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You will find on these pages astrological charts of thousands of celebrities with the 5th House in Gemini 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. Add to favourites (476 fans)Biography of Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II (pronounced /bəˈrɑːk hʊˈseɪn oʊˈbɑːmə/; born August 4, 1961) is an American politician. As the winner of the presidential election of November 4, 2008, he is currently the President-elect of the United States of America and is expected to take office as the forty-fourth President of the United States on January 20, 2009. He is currently the incumbent junior United States Senator from Illinois. External link - Comprehensive Astrological Portrait for Barack Obama Version 4.0 Barack Obama'Comprehensive Astrological Portrait Obama is the first African-American to be elected President of the United States, and was the first Afr... Add to favourites (438 fans)Biography of Madonna
Madonna (born Madonna Louise Ciccone; August 16, 1958 (source for her time of birth astrodatabank, but PM and not AM, since she says herself that she is Aquarius rising)) is an American recording artist, actress and entrepreneur. Born in Bay City, Michigan, she moved to New York City in 1977 to pursue a career in modern dance. After performing in the music groups Breakfast Club and Emmy, she released her debut album in 1983. She followed it with a series of albums in which she found immense popularity by pushing the boundaries of lyrical content in mainstream popular music and imagery in her music videos, which became a fixture on MTV. Throughout her career, many of her songs have hit number one on the record charts, including "Like a Virgin", "Papa Don't Preach", "Like a Prayer", "Vogue",... Add to favourites (133 fans)Biography of Ségolène Royal
Marie-Ségolène Royal (born 22 September 1953 in Dakar, Senegal, then a French colony), known as Ségolène Royal, is a French politician. She is the president of the Poitou-Charentes region, a member of the National Assembly and a prominent member of the Socialist Party. On 16 November 2006, Socialist Party members elected her as their candidate for the 2007 French presidential election. In the first round of voting in that election, on April 22, 2007, Royal received 25.87 percent of votes to qualify for the second round to face Nicolas Sarkozy who received 31.18 percent. Both debated on 2 May 2007. Preliminary vote counting on May 6, 2007 showed that Sarkozy was elected to be the next President. Sarkozy was elected on May 6, with 53.06 percent of the votes, and Royal lost the election wi... Add to favourites (98 fans)Biography of Nolwenn Leroy
Nolwenn Leroy, (born 28 September 1982 in Saint-Renan, Finistère), is a French singer and songwriter, discovered by the French TV reality show Star Academy. She is best known for her hit singles "Cassé" and "Nolwenn Ohwo!". Biography Leroy's parents left Saint-Renan, with her, when she was four years old. After living in Paris, Lille, and Guingamp, her mother Murielle, Leroy, and her younger sister, settled with Leroy's grandparents' in St-Yorre. Her mother had been divorced from her professional footballer father, Jean-Luc Le Magueresse, in 1992. She studied at the "Collège des Célestins" in Vichy. When Leroy was 11 years old, her music teacher noticed her musical skills, and encouraged her to learn the violin. At the age of 13 she won the "Les écoles du désert", a contest sponso... Add to favourites (332 fans)Biography of Monica Bellucci
Monica Bellucci (born September 30, 1964) is an Italian actress and former fashion model. She is considered an Italian sex symbol. Bellucci's film career began in the early 1990s. In 1992 she made her first appearance in a major English-language film as one of Dracula's brides in Bram Stoker's Dracula. She became known and popular with English-speaking audiences following her lead role in the acclaimed Italian film Malèna, as well as through the portrayal of a rape victim in the highly controversial Irréversible, though is perhaps best known for her role as Persephone in The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions followed by her portrayal of Mary Magdelene in The Passion of the Christ. After her work in The Passion of the Christ, Bellucci was assumed by many fans to be Roman Cath... Add to favourites (133 fans)Biography of Russell Crowe
Russell Ira Crowe (born April 7, 1964) is a New Zealand-Australian actor. Crowe is a recipient of an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in 2000's Gladiator. Early life Crowe was born in Wellington, New Zealand to Jocelyn Yvonne Wemyss and John Alexander Crowe, both of whom were caterers. His maternal grandfather, Stan Wemyss, was a cinematographer who, according to Crowe, produced the first film by New Zealander Geoff Murphy, and was also named an MBE for filming footage of World War II. Crowe's maternal great-great-great grandmother was Māori, and as a result Crowe is registered on the Māori electoral roll in New Zealand; Crowe also has Norwegian, Scottish, Irish and Welsh ancestry. Two of Russell Crowe's cousins, Martin and Jeff Crowe are former New Zealand national ... Add to favourites (140 fans)Biography of Sean Connery
