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Biography of Britney Spears
Britney Jean Spears (born December 2, 1981 (birth time and city source: Frank Clifford, Astrodatabank, from memory)) is an American singer and actress. Born in McComb, Mississippi, and raised in Kentwood, Louisiana, she performed acting roles in stage productions and television shows as a child before signing with Jive Records in 1997. Spears's first and second studio albums, ...Baby One More Time (1999) and Oops!... I Did It Again (2000), became international successes, with the former becoming the best-selling album by a teenage solo artist. Title tracks "...Baby One More Time" and "Oops!... I Did It Again" broke international sales records. In 2001, Spears released her self-titled third studio album, Britney, and played the starring role in the film Crossroads (2002). She assumed creati...
Biography of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, baptized Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart) (January 27, 1756 (birth time source: AFA, on http://www.astrologysoftware.com/resources/lore/astro_search_result.asp?by=name) – December 5, 1791) was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. His output of over 600 compositions includes works widely acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music. Mozart is among the most enduringly popular of European composers and many of his works are part of the standard concert repertoire. He is generally considered to be one of the greatest composers of classical music ever to have lived....
Biography of Emmanuelle Béart
Béart was born in Gassin, Var (not far from St. Tropez), on the French Riviera. She is the daughter of the French singer and poet Guy Béart, and actress Geneviève Galéa. In a recent trip to Croatia, she revealed that one of her grandmothers was Croatian. She obtained an acting role in the 1976 film Demain les mômes. In her teens she appeared in bit parts in television then went to Montreal, Quebec, Canada to work as a nanny before returning to France the following year to attend drama school in Paris. A short time later she was cast in her first adult role in a film, and in 1986 she achieved fame with her role opposite Yves Montand, in the film Manon des Sources. For her performance, she won the 1987 César Award for "Best Supporting Actress." She also won a "Best Actress" award at the M...
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 Björk
Björk Guðmundsdóttir (born November 21, 1965 in Reykjavík, Iceland) is an Icelandic singer/songwriter and composer, as well as an occasional actress. She is best known for her expressive range and an interest in many kinds of music, including pop, alternative rock, jazz, ambient music, electronica, folk, and classical music. She has won numerous awards, and has received 12 Grammy Award nominations and an Academy Award nomination. Her record label, One Little Indian, reported in 2003 that she has sold more than 15 million albums worldwide. Her most recent album, Volta, was released worldwide on 8 May 2007. She was ranked #36 on VH1's "The 100 Greatest Women in Rock and Roll"....
Biography of Romy Schneider
Romy Schneider (September 23, 1938 (birth time source: http://www.romy.de/romycms/index.php/content/html/biografie, Hans Taeger, Tony Bonin, Astrodatabank) – May 29, 1982) was a German actress. She was born Rosemarie Magdalena Albach-Retty in Vienna, September 23, 1938 at 9:45 PM or 10:05 PM, into a family of actors that included her paternal grandmother Rosa Albach-Retty, her father Wolf Albach-Retty of Austria and her German mother Magda Schneider . After the divorce in 1945, Magda took charge of Romy and her brother Wolfi, eventually supervising the young girl's career, often appearing alongside her daughter. Romy thus made her film debut in Wenn der weisse Flieder blüht (1953), at the age of 15. In the film Mädchenjahre einer Königin (Girlhood of a Queen, Ernst Marischka, 1954) R...
Biography of Tina Turner
Tina Turner (born Anna Mae Bullock) (November 26, 1939) is an eight time Grammy Award-winning, American Singer, Dancer, and performer whose career has spanned from 1960 to present. Tina Turner's popularity and success in rock and roll throughout the 1980s and 1990s garnered her the title, "Queen of Rock 'n' Roll". Tina Turner is noted for her energetic stage presence, and her physical trademarks, such as her long, well-proportioned legs, hair, and her instantly identifiable voice. Born in Nutbush, Tennessee, at age 16, she moved to St. Louis, Missouri, and became well known for her high energy performances with The Ike & Tina Turner Revue during the 1960s and 1970s. At the height of The Revue's success, Tina Turner developed a reputation as a consummate live entertainer. Although wel...
