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You will find on these pages astrological charts of thousands of celebrities with the Sun in Cancer. Just click on the celebrities of your choice to get their horoscope, excerpts of astrological portrait, natal chart, positions of planets and astrological houses, biography, and photo. in ![]() Add to favourites (34 fans)Biography of Julius Caesar
Gaius Julius Caesar was a Roman military and political leader and one of the most influential men of classical antiquity. He played a critical role in the transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire. Partisan of the populares faction, he formed an unofficial triumvirate with Marcus Licinius Crassus and Pompey the Great which dominated Roman politics for several years, but was fiercely opposed by optimates like Cato the Younger. His conquest of Gaul extended the Roman world all the way to the Atlantic Ocean, and he also conducted the first Roman invasion of Britain in 55 BC; the collapse of the triumvirate, however, led to a stand-off with Pompey and the Senate. Leading his legions across the Rubicon, Caesar began a civil war in 49 BC from which he became the undispute... Add to favourites (27 fans)Biography of Richard Branson
Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson (born 18 July 1950 (1950-07-18) in Shamley Green, Surrey, England), is an English entrepreneur, best known for his Virgin brand of over 350 companies. His first successful business venture was at age 16, when he published a magazine called Student; Branson then set up a record mail order business in 1970, and then a chain of record stores in 1971 now known as Virgin Megastores. With a flamboyant and competitive style, Branson's Virgin brand grew rapidly during the 1980s as he set up Virgin Atlantic Airways and expanded the Virgin Records music label. Today, his worth is estimated at over £4 billion (equivalent to US$7.8 billion) according to The Sunday Times Rich List 2006. Education Branson was educated at Scaitcliffe School (now Bishopsgate Schoo... Add to favourites (38 fans)Biography of Nicola Sirkis
Nicola Sirkis (born Nicolas Sirchis, in Antony, Hauts-de-Seine, France on June 22, 1959) is the singer, guitarist and principal lyricist with the French band Indochine. He is the only surviving member of the original line-up of the band which he formed in 1981 with a friend, Dominique Nicolas, soon to be joined by his twin brother Stéphane and Dimitri Bodianski. The band has been active for 25 years, and Nicola Sirkis saw critical and wide appeal and success in 2002 with the release of Paradize. In 1992, Nicola Sirkis released a solo-album, Dans la Lune, covering a few of his favourite songs, in french or english. Nicola Sirkis is also the author of the novel "Les Mauvaises Nouvelles", published in 1998.... Add to favourites (59 fans)Biography of Eva Green
Eva Gaëlle Green (born July 5, 1980 (birth time source: Patrick de Jabrun) is a BAFTA award-winning French actress who has starred in such film as The Dreamers, Kingdom of Heaven, and Casino Royale. Early life Green was born in Paris, France to French actress Marlène Jobert and Swedish dentist Walter Green, who appeared in the 1966 film Au hasard Balthazar, which was his first and only on-screen appearance. She has said that she comes from a "bourgeois" family, and was raised in the 17th arrondissement of Paris. Green attended the American School of Paris for her formal years. She has one sibling, a fraternal twin sister, Joy, from whom she is reportedly estranged. Green's name is pronounced /gre:n/, (approximately rhyming with "wren") in Swedish; it comes from the Swedish word gren, w... Biography of Shelley von Strunckel
Shelley von Strunckel is a California-born astrologer with newspaper columns widely published in Europe, the Middle East, Australia and Asia. She created the first ever astrological column in a British broadsheet newspaper with the Sunday Times in 1992.... Add to favourites (21 fans)Biography of Laurence Ferrari
Laurence Ferrari, born July 5, 1966 in Aix-les-Bains, is a French journalist.... Add to favourites (37 fans)Biography of Kristen Bell
