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You will find on these pages astrological charts of thousands of celebrities with the 5th House in Scorpio Just click on the celebrities of your choice to get their horoscope, excerpts of astrological portrait, natal chart, positions of planets and astrological houses, biography, and photo.
Biography of Angelina Jolie
Angelina Jolie Pitt (/dʒoʊˈliː/ joh-LEE; née Voight; June 4, 1975 (birth time source: Marc Penfiled, Astrodatabank,, birth certificate)) is an American actress, filmmaker, and humanitarian. She has received an Academy Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards, and has been cited as Hollywood's highest-paid actress. Jolie made her screen debut as a child alongside her father, Jon Voight, in Lookin' to Get Out (1982). Her film career began in earnest a decade later with the low-budget production Cyborg 2 (1993), followed by her first leading role in a major film, Hackers (1995). She starred in the critically acclaimed biographical cable films George Wallace (1997) and Gia (1998), and won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her perfo...
Biography of Sharon Tate
Sharon Marie Tate (January 24, 1943 (birth time source: Gene Lockhard, birth certificate, Astrodatabank) – August 9, 1969) was an American actress and sex symbol. During the 1960s she played small television roles before appearing in several motion pictures. She also appeared regularly in fashion magazines as a model and cover girl. After receiving positive reviews for her comedic and dramatic performances, Tate was hailed as one of Hollywood's most promising newcomers. She made her film debut in the occult-themed Eye of the Devil (1966), which was produced by Martin Ransohoff. Tate also starred as Jennifer North in the cult classic, Valley of the Dolls (1967), which earned her a Golden Globe Award nomination. Tate married film director and her co-star in The Fearless Vampire Killers (1...
Biography of Julia Roberts
Julia Fiona Roberts (born October 28, 1967 (birth time source: Gary Newell, Astrodatabank)) is an American actress and producer. She became a Hollywood star after headlining the romantic comedy Pretty Woman (1990), which grossed $464 million worldwide. After receiving Golden Globe Awards and Academy Award nominations for Steel Magnolias (1989) and Pretty Woman, she won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Erin Brockovich (2000). Her films Mystic Pizza (1988), The Pelican Brief (1993), My Best Friend's Wedding (1997), Notting Hill (1999), Runaway Bride (1999), Ocean's Eleven (2001), Ocean's Twelve (2004), Charlie Wilson's War (2007), Valentine's Day (2010), Eat Pray Love (2010), and Mirror Mirror (2012) have collectively brought box office receipts of over $2.6 billion,...
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 Bill Gates
William Henry "Bill" Gates III (born October 28, 1955 (birth time source: Astrodatabank)) is an American business magnate, philanthropist, investor, and computer programmer. In 1975, Gates and Paul Allen co-founded Microsoft, which became the world's largest PC software company. During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of chairman, CEO and chief software architect, and was the largest individual shareholder until May 2014. Gates has authored and co-authored several books. Starting in 1987, Gates was included in the Forbes list of the world's wealthiest people and was the wealthiest from 1995 to 2007, again in 2009, and has been since 2014. Between 2009 and 2014, his wealth doubled from US$40 billion to more than US$82 billion. Between 2013 and 2014, his wealth increased ...
Biography of Kanye West
Kanye Omari West (pronounced /'kɑnjeɪ/) (born June 8, 1977 in Atlanta, Georgia (birth time source: http://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/ohmystars/2013/09/imma-let-uranus-and-pluto-finish-the-astrology-of-kanye-west.html the original source is not given)) is an American record producer and rapper who rose to widespread fame in the early 2000s. He released his debut album The College Dropout in 2004, his second album Late Registration in 2005, and is working on his delayed third album, scheduled to be released on September 11, 2007, called Graduation. His first two albums, The College Dropout and Late Registration, received numerous awards (including six Grammys) , critical acclaim and high commercial success. Kanye West also runs his own record label, GOOD Music . West's mascot an...