Biography of Victoria Beckham
Victoria Caroline Beckham (née Adams; born 17 April 1974 in Hertfordshire (birth time source: Sean Smith's biography "Victoria Beckham, the biography")) is an English fashion designer, businesswoman and former singer. In the late 1990s, Beckham rose to fame with the all-female pop group Spice Girls and was dubbed Posh Spice by the July 1996 issue of the British pop music magazine Top of the Pops. Since the Spice Girls split, she has had a solo pop music career, scoring four UK Top 10 singles. Her first single to be released, "Out of Your Mind", reached Number 2 in the UK Singles Chart and is her highest chart entry to date. During her solo career, she has been signed to Virgin Records and Telstar Records. Beckham has found more success as an internationally recognised and photographed s...
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 Joseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin (Georgian: ნამდვილი გვარი ჯუღაშვილი, Russian: Иосиф Сталин, ISO 9: Iosif Stalin; December 18 1878 – March 5, 1953) was General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee from 1922 until his death in 1953. During that time he established the regime now known as Stalinism. He gradually consolidated power and became the de facto party leader and dictator of the Soviet Union. Following the death of Vladimir Lenin in 1924, Stalin prevailed in a power struggle over Leon Trotsky, who was expelled from the Communist Party and deported from the Soviet Union...
Biography of Elizabeth II
Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary ; born 21 April 1926 (birth time source: Fagan quotes official announcement AA 3/l976 , Astrodatabank)) is Queen of sixteen sovereign states that were once part of the British Empire, and their overseas territories and dependencies. She holds each crown and title equally, however she is most directly involved with the United Kingdom, her oldest realm and the place of residence of the Royal Family. Apart from the United Kingdom, Elizabeth II is also Queen of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Antigua and Barbuda, Belize, and Saint Kitts and Nevis, where she is represented by Governors-General. The 16 countries of which ...
Biography of Pink (singer)
Alecia Beth Moore (born September 8, 1979 in Doylestown, Pennsylvania (birth time source: Imdb http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0600877/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm))), known by her stage name Pink (stylized as P!nk), is an American singer-songwriter, musician and actress. In 2000, she released her first single "There You Go", from her debut album Can't Take Me Home. The song was a commercial success, peaking at number 7 on the Billboard Hot 100. In 2001 she released her second studio album Missundaztood, which was critically acclaimed, and her most commercially successful album to date. The album produced the hit singles "Get the Party Started", "Don't Let Me Get Me", "Just Like a Pill" and "Family Portrait". In November 2003, Pink released her third studio album Try This, which produced the hit singl...
Biography of Drew Barrymore
Drew Blythe Barrymore (born February 22, 1975 (birth time source: the Wilsons, birth certificate, Astodatabank)) is an American actress, screenwriter, film director, producer, model and author who is a descendant of the Barrymore family of well-known American stage and cinema actors, and is the granddaughter of film legend John Barrymore. Barrymore first appeared in an advertisement when she was eleven months old, a 1978 episodic television debut The Waltons as Melissa in season 7: episode 4 and her film debut in Altered States in 1980. In 1982, she starred in her breakout role as Gertie in Steven Spielberg's E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and quickly became one of Hollywood's most recognized child actresses, going on to establish herself in mainly comic roles. Following a turbulent childho...
Biography of Winona Ryder
Winona Ryder (born October 29, 1971) is a two-time Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe-winning American actress. She has received a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award and two Academy Award nominations in 1993 and 1994, respectively. Ryder made her screen debut in Lucas (1986) playing a teenage girl with a crush on the film's title character, Lucas. In 1988 she had what some may consider her breakout role in Beetlejuice as a Gothic teenager named Lydia. After making various appearances in film and television, Ryder received her breakthrough role in the cult classic high-school set black comedy, Heathers (1989) alongside Christian Slater. Since then, Ryder's acting career has developed greatly. Her performances in films such as Edward Scissorhands (1990), Mermaids (1990)...
