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| Hayao Miyazaki | May 6, 2006 | Hayao Miyazaki is a director of animation films and a co-founder of the animation studio, Studio Ghibli. Miyazaki is the creator of many popular animation feature films, as well as manga. Although largely unknown in the West outside of animation circles until Miramax released his film Princess Mononoke in 1999, his films have enjoyed commercial and critical success in Japan and East Asia. Miyazaki's Spirited Away is the highest-grossing film of all time in Japan; Princess Mononoke held the sa... | View pics |
| Michael Jackson | May 6, 2006 | Michael Joseph Jackson is an American musician, entertainer, and widely regarded pop icon, whose successful music career and controversial personal life have been at the forefront of pop culture for the last quarter-century. Jackson began his musical career at the age of seven as the lead singer of The Jackson 5 and released his first solo recording, Got to Be There in 1971, while remaining a member of the group. He began a full-fledged solo career in 1979 and formally parted with his sibling... | View pics |
| Pierce Brosnan | May 6, 2006 | Pierce Brosnan was born in Drogheda, County Louth, Ireland on May 16, 1953 and lived in Navan, County Meath until he moved to England, UK at an early age (thus explaining his ability to play men from both backgrounds convincingly). His father left the household when Pierce was a child and although reunited later in life, the two have never had a close relationship. Brosnan has achieved worldwide recognition as private investigator Remington Steele on the popular television series of the same n... | View pics |
| Bill Paxton | May 6, 2006 | Bill moved to Los Angeles at 18 where he found work in the film industry as a set dresser for Roger Corman's New World Pictures. He made his film debut in the Corman film Crazy Mama (1975) directed by Jonathan Demme. Moving to New York, he studied acting under Stella Adler at New York University. After landing a small role in Stripes (1981), Bill found steady work in low-budget films and TV. He also directed, wrote and produced award-winning short films including Fish Heads (1982) which ai... | View pics |
| Justin Timberlake | Jun 29, 2006 | After the Super Bowl controversy, Timberlake put his recording career on hold in an attempt to jumpstart his acting career. Timberlake had a few minor acting roles during his early music career, including a bit part as a model in the 2000 made-for-television film Model Behavior, and a cameo in the 2001 film On the Line, but he wanted more substantial roles. The first role he took during this time was as a journalist in the thriller Edison Force, which was filmed in 2004 and received a direct-to-... | View pics |
| Steven Seagal | May 6, 2006 | Steven Segal is a striking and somewhat boyishly handsome looking (often with ponytail) and usually impeccably dressed action star who burst onto the martial arts film scene in 1988 in the fast-paced Warner Bros. production Above the Law (1988). The enigmatic Seagal commenced his martial arts training at the age of seven under the tutelage of well known karate instructor and author Fumio Demura, and in the 1960s commenced his aikido training in Orange County, California, under the instruction of... | View pics |
| Jennifer Tilly | May 6, 2006 |
An actress who always attracts audiences' attention, Jennifer Tilly is by turns funny, sexy, compassionate, compelling and often all at once. Her breakthrough movie role tapped into all of those qualities failing singer Blanche "Monica" Moran in Steven Kloves' The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989) opposite brothers Jeff Bridges and Beau Bridges. A few years later, Jennifer earned an Academy Award nomination for her portrayal of the aspiring but hopelessly untalented actress Olive Neal in Woo... |
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| Jeff Bridges | May 6, 2006 | A prolific actor with over forty years experience, Jeff Bridges is a favorite actor among fans and critics. Although he has yet to win an Oscar, he has received four nominations. His unforgettable portrayal of the character "The Dude" in "The Big Lebowski" has made him madly favored by those who love the cult film. | View pics |
| Brendan Fletcher | Sep 18, 2006 | Brendan Fletcher (born December 15, 1981) is a Canadian actor. He went to junior high school at Lake Trail in Courtenay, British Columbia. His acting debut was in 1996 in the CBC television movie Little Criminals, earning him a Leo Award. which His filmography includes Tideland, Freddy vs. Jason, Ginger Snaps Back, Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed, Anatomy of a Hate Crime, The Five Senses, Air Bud, Eighteen, Paper Moon Affair and Law of Enclosures. He also played Stirling Patterson (nickname: Stink)... | View pics |
| William Hurt | May 6, 2006 |
