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Dionne Warwick was born on 12 December 1940 in East Orange, New Jersey, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Alive (1993), The Happytime Murders (2018) and Bird Box (2018). She was previously married to William Elliott.- Actor
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Al Harrington was born on 12 December 1935 in Pago Pago, Western Samoa. He was an actor, known for Forrest Gump (1994), Hawaii Five-0 (2010) and DreamKeeper (2003). He was married to Rosa. He died on 21 September 2021 in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.- Actress
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Alex Scolari was born on 12 December 1992 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for Bounty Killer (2013), Fruit Fly (2018) and The Butcher's Daughter.- Actress
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Alexandra Stamler was born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. She is an actress, known for Role Models (2008), Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp (2015) and Bad Internet (2016).- Actress
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Ana Alicia Ortiz Torres is a Mexican actress, she was born in Mexico City, Mexico on December 12, 1956. Ana Alicia became the third of four children to Carlos Celestino Ortiz and Alicia Torres Ortiz. Her parents were hotel agents in Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico. She grew up between Acapulco, Mexico City and El Paso, Texas from age 6 after the passing of her father. There, she lived with her grandmother, widowed mother, her uncle Louie and three siblings in a house her father had purchased for her grandmother.
Ana Alicia received a full scholarship to attend the prestigious Wellesley College in Massachusetts. Upon arrival, Ana Alicia auditioned and won the lead role for Jules Feiffer's "Crawling Arnold". On summer break after her freshmen year, Ana Alicia auditioned for The Adobe Horseshoe Dinner Theatre outside El Paso, Texas. The theatre offered her a position as a recurring actress in all feature productions. The opportunity would allow her to work with name actors from Hollywood and New York and receive a large weekly salary. She accepted the offer and also acquired her actor's equity card through her term. She left Wellesley and finished her education at The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). Ana Alicia spent the next three years, performing in main stage productions at UTEP as well as having significant roles in the Adobe Horseshoe repertoire.
After graduation, Ana Alicia moved to Los Angeles and struggled to attain success as an actress while studying for her law school entrance exam. Six months later, her big acting break came when she won the role of Alicia Nieves on ABC's Ryan's Hope (1975). According to Ana Alicia, working on the show in New York was exciting - not only because it was an acting job, but because she was a fan of the the show. Although the role was a secondary one - Nieves had romances with policeman Bob Reid and Dr. Pat Ryan. It provided her with much-needed exposure.
After 15 months, Ana Alicia left the show to become one of the last Universal Studios contract players. She moved to Los Angeles and in addition to her work as a contract player, she attended Southwestern University Law School at night. As she acquired larger roles that required her to leave town, it became impossible to continue the grueling schedule of acting during the day and studying for school at night. She had to make a choice so she sat down and wrote the pros and cons of each decision and when she realized her passion was to act, she made the very difficult decision to drop out of law school. Once she was focused, her career began to open up quickly.
She landed several roles on major television films and series' episodes. Within a year, the Universal terminated their contract player department. It was the end of an era. Soon after, her teacher Milton Katselis suggested she stop playing virginal roles and turn to roles such as the tortured, sexually deprived Maggie in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof". Exploring this previously undiscovered part of her acting range, Ana Alicia pursued an audition for Falcon Crest (1981). In the room was a female casting director Doris Sabbagh along with Earl Hamner, Robert McCollough, and Larry Elikann. Ana Alicia's job was to seduce Lorenzo, played in the room by Doris. As Ana Alicia ran her fingers up Doris' stockings, conservative Southerner Earl Hamner stood up and stopped the scene, and said, "Thank you very much. That was wonderful." Less than an hour later, Ana Alicia's agent called to let her know she had won the role of Melissa Agretti.
Ana Alicia was on the show for seven years, playing the ambitious, scheming Melissa Agretti, and playing opposite Jane Wyman as Angela Channing and a plethora of handsome men. In October of 1988, Ana Alicia was written out of Falcon Crest (1981), and the show subsequently dropped considerably in the ratings. In a last ditch attempt to revitalize the show, she was brought back to the show later that season as a look-a-like of Melissa's, named Samantha Ross. The guest stint was short-lived and Ana Alicia quickly moved on to other projects, including the TV movies Miracle Landing (1990) and Rio Shannon (1993), as well as the feature film, Romero (1989). Ana Alicia has also devoted much of her time to various animal and human causes. She was the national spokesperson for the Humane Society, and has presented awards promoting Hispanic achievements in the media on behalf of the Golden Eagle Awards. Lorenzo Lamas was co-presenter.
In 1991, while in France hosting an episode of The World's Greatest Stunts for GRB Entertainment, she met and fell madly in love with her now ex husband Gary Benz. In 1996, after finishing the pilot for Acapulco Heat, Ana Alicia made the decision to leave her acting career and invest in being a mother to her two young children Cathryn and Michael, her new passion in life.
In March 2015, having raised her children and with her youngest in college, she returned to her first love but as a producer opening up her own production company Quebrada Entertainment: its purpose is to develop scripted and unscripted film and television that reaches a culturally and demographically diverse audience across all genres through the development and execution of quality storytelling.- Writer
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Anna Gordy Gaye was born on 12 December 1921 in Georgia, USA. She was a writer, known for The Negotiator (1998), Reindeer Games (2000) and Elf (2003). She was married to Marvin Gaye and Waymond Cecil Birdsong. She died on 31 January 2014 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Actress
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Anne Bobby was born on 12 December 1967 in Paterson, New Jersey, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for Nightbreed (1990), BioShock (2007) and Beautiful Girls (1996).- Editor
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After harrowing experiences as a nurse at Sir Archibald McIndoe's pioneering plastic surgery hospital in East Grinstead, Anne Coates started to fulfil her long-held ambition to be a film director with a company called Religious Films. The work consisted of patching up prints of devotional shorts before sending them out to Britain's churches. This led to a job in the cutting room at Pinewood, where she worked on "The Red Shoes" among others before achieving her first screen credit with "The Pickwick Papers".- Director
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Antunes Filho was born on 12 December 1929 in São Paulo, SP, Brazil. He was a director and writer, known for Compasso de Espera (1969), Grande Teatro Tupi (1951) and O Contador de Histórias (1955). He died on 2 May 2019 in São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.- Actor
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Bill Nighy is an award-winning British character actor. He was born William Francis Nighy on December 12, 1949 in Caterham, Surrey, England, to Catherine Josephine (Whittaker), a psychiatric nurse from Glasgow, and Alfred Martin Nighy, who was English-born and managed a garage in Croydon.
At school, he gained 'O'-levels in English Language and English Literature and enjoyed reading, particularly Ernest Hemingway. On leaving school he wanted to become a journalist but didn't have the required qualifications. He eventually went on to work as a messenger boy for the Field magazine. He stayed in Paris for a while because he wanted to write "the great novel", but he only managed to write the title. When he ran out of money, the British consul shipped him home.
Nighy wound up training at Guildford School of Dance and Drama in London, and has since then worked consistently in film, television, and on stage.
Nighy is perhaps best-known to international audiences for his memorable performance as washed-up pop singer Billy Mack in Love Actually (2003), which won him a BAFTA for best supporting actor. He has also made appearances in major franchises: he played vampire leader Viktor in Underworld (2003), Underworld: Evolution (2006) and Underworld: Rise of the Lycans (2009), did the performance capture and voice for Davy Jones in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007), and made a brief appearance as Minister of Magic Rufus Scrimgeour in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010).
Nighy's recent film credits include roles in I Capture the Castle (2003), Shaun of the Dead (2004), The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005), The Constant Gardener (2005), Notes on a Scandal (2006), Hot Fuzz (2007), Valkyrie (2008) and The Boat That Rocked (2009). He has also provided voice work for many animated movies in the past few years including Flushed Away (2006), Astro Boy (2009), Rango (2011) and Arthur Christmas (2011).
With supporting turns in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011), Wrath of the Titans (2012) and Total Recall (2012), 2012 was a busy year for Nighy. There are no signs of slowing down either, as he next appeared in Jack the Giant Slayer (2013), About Time (2013), and I, Frankenstein (2014).
Nighy has also had an active career on the small screen, beginning with Agony (1979), and his first widely-recognized role was in 1991 mini-series The Men's Room (1991). He has also made a habit of working on television with Harry Potter director David Yates: projects together include State of Play (2003), The Young Visiters (2003), The Girl in the Café (2005) and Page Eight (2011). Nighy won a Golden Globe for his performance in Gideon's Daughter (2005).
Nighy actually began his career on the stage, and has earned acclaim for his work in numerous plays including "The Vertical Hour," "Pravda". "A Map of the World", Tom Stoppard's Arcadia in 1993, and David Hare's Skylight. He received an Olivier Award nomination for Best Actor for his performance in 2001 play "Blue/Orange."
Bill's partner was actress Diana Quick (he asked her to marry him but she said: "don't ask me again"; he called her his wife because anything else would have been too difficult). They have a daughter, Mary Nighy, who is studying at university and contemplating an acting career. She has already begun to appear on TV dramas and radio programs.- Producer
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For 35 years, Bob Barker had been the host of The Price is Right (1972) game show. Not only is it the highest-rated daytime program, it is also the longest-running game show in TV history, surpassing the prime-time hit What's My Line? (1950), which ran for 18 years. He also served as the executive producer of the program, since 1988, until his retirement in 2007. Named the most popular game show host of all time in a national poll, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award for Daytime Television in 1999. Although he has graced our television screens for more than four decades, his career continued at full circle, until he left the show, in 2007, only to be replaced by comedian Drew Carey.
In 1996, he made his motion picture debut in Universal Pictures' Happy Gilmore (1996), in which he played himself with Adam Sandler. His real acting debut, however, came when he was asked to play Mel Harris' father in NBC's Something So Right (1996). Another honor came when one of the most historic sites in the history of television, Stage 33 at CBS Television City in Los Angeles, was re-dedicated as the Bob Barker Studio in ceremonies following the taping of the 5,000th episode of "The Price is Right", on March 11, 1998. Barker was the first performer to whom CBS has ever dedicated a stage.
Barker was born in Darrington, Washington, and spent most of his youth on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota, where his mother was a schoolteacher. His family eventually moved to Springfield, Missouri, where he attended high school and Drury College on a basketball scholarship. World War II interrupted his studies and he joined the US Navy, becoming a fighter pilot, but the war ended before he was assigned to a seagoing squadron.
