after his studies, military service, and a brief time in insurance, he began to play his guitar on the steps of the Sacré Cœur. Early Successes In 1965, Polnareff won the Disco Revue prize in Paris. This victory let him record a disc at Barclay, but as part of the counterculture he turned down this opportunity... Add to favourites (27 fans)Biography of Richard Branson
Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson (born 18 July 1950 (1950-07-18) in Shamley Green, Surrey, England), is an English entrepreneur, best known for his Virgin brand of over 350 companies. His first successful business venture was at age 16, when he published a magazine called Student; Branson then set up a record mail order business in 1970, and then a chain of record stores in 1971 now known as Virgin Megastores. With a flamboyant and competitive style, Branson's Virgin brand grew rapidly during the 1980s as he set up Virgin Atlantic Airways and expanded the Virgin Records music label. Today, his worth is estimated at over £4 billion (equivalent to US$7.8 billion) according to The Sunday Times Rich List 2006. Education Branson was educated at Scaitcliffe School (now Bishopsgate Schoo... Add to favourites (46 fans)Biography of Mickey Rourke
Philip Andre "Mickey" Rourke, Jr. (born September 16, 1952 (birth time source: http://www.astrologyweekly.com/data-archive/celebrities.php)) is an American actor, who has appeared primarily in action, drama and thriller films. Trained as a boxer in his early years, Rourke had a short stint as a pro fighter in the 1990s. Although his acting career has been uneven, he has carved out a niche over the last decades in gritty, marginalized anti-hero roles. Early life Rourke was born in Schenectady, New York, the son of Ann and Philip Andre Rourke, Sr., who was an amateur body builder. His family was Catholic and of Irish and French descent. After his parents divorced, he moved with his mother to Florida, where he attended Miami Beach Senior High School. (There are some reports that Rourke t... Add to favourites (71 fans)Biography of John Malkovich
John Gavin Malkovich (born December 9, 1953) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor, producer and director. Early life Malkovich was born in Christopher, Illinois of Croatian, Scottish, and German ancestry. His father, Daniel Malkovich, was a state conservation director and publisher of Illinois Magazine, a conservation magazine. His mother, Joe Anne, owned the Benton Evening News (a local newspaper in Benton, Illinois), as well as the Outdoor Illinois. Because of his father's work, the Malkovich family is widely acknowledged as one of the founding families of the environmental movement in Illinois. By high school, he had transformed himself physically and was an athlete. He transferred to Illinois State University from Eastern Illinois University, with an interest in ecology, bu... Biography of Shelley von Strunckel
Shelley von Strunckel is a California-born astrologer with newspaper columns widely published in Europe, the Middle East, Australia and Asia. She created the first ever astrological column in a British broadsheet newspaper with the Sunday Times in 1992.... Add to favourites (51 fans)Biography of Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (born September 23, 1949) is an American rock singer-songwriter and guitarist and born in Freehold, New Jersey. Springsteen has frequently recorded and toured with the E Street Band, and also as a solo artist and with other musicians. Through his career, Springsteen has won fifteen Grammys, an Oscar, an induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and a large, devoted and long-lasting fan base. His best-known albums, such as Born to Run and Born in the U.S.A., epitomize his penchant for finding grandeur in the struggles of daily life. Musical style Springsteen's lyrics often concern people struggling to make ends meet. He has gradually become identified with progressive politics, various charitable causes and his response to the September 11, 2001... Add to favourites (23 fans)Biography of Alain Souchon