William Hurt (born March 20, 1950) is an Academy Award-winning American actor. Hurt was born in Washington, D.C., the son of Claire Isabel (née McGill), who worked at Time, Inc., and Alfred McCord Hurt, who worked for the U.S. State Department. His mother re-married Henry Luce III (the son of the founder of Time Magazine) during Hurt's childhood. Hurt graduated from Middlesex School in 1968 where he was the Vice President of the Dramatics Club and had the lead role in several of the... |
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| Anthony Hopkins | May 6, 2006 |
Hopkins was born in Margam, near Port Talbot, Wales. His parents were the late Richard Arthur Hopkins and Muriel Yeats, a distant relation of poet William Butler Yeats. His schooldays were unproductive. A loner with dyslexia, he found that he would rather immerse himself in art, such as painting and drawing or playing the piano, than attend to his studies. In 1949, to instill some discipline, his parents insisted that he attend West Monmouth boarding school in Pontypool. He remained t... |
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| Nick Jonas | Oct 6, 2007 |
Part of the "Jonas Brothers" band.... The band started as a solo project of Nicholas Jonas. Nick was discovered while singing at a barber shop and was referred to a professional show business manager. Nick soon was performing on Broadway. He had acted in several plays, including Beauty and the Beast (in 2002 as Chip), Annie Get Your Gun (as Little Jake), A Christmas Carol (as Tiny Tim and Scrooge at eight), and Les Misérables (in 2003 as Gavroche). After Les Misérables clos... |
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| Tyler Perry | May 6, 2006 | Perry was one of four children. His childhood in New Orleans was marked by poverty and physical abuse, which sparked him to attempt suicide. Perry once blamed his lack of success on his parents and others. He was once homeless and lived in his car for six months. After years of intense anger and deep resentment, Perry experienced an awakening. One day while he was watching The Oprah Winfrey Show in 1992, he took some advice—it can be cathartic to put feelings down on paper. So Perry began wri... | View pics |
| Paul Walker | May 6, 2006 |
Paul William Walker IV (born September 12, 1973) is an American actor and former male fashion model. Between 1999 and 2001, Walker appeared in a few notable films aimed at a teenage audience, including She's All That and Varsity Blues. His breakthrough came in 2001, when he starred opposite Vin Diesel in the highly successful action film The Fast and the Furious, which established Walker as a notable film star and leading man.
He has two younger brothers, Caleb and Cody, and a ... |
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| Gary Oldman | May 6, 2006 | After being rejected for admission into Britain's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, he won a scholarship to the Rose Bruford College, where he received a BA in Drama in 1979. He later studied with the Greenwich Young People's Theatre and went on to appear in a number of stage plays including The Pope's Wedding. Oldman first appeared on screen in the film Remembrance in 1982. His first starring role came in Sid and Nancy. He has become known for playing eccentrics and for his mastery of accents. H... | View pics |
| Clive Owen | May 6, 2006 | Owen graduated from RADA in 1987 in a class including both Ralph Fiennes and Jane Horrocks. After graduation, he won a position at the Young Vic, performing in several William Shakespeare plays. Initially, Owen carved out a career in television, working extensively for the BBC. In 2005, Owen was nominated for an Academy Award and won a Golden Globe and BAFTA for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the film version of Closer; he also appeared in the stage version in the West End. Owen was th... | View pics |
| John Travolta | May 6, 2006 | Travolta gained his first major movie role as Billy Nolan, a sadistic bully who taunted Sissy Spacek's Carrie White in the horror film Carrie (1976). Around the same time he landed his star-making role as Vinnie Barbarino in the TV sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter (1975–1979). Some of his most memorable screen roles include: Tony Manero in Saturday Night Fever (1977), Danny Zuko in Grease (1978), Vincent Vega in Pulp Fiction (1994), for which he received an Academy Award nomination. | View pics |
| Junko Takeuchi | Sep 14, 2006 | Alternate Names:Takeuchi Junko | View pics |
| David Gallagher | May 6, 2006 | Before he was 2 years old, David landed his first print ad job and he has since done commercials for corporations such as Walt Disney World, Burger King, Panasonic, Hanes, Betty Crocker and Tyson Foods. At the age of 8, David made his film debut with a lead role in the surprise hit Look Who's Talking Now (1993). Several television appearances and made-for-television movies followed until another big-screen success in Phenomenon (1996), with John Travolta. That same year he landed his most ... | View pics |