Kristen Anne Bell (born July 18, 1980) is an American actress who is best known for starring in the title role on the television show Veronica Mars. Height: 5' 1" (1.55 m) Early life Bell, who is of Polish and Irish descent, was born and raised in Huntington Woods, Michigan, a suburb about 3 miles north of Detroit. As a child she once broke both wrists at once, while playing hockey. She went to her first audition at age 11 and won a dual role as a banana and a tree in a suburban Detroit theater's production of Raggedy Ann and Andy. She attended Shrine Catholic High School in nearby Royal Oak, where she took the starring role in the school's 1997 production of The Wizard of Oz as Dorothy Gale. She also appeared in Fiddler on the Roof (1995), Lady Be Good (1996), and Li'l Abner ... Add to favourites (69 fans)Biography of Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. Nicknamed "Papa", he was part of the 1920s expatriate community in Paris known as "the Lost Generation", as described in his memoir A Moveable Feast. He led a turbulent social life, was married four times, and allegedly had various romantic relationships during his lifetime. For a serious writer, he achieved a rare cult-like popularity during his lifetime. Hemingway received the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 for The Old Man and the Sea. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. Hemingway's distinctive writing style is characterized by economy and understatement and had a significant influence on the development of twentieth-century fiction writing. His protagonists are ... Add to favourites (21 fans)Biography of Priyanka Chopra
Priyanka Chopra (Hindi: प्रियांका चोपड़ा; born July 18, 1982) is an Indian Film actress who works in Bollywood movies, and former Miss World. After winning the title of Miss India World and later becoming Miss World 2000, Chopra made her acting debut with Anil Sharma's The Hero: Love Story of a Spy (2003). She had her first commercial success with her second release, Andaaz from the same year and won a Filmfare Best Female Debut Award for her performance in the film. Becoming the second woman to win the Filmfare Best Villain Award for her critically acclaimed performance in Abbas-Mustan's Aitraaz (2004), Chopra later went on to deliver commercial success with films like Mujhse Shaadi Karogi (2004),... Add to favourites (18 fans)Biography of Mireille Mathieu
Mireille Mathieu (born July 22, 1946) is a French singer, who besides being very successful in her own country, became a star of international stature, recording in several languages. She was born in Avignon, Vaucluse, France, the oldest daughter of a poor family of fourteen children. She began singing as a small child, appearing in public at the age of four, singing in her church. As a young girl she worked in a factory, where she saved her money to pay for singing lessons. Discovered by Johnny Stark, manager of France's biggest star at the time, Johnny Hallyday, she was tutored by orchestra leader Paul Mauriat and song writer André Pascal who wrote Mon crédo, Viens dans ma rue, La première étoile and many other hits for her . After her television performance in 1965 and debut run a... Biography of Christophe Rocancourt
Christophe Thierry Rocancourt, sometimes also called Christopher Rocancourt, (b. July 16, 1967 in Honfleur, France) is an impostor, confidence man and gentleman thief who scammed affluent people by masquerading as a French member of the Rockefeller family. Biography He told Dateline NBC in a 2006 broadcast that his mother sometimes worked as a prostitute and his father was an alcoholic who took Christophe to an orphanage when the boy was 5. He ran away and made his way to Paris where he pulled his first big con: faking the deed to a property he didn't own, then "selling" the property for USD $1.4 million. Making his way to the United States, Rocancourt used at least a dozen aliases. He got the rich and powerful to invest in his schemes, he told Dateline, by tapping into their greed... Add to favourites (58 fans)Biography of Josh Hartnett
Josh Hartnett is an American actor.... Add to favourites (49 fans)Biography of Sophia Bush
Sophia Anna Bush (born July 8, 1982) is a "Rising Star" award winning American actress. She is perhaps best known for her role of Brooke Davis in the CW series One Tree Hill and also for her role portraying Grace Andrews in the horror remake The Hitcher. She was nominated for a Teen Choice Award award three times for her role as Brooke Davis. Early life Bush, an only child, was born and raised in Pasadena, California to Charles William Bush, one of the top advertising and celebrity photographers working in the United States today, and Maureen, a photography studio manager. Bush was an athletic young girl on her varsity volleyball team, and did not consider acting until after graduation. Bush attended Westridge School for Girls (Pasadena) and the University of Southern California and w... Add to favourites (46 fans)Biography of Diane Kruger
