Dreamgirls (1981) Opening Night Premiere
by germanior | created - 29 Mar 2021 | updated - 29 Mar 2021 | PublicDecember 20,1981
1. Jennifer Holliday
Soundtrack | Ally McBeal
Jennifer Holliday was born on October 19, 1960 in Houston, Texas, USA. She is an actress, known for Ally McBeal (1997), I'm Gonna Git You Sucka (1988) and Fairy Tale Forest. She was previously married to Rev. Andre Woods and Billy Meadows.
2. Sheryl Lee Ralph
Actress | Oliver & Company
Sheryl Lee Ralph was born December 30, 1956 in Waterbury, Connecticut, USA. She is known for her roles in Moesha (1996), Its A Living (1980), and Instant Mom (2013). Her Career Began in the late 1970s. She has been Married to Vincent Hughes since July 30, 2005 a Pennsylvania state senator. She was ...
3. Loretta Devine
Actress | Crash
Equally at home on stage and on screen, award-winning actress Loretta Devine has created some of the most memorable roles in theatre, film and television.
Devine first captured national attention in the role of Lorrell, one of the three original "Dreamgirls" in Michael Bennett's classic ...
4. Obba Babatundé
Actor | Life
Obba Babatundé is an actor, singer, dancer, director, writer and producer. Obba's breadth of work is known worldwide by audiences of all ages, and his face is one of the most recognizable in the entertainment industry. His career spans over 4 decades and he is a unique breed in today's industry as ...
5. Deborah Burrell
Actress | The Jeffersons
Deborah Burrell is known for The Jeffersons (1975), The 36th Annual Tony Awards (1982) and The 39th Annual Tony Awards (1985).
6. Ben Harney
Actor | All My Children
Ben Harney was born on August 29, 1952 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for All My Children (1970), Ben & Eddie: The Meeting - Eddie Finds a Home (1990) and The Wiz (1983).
7. Cleavant Derricks
Actor | Sliders
Cleavant Derricks was born on May 15, 1953 in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA. He is an actor and composer, known for Sliders (1995), Moscow on the Hudson (1984) and Dreamgirls (2006). He has been married to Portia Derricks since June 24, 1986. They have four children.
8. Vondie Curtis-Hall
Actor | Romeo + Juliet
Vondie Curtis-Hall was born on September 30, 1950 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He is an actor and director, known for Romeo + Juliet (1996), Falling Down (1993) and Waist Deep (2006). He has been married to Kasi Lemmons since August 19, 1995. They have two children.
9. Debbie Allen
Producer | Fame
Deborah Kaye Allen was born in Houston, Texas, to African-American parents, Vivian Elizabeth (Ayers), a poet and art director, and Andrew Arthur Allen, an orthodontist. As a child, Debbie, her older brother, Andrew (called Tex), and her older sister, actress Phylicia Rashad, lived in Mexico to ...
10. Nancy Allen
Actress | Dressed to Kill
Nancy Anne Allen was born and raised in the Bronx borough of New York City, the youngest of three children. Her father, Eugene Allen, was a New York police lieutenant. At a young age, she trained for a dancing career at the High School of Performing Arts, and then attended Jose Quintano's School ...
11. Lucie Arnaz
Actress | The Jazz Singer
Lucie Arnaz was born on July 17, 1951 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for The Jazz Singer (1980), Here's Lucy (1968) and Smoking Nonsmoking (2011). She has been married to Laurence Luckinbill since June 22, 1980. They have three children. She was ...
12. Lauren Bacall
Actress | To Have and Have Not
Lauren Bacall was born Betty Joan Perske on September 16, 1924, in New York City. She was the daughter of Natalie Weinstein-Bacal, a Romanian Jewish immigrant, and William Perske, who was born in New Jersey, to Polish Jewish parents. Her family was middle-class, with her father working as a ...
13. Scott Baio
Actor | Happy Days
Scott Vincent James Baio was born on September 22, 1960 in Brooklyn, New York. He was the third child of Mario and Rose Baio, who had emigrated from Italy. At the young age of nine, Scott decided that he wanted to be an actor. Soon after, his parents took him on interviews and he was able to land ...
14. Harry Belafonte
Actor | Bobby
Harold George Belafonte was born on March 1, 1927 in New York City. He was educated at the New York Dramatic Workshop. He grew up in Jamaica, British West Indies, and did folk-singing in nightclubs and theaters, and on television and records. His debut was at the Village Vanguard in New York. Also,...
15. Amy Irving
Actress | Traffic
Naturally brunette/blue-eyed beauty Amy Davis Irving was born in Palo Alto, California. She is the youngest of three children, and the daughter of influential theatrical/television director and producer Jules Irving, and actress Priscilla Pointer. Her father was of Russian Jewish descent, and her ...