| Steven Mackintosh | May 6, 2006 | Spouse Lisa Jacobs (1989 - present) 2 children Trivia Father of Martha Mackintosh Children with Jacobs: Martha and Blythe | View pics |
| Cayden Boyd | May 6, 2006 | Not available | View pics |
| Robert Pattinson | Aug 9, 2007 |
Robert Pattinson was born on May 13, 1986 in London, England. He enjoys music and is an excellent musician, playing the guitar and keyboard. When Robert was 15, he started acting in amateur plays with the Barnes Theatre Company. After, he took screen role like Ring of the Nibelungs (2004) (TV)(Kingdom of Twilight) as Giselher and Vanity Fair (2004) as Rawdy Crawley. In 2003, Robert took on the role of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) as Cedric Diggory and was the ... |
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| Jackson Rathbone | Mar 21, 2008 | Not available | View pics |
| Maggie Gyllenhaal | May 6, 2006 |
Maggie Gyllenhaal made her debut as full-blown, star in Secretary (2002) in 2002. Her sweet looks and conduct has a deep onscreen subtle style that emerges from the characters she plays, large part or small. Gyllenhaal's career has already shown through her presence on screen.
After attending Columbia University, Gyllenhaal resides in New York City. She earned her BA in English, which gave her theater experience during college in addition to her literary point. In London, she studied ... |
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| Heath Ledger | May 6, 2006 |
Heathcliff Andrew Ledger (April 4, 1979–January 22, 2008) was an Academy Award-nominated Australian actor. After appearing in television roles during the 1990s, Ledger developed a Hollywood career. He starred in both critical and financial successes, including Ten Things I Hate About You, The Patriot, Monster's Ball, A Knight's Tale and Brokeback Mountain, and completed the role of the Joker in the forthcoming The Dark Knight. Ledger was born in Perth, Western Australia, t... |
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| Criss Angel | Oct 6, 2007 |
Criss Angel was born on December 19, 1967 and raised in East Meadow, New York. He grew up loving music, playing the drums and always having an interest in magic. Two of his biggest magic influences are Harry Houdini and Richiardi. His father was also a big influence on him, especially after a long battle cancer until his death in 1998. As a teenager, he performed as a magician at birthday parties, night clubs and private events. He got his pyrotechnics license at age 18.<... |
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| Hugh Grant | May 6, 2006 | London-born and Oxford educated Hugh Grant first hit the big screen in 1982's Privileged, but didn't achieve movie star status until his delightful 1994 turn in Four Weddings and a Funeral. Handsome and charming, with abundant chestnut hair and a somewhat stiff manner softened by his open and warm smile, Grant worked as an advertising copywriter in addition to engagements in repertory theater and stints with the comedy troupe "The Jockeys of Norfolk" before carving out a steady act... | View pics |
| LL Cool J | May 6, 2006 | James Todd Smith III, better known as LL Cool J, is an American hip hop artist and actor. LL has had his share of acting roles and cameos in various television shows and movies. One of his first roles was as Captain Patrick Zevo, the militant cousin of Robin Williams in the cult classic Toys. Other acting credits include Deep Blue Sea and Halloween H20. For 5 seasons, LL played the role of Marion Hill in the NBC and UPN sitcom In the House. They originally centered around the interaction b... | View pics |
| Rupert Grint | May 6, 2006 |
Grint was born in Watton-at-Stone, Hertfordshire, the eldest of five siblings. His father, Nigel Grint, is a memorabilia dealer and ex-racecar driver, and his mother, Jo (Parsons), is a homemaker. He has one brother, James (born in 1990), and three sisters: Georgina (born in 1993), Samantha (born in 1996) and Charlotte (born in 1999). Before being cast in Harry Potter, he had only appeared in plays for school and his local theatre group, Top Hat Stage School. As a young ch... |
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| Daniel Radcliffe | May 6, 2006 | Daniel Jacob Radcliffe is an English actor, best known for playing schoolboy wizard Harry Potter in each of the first five films based on the best-selling book series, written by J. K. Rowling. Radcliffe has also made several television and stage appearances. | View pics |
| Michael Gambon | May 6, 2006 |
Sir Michael John Gambon is an acclaimed Irish-born actor who has worked in television, film and theatre. ed 19, he attended the theatre. After passing the Shaftesbury Theatre, and loving the chaotic experience inside, he joined the Unity Theatre in Kings Cross. Five years later he wrote a letter to Michael MacLiammoir, the Irish theatre impressario who ran Dublin's Gate Theatre. It was accompanied by a CV describing a rich and wholly imaginary theatre career – and he was taken on.
