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1053 celebrities 5' 9" tall have been found. Add to favourites (213 fans)Biography of Julia Roberts
Julia Fiona Roberts (28 October 1967) is an Academy Award-winning American film actress and former fashion model. She shot to fame during the early 1990s after starring in the romantic comedy, Pretty Woman, opposite Richard Gere. Since then, Roberts has become the highest-paid actress in the world, topping the Hollywood Reporter's annual power list of top-earning female stars for four consecutive years (2002-2005). Her career includes films such as Pretty Woman, Runaway Bride, and Ocean's Eleven, which have collectively earned box office receipts well over $2 billion. She won the Best Actress Academy Award in 2001 for her critically praised turn as the title character in Erin Brockovich after two previous nominations during the 1990s. For her fame and wholesome image, she is often referred... Add to favourites (110 fans)Biography of Carla Bruni Sarkozy
Carla Bruni-Sarkozy (born Carla Gilberta Bruni Tedeschi, Italian pronunciation: ; 23 December 1967) is a French-Italian songwriter, singer, actress, and former model. She has been married to Nicolas Sarkozy, the former President of the French Republic, since February 2008; the couple have a daughter, Giulia, born in October 2011. Early life Carla Gilberta Bruni Tedeschi was born in Turin, Italy, and is heiress to the fortune created by the Italian tyre manufacturing company CEAT, founded in the 1920s by her grandfather Virginio Bruni Tedeschi. The company was sold in the 1970s to Pirelli (the brand lives on via its former subsidiary in India, founded in 1958). The family moved to France in 1975, reportedly to escape the threat of kidnapping by the Red Brigades, a Marxist-Leninist Rev... Add to favourites (170 fans)Biography of Che Guevara
Ernesto Guevara de la Serna (May 14, 1928 (birth time source: Marc Penfield) – October 9, 1967), commonly known as Che Guevara or El Che, was an Argentine-born Marxist revolutionary, medic, political figure, and leader of Cuban and internationalist guerrillas. As a young man studying medicine, Guevara traveled roughrough throughout Latin America, bringing him into direct contact with the impoverished conditions in which many people lived. His experiences and observations during these trips led him to the conclusion that the region's socio-economic inequalities could only be remedied by revolution, prompting him to intensify his study of Marxism and travel to Guatemala to learn about the reforms being implemented there by President Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán. While in Mexico in 1956, Guevar... Add to favourites (152 fans)Biography of Paris Hilton
Paris Whitney Hilton (born February 17, 1981) is an American celebrity and socialite. She is an heiress to a share of the Hilton Hotel fortune, as well as to the real estate fortune of her father Richard Hilton. Hilton rose to fame when a home-made sex video of her was leaked onto the Internet in late 2003. The release of the tape, later titled 1 Night in Paris (2004), attracted worldwide publicity and contributed to the success of Hilton's Fox reality series The Simple Life. As an actress, she has appeared in several minor roles, most notably in the horror film House of Wax (2005), and in 2006, she released the self-titled album Paris which reached number six on the Billboard 200. In September 2006, she was arrested for driving under the influence and subsequently sentenced to 36 mo... Add to favourites (133 fans)Biography of Robert Redford
Charles Robert Redford Jr. (born August 18, 1936) is an Academy Award-winning American film director, actor, producer, businessman, model, environmentalist, philanthropist, and founder of the Sundance Film Festival. Early life Redford was born in Santa Monica, California, the son of Martha W. (née Hart) and Charles Robert Redford Sr., a milkman-turned-accountant from Pawtucket, Rhode Island. He has a half-brother, William, from his father's re-marriage. Redford is of English and Scots-Irish ancestry. He attended Van Nuys High School in Los Angeles, California (where he met Natalie Wood), graduated in 1954, and received a baseball scholarship to the University of Colorado, where he was a pitcher. He lost the scholarship due to excessive fratting, possibly fueled by the death of his m... Add to favourites (153 fans)Biography of Mariah Carey
Mariah Carey (born March 27, 1969 (birth time source: Astrodatabank, source notes) is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, and actress. She made her recording debut in 1990 under the guidance of Columbia Records executive Tommy Mottola, and released her self-titled debut studio album, Mariah Carey. The album went multi-platinum and spawned four consecutive number one singles, on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart. After the success of the album, she won the Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 1991. Following her marriage to Mottola in 1993, a series of hit records established her position as Columbia's highest-selling act. Music Box (1993), was certified diamond and became one of the best-selling albums of all time and Merry Christmas (1994), eventually became the most successful ... Add to favourites (124 fans)Biography of Katie Holmes
Kate Noelle "Katie" Holmes (born December 18, 1978 (birth time source: Astrodatabank, LMR) is an American actress who first achieved fame for her role as Joey Potter on The WB television teen drama Dawson's Creek from 1998 to 2003. Since Dawson's Creek, Holmes' career has consisted of movie roles such as the blockbuster Batman Begins, art house films such as The Ice Storm, horror films such as Don't Be Afraid of the Dark and thrillers including Abandon. She has also played on Broadway in a production of Arthur Miller's All My Sons and had various guest roles on television programs such as How I Met Your Mother. Early life Holmes was born in Toledo, Ohio. She is the fourth daughter and youngest child of five children born to Kathleen (née Stothers), a homemaker and philanthropist, and... Add to favourites (76 fans)Biography of Tyra Banks
Tyra Lynne Banks (born December 4, 1973) is an American retired supermodel. She first emerged to prominence as a cover model for the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue and one of the original Victoria's Secret Angels. She is best known as the hostess/judge of the reality television show America's Next Top Model, since its 2003 debut on UPN (later CW), and is currently hosting her own daytime talk show, The Tyra Banks Show. Banks is one of only four African Americans and seven women to have repeatedly ranked among the world's most influential people by Time magazine.... Add to favourites (111 fans)Biography of Gwyneth Paltrow
Gwyneth Kate Paltrow (born September 27, 1972) is an Academy Award-winning American actress and singer. She lives in the United Kingdom with her husband, Chris Martin, who is the lead singer of the UK band, Coldplay, and her two children, Apple and Moses. Early life Paltrow was born to the late film and television director Bruce Paltrow (who was Jewish) and Blythe Danner (who was raised a Quaker and is of Pennsylvania Dutch descent). Her paternal grandparents were Gertrud Goldman and Aaron Paltrow, and her maternal grandparents were Eunice Hogan and John Danner. Raised in Santa Monica, she attended Crossroads School before moving and attending Spence School, a private girls' school in New York City. Later she briefly studied art history at the University of California, Santa Barbara, b... Add to favourites (71 fans)Biography of Tobey Maguire
Tobias Vincent "Tobey" Maguire (born June 27, 1975) is an American actor. He began his career in the 1980s, and has since become best known for his role as Peter Parker/Spider-Man in the Spider-Man films. Early life Maguire was born in Santa Monica, California, the son of Wendy (née Brown), a secretary turned screenwriter and producer, and Vincent Maguire, a construction worker and cook. His parents were 18 and 20 years old (and unmarried) at the time of his birth; the two married and subsequently divorced when Maguire was two. Maguire spent much of his childhood moving from town to town, living with each parent and other family members. During his childhood, Maguire entertained the idea of becoming a chef and to that end wanted to enroll in a home economics class as a sixth grader. ... Add to favourites (102 fans)Biography of Sean Penn
Sean Justin Penn (born August 17, 1960) is an Academy Award-winning American film actor and director who is best known for playing intense, often humorless and unsympathetic characters. Early life Penn was born in Santa Monica, California, to Leo Penn, an actor, director, and Eileen Ryan, an actress. Penn's father was the son of Elizabeth Melincoff and Maurice Daniel Penn, Jewish immigrants of Russian and Lithuanian descent who owned a delicatessen. His mother, born "Eileen Annucci", is a Roman Catholic of Italian and Irish descent. The Penn surname was originally Piñon, but it was changed when his grandfather immigrated to the United States. Penn has one living brother, musician Michael Penn. Another younger brother, actor Chris Penn, died on January 24, 2006 from "nonspecific cardiom... Add to favourites (20 fans)Biography of Amélie Mauresmo
Amélie Simone Mauresmo (born on 5 July 1979) is a French professional tennis player and is a former World No. 1. She is currently the third ranked player in the world. She has won two Grand Slam singles titles, the 2006 Australian Open and 2006 Wimbledon. Mauresmo first attained the top ranking on September 13, 2004, holding it for five weeks on that occasion. She was the fourteenth World No. 1 in women's tennis since the computer rankings began. She is well known for her powerful one-handed backhand (a rarity in women's tennis) and her strong net play. She is coached by Loïc Courteau. Amélie Mauresmo was born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye. Inspired by watching Yannick Noah win the 1983 French Open on television, Mauresmo began to play tennis at the age of 4. In 1996, Mauresmo captured... Add to favourites (43 fans)Biography of François Fillon
François Fillon (born 4 March 1954 in Le Mans, Sarthe) is the current Prime Minister of France, having been appointed to that office by President Nicolas Sarkozy on 17 May 2007. Height: 1m75 As a member of the UMP party, Fillon became Jean-Pierre Raffarin's Minister of Labour in 2002 and undertook controversial reforms of the 35-hour working week law and of the French retirement system (Loi Fillon). He became Minister of Education and Research in 2004 and proposed the much debated Fillon law on Education. In 2005, he was not included in the new government headed by Dominique de Villepin, but was elected senator for the Sarthe département. His role as a political advisor in Nicolas Sarkozy's successful race for president led to his current role. Heritage The Fillon family has its ... Add to favourites (84 fans)Biography of Elizabeth Hurley
Elizabeth Jane Hurley (born 10 June 1965) is an English actress, fashion model, producer and designer. Early life Elizabeth Hurley was born in Basingstoke, Hampshire, England in 1965. Hurley's father, a lapsed Catholic of Irish descent, was a British Army major, while her mother, an Anglican, was a schoolteacher at Kempshott Infant School. She has an older sister, Debbie, and a younger brother, Michael. Hurley took ballet classes as a child. She went to Kempshott Junior and Infants school, and the Harriet Costello School now known as Costello Technology College. Hurley later attended Queen Mary's College, Basingstoke, for one year, followed by Basingstoke College of Technology and won a scholarship to the London Studio Centre. Whilst in her teens and before she was in the public ... Add to favourites (73 fans)Biography of Anthony Kiedis
Anthony Kiedis (born November 1, 1962 (birth time source: Sy Scholfield, Astrodatabank) is the lead singer and a co-founder of the American rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers. He is also responsible for writing most of the band's vocal melodies and lyrics. Though his style was originally a rap/rock fusion, over time Kiedis developed his singing voice. Early life Anthony Kiedis was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, to John Kiedis and Margaret "Peggy" Idema (née Noble), who divorced in 1965 when he was three. He has two half-sisters, Julie and Jenny, and a half-brother, James. His great-grandfather, Antanas Kiedis, is Lithuanian and his paternal grandmother has some Mohican blood. His godfather was Sonny Bono. Kiedis lived with his mother in Grand Rapids until he was 11, then moved to Los ... Add to favourites (64 fans)Biography of Keith Richards
Keith Richards (born 18 December 1943) is an English guitarist, songwriter, singer and a founding member of the British musical group The Rolling Stones in 1962. With songwriting partner and Stones lead vocalist Mick Jagger, he has written, recorded and published hundreds of songs including "Satisfaction", "Jumpin' Jack Flash", "Miss You" and "Start Me Up". Though he has had a solo career and appears as a guest artist on the recordings of other artists, his association with the Stones has defined his musical career. As a guitarist Richards is mostly known for his innovative rhythm playing. In 2003, Rolling Stone magazine ranked Richards #10 in its list of "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". Public image and private life Photo by Sante D'Orazio, from Talk is Cheap album art work, ... Add to favourites (130 fans)Biography of Zayn Malik
Zain Jawaad Malik, better known as Zayn Malik, (born on 12 January 1993, in St. Luke's Hospital (birth time source: http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=332435833530184&id=129080637199039)) is an English singer and member of One Direction, from West Lane Baildon, Bradford, England, UK, he is a British Pakistani. Born to mother Tricia and father Yaser, he has three sisters Doniya, Waliyha and Safaa. He grew up in East Bowling, located south of the Bradford city centre. Malik was a pupil at Lower Fields Primary School in East Bowling and went to Tong High School, a state comprehensive school.. He stated that as a child "I was a bit of a handful when I was a kid because I was quite hyperactive. Even in the house my mum used to put me in my pram because I was so full-on." Malik did... Add to favourites (22 fans)Biography of Michel Drucker
Michel Drucker (born September 12, 1942) is a popular French journalist and TV host. Opinion polls have consistently shown him ranking high in popularity for decades now. Michel Drucker was born in Vire, Calvados in Normandy. He is the younger brother of Jacques Drucker, a Doctor, and the older brother of Jean Drucker a TV top executive. He started a journalistic career in 1965 at the ORTF as sports reporter and commentator. Although he kept doing live coverage of major soccer matches until 1986, he soon turned to hosting variety shows. He is known for his polite and toned-down attitude towards show business stars. He is married to the French actress Dany Saval and uncle of Léa Drucker, an actress and Marie Drucker, a TV journalist on France 3 News. Michel Drucker has been on s... Add to favourites (34 fans)Biography of Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg, (born May 14, 1984 (birth time source, a rectification from http://laurendelsack.wordpress.com/2011/01/17/birth-time-rectification-facebooks-mark-zuckerberg/)) is an American computer programmer and entrepreneur. As a Harvard student, he created the online social website Facebook, a site popular among students worldwide, with fellow computer science major students and his roommates Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. He serves as Facebook's CEO. He has been the subject of controversy for the origins of his business and his wealth. Time Magazine added Zuckerberg as one of The World's Most Influential People of 2008. Zuckerberg fell under the Scientists & Thinkers category for his web phenomenon, Facebook, and ranked 52 out of 101 people. Early life Zuckerberg was rais... Add to favourites (72 fans)Biography of Jennifer Garner
Jennifer Anne Garner (born April 17, 1972) is a Golden Globe Award- and SAG Award-winning and Emmy Award-nominated American film and television actress, and producer. She first became known for her role as Sydney Bristow on Alias, a CIA agent. Height: 1m75 Early life Garner was born in Houston, Texas, to Patricia Ann English, a teacher, and Billy Jack Garner, a chemical engineer who worked for Union Carbide; she is the middle child between two sisters, Melissa Garner Wylie and Susannah Garner Carpenter. Her family is Methodist. At three years old, Garner began taking ballet lessons which she continued throughout her youth. Although she admitted that she loved dancing, she never had ambitions to become a classical ballerina. When she was four years old, her father's job with Union C... Biography of Rajinikanth
Rajinikanth (born Shivaji Rao Gaekwad on December 12, 1949) is an Indian film actor. Other names: Rajani Kant | Rajni Kanth | Rajanikanth | Rajanikant | 'SuperStar' RajiniKanth | Super Star Rajinikanth | Rajinikanth | Rajinikant | Superstar Rajnikant | Super Star Rajnikanth | Rajnikant An experienced actor and regional celebrity, he received India's third highest civilian honour, the Padmabhushan for his work in Indian cinema in 2000. Rajinikanth performs predominantly in leading roles in high-budget and major studio films, ranging from romantic comedies and drama to action thrillers. Early life Rajinikanth was born in a Marathi family in Karnataka, India. He was the fourth child to his parents, Jija bai and Ramoji Rao. His original name was Sivaji Rao Gaekwad. He lost his mothe... Add to favourites (52 fans)Biography of Jason Statham
