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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 Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt
On May 27, 2006, Angelina Jolie gave birth to a daughter named Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt, at night at the Cottage Medi-Clinic Hospital in Swakopmund, Namibia. Shiloh was born by a scheduled caesarean section, due to breech presentation, and Pitt was there to cut her umbilical cord. Shiloh, according to a long-standing translation from the Bible, has come to mean "the peaceful one". Pitt confirmed that their newly-born daughter will have a Namibian passport while speaking to local journalists, and Jolie decided to offer the first pictures of Shiloh through the distributor Getty Images herself, rather than allowing paparazzi to make these extremely valuable snapshots. People paid more than $4.1 million for the North American rights, while British magazine Hello! obtained the international rig...
Biography of Maddox Jolie Pitt
Maddox Jolie Pitt is the son of Angelina Jolie. On March 10, 2002, Jolie adopted her first child, Maddox Chivan Jolie-Pitt (originally Maddox Chivan Thornton Jolie). He was born on August 5 2001, as Rath Vibol in Cambodia and he initially lived in a local orphanage in Battambang. Jolie decided to apply for adoption after she had visited Cambodia twice, while filming Tomb Raider and on a UNHCR field trip in 2001. After her divorce from her second husband, Billy Bob Thornton, Jolie received sole custody of Maddox. His name is Celtic in origin, usually translated as "beneficent", and like Jolie's other children, Maddox has gained a considerable celebrity and appears regularly in the tabloid media; he was named the "cutest celebrity kid," and he is known for his mohawk hairstyle....
Biography of Vivienne Marcheline Jolie Pitt
Angelina Jolie has given birth to healthy twins, a girl and a boy, July 12, 2008 in Nice. Information : Astrological portraits for Knox Leon Jolie Pitt and Vivienne Marcheline Jolie Pitt are identical, since noone knows today exactly their time of birth (juste before 8:00 pm for both). Knox Leon Jolie Pitt and Vivienne Marcheline Jolie Pitt were born just before 8:00 pm local French time on Saturday July 12. Gynecologist Dr. Michel Sussmann reported the babies were delivered by Caesarian section in Nice's Lanval hospital, a French Riviera maternity clinic. Knox Leon was reported to weigh 2.27 kilograms (five pounds) and Vivienne Marcheline 2.28 kilograms (5.02 pounds). The hospital website reported that Jolie would like everyone to know she is fine. Nice-Matin morning newspap...
Biography of Knox Léon Jolie Pitt
Angelina Jolie has given birth to healthy twins, a girl and a boy, July 12, 2008 in Nice. Information : Astrological portraits for Knox Leon Jolie Pitt and Vivienne Marcheline Jolie Pitt are identical, since noone knows today exactly their time of birth (juste before 8:00 pm for both). Knox Leon Jolie Pitt and Vivienne Marcheline Jolie Pitt were born just before 8:00 pm local French time on Saturday July 12. Gynecologist Dr. Michel Sussmann reported the babies were delivered by Caesarian section in Nice's Lanval hospital, a French Riviera maternity clinic. Knox Leon was reported to weigh 2.27 kilograms (five pounds) and Vivienne Marcheline 2.28 kilograms (5.02 pounds). The hospital website reported that Jolie would like everyone to know she is fine. Nice-Matin morning newspap...
Biography of Jolie Vanier
Jolie Vanier, born on January 14, 1998 in Scottsdale, Arizona, is an American actress. Filmography (source: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2812116/) 2017 Foxxx David (TV Movie) (completed) Greta 2015-2016 Une nuit en enfer (TV Series) Kalinda / Boho Girl - Head Games (2016) ... Kalinda - Santa Sangre (2015) ... Boho Girl 2016 Astrid Clover (TV Series) Park Goer 2 / Girl with Pepper Spray - Guided Meditation (2016) ... Park Goer 2 - Corporate Thievery (2016) ... Girl with Pepper Spray 2012 Seal It with a Kiss (Short) 2012 Hello, My Name Is Abigail (Short) Abigail 2011 Remedy (Short) Stacey 2011 Ghild (Short) Jan Gullivan 2009 Shorts Helvetica Black 2009 Strange Little Girl (Short) Laura... 49 celebrities having your search criteria in their biography:
Biography of Brad Pitt
William Bradley "Brad" Pitt (born December 18, 1963 (birth time source: Astrodatabank)) is an American actor and producer. He has received multiple awards and nominations including an Academy Award as producer under his own company Plan B Entertainment. Pitt first gained recognition as a cowboy hitchhiker in the road movie Thelma & Louise (1991). His first leading roles in big-budget productions came with the dramas A River Runs Through It (1992) and Legends of the Fall (1994), and Interview with the Vampire (1994). He gave critically acclaimed performances in the crime thriller Seven and the science fiction film 12 Monkeys (both 1995), the latter earning him a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor and an Academy Award nomination. Pitt starred in the cult film Fight Club (1999) a...
Biography of Jennifer Aniston
Jennifer Joanna Aniston (born February 11, 1969 (birth time source: Astrodatabank, birth certificate) is an American actress, filmmaker, and businesswoman. She gained worldwide recognition for portraying Rachel Green on the television sitcom Friends (1994–2004), a role which earned her an Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. In 2012, she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Additionally, Men's Health magazine voted Aniston the "Sexiest Woman of All Time". Aniston has also enjoyed a successful film career. She has played the female protagonist in dozens of romantic comedy films. Her greatest box office hits include Bruce Almighty (2003), The Break-Up (2006), Marley & Me (2008), Just Go with It (2011), Horrible Bosses (2011) and We're the Millers (2...
Biography of Shakira
Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll (pronounced ; born February 2, 1977 (birth time source: Paddy de Jabrun, Astrodatabank)), known mononymously as Shakira (English /ʃəˈkɪərə/, Spanish: ), is a Colombian singer-songwriter, dancer, record producer, choreographer and model who emerged in the music scene of Colombia and Latin America in the early 1990s. Born and raised in Barranquilla, Shakira began performing in school, demonstrating her vocal ability with rock and roll, Latin and Arabic influences with her own original twist on belly dancing. Shakira is a native Spanish speaker who speaks fluent English and Portuguese, as well as some Italian, French, and Catalan. After a poor commercial reception with local producers on her first two albums, and being little-know...
Biography of Christina Aguilera
Christina María Aguilera (born December 18, 1980 (birth time source: Astrodatabank)) is an American recording artist and actress. She first appeared on national television in 1990 as a contestant on the Star Search program, and went on to star in Disney Channel's television series The Mickey Mouse Club from 1993 to 1994. She signed with RCA Records after recording "Reflection", the theme song for the animated film Mulan (1998). In 1999, Aguilera came to prominence following her debut album Christina Aguilera, which was a commercial success with three number one singles on the Billboard Hot 100—"Genie in a Bottle", "What a Girl Wants", and "Come On Over Baby (All I Want Is You)." Her second album, Mi Reflejo (2000), a third studio album, My Kind of Christmas (2000), and several collabora...
Biography of Gisele Bündchen
Gisele Caroline Bündchen (born July 20, 1980 (birth time source: Astrodatabank, Marcello Borges, birth certificate)) is a Brazilian fashion model and occasional film actress and producer. She is the goodwill ambassador for the United Nations Environment Programme. In the late 1990s, Bündchen was the first in a wave of Brazilian models to find international success. In 1999, Vogue dubbed her "The Return of the Sexy Model", and she was credited with ending the "heroin chic" era of modeling. Bündchen was one of Victoria's Secret Angels from 2000 until mid-2007. Bündchen pioneered the "horse walk", a stomping movement created when a model picks her knees up high and kicks her feet out in front. Claudia Schiffer and Naomi Campbell have stated that Bündchen is the only true remaining supermodel....
Biography of Mick Jagger
Sir Michael Philip "Mick" Jagger (born 26 July 1943 (birth time source: Astrodatabank)) is an English musician, singer, songwriter and actor, best known as the lead vocalist and a founder member of the Rolling Stones. 1943–61: early years Mick Jagger was born into a middle-class family in Dartford, Kent, England. His father, Basil Fanshawe "Joe" Jagger (13 April 1913 – 11 November 2006), and his grandfather David Ernest Jagger were both teachers. His mother, Eva Ensley Mary (née Scutts; 6 April 1913 – 18 May 2000), born in New South Wales, Australia, of English descent, was a hairdresser and an active member of the Conservative Party. Jagger is the elder of two sons (his brother Chris Jagger was born on 19 December 1947) and was brought up to follow in his father's career path. In...