16. Billy Joel
Soundtrack | Oliver & Company
William Martin Joel is an American singer, pianist, composer and songwriter. Commonly nicknamed the "Piano Man" after his single and signature song of the same name, he has led a commercially successful career as a solo artist since the 1970s, having released 12 pop and rock studio albums from 1971...
17. Quincy Jones
Producer | The Color Purple
Considered to be one of the greatest minds in music and television history, Quincy Delight Jones, Jr. was born on March 14, 1933 in Chicago, Illinois. He is the son of Sarah Frances (Wells), a bank executive, and Quincy Delight Jones, Sr., a carpenter.
Jones found his love for music while he was ...
18. Peggy Lipton
Actress | Twin Peaks
She was a groovy and sexy icon of the late hippie era. To millions of TV viewers she became familiar as the reformed juvenile delinquent, turned undercover cop, Julie Barnes. With her expressive brown eyes and trademark long blonde hair, sylphlike Peggy Lipton was one third of a streetwise urban ...
19. Heather Locklear
Actress | Melrose Place
Heather Locklear was born on September 25, 1961 in Westwood, California, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Melrose Place (1992), The Perfect Man (2005) and The Return of Swamp Thing (1989). She was previously married to Richie Sambora and Tommy Lee.
20. Laurence Luckinbill
Actor | Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
Laurence Luckinbill was born on November 21, 1934 in Fort Smith, Arkansas, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989), Cocktail (1988) and Lucy and Desi: A Home Movie (1993). He has been married to Lucie Arnaz since June 22, 1980. They have three children. He ...
21. Debbie Osmond
Actress | The Fir Tree
Debbie Osmond is known for The Fir Tree (1979), Donny Osmond: Live (2003) and Dancing with the Stars (2005). She has been married to Donny Osmond since May 8, 1978. They have five children.
22. Donny Osmond
Actor | Mulan
Donald Clark "Donny" Osmond was born December 9, 1957 in Ogden, Utah, to Olive Osmond (née Davis) and George Osmond on . He was the seventh of eight brothers and has one sister. When Donny was young, his family went to see Lawrence Welk in California. They were unable to meet with him so they ...
23. Brian De Palma
Director | Body Double
Brian De Palma is one of the well-known directors who spear-headed the new movement in Hollywood during the 1970s. He is known for his many films that go from violent pictures, to Hitchcock-like thrillers. Born on September 11, 1940, De Palma was born in Newark, New Jersey in an Italian-American ...
24. Michael Peters
Michael Peters was born on August 6, 1948 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was an actor and director, known for What's Love Got to Do with It (1993), Michael Jackson: Thriller (1983) and Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit (1993). He died on August 29, 1994 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
25. Steven Spielberg
Producer | Schindler's List
One of the most influential personalities in the history of cinema, Steven Spielberg is Hollywood's best known director and one of the wealthiest filmmakers in the world. He has an extraordinary number of commercially successful and critically acclaimed credits to his name, either as a director, ...
26. Sylvester Stallone
Actor | Rocky
Sylvester Stallone is an athletically built, dark-haired American actor/screenwriter/director/producer, the movie fans worldwide have been flocking to see Stallone's films for over 40 years, making "Sly" one of Hollywood's biggest-ever box office draws.
Sylvester Stallone was born on July 6, 1946, ...
27. Bill Rosser
Cinematographer | The Real West
Bill Rosser is known for The Real West (1992), Civil War Journal (1993) and The Couch Potato Workout (1988).
28. Gloria Steinem
Actress | The First Wives Club
Gloria Steinem was born on March 25, 1934 in Toledo, Ohio, USA. She is a producer and actress, known for The First Wives Club (1996), V for Vendetta (2005) and The Good Wife (2009). She was previously married to David Bale.
29. Elizabeth Weber
Art_department | Species II
Elizabeth Weber is known for Species II (1998), The Purge: Election Year (2016) and Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 (2000).
30. Diane von Fürstenberg
Producer | American Masters
Diane von Furstenberg first entered the fashion world in 1970 with a suitcase full of jersey dresses. Four years later, she created the wrap dress, which came to symbolize power and independence for an entire generation of women. By 1976, she had sold over a million of the dresses and was featured ...
31. André Weinfeld
Director | She Left on a Sunday
Born on April 6, 1947 in Paris (France), André Weinfeld is a French and American film and television producer, director, screenwriter, photographer and journalist.
After receiving a Master's Degree in Psychology and French Literature at the Sorbonne University, André Weinfeld - the son of Jean ...
32. Raquel Welch
Actress | The Three Musketeers
A new reigning 1960s international sex symbol took to the cinematic throne as soon as Raquel Welch emerged from the sea in her purposely depleted, furry prehistoric bikini. Tantalizingly wet with her garb clinging to all the right amazonian places, One Million Years B.C. (1966), if nothing else, ...
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