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The first 100 results only are displayed. Click on the name to see the natal chart and an excerpt of the psychological portrait. Click on the picture to see it full size. 5 celebrities found matching your search criteria Biography of Angelina Jolie
Angelina Jolie (born Angelina Jolie Voight on June 4, 1975) is an American film actor and a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency. She has received three Golden Globe Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and an Academy Award. Jolie has promoted humanitarian causes throughout the world, and is noted for her work with refugees through UNHCR. She is frequently cited as one of the world's most beautiful women and her off-screen life is widely reported. Though she made her screen debut as a child alongside her father Jon Voight in the 1982 film Lookin' to Get Out, Jolie's acting career began in earnest a decade later with the low-budget production Cyborg 2 (1993). Her first leading role in a major film was in Hackers (1995). She starred in the critically acclaimed biographical fil... Add to favourites (16 fans)Biography of Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt
On May 27, 2006, Angelina Jolie gave birth to a daughter named Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt, at night at the Cottage Medi-Clinic Hospital in Swakopmund, Namibia. Shiloh was born by a scheduled caesarean section, due to breech presentation, and Pitt was there to cut her umbilical cord. Shiloh, according to a long-standing translation from the Bible, has come to mean "the peaceful one". Pitt confirmed that their newly-born daughter will have a Namibian passport while speaking to local journalists, and Jolie decided to offer the first pictures of Shiloh through the distributor Getty Images herself, rather than allowing paparazzi to make these extremely valuable snapshots. People paid more than $4.1 million for the North American rights, while British magazine Hello! obtained the international rig... Add to favourites (8 fans)Biography of Maddox Jolie Pitt
Maddox Jolie Pitt is the son of Angelina Jolie. On March 10, 2002, Jolie adopted her first child, Maddox Chivan Jolie-Pitt (originally Maddox Chivan Thornton Jolie). He was born on August 5 2001, as Rath Vibol in Cambodia and he initially lived in a local orphanage in Battambang. Jolie decided to apply for adoption after she had visited Cambodia twice, while filming Tomb Raider and on a UNHCR field trip in 2001. After her divorce from her second husband, Billy Bob Thornton, Jolie received sole custody of Maddox. His name is Celtic in origin, usually translated as "beneficent", and like Jolie's other children, Maddox has gained a considerable celebrity and appears regularly in the tabloid media; he was named the "cutest celebrity kid," and he is known for his mohawk hairstyle.... Add to favourites (5 fans)Biography of Vivienne Marcheline Jolie Pitt
Angelina Jolie has given birth to healthy twins, a girl and a boy, July 12, 2008 in Nice. Information : Astrological portraits for Knox Leon Jolie Pitt and Vivienne Marcheline Jolie Pitt are identical, since noone knows today exactly their time of birth (juste before 8:00 pm for both). Knox Leon Jolie Pitt and Vivienne Marcheline Jolie Pitt were born just before 8:00 pm local French time on Saturday July 12. Gynecologist Dr. Michel Sussmann reported the babies were delivered by Caesarian section in Nice's Lanval hospital, a French Riviera maternity clinic. Knox Leon was reported to weigh 2.27 kilograms (five pounds) and Vivienne Marcheline 2.28 kilograms (5.02 pounds). The hospital website reported that Jolie would like everyone to know she is fine. Nice-Matin morning newspap... Add to favourites (4 fans)Biography of Knox Léon Jolie Pitt
Angelina Jolie has given birth to healthy twins, a girl and a boy, July 12, 2008 in Nice. Information : Astrological portraits for Knox Leon Jolie Pitt and Vivienne Marcheline Jolie Pitt are identical, since noone knows today exactly their time of birth (juste before 8:00 pm for both). Knox Leon Jolie Pitt and Vivienne Marcheline Jolie Pitt were born just before 8:00 pm local French time on Saturday July 12. Gynecologist Dr. Michel Sussmann reported the babies were delivered by Caesarian section in Nice's Lanval hospital, a French Riviera maternity clinic. Knox Leon was reported to weigh 2.27 kilograms (five pounds) and Vivienne Marcheline 2.28 kilograms (5.02 pounds). The hospital website reported that Jolie would like everyone to know she is fine. Nice-Matin morning newspap... 49 celebrities having your search criteria in their biography Biography of Brad Pitt
William Bradley "Brad" Pitt (born December 18, 1963) is an American actor and film producer. Pitt has received two Academy Award nominations and four Golden Globe Award nominations, winning one. He has been described as one of the world's most attractive men, a label for which he has received substantial media attention. Pitt began his acting career with television guest appearances, including a role on the CBS prime-time soap opera Dallas in 1987. He later gained recognition as the cowboy hitchhiker who seduces Geena Davis's character in the 1991 road movie Thelma & Louise. Pitt's first leading roles in big-budget productions came with A River Runs Through It (1992) and Interview with the Vampire (1994). He was cast opposite Anthony Hopkins in the 1994 drama Legends of the Fall, which ... Biography of Christina Aguilera
Christina Maria Aguilera born December 18, 1980 is an American pop and R&B singer and songwriter. She was signed to RCA Records after recording "Reflection" for the film Mulan. She came to prominence following her debut album Christina Aguilera (1999), which was a critical and commercial success. A Latin pop album Mi Reflejo, and a Christmas album, My Kind of Christmas, followed during this period and also sold strongly. Aguilera took creative control over her second studio album Stripped (2002), which received mixed reviews and yet produced substantial sales. During the album's promotion, her overtly sexual image became the subject of intense criticism and ridicule. Her third studio album Back to Basics (2006) included elements of soul, jazz and blues music. It was released to good sal... Biography of Robert de Niro
Robert Mario De Niro Jr., credited professionally as Robert De Niro (born August 17, 1943), is a highly acclaimed, two-time Academy Award-winning American film actor, director, and producer. He is noted for his portrayal of conflicted, troubled characters, and for his enduring collaboration with director Martin Scorsese, and early work with director Brian De Palma. He is considered by many to be the greatest actor of his generation and one of the world's greatest living actors. He is the son of the noted painter Robert De Niro, Sr. Early film career At the age of 20, in 1963, came De Niro's first film role and collaboration with Brian De Palma, when he appeared in The Wedding Party; it was not released until 1969, however. He spent much of the 1960s working in theater workshops a... Biography of Nicolas Cage
Nicolas Cage (born Nicholas Coppola on January 7, 1964) is an Academy Award-winning American actor. Cage has also worked as a director and producer, through his production company Saturn Films. As of 2007, he has been nominated twice for an Academy Award as Best Actor in a Leading Role, winning one of them for his performance in Leaving Las Vegas. Early life Cage was born Nicholas Kim Coppola in Long Beach, California. His father, August Floyd Coppola, is a comparative literature professor and a pioneer of studies for the blind, while his part German American mother, Joy Vogelsang, is a choreographer and dancer who suffered from chronic depression; the two divorced in 1976. Cage's father is an Italian American, with his paternal grandparents being Carmine Coppola and Italia Pennino, an a... Biography of Drew Barrymore
Drew Blyth Barrymore (born February 22, 1975) is an American actress and film producer, the youngest member of the Barrymore family of American actors. She has her own production company, Flower Films. Barrymore made her screen début in Altered States (1980); she made her breakout role two years later in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. She quickly became one of Hollywood's most recognized child actresses. In the late-1980s and early-1990s, Barrymore had various problems with alcohol and drugs, which somewhat damaged her career. She also posed nude for Playboy in 1995. She made a comeback with the thriller Poison Ivy (1992), and afterwards began to perform predominantly in leading roles in a variety of films, ranging from big budget romantic comedies and dramas to science fiction, horror fil... Biography of Louis Vuitton
Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy LVMH.PA more commonly known simply as Louis Vuitton, is a luxury French fashion and leather goods brand and company headquartered in Paris, France. The company is named after its founder Louis Vuitton (August 4, 1821-February 27, 1892), who designed and manufactured luggage, as a Malletier during the second half of the nineteenth century. Vuitton was born in Jura, France (now part of the commune of Lavans-sur-Valouse), but moved to Paris in 1835. The trip from his home town to Paris was over 400 kilometers long, and he traveled by foot. On his way there he picked up a series of odd jobs to pay for his journey. Two years later, at the age of 16, he apprenticed for the luggage manufacturer Monsieur Marechal. In 1854 he founded the company, which is now owned by... Biography of Jon Voight