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 Nicolas Cage
Nicolas Cage (born Nicholas Coppola on January 7, 1964) is an Academy Award-winning American actor. Cage has also worked as a director and producer, through his production company Saturn Films. As of 2007, he has been nominated twice for an Academy Award as Best Actor in a Leading Role, winning one of them for his performance in Leaving Las Vegas. Early life Cage was born Nicholas Kim Coppola in Long Beach, California. His father, August Floyd Coppola, is a comparative literature professor and a pioneer of studies for the blind, while his part German American mother, Joy Vogelsang, is a choreographer and dancer who suffered from chronic depression; the two divorced in 1976. Cage's father is an Italian American, with his paternal grandparents being Carmine Coppola and Italia Pennino, an a...
Biography of Florent Pagny
Florent Pagny (b. 6 November 1961 in Chalon-sur-Saône, Saône-et-Loire (birth time source: Didier Geslain)) is a French musician. He has also acted in many French films. He records work in French, Italian, Spanish and English, and his greatest hits include "N'importe quoi", "Savoir aimer", "Ma Liberté de penser" (all three were #1 in France) and "Caruso" (#2 in France). As of 2008, he has sold more than 4 million copies of singles, 13 million copies of albums, becoming the 10th best selling artist in France from 1955 to 2008. Early years Pagny began his artistic career as an actor in popular films and television dramas. He appeared in La Balance, L'As des as, A Captain's Honor or Fort Saganne. In 1987, he wrote his first song : "N'importe quoi." Pagny's first album, Merci, was r...
Biography of Julianne Moore
Julianne Moore (born Julie Anne Smith; December 3, 1960 (birth time source: Romy Ransom 5/2001, Astrodatabank) is a British–American actress and children's author. A prolific cinema actress since the early 1990s, Moore has established a successful career in both art house and Hollywood films. She is known for her emotional portrayals of ordinary women, and has received four Academy Award nominations for her work. After studying theatre at Boston University, Moore began her career with a series of television roles. From 1985 to 1988, she was a regular in the soap opera As the World Turns, earning a Daytime Emmy for her performance. She made her film debut in 1990, and continued to play supporting roles throughout the early 1990s. Moore made her breakthrough with Robert Altman's Short Cuts ...
Biography of Faye Dunaway
Faye Dunaway (born January 14, 1941 (birth time source: Steinbrecher)) is an Academy Award-winning American actress. Early life Dunaway was born Dorothy Faye Dunaway in Bascom, Florida to Grace April Smith, a homemaker, and John MacDowell Dunaway, Jr., a career army officer. She attended the University of Florida and Boston University, and joined the American National Theatre and Academy in 1962. Career Dunaway appeared on Broadway in 1962 as the daughter of Thomas More in A Man for All Seasons. Her first screen role was in 1967 in Hurry Sundown, but that same year, she got the leading female role in Bonnie and Clyde (opposite Warren Beatty) which garnered her an Oscar nomination. It was in the 1970s that she began to stretch her acting muscles in such films as Three Days of ...
Biography of Vince Vaughn
Vincent Anthony Vaughn (born March 28, 1970 (birth time source: Marc Penfield, Astrodatabank, BC)) is an American film actor. He began acting in the late 1980s, appearing in minor television roles before coming to wider renown with the 1996 movie, Swingers. Vaughn has since appeared in a number of high-grossing Hollywood comedies. Early life Vaughn was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota to Vernon Lindsay Vaughn, a salesman, and Sharon Eileen DePalmo, a Canadian-born broker once ranked as one of the United States' top money managers by Bloomberg Wealth Manager magazine. He has two older sisters, Valerie and Victoria. Vince's father was Protestant and his mother was Roman Catholic, and he was raised in the Catholic religion. He has English, Irish, German, Lebanese, and Italian ancestry. Vaug...
Biography of Michel Delpech
Jean-Michel Delpech (26 January 1946 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – 2 January 2016), known as Michel Delpech, was a French singer-songwriter and actor. Career In 1963, he had his debut release hit "Anatole" on Disques Vogue. In 1964, Michel Delpech met Roland Vincent, and a long singing songwriting partnership ensued with Delpech being signed to Festival French record label. In 1965, he took part in the music comedy Copains Clopant that had a 6-month run and made him very popular, particularly through his interpretation of "Chez Laurette". He was the opening act for Jacques Brel's goodbye concert at the Paris Olympia. In 1967, he collaborated with Johnny Stark. In 1968, he won the "Grand Prix du Disque" award for "Il y a des jours où on ferait mieux de rester au lit". Th...
Biography of Queen Latifah
Dana Elaine Owens (born March 18, 1970 in Newark, New Jersey) is a Grammy-winning American rapper/singer, model, and Academy Award-nominated actress. She is better known as Queen Latifah. Music career In the early days of her career, she was one of the members of the original version of the Flavor Unit, which, at that time, was a crew of emcees grouped around producer DJ Mark the 45 King. She was also a member of the Nation of Gods and Earths, a Faradian Islamic sect. After becoming successful, DJ Mark the 45 King began to abuse drugs, and Latifah took over the crew, forming it into her management company with the help of Jake Abrams. Latifah started her career beatboxing for the rap group Ladies Fresh. In 1988, local DJ Mark the 45 King heard a demo version of Latifah's single "Pri...
Biography of Jon Voight
Jonathan Vincent "Jon" Voight (born December 29, 1938) is an Academy Award-winning American actor. The father of Oscar-winner Angelina Jolie, Jon Voight, also an Oscar-winner and four-time nominee himself, has a long and distinguished career as both a leading man and, in recent years, character actor, with an extensive range. The blond, blue-eyed actor with a boyish face came to prominence at the end of the sixties, with a riveting performance as a would-be hustler in 1969's Best Picture winner, Midnight Cowboy, for which he earned his first Academy Award nomination. Throughout the following decades, Voight built his reputation with an array of challenging roles and has appeared in such landmark films as 1972's Deliverance, and 1978's Coming Home, for which he received an Academy Award ...
Biography of Louis Vuitton
Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy LVMH.PA more commonly known simply as Louis Vuitton, is a luxury French fashion and leather goods brand and company headquartered in Paris, France. The company is named after its founder Louis Vuitton (August 4, 1821-February 27, 1892), who designed and manufactured luggage, as a Malletier during the second half of the nineteenth century. Vuitton was born in Jura, France (now part of the commune of Lavans-sur-Valouse), but moved to Paris in 1835. The trip from his home town to Paris was over 400 kilometers long, and he traveled by foot. On his way there he picked up a series of odd jobs to pay for his journey. Two years later, at the age of 16, he apprenticed for the luggage manufacturer Monsieur Marechal. In 1854 he founded the company, which is now owned by...
Biography of Elie Semoun
Élie Semoun (born Élie Semhoun on 16 October 1963 in Paris (birth time source: Astrotheme, acte n° 1906)) is a French comedian, actor, director, writer and singer of Moroccan origin. Life and career Élie Semoun was born in France to a Jewish family of Moroccan and Algerian origin. In 1980 at the age of 17, Semoun wrote two collections of poems and two plays. Beginning in 1988, he had regular appearances on the television series Vivement lundi! on TF1, where he played a horse mounted on rollers. His comedy career began in 1990 with his partner Dieudonné M'bala M'bala, with whom he wrote and performed daring, skits with scathing takes generally taboo subjects such as racism and poverty, often playing up contrasts between himself and his partner in terms of origin, color, and religion....
