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Astrology, birth chart, biography, photo and horoscope excerpts: You will find on this page all the celebrities born on August, 30, sorted by decreasing popularity. The popularity is the number of real time Astrotheme users' clicks for a celebrity. You can either access the photo and detailed natal chart by clicking on the thumbnail, or read the comprehensive horoscope by clicking on "Display his/her horoscope with biography and chart".
Astrology DataBase updated Tuesday, 25 July 2017 at 11:07 am, CEST
52,644 celebrities and events, out of which 22,793 entries with a known time of birth. Search by filters, aspects, positions, categories, heights, or latest additions. Celebrities clicked on in real-time: 468,286,789 times. 126 celebrities or events were found for August, 30.
Biography of Cameron Diaz
Cameron Michelle Diaz (born August 30, 1972 (birth time source: Frank C. Clifford, Astrodatabank)) is an American actress and former model. She rose to prominence during the 1990s with roles in the movies The Mask, My Best Friend's Wedding and There's Something About Mary. Other high-profile credits include the two Charlie's Angels films, voicing the character Princess Fiona in the Shrek series, Any Given Sunday, Knight and Day, The Holiday, The Green Hornet and Bad Teacher. Diaz has received four Golden Globe Award nominations for her performances in the movies, Being John Malkovich, Vanilla Sky, Gangs of New York, and There's Something About Mary for which she also won the New York Film Critics Best Lead Actress Award. She is also a BAFTA Nominee. Early life Cameron Diaz, was born...
Biography of Warren Buffett
Warren Edward Buffett (pronounced /ˈbʌfɨt/; born August 30, 1930 (birth time source: Paul Hewitt, Astrodatabank), from himself)) is an American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist. He is widely regarded as one of the most successful investors in the world. Often introduced as "legendary investor, Warren Buffett", he is the primary shareholder, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway. He is consistently ranked among the world's wealthiest people. He was ranked as the world's wealthiest person in 2008 and is the third wealthiest person in the world as of 2011. Buffett is called the "Wizard of Omaha", "Oracle of Omaha" or the "Sage of Omaha" and is noted for his adherence to the value investing philosophy and for his personal frugality despite his immense wealth. B...
Biography of Anna Politkovskaia
Anna Stepanovna Politkovskaya (30 August 1958 – 7 October 2006) was a Russian journalist and human rights activist well known for her opposition to the Chechen conflict and Russian President Putin. Politkovskaya made her name reporting from Chechnya, where many journalists and humanitarian workers have been kidnapped or killed. She was arrested and subjected to mock execution by Russian military forces there, and she was poisoned on the way to Beslan, but survived and continued her reporting. She authored several books about the Chechen wars, as well as Putin's Russia, and received numerous prestigious international awards for her work. She was shot dead in the elevator of her apartment building on October 7, 2006. Early life Politkovskaya was born Anna Mazepa in New York City i...
Biography of Laurent Delahousse
Laurent Delahousse, born on 30 August 1969 (birth time source: birth certificate n° 768, Jacques Sage), is a French journalist. Education He holds a master's degree in business and labour law, as well as a DEA in private sector law (the North-American equivalent of which would be an LL.M.). Career In 1994, he began his career at RTL, Luxembourg's state-run broadcaster, as a political correspondent. In 1996, he joined LCI, TF1's all-news channel. In 1999, he joined M6 as its chief editor and presenter of the newsmagazine De quel droit? (By what right?), followed by Jour J (D-Day). Since March 2000, he has been co-editor-in-chief and presenter of Secrets de l'actualité (News Secrets). Since 2001, he has also been a presenter for evening news specials such as the one on the 2003 in...
Biography of Frederique van der Wal
Frederique van der Wal (born August 30, 1967, in The Hague, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands) is a Dutch model, best known for her appearances in Sports Illustrated, Cosmopolitan, and Victoria's Secret. Frederique grew up in the city of the Hague. She attended college in The Netherlands and earned a bachelor's degree in economics. She manages her own financial affairs and businesses. Frederique has appeared on many magazine covers and catalogs. She has also done runway and other fashion modeling. Frederique was hired by "Victoria's Secret" in 1989, when the company's target audience was only young women. She and American Stephanie Seymour were two of "Victoria's Secret" most prominent models during the company's rise to its position of international prominence in women's wear. Frederiqu...
