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Jessica Lange
Actress, Big Fish
Jessica Lange was born in Cloquet, Minnesota, USA on April 20, 1949, to Dorothy Florence (Sahlman) and Albert John Lange, a traveling salesman and teacher. She is of Finnish (mother) and Dutch and German (father) descent. She obtained a scholarship to study art at the University of Minnesota, but instead went to Paris to study drama...
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Andy Serkis
Actor, Rise of the Planet of the Apes
He was born Andy Serkis on April 20, 1964, in Ruislip Manor, West London, England. He has three sisters and a brother. His father, Clement Serkis, an ethnic Armenian whose original family surname was "Serkissian", was a Medical Doctor working abroad, in Iraq; the Serkis family spent a lot of time traveling around the Middle East...
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Billy Magnussen
Actor, Into the Woods
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Crispin Glover
Actor, Back to the Future
While he's never been a typical leading man, Crispin Glover has distinguished himself as one of the most intriguing personalities in the movie business. His unusual characters and personal projects have inspired a cult-like following that has dubbed him both madman and genius. The son of actor Bruce Glover...
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Carmen Electra
Actress, Scary Movie
Carmen Electra was born Tara Leigh Patrick on April 20, 1972 in Sharonville, Ohio, to Patricia Rose (Kincade), a singer, and Harry Stanley Patrick, an entertainer and guitarist. She is of mostly English, German, and Irish descent. She grew up near Cincinnati, Ohio and got her first boost when a scout for Prince spotted her fronting for a rap group in Los Angeles...
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Shemar Moore
Actor, Diary of a Mad Black Woman
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Joseph Lawrence
Actor, Oliver & Company
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Nina Foch
Actress, Spartacus
A leading lady of the 1940s, the tall and blonde Foch usually played cool, aloof and often foreign, women of sophistication. As film roles became harder to find, Foch proved to versatile in many areas. She was a panelist on several TV quiz shows, worked as George Stevens' assistant director for The Diary of Anne Frank and directed plays...
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Clint Howard
Actor, How the Grinch Stole Christmas
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Miranda Kerr
Self, The Victoria's Secret Fashion Show
Miranda May Kerr was born in Sydney and raised in the small town of Gunnedah to John and Therese Kerr. Kerr's paternal grandmother lived on a farm, where she "raced motorbikes and rode horses." Her parents later moved the family to Brisbane when she and her younger brother Matthew were teenagers. She...
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Ryan O'Neal
Actor, Barry Lyndon
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Clayne Crawford
Actor, A Walk to Remember
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George Takei
Actor, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Although primarily known for playing Hikaru Sulu in the television series Star Trek and the first six features, George Takei has had a varied career acting in television, feature films, live theater and radio. He also is a successful writer and community activist. His first-hand knowledge of the unjust internment of 120,000 Japanese Americans in World War II...
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Veronica Cartwright
Actress, Alien
Born in Bristol, England, Veronica is the older sister of the popular child actress Angela Cartwright. In her early career, Veronica was cast in a number of popular movies such as The Children's Hour, Spencer's Mountain and Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds. As such, she was cast as "Jemima Boone" in the popular television series Daniel Boone...
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John Patrick Amedori
Actor, The Butterfly Effect
Johns first gift was for music and his first ambition was to become a lead guitarist in his own band. He credits, the band Nirvana for his musical inspiration. His cameo in "Almost Famous" set him on the road to acting. His other accomplishment, graduating high school at the age of 15. John has one younger brother and a cute dog named Poe.
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Kazuaki Kiriya
Director, Goemon
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Adolf Hitler
Self, Triumph of the Will
Born the fourth of six children to Austrian customs officer Alois Hitler--who had been married twice before--and the former Klara Polzl, Adolf Hitler grew up in a small Austrian town in the late 19th century. He was a slow learner and did poorly in school. He was frequently beaten by his authoritarian father...
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James Gammon
Actor, The Iron Giant
Rugged-looking James Gammon first broke into the entertainment industry not as an actor but as a TV cameraman. From there, his weatherbeaten features, somewhat menacing attitude and a tough-as-nails voice--the kind that used to be described in detective novels as "whiskey-soaked"--reminiscent of '40s...
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Gregory Itzin
Actor, Law Abiding Citizen
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Alex Black
Actor, Spider-Man
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Yuji Okumoto
Actor, Inception
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Nicholas Lyndhurst
Actor, Gulliver's Travels
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Leslie Phillips
Actor, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
A much-loved comic actor who has specialized in playing plummy, quintessentially English stereotypes, Leslie Phillips' heart was in acting from a very young age. He received elocution lessons as a child in order to lose his natural cockney accent (at that time a regional British accent was a major impediment to an aspiring actor) and he attended the Italia Conti School...
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Harris Wittels
Producer, You and Your Ex Call It Quits
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Gary Raymond
Actor, Jason and the Argonauts
Born in Brixton, England in 1935, robust and good-looking Gary Raymond came from an acting family. Born Gary Barrymore Raymond, the youngest of three sons (one brother is a twin), his parents were music hall entertainers. Gary won a scholarship at the age of 11 to Gateway School in Leicaster, then graduated...
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Lara Jill Miller
Actress, Digimon: The Movie
After appearing on Broadway in "The Music Man" with Dick Van Dyke and starring as "Samantha" on the NBC series Gimme a Break! for 6 seasons, Lara Jill graduated from NYU, Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa. She then earned her JD from Fordham Law and passed the NY, NJ and PA Bars. Upon her return to LA...
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Bruce Cabot
Actor, King Kong
Hollywood stalwart Bruce Cabot's main claim to fame, other than rescuing Fay Wray from King Kong, is that he tested for the lead role of The Ringo Kid in John Ford's Western masterpiece Stagecoach. John Wayne got the role and became the most durable star in Hollywood history...