Alain Souchon (born Alain Kienast on May 27, 1944, Casablanca, Morocco) is a French singer, songwriter and actor. He has released 15 albums and has played roles in seven films. Six months after Souchon was born his family returned to France. When he was 15 his father died in an accident. Souchon signed his first contract in 1971, but had no success until he began to collaborate with composer/arranger Laurent Voulzy (b. 1948); they would write together, but each released albums under his own name. Souchon's first hit was "J'ai 10 ans" (1974), from the album of the same name. Souchon's biggest hit was probably "Foule Sentimentale" from 1995's C'est Déja Ça. Souchon returned in 2005 with the hugely successful album La Vie Théodore which contained the hit single "...Et Si En Plus Y'a ... Add to favourites (32 fans)Biography of Bernard Giraudeau
Bernard Giraudeau (June 18, 1947 - July 17, 2010) was a French actor, film director, scriptwriter, producer and writer. Life Giraudeau was born in La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime. In 1963 he enlisted in the French navy as a trainee engineer, qualifying as the first in his class a year later. He served on the helicopter carrier Jeanne d'Arc in 1964-1965 and 1965–1966, and subsequently on the frigate Duquesne and the aircraft carrier Clemenceau before leaving the navy to try his luck as an actor. He was married to actor and author Anny Duperey, with whom he has two children; one of them, Sara Giraudeau has achieved success as an actor. Giraudeau first appeared on film in Deux hommes dans la ville (1973), and his first film as director was in 1987, though he continued to work as an... Biography of Raymond Domenech
Raymond Domenech (born January 24, 1952 in Lyon) is a former French football player and the current manager of the French national team. He is of partly Catalan descent. His father fled Spain during the rule of Francisco Franco. Career 1969-1977: played for Olympique Lyonnais. Won Coupe de France in 1973. 1977-1981: played for RC Strasbourg. Won Championnat de France in 1979. 1981-1982: played for Paris Saint-Germain 1982-1984: played for Girondins de Bordeaux. Won Coupe de France in 1984. 1984: retired at the end of a playing career which saw him earn 8 international caps. 1985-1989: a year after retiring, moved into management of FC Mulhouse 1989-1993: manager of Olympique Lyonnais 1993-2004: manager of French youth team (les Bleuets) July 12, 2004: manager of the Fre... Add to favourites (81 fans)Biography of David Lynch
David Keith Lynch (born January 20, 1946) is an American filmmaker, painter, video artist, and performance artist. Lynch has received three Academy Award for Best Director nominations (1980 for Elephant Man, 1987 for Blue Velvet, and 2002 for Mulholland Drive). Most of his productions have been recognized as having a lasting effect on cinema. Though he has yet to win an Oscar, Lynch has won awards at the Cannes Film Festival and the Venice Film Festival. He is probably best known for the iconic Twin Peaks saga (1991-1992), Blue Velvet (1986) and Mulholland Dr. (2001). He has appeared in Time Magazine, in 1992 as "The Most Influential Filmmaker". Lynch's films are known for their surreal, nightmarish and dreamlike sequences, their strange images, and their meticulously crafted sound desi... Add to favourites (46 fans)Biography of Steven Tyler
Stephen Victor Tallarico (born March 26, 1948 in New York), better known as Steven Tyler (and often nicknamed The Demon of Screamin') is an American musician and songwriter. He is best known for his work as the lead singer of the Boston-based rock band Aerosmith. Birth time source: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SATVA/message/15355 Steven Tyler born at 11:18 PM in New York, NY, rectified by VK Choudhry. He is renowned for his wide grin and big lips (a trait he shares with fellow rocker Mick Jagger). During his high energy stage performances, he usually dresses in bright colorful outfits with his trademark scarves hanging from his mic stand. In the band's early days, he was also known for having a bottle of Jack Daniel's on stage with him, a practice he has since discontinued. Early li... Add to favourites (13 fans)Biography of Daniel Cohn-Bendit
Daniel Marc Cohn-Bendit (born Montauban, France, April 4, 1945) is a European politician and was a leader of the student protesters during the May 1968 riots in France. He was also known during that time as "Danny the Red" (because of both his politics and the color of his hair). He is currently co-president of the group European Greens–European Free Alliance in the European Parliament. Childhood Cohn-Bendit was born in France to German-Jewish parents who had fled Nazism in 1933. He spent his childhood in Paris. He moved to Germany in 1958, where his father had been a lawyer since the end of the war. He attended the Odenwaldschule in Heppenheim near Frankfurt, a secondary school for children of the enlightened upper middle class. Being officially stateless at birth, when he reached the... Biography of Kamal Haasan