Diane Kruger (born July 15, 1976), is a German actress and former fashion model. Early life and career Born Diane Heidkrüger in Algermissen, near Hildesheim, Germany, she started her career as a dancer in London when she was still young, but after an injury she changed her mind and went to Paris to become a model. Her education in art led her to be able to speak perfect English and French, added to her mother language, German. She won Elite's 1992 "Look of the Year" at the age of 15. Kruger soon became interested in acting and took lessons at the Cours Florent. She landed some small appearances in several French movies. She then changed her last name to ease her movie career. Kruger made her onscreen debut in 2002 opposite Dennis Hopper and Christopher Lambert in The Piano Player, a... Add to favourites (22 fans)Biography of Emmanuelle Seigner
Emmanuelle Seigner (born June 22, 1966) is a French actress and former fashion model. Seigner was born in Paris, France. She is the granddaughter of the respected French actor Louis Seigner (1903-1991) and sister of the actress Mathilde Seigner. She was educated at a Catholic convent school, and began modelling at the age of fourteen, capitalizing on her beauty. She achieved international status as a professional model. She married the Franco-Polish film director Roman Polanski in 1989, and they have two children, Morgane and Elvis.... Add to favourites (23 fans)Biography of Marc-Olivier Fogiel
French journalist and famous TV host.... Add to favourites (11 fans)Biography of Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiari
Soraya Esfandiary (June 22, 1932 - October 26, 2001) was the second wife and Queen consort of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran. Though her husband's title, Shahanshah (King of Kings), is the equivalent of emperor, it was not until 1967 that a complementary feminine title, Shahbanu, was created to designate the wife of a Shah. Until then, wives of Shahs, including Soraya, bore the title Maleke (borrowed from Arabic Malika), though in the popular press they frequently and incorrectly were called Empress. Birth Born in Isfahan, Persia, Soraya Esfandiary was the eldest child and only daughter of Khalil Esfandiary -- a notable of the Bakhtiari tribe of southern Iran who was the Iranian ambassador to West Germany in the 1950s -- and his Russian-born German wife, Eva Karl. She ... Add to favourites (28 fans)Biography of Henry VIII of England
Henry VIII (28 June 1491 - 28 January 1547) was King of England and Lord of Ireland, later King of Ireland, from 22 April 1509 until his death. He was the second monarch of the House of Tudor, succeeding his father, Henry VII. Henry VIII is infamous for having been married six times. He wielded perhaps the most unfettered power of any English monarch, and brought about the Dissolution of the Monasteries and the union of England and Wales. He also introduced Protestantism to England. Henry VIII was the second son of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York. His elder brother, Arthur, Prince of Wales, died in 1502, leaving Henry as heir to the throne. Many significant pieces of legislation were enacted during Henry VIII's reign. They included the several Acts which severed the Church of England... Add to favourites (13 fans)Biography of Julien Doré
Julien Doré, born July 7, 1982, in Alès (Gard) (birth time source: Paddy de Jabrun, birth certificate), is a French singer, winner of the 5th season of the television show Nouvelle Star, aired on the French Television Métropole Télévision channel. He is also the great-great-great-nephew of Gustave Doré, Illustrator of the 19th century. Early life Julien grew up in Lunel. After having had its "literary VAT" in the college Louis Feuillade, he attended the École des Beaux-Arts of Nîmes for five years. He is the founder of the group "Dig up Elvis", with which he played in the bars of Nîmes. At that time, he was paid in Beers. In 2006, he created with Guillaume de Molina the project "The Jean d'Ormesson disco suicide", "protean group" which covered pop and disco hits. Nouvelle Sta... Add to favourites (19 fans)Biography of Diana Rigg
Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg, DBE (born 20 July 1938) is an English actress. She is probably best known for her portrayals of Emma Peel in The Avengers and Countess Teresa di Vicenzo in the 1969 James Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Biography Early life and education Rigg was born in Doncaster, West Riding of Yorkshire to Louis Rigg and Beryl Hilda Helliwell (1908–1981); her father was a railway engineer who had been born in Yorkshire. Between the ages of two months and eight years Rigg lived in Bikaner, India, where her father was employed as a railway executive. Rigg speaks fluent Hindi. She was then sent to a boarding school, the Moravian School in Fulneck, near Pudsey. She disliked her boarding school, where she felt like a fish out of water, but she believes that ... Add to favourites (35 fans)Biography of Victoria Abril