Biography of Geneviève de Fontenay
Geneviève Suzanne Marie-Thérèse Mulmann (born August 30, 1932 in Longwy (birth time source: Didier Geslain)), also known as Geneviève de Fontenay, is a former chairman of the boards of Miss France and Miss Europe. Fontenay and her son Xavier Poirot sold the "Miss France" name to the group Endemol. In 2010, Fontenay created a rival beauty pageant contest, Miss Nationale, in partnership with the Swiss entrepreneur Eric Cormier. The name of "Fontenay", which Mulmann uses in her work, is simply a made-up pseudonym, but it is also used by her son Xavier Poirot. She was born in Longwy in Meurthe-et-Moselle and lives in Saint-Cloud....
Biography of Loana (stylist, singer)
Loana, born Loana Petrucciani on August 30, 1977 in Cannes, is a French model, stylist, singer, TV host and business woman. She has won the first French reality TV Loft Story in 2001. Discography Singles 2001 : Comme je t'aime 2002 : Obsession 2009 : Paroles Paroles (duo avec Massimo Gargia) 2010 : La madrague (reprise de Brigitte Bardot) Albums 2009 : I have a dream (mai 2009) Publication 2001 - Elle m'appelait...Miette...
Biography of Kitty Wells
Ellen Muriel Deason (August 30, 1919 – July 16, 2012), known professionally as Kitty Wells, was an American country music singer who broke down a female barrier in country music. Her 1952 hit recording, "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels", made her the first female country singer to top the U.S. country charts, and turned her into the first female country star. Her Top 10 hits continued until the mid-1960s, inspiring a long list of female country singers who came to prominence in the 1960s. Wells ranks as the sixth most successful female vocalist in the history of Billboard's country charts, according to historian Joel Whitburn's book The Top 40 Country Hits, behind Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Reba McEntire, Tammy Wynette, and Tanya Tucker. In 1976, she was inducted into the Coun...
Biography of Mary Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley (30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English romantic/gothic novelist and the author of Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus. She was married to the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. Mary Shelley was born Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin in Somers Town, in London, in 1797. She was the second daughter of famed feminist, educator and writer Mary Wollstonecraft. Her father was the equally famous anarchist philosopher, novelist, journalist, and atheist dissenter, William Godwin. Her mother died ten days after Mary was born as a result of puerperal fever. Her father was left with the responsibility of safeguarding Mary and her older half-sister, Fanny Imlay. He hired a housekeeper and governess, Louisa Jones, to look after the house and care for the c...
Biography of Gabriel Aubry
Gabriel Eugene Aubry (French pronunciation: ; born August 30, 1975) is a French-Canadian male model. Early life Born in Montreal, Quebec to French-Canadian parents, Aubry is one out of nine brothers and sisters. Modeling career He has modeled for Tommy Hilfiger, Gianni Versace, Calvin Klein, DKNY, Valentino, Trussardi, Nautica, Exte, Joop, Massimo Dutti and Next. He is signed to Wilhelmina Models in New York City and Beatrice Model agency in Milan, Italy. He appeared in a Macy's commercial in early 2008 as part of an exclusivity with Calvin Klein alongside Mariah Carey, Martha Stewart, Donald Trump and Carlos Santana. He was the only male model to ever appear on the cover of L'Uomo Vogue while appearing in four different designers' campaigns at the same time, in the same ...
Biography of Yves Calvi
Yves Calvi, born Yves Krettly on August 30, 1959 in Boulogne-Billancourt (birth time source: Astrotheme, civil registrar, acte n° 1964), is a French journalist and TV host....
Biography of Théophile Gautier
Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier (August 30, 1811 – October 23, 1872) was a French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and literary critic. While an ardent defender of Romanticism, Gautier's work is difficult to classify and remains a point of reference for many subsequent literary traditions such as Parnassianism, Symbolism, Decadence and Modernism. He was widely esteemed by writers as diverse as Baudelaire, the Goncourt brothers, Flaubert and Oscar Wilde. Life and times Théophile Gautier was born on 30 August 1811 in Tarbes, capital of Hautes-Pyrénées département in southwestern France. His father, Pierre Gautier, was a fairly cultured minor government official and his mother was Antoinette-Adelaïde Concarde. The family moved to Paris in 1814, taking residence in the ancient Ma...