Kamal Haasan (Tamil: கமல்ஹாசன்) (born on November 7, 1954) is a four time (1960, 1983, 1988 and 1997) National Film Award winning Indian film actor. He began his career as a child artist in many films, while also attending a theatre for stage plays. Kamal Haasan has acted in over two hundred Indian films and is widely considered one of the finest method actors in Indian cinema. Kamal Hassan has received India's fourth highest civilian honour, the Padma Shri for his services to Indian cinema in 1990. His popular films include Moondram Pirai (1982), Saagara Sangamam (1983), Nayagan (1987), Michael Madana Kama Rajan (1990), Indian (1996), Hey Ram (2000), Anbe Sivam (2003). In his currently unreleased film Dasavatharam, he attempts to por... Add to favourites (16 fans)Biography of Roselyne Bachelot
Roselyne Bachelot-Narquin, generally known as Roselyne Bachelot (born 24 December 1946 in Nevers) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the west of France. She currently is the French Minister of Health, Youth Affairs and Sport. She is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement, which is part of the European People's Party, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Employment and Social Affairs. She is a substitute on the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy, a member of the delegation for relations with the Palestinian Legislative Council, and a substitute for the delegation for relations with Israel. Career Doctor of Pharmacy Head of the UMP list for the Grand Ouest region in the European elections on 13 June 2004 Member of ... Biography of Marjorie Orr
Marjorie Orr is a British astrologer born September 9, 1944 in Glasgow. She is famous for her media presentations, radio and TV broadcasts. Works Star Quality Lovers Guide The Astrological History of the World... Add to favourites (50 fans)Biography of Fabrice Luchini
Fabrice Luchini (born November 1, 1951) is a French stage and film actor. He was born in Paris. Filmography includes La Cloche a sonné (2005) Confidences trop intimes (2004) Le Coût de la vie (2003) Barnie et ses petites contrariétés (2001) Pas de scandale (1999) Rien sur Robert (1999) Le Bossu (1997) Un air si pur... (1997) Hommes, femmes, mode d'emploi (1996) Beaumarchais, l'insolent (1996) L'Année Juliette (1995) Le Colonel Chabert (1994) Toxic Affair (1993) L'Arbre, le maire et la médiathèque (1993) Tout ça... pour ça! (1993) Riens du tout (1992) Le Retour de Casanova (1992) Uranus (1990) La Discrète (1990) La Couleur du vent (1988) Alouette, je te plumerai (1988) 4 aventures de Reinette et Mirabelle (1987) Les Oreilles entre les dents... Add to favourites (74 fans)Biography of Jackie Chan
Chan Kong-Sang (Simplified Chinese: 陈港生; Traditional Chinese: 陳港生; Pinyin: Chén Gǎngshēng), also known as Sing Lung (Simplified Chinese: 成龙; Traditional Chinese: 成龍; Pinyin: Chéng Lóng) or Jackie Chan SBS, (born on April 7, 1954 (birth time source: Sy Scholfield, Astrodatabank)) is a Chinese actor, director, martial artist, film producer, screenwriter, singer and stunt performer. Chan is one of the best known names in kung fu and action movies worldwide for his acrobatic fighting style, comic timing, usage of improvised weapons and performing his own stunts. Having appeared in over a hundred films, Chan is one of the most recognisable Asian movie stars in the world, with stars on the Hong Kong Avenue of Star... Add to favourites (25 fans)Biography of Michael Moore
Michael Francis Moore (born April 23, 1954) is an Academy Award-winning American film director, producer, author and political activist known for his outspoken, critical views on globalization, large corporations, gun violence, the Iraq War, U.S. President George W. Bush, and various other domestic and international policies of the United States and its allies. Personal life Moore was born in Flint, Michigan to Veronica, a secretary, and Frank Moore, an automotive assembly-line worker. He grew up in the city of Davison. At the time, the neighboring city of Flint was home to many General Motors factories, where his parents and grandfather worked. His uncle was one of the founders of the United Automobile Workers labor union and participated in the famous Flint Sit-Down Strike. Moore has... Add to favourites (26 fans)Biography of Hugo Chávez
Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías (Spanish pronunciation: ; 28 July 1954 (birth time source: Astrodatabank) – 5 March 2013) was the President of Venezuela, having held that position from 1999 until his death in 2013. He was formerly the leader of the Fifth Republic Movement political party from its foundation in 1997 until 2007, when he became the leader of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV). Following his own political ideology of Bolivarianism and "socialism of the 21st century", he focused on implementing socialist reforms in the country as a part of a social project known as the Bolivarian Revolution, which has seen the implementation of a new constitution, participatory democratic councils, the nationalization of several key industries, increased government funding of health care a... Add to favourites (18 fans)Biography of Mireille Mathieu
Mireille Mathieu (born July 22, 1946) is a French singer, who besides being very successful in her own country, became a star of international stature, recording in several languages. She was born in Avignon, Vaucluse, France, the oldest daughter of a poor family of fourteen children. She began singing as a small child, appearing in public at the age of four, singing in her church. As a young girl she worked in a factory, where she saved her money to pay for singing lessons. Discovered by Johnny Stark, manager of France's biggest star at the time, Johnny Hallyday, she was tutored by orchestra leader Paul Mauriat and song writer André Pascal who wrote Mon crédo, Viens dans ma rue, La première étoile and many other hits for her . After her television performance in 1965 and debut run a... Add to favourites (45 fans)Biography of Isabelle Huppert
Isabelle Anne Huppert (French IPA: ) (born March 16, 1953, Paris) is a French actress. Huppert grew up in Ville d'Avray, a western suburb of Paris, and was encouraged by her mother to begin acting at a young age. Huppert later attended the Conservatory of Versailles where she won a prize for her acting. She is also an alumna of the National Conservatory of Dramatic Art of Paris, CNSAD. After a successful stage career, she began making movies, debuting in 1972 with Faustine et le bel été, (She had made a television debut the year before.) She was a teenage star in Paris and made her American debut in the Michael Cimino's 1980 film Heaven's Gate, which flopped at the U.S. box office, but was re-released in the full version with great acclaim. In Europe and the art house world, sh... Add to favourites (32 fans)Biography of Francis Cabrel
Francis Cabrel (born 23 November 1953 in Agen, France) is a French singer-songwriter and guitarist. Inspired heavily by Bob Dylan, he has released a number of albums falling mostly within the realm of folk, with occasional forays into blues or country. Several of his songs, such as "L'encre de tes yeux" and "Petite Marie" have become enduring favourites in French music. Others, such as "C'était l'hiver", about the suicide of a young girl, have since been covered by other artists such as Canadian Isabelle Boulay. Cabrel was born into a modest family, with a working father and a mother who was a cashier. He has a sister, Martine, and a brother, Philippe. His paternal grandfather, Prospero Cabrel, immigrated to Gascogne from Frioul, Italy, in the 1920s with his wife and six children. Cabre... Add to favourites (52 fans)Biography of Deepak Chopra
Deepak Chopra (Hindi: दीपक चोपड़ा; born October 22, 1946) is an Indian medical doctor and writer. He has written extensively on spirituality and diverse topics in mind-body medicine. He claims to be influenced by the teachings of Vedanta and the Bhagavad Gita from his native India, and quantum physics. He also said that he has been profoundly influenced by the teachings of J Krishnamurti. Background Chopra was born in New Delhi and educated in India. He completed his primary education at St. Columba's School in New Delhi and eventually graduated from the prestigious All India Institute of Medical Sciences in 1968. He emigrated to the U.S. in 1970, becoming board-certified in internal medicine and endocrinology , and after int... Add to favourites (25 fans)Biography of Condoleezza Rice
