Goldeneye 1995 premiere

1. Pierce Brosnan

Pierce Brendan Brosnan was born in Drogheda, County Louth, Ireland, to May (Smith), a nurse, and Thomas Brosnan, a carpenter. He lived in Navan, County Meath, until he moved to England, UK, at an early age (thus explaining his ability to play men from both backgrounds convincingly). His father left...

2. Minnie Driver

Actress | Circle of Friends

Minnie Driver was born January 31, 1970 in London and raised in Barbados until she was seven. Her mother, Gaynor Churchward, was a designer and former couture model. Her father, Charles Ronald "Ronnie" Driver, was a businessman. Minnie's mother was her father's mistress while he was still married ...

3. Liev Schreiber

Actor | Spotlight

Liev (pronounced Lee-ev) Schreiber was born in San Francisco. His mother, Heather (Milgram), is a painter, and his father, Tell Schreiber (Tell Carroll Schreiber III), is a theatrical actor who had a small role in The Keeper (1976). His mother is from a working-class Jewish family from Poland and ...

4. Kathleen Turner

Actress | Romancing the Stone

Kathleen Turner was born June 19, 1954 in Springfield, Missouri, to Patsy (Magee) and Allen Richard Turner, a U.S. Foreign Service officer. She graduated from American School in London in 1972. After the death of her father, the Turner family moved back to the United States where Kathleen later ...

5. Jay Weiss

Self | The Annual National Board of Review Awards

Jay Weiss was previously married to Kathleen Turner.

6. Desmond Llewelyn

Actor | GoldenEye

Desmond Llewelyn was born in South Wales in 1914, the son of a coal mining engineer. In high school, he worked as a stagehand in the school's productions and then picked up sporadic small parts. His family would not give up their effort to prevent him from a life on stage, so an uncle who was a ...

7. Patricia Hearst

Actress | Cry-Baby

Patricia Hearst was born on February 20, 1954 in San Francisco, California, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for Cry-Baby (1990), Bio-Dome (1996) and Serial Mom (1994). She was previously married to Bernard Lee Shaw.

8. Bernard Shaw

Actor | Contact

CNN's main anchor in Washington, D.C., Shaw, who co-anchored "The International Hour" and The World Today (1992), made a name for himself in the 1988 U.S. presidential debates when he shocked candidate Michael Dukakis with his opening question asking if Dukakis would drop his opposition to the ...

9. Max Vesterhalt

Camera_department | Single Room Occupancy

Max Vesterhalt is from a diverse home and parentage, which included an American Indian background that made growing up and her early life a real challenge. She has studied history and traveled extensively especially in Europe. Her exquisite good looks led her into a life of modeling and acting. ...

10. Keely Shaye Brosnan

Director | Poisoning Paradise

Keely Shaye Brosnan is an award-winning broadcast journalist turned award-winning documentary filmmaker. She has nurtured a diverse career covering a wide range of topics, from environmental journalism and animal advocacy to celebrity journalism and apprehending fugitives.

In 2016, Keely made her ...

11. Izabella Scorupco

Actress | GoldenEye

Born in the northern Polish town of Bialystok, Izabella Scorupco moved to Sweden with her mother as a young child. She studied drama and music and, at 17, was discovered by a Swedish film director who cast her in the movie Ingen kan älska som vi (1988), which made her a local teen idol. She ...

12. Deborah Norville

Actress | The Young and the Restless

Deborah Norville is a two-time national Emmy winner and mother of three (sons Niki and Kyle, and daughter Mikaela), who currently anchors the nationally syndicated show, Inside Edition (1988). She previously worked as a correspondent for Street Stories (1992), 48 Hours (1988), and served as ...

13. Helmut Huber

Producer | Seduced and Betrayed

Helmut Huber was born on October 10, 1937 in Austria. He was a producer and writer, known for Seduced and Betrayed (1995), Wieviel Liebe braucht der Mensch (1988) and Blood on Her Hands (1998). He was married to Susan Lucci. He died on March 28, 2022 in Long Island, New York, USA.