Following his discharge, Barker returned to Drury and took a job at a local radio station to help finance his studies. It was there he discovered what he did best being to host audience participation shows. After graduating summa cum laude with a degree in economics, he went to work for a radio station in Palm Beach, Florida. A year later he moved to Los Angeles, and within a week he was the host of his own radio program, "The Bob Barker Show". He made his debut, at the end of 1956 on national television as the host of the popular The All New Truth or Consequences (1950). Ralph Edwards, the show's originator, had sold the show to NBC as a daytime strip, but he had not chosen a host. He auditioned other hosts in Hollywood and New York for weeks, but when he heard "The Bob Barker Show" on his car radio, he knew he had found the man for the job. Proving that Edwards had chosen him wisely, Barker hosted "Truth or Consequences" for an unbelievable 18 years, until the show ended in 1975, and he and Edwards remained close friends, until Edwards's death in 2005. They drank a toast at lunch every December 21st to celebrate the day in 1956, when Edwards notified him he was going to become the host of "Truth or Consequences".
Barker had been twice named in the Guinness Book of World Records as Television's "Most Durable Performer," at 3,524 shows, and "Most Generous Host in Television history" for awarding $55 million in prizes on his various shows. During the ensuing years, the $55-million figure had increased to more than $200 million. He had won 11 Emmys as a Game Show Host, more than any other performer, and 2 more as Executive Producer of "The Price is Right". He also was given the Lifetime Achievement Award in 1999, for a total of 14, and won 2 additional awards, for a total of 16 Emmys. He had also received the coveted Carbon Mike Award of the Pioneer of Broadcasters.
In 1978, he developed "The Bob Barker Fun & Games Show", a series of personal appearances that attracted record-breaking audiences throughout the US and Canada. He also established the DJ&T Foundation in Beverly Hills, California, the purpose of which is to help control the dog and cat population. He was funding the foundation through his own resources to support low-cost or free spay/neuter clinics. This foundation is named in memory of his late wife, Dorothy Jo, and his mother, Matilda (Tilly) Valandra, both of whom loved animals. Barker's work on behalf of animals has garnered him a long list of awards from prestigious humane organizations across the country. In fact, a columnist wrote Bob had become a part-time television host and a full-time animal rights activist. However, he assured his audiences there was room in his busy life for both television and animals.
After his retirement, Barker had made 3 more appearances, on "The Price is Right", the first being to promote his autobiography, " Priceless Memories :, then, on his 90th birthday, in 2013 he briefly replaced Drew Carey, at the show's intro, for an April Fools' Day joke, which was his last appearance. In 2010, The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society announced it had purchased and outfitted a ship to interdict with Japanese whaling operations in the Southern Ocean using $5 million dollars, provided by him, the same year, he donated $2.5 million, toward the purchase of office space for the organization in Los Angeles. The "Bob Barker Building" opened in 2012.
Bob Barker passed away on August 26, 2023, in Hollywood Hills, California, after a long battle against Alzheimer's disease. He was 99.- Actor
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Bob Dorough was born on 12 December 1923 in Cherry Hill, Arkansas, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Schoolhouse Rock! (1973), Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) and The Iron Giant (1999). He was married to Sally Shanley, Ruth Corine Meinert and Jacqueline Wright. He died on 23 April 2018 in Mount Bethel, Pennsylvania, USA.- Actor
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Brandon Maggart was born on 12 December 1933 in Carthage, Tennessee, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Dressed to Kill (1980), The World According to Garp (1982) and Christmas Evil (1980). He was previously married to Lu Jan Hudson.- Bridget Hall was born on 12 December 1977 in Springdale, Arkansas, USA. She is an actress, known for Death Toll (2008), The Devil Wears Prada (2006) and Grand Theft Auto IV (2008).
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Buck Jones was one of the greatest of the "B" western stars. Although born in Indiana, Jones reportedly (but disputedly) grew up on a ranch near Red Rock in Indian Territory (now Oklahoma), and there learned the riding and shooting skills that would stand him in good stead as a hero of Westerns. He joined the army as a teenager and served on US-Mexican border before seeing service in the Moro uprising in the Philippines. Though wounded, he recuperated and re-enlisted, hoping to become a pilot. He was not accepted for pilot training and left the army in 1913. He took a menial job with the Miller Brothers 101 Ranch Wild West Show and soon became champion bronco buster for the show. He moved on to the Julia Allen Show, but with the beginning of the First World War, Jones took work training horses for the Allied armies. After the war, he and his wife, Odelle Osborne, whom he had met in the Miller Brothers show, toured with the Ringling Brothers circus, then settled in Hollywood, where Jones got work in a number of Westerns starring Tom Mix and Franklyn Farnum. Producer William Fox put Jones under contract and promoted him as a new Western star. He used the name Charles Jones at first, then Charles "Buck" Jones, before settling on his permanent stage name. He quickly climbed to the upper ranks of Western stardom, playing a more dignified, less gaudy hero than Mix, if not as austere as William S. Hart. With his famed horse Silver, Jones was one of the most successful and popular actors in the genre, and at one point he was receiving more fan mail than any actor in the world. Months after America's entry into World War II, Jones participated in a war-bond-selling tour. On November 28, 1942, he was a guest of some local citizens in Boston at the famed Coconut Grove nightclub. Fire broke out and nearly 500 people died in one of the worst fire disasters on record. Jones was horribly burned and died two days later before his wife Dell could arrive to comfort him. Although legend has it that he died returning to the blaze to rescue others (a story probably originated by producer Trem Carr for whatever reason), the actual evidence indicates that he was trapped with all the others and succumbed as most did, trying to escape. He remains, however, a hero to thousands who followed his film adventures.- Cinematographer
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Upon earning his degree in film production from Cal State University Northridge, Cameron began working for Panavision. He then transitioned into freelance camera assistant work. During this period he worked with some of the most talented DPs and camera assistants in the business, all while shooting indie projects in his off time. In 2007 and 2010 he was awarded the Emerging Cinematographer Award from the International Cinematographers Guild. Cameron is in his 3rd season of filming the original A&E TV series Longmire in Santa Fe, NM.- Actor
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Camilo Da Passano was born on 12 December 1912 in Coquimbito, Maipú, Mendoza, Argentina. He was an actor, known for El centroforward murió al amanecer (1961), Una mujer sin cabeza (1947) and La murga (1963). He was married to María Rosa Gallo. He died in September 1983 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.- Caroline Ducey was born on December in Sainte-Adresse, Seine-Maritime, France. She is an actress, known for Romance (1999) by Catherine Breillat, Trop de bonheur (1994) by Cédric Kahn, Carrément à l'ouest ( 2001) by Jacques Doillon, La Chambre Obscure by Marie-Christine Questerbert, Doo Wop by David Lanzmann, Bangkok Fighter by Jean-Marc Minéo, Balo a tre passi by Salvatore Mereu, Prendimi l'Anima by Roberto Faenza, La grenouille et Dieu (2014) and a lot of shorts, series. She is the only person at that day authorized by Mrs Anna Strasberg to perform on a stage the written of Mrs Marilyn Monroe, since 2015, from the book "Fragments : poèmes, écrits intimes, lettres" published by Le Seuil and Stanley Buchthal. She performed in Paris in 2015-2016, and Avignon Festival in 2017 and 2019. Her family name is Trousselard. She's been living with the french director David Lanzmann for 20 years and have a daughter together. She is the sister of Marion Trousselard.
- Luscious, busty, and shapely blonde bombshell Carrie Westcott was born on December 12, 1969 in Mission Hills, Kansas. Carrie grew up in Mission Viejo, California and graduated from Canyon County High School in 1988. She began modeling professionally in her teens. In late 1992 she sent test photos of herself to "Playboy" magazine. Carrie was the Playmate of the Month in the September, 1993 issue of the famous men's magazine. She not only posed for many newsstand special editions and appeared in numerous "Playboy" videos, but was also a regular on the comedy TV series "Playboy's Really Naked Truth." Moreover, Carrie acted in a few low-budget movies that include "Ring of Fire II: Blood and Steel," "Lover's Leap," and 'L.E.T.H.A.L. Ladies: Return to Savage Beach."
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Cathy Rigby was born on 12 December 1952 in Los Alamitos, California, USA. She is an actress, known for Peter Pan (2000), The Six Million Dollar Man (1974) and McKenna Shoots for the Stars (2012). She has been married to Tom McCoy since 11 September 1982. They have two children. She was previously married to Tommy Mason.- Chanel Celaya was born in La Jolla, California. Her father Andrew Celaya, is from Florence, Arizona while her mother Betsey is from La Jolla, California. Chanel comes from a mix of Mexican and Russian ethnicity. Chanel started modeling from the age of 13. After her mother encouraged her to take some acting classes, which she was reluctant to join at first, she happily started her acting career. After just a few years of taking acting classes, she was able to appear in the movie 21 Jump Street and after that made her big scene in Justin Bieber's hit music video: "As Long As You Love Me." She will soon star in the new MTV series: "Inbetweeners."
- Chrissie Burnett was born on 12 December 1944 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She was previously married to Fritz Arnold Frauchiger and Will Hutchins.
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Singer, composer, actress, entertainer and publisher Connie Francis was educated at Arts High School and was a music student of her father. At age 11 she appeared on Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts (1948) as a singer and accordionist. She has toured the US, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Europe, owned publishing companies, and has made many records. For a time she had her own television show, and has performed in nightclubs and in concert. Joining ASCAP in 1959, her popular-song compositions include "Senza Mama" and "Italian Lullaby".- Actor
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Curtis Lum is an award winning actor and producer born in Vancouver, BC. He has established himself as an up and comer to watch, recurring in a variety of different roles on several major American networks. Named one of Canada's Rising Stars by The Hollywood Reporter in 2018, he earned his recognition for his work in "Prison Break", "Supergirl" and "Siren" and is most recently known for his breakout role in Netflix's hit show, "The Night Agent".- Director
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Dagur Kári was born on 12 December 1973 in Paris, France. He is a director and writer, known for Voksne mennesker (2005), Nói albinói (2003) and The Good Heart (2009).- Actor
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Daniel, started his acting career before the age of six in late 1997. His first ventures were a series of commercials that include The Royal Canadian Mint, Bounce, General Mills, Hallmark Cards, Cottonelle, Oscar Mayer, Toys R Us and many more.