Biography of Ryan Ross
George Ryan Ross III (b. August 30, 1986 in Summerlin, Nevada) is the lead guitarist and back-up vocalist for the band Panic! at the Disco. He is notably the original and only lyricist for songs on the band's debut album A Fever You Can't Sweat Out. Early life George Ryan Ross was born and raised in Las Vegas, Nevada. He attended Bishop Gorman High School. He studied at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas but dropped out after a semester to focus on music. Two songs, "Camisado" and "Nails For Breakfast, Tacks for Snacks", on Panic! at the Disco's debut album A Fever You Can't Sweat Out were written about his personal experience with his alcoholic father, who died on July 28, 2006 . His father was a Navy Seal, who fought in the Vietnam war. "I wasn't close to my dad." Ross says. "He ...
Biography of Valérie Bénaïm
Valérie Benaïm (born 30 August 1969) is a French journalist, columnist, writer, TV Presenter and radio host. Personal life She was born in Casablanca, Morocco. In 2015, Valerie Benaim was elected 2nd Favourite columnist with 37% of the way in a TV poll, just behind Anne-Elizabeth Lemoine. In 2016, she became the godmother of the association "Juste Humain". Television Year TV Show Role Channel Notes 1995 Cinémascope Host MCM 1998 La Culture Aussi Host (replacement) La Chaîne Info 1997-1999 Y'a pas photo Columnist & then Host TF1 1999 Photos de vacances Co-Host Millenium Host 1999-2000 En direct ce soir Co-Host 2000-2001 Célébrités Co-Host 2001 Le journal de la culture Host La Chaîne Info 1999-2002 Défense d'entrer Co-Host TF1 2001-2002 Exclusif Co-Host with ...
Biography of Andy Roddick
Andrew Stephen "Andy" Roddick (born August 30, 1982) is an American professional tennis player and a former World No. 1. He is the top-ranked American player and fourth-ranked player in the world as of July 2007. He finished sixth in the 2006 ATP Race. He became a Grand Slam singles champion when he won the title at the 2003 U.S. Open. He has reached three other Grand Slam finals, losing to Roger Federer each time. Roddick is known for his fast serves and forehands. He also holds the fastest serve recorded in professional tennis, clocked at 155 mph, or 248.2 km/h. Nicknames and on court behavior Roddick is often called "the other A-Rod", a reference to baseball superstar Alex Rodriguez already having that nickname. On court, he has been known to argue with chair umpires and linespeo...
Biography of Vladimir Jugovic
Vladimir Jugović (Serbian: Владимир Југовић) (born 30 August 1969) is a retired Serbian football player renowned for his vision and technique. Career Born in Milutovac, a village near Trstenik, Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia, Jugović played throughout his career for numerous top European teams, winning the Champions League twice (with Red Star Belgrade and Juventus). He is regarded as one of the finest players that Serbia has ever produced and one of the best midfielders of his generation. Before coming to Red Star he played for FK Trstenik and was loaned to FK Rad from Red Star in season 1989–90. After establishing himself with FK Crvena Zvezda (Red Star), with whom he won the 1991 European...
Biography of Pavel Nedved
Pavel Nedvěd (pronounced (help·info); born August 30, 1972 in Cheb) is a Czech football midfielder currently playing for Italian Serie A club Juventus He was the recipient of the prestigious Ballon d'Or in 2003. Club career Nedvěd got his international breakthrough when he was part of the Czech national team which went to the final of Euro 96, where they lost to Germany. Nedvěd's performance did not go unnoticed; despite having a verbal agreement with PSV, Nedvěd decided to move from Sparta Prague to Lazio in the Serie A in 1996. Lazio At Lazio, Nedvěd won the Coppa Italia in 1997/98, and the last international Cup Winners' Cup tournament in 1999 against Real Mallorca, where he scored the last ever goal of the tournament in a 2-1 win for Lazio. J...