Condoleezza Rice (born November 14, 1954) is the 66th United States Secretary of State, and the second in the administration of President George W. Bush to hold the office. Rice is the first African American woman, second African American (after Colin Powell, who served before her from 2001 - 2005), and second woman (after Madeleine Albright who served from 1997 to 2001, before Colin Powell) to serve as Secretary of State. Condoleezza Rice was President Bush's National Security Advisor during his first term (2001–2005). Before joining the Bush administration, she was a Professor of political science at Stanford University where she served as Provost from 1993 to 1999. During the administration of George H. W. Bush, Rice also served as the Soviet and East European Affairs Advisor duri... Biography of John Holmes
John Curtis Estes (August 8, 1944 – March 13, 1988) better known as John Holmes, John C. Holmes or Johnny Wadd (after the lead character in a series of related films), was one of the most famous male adult film stars of all time, appearing in about 2,500 adult loops, stag films, and porno feature movies in the 1970s and 1980s, including at least one gay feature film and a handful of gay loops. He was best known for his exceptionally large penis, which was heavily promoted as being the longest in the porn industry; its exact dimensions are, however, unknown. Holmes also attracted notoriety for his involvement in the brutal Wonderland Murders in 1981, and for his death from AIDS. Holmes was the subject of a long article in Rolling Stone magazine in 1989 and a feature length documentary, a... Add to favourites (28 fans)Biography of Eckhart Tolle
Eckhart Tolle (born February 16, 1948) is a Canadian spiritual teacher, motivational speaker, and New Thought writer. He has studied literature, languages and philosophy. Born Ulrich Tolle in Dortmund, Germany, Eckhart Tolle lived with his father in Spain from about age 13 to 19, approximately between the years 1961 and 1967, after which he moved to England. He had no formal education between age 13 and 22, refusing to go to school because of its "hostile environment"; but he pursued his own "particular interests". Tolle graduated from the University of London and completed research at Cambridge University, having studied literature, languages and philosophy. At the age of 29, Tolle experienced what he considered a spiritual transformation after suffering long periods of suicidal depres... Add to favourites (10 fans)Biography of Igor Bogdanoff
The Bogdanov Affair is an academic dispute regarding the legitimacy of a series of theoretical physics papers written by French twins Igor and Grichka Bogdanov (alternately spelt Bogdanoff). These papers were published in reputable scientific journals, and were alleged by their authors to culminate in a proposed a highly speculative theory for describing what occurred at the Big Bang, referring to a wide variety of related topics and associated jargon. The controversy started in October 2002 when John Baez posted a message on a Usenet newsgroups that their work, while filled with appropriate jargon, was substandard, even going so far as to compare it to the Sokal affair. A wide-ranging debate ensued on the matter that spread to many other Internet forums, including the blogs of notable phy... Add to favourites (11 fans)Biography of Jean-Pierre Foucault
Famous TV host and producer.... Add to favourites (11 fans)Biography of Antoine de Caunes
Antoine de Caunes (born 1 December 1953 in Paris, France) is a television comedian, actor and writer. He is the son of two French personalities, television journalist George de Caunes and television announcer Jacqueline Joubert. He is the father of the actress Emma de Caunes. He began his career writing theme songs for cartoons for Antenne 2 under the pseudonym of Paul Persavon, including Cobra and X-Or. He first appeared in front of the camera with the series Les Enfants du rock, again for A2, before making a breakthrough with the series Nulle part ailleurs for Canal+. De Caunes first came to fame in the English-speaking world on the BBC Two television series Rapido before starting the long-running adult entertainment programme Eurotrash with Jean-Paul Gaultier for Channel 4. He ... Add to favourites (51 fans)Biography of Goldie Hawn