Sir Thomas Sean Connery (born 25 August 1930) is an Academy Award-winning Scottish actor and producer who is perhaps best known as the first actor to portray James Bond in a number of films.[1] He starred in seven Bond films - six EON produced films between 1962 and 1971, and a non-EON produced remake in 1983.[2] Connery is known for his trademark Scottish accent[3] and rugged good looks. He is repeatedly mentioned as one of the most attractive men alive by magazines, even though he is considerably older than most other sex symbols. He is also one of the most vocal and high-profile supporters of the Scottish National Party, often campaigning for them and their cause of Scottish independence.... Add to favourites (250 fans)Biography of Jim Morrison
James Douglas Morrison (8 December 1943 – 3 July 1971) was an American singer, songwriter, writer, actor, and poet. He was best known as the lead singer and lyricist of the popular American rock band The Doors, and is considered to be one of the most charismatic frontmen in the history of rock music. He was also an author of several poetry books, a documentary, short film, and three early music videos ("The Unknown Soldier","Moonlight Drive", and "People are Strange"). Morrison died in Paris at the age of 27. The circumstances of his death and burial are not fully known. Early years Morrison was born on 8 December, 1943 in Melbourne, Florida, to Admiral George Stephen Morrison and Clara Clarke Morrison. Morrison had a sister and a brother. Anne Robin Morrison was born in 1947 in Albuqu... Add to favourites (314 fans)Biography of David Bowie
David Robert Jones (born 8 January 1947), known by his stage name David Bowie (pron.: /ˈboʊ.i/ BOH-ee), is an English musician, actor, record producer and arranger. A major figure for over four decades in the world of popular music, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s. He is known for his distinctive voice as well as the intellectual depth and considerable eclecticism of his work. Bowie first caught the eye and ear of the public in July 1969, when his song "Space Oddity" reached the top five of the UK Singles Chart. After a three-year period of experimentation he re-emerged in 1972 during the glam rock era with the flamboyant, androgynous alter ego Ziggy Stardust, spearheaded by the hit single "Starman" and the album The Rise and Fa... Add to favourites (113 fans)Biography of Lindsay Lohan
Lindsay Dee Lohan (born July 2, 1986 (birth time source: Seventeen Magazine April 2006)) is an American actress and pop music singer. Lohan started in show business as a child fashion model for magazine advertisement and television commercials. At age 10, she began her acting career in a soap opera; at 11, she made her motion picture debut by playing identical twins in Disney's 1998 remake of The Parent Trap. The source for her birth time is Seventeen Magazine, April 2006. Lohan rose to stardom with her leading roles in the films Freaky Friday, Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen, Mean Girls and Herbie: Fully Loaded. Her subsequent roles include appearances in A Prairie Home Companion and Bobby. In 2004, Lohan launched a second career in pop music yielding the albums Speak (2004) , A L... Add to favourites (174 fans)Biography of Bono (U2)
Paul David Hewson, (born 10 May 1960), known as Bono is the Academy Award nominated and Grammy winning lead singer and principal lyricist of the Irish rock band U2. Bono is also widely known for his work as an activist concerning Africa. Bono is married to Alison Stewart. Their relationship began in 1975 and the couple were married on 21 August 1982 in an Anglican ceremony at a chapel on the Guinness family estate with Adam Clayton acting as Bono's best man. The couple have four children, Jordan, Memphis Eve, Elijah Bob Patricius Guggi Q & John Abraham. Bono lives in Killiney in south County Dublin, Ireland, with his family and shares a villa in Èze in the Alpes-Maritimes in the south of France with U2 bandmate The Edge, as well as an apartment at The San Remo in Manhattan. Bono is a... Add to favourites (90 fans)Biography of Catherine Deneuve
Catherine Deneuve (October 22, 1943, in Paris, France), is an Academy Award-nominated French actress. A model of French elegance, cultivated lust object for art house filmgoers everywhere, and one of the best-respected actresses in the French film industry, Catherine Deneuve made her reputation playing a series of beautiful ice maidens for directors such as Luis Buñuel and Roman Polanski. The daughter of French stage and film actor Maurice Dorléac and actress Renée Deneuve, Deneuve was born Catherine Fabienne Dorléac, in Paris on October 22, 1943. She made her screen debut at the age of 13, with a role in the 1956 film Les Collegiennes, and went on to make a string of films with directors such as Roger Vadim (with whom she had a child) before getting her breakthrough role in Jaques D... Add to favourites (190 fans)Biography of Carl Jung