Biography of Al Pacino
Alfredo James "Al" Pacino (/pəˈtʃiːnoʊ/; born April 25, 1940 in Manhattan, New York (birth time source: Astrodatabank, birth certificate)) is an American actor and filmmaker. He is well known for playing mobsters, especially Michael Corleone in The Godfather films and Tony Montana in Scarface, and often appeared on the other side of the law—as a police officer, a detective and lawyer. Pacino won the Academy Award for Best Actor at the 65th Academy Awards in 1992 for his performance as Frank Slade in Scent of a Woman. Prior to his win he had received seven Oscar nominations, including one that same year. He made his feature film debut in 1969 in the film Me, Natalie in a minor supporting role, before playing the lead role in the 1971 drama The Panic in Needle ...
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...
Biography of Arnold Schwarzenegger
Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger (/ˈʃwɔrtsənɛɡər/; German: ; born July 30, 1947 (birth time source: D.C. Doane by himslef in 1979, Astrodatabank)) is an Austrian-born American actor, model, producer, director, activist, businessman, investor, writer, philanthropist, former professional bodybuilder, and politician. Schwarzenegger served two terms as the 38th Governor of California from 2003 until 2011. Schwarzenegger began weight training at the age of 15. He won the Mr. Universe title at age 20 and went on to win the Mr. Olympia contest seven times. Schwarzenegger has remained a prominent presence in bodybuilding and has written many books and articles on the sport. Schwarzenegger gained worldwide fame as a Hollywood action film icon. Schwarzenegger's break...
Biography of Céline Dion
Céline Marie Claudette Dion, CC, OQ(French pronunciation: ( listen); born March 30, 1968) is a Canadian pop singer, songwriter, actress, and entrepreneur. Born to a large family in Charlemagne, Quebec, Dion emerged as a teen star in the French-speaking world after her manager and future husband René Angélil mortgaged his home to finance her first record. In 1990, she released the anglophone album Unison, establishing herself as a viable pop artist in North America and other English-speaking areas of the world. Dion had first gained international recognition in the 1980s by winning both the 1982 Yamaha World Popular Song Festival and the 1988 Eurovision Song Contest. Following a series of French albums in the early 1980s, she signed on to CBS Records Canada in 1986. During the 1990s, w...
Biography of Meryl Streep
Mary Louise Streep, mostly known as Meryl Streep (born June 22, 1949 (birth time source: Steinbrecher , Astrodatabank)) is a two-time Academy Award-winning, six-time Golden Globe-winning, two-time SAG-winning, Grammy Award-nominated and BAFTA Award-winning American actress who has worked in theatre, television, and film. She is the most nominated actress in Academy Award history with 14 nominations. She is widely considered one of the most respected and talented actresses of all time. Streep made her professional stage debut in 1971's The Playboy of Seville and her screen debut came in 1977's made-for-television movie The Deadliest Season. She is also one of the select actors that has won all three major motion picture acting awards (Oscars, Golden Globes, SAG Awards). Streep made her f...
Biography of Helena Blavatsky
Helena Petrovna Hahn (also Hélène) (July 31, 1831 (O.S.) (August 12, 1831 (N.S.)) - May 8, 1891 London), better known as Helena Blavatsky or Madame Blavatsky, born Helena von Hahn, was a founder of the Theosophical Society. Early years She was born in the house of her mother's parents in Ekaterinoslav (now Dnipropetrovsk), Ukraine (then part of the Russian Empire). Her parents were Col. Peter von Hahn, a German officer in Russian service, and Helena Andreyevna Fadeyeva. Her mother belonged to an old Russian noble family and was the author, under the pen-name Zenaida R, of a dozen novels. Described by Belinsky as the "Russian George Sand", she died at the age of 28, when Helena was eleven. Upon his wife's death, Peter, being in the armed forces and realizing that army camps were uns...
Biography of Robert De Niro
Robert De Niro (/dəˈnɪroʊ/; born August 17, 1943) is an American actor, director and producer. His first major film roles were in Bang the Drum Slowly and Mean Streets, both in 1973. Then in 1974, after not receiving the role of Michael Corleone in The Godfather, he was cast as the young Vito Corleone in The Godfather Part II, a role for which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. His longtime collaboration with director Martin Scorsese began with Mean Streets, and later earned De Niro an Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Jake LaMotta in the 1980 film Raging Bull. He earned nominations for Taxi Driver in 1976 and Cape Fear in 1991. De Niro received additional Academy Award nominations for Michael Cimino's The Deer Hunter (1978), Penny Ma...