Goldie Jeanne Hawn (born November 21, 1945(birth time source: Contemporary American Horoscopes, Astrodatabank)) is an Academy Award-winning American actress, director and producer. She is best known for starring in a series of successful film comedies during the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. Her daughter is Kate Hudson, who is also a well-known, Oscar-nominated actress. Her son, Oliver Hudson, is a television and film actor as well. Early life Hawn was born in Washington, DC, to Edward Rutledge Hawn (a band musician who played at major events in Washington) and Laura Steinhoff (a jewelery shop/ dance school owner); she has a sister, Patricia, and had a brother, Edward, who died before she was born. She was raised in Takoma Park, Maryland. Her father, a descendant of Edward Rutledge (a signer... Add to favourites (14 fans)Biography of Bernard-Henri Lévy
Bernard-Henri Lévy (born November 5, 1948 in Béni-Saf, Algeria) is a French intellectual and businessman. Often referred to today, in France, simply as BHL, Lévy was born in Béni-Saf, Algeria on 5 November 1948. His family moved to Paris a few months after his birth. His father, André Lévy, was the multi-millionaire founder and manager of a timber company, Becob. After attending the Louis-le Grand lycée in Paris, he enrolled in the elite and highly selective Ecole Normale Supérieure in 1968, from which he graduated with a degree in philosophy. Some of his professors there included prominent French intellectuals and philosophers Jacques Derrida and Louis Althusser. Lévy is also a pre-eminent journalist, having started his career as a war reporter for Combat, the famous underground new... Add to favourites (58 fans)Biography of Dolly Parton
Dolly Rebecca Parton (born January 19, 1946 (birth time source: Frank C. Clifford)) is a Grammy-winning and Academy Award-nominated American country singer, songwriter, composer, author, actress and philanthropist. Family life She was born in Sevierville, Tennessee, the fourth of 12 children born to Robert Lee Parton and Avie Lee Owens. Her siblings are Willadeene Parton (a poet), David Parton, Denver Parton, Bobby Parton, Stella Parton (a singer), Cassie Parton, Larry Parton (who died shortly after birth), Randy Parton (a singer), twins Floyd Parton (a songwriter) and Freida Parton (a singer), and Rachel Dennison (an actress). Her family was, as she described them, "dirt poor", and lived in a rustic, dilapidated one-room cabin in the Great Smoky Mountains, near Locust Ridge, Tennes... Add to favourites (25 fans)Biography of Michel Berger
Michel Berger (28 November 1947, Neuilly-sur-Seine – 2 August 1992, Ramatuelle), born Michel-Jean Hamburger, was a very successful French singer and songwriter. He was a central figure of France's pop music scene for two decades both as a singer and as a songwriter for well-known French artists like his wife France Gall, Véronique Sanson and Johnny Hallyday. He died suddenly of a heart attack at the age of 47. Berger was the son of the famous doctor Jean Hamburger and concert pianist Annette Haas, both of whom were Polish Jews. Berger first became known to the French public in the 1960s as singer of hit song Salut les copains, after which he became record producer and songwriter for EMI and where he wrote amongst others Les Girafes for Bourvil in 1967. In the early 1970s, he moved to W... Add to favourites (28 fans)Biography of Diana Ross
Diana Ross (born Diane Ernestine Earle Ross on March 26, 1944) is an American singer and actress, whose musical repertoire spans R&B, soul, disco, and pop. Ross first gained prominence as lead of the successful girl group The Supremes, before establishing a successful solo career in 1970. During the 1970s and 1980s, Ross became one of the most successful female artists of the rock era, also crossing over into film, television and Broadway. Over the course of her career, Ross has been awarded a Tony Award for the music special An Evening with Diana Ross (1977), seven American Music Awards, and a special Golden Globe for her leading role in the Billie Holliday biographical film Lady Sings the Blues. In addition, Ross has been nominated for twelve Grammy Awards and an Academy Award. In 197... Biography of Lakshmi Mittal