Victoria Abril (born Victoria Mérida Rojas, 4 July 1959 (birth time source: Didier Geslain)) is a Spanish film actress. She is best known to international audiences for her performance in the movie ¡Átame! (Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!) by director Pedro Almodóvar. Life and career This section requires expansion. (May 2012) Abril was born in Madrid. She became widely known in Spain in 1976 when she appeared for two years in the show Un, dos, tres... responda otra vez as secretary, although later she has frequently disowned this work and does not like to remember it in interviews. Besides working in Spain, she also made films in France, where she resides, Italy and Iceland. She has been nominated eight times for Goya Awards in the Lead Actress category and has won once. She won the Silv... Add to favourites (61 fans)Biography of Jared Padalecki
Jared Tristan Padalecki (born July 19, 1982) is an American actor. He grew up in Texas and came to fame in the early 2000s after appearing on the television series Gilmore Girls as well as in several Hollywood films, including New York Minute and House of Wax. Padalecki has most recently become known for his starring role on the television series Supernatural. Early life Padalecki was born in San Antonio, Texas to Sharon L. (Kammer), a high school English teacher, and Gerald R. Padalecki, a tax supervisor and accountant. His paternal grandfather was Polish. He has an older brother, Jeff, and a younger sister, Megan. He attended James Madison High School in San Antonio and was named a candidate for the 2000 Presidential Scholars Program. In 1998, Padalecki and his partner Chris Cardenas... Add to favourites (19 fans)Biography of Katrina Kaif
Katrina Kaif (born July 16, 1984) is a model and Bollywood actress. Height: 5' 8½" (1.74 m) One of 8 siblings, Katrina was born on July 16, 1984, in Hong Kong(Imdb gives London et not Honk Kong) to British parents, her father being of Kashmiri origin. She grew up in Hawaii and then moved to London. Career At the age of 14, Kaif started modeling for a jewelry campaign in London, and was subsequently discovered by filmmaker Kaizad Gustad, who gave her a part in his film Boom. She moved to Mumbai and was offered a number of modeling assignments. However, filmmakers were at first hesitant to sign her because of her linguistic shortcomings, such as her inability to speak Hindi. Films that did feature her usually had her voice dubbed over by a native speaker of the film's language. Thi... Biography of Joy Green
Joy Green is the fraternal twin sister of French actress Eva Green. She is born July 5, 1980 in Paris.... Add to favourites (15 fans)Biography of David Hasselhoff
David Michael Hasselhoff (born July 17, 1952 in Cleveland, OH), nicknamed "The Hoff", is an American actor who is best known for his lead roles on Knight Rider and Baywatch. He also crossed over to a successful music career, primarily in Austria, Switzerland, Germany and the United Kingdom. Personal life After dropping out of Atlanta's Marist High School, Hasselhoff attended and graduated high school at Lyons Township High School in La Grange, Illinois. He studied at California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California. Hasselhoff was married to actress Catherine Hickland from March 24, 1984 to March 1, 1989, when they divorced. Their marriage has been recreated in Knight Rider Season 4 (Episode The Scent of Roses which first aired on January 3, 1986). Before his divorce with... Add to favourites (20 fans)Biography of Isabelle Boulay
Isabelle Boulay (born 6 July 1972 in Sainte-Félicité, Quebec) is a francophone Canadian pop singer. In 1990, some friends registered her at the Petite-Vallée song festival without her consent, but she completed a performance there and was regarded as a huge success. The following year she won at the Granby song festival for her rendition of Jacques Brel's "Amsterdam". That same year she was invited to take part in the festival Les FrancoFolies de Montréal. In 1993 she represented Radio Canada at the "Truffe de Périgueux" festival held in Périgord, France. She carried off the prize for Best Singer in the "chanson francophone" (francophone song) category. Following her success in France, she was noticed by songwriter Luc Plamondon who was looking for emerging talents to perform in a ne... Add to favourites (27 fans)Biography of Cat Stevens