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 Fergie (singer)
Stacy Ann Ferguson (born March 27, 1975 (birth time source: Astrodatabank)), better known by her stage name Fergie, is an American pop and R&B singer-songwriter, and actress. She is a former member of the kids' TV series Kids Incorporated, and the girl group Wild Orchid. Ferguson was also a co-host of the TV show Great Pretenders. She is currently a vocalist for the hip hop/pop group The Black Eyed Peas, as well as a solo artist, releasing her debut album, The Dutchess, in 2006. Early life Ferguson was born in Whittier, California to Terri Gore and Patrick Ferguson in nearby Hacienda Heights. She has one sister, Dana, who is an actress. Her parents were Catholic and worked as schoolteachers, and Ferguson had a strict Catholic upbringing. During her youth, she was involved with members ...
Biography of Sarah Jessica Parker
Sarah Jessica Parker (born March 25, 1965 (birth time source: biography by Marc Shapiro, by email)) is an American actress, model, singer and producer. She is best known for her leading role as Carrie Bradshaw on the HBO television series Sex and the City (1998–2004), for which she won four Golden Globe Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, and two Emmy Awards. She played the same role in the 2008 feature film based on the show, Sex and the City: The Movie, and in its sequel, Sex and the City 2, which opened on May 26, 2010. Parker has also appeared in many other films. Early life Sarah Jessica Parker was born in Nelsonville, Ohio, the daughter of Barbara Parker (née Keck), a nursery school operator and teacher, and Stephen Parker, an entrepreneur and journalist. She was one o...
Biography of Martine Aubry
Martine Aubry (née Delors, born 8 August 1950) is a French politician. She has been the First Secretary of the French Socialist Party since November 2008 and Mayor of Lille (Nord) since March 2001, and is considered a possible candidate for President of France in 2012. Aubry was born in Paris. Her father, Jacques Delors, was a former Minister of Finance under President François Mitterrand, and a former President of the European Commission. She joined the PS in 1974 and was appointed Minister of Labour by then-Prime Minister Édith Cresson, in 1991, but lost her position in 1993 after the RPR won the legislative elections. However, she became Minister of Social Affairs when Lionel Jospin was elected Prime Minister in 1997. She is mostly known for having pushed the controversial 35-h...
Biography of Shania Twain
Shania Twain, OC (play /ʃəˈnaɪ.ə ˈtweɪn/; born Eilleen Regina Edwards; August 28, 1965) is a Canadian country pop singer-songwriter. She rose to fame in the mid 1990s with her album The Woman in Me (1995), and achieved worldwide success with her 1997 album Come On Over, which became the best-selling album of all time by a female musician in any genre, and the best-selling country album of all time. It has sold over 40 million copies worldwide and is the 9th best-selling album in the U.S. Her 4th album, titled Up! was released late 2002. To date it has sold 20 million copies worldwide. The source for her birth time is her autobiography. A five-time Grammy Award winner, Twain has also achieved major success as a songwriter, winning 27 BMI Songwriter awar...
Biography of Janet Jackson
Janet Damita Jo Jackson (born on May 16, 1966 (birth time source: herself, in this video http://youtu.be/EJAeaLt_hQc)) is a Grammy Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated American singer, songwriter, composer, actress, dancer and record producer. She is ranked as the ninth most successful artist in the history of rock and roll and the second most successful female recording artist of all time in the US according to Billboard. . In 2006, it was announced that Jackson was the "Most Searched in Internet History", and the "Most Searched for News Item", in the Guinness Book of World Records. In 2007, Jackson was ranked the 7th richest woman in the entertainment business by Forbes Magazine, amassing a fortune of over $150 million. Personal life In 1984, at age eighteen, Jackson eloped with...