Lakshmi Narayan Mittal (or Lakshmi Nivas Mittal) (लक्ष्मी निवास मित्तल jehan) (born June 15, 1950) is a London-based Indian billionaire industrialist, born in Sadulpur Village, in the Churu district of Rajasthan, India, and residing in Kensington, London. He is the fifth richest person in the world, with a fortune of US$32 billion according to Forbes. The Financial Times named Mittal its 2006 Person of the Year. In May 2007, he was named one of the "100 most influential people" by Time magazine. Early years Lakshmi spent his first years in India, living with his extended family on bare floors and rope beds in a house built by his grandfather. His family, from the Marwari Aggar... Add to favourites (36 fans)Biography of Christopher Reeve
Christopher D'Olier Reeve (September 25, 1952 – October 10, 2004) was an American actor, director, producer and writer. He established himself early as a Juilliard-trained stage actor before portraying Superman/Kal-El/Clark Kent in four films, from 1978 to 1987. In the 1980s, he starred in several films, including Somewhere in Time (1980), Deathtrap (1982), The Bostonians (1984), and Street Smart (1987). He also starred in many plays, including the Broadway plays Fifth of July (1980 - 1982) and The Marriage of Figaro (1985). In 1987, he led a public rally in support of 77 Chilean actors, directors, and playwrights who had been sentenced to death by the dictator Pinochet for criticizing his regime in their works. Pinochet canceled the sentence after the ensuing media coverage, and Reeve was... Add to favourites (14 fans)Biography of Laurent Voulzy
Laurent Voulzy (born Lucien Voulzy on December 18, 1948 in Paris, France) is a French singer and composer. He originally lead the English-pop-influenced Le Temple de Vénus before joining Pascal Danel as guitarist from 1969 to 1974. However he is best known for his collaborative songwriting efforts with singer/songwriter Alain Souchon and his solo singing career which spanned several successful albums. Laurent Voulzy made an international hit with the song "Rockollection". The French lyrics were interspersed with some lines from classic rock hits after the chorus. After a huge hit with his N°1 album "La Septième Vague" in 2006, Voulzy records in 2007 on duet with famous French guitarist Jean-Pierre Danel on his hit album "Guitar Connection 2". Voulzy tours France in 2007. He ... Add to favourites (23 fans)Biography of David Letterman
David Michael Letterman (born April 12, 1947, in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA) is an award-winning American comedian, late night talk show host, television producer, philanthropist, and IRL IndyCar Series car owner. His first major success occurred on the long-running NBC television program, Late Night with David Letterman, before moving to CBS in 1993 to his current place on the Late Show. Letterman has been divorced once, from Michelle Cook, and had a long-term relationship with a former writer and producer on Late Night, Merrill Markoe. His longtime fiancée, Regina Lasko, is 13 years younger than Letterman. They have one son, Harry Joseph, born November 3, 2003. He is named for Letterman's father, Harry Joe Letterman. They currently reside in North Salem, New York. Letterman's ironi... Add to favourites (56 fans)Biography of Whoopi Goldberg
Whoopi Goldberg (born Caryn Elaine Johnson, November 13, 1955), is an American actress, comedian and radio DJ. Goldberg is one of only ten individuals who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony Award, counting Daytime Emmy Awards. She is the second African American female performer to win an Academy Award for acting (the first being Hattie McDaniel); she has also won two Golden Globe Awards. Whoopi Goldberg was born on November 13, 1955 in New York City. Later in life, a DNA test would trace her ancestry to the Papel and Bayote peoples of Guinea-Bissau. Her stage name was taken from "whoopie cushion", which she initially wanted as her name, but chose the last moniker of Goldberg after her mother pointed out that her initial name pick was not Jewish enough to make her ric... Add to favourites (36 fans)Biography of David Icke
David Vaughan Icke (pronounced "IKE" /aɪk/) (born April 29, 1952) is a British writer and public speaker who has devoted himself since 1990 to researching "who and what is really controlling the world." A former professional football player, reporter, television sports presenter, and spokesman for the Green Party, he is the author of 20 books explaining his views. Icke argues that he has developed a moral and political worldview that combines New Age spiritualism with a passionate denunciation of what he sees as totalitarian trends in the modern world, a position that has been described as "New Age conspiracism." At the heart of Icke's theories is the view that the world is ruled by a secret group called the "Global Elite" or "Illuminati," which he has linked to The Protocols ... Add to favourites (67 fans)Biography of Syd Barrett