Jason Statham (pronounced /ˈsteɪθəm/; born 12 September 1967) is an English actor and former diver, known for his roles in the Guy Ritchie crime films Revolver, Snatch and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. Statham appeared in supporting roles in several American films, such as The Italian Job, as well as playing the lead role in The Transporter, Death Race, Crank, The Bank Job and War (opposite martial arts star Jet Li). Statham also appeared alongside established action film actors Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, Jet Li and Dolph Lundgren in The Expendables. He normally performs his own fight scenes and stunts. Early life Statham was born in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, the son of Eileen (née Yates) and Barry Statham, a lounge singer. He ... 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 (50 fans)Biography of Mischa Barton
Mischa Anne Marsden Barton (born 24 January 1986) is an English-American fashion model, film, television, and stage actress, best known for her role as Marissa Cooper in the American television series The O.C.. Biography Early life Mischa Barton was born in Hammersmith, West London, England, to an Irish mother, Nuala (née Quinn), a photographer, and a Mancunian English father, Paul Marsden Barton, a foreign exchange broker. She has two sisters, younger Hania and elder Zoe, a barrister in London. Her father's work took the family to New York City when Barton was six, and ten days after her twentieth birthday, she became a naturalised citizen of the United States in 2006. Retaining her British citizenship, Barton in reference to her English roots states, "I actually feel more comforta... Add to favourites (36 fans)Biography of Jenna Jameson
Jenna Jameson (born Jenna Marie Massoli on April 9, 1974) is an American pornographic actress and entrepreneur who has been called the world's most famous porn star and "The Queen of Porn". She started acting in erotic films in 1993 after having worked as a stripper and glamour model. By 1996, she had won the three top newcomer awards from pornographic film industry organizations. She has since won more than 20 adult film awards, and has been inducted into both the X-Rated Critics Organization (XRCO) and Adult Video News (AVN) Halls of Fame. Jameson founded pornographic entertainment company Club Jenna in 2000, with Jay Grdina, whom she later married. This business was initially an individual website, which expanded into managing similar websites of other stars and began producing porno... Add to favourites (94 fans)Biography of Gary Oldman
Gary Oldman (born March 21, 1958) is an Emmy Award-nominated, BAFTA Award-winning English film actor, writer and director. He is revered for his versatility, mastery of accents and ability to fully immerse himself in the characters he portrays. Early life Oldman was born Leonard Gary Oldman in New Cross, London, England to Len Oldman, a former sailor who worked as a welder and was an "abusive alcoholic", and Kathleen, an Irish-born homemaker. His sister, Laila Morse, is also an actor. Personal life Oldman has been married three times: to Lesley Manville (1988 - 1990), Uma Thurman (1990 - 1992), and Donya Fiorentino (1997 - 2001). He also has three sons, Alfred (b. 1988) by Manville, and Gulliver Flynn (b. 1997) and Charlie John (b. 1999) by Fiorentino.... Add to favourites (64 fans)Biography of Axl Rose
W. Axl Rose , commonly referred to as Axl Rose, (born William Bruce Rose, Jr. on February 6, 1962) is an American musician, best known as the vocalist of Guns N' Roses. The only original member still part of the band's line-up, Rose places high in numerous polls as one of hard rock's all-time greatest frontmen and is also infamous for his onstage antics and disputes with former bandmates.... Add to favourites (43 fans)Biography of Elizabeth Teissier
Élizabeth Teissier, born January 6, 1938 in Algiers, Algeria, is a Swiss and French astrologer and author, and former model and actress. Bibliography * Ne brûlez pas la sorcière, Pauvert, 1976 (épuisé). * Astralement vôtre ou le triomphe d’une vocation, Laffont, 1980 (épuisé). * L’Astrologie, science du XXIe siècle, Edition n° 1, 1988, 1994 (premier livre d’astrologie occidentale traduit en chinois) * Vos Etoiles jusqu’en l’an 2001, Edition n°1, 1989, 1993. * Astrologie Passion, Hachette, 1992 (encyclopédie d’astrologie) (épuisé). * Étoiles et Molécules, Grasset, 1992 (dialogue avec le Dr Henri Laborit). * Les douze Signes du zodiaque, 1994. * Les Etoiles de l’Elysée, Edition n° 1, 1995. * Sous le signe de Mitterrand. Sept ans d’entretiens... Add to favourites (65 fans)Biography of Jean-Jacques Goldman
Jean-Jacques Goldman (born October 11, 1951) is a French singer and songwriter. He is hugely popular in the French-speaking world, and in 2003 was the second-highest-grossing French pop singer, after Johnny Hallyday. Born in Paris to immigrant Polish Jewish parents, Alter Mojze Goldman and Ruth Ambrunn. Goldman was the third of four children and first learned the violin, and then the piano as a child. In 1968, he abandoned his classical music studies for the guitar. He also earned a business degree from the École Des Hautes Études Commerciales, commonly known as l'Edhec, in Lille. In 1972, he met Catherine, his first wife, with whom he had three children. He first entered the French music scene as member of a prog rock group named Tai Phong ("great wind, typhoon" in Vietnamese), whic... Add to favourites (10 fans)Biography of Iman (model)
Iman (born July 25, 1955 in Mogadishu, Somalia as Iman Abdulmajid, Somali: Iimaan Cabdimajiid) is a supermodel based in the United States. The daughter of the Somali ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Iman attended high school in Egypt and later lived in Nairobi, Kenya, where her parents still reside. Iman attended the University of Nairobi. Fluent in five languages, she studied political science and was recruited as a model by American photographer Peter Beard. Relocating to the United States, she married African American basketball player Spencer Haywood in 1977. Their daughter, Zulekha Haywood, was born in 1978; the couple divorced in 1987. She married British rock star and actor David Bowie in 1992. They have one daughter, Alexandria Zahra Jones, born August 15, 2000. She is also the st... Add to favourites (17 fans)Biography of José Mourinho
José Mourinho, GOIH (pron. IPA /ʒu'zɛ mo'ɾiɲu/) (full name: José Mário dos Santos Mourinho Félix) (born January 26, 1963 in Setúbal) is a Portuguese football manager and the current manager of Premier League club Chelsea. He is the son of Félix Mourinho, a former Portuguese international goalkeeper. Mourinho is considered to be one of the best coaches in Europe, having won four consecutive league titles (two at Porto and two at Chelsea) and also the UEFA Champions League and the UEFA Cup with Porto. For two consecutive years (2004 and 2005), Mourinho was named the world's best football coach by the International Federation of Football History and Statistics (IFFHS). He is well-known for his self-belief and has at times been a controversial figure. Career Early ... Add to favourites (32 fans)Biography of Simon Cowell
Simon Phillip Cowell (born 7 October 1959) is an English A&R executive, television producer, entrepreneur, and television personality. He is known in the United Kingdom and United States for his role as a talent judge on TV shows such as Pop Idol, The X Factor, Britain's Got Talent and American Idol. He is also the owner of the television production and music publishing house Syco. As a judge, Cowell is known for his blunt and often controversial criticisms, insults and wisecracks about contestants and their abilities. He is also known for combining activities in both the television and music industries, having promoted singles and records for various artists, including television personalities. He was most recently featured on the sixth series of Britain's Got Talent and the first seas... Add to favourites (23 fans)Biography of Alain Souchon
Alain Souchon (born Alain Kienast on May 27, 1944, Casablanca, Morocco) is a French singer, songwriter and actor. He has released 15 albums and has played roles in seven films. Six months after Souchon was born his family returned to France. When he was 15 his father died in an accident. Souchon signed his first contract in 1971, but had no success until he began to collaborate with composer/arranger Laurent Voulzy (b. 1948); they would write together, but each released albums under his own name. Souchon's first hit was "J'ai 10 ans" (1974), from the album of the same name. Souchon's biggest hit was probably "Foule Sentimentale" from 1995's C'est Déja Ça. Souchon returned in 2005 with the hugely successful album La Vie Théodore which contained the hit single "...Et Si En Plus Y'a ... Add to favourites (37 fans)Biography of Virginie Efira
Virginie Efira (born May 5, 1977 in Brussels) is a Belgian television actress. She was first hired by Club RTL (A Belgian TV channel in the RTL Group) to present a children's show called Mégamix. She went on to present other programmes in Belgium, including A la recherche de la nouvelle Star. In September 2002 she was offered the job of the presenter of Belgian's version of Star Academy. After casting to be a weather girl on France's M6 channel, she was soon pushed into the limelight as one of M6's main public faces, presenting shows such as Le Grand Zap, La saga des ..., Follement Gay, Absolument 80/90, Le Grand Piège and Drôles d'équipes. She was the host of Classé Confidentiel for one year, before replacing Benjamin Castaldi as the host of the popular musical reality show Nouvelle St... Add to favourites (41 fans)Biography of Leonard Cohen
Leonard Norman Cohen, CC (born September 21, 1934 in Westmount, Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, poet and novelist. Cohen published his first book of poetry in Montreal in 1956 and his first novel in 1963. Cohen's earliest songs (many of which appeared on the 1968 album Songs of Leonard Cohen) were rooted in European folk music melodies and instrumentation, sung in a high baritone. The 1970s were a musically restless period in which his influences broadened to encompass pop, cabaret, and world music. Since the 1980s he has typically sung in lower registers (bass baritone, sometimes bass), with accompaniment from electronic synthesizers and female backing singers. His work often explores the themes of religion, isolation, sexuality, and complex interpersonal relation... Add to favourites (19 fans)Biography of Hugh Hefner
Hugh Marston Hefner (born April 9, 1926 in Chicago, Illinois), also referred to colloquially as Hef, is the founder and editor-in-chief of Playboy magazine. He has become an icon of American sexuality and a spokesman for the sexual revolution and libertarianism. Early life Hefner went to Sayre Elementary School, and Steinmetz High School, then served in the U.S. Army during the closing months of WWII. After his service, he majored in psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and resumed his relationship with Mildred Williams. Despite spending less than three years in college before graduating, Hefner found time to edit the magazine Shaft and sold cartoons to magazines. His first salaried job was with a firm that produced and printed cardboard cartoons. In 1949 Hef... Add to favourites (10 fans)Biography of Igor Bogdanoff
The Bogdanov Affair is an academic dispute regarding the legitimacy of a series of theoretical physics papers written by French twins Igor and Grichka Bogdanov (alternately spelt Bogdanoff). These papers were published in reputable scientific journals, and were alleged by their authors to culminate in a proposed a highly speculative theory for describing what occurred at the Big Bang, referring to a wide variety of related topics and associated jargon. The controversy started in October 2002 when John Baez posted a message on a Usenet newsgroups that their work, while filled with appropriate jargon, was substandard, even going so far as to compare it to the Sokal affair. A wide-ranging debate ensued on the matter that spread to many other Internet forums, including the blogs of notable phy... Add to favourites (39 fans)Biography of Lisa Kudrow
Lisa Marie Diane Kudrow (born July 30, 1963) is an Emmy Award- and SAG-winning American actress best known for her role as Phoebe Buffay in the sitcom Friends. Early life Lisa Kudrow was born in Encino, California, USA,her Parents are Lee Kudrow and Nedra Stern.She has one sister and two brothers: older sister Helene Marla Kudrow, and older brothers, neurologists David Kudrow and Derrick Kudrow. After having attended Portola Middle School in Tarzana, California, she went on to graduate from Taft High School in Woodland Hills, California, and then later received her B.A. from Vassar College in Biology. She is also fluent in French. Career Kudrow originally intended to follow in her father's footsteps - researching headaches. However, she was 'discovered' and began her career as a... Add to favourites (43 fans)Biography of Miranda Kerr
Miranda May Kerr (born 20 April 1983) is an Australian model, best known as one of the Victoria's Secret Angels. She was the first Australian addition to the Victoria's Secret campaign, and was the face of Australian fashion chain Portmans and now David Jones Limited. Kerr entered modeling in the fashion industry in her mid-teens after winning a 1997 Australian nation-wide model search hosted by Dolly magazine and Impulse fragrances. Early life and family Kerr was born in Sydney but raised in Gunnedah, New South Wales, a small rural town. Her parents are Therese and John Kerr, and she has a younger brother named Matthew. During her childhood, Kerr stated she "raced motorbikes and rode horses on grandmother's farm" and describes her early life in the Australian countryside as "very gr... Add to favourites (37 fans)Biography of Jay Kay
Jason "Jay Kay" Cheetham (born on 30 December 1969 in Stretford, Manchester, England), is a Grammy Award-winning English artist, best known as the lead singer of the acid jazz band Jamiroquai. Career Kay formed Jamiroquai with members Toby Smith (keyboards), Stuart Zender (bass), Nick Van Gelder (drums), Wallis Buchanan (didgeridoo) and Alec Moran (pipeau) together with guest appearances by Gavin Dodds (guitar), Maurizio Ravelico (percussion) and Johnny Thirkell (horns) amongst others, both on the band's debut album and on their first tour. Jamiroquai has sold over thirty million albums, and has spent a collective 162 weeks on the UK singles chart between 1992 and 2006 with Kay's personal wealth said to be around £40 million. He appeared on the Sunday Times Rich List 2004 at joint... Add to favourites (19 fans)Biography of Serena Williams
Serena Jameka Williams (born September 26, 1981) is an American former World No. 1 ranked female tennis player who has won eight Grand Slam singles titles and an Olympic gold medal in women's doubles. In 2005, Tennis magazine ranked her as the 17th-best player of the preceding forty years. She is the younger sister of another former world no. 1 professional female tennis player, Venus Williams. She currently resides in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, United States with her sister Venus. Fashion Williams is known for her unusual and colorful outfits on court. In 2002, Williams created an on-court stir when she wore a leather-looking catsuit at the U.S. Open. Again at the U.S. Open, in 2004, Williams wore denim skirts and boots. Williams had a special line at Puma and has a current one at N... Add to favourites (115 fans)Biography of Louis Tomlinson
Louis William Tomlinson (born on on 24 December 1991 (birth time source: http://www.sugarscape.com/node/709645)) is a singer from Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England, UK, a member of One Direction. He was born to mother Johanna and Mark. He has four younger sisters Charlotte, Félicité, and twins Daisy and Phoebe. Louis Tomlinson's identical twin sisters, Daisy and Phoebe would do extra work as babies and they got a role on a show called Fat Friends. Tomlinson would go along and serve has an extra. After that Tomlinson started going to acting school in Barnsley. He did an ITV1 drama called If I Had You, and had a small part in Waterloo Road. He was a sixth form student at Hall Cross School, a state comprehensive school, and a previous pupil at The Hayfield School. As a student at Hall Cross... Add to favourites (18 fans)Biography of Alexandra Lamy
Alexandra Lamy is a French actress, born October 14, 1971 à Villecresnes. She lives with French actor Jean Dujardin. She has had a daugther, Chloé, with him. Filmography 1997 : Un malade en or (téléfilm) 1998: Les années bleues 1998:(TV): Martine 1999 à 2003 : Un gars, une fille (série télévisée) 2002 : Visite guidée, de Caroline Roucoux et Hervé Thébault À l'abri des regards indiscrets, de Ruben Alves et Hugo Gélin 2003 : Rien que du bonheur, de Denis Parent Livraison à domicile, de Bruno Delahaye 2005 : L'Antidote, de Vincent De Brus Brice de Nice, de James Huth Au suivant !, de Jeanne Biras, avec Clovis Cornillac. Vive la vie, de Yves Fajnberg 2006 : On va s'aimer, de Ivan Calberac Tous frais payés de Aline Issermann 2007 : La Bombe Humaine, de... Add to favourites (22 fans)Biography of T.I. (rapper)