Biography of Will Smith
Willard Christopher "Will" Smith, Jr. (September 25, 1968 (birth time source: Will Power! by Jan Berenson)) is an Academy Award- and Golden Globe-nominated American actor, and a multiple Grammy-winning hip hop artist. He is one of a small group of people who have enjoyed success in three major entertainment media in the United States: film, television, and the music industry. Newsweek has named him the most powerful actor on the planet. Smith's most notable television role was that of William "Will" Smith in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. In his film work, his notable roles include Agent J in Men in Black and Men in Black II, Muhammad Ali in Ali, as well as his role in the blockbuster Independence Day and more recently as Chris Gardner in The Pursuit of Happyness with his son Jaden Smith....
Biography of Jack Nicholson
John Joseph Nicholson (born April 22, 1937), better known as Jack Nicholson or The Jack is an iconic, three-time Academy Award and seven time Golden Globe winning American method actor known for his often dark-themed portrayals of neurotic characters. He has been nominated for an Academy Award 12 times. He is tied with Walter Brennan for most wins by a male actor; he and Brennan are second to Katharine Hepburn for most acting wins overall (Hepburn had four). He is also one of only two actors to be nominated for an Academy Award for acting (either lead or supporting) in every decade since the 1960s. The other is Michael Caine. He has also won seven Golden Globe Awards and he received a Kennedy Centre Honor in 2001. He is best known for his films Chinatown, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's N...
Biography of Mel Gibson
Melvin Columcille Gerard Gibson (born January 3, 1956 (birth time source: British Entertainers, Franck C. Clifford)) is an American-born actor, director, and producer raised primarily in Australia. After establishing himself as a household name with the Mad Max and Lethal Weapon series, Gibson went on to direct and star in the Academy Award-winning Braveheart. Gibson's direction of Braveheart made him the sixth actor-turned-filmmaker to receive an Oscar for Best Director. In 2004, he directed and produced The Passion of the Christ, a blockbuster movie that portrayed the last hours of the life of Jesus. Gibson is an honorary Officer of the Order of Australia. Early life Gibson was born in Peekskill, New York, the sixth of eleven children. He is the son of Hutton Gibson and Anne Reilly G...
Biography of Tyra Banks
Tyra Lynne Banks (born December 4, 1973 (birth time source: Astrodatabank, Marc Penfield, BC)) 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....
Biography of Dominique Strauss-Kahn
Dominique Gaston André Strauss-Kahn (French pronunciation: ; born 25 April 1949 (birth time source: Didier Geslain)), often referred to in the media as DSK, is a French economist, lawyer, and politician, and a member of the Socialist Party of France (PS). A former Communist,Strauss-Kahn became the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on 28 September 2007, with the backing of his country's president, Nicolas Sarkozy. He is a full professor of economics at the Paris Institute for Political Studies ("Sciences Po"). Strauss-Kahn was Minister of Economy and Finance from 1997 to 1999 as part of Lionel Jospin's "Plural Left" government. He belongs to the right wing of the PS (which is on the center-left of French politics) and sought the nomination in the primaries to the...
Biography of Cindy Crawford
Cynthia Ann Crawford (born February 20, 1966, in Dekalb, Illinois (birth time source: Craft, Astrodatabank)) is an American supermodel, MTV television personality, celebrity endorser, cover girl, and actress. Early life Born in DeKalb, Illinois, to Dan Crawford and Jennifer Crawford in 1966, Cindy Crawford's trademark is a visible mole on her face (although most people refer to it as a "beauty mark"). She is so closely associated with this physical feature that she appeared in an advertising campaign for chocolates featuring commercials wherein she "licked off" her own mole. Ironically, the mole was removed from many of her earlier modeling pictures, including her first Vogue cover. Her brother died at a young age from leukemia, and Crawford has made childhood leukemia a focal point of...