Roger Keith "Syd" Barrett (6 January 1946 – 7 July 2006) was an English singer, songwriter, guitarist, and artist. He is best remembered as a founding member of Pink Floyd. He was active as a rock musician for about ten years before going into seclusion.... Add to favourites (27 fans)Biography of Gérard Lanvin
Gérard Lanvin (born June 21, 1950 in Boulogne-Billancourt) is a French actor who won a César Award for Best Actor in 1995 for Le fils préféré, and a César Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for The Taste of Others. Other appearances include Une semaine de vacances and 3 zéros.... Add to favourites (16 fans)Biography of Michèle Alliot-Marie
Michèle Jeanne Honorine Alliot-Marie (born 10 September 1946) is the French Minister of the Interior and Overseas territories, and the first woman to lead a major French political party. She was minister of defence in Jacques Chirac's cabinet. Born in Villeneuve-le-Roi in the Val-de-Marne, her father was Bernard Marie, the Mayor of Biarritz. Before her career in politics, she was a senior lecturer at the University of Paris I, and also spent some time practicing law. She holds a doctorate of law, a doctorate in political science and Master's degree in ethnology. Before her entry into national politics, she was a municipal councillor in the town of Ciboure from 1983 to 1988, and for the town of Biarritz 1989 to 1992. She was elected to the National Assembly to represent Pyrénées-Atlan... Add to favourites (47 fans)Biography of Stevie Nicks
Stephanie Lynn "Stevie" Nicks (born May 26, 1948) is an American singer and songwriter, best known for her work with Fleetwood Mac and a long solo career, which collectively have produced over twenty Top 40 hits. She is one of the few rock artists to maintain a solo career while remaining a member of a successful band. As a member of Fleetwood Mac, she was inducted into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998. Early life Nicks was born at Good Samaritan Hospital in Phoenix, Arizona to Jess and Barbara Nicks. As a young child, she had difficulty pronouncing her given name Stephanie, and as a result, began calling herself "Stevie." The nickname stuck. Her mother fostered in her a love for fairy tales, while her grandfather, a struggling country singer, began teaching her to sing at the... Add to favourites (15 fans)Biography of David Hasselhoff
David Michael Hasselhoff (born July 17, 1952 in Cleveland, OH), nicknamed "The Hoff", is an American actor who is best known for his lead roles on Knight Rider and Baywatch. He also crossed over to a successful music career, primarily in Austria, Switzerland, Germany and the United Kingdom. Personal life After dropping out of Atlanta's Marist High School, Hasselhoff attended and graduated high school at Lyons Township High School in La Grange, Illinois. He studied at California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California. Hasselhoff was married to actress Catherine Hickland from March 24, 1984 to March 1, 1989, when they divorced. Their marriage has been recreated in Knight Rider Season 4 (Episode The Scent of Roses which first aired on January 3, 1986). Before his divorce with... Biography of Penny Thornton
Penny Thornton is a British astrologer, born March 22, 19946 in Manchester. Penny Thornton is one of the worlds leading astrologers.... Add to favourites (65 fans)Biography of Rowan Atkinson
Rowan Sebastian Atkinson (born 6 January 1955) is an English comedian, actor and writer, famous for his title roles in the British television comedies Blackadder and Mr. Bean. Atkinson has been listed in The Observer as one of the 50 funniest acts in British comedy, and amongst the top 50 comedy acts ever in a 2005 poll of fellow comedians. Early life Atkinson was born to Ella May and Eric Atkinson, Anglican farmers in the town of Consett, north-west of the city of Durham. His oldest brother is Rodney Atkinson, a eurosceptic economist who narrowly lost the United Kingdom Independence Party leadership election in 2000. He was educated at Durham Choristers School, followed by St Bees School, and studied electrical engineering at Newcastle University. He continued with an MSc at Qu... |
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