Yusuf Islam (born Steven Demetre Georgiou on 21 July 1948 in London) performed as Cat Stevens from 1966 to 1978. He is an English musician, singer-songwriter, educator, philanthropist and prominent convert to Islam. Under the name Cat Stevens he has sold over 60 million albums around the world since the late 1960s. His albums Tea for the Tillerman and Teaser and the Firecat were both certified by the RIAA as having achieved Triple Platinum status in the United States (three million sales each); his album Catch Bull at Four sold half a million copies in the first two weeks of release and was Billboard's number-one LP for three consecutive weeks. His songwriting has also earned him two ASCAP songwriting awards (for "The First Cut Is the Deepest," which has been a hit single for four diff... Add to favourites (17 fans)Biography of Anny Duperey
Anny Duperey (born Annie Legras on June 28, 1947 in Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France) is an stage, film and television actress and best-selling author. Duperey made her screen debut in the 1967 Jean-Luc Godard film, "2 ou 3 choses que je sais d'elle" (Two or Three Things I Know About Her ). In the 1974 Alain Resnais film Stavisky, she portrayed Arlette, the beautiful real-life wife of flamboyant swindler Alexandre Stavisky played by Jean-Paul Belmondo. Anny Duperey was nominated for the 1977 César Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her performance in "Un éléphant ça trompe énormément" (An Elephant Can Be Extremely Deceptive). For her work in television, she has won two 7 d'Or Night Best Actress awards. In English-language film, Anny Duperey appeared with Al Pacino in the 1977 ... Biography of Vincent Peillon
Vincent Benoît Camille Peillon (born 7 July 1960 at Suresnes) is Minister for Education in the French Government. He is a longstanding French politician and since 2004 has been a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for North West France (allied with the Socialist Party and the Party of European Socialists). Career Highest postgraduate teaching qualification in Philosophy (1986) Doctor of Philosophy (1992) Lecturer in Philosophy (1984–1997) Economic research director at the CNRS (national centre for scientific research) (2002–04) Secretary of the Socialist Party's group of experts (1993–94) Seconded to the First Secretary of the Socialist Party (1995–97) National research secretary of the Socialist Party (1997–2000) Socialist Party national spo... Add to favourites (43 fans)Biography of Marcel Proust
Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust (July 10, 1871 – November 18, 1922) was a French intellectual, novelist, essayist and critic, best known as the author of In Search of Lost Time (in French À la recherche du temps perdu, also titled Remembrance of Things Past in its original edition), a monumental work of twentieth-century fiction published in seven volumes from 1913 to 1927. Proust was born in Auteuil (the southern sector of Paris's then-rustic 16th arrondissement) at the home of his great-uncle, two months after the Treaty of Frankfurt formally ended the Franco-Prussian War. His birth took place during the violence that surrounded the suppression of the Paris Commune, and his childhood corresponds with the consolidation of the French Third Republic. Much of Remembrance of T... Biography of Evelyne Leclercq
Evelyne Leclercq is a French TV host born July 11, 1951 in Lyon.... Add to favourites (49 fans)Biography of John Cusack
John Paul Cusack (born June 28, 1966) is an American film actor and writer. Early life Cusack was born in Evanston, Illinois to an Irish American Catholic family. His father, Dick Cusack, as well as his siblings Ann, Bill, Joan, and Susie have also been actors; his father was also a documentary filmmaker, owned a film production company and was a friend of activist Philip Berrigan. Cusack's mother, Nancy, is a former mathematics teacher and political activist. Cusack spent a year at New York University before dropping out, saying that he had "too much fire in belly." Career Cusack first became famous in the mid-1980s for appearing in teen movies such as Better Off Dead, The Sure Thing and One Crazy Summer. Cusack made a cameo in the 1988 music video for "Trip At The Brain" by S... Add to favourites (51 fans)Biography of Jack White
