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Biography of Nicolas Sarkozy
Nicolas Sarkozy, born Nicolas Paul Stéphane Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa; 28 January 1955) is the 23rd President of the French Republic and ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra. He has served since 16 May 2007 and is set to step down on 17 May 2012 to make way for François Hollande. Before his presidency, he was leader of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP). Under Jacques Chirac's presidency he served as Minister of the Interior in Jean-Pierre Raffarin's (UMP) first two governments (from May 2002 to March 2004), then was appointed Minister of Finances in Raffarin's last government (March 2004 to May 2005) and again Minister of the Interior in Dominique de Villepin's government (2005–2007). Sarkozy was also president of the General council of the Hauts-de-Seine department from 2004 to 2007 and...
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 14th Dalai Lama
Tenzin Gyatso is the fourteenth and current Dalai Lama, and as such, is often referred to in Western media simply as the Dalai Lama, without any qualifiers. The fifth of sixteen children of a farming family in the Tibetan province of Amdo, he was proclaimed the tulku (rebirth) of the thirteenth Dalai Lama at the age of two. On 17 November 1950, at the age of fifteen, he was enthroned as Tibet's Head of State and most important political ruler, while Tibet faced occupation by the forces of the People's Republic of China. After the collapse of the Tibetan resistance movement in 1959, Tenzin Gyatso fled to India, where he was active in establishing the Central Tibetan Administration (the Tibetan government in exile) and seeking to preserve Tibetan culture and education among the thousands ...
Biography of Sophie Marceau
Sophie Danièle Sylvie Maupu (French pronunciation: ; born 17 November 1966 (birth time source: Didier Geslain)) is a French actress, director, screenwriter, and author. She has appeared in 39 films. As a teenager, Marceau achieved popularity with her debut films La Boum (1980) and La Boum 2 (1982), receiving a César Award for Most Promising Actress. She became a film star in Europe with a string of successful films, including L'Étudiante (1988), Pacific Palisades (1990), Fanfan (1993), and Revenge of the Musketeers (1994). Marceau became an international film star with her performances in Braveheart (1995), Firelight (1997), and the nineteenth James Bond film The World Is Not Enough (1999). Early life Sophie Marceau was born 17 November 1966 in Paris, the second child of Simone ...
Biography of Cristiano Ronaldo
Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro, OIH, (Portuguese pronunciation: ; born 5 February 1985 in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal (source for his birth time: his birth certificate from Funchal (Astrodatabank, and an email, but her mother gives 10:20 AM "Cristiano Ronaldo: The Boy Who Had A Dream" (Biography movie)), commonly known as Cristiano Ronaldo, is a Portuguese footballer who plays as a winger or a forward for Spanish La Liga club Real Madrid and serves as captain of the Portuguese national team. Ronaldo is the most expensive player in football history after moving from Manchester United to Real Madrid in a transfer deal worth £80 million (€94m, US$132m). In addition, his contract with Real Madrid, in which he is to be paid £11 million per year over the following six years, makes him the h...
Biography of Jay-Z
Shawn Corey Carter (born December 4, 1969 (birth time source: Craft, Astrodatabank, accuracy in question), better known as Jay-Z, is an American rapper and current president and CEO of Def Jam and Roc-A-Fella Records. In addition, he co-owns The 40/40 Club, and is co-owner of the New Jersey Nets NBA team. He is one of the most financially successful American hip-hop artists. Known for his flow and blending of street and popular rap, Jay-Z has become one of the best-selling rappers in the hip hop industry. He is admired for his ability to compose lyrics without the use of pen and paper (his critically acclaimed album The Blueprint was allegedly written in only two days). He also returned from retirement in late 2006 with the album Kingdom Come which sold 680,000 copies in its first week,...
