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1. Lucy Lawless Lucy Lawless Actress, Spider-Man New Zealand icon Lucy Lawless, is most famously known for her role as Xena the Warrior Princess. Lucy is married to producer Robert Gerard Tapert and resides in New Zealand. They have two sons, Julius Robert Bay Tapert and Judah Miro Tapert who were both born in New Zealand. Lucy also has a daughter, Daisy Lawless, from her first marriage to Garth Lawless...
2. Scott Wilson Scott Wilson Actor, Dead Man Walking One chillingly infamous screen role for Scott Wilson in 1967 set the tone for an actor who went on to prove himself an invaluable character player for the past five decades. The Georgia-born native (Atlanta born and raised) was awarded a basketball scholarship following high school at Georgia's Southern Tech University to study architecture...
3. Brendan Gleeson Brendan Gleeson Actor, Troy Brendan Gleeson was born in Dublin, Ireland. From a very young age, he loved to learn, especially reading classical text in and outside the classroom. He took great attention to Irish play writers such as Samuel Beckett, which eventually led to him performing in his high school play production of "Waiting for Godot"...
4. Sam Hazeldine Sam Hazeldine Actor, The Raven
5. Annabella Sciorra Annabella Sciorra Actress, What Dreams May Come
6. Marina Sirtis Marina Sirtis Actress, Star Trek: First Contact Marina Sirtis was born in London, England to Greek parents who did not want her to become an actress. As soon as Marina completed high school, she applied to the Guild Hall School of Music and Drama secretly. After her graduation, she worked in musical theater, repertory and television. In 1986, she moved to Los Angeles...
7. Hayley McFarland Hayley McFarland Actress, The Conjuring Hayley McFarland was born on March 29, 1991. As a child she appeared in several theatrical productions, including Titanic, Fiddler on the Roof, and The Sound of Music. She has appeared on TV (Gilmore Girls, ER, Criminal Minds). In 2008 Hayley was cast as Emiliy Lightman on the FOX series Lie to Me. In the 2008 film Winged Creatures, she played Lori Carline alongside Dakota Fanning.
8. Ed Skrein Ed Skrein Actor, Ill Manors Following a BA Hons degree from Central St Martins in Fine Art, Ed explored his passion for performing through music by MC-ing at music festivals around the world performing with Foreign Beggars, Plan B, Asian Dub Foundation and Nathan 'Flutebox' Lee. His first acting role was the lead in iLL Manors...
9. Christopher Lambert Christopher Lambert Actor, Mortal Kombat Although born in the USA, Lambert is French. His father was a French diplomat stationed in the US at the United Nations at the time of Lambert's birth. Lambert's formative years were spent in Geneva, Switzerland, to where his family moved when he was two, before returning to Paris when he was 16. Lambert has served in the French military, allegedly at his father's insistence.
10. Bud Cort Bud Cort Actor, Dogma Bud Cort, American actor/comedian, was born Walter Edward Cox in New Rochelle, New York. The second of five children, he grew up in Rye, New York, the son of Joseph P. Cox, an orchestra leader, pianist, and owner of a successful men's clothing store in Rye, and Alma M. Court a former newspaper and Life magazine reporter and an executive asst...
11. Amy Sedaris Amy Sedaris Actress, Strangers with Candy
12. Elle Macpherson Elle Macpherson Self, Miss Universe 2001
13. Megan Hilty Megan Hilty Actress, Pixie Hollow Games
14. Eileen Heckart Eileen Heckart Actress, One Life to Live Versatile, award-winning character actress Eileen Heckart, with the lean, horsey face and assured, fervent gait, was born Anna Eileen Stark on March 29, 1919, in Columbus, Ohio. An only child, she lived with her mother after her parents separated at age 2. Her childhood was an acutely unhappy one. Her mother...