Biography of Zsa Zsa Gabor
Zsa Zsa Gabor (/ˈʒɑːʒɑː ˈɡɑːbɔːr, ɡəˈbɔːr/ ZHAH-zhah GAH-bor; born Sári Gábor; February 6, 1917 (birth time source: Astrodatabank, conflicting sources) – December 18, 2016) was a Hungarian-American actress and socialite. Her sisters were actresses Eva and Magda Gabor. Gabor began her stage career in Vienna and was crowned Miss Hungary in 1936. She emigrated to the United States in 1941 and became a sought-after actress with "European flair and style", with a personality that "exuded charm and grace". Her first film role was a supporting role in Lovely to Look At. She later acted in We're Not Married! and played one of her few leading roles in Moulin Rouge (1952), directed by John Huston who describ...
Biography of Laura Dern
Laura Elizabeth Dern (born February 10, 1967 in Los Angeles, California) is an American actress. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in the movie Rambling Rose. Her other movies include Jurassic Park, Jurassic Park III, Blue Velvet, A Perfect World, Wild at Heart, October Sky, Mask, and We Don't Live Here Anymore, for which she received the award for Best Supporting Actress from the Boston Society of Film Critics. Early life and career Dern is the daughter of Bruce Dern and Diane Ladd and the great-granddaughter to former Utah governor George H. Dern. Laura Dern's film debut was in fact a cameo in her mother's film Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore. In the mid-1980s she gained critical acclaim for roles in films by Peter Bogdanovich (Mask) and David Lynch (Blue Velvet...
Biography of Kathy Bates
Kathleen Doyle Bates (born June 28, 1948) is an Academy Award-winning American theatrical, film, and television actress, and a stage and television director. Early life Bates was born in Memphis, Tennessee to Bertye Kathleen (Talbot), a homemaker, and Langdon Doyle Bates, a mechanical engineer. Her great-great-grandfather was an immigrant from Ireland to New Orleans and served as President Andrew Jackson's doctor. She has two older sisters, Mary and Patricia. Bates graduated from White Station High School in Memphis. She attended Southern Methodist University, majoring in theatre and was a member of Alpha Delta Pi sorority, and graduated in 1969. She moved to New York City in 1970 in order to pursue an acting career. Career One of her first films was the Dustin Hoffman film Str...
Biography of Robert Zemeckis
Robert Lee "Bob" Zemeckis (born May 14, 1952) is an Academy Award and Golden Globe-winning American movie director, producer and writer. Zemeckis first came to public attention in the 1980s as the director of the comedic time-travel Back to the Future films as well as the live-action/animated film Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), though in the 1990s he diversified into more dramatic fare, including 1994's Forrest Gump, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Director. Height: 6' (1.83 m) His films are characterized by an interest in state-of-the-art special effects, including the early use of match moving in Back to the Future Part II (1989) and the pioneering performance capture techniques seen in The Polar Express (2004). Though Zemeckis has often been pidgeonholed as a director ...
Biography of Toni Collette
Toni Collette (born November 1, 1972) is an Academy Award-nominated Australian actress and musician. She is perhaps best known for her roles in the films The Sixth Sense, Muriel's Wedding, In Her Shoes and Little Miss Sunshine. Early life Collette was born Antonia Collette in Blacktown, Sydney, New South Wales to Bob Collette, a truck driver, and Judy, a customer-service representative. She has two younger brothers, Ben and Christopher. When Collette was eleven years old she faked appendicitis out of boredom and longing for attention. She was so convincing that doctors removed her appendix, even though tests showed nothing wrong with it. She attended both the Australian Theatre for Young People and NIDA. Career Collette has won four Australian Film Institute awards, including th...
Biography of Richard Bohringer
Richard Bohringer (16 January 1942 in Vichy (birth time source: Steinbrecher, Astrodatabank, BC)) is a French actor. He is the father of actress Romane Bohringer. He has 2 other children : Richard and Lou. He also is a musician, a writer (and a poet). Apart from being an actor, he also has produced or directed some movies. Selected filmography Richard Bohringer in 2006 Year Title Role Director 1977 Animal An assistant of Sergio Claude Zidi 1980 The Last Metro a Gestapo officer François Truffaut Inspector Blunder fingerprint analyst Claude Zidi La Boum a friend of François Claude Pinoteau 1981 Diva Gorodish Jean-Jacques Beineix Les Uns et les Autres Richard Claude Lelouch 1982 Le Grand Pardon (fr) Le Sacristain Alexandre Arcady 1984 L'Addition (fr) ...
Biography of Yves Simon
Yves Simon, born May 3, 1944 in Choiseul (Haute-Marne), is a French singer and author. Discography 1973 : Au pays des merveilles de Juliet 1974 : Respirer, chanter 1975 : Raconte-toi 1975 : Concert au Théâtre de la Ville, avec Transit Express 1976 : Macadam 1977 : Un autre désir 1977 : Concert à Tokyo 1977 : BO du film de Diane Kurys, Diabolo menthe 1978 : BO du film de Diane Kurys, Cocktail Molotov 1978 : Demain je t'aime 1979 : Participation à l'album collectif Émilie Jolie 1981 : Une vie comme ça 1983 : USA/USSR (Amazoniaque) 1985 : De l'autre côté du monde 1988 : Liaisons 1992 : BO du film de Diane Kurys, Après l'amour 1996 : Longue distance (compilation) 1999 : Intempestives 2007 : Rumeurs Bibliography 1971 : Les jours en couleurs 1...
Biography of Maurane (singer)
Maurane, real name Claudine Luypaerts, (Ixelles, Brussels, November 12, 1960) is a Belgian singer. She lives currently in Schaerbeek, the municipality where Jacques Brel was born. Her father was director in the Académie de Musique de Verviers, and when she was a teenager she took part in several musical contests. In 1979, she participated in the show, « Brel en mille temps », with Philippe Lafontaine, she was discovered there by the French songwriter, Pierre Barouh. She got later small contracts in cafés or as Jo Lemaire o Philippe Lafontaine's choir until she released her first album in 1986. She has a daughter named Lou with the singer Pablo Villafranca. Honours 1986 - Prix Rapsat-Lelièvre Selected discography Singles 1986 : Danser 1988 : Les uns contre les autres ...
Biography of Georges Bizet
Georges Bizet (October 25, 1838 (birth time source: http://www.albumdufutur.com/lda/lda.php3?f=1&m=informations&p=lire&r=coord-perso&s=nul&valtxt=Be-Bk) – June 3, 1875) was a French composer and pianist of the romantic era. He is best known for his opera Carmen. Bizet was born in Paris, France at 28 rue de la Tour d'Auvergne. He was registered with the legal name Alexandre-César-Léopold Bizet, but was baptized Georges Bizet and was always known by the latter name. He entered the Paris Conservatory of Music a fortnight before his tenth birthday. His first symphony, the Symphony in C Major, was written there when he was seventeen, evidently as a student assignment. It seems that Bizet completely forgot about it himself, and it was not discovered again until 1935, in the archives of the...
Biography of Dorothy Parker
Dorothy Parker (August 22, 1893 – June 7, 1967) was an American writer and poet, best known for her caustic wit, wisecracks, and sharp eye for 20th century urban foibles. Early life Also known as Dot or Dottie, Parker was born Dorothy Rothschild at 732 Ocean Avenue in the West End village of Long Branch, New Jersey, where her parents had a summer beach cottage. Parker wrote in her essay "My Hometown" that her parents got her back to their Manhattan apartment shortly after Labor Day so she could be called a true New Yorker. Her friends found her both a source of fun and of tragedy; she attempted suicide at least three times. Her mother died in West End when Dorothy was a month shy of turning five. She grew up on the Upper West Side, and attended Roman Catholic elementary school at t...
Biography of Oscar Romero
Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez (August 15, 1917 – March 24, 1980), commonly known as Monseñor Romero, was a priest of the Roman Catholic Church in El Salvador. He later became the eighth Bishop and fourth Archbishop of San Salvador, succeeding the long-reigning Luis Chávez y González. As archbishop, he witnessed ongoing violations of human rights and started a group which spoke out to the poor and also victims of the country's civil war. Chosen to be archbishop for his conservatism, once in office his conscience led him to embrace a non-violent form of liberation theology, a position that has led to comparisons with Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King. Later, in 1980, he was assassinated by gunshot shortly after his homily. His death provoked international outcry for human rights ref...