In 1998 Daniel was cast in a HBO movie called "Aldrich Ames: Traitor Within". He began to learn his craft by working with Timothy Hutton. He gained further valuable experience by working with Shelley Long in "Vanished Without a Trace (NBC)", James Garner and Julie Andrews in "One Special Night (CBS)", Marcia Gay Harden in "Guilty Hearts (CBS)", and with Jennifer Lopez in "Angel Eyes".
Daniel is mostly known for his role as "Edwin", Derek's younger brother in the family show "Life With Derek". The show started filming in 2004 and completed its run seventy episodes later in 2007. Filming of "Derek Goes On Vacation" was completed at the beginning of October, 2009 and will be released in early 2010.
During his career Daniel has been featured on "Entertainment Tonight (Canada)", "Canada AM (CTV)" "Sky TV (Britain)" and "The Zone (YTV)".
In 2003 Daniel was nominated in the Young Artist category for "Best Performance in a TV Movie", in a supporting role in Mom's on Strike. He was also nominated in 2006 for "Best Young Ensemble Performance" for Life With Derek and in 2008 for "Best Performance in a TV series" for his supporting role as Edwin Venturi.
He graduated the Vancouver Film School in 2011 with a focus on screenwriting.- Actress
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Darleen Carr was born on 12 December 1950 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She is an actress, known for The Jungle Book (1967), The Beguiled (1971) and The Streets of San Francisco (1972). She has been married to Jameson Parker since 18 June 1992. She was previously married to Zeljko Negovetic and Jason Laskay.- Delaney Williams is an American actor whose credits include his well known recurring roles as John Buchanan on NBC's Law & Order:SVU, Jay Landsman on HBO's The Wire, O'Connor on the Netflix Original: Marvel's The Punisher, & as Dennis Egan on CBS' Blue Bloods. He is set to recur in the upcoming 6th season of Showtime's Ray Donovan and has appeared as a guest star on recent episodes of CBS' Bull and Elementary & HBO's VEEP.
- Diana Bracho's father is Julio Bracho who along with Emilio 'Indio' Fernández is considered the best director of the Golden Age of the Mexican Cinema (1940-1950). As a kid, Diana played bit parts in two or three of his father's films. She studied acting in England, and got her first major role in an Arturo Ripstein film "El Castillo de la Pureza" (The Castle of Purity) in 1972, when she was around 18 years old. Then she became a famous actress and played important roles in movies like "Chin Chin El Teporocho", "Las Poquianchis", she also did "El Santo Oficio" and "La Tia Alejandra" for Arturo Ripstein and in the early 80's she stopped acting in films and decided to act in TV series. And she did the right thing, since the crisis in movie industry was terrible, she got a major role in what is considered the second best Mexican TV serie/ soap opera of all time: "Cuna de Lobos" (1986), where she played a noble, suffering woman (she got lots of awards for this role), and then in 1991 finally her biggest role came in, she played for the first time an evil woman, bittered, furious, a psychopath, and she did it in a superb way: the role was Aunt Evangelina in the tv serie: "Cadenas De Amargura"; every possible award for best actress she got it that year. Since then, the name Diana Bracho has a meaning of superb characterization and is considered one of Mexico's finest talents. In 1992 she returned to the movies with "Serpientes y Escaleras", and finally in 1995 she starred in what some people consider her best performance in a film, the formerly play (she starred also and got Mexico's Association of National Theatre best actress award in 1994):"Entre Pancho Villa y Una Mujer Desnuda", which promises to be a great film, soon to open in Mexico.
- Prolific character actor Don Harvey started his career playing in tent shows, repertory companies and radio with his wife Jean Harvey. While in Hollywood he starred on a radio show with Hedda Hopper. Harvey signed a contract with Columbia Pictures in 1949 and played in a several serials of the era: Atom Man vs. Superman (1950), The Adventures of Sir Galahad (1949) and Batman and Robin (1949). He also played in a few "B" pictures and a handful of sci-fi films. He died of a heart attack.
- Don Gummer was born on 12 December 1946 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. He was previously married to Meryl Streep and Peggy Jenel Lucas.
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He started acting in commercials when he was 11, along with a bit of modelling work. He left show business after high school, moving out of Los Angeles and for a time fought fires with the forestry service.
He is now a computer software analyst/designer for oil and mining companies. He enjoys climbing mountains and lives outside of Seattle, Washington.- Dyllan began his acting career at age two, appearing in a Lemon Clorox commercial and landing a recurring role on prime-time television as the son of Murphy Brown. He attended the illustrious private school Flintridge Prep and graduated in the top 20 of his class. His work on films, major television shows, national commercials, and voiceovers involved working with the best in the business including actor Jeff Bridges, writer Stephen King, and directors Paul Feig and Michael Bay.
He continues to develop his acting skills, audition for film and TV, work on independent projects, and further his education while playing on a West-Coast Quidditch team. - Actor
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Ed Koch was born on 12 December 1924 in Bronx, New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for We Own the Night (2007), The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984) and The First Wives Club (1996). He died on 1 February 2013 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.- Actor
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Emanuel Goldenberg arrived in the United States from Romania at age ten, and his family moved into New York's Lower East Side. He took up acting while attending City College, abandoning plans to become a rabbi or lawyer. The American Academy of Dramatic Arts awarded him a scholarship, and he began work in stock, with his new name, Edward G. Robinson (the "G" stood for his birth surname), in 1913. Broadway was two years later; he worked steadily there for 15 years. His work included "The Kibitzer", a comedy he co-wrote with Jo Swerling. His film debut was a small supporting part in the silent The Bright Shawl (1923), but it was with the coming of sound that he hit his stride. His stellar performance as snarling, murderous thug Rico Bandello in Little Caesar (1931)--all the more impressive since in real life Robinson was a sophisticated, cultured man with a passion for fine art--set the standard for movie gangsters, both for himself in many later films and for the industry. He portrayed the title character in several biographical works, such as Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (1940) and A Dispatch from Reuters (1940). Psychological dramas included Flesh and Fantasy (1943), Double Indemnity (1944), The Woman in the Window (1944)and Scarlet Street (1945). Another notable gangster role was in Key Largo (1948). He was "absolved" of allegations of Communist affiliation after testifying as a friendly witness for the House Un-American Activities Committee during the McCarthy hysteria of the early 1950s. In 1956 he had to sell off his extensive art collection in a divorce settlement and also had to deal with a psychologically troubled son. In 1956 he returned to Broadway in "Middle of the Night". In 1973 he was awarded a special, posthumous Oscar for lifetime achievement.- Actor
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Fittipaldi's love for fast machines ran in the family, as his father was also involved in motor sports professionally. This interest was encouraged in the family. Fittipaldi competed in races as a teenager. In 1961, as a sixteen-year-old, he drove his first race on a 50cc motorcycle. Between 1962 and 1966 he took part in various motorcycle, kart and sports car races. Fittipaldi became a multiple champion of São Paulo and Brazilian national champion.
In 1967 he took part in the Formula Vee championships and won the title for the first time. In the same year, Emerson Fittipaldi became karting champion. In 1968 he won the title of Formula Vee champion again. In 1969 he left his home country and moved to Great Britain. There he started in Formula Ford for the first time. He recorded three victories in nine races. In the same year he also drove in Formula 3, in which he completed eleven races and won a total of eight. In 1970 he switched to Formula 2. Emerson Fittipaldi was now driving for the Lotus racing team. He completed a total of five races in this class.
He then made his debut in the supreme discipline of car racing, Formula 1, in the same year. He started for the first time at the British Grand Prix in a Lotus-Ford. In the US race of Watkins Glenn, Fittipaldi celebrated his first Grand Prix victory. He was in tenth place in the overall standings this season, but only took part in five races. The following year, 1971, he was able to improve to sixth place in the world championship standings. Again he started in a Lotus Ford and a Lotus turbine car. He completed ten races and scored a total of 16 points.
The following year, 1972, began his most successful season of his career to date. Emerson Fittipaldi won five Grand Prix races. In the points tally for the 1972 World Championship, this performance meant a total of 61 points in 12 races - and the world championship title. Another record was his age; the twenty-six-year-old racing driver from Brazil was the youngest Formula 1 world champion in racing history to date. In the following season, 1973, Fittipaldi completed a total of 15 races, of which he won three, and achieved 55 points.
He drove five fastest laps. This year it was enough for second place in the World Championship. The Scottish racing driver Jackie Stewart took first place. A change of racing team was imminent for Fittipaldi. He was signed by McLaren. The success of 1972 was to be repeated in the 1974 season. Fittipaldi took part in 15 Grand Prix races, three of which he finished with one win each. He came second twice. In his balance sheet he was able to collect 55 points, which was enough for the second world championship title in 1974. In 1975, Fittipaldi won the runner-up title again with 45 points in a total of 13 Grand Prix races, of which he won two.
He then built his own racing team. In 1976 he drove Copersucar-Ford. But there were no successes. He finished this season in 16th place in the drivers' world championship standings. He took part in a total of 15 Grand Prix races, but was only able to score three points. The following year, 1977, his results were somewhat better. Emerson Fittipaldi reached twelfth place in the World Championship standings in a Copersucar-Ford. He drove in 14 races and scored 11 Grand Prix points with no wins this season. In 1978 he drove more than ever before with 16 Grand Prix races in one season, but actual success remained elusive. Compared to the previous year, he improved by three places with 17 GP points and ended up in ninth place in the World Championship drivers' standings.
In the following 1979 season, Emerson Fittipaldi fell to 21st place in the world championship standings. In 15 Grand Prix races he only scored one point with Copersucar-Ford. In 1980 the Brazilian improved his balance. He finished the season in 15th place in the World Cup standings. He competed in 14 races, this time in a Fittipaldi Ford, and scored four Grand Prix points. In the same year, Emerson Fittipaldi ended his Formula 1 career. In this class he took part in a total of 144 Grand Prix races, winning 14 of them. After a break of two years, he started in the North American Indy Car Series for the first time in 1984. He immediately took fifth place. Emerson Fittipaldi took part in every race in this series until 1996.