Biography of Jeanne Moreau
Jeanne Moreau (born 23 January 1928 in Paris, France) is a French actress, and director. Moreau was born in Paris, France to an English (dancer) mother and a French barman on January 23, 1928. She studied at the Conservatoire in Paris. In 1947, she made her theatre debut at the Avignon Festival. By her twenties, Moreau was already one of France's leading stage actresses at the Comédie-Française. After 1951 she began appearing in films with small or "bit" parts. By the late 1950s, after making many mainstream films, including several successes, she made Elevator to the Gallows with first-time director Louis Malle. Largely thanks to that film, she went on to work with many of the best known New Wave and avant garde directors. After 1959's sexy "Les Amants" (The Lovers) the media tagged he...
Biography of Pope Benedict XVI
Benedict XVI (Latin: Benedictus XVI; born Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger; 16 April 1927) is pope emeritus of the Catholic Church. He served as the 265th pope from 2005 to 2013. In that role he was both the leader of the Catholic Church and Sovereign of the Vatican City State. Benedict was elected on 19 April 2005 in a papal conclave, celebrated his Papal Inauguration Mass on 24 April 2005, and took possession of his cathedral, the Archbasilica of St. John Lateran, on 7 May 2005. Ordained as a priest in 1951 in his native Bavaria, Ratzinger established himself as a highly regarded university theologian by the late 1950s and was appointed a full professor in 1958. After a long career as an academic, serving as a professor of theology at several German universities—the last being the University...
Biography of Anne Sinclair
Anne Sinclair (born Anne-Élise Schwartz, 15 July 1948) is a French television and radio interviewer who hosted one of the most popular political shows for more than thirteen years on TF1, the largest European private TV channel. She also covered the 2008 US presidential campaign for the leading French Sunday paper Le Journal du Dimanche and the French TV channel Canal+. Early life and education Sinclair was born in New York to Joseph-Robert Schwartz (changed to Sinclair in 1949) and Micheline Nanette Rosenberg, French-Jewish parents who fled from Nazi persecution of Jews during World War II. She is the granddaughter of Paul Rosenberg, one of France's biggest art dealers. After completing part of her secondary schooling in the US, she went on to finish in France. She then majored in p...
Biography of Alanis Morissette
Alanis Nadine Morissette (born in Ottawa, 1 June 1974 (birth time source: Astrodatabank)) is a Canadian and naturalized American singer-songwriter, record producer, and occasional actress. She ranks among the top selling recording artists in history, largely thanks to her multi-million selling third album, and she has won seven Grammy Awards. Morissette began her career in Canada, and as a child recorded two dance-pop albums, Alanis and Now Is the Time, under MCA Records. Her international debut album was the rock-influenced Jagged Little Pill. Jagged Little Pill sold thirty million copies, making it the best-selling debut album of all time by a female artist. Morissette took up producing duties for her subsequent albums, including Under Rug Swept and So-Called Chaos. These garnered ...
Biography of Michelle Williams
Michelle Ingrid Williams (born September 9, 1980 (birth time source: GQ Magazine Feb. 2012)) is an Academy Award-nominated American actress. Williams broke into stardom on the teen series Dawson's Creek and later graduated to full length features, such as Brokeback Mountain, for which she earned an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Early life Born in Kalispell, Montana, she is the eldest of the five children of Larry Williams, a renowned commodities trader, and Carla Williams, a homemaker. She also has a half sister named Sara Williams, who is the vice principal of Loma Vista Elementary School, in Brentwood, California. When she was nine, her family moved to San Diego, California. At an early age, Williams took interest in acting. With her parents' disapproval, at age fifte...
Biography of Lara Fabian
Lara Fabian (born Lara Crokaert January 9, 1970 in Etterbeek, Belgium) is an international Belgian-Canadian francophone singer, known for her vocal prowess and skilled technique. She often sings in Italian, Spanish, and English in addition to French. She has also sung once in Portuguese, though she is not fluent in the language. Biography Early life Lara was born to a Flemish father and a Sicilian mother. Her name comes from her parents' inspiration of the theme song of the film Doctor Zhivago. Although born in Etterbeek (Belgium), she spent her first five years in Catania, learning Italian as a first language, before moving back to Belgium, in Brussels. Lara began singing, dancing, and taking piano lessons at a very young age and began formal music lessons at the Royal Conservatory ...