Jonathan Vincent "Jon" Voight (born December 29, 1938) is an Academy Award-winning American actor. The father of Oscar-winner Angelina Jolie, Jon Voight, also an Oscar-winner and four-time nominee himself, has a long and distinguished career as both a leading man and, in recent years, character actor, with an extensive range. The blond, blue-eyed actor with a boyish face came to prominence at the end of the sixties, with a riveting performance as a would-be hustler in 1969's Best Picture winner, Midnight Cowboy, for which he earned his first Academy Award nomination. Throughout the following decades, Voight built his reputation with an array of challenging roles and has appeared in such landmark films as 1972's Deliverance, and 1978's Coming Home, for which he received an Academy Award ... Biography of Vince Vaughn
Vincent Anthony Vaughn (born March 28, 1970) is an American film actor. He began acting in the late 1980s, appearing in minor television roles before coming to wider renown with the 1996 movie, Swingers. Vaughn has since appeared in a number of high-grossing Hollywood comedies. Early life Vaughn was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota to Vernon Lindsay Vaughn, a salesman, and Sharon Eileen DePalmo, a Canadian-born broker once ranked as one of the United States' top money managers by Bloomberg Wealth Manager magazine. He has two older sisters, Valerie and Victoria. Vince's father was Protestant and his mother was Roman Catholic, and he was raised in the Catholic religion. He has English, Irish, German, Lebanese, and Italian ancestry. Vaughn's parents divorced in 1991. He grew up in Buffalo G... Biography of Queen Latifah
Dana Elaine Owens (born March 18, 1970 in Newark, New Jersey) is a Grammy-winning American rapper/singer, model, and Academy Award-nominated actress. She is better known as Queen Latifah. Music career In the early days of her career, she was one of the members of the original version of the Flavor Unit, which, at that time, was a crew of emcees grouped around producer DJ Mark the 45 King. She was also a member of the Nation of Gods and Earths, a Faradian Islamic sect. After becoming successful, DJ Mark the 45 King began to abuse drugs, and Latifah took over the crew, forming it into her management company with the help of Jake Abrams. Latifah started her career beatboxing for the rap group Ladies Fresh. In 1988, local DJ Mark the 45 King heard a demo version of Latifah's single "Pri... Biography of Faye Dunaway
Faye Dunaway (born January 14, 1941 (birth time source: Steinbrecher)) is an Academy Award-winning American actress. Early life Dunaway was born Dorothy Faye Dunaway in Bascom, Florida to Grace April Smith, a homemaker, and John MacDowell Dunaway, Jr., a career army officer. She attended the University of Florida and Boston University, and joined the American National Theatre and Academy in 1962. Career Dunaway appeared on Broadway in 1962 as the daughter of Thomas More in A Man for All Seasons. Her first screen role was in 1967 in Hurry Sundown, but that same year, she got the leading female role in Bonnie and Clyde (opposite Warren Beatty) which garnered her an Oscar nomination. It was in the 1970s that she began to stretch her acting muscles in such films as Three Days of ... Biography of Jacqueline Bisset
Jacqueline Bisset (born Winifred Jacqueline Fraser-Bisset on 13 September 1944) is an English actress. Early life Bisset was born in Weybridge, Surrey to Max Fraser-Bisset, a Scottish General Practitioner, and the former Arlette Alexander, a lawyer of French and English descent; Bisset's mother cycled from Paris and boarded a British trooper in order to escape the Germans during WWII. Bisset has a brother, Max. Bisset's mother taught her to speak French fluently and she was educated at the Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle in London. When Bisset was a teenager, her mother was diagnosed with disseminating sclerosis. Bisset's parents divorced in 1968, after 28 years of marriage. Bisset subsequently moved in to help her mother. She had taken ballet lessons as a young child, and now began t... Biography of Laura Dern
Laura Elizabeth Dern (born February 10, 1967 in Los Angeles, California) is an American actress. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in the movie Rambling Rose. Her other movies include Jurassic Park, Jurassic Park III, Blue Velvet, A Perfect World, Wild at Heart, October Sky, Mask, and We Don't Live Here Anymore, for which she received the award for Best Supporting Actress from the Boston Society of Film Critics. Early life and career Dern is the daughter of Bruce Dern and Diane Ladd and the great-granddaughter to former Utah governor George H. Dern. Laura Dern's film debut was in fact a cameo in her mother's film Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore. In the mid-1980s she gained critical acclaim for roles in films by Peter Bogdanovich (Mask) and David Lynch (Blue Velvet... Biography of Toni Collette
Toni Collette (born November 1, 1972) is an Academy Award-nominated Australian actress and musician. She is perhaps best known for her roles in the films The Sixth Sense, Muriel's Wedding, In Her Shoes and Little Miss Sunshine. Early life Collette was born Antonia Collette in Blacktown, Sydney, New South Wales to Bob Collette, a truck driver, and Judy, a customer-service representative. She has two younger brothers, Ben and Christopher. When Collette was eleven years old she faked appendicitis out of boredom and longing for attention. She was so convincing that doctors removed her appendix, even though tests showed nothing wrong with it. She attended both the Australian Theatre for Young People and NIDA. Career Collette has won four Australian Film Institute awards, including th... Biography of Zsa Zsa Gabor
Zsa Zsa Gábor (born Sári Gábor on February 6, 1917(1917-02-06)) is a Hungarian-American actress and socialite. Personal Gábor was born in Budapest, the second of three daughters (Magda, Sári, and Éva) born to Vilmos Gábor, a soldier, and Jolie Gábor (Janci Tilleman). She was named after the then top Hungarian actress Sári Fedák, who was also called Zsa Zsa because her daughter couldn't pronounce the name Sári. Gabor's maternal family was Jewish and her maternal grandparents died in the Holocaust. Biographers speculate that her paternal family were originally Jewish as well, but converted to Roman Catholicism in order to assimilate, although this has not been confirmed. Following studies at a Swiss boarding-school, Zsa Zsa won the Miss Hungary beauty contest, in 1936, but was disqual... Biography of Maurane (singer)
Maurane, real name Claudine Luypaerts, (Ixelles, Brussels, November 12, 1960) is a Belgian singer. She lives currently in Schaerbeek, the municipality where Jacques Brel was born. Her father was director in the Académie de Musique de Verviers, and when she was a teenager she took part in several musical contests. In 1979, she participated in the show, « Brel en mille temps », with Philippe Lafontaine, she was discovered there by the French songwriter, Pierre Barouh. She got later small contracts in cafés or as Jo Lemaire o Philippe Lafontaine's choir until she released her first album in 1986. She has a daughter named Lou with the singer Pablo Villafranca. Honours 1986 - Prix Rapsat-Lelièvre Selected discography Singles 1986 : Danser 1988 : Les uns contre les autres ... Biography of Kathy Bates
Kathleen Doyle Bates (born June 28, 1948) is an Academy Award-winning American theatrical, film, and television actress, and a stage and television director. Early life Bates was born in Memphis, Tennessee to Bertye Kathleen (Talbot), a homemaker, and Langdon Doyle Bates, a mechanical engineer. Her great-great-grandfather was an immigrant from Ireland to New Orleans and served as President Andrew Jackson's doctor. She has two older sisters, Mary and Patricia. Bates graduated from White Station High School in Memphis. She attended Southern Methodist University, majoring in theatre and was a member of Alpha Delta Pi sorority, and graduated in 1969. She moved to New York City in 1970 in order to pursue an acting career. Career One of her first films was the Dustin Hoffman film Str... Biography of Oscar Romero
Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez (August 15, 1917 – March 24, 1980), commonly known as Monseñor Romero, was a priest of the Roman Catholic Church in El Salvador. He later became the eighth Bishop and fourth Archbishop of San Salvador, succeeding the long-reigning Luis Chávez y González. As archbishop, he witnessed ongoing violations of human rights and started a group which spoke out to the poor and also victims of the country's civil war. Chosen to be archbishop for his conservatism, once in office his conscience led him to embrace a non-violent form of liberation theology, a position that has led to comparisons with Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King. Later, in 1980, he was assassinated by gunshot shortly after his homily. His death provoked international outcry for human rights ref... Biography of Faudel