Biography of Jacques-Louis David
Jacques-Louis David (August 30, 1748 – December 29, 1825) was a highly influential French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the prominent painter of the era. In the 1780s his cerebral brand of history painting marked a change in taste away from Rococo frivolity toward a classical austerity and severity, chiming with the moral climate of the final years of the ancien régime. David later became an active supporter of the French Revolution and friend of Maximilien Robespierre, and was effectively a dictator of the arts under the French Republic. Imprisoned after Robespierre's fall from power, he aligned himself with yet another political regime upon his release, that of Napoleon I. It was at this time that he developed his 'Empire style', notable for its use of warm Venet...
Biography of Roger Pierre
Roger Pierre (30 August 1923, Paris, France – 23 January 2010, Paris, France (cancer)) was an actor, comedian and a humorist. Filmography * 1946 - Le Père tranquille - The Quiet Father * 1952 - Le Trou Normand * 1953 - Deux de l'escadrille Lt. Chardonneret * Belle mentalité Frédo * Femmes de Paris * Une vie de garçon - A Life of the Boy * 1955 - Monsieur la Caille Pépé la Vache * La Madelon Caporal Beauguitte * 1957 - Nous autres à Champignol Un garde * 1958 - Vive les vacances Roger * 1959 - Sans famille Le clown Bib * Les Motards Roger * Le Gendarme de Champignol Vittorio * 1960 - Les Héritiers Roger * La Française et l'amour Prince Charming (segment « *L'Adolescence ») * Les Tortillards Gérard Duran ...
Biography of Theo Hutchcraft
Theo Hutchcraft, born on August 30, 1986 in Richmond, Yorkshire, is a British musician, a member of Hurts, a British synthpop duo from Manchester composed of synth player Adam Anderson and himself. History Before Hurts, singer Theo and synth player Adam were previously in bands named "Bureau", later to be renamed "Daggers". In July 2009, the band featured as "Band of the Day" on Guardian.co.uk. They finished in fourth position in BBC's Sound of 2010 poll. The band's song "Wonderful Life" was notably remixed by Arthur Baker. In early 2010 they officially released their debut single, "Better Than Love" with a video featuring Romanian actress Laura Cosoi, and played their first ever live shows. Their song "Illuminated" was also the soundtrack to Sky1 HD's advert in spring/summer 2...
Biography of Peggy Lipton
Peggy Lipton, also known as Peggy Lipton Jones (born August 30, 1946) is an American actress and socialite. She is best known for her portrayal of hip young detective Julie Barnes in the late 1960s early 1970s television show The Mod Squad and conflicted waitress Norma Jennings from the 1990s television drama Twin Peaks. Height 5' 8" (1.73 m) Lipton was born in New York City to Rita and Harold Lipton. Her American father had Russian Jewish heritage. Her Irish-born mother was also Jewish, descended from Eastern European immigrants. Lipton was raised on Long Island with her brothers Robert Lipton, also an actor, and Kenneth. She attended Lawrence High School (New York), and Hollywood Professional School. In 1962, she signed with the Ford Model Agency and enjoyed a successful caree...
Biography of Jean-Claude Killy
Jean-Claude Killy (born August 30, 1943) is a French alpine skier and a triple Olympic champion. Killy was born in Saint-Cloud, but brought up in Val d'Isère. Following his international success, he moved to Geneva, Switzerland in 1969. Killy was a World Cup champion in 1967 and would repeat in 1968. Killy won the Triple Crown of Alpine Skiing with a sweep of all three gold medals at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France, in the slalom, giant slalom and downhill events. Killy starred as a ski instructor in the 1972 crime movie Snow Job, released in the UK as The Ski Raiders, and U.S. TV as The Great Ski Caper. American children in the early 1970s knew Killy from a TV commercial where he introduces himself, his thick accent making his name into "Chocolate Kitty." Killy playe...
Biography of Michel Chevalet
Michel Chevalet is a French journalist....