Jack White (occasionally Jack III White or Jack White III), born John Anthony Gillis on July 9, 1975 in Detroit, Michigan is an American musician, guitarist, singer, songwriter and music producer. He started as a part-time musician working with various underground bands in Detroit, while working by day as an upholsterer. He is best known as the guitarist and lead vocalist of the rock duo The White Stripes. His popular and critical success with the Stripes enabled him to collaborate with other renowned artists, such as Loretta Lynn, Bob Dylan, Lou Reed, Pete Townshend, and Billy Gibbons. He is also one of the members of the rock band The Raconteurs. He was ranked #17 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time." Early life Of Polish and Canadian ancestry... Add to favourites (13 fans)Biography of Jacques Martin
Jacques Martin (born June 22, 1933 in Lyon, Rhône-Alpes, September 14, 2007 in Biarritz) was a French TV host and producer. Height: 1m74 In the late sixties he formed a comical duet of hosts on radio Europe 1 with French actor Jean Yanne. In the beginning of the seventies, he was the sidekick of Danièle Gilbert, the host of the early afternoon show Midi Première. Then Jacques Martin created and hosted popular satirical TV shows such as Le Petit Rapporteur (The little snitch , 1975 - 1976, TF1) and La Lorgnette (1976 - 1977, Antenne 2). He also tried a film career, writing and directing one film (Na !, 1973) and playing in others such as La Passante du Sans-Souci, without success. A great amateur of operetta, he enjoyed presenting TV shows mixing popular and classical music, ... Add to favourites (50 fans)Biography of Debbie Harry
Deborah Ann Harry (born July 1, 1945, in Miami, Florida) is a Grammy-winning and Golden Globe-nominated musician most famous for being the lead singer for the punk rock/new wave band Blondie. Following her success, she went on to moderate success as a solo artist. Birth time source: http://www.astrolreport.com/famous-h/harry.deborah.php Harry has also enjoyed a modest acting career, with over 30 film roles and several television appearances to her credit. Life and early career Harry was adopted when she was three months old by a family from Hawthorne, New Jersey, and attended Hawthorne High School, where she graduated in 1963. Prior to starting her singing career she moved to New York in the late 60's and worked as a secretary at the BBC Radio New York office for one year. Later, s... Biography of O.J. Simpson
Orenthal James "O. J." Simpson (born July 9, 1947) (also known by his nickname, The Juice) is a retired American football player who achieved stardom at the collegiate and professional levels, and was the first NFL player to rush for more than 2,000 yards in a season. He later worked as an actor, spokesperson and broadcaster. Simpson is infamous for having been tried for the murder of ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman in 1994. He was acquitted in criminal court in 1995 after a lengthy, highly publicized trial (often called the "Trial of the Century" in America). In 1997, Simpson was found liable for their deaths in civil court, but to date has paid little of the $33.5 million judgment. He gained further notoriety in late 2006 when he wrote a book titled If I Did... Add to favourites (17 fans)Biography of John D. Rockefeller
John Davison Rockefeller, Sr. (July 8, 1839 – May 23, 1937) was an American industrialist and philanthropist. Rockefeller revolutionized the oil industry and defined the structure of modern philanthropy. Rockefeller had always believed since he was a child that his purpose in life was to make as much money as possible, and then use it wisely to improve the lot of mankind. In 1870, Rockefeller founded the Standard Oil Company and ran it until he retired in the late 1890s. He kept his stock and as gasoline grew in importance, his wealth soared and he became the world's richest man and first billionaire. Rockefeller is often regarded as the richest person in history. Standard Oil was convicted in Federal Court of monopolistic practices and broken up in 1911. Rockefeller spent the last fort... Add to favourites (29 fans)Biography of Cyndi Lauper
Cynthia Ann Stephanie "Cyndi" Lauper (born June 22, 1953 (birth time source: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0490980/bio) is an iconic American Grammy Award-winning singer and Emmy Award-winning film, television and theatre actress. Her melodic voice and wild costumes have come to epitomize the 1980s and New Wave — the decade and genre in which she first came to fame. The source for her birth time is http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0490980/bio. Early life and pre-fame A high-profile star of the early MTV Era, Lauper was born in Ozone Park, New York, to Fred Lauper and Catrine Dominique, a waitress. Her father was of German and Swiss descent and her mother was Italian American (Sicilian, precisely). She has a sister (Elen) and a brother (Frank). At the age of 12, she learned how to play the guita... Add to favourites (16 fans)Biography of Line Renaud