Biography of Aishwarya Rai
Aishwarya Rai (born November 1, 1973 (birt time source: http://aishwaryarai.stormpages.com/biography/biography.html)), is a three-time Filmfare Award-winning Indian actress. She was Miss World in 1994 and has acted in Hindi, Tamil, Bengali and English films. Rai is married to Indian actor Abhishek Bachchan and is daughter-in-law to Amitabh Bachchan. Aishwarya Rai was born in Mangalore, in the South Indian state of Karnataka, to Krishnaraj Rai, a marine engineer, and Vrinda Rai, a writer. Her ancestors are from the Bunt (community) of Mangalore.Her family later relocated to Mumbai(Bombay). Rai has one brother, Aditya Rai, who is three years older than she is. Aditya is a film producer, and has occasionally produced films in which Rai acted. Aditya got married in early 2004. Rai attend...
Biography of Drake (entertainer)
Aubrey Drake Graham (born October 24, 1986 (birth time source: https://instagram.com/p/ujdy8FDQLX/?modal=true), who uses the mononymous stage name Drake in his music career, is a Canadian actor and recording artist. He originally became known for playing character Jimmy Brooks on the television series Degrassi: The Next Generation. Graham continued to recognize a close affiliation with Lil Wayne's Young Money Entertainment, before officially signing with the record label in June 2009. His first studio album, Thank Me Later, is expected to be released on the label June 15, 2010. At only the beginning of his musical career, Graham has already worked with Lil Wayne, Birdman, and Kanye West. He has also worked with hip-hop moguls Eminem and Jay-Z. With the success of his mixtape So Far ...
Biography of Lindsay Lohan
Lindsay Dee Lohan (born July 2, 1986 (birth time source: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0517820/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm)) is an American actress and pop music singer. Lohan started in show business as a child fashion model for magazine advertisement and television commercials. At age 10, she began her acting career in a soap opera; at 11, she made her motion picture debut by playing identical twins in Disney's 1998 remake of The Parent Trap. The source for her birth time is Seventeen Magazine, April 2006. Lohan rose to stardom with her leading roles in the films Freaky Friday, Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen, Mean Girls and Herbie: Fully Loaded. Her subsequent roles include appearances in A Prairie Home Companion and Bobby. In 2004, Lohan launched a second career in pop music yielding th...
Biography of Jim Carrey
James Eugene Carrey (born January 17, 1962 (birth time source: Sy Scholfield, Astrodatabank)) is a Golden Globe-winning Canadian-American A-list film actor and comedian. He is known for his manic, slapstick performances in comedy films such as Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls, The Mask, Dumb & Dumber, Me, Myself & Irene, The Cable Guy, Liar Liar, and Bruce Almighty. Carrey has also achieved critical success in dramatic roles in films such as The Truman Show, Man on the Moon, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Early life Jim Carrey was born in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada to Kathleen Oram, a homemaker, and Percy Carrey, an accountant. He has three older siblings, John, Patricia and Rita. The family was Catholic and has French Canadian ancestry (the original...
Biography of Pablo Picasso
Pablo Ruiz Picasso (October 25, 1881 – April 8, 1973) was a Spanish painter and sculptor. His full name was Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Clito Ruiz y Picasso. One of the most recognized figures in 20th century art, he is best known as the co-founder, along with Georges Braque, of cubism. Pablo Picasso was born in Málaga, Spain, the first child of José Ruiz y Blasco and María Picasso y López. He was christened with the names Pablo, Diego, José, Francisco de Paula, Juan Nepomuceno, Maria de los Remedios, and Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad. Picasso's father was Jose Ruíz, a painter whose specialty was the naturalistic depiction of birds and who for most of his life was also a professor of art at the School...
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 Bono (U2)
Paul David Hewson, (born 10 May 1960 (birth time source: Astrodatabank)), known as Bono is the Academy Award nominated and Grammy winning lead singer and principal lyricist of the Irish rock band U2. Bono is also widely known for his work as an activist concerning Africa. Bono is married to Alison Stewart. Their relationship began in 1975 and the couple were married on 21 August 1982 in an Anglican ceremony at a chapel on the Guinness family estate with Adam Clayton acting as Bono's best man. The couple have four children, Jordan, Memphis Eve, Elijah Bob Patricius Guggi Q & John Abraham. Bono lives in Killiney in south County Dublin, Ireland, with his family and shares a villa in Èze in the Alpes-Maritimes in the south of France with U2 bandmate The Edge, as well as an apartment at The ...