Biography of Lisa Ling
Lisa Ling (born August 30, 1973, in Carmichael, California) is an American journalist, best known for her role as a co-host of ABC's The View (from 1999-2002), host of National Geographic Channel's Explorer, reporter on Channel One News, and special correspondent for the Oprah Winfrey Show and CNN. Biography Early life and career Ling started in television when she was chosen as one of the four hosts of Scratch, a nationally-syndicated teen magazine show based in Sacramento. At 18, she joined Channel One News as one of their youngest reporters and anchors. Among her roles was war correspondent, including assignments in Iraq and Afghanistan. She has won numerous awards for her reporting. She attended the University of Southern California. The View Ling joined The View on Augus...
Biography of Marina Anissina
Marina Anissina (Cyrillic Марина Анисина) (born August 30, 1975 in Moscow, Russia) is a French figure skater and the 2002 Olympic champion in ice dancing. Her last name is spelled with a double "s", as opposed to the literal translation "Anisina", to facilitate correct pronunciation outside Slavic language areas. Height: 161cm Weight: 47kg Marina Anissina's mother, Irina Cherniaeva, is a former pair skater who participated in the 1972 Winter Olympics and finished in sixth place with her partner Vasili Blagov. She is now a pairs figure skating coach. She followed her daughter to France and worked as a coach in Paris but moved later with her daughter to Lyon. Marina Anissina's father is Wiatscheslaw Mi...
Biography of Mustapha El Atrassi
Mustapha El Atrassi, best known as Mustapha, born August 30, 1985 in Saint-Doulchard (Cher)(birth time source: Astrotheme, civil registrar, acte n° 749), is a French comedian and humorist....
Biography of Jonne Aaron
Jonne Aaron Liimatainen (pronounced /jon-ne a:-ron li:-ma-tai-nen/ in ASCII-IPA, born August 30, 1983) is a Finnish singer and frontman of Negative. Early life Jonne was born in Tampere, Finland as Jonne Aaron Liimatainen, but as his last name is difficult to pronounce for non-Finnish speakers, he has substituted his middle name for his last. Jonne is 1.78 metres (5.8 ft) tall, and weighs 59 kilograms (130 lb). He has blue eyes, and his August birth makes him a Virgo. Jonne was brought up in foster care due to alcoholic and abusive parents. His brother Tommi knew that he needed tough love. He skipped school and guitar lessons preferring to hide in his room. He is currently the lead singer and lyricist of the Finnish glam rock band Negative. He has two brothers, Tommi, also his mana...
Biography of Ernests Gulbis
Ernests Gulbis (born August 30, 1988) is a tennis player from Latvia. He is currently ranked 80th in the world for singles, and 241st for doubles. Gulbis is coached by Karl Heinz Wetter. He used to be coached by Nikola Pilić, the former Yugoslavian tennis player and Croatian and German Davis Cup captain, and trained at the Niki Pilic Tennis Academy in Germany since he was 12. Height 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) Weight 76 kg (170 lb) Personal life Gulbis first started playing tennis with his grandmother and considers basketball, soccer and hockey as his favourite sports. His father, Ainārs, is an investment businessman and his mother, Milēna, is a theatre actress. The second of five children, Gulbis has three sisters (Elīna, Laura and Monika) and one younger brother named...
Biography of Huey P. Long
Huey Pierce Long, Jr. (August 30, 1893 – September 10, 1935), nicknamed The Kingfish, was an American politician from the U.S. state of Louisiana. A Democrat, he was noted for his radical populist policies. He served as Governor of Louisiana from 1928 to 1932 and as a U.S. senator from 1932 to 1935. Though a backer of Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1932 presidential election, Long split with Roosevelt in June 1933 and allegedly planned to mount his own presidential bid. Long created the Share Our Wealth program in 1934, with the motto "Every Man a King," proposing new wealth redistribution measures in the form of a net asset tax on large corporations and individuals of great wealth to curb the poverty and crime resulting from the Great Depression. He was an ardent critic of the Federal Re...
