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1. Alexandra Daddario Alexandra Daddario Actress, Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief Alex was born on March 16, 1986 in New York City, to a prosecutor father and a lawyer mother. Her brother is actor Matthew Daddario and her grandfather was congressman Emilio Q. Daddario, of Connecticut. She has Italian, Irish, English, and Czech ancestry. She wanted to be an actress when she was young...
2. Alan Tudyk Alan Tudyk Actor, I, Robot Alan Tudyk was born in El Paso, Texas, and grew up in Plano, where he attended Plano Sr. High. In 1990, he went on to study drama at Lon Morris Jr. College. While there, he was awarded the Academic Excellence Award for Drama. He was also named Most Likely to Succeed and Sophomore Beau. During this time, Alan was also an active member of the Delta Psi Omega fraternity...
3. Lauren Graham Lauren Graham Actress, Bad Santa Lauren Graham was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, to Donna Grant and Lawrence Graham, a candy industry lobbyist. Her father was from New York and her mother was from the American South, and Lauren has Irish, English, and Scottish ancestry. She grew up in Northern Virginia, USA (Fairfax, Arlington, and Great Falls...
4. Sienna Guillory Sienna Guillory Actress, Love Actually Sienna Guillory is the daughter of American folk guitarist Isaac Guillory and Tina Thompson, an English model. Guillory's parents encouraged her to express herself artistically as she was growing up and this lead to her decision to become an actor. She was educated at Gresham's School, Holt, Norfolk, England and appeared in school plays...
5. Sophie Hunter Sophie Hunter Actress, Vanity Fair Sophie Irene Hunter (born 16 March 1978) is a British avant-garde theatre and opera director, playwright, actress, and singer. She directed Phantom Limb Company's experimental play 69° South (2013), which dramatized the almost fatal voyage of Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton by having performers on stilts manipulate marionettes...
6. Victor Garber Victor Garber Actor, Titanic A leading player on Broadway for over two decades, Victor Garber has appeared in comedies and musicals in New York to applause and Tony nominations, but his career in TV and films has been limited to mostly supporting parts. Garber's first stage success of note came in his native Canada, where he...
7. Jerry Lewis Jerry Lewis Actor, The Nutty Professor Jerry Lewis (born March 16, 1926) is an American comedian, actor, singer, film producer, screenwriter and film director. He is known for his slapstick humor in film, television, stage and radio. He was originally paired up with Dean Martin in 1946, forming the famed comedy team of Martin and Lewis. In addition to the duo's popular nightclub work...
8. Brooke Burns Brooke Burns Actress, Shallow Hal
9. Paul Schneider Paul Schneider Actor, Lars and the Real Girl
10. Kyle Newman Kyle Newman Director, Fanboys
11. Jerome Flynn Jerome Flynn Actor, Blackwater
12. Judah Friedlander Judah Friedlander Actor, The Wrestler
13. Madison Riley Madison Riley Actress, Grown Ups
14. Tim Kang Tim Kang Actor, Rambo
15. Rupert Sanders Rupert Sanders Director, Snow White and the Huntsman
16. Erik Estrada Erik Estrada Self, Van Wilder
17. Isabelle Huppert Isabelle Huppert Actress, Amour Isabelle Huppert was born in 1953, in Paris, France, but spent her childhood in Ville d'Avray. Encouraged by her mother (who was a teacher of English), she followed the Conservatory of Versailles and won an acting prize for her work in Alfred de Musset's "Un caprice". She then studied at the Conservatoire d'Art Dramatique and followed an illustrious theatrical career...
18. Gore Verbinski Gore Verbinski Director, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl Gore Verbinski, one of American cinema's most inventive directors who was a punk-rock guitarist as a teenager and had to sell his guitar to buy his first camera, is now the director of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest which made the industry record for highest opening weekend of all time ($135,600,000) and grossed over $1 billion dollars worldwide...
19. Susan Bay Susan Bay Actress, The Big Mouth
20. Belén Rueda Belén Rueda Actress, The Orphanage
21. Kate Nelligan Kate Nelligan Actress, Wolf Cando-American actress Kate Nelligan has had a successful acting career in her native Canada, in Britain and in the United States. Born Patricia Colleen Nelligan on March 16, 1951 in London, Ontario, Kate was the daughter of blue collar-worker Patrick Nelligan and his wife Josephine (née Deir), a schoolteacher who suffered from alcoholism and mental illness...
22. Bernardo Bertolucci Bernardo Bertolucci Writer, Last Tango in Paris Bernardo Bertolucci, the Italian director whose films are known for their colorful visual style, was born in Parma, Italy, in 1940. He attended Rome University and became famous as a poet. He served as assistant director for Pier Paolo Pasolini in the film Accattone and directed The Grim Reaper. His second film...