Biography of Kate Moss
Katherine Ann Moss (born January 16, 1974 (birth tume source: Kate Moss: The Making of an Icon by Christian Salmon)), known as Kate Moss, is an iconic English supermodel and fashion designer. She is known for her waifish figure and many advertising campaigns and is also recognised for her high-profile relationships and party lifestyle. She has appeared on over 300 magazine covers. Early life Moss was born in Addiscombe, London Borough of Croydon, England. She attended Ridgeway Primary School, then Riddlesdown High School. She then attended 6th Form at Croydon High School. She was not noted for her academic success, although she did excel at sports. According to Vermorel's book Addicted to Love: Kate Moss, she received one C (in Science) and Ds, Es, and Us in all others at GCSE level ...
Biography of Salvador Dalí
Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dalí Domènech Marquis of Pubol (May 11, 1904 – January 23, 1989), popularly known as Salvador Dalí, was a Spanish artist and one of the most important painters of the 20th century. He was a skilled draftsman, best known for the striking, bizarre, and beautiful images in his surrealist work. His painterly skills are often attributed to the influence of Renaissance masters. His best known work, The Persistence of Memory, was completed in 1931. Salvador Dalí's artistic repertoire also included film, sculpture, and photography. He collaborated with Walt Disney on the Academy Award-nominated short cartoon Destino, which was released posthumously in 2003. Born in Catalonia, Spain, Dalí insisted on his "Arab lineage," claiming that his ancestors descended from the Moors wh...
Biography of John Travolta
John Joseph Travolta (born February 18, 1954 (birth time source: Eugene Moore, Astrodatabank, birth certificate)) is a two-time Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Screen Actors Guild Award-nominated and Golden Globe Award-winning American actor, dancer and singer, best known for his leading roles in films such as, Saturday Night Fever, Grease and Pulp Fiction. Biography Early life Travolta, the youngest of six children, was born and raised in Englewood, New Jersey, an inner-ring suburb of New York City. His father, Salvatore Travolta, was a semi-professional football player turned tire salesman and partner in a tire company. His mother, Helen Cecilia (née Burke), who was 42 when Travolta was born, was an actress and singer who had appeared in The Sunshine Sisters, a radio vocal group, and ...
Biography of Pope Francis
Francis (Latin: Franciscus; born Jorge Mario Bergoglio; December 17, 1936 (birth time source: birth certificate)) is pope of the Catholic Church, elected on March 14, 2013, and taking the regnal name of Francis, after St. Francis of Assisi. He is the first Pope born in the Americas. Prior to his election, he served as an Argentine cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He has served as the Archbishop of Buenos Aires since 1998. He was elevated to the cardinalate in 2001. Early life Jorge Bergoglio was born in Buenos Aires, one of the five children of an Italian railway worker and his wife. After studying at the seminary in Villa Devoto, he entered the Society of Jesus on March 11, 1958. Bergoglio obtained a licentiate in philosophy from the Colegio Máximo San José in San Miguel,...
Biography of Yasmine Bleeth
Yasmine Amanda Bleeth (born June 14, 1968 (birth time source: Paul Cerrito)) is an American actress. Her television roles include Caroline Holden in the long-running series Baywatch and Lee Anne Demerest on the soap opera One Life to Live. Early life and career Bleeth was born in New York City, the daughter of Carina, a model, and Philip Bleeth, a business proprietor. Her father is Jewish of Russian and German descent, her late mother Carina was of French and Algerian descent. Her earliest known acting role was in a Johnson & Johnson's No More Tears baby shampoo television commercial at age 10 months in 1969. At the age of six, she appeared on Candid Camera. Later that year she appeared in a Max Factor cosmetic advertising campaign with model Cristina Ferrare. Her work in this campai...