Clifford Joseph Harris, Jr. (born September 25, 1980), better known by his stage name T.I., and also by his alter ego T.I.P., is an American rapper, songwriter, actor, record, philanthropist and executive producer as well as the Co-CEO of Grand Hustle Records. Height: 5' 9" (1.75 m) Background T.I. was born in Atlanta, Georgia. He grew up in the Bankhead neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia, the son of Violetta Morgan and Clifford Harris Sr. His original stage name, T.I.P., stems from his childhood nickname "Tip", which he got from his grandfather. T.I. was first exposed to hip-hop at the age of seven, and by the time he was 11 he had decided to pursue a career in rap seriously; he signed his first record deal at age 19. Due to his Southern drawl, many fans mistook his name for "Chip... Add to favourites (45 fans)Biography of Katherine Heigl
Katherine Marie Heigl (born November 24, 1978 in Washington, D.C.) is an Emmy and Golden Globe-nominated American actress. Heigl is known for her roles on the TV series Grey's Anatomy and Roswell as well as in the film Knocked Up. Life and career Early life Heigl was born in Washington, D.C. to Paul Heigl, a financial executive/accountant, and Nancy, a personal manager. She has German and Irish ancestry and was raised a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon), having a strict upbringing. She is the youngest of five children (in addition to siblings Meg, Jason, Holt and John Heigl). Heigl lived in Virginia and then Denver before her family settled in Connecticut, where they moved into a large, old Victorian-style farmhouse in the wealthy town of New Canaan... Add to favourites (36 fans)Biography of Pharrell Williams
Pharrell Williams (born April 5, 1973) is an American producer, singer, rapper, and songwriter. He is one half of the production duo The Neptunes (with Chad Hugo) with whom he produces hip-hop, R&B and pop music. He is also the lead singer and drummer of the funk-rock band, N*E*R*D. He released his debut single "Frontin'" in 2003 and followed up with his debut album In My Mind in 2006. As part of The Neptunes, Pharrell has produced numerous hit singles for various music stars. He plays the drums, keyboard, and often sings in a falsetto voice. Pharrell's works have earned him three Grammy Awards amongst ten nominations. He is also the co-founder of the clothing brand Billionaire Boys Club and Ice Cream Footwear. Pharrell is perhaps one of the most well-known synesthetes today (music-->co... Add to favourites (14 fans)Biography of Karina Lombard
Karina Lombard (born on January 21, 1969 in Tahiti) is an actress. Lombard's mother is from Tahiti. Lombard is a naturalized U.S. citizen, but when she was one, her father, who is of Russian, Italian and Swiss descent, took her to Barcelona, Spain. She later attended a number of Swiss boarding schools where she became fluent in Spanish, English, Italian , French, and German. She came to New York when she was 18 and began modeling and taking acting classes. Lombard was discovered during a Calvin Klein photo shoot with a Native American theme. One of her photographs was chosen to be a billboard ad. Her theatre training and stage experience primarily comes from New York City's Gallery Theatre, the Neighborhood Playhouse, the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute and the Actors Studio. Lomb... Add to favourites (33 fans)Biography of Joe Jonas
Joseph Adam "Joe" Jonas (born August 15, 1989 (birth time source: https://twitter.com/#!/search/realtime/%209%3A58%2012%3A10%203%3A39)) shares the lead singer role with his younger brother Nick of the Jonas Brothers, a boy band made up of him and his two brothers, Nick and Kevin. He shares lead vocals with Nick Jonas, and sometimes plays the guitar and tambourine. The Jonases are known for their wholesome, family-friendly image. The brothers are all committed Evangelical Christians, their father is a former pastor, and they were homeschooled by their mother. In addition, they all famously wear purity rings on their left-hand ring finger and have vowed not to have premarital sex. Joe has said that the rings symbolize "a promise to ourselves and to God that we'll stay pure 'till marria... Add to favourites (41 fans)Biography of Ingrid Bergman
Ingrid Bergman in Swedish, but usually in English, IPA notation) (August 29, 1915 – August 29, 1982) was a three-time Academy Award-winning and two-time Emmy Award-winning Swedish actress. She also won one of the original Tony Awards. She is ranked as the fourth greatest female star of all time by the American Film Institute. Early years: 1915-1938 Bergman, named after Princess Ingrid of Sweden , was born in Stockholm, Sweden on August 29, 1915 to a Swedish father, Justus Samuel Bergman, and a German mother, Friedel Adler Bergman. When she was three years old, her mother died. Her father passed away when she was thirteen. She was then sent off to live with an aunt, who died of heart complications only six months later. Afterwards she was raised by another aunt and uncle, who had five ... Add to favourites (11 fans)Biography of Michaël Youn
Michaël Youn (born December 2, 1973 in Suresnes as Michaël Benayoun) is a French actor, singer, comedian, and TV and radio personality. After his education as an announcer and theater actor Youn joined the Paris youth’s radio Skyrock in 1998. There, he made sketches and further entertainment during the morning show. His popularity and success at the most important french private broadcast station lead to the TV-makers getting interested in Youn. In July 2000 he was engaged fort the new morning show "Morning Live" of Métropole Télévision M6. With Vincent Desagnat and Benjamin Morgaine, Youn made the entertainment part of the show. Like their sketches and public events.(e.g. foam bath in a Paris well), their parodies were particularly successful. In particular, they e.g. parodied the m... Add to favourites (21 fans)Biography of Gina-Therese Pettersson
Swedish model.... Add to favourites (49 fans)Biography of Jamie Lee Curtis
Jamie Lee Curtis (born November 22, 1958) is a two time Golden Globe-winning, and Emmy Award-nominated American film actress and a successful writer of books for children. Although she was initially known as a "scream queen" because of her starring roles in many horror films early in her career, Curtis has since compiled a body of work that covers many genres. She is married to actor Christopher Guest (Baron Haden-Guest) and, as the wife of a Baron, is titled Baroness Haden-Guest and therefore could be styled The Lady Haden-Guest, but she chooses to use neither the title nor the style when in the United States. Early life Curtis was born in Los Angeles, California, the child of well-known actors Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh. Jamie's paternal grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Hung... Add to favourites (34 fans)Biography of George Carlin
George Dennis Carlin (born May 12, 1937 in New York, New York) is a Grammy-winning American stand-up comedian, actor, and author. Height: 5' 9" (1.75 m) Carlin is especially noted for his irreverent attitude and his observations on language, psychology, and religion along with many taboo subjects. In fact, Carlin and his "Seven Dirty Words" comedy routine were central to the 1978 U.S. Supreme Court case F.C.C. v. Pacifica Foundation, in which a narrow 5-4 decision by the justices affirmed the government's right to regulate Carlin's act on the public airwaves. George Carlin's most recent stand up routines are primarily focused on attacking the flaws in modern-day America. He often takes on contemporary political issues in the United States and satirizes the excesses of American cul... Add to favourites (46 fans)Biography of Cillian Murphy
Cillian Murphy (born 25 May 1976) is an Irish film and theatre actor noted for chameleonic, risky performances in diverse roles, as well as his distinctive blue eyes. He acted in a number of Irish and British film and stage productions throughout the late 1990s and early 2000s, but first came to international attention in 2003 as the hero in the post-apocalyptic film, 28 Days Later. A wide range of roles followed, but Murphy's best known roles are as villains in two 2005 blockbusters: The Scarecrow in Batman Begins, and Jackson Rippner in the thriller Red Eye. Next came his Golden Globe Award-nominated performance as transgendered outcast "Kitten" in Breakfast on Pluto and a widely-praised turn as a 1920s Irish revolutionary in Palme d'Or winner The Wind That Shakes the Barley. A resident ... Add to favourites (57 fans)Biography of Annie Lennox
Annie Lennox (born 25 December 1954) is an Oscar, BRIT, Grammy and Golden Globe award-winning Scottish pop musician and vocalist. She is both a solo artist and the lead singer of the duo Eurythmics, often hailed as "The Greatest White Soul Singer Alive" (VH1, 100 Greatest Women of Rock and Roll 1999) Life and career Ann Lennox was born in Aberdeen, Scotland. She attended Aberdeen High School for Girls (now Harlaw Academy). She was educated as a classical musician and studied the flute at the Royal Academy of Music in London. Her time at the Royal Academy was not entirely happy for her. Her flute teacher's final report stated: "Ann has not always been sure of where to direct her efforts, though latterly she has been more committed. She is very, very able, however." Two years later Le... Add to favourites (40 fans)Biography of Billy Idol
Billy Idol (born William Michael Albert Broad, 30 November 1955 in Middlesex (birth time source: https://twitter.com/BillyIdol/status/228400541498236928)) is an English rock musician. He first achieved fame in the punk rock era, then embarked on a successful solo career, aided by a series of stylish music videos, making him one of the first MTV stars. He has continued to make music, but has yet to recapture the levels of fame he enjoyed in the 1980s. Early life and career The name Billy Idol was inspired by a school teacher's description of Broad as "idle." Billy Idol lived in Worthing, England before attending Sussex University for only one year before joining the Bromley Contingent of Sex Pistols fans. Idol first joined the punk rock band Siouxsie & the Banshees (before the ban... Add to favourites (23 fans)Biography of Natalia Vodianova
Natalia Vodianova (Russian: Наталья Водянова, born February 28, 1982) is a Russian supermodel. Born in Gorky (now Nizhny Novgorod, Russia's third largest city), Vodianova had a difficult childhood. Her mother's abusive boyfriends and a tight financial situation dogged her throughout childhood. Having helped her mother with her fruit stall business from the age of 11, Vodianova moved into her own apartment with a friend at 15 and started her own fruit-stall business. She was thus able to help out her sisters, one of whom is disabled. Natalia Vodianova is 5'9" (1m75). Career At 15 Vodianova enrolled in a modeling academy, and started going to casting opportunities. A scouting agent from Paris... Add to favourites (12 fans)Biography of Steffi Graf
Stefanie Maria Graf (born June 14, 1969, in Mannheim, West Germany) is a former World No. 1 ranked female tennis player from Germany. Graf won 22 Grand Slam singles titles, second among male and female players only to Margaret Smith Court's 24. In December 1999, Graf was named the greatest female tennis player of the 20th century by a panel of experts assembled by the Associated Press. Tennis writer Steve Flink, in his book The Greatest Tennis Matches of the Twentieth Century, named her as the best female player of the 20th century. In 1988, Graf became the only player, male or female, to win the "Golden Slam" – capturing all four Grand Slam singles titles and an Olympic gold medal in the same year. She was ranked the Women's Tennis Association's No. 1 player for a record 377 weeks –... Add to favourites (51 fans)Biography of Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin (January 17 1706 – April 17, 1790) was one of the most critical Founding Fathers of the United States. He was a leading author, political theorist, politician, printer, scientist, inventor, civic activist, environmentalist, and diplomat. As a scientist he was a major figure in the history of physics for his discoveries and theories regarding electricity. As a political writer and activist he, more than anyone, invented the idea of an American nation, and as a diplomat during the American Revolution, he secured the French alliance that helped to make independence possible. Franklin was noted for his curiosity, his writings (popular, political and scientific), and his diversity of interests. As a leader of the Enlightenment, he gained the recognition of scientists and i... Add to favourites (20 fans)Biography of Pippa Middleton
Philippa Charlotte "Pippa" Middleton (born 6 September 1983) is an English party planner, socialite and sister of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge. On 29 April 2011, she was the maid of honour at her sister's wedding to Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, second in the line of succession to Queen Elizabeth II. The source for her birth time comes from Ana Rakovic, on astrologyinserbia.com. Early life Middleton was born in 1983, the second of the three children of Michael Middleton who was then a British Airways flight dispatcher, and Carole Goldsmith, who was a former flight attendant. Her father's family came from Leeds, West Yorkshire, and one of her great-grandmothers, called Olivia Lupton, belonged to a business family active in Leeds for generations. Carole Middleton's mother's fam... Add to favourites (11 fans)Biography of Frédérique Bel
French actress and humorist, well known for TV show "La minute blonde", where she plays Dorothy Doll, a very naive girl...... Add to favourites (22 fans)Biography of Jamie Foxx
Jamie Foxx (born Eric Marlon Bishop on December 13, 1967) is an American actor, singer, and stand-up comic. Foxx is possibly best-known for his performance of musician Ray Charles in Ray, and for his collaborations with director Michael Mann. With Ray, he became one of the few African-Americans to win the Academy Award for Best Actor. Jamie studied at San Diego's United States International University in music. Height 5' 9" (1.75 m) In Living Color Foxx joined the cast of In Living Color in 1991. Here he won over viewers with many unusual characters and impressions, which included: ugly girl Wanda; fictitious boxer, Carl "The Tooth" Williams; and The Dirty Dozens champion T-Dog Jenkins. His impersonation of Garrett Morris would eventually find him starring against the former Satur... Add to favourites (10 fans)Biography of Chelsea Clinton
Chelsea Victoria Clinton (born February 27, 1980) is the daughter, and the only child of former US President Bill Clinton and United States Senator Hillary Clinton. Chelsea was born in Little Rock, Arkansas. Her name was inspired by her parents' fondness for Judy Collins's recording of the Joni Mitchell song "Chelsea Morning". In Arkansas, Chelsea attended Forest Park Elementary School, Booker Arts Magnet Elementary School and Horace Mann Junior High School. While at Booker, she skipped the third grade due to her reportedly high reading level. Later, she attended the prestigious, private, Sidwell Friends School. She has made few public comments on her upbringing but has said that her parents were "firm but fair". Teenager at the White House Chelsea Clinton moved into the White... Biography of Ricky Ullman
Raviv Ullman formerly known as his stage name Ricky Ullman, (born January 24, 1986 in Eilat, Israel), is an Israeli-born American actor. He is perhaps best known for playing Phil Diffy, the main character in the Disney Channel television series Phil of the Future. Early life Ullman was born in Eilat, Israel, to Jewish parents Brian Ullman and Laura Ehrenkrantz. His maternal grandfather, Joseph Ehrenkrantz, is a Rabbi in Stamford, Connecticut and his family is related to Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman. After his first birthday, his family moved to Fairfield, Connecticut in the United States. When Raviv was younger, his father worked as a clown. Ullman took an interest in acting after seeing a musical production in a children's acting camp. He attended the camp the following summer an... Add to favourites (17 fans)Biography of Michael Landon
Michael Landon (October 31, 1936 – July 1, 1991) was an American actor, writer, director, and producer, who starred in three popular NBC TV series that spanned three decades. He is widely known for his roles as Little Joe Cartwright in Bonanza (1959-1973), Charles Ingalls in Little House on the Prairie (1974-1982), and Jonathan Smith in Highway to Heaven (1984-1989). Although his Bonanza co-star David Canary and youngest daughter Jennifer Landon have both won Emmys, Landon was never given the honor. Nonetheless, few prime time actors have been so prolific. With twenty-eight years of full-hour episodic acting (the star was not on-camera for most of "Little House on the Prairie's" final season), he surpasses the TV mileage of both James Arness and Lucille Ball. Landon produced, wrote, and di... Add to favourites (29 fans)Biography of Ray Charles
Ray Charles was the stage name of Ray Charles Robinson (September 23, 1930 (birth time source: http://noeltyl.com/discussion/index.php?topic=1213.0) – June 10, 2004), a pioneering American pianist and soul musician who shaped the sound of rhythm and blues. He brought a soulful sound to country music, pop standards, and a rendition of "America the Beautiful" that Ed Bradley of 60 Minutes called the "definitive version of the song, an American anthem — a classic, just as the man who sang it." Frank Sinatra called him "the only true genius in the business." And in 2004, Rolling Stone Magazine ranked Ray Charles #10 on their list of The Immortals: 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. Early years Ray Charles Robinson was born in Albany, Georgia to Bailey Robinson, a railroad repair man, me... Add to favourites (18 fans)Biography of Mark Hamill