Biography of Jonny Lee Miller
Jonathan "Jonny" Lee Miller (born 15 November 1972) is an English actor. He achieved early success with roles in the films Hackers (1995) and Trainspotting (1996), and worked steadily in film and theatre until 2008, when he starred as the main character in two seasons of the American television series Eli Stone. He followed this up with lead roles in the Broadway play After Miss Julie and the BBC production of Emma. In February 2011, he starred in Danny Boyle's stage adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein opposite Benedict Cumberbatch. He currently stars as Sherlock Holmes in the CBS crime drama Elementary alongside Lucy Liu. Early life Miller was born in Kingston upon Thames, Greater London, the son of Anne Lee, a film actress who worked in theatre production, and Alan Miller, a ...
Biography of Eva Gabor
Eva Gabor (in Hungarian Gábor Éva) (February 11, 1919 – July 4, 1995) was a Hungary-born Jewish-American actress. Early life Gabor was born in Budapest, the daughter of Vilmos and Jolie Gabor (Janci Tilleman). Her elder sisters were Magda Gabor and Zsa Zsa Gabor. Gabor's maternal family was Jewish and her maternal grandparents died in the Holocaust. Biographers speculate that her paternal family were originally Jewish as well, but converted to Roman Catholicism in order to assimilate, although this has not been confirmed. Career Eva was the first in her family to immigrate to America. She moved with her first husband, Swedish physician Eric Drimmer. Her first movie role was a bit part in Forced Landing (1941) at Paramount Pictures. She acted in movies and on the stage throughout...
Biography of Adam Clayton
Adam Charles Clayton (born 13 March 1960 in Chinnor, Oxfordshire, England), is the bass player of the rock band U2. Although he is a British citizen, Clayton has resided in Dublin county from the time his family moved to Malahide when he was five years old to the present. Clayton is well known for his bass playing on songs such as "New Year's Day" and "With or Without You". He has worked on several solo projects throughout his career, including working with fellow band member Larry Mullen Jr. on the theme of Mission: Impossible. Clayton and U2 have together won 22 Grammy awards, more than any other rock artist. Clayton is the eldest child of Brian and Jo Clayton, born on 13 March 1960 in Oxfordshire, England. When Clayton was five years old, his family moved from Oxfordshire to Malahide...
Biography of Bruno Solo
Bruno Solo, born Bruno Lassalle on September 23, 1964 in Paris (birth time source: Astrodatabank, Paddy de Jabrun (source pour son heure de naissance : Astrodatabank, Paddy de Jabrun)), is a French actor, screenwriter, producer, director, and former TV host. Filmography Actor Cinema 1993 : Tom est tout seul de Fabien Onteniente, Bruno 1997 : La Vérité si je mens ! de Thomas Gilou, Yvan 1997 : Les Sœurs Soleil de Jeannot Szwarc 1997 : Mauvais genre de Laurent Benegui, Docteur Belhas 1998 : Grève party de Fabien Onteniente, Ange 1998 : Les Fans de Francis Duquet (court métrage), dans son propre rôle 1999 : Restons groupés de Jean-Paul Salomé, Jeff 1999 : Mille bornes d'Alain Beigel, Jean 1999 : L'Homme de ma vie de Stéphane Kurc, Simon 2000 : Jet Set de Fabien Onteniente, ...
Biography of Brenda Lee
Brenda Lee (born December 11, 1944 (birth time source: Contemporary American Horoscopes, Astrodatabank)) is an American pop singer, who was immensely popular during the 1950s and 1960s. She had the most charted hits of any woman in the 1960s, and only three male singers/groups (Elvis Presley, Ray Charles, and The Beatles) outpaced her. She was one of the earliest pop stars to have a major contemporary international following. She was given the nickname Little Miss Dynamite after recording Dynamite in 1957; the explosive strength of the sound pouring out of her small frame amazed audiences and promoters. Her general popularity faded as her voice suffered damage and matured in the late 1960s, but she successfully continued her recording career by returning to her roots as a country singer...
Biography of Daniel Pearl
Daniel Pearl (October 10, 1963 – February 1, 2002) was an American journalist who was kidnapped and murdered in Karachi, Pakistan. At the time of his kidnapping, Pearl had been investigating the case of Richard Reid, the shoe bomber, and alleged links between Al Qaeda and Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). In March 2007, at a closed military hearing in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed said that he had personally beheaded Pearl. Then he added, "for those who would like to confirm, there are pictures of me on the Internet holding his head." In July 2002, Ahmed Omar Said Schiek, a British national of Pakistani origin was sentenced to death for the abduction and death of Daniel Pearl. In April 2006, a documentary film The Journalist and the Jihadi was aired by HBO ...
Biography of Jacques Offenbach
Jacques Offenbach (20 June 1819 – 5 October 1880) was a French composer and cellist of the Romantic era with German-Jewish descent and one of the originators of the operetta form. He was one of the most influential composers of popular music in Europe in the 19th century, and many of his works remain in the repertory. While his name remains most closely associated with the French operetta and the Second Empire, it is his one fully operatic masterpiece, Les contes d'Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann), that has become the most frequently performed of Offenbach's works. Offenbach's father, born Isaac Eberst in Offenbach am Main around 1780, changed his name to Offenbach when he settled down in Deutz in 1802. He was a man of many talents who worked as a bookbinder, translator, publisher, musi...
Biography of Marius Petipa
Marius Ivanovich Petipa (ru. Мариус Иванович Петипа) (born Victor Marius Alphonse Petipa on 11 March 1818 in Marseille, France - died in Gurzuf in the Crimea, Russian Empire, in what is today the Ukraine, on 14 July 1910) - was a ballet dancer, teacher, and choreographer. Marius Petipa is often given the title "Father of Classical Ballet", and is cited nearly unanimously by the most noted artists of the classical ballet to be the most influential balletmaster and choreographer that has ever lived (among them - George Balanchine, who cited Petipa as his primary influence). Petipa is equally noted for the ballets he created, some of which have survived to the present day...
Biography of Yves Allégret
Yves Allégret (October 13, 1907 - January 31, 1987) was a French film director in the film noir genre. His films include Une Si Jolie Petite Plage (1948), Manèges (1949), and The Proud and the Beautiful (1953). He is noted as having been the husband of actress Simone Signoret between the years 1944–1949....
Biography of George Wallace
George Corley Wallace Jr. (August 25, 1919 – September 13, 1998), was a Democratic Governor of Alabama for four terms (1963-1967, 1971-1979 and 1983-1987) and ran for U.S. President seven times, running as a Democrat in four times and in the Independent Party three times. He is best known for his pro-segregation attitudes and as a symbol of states' rights during the American desegregation period, which he modified later in life. Early life Wallace was born in Clio in Barbour County in southeastern Alabama to George Corley Wallace and Mozell Smith. He became a regionally successful boxer in his high school days, then went directly to law school at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa in 1937. After receiving a law degree in 1942, he enlisted in the US Army Air Corps, flying combat mi...
Biography of Saul Kripke
Saul Aaron Kripke (born in November 13, 1940 in Bay Shore, New York) is an American philosopher and logician, now emeritus from Princeton. He teaches as distinguished professor of philosophy at CUNY Graduate Center. Kripke has been influential in a number of fields related to logic and philosophy of language. Much of his work remains unpublished or exists only as tape-recordings and privately circulated manuscripts. Kripke was the recipient of the 2001 Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy. Biography Saul Kripke is the eldest of three children born to Dorothy and Rabbi Myer Kripke. His father was the leader of Beth El Synagogue, the only Conservative congregation in Omaha, Nebraska. His mother wrote Jewish educational children's books. Saul and his two sisters, Madeline and Netta, atte...
Biography of Robert Klein
Robert Klein (born February 8, 1942) is an American stand-up comedian and actor, director, producer and screenwriter. Early life Klein was born in the Bronx, the son of Frieda (née Moskowitz) and Benjamin Klein and was raised in a "prototypical 1950s Bronx Jewish" environment. He studied drama at Yale University when he got wind of an opportunity to audition for The Second City. In a piece he wrote for the improvisational troupe's book, Klein recalled sitting in a room full of other hopefuls including Fred Willard. Klein's audition consisted of an improvisation set with Willard about two guys in a nightclub, which was successful enough to get Klein and Willard hired to join The Second City. Klein had said another young man, Billy Dee Williams, was invited to join the troupe but turned ...