His record includes 22 victories and he started 17 races from pole position. In 1989 and 1993 he finished the legendary Indianapolis 500 mile race as winner. In 1996, Fittipaldi survived a serious accident while racing the Michigan 500 Mile in the USA. After that he gave up racing completely. In 1997, the racing driver suffered a crash in an ultralight aircraft, in which he was injured sustained serious injuries to the spine. He then retreated into private life. Fittipaldi became a foundation member of the World Sports Academy of the "Laureus World Sports Awards" in 2000.- Erika-Shaye Gair found herself on set for the first time at barely four years old, in a Saturn Car commercial. The First A.D. asked her what she thought about doing this kind of work. Erika-Shaye nodded her head without hesitation and answered, "I love it!" Since then she has worked continuously in film/T.V. as a voice actor, landing roles with Nicholas Cage, Robin Williams and Kim Basinger. Now a teenager, she continues to perfect her talents as a performer. She has appeared in a number of T.V. series and continues her growing up years as the voice of Shiny and Annie on :Dinosaur Train".
When Erika-Shaye is not on set, in rehearsal or in school she can be found riding horses or volunteering for Circle F Horse Rescue Centre. She loves to help people in need and volunteers with her local Salvation Army soup kitchen and children's camps. She is also an accomplished musician who enjoys both jazz and classical trumpet. She loves to listen to Norwegian trumpet player Tine Thing Helselt. - Actress
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Erin Fritch was born in Torrington, Connecticut, USA. Erin is an actor and producer, known for Manifest (2018), The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2017) and The Last O.G. (2018).- Sólveig Eva grew up in Reykjavik, Iceland, from where she moved to London to study acting at LAMDA and Rose Bruford College.
Accepting the advice of her acting teachers she felt the need to assimilate once she began working in the UK and US and acquired the name Eva Solveig with SAG and Actor's Equity. In 2020 she dropped her stage name and embraced her birth name.
She trained physical theatre with Gardzienice in Poland, Physical Lab and Song of the Goat Theatre in London and at the International School of Theatrical Biomechanics in Italy.
She studied acting at Knickerbocker Studio, Stella Adler and with T.Schreiber in New York, did an acting Erasmus exchange with the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre in Tallinn, and studied improv and sketch writing with the Upright Citizen's Brigade in New York.
In 2012 she launched the theatre company Spindrift with her classmates Bergdís Júlía Jóhannsdóttir, Henriette Kristensen and Anna Korolainen Crevier. The company focuses on curiosity about human behaviour, devising and experimental storytelling, and playing with identity and autonomy through voice and movement. Tinna Þorvalds Önnudóttir formally joined the company in 2019, and Marjo Lahti and Outi Ikonen formally joined in 2021.
Sólveig is also an author-illustrator. Her work focuses on intimate relationships and the multiplicity of identity and belonging. She's a Washington Post contributor, an award winning graphic novelist and is represented by The Seymour Agency in New York. - Actor
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Fabrizio Santino was born on 12 December 1982 in the UK. He is an actor and producer, known for Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), Hollyoaks (1995) and The Untouchable.- Actress
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Fatma Girik was born on 12 December 1942 in Istanbul, Turkey. She was an actress and producer, known for Ezo Gelin (1968), Sürtügün Kizi (1967) and Bos Besik (1969). She died on 24 January 2022 in Istanbul, Turkey.- Music Artist
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Frank Sinatra was born in Hoboken, New Jersey, to Italian immigrants Natalina Della (Garaventa), from Northern Italy, and Saverio Antonino Martino Sinatra, a Sicilian boxer, fireman, and bar owner. Growing up on the gritty streets of Hoboken made Sinatra determined to work hard to get ahead. Starting out as a saloon singer in musty little dives (he carried his own P.A. system), he eventually got work as a band singer, first with The Hoboken Four, then with Harry James and then Tommy Dorsey. With the help of George Evans (Sinatra's genius press agent), his image was shaped into that of a street thug and punk who was saved by his first wife, Nancy Barbato Sinatra. In 1942 he started his solo career, instantly finding fame as the king of the bobbysoxers--the young women and girls who were his fans--and becoming the most popular singer of the era among teenage music fans. About that time his film career was also starting in earnest, and after appearances in a few small films, he struck box-office gold with a lead role in Anchors Aweigh (1945) with Gene Kelly, a Best Picture nominee at the 1946 Academy Awards. Sinatra was awarded a special Oscar for his part in a short film that spoke out against intolerance, The House I Live In (1945). His career on a high, Sinatra went from strength to strength on record, stage and screen, peaking in 1949, once again with Gene Kelly, in the MGM musical On the Town (1949) and Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949). A controversial public affair with screen siren Ava Gardner broke up his marriage to Nancy Barbato Sinatra and did his career little good, and his record sales dwindled. He continued to act, although in lesser films such as Meet Danny Wilson (1952), and a vocal cord hemorrhage all but ended his career. He fought back, though, finally securing a role he desperately wanted--Maggio in From Here to Eternity (1953). He won an Oscar for best supporting actor and followed this with a scintillating performance as a cold-blooded assassin hired to kill the US President in Suddenly (1954). Arguably a career-best performance--garnering him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor--was his role as a pathetic heroin addict in the powerful drama The Man with the Golden Arm (1955).
Known as "One-Take Charlie" for his approach to acting that strove for spontaneity and energy, rather than perfection, Sinatra was an instinctive actor who was best at playing parts that mirrored his own personality. He continued to give strong and memorable performances in such films as Guys and Dolls (1955), The Joker Is Wild (1957) and Some Came Running (1958). In the late 1950s and 1960s Sinatra became somewhat prolific as a producer, turning out such films as A Hole in the Head (1959), Sergeants 3 (1962) and the very successful Robin and the 7 Hoods (1964). Lighter roles alongside "Rat Pack" buddies Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. were lucrative, especially the famed Ocean's Eleven (1960). On the other hand, he alternated such projects with much more serious offerings, such as The Manchurian Candidate (1962), regarded by many critics as Sinatra's finest picture. He made his directorial debut with the World War II picture None But the Brave (1965), which was the first Japanese/American co-production. That same year Von Ryan's Express (1965) was a box office sensation. In 1967 Sinatra returned to familiar territory in Sidney J. Furie's The Naked Runner (1967), once again playing as assassin in his only film to be shot in the U.K. and Germany. That same year he starred as a private investigator in Tony Rome (1967), a role he reprised in the sequel, Lady in Cement (1968). He also starred with Lee Remick in The Detective (1968), a film daring for its time with its theme of murders involving rich and powerful homosexual men, and it was a major box-office success.
After appearing in the poorly received comic western Dirty Dingus Magee (1970), Sinatra didn't act again for seven years, returning with a made-for-TV cops-and-mob-guys thriller Contract on Cherry Street (1977), which he also produced. Based on the novel by William Rosenberg, this fable of fed-up cops turning vigilante against the mob boasted a stellar cast and was a ratings success. Sinatra returned to the big screen in The First Deadly Sin (1980), once again playing a New York detective, in a moving and understated performance that was a fitting coda to his career as a leading man. He made one more appearance on the big screen with a cameo in Cannonball Run II (1984) and a final acting performance in Magnum, P.I. (1980), in 1987, as a retired police detective seeking vengeance on the killers of his granddaughter, in an episode entitled Laura (1987).- Actor
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His debut on TV was in 1982 via 'Pantalones Azules' but his first leading role came in the soap opera Quiero morir mañana (1987) in 1987 alongside Rubén Ballester and Mariana Karr. Corrado got his international recognition with _"Chiquititas" (1994)_, _"Perla negra" (1995)_ and _"Zíngara" (1996)_. He starred with Paola Krum in the mini-series _"Arcángel, El" (1996)_, in 1996. In 1997 he starred with Viviana Saccone in the soap opera Hombre de mar (1997), filmed in the natural landscapes of Mar del Plata.
In 1994, he hosted the show 'Vivan los Novios', with a audience of 7 million. Also he hosted 'La Gala de Año Nuevo', a classic tv show in Spain - alongside Claudia Schiffer and 'Gran Fiesta', in which musicians from all Europe countries performed. In the middle of the year 2000 he returned to Buenos Aires to participate in a episode of 'Tiempo Final', a TV suspense series and work on the 146-chapters-soap-opera Luna salvaje (2000) with Carina Zampini and Millie Stegmann. It became a great success.- Actor
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Olugbenga Enitan Temitope Akinnagbe is an American actor and writer, best known for his roles as Chris Partlow on the HBO series The Wire and as Larry Brown on the HBO series The Deuce. Akinnagbe was born in Washington, D.C., the son of Yoruba Nigerian parents, and was raised in Silver Spring, Maryland. He is the second oldest of six children, with one older sister and four younger brothers, and the first in his family to be born in the United States. He attended Colonel Zadok A. Magruder High School in Rockville, Maryland. He attended Bucknell University on a wrestling scholarship, and graduated in 2000 with a degree in Political Science and English. Akinnagbe's cousin is rapper Wale.- Actor
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With a singularly nebulous background, which, by his account, included stints as a Las Vegas nightclub emcee, radio personality and jewelry tycoon, and with comparatively little acting experience, Gianni Russo won the role of Carlo Rizzi in The Godfather (1972) on the basis of his screen test. Since then, Russo has remained busy as an actor, mostly playing assorted "wiseguys" and Mafia types. He appeared again with Marlon Brando in a small role in The Freshman (1990) where Brando parodied his Don Corleone role to good effect.- Music Artist
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One of my favorite jazz musicians, Grover Washington Jr. was one of the first to embrace the jazz-funk style. Born in Buffalo, New York, he was given his first saxophone lesson by his father. In the early 1960s he moved to Philadelphia. His most successful album was "Winelight". Released in June 1980, it featured lead vocals by Bill Withers on the hit song "Just the Two of Us". The single reached #2 on the US music charts. Washington's most memorable performances included playing in a jazz and blues jam with President Bill Clinton and such jazz greats as Herbie Hancock and Wynton Marsalis in 1993 and at Clinton's 50th birthday celebration at Radio City Music Hall in 1996. Washington described his music as "short stories without words." On December 17, 1999, Grover Washington Jr. collapsed NYC while taping an episode of CBS' Saturday Early Show (1997), and died a short time later. He was 56 years old.- Director
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Guy Edmonds was born in Southport, Queensland, Australia. He is a director and writer, known for Hardball (2019), Wellmania (2023) and Dance Spies.- Hailey Noelle Johnson was born on 12 December 1997 in San Diego, California, USA. She is an actress, known for Daddy Day Care (2003), Friends with Money (2006) and Surviving Christmas (2004).