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 Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla (Serbian Cyrillic: Никола Тесла) (10 July 1856 - 7 January 1943) was an inventor, physicist, mechanical engineer and electrical engineer. He was born an ethnic Serb subject of the Austrian Empire and later became an American citizen. Tesla is best known for his many revolutionary contributions to the discipline of electricity and magnetism in the late 19th and early 20th century. Tesla's patents and theoretical work formed the basis of modern alternating current electric power (AC) systems, including the polyphase power distribution systems and the AC motor, with which he helped usher in the Second Industrial Revolution. After his demonstration of wireless communication in 1893 and after being the victor in t...
Biography of Ryan Reynolds
Ryan Rodney Reynolds (born October 23, 1976 (birth time source: Astrodatabank, accuracy in question)) is a Canadian actor. He became known for starring in the sitcom Two Guys and a Girl and has since established a career as a Hollywood actor, having starred in both comedic and dramatic roles. Early life Reynolds was born in Vancouver, British Columbia to Tammy, a salesperson and career student, and Jim Reynolds, a Vancouver food wholesaler and former semi-professional boxer. He is the youngest of four brothers; one of them currently employed as a police officer with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. His father was also in the police force for a short time. Reynolds graduated from Kitsilano Secondary School in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in 1994. He also attended Kwantlen Un...
Biography of Kat Bjelland
Katherine "Kat" Lynne Bjelland (born December 9, 1963 (Lorie Barbero on Instagram, copy at http://www.astrotheme.fr/images/Lori_Barbero_time_of_birth.jpg)) is an American singer-songwriter, musician and guitarist who is currently the lead singer and guitarist of the band Katastrophy Wife, and is the former lead singer, guitarist and main songwriter of the punk rock band Babes in Toyland. Early life Bjelland was born in Salem, Oregon and grew up in nearby Woodburn. Her mother was Lynne Irene Higginbotham; her father was Lyle Bjelland. Bjelland's parents divorced when she was young, and she referred to her stepmother in later years as "abusive" and having a great effect on her life. In the documentary, Not Bad for a Girl (1995), Bjelland revealed this: You know, I really hate to...
Biography of Frank Sinatra
Francis Albert Sinatra (December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was a jazz oriented popular singer and Academy Award-winning actor. Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid 1940s. His professional career had stalled by the 1950s, but it was reborn in 1953 after he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He signed with Capitol Records, and released several critically lauded albums (such as In the Wee Small Hours, Songs For Swingin' Lovers, Come Fly With Me, Only the Lonely and Nice 'n' Easy). Sinatra left Capitol to found his own record label, Reprise Records (finding success with albums such as Ring-A-Ding-Ding, Sinatra at the Sands and Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos J...
Biography of Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven (IPA: ), (baptised December 17, 1770 – March 26, 1827) was a German composer. He is generally regarded as one of the greatest composers in the history of music, and was a crucial figure in the transitional period between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western classical music. His music and his reputation inspired — and in many cases intimidated — ensuing generations of composers, musicians, and audiences. While primarily known today as a composer, Beethoven was also a celebrated pianist. Born in Bonn, Germany, he moved to Vienna, Austria, in his early twenties and settled there, studying with Joseph Haydn and quickly gaining a reputation as a virtuoso pianist. Despite gradual hearing loss beginning in his twenties, Beethoven continued to produce notable masterpi...
Biography of Jennifer Love Hewitt
Jennifer Love Hewitt (born February 21, 1979 (birth time source: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001349/bio)) is an American actress and singer-songwriter. She is well-known for her television and film roles in the Fox television series Party of Five and its spin-off Time Of Your Life, as Sarah Reeves, and also starred in I Know What You Did Last Summer and its sequel, as Julie James. Hewitt can currently be seen on the CBS top-rated television series Ghost Whisperer, as Melinda Gordon, a young newlywed who communicates with the dead. Early life and career Hewitt was born in Waco, Texas, to Herbert Daniel Hewitt and Patricia Mae Shipp. Her father is a technician and her mother worked as a speech-language pathologist. Hewitt grew up in Harker Heights, Texas. After the divorce of her parents...