Biography of Paul Theroux
Paul Edward Theroux (born April 10, 1941) is an American travel writer and novelist, whose best known work is, perhaps, The Great Railway Bazaar (1975), a travelogue about a trip he made by train from Great Britain through Western and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, through South Asia, then South-East Asia, up through East Asia, as far east as Japan, and then back across Russia to his point of origin. Although perhaps best known as a travel writer, Theroux has also published numerous works of fiction, some of which were made into feature films. He was awarded the 1981 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel The Mosquito Coast. Theroux was born in Medford, Massachusetts, the son of Catholic parents, a French-Canadian father and an Italian mother. His French last name originates fr...
Biography of François Bazin
François Emmanuel Joseph Bazin (September 4, 1816 – July 2, 1878) was a French opera composer. Biography François Bazin was born in Marseille. He became a student of Auber at the Conservatoire de Paris, where he later taught harmony. His cantata Loyse de Monfort won the Prix de Rome in 1840. Le voyage en Chine, which premiered at the Opéra-Comique in Paris is his best known composition, and continued to appear well into the 20th century. Although his many light operas were popular during his lifetime, they are rarely staged today. A handful of arias are still occasionally performed, including "Je pense à vous" from Maître Pathelin recorded by Roberto Alagna. He died in Paris. Opéra-comique Le Trompette de Monsieur le Prince (Mélesville), 1846 Le malheur d'être jolie (Desnoyers)...
Biography of Adolphe Adam
Adolphe Charles Adam (July 24, 1803 – May 3, 1856) was a French composer and music critic. A prolific composer of operas and ballets, he is best known today for his ballets Giselle (1844) and Le Corsaire (1856, his last work), his operas Le postillon de Lonjumeau (1836), Le toréador (1849) and Si j'étais roi (1852, often regarded as his finest work), and his Christmas carol Minuit, chrétiens! (O Holy Night) (1847). Adam was also a noted teacher. Léo Delibes was among his pupils. Adolphe Adam was born in Paris to Louis Adam (1758-1848), who was also a composer, as well a professor at the Paris Conservatoire. His mother was the daughter of a physician. As a child, Adolphe Adam preferred to improvise music on his own rather than study music seriously. He entered the Paris Conservatoire in ...
Biography of Jean Ferniot
Jean Ferniot, born October 10, 1918 in Paris, died on July 21, 2012 in Paris, is a French journalist and writer. Works 1961 : L'Ombre portée, éd. Gallimard (Prix Interallié) 1973 : Pierrot et Aline, éd. Grasset; Ça suffit !, éd. Grasset 1974 : La Petite Légume éd. Mercure de France, coll. « Roue libre » 1979 : Vous en avez vraiment assez d'être français ?, éd. Grasset 1982 : Le Pouvoir et la Sainteté, éd. Grasset 1984 : Saint Judas: roman, éd. Grasset 1988 : Soleil orange : roman, éd. Grasset 1991 : Je recommencerais bien : mémoires, éd. Grasset 1995 : La Mouffe, photogr. de Camille de Moncan, éd. du Mécène, coll. « Villes écrites » 1996 : Chère pomme de terre, avec Ymelda Moreno, préf. de Joël Robuchon, éd. First 2002 : Ce soir ou ...
Biography of Pierre Balmain
Pierre Alexandre Claudius Balmain (b. St. Jean de Maurienne, France, May 18, 1914 – Paris, France, June 29, 1982) was a French fashion designer. Known for sophistication and elegance, he once said that "dressmaking is the architecture of movement." Balmain's father, who died when the future designer was 7 years old, was the owner of a wholesale drapery business. His mother and her sisters operated a fashion boutique. After studying at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, he went to work for the fashion designer Edward Molyneux, for whom he worked from 1934 until 1939. He joined Lucien Lelong after World War II and opened his own fashion house in 1945. Balmain also created perfumes, including Vent Vert (1947), his first successful scent and one of the best-selling perfumes of the late 1940s and ...
Biography of Gabriel Bacquier
Gabriel Bacquier (born May 17, 1924 in Béziers, France) is a French operatic baritone. One of the leading baritones of the 20th century, he is particularly distinguished in the French repertoire and considered an accomplished actor as well as singer. Career From 1963, Bacquier sang regularly at the Vienna State Opera, La Scala, the Royal Opera House in London, and the Metropolitan Opera in New York, where he was one of the few French singers to have sung in 18 consecutive seasons. He created the title roles of Jean-Pierre Rivière's Pour un Don Quichotte (La Scala, March 10, 1961) and Daniel-Lesur's Andréa del Sarto (Opéra de Marseille, 1969), as well as singing in the world premiere of Maurice Thiriet's La véridique histoire du Docteur at the Opéra-Comique. Awards and Distinct...
Biography of Jean Murat
Jean Murat, born July 13, 1888 in Périgueux (Dordogne), died January 4, 1968 in Aix-en-Provence (Bouches-du-Rhône), was a French actor. He married comedian Annabella. Filmography Silent films 1918 : Mothers of men d'Édouard José 1920 : Expiation de Fred Niblo 1922 : L'Autre aile d'Henri Andréani 1922 : La Sirène de pierre de Roger Lion et Virginia de Castro 1923 : Les Yeux de l'âme de Roger Lion 1924 : Souvent femme varie de Jean Legrand 1924 : La Fontaine des amours de Roger Lion 1924 : La Galerie des monstres de Jaque Catelain 1924 : Nostalgie de Genaro Righelli 1925 : Le Stigmate de Louis Feuillade 1925 : Les Fiançailles rouges de Roger Lion 1925 : Le Roi de la pédale de Maurice Champreux 1926 : Carmen de Jacques Feyder 1926 : La Proie du vent de René...
Biography of Madeleine Robinson
Madeleine Yvonne Svoboda, best known as Madeleine Robinson, born November 5, 1917 in Paris, died August 1, 2004 in Lausanne, was a French and Swiss actress. She was the wife of actor Robert Dalban, Guillaume Amestoy, and José Luis de Vilallonga. She also has had a daughter with French singer Jean-Louis Jaubert (Les Compagnons de la chanson). Theatre Une grande fille toute simple d'André Roussin Adorable Julia, adaptation française de Marc-Gilbert Sauvajon d’après Somerset Maugham Noix de coco de Marcel Achard Un tramway nommé Désir de Tennessee Williams Les Parents terribles de Jean Cocteau Qui a peur de Virginia Woolf ?, adaptation française de Pierre Laville d’après Edward Albee Mère Courage et ses enfants de Bertolt Brecht Selected filmography 1936 : Mioche de...
Biography of Frank Westmore
Frank Courtney Westmore (April 13, 1923 (birth time source: the Wilsons, birth certificate, Astrodatabank) – May 14, 1985) was a Hollywood make-up artist, part of the Westmore family who were credited with introducing the art of make-up to the Hollywood movie industry. He was born in Maywood, California, and died of a heart ailment in St. Joseph's Medical Center, Burbank, California. After apprenticing at Paramount Pictures with his brother Wally, he worked on films such as Farewell, My Lovely, The Ten Commandments, Houseboat, Two for the Seesaw, and The Towering Inferno, and television series such as The Munsters, Planet of the Apes, Bonanza, Hart to Hart and Kung Fu. For the last of these he won the Emmy Award for "Outstanding Achievement in Makeup" in 1972, and was also nominated uns... 38 celebrities having your search criteria in their French biography.
Biography of Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson, June 1, 1926 (birth time source: birth certificate, Bob Garner, Astrodatabank) – August 5, 1962; baptized Norma Jeane Baker) was an American actress, singer, model and film producer. After spending much of her childhood in foster homes, Monroe began a career as a model, which led to a film contract in 1946. Her early roles were minor, but her performances in The Asphalt Jungle and All About Eve (both 1950) were well received, and as her career progressed she became known as a sex symbol. She was praised for her comedic ability in such films as Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, How to Marry a Millionaire and The Seven Year Itch, and became one of Hollywood's most popular performers. The typecasting of Monroe's "dumb blonde" persona limited her caree...