- Helen Dunmore was born on 12 December 1952 in Beverley, Yorkshire, England, UK. She was a writer, known for Zennor in Darkness and The Book Show (2006). She was married to Francis Charnley. She died on 5 June 2017 in Bristol, England, UK.
- Helen Menken was born in New York to deaf parents. Her original name was Meinken, her New York-born father Frederick being of French/German extraction. Her mother, Mary Madden, was Irish-born.
She married Humphrey Bogart at the Gramercy Park Hotel on May 20, 1926, four years after taking out a marriage license in New York City. It was the first marriage for both. She was granted a divorce in Chicago in November 1928, after separating in April of that year.
She collapsed and died of an apparent heart attack at a party at The Lambs, 128 West 44th Street, New York City, on March 27, 1966. She was survived by her third husband, George N. Richard, a special partner of the Wall Street brokerage firm C. B. Richard. - Actor
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Henry W. Laster is best known for doing the voice-over for L.E.S in Love at First Byte (1988) and as Kent Flankman in Salute Your Shorts (1991).
Born on December 12, 1978 in Miami, Florida, Laster's first experience was in elementary school singing the song Fifty Nifty United States. His love and respect for theatre deepened as his love for theatre from that day going forward.
What people don't know is that he didn't love being a kid. Racing toward adulthood to escape bullying, he began writing jokes for stand up. Getting picked on and feeling disenfranchised is a subject that's very near to Henry's heart. This experience was a traumatic one because it kept bringing up unresolved feelings left over from childhood.
He was so obsessive in his goal to try to be what he thought others wanted.
He is incredibly active in anti-racism and anti-bullying campaigns, but he has never has been recognized for his unwavering dedication.
Through his hard work, Henry has had the opportunity to be heard, to extend his point of view and become regarded as a true pioneer in his field. He takes none of it for granted.
Not one to rest on his laurels, Henry spent whatever free time he had working on finding his next gig.
Laster can also be seen in Miracle of the Heart: A Boys Town Story (1986), Christmas Angel (2012), and Tammy (2014).- Actress
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Holly Gagnier has established herself as a versatile actress on both coasts, appearing on stage, screen and television. She is best-known for her long stints on Days of Our Lives (1965), in the ground-breaking role of young teen mom "Ivy Jannings", for which she won the soap opera award for breakout new star. She went on to play "Cassie Callison" on One Life to Live (1968), and appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show (1986) as one of daytime's most popular stars. She has appeared in films opposite Adrien Brody, Scott Caan, Mark Hamill and Eric McCormack. She starred in the cult classic, Girls Just Want to Have Fun (1985), as the conniving nasty "Natalie Sands". An accomplished professional dancer, Holly did all her own dancing in the film. Holly was a series regular on Baywatch (1989) (you won't find her in a bathing suit though, she was the quirky performance artist "Gina Pomeroy"), recurring roles on Middle Ages (1992), Pacific Blue (1996) and as a young teen, opposite Lynn Redgrave, on House Calls (1979). She has appeared in over 70 guest-starring roles, from comedy, Friends (1994), Wings (1990), Guys Like Us (1998) and Dream On (1990), to drama, ER (1994), House (2004) and Crossing Jordan (2001). Miss Gagnier took several years off to raise her daughter and has recently began to work again. She completed the shorts Simone (2011), Sarah's Wish (2012) and Billy and the Hurricane (2009) for which she won three consecutive best actress awards in a short at the Playhouse West Film Festival. Her project, Waiting for Goldblum (2010), which she wrote, produced, and directed, was a nominee at the 2010 Hollywood Mockfest film festival. She most recently was seen on Private Practice (2007), and the season finale of Ringer (2011), recent features include The Son of an Afghan Farmer (2012). She is a member of Playhouse West Repertory Theater, as well as an original member of the Playhouse West Comedy Improv troupe. She is most proud of her mentor-ship program, where she guides young actors on their career path.- Director
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Hugo Santiago has lived in France since 1959. He studied Literature, Philosophy and Music. From 1959 to 1966, he was assistant director to Robert Bresson. He was also a choreographer and metteur en scene for _Histoire du Soldat_ (Stravinsky Festival, 1961). He authored and produced two shorts: _Los Contrabandistas_ (Buenos Aires, 1967) and _Los Taitas_ (Buenos Aires, 1968). From 1970 to 1973 he did research on film.- Ignacio Quirós was born in 1931 in Vigo, Spain. He was an actor, known for Marco, el candidato (1994), Cinco gallinas y el cielo (1957) and Teatro de suspenso (1959). He died on 12 December 1999 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- Ivan E. Roth was born on 12 December 1957 in the USA. He is an actor, known for Night of the Comet (1984), Night of the Creeps (1986) and Tales from the Crypt (1989).
- Jaclyn Dahm was born on 12 December 1977 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. She is an actress, known for Relic Hunter (1999), RoboCop: Prime Directives (2001) and Juwanna Mann (2002). She has been married to William Tate Dolan since 2002. They have two children.
- Jason Widener was born on 12 December 1973 in Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA. He is an actor, known for The Comebacks (2007), Asylum Days (2001) and The West Wing (1999).
- Gaunt Sussex-born actress of Scottish descent whose dignified manner and plain, but expressive features qualified her for a wide range of character parts, from austere nurses and long-suffering mothers to overbearing dowagers and nosy gossips; from meddlesome chaperones to authoritarian aunts and intransigent spinsters. She rarely gave an indifferent performance and was often quite brilliant, particularly on the small screen.
Jean Anderson was the daughter of a well-to-do cloth merchant specialising in muslin. As she grew up, she aspired to become a violinist, later a tennis player. Though she did make a junior Wimbledon appearance in the 1920's, her road eventually led to training at RADA, where her acting skills were first discovered. In 1931, she joined the Richmond Repertory Company and soon found herself in a leading role opposite Robert Morley. By decade's end, she had a three year spell at Dublin's Gate Theatre as the lead in Eugene O'Neill's "Ah, Wilderness!". During the succeeding decade she regularly appeared at the West End and acted with a touring repertory company alongside Jack Hawkins in "Hamlet" and "Othello".
Following her screen debut in 1947, Anderson was able to balance both media successfully through the next half a century. Her formidable gallery of celluloid characters came to include the dependable nurses of White Corridors (1951) and Life in Her Hands (1951); the loyal maid Wilson of The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1957); the matriarch in two productions of The Railway Children (1951); the cold, manipulative Mary Hammond of The Brothers (1972); forthright Lady Jocelyn Holbrook, ever troublesome to her Japanese captors in Tenko (1981), plus diverse TV guest spots and cameos, from ABC's Armchair Mystery Theatre (1960) (a notably sinister role) to Keeping Up Appearances (1990) (as the posh aristocrat Mrs. Fortescue).
In her private life Anderson enjoyed collecting porcelain, going to the races and gardening at her home in Knightsbridge . - Actress
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Jennifer Connelly was born in the Catskill Mountains, New York, to Ilene (Schuman), a dealer of antiques, and Gerard Connelly, a clothing manufacturer. Her father had Irish and Norwegian ancestry, and her mother was from a Jewish immigrant family. Jennifer grew up in Brooklyn Heights, just across the Brooklyn Bridge from Manhattan, except for the four years her parents spent in Woodstock, New York. Back in Brooklyn Heights, she attended St. Ann's school. A close friend of the family was an advertising executive. When Jennifer was ten, he suggested that her parents take her to a modeling audition. She began appearing in newspaper and magazine ads (among them "Seventeen" magazine), and soon moved on to television commercials. A casting director saw her and introduced her to Sergio Leone, who was seeking a young girl to dance in his gangster epic Once Upon a Time in America (1984). Although having little screen time, the few minutes she was on-screen were enough to reveal her talent. Her next role after that was an episode of the British horror anthology TV series Tales of the Unexpected (1979) in 1984.
After Leone's movie, horror master Dario Argento signed her to play her first starring role in his thriller Phenomena (1985). The film made a lot of money in Europe but, unfortunately, was heavily cut for American distribution. Around the same time, she appeared in the rock video "I Drove All Night," a Roy Orbison song, co-starring Jason Priestley. She released a single called "Monologue of Love" in Japan in the mid-1980s, in which she sings in Japanese a charming little song with semi-classical instruments arrangement. On the B-side is "Message Of Love," which is an interview with music in background. She also appeared in television commercials in Japan.
She enrolled at Yale, and then transferred two years later to Stanford. She trained in classical theater and improvisation, studying with the late drama coach Roy London, Howard Fine, and Harold Guskin.
The late 1980s saw her starring in a hit and three lesser seen films. Amongst the latter was her roles in Ballet (1989), as a ballerina and in Some Girls (1988), where she played a self-absorbed college freshman. The hit was Labyrinth (1986), released in 1986. Jennifer got the job after a nationwide talent search for the lead in this fantasy directed by Jim Henson and produced by George Lucas. Her career entered in a calm phase after those films, until Dennis Hopper, who was impressed after having seen her in "Some Girls", cast Jennifer as an ingénue small-town girl in The Hot Spot (1990), based upon the 1950s crime novel "Hell Hath No Fury". It received mixed critical reviews, but it was not a box office success.