Biography of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall
Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall GCVO (Camilla Rosemary; née Shand, previously Parker Bowles; born 17 July 1947 (birth time source: Astrodatabank)) is the second wife of Charles, Prince of Wales, and member of the British Royal Family. By her second marriage she shares her husband's titles as Duchess of Cornwall, Duchess of Rothesay, Countess of Chester and Baroness of Renfrew. Although she is the Princess of Wales because of her marriage to the Prince of Wales, she prefers to be known by the secondary titles of Duchess of Cornwall and Duchess of Rothesay out of respect for her husband's first wife, the late Diana, Princess of Wales. She chooses to be known as the Duchess of Rothesay in Scotland, and as the Duchess of Cornwall elsewhere. As he is the future Supreme Governor of the Church of...
Biography of Stephen King
Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947 in Portland, Maine (birth time source: Astrodatabank)) is an American author of over 200 stories including over 50 bestselling horror novels. King was the 2003 recipient of The National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. King evinces a thorough knowledge of the horror genre, as shown in his nonfiction book Danse Macabre, which chronicles several decades of notable works in both literature and cinema. He has also written stories outside the horror genre, including the novella collection Different Seasons, The Green Mile, The Eyes of the Dragon, Hearts in Atlantis and his magnum opus The Dark Tower series. In the past, Stephen King has written under the pen names Richard Bachman and (once) John Swithen. ...
Biography of Fergie (singer)
Stacy Ann Ferguson (born March 27, 1975 (birth time source: Astrodatabank)), better known by her stage name Fergie, is an American pop and R&B singer-songwriter, and actress. She is a former member of the kids' TV series Kids Incorporated, and the girl group Wild Orchid. Ferguson was also a co-host of the TV show Great Pretenders. She is currently a vocalist for the hip hop/pop group The Black Eyed Peas, as well as a solo artist, releasing her debut album, The Dutchess, in 2006. Early life Ferguson was born in Whittier, California to Terri Gore and Patrick Ferguson in nearby Hacienda Heights. She has one sister, Dana, who is an actress. Her parents were Catholic and worked as schoolteachers, and Ferguson had a strict Catholic upbringing. During her youth, she was involved with members ...
Biography of Sting (musician)
Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner, CBE (born 2 October 1951 in Wallsend. Birth time source: Astrodatabank, Marion March, Arthyr Chadbourne, from Sting himslef and two astrologers who gave times that were just slightly different.) There is no birth certificate)), better known by his stage name Sting, is an English musician from Newcastle upon Tyne. Prior to starting his solo career, he was the principal composer, lead singer and bass player of the 1970s/1980s rock band The Police. Personal life Sting married actress Frances Tomelty from Northern Ireland, on 1 May 1976. Before they divorced in 1984, the couple had two children: Joseph (born 1976) and Fuchsia Catherine (born 1982). Joe is following in his father's musical footsteps and is a member of the band Fiction Plane. In 1982, shortly...
Biography of Liv Tyler
Liv Rundgren Tyler (born Liv Rundgren; July 1, 1977 (birth time source: Taglilatelo, Astrodatabank, from her mother)) is an American actress and former model. She is the daughter of Aerosmith's lead singer, Steven Tyler, and model Bebe Buell. Tyler began a career in modeling at the age of 14 but, after less than a year, she decided to focus on acting. After her film debut Silent Fall (1994), she appeared in supporting roles in Empire Records (1995), Heavy (1996) and That Thing You Do! (1996). Tyler later achieved critical recognition in the leading role in Bernardo Bertolucci's Stealing Beauty (1996), playing a teenage girl visiting her deceased mother's artist friends in Italy. She followed this by appearing in supporting roles including Inventing the Abbotts (1997) and Robert Altman's...
Biography of Charles, Prince of Wales
The Prince Charles, Prince of Wales (Charles Philip Arthur George; born 14 November 1948), is the eldest son of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. He is Heir Apparent to the thrones of sixteen sovereign states, known as the Commonwealth Realms, though it is expected he will be most directly involved with the United Kingdom, where the Royal Family reside, and the Monarchy is historically indigenous. He will not, however, necessarily inherit the title Head of the Commonwealth. He has held the title of Prince of Wales since 1958, and is styled HRH The Prince of Wales, except in Scotland, where he is styled HRH The Prince Charles, Duke of Rothesay. In relation to Cornwall, one of the Prince's other titles, that of Duke of Cornwall is often used. Constitutionally, in...