Biography of Bebe Rexha
Bleta "Bebe" Rexha (born August 30, 1989; Albanian pronunciation: ) is an American singer and songwriter. She is best known for being featured on the hit singles "Take Me Home" by Cash Cash and "Hey Mama" by David Guetta, being the lead vocalist of the American band Black Cards created by Pete Wentz, and for co-writing the number-one US Billboard Hot 100 hit "The Monster" by Eminem featuring Rihanna. Early life Bleta Rexha was born on August 30, 1989, in Brooklyn, New York City, United States, to ethnic Albanian parents, who emigrated to USA in the 1980s. Her father is from Debar and her mother is from Gostivar in the Republic of Macedonia. Her real name Bleta means Bumble Bee in Albanian, that's why she uses the American short form Bebe. Rexha began her approach to music at the age of...
Biography of John Peel
John Robert Parker Ravenscroft, OBE (30 August 1939 – 25 October 2004), known professionally as John Peel, was an English disc jockey, radio presenter and journalist. Known for his eclectic taste in music and his honest and warm broadcasting style, John Peel was a popular and respected DJ and broadcaster. He was one of the first to play reggae and punk on British radio. His significant influence on alternative rock, pop, British hip hop and dance music is acknowledged. He was the longest-serving of the original DJs of BBC Radio 1, broadcasting on it from 1967 until his death in 2004. Early life Peel was born in Heswall Cottage Hospital in Heswall on the Wirral Peninsula, near Liverpool, and grew up in the nearby village of Burton. His father was an upper middle class cotton merchant, a...
Biography of Leonor Fini
Leonor Fini (August 30, 1908 , Buenos Aires—January 18, 1996, Paris) was an Argentine surrealist painter. She was born in Buenos Aires to an Italian mother and an Argentinian father. Her mother left her father before Leonor's first birthday. She took the child to her home in Trieste, Italy, where LF was disguised as a boy whenever she left her house for the next five years in order to foil kidnap attempts by her father. After leaving Trieste at the age of 17 to paint a family's portraits in Milano (where she had her first painting exhibition) she relocated to Paris in either 1931 or 1932. There, she became acquainted with, among many others,Paul Eluard, Max Ernst, Georges Bataille, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Picasso,André Pieyre de Mandiargues, and Salvador Dalí. She traveled around Euro...
Biography of Michael Chiklis
Michael Charles Chiklis (born August 30, 1963 (birth time source: Pat Taglilatelo, Astrodatabank)) is an American actor, voice actor and occasional director. He is known for starring in the TV series The Commish (1991–1995) and The Shield (2002–2008) as well as for his role as The Thing in the Fantastic Four film series. Early life Chiklis was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, the son of Charlie Chiklis, a second-generation Greek American who runs a hair/beauty salon, and Katherine, a hospital administrative aide from whom Chiklis has been described as inheriting his acting ability. Chiklis' paternal ancestors came from Lesbos Island. Chiklis grew up in Andover, Massachusetts and began entertaining his family with celebrity imitations when he was just five years old. As a child, Chiklis ...
Biography of Ted Williams
Theodore Samuel "Ted" Williams (August 30, 1918 – July 5, 2002) also nicknamed The Kid, the Splendid Splinter, Teddy Ballgame and The Thumper, was an American left fielder in Major League Baseball. He played 19 seasons, twice interrupted by military service as a Marine Corps pilot, with the Boston Red Sox. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest hitters in the history of baseball. Williams was a two-time American League Most Valuable Player (MVP) winner, led the league in batting six times, and won the Triple Crown twice. He had a career batting average of .344, with 521 home runs, and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1966. He is the last player in Major League Baseball to bat over .400 in a single season (.406 in 1941). Williams holds the highest career batting ...
Biography of François Cheng
François Cheng (Traditional Chinese:程抱一;pinyin: Chéng Bàoyī) (born 30 August 1929) is a Chinese French academician, writer, poet and calligrapher. He is the author of essays, novels, collections of poetry and books on art written in the French language, and the translator of some of the great French poets into Chinese. Born in China and taking French citizenship in 1973, he was elected to the Académie française in 2002, and was the first person of Asian origin to be a member of the Academy. He was the winner of the 1998 Prix Femina for Le Dit de Tianyi ("The saying of Tianyi") (pub. Albin Michel, Paris, 1998). When Cheng arrived in France in 1948, on a study grant, he did not speak a word of the language. He subsequently adapted quickly and profoundly. In hi...