The Rocketeer (1991), an ambitious Touchstone super-production, came to the rescue. The film was an old-fashioned adventure flick about a man capable of flying with rockets on his back. Critics saw in "Rocketeer" a top-quality movie, a homage to those old films of the 1930s in which the likes of Errol Flynn starred. After "Rocketeer," Jennifer made Career Opportunities (1991), The Heart of Justice (1992), Mulholland Falls (1996), her first collaboration with Nick Nolte and Inventing the Abbotts (1997). In 1998, she was invited by director Alex Proyas to make Dark City (1998), a strange, visually stunning science-fiction extravaganza. In this movie, Jennifer played the main character's wife, and she delivered an acclaimed performance. The film itself didn't break any box-office record but received positive reviews. This led Jennifer to a contract with Fox for the television series The $treet (2000), a main part in the memorable and dramatic love-story Waking the Dead (2000) and, more important, a breakthrough part in the polemic and applauded independent Requiem for a Dream (2000), a tale about the haunting lives of drug addicts and the subsequent process of decadence and destruction. In "Requiem for a Dream," Jennifer had her career's most courageous, difficult part, a performance that earned her a Spirit Award Nomination. She followed this role with Pollock (2000), in which she played Pollock's mistress, Ruth Klingman. In 2001, Ron Howard chose her to co-star with Russell Crowe in A Beautiful Mind (2001), the film that tells the true story of John Nash, a man who suffered from mental illness but eventually beats this and wins the Nobel Prize in 1994. Jennifer played Nash's wife and won a Golden Globe, BAFTA, AFI and Oscar as Best Supporting Actress. Connelly continued her career with films including Hulk (2003), her second collaboration with Nick Nolte, Dark Water (2005), Blood Diamond (2006), The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008), He's Just Not That Into You (2009) and Noah (2014), where she did her second collaboration with both Darren Aronofsky and Russell Crowe and made her third collaboration with Nick Nolte in that same film.
Jennifer lives in New York. She is 5'7", and speaks fluent Italian and French. She enjoys physical activities such as swimming, gymnastics, and bike riding. She is also an outdoors person -- camping, hiking and walking, and is interested in quantum physics and philosophy. She likes horses, Pearl Jam, SoundGarden, Jesus Jones, and occasionally wears a small picture of the The Dalai Lama on a necklace. Her favorite colors are cobalt blue, forest green, and "very pale green/gray -- sort of like the color of the sea". She likes to draw.- Actress
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Jennifer Rovero aka Camraface is a photographer based in Los Angeles. She has played on both sides of the lens and never leaves home without her camera. Her style leans towards reportage and real. A personal photographer for A-list celebrities over the past 10 years, has taught her how to run and gun with the best of the them. Raised on the idea that studio can never really beat honest moments, she loves to take a journalistic approach in all her work.
She has traveled the world to find and capture visual narratives of people from all walks of life. She is an innovative thinker, a soul searcher, and someone who prides herself on using photography as a healing tool in what she likes to call photo-therapy. In 2013, Jennifer's career took a turn when she met Lauren Wasser a young woman who suffered Toxic Shock Syndrome. In 2015 Jennifer used photo-therapy to heal and tell her story to Vice, one of the most ground breaking and most viewed stories of the year.- Actor
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Joe Williams was born on 12 December 1918 in Cordele, Georgia, USA. He was an actor, known for Iron Man 3 (2013), Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997) and Sharky's Machine (1981). He was married to Jillean Hughes Dath and Lemma. He died on 29 March 1999 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.- Writer
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The Oscar-winning screenwriter John Osborne, better known as one of the most important British playwrights of the 1950s generation that revolutionized English-speaking theater, was born on December 12, 1929 in London, England. His father, Thomas Godfrey Osborne, a native of Newport, Monmouthshire, was a copywriter, and his mother, Nellie, was a Cockney barmaid. John's father died in 1941 when he was 11 years old. The insurance settlement allowed him to go to Belmont College, Devon.
After completing school, Osborne did not go on to university but returned to London to live with his mother, where he tried to make it as a journalist. He was introduced to the theater through a job tutoring a touring company of junior actors. Smitten by the theater, he became a stage manager and actor, eventually becoming a member of Anthony Creighton's provincial touring company. Osborne wrote his second play, "Personal Enemy", in collaboration with Anthony Creighton (their "Epitaph for George Dillon" would be staged at the Royal Court in 1958, after Osborne had broken through as a solo artist with the watershed production of "Look Back in Anger", also at the Royal Court).
Look Back in Anger (1959), which opened on May 8, 1956 at the Royal Court, the 11th anniversary of V-E Day (the surrender of Germany and the cessation of hostilities in the European theater of World War II), was revolutionary, as it gave voice to the working class. A press agent came up with the phrase "Angry Young Man" that would stick to Osborne and his compatriots, who created a new type of theater rooted in Bertolt Brecht and class consciousness. Though it initially received mix reviews, the play was a smash in London,and it made the transfer to Broadway, where it ran for a year. "Look Back in Anger" was nominated for a 1958 Tony Award for Best Play (Osborne and producer David Merrick, Best Actress in a Play (Mary Ure, whom Osborne made his second wife), and Best Costume Design (The Motley). It eventually was made into a movie starring Richard Burton and directed by Tony Richardson.
Laurence Olivier had taken Arthur Miller and his wife Marilyn Monroe to see the play when Olivier was shooting The Prince and the Showgirl (1957) in London with MM. Olivier was abashed by the play, but Miller convinced him of its greatness as a theatrical work. Olivier, sensing a sea-change in culture that could make actors of his ilk obsolete, engaged Osborne to write a play for him, and the playwright followed up "Anger" with another brilliant work, The Entertainer (1960). Olivier reinvented himself as well as realigned himself with the new youth movement shaking the theater, giving a tour de force performance as Archie Rice, a down-at-the-heels, third-rate music hall entertainer facing emigration to Canada or oblivion. Osborne used the decline of the music hall, once the premier venue of British entertainment, as a metaphor for the post-war decline of the British Empire in light of the recent debacle in Suez, when the U.K., France and Israel were rebuffed by Egypt and the U.S. when the three countries invaded Egypt to seize the recently nationalized Suez Canal.
Osborne's career continued strong in the 1960s. He won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Tony Richarson's movie version of Henry Fielding's Tom Jones (1963), which won Richardson an Oscar as Best Director and was named Best Picture of 1963. He followed this success up with his last great play Luther (1974), in which the cinematic Tom Jones, Albert Finney, won raves playing Osborne's take on Martin Luther, the man who revolutionized Christianity 1,500 years after The Christ. Fitting, that the rebel, the protester Osborne would take on the father of Protestantism. The play, first performed in England in 1961 and transferred to Broadway in 1963, won Osborne a 1964 Tony Award for Best Play, as well as a Tony Award nomination for Albert Finney. (Laurence Olivier had received his sole Tony nomination for "The Entertainer" when he had brought his legendary performance to Broadway.)
Other important plays followed. "Inadmissible Evidence", first performed in 1964, made Nicol Williamson a star (both Osborne and Williamson were nominated for Tony Awards in 1966 after the show transferred to Broadway). His other major play, "A Patriot for Me" (London debut 1965), dealt with the blackmailing of the Austro-Hungarian officer Colonel Redl (also dramatized in István Szabó's Colonel Redl (1985)), who was a homosexual and possibly a Jew in a pre-World War One society that was virulently anti-gay and anti-semitic. The production of the play helped erode theatrical censorship in Britain. The Lord Chamberlain, the theatrical censor in Britian, was opposed to the play and denied it the exhibition license the theater needed to put on public shows due to its frank depiction of homosexuality.
In exchange for an exhibition license, The Lord Chamberlain demanded multiple cuts, which would have resulted in the excision of half the play, according to Alan Bates in a B.B.C. interview during a 1983 revival of the play. Osborne and The Royal Court refused, and -- denied a license -- the theater had to be turned into a private club in order to produce the play in London as to produce it legitimately would have been impossible as half the play would have been censored. "A Patriot for Me" won "The Evening Standard" Best Play of the Year award (as would one of his latter plays, "The Hotel in Amsterdam" in 1968), though it was a succes d'estime, the theater taking a heavy loss on the production.
The year 1968 was a watershed in Osborne's professional life. Not only is 1968 the year that the counterculture "won", sweeping away all before it (and whose effects, as well as detritus, has yet to be replaced by anything else), it was the year of his last successful play, "The Hotel in Amsterdam", and the year that Tony Richardson's masterful satire The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968) -- based on a screenplay by Osborne -- was released. He would not enjoy the same success as he had in the 1950s and '60s in the latter part of his life. Starring Maximilian Schell, "A Patriot for Me" was not a success on Broadway, lasting but 49 performances in 1969, testifying to Osborne's decreasing commercial prowess in the theater, which once again was undergoing a revolution, but from the anarchist left with such productions as Tom O'Horgan's Hair (1979).
The five-times married Osborne died from complications of diabetes on December 24, 1994, two weeks after his 65th birthday. His last produced play was "Déjà Vu" (1991), a sequel to his first great success, "Look Back in Anger". His legacy was a transformed British theater, which had broken its links to the ossified D'Oly D'Carte of the former generation, in which the theater was more about elocution by actors playing toffs than it was about life as lived by most Britons. Osborne and the legions of playwrights he influenced made language important, as well as introduced an emotional intensity into the theater. Osborne and his brethren used the theater as a soapbox on which to attack class barriers (and a theater which reinforced those class distinctions).- Additional Crew
Jordan Feldstein was born on 12 December 1977 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is known for Live in Brazil (2010). He was married to Francesca Eastwood. He died on 22 December 2017 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Jose Lothario was born on 12 December 1934 in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico. He was an actor, known for WWF Superstars (1986), WWE Raw (1993) and WrestleMania XII (1996). He was married to Jean. He died on 6 November 2018 in Texas, USA.
- Josy Eisenberg was born on 12 December 1933 in Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France. He was a writer, known for The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob (1973), L'invité du dimanche (1968) and Lignes de mire (1994). He died on 8 December 2017 in Normandy, France.
- Son of Spanish refugees in Mexico, Juan Pelaez was born in Mexico on December 12th, 1948. He has the capability of adopting not only nationalities, but essences and characters from drama to comedy, exploring feelings and sensations, in a daring approach.
He obtained a degree in Theater & Arts (UNAM, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico) and started in movies in the early 70s. In three decades, he has been able to participate in more than 100 films (video, 16 and 35 mm) in both Mexican and international productions, directed by masters such as Gonzalo Martinez, Jose Estrada, Alfonso Arau, and Tony Scott.
His experience includes more than thirty theater plays, by Moliere, Miguel Sabido, Julio Castillo and Ignacio Retes, among others. He also performed in night clubs when this activity imported shows form Las Vegas to Mexico City.
His participation on television shows has been outstanding, in mini-series (forty as an average) as well as soap operas (more than thirty) with special appearances in international shows for Hispanic markets, like Cristina and Don Francisco.
One of his most prominent experiences has been paying the role of Don Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla (said to be Father of the Nation), in a 200 chapter mini-series entitled "Independencia", now available in VHS and DVD formats.