Biography of Aleister Crowley
Aleister Crowley, born Edward Alexander Crowley, (12 October 1875 – 1 December 1947; the surname is pronounced /'krəʊ.li/ i.e. with the first syllable sounding like "crow" in English) was a British occultist, writer and mystic. He is perhaps best known today for his occult writings, especially The Book of the Law, the central sacred text of Thelema. Crowley was also an influential member in several occult organizations, including the Golden Dawn, the Argenteum Astrum, and Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.). Other interests and accomplishments were wide-ranging—he was a chess player, mountain climber, poet, painter, astrologer, hedonist, drug experimenter, and social critic. Crowley himself claimed to be a Freemason, but the regularity of his initiations with the United Grand ...
Biography of Jean Reno
Jean Reno (born Juan Moreno y Herrera Jiménez, July 30, 1948) is a French actor of Spanish descent. Working in both French and English, he has appeared in numerous successful Hollywood productions, but also European productions such as the 2005 Italian film The Tiger and the Snow....
Biography of Alfred Hitchcock
Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock KBE (August 13, 1899 – April 29, 1980) was a highly influential film director and producer who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and thriller genres. He directed more than fifty feature films in a career spanning six decades, from the silent film era, through the invention of talkies, to the colour era. Hitchcock was among the most consistently successful and publicly recognizable directors in the world during his lifetime, and remains one of the best known and most popular directors of all time, famous for his expert and largely unrivalled control of pace and suspense throughout his movies. Hitchcock was born and raised in Leytonstone, London, England. He began his directing career in the United Kingdom in 1922, but from 1939 he worked primarily in t...
Biography of Ava Gardner
Ava Lavinia Gardner (December 24, 1922 (birth time source: Gauquelin – January 25, 1990) was an Academy Award-nominated American screen actress who worked on film and television. She is listed as one of the American Film Institute's greatest stars of all time. Early years Gardner was born in the small farming community of Boon Hill, North Carolina, the youngest of seven children (she had two brothers and four sisters) of poor cotton and tobacco farmers; her mother, Molly, was a Baptist of Scots-Irish descent, while her father, Jonas Bailey Gardner, was a Catholic of Irish American and Tuscarora Indian descent. While the children were still young, the Gardners lost their property, forcing Jonas Gardner to work at a sawmill and Molly to begin working as a cook and housekeeper at a dormit...
Biography of Joan of Arc
Joan of Arc, also known as Jeanne d'Arc, (January 1412 – May 30, 1431) was a national heroine of France. She asserted that she had visions from God which told her to recover her homeland from English domination late in the Hundred Years' War. The uncrowned King Charles VII sent her to the siege at Orléans as part of a relief mission. She gained prominence when she overcame the dismissive attitude of veteran commanders and lifted the siege in only nine days. Several more swift victories led to Charles VII's coronation at Reims and settled the disputed succession to the throne. The renewed French confidence outlasted her own brief career. She refused to leave the field when she was wounded during an attempt to recapture Paris that autumn. Hampered by court intrigues, she led only minor co...
Biography of Steve McQueen
Steve McQueen (March 24, 1930 – November 7, 1980) was an Academy Award-nominated American movie actor, nicknamed "The King of Cool". He was one of the biggest box-office draws of the 1960s and 1970s due to a popular "anti-hero" persona. McQueen was combative with directors and producers; regardless, he was able to command large salaries and was in high demand. Key appearances Wanted: Dead or Alive After various live and filmed television guest appearances in the mid-1950s, McQueen gained both regular employment and his 'break-out' role with the Western series Wanted: Dead or Alive. Filmed at Apacheland Studio from 1958 to 1961, McQueen played Josh Randall, a bounty hunter who had been introduced the previous year in an episode of Trackdown, a TV western featuring Robert Culp. Randa...