Faudel (born Faudel Belloua on June 6, 1978 in Mantes-la-Jolie) is a French singer of Algerian descent, considered the "Prince of Raï". He grew up in the suburbs of Paris, where he picked up his musical talents from his grandmother who taught him traditional Algerian music. His first public singing experience was during a family wedding celebration in Oran, Algeria. Faudel started to cover the popular tracks by Cheb Khaled and Cheb Mami at 12, after which he soon fronted the popular band "Les Etoiles du Raï". His debut album, Baida, catapulted him to fame. He has also performed with Khaled and Rachid Taha on the live album 1,2,3 Soleils. His other albums include Samra and his album Un Autre Soleil (released Sept. 2003) and, most recently, Mundial Corrida (2006). He also has acted in a f... Biography of Eva Gabor
Eva Gabor (in Hungarian Gábor Éva) (February 11, 1919 – July 4, 1995) was a Hungary-born Jewish-American actress. Early life Gabor was born in Budapest, the daughter of Vilmos and Jolie Gabor (Janci Tilleman). Her elder sisters were Magda Gabor and Zsa Zsa Gabor. Gabor's maternal family was Jewish and her maternal grandparents died in the Holocaust. Biographers speculate that her paternal family were originally Jewish as well, but converted to Roman Catholicism in order to assimilate, although this has not been confirmed. Career Eva was the first in her family to immigrate to America. She moved with her first husband, Swedish physician Eric Drimmer. Her first movie role was a bit part in Forced Landing (1941) at Paramount Pictures. She acted in movies and on the stage throughout... Biography of Georges Bizet
Georges Bizet (October 25, 1838 – June 3, 1875) was a French composer and pianist of the romantic era. He is best known for his opera Carmen. Bizet was born in Paris, France at 28 rue de la Tour d'Auvergne. He was registered with the legal name Alexandre-César-Léopold Bizet, but was baptized Georges Bizet and was always known by the latter name. He entered the Paris Conservatory of Music a fortnight before his tenth birthday. His first symphony, the Symphony in C Major, was written there when he was seventeen, evidently as a student assignment. It seems that Bizet completely forgot about it himself, and it was not discovered again until 1935, in the archives of the Conservatory library. Upon its first performance, it was immediately hailed as a junior masterwork and a welcome additio... Biography of Adam Clayton
Adam Charles Clayton (born 13 March 1960 in Chinnor, Oxfordshire, England), is the bass player of the rock band U2. Although he is a British citizen, Clayton has resided in Dublin county from the time his family moved to Malahide when he was five years old to the present. Clayton is well known for his bass playing on songs such as "New Year's Day" and "With or Without You". He has worked on several solo projects throughout his career, including working with fellow band member Larry Mullen Jr. on the theme of Mission: Impossible. Clayton and U2 have together won 22 Grammy awards, more than any other rock artist. Clayton is the eldest child of Brian and Jo Clayton, born on 13 March 1960 in Oxfordshire, England. When Clayton was five years old, his family moved from Oxfordshire to Malahide... Biography of Daniel Pearl
Daniel Pearl (October 10, 1963 – February 1, 2002) was an American journalist who was kidnapped and murdered in Karachi, Pakistan. At the time of his kidnapping, Pearl had been investigating the case of Richard Reid, the shoe bomber, and alleged links between Al Qaeda and Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). In March 2007, at a closed military hearing in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed said that he had personally beheaded Pearl. Then he added, "for those who would like to confirm, there are pictures of me on the Internet holding his head." In July 2002, Ahmed Omar Said Schiek, a British national of Pakistani origin was sentenced to death for the abduction and death of Daniel Pearl. In April 2006, a documentary film The Journalist and the Jihadi was aired by HBO ... Biography of Dorothy Parker
Dorothy Parker (August 22, 1893 – June 7, 1967) was an American writer and poet, best known for her caustic wit, wisecracks, and sharp eye for 20th century urban foibles. Early life Also known as Dot or Dottie, Parker was born Dorothy Rothschild at 732 Ocean Avenue in the West End village of Long Branch, New Jersey, where her parents had a summer beach cottage. Parker wrote in her essay "My Hometown" that her parents got her back to their Manhattan apartment shortly after Labor Day so she could be called a true New Yorker. Her friends found her both a source of fun and of tragedy; she attempted suicide at least three times. Her mother died in West End when Dorothy was a month shy of turning five. She grew up on the Upper West Side, and attended Roman Catholic elementary school at t... Biography of Maria Menounos
Maria Menounos (Greek:Μαρία Μενούνου) (born June 8, 1978 in Stoneham, Massachusetts (birth certificate)) is an American actress, journalist, and television presenter known in America for her appearances as a correspondent for Today, Access Hollywood, Extra, and abroad for co-hosting the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 in Athens, Greece. Early life and beauty pageants Menounos, a Greek American, was born in Stoneham, Massachusetts to immigrant parents Costas and Litsa Menounos. She has a younger brother, Peter, and is fluent in the Greek language. At age 17, she was an employee of Dunkin' Donuts. Menounos attended the Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church. Menounos attended Medford High School in Medford, MA. In 1995, Menounos... Biography of Jacques Offenbach
Jacques Offenbach (20 June 1819 – 5 October 1880) was a French composer and cellist of the Romantic era with German-Jewish descent and one of the originators of the operetta form. He was one of the most influential composers of popular music in Europe in the 19th century, and many of his works remain in the repertory. While his name remains most closely associated with the French operetta and the Second Empire, it is his one fully operatic masterpiece, Les contes d'Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann), that has become the most frequently performed of Offenbach's works. Offenbach's father, born Isaac Eberst in Offenbach am Main around 1780, changed his name to Offenbach when he settled down in Deutz in 1802. He was a man of many talents who worked as a bookbinder, translator, publisher, musi... Biography of Nina Ricci
Maria 'Nina' Nielli was born in Turin, Italy in 1882. She moved to Florence with her family at age 5 and then to France in 1895 at age 12. At the age of 13, she began an apprenticeship at a dressmaker. She continued to pursue her love of fashion throughout her teenage years. She married jeweler Luigi Ricci in 1904, and then became Maria Ricci. They had a child named Robert. In 1908 Nina joined the house of Raffin as a designer and remained there for 20 years. She became his partner, and then moved on to create her own design house in 1932. HOUSE OF NINA RICCI The house of Nina Ricci was founded by Maria Ricci and her son Robert in Paris in 1932. Maria was 50, and after working at Raffin for so many years was itching to design her own creations. Madame Ricci designed gowns while Robert ... Biography of Brenda Lee
Brenda Lee (born December 11, 1944) is an American pop singer, who was immensely popular during the 1950s and 1960s. She had the most charted hits of any woman in the 1960s, and only three male singers/groups (Elvis Presley, Ray Charles, and The Beatles) outpaced her. She was one of the earliest pop stars to have a major contemporary international following. She was given the nickname Little Miss Dynamite after recording Dynamite in 1957; the explosive strength of the sound pouring out of her small frame amazed audiences and promoters. Her general popularity faded as her voice suffered damage and matured in the late 1960s, but she successfully continued her recording career by returning to her roots as a country singer. She was able to chart in Billboard's CW top ten twice in 1980. S... Biography of Marius Petipa
Marius Ivanovich Petipa (ru. Мариус Иванович Петипа) (born Victor Marius Alphonse Petipa on 11 March 1818 in Marseille, France - died in Gurzuf in the Crimea, Russian Empire, in what is today the Ukraine, on 14 July 1910) - was a ballet dancer, teacher, and choreographer. Marius Petipa is often given the title "Father of Classical Ballet", and is cited nearly unanimously by the most noted artists of the classical ballet to be the most influential balletmaster and choreographer that has ever lived (among them - George Balanchine, who cited Petipa as his primary influence). Petipa is equally noted for the ballets he created, some of which have survived to the present day... Biography of Lynn Redgrave