23. Isabelle Allen Isabelle Allen Actress, Les Misérables Just one year ago, young Isabelle Allen was acting in a school play (as a boy, no less). Today, she's the featured co-star of Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe and Anne Hathaway in director Tom Hooper's big-screen adaptation of one of the longest-running musical in history, "Les Miserables." The ten-year-old Allen plays the younger version of Cosette...
24. Sierra Aylina McClain Sierra Aylina McClain Music Department, TransplANTed
25. Tara Buck Tara Buck Actress, Tomorrow You're Gone
26. Clifton Powell Clifton Powell Actor, Ray
27. Joe Egender Joe Egender Actor, Hunger
28. Felisha Terrell Felisha Terrell Actress, The Social Network
29. Kevin Smith Kevin Smith Actor, Desperate Remedies Kevin died in Beijing, China after suffering a severe head injury in a fall. He had just finished work on Warriors of Virtue: The Return to Tao at Beijing Film Studio. Kevin was eager to work on the film because of the opportunity to work with a stuntman from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (a.k.a. "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"). Kevin was injured on February 6...
30. Nancy Wilson Nancy Wilson Soundtrack, Vanilla Sky Nancy Wilson was born in San Francisco, California and joined her sister Ann Wilson in the Seattle, Washington based hard rock-band Heart in the early-seventies. She sang lead vocals on the number one-hit "These Dreams" and on the top-twenty hit "Stranded". Ann performed on "The Battle of Evermore" on the Soundtrack of the film Singles with "The Lovemongers"...
31. Mónica Cruz Mónica Cruz Actress, The Final Inquiry
32. Florian Lukas Florian Lukas Actor, The Grand Budapest Hotel
33. Mercedes McCambridge Mercedes McCambridge Actress, The Exorcist Mercedes McCambridge is a highly-talented radio performer who won a best supporting Actress Oscar for her film debut. Mercedes McCambridge was born in Joliet, Illinois, to Marie (Mahaffry) and John Patrick McCambridge, a farmer. She was of mostly Irish (with a small amount of English and German) ancestry...
34. Leo McKern Leo McKern Actor, The Blue Lagoon Although he sounded very British, Leo McKern was an Australian. By the time he was 15 years old, he had endured an accident that left him without his left eye. A glass eye replaced it - one might conjecture for the better, as far as making McKern a one-day actor of singular focus (no pun intended; his face had that extremely focused look)...
35. Chuck Woolery Chuck Woolery Self, Love Connection Chuck Woolery originally set his sights on a career in the music industry but had a change of heart when he joined the U.S. Navy instead. After two years military service, he attended college in his home state of Kentucky and afterward held various jobs including a stint as a sales rep at Pillsbury...
36. Flavor Flav Flavor Flav Self, Comedy Central Roast of Flavor Flav
37. Liz Nicole Abrams Liz Nicole Abrams Actress, Cornered!
38. Gary Basaraba Gary Basaraba Actor, Another World
39. Jimmy Nail Jimmy Nail Actor, Evita
40. Todd McFarlane Todd McFarlane Writer, Spawn
41. Nicolas Bro Nicolas Bro Actor, Adam's Apples
42. Nick Spano Nick Spano Actor, The Even Stevens Movie
43. Irwin Keyes Irwin Keyes Actor, The Flintstones Large (6'1"), affable, and commanding character actor Irwin Keyes was born on March 16, 1952 in New York City. Keyes grew up in Amityville, New York and graduated from Amityville Memorial High School in 1970. He acted in his first play "The Lower Depths" by Maxim Grody while attending college. Frequently cast as likable lugs...
44. Ashley Miller Ashley Miller Writer, X-Men: First Class Was a member of the first graduating class of the Thomas Jefferson High School of Science and Technology in Fairfax, Virginia. Graduated from the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. Was active in on-campus politics in college, and generally regarded as a scourge to the establishment, and a voice of common-sense and reason for the opposition...
45. Peaches Geldof Peaches Geldof Self, Episode #4.33
46. Michael MacRae Michael MacRae Actor, Battlefield Earth
47. Cie Allman Cie Allman Actress, No Limits! Home Edition Cie Scott, Ph.D. is a seasoned television producer who successfully transitioned from the front of the camera to behind the camera. A published author of both text and audio books, Dr. Scott is also the writer of TV commercials, infomercials, episodic and "how to" daytime TV programs, music videos, and thought-provoking short stories...
48. Karlheinz Böhm Karlheinz Böhm Actor, Peeping Tom The son of conductor Karl Böhm began his acting career on stage in Germany. In Europe, he is still best known for his role in the Sissi series, although he later starred in several movies of cult director Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Since 1981, he has been exclusively involved in charitable work in Ethiopia.
49. Roy Chiao Roy Chiao Actor, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
50. Joseph Pilato Joseph Pilato Actor, Pulp Fiction Born in the Italian section of East Boston to a hardworking Italian family (his father was professional trombonist with the Les Brown Orchestra), Pilato admits that his flair for performing was discovered quite by accident, when he became an alter boy. Still, it wasn't until his college years that he took the big step towards honing his love for performance into a craft...
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