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 Sophie Davant
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Biography of Kristin Kreuk
Kristin Laura Kreuk (born December 30, 1982 in Vancouver, BC) is a Canadian actress. She is known for her roles on the Canadian television series teen soap Edgemont and on the American television series Smallville in which she stars as Clark Kent's star-crossed love Lana Lang. Kreuk (Dutch pronunciation: IPA: øːk] {krooyk}, but more commonly pronounced "krook" to rhyme with the English, "spook") was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. Her father, Peter Kreuk, is of Dutch descent; her mother, Deanna Che, is Chinese descent, but born in Indonesia; her maternal grandmother is Chinese-Jamaican.Both parents are landscape architects. Kristin has a sister who is about five years younger. Kristin trained in gymnastics at the national level until high school but quit in grade 11 due to sco...
Biography of Charles Aznavour
Charles Aznavour (born May 22, 1924 in Paris 6e (birth time source: Didier Geslain)) is an Armenian-French singer, songwriter and actor. Besides being one of France's most popular and enduring singers, he is also one of the most well-known French singers abroad. He has appeared in more than 60 movies, composed more than 1000 songs (including 150 in English, 100 in Italian, 70 in Spanish, and 50 in German), and sold well over 100 million records. Aznavour started his global farewell tour in late 2006. Film career Aznavour has had a long and varied parallel career as an actor, appearing in over 60 films. In 1960 Aznavour starred in François Truffaut's Tirez sur le pianiste, playing a character called Édouard Saroyan. He also put in a critically acclaimed performance in the 1974 movie An...
Biography of Simone Veil
Simone Veil, DBE (born 13 July 1927 (birth time source: Didier Geslain)) is a French lawyer and politician who served as a member of the Constitutional Council of France. Early life Veil was born Simone Annie Jacob, the daughter of a Jewish architect in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France. In March 1944, Veil's family was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau, where she would remain until the camp's 27 January 1945 liberation. Only Veil and her sister survived the internment. Veil returned to speak at Auschwitz-Birkenau in 2005 for the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the camps. Having obtained her baccalauréat in 1943 before being deported, she began the study of law and political science, where she met her future husband Antoine Veil. The couple married on 26 October 1946, and have thr...
Biography of Rose McGowan
Rose Arianna McGowan (born September 5, 1973 in Certaldo (birth time source: Sy Scholfield, Grazia Bordoni, BC, http://astrodatablog.blogspot.com.au/2015/03/rose-mcgowan-american-actress-model-and.html) is an Italian-born American actress. She is known for her role as Paige Matthews in The WB Television Network supernatural drama series Charmed. She played Ann-Margret alongside Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Elvis Presley in the CBS mini-series Elvis. In 2008, she was guest programmer and co-host of TCM's film-series program, The Essentials. She made her film debut in the 1992 comedy Encino Man, where she played a small role. Her performance as Amy Blue in the 1995 dark comedy film The Doom Generation brought her to a wider attention, and received an Independent Spirit Award nomination. McGowa...
Biography of Amy Adams
Amy Lou Adams (born August 20, 1974 in Vicenza (birth time source: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0010736/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm) is an American actress. She is a five-time Academy Award nominee. Adams began her career on stage performing in Dinner theaters and made her screen debut in the 1999 black comedy film Drop Dead Gorgeous. After moving to Los Angeles and appearing in a series of television guest appearances and roles in B movies, she was cast in the role of Brenda Strong in 2002's Catch Me If You Can opposite Leonardo Dicaprio, but her breakthrough role was in the 2005 independent film Junebug, playing Ashley Johnsten, for which she received critical acclaim and her first Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Adams subsequently starred in Disney's 2007 musical film E...