Lynn Rachel Redgrave, OBE (born 8 March 1943 in London) is two-time Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe-winning English actress born into the famous Redgrave acting family. Height: 5' 10" (1.78 m) Her parents were Sir Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson, Lady Redgrave, her brother is Corin Redgrave and her sister is Vanessa Redgrave. She is the aunt of Natasha Richardson, Joely Richardson and Jemma Redgrave. Career After training at London's Central School, Lynn Redgrave made her professional debut in a 1962 production of A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Royal Court Theatre. Following a tour of Billy Liar and rep in Dundee, She made her West End debut at the Haymarket, in N.C. Hunter's The Tulip Tree with Celia Johnson and John Clements. Then came an invitation to join Th... Biography of Patachou
Henriette Ragon, best known as Patachou, born June 10, 1918 in Paris, is a French singer and actress. Discography La Complainte de la Butte Bal chez Temporel Chanson tendre Comme tout l'monde Entre Pigalle et Blanche Histoire de roses Jolie môme La bague à Jules La Baya (Timélou, lamélou) La chose Le bricoleur (de Georges Brassens) Le piano du pauvre Mon homme Rue Saint Vincent Tire l'aiguille (Laï...Laï... Laï...) Voyage de noces Brave Margot (de Georges Brassens) J'ai rendez-vous avec vous (de Georges Brassens) À Saint-Lazare (Aristide Bruant) Actress 1953 : Femmes de Paris de Jean Boyer, Patachou y chante Brave Margot de Brassens 1999 : Les Acteurs de Bertrand Blier 2001 : Drôle de Félix 2003 : San-Antonio de Frédéric Auburtin... Biography of Yves Simon
Yves Simon, born May 3, 1944 in Choiseul (Haute-Marne), is a French singer and author. Discography 1973 : Au pays des merveilles de Juliet 1974 : Respirer, chanter 1975 : Raconte-toi 1975 : Concert au Théâtre de la Ville, avec Transit Express 1976 : Macadam 1977 : Un autre désir 1977 : Concert à Tokyo 1977 : BO du film de Diane Kurys, Diabolo menthe 1978 : BO du film de Diane Kurys, Cocktail Molotov 1978 : Demain je t'aime 1979 : Participation à l'album collectif Émilie Jolie 1981 : Une vie comme ça 1983 : USA/USSR (Amazoniaque) 1985 : De l'autre côté du monde 1988 : Liaisons 1992 : BO du film de Diane Kurys, Après l'amour 1996 : Longue distance (compilation) 1999 : Intempestives 2007 : Rumeurs Bibliography 1971 : Les jours en couleurs 1... Biography of Robert Zemeckis
Robert Lee "Bob" Zemeckis (born May 14, 1952) is an Academy Award and Golden Globe-winning American movie director, producer and writer. Zemeckis first came to public attention in the 1980s as the director of the comedic time-travel Back to the Future films as well as the live-action/animated film Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), though in the 1990s he diversified into more dramatic fare, including 1994's Forrest Gump, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Director. Height: 6' (1.83 m) His films are characterized by an interest in state-of-the-art special effects, including the early use of match moving in Back to the Future Part II (1989) and the pioneering performance capture techniques seen in The Polar Express (2004). Though Zemeckis has often been pidgeonholed as a director ... Biography of Saul Kripke
Saul Aaron Kripke (born in November 13, 1940 in Bay Shore, New York) is an American philosopher and logician, now emeritus from Princeton. He teaches as distinguished professor of philosophy at CUNY Graduate Center. Kripke has been influential in a number of fields related to logic and philosophy of language. Much of his work remains unpublished or exists only as tape-recordings and privately circulated manuscripts. Kripke was the recipient of the 2001 Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy. Biography Saul Kripke is the eldest of three children born to Dorothy and Rabbi Myer Kripke. His father was the leader of Beth El Synagogue, the only Conservative congregation in Omaha, Nebraska. His mother wrote Jewish educational children's books. Saul and his two sisters, Madeline and Netta, atte... Biography of George Wallace
George Corley Wallace Jr. (August 25, 1919 – September 13, 1998), was a Democratic Governor of Alabama for four terms (1963-1967, 1971-1979 and 1983-1987) and ran for U.S. President seven times, running as a Democrat in four times and in the Independent Party three times. He is best known for his pro-segregation attitudes and as a symbol of states' rights during the American desegregation period, which he modified later in life. Early life Wallace was born in Clio in Barbour County in southeastern Alabama to George Corley Wallace and Mozell Smith. He became a regionally successful boxer in his high school days, then went directly to law school at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa in 1937. After receiving a law degree in 1942, he enlisted in the US Army Air Corps, flying combat mi... Biography of Robert Klein
Robert Klein (born February 8, 1942) is an American stand-up comedian and actor, director, producer and screenwriter. Early life Klein was born in the Bronx, the son of Frieda (née Moskowitz) and Benjamin Klein and was raised in a "prototypical 1950s Bronx Jewish" environment. He studied drama at Yale University when he got wind of an opportunity to audition for The Second City. In a piece he wrote for the improvisational troupe's book, Klein recalled sitting in a room full of other hopefuls including Fred Willard. Klein's audition consisted of an improvisation set with Willard about two guys in a nightclub, which was successful enough to get Klein and Willard hired to join The Second City. Klein had said another young man, Billy Dee Williams, was invited to join the troupe but turned ... Biography of Yves Allégret
Yves Allégret (October 13, 1907 - January 31, 1987) was a French film director in the film noir genre. His films include Une Si Jolie Petite Plage (1948), Manèges (1949), and The Proud and the Beautiful (1953). He is noted as having been the husband of actress Simone Signoret between the years 1944–1949.... Biography of Philippe Chatel
Philippe Chatel, born February 23, 1948 in Paris, is a French composer, author and singer. Discography Les premières chansons (33 T EMI) 1976 : Analyse (33 T RCA) 1978 : Salut au temps qui passe (33 T RCA) 1978 : Sentiments (33 T RCA) 1979 : Émilie Jolie (conte musical - double 33 T RCA) 1980 : Émilie Jolie (1re réédition CD RCA) 1981 : Maquillages (33 T RCA) 1981 : Enregistrement public (double 33 T RCA) 1982 : Yin Yang (33 T CBS) 1983 : Les aventures de Tom-Tom-Tommy (conte musical - double 33 T CBS) 1984 : Peau d'âme (33 T CBS) 1990 : Anyway (CD Flarenash) 1997 : Émilie Jolie (nouvelle version - CD Universal) 1997 : Ses plus belles chansons (compil CD BMG, inclus 1 inédit) 2004 : Passé composé (compil CD Universal, inclus 1 inédit) Other Songs 197... Biography of Paul Theroux
Paul Edward Theroux (born April 10, 1941) is an American travel writer and novelist, whose best known work is, perhaps, The Great Railway Bazaar (1975), a travelogue about a trip he made by train from Great Britain through Western and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, through South Asia, then South-East Asia, up through East Asia, as far east as Japan, and then back across Russia to his point of origin. Although perhaps best known as a travel writer, Theroux has also published numerous works of fiction, some of which were made into feature films. He was awarded the 1981 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel The Mosquito Coast. Theroux was born in Medford, Massachusetts, the son of Catholic parents, a French-Canadian father and an Italian mother. His French last name originates fr... Biography of Madeleine Robinson
Madeleine Yvonne Svoboda, best known as Madeleine Robinson, born November 5, 1917 in Paris, died August 1, 2004 in Lausanne, was a French and Swiss actress. She was the wife of actor Robert Dalban, Guillaume Amestoy, and José Luis de Vilallonga. She also has had a daughter with French singer Jean-Louis Jaubert (Les Compagnons de la chanson). Theatre Une grande fille toute simple d'André Roussin Adorable Julia, adaptation française de Marc-Gilbert Sauvajon d’après Somerset Maugham Noix de coco de Marcel Achard Un tramway nommé Désir de Tennessee Williams Les Parents terribles de Jean Cocteau Qui a peur de Virginia Woolf ?, adaptation française de Pierre Laville d’après Edward Albee Mère Courage et ses enfants de Bertolt Brecht Selected filmography 1936 : Mioche de... Biography of Gabriel Bacquier
Gabriel Bacquier (born May 17, 1924 in Béziers, France) is a French operatic baritone. One of the leading baritones of the 20th century, he is particularly distinguished in the French repertoire and considered an accomplished actor as well as singer. Career From 1963, Bacquier sang regularly at the Vienna State Opera, La Scala, the Royal Opera House in London, and the Metropolitan Opera in New York, where he was one of the few French singers to have sung in 18 consecutive seasons. He created the title roles of Jean-Pierre Rivière's Pour un Don Quichotte (La Scala, March 10, 1961) and Daniel-Lesur's Andréa del Sarto (Opéra de Marseille, 1969), as well as singing in the world premiere of Maurice Thiriet's La véridique histoire du Docteur at the Opéra-Comique. Awards and Distinct... Biography of Bernard Menez