15. Terence Hill Terence Hill Actor, My Name Is Nobody Terence Hill was born as Mario Girotti on March 29, 1939 in Venice, Italy to a chemist. His mother was German, and as a child the family lived near Dresden, Saxony, Germany where they survived the Allied bombings of World War II. Italian film-maker Dino Risi discovered him at a swimming meet and he made his first film at the age of 12...
16. Josh Blaylock Josh Blaylock Actor, No Country for Old Men
17. Jill Goodacre Jill Goodacre Actress, The One with the Blackout
18. Aneliese Roettger Aneliese Roettger Actress, The Virgin Murders Aneliese was born in New Haven, Connecticut. She moved to Mexico and was educated at private Spanish/English/German schools. She then moved to Scottsdale, Arizona her freshman year of high school. Aneliese was discovered by another model, and this led to various jobs in modeling and acting. At age 21, she became a regular bikini model on the television show, Estudio 2...
19. Paul Herman Paul Herman Actor, Silver Linings Playbook
20. Brandi Love Brandi Love Actress, Succubus XXX Buxom, sexy, and slender 5'7" blonde knockout Brandi Love was born Tracey Lynne Potoski on March 29, 1973 in Raleigh, North Carolina. Love was a dancer at age three and began ice skating at age four. Moreover, Brandi also ran track and played both soccer and tennis as a kid. Love was the owner of a...
21. Eric Idle Eric Idle Actor, Monty Python and the Holy Grail
22. Chris Massoglia Chris Massoglia Actor, The Hole Christopher Paul Massoglia was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His father is a chiropractor and his mother is a housewife. He still lives in Minneapolis with his parents, two brothers and a sister. His parents are devout Christians and Republicans, and Massoglia grew up a fan of Christian pop music...
23. Sascha Radetsky Sascha Radetsky Actor, Center Stage Tall, built, handsome and striking, but as graceful as a man his size can possibly be, Sascha Radetsky has had a traditional dance history up until the new millenium. Radetsky is not only a skilled and gifted dancer, but also a heart-throb and sex symbol in his own right. Born in Santa Cruz, California...
24. Victor Salva Victor Salva Director, Jeepers Creepers II Born in Martinez, California, 20 miles outside San Francisco, Victor Salva had written and directed over 20 short and feature-length films before graduating from high school. In the mid-'80s his 37-minute short Something in the Basement took first place in the fiction category at the Sony/AFI Home Video Competition...
25. Michael Winterbottom Michael Winterbottom Director, 24 Hour Party People
26. Samantha Jo Samantha Jo Stunts, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
27. Michel Hazanavicius Michel Hazanavicius Director, The Artist Michel Hazanavicius was born and raised in Paris, France. His grandparents were originally from Lithuania, but relocated to France in the 1920s. Hazanavicius attended art school, and moved on to work as a director for commercials and television projects. In 1999, he wrote and directed his first feature film Mes amis...
28. Barry Pearl Barry Pearl Actor, Grease
29. Chad Rook Chad Rook Actor, Irregardless Born in Lethbridge, Alberta, Chad left the prairie life and headed to Vancouver straight out of High School to pursue his acting career and make a name for himself in the film scene. Shortly after the move however, he was selected as a "New Face" Model and immediately landed various modeling campaigns for such companies as Ibiza Hippie...
30. Davi Jay Davi Jay Actor, Red Ink Davi Jay's love for acting began at an early age and took root when he landed his first professional paid acting gig at the age of 16 playing the lead role of Jesus Christ in the theatrical production of "Godspell". The stage became his home over the course of the next few decades. He studied Theater...
31. Drake Doremus Drake Doremus Director, Like Crazy
32. Bradford Tatum Bradford Tatum Actor, Standing on Fishes
33. Todd Grinnell Todd Grinnell Actor, Hollywoodland
34. Natalia Avelon Natalia Avelon Actress, Eight Miles High
35. Jo Nesbø Jo Nesbø Writer, Headhunters Jo Nesbø is a world-renowned crime writer recognized for broadening the scope of modern crime and thriller fiction. His books have garnered countless international awards, sold more than twenty million copies, and been translated into forty-seven languages. In addition to the Harry Hole series he is the author of stand-alone novels Headhunters and The Son...