Line Renaud is a popular French singer, actress and activist (born Jacqueline Ente, on July 2 1928 in Nieppe). Early life Line Renaud was born in Pont-de-Nieppe on July 2, 1928. Her mother Simone was a shorthand typist and father, a truck driver during the week, who played trumpet on the weekends in a local brass band. She showed the first signs of her talent in the primary school, when at the age of 7 she won an amateur competition. During the Second World War, Jacqueline’s father was mobilised, spending five years away from the family. During this time, Jacqueline was brought up by her mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. Her grandmother had a cafe in Armentières, where she used to sing for the passing soldiers. Early career and meeting Loulou Gasté She auditioned at ... Add to favourites (26 fans)Biography of Amel Bent
Amel Bent (born Amel Bentbachir on June 21, 1985 in Paris) is a French singer who grew up in the French commune of La Courneuve with her Algerian father and an Algerian-Moroccan mother. Her career jump started after making it to the semi-finals of the reality TV show Nouvelle Star 2, France's version of Pop Idol. Although her performance did not make it to the finals, she was still noticed by some of the show's producers, and would end up making her début album later that year, titled: Un Jour d'été, released in late 2004. The album would sell more than 550,000 copies in France alone, but the success of the album would ultimately be derived from the single, "Ma Philosophie", which would sell at more than 500,000 copies, staying at the No.1 slot, in France, for more than 6 weeks during and ... Add to favourites (48 fans)Biography of Garou (singer)
Garou, is a Quebec singer born as Pierre Garand on June 26, 1972 in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. Height: 1m89 Discovered by Luc Plamondon singing American blues tunes in small Sherbrooke bars, he was drafted by Plamondon to play the role of Quasimodo in his musical Notre-Dame de Paris, making him a star. After the musical, he managed to launch a successful international pop music career in Quebec, France, and many other European countries. His looks and hoarse voice, as well as the virility that he combines with a boyish niceness, brought many to see him as a major modern day sex symbol.... Biography of Dorothée (TV host)
Frédérique Hoschédé (born on 14 July 1953 in Paris, France), known as Dorothée, is a French singer and actress. She started her TV career in the Dorothée et Blablatus show. She also had a brief cinema career, playing in L'amour en fuite, François Truffaut's last film in the Antoine Doinel series, and in 1981 in Pile ou face by Robert Enrico. From 1982 to 1987, she presented the Récré A2 TV show on Antenne 2, then the Club Dorothée show (TF1) until 1997. Through popular TV shows for children like "Club Dorothée" famous in France for screening Japanese anime and tokusatsu shows like Choujuu Sentai Liveman and Sekai Ninja Sen Jiraiya which she had appearances in, she gained a huge fan-base among the generation born in the late 1970s and early 1980s, who still worship her though th... Add to favourites (42 fans)Biography of Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka (IPA: ) (July 3, 1883 – June 3, 1924) was one of the major German-language fiction writers of the 20th century. A middle-class Jew based in Prague, his unique body of writing — many incomplete and most published posthumously — has become amongst the most influential in Western literature. Kafka's works – including the stories Das Urteil (1913, "The Judgement"), In der Strafkolonie (1920, "In the Penal Colony"); the novella Die Verwandlung ("The Metamorphosis"); and unfinished novels Der Prozess ("The Trial") and Das Schloß ("The Castle") – have come to embody the blend of absurd, surreal and mundane which gave rise to the adjective "kafkaesque". Life Family Kafka was born into a middle-class, German-speaking Jewish family in Prague, the capital of Bohemia. His father... Add to favourites (23 fans)Biography of Dany Boon
Dany Boon (born Daniel Hamidou June 26, 1966 in Armentières, Northern France) is a French comedian who has acted both on the stage and the screen. He takes his stage name from the television show Daniel Boone. He married and later divorced Judith Godrèche, with whom he has a son. He is currently married to Yael Harris. Dany Boon first started his career by dubbing cartoons and being a mime in the street. However, in 1992, he was given his first chance as comedian by French tv personality Patrick Sébastien who invited him on his tv show in 1992. From then on Dany Boon started being successful with his sketches and his one man shows. He was then offered several roles in movies, the most famous being Joyeux Noël that made it on the international scene in 2005. The actor, who is deepl... Add to favourites (36 fans)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... Add to favourites (11 fans)Biography of Samy Naceri