Bernard Menez, born August 8, 1944 in Mailly-le-Château, Yonne, is a French comedian, actor, singer, screenwriter, director and politician. He was one of the French candidates for the 2004 European elections. Filmography Actor 1973 : Pleure pas la bouche pleine, de Pascal Thomas : Alexandre 1973 : La grande bouffe, de Marco Ferreri : Pierre 1973 : Les Quatre Charlots mousquetaires, de André Hunebelle : Le procureur 1973 : La Nuit américaine, de François Truffaut : Bernard 1973 : Du côté d'Orouet, de Jacques Rozier : Gilbert 1974 : Le chaud lapin, de Pascal Thomas : William 1974 : Comme un pot de fraises, de Jean Aurel : Philippe 1975 : Tendre Dracula, de Pierre Grunstein : Alfred 1975 : Trop c'est trop, de Didier Kaminka 1975 : Pas de problème, de Georges Lautne... Biography of Adolphe Adam
Adolphe Charles Adam (July 24, 1803 – May 3, 1856) was a French composer and music critic. A prolific composer of operas and ballets, he is best known today for his ballets Giselle (1844) and Le Corsaire (1856, his last work), his operas Le postillon de Lonjumeau (1836), Le toréador (1849) and Si j'étais roi (1852, often regarded as his finest work), and his Christmas carol Minuit, chrétiens! (O Holy Night) (1847). Adam was also a noted teacher. Léo Delibes was among his pupils. Adolphe Adam was born in Paris to Louis Adam (1758-1848), who was also a composer, as well a professor at the Paris Conservatoire. His mother was the daughter of a physician. As a child, Adolphe Adam preferred to improvise music on his own rather than study music seriously. He entered the Paris Conservatoire in ... Biography of Mike Newell
Michael Cormac Newell (born 28 March 1942) is an English director and producer of motion pictures for the screen and for television. Early life Born in St Albans, Hertfordshire, Newell was educated at St Albans School and Magdalene College, Cambridge. He then attended a three year training course at Granada Television, with the intention of entering the theatre. Career Newell directed various British TV shows from the 1960s onwards (Such as Spindoe (1968), credited as Cormac Newell, and Big Breadwinner Hog). However, he eventually graduated into film direction and then he went on to make the horror film The Awakening (1980) and Bad Blood (1981) about a New Zealand mass murderer. His first film was The Man in the Iron Mask (1977), made for TV. His first critically acclaimed mov... Biography of Jean Murat
Jean Murat, born July 13, 1888 in Périgueux (Dordogne), died January 4, 1968 in Aix-en-Provence (Bouches-du-Rhône), was a French actor. He married comedian Annabella. Filmography Silent films 1918 : Mothers of men d'Édouard José 1920 : Expiation de Fred Niblo 1922 : L'Autre aile d'Henri Andréani 1922 : La Sirène de pierre de Roger Lion et Virginia de Castro 1923 : Les Yeux de l'âme de Roger Lion 1924 : Souvent femme varie de Jean Legrand 1924 : La Fontaine des amours de Roger Lion 1924 : La Galerie des monstres de Jaque Catelain 1924 : Nostalgie de Genaro Righelli 1925 : Le Stigmate de Louis Feuillade 1925 : Les Fiançailles rouges de Roger Lion 1925 : Le Roi de la pédale de Maurice Champreux 1926 : Carmen de Jacques Feyder 1926 : La Proie du vent de René... Biography of Pierre Balmain
Pierre Alexandre Claudius Balmain (b. St. Jean de Maurienne, France, May 18, 1914 – Paris, France, June 29, 1982) was a French fashion designer. Known for sophistication and elegance, he once said that "dressmaking is the architecture of movement." Balmain's father, who died when the future designer was 7 years old, was the owner of a wholesale drapery business. His mother and her sisters operated a fashion boutique. After studying at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, he went to work for the fashion designer Edward Molyneux, for whom he worked from 1934 until 1939. He joined Lucien Lelong after World War II and opened his own fashion house in 1945. Balmain also created perfumes, including Vent Vert (1947), his first successful scent and one of the best-selling perfumes of the late 1940s and ... Biography of François Bazin
François Emmanuel Joseph Bazin (September 4, 1816 – July 2, 1878) was a French opera composer. Biography François Bazin was born in Marseille. He became a student of Auber at the Conservatoire de Paris, where he later taught harmony. His cantata Loyse de Monfort won the Prix de Rome in 1840. Le voyage en Chine, which premiered at the Opéra-Comique in Paris is his best known composition, and continued to appear well into the 20th century. Although his many light operas were popular during his lifetime, they are rarely staged today. A handful of arias are still occasionally performed, including "Je pense à vous" from Maître Pathelin recorded by Roberto Alagna. He died in Paris. Opéra-comique Le Trompette de Monsieur le Prince (Mélesville), 1846 Le malheur d'être jolie (Desnoyers)... Biography of François-Adrien Boieldieu
François-Adrien Boieldieu (16 December 1775, Rouen – 8 October 1834, Varennes-Jarcy, Essonne) was a French composer, mainly of operas. Born under the Ancien Régime in Rouen, Adrien Boieldieu received his musical education first from the choirmaster and then from the organist of the local cathedral. During the Reign of Terror, Rouen was one of the few towns to maintain a significant musical life and in 1793 a series of concerts was organised featuring the celebrated violinist Pierre Rode and the tenor Pierre-Jean Garat. It was during this time that Boieldieu composed his earliest works to texts written by his father (La fille coupable in 1793, followed by Rosalie et Mirza in 1795). They brought him immediate success. During the Revolutionary period, Boieldieu left for Paris and wisel... Biography of Johnny Lee Miller
Jonathan "Jonny" Lee Miller (born 15 November 1972) is an English actor. Early life Miller was born in Kingston upon Thames, South West London, England, the son of Anne (née Lee), who worked in theatre production and starred in many films like Lost & Found, and Alan Miller, a stage actor and later a stage manager at the BBC. Miller's maternal grandfather was Bernard Lee, famous for playing the character M in the earlier James Bond films. Miller has stated that he has fond memories of being at Television Centre with his sister and watching Top of the Pops and Blue Peter being made. Miller was educated at Tiffin School in Kingston upon Thames where he gained his first acting experience and played in the Tiffin Swing Band. Miller left school at age 17 to pursue his acting career. Care... Biography of Frank Westmore
Frank Courtney Westmore (April 13, 1923 (birth time source: the Wilsons, birth certificate, Astrodatabank) – May 14, 1985) was a Hollywood make-up artist, part of the Westmore family who were credited with introducing the art of make-up to the Hollywood movie industry. He was born in Maywood, California, and died of a heart ailment in St. Joseph's Medical Center, Burbank, California. After apprenticing at Paramount Pictures with his brother Wally, he worked on films such as Farewell, My Lovely, The Ten Commandments, Houseboat, Two for the Seesaw, and The Towering Inferno, and television series such as The Munsters, Planet of the Apes, Bonanza, Hart to Hart and Kung Fu. For the last of these he won the Emmy Award for "Outstanding Achievement in Makeup" in 1972, and was also nominated uns... 41 celebrities having your search criteria in their French biography Biography of Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson, June 1, 1926 – August 5, 1962; baptized Norma Jeane Baker) was an American actress, singer, model and film producer. After spending much of her childhood in foster homes, Monroe began a career as a model, which led to a film contract in 1946. Her early roles were minor, but her performances in The Asphalt Jungle and All About Eve (both 1950) were well received, and as her career progressed she became known as a sex symbol. She was praised for her comedic ability in such films as Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, How to Marry a Millionaire and The Seven Year Itch, and became one of Hollywood's most popular performers. The typecasting of Monroe's "dumb blonde" persona limited her career prospects, and she broadened her range. Her marriage to baseball... Biography of Sharon Stone
Sharon Yvonne Stone (born March 10, 1958) is an American actress, film producer, and former fashion model. She achieved international recognition for her role in the erotic thriller Basic Instinct. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress and won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Drama for her performance in Casino. Early life Stone was born in Meadville, Pennsylvania. The second of four children, she is the daughter of Dorothy (née Lawson), an accountant and homemaker, and Joseph Stone, a tool and die manufacturer. Stone graduated in 1975 from Saegertown High School in Saegertown, Pennsylvania, graduating early in an accelerated study program in conjunction with Edinboro University of Pennsylvania and briefly attended Edinboro. As a teenager... Biography of Jennifer Aniston
Jennifer Aniston (born February 11, 1969) is an Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning American film and television actress. Aniston began appearing in stage productions in the late 1980s. After several lesser-known film and television roles during the early 1990s, Aniston came to fame playing Rachel Green on the hugely popular television sitcom Friends for which she won a Golden Globe and an Emmy Award. She has since focused heavily on her film career, having starred in several successful Hollywood films, including Bruce Almighty, Along Came Polly and The Break-Up. Aniston was married to, and eventually divorced from, actor Brad Pitt. Jennifer Aniston's most memorable contribution to 90's pop culture is "the Rachel," a hairstyle that became very popular, and is symbolic of Aniston's popular... Biography of Vanessa Paradis