Biography of Eva Joly
Eva Joly (born December 5, 1943 (birth time source: Viktor E., Astrodatabank, BC) as Eva Gro Farseth) is a Norwegian-French magistrate. Born in Grünerløkka, Oslo, she moved to Paris at 18 to work as an au pair. Here, against the will of the parents, she married the son of the family, Pascal Joly (now deceased). Working as a secretary, she took her legal education at night school. Joly specialised in financial affairs, and in 1990 she joined the High Court of Paris as an investigating judge. Here she quickly made a mark with her tireless crusade against corruption, in particular taking on, among others, former minister Bernard Tapie and the bank Crédit Lyonnais. Her most famous case, however, was that of France’s leading oil company – Elf Aquitaine. In the face of death threats, she car...
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 Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, FRS, PC (Can) (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was an English politician, soldier in the British Army, orator, and strategist, and was among the most powerful and relevant figures in modern British and world history. A prolific author, he won the prestigious Nobel Prize in Literature for his writings on English and world history in 1953. As a member in the British Army, he fought during the Second Boer War and at the Battle of Omdurman. At the forefront of the political scene for almost sixty years Churchill held numerous political and cabinet positions. Before the First World War he served as President of the Board of Trade and Home Secretary during the Liberal governments. In the First World War Churchill served in numerous po...
Biography of Clara Morgane
Clara Morgane (real name is Emmanuelle Aurélie Munos), now a singer, media personnality and TV host, is a former French porn star who was born on January 25, 1981 in Marseille. At age 12, Morgane was a photographic model through a modelling agency. However, at age 19, she discovered porn during an erotic exhibition show in Paris and decided to give it a try. She was unusual in that, at first, she appeared in a series of films with only one partner; Greg Centauro, who was then her boyfriend. She has been the anchorwoman of the Journal du hard, on the pay-TV channel Canal+, since September 2001. She also writes sex advice columns in a few French magazines for teenagers and adults. In France, she often appears on national TV and provides a kind of socially acceptable, family friendly re...
Biography of Novak Djokovic
Novak Đoković (commonly spelled Djokovic in English-language sources, Serbian Cyrillic: Новак Ђоковић, (born May 22, 1987 (birth time source: Astrodatabank, birth certificate)) is a Serbian professional tennis player. His major achievements —so far— have come in 2007, when he was the runner-up at the US Open and reached three Masters Series finals, winning in Miami and Montréal. Also, he reached the semifinals at French Open and Wimbledon. His highest singles ranking on the ATP Tour is number three, which he reached on July 9, 2007. In January 2008, he defeated number one and defending champion Roger Federer at the 2008 Australian Open, and will move on to face Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the final on Jan...
Biography of Alessandro Del Piero
Alessandro Del Piero, Cavaliere Ufficiale OMRI (born November 9, 1974 in Conegliano Veneto (birth time source: Luigi Stocchi, http://www.luigistocchi.it)) is an Italian World Cup-winning footballer. He currently plays for Juventus in Italy. Pelé named Del Piero in the FIFA 100, a list of the 125 greatest living footballers selected by Pelé as a part of FIFA's centenary celebrations while Brazilian star Ronaldinho proclaimed that Del Piero is his idol. Del Piero was also voted in the list of best European players for the past 50 years in the UEFA Golden Jubilee Poll. In the year 2000, Del Piero was the world's best-paid football player from salary, bonuses and advertising revenue. Currently, Del Piero is still the highest earning Italian Player. Along with three awards in Italy for ge...
Biography of Kevin Costner
Kevin Michael Costner (born January 18, 1955) is a two-time Academy Award-winning American film actor and director who has often produced his own films. Early life Costner was born in Lynwood, California, the youngest of the three sons (the middle son died at childbirth) of William Costner, an electrician and laterly utilities executive, and Sharon Rae Tedrick, a welfare worker. He has German, Irish and Cherokee ancestry. Costner attended elementary school at McKevette School in Santa Paula, California. A poor student, Costner enjoyed sports in spite of his small stature, and took piano lessons, wrote poetry and even sang in the First Baptist Choir. Spending his teenage years in various parts of California as his fathers career progressed, the family lived in Orange County, then in ...