14. Susan Lucci

Actress | All My Children

Susan Lucci was born on December 23, 1946, in Scarsdale, New York, to Jeanette (Granquist) and Victor Lucci, a building contractor. She is of Italian (father) and Swedish, German, and French (mother) descent. Susan grew up in Garden City. Since she can remember, she wanted to be a performer, and ...

15. Annabella Sciorra

Actress | The Hand That Rocks the Cradle

Annabella Sciorra was born on March 29, 1960 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. Annabella is an actor and producer, known for The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992) and Jungle Fever (1991). Annabella was previously married to Joe Petruzzi.

16. Meat Loaf

Actor | The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Meat Loaf was born Marvin Lee Aday in Dallas, Texas, to Wilma Artie (Hukel), a teacher and gospel singer, and Orvis Wesley Aday, a police officer. He moved to Los Angeles in 1967 to play in local bands. In 1970, he moved to New York and appeared in the Broadway musicals "Hair", "Rockabye Hamlet" ...

17. Gary Sinise

Actor | Forrest Gump

Gary Alan Sinise was born in Blue Island, Illinois, to Mylles S. (Alsip) and Robert L. Sinise, A.C.E., a film editor. He is of Italian (from his paternal grandfather), English, Scottish, Irish, French, German, and Swedish ancestry. His family moved to Highland Park, where he attended high school. ...

18. Chris Noth

Actor | Sex and the City

Two-time Golden Globe nominee and SAG Award nominated actor Chris Noth stars on Season 3 FX's critically acclaimed drama Tyrant (2014) and has two independent films coming out this year.

On Tyrant (2014), Noth enters the show in its third season premiering in July, starring as Gen. William Cogswell,...

19. Elle Macpherson

Actress | The Edge

Elle Macpherson was born on March 29, 1964 in Cronulla, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. She is a producer and actress, known for The Edge (1997), Batman & Robin (1997) and Friends (1994). She has been married to Jeffrey Soffer since July 2013. She was previously married to Gilles Bensimon.

20. Courtney B. Vance

Actor | The Hunt for Red October

From studying history at Harvard, and acting at Yale Drama School, to making history in Hollywood, Courtney B. Vance has carefully cultivated an exceptional career that showcases his passion, talent, and intellect. His penchant for successfully finding the dignity and honor in each character ...

21. Penny Marshall

Actress | Laverne & Shirley

Penny Marshall was born Carole Penny Marshall on October 15, 1943 in Manhattan. The Libra was 5' 6 1/2", with brown hair and green eyes. She was the daughter of Marjorie (Ward), a tap dance teacher, and Anthony "Tony" Marshall, an industrial film director. She was the younger sister of filmmakers ...

22. Martin Campbell

Director | Casino Royale

Martin Campbell knows how to entertain an audience when he steps behind the camera. When he directed The Mask of Zorro (1998), the movie earned Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations and launched the international careers of Antonio Banderas and Catherine Zeta-Jones. Next, when he helmed ...

23. Geoffrey Holder

Actor | Annie

Dancer, choreographer and actor Geoffrey Holder was born on August 1, 1930, in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, into a middle-class family. One of four children, he was taught painting and dancing by his older brother Boscoe Holder, whose dance troupe, the Holder Dance Company, the young Geoffrey joined ...

24. Sean Bean

Actor | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Sean Bean's career since the eighties spans theatre, radio, television and movies. Bean was born in Handsworth, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, to Rita (Tuckwood) and Brian Bean. He worked for his father's welding firm before he decided to become an actor. He attended RADA in London and appeared in a ...

25. Famke Janssen

Actress | X-Men: The Last Stand

Famke Janssen was born November 5, 1964, in Amstelveen, the Netherlands, and has two other siblings. Moving to America in the 1980s, she modeled for Chanel in New York. Later, taking a break from modeling, she attended Columbia University, majoring in literature.

This model-turned-actress broke into...

26. Tod Williams

Director | Cell

Tod Culpan Williams, also known as Kip, is the writer and director of The Door in the Floor (2004) (This is that, Revere and Focus Features), starring Kim Basinger and Jeff Bridges, and based the novel "A Widow For One Year" by John Irving.

Kip grew up in New York City, with his mother, a dancer, ...