Biography of Martin Scorsese
Martin Marcantonio Luciano Scorsese (born November 17, 1942 (birth time source: Astrodatabank, D. Sullivan quotes his mom, Constellations '77 )) is an Academy Award, Golden Globe, BAFTA, and Directors Guild of America award winning American film director, writer and producer and founder World Cinema Foundation. Scorsese's body of work addresses such themes as Italian American identity, Roman Catholic concepts of guilt and redemption, machismo, and the violence endemic in American society. Scorsese is widely considered to be one of the most significant and influential American filmmakers of his era. He earned an MFA in film directing from the NYU Film School. He won the Academy Award for Best Director for his film The Departed, which also won the Academy Award for Best Picture at the 79t...
Biography of Kevin Hart (actor)
Kevin Hart is an American actor and stand-up comedia, born on July 6, 1979 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. Early life He is a graduate of George Washington High School in Philadelphia, and attended Temple University for two years. Career Hart worked as a shoe salesman before becoming a comedian and actor in films including The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Soul Plane, Paper Soldiers, Scary Movie 3, Along Came Polly, Scary Movie 4, Death at a Funeral, Little Fockers, Not Easily Broken, and One Day in Jersey. In 2008, Hart was featured in Three 6 Mafia's music video for "Lolli Lolli (Pop That Body)" and in 2009, Hart appeared in a series of eBay commercials Also in 2009, Hart played a sorcerer, "Zezelryck," in a comedy television series for Comedy Central, Kröd Mändoon and the Flaming ...
Biography of Sia Furler
Sia Kate Isobelle Furler (pronounced /ˈsiːə/) (born 18 December 1975), also simply known as Sia, is an Australian soulful jazz-styled pop singer and songwriter. At the 2009 Aria Awards, she won the award for Best Music DVD and Some People Have Real Problems was nominated for Best Breakthrough Artist Album. She is noted for her work with Zero 7 and her three major label solo albums. Career Sia Furler, born in Adelaide, South Australia, was part of the Australian acid jazz and indie formation, Crisp, which released two albums, Word and the Deal and Delirium. Sia later released her own solo album entitled OnlySee in 1997 on a now-defunct independent record label. Furler did not achieve commercial success until her move to the United Kingdom where she embarked on a solo ...
Biography of Mia Farrow
Mia Farrow (born Maria de Lourdes Villiers Farrow, February 9, 1945) is an American actress and former fashion model. Farrow first gained notice for her role as Allison MacKenzie in the television soap opera Peyton Place and gained further recognition for her subsequent short-lived marriage to Frank Sinatra. An early film role, as Rosemary in Roman Polanski's Rosemary's Baby (1968), saw her nominated for a BAFTA and a Golden Globe for Best Actress. She went on to appear in films such as John and Mary (1969), Follow Me! (1972), The Great Gatsby (1974) and Death on the Nile (1978). Farrow was in a relationship with actor-director Woody Allen from 1980 to 1992 and appeared in twelve of his thirteen films over that period, including Zelig (1983), Broadway Danny Rose (1984), The Purple Ro...
Biography of Priscilla Presley
Priscilla Beaulieu Presley (born Priscilla Ann Wagner on May 24, 1945 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American model, author and actress and ex-wife of rock 'n' roll singer and musician Elvis Presley and mother of singer Lisa Marie Presley. Their marriage took place on May 1, 1967. Early life Priscilla's biological father, James Wagner, was a pilot who was killed in a plane crash when Priscilla was just an infant. Her mother, Norwegian-American Anna Lillian Iversen, then married Paul Beaulieu, a United States Air Force officer. Beaulieu took over the raising of Priscilla and is known as her father. The Beaulieus were stationed in West Germany at the same time as Elvis during his stint in the United States Army. Priscilla, an Air Force brat, was 14 years old when she met Elvis in Wiesbaden...
Biography of Madhuri Dixit
Madhuri Dixit (Marathi: माधुरी दीक्षित) (born as Madhuri Shankar Dixit to a Marathi Chitpavan Brahmin family on May 15, 1967) is an award winning Indian Bollywood actress and one of the biggest stars of the Indian film industry. Throughout the late 1980s and 1990s, she dominated Hindi cinema as a leading actress, appearing in many hit films. She is considered to be an icon of the Bollywood film industry. Dixit has been praised for her beauty, acting talent and dancing skills. Film career Maduri Dixit made her acting debut in Abodh (1984). After a few minor and supporting roles her first major role was in Tezaab (1988) which launched her career. She then went on to star in the hit films Ram Lakhan (1989), Pari...