36. Michael-Leon Wooley Michael-Leon Wooley Actor, The Princess and the Frog
37. Lucas Elliot Eberl Lucas Elliot Eberl Actor, Planet of the Apes
38. De'Angelo Wilson De'Angelo Wilson Actor, 8 Mile
39. Pearl Bailey Pearl Bailey Self, Pearl Bailey Composer, singer and songwriter. She was a dancer, then a singer in New York in the early 1940s, touring with the Cootie Williams orchestra, and later a featured singer in night clubs, radio and television. She made stage appearances in "Arms and the Girl", "St. Louis Woman"; and "House of Flowers"...
40. Renn Hawkey Renn Hawkey Producer, Higher Ground
41. Arthur O'Connell Arthur O'Connell Actor, Anatomy of a Murder Though veteran character actor Arthur O'Connell was born in New York City in 1908, he looked as countrified as apple pie, looking ever more comfy in overalls than he ever did in a suit. He made his stage debut in the mid 1930s and came into contact with Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre. As a result, he earned the bit role of a reporter in the final scenes of Citizen Kane (1941)...
42. Warner Baxter Warner Baxter Actor, 42nd Street Warner Baxter claimed to have an early pre-disposition toward show business: "I discovered a boy a block away who would eat worms and swallow flies for a penny. For one-third of the profits, I exhibited him in a tent." When he was age 9, his widowed mother moved to San Francisco where, following the earthquake of 1906...
43. Christopher Lawford Christopher Lawford Actor, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines Christopher Lawford is the first child of Peter and Pat Kennedy Lawford, born on March 29, 1955. Lawford attended Tufts and Georgetown Universities, and went to Boston College Law School, graduating in 1983. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, a drug problem put Lawford in a clinic for a time, but he was able to straighten out his life and continue with his education...
44. Godfrey Reggio Godfrey Reggio Director, Koyaanisqatsi Godfrey Reggio is a pioneer of a film style that creates poetic images of extraordinary emotional impact for audiences worldwide. Reggio is prominent in the film world for his QATSI trilogy, essays of visual images and sound that chronicle the destructive impact of the modern world on the environment...
45. Rolf Lassgård Rolf Lassgård Actor, The Hunters He started acting school in Malmö and went from there to the Skånska Teatern in Landskrona, performing in plays by Shakespeare or Brecht. He made a breakthrough as Puck in William Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer's Night Dream'. He also met his wife Birgitta there. The 1990s meant a lot of work in front of the camera...
46. Vangelis Vangelis Soundtrack, Collateral Vangelis is a composer and performer who works almost exclusively with electronic instruments. He is probably most well know for his Chariots of Fire and Blade Runner soundtracks or for the tracks used in the Cosmos television series. He has been involved in many musical collaborations, the most famous that with Jon Anderson.
47. Ryan Lambert Ryan Lambert Actor, The Monster Squad
48. Alexander Fehling Alexander Fehling Actor, Inglourious Basterds
49. Krista Sutton Krista Sutton Actress, American Psycho 2003 Dora Award nominee and co-star of the 2004 Genie nominated The Dogwalker, Krista Sutton has years of professional acting experience both in Toronto and in New York. Sutton's career soared to new levels of industry awareness with a key scene in the much talked about film, American Psycho. Called the "It Girl" at Sundance...
50. Bryan Chafin Bryan Chafin Actor, The Patriot Bryan got his professional start at the age of six while visiting a family friend on set. He was asked to deliver a one-liner to the principal actor in an independent film shot in Central Texas. The producer was so impressed with him that he arranged a meeting with his agent. Bryan secured an agent which helped him book print work...
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