Carl Gustav Jung (German pronunciation: ; 26 July 1875 – 6 June 1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist, an influential thinker and the founder of Analytical Psychology. Jung is often considered the first modern psychologist to state that the human psyche is "by nature religious" and to explore it in depth. Though not the first to analyze dreams, he has become perhaps one of the most well known pioneers in the field of dream analysis. Unlike Freud et al. he was a self-described natural scientist, not a theoretical psychologist. For Jung this salient distinction revolved around his initial process of deep observation followed by categorizations rather than the reverse process of imagining what categories exist and then proceeding to seek for proof of and then discover that one was correct, always co... Add to favourites (145 fans)Biography of Colin Farrell
Colin James Farrell (born May 31, 1976) is an Irish actor who has appeared in several high-profile Hollywood films including Daredevil, Miami Vice, Minority Report, Phone Booth and S.W.A.T.. Early life Farrell was born prematurely, weighing 1 pound 6 ounces, in Castleknock, Dublin to Rita and Eamon Farrell. His father was a footballer who played for Shamrock Rovers FC. Farrell has three siblings, two sisters, Claudine and Catherine, and a brother, Eamon Jr. Farrell was educated at St. Brigid's National School in Castleknock followed by Castleknock College and Gormanston College. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, he was a promising young football player for Dublin team, Castleknock Celtic, as a goalkeeper. Farrell attended The Gaiety School of Acting, but dropped out and was cast in... Add to favourites (131 fans)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.... Add to favourites (90 fans)Biography of Jiddu Krishnamurti
Jiddu Krishnamurti or J. Krishnamurti, (May 12, 1895–February 17, 1986) was a well-known writer and speaker on fundamental philosophical and spiritual subjects. For nearly sixty years he traveled all over the world, pointing out to people the need to transform themselves through self knowledge, by being aware of their thoughts and feelings in daily life. He maintained that a fundamental change in society can emerge only through a radical change in the individual, since society is the product of the interactions of individuals. Though he was very alive to contemporary issues through the decades, his answers were rooted in his timeless vision of life and truth. As such, his teachings transcend all man-made boundaries of religion, nationality, ideology, and sectarian thinking. Refusing to pla... Add to favourites (89 fans)Biography of Prince Harry of Wales
Prince Henry Charles Albert David of Wales (born 15 September 1984 in Paddington, London), commonly known as Prince Harry, is the younger son of Charles, Prince of Wales and the late Diana, Princess of Wales, and grandson of Queen Elizabeth II. As such, he is third in the line of succession to the thrones of 16 independent countries, though he is resident in and most directly involved with the United Kingdom. After an education at various schools around the United Kingdom and spending parts of his gap year in Australia and Lesotho, Harry, unlike his elder brother, Prince William, eschewed a university education in favour of following in the footsteps of various royal men by enrolling in the military. He was commissioned as a second lieutenant into the Blues and Royals of the Household C... Add to favourites (48 fans)Biography of Jean-Luc Delarue
Jean-Luc Delarue, born June 24, 1964 in Paris, died on August 23, 2012 in Paris (cancer) is a French journalist, TV host and producer.... Add to favourites (73 fans)Biography of Anti-Christ
In Christian eschatology the Antichrist or Anti-christ (literally: anti, opposite; christ, messiah) has come to mean a person, image of a person, or other entity that is the embodiment of evil. The name antichrist derives from the books of 1 and 2 John, which describe any who denies Christ to be antichrists. The term is also often applied to prophecies regarding a "Little horn" power in Daniel 7, and is used in conjunction with many End Times teachings. Antichrist is translated from the combination of two ancient Greek words αντί+χριστος (antí+khristos), which can mean anti "opposite" (of) 'khristos' "messiah" therefore"opposite of Christ". Anti can also mean "for or as". Thus "in place of Christ" is also a valid understanding of th... Add to favourites (44 fans)Biography of Elizabeth II
Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary ; born 21 April 1926) is Queen of sixteen sovereign states that were once part of the British Empire, and their overseas territories and dependencies. She holds each crown and title equally, however she is most directly involved with the United Kingdom, her oldest realm and the place of residence of the Royal Family. Apart from the United Kingdom, Elizabeth II is also Queen of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Antigua and Barbuda, Belize, and Saint Kitts and Nevis, where she is represented by Governors-General. The 16 countries of which she is Queen are known as Commonwealth Realms, and their combined population is 12... Add to favourites (45 fans)Biography of Bertrand Cantat
Bertrand Cantat (born in Pau, France, 5 March 1964 (birth time source: Bordoni, birth certificate, Astrodatabank)) is a French singer and songwriter. He is the leader of the rock band Noir Désir. At the helm of Noir Désir, he became one of the most prominent figures of French music in the 90s. His left leaning political views saw him take position against globalisation, fascism, desertification of urban areas in Bordeaux and the 2003 invasion of Iraq. He married Kristina Rady in 1997. Bertrand is the father of 2 children with Kristina. His son Milo was born in 1997 and daughter Alice was born in 2002. In July 2003, during a row with his girlfriend Marie Trintignant in a Domina Plaza Hotel apartment in Vilnius, Lithuania, he beat her violently, which resulted in her falling into a ... Add to favourites (25 fans)Biography of Cécile de Ménibus
Cécile Moharic, best known as Cécile de Ménibus, born September 16, 1970 in Chartres, is a French journalist and TV host. She is well known to work with Sébastien Cauet for the French TV show "La Méthode Cauet" (2003 - ).... Add to favourites (98 fans)Biography of Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was President of the United States from March 4, 1861 to April 15, 1865. As an outspoken opponent of the expansion of slavery and a political leader in the western states, he won the Republican Party nomination in 1860 and was elected president later that year. Lincoln helped preserve the United States by leading the defeat of the secessionist Confederacy in the American Civil War. He introduced measures that resulted in the abolition of slavery, issuing his Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 and promoting the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution in 1865. Lincoln's leadership qualities were evident in his close supervision of the victorious war effort, especially in his selection of Ulysses S. Grant and other top ... Add to favourites (79 fans)Biography of Paul Newman
Paul Leonard Newman (January 26, 1925 – September 26, 2008) was an American actor, film director, entrepreneur, humanitarian and auto racing enthusiast. He won numerous awards, including an Academy Award, two Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Cannes Film Festival Award, and an Emmy award, along with many honorary awards. He also won several national championships as a driver in Sports Car Club of America road racing and his race teams won several championships in open wheel IndyCar racing. He was also the founder of Newman's Own, a food company from which Newman donated all profits and royalties to charity. As of May 2007, these donations have exceeded US$220 million. On September 26th, 2008, Newman died at his long-time home in Westport, Connecticut succumbing to complic... Add to favourites (33 fans)Biography of Claude François
Claude François (February 1, 1939 in Ismaïlia, Egypt - March 11, 1978 in Paris, France) was a French pop singer. The son of an Italian mother and a French father, Claude François was born in Egypt, where his father, Aimé François, was working as a shipping traffic controller on the Suez Canal. In 1951 the job took the family to the city of Port Tawfik on the Red Sea. Claude François' mother was very musical and had her son take piano and violin lessons. On his own, the boy learned to play the drums. As a result of the 1956 Suez Crisis, the family returned to live in Monaco, where they struggled financially after Claude's father fell ill and could not work. A young Claude found a job as a bank clerk and at night earned extra money playing drums with an orchestra at the luxury hotels a... Add to favourites (68 fans)Biography of Naomi Campbell
Naomi Campbell (born May 22, 1970) is an iconic English supermodel, actress, singer and author. Campbell was born in London, England. Her mother was a ballet dancer, Valerie Campbell, who told Arena in 1996 that her daughter's unnamed father is a mixed-race man of part-Chinese ancestry. She attended Dunraven School, a comprehensive school run by Inner London Education Authority in Streatham and attended the London Academy for Performing Arts. A graduate of the Italia Conti Academy stage school, Campbell's first appearance to a wider public was in February 1978 when she was cast as a pupil to appear in a music video with Bob Marley for his song Is This Love?. In 1982, she appeared in another music video, this time as a tap dancer for Culture Club's "I'll Tumble 4 Ya". On graduat... Add to favourites (139 fans)Biography of Hugh Jackman