Biography of Catherine Ringer
Catherine Ringer (born October 18, 1957, Suresnes, France) is a singer, musician, songwriter, and pornoactress. She is a lead member of the band Les Rita Mitsouko, along with Frédéric Chichin, whom she met in 1979. Solo Discography 1988 : Qu’est-Ce Que T’es Belle (duo with Marc Lavoine) 1990 : Tatie Danielle (soundtrack, music of Gabriel Yared) 1995 : Doux Daddy (soundtrack "Les Trois Frères") 1995 : Peut-Etre Ce Soir (from the album "Roots" by Coba) 1997 : Sinon, oui (soundtrack "Les Trois Frères", music of Archie Shepp) 1997 : Les Joyeux Bouchers ("Jazz à St Germain" with the Renegade Brass Band) 1997 : Eso Es El Amor (sountrack "Un Grand Cri D'Amour") 1998 : Rendez-Vous (from the album "Conscious Posi" by Coba) 1998 : Sa Raison d'être (from the album "Ensemble" ag...
Biography of Helen Mirren
Dame Helen Mirren, DBE, (born on July 26, 1945) is an English stage, television and film actress. She has won an Academy Award, four SAG Awards and assorted BAFTAs, Golden Globes and Emmy Awards during her career. Personal life Mirren was born Ilyena Vasilievna Mironov in Ilford, Essex, now a part of Greater London. She was the second of three children of a father of Russian origin and an English mother. Mirren's paternal grandfather, a Russian nobleman, tsarist colonel and diplomat, was negotiating an arms deal in Britain and was stranded there, along with his family, during the Russian Revolution. Her father, Vasily Petrovich Mironov, called himself Basil and changed the family name to Mirren in the 1950s. He played the viola with the London Philharmonic before World War II and, afte...
Biography of Sophia Bush
Sophia Anna Bush (born July 8, 1982) is a "Rising Star" award winning American actress. She is perhaps best known for her role of Brooke Davis in the CW series One Tree Hill and also for her role portraying Grace Andrews in the horror remake The Hitcher. She was nominated for a Teen Choice Award award three times for her role as Brooke Davis. Early life Bush, an only child, was born and raised in Pasadena, California to Charles William Bush, one of the top advertising and celebrity photographers working in the United States today, and Maureen, a photography studio manager. Bush was an athletic young girl on her varsity volleyball team, and did not consider acting until after graduation. Bush attended Westridge School for Girls (Pasadena) and the University of Southern California and w...
Biography of Cécile Duflot
Cécile Duflot (French pronunciation: ; born 1 April 1975 in Villeneuve-Saint-Georges, Val-de-Marne (birth time source: Didier Geslain)) is a French politician. She was Minister of Territorial Equality and Housing (French: Ministre de l’Egalité des Territoires et du Logement) in the Ayrault Cabinet. Until June 2012, she was Party Secretary (i.e. leader) of Europe Ecology – The Greens, a position she held from November 2006 and was, with Jean-Luc Bennahmias, the only Green leader to have served two consecutive terms (although Dominique Plancke served three non-consecutive ones). In May 2012 she announced her resignation from this role. Main political offices The French political system allows one person to hold multiple political offices. The electoral promise of Francois Hollan...
Biography of Michèle Mercier
Michèle Mercier, (born January 1, 1939 as Jocelyne Yvonne Renée Mercier) is a French actress. In the course of her career she has worked with leading directors like François Truffaut, Jean-Pierre Melville, Jacques Deray, Dino Risi, Mario Monicelli, Mario Bava, Peter Collinson and Ken Annakin. Her leading men have included Marcello Mastroianni, Vittorio Gassman, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Gabin, Charles Aznavour, Robert Hossein, Charles Bronson, Tony Curtis and Charlton Heston. Although she appeared in more than fifty films, it is for her role as "Angélique" that she is best known in France. The daughter of a French pharmacist father and an Italian mother, she initially wanted to be a dancer. The circumstances of war made this difficult and her parents saw it as only a whim; however, her d...