Biography of Gaia Weiss (model)
Gaia Weiss (born August 30, 1991, Paris) is a French model and actress. Weiss's filmography includes Mary Queen of Scots (as Mary Fleming), The Legend of Hercules (as Hebe) and Vikings (as Þorunn). Life Weiss was born to a French–Polish family. At age three she took ballet and became an accomplished ballet dancer. Weiss attended the Cours Florent and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and started acting in 1999....
Biography of Jack Swigert
John Leonard 'Jack' Swigert, Jr., (August 30, 1931 – December 27, 1982) was a NASA astronaut. He was one of only 24 men to have flown to the Moon. Early life Born in Denver, Colorado, Swigert attended the Blessed Sacrament School, Regis Jesuit High School, and East High School. He graduated from University of Colorado at Boulder, where he played varsity football and earned a bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering. He served with the United States Air Force as a combat pilot in Korea and then became a test pilot. After earning a master of science degree in aerospace science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree from University of Hartford in West Hartford, Connecticut, Swigert was accepted into the N...
Biography of René Bon
René Louis Marie Bon, born on September 13, 1924 in Montpellier (source: Steinbrecher, birth certificate), is a French former danser, teacher, and ballet master....
Biography of Lucien Coëdel
Lucien Coëdel, born August 30, 1899 in Paris and died September 28, 1947 in Blaisy-Haut (Côte-d'Or, Bourgogne), was a French actor and comedian. Filmography * 1935 : Lucrèce Borgia d'Abel Gance * 1936 : Le Coupable de Raymond Bernard * 1936 : Nitchevo de Jacques de Baroncelli * 1937 : Le Messager de Raymond Rouleau * 1937 : Mollenard de Robert Siodmak * 1938 : Courrier d'Asie d'Oscar-Paul Guilbert * 1939 : Nord-Atlantique de Maurice Cloche * 1939 : Remorques de Jean Grémillon * 1940 : La Piste du nord ou La Loi du Nord de Jacques Feyder * 1941 : L'Assassinat du Père Noël de Christian-Jaque * 1941 : Nous les gosses de Louis Daquin * 1941 : Caprices de Léo Joannon * 1941 : Le pavillon brûle de Jacques de Baroncelli *...
Biography of Ismaël Lô
Ismaël Lô (also Ismaël Lo) is a Senegalese musician. He was born in Dogondoutchi in Niger on 30 August 1956 to a Senegalese father and a Nigerian mother. Shortly after Lo's birth the family returned to Senegal where they settled in the town of Rufisque, near the capital Dakar. He is a versatile singer and artist, and besides his singing abilities, he also plays the guitar and the harmonica. In the 1970s Lo studied at the School of Art in Dakar later joining the popular group Super Diamono, but leaving the group in 1984 to start a solo career. Over the next four years Lo recorded five popular solo albums. In 1990 Lo signed a recording deal with Barclay and recorded in France his sixth solo album, Ismael Lo. Thanks to the success of the single "Tajabone" the album became a hit in the E...
Biography of John Phillips (musician)
John Edmund Andrew Phillips (August 30, 1935 – March 18, 2001), was an American singer, guitarist, songwriter and promoter (The Monterey Pop Festival in 1967). Known as Papa John, Phillips was a member and leader of the singing group The Mamas & the Papas. He was the father of Jeffrey Phillips, Mackenzie Phillips, Chynna Phillips, Tamerlane Phillips, and Bijou Phillips. Early life Phillips was born in Parris Island, South Carolina. His father was a retired United States Marine Corps officer who won an Oklahoma bar from another Marine in a poker game on the way home from France after World War I. His mother, a Cherokee Native, met his father in Oklahoma. According to his autobiography, Papa John, Phillips' father was a heavy drinker who suffered from poor health. Phillips grew up i...
Biography of Benoît Delépine
Benoît Delépine (August 30, 1958 in Saint-Quentin –) is a French comedian, journalist, author and film director. He is known for his satirical activities on TV channel Canal+. Director of the TV program Guignols de l'info for many years, he currently writes TV programs about the fictional country of Groland. He also plays the cynical journalist-reporter Mickael Kael. In the cinema, Delépine has written and performed in two films. Mickael Kael contre la World News Company, a chess commercial, reprising two elements of the fictional career of the director: his role as a reporter for Groland and the World Company, which he contributed to create for Les Guignols. In 2004, Aaltra, which he wrote, directed, and starred in with Gustave Kervern enjoyed critical success. The two companions...