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 Sharon Stone
Sharon Yvonne Stone (born March 10, 1958 (birth time source http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000232/bio.) is an American actress, film producer, and former fashion model. She achieved international recognition for her role in the erotic thriller Basic Instinct. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress and won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Drama for her performance in Casino. Early life Stone was born in Meadville, Pennsylvania. The second of four children, she is the daughter of Dorothy (née Lawson), an accountant and homemaker, and Joseph Stone, a tool and die manufacturer. Stone graduated in 1975 from Saegertown High School in Saegertown, Pennsylvania, graduating early in an accelerated study program in conjunction with Edinboro University of P...
Biography of Elizabeth Taylor
Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor, DBE (February 27, 1932 (birth time source: her birth certificate, Astrodatabank) – March 23, 2011), also known as Liz Taylor, was an English-American actress. A former child star, she grew to be known for her acting talent and beauty, as well as her Hollywood lifestyle, including many marriages. Taylor was considered one of the great actresses of Hollywood's golden age. The American Film Institute named Taylor seventh on its Female Legends list. Early years (1932–1942) Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor was born in Hampstead, a wealthy district of North West London, the second child of Francis Lenn Taylor (1897–1968) and Sara Viola Warmbrodt (1895–1994), who were Americans residing in England. Taylor's older brother, Howard Taylor, was born in 1929. Her pare...
Biography of Vanessa Paradis
Vanessa Chantal Paradis (French pronunciation: ) (born December 22, 1972 (birth time source: FDAF)) is a French singer, model and actress. She became a child star at 14 with the worldwide success of her single Joe le taxi. Paradis has been a spokesmodel for Chanel since 1991. She was in a relationship with actor Johnny Depp from 1998 to 2012. Childhood Vanessa Paradis was born on December 22, 1972, at Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, near Paris. She spent her childhood in Villiers-sur-Marne with her parents, André and Corinne Paradis. She was attracted to cinema early on. Her admiration for Marilyn Monroe led her to take dance and piano lessons. Paradis spent a lot of time with her uncle, Didier Pain, and his musician friends. Career 1981–1986 Her first TV appearance was on the show L'Éco...
Biography of Sylvester Stallone
Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone (/stəˈloʊn/; born July 6, 1946 (birth time source: Jany Bessiere quotes his astrologer mom, Astrodatabank), nicknamed Sly Stallone, is an American actor, screenwriter and film director. Stallone is well known for his Hollywood action roles. Two notable characters he has portrayed are the boxer Rocky Balboa and soldier John Rambo. He wrote every episode of the two eponymous franchises, and directed some of their installments as well. Stallone's film Rocky was inducted into the National Film Registry as well as having its film props placed in the Smithsonian Museum. Stallone's use of the front entrance to the Philadelphia Museum of Art in the Rocky series led the area to be nicknamed the Rocky Steps. Philadelphia has a statue of his Rocky charac...
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...
Biography of Matt Damon
Matthew Paige "Matt" Damon (/ˈdeɪmən/; born October 8, 1970 in Boston (birth time source: Frances McEvoy, birth certificate, Astrodatabank)) is an American actor, voice actor, screenwriter, producer, and philanthropist whose career was launched following the success of the drama film Good Will Hunting (1997) from a screenplay he co-wrote with friend and actor Ben Affleck. The pair won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and the Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay for their work. For his performance in the film, Damon received nominations for the Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, Satellite Award, and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actor. Damon has since starred in commercially successful films such as Saving Private Ryan (1998), the Ocean's trilogy, ...
Biography of Isabelle Adjani
Isabelle Adjani (born Isabelle Yasmina Adjani on 27 June 1955 (birth time source: Didier Geslain)) is a French film actress and singer. She is a five-time César Award winner and two-time Academy Award nominee. After success in the Comédie-Française, Adjani gained further fame in 1975 for her lauded performance as Adele Hugo in The Story of Adele H., which earned the then 20 year-old her first Academy Award nomination for Best Actress, making her the youngest nominee ever at the time. She won the first of a record five César Awards for Best Actress for the 1981 film Possession. Her subsequent wins were for One Deadly Summer (1983), Camille Claudel (1988), La Reine Margot (1994) and Skirt Day (2009). Her 1988 Best Actress Academy Award nomination for Camille Claudel made her the first Fre...
Biography of Sarah Michelle Gellar
Sarah Michelle Gellar (born April 14, 1977 (birth time source: Twist Magazine (September 2001), from an anonymous email, source not checked) is a Golden Globe-nominated, Daytime Emmy Award-winning American actress. She is probably best known as Buffy Summers in the acclaimed television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. She has since become known as a film actress, having starred in the family film Scooby-Doo (2002), the independent film Harvard Man (2001), the teen drama Cruel Intentions (1999) and the horror films The Return (2006), The Grudge 2 (2006), The Grudge (2004), I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) and Scream 2 (1997). She also provided the voice of April O'Neil in the film TMNT. Early life Gellar was born in New York City, the only child of Rosellen Greenfield, a n...
Biography of Judy Garland
Judy Garland (born Frances Ethel Gumm; June 10, 1922 – June 22, 1969) was an Oscar-nominated American film actress and singer, best known for her role as Dorothy Gale from The Wizard of Oz. Garland's singing voice had a natural vibrato, which she was able to maintain at an extremely low volume. The effects which she was able to project enabled her to convey a wide range of emotion when she interpreted a song. Marriages Of Garland's five marriages, the first four ended in divorce. Her children are Liza Minnelli (singer and actress) born March 1946, Lorna Luft (also an acclaimed singer), born November 21, 1952 and Joey Luft (a scenic photographer), born March 29, 1955 in Los Angeles, California). David Rose; married 1941-1945 Vincente Minnelli; married 1945-1952; one daughter, Liza ...
Biography of Laurent Gerra
Laurent Gerra, born on December 29, 1967 in Bourg-en-Bresse (Ain) (birth time source: Didier Geslain, BC), is a famous French humorist, screenwriter, comedian, and impersonator....
Biography of Bette Davis
Bette Davis (April 5, 1908 – October 6, 1989), born Ruth Elizabeth Davis, was a two-time Academy Award-winning American actress of film, television and theatre. Noted for her willingness to play unsympathetic characters, she was highly regarded for her performances in a range of film genres, from contemporary crime melodramas to historical and period films and occasional comedies, though her greatest successes were romantic dramas. After appearing in Broadway plays, Davis moved to Hollywood in 1930, but her early films for Universal Studios were unsuccessful. She joined Warner Brothers in 1932 and established her career with several critically acclaimed performances. In 1937, she attempted to free herself from her contract and although she lost a well-publicized legal case, it marked th...
Biography of Juliette Gréco
Juliette Gréco (born February 7, 1927) is a French actress and popular chanson singer. Personal history Juliette Gréco was born in Montpellier to a Corsican father and a mother active in the Résistance, in the Hérault département of southern France. She was raised by her maternal grandparents. Gréco also became involved in the Résistance, and was caught but not deported because of her young age. She moved to Saint-Germain-des-Prés in Paris in 1946 after her mother left the country for Indochina with the French Navy. Gréco came to be one of the stars of the bohemian "in" crowd of post-war France. She embodied the disenchantment and poverty of the French intellectuals following World War II. Gréco dressed all in black and let her long, black hair hang free. A famous description of ...
Biography of Mireille Mathieu
Mireille Mathieu (born July 22, 1946) is a French singer, who besides being very successful in her own country, became a star of international stature, recording in several languages. She was born in Avignon, Vaucluse, France, the oldest daughter of a poor family of fourteen children. She began singing as a small child, appearing in public at the age of four, singing in her church. As a young girl she worked in a factory, where she saved her money to pay for singing lessons. Discovered by Johnny Stark, manager of France's biggest star at the time, Johnny Hallyday, she was tutored by orchestra leader Paul Mauriat and song writer André Pascal who wrote Mon crédo, Viens dans ma rue, La première étoile and many other hits for her . After her television performance in 1965 and debut run a...