Mark Richard Hamill (born September 25, 1951) is an American actor. Hamill is best known for his portrayal of Luke Skywalker in the original Star Wars films, Colonel Christopher "Maverick" Blair in the Wing Commander franchise, and as the voice of The Joker in Batman: The Animated Series. After the Star Wars films, Hamill worked on Broadway, as a voice actor in animation and computer and video games, such as his role as Harabec Weathers and Caanon Weathers in Starsiege, and as a comic book creator. Early life Hamill was born in Oakland, California, to Bill and Sue Hamill. He was one of seven children; two brothers, Will and Patrick, and four sisters, Terry, Jan, Jeanie, and Kim. As a child, his father's military career meant numerous relocations, and he graduated from Nile C. Kinnick H... Add to favourites (15 fans)Biography of Muriel Robin
Muriel Robin is a French one woman show, an actress and humorist.... Add to favourites (22 fans)Biography of Hilarie Burton
Hilarie Ross Burton (born July 1, 1982) is an American actress. She is perhaps best known for her portrayal of Peyton Sawyer on the The CW Television Network (previously on WB Network) television series One Tree Hill. American actress Hilarie Burton was born on July 1, 1982, and she was raised in Sterling, Virginia. She is a graduate of Park View High School, and she attended New York University and Fordham University. She was the homecoming queen during her senior year at Park View High School. Her first big break came when she worked as a VJ for the television show "Total Request Live" on MTV. Hilarie had a small part on the TV series "Dawson's Creek," and this led to her famous role as Peyton Sawyer on the series "One Tree Hill." She made her feature film debut in "Our Very Own," a c... Add to favourites (33 fans)Biography of Mark Ruffalo
Mark Alan Ruffalo (born November 22, 1967) is an American actor, screenwriter and producer. Height: 5' 9" (1.75 m) Early life Ruffalo was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin to second-generation Italian American parents Frank Ruffalo, a construction painter, and Maria, a hairdresser and stylist. He has two sisters, Tania and Nicole, and a brother, Scott. Ruffalo has described himself as a "happy kid" and his upbringing as taking place in a "very big Italian family with lots of love." Ruffalo spent his teen years in Virginia Beach, Virginia, where his father worked, graduating from First Colonial High School. He then moved with his family to San Diego, California and later to Los Angeles, California where he took classes at the Stella Adler Conservatory and co-founded the Orpheus Theatre Comp... Add to favourites (12 fans)Biography of Odette Yustman
Odette Juliette Yustman (born May 10, 1985) is an American actress. Yustman was born in Los Angeles, California. According to the actress, her mother, Lydia, is Cuban, and her father, Victor Yustman, is Italian/French born in Bogota, Colombia, and raised in Nicaragua. Yustman is fluent in Spanish. She debuted at an early age, playing a young student in Kindergarten Cop and later moved on to various television shows and movies such as South Beach and October Road. In 2007, she starred in the Lifetime original movie Reckless Behavior: Caught on Tape and followed it quickly with a lead role in J. J. Abrams' Cloverfield. On January 29, 2008, Variety announced that she would be the lead in "Unborn", which is due to begin filming in March. Yustman is currently dating Trevor Wright. ... Add to favourites (12 fans)Biography of Bruno Madinier
Bruno Madinier is a French actor born May 10, 1960. He is famous for his role in Les Cordier, juge et flic and Dolmen on French TV. Filmography Television 1992-2003 : série Les Cordier, juge et flic 1995 : série Les Alsaciens de Michel Favart 1997 : série Les Marmottes de Jean-Denis Robert 2002 : série Le Bleu de l'océan de Didier Albert 2002 : téléfilm Mortes de préférence de Jean- Luc Bretenstein 2005 : série Dolmen 2006 : téléfilm Premier suspect de Christian Bonnet 2006 : téléfilm La Tempête de Bertrand Arthuys 2007 : série La Prophétie d'Avignon de David Delrieux 2007 : série Le sanglot des anges de Jacques Otmezguine 2008 : série La Main blanche de Dennis Berry avec Ingrid Chauvin. Theater Les Vacances de J.-C. Grumberg, mise en scène de J.-P. Miq... Add to favourites (14 fans)Biography of Natasha Richardson
Natasha Jane Richardson (11 May 1963 – 18 March 2009) was an English actress of stage and screen. A member of the Redgrave family, she was the daughter of actress Vanessa Redgrave and director/producer Tony Richardson and the granddaughter of Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson. Early in her career, she portrayed Mary Shelley and Patty Hearst in feature films, and she received critical acclaim and a Theatre World Award for her Broadway debut in the 1993 revival of Anna Christie. She won the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical, the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical, and the Outer Critics Circle Award for her performance as Sally Bowles in the 1998 Broadway revival of Cabaret. Some of her notable films included Patty Hearst (1988), The Handma... Add to favourites (13 fans)Biography of Nelly (rapper)
Cornell Iral Haynes, Jr. (born November 2, 1974) known by his stage name Nelly, is a rapper from St. Louis, Missouri, who experienced popularity in the early 2000s. He is one of the best-selling rappers of all-time, with over forty million albums sold worldwide. He has also achieved three number ones in the United Kingdom (four including his vocal contribution to "Nasty Girl" by Notorious B.I.G.), four U.S. Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles, and three Grammy Awards. Personal background Born in Texas, but raised in suburban St. Louis, Missouri, Nelly's accent exhibits a great deal of influence from this Midwestern upbringing, as his midwest twang mixed with a southern drawl is a result of growing up in the hybrid southern-midwest city of St. Louis. Nelly also spent part of his first ... Add to favourites (13 fans)Biography of Clémentine Célarié
Clémentine Célarié (born 12 October 1957) is a French actress. Filmography Cinema 2011 : Les adoptés by Mélanie Laurent 2011 : La ligne droite by Régis Wargnier 2010 : Le Siffleur by Philippe Lefebvre 2009 : La Différence, c'est que c'est pas pareil by Pascal Laëthier 2009 : Victor by Thomas Gilou 2009 : Le Cœur tatoué by Myriam Mézières 2002 : The Lawless heart by Tom Hunsinger, Neil Hunter 2002 : Mauvais esprit by Patrick Alessandrin 2001 : Reines d'un jour by Marion Vernoux 2000 : Du côté des filles by Françoise Decaux-Thomelet 2000 : Room to rent by Khaled El Hagar 1996 : XY by Jean-Paul Lilienfeld 1996 : Les Soeurs Soleil by Jeannot Szwarc 1995 : Les Misérables by Claude Lelouch 1994 : À cran by Solange Martin 1994 : Le Cri du cœur by Idrissa Ouedraogo 1994 : La ... Add to favourites (30 fans)Biography of Christophe Maé
Christophe Maé is a french singer who has been playing the role of Monsieur in the hit musical Le roi soleil since 2005. He is known for songs such as "Ça marche" and "Et vice Versailles". Born October 16, 1975, he learned to play the violin at age 6. He began playing the guitar and harmonica at age 16 after he was immoblized from a chronic illness. This is when he discovered his inspiration: Stevie Wonder. He released his solo album, "Mon paradis" on March 19, 2007. The first single was "On s'attache". His musical influences are Bob Marley, Ben Harper, Tracy Chapman, and Jack Johnson.... Add to favourites (16 fans)Biography of Lynda Carter
Lynda Carter (born July 24, 1951) is an American actress. She is known for the Amazonian title role in the fantasy-adventure TV series Wonder Woman which aired from 1975 to 1979. Early life Carter was born Linda Jean Córdova Carter in Phoenix, Arizona. Her father, Colby Carter is English-American, and her mother, Juana Córdova, is of Mexican ancestry. Carter grew up an avid reader of the Wonder Woman comic books. She went to Globe High School in Globe, Arizona and Arcadia High School in Phoenix. She attended Arizona State University, but after being voted the "most talented" student, she dropped out in order to pursue a career in music. She toured as a singer with several rock groups before returning to Arizona in 1972. Career Carter entered a local beauty contest and achieved h... Add to favourites (23 fans)Biography of Maggie Gyllenhaal
Maggie Ruth Gyllenhaal (born November 16, 1977) is an American actress. She is the older sister of Jake Gyllenhaal and the daughter of director Stephen Gyllenhaal and screenwriter Naomi Foner. Gyllenhaal began her acting career in a film directed by her father, and later achieved recognition in her own right playing her real-life brother's on-screen sister in the cult hit Donnie Darko. Gyllenhaal made her breakthrough in the sadomasochistic romance, Secretary, for which she received a Golden Globe nomination. Gyllenhaal has chosen an eclectic range of roles, from indie films such as Sherrybaby, for which she was also nominated for a Golden Globe, to the romantic comedy Trust the Man and big-budget studio films such as World Trade Center and The Dark Knight. Gyllenhaal is a politic... Add to favourites (29 fans)Biography of Glenn Gould
Glenn Herbert Gould (birth name "Glenn Herbert Gold") (September 25, 1932 – October 4, 1982) was a Canadian pianist, noted especially for his recordings of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. He gave up concert performances in 1964, dedicating himself to the recording studio for the rest of his career, and performances for television and radio. Life Glenn Gould was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on September 25, 1932, to Russell Herbert ("Bert") Gould and Florence ("Flora") Emma Greig Gould, Presbyterians of Scottish extraction. (Greig is the original Scottish spelling of this name, unlike the Norwegian variant Grieg.) His mother's grandfather was a cousin of Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg. Gould's first piano teacher was his mother. From the age of ten he began attending the ... Add to favourites (16 fans)Biography of Kirk Douglas
Kirk Douglas (born Issur Danielovitch Demsky December 9, 1916) is an American actor and film producer known for his gravelly voice and his recurring roles as the kinds of characters Douglas himself once described as "sons of bitches". He is also father to Hollywood actor and producer Michael Douglas. He came in at #17 on AFI's list of the greatest male American screen legends of all time and is one of two living actors on the list (Sidney Poitier being the other). Early life Douglas was born in Amsterdam, New York to Herschel Danielovitch and Bryna Sanglel, poor Russian Jewish parents who immigrated from Homel (also known as Gomel), now in Belarus. He was on the wrestling team at St. Lawrence University. To help make his way through college, he thought getting an acting scholarship mig... Add to favourites (31 fans)Biography of Jessie J
Jessica Ellen Cornish (born 27 March 1988 (birth time source: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Nice-Meet-You-Jessie-J/dp/1471110745/ref=pd_sim_b_2#read er_1471110745)), better known by her stage name Jessie J, is an English singer and songwriter. She signed a record deal with Island Records and began recording her debut album, Who You Are (Not to be confused with the American jazz musician Jessy J.). She first saw fame when she began writing tracks for Chris Brown and Miley Cyrus. The most successful track she co-wrote is "Party in the U.S.A.", which gained Platinum certification in many countries. On 7 January 2011 Jessie J came top of the BBC's Sound of 2011 list. She followed this in February by receiving Critics' Choice at the 2011 BRIT Awards. She released her first single, "Do It Like a... Add to favourites (16 fans)Biography of Dave Navarro
David Michael Navarro (born June 7, 1967) is a guitarist who has played in the rock bands Jane's Addiction and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Navarro is a member of The Panic Channel and the cover band Camp Freddy. Currently, Navarro has just signed on with ManiaTV.com to create Spread Entertainment Live Thursdays, 8pm EST. Personal life Navarro was born in Santa Monica, California, to James Raul Navarro and Constance Colleen Hopkins. Navarro's paternal grandfather was a Mexican immigrant who was orphaned after the Mexican Civil War. His mother Constance worked as a model, appearing on the television show Let's Make A Deal. Navarro was the only person in his paternal family not to speak Spanish, as James and Constance divorced when he was 7 and he spent the majority of his time with his An... Add to favourites (49 fans)Biography of Michael Stipe
John Michael Stipe (born January 4, 1960 in Decatur, Georgia) is the lead singer of the American rock band R.E.M. Stipe has become well-known (and occasionally parodied) for the "mumbling" style of his early career and for his complex, surreal lyrics, as well as his social and political activism. Stipe and the other members of R.E.M. are known as pioneers of alternative rock and are credited with having inspired many of the acts that went on to make up the 1990s' alternative music scene including Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Radiohead. Career Stipe met Peter Buck, Bill Berry and Mike Mills in 1980 while studying photography and painting at the University of Georgia. They formed R.E.M. that year and issued their debut single, "Radio Free Europe", on Hib-Tone. The song was a college radio succ... Add to favourites (24 fans)Biography of Tony Curtis
Tony Curtis (June 3, 1925 – September 29, 2010) was an American film actor. He played a variety of roles, from light comedy, such as the musician on the run from gangsters in Some Like It Hot, to serious dramatic roles, such as an escaped convict in The Defiant Ones, which earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. From 1949, he appeared in more than 100 films and made frequent television appearances. Early life Curtis was born Bernard Schwartz in the Bronx, New York, the son of Emanuel Schwartz and his wife Helen Klein. His parents were Hungarian Jewish immigrants from Mátészalka, Hungary. Hungarian was Curtis' only language until he was five or six, postponing his schooling. His father was a tailor and the family lived in the back of the shop—the parents in one c... Biography of Nathalie Simon
French TV host and radio host. She likes sports and is also an athlete in the sport of windsurfing.... Add to favourites (15 fans)Biography of James Caan
James Langston Edmund Caan (born March 26, 1940) is an American Academy Award, Emmy and Golden Globe-nominated American film, stage and television actor. He is known for his Academy Award nominated role of Sonny Corleone in 1972's The Godfather and for his role as Ed Deline on Las Vegas. Early life Caan was born to Sophie and Arthur Caan, Jewish immigrants from Germany, in The Bronx, New York City. His father was a meat dealer. He grew up in Sunnyside, Queens. Caan is a graduate of New York City's Neighborhood Playhouse where one of his instructors was teaching legend Sanford Meisner. Caan played college football at Michigan State University. Career Caan began acting in television in such series as The Untouchables, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, "Kraft Suspense Theatre", "Combat!",... Add to favourites (22 fans)Biography of Paul Rudd
Paul Stephen Rudd (born April 6, 1969) is an American film, television, and stage actor. Early life Rudd was born in Passaic, New Jersey, the son of Jewish immigrants from England; his family's original surname was "Rudnitzky". His father, Michael Rudd, is a historical tour guide who was formerly the vice president of World Airways, while Rudd's mother managed a television station. He was raised in Overland Park, Kansas. He attended high school at Shawnee Mission West, and college at the University of Kansas, where he was a member of Sigma Nu fraternity. Career Rudd's breakout performance was in the 1995 film Clueless. Additional credits include Wet Hot American Summer, Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers, The Cider House Rules, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, William S... Biography of Marie-Ange Nardi
Marie-Ange Nardi (born April 2, 1961 in Marseille) is a presenter for the France Télévisions group. She began in television as an announcer for France 3 Marseille while studying psychology in university. She has chiefly worked as a game show host, on Trivial Pursuit, Jeux Sans Frontières, Grain de Folie, Pyramide, Qui est qui ?, Tout vu Tout lu, and, beginning in 2006, La Cible.... Biography of Paul Hogan
Paul Hogan AM (born October 8, 1939 in Lightning Ridge, New South Wales (birth time source: British Entertainers, Franck C. Clifford)) is an Australian Golden Globe-winning actor and comedian. Career Hogan was a rigger working on the Sydney Harbour Bridge before he rose to fame in the early 1970s after a comical interview on A Current Affair. Hogan followed this with his own comedy sketch programme, The Paul Hogan Show, which he produced, co-wrote, and in which he played a panoply of characters with John Cornell. The series, which ran for 60 episodes between 1973 and 1984, was popular both in his native country and in the UK and Ireland, and showcased his trademark lighthearted but laddish "Aussie Ocker" humour. In 1985, Hogan was awarded Australian of the Year and was also inducted in... Add to favourites (16 fans)Biography of Calogero