Samy Naceri (born 2 July 1961) is a French actor, known for his work in the four Taxi movies and The Code (La Mentale). He was born Saïd Naceri to an Algerian father and French mother in the 4th arrondissement of Paris and spent his childhood in the Parisian suburb of Montreuil. Criminality Stemming from a substance abuse charge in 2003, Samy was sentenced to eight months imprisonment with deferment, had his driving licence suspended for three years, and was penalized with a €5,000 fine for a road rage incident in which he smashed a car and assaulted one of its occupants. In November 2005, after waiting for a late guest, Naceri attacked a 22-year-old man with an ashtray at a trendy Paris restaurant. The actor was convicted for assault and spent two months in jail. He was relea... Add to favourites (29 fans)Biography of Sofia Vergara
Sofía Margarita Vergara (born July 10, 1972, in Barranquilla, Atlantico) is a Colombian model and actress. Height 5' 7" (1.70 m) Early life "La Toti" was the nickname given to Vergara by her five brothers and sisters and many cousins, including television news anchor and reporter Carlos Vergara, who currently works for WTVJ in Miami, Florida. She grew up between her hometown of Barranquilla and her father's farm in Colombia, where for recreation and exercise, she liked to swim in a river and ride horses. She came from a well-off family in Colombia and was sent to private bilingual (Spanish/English) schools there, including elementary school. She got married at the age of 18, and she gave birth to her son Manolo in 1991 at the age of 19. The marriage did not last very long, and the... Add to favourites (29 fans)Biography of Brandon Flowers
Brandon Flowers (born June 21, 1981) is the vocalist and keyboardist in the American synth rock band The Killers. Early life Flowers was born on June 21, 1981 in Las Vegas, Nevada to parents of partial Scottish and Lithuanian ancestry and later raised in Nephi, Utah. Flower's father worked as a bathroom fitter in Nephi. He then took a job at the Gold Coast, the same hotel Flowers worked at, when he moved back to Vegas. His mother was a homemaker. He attributes his fashion sense to his doting sisters. His parents made him take piano lessons, but the person responsible for Flowers's musical education was his older brother Shane (12 years older), who showed him The Smiths videos and U2 Rattle and Hum movie. He mentions his older brother quite often when asked about his taste in music or t... Add to favourites (32 fans)Biography of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, (June 28, 1712 – July 2, 1778) was a Genevan philosopher of the Enlightenment whose political ideas influenced the French Revolution, the development of socialist theory, and the growth of nationalism. Rousseau also made important contributions to music both as a theorist and as a composer. With his Confessions and other writings, he practically invented modern autobiography and encouraged a new focus on the building of subjectivity that would bear fruit in the work of thinkers as diverse as Hegel and Freud. His novel Julie, ou la nouvelle Héloïse was one of the best-selling fictional works of the eighteenth century and was important to the development of romanticism. Rousseau was born in Geneva (then an independent republic, today part of Switzerland) and through... Add to favourites (32 fans)Biography of Michelle Rodríguez
Michelle Rodriguez (born Mayte Michelle Rodriguez on July 12, 1978 in San Antonio, Texas) is an American actress, best-known for her roles in the television series Lost and movies The Fast and the Furious, S.W.A.T., and Resident Evil. Early life Rodriguez was born to Walter Rodríguez (who is Puerto Rican) and Carmen Milady Pared (of the Dominican Republic), and has a total of ten half-siblings or siblings. She was raised by her devoutly religious maternal grandmother. Rodríguez moved to the Dominican Republic with her mother when she was 8 and lived in Puerto Rico when she was 11, later settling in New Jersey. She dropped out of high school at age 17 and later earned her GED. Career Rodríguez was a struggling actress when she ran across an ad advertising an open casting call ... |
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