Vanessa Chantal Paradis (born December 22, 1972 in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, Val-de-Marne, France) is a French singer and actress. Vanessa Paradis was discovered on the TV show L'École des fans in 1980. She recorded her first single La Magie des surprises-parties in 1985. Although it was not a hit, it paved the way for the song with which she would become internationally famous - Joe le taxi in 1987, while she was still only 14 years old. It was #1 in France for 14 weeks and, unusually for a song sung in French, was released in the UK the following year, where it reached #3. It was taken from her first album M&J (it stands for Marilyn & John) which, although it gained a respectable #13 placing in France, drew little attention in Britain and did not chart. In 1992, now aged 19 and workin... Biography of Elizabeth Taylor
Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor, DBE (February 27, 1932 (birth time source: her birth certificate, Astrodatabank) – March 23, 2011), also known as Liz Taylor, was an English-American actress. A former child star, she grew to be known for her acting talent and beauty, as well as her Hollywood lifestyle, including many marriages. Taylor was considered one of the great actresses of Hollywood's golden age. The American Film Institute named Taylor seventh on its Female Legends list. Early years (1932–1942) Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor was born in Hampstead, a wealthy district of North West London, the second child of Francis Lenn Taylor (1897–1968) and Sara Viola Warmbrodt (1895–1994), who were Americans residing in England. Taylor's older brother, Howard Taylor, was born in 1929. Her pare... Biography of Florent Pagny
Florent Pagny (born November 6, 1961 in Chalon-sur-Saône) is a successful French singer. He records work in French, Spanish and English.... Biography of Matt Damon
Matthew Paige "Matt" Damon (born October 8, 1970) is an American screenwriter and actor. He has won an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award for his screenwriting and been nominated for an Academy Award as an actor.... Biography of Sarah Michelle Gellar
Sarah Michelle Gellar (born April 14, 1977) is a Golden Globe-nominated, Daytime Emmy Award-winning American actress. She is probably best known as Buffy Summers in the acclaimed television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. She has since become known as a film actress, having starred in the family film Scooby-Doo (2002), the independent film Harvard Man (2001), the teen drama Cruel Intentions (1999) and the horror films The Return (2006), The Grudge 2 (2006), The Grudge (2004), I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) and Scream 2 (1997). She also provided the voice of April O'Neil in the film TMNT. Early life Gellar was born in New York City, the only child of Rosellen Greenfield, a nursery school teacher, and Arthur Gellar. Both of her parents were Jewish, though Gellar's family... Biography of Juliette Gréco
Juliette Gréco (born February 7, 1927) is a French actress and popular chanson singer. Personal history Juliette Gréco was born in Montpellier to a Corsican father and a mother active in the Résistance, in the Hérault département of southern France. She was raised by her maternal grandparents. Gréco also became involved in the Résistance, and was caught but not deported because of her young age. She moved to Saint-Germain-des-Prés in Paris in 1946 after her mother left the country for Indochina with the French Navy. Gréco came to be one of the stars of the bohemian "in" crowd of post-war France. She embodied the disenchantment and poverty of the French intellectuals following World War II. Gréco dressed all in black and let her long, black hair hang free. A famous description of ... 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... Biography of Claire Keim
Claire Keim (born July 8, 1975) is a French actress and singer. Keim was born in Senlis, Oise, Picardie to an architect and a dentist. She had a relationship with Frédéric Diefenthal, a French actor. Now, she's with the French football player Bixente Lizarazu. Filmography Au petit Marguery (1995) as Mylène J'irai au paradis car l'enfer est ici (1997) as Claire Marriages (1998) as Catherine The Girl (2000) as The Girl The King Is Dancing (2000) as Julie Ripper (2001) as Chantal Etienne Entrusted (2003) as Catherine Lamiel Un homme par hasard (2003) as Léa Faber... Biography of Michel Delpech
Michel Delpech is a French singer.... Biography of Charlotte Rampling
Charlotte Rampling, OBE (born February 5, 1946 in Sturmer, England, UK) is an English actress and former model (her height is 170 cm (5' 7")). She attended Jeanne d'Arc Academie pour Jeunes Filles in Versailles and St. Hilda's School in Bushey, England. Career After beginning her acting career at age seventeen in a starring commercial role and working as a model for a while, Rampling's first screen role was uncredited as a water skier in Richard Lester's film The Knack...and How to Get It in 1965 which was followed a year later by the role of Meredith in the film Georgy Girl. After this her acting career blossomed in both English and French cinema. Despite her early flurry of success, she told The Independent, "We weren't happy. It was a nightmare, breaking the rules and all that... Biography of Bette Davis
Bette Davis (April 5, 1908 – October 6, 1989), born Ruth Elizabeth Davis, was a two-time Academy Award-winning American actress of film, television and theatre. Noted for her willingness to play unsympathetic characters, she was highly regarded for her performances in a range of film genres, from contemporary crime melodramas to historical and period films and occasional comedies, though her greatest successes were romantic dramas. After appearing in Broadway plays, Davis moved to Hollywood in 1930, but her early films for Universal Studios were unsuccessful. She joined Warner Brothers in 1932 and established her career with several critically acclaimed performances. In 1937, she attempted to free herself from her contract and although she lost a well-publicized legal case, it marked th... Biography of Julien Clerc
Paul-Alain Leclerc, popularly known as Julien Clerc (born October 4, 1947 in Paris) is a French singer. His father was a UNESCO employee and his mother is from Guadeloupe. Many of the chansons he sings were written by Étienne Roda-Gil, a long time collaborator. His brother, Gérard Leclerc, is a political commentator on France 2. For a time he was involved with French actress Miou-Miou, who in 1978 bore him a daughter, Jeanne Herry. Like her father, Jeanne has pursued a career in show business, albeit as an actress and comedian rather than as a singer. Julien Clerc owes his fame in France to his 1969 French language adaptation of the musical Hair. Since then he has sung a great many popular songs, and is generally considered one of the greatest francophone musicians of his generati... Biography of Warren Beatty
Henry Warren Beaty (born March 30, 1937), better known as Warren Beatty, is an Academy Award- and Golden Globe-winning American actor, producer, screenwriter, and director. The Academy Awards honored him with the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in 2000, presented by his close friend Jack Nicholson, while in 2004 he received a Kennedy Center Honor. In 2007, he was honored with the Cecil B. Demille Award at the Golden Globe Awards Ceremony. Early life Beatty was born in Richmond, Virginia's Bellevue neighborhood. His father, Ira Owens Beaty, was a professor of psychology, public school administrator and real estate agent, and his mother, Kathlyn Corinne MacLean, was a Nova Scotia-born drama teacher; his grandparents were also teachers. The family was devoutly Baptist. His father moved ... Biography of Olivier Martinez
Olivier Martinez (born January 12, 1966) is a French film actor. He became known after roles in several French films, and has also appeared in Hollywood-produced features, including Unfaithful. Early life Martinez was born in Paris, France to a working-class family. His father was a Spaniard professional boxer born in Morocco and his mother was a French secretary. He studied at the prestigious CNSAD and began his acting career in his native France in 1990, and quickly achieved a relative success. Martinez was raised Roman Catholic. Personal life Martinez previously dated singer/actress Kylie Minogue and was linked to Michelle Rodriguez. Martinez is currently dating actress Halle Berry. Career In 1994, Martinez won a César Award as "Most Promising Actor" for his role in Un, ... Biography of Judy Garland
Judy Garland (born Frances Ethel Gumm; June 10, 1922 – June 22, 1969) was an Oscar-nominated American film actress and singer, best known for her role as Dorothy Gale from The Wizard of Oz. Garland's singing voice had a natural vibrato, which she was able to maintain at an extremely low volume. The effects which she was able to project enabled her to convey a wide range of emotion when she interpreted a song. Marriages Of Garland's five marriages, the first four ended in divorce. Her children are Liza Minnelli (singer and actress) born March 1946, Lorna Luft (also an acclaimed singer), born November 21, 1952 and Joey Luft (a scenic photographer), born March 29, 1955 in Los Angeles, California). David Rose; married 1941-1945 Vincente Minnelli; married 1945-1952; one daughter, Liza ... Biography of Matt LeBlanc