Biography of Kris Jenner
Kristen Mary "Kris" Jenner (née Houghton, previously Kardashian; born November 5, 1955 (birth time source: Viktor E., Astrodatabank, birth certificate))) is an American television personality, socialite, and businesswoman. She is also the manager for all of her family members including Kim Kardashian, Kourtney Kardashian and Khloe Kardashian. She is the wife of Olympic Champion Bruce Jenner. Jenner was previously married to lawyer Robert Kardashian Sr. They divorced in 1990. Early Life Kristen Mary Houghton grew up in University City, a suburb of San Diego, and attended Clairemont High School. She is the daughter of Mary and David Houghton, who had two other daughters, Karen and Sarah. She was raised solely by her mother, because her parents went through a divorce when she was 7. Her...
Biography of Bertrand Cantat
Bertrand Cantat (born in Pau, France, 5 March 1964 (birth time source: Bordoni, birth certificate, Astrodatabank)) is a French singer and songwriter. He is the leader of the rock band Noir Désir. At the helm of Noir Désir, he became one of the most prominent figures of French music in the 90s. His left leaning political views saw him take position against globalisation, fascism, desertification of urban areas in Bordeaux and the 2003 invasion of Iraq. He married Kristina Rady in 1997. Bertrand is the father of 2 children with Kristina. His son Milo was born in 1997 and daughter Alice was born in 2002. In July 2003, during a row with his girlfriend Marie Trintignant in a Domina Plaza Hotel apartment in Vilnius, Lithuania, he beat her violently, which resulted in her falling into a ...
Biography of Jamel Debbouze
Jamel Debbouze (Arabic: جامل دبّوز) (born June 18, 1975 in Paris (birth time source: Didier Geslain)) is a French actor, comedian and producer of Moroccan descent, born in Paris. In 1992, he got his first role in Nabil Ayouch's short film Les Pierres bleues du désert. Many people know him from the French television series H and his standup comedy show, Jamel Comedy Club. In 2001, he sold 400,000 videotapes of Jamel en scène. In 2002, he was the best paid actor in France. Facts Oldest of 6 children Has 3 brothers and 2 sisters 5' 5" (1.65 m) Muslim Grew up in Trappes, France Drives an Enzo Ferrari Is currently dating French news anchor Mélissa Theuriau He sings the ending theme of the movie "Mission Cleopatra" with ...
Biography of Gia Carangi
Gia Marie Carangi (January 29, 1960 – November 18, 1986) was an American fashion model during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Carangi, who was of Italian, Welsh and Irish ancestry, was considered by some to be the first supermodel, although that title has also been given to others including Janice Dickinson and Dorian Leigh. Cindy Crawford, who also appeared on the covers of several fashion publications during her time, was later referred to as "Baby Gia", due to her resemblance to Carangi. Carangi was also the first to present unusual poses, facial expressions and gestures. She is credited by many at the upper echelons of fashion to have created a new style of modeling, emulated by models since then to the present. Carangi was featured on the cover of many fashion magazines, including ...
Biography of Tiger Woods
Eldrick "Tiger" Woods (born December 30, 1975) is an American professional golfer whose achievements to date rank him among the most successful golfers of all time. Currently the World No. 1, Woods was the highest paid professional athlete in 2006, having earned an estimated $100 million from winnings and endorsements. In 2006, at the age of 30, he won his eleventh and twelfth professional major golf championships and has more wins on the PGA Tour than any other active golfer. He is the only active golfer in the top 10 in career major wins and career PGA Tour wins. Among his achievements, Woods has held the number one position in the world rankings for the most consecutive weeks and for the greatest total number of weeks. He has been awarded PGA Tour Player of the Year a record eight ti...
Biography of Tim Burton
Timothy "Tim" William Burton (born August 25, 1958) is an Academy Award-nominated American film director, writer and designer known for his off-beat and quirky style. Especially in his stop-motion animated films, he is known for the exaggerated style of his characters, which still retain their serious, humanlike characteristics. He first came to note directing the Paul Reubens film Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, which was followed by the blockbuster success of Batman in 1989. Following which he continued to make blockbusters as well as smaller dramas that continue to study loneliness in a style influenced by Gothic fairy tales, Tim Burton is also known for his making dark, dreary movie scenes very scenic. Early life Burton was born in Burbank, California, the first of two sons to Bill Burton...