Hugh Michael Jackman (born 12 October 1968 (birth time source: Hugh Jackman: The Biography by Anthony Bunko)) is an Australian actor and producer who is involved in film, musical theatre, and television. Jackman has won international recognition for his roles in major films, notably as action/superhero, period and romance characters. He is known for his role as Wolverine in the X-Men film series, as well as for his leads in Kate & Leopold, Van Helsing, The Prestige, Australia, and Real Steel. Jackman is a singer, dancer, and actor in stage musicals, and won a Tony Award for his role in The Boy from Oz. In November 2008, Open Salon named Jackman one of the sexiest men alive. Later that same month, People magazine named Jackman "Sexiest Man Alive." A three-time host of the Tony Awar... Add to favourites (100 fans)Biography of Adam Levine
Adam Noah Levine (born March 18, 1979) is the lead singer and the guitarist for the rock group, Maroon 5. Levine was born in Los Angeles, California to Patsy Noah and Fred Levine. He is Jewish. Levine has one brother, Michael, a stepsister, Julia, and two half siblings, Sam and Liza, from his father's remarriage to Lisa. Lisa and Fred Levine own two fashion stores geared toward men. Because of this, Levine claims he's always been ahead of the fashion curve. In 2005, he and Ryan Seacrest of American Idol attended the inauguration of M. Fredric MAN, his parents' second store, in Studio City. Levine attended the private Brentwood School, where he met the original members of the band Kara's Flowers, Jesse Carmichael, Mickey Madden and Ryan Dusick. On his first day at Brentwood School, Le... Add to favourites (102 fans)Biography of Meg Ryan
Meg Ryan (born November 19, 1961) is an American actress who specializes in romantic comedies, but has also worked in other film genres. Early life Born Margaret Mary Emily Hyra in Fairfield, Connecticut to Susan Jordan (née Ryan), a former English teacher, and Harry Hyra, a math teacher, she went by the name Peggy (also her grandmother's nickname) as a child. She has two sisters, Dana and Annie, and a brother, Andrew. Ryan was raised in the Catholic religion and graduated from Saint Pius X Elementary School in Fairfield, where her mother taught the sixth grade. There, Ryan was confirmed into the Catholic Church, choosing Anne as her confirmation name. Ryan's mother had appeared in one television commercial and later worked briefly as an assistant casting director in New York City. She s... Add to favourites (145 fans)Biography of Anthony Hopkins
Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins CBE (born 31 December 1937) is an Academy Award, Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning film, stage and television actor. He was born and raised in Wales, but became an American citizen in 2000. Early life Hopkins was born in Margam, Port Talbot in Wales to Muriel Anne (née Yeats) and Richard Arthur Hopkins, a baker. His mother is a distant relative of the Irish poet William Butler Yeats. His schooldays were unproductive. A loner with dyslexia, he found that he would rather immerse himself in art, such as painting and drawing or playing the piano, than attend to his studies. In 1949, to instill some discipline, his parents insisted that he attend Jones' West Monmouth Boys' School in Pontypool. He remained there for five terms, of which Hopkins does not have fond... Add to favourites (78 fans)Biography of Kim Basinger
Kimila Ann Basinger (born December 8, 1953) is an Academy Award-winning American film actress and former fashion model. Early life Basinger (pronounced (bay-sing-er), often mispronounced ) was born in Athens, Georgia. Her father, Don Basinger, was a big band musician and loan manager who landed in Normandy during D-Day. Her mother, Ann, was a model, actress, and swimmer in Esther Williams films. She has two brothers, Mick and Skip, and two sisters, Ashley and Barbara. When Basinger was sixteen years old, she started her modelling career by winning the Athens Junior Miss contest. She followed that up by winning the title “Junior Miss Georgia”. Basinger then headed to New York City to compete in the national Junior Miss pageant. It was there that Basinger was approached by fashion mo... Add to favourites (60 fans)Biography of Nicki Minaj
Onika Tanya Maraj (born December 8, 1982 (birth time source : Vibe Magazine Feb. 2012)), better known by her stage name Nicki Minaj, is a Trinidadian rapper and singer-songwriter. In August 2009, Minaj signed to Young Money Entertainment with distribution from Universal Motown. Early life Minaj was born on December 8, 1984 in Saint James, Trinidad and Tobago to parents of Indian and Afro Trinidadian descent. She lived in Saint James, Trinidad and Tobago with her grandmother until age five, because her parents were looking for a place to live in the Queens borough of New York City. Her mother would occasionally visit, and one day, when Minaj was five, her mother picked her up to move to Queens. According to Minaj, her father drank alcohol, took drugs, and once tried to kill her mother... Add to favourites (25 fans)Biography of Sylvie Vartan