Biography of Warren Beatty
Henry Warren Beaty (born March 30, 1937 (birth time source: Dana Holliday, Astrodatabank)), better known as Warren Beatty, is an Academy Award- and Golden Globe-winning American actor, producer, screenwriter, and director. The Academy Awards honored him with the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in 2000, presented by his close friend Jack Nicholson, while in 2004 he received a Kennedy Center Honor. In 2007, he was honored with the Cecil B. Demille Award at the Golden Globe Awards Ceremony. Early life Beatty was born in Richmond, Virginia's Bellevue neighborhood. His father, Ira Owens Beaty, was a professor of psychology, public school administrator and real estate agent, and his mother, Kathlyn Corinne MacLean, was a Nova Scotia-born drama teacher; his grandparents were also teachers. ...
Biography of Matt LeBlanc
Matthew Steven LeBlanc (born July 25, 1967 (birth time source: McEvoy, Astrodatabank) is an Emmy and Golden Globe nominated American actor, best known for his role as Joey Tribbiani on the TV sitcom Friends (1994-2004).Background LeBlanc graduated from Newton North High School in 1985. After high school he attended college at Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston, MA. He left a while after starting his second semester. His father is Paul LeBlanc, and his mother, Pat Grossman. He is of mixed Irish, Dutch, English, and Acadian descent on his father's side, and of partly Italian ancestry on his mother's. LeBlanc's Acadian ancestors may have come to Massachusetts after the Acadian deportation in the mid-1700s. He has one younger half-brother, Justin LeBlanc. The name LeBlanc is French...
Biography of Charlotte Rampling
Tessa Charlotte Rampling, OBE (born 5 February 1946 (birth time source: Sy Scholfield, Astrodatabank, time from memory)), is an English actress. In a career spanning 50 years, she has appeared in English language, French and Italian cinema. A four-time Cesar Award nominee for her work in the French films On ne meurt que deux fois (1985), Under the Sand (2000), Swimming Pool (2003) and Lemming (2005), she received an Honorary César in 2001, and France's Legion of Honour in 2002. She was married for 20 years to the composer Jean Michel Jarre. Rampling's other film roles include Georgy Girl (1966), The Damned (1969), The Night Porter (1974), Farewell My Lovely (1975), Stardust Memories (1980), The Verdict (1982), Angel Heart (1987), The Duchess (2008) and The Eye of the Storm (2011). Nomi...
Biography of Julien Clerc
Paul-Alain Leclerc, popularly known as Julien Clerc (born October 4, 1947 in Paris) is a French singer. His father was a UNESCO employee and his mother is from Guadeloupe. Many of the chansons he sings were written by Étienne Roda-Gil, a long time collaborator. His brother, Gérard Leclerc, is a political commentator on France 2. For a time he was involved with French actress Miou-Miou, who in 1978 bore him a daughter, Jeanne Herry. Like her father, Jeanne has pursued a career in show business, albeit as an actress and comedian rather than as a singer. Julien Clerc owes his fame in France to his 1969 French language adaptation of the musical Hair. Since then he has sung a great many popular songs, and is generally considered one of the greatest francophone musicians of his generati...
Biography of Laurence Olivier
Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, OM (22 May 1907 – 11 July 1989) was an Academy Award, Golden Globe, BAFTA and four-time Emmy winning English actor, director, and producer. Olivier's Academy acknowledgments are considerable—fourteen Oscar nominations, with two wins for Best Actor and Best Picture for the 1948 film Hamlet, and two honorary awards including a statuette and certificate. He was also awarded five Emmy awards from the nine nominations he received. Olivier's career as a stage and film actor spanned more than six decades and included a wide variety of roles, from Shakespeare's Othello and Sir Toby Belch to the sadistic Nazi dentist Christian Szell in Marathon Man. A High Church clergyman's son who found fame on the West End stage, Olivier became determined early on to mast...
Biography of Donna Summer
LaDonna Adrian Gaines (December 31, 1948 (birth time source: Frank C. Clifford) – May 17, 2012), known by the stage name Donna Summer, was an American singer-songwriter who gained prominence during the disco era of the late 1970s. She had a mezzo-soprano vocal range, and was a five-time Grammy Award winner. Summer was the first artist to have three consecutive double albums reach number one on the U.S. Billboard chart, and she also charted four number-one singles in the United States within a 13-month period. Born into a devoutly Christian lower middle class African-American family in Boston, Massachusetts, she first became involved with singing through church choir groups before joining a number of bands influenced by the Motown Sound. Influenced by the counterculture of the 1960s, she...
Biography of Léo Ferré
Léo Ferré (August 24, 1916 - July 14, 1993) was a French poet, composer and musician. Born in Monaco, Ferré mixed lyricism with slang; love with anarchy. He took a central place in the French song world and is a prominent figure in this domain. He was involved in anarchism and worked with Radio Libertaire, an anarchist free radio broadcasting in Paris and around France. Along with Georges Brassens and Jacques Brel, he is a great composer and writer of French songs....
Biography of Gene Kelly
Eugene Curran Kelly (August 23, 1912 – February 2, 1996), better known as Gene Kelly, was an American dancer, actor, singer, director, producer, and choreographer. Kelly was a major exponent of 20th century filmed dance, known for his energetic and athletic dancing style, his good looks and the likeable characters that he played on screen. Although he is probably best known today for his performance in Singin' in the Rain, he dominated the Hollywood musical film from the mid 1940s until its demise in the late 1950s. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Kelly among the Greatest Male Stars of All Time, ranking at No. 15. Early life Gene was the third son of James Kelly, a phonograph salesman, and Harriet Curran, who were both children of Irish Roman Catholic immigrants. He was b...
Biography of Gérard Philipe
Gérard Philipe (December 4, 1922 – November 22, 1959) was a prominent French actor. Born in Cannes, as a teenager Philipe took acting lessons before going to Paris to study at the Conservatory of Dramatic Art. At age 19, he made his stage debut at a theater in Nice and the following year his strong performance in the Albert Camus play, Caligula, brought an invitation to work with the Théâtre national populaire (T.N.P.) in Paris and Avignon, whose festival, founded in 1947 by Jean Vilar, is France's oldest and most famous. Philipe made his film debut in 1943 in Les Petites du Quai aux Fleurs and after a few more minor film roles, he rocketed to fame as a result of his performance in Claude Autant-Lara's 1947 film Le diable au corps (Devil in the Flesh) . Adored by young women for his ...
Biography of Danielle Darrieux
Danielle Yvonne Marie Antoinette Darrieux (born May 1, 1917 in Bordeaux, France) is a French singer and actress. Her career of eight decades is among the longest in film history. Career She is the daughter of a medical doctor who was at the time serving with the French Army during World War I but died when she was seven years old. Raised in Paris she studied the cello at the Conservatoire de Musique. At 13, she won a part in the musical film Le Bal. Her beauty combined with her singing and dancing ability led to numerous other offers. In 1935, Darrieux married director/screenwriter, Henri Decoin, who encouraged her to try Hollywood. She signed with Universal Studios to star opposite Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. in The Rage of Paris. Under the German occupation of France during World...
Biography of Sacha Guitry
Sacha Guitry (February 21, 1885 – July 24, 1957) was a French film actor, director, screenwriter and playwright. Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, he was the son of Lucien Germain Guitry (1860–1925), a major Parisian stage actor who spent nine years at the Michel Theater, in St. Petersburg, before returning to France. It was during this time in Russia that Alexandre-Pierre Georges Guitry was born and nicknamed Sacha. As a five year old, he appeared on stage with his father. An intellect and a prolific writer with a sharp wit, by the age of 17 Guitry had already written the first of his 120 plays. In 1918 his theatrical production premiered in Paris to critical acclaim. Guitry's dramas include Nono (1905), Petite Hollande (1908, with a foreword by Octave Mirbeau), Les deux couverts (Comédi...
Biography of Pierre Perret
Pierre Perret (born July 9, 1934 in Castelsarrasin), is a French singer and composer. Pierre Perret resides in the city of Nangis. He spent a long part of his childhood in the café which his parents owned, where he learned work jargon and slang. At the age of 14 he signed up to the conservatoire de musique de Toulouse and to a dramatic arts institute. In the mean time, he set up his first band of 4 musicians in his own name, with whom he played at events throughout the region. In 1957, he was snapped up by Eddie Barclay who signed him on. It was in the studio of Barclay where he met his future wife, Simone Mazaltarim. In 1958 Perret carried on touring round Parisian cabaret bars and crossed France and Africa as a part of the American group, The Platters. In November that year, a pleu...