Biography of David Lynch
David Keith Lynch (born January 20, 1946) is an American filmmaker, painter, video artist, and performance artist. Lynch has received three Academy Award for Best Director nominations (1980 for Elephant Man, 1987 for Blue Velvet, and 2002 for Mulholland Drive). Most of his productions have been recognized as having a lasting effect on cinema. Though he has yet to win an Oscar, Lynch has won awards at the Cannes Film Festival and the Venice Film Festival. He is probably best known for the iconic Twin Peaks saga (1991-1992), Blue Velvet (1986) and Mulholland Dr. (2001). He has appeared in Time Magazine, in 1992 as "The Most Influential Filmmaker". Lynch's films are known for their surreal, nightmarish and dreamlike sequences, their strange images, and their meticulously crafted sound desi...
Biography of Usher (entertainer)
Usher Raymond IV (born October 14, 1978), is an American R&B/pop singer and actor who rose to fame in the mid-late 1990s. To date, he has sold approximately over 35 million albums worldwide and has won five Grammy Awards. Usher is also a part owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers National Basketball Association franchise. Albums Usher (1994) My Way (1997) Live (1999) 8701 (2001) Confessions (2004) The Masterpiece (2007) Filmography Movies 1998: The Faculty 1999: She's All That 1999: Light It Up 2001: Texas Rangers 2005: In the Mix 2006: The Ballad of Walter Holmes 2007: Mama, I Want To Sing! Television 1996: The Parent Hood 1997-1999: Moesha 1998: The Bold and the Beautiful 2000: Geppetto 2001: 7th Heaven 2002: The Twilight Zone 2003: Soul F...
Biography of Nicole Richie
Nicole Camille Richie (born September 21, 1981 (birth time source: Viktor E., Astrodatabank, birth certificate)) is an American socialite, actress, author, and singer. The adopted daughter of Lionel Richie, she is best known for her role in the reality show The Simple Life. She is also known for setting major fashion trends in Hollywood. Nicole Richie was born Nicole Camille Escovedo in Berkeley, California. Her biological father was a drummer who worked with Lionel Richie; her biological mother was a backstage assistant for Lionel. It is rumored that her biological father is musician Pete Escovedo (brother of musician Sheila E.), but Richie denied this in a November 2005 interview with Jane magazine. When Nicole was two, Lionel and his wife Brenda Harvey-Richie informally adopted her a...
Biography of Nick Jonas
Nicholas Jerry "Nick" Jonas (born September 16, 1992) is an American singer-songwriter and actor best known as one of the Jonas Brothers, a boy band he created with his brothers Joe and Kevin. The Jonas Brothers originally started with a solo singing career for Nick, but when his brothers Kevin and Joe sang backup for him, the record producer liked their sound and signed all three of them. Nick was born in Dallas, Texas to Denise and Paul Kevin Jonas Sr. He was raised in Wyckoff, New Jersey and is of Irish, Italian, German, and Cherokee descent. He was diagnosed with Type I diabetes at the age of 13 and wears an OmniPod insulin pump to help him manage his diabetes. The Jonas' are known for their wholesome, and family-friendly image. The brothers are all committed Evangelical Christians,...
Biography of René Descartes
René Descartes (March 31, 1596 – February 11, 1650), also known as Renatus Cartesius (latinized form), was a highly influential French philosopher, mathematician, scientist, and writer. Dubbed the "Founder of Modern Philosophy", and the "Father of Modern Mathematics", much of subsequent western philosophy is a reaction to his writings, which have been closely studied from his time down to the present day. His influence in mathematics is also apparent, the Cartesian coordinate system being used in plane geometry and algebra is named after him, and he was one of the key figures in the Scientific Revolution. Descartes frequently contrasted his views with those of his predecessors. In the opening section of the Passions of the Soul, a treatise on the Early Modern version of what are now com...