Sylvie Vartan (born August 15, 1944 in Svoge Bulgaria (birth time source: Cedra, birth certificate)), is a French pop singer, the daughter of a Bulgarian father of Armenian descent and a Hungarian mother . Vartan arrived in France when she was 10. She married the French rocker Johnny Hallyday on April 12, 1965 in Loconville. They have a son, David Hallyday (who is also a singer), born David Michael Benjamin Smet on August 14, 1966. Johnny Hallyday and Sylvie Vartan were France's "Golden Couple" of their generation. They divorced on November 4, 1980. She is currently married to American media mogul Tony Scotti. She is actor Michael Vartan's aunt. In 2005, Sylvie Vartan was appointed as WHO Goodwill Ambassador for Maternal and Child Health in the European Region. Her European hit... Add to favourites (79 fans)Biography of Hilary Duff
Hilary Erhard Duff (born September 28, 1987 (birth time source: "Hilary Duff Life Story 2006")) is an American actress, author, entrepreneur and recording artist. Born and raised in Houston, Texas, Duff appeared in local theatre plays and television commercials before coming to prominence in the title role of the Disney Channel's teen comedy Lizzie McGuire and The CW's teen drama Gossip Girl as movie star Olivia. Established as a teen idol, Duff reprised that role in the The Lizzie McGuire Movie and subsequently ventured into motion pictures, appearing in a string of successful films that include Agent Cody Banks, Cheaper by the Dozen, A Cinderella Story and Cheaper by the Dozen 2. Most recently, she has performed in a legion of television dramas and independent films. Duff expanded her... Add to favourites (54 fans)Biography of Jane Fonda
Jane Fonda (born December 21, 1937) is a two-time Academy Award-winning American actress, writer, political activist, former fashion model, and fitness guru. Since the 1960s Fonda has appeared in several movies. She has won two Academy Awards and received several other awards and nominations. She initially announced her retirement from acting in 1991, and said for many years that she would never act again, but she returned to film in 2005 with Monster in Law, and later Georgia Rule released in 2007. She also produced and starred in several exercise videos released between 1982 and 1995. Fonda has served as an activist for many political causes, one of the most notable and controversial of which was her opposition to the Vietnam War. She has also protested the Iraq War and violence again... Add to favourites (38 fans)Biography of Ayrton Senna
Ayrton Senna da Silva (March 21, 1960 – May 1, 1994) was a Brazilian triple Formula One world champion. He died following an accident whilst leading the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix at Imola in Italy. Character Beyond his exceptional driving skills Senna was one of the sport's most compelling personalities. Intensely introspective and extremely passionate, he used driving as a means for self-discovery, and racing as a metaphor for life: “The harder I push, the more I find within myself. I am always looking for the next step, a different world to go into, areas where I have not been before. It’s lonely driving a Grand Prix car, but very absorbing. I have experienced new sensations and I want more. That is my excitement, my motivation.” Starkly contrasting to Senna's intense and unyield... Add to favourites (38 fans)Biography of Sabrina Ferilli
Sabrina Ferilli (born June 28, 1964 in Rome, Italy) is an Italian theater and movie actress mainly popular inside her homeland, where she is one of the most prevalent celebrities. Ferilli's father was the speaker of the Lazio regional council of the Italian Communist Party. Ferilli was herself clearly influenced by her father’s political orientation and activism, making no secret of her own leftism. Ferilli starred in several movies and TV series since the mid 1980s, as well as debuting in theater plays. While her popularity stems in large part from her movie acting, theater always remained her real passion. Upon leaving school, Ferilli first was rejected by Rome's Experimental Cinematography Centre. She subsequently took elocution lessons and meanwhile managed to win bit parts in... Add to favourites (137 fans)Biography of Ian Somerhalder
Ian Joseph Somerhalder (born December 8, 1978 (birth time source: his Twitter account)) is an American actor and model, best known for playing Boone Carlyle in the TV drama Lost and Damon Salvatore in the TV drama The Vampire Diaries. Early life Somerhalder was born and raised in Covington, Louisiana, the son of Edna, a massage therapist, and Robert Somerhalder, an independent building contractor. Raised Catholic, he attended St. Paul's, a private Catholic school in Covington. He embarked on a modeling career from age 10 to 13, and by the age of 17 he decided to go into acting. Career In the summer of 2000, Somerhalder starred in the short-lived WB series Young Americans, a spin-off of Dawson's Creek. He played Hamilton Fleming, the son of the dean of a prestigious boarding school... Add to favourites (53 fans)Biography of René Descartes