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| James Phelps | Dec 16, 2006 | Oliver Martyn John Phelps and James Andrew Eric Phelps are twin English actors. They were born in Sutton Coldfield. They are best known for playing Fred and George Weasley in the Harry Potter series of films. James and Oliver Phelps as Fred and George Weasley in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.The Phelps were raised in Sutton Coldfield, where they attended the Arthur Terry School. They left in 2004 having taken A-level exams. Phelps brothers play Fred and George Weasley in the Harry P... | View pics |
| David Henrie | Mar 27, 2007 | David Henrie has been in several TV shows in recent years, as well as a few films. In his free time he enjoys to play hockey as well as the guitar. | View pics |
| Emraan Hashmi | Sep 25, 2006 |
His birth name is Emran Anwar Hashmi, he is born to a Muslim father and
Catholic mother. He later changed it to Farhaan Hashmi but recently decided
to keep his original name but add an extra "a" as per numerology. He is the
nephew of Mahesh Bhatt and is a cousin to actress turned director Pooja
Bhatt.
Hashmi made his debut in 2003 with the film Footpath however, it did not do well at the box office. He shot to fame with Murder (2004) which was his first hit. His next few... |
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| Craige Gellis | Oct 4, 2008 | Not available | View pics |
| Hrithik Roshan | Aug 16, 2006 |
Hrithik Roshan, nicknamed Duggu, is a prominent Bollywood actor. Hrithik's first movie role was as a child artist when he was six years old in the 1980 movie Aasha, when he appeared in a dance sequence as an extra. He went on to appear as a child artist in Aap Ki Deewane (1980) and Bhagwan Dada (1986).
He was an assistant director for his father's films Karan Arjun (1995) and Koyla (1997). He made his debut as a leading man in the 2000 film Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai opposite another ... |
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| Andrew Robinson | May 6, 2006 | Andrew Jordt Robinson was born in New York City and attended the University of New Hampshire, later receiving his B.A. in English from the New School for Social Research in NYC. After graduation, he spent a year in England at the London Academy for Music and Dramatic Arts on a Fulbright Scholarship. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Mr. Robinson performed a wide variety of theater, movie and television roles. These included the infamous Scorpio killer in Dirty Harry (1971), a stint on _"Ryan's Hop... | View pics |
| Gerard Butler | May 6, 2006 | Gerard James "Gerry" Butler is a Scottish actor and singer. His acting career began when he was approached in a London coffee shop by actor Steven Berkoff ,who gave him a stage role in the play "Coriolanus". He decided to give up law school for acting. His film debut came in 1997 in the movie Mrs. Brown, but he gained notoriety with the 2001 made for TV movie Attila, followed by Wes Craven's Dracula 2000. Other film credits include Reign of Fire (2002), Lara Crof... | View pics |
| Alice Cooper | Oct 17, 2006 | Not an actor by trade, but a famous man no doubt- Alice Cooper is a musician best known perhaps for (arguably) pioneering the use of wild/macabre stage theatrics in rock concerts. He has been in a few movies, usually as a cameo appearance- but typically you'll see his name on the soundtrack. | View pics |
| James Franco | May 6, 2006 |
Although he'd been working steadily, it wasn't until the TNT made-for-television movie, James Dean (2001) (TV) that James rose to fan-magazine fame and got to show off his talent. Since then he has been working non-stop. After losing the lead role to Tobey Maguire, James settled for the part of Harry Osborne, Spider-Man's best friend in the summer 2002 major hit Spider-Man (2002). Next was Deuces Wild (2002) and City by the Sea (2002), in which Robert De Niro personally had him cast, ... |
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| Josh Bernstein | May 9, 2008 |
Explorer, author, and wilderness educator Josh Bernstein is best known as the host of the hit adventure/archaeology series "Digging for the Truth" on The History Channel. In the past three years, he has traveled by camel, car, train and plane through Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Cyprus, Easter Island, Egypt, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Greece, Greenland, Guatemala, Iceland, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Mexico, Mongolia, Peru, South Africa, Turkey, Yemen and Zimbabwe (among others).