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Michael Brandon
Actor, Captain America: The First Avenger
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Harold Lloyd
Actor, Safety Last!
Born in Buchard, Nebraska, USA to Elizabeth Fraser and 'J. Darcie 'Foxy' Lloyd' who fought constantly and soon divorced (at the time a rare event), Harold Clayton Lloyd was nominally educated in Denver and San Diego high schools and received his stage training at the School of Dramatic Art (San Diego)...
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William deVry
Actor, The Lost World
William was born and raised in Montreal, Canada. He moved to Florida with his mother when he was 19 and still maintains a residence there. His mother, Diane, is the grand-daughter of Herman DeVry founder of the DeVry Institute. William is an only child and named after his maternal grandfather. As a child William was fortunate enough to travel to many places...
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Betty Lou Gerson
Actress, 101 Dalmatians
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Judith O'Dea
Actress, Night of the Living Dead
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Peter Chelsom
Director, Serendipity
Peter Chelsom is a member of the British Academy, the American Academy, The Directors Guild Of America, and The Writers Guild Of America. Peter was born in Blackpool in the North of England. He is a US and UK citizen. (Trivia: he is an Honorary Citizen of a small town in Tuscany, Italy, called Fivizzano)...
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Louise Jameson
Actress, Horror of Fang Rock: Part One
Louise Jameson is a classically trained actress whose first love is the stage but she also became known to millions of British television viewers through her roles in such hugely popular television series as Doctor Who, Tenko, Bergerac and EastEnders. Jameson had formal acting...
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Bárbara Lennie
Actress, The Skin I Live In
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Mike Pniewski
Actor, Spaceballs
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Geraint Wyn Davies
Actor, Cube²: Hypercube
Geraint Wyn Davies was born in Swansea, Wales on April 20, 1957. His father is a semi-retired Welsh congregational minister and his mother, a retired teacher, who was headmistress of Geraint's first school. At the age of seven, his family moved to Canada where he attended Upper Canada College then the...
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Robert DoQui
Actor, RoboCop
Excellent, prolific and versatile character actor Robert DoQui was born in 1934 in Stillwater, Oklahoma. He attended Langston University on a music scholarship and was a member of the popular singing group, "The Langstonaires". Following a four-year stint in the U.S. Air Force, DoQui went to New York to pursue a career in show business...
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Ray Brooks
Actor, The Knack... and How to Get It
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Seeta Indrani
Actress, Broken
Began her career as Cassandra in the original cast of "Cats" by Andrew Lloyd Webber, followed by seasons at The Royal National Theatre, The Royal Exchange, and The Royal Shakespeare Company, where she renewed her relationship with "Cats" director Trevor Nunn, and went on to work with John Caird...
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Edie Sedgwick
Actress, Ciao Manhattan
Edie Sedgwick was a bright social butterfly whose candle of fame burned brightly at both ends. Born into a wealthy White Anglo-Saxon Protestant family of impressive lineage, Edie became a "celebutante" for her beauty, style, wealth and her associations with figures of the 1960s counterculture. Edie was born in Santa Barbara into a prominent family plagued by mental illness...
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Brody Hutzler
Actor, Guiding Light
Born in Fairbanks, Alaska and raised all over the United States-everywhere from New York to Hawaii, Brody began his professional acting career in 1995. He moved to Los Angeles after attending Michigan State University to pursue his dream of becoming an actor and was fortunate enough to study with world famous acting coach...
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Georgina Rylance
Actress, 7 Seconds
Georgina was born in London, went to St Pauls School before attending boarding school at Downe House. Her A-Levels were completed at St. Edwards School, Oxford where she also went to University. She obtained a BA Honours degree in Politics at Oxford Brookes University.
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Luther Vandross
Soundtrack, The Goonies
He was the heartbeat of R&B; during the 1980s and 1990s, yet led a productive singing and songwriting life prior to this preeminence. The soul balladeer's strong commitment to the art of music continued on its Grammy-winning course, even after an acute stroke in 2003 left him severely incapacitated and unable to continue public appearances...
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George R. Robertson
Actor, Police Academy
George R. Robertson is a Canadian actor best known as Chief Hurst in the first 6 Police Academy films. He was also featured in JFK, Murder At 1600 (Mack Falls), as Dick Cheney in The Path To 9/11 and, most recently as Chester Jones in Still Mine. He appeared as Barry Goldwater in The Reagans, as Sen. Fulbright in The Pentagon Papers and as Adm. William Leahy in Hiroshima.
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Dominique DuVernay
Actress, Bullet to the Head
Dominique DuVernay was born in New Orleans, La to a single mother and absentee father. This Aries/Taurean is one of few authentic New Orleans Creoles left as she is part African American, French, Native American, & Italian. She is simply a rare mixture all across the board from her unique ethnic composition to her national...
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Lluís Homar
Actor, Broken Embraces
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Nicky Evans
Actor, Episode #6.9
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Sarah Nicklin
Actress, Nun of That
Sarah Nicklin's has received four Best Actress nominations for her roles in Exhumed (which won Best Ensemble Cast), Choices, Debeaked and Zombie Allegiance. She appeared in her first play "Bye Bye Birdie" in 6th grade and her first indie film, "La Bolsa", during her final year of high school. She then went on to graduate from Emerson College with dual degrees in Theater and Marketing...
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Duncan Renaldo
Actor, The Gay Amigo
To most audiences, Duncan Renaldo will always be identified as film and TV's "The Cisco Kid." However, this role occurred late in his career, which consisted of much more than just this western character. Not much is known about Renaldo's early life. In fact, his date and place of birth is still questioned...
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