Biography of Dirk Bogarde
Sir Derek Jules Gaspard Ulric Niven van den Bogaerde (28 March 1921 – 8 May 1999), better known by his stage name Dirk Bogarde, was an actor and author. Height: 5' 8½" (1.74 m) Early years and war service Bogarde was born in West Hampstead, London, of mixed Flemish and Scottish ancestry. His father Ulric van den Bogaerde (born in Perry Barr, Birmingham) was the art editor of The Times and his mother Margaret Niven was a former actress. He attended the former Allan Glen's School in Glasgow, a time he described in his autobiography as unhappy, although others have disputed his account . Bogarde served in World War II, reaching the rank of Captain and served in both the European and Pacific theatres, principally as an intelligence officer. In April 1945 he claimed he was one of the fir...
Biography of Stéphane Collaro
Stéphane Collaro, born May 20, 1943 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, is a French humorist, actor, screenwriter, director and TV host. Filmography Attention les yeux ! (1976) Television Le Collaro show (1978) Coco-Boy avec sa rubrique Le Bébête show (1982) Cocoricocoboy (1984) Cocomicocinécomico sur TF1 (Hiver 1985) Collaricocoshow sur la Cinq (1987) Mondo Dingo sur la Cinq, et ensuite TF1 (1988) Discography O! yé bananiers Tonton mayonnaise...
Biography of Patachou
Henriette Ragon (10 June 1918 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – 30 April 2015), better known as Patachou, was a French singer and actress. She was an Officier of the Légion d'honneur. Biography Early life Born in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, Henriette Ragon began her working life as a typist, then a factory worker, a shoeseller and an antique dealer. Patachou In 1948, with her husband Jean Billon she took over a cabaret-restaurant in Montmartre, called Patachou. (Their son Pierre Billon had some success as a singer in the 1970s and wrote J'ai oublié de vivre for Johnny Hallyday.) She began to sing in the bistro, and journalists began to call her Patachou after the name of her cabaret (pâte-à-choux means cream puff dough). Georges Brassens sang there, and together they s...
Biography of Simon MacCorkindale
Simon Charles Pendered MacCorkindale (12 February 1952 – 14 October 2010) was an English actor, director and producer. After a career in theatre, in the late 1970s and early 1980s, MacCorkindale starred in a variety of films and serials, including Quatermass (1979), Death on the Nile (1978), The Riddle of the Sands (1979), The Sword and the Sorcerer (1982) and Jaws 3-D (1983). Through the rest of 80s and early 1990s, he starred in several television shows, among them the short-lived series Manimal as the lead character Dr. Jonathan Chase in 1983, as well as longer-running roles in Falcon Crest and Counterstrike. MacCorkindale also directed and produced numerous stage and TV productions. In 2002 he joined the cast of the BBC medical drama Casualty as Harry Harper, remaining in the role for ...
Biography of Susannah York
Susannah York (9 January 1939 (birth time source: Sy Scholfield, Astrodatabank) – 15 January 2011) was an English film, stage and television actress. She was awarded a BAFTA as Best Supporting Actress for They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969) and was nominated for an Oscar and Golden Globe for the same film. She won best actress for Images at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival. In 1991 she was appointed an Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Her appearances in various hit films of the 1960s formed the basis of her international reputation, and an obituary in The Telegraph characterised her as "the blue-eyed English rose with the china-white skin and cupid lips who epitomised the sensuality of the swinging Sixties". Early life York was born Susannah Yolande Fletcher in London, in ...
Biography of Harry Dean Stanton
Harry Dean Stanton (born July 14, 1926) is an American actor. Early life Stanton was born in West Irvine, Kentucky, the son of Ersel (née Moberly), a hair dresser, and Sheridan Harry Stanton, a tobacco farmer and barber. His parents divorced when Stanton was in high school and later re-married. He had two younger brothers, Archie and Ralph. Stanton attended the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky, where he studied journalism and radio arts. He also studied at the Pasadena Playhouse in Pasadena, California. Stanton is a veteran of World War II. Career Stanton has appeared in both indie and cult films (Two-Lane Blacktop, Cockfighter, Escape from New York, Repo Man), as well as many mainstream Hollywood productions, including Cool Hand Luke, The Godfather Part II, Alien, ...
Biography of Tom Paxton
Thomas Richard Paxton (born October 31, 1937) is a well-known American folk singer and singer-songwriter who has been writing, performing and recording music for over forty years. His songs have experienced enduring appeal, including modern standards such as "The Last Thing on My Mind", "Bottle of Wine", "Whose Garden Was This?", "The Marvelous Toy", and "Ramblin' Boy". Paxton's songs have been recorded by Pete Seeger and The Weavers, Judy Collins, Joan Baez, Doc Watson, Harry Belafonte, Peter, Paul and Mary, The Kingston Trio, The Chad Mitchell Trio, John Denver, Dolly Parton and Porter Wagoner, Willie Nelson, Flatt & Scruggs, The Fireballs, and many others (see covers). He has performed thousands of concerts around the world in such places as Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Hong Kong, ...
Biography of Corin Redgrave
Corin William Redgrave (16 July 1939 (birth time source: Marion March, Astrodatabank, his mom's autobiography "Life Among the Redgraves.") – 6 April 2010) was an English actor and far-left political activist. Politics Redgrave was a lifelong activist in far-left politics. With his elder sister Vanessa, he was a prominent member of the Workers' Revolutionary Party. Later, after the collapse of the WRP, he was involved with the Marxist Party, which the two siblings founded. Both Redgrave and his second wife, Kika Markham, expressed support for activist group Viva Palestina, led by British MP George Galloway, attempting to break the siege of the Gaza Strip. He was also a defender of the interests of the Romani people. Family Main article: Redgrave family Corin Redgrave was part o...
Biography of Gloria DeHaven
Gloria Mildred DeHaven (July 23, 1925 (birth time source: the Wilsons, Astrodatabank, birth certificate) – July 30, 2016) was an American actress and singer who was a contract star for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Early life DeHaven was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of actor-director Carter DeHaven and actress Flora Parker DeHaven, both former vaudeville performers. A 1983 newspaper article reported, "Miss DeHaven ... says that her real family name was O'Callahan before her father legally changed his name to DeHaven." Film She began her career as a child actor with a bit part in Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times (1936). She was signed to a contract with MGM. She had featured roles in such films as Best Foot Forward (1943), The Thin Man Goes Home (1944), Scene of the Crime (194...
Biography of Kenneth More
Kenneth Gilbert More CBE (20 September 1914 – 12 July 1982) was a highly successful English film actor during the post-World War II era and starred in many feature films, often in the role of an archetypal carefree and happy-go-lucky middle-class gentleman. Early life Kenneth More was born in Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, the only son of Charles Gilbert More, a Royal Naval Air Service pilot, and Edith Winifred Watkins, the daughter of a Cardiff solicitor. He was educated at Victoria College, Jersey. He spent part of his childhood in the Channel Islands, where his father was general manager of Jersey Eastern Railways. After he left school, he followed the family tradition by training as a civil engineer. He gave up his training and worked for a while in Sainsbury's. When More w...
Biography of Richard Monette
Richard Jean Monette OC, DHum, LLD (June 19, 1944 – September 9, 2008) was a Canadian actor and director, best-known for his 14-season tenure as artistic director of the Stratford Festival of Canada from 1994 to 2007. Early life Monette was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, the son of Florence M. (née Tondino) and Maurice Monette. He was educated at Loyola High School (Montreal) and Loyola College (now Concordia University). Theatre career It was at college that his acting skills were first noticed when he took top acting honours at the 1959 Hart House Inter-Varsity Drama competition in Toronto. Upon graduation, he chose to pursue an acting career, and his first professional role was as a 19-year-old Hamlet at the Crest Theatre in Toronto. He joined the Stratford Festival Com... |
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