Biography of Simone de Beauvoir
Simone de Beauvoir (January 9, 1908 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – April 14, 1986) was a French author and philosopher. She wrote novels, monographs on philosophy, politics, and social issues, essays, biographies, and an autobiography. She is now best known for her metaphysical novels, including She Came to Stay and The Mandarins, and for her 1949 treatise The Second Sex, a detailed analysis of women's oppression and a foundational tract of contemporary feminism. rcpart of the subject matter for her first serious novel, which did not turn out to Beauvoir's liking. Later in life she split the manuscript from this novel into a series of short stories. Works L'Invitée (1943) (English – She Came to Stay) Pyrrhus et Cinéas (1944) Le Sang des autres (1945) (English ...
Biography of Stevie Nicks
Stephanie Lynn "Stevie" Nicks (born May 26, 1948) is an American singer and songwriter, best known for her work with Fleetwood Mac and a long solo career, which collectively have produced over twenty Top 40 hits. She is one of the few rock artists to maintain a solo career while remaining a member of a successful band. As a member of Fleetwood Mac, she was inducted into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998. Early life Nicks was born at Good Samaritan Hospital in Phoenix, Arizona to Jess and Barbara Nicks. As a young child, she had difficulty pronouncing her given name Stephanie, and as a result, began calling herself "Stevie." The nickname stuck. Her mother fostered in her a love for fairy tales, while her grandfather, a struggling country singer, began teaching her to sing at the...
Biography of Agatha Christie
Agatha Mary Clarissa, Lady Mallowan, DBE (15 September 1890—12 January 1976), also known as Dame Agatha Christie, was an English crime fiction writer. She also wrote romances under the name Mary Westmacott, but is chiefly remembered for her 66 detective novels. Her work with these novels, particularly featuring detectives Hercule Poirot or Miss Marple, have given her the title the 'Queen of Crime' and made her one of the most important and innovative writers in the development of the genre. Christie has been called - by the Guinness Book of World Records, among others - the best-selling writer of books of all time, and the best-selling writer of any kind second to William Shakespeare. An estimated one billion copies of her novels have been sold in English, and another billion in 103 oth...
Biography of Howard Hughes
Howard Arvin Hughes, Jr. (September 24, 1905 (birth date and time source: Streinbrecher, Astrodatabank, date in question) – April 5, 1976) was, in his time, an aviator, engineer, industrialist, film producer and director, a playboy, an eccentric, and one of the wealthiest people in the world. He is famous for setting multiple, world air-speed records, building the Hughes H-1 Racer and H-4 Hercules airplanes, producing the movies Hell's Angels and The Outlaw, owning and expanding TWA, and for his debilitating eccentric behavior in later life. Early years Hughes was born in Humble, Texas, on December 24, 1905. Hughes claimed his birthday was Christmas Eve. Although some biographers debate his exact birth date, (according to NNDB.com, it was most likely "the more mundane date of September...
Biography of Thomas Edison
Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 (birth time source: Astrodatabank) – October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman who developed many devices which greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph and a long lasting light bulb. Dubbed "The Wizard of Menlo Park" by a newspaper reporter, he was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of mass production to the process of invention, and therefore is often credited with the creation of the first industrial research laboratory. Edison is considered one of the most prolific inventors in history, holding 1,093 U.S. patents in his name, as well as many patents in the United Kingdom, France and Germany....
Biography of Brian Molko
Brian Molko (born December 10, 1972 in Uccle, Belgium (birth time source: André Dekoster)) is lead vocalist and guitarist of the band Placebo. Career Born to an American international banker father and a Scottish mother, Brian Molko's family moved frequently during his childhood, including spells in Scotland, Liberia, Lebanon and Luxembourg. Molko has referred to his mother's home town of Dundee, Scotland as "where I grew up".. He attended Goldsmiths College in London, where he studied drama. He describes his childhood as a period when he felt very lonely and alienated. He started to wear make-up at the age of 11. He was an actor in a school drama theater. While Molko was brought up in a strict household that disapproved of artistic expression (his father wanted him to become a bank...