Biography of Kate Hudson
Kate Garry Hudson (born April 19, 1979 (birth time source: Marc Penfield, Astrodatabank, BC)) is an American actress. She rose to prominence in 2000 for playing Penny Lane in Almost Famous, for which she won a Golden Globe and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her other films include How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003), Raising Helen (2004), The Skeleton Key (2005), You, Me and Dupree (2006), Fool's Gold (2008), Bride Wars (2009), and The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2012). She played Cassandra July in the musical comedy-drama TV series Glee. Hudson also co-founded Fabletics, a fitness brand and membership program operated by JustFab. Early life Hudson was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Academy Award–winning actress Goldie Hawn and Bill...
Biography of Michelle Williams
Michelle Ingrid Williams (born September 9, 1980 (birth time source: GQ Magazine Feb. 2012)) is an Academy Award-nominated American actress. Williams broke into stardom on the teen series Dawson's Creek and later graduated to full length features, such as Brokeback Mountain, for which she earned an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Early life Born in Kalispell, Montana, she is the eldest of the five children of Larry Williams, a renowned commodities trader, and Carla Williams, a homemaker. She also has a half sister named Sara Williams, who is the vice principal of Loma Vista Elementary School, in Brentwood, California. When she was nine, her family moved to San Diego, California. At an early age, Williams took interest in acting. With her parents' disapproval, at age fifte...
Biography of Lolo Ferrari
Lolo Ferrari (February 9, 1963 (birth time source: Didier Geslain - March 5, 2000) was a French dancer and actress billed as "the woman with the largest breasts in the world", though their size was artificially achieved. Background Born Eve Valois in Clermont-Ferrand, Puy-de-Dôme, France, she was raised in the resort town of La Baule in an intellectual but extremely dysfunctional family. When she was a child, her father was relocated causing the move to La Baule. Her mother abused little Eve constantly, saying she was no good and that no man would want her, even going as far to whip Eve after her husband left her and her children. As a teenager, she obtained a few modelling jobs. In 1988, she married Eric Vigne, a man 14 years her senior. Appearance Encouraged by her husband, Fe...
Biography of Amy Lee
Amy Lynn Hartzler (born and best known as Amy Lynn Lee, December 13, 1981 in Riverside, California (birth time source: http://www.astrologyweekly.com/forum/showthread.php?t=29004)) is an American singer-songwriter and classically-trained pianist. She is a founding member and lead singer of the Grammy Award winning rock band Evanescence. Her influences range from classical musicians such as Mozart to modern artists like Björk, Tori Amos, Danny Elfman and Plumb. Early life Lee was born to parents John Lee, a disc jockey and TV personality, and Sara Cargill. She has one brother, Robby, and two sisters, Carrie and Lori. Lee had a third sister, who died in 1987 at the age of three from an unidentified illness. The song "Hello" from Fallen has been reported to have been written for her late ...
Biography of Thierry Cabot
Thierry Cabot, born March 30, 1958 in Toulouse, is a French poet and writer. Bibliography La Blessure des Mots / La blessures des mots....
Biography of Gad Elmaleh
Gad Elmaleh (born April 19, 1971, Casablanca, Morocco) is a Moroccan Jewish one man show humorist and actor who lives in France. His latest show is called "L'autre c'est moi" (The other one: that's me). Height: 1m77 Gad Elmaleh was born in Casablanca, Morocco. He was brought up in a mixed cultural background (a Moroccan Jewish descent), speaking Moroccan Arabic, French and Hebrew. Just 17 years old, Gad - a name adopted by his fans - left Morocco for Quebec, Canada. He spent four years in Montreal where he studied political sciences and was invited in to theatre. In 1992, at 22 years, he decided to go to Paris. He studied with Isabelle Nanty with whom he does his first one-man show "Décalages" in 1995. Interpreted in the famous "Palais des glaces", the show is an autobiography of ...
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...
Biography of Bernadette Chirac
Bernadette Chirac, born Bernadette Chodron de Courcel (born 18 May 1933) is a French politician and the wife of former President Jacques Chirac of France. They met while both students at the Paris Institute of Political Studies (better known as Sciences Po), and were married in France on 16 March 1956. They have two children: Laurence and Claude Chirac, and a Vietnamese adoptive daughter, Anh Traxel. Since 2001, Bernadette has been a leading member of the "Pièces Jaunes," an organization that aids children in French hospitals by collecting small change and donating it to hospitals. She has also helped her husband being elected in 1995 and is herself an elected official in Corrèze, the couple's home département. Since 1995, due to her husband's position, she has also been the princ...