Matthew Steven LeBlanc (born July 25, 1967) is an Emmy and Golden Globe nominated American actor, best known for his role as Joey Tribbiani on the TV sitcom Friends (1994-2004).Background LeBlanc graduated from Newton North High School in 1985. After high school he attended college at Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston, MA. He left a while after starting his second semester. His father is Paul LeBlanc, and his mother, Pat Grossman. He is of mixed Irish, Dutch, English, and Acadian descent on his father's side, and of partly Italian ancestry on his mother's. LeBlanc's Acadian ancestors may have come to Massachusetts after the Acadian deportation in the mid-1700s. He has one younger half-brother, Justin LeBlanc. The name LeBlanc is French for White; as in many Latin-based languag... Biography of Michèle Morgan
Michelle Morgan (born Simone Renée Roussel on 29 February 1920 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France) is a French actress. A "leap day" baby, she left home at the age of 15 and received acting lessons from René Simon. For her performance in the 1946 film, La symphonie pastorale, she won the "Best Actress" award at the Cannes Film Festival. In 1942 she married American actor William Marshall with whom she had a son, Michael (1944-2005). They divorced in 1948 and in 1950 she married French actor Henri Vidal with whom she remained until his unexpected early death in 1959. Morgan also appeared in several English language films including a number of major Hollywood productions. For her contribution to the motion picture industry, Michelle Morgan has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 16... Biography of Donna Summer
LaDonna Adrian Gaines (December 31, 1948 (birth time source: Frank C. Clifford) – May 17, 2012), known by the stage name Donna Summer, was an American singer-songwriter who gained prominence during the disco era of the late 1970s. She had a mezzo-soprano vocal range, and was a five-time Grammy Award winner. Summer was the first artist to have three consecutive double albums reach number one on the U.S. Billboard chart, and she also charted four number-one singles in the United States within a 13-month period. Born into a devoutly Christian lower middle class African-American family in Boston, Massachusetts, she first became involved with singing through church choir groups before joining a number of bands influenced by the Motown Sound. Influenced by the counterculture of the 1960s, she... Biography of Léo Ferré
Léo Ferré (August 24, 1916 - July 14, 1993) was a French poet, composer and musician. Born in Monaco, Ferré mixed lyricism with slang; love with anarchy. He took a central place in the French song world and is a prominent figure in this domain. He was involved in anarchism and worked with Radio Libertaire, an anarchist free radio broadcasting in Paris and around France. Along with Georges Brassens and Jacques Brel, he is a great composer and writer of French songs.... Biography of Laurence Olivier
Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, OM (22 May 1907 – 11 July 1989) was an Academy Award, Golden Globe, BAFTA and four-time Emmy winning English actor, director, and producer. Olivier's Academy acknowledgments are considerable—fourteen Oscar nominations, with two wins for Best Actor and Best Picture for the 1948 film Hamlet, and two honorary awards including a statuette and certificate. He was also awarded five Emmy awards from the nine nominations he received. Olivier's career as a stage and film actor spanned more than six decades and included a wide variety of roles, from Shakespeare's Othello and Sir Toby Belch to the sadistic Nazi dentist Christian Szell in Marathon Man. A High Church clergyman's son who found fame on the West End stage, Olivier became determined early on to mast... Biography of Gérard Philipe
Gérard Philipe (December 4, 1922 – November 22, 1959) was a prominent French actor. Born in Cannes, as a teenager Philipe took acting lessons before going to Paris to study at the Conservatory of Dramatic Art. At age 19, he made his stage debut at a theater in Nice and the following year his strong performance in the Albert Camus play, Caligula, brought an invitation to work with the Théâtre national populaire (T.N.P.) in Paris and Avignon, whose festival, founded in 1947 by Jean Vilar, is France's oldest and most famous. Philipe made his film debut in 1943 in Les Petites du Quai aux Fleurs and after a few more minor film roles, he rocketed to fame as a result of his performance in Claude Autant-Lara's 1947 film Le diable au corps (Devil in the Flesh) . Adored by young women for his ... Biography of Eddie Mitchell
Eddy Mitchell (born Claude Moine July 3, 1942, Paris) is a French singer and actor. He began his career in the late 1950s, with the group Les Chaussettes Noires (The Black Socks), taking his name from the American expatriate tough-guy actor Eddie Constantine (later the star of Jean-Luc Godard's Alphaville). The band performed at the Parisian nightclub Le Golf Drouot before signing to Barclay Records and finding almost instant success; in 1961 it sold two million records. Heavily influenced by American rock & roll, Mitchell (who went solo in 1963) has often recorded outside France, at first in London, but later in Memphis and Nashville, Tennessee. Guitarist Jimmy Page and drummer Bob Graham were among the British session musicians who regularly supported him in London. He is the voice... Biography of Danielle Darrieux
Danielle Yvonne Marie Antoinette Darrieux (born May 1, 1917 in Bordeaux, France) is a French singer and actress. Her career of eight decades is among the longest in film history. Career She is the daughter of a medical doctor who was at the time serving with the French Army during World War I but died when she was seven years old. Raised in Paris she studied the cello at the Conservatoire de Musique. At 13, she won a part in the musical film Le Bal. Her beauty combined with her singing and dancing ability led to numerous other offers. In 1935, Darrieux married director/screenwriter, Henri Decoin, who encouraged her to try Hollywood. She signed with Universal Studios to star opposite Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. in The Rage of Paris. Under the German occupation of France during World... Biography of Gene Kelly
Eugene Curran Kelly (August 23, 1912 – February 2, 1996), better known as Gene Kelly, was an American dancer, actor, singer, director, producer, and choreographer. Kelly was a major exponent of 20th century filmed dance, known for his energetic and athletic dancing style, his good looks and the likeable characters that he played on screen. Although he is probably best known today for his performance in Singin' in the Rain, he dominated the Hollywood musical film from the mid 1940s until its demise in the late 1950s. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Kelly among the Greatest Male Stars of All Time, ranking at No. 15. Early life Gene was the third son of James Kelly, a phonograph salesman, and Harriet Curran, who were both children of Irish Roman Catholic immigrants. He was b... Biography of Chris Evert
Christine Marie Evert (born December 21, 1954) is a former World No. 1 woman tennis player from the United States. During her career, she won 18 Grand Slam singles titles, including a record 7 at the French Open. She also won 3 Grand Slam doubles titles. Evert's career win-loss record in singles matches of 1,309-146 (.900) is the best of any professional player in tennis history. In tennis writer Steve Flink's book The Greatest Tennis Matches of the Twentieth Century, he named Evert as the third best female player of the 20th century, after Steffi Graf and Martina Navratilova. Chris evert has never lost in the 1st round of any grand slam, her earliest exits being the 3rd round. Height 5 ft 6 in (168 cm) Weight 125 lb (57 kg) Turned Pro 1972 Retired 1989 Tennis career Evert beg... Biography of Pierre Perret
Pierre Perret (born July 9, 1934 in Castelsarrasin), is a French singer and composer. Pierre Perret resides in the city of Nangis. He spent a long part of his childhood in the café which his parents owned, where he learned work jargon and slang. At the age of 14 he signed up to the conservatoire de musique de Toulouse and to a dramatic arts institute. In the mean time, he set up his first band of 4 musicians in his own name, with whom he played at events throughout the region. In 1957, he was snapped up by Eddie Barclay who signed him on. It was in the studio of Barclay where he met his future wife, Simone Mazaltarim. In 1958 Perret carried on touring round Parisian cabaret bars and crossed France and Africa as a part of the American group, The Platters. In November that year, a pleu... Biography of Sacha Guitry