Biography of Grégory Lemarchal
Grégory Jean-Paul Lemarchal (13 May 1983 (birth time source: Paddy de Jabrun, Astrodatabank) – 30 April 2007) was a French singer who rose to fame by winning the fourth series of the reality TV programme Star Academy France, broadcast on the TF1 television network. He sold over 1 million albums in France, becoming the second highest-selling album of Star Academy France winner, behind Jenifer Bartoli, who sold 1.3 million albums in 2007. He died at age of 23 of health complications while waiting in hospital for a lung transplant. A posthumous album, La Voix d'un ange, was released with profits going towards the Association Grégory Lemarchal charity. A compilation Rêves was released in 2009. Life and career 1983–2002: Early life Gregory Lemarchal was born in La Tronche, Isère to ...
Biography of Brittany Murphy
Brittany Murphy (November 10, 1977 – December 20, 2009) was an American actress and recording artist. She starred in films such as Just Married, Clueless, Girl, Interrupted, 8 Mile, Sin City, The Dead Girl, Uptown Girls, Riding in Cars with Boys and Spun. Early life Murphy was born in Atlanta, Georgia. Her parents, Sharon Murphy and Angelo Bertolotti, divorced when she was two, and Murphy was raised by her mother in Edison, New Jersey and later Los Angeles. Murphy's mother is of Irish and Eastern European descent and her father is Italian American. She was raised a Baptist and later became a non-denominational Christian. Acting Murphy landed her first job in Hollywood when she was 14, starring as Brenda Drexell in the series Drexell's Class. She then went on to play Molly Morgan ...
Biography of John Wayne Gacy
John Wayne Gacy, (March 17, 1942 - May 10, 1994) was an American serial killer. He was convicted and later executed for the rape and murder of 33 boys and men, 27 of whom he buried in a crawl space under the floor of his house, while others were found in nearby rivers, between 1972 and his arrest in 1978. He became notorious as the "Killer Clown" because of the many block parties he threw for his friends and neighbors, entertaining children in a clown suit and makeup, under the name of "Pogo the Clown." Early life John Wayne Gacy, Jr. had a very distant relationship with his stern, alcoholic father who described Gacy as a "sissy" and who physically abused Gacy's mother. He worked briefly in Las Vegas before returning to Illinois. Gacy attended a business college and started a modera...
Biography of Rudolf Steiner
Rudolf Steiner (25 February 1861 (birth time source: Astrodatabank, date in question) – 30 March 1925), born in Donji Kraljevec, Croatia, was an Austrian philosopher, literary scholar, educator, artist, playwright, social thinker, and esotericist. He was the founder of Anthroposophy, Waldorf education, biodynamic agriculture, anthroposophical medicine, and the new artistic form of Eurythmy. He characterized anthroposophy as follows: “ Anthroposophy is a path of knowledge, to guide the spiritual in the human being to the spiritual in the universe…. Anthroposophists are those who experience, as an essential need of life, certain questions on the nature of the human being and the universe, just as one experiences hunger and thirst. ” Steiner advocated a form of ethical individualism...
Biography of Joan Rivers
Joan Alexandra Molinsky (June 8, 1933 (birth time source: Astrodatabank) – September 4, 2014), better known by her stage name Joan Rivers, was an American actress, comedienne, writer, producer, and television host. She was best known for her stand-up comedy and red carpet interviews, and for co-hosting the E! celebrity fashion show Fashion Police from 2010 to 2014, as well as starring in the reality series Joan & Melissa: Joan Knows Best? alongside her daughter Melissa Rivers from 2011 to 2014. She often appeared on QVC shopping channel, selling jewelery and fashion items that she had created. Rivers first came to prominence in 1965 as a guest on The Tonight Show, a late-night program with interviews and comedy, hosted by Johnny Carson, whom she acknowledged as her mentor. The show esta...
Biography of Karl Marx
Karl Heinrich Marx (May 5, 1818 – March 14, 1883) was a Prussian philosopher, political economist, and revolutionary. Marx addressed a wide range of issues; he is most famous for his analysis of history, summed up in the opening line of the introduction to the Communist Manifesto (1848): "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles." Marx believed that capitalism would be replaced by socialism which in turn would bring upon communism. Marx was both a scholar and a political activist, often called the father of communism. Sometimes, he argued that his analysis of capitalism revealed that capitalism was destined to end because of unsolvable problems within capitalism: “ The development of Modern Industry, therefore, cuts from under its feet the very f... |
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