Biography of Robert Smith (musician)
Robert James Smith (born April 21, 1959 in Blackpool, England), is a guitarist, vocalist and songwriter, and has been the lead singer of British post-punk band The Cure since its founding in 1976. NY Rock calls him "pop culture’s unkempt poster child of doom and gloom", and describes his songs as "somber introspection over lush, brooding guitars" Smith is a multi-instrumentalist and can play 6 and 12-string guitars; 4 and 6 string bass guitars; double bass; keyboards and violins. Musical career Early years See also the history of The Cure Robert Smith is the third of four children born to Alex and Rita Smith. His siblings are Richard, Margaret, and Janet. Janet is married to Porl Thompson, the "second" guitarist of The Cure, as he and Smith switch between playing lead and rhythm ...
Biography of Kate Bosworth
Kate Bosworth (born January 2, 1983) is an American actress. After appearing in 1998's The Horse Whisperer, Bosworth became well known with a leading role in 2002's Blue Crush, and has since appeared in several notable films, including Superman Returns, where she played Lois Lane. Early life Born Catherine Ann Bosworth in Van Nuys, California as the only child of Hal Bosworth, an executive for Talbots, and Patricia Potter, a homemaker. She was born with sectoral heterochromia, resulting in a hazel section at the bottom of her right blue eye, while the left is completely blue. After leaving San Francisco at the age of six, Bosworth's family frequently moved around the country because of her father's job, and she grew up mainly on the East Coast, spending the rest of her youth in Darien,...
Biography of Tina Fey
Elizabeth Stamatina "Tina" Fey (play /ˈfeɪ/; born May 18, 1970 (birth time source: autobiography "Bossy Pants")) is an American actress, comedian, writer and producer, known for her work on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live (SNL), the NBC comedy series 30 Rock, and films such as Mean Girls (2004) and Baby Mama (2008). Fey first broke into comedy as a featured player in the Chicago-based improvisational comedy group The Second City. She then joined SNL as a writer, later becoming head writer and a performer, known for her position as co-anchor in the Weekend Update segment. In 2004 she adapted the screenplay Mean Girls in which she also co-starred. After leaving SNL in 2006, she created the television series 30 Rock, a situation comedy loosely based on her experi...
Biography of Ursula Andress
Ursula Andress (born 19 March 1936) is a Golden Globe award winning Swiss actress and a major sex symbol of the 1960s. She is best known for her role as the first Bond girl. Biography Ursula Andress was born in Ostermundigen, Berne, Switzerland, to a Swiss mother and a German father. Her father, Rolf Andress, was a German diplomat. He disappeared during World War II. Andress has four sisters and one brother. She is fluent in English, French, Italian, and German. Andress started her career as an art model in Rome, which led to her first roles in the active Italian movie industry. She became famous as Honey Ryder, a shell diver and James Bond's object of desire in Dr. No (1962), the first Bond movie. Her introduction in Dr. No became one of the most iconic moments of the franchise....
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...
Biography of Nagui
Nagui Fam (born 14 November 1961 (birth time source: French TV show "Tout le monde veut prendre sa place" on October 20, 2013, by himself)) is an Egyptian-born French TV and radio personality of Egyptian and Italian descent. In his professional life, he goes by his first name Nagui. Biography His television career began in 1987 on M6, and switched to TF1 in 1989. He became well known at the beginning of the 1990s with his game show Que le meilleur gagne (May the Best One Win) on La Cinq, which he carried over to France 2, which he joined in May 1992. His fame has been marked by frenetic humour in the part-parody N'oubliez pas votre brosse à dents (Don't Forget Your Toothbrush) or by a much more laid-back tone in the more serious Que le meilleur gagne. In 1993 he founded his own produc... |
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