René Descartes (March 31, 1596 – February 11, 1650), also known as Renatus Cartesius (latinized form), was a highly influential French philosopher, mathematician, scientist, and writer. Dubbed the "Founder of Modern Philosophy", and the "Father of Modern Mathematics", much of subsequent western philosophy is a reaction to his writings, which have been closely studied from his time down to the present day. His influence in mathematics is also apparent, the Cartesian coordinate system being used in plane geometry and algebra is named after him, and he was one of the key figures in the Scientific Revolution. Descartes frequently contrasted his views with those of his predecessors. In the opening section of the Passions of the Soul, a treatise on the Early Modern version of what are now com... Add to favourites (35 fans)Biography of Carole Bouquet
Carole Bouquet (born 18 August 1957) is a French actress best known internationally as Bond girl Melina Havelock in For Your Eyes Only. She is also recognised for her work in Luis Buñuel's surrealist classic That Obscure Object of Desire, and in the internationally successful French film Too Beautiful For You. Bouquet was a model for Chanel in the 1990s. Bouquet was born in Neuilly-Sur-Seine, France. She is the widow of producer Jean-Pierre Rassam with whom she had a son, Dimitri Rassam. Since 1997 she is the life companion of French actor Gérard Depardieu, with whom she had worked several times. Bouquet was engaged to him from 2003 to 2005.... Add to favourites (53 fans)Biography of Jane Birkin
Jane Mallory Birkin OBE (born 14 December 1946) is an actress and singer. Birkin was born in London, England to David Birkin, a Royal Navy commander and World War II espionage hero, and Judy Campbell, an actress in Noel Coward musicals. Her great aunt was Freda Dudley Ward, a mistress of Edward VIII while he was Prince of Wales. Career Birkin emerged in the swinging '60s in London, starring as one of the models in the controversial film Blowup in 1967. In 1968, Birkin went to France to audition for the lead female role in Slogan. Though she did not speak French, she got the role. In 1969, she and Serge Gainsbourg released the song "Je t'aime... moi non plus" ("I love you... me neither"), written by Gainsbourg and featuring both of them singing, which caused a scandal for its s... Add to favourites (40 fans)Biography of Daniel Balavoine
Daniel Balavoine (Alençon, February 5, 1952 – January 14, 1986) was a French singer and songwriter. He was hugely popular in the French-speaking world, and inspired many singers in the 1980s, such as Jean-Jacques Goldman. He took part in French political life, and is known for a 1980 televised verbal confrontation with François Mitterrand. Height: 1m77 In the French music-business, Balavoine earned his own spot with both his acute and powerful voice and his lyrics, often full of sadness and revolt. Musical career In the 1970s, Daniel Balavoine took part as a chorus-singer in the musical La Révolution française, then as a backing singer at the concerts of Patrick Juvet. The latter offers Balavoine the opportunity to record a song on one of his albums. This break enabled him to be ... Add to favourites (110 fans)Biography of Aaliyah
Aaliyah Dana Haughton (January 16, 1979 (birth time source: Aaliyah by Tim Footman) – August 25, 2001), known professionally as Aaliyah, was a Grammy Award winning American singer, dancer, model and actress. Introduced to audiences by R&B singer R. Kelly, Aaliyah became famous during the mid-1990s with several hit records from the songwriting/production team of Missy Elliott & Timbaland and their associate Steve "Static" Garrett. Aaliyah soon joined Timbaland's R&B and hip hop collective, the Superfriends Clique. Notable for recording several hit records, including several number one R&B hits, a number one pop hit, and nine top 10 singles on the Billboard Hot 100. She also modeled for Tommy Hilfiger and starred in two motion pictures before dying in a plane crash in the Bahamas. On A... Add to favourites (25 fans)Biography of Charles Aznavour
Charles Aznavour (born May 22, 1924) is an Armenian-French singer, songwriter and actor. Besides being one of France's most popular and enduring singers, he is also one of the most well-known French singers abroad. He has appeared in more than 60 movies, composed more than 1000 songs (including 150 in English, 100 in Italian, 70 in Spanish, and 50 in German), and sold well over 100 million records. Aznavour started his global farewell tour in late 2006. Film career Aznavour has had a long and varied parallel career as an actor, appearing in over 60 films. In 1960 Aznavour starred in François Truffaut's Tirez sur le pianiste, playing a character called Édouard Saroyan. He also put in a critically acclaimed performance in the 1974 movie And Then There Were None. Aznavour had an importan... Add to favourites (17 fans)Biography of Sylvia Browne