Calogero (born Calogero Maurici on July 30, 1971 in Échirolles, near Grenoble) is a French singer. Height: 1m75 By the age of six Calogero had already taken an interest in music. He quickly learned to play several instruments, including the flute, piano and bass, and in 1986 became the lead singer and song-writer for a band called Les Charts, that he started together with his brother, Gioacchino, and a childhood friend, Francis Maggiulli. Between 1989 and 1997, Les Charts released 5 albums : L'océan sans fond (1989), Notre monde à nous (1991), Hannibal, (1994), Acte 1 (1995), and Changer (1997). As the band began to lose its momentum, Calogero decided to launch himself as a solo artist and gathered important connections by writing songs and collaborating with already popular artis... Add to favourites (25 fans)Biography of Dennis Hopper
Dennis Lee Hopper (May 17, 1936 – May 29, 2010) was an American actor, filmmaker and artist. As a young man, Hopper became interested in acting and eventually became a student of the Actors Studio. He made his first television appearance in 1955, and appeared in two films featuring James Dean, Rebel Without a Cause (1955) and Giant (1956). Over the next ten years, Hopper appeared frequently on television in guest roles, and by the end of the 1960s had played supporting roles in several films. He directed and starred in Easy Rider (1969), winning an award at the Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay as co-writer. Film critic Matthew Hays notes that "no other persona better signifies the lost idealism of the 1960s than that of Dennis Hopper.... Biography of Dolly Buster
Katja-Nora Baumberger (née Kateřina Nora Bochníčková, born 23 October 1969 in Prague, Czechoslovakia), better known as Dolly Buster, is a film producer and director, actress, author, and a former porn star. Buster has starred in hundreds of X-rated European movies, and had gained a name for herself as one of the biggest in the industry. In 2004 she attempted to obtain a seat in European parliament as candidate of a fringe Czech political party. The party got 0.71% of votes. She appeared in the German version of I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here!. She currently lives with her husband in Wesel, Germany.... Biography of Edouard Stern
Édouard Stern (October 18, 1954 - March 1, 2005) was a French banker. Born in Paris, he was son of the banker Antoine Jean Elie Stern and Christiane Laroche. Career Edouard Stern was 38th in a list of France's richest citizens. He was born in 1954 to one of France’s wealthiest Jewish families, the owners of Banque Stern, a private investment house. He studied at the Ecole Supérieure des Sciences Economiques et Commerciales in Paris. He was a partner at Lazard Frères before creating his own investment fund IRR Capital. In 2004 he was part of a suit brought against the French company Rhodia accusing the company of false accounting and other malfeasance. He was married to Béatrice David-Weil, who lived in New York with their three children. Béatrice David-Weil is a daughter of Mich... Add to favourites (14 fans)Biography of Robert Hossein
Robert Hossein (born December 30, 1927 in Paris) is an Iranian-French film actor, director and writer. He directed the 1982 adaption of Les Misérables, and appeared in Vice and Virtue, Le Casse, Les Uns et les Autres and Venus Beauty Institute. He is the son of Aminollah Hossein.... Add to favourites (11 fans)Biography of Jack Lang
Jack Mathieu Emile Lang (born 2 September 1939) is a French politician and a member of the French Socialist Party. Lang was born to Roger Lang and Marie-Luce Bouchet in Mirecourt, in the département of Vosges. He studied political science at the Paris Institute of Political Studies and went on to receive a postgraduate degree in public law. His career then focused on a combination of teaching and culture and the arts. He was the founder and producer of Festival du Monde in Nancy, France, was director of the Nancy University Theatre from 1963 to 1972 and then director of the Palais de Chaillot Théâtre from 1972 to 1974. At the same time he was a professor of international law from 1971 to 1981. He married Monique Buczynski in 1961 and they have two daughters. Lang entered politics as ... Biography of Petra Nemcova
Petra Němcová (born June 24, 1979 in Karviná; pronounced Nyemtsovah) is a Czech Republic born fashion model. Her father was a bricklayer and her mother, a teacher. She became a model after being spotted at the age of 16 during a national talent search . She was featured on the cover of the 2003 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, and has also modeled for Victoria's Secret, and for many other companies in the women's clothing market. On June 3, 2004, she was one of the telecast judges during the 53rd annual Miss Universe competition in Quito, Ecuador. The 2004 tsunami During the Indian Ocean earthquake of 26 December 2004, Petra was at the Khao Lak resort in Thailand with her main photographer and fiancé, Simon Atlee when a tsunami struck where they were staying. Atlee w... Add to favourites (18 fans)Biography of Robert F. Kennedy
Robert Francis "Bobby" Kennedy (November 20, 1925 – June 6, 1968), also called RFK, was one of two younger brothers of U.S. President John F. Kennedy and served as United States Attorney General from 1961 to 1964. He was one of President Kennedy's most trusted advisors and worked closely with the president during the Cuban Missile Crisis. His contribution to the African-American Civil Rights Movement is sometimes considered his greatest legacy. After his brother's assassination in late 1963, Kennedy continued as Attorney General under President Johnson for nine months. He resigned in September 1964 and was elected to the United States Senate from New York that November. He broke with Johnson over the Vietnam War, among other issues. After Eugene McCarthy nearly upset Johnson in the N... Biography of Laurence Boccolini
Laurence Boccolini, born on May 8, 1963 in Versailles, is French radio and TV host.... Biography of Grichka Bogdanoff
The Bogdanov Affair is an academic dispute regarding the legitimacy of a series of theoretical physics papers written by French twins Igor and Grichka Bogdanov (alternately spelt Bogdanoff). These papers were published in reputable scientific journals, and were alleged by their authors to culminate in a proposed a highly speculative theory for describing what occurred at the Big Bang, referring to a wide variety of related topics and associated jargon. The controversy started in October 2002 when John Baez posted a message on a Usenet newsgroups that their work, while filled with appropriate jargon, was substandard, even going so far as to compare it to the Sokal affair. A wide-ranging debate ensued on the matter that spread to many other Internet forums, including the blogs of notable phy... Add to favourites (26 fans)Biography of Emily Deschanel
Emily Erin Deschanel (born October 11, 1976) is an American actress. She was born in Los Angeles, California to father Caleb Deschanel, an Academy Award-nominated cinematographer, and mother Mary Jo Weir, an actress. She has one sister, Zooey Deschanel, who is also an actress. Her paternal grandfather was French hence her typical French last name (meaning "from the channels" or "from the little jugs" depending of the patronymists; it is from the Ain region) and the remainder of her ancestry is Irish. She said in a recent interview that when they were little, she and her sister spent lots of summers near Lyon, France where they still have family. Height: 5' 9" (1.75 m) Deschanel is a vegan and graduated from Boston University's Professional Actors Training Program with a Bachelor of F... Add to favourites (15 fans)Biography of Edouard Baer
French actor, producer, screenwriter, film director, radio host and TV host.... Add to favourites (10 fans)Biography of David Villa
David Villa Sánchez (born 3 December 1981 in Langreo, Asturias, Spain), nicknamed El Guaje (The Kid) is a Spanish football player. Career Early career Born in the Asturias region in Northern Spain, he got his professional breakthrough at his local club Sporting de Gijón, for whom he made his first-team debut in the 2000–01 season. The next season he was a first team regular, scoring 18 league goals, and scored 20 the next season. After over 50 goals in just three seasons at Gijón, he got his chance in Spain's top-flight the La Liga, when promoted Real Zaragoza bought him in the summer of 2003. He had no trouble adapting to the step up in class and scored 17 times in his first season at Zaragoza. Villa led Zaragoza to a Copa del Rey victory scoring the winning goal against Real Madri... Add to favourites (19 fans)Biography of Deepika Padukone
Deepika Padukone (Kannada: ದೀಪಿಕಾ ಪಡುಕೋಣೆ; born January 5, 1986) is an Indian supermodel turned actress who appears in Bollywood movies. Early life and background Padukone was born to Ujjala and Prakash Padukone on January 5, 1986, in Copenhagen, Denmark. Her family moved to Bangalore, India, when she was only eleven months old. Her parents hail from Padukone village in Kundapura Taluk of Udupi District, Karnataka, India. Her father, Prakash Padukone, was a badminton player of international repute, and her mother is a travel agent. Deepika has a younger sister, Anisha, born in 1991 Padukone attended Sophia High School in Bangalore. She completed her Pre-university studies at Mount Carmel College in Bangalo... Biography of Sabrina Sabrok
Sabrina Sabrok was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina to Hugo and Martha Sabrok. Sabrok was the second oldest child in a family of four children. Career In the mid-1990's, Sabrok moved to Mexico to pursue a career in television and modeling. In 1996, Sabrok began modeling in advertisements for companies such as Bic, Sanyo, Harley Davidson, Diesel Jeans and Volkswagen. The same year, Sabrok formed the First Impressions rock band. In 1997, she and the rock band were support band when Marilyn Manson visited Argentina. Sabrina and the band released five albums. She has appeared in various television shows such as La hora pico (as a model), and the Mexican edition of the reality show Big Brother VIP. Many times, Sabrina appeared topless on Big Brother VIP. She currently hosts her own telev... Biography of Alison Doody
Alison Doody (born November 11, 1966 in Dublin, Ireland) is an Irish actress and model. She is a former pupil of Mount Anville Convent in South Dublin. She studied the fine arts in college before veering towards a modelling career. She was very popular as a model in Europe, but was snubbed by American agencies, who thought she was too short. She also appeared in several commercials, before an agent noticed her work and suggested that she try acting, instead. Height: 5' 9" (1.75 m) She is probably best known for her portrayal of Dr. Elsa Schneider in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, and Jenny Flex in the James Bond film A View to a Kill. She is also a familiar face to British TV fans. In 1994 she retired from the screen and left Hollywood after her last film Major League II, to ... Add to favourites (23 fans)Biography of Fred Astaire
Fred Astaire (May 10, 1899 – June 22, 1987), born Frederick Austerlitz in Omaha, Nebraska, was an American film and Broadway stage dancer, choreographer, singer and actor. His stage and subsequent film career spanned a total of seventy-six years, during which he made thirty-one musical films. He is particularly associated with Ginger Rogers, with whom he made ten films. Balanchine and Nureyev rated him the greatest dancer of the twentieth century, and he is generally acknowledged to have been the most influential dancer in the history of film and television musicals. He was named the fifth Greatest Male Star of All Time by the American Film Institute. Early life and career His father was an Austrian immigrant and a Catholic; his mother was born in the U.S. to Lutheran German pare... Add to favourites (15 fans)Biography of Sophie Ellis Bextor
Sophie Michelle Ellis-Bextor (born 10 April 1979) is a multi-platinum selling English pop singer and songwriter. Her music is a mixture of mainstream pop, disco and 1980s electronic influences. Sophie Ellis-Bextor was born in West Middlesex, England to Janet Ellis, then an actress, but later better known as a presenter on the TV series Blue Peter (on which Sophie appeared with her mother at the age of six, modelling snoods), and Robin Bextor, an award-winning film director. Ellis and Bextor divorced when Sophie was four years old. She has three sisters and two brothers. She has often spoken about being very close to her family growing up and she often takes her brothers and sisters to work with her. Her official website hyphenates her surname, which is the joining of her parents' surna... Biography of Anouchka Delon
Anouchka Delon, born November 25, 1990 in Paris, is the daughter of Rosalie Van Breemen, a Dutch top model, and French actor Alain Delon. She has a brother, Alain-Fabien Delon, born in 1994.... Add to favourites (10 fans)Biography of Jennifer Hudson
Jennifer Kate Hudson (born September 12, 1981) is an Academy Award-winning American actress and singer. She first gained notice as one of the finalists on the third season of the FOX television series American Idol. She went on to star as Effie White in the 2006 musical film Dreamgirls, for which she won an Oscar, a Golden Globe, a BAFTA, and a SAG Award. Hudson was born in Chicago, Illinois. She attended Dunbar Vocational Career Academy, where she graduated in 1999. She cites Whitney Houston as her musical/movie influence, and has also said recently that her biggest wish is to collaborate on her debut album with Houston.[1] After seeing Hudson's performance, American Idol judge Simon Cowell taped a congratulatory message to her, which aired on The Oprah Winfrey Show.[2] With the ... Biography of John Thaw
John Edward Thaw CBE (3 January 1942 – 21 February 2002) was an English actor who achieved his first starring role in the military police television drama Redcap (1964 – 1966), and subsequently appeared in a range of television, stage and cinema roles. Thaw came from a working class background, having been born in Longsight, Manchester to parents John and Dorothy. He grew up in the Burnage area of the city. He entered the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art at the age of 17, where he was a contemporary of Tom Courtenay. Soon after made his stage début in A Shred of Evidence at the Liverpool Playhouse. Career On leaving RADA, Thaw was awarded a contract with the Liverpool Playhouse. His first film role was a bit part in the 1962 adaptation of The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner star... Biography of Jean-Claude Brialy
Jean-Claude Brialy (born March 30, 1933 in Aumale, now Sour El-Ghozlane, Algeria – died May 30, 2007 in Paris, France, from cancer) was a French actor, director and socialite who starred in French films. He became a star in the late 1950s when he was one of the most prolific actors of the French "nouvelle vague". He made films with such important nouvelle vague filmmakers as Claude Chabrol, Éric Rohmer, Jean-Luc Godard, Louis Malle, François Truffaut, Agnès Varda and Jacques Rozier; and with other filmmakers such as Roger Vadim, Claude Lelouch and Luis Buñuel. He was also himself a director of a number of films, including Églantine (1971). He was an alumnus of Prytanée National Militaire. Selected filmography As an actor Ascenseur pour l'échafaud (1958) Les quatre-cents coups ... Add to favourites (21 fans)Biography of Naveen Andrews
Naveen William Sidney Andrews (born January 17, 1969) is an Emmy- and Golden Globe-nominated Indian-English actor. He is known for his roles in The English Patient (1996) and as Sayid in the U.S.A. television series Lost. Early life Andrews was born in London, England to Nirmala, a psychologist, and Stanley Andrews, a businessman, both immigrants from Kerala, India. He was raised in Wandsworth, South London (beside the River Thames) and had what he has described as a "very repressive" upbringing. Andrews was raised in the Methodist religion. At the age of 16, whilst at Emanuel School, he fell in love with his mathematics teacher, Geraldine Feakins with whom he had a son, Jaisal, born in 1992. Andrews was quoted in an interview later on saying that " father would call a prostitute" abo... Biography of Claude Sérillon
Claude Sérillon is a French journalist born October 20, 1050 in Nantes.... Add to favourites (12 fans)Biography of Kimi Räikkönen
Kimi Matias Räikkönen, born October 17, 1979 in Espoo, Finland, is a Formula One racing car driver for Scuderia Ferrari. He finished runner-up in the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in 2003 and 2005. He has driven for Sauber-Petronas (2001) and Team McLaren-Mercedes (2002–2006). He currently drives for Ferrari, with whom he is contracted until the end of the 2009 season. Career Early career (until 2000) He had a long line of success in karting from the age of ten, including placing second in the 1999 European Formula Super A championship. He also competed that year in the Formula Ford Euro Cup, and by the age of twenty, he had won the British Formula Renault Winter series, winning the first four races of the year. In 2000, he won seven of ten events in the Formula Renault U... Add to favourites (15 fans)Biography of K.D. Lang