Sacha Guitry (February 21, 1885 – July 24, 1957) was a French film actor, director, screenwriter and playwright. Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, he was the son of Lucien Germain Guitry (1860–1925), a major Parisian stage actor who spent nine years at the Michel Theater, in St. Petersburg, before returning to France. It was during this time in Russia that Alexandre-Pierre Georges Guitry was born and nicknamed Sacha. As a five year old, he appeared on stage with his father. An intellect and a prolific writer with a sharp wit, by the age of 17 Guitry had already written the first of his 120 plays. In 1918 his theatrical production premiered in Paris to critical acclaim. Guitry's dramas include Nono (1905), Petite Hollande (1908, with a foreword by Octave Mirbeau), Les deux couverts (Comédi... Biography of Dirk Bogarde
Sir Derek Jules Gaspard Ulric Niven van den Bogaerde (28 March 1921 – 8 May 1999), better known by his stage name Dirk Bogarde, was an actor and author. Height: 5' 8½" (1.74 m) Early years and war service Bogarde was born in West Hampstead, London, of mixed Flemish and Scottish ancestry. His father Ulric van den Bogaerde (born in Perry Barr, Birmingham) was the art editor of The Times and his mother Margaret Niven was a former actress. He attended the former Allan Glen's School in Glasgow, a time he described in his autobiography as unhappy, although others have disputed his account . Bogarde served in World War II, reaching the rank of Captain and served in both the European and Pacific theatres, principally as an intelligence officer. In April 1945 he claimed he was one of the fir... Biography of Stéphane Collaro
Stéphane Collaro, born May 20, 1943 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, is a French humorist, actor, screenwriter, director and TV host. Filmography Attention les yeux ! (1976) Television Le Collaro show (1978) Coco-Boy avec sa rubrique Le Bébête show (1982) Cocoricocoboy (1984) Cocomicocinécomico sur TF1 (Hiver 1985) Collaricocoshow sur la Cinq (1987) Mondo Dingo sur la Cinq, et ensuite TF1 (1988) Discography O! yé bananiers Tonton mayonnaise... Biography of Simon MacCorkindale
Simon Charles Pendered MacCorkindale (12 February 1952 – 14 October 2010) was an English actor, director and producer. After a career in theatre, in the late 1970s and early 1980s, MacCorkindale starred in a variety of films and serials, including Quatermass (1979), Death on the Nile (1978), The Riddle of the Sands (1979), The Sword and the Sorcerer (1982) and Jaws 3-D (1983). Through the rest of 80s and early 1990s, he starred in several television shows, among them the short-lived series Manimal as the lead character Dr. Jonathan Chase in 1983, as well as longer-running roles in Falcon Crest and Counterstrike. MacCorkindale also directed and produced numerous stage and TV productions. In 2002 he joined the cast of the BBC medical drama Casualty as Harry Harper, remaining in the role for ... Biography of James Madison
James Madison (March 16, 1751 – June 28, 1836), was an American politician and the fourth President of the United States (1809–1817), and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Considered to be the "Father of the Constitution", he was the principal author of the document. In 1788, he wrote over a third of the Federalist Papers, still the most influential commentary on the Constitution. As a leader in the first Congresses, he drafted many basic laws and was responsible for the first ten amendments to the Constitution (said to be based on the Virginia Declaration of Rights), and thus is also known as the "Father of the Bill of Rights". As a political theorist, Madison's most distinctive belief was that the new republic needed checks and balances to limit the powers of special inte... Biography of Susannah York
Susannah York (born 9 January 1941) is an Academy Award-nominated English film and television actress. Height: 5' 6½" (1.69 m) Early life York was born as Susannah Yolande Fletcher in London. York studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. Career In 1960, York appeared in her second movie, Tunes of Glory, costarring with Alec Guinness and John Mills. She appeared in the films A Man for All Seasons (1966), The Killing of Sister George (1968) and Battle of Britain (1969). She was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969). In 1972 she won the Best Actress award at the Cannes Film Festival for her role in Images. She famously snubbed the Academy Awards when, regarding her nomination, she declared it offended her to be nom... Biography of Harry Dean Stanton
Harry Dean Stanton (born July 14, 1926) is an American actor. Early life Stanton was born in West Irvine, Kentucky, the son of Ersel (née Moberly), a hair dresser, and Sheridan Harry Stanton, a tobacco farmer and barber. His parents divorced when Stanton was in high school and later re-married. He had two younger brothers, Archie and Ralph. Stanton attended the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky, where he studied journalism and radio arts. He also studied at the Pasadena Playhouse in Pasadena, California. Stanton is a veteran of World War II. Career Stanton has appeared in both indie and cult films (Two-Lane Blacktop, Cockfighter, Escape from New York, Repo Man), as well as many mainstream Hollywood productions, including Cool Hand Luke, The Godfather Part II, Alien, ... Biography of Greg (comics)
Michel Regnier (May 5, 1931–October 29, 1999) was a Belgian and later French comics writer and artist, best-known by his pseudonym, Greg. Regnier was born in Ixelles, Belgium. His first series, Les Aventures de Nestor et Boniface, appeared in the Belgian magazine Vers l'Avenir when he was sixteen. He moved to the comic magazine Héroic Albums, going on to work for the comics magazine Spirou in 1954. In 1955 he launched his own magazine, Paddy, but eventually discontinued it. The series for which Greg is best known, Achille Talon, began in 1963 in Pilote, the magazine also the source of comics such as Asterix. This series, which he both wrote and illustrated, presents the comic misadventures of the eponymous anti-heroic bourgeois, a prototype of Homer Simpson and Peter Griffin. In all ... Biography of Bernd Rosemeyer
Bernd Rosemeyer (born October 14, 1909 in Lingen, Lower Saxony, Germany – died January 28, 1938 on the Frankfurt/Darmstadt Autobahn) was a German racing driver. Career His father owned a garage and repair shop where young Bernd Rosemeyer worked on motorcycles and cars. Having started by racing motorbikes, Rosemeyer became a member of the Auto Union racing team with hardly any experience in normal race cars. This was later considered a benefit as he was not yet used to the handling of traditional layout race cars. The mid-engined Silver Arrows of Auto Union were hard to drive, and only he and Italian Legend Tazio Nuvolari truly mastered these 500 bhp beasts. In only his second ever Grand Prix, at the daunting Nürburgring, Rosemeyer took the lead from the great Rudolf Caracciola and w... Biography of Tom Paxton
Thomas Richard Paxton (born October 31, 1937) is a well-known American folk singer and singer-songwriter who has been writing, performing and recording music for over forty years. His songs have experienced enduring appeal, including modern standards such as "The Last Thing on My Mind", "Bottle of Wine", "Whose Garden Was This?", "The Marvelous Toy", and "Ramblin' Boy". Paxton's songs have been recorded by Pete Seeger and The Weavers, Judy Collins, Joan Baez, Doc Watson, Harry Belafonte, Peter, Paul and Mary, The Kingston Trio, The Chad Mitchell Trio, John Denver, Dolly Parton and Porter Wagoner, Willie Nelson, Flatt & Scruggs, The Fireballs, and many others (see covers). He has performed thousands of concerts around the world in such places as Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Hong Kong, ... Biography of Richard Monette
Richard Jean Monette OC, DHum, LLD (June 19, 1944 – September 9, 2008) was a Canadian actor and director, best-known for his 14-season tenure as artistic director of the Stratford Festival of Canada from 1994 to 2007. Early life Monette was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, the son of Florence M. (née Tondino) and Maurice Monette. He was educated at Loyola High School (Montreal) and Loyola College (now Concordia University). Theatre career It was at college that his acting skills were first noticed when he took top acting honours at the 1959 Hart House Inter-Varsity Drama competition in Toronto. Upon graduation, he chose to pursue an acting career, and his first professional role was as a 19-year-old Hamlet at the Crest Theatre in Toronto. He joined the Stratford Festival Com... Biography of Kenneth More
Kenneth Gilbert More CBE (20 September 1914 – 12 July 1982) was a highly successful English film actor during the post-World War II era and starred in many feature films, often in the role of an archetypal carefree and happy-go-lucky middle-class gentleman. Early life Kenneth More was born in Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, the only son of Charles Gilbert More, a Royal Naval Air Service pilot, and Edith Winifred Watkins, the daughter of a Cardiff solicitor. He was educated at Victoria College, Jersey. He spent part of his childhood in the Channel Islands, where his father was general manager of Jersey Eastern Railways. After he left school, he followed the family tradition by training as a civil engineer. He gave up his training and worked for a while in Sainsbury's. When More w... |
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