Sylvia Browne (born October 19, 1936) is a bestselling American author on the subject of spirituality who describes herself as a psychic and medium. She is a weekly guest on The Montel Williams Show and hosts her own hour-long show on Hay House Radio, discussing paranormal issues and giving callers advice in her role as a psychic. Critics, such as James Randi, say she is not a psychic but a cold reader, and uses mentalist techniques to produce the illusion of mind reading and clairvoyance. Reporters in the media have been critical of Browne's claims, calling some of her claims "embarrassments" and stating "she clearly can’t do" the supernatural feats she claims.... Add to favourites (85 fans)Biography of Jennifer Lawrence
Jennifer Shrader Lawrence (born August 15, 1990 (birth time source: Gateway Biography )) is an American film and television actress. She has had lead roles in TBS's The Bill Engvall Show and in the independent films The Burning Plain and Winter's Bone, for which she received critical acclaim and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. At age 20, this made her the second youngest actress to ever be nominated for the award. She was cast as Katniss Everdeen in the upcoming 2012 film, The Hunger Games, which is based on the first book in The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins. Early life Lawrence was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky, the daughter of Karen (née Koch), who runs a children's camp, and Gary Lawrence, who once owned a concrete construction firm, Lawr... Add to favourites (29 fans)Biography of Andrea Casiraghi
Andrea Albert Pierre Casiraghi (born June 8, 1984) is the eldest child of HRH Princess Caroline of Monaco and Hanover and her second husband, Stefano Casiraghi, an heir to an Italian oil fortune. He is currently second in line to the throne after his mother, meaning that if the currently reigning Prince Albert II dies without legitimate children, then Casiraghi will most likely someday be the Prince of Monaco. He was born June 8, 1984 at 22:40 at Centre Hospitalier Princesse Grace in Monte Carlo and was named for a childhood friend of his father's. His godparents were his aunt Princess Stéphanie and his uncle Marco Casiraghi. He has two younger siblings, Charlotte and Pierre, and a younger half-sister, Princess Alexandra of Hanover. He finished high school at the International School... Add to favourites (44 fans)Biography of Novak Djokovic
Novak Đoković (commonly spelled Djokovic in English-language sources, Serbian Cyrillic: Новак Ђоковић, (born May 22, 1987) is a Serbian professional tennis player. His major achievements —so far— have come in 2007, when he was the runner-up at the US Open and reached three Masters Series finals, winning in Miami and Montréal. Also, he reached the semifinals at French Open and Wimbledon. His highest singles ranking on the ATP Tour is number three, which he reached on July 9, 2007. In January 2008, he defeated number one and defending champion Roger Federer at the 2008 Australian Open, and will move on to face Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the final on January 27. The source for his birth time is his birth ce... Add to favourites (116 fans)Biography of Zooey Deschanel
Zooey Claire Deschanel (pronounced /ˈzoʊ.iː ˌdeɪʃəˈnɛl/ ZOE-ee day-shə-NEL; born January 17, 1980 in Santa Monica, California (source: birth cerrtiicate) is an American actress, musician, and singer-songwriter. In 1999, Deschanel made her film debut in Mumford, followed by her breakout role as young protagonist William Miller's troubled older sister Anita in Cameron Crowe's 2000 semi-autobiographical film Almost Famous. Deschanel soon became known for her deadpan supporting roles in films such as Elf (2003), The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005) and Failure to Launch (2006). She then began playing lead roles in films, including Yes Man (2008) and (500) Days of Summer (2009). For a few years starting in 2001, Deschanel performed in ... Add to favourites (38 fans)Biography of James Hetfield
James Hetfield (born James Alan Hetfield, 3 August 1963, Downey, California) is the main songwriter, lead vocalist, guitarist and a founding member of the American thrash/heavy metal band Metallica. Early life Hetfield was born on August 3, 1963, in Downey, Los Angeles County, California. His father, Virgil Hetfield (a truck driver) and mother, Cynthia (a light opera singer) were devout and strict adherents to Christian Science, and accordingly, much of his young life revolved around religion. In accordance with their beliefs, Hetfield's parents strongly disapproved of medicine or any medical help and remained vigilant in their faith even as his mother began to die of cancer. Her death and his subsequently turbulent relationship with religion are both recurring subjects that have been ... |
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