Kathryn Dawn Lang, OC (born November 2, 1961), best known by the stage name k.d. lang, is a Grammy Award-winning Canadian singer and songwriter. Early years Lang was born November 2, 1961 in Edmonton, Alberta to Audrey and Fred Lang. When Lang was just nine months old, the family moved to a small farming community, Consort, Alberta, and there she grew up with her 2 sisters and 1 brother, on the Canadian prairies. Lang was first drawn to country music when she attended college. Soon, she became fascinated with the life and music of Patsy Cline and ultimately determined to pursue a career as a professional singer. With the help of guitarist Ben Mink, with whom she co-wrote songs, Lang formed a Patsy Cline tribute band called the Reclines in 1983, and they recorded a debut album, Frid... Add to favourites (21 fans)Biography of Lauren Graham
Lauren Helen Graham (born March 16, 1967) is an American actress and producer. She is best known for playing Lorelai Gilmore on the WB Network dramedy series Gilmore Girls and Sarah Braverman on Parenthood. Source for his time of birth: http://www.astrolreport.com/famous-g/graham.lauren.php Early life Graham was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, the daughter of Donna Grant, a fashion buyer, and Lawrence Graham, a candy industry lobbyist who is the current president for National Confectioners Association. Graham is Irish Catholic. Graham's parents were divorced when she was only five years old, and Graham moved to Washington, D.C., where her father became a congressional staffer. As a girl, Graham rode horses competitively, but soon switched to acting, honing her talent at Langley High School, ... Add to favourites (11 fans)Biography of Casey Affleck
Casey Affleck (born August 12, 1975) is an American actor. He is the younger brother of actor Ben Affleck. Early life Affleck was born Caleb Casey Affleck in Falmouth, Massachusetts, the son of Chris Boldt, a school district employee and teacher, and Timothy Affleck, a drug counselor, janitor, auto mechanic, bar tender, and former actor with the Theater Company of Boston. When Affleck was five, he broke his arm and almost had to have it amputated; he spent 12 hours in surgery as the doctors worked to repair his severely infected compound fracture. As a child he had numerous pets, including cats, snakes, guinea pigs, turtles and a dog named "Pepper". Affleck went to George Washington University and later transferred to Columbia University in New York City where he majored in Physics, ... Biography of Ron Wood
Ronald David "Ronnie" Wood (born June 1, 1947 in Hillingdon, London) is an English rock guitarist and bassist best known as a member of The Rolling Stones, Faces, and The Jeff Beck Group. Career 1960s Wood began his career in 1964 with the Birds, based in Yiewsley, Middlesex. By the late 1960s, he was part of The Creation, then joined the Jeff Beck Group as a bassist together with singer Rod Stewart. They split up, however, after recording Beck-Ola in 1969. 1970s With Rod Stewart, Ronnie joined The Small Faces as a guitarist, shortly after leader Steve Marriott had left the group. The band's name soon was shortened to simply The Faces. Though mostly known in the United States as Rod Stewart's former backup band, the Faces were very successful in the UK, for a brief time even... Add to favourites (13 fans)Biography of Amanda Tapping
Amanda Tapping (born 28 August 1965) is an English-born Canadian actress. Born in Rochford, Essex in England, she moved with her family to Ontario, Canada when she was three years old. She attended North Toronto Collegiate Institute where she excelled in environmental science and drama. However, when she finished in 1984, she decided to focus her attention on drama when she attended the University of Windsor School of Dramatic Arts in Windsor, Ontario. Height 5' 9" (1.75 m) After graduation Tapping continued to study theatrical arts while performing in several stage productions. She appeared in several television commercials and played a variety of roles in television and film productions, such as The Outer Limits and The X-Files. She also formed a comedy troupe, the "Random Acts",... Biography of Princess Mathilde, Duchess of Brabant
Princess Mathilde, Duchess of Brabant (Mathilde Marie Christine Ghislaine d'Udekem d'Acoz), styled HRH The Duchess of Brabant, is the wife of the heir apparent to the Belgian throne, HRH Prince Philippe, Duke of Brabant. Of Belgian and Polish ancestry, she is expected to be the first Belgian-born Queen Consort. Early Life and Family She was born Mathilde d'Udekem d'Acoz on 20 January 1973. Though her grandfather and her uncle were barons, she and her father were members of the untitled nobility. As such, she has a right to the Dutch predicate Jonkvrouw for which the closest English-language equivalent would probably be the British courtesy title "Honourable". Mathilde's father is Count (formerly Jonkheer) Patrick d'Udekem d'Acoz; her mother is the former Countess Anna Maria Komorows... Biography of Ed Harris
Edward Allen Harris (born November 28, 1950) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor, known for his performances in The Rock, The Right Stuff, Apollo 13, Pollock, and The Truman Show, among many others. Early life Harris was born in Tenafly, New Jersey to Margaret, a travel agent, and Robert L. Harris, who sang with the Fred Waring chorus and worked at the bookstore of the Art Institute of Chicago. He has an older brother, Robert, and a younger brother, Spencer. Harris graduated from Tenafly High School in 1969, where he played on the football team, serving as the team's captain in his senior year. He was a star athlete in high school and competed in athletics at Columbia University in 1969. Two years later his family moved to Oklahoma and he followed after having discovered his i... Add to favourites (27 fans)Biography of Milo Ventimiglia
Milo Anthony Ventimiglia (born July 8, 1977) is an American actor. He is best known for his roles in the NBC series Heroes as idealistic hero Peter Petrelli and in the family-oriented television series Gilmore Girls as Rory's rebel boyfriend Jess Mariano. Early life Ventimiglia was born in Anaheim, California to Carol and Peter Ventimiglia. He is of Sicilian descent on his father's side and a combination of Irish, English, Scottish, French, Cherokee, and Indian descent on his mother's. The youngest of three children, he has two older sisters. He was born with dead nerve endings in his lower left lip. Ventimiglia attended El Modena High School in Orange, California, where he wrestled and held the office of president in student government (ASB). He graduated in 1995. At the age of 18,... Add to favourites (22 fans)Biography of Ryan Philippe
Ryan Phillippe (born Matthew Ryan Phillippe on September 10, 1974) is an American actor. After appearing on the soap opera One Life to Live, he came to fame in the late 1990s, after starring in a string of teen-oriented films, including I Know What You Did Last Summer, Cruel Intentions, and 54. Phillippe's more recent roles include the 2005 Academy Award-winning ensemble film Crash and the 2006 war drama Flags of Our Fathers. In 2007 he starred in Breach, a movie based on the true story of FBI Operative Eric O'Neill who is assigned to shadow and help catch his boss, Robert Hanssen, a Soviet spy, in the act of selling secret material. Early life Phillippe (IPA pronunciation: ) was born in New Castle, Delaware to Richard Phillippe, a chemical technician for DuPont, and Susan, who ran a d... Biography of Ian Anderson (musician)
Ian Scott Anderson (born August 10, 1947 in Dunfermline, Fife (birth time source: Steinbrecher, birth certificate)) (also known as 'The Voice of Jethro Tull') is a Scottish singer, songwriter, guitarist and flautist best known for his work as the head of British rock band Jethro Tull. Education 1953 - 1958 Roseburn Primary School, Edinburgh 1958 - 1964 Blackpool Grammar School 1964 - 1966 Blackpool College of Art. Early life Ian Anderson was born the son of a hotel manager. He spent the first part of his childhood in Edinburgh, an influence which has dominated his artistic output ever since. He would return much later in life to live in Scotland for several years. His family moved to Blackpool in the North West of England in 1959, where he gained a traditional grammar scho... Add to favourites (13 fans)Biography of Michael Bolton
Michael Bolton (born February 26, 1953) is an American singer-songwriter and a former hard rock singer. He is best known for his soft rock ballads and tenor vocals. His achievements include selling many albums, eight top ten albums, two number one singles on the Billboard charts, and awards from both the American Music Awards and Grammy Awards. Mainstream success Bolton's hard rock band, Blackjack, once toured with heavy metal singer Ozzy Osbourne. He began recording as Michael Bolotin in 1975, after gaining his first major hit as a songwriter, co-writing "How Am I Supposed to Live Without You" for Laura Branigan, previously best-known for singing the disco-pop classic "Gloria". Narrowly missing the Top 10 on the U.S. pop chart, Branigan took the song to number one on the Adult Cont... Biography of Guy Marchand
Guy Marchand, born May 22, 1937, is a famous French singer and actor. Filmography Movies 1970 : Boulevard du rhum de Robert Enrico 1972 : Une belle fille comme moi de François Truffaut 1975 : Attention les yeux ! de Gérard Pirès 1975 : Cousin, cousine de Jean-Charles Tacchella 1975 : L’Acrobate de Jean-Daniel Pollet 1975 : Le Voyage de noces de Nadine Trintignant 1976 : Le Grand Escogriffe de Claude Pinoteau 1977 : Tendre Poulet de Philippe de Broca 1977 : L'Hôtel de la plage de Michel Lang 1978 : Vas-y maman de Nicole de Buron 1978 : Le Maître nageur de Jean-Louis Trintignant 1979 : Loulou de Maurice Pialat 1980 : Plein Sud de Luc Béraud 1980 : Rends-moi la clé de Gérard Pirès 1981 : Garde à vue de Claude Miller 1982 : Les Sous-doués en vacances de Cla... Biography of Christie Brinkley
Christie Brinkley (born February 2, 1954) is an American supermodel. Height: 5' 9" (1.75 m) Early life and career She was born Christie Lee Hudson in Monroe, Michigan, USA, even though she has claimed to have been born and raised in California.. Majoring in art and graduating in 1972, Christie attended Palisades High School in Pacific Palisades, California. In the early 1970s, she and her family lived in the Bel Air hills. She was educated at le Lycée Français de Los Angeles and worked in Paris as an entry-level illustrator. In 1976, she signed a contract with cosmetics giant Cover Girl, which they continued to renew for twenty years. A few years after Cover Girl ended their contract with Brinkley, they again signed her on as a model with ads in magazines and commercials for matu... Biography of Rachel Ward
Rachel Claire Ward, AM, (born at Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, September 12, 1957), granddaughter of the 3rd Earl of Dudley and of the cricketer Giles Baring, is an English actress (and more recently, a director) who has made most of her career in Australia. She attended the Byam Shaw School of Art in London before leaving at 16 to become a top fashion model. In 1983 she was voted one of the ten most beautiful women in the United States. She became well known when she starred opposite Richard Chamberlain as the lead role portraying Meggie Cleary in the television mini-series The Thorn Birds. She disappeared from pictures for three years and studied acting. Ward then reappeared in 1987, playing opposite her husband, Bryan Brown (whom she met on the set of The Thorn Birds), in The Good... Add to favourites (13 fans)Biography of Alain Chabat
Alain Chabat (born November 24, 1958 in Oran, Algeria) is a French actor and director who appeared in La Cité de la peur, Gazon maudit, The Taste of Others and The Science of Sleep. His career took off in 1987 when he founded the comedy group Les Nuls with Bruno Carette, Chantal Lauby and Dominique Farrugia. Les Nuls' first outing on French TV (on the paying channel Canal Plus) was a Sci-Fi spoof entitled Objectif Nul, which shares striking similarities with the British TV Series Red Dwarf, although both shows were released at roughly the same time and it is unlikely one influenced the other. Either as a member of Les Nuls (in La Cité de la Peur) or in his own solo efforts as a director (Astérix & Obélix : Mission Cléopâtre), Chabat is one of the scarce French comedians who has managed ... Add to favourites (12 fans)Biography of Harry S. Truman
Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was the thirty-third President of the United States (1945–1953); as vice president, he succeeded to the office upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Truman worked in clerical jobs, then on the family farm. During World War I he served as an artillery officer. After the war he became part of the political machine of Tom Pendergast and was elected a county judge and eventually a United States Senator. In 1944, he replaced Henry Wallace as vice president under Roosevelt for the latter's fourth term. As president, Truman faced challenge after challenge in domestic affairs: a tumultuous reconversion of the economy marked by severe shortages, numerous strikes, and the passage of the Taft-Hartley Act over his veto. After confounding all p... Biography of Jacques Chancel
Joseph Crampes, better known as Jacques Chancel, is a French journalist and writer, born July 2, 1928 in Ayzac-Ost (Hautes-Pyrénées).... Biography of Gabriela Sabatini
Gabriela Beatriz Sabatini (b. May 16, 1970, in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a former professional tennis player from Argentina. The source for her birth time is http://www.1998germanier.com/gabmama84.htm. She was one of the leading players on the women's circuit in the late-1980s and early-1990s. She won the women's singles title at the US Open in 1990, the women's doubles title at Wimbledon in 1988, and a silver medal at the 1988 Olympic Games. Career Sabatini first came to the tennis world's attention as a junior. She started playing tennis at the age of 6, and won her first tournament at age 8. In 1983, aged 13, she became the youngest player to win the Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida. She won six major international junior titles, including the French Open girls' singles, and was rank... Biography of Michèle Bernier
Michèle Bernier, born August 2, 1956 in Paris (source : Marc Brun, FDAF), is a French humorist and actress. She is the daughter of Georges Bernier, best known as Professor Choron.... Add to favourites (20 fans)Biography of Rosamund Pike
Rosamund Pike (born 27 January 1979) is an English actress, best known for her portrayals of Bond villainess Miranda Frost in Die Another Day and Jane Bennet in Pride and Prejudice. Height: 5' 9" (1.75 m) Personal life Pike is the only child of Caroline and Julian Pike, both musical performers. She attended Badminton School in Bristol before studying English Literature at Wadham College, Oxford. While there, she became friends with Chelsea Clinton, and studied under both Bernard O'Donoghue, the Whitbread prize-winning poet, and Robert J.C. Young, the eminent post-colonial theorist. An able student, she achieved a First Class in her first year examinations (known as Moderations) and, after taking a year off to pursue her career, returned to complete her degree in 2001, gaining an Sec... Biography of Kamel Ouali
Kamel Ouali (born 15 December 1971) is a French choreographer Biography Kamel Ouali was born in Saint-Denis. He is of Algerian descent. Dance teacher at the Dance Academy of Paris and at the Conservatories of La Courneuve and Saint Denis, Kamel Ouali works with artists on video clips and on some french musicals like Les Dix Commandements (The Ten Commandments) and Autant en Emporte le Vent (French adaptation of Margaret Mitchell's novel Gone with the Wind). In 2001 he starts to work as a dance teacher on the french TV show Star Academy,he becomes really popular for teenagers, then in 2005 he creates his first own musical, produced by Dove Attia and Albert Cohen, Le Roi Soleil (The Sun King). The same year, he is the choreographer of dances with robots for the french theme park L... Biography of Adam Lanza
Adam Lanza, born on April 22, 1992 in Kingston, New Hampshire, shot and killed 26 people, including 20 children and 6 staff, at Sandy Hook Elementary School in the Sandy Hook village of Newtown, Connecticut, and then killed himself. Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting On December 14, 2012, Adam Lanza shot and killed 26 people, including 20 children and 6 staff, at Sandy Hook Elementary School in the Sandy Hook village of Newtown, Connecticut, and then killed himself. The school shooting occurred after he had shot and killed his mother, a volunteer at the school, at their nearby Newtown home. It was the second-deadliest school shooting in U.S. history, after the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre. Aft... Biography of Frédéric Diefenthal
Frédéric Diefenthal is a French actor, born July 26, 1968 in Saint-Mandé, Val-de-Marne. Filmography 1991 : La Totale ! de Claude Zidi : un voyou 1992 : Les gens normaux n'ont rien d'exceptionnel de Laurence Ferreira Barbosa : Jean 1995 : Douce France de Malik Chibane : Jean-Luc 1995 : Une histoire d'amour à la con d'Henri-Paul Korchia 1996 : Capitaine Conan de Bertrand Tavernier : un sergent à la gare de Bucarest 1998 : Taxi de Gérard Pirès : Émilien Coutant-Kerbalec 1999 : Je veux tout de Guila Braoudé : Philippe 1999 : Taxi 2 de Gérard Krawczyk : Émilien Coutant-Kerbalec 1999 : Six-Pack d'Alain Berbérian : Philippe Saule 2000 : Jeu de cons de Jean-Michel Verner : Skip 2000 : Belphégor, le fantôme du Louvre de Jean-Paul Salomé : Martin 2000 : Les Âmes fortes de... Biography of Helena Noguerra