Biography of Robert Parish
Robert Lee Parish (born August 30, 1953 in Shreveport, Louisiana) is a retired American basketball center. He was known for his strong defense and jump shooting, and was elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2003. In 1997, Parish was also named as one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History. His nickname was "The Chief", after the fictitious Chief Bromden, a silent, giant Native American character in the film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. According to Parish, former Celtics forward Cedric Maxwell gave Parish this nickname because of his stoic nature. College career Although Parish had a hugely successful college career at Centenary College of Louisiana from 1972 to 1976, it received virtually no notice because of one of the most severe penalties ever levied by the NCAA. I...
Biography of Uwe Fellensiek
Uwe Fellensiek, born August 30, 1955 in Osnabrück, is a German actor. Filmography (source: http://french.imdb.com/name/nm0271426/ ) London, Liebe, Taubenschlag (2009) (TV) (filming) .... Tauben-Didi Chaostage (2008) .... Olaf "In aller Freundschaft" .... Hans Alvas (1 episode, 2007) - Ein Vater zu viel (2007) TV episode .... Hans Alvas "Fall für zwei, Ein" .... Horst Kramer / ... (5 episodes, 1990-2007) ... autre titre : Un cas pour deux (France: dubbed version) - Blutsbrüder (2007) TV episode .... Torsten Abroleit - Perfekter Irrtum (2006) TV episode .... Klaus Koller - Bremsversagen (2003) TV episode .... Manfred Stamm - Mordsgefühle (1995) TV episode .... Horst Kramer - Madonna (1990) TV episode .... Junie "SK Kölsch" .... Kriminalhauptkommissar...
Biography of Fred MacMurray
Frederick Martin "Fred" MacMurray (August 30, 1908 – November 5, 1991) was an American actor who appeared in more than 100 movies and a successful television series during a career that spanned nearly a half-century, from 1930 to the 1970s. MacMurray is well known for his role in the 1944 film noir Double Indemnity directed by Billy Wilder, which he starred in with Barbara Stanwyck. Later in his career, he became better known as the paternal Steve Douglas, the widowed patriarch on My Three Sons, which ran on ABC from 1960–1965 and then on CBS from 1965–1972. Early life and career MacMurray was born in Kankakee, Illinois to Frederick MacMurray and Maleta Martin, both natives of Wisconsin. When MacMurray was two years old the family moved to Madison, Wisconsin and several years late...
Biography of Jun Matsumoto
Jun Matsumoto (松本 潤 Matsumoto Jun?) (born August 30, 1983 (birth time source: http://m.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/note/n197739 screen shot: http://www.astrotheme.fr/images/Jun_Matsumoto_time_if_birth.jpg), often called by the portmanteau nickname MatsuJun (松潤?), is a Japanese idol, singer, actor and radio host. He is a member of Japanese boy band Arashi and is best known to Japanese television drama audiences for his portrayal as Tsukasa Dōmyōji in the Hana Yori Dango series, in which he won GQ Japan's Man Of The Year Award under the singer/actor category for his work in the drama. Matsumoto began his career in the entertainment industry when he joined the Japanese talent agency Johnny & Associates in 1996 at the age of 12. Prior to his debut as ...
Biography of Antony Gormley
Antony Mark David Gormley OBE RA (born 30 August 1950) is a British sculptor. His best known works include the Angel of the North, a public sculpture in the North of England, commissioned in 1995 and erected in February 1998, Another Place on Crosby Beach near Liverpool, and Event Horizon, a multi-part site installation which premiered in London in 2007, and in 2010 around Madison Square in New York City. Early life The youngest of seven children born to a German mother and an Irish father, Gormley grew up in a wealthy family living in Dewsbury Moor, West Yorkshire. He attended Ampleforth College, a Benedictine boarding school in Yorkshire, before reading archaeology, anthropology and the history of art at Trinity College, Cambridge, from 1968 to 1971. He travelled to India and Sri L... |
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