Currently, Juan Pelaez has an exclusive contract with Televisa. He has never been married (very eligible bachelor!!!). - Actress
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Born Mildred Linton in Ottumwa, Iowa on December 12, 1909, Karen Morley was adopted by a well-to-do family who moved to Los Angeles in the mid-1920s. She enrolled at Hollywood High School and studied for a career in medicine at UCLA, but a class in theater changed her career ambitions.
After studying at Pasadena Playhouse, she was signed by Fox Studios and her big chance came when producer Howard Hughes selected her to play the blond moll in the 1932 crime epic, Scarface (1932), Morley was put on a contract by MGM and starred in such early 1930s movies as Mata Hari (1931) (with Greta Garbo), Arsène Lupin (1932) (with John Barrymore), Dinner at Eight (1933) (with Jean Harlow), as well as films with Lionel Barrymore, Wallace Beery and Boris Karloff. In 1934, Morley left MGM after arguments about her roles and her private life, including her intention to start a family and her marriage to director Charles Vidor. She continued working as a freelance performer, appearing in King Vidor's Our Daily Bread (1934), Michael Curtiz' Black Fury (1935) and Pride and Prejudice (1940).
In 1947, her screen career came to a halt when she testified before the House Committee on Un-American Activities and refused to answer questions about her possible enrollment in the Communist Party. Afterward, she continued promoting left-wing causes and married actor Lloyd Gough. In 1954, she ran unsuccessfully as a New York lieutenant governor candidate for the American Labor Party. Morley died March 8, 2003 at the Motion Picture Country House in Woodland Hills.- Actress
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Kate Todd was born on 12 December 1987 in Barrie, Ontario, Canada. She is an actress, known for Radio Free Roscoe (2003), My Babysitter's a Vampire (2011) and Degrassi: The Next Generation (2001). She has been married to Norbert Feigler since 18 November 2017. They have one child.- Actress
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Katy Cavanagh-Jupe is an English actress and writer who trained at RADA in London and has appeared regularly on British television since 1997. Her breakout role was Mel in the award-winning series The Cops from 1998 to 2001. In 2004, she had a regular role as Sergeant Dawn "Spike" Milligan in the television series Dalziel and Pascoe. Then in 2008, she joined the ITV soap opera Coronation Street to create the irrepressible Julie Carp. After 7 years on the show (and 3 kids later), Katy decided to explore other creative avenues. She has since appeared in a wide variety of film, TV and theatre, as well as forging a path as a screenwriter, with her first short film in post production and several feature and TV projects in development.- Actor
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Dunfermline-born character actor Kenneth Cranham has specialised in playing abrasive characters, reprobates and rough diamonds on stage, on radio, in films and in one-off dramas or guest roles on TV. The son of Ronald Cranham, an English civil servant and former army staff sergeant and his Scottish wife Margaret McKay Cranham (née Ferguson), he spent the first four years of his life in Scotland. The family then moved to London where Kenneth attended Tulse Hill Comprehensive School. At the age of nineteen, while working at a bookshop, he was discovered by the playwright Joe Orton who cast him in his radio play 'The Ruffian on the Stair'. This marked the beginning of his career.
Cranham trained for acting at the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain and then studied at RADA, graduating in 1966. His association with Orton continued that year with a role in 'Loot' at the Royal Court (and, subsequently, at the Criterion Theatre). The actor later remarked that this role set him up "for all the hoodies in Softly, Softly, Z Cars and New Scotland Yard." With his craggy features and gruff voice, it is hardly surprising that Cranham has often been cast in tough or villainous roles. On screen from 1964, he first came to notice as Noah Claypole, one of Fagin's gang of pickpockets, in Oliver! (1968). His first starring turn was in the comedy series Shine on Harvey Moon (1982) as the titular character, a demobbed RAF corporal. Other notable roles across diverse genres have included the callous Gratiano in The Merchant of Venice (1980), Lenin in Reilly: Ace of Spies (1983), a wealthy, despotic landowner in Heart of the High Country (1985) (set in 1880s New Zealand), the comically over-zealous Pastor Finch in Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1989), British gangster Gus Mercer in El C.I.D. (1990), cunning magician Aulfric in Merlin (2008), a scurrilous newspaper editor who gets his comeuppance in Hustle (2004) and Caesar's rival Pompey in Rome (2005). A more recent TV guest spot saw Cranham as an ailing patient in India, attempting to rediscover a lost love in season three of The Good Karma Hospital (2017). He has also essayed real life barristers Michael Mansfield Q.C. (The Murder of Stephen Lawrence (1999)) and George Carmen Q.C. (Justice in Wonderland (2000)).
For the big screen, Cranham has been notable as the maniacal Dr. Channard in Hellbound: Hellraiser II (1988), double-dealing mob boss Jimmy Price in Layer Cake (2004), another elder statesman of the London underworld in Gangster No. 1 (2000), farmer James Reaper in the buddy-cop comedy Hot Fuzz (2007) and as the tyrannical King Henry, a main antagonist in Disney's Maleficent (2014).
The actor has been equally prolific on stage where he has headlined as the amoral title character in Orton's play Entertaining Mr. Sloane. He was much acclaimed for his role as Inspector Goole in An Inspector Calls at the National Theatre (an Olivier Award-nominated performance, which transferred to Broadway in 1994-95). He played the avuncular detective Rough in Gaslight at the Old Vic in 2007 and finally won the coveted Olivier Award in 2016 for his performance as an elderly man with dementia in Florian Zeller's play The Father. For services to drama, Cranham received a CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in 2023.- Actor
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John Kevin Barry Coughlin was born in Inwood, Manhattan, New York. His older sister Joan Marie Coughlin Gaudet (25 Nov. 1938 - 27 Feb. 2022) was a former nun with the Sacred Heart of Mary. Their parents were John Joseph Coughlin (1909 - 1966) and Marguerite O'Brien (1915-2008). They lived at 45 Sickles Street in Manhattan until about 1960 when the family moved to Rye, New York.
Kevin had been a Conover model since age 2. His television debut was on his seventh birthday, on December 12, 1952, on the memorable show "Mama", where he would stay as a regular for four years. You can see 19 episodes with Kevin (including his debut) and several more without him at the Museum of Television and Radio in Los Angeles and New York. "Mama" is definitely one of the best family shows ever made. The acting is of theater caliber. In her autobiography Peggy Wood writes that in the eight years she worked on the show, only on three occasions did someone forget a line.
In 1956 Kevin starred in his first film, the highly controversial drama "Storm Center" (filmed in Santa Rosa, CA). Unfortunately, it is not available on video. Bette Davis thought it a failure, but it is quite good and relevant. Kevin appeared in many TV dramas, of which only "A Trip to Czardis" and "The Ballad of Huckleberry Finn" can be seen at the Museum of Television and Radio. Kevin attended Mace School. After starring in two more films, the hilarious "Happy Anniversary" and the bold classic "The Defiant Ones", his career seemed to fizzle. There are few roles in the early sixties.
From about 1963 until 1967 Kevin attended Northwestern University in Evanston, IL, majoring in theater. In the late sixties he moved to Hollywood, appearing in several youth culture movies and marrying Pamela Elaine. In 1972 he started a production company with David Ladd: COLADD Productions. He also produced and hosted a TV talk-show, "The Age of Aquarius". His film and television career seemed to end suddenly after he starred in the comedy "The Gay Deceivers" (1969). It made a lot of money, and is available on video and DVD. In 1999 it was shown at the Turin Film Festival. Yet this film seemed to doom Kevin's chances. His last known screen appearance is a pathetic, small role on "Gunsmoke" in 1975 "Hard Labor". A newspaper mentions something about Kevin working in European films in the seventies, but there is no confirmation of it.
On January 10, 1976, at 1:45 a.m. as Kevin was cleaning his windshield on Ventura Boulevard 1500 feet North of Whitsett, he was hit by a speeding car. Kevin's wife Marcia Kandell witnessed the tragedy. Thus ended the life of a very talented, highly intelligent, optimistic and promising human being. Kevin had a handicap that made walking difficult: clubfeet. He was not embarrassed about it, and appeared barefoot in "The Ballad of Huckleberry Finn" (1960). It took courage to give him that role, which turned out to be one of his most memorable performances. Grave location: Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Hawthorne, New York, Section 44, plot 604, grave 10. His grave has a simple, poignant inscription: "BELOVED BY ALL".- Actress
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Kiva is an only child born in Santa Monica, California. Kiva grew up in a very creative and nurturing environment and was always encouraged to express herself through the arts. Kiva remembers witnessing the diva, Toni Basil, (Later in life, Kiva was blessed to work with her on the film, That Thing You Do! (1996)) perform and credits her and the film, "That's Entertainment", for being her first methods of inspiration, not to mention the fact that her mother was a writer, (she was nominated for a cable ACE award for narrating and contributing to the lifetime cable documentary, "Dying for Love") and always made sure she exposed Kiva to plays, musicals and film.
Kiva's first agent was Iris Burton and she did a number of commercials, a M.O.W with Brian Dennehy and a famous episode of "Taxi," before falling in love with the world of ballet.- Actor
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Kunal Sharma was born on 12 December 1987 in Andover, Massachusetts, USA. He is an actor, known for Hawaii Five-0 (2010), Prison Break (2005) and The Kids Are All Right (2010).- Actor
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Lee Kyoung-young was born on 12 December 1960 in Chungju, North Chungcheong Province, South Korea. He is an actor and director, known for Inside Men (2015), New World (2013) and Run Away (1995).- Actress
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Laura Hope Crews was born on 12 December 1879 in San Francisco, California, USA. She was an actress, known for Gone with the Wind (1939), The Silver Cord (1933) and Camille (1936). She died on 13 November 1942 in New York City, New York, USA.- After his parents divorced, he became a wayward, rebellious teenager. Deciding he should instill himself with some discipline, he joined a naval training ship for two years. His first taste of acting came during ten years subsequent service in the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Navy.