Helena Noguerra (Ixelles, Brussels, 18 May 1969 (birth time source: act n° 1081, André Dekoster)) is a Belgian actress, singer and television presenter of Portuguese descent. She's the sister of the singer Lio, Philippe Katerine's ex wife and current sentimental partner of Guy Bedos's son, Nicolas Bedos (playwright). Her songs have been used in commercials and television programs such as Lunettes noires pour nuits blanches by Thierry Ardisson (1988–1990). She has also sung for the 2010 video game, Bayonetta, where she sings both the game's main theme and a cover of Fly Me to the Moon. In 2010 she toured with French band Nouvelle Vague. Filmography 2013 Hôtel Normandy (post-production) Alice Lecorre 2013 La vie domestique (post-production) Inès 2013 La marque des a... Biography of Yasmin Le Bon
Yasmin Le Bon (née Parvaneh) born on October 29, 1964, in Oxford, England, is an English supermodel. She was born to the Iranian Iraj A. A. Parvaneh, who currently lives in Meckenheim, Germany and an English mother. She has had a fashion modeling career of unusual longevity, still going strong at 42 years of age. Height: 5'9" ; 175cm In 1981, Yasmin was discovered by a local modeling agency while working a part-time sales job. One man who was particularly impressed with Yasmin was Simon Le Bon, lead singer of Duran Duran. In 1984, he obtained Yasmin's number, and persisted until she agreed to go out with him. Although Yasmin thought they were just going to the movies, Le Bon took her to the premiere of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. "It was love at first sight," Yasmin con... Biography of Larry King
Larry King (born November 19, 1933) is an award-winning American television/radio host. Since 1987, King has hosted a nightly interview program on CNN called Larry King Live. Early life King was born Lawrence Harvey Zeiger in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Jennie (née Gitlitz), a garment worker, and Edward Zeiger, a restaurant owner and defense plant worker, both of whom had emigrated from Russia. He was raised in a "very cultural Jewish" family. His father died at 44 of a heart attack when King was nine, and his mother had to go on relief to support Larry and his younger brother. His father's death affected King greatly, and King lost interest in school, ruining his chances to go to college. After graduating from high school, he worked to help support his mother. Miami radio A ... Add to favourites (11 fans)Biography of Henry Kissinger
Henry Alfred Kissinger (born Heinz Alfred Kissinger on May 27, 1923) is a German-born American diplomat, and 1973 Nobel Peace Prize laureate. He served as National Security Advisor and later concurrently as Secretary of State in the Nixon administration. After the ordeal of the Watergate scandal that plagued Nixon and his administration, Kissinger managed to go unscathed and maintained his powerful position when Gerald Ford became President. A proponent of Realpolitik, Kissinger played a dominant role in United States foreign policy between 1969 and 1977. During this time, he pioneered the policy of détente that led to a significant relaxation in U.S.–Soviet tensions and played a crucial role in 1971 talks with Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai that concluded with a rapprochement between the t... Add to favourites (12 fans)Biography of Ryan Phillippe
Ryan Phillippe (pronounced /ˈfɪlɪpi/; born September 10, 1974 (birth time source: Interview Magazine, by email) is an American actor. After appearing on the soap opera One Life to Live, he came to fame in the late 1990s, starring in a string of teen-oriented films, including I Know What You Did Last Summer, Cruel Intentions, and 54. Phillippe's more recent roles include the 2005 Academy Award-winning ensemble film Crash and the 2006 war drama Flags of Our Fathers. In 2007 he starred in Breach, a movie based on the true story of FBI Operative Eric O'Neill who is assigned to shadow and help catch his boss, Robert Hanssen, a spy for the Soviet Union, in the act of selling secret material. Early life Phillippe was born Matthew Ryan Phillippe in New Castle, Delaware, the son ... Biography of Benjamin McKenzie
Benjamin McKenzie (born Benjamin McKenzie Schenkkan on September 12, 1978) is an American actor best known for playing Ryan Atwood on the television series The O.C. Early life McKenzie was born in Austin, Texas to Pieter Meade Schenkkan and Mary Frances Victory, a prize-winning poet. His uncle is the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Robert Schenkkan. He played football at Austin High School before attending the University of Virginia, where he majored in Foreign Affairs and Economics. He got into acting during his first few years at the university, and moved to Los Angeles in late 2001 to look for acting opportunities. Career McKenzie appeared in minor television roles before being cast as Ryan Atwood, a troubled teen thrust into a new life in Newport Beach, on The O.C., which ... Biography of Cat Deeley
Catherine Elizabeth "Cat" Deeley (born October 23, 1976) is a popular English disc jockey, television personality and former fashion glamour model, who rose to fame at the age of 21, co-hosting the well-known children's series SMTV Live, alongside Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly, and for hosting So You Think You Can Dance. Height 5' 9" (1.75 m) Early life The elder of two children, born in Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham, England, Deeley attended Grove Vale Infant School in Great Barr followed by Dartmouth High School, where she played clarinet in the Sandwell Youth Concert Band. She then continued her education at Bishop Vesey's Grammar School's Sixth Form. After achieving nine A grade GCSEs and four A-levels at school, Deeley became a full time fashion model. She occasionally... Add to favourites (11 fans)Biography of Elliott Smith
Steven Paul "Elliott" Smith (August 6, 1969 (birth time source: "Elliott Smith And The Big Nothing" by Benjamin Nugent) – October 21, 2003) was an American singer-songwriter and musician. His primary instrument was the guitar, but he was also proficient at piano, clarinet, bass, harmonica and drums. Smith had a distinctive vocal style characterized by his "whispery, spiderweb-thin delivery", and use of multi-tracking to create vocal harmonies. Although Smith was born in Omaha, Nebraska, raised primarily in Texas, and died in Los Angeles, California, he resided for a significant portion of his life in Portland, Oregon, where he first gained popularity. After playing in the rock band Heatmiser for several years, Smith began his solo career in 1994 with releases on the independent record l... Add to favourites (13 fans)Biography of Nick Rhodes
Nick Rhodes (born Nicholas James Bates in Moseley, West Midlands, England, June 8, 1962) is the keyboardist for Duran Duran. Rhodes and singer Simon Le Bon are the only members to have been with the band throughout its 27-year professional career (beginning in 1980). Furthermore, Rhodes is the only member that has been with the band since its creation in 1978. He has also released albums with Arcadia in 1985 (a Duran Duran side-project), as well as The Devils in 2002 (with Stephen Duffy who was the former lead singer of Duran Duran before they were signed in the early 80's.) Early history Nick Bates was the only child of well-off parents, the owners of a Birmingham toy store. In 1978, Bates left school at the age of sixteen, and founded Duran Duran with his art school friend John Taylo... Add to favourites (21 fans)Biography of Tim Curry
Timothy James Curry (born April 19, 1946) is an English actor, singer and composer, perhaps best known for his role as mad scientist Dr. Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975). He also had a career as a rock musician. His list of roles is extensive, in both TV and movies, live-action and voice-acting for animated features, and it is notable that he almost always plays a villain of one kind or another. He currently resides in Los Angeles, though for the past year or so has been in Chicago, New York City, and most recently London, with the current Broadway hit Monty Python's Spamalot. Height 5' 9" (1.75 m) Early life Curry's father, James, was a Methodist Royal Navy chaplain, and his mother, Patricia, was a school secretary. Curry was born and raised in Warrington an... Add to favourites (21 fans)Biography of Jack Lemmon
John Uhler Lemmon III (February 8, 1925 – June 27, 2001), better known as Jack Lemmon, was a two-time Academy Award-winning American actor and comedian. He starred in legendary classics such as Some Like It Hot, The Apartment, Days of Wine and Roses, Irma La Douce, The Great Race, The Odd Couple, The Out-of-Towners and The China Syndrome. Height: 5' 9" (1.75 m) Life and career Jack Lemmon was born in an elevator at Newton-Wellesley Hospital in Newton, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston, where his father, John Uhler Lemmon, Jr., was the president of a doughnut company. His mother was Mildred Burgess Noel. After attending Phillips Academy and Harvard University (becoming president of the Hasty Pudding Club), Lemmon joined the Navy, received V-12 training and served as an ensign. On bei... Add to favourites (19 fans)Biography of Steve Buscemi
Steven Vincent Buscemi (born December 13, 1957) is an Emmy- and Golden Globe-nominated American actor and film director. Early life Buscemi was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Dorothy, who worked as a hostess at Howard Johnson's, and John Buscemi, a sanitation worker and Korean War veteran. Buscemi's father was Italian American and his mother Irish American. He has three brothers: Jon, Ken and Michael. Buscemi was raised Catholic. He graduated in 1975 from Valley Stream Central High School in Valley Stream, New York, a school which he attended with writer Edward Renehan and actress Patricia Charbonneau. In high school, Buscemi wrestled for the varsity squad and participated in the drama troupe, at that time directed by Mr. Lynne C. Lappin. (Buscemi's 1996 film Trees Lounge, in w... Biography of Greta Scacchi
Greta Scacchi (born February 18, 1960 in Milan, Italy) is an Emmy Award-winning film actress. Greta's mother, an English dancer, and father, an Italian painter, divorced when she was three, and returned to England with Greta and her two older brothers. In 1975, after her mother remarried, the family moved to Australia. In 1977, Scacchi returned to England to pursue an acting career; she studied at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, with Miranda Richardson and Amanda Redman. In 1982, she made her film debut in the German movie Das Zweite Gesicht (The Second Face) and gave versatile performances in films such as Heat and Dust (1983), White Mischief (1987), Presumed Innocent (1990), The Player (1993), and Country Life (1994). In 1996 she won an Emmy Award for her work in the televis... Add to favourites (13 fans)Biography of Sarah Wayne Callies
Sarah Wayne Callies (born Sarah Anne Callies on June 1, 1977 in La Grange, Illinois) is an American actress who is best known for her role as Dr. Sara Tancredi in the American television series, Prison Break. Height: 5' 9" (1.75 m) Early life Callies moved to Honolulu, Hawaii with her family when she was one. Throughout her youth, she expressed an interest in acting through participating in various school plays at Punahou School. While her parents are professors at the University of Hawaii, Manoa, Callies did not follow in their footsteps. Instead, she chose to pursue a career in acting. After graduating from high school, she entered Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. In conjunction with her studies, she continued her involvement in theatre. She continued her education ... Biography of Simona Ventura
Simona VENTURA, born April 1, 1965, is an Italian beauty queen and later journalist and TV host.... Biography of Ralph Macchio
Ralph George Macchio (born November 4, 1961) is an American actor with Italian ancestry. He is best remembered for his role as Daniel LaRusso in the Karate Kid series. Macchio and his family currently reside in Miller Place, New York. Born in Huntington, Long Island, New York, Macchio attended Half Hollow Hills High School West. Career Early roles He first became a star when he starred in television commercials for products like Bubble Yum and Dr Pepper. His first big role was playing Jeremy in the television series Eight Is Enough. In 1983, he starred alongside many young actors who had yet to become major stars such as C. Thomas Howell, Tom Cruise, Patrick Swayze and Matt Dillon in The Outsiders. The Karate Kid series It was not until 1984, however, that he became an in... Add to favourites (15 fans)Biography of Dominique Swain
Dominique Ariane Swain (born August 12, 1980) is an American film actress. She may be best known for her role as the title character in the 1997 film adaptation of the novel Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov. Early life Swain was born in Santa Monica, California to Cindy (Fitzgerald) and David Swain, Sr., an electrical engineer. Swain grew up in Malibu with four siblings living a modest lifestyle and was a straight-A student at Malibu High School. In 1993, Swain was a stunt double in the film The Good Son. Her sister is the actress Chelse Swain. Career In 1995, Swain was chosen from 2,500 girls to star in the controversial remake of Lolita; the film was released in 1997. Shortly after, Swain starred as the rebellious daughter of John Travolta in action film Face/Off. After Face/Off, sh... Biography of Sean Biggerstaff
Sean Biggerstaff (born 15 March 1983) is a Scottish actor best known for appearing in the Harry Potter films. Born in Glasgow to a fireman and a community education worker, Biggerstaff grew up in Maryhill. He joined Maryhill Youth Theatre at age seven, and was a member for five years. Biggerstaff later acted with the Scottish Youth Theatre for six years. Career When he was ten, Biggerstaff got his first professional role in Macbeth (as the son of MacDuff), directed by Michael Boyd at the Tron Theatre. Alan Rickman, impressed by Biggerstaff's acting skills chose him for his film The Winter Guest when Biggerstaff was 14. Biggerstaff also took Rickman's advice on getting an agent in London. Rickman recommended Biggerstaff to Paul Lyon-Maris, Rickman's own agent, at London acting ... Add to favourites (13 fans)Biography of Terry Gilliam
Terrence Vance Gilliam (born November 22, 1940) is an American-born British filmmaker, animator, and member of the Monty Python comedy troupe. Gilliam has the distinction of being the only American-born Python, as the rest of the group are all native Britons. Height: 1m75 (5' 9") Early life Gilliam was born in Medicine Lake, Minnesota. His father was a traveling salesman for Folgers before becoming a carpenter. Gilliam has two siblings: a sister two years younger, and a brother ten years younger. The family moved to California because of his sister's asthma, and Terry Gilliam enrolled into Birmingham High School. He became class president and senior Prom King, was voted 'Most Likely to Succeed', and got straight A's in school. During high school, he discovered Mad magazine, which... Biography of Jason Newsted
Jason "Jasonic" Newsted is an American bass guitarist, currently a member of Voivod and Rock Star Supernova. He is best known as a former member of the band Metallica, which he joined in 1986 following the death of Cliff Burton, and left in 2001. He currently resides in Walnut Creek, California. Jason Curtis Newsted was born March 4, 1963, in Battle Creek, Michigan. His European ancestors were Germans from Baden. Flotsam & Jetsam 1983-86 Jason went to Gull Lake High School in Richland, Michigan, joining Arizona thrashers Flotsam and Jetsam in 1983. Jason left them to join Metallica in 1986 after the tragic death of popular bassist Cliff Burton. Following auditions and an evening of drinking, the three members of Metallica, James Hetfield, lead guitarist Kirk Hammett, and drummer L... Add to favourites (10 fans)Biography of Robert Trujillo
Roberto Trujillo (full name: Roberto Agustín Miguel Santiago Samuel Trujillo Veracruz) (born on October 23, 1964) is a bassist who played in Suicidal Tendencies, Infectious Grooves, Black Label Society, Jerry Cantrell, and Ozzy Osbourne's band before joining Metallica in 2003. Early Life He was born on October 23, 1964 as Roberto Agustín Miguel Santiago Samuel Trujillo Veracruz; grew up in Culver City, California where his father was a teacher at the local high school (Culver City High School). Career He played in a few local bands before joining Suicidal Tendencies (in 1989) and fellow Culver City native, Rocky George, the guitarist for the band at the time. Robert replaced the band's second bassist Bob Heathcote. He is responsible for adding in funk influences to the band see... Biography of Michael Flatley
Michael Ryan Flatley (born July 16, 1958 in Detroit, Michigan) is an Irish-American step dancer from the south side of Chicago. His parents were from County Mayo and County Carlow. As a child, he moved to Chicago - the city which he considers his home town. He began dancing lessons at 11 and, in 1975, became the first non-European to win the All-Ireland World Championship for Irish dance. As a trained boxer he won the Golden Gloves Championship in 1975. Flatley is also known as being a proficient flutist. His first dance teachers were his mother and his grandmother Hannah Ryan, an Irish dancing champion. After high school graduation, he opened a dance school. Career His first professional break came when he joined The Chieftains for tours in the 1980s. He created the initial choreograp... Biography of Donny Osmond