Biography of Edie Sedgwick
Edith Minturn "Edie" Sedgwick (April 20, 1943 – November 15, 1971) was an American actress, socialite, and heiress who starred in many of Andy Warhol's short films in the 1960s. In popular culture Sedgwick has been referenced in popular music, numerous times in addition to the works of her contemporaries described above. Rochester, NY garage band, THE PRIESTS refer to Edie Sedgwick in the lyrics to the song "She'll Never Know" from their debut CD, "THE PRIESTS", released on Garage-Pop Records in 2000.The Priests MySpace page The Cult wrote a song about her life called "Edie (Ciao Baby)" which was on their Sonic Temple album released in 1989. It was released as a single and video-clip starring an Edie-Double. The cover featured the famous "Ciao! Manhattan" cover shot. James Ray a...
Biography of Laurence Ferrari
Laurence Ferrari, born July 5, 1966 in Aix-les-Bains (birth time source: Didier Geslain), is a French journalist....
Biography of Roselyne Bachelot
Roselyne Bachelot-Narquin, generally known as Roselyne Bachelot (born 24 December 1946 in Nevers) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the west of France. She currently is the French Minister of Health, Youth Affairs and Sport. She is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement, which is part of the European People's Party, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Employment and Social Affairs. She is a substitute on the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy, a member of the delegation for relations with the Palestinian Legislative Council, and a substitute for the delegation for relations with Israel. Career Doctor of Pharmacy Head of the UMP list for the Grand Ouest region in the European elections on 13 June 2004 Member of ...
Biography of Olivia Del Rio
Olivia Del Rio (born April 16, 1969 in Rio Casca, Brazil) is a Mulatto/Brazilian pornographic actress. She grew up in Belo Horizonte with 15 brothers and sisters. She is married with 2 children. She allegedly derived her stage name from the legendary pornstar Vanessa del Rio, a personal favorite of Olivia's. Olivia is primarily known for her exotic beauty, large enhanced breasts, and her enthusiastic anal sex performances. Olivia has stated that she finds receptive anal sex "delicious", and has also commented that she doesn't feel that sex is complete until she has been sodomized. Per her own personal accounting, she had not experienced anal sex until she began performing in pornographic movies. Today she is living in Marseille, France and currently directs and produces her own movie...
Biography of PJ Harvey
Polly Jean Harvey (born 9 October 1969) is an English musician and songwriter. PJ Harvey began her career as part of a trio (with drummer Rob Ellis and bassist Steve Vaughan). She has since recorded as a solo artist under the name PJ Harvey. Origins Harvey was born in Yeovil, Somerset and brought up in nearby Corscombe, Dorset. The daughter of a stonemason and a sculptor, Harvey grew up on a small sheep farm in Dorset. At an early age her parents introduced her to the blues, jazz and art-rock music which would later influence her the most strongly: "I was brought up listening to John Lee Hooker, to Howlin' Wolf, to Robert Johnson, and a lot of Jimi Hendrix and Captain Beefheart. So I was exposed to all these very compassionate musicians at a very young age, and that's always remaine...
Biography of Marina Lambrini Diamandis
Marina Lambrini Diamandis (Greek: Μαρίνα-Λαμπρινή Διαμάντη, pronounced /diːəˈmændi/ dee-a-man-dee; born 10 October 1985), better known by her stage name Marina and the Diamonds (sometimes stylised as Marina & the diamonds), is a Welsh singer-songwriter of Greek descent. She rose to fame after reaching number two on the BBC Sound of 2010 poll list, coming second to Ellie Goulding. After releasing one private EP, Diamandis released her second extended play, The Crown Jewels EP, with help from Neon Gold Records, in 2009. Now signed to 679 Recordings, she released her debut full-length studio album, The Family Jewels, followed by her third extended play, The American Jew... |
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