27. Marcus Schenkenberg

Actor | Dinner Rush

Marcus Schenkenberg was born on August 4, 1968 in Solna, Stockholms län, Sweden. He is an actor, known for Dinner Rush (2000), Meatballs and Macaroni (1988) and V.I.P. (1998).

28. Lois Chiles

Actress | Moonraker

Lois Chiles is a former supermodel-turned-actress who gave elegant performances in a variety of films throughout the 1970s and 1980s. Her motion picture debut role was as Robert Redford's sexual endeavor in the old-fashioned Hollywood melodrama, The Way We Were (1973). Shortly after, she starred ...

29. Maud Adams

Actress | Octopussy

Stunning Swedish born ex-model who broke into film in 1970, and quickly appeared in several high profile films including playing the ex-wife of James Caan in the futuristic Rollerball (1975) and the ill-fated lover of super-assassin Francisco Scaramanga played by Christopher Lee in The Man with the...

30. Martin Bregman

Producer | Dog Day Afternoon

Martin Bregman was born on May 18, 1926 in The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA. He was a producer and actor, known for Dog Day Afternoon (1975), The Shadow (1994) and The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002). He was married to Cornelia Sharpe and Elizabeth Driscoll. He died on June 16, 2018 in New ...

31. Cornelia Sharpe

Actress | Serpico

Cornelia Sharpe was born on October 18, 1943 in Selma, Alabama, USA. She is an actress, known for Serpico (1973), The Reincarnation of Peter Proud (1975) and The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002). She was previously married to Martin Bregman and Joseph Gallison.

32. Lauren Bacall

Actress | To Have and Have Not

Lauren Bacall was born Betty Joan Perske on September 16, 1924, in New York City. She was the daughter of Natalie Weinstein-Bacal, a Romanian Jewish immigrant, and William Perske, who was born in New Jersey, to Polish Jewish parents. Her family was middle-class, with her father working as a ...

33. Michael G. Wilson

Writer | Licence to Kill

An engineer turned tax lawyer he joined Eon Productions in 1972 as a tax lawyer then was a very junior assistant on Goldfinger, did some work on The Spy Who Loved Me before becoming executive producer on Moonraker, For Your Eyes Only and Octopussy. He was then co producer on A View to a Kill. ...

34. Jeff Bridges

Actor | The Big Lebowski

Jeffrey Leon Bridges was born on December 4, 1949 in Los Angeles, California, the son of well-known film and TV star Lloyd Bridges and his long-time wife Dorothy Dean Bridges (née Simpson). He grew up amid the happening Hollywood scene with big brother Beau Bridges. Both boys popped up, without ...

35. Tony Lo Bianco

Actor | The French Connection

Tony Lo Bianco has appeared in numerous films, television programs, and stage performances, both on-screen and off as a writer, director, and producer. Onstage, he won an Obie Award for Best Actor in Jonathan Reynolds's "Yanks-3, Detroit-0, Top of the 7th". Following his memorable performance as ...

36. Christopher Brosnan

GoldenEye

Born in 1973, Christopher Brosnan is the son of Cassandra Harris (d. 1991) and Dermot Harris (d. 1986); and the adopted son of Pierce Brosnan, who was married to Cassandra from 1977 until her death on 28 December, 1991. He has one sister, Charlotte Brosnan (daughter of Cassandra and Dermot, who was...

37. Charlotte Brosnan

Actress | NYPD Blue

Born in 1971, Charlotte Brosnan is the daughter of Cassandra Harris (d. 1991) and Dermot Harris (d. 1986); and the adopted daughter of Pierce Brosnan, who was married to Cassandra from 1977 until her death on 28 December, 1991. She has one brother, Christopher Brosnan (son of Cassandra and Dermot, ...

38. Ed Bradley

Self | 60 Minutes

A graduate of Thomas More Roman Catholic High School in Philadelphia and Cheyney State Teachers College (now Cheyney University), Ed Bradley was teaching sixth grade in the Philadelphia public school system when he accepted a dare to report the news on a local radio station; he fell in love with it...

39. Kelly Jordan

Actress | Adams Morgan: The Movie

Kelly Jordan is known for Adams Morgan: The Movie (2010).