Donald Clark 'Donny' Osmond (born December 9, 1957) is an American entertainer. He is a singer, musician, actor and former teen idol. He has also been a talk show and game show host, record producer, race car driver and author. He is known for being half of the brother-sister singing act Donny & Marie and a member of the "Osmond Brothers" singing group. Early life Osmond was born in Ogden, Utah, to Olive May Davis and George Virl Osmond. He is the brother of Alan, Jay, Jimmy, Merrill, Wayne, Marie, Tom, and Virl Osmond. Alan, Jay, Merrill, Wayne, and Donny were members of the popular singing group The Osmonds (also known as The Osmond Brothers). Osmond recently traced his family ancestry back to Merthyr Tydfil in Wales; his journey was documented by a BBC Wales programme, "Donny Osm... Biography of Jean Yanne
Jean Yanne (July 18, 1933 - May 23, 2003) was a French humorist, actor and film director. He was made famous as Claude Chabrol's "The Butcher". Filmography Actor 1963 : La Femme spectacle, directed by Claude Lelouch 1964 : La Vie à l'envers, directed by Alain Jessua 1966 : Bang Bang (Les aventures de Sheila !), directed by Serge Piollet 1966 : Le vicomte règle ses comptes, directed by Maurice Cloche 1966 : Monnaie de singe, directed by Yves Robert 1966 : La Ligne de démarcation, directed by Claude Chabrol 1967 : Week End, directed by Jean-Luc Godard 1968 : Erotissimo, directed by Gérard Pirès 1968 : Un drôle de colonel, directed by Jean Girault 1969 : Que la bête meure, directed by Claude Chabrol 1969 : Ces messieurs de la famille, directed by Raoul André 1970... Add to favourites (11 fans)Biography of Michelle Williams (singer)
Michelle Williams (born Tenitra Michelle Williams on July 23, 1980) is an American R&B, gospel and pop singer, songwriter, actress and dancer, who was a background singer for Monica, before rising to fame as one-third of the successful Grammy Award-winning musical group Destiny's Child, the world's best-selling female group of all time, selling over 100 million records worldwide. Williams is currently playing the character Shug Avery in the play The Color Purple. Height 5' 9" (1.75 m) Background Born July 23,1980 and raised in a Christian family, Williams first began singing in her church's choir. She later sang in a musical quartet called United Harmony with sister Cameron. After attending Rockford Auburn High School and being a part of the C.A.P.A (Creative And Performing Arts) ... Add to favourites (10 fans)Biography of Jorja Fox
Jorja Fox (born Jorja-An Fox July 7, 1968 in New York, New York) is an American actress. Her name is pronounced like "Georgia". She is most often credited as Jorja Fox, but has also been credited as Jorjan Fox. She is most notable for her role as Sara Sidle, in the popular American crime drama television series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. A dedicated vegetarian, she resides in Los Angeles with her dog Ali and two cats, Rumplestiltskin and Sid Poitier. In 2003, she was ranked #80 in Stuff Magazine's list of the 103 sexiest women. Jorja Fox was born in New York City, the youngest child of Montreal-born parents, and was raised on a narrow barrier island in Melbourne Beach, Florida. Growing up in Florida, Jorja Fox described herself as overweight, with a prominent gap between her tee... Add to favourites (12 fans)Biography of Gemma Atkinson
Gemma Louise Atkinson (born 15 November 1984 in Bury, Greater Manchester) is an English actress, television personality and glamour and lingerie model. She recently appeared as a contestant on the ITV reality TV series I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! and is recognisable as one of the most prominent celebrity glamour models in the UK. Height 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) Originally from Bury, Greater Manchester, Atkinson took her GCSEs at Castlebrook High School before becoming a commercial and photographic model. Actress and television personality Atkinson rose to fame playing Lisa Hunter on the Channel 4 teenage soap opera Hollyoaks. Atkinson and Marcus Patric (who played the character Ben Davies) subsequently appeared in a "spin-off" series called Hollyoaks: Let Loose for E4, i... Add to favourites (10 fans)Biography of Kate Jackson
Catherine Elise Jackson (born October 29, 1948 in Birmingham, Alabama) is a Golden Globe-nominated American actress, known primarily for her role as Sabrina Duncan in the 1970s television series Charlie's Angels. Her other notable roles include Sam Melville's wife, Jill Danko, in the 1970s crime drama, The Rookies, and as Bruce Boxleitner's partner, Amanda King, in the 1980s drama, Scarecrow and Mrs. King. Height: 5' 9" (1.75 m) Jackson attended the University of Mississippi, where she was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority, but did not graduate. She moved to New York and played a year-long role in the soap opera Dark Shadows in 1970 as Daphne Harridge and, from 1972 to 1976, co-starred as Jill Danko in The Rookies. From 1976 to 1979, she played the role of Sabrina 'Bri' Dunca... Biography of Eric Judor
Eric Judor is a French humorist and actor born July 25, 1968 in Meaux (IMDB gives 1969). Filmography 1995 : Jamais deux sans toi...t (série télévisée) de Eric Assous et Alexandre Denim 1998-2002 : H (série télévisée) créée par Abd-el-Kader Aoun avec Jamel Debbouze 2001 : La Tour Montparnasse infernale 2003 : Pecan Pie (court métrage) 2004 : Les Nicole (série télévisée - production) 2004 : Double Zéro 2004 : Les Dalton 2005 : Il était une fois dans l'oued 2006 : Bled number one dans lequel Ramzy Bedia joue seul 2007 : Steak le second film de Quentin Dupieux Voice 2002 : Ratz (série télévisée d'animation franco-canadienne) 2004 : Gang de requins Eric : Oscar et Ramzy : Joe le Dingue 2005 : Vaillant : Pigeon de combat ! 2007 : Cendrillon & le prince (pa... Biography of David Cronenberg
David Paul Cronenberg OC, FRSC (born March 15, 1943) is a Canadian film director and occasional actor. He is one of the principal originators of what is commonly known as the body horror or venereal horror genre. This style of filmmaking explores people's fears of bodily transformation and infection. In his films, the psychological is typically intertwined with the physical. In the first half of his career, he explored these themes mostly through horror and science fiction, although his work has since expanded beyond these genres. Height: 5' 9" (1.75 m) Early life Cronenberg currently resides and was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, the son of Esther (Sumberg), a musician, and Milton Cronenberg, a writer and editor. He was raised in a middle-class Jewish family and went to North To... Biography of Jean Shrimpton
Jean Shrimpton (born 7 November 1942 in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire) is a former English Supermodel (before the term was used) and actress, who graduated from Lucie Clayton's modelling school at the age of 17 in 1960. Nicknamed 'The Shrimp', she was an icon of Swinging Sixties London, possessing some of the gamine features that also made a huge success of the younger Twiggy. She starred alongside Paul Jones in the 1967 movie Privilege, and was name-checked in the Smithereens song, Behind the Wall of Sleep. In 1965, Shrimpton caused a sensation in very conservative Melbourne in Australia when she arrived for the Victoria Derby race during Melbourne Cup week. She shocked everybody by wearing a daring white shift dress which ended high above her knees, a forerunner of the miniskirt which... Biography of Ron Howard
Ronald William Howard (born March 1, 1954 in Duncan, Oklahoma) is an American actor, film director, and producer, known for his roles on sitcoms, movies and television, who came to prominence in the 1960s as Opie Taylor, on The Andy Griffith Show, and later as Richie Cunningham, on Happy Days (a role he played from 1974 to 1980). Early life Howard was born in Duncan, Oklahoma, to actors Rance Howard and Jean F. Speegle Howard. He has Dutch, Scottish, English, Irish, German and Cherokee Indian ancestry. His younger brother, Clint Howard, is a well-known character actor. Howard attended the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts but did not graduate. Career Howard first earned recognition for playing Winthrop Paroo, the child with the lisp in the film version... Add to favourites (11 fans)Biography of Peter Tork
Peter Halsten Thorkelson (born February 13, 1942), better known as Peter Tork, is an American musician and actor, best known for a member of "The Monkees". Although born in 1942, many news articles will have him listed as born in 1944 as this was the date given on early Monkees press releases. This was rumored to be in order to make Michael Nesmith appear to be the oldest member of the group (as leader). He was born in Washington, D.C. and began studying piano at the age of nine, showing an aptitude for music by learning to play several different instruments, including the banjo and acoustic and bass guitars. Tork attended Windham High School in Willimantic, Connecticut, then was a member of the first graduating class at E.O. Smith High School in Storrs, Connecticut. He attended Carl... Biography of Ilsa Strix
Ilsa Strix (born Karin Winslow on December 15, 1967) was a Los Angeles-based professional dominatrix. Strix retired from her various roles as a dominatrix in 2002 to become a doctor of human sexuality. She was born in Connecticut. Strix is of German descent and is fluent in German. Before going "pro", Winslow participated in (Windsor) community theatre including Babes in Arms and other musical comedies. Although she had long been famous in the BDSM scene for her educational and community efforts, Strix gained mainstream notoriety when she became romantically involved with The Matrix co-creator Larry Wachowski. Her former husband Jake Miller, who later became the female-to-male (FtM) transexual pornstar Buck Angel, sold stories to British tabloids claiming that Wachowski stole Stri... Biography of Claude Brasseur
Claude Brasseur is a French actor, born June 15, 1936 in Neuilly-sur-Seine. He is the son of actor Pierre Brasseur et actress Odette Joyeux, and the father of actor Alexandre Brasseur. Filmography * 1956 : Rencontre à Paris de Georges Lampin * 1956 : Le Pays d'où je viens de Marcel Carné * 1959 : Rue des prairies de Denys de La Patellière * 1959 : Les Yeux sans visage de Georges Franju * 1960 : Les Distractions * 1961 : La Bride sur le cou de Roger Vadim * 1961 : Le Caporal épinglé de Jean Renoir * 1961 : Les Sept Péchés capitaux * 1962 : Un clair de lune à Maubeuge de Jean Chérasse * 1962 : Germinal d'Yves Allégret * 1962 : Nous irons à Deauville de Francis Rigaud * 1963 : Peau de banane de Marcel Ophuls * 1963 : Drag... Biography of Géraldine Giraud
Géraldine Giraud (May 17, 1968 Sens - November 1, 2004 Villeneuve-sur-Yonne) was a French actress. She was the daugther of French actor Roland Giraud. She was found murdered with her friend Katia Lherbier in Villeneuve-sur-Yonne November 1, 2004.... Biography of Claude Chabrol
Claude Chabrol (French pronunciation: ; 24 June 1930 – 12 September 2010) was a French film director, a member of the French New Wave (nouvelle vague) group of filmmakers who first came to prominence at the end of the 1950s. Like his colleagues and contemporaries Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Éric Rohmer and Jacques Rivette, Chabrol was a critic for the influential film magazine Cahiers du cinéma before beginning his career as a film maker. Sometimes characterized as a "mainstream" New Wave director, Chabrol remained prolific and popular throughout his half-century career. Biography After spending World War II in the village of Sardent, where he and a friend constructed a makeshift movie theater, Chabrol returned to Paris to study pharmacology at the University of Paris. The... Biography of Nick Mason
Nicholas Berkeley "Nick" Mason (born January 27, 1944 in Birmingham, England) is the drummer for Pink Floyd. He has been the only consistent member of the band since its formation. He also competes in auto racing, e.g., the 24 Hours of Le Mans. He was born in Birmingham but brought up in Hampstead, London (many online biographies mistakenly cite the street address, Downshire Hill - sometimes as "the Downshire Hills" - as a district of Birmingham) and attended Frensham Heights School, Surrey. He later studied at the Regent Street Polytechnic (now the University of Westminster), where he teamed up with Roger Waters, Bob Klose and Richard Wright in 1964 to form Sigma 6. Career Pink Floyd Mason has played on every Pink Floyd album since 1967, although it was later revealed that his ... Add to favourites (33 fans)Biography of Florence Welch
Florence Leontine Mary Welch (born 28 August 1986 in Camberwell) is a British singer-songwriter, best known worldwide as being the lead singer of Florence and the Machine. She is the daughter of Evelyn Welch, a Harvard-educated Professor of Renaissance Studies and Academic Dean of Arts at Queen Mary, University of London, and Nick Welch, an advertising executive. Life and career Florence is also the niece of the satirist Craig Brown. and granddaughter of former deputy editor of the Daily Telegraph and former Daily Mail parliamentary sketchwriter Colin Welch. Nick contributed a "rock and roll element to the family mix"; in his 20s he used to live in the West End squat and attended the Squatters' Ball organised by Heathcote Williams where The 101ers played regularly. Himself a self-con... Add to favourites (23 fans)Biography of Jesse Eisenberg
Jesse Adam Eisenberg (born October 5, 1983) is a Bafta-nominated American actor. He has played notable roles in films such as Adventureland, The Squid and the Whale and Zombieland. Early life Eisenberg was born in Queens, New York City, New York, the son of Amy, who worked as a clown, and Barry Eisenberg, who ran a hospital and later became a college professor. His sister, Hallie Kate Eisenberg, is a former child actress. His family is Jewish. Eisenberg was raised in Queens and New Jersey, attending the East Brunswick Public Schools at Frost School, Hammarskjold Middle School, Churchill Junior High School, and his sophomore year at East Brunswick High School. Eisenberg currently studies at The New School in New York City's Greenwich Village neighborhood. Originally, he had applied... Biography of Caterina Murino
Caterina Murino (born 15 September 1977) is an Italian actress. She was born in Cagliari, Sardinia, and initially wanted to be a doctor, but switched career paths to pageantry after twice failing the medical school entrance exams. She came fourth in the 1996 Miss Italy contest. Having moved to London she fell in love with theatre and acting, saving up weekly to watch something in the West End theatre. Returning to Italy, she studied drama at the Scuola di Cinema e Teatro run by Francesca De Sapio, between 1999 and 2000. She then appeared in stage productions of Richard III and Italian language plays. She began her career in television in 2002, and then gained international fame after playing Solange Dimitrios in the 2006 adaptation of the James Bond novel Casino Royale. Besides her n... Biography of Tony Danza
Tony Danza (born Anthony Salvatore Iadanza April 21, 1951 in Brooklyn, New York), is an American actor best known for starring in two popular TV series, Taxi and Who's the Boss?, as well as appearing in the Academy Award-winning motion picture, Crash. He also hosted his own talk show, The Tony Danza Show. He is also of Italian descent. Height: 5' 9" (1.75 m) Acting career From 1976 to 1979, Danza was a professional boxer with a 9-3 record. All his wins and losses were by knockout. He quit fighting when he landed a role on the TV situation comedy Taxi. Danza is best known for his roles in Taxi (1978-1983), in which he played cab driver and part-time boxer Tony Banta, and Who's the Boss? (1984-1992), portraying housekeeper and single father Tony Micelli. Danza also starred in... Biography of John Hurt
John Vincent Hurt CBE (born January 22, 1940) is an Academy Award-nominated and BAFTA Award-winning British actor. He is one of Britain's best-known, most prolific and sought after character actors, and has had a versatile career spanning over 40 years. He is highly respected for his many Shakespearean roles. Height: 5' 9" (1.75 m) Personal life Hurt was born in Shirebrook near Chesterfield, Derbyshire to Phyllis (née Massey), an amateur actress and engineer, and Arnould Herbert Hurt, a mathematician who became an Anglican clergyman. John has an older brother, Michael, who has become a monk based in Ireland, and an adopted sister, Monica. His father Arnould had been a vicar at St. John in Sunderland, and had then (in 1937) moved to Derbyshire, becoming the Perpetual Curate of Holy T... Add to favourites (13 fans)Biography of Sam Rockwell
Sam Rockwell (born November 5, 1968) is an American actor who has starred in more than forty films, including Charlie's Angels, Box of Moon Light, Galaxy Quest, The Green Mile, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Early life Rockwell was born in Daly City, California, the son of actors who divorced when he was five years old. He was raised by his father, Pete Rockwell, in San Francisco while his mother, Penny Hess, stayed behind in New York (he spent his summer vacations with her.) Rockwell had what The New York Times described in 1998 as a "footloose upbringing," and, at age 10, made his brief stage debut playing Humphrey Bogart in an East Village improv comedy sketch starring his mother. The ensuing applause provided a memorable rush that helped f... Add to favourites (12 fans) | |||||||