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| John Saxon | Sep 18, 2006 | Saxon, an Italian American, was born Carmine Orrico in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Anna (née Protettore) and Antonio Orrico. He studied acting with famous acting coach Stella Adler and broke into films in the mid-1950s, playing teenage roles. According to Robert Hofler's 2005 biography, The Man Who Invented Rock Hudson: The Pretty Boys and Dirty Deals of Henry Wilson, agent Wilson saw Saxon's picture on the cover of a detective magazine and immediately contacted the boy's family in Brooklyn. ... | View pics |
| Lance Henriksen | May 6, 2006 | Lance Henriksen is an American actor, painter, and potter. A versatile and prolific performer, his trademarks as an actor are his deep, gravelly voice, piercing stare and chiseled, weathered features. | View pics |
| Griffin Dunne | May 6, 2006 |
Griffin Dunne is an accomplished actor and producer who quickly established himself as a director with the short film Duke of Groove, for which he received an Academy Award nomination. His feature directorial debut was Addicted to Love, starring Meg Ryan and Matthew Broderick. He then went on to direct Practical Magic starring Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman.
Dunne’s latest directorial project was the touching and poignant coming-of-age drama Fierce People... |
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| Clive Barker | May 6, 2006 |
Clive Barker (born October 5, 1952) is an English author, film director and visual artist. Barker was born in Liverpool, England, the son of Joan Ruby (née Revill), a painter and school welfare officer, and Leonard Barker, a personnel director for an industrial relations firm. He studied English and philosophy at Liverpool University. Barker, who is openly gay, lives in Los Angeles, California with his partner of 17 years, photographer David Armstrong and Armstrong's daughter Nicole... |
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| Tom Hanks | May 6, 2006 | Thomas "Tom" Jeffrey Hanks is a two-time Academy Award-winning American actor, voice-over artist and movie producer who starred in family-friendly and screwball comedies before achieving notable success as a dramatic actor. As of September 24, 2006, Hanks is the highest-grossing "lead" actor of all time, with a combined gross of over $3.3 billion and an worldwide gross of nearly $6 billion. He is also co-owner of Playtone, a film production company. He met his second wife, actress Rita Wilson on... | View pics |
| Edward Furlong | May 6, 2006 |
Furlong started his film career as John Connor in Terminator 2: Judgment Day, a role that earned him an MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Role and a Saturn Award for best young actor. He was discovered for the part by the casting director of Terminator 2: Judgment Day, when Furlong was at the Pasadena Boys and Girls Club. He followed this role with a string of moderately successful films and indies, sharing screen with actors like Meryl Streep and Liam Neeson in Before and After, ... |
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| Jensen Ackles | Oct 10, 2006 | After modeling off and on as a young child, Ackles began to concentrate on an acting career in 1996. He appeared in several guest roles on Mr. Rhodes, Sweet Valley High, and Cybill before joining the cast of the NBC soap opera Days of Our Lives as Eric Brady in 1997. He won a 1998 Soap Opera Digest Award for Best Male Newcomer and went on to be nominated three times (in 1998, 1999, and 2000) for a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Actor in a Drama Series for his work on Days of Our Live... | View pics |
| Vin Diesel | May 6, 2006 | Vin Diesel (born Mark Sinclair Vincent) is an American actor, writer, director, and producer. Diesel produced, directed, and starred in the 1994 short film Multi-Facial, a short semi-autobiographical film which follows the auditions of a struggling actor stuck in the audition process. Diesel was cast in 1998's Saving Private Ryan on the poignancy of his performance in Multi-Facial, and followed it up with major roles in Pitch Black and Boiler Room (2000). He also rece... | View pics |
| Jeff Hardy | Nov 22, 2007 | Not available | View pics |