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Lionel and his sister Joyce's father, a barber encouraged their interest in dancing and theatre. Lionel started as a boy actor with the RSC but there was little money in it., When his father died his agent suggested that they switch to light entertainment where there was more money, For a while he danced at The Windmill in London's Soho and he had a few parts in films including The World of Suzi Wong. He married in March 1967 and had 3 children- Composer
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Lonnie Simmons was born on 12 December 1944 in Texas, USA. Lonnie was a composer, known for Boss Level (2020), Sleepers (1996) and District 13: Ultimatum (2009). Lonnie died on 6 February 2019 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Actor
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Lucas Hedges is an American actor, known for playing Patrick Chandler in Manchester by the Sea (2016), which earned him an Academy Award nomination.
Hedges was born in Brooklyn Heights, New York, the second child of poet and actress Susan Bruce and Oscar-nominated screenwriter and director Peter Hedges. He began regularly appearing in major films in the early 2010s, with his role as "Redford" in Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom (2012), as well as Kill the Messenger (2014), Lady Bird (2017), and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017).
In 2018, he played the older brother in Mid90s (2018), and turned from supporting work to starring roles, giving critically-acclaimed performances in two films about young men in jeopardy, Boy Erased (2018), where he plays a teenager sent to a gay conversion therapy clinic, and Ben Is Back (2018), as a drug-addict returning home for the holidays. In 2019, he starred as a Shia LaBeouf stand-in in the biographical film Honey Boy (2019), sharing the role with Noah Jupe (despite an admitted lack of physical resemblance). He was also part of the ensemble in the highly critically-acclaimed family drama Waves (2019), and in 2020 played Michelle Pfeiffer's character's son in French Exit (2020) and the love-lorn nephew of Meryl Streep's author in Let Them All Talk (2020), both praised dramas circling the year-end awards season.- Actor
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Luis Gnecco Dessy was born in Santiago, Chile. He is one of Chile's most popular comedic actors, recently tackling the Ricky Gervais part in his country's version of "The Office". Pablo Larraín cast him in a decidedly non-comedic role as an unscrupulous villain in HBO Latin America's hit mini-series "Prófugos". Gnecco appeared in Fabula's provocative "Young and Wild" before assuming the role of the man who recruits Saavedra to join the NO campaign; it was a natural fit for the actor, as he was deeply involved in the 1988 movement to overthrow Pinochet.- Actress
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Lyn May is a Mexican showgirl and actress. She is considered one of the most popular female figures of the so-called Cinema of Ficheras and Mexican erotic comedy. She was known by the nickname of "The Goddess of Love." She's completed a cinematographic career that includes approximately 100 films made in Mexico.- Actress
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Born and raised in Sparks, Nevada, Mädchen Amick was encouraged by her parents to follow her own creative instincts where she learned the skill of playing the piano, bass, violin and guitar as well as being able to do tap, ballet, jazz and modern dancing. In 1987 at the age of 16, she traveled to Los Angeles to pursue a career in acting.- Actress
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Magdalena Boczarska is a Polish film and television actress. She was born in Krakow on the 12th of December 1978. Her debut was at the New Theatre in Lodzi, she was playing the title role in the arts Moorhen directed by Lukasz Kos. Since 2003 she works on the boards of the National Theatre in Warsaw, Carrousel Theater in Berlin and Teatro Tatro Slovakia. Since 2005 Magdalena plays in popular television series in Polish and German. Later she acted in the lead roles in popular films in Europe.- Actor
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Manuel Bandera was born on 12 December 1960 in Málaga, Málaga, Andalucía, Spain. He is an actor, known for Réquiem por Granada (1991), Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (1989) and The Things of Love (1989).- Actor
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Marc Otis Graue is an American voice actor and demo producer who is known for voicing Mr. Zurkon from Ratchet & Clank, Mario, Luigi and Bowser from Hotel Mario, Bok Choy from LarryBoy: The Cartoon Adventures, a pirate in the Pirates of the Caribbean ride, himself in Lake Bell's In A World and the orcs in World of Warcraft.- Producer
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Maren Ade was born in Karlsruhe on 12 December 1976 to a couple of teachers.She studied cinema at Munich's Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film. As of 2001 she co-founded, together with Janine Jackowski, a fellow graduate from HFF, the "Komplizen" film company. It is through Komplizen that Maren would later co-produce, among others, "Arabian Nights", Miguel Gomes' masterpiece. After two shorts in 2000 and 2001 made under the auspices of her film school, she co-produced, wrote and and directed Der Wald vor lauter Bäumen (2003), her first feature. A grueling drama about the difficult beginnings of a new teacher, the movie impressed both audiences and critics. Incidentally, it is of interest to specify that its school scenes were entirely shot within the walls of the educational institution where her mother was teaching at the time. This promising effort was followed six years later by Everyone Else (2009), which although taking place in a totally different setting (the Sardinian seaside in the glory of Summer) also concerns characters unsure of themselves. A taut drama as well, it revolves around two holiday making newly married couples and describes in a Roman Polanski-like manner the wicked relationships they share. But her greatest success came in 2015 and 2016 with Toni Erdmann (2016), an offbeat comedy with a philosophical approach, which enthused the festival-goers at Cannes, allegedly making them "roar with laughter", and later making unexpected profit in art houses throughout the world. And it is true that a father playing dirty tricks on his daughter (meant to make her realize she is wasting her life) is no ordinary entertainment. As a matter of fact, after only three full-length movies to her credit, Maren Ade has become a name that counts in today's German cinema.- Margot Duhalde was born in 1920 in Río Bueno, Chile. She died on 5 February 2018 in Santiago de Chile, Metropolitan Region, Chile.
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Martín Adjemián was born on 12 December 1932 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was an actor and casting director, known for Sotto Voce (1996), Herencia (2001) and 1000 millones (2002). He died on 3 January 2006 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.- Actress
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Mayim Bialik grew up in San Diego and got her first acting job (Pumpkinhead (1988)) when she was just 12 years old. A number of TV roles followed until in 1990 she was cast in Blossom (1990), the role which made her famous.
By 1993, while Blossom was still airing, she had already won a deferred place at Harvard and was also accepted by Yale but chose in the end to attend UCLA. She was awarded her Bachelor's degree in 2000 and began reading for a PhD in Neuroscience (studying Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in adolescents with Prader-Willi syndrome) which she eventually completed in 2007.
She continued working throughout her studies and was a regular on US TV screens, becoming a Prime Time face again in 2010 when she began her regular appearances as "Sheldon's friend who is not his girlfriend" in the hit series The Big Bang Theory (2007).- Actress
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Melissa Francis was born on 12 December 1972 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for The Dictator (2012), Something About Amelia (1984) and Little House on the Prairie (1974). She has been married to Wray Thorn since 29 May 1999. They have three children.- Actor
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Michael Keenan was born on 12 December 1939 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor and producer, known for Star Trek: Voyager (1995), Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993) and Dallas (1978). He died on 30 April 2020 in Woodland Hills, California, USA.- Actor
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Michael Traynor was born in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for The Walking Dead (2010), Rectify (2013) and Underwater (2012).- Miguel de la Madrid was born on 12 December 1934 in Colima, Mexico. He died on 1 April 2012 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico.
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She was born in Iasi, Romania, in the south-east of Europe. She went to a local high school to prepare for a future kindergarten teacher career. She changed her mind (and her life!) one year before graduation and got transferred to a different high school, to learn intensively for joining the university to study law. The Iasi University is known as very competitive; Monica took challenging tests and successfully enrolled in the law college. Though, right before the admission exams she had to face her father's death.
She began studying law but she had to work her way out through college. She took part time jobs as a waitress or as a promoter for various companies. An offer came to pose for a lingerie catalogue and she accepted. This brought her a bit into the spotlight at a local level. During her first university year she represented her college at a beauty pageant, "Miss Transylvania" and she was offered a contract with the best model agency in Bucharest, "M.R.A". For a couple of years she could be seen in TV commercials, but she carried on with her student work.
On her 3rd year of college she was called for an audition at a new TV channel that was about to be launched, B1tv. She began her television career with a daily TV show called "La Strada", as a co-host. It was a show for teenagers and it brought her into the spotlight again, this time at a national level. Soon after that more and more requests came for her to do covers for magazines, interviews; she became increasingly successful. In a few months, she got her own daily half-hour TV show.
In November 2002, she was designated the most beautiful Romanian celebrity by the "Beau Monde" magazine and in December she was chosen "The sexiest TV star" by the most influential Romanian TV guide, "TV Mania". Her show went on, and so did the series of awards she got. In February 2003, the VIVA magazine designated her "The most beautiful Romanian woman" and in July the FHM magazine "crowned" her as "Sexiest Woman". In December, she was, once more, awarded by "TV Mania" as "the sexiest TV celebrity".
In the meantime, she hosted the "Extravaganza" show series. 2004 began with a new challenge: "Viata in Direct" (Life Live) show.
In February 2004, "Viva" magazine designated her again as the "sexiest celebrity" and in December 2004 she was, once more "TV Mania's" choice as the "sexiest TV star". In 2004, she went to Los Angeles to take acting classes and improve her TV host skills. Her career took a new turn: she started doing movies.
In 2004, she got a part in a teenager comedy, "Buds for Life", and by year end she received a role in her first Romanian movie, The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2005). The film has so far obtained more than 30 awards, including the "Un certain regard" award at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival, Silver Hugo in Chicago and was nominated for The Best Foreign Film at the Independent Spirit Awards.
In 2005, she got small parts in Incubus (2006) as Karen, in "Second in Command" as Dr. Johnson and in "Living&Dying" as Det Lascar.
In November 2005, she got a recurring part in Lost (2004), the no.1 TV show in the United States, as Gabriella Busoni, a wealthy Italian woman.- Actress
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Morgan Eastwood was born to Dina Eastwood and Clint Eastwood. Although her father is one of the biggest guys in Hollywood, Morgan grew up relatively normal. She has only been in a few of her father's films playing very small roles such as girl on tricycle in the film Changeling (2008). In 2012, the world was introduced to Morgan on the E! reality series "Mrs. Eastwood & Company", chronicling the lives of Dina Eastwood, the wife of Oscar-winning film legend Clint Eastwood, and their daughters Francesca and Morgan Eastwood, and the all-male six member vocal group from South Africa managed by Dina, Overtone. The show takes an unprecedented look at the surprisingly normal extended and blended family behind one of Hollywood's most iconic superstars.- Pasta Dioguardi was born on 12 December 1961 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is an actor, known for Baires (2015), 8 Tiros (2015) and Mi amor, mi amor (2012).