Robert Altman
During the 1970s, an era widely recognized as a renaissance period of American moviemaking, few directors enjoyed greater prominence than Robert Altman. An iconoclast whose work acutely attacked the conventions of genre filmmaking, Altman both satirized and revitalized such warhorses as the...
Anouk Aimee
A sultry, enigmatic leading lady of several classic European films of the 1950s and 60s, Aimee, the daughter of a French theatrical family, studied acting and dancing in her native France and England before making her film debut at age 14 in "La Maison sous la mer" (1946). She first gained...
Isabelle Adjani
Bearing a distinctive dark-haired, porcelain-skin beauty that lent itself to the tragic heroines she frequently played, Isabelle Adjani became one of France's biggest and most acclaimed stars in the '80s, winning four Cesars between 1981 and 1994. Of Algerian and German parentage, Adjani...
Sophie Marceau
Sophie Marceau (nee Sophie Maupu) was born November 17, 1966, in Paris, France. Sophie Marceau began acting in films at 14. Up until that point, she grew up far away from studios spots. Back then, she was living in the Paris suburbs and her father was a truck driver. At that time, she learned from one of her friends that Claude Pinoteau...
Edward Norton
An actor of unusual talent, Edward Norton attained almost instant stardom with his film debut 1996's Primal Fear. For his thoroughly chilling breakthrough performance as a Kentucky altar boy accused of murder, Norton was credited with saving an otherwise mediocre film and further rewarded with Golden...
Jean Reno
Born Juan Moreno on July 30, 1948 in Casablanca , Morocco to Spanish parents. Juan Moreno eventually changed his name to Jean Reno. Reno had fond memories of his childhood in Morocco . He spent his early days with five of his good friends at the beach, escaping from the heat of the Moroccan day. ...
Fritz Lang
Fritz Lang (Dec. 5, 1890 - Aug. 2, 1976), Austrian-American film director, was born in Vienna , the son of an architect, Anton Lang, and Paula Schlesinger Lang. Working first in Berlin during the silent-film era of the 1920's, and later in Hollywood , Lang used cinema to explore a personal fascination with, in his words,...
James Cagney
With his raspy voice, and staccato vocal inflections James Cagney was one of the brightest stars in American cinema history. The son of an Irish father and a Norwegian mother who lived and worked in New York's Lower Eastside, Cagney did a variety of odd jobs to help support his family, including working as a waiter, and a poolroom...
Lillian Gish
"The First Lady of the Silent Screen," Lillian Gish was the movie industry's first true actress. A pioneer of fundamental film performing techniques, she was the first star to recognize the many crucial differences between acting for the stage and acting for the screen, and while her...
Sandra Bullock
Giving new meaning to the term America's Sweetheart, Sandra Bullock won over scores of filmgoers and critics with her wholesome, exuberant portrayals of ordinary women in extraordinary circumstances. Since her breakthrough role as Speed's unwitting heroine, Bullock has enjoyed the type of popularity that was in the past reserved for...
Al Pacino
Real Name: Alfredo Pacino Occupation: Actor, Director, Writer Date of Birth: April 25, 1940 Place of Birth: New York, NY, USA Sign: Sun in Taurus, Moon in Sagittarius Education: High School of the Performing Arts dropout; studiedacting at the Actors Studio and the Herbert Berghof Studio, both in New York City. Nickname: Sonny...
Anthony Hopkins
Philip Anthony Hopkins was born on New Year's Eve, 1937, at 77, Wern Road, Margam, near Port Talbot, South Wales. His mother was Muriel (nee Phillips, a relative of the poet William Butler Yeats) and his father Richard Arthur, a man of immense, sometimes violent energy, whose eyes would change colour when he was excited and who, Hopkins...
Jane Fonda
Born in New York City of legendary screen star Henry Fonda and New York socialite Frances Seymour Brokaw, Jane Seymour Fonda was destined early to an uncommon and influential life in the limelight.
Although she initially showed little inclination in following her father's trade, she was prompted by Joshua Logan to appear with her...
Sophia Loren
On September 20, 1934, at Rome's Clinica Regina Margherita, Romilda Villani welcomed her daughter Sofia Scicolone into the world. Fourteen years later, Sofia would dominate beauty pageants, and begin working toward her dream of becoming an actress. She would eventually change the spelling of her name to Sophia, and experiment with the last...
Marilyn Monroe
She was born Norma Jeane Mortenson on June 1, 1926 in Los Angeles, California, to Gladys Baker. As the identity of her father is undetermined, she was later baptized Norma Jeane Baker. Gladys had been a film cutter at RKO studios, but psychological problems prevented her from keeping the job and she was eventually committed to a mental...
Orlando Bloom
Born in Canterbury, Kent, England on January 13, 1977, Orlando Bloom moved to London at 16 where he received an education in serious drama at the National Youth Theatre, later training at the British American Drama Academy before his final graduate studies at Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
Shortly after graduation, Bloom...
Leonardo DiCaprio
Born in Hollywood, California on November 11, 1974 of German and Italian descent, DiCaprio's first brush with fame came when as a child he was kicked off the set of Romper Room for unruly behavior.
By 15 the fledgling actor already had his first agent, beginning a classic Hollywood battle against changing his style of clothes, his...
Halle Berry
Born in Cleveland, Ohio on August 14, 1968, Berry's introduction to show business was as a winner of the Miss Teen All-American Pageant, which lead to a career in modeling.
A TV acting career soon followed including appearances in Living Dolls, and Knots Landing before her debut film role in Spike Lee's Jungle Fever in 1991....
MURRAY ABRAHAM
MURRAY ABRAHAM
Born: 1940
American character actor.
F. Murray Abraham's other credits include:
THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS
SERPICO
THE SUNSHINE BOYS
ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN
THE RITZ
THE BIG FIX
SCARFACE
THE NAME OF THE ROSE
SLIPSTREAM
AN INNOCENT MAN
THE BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES
MOBSTERS
STAR TREK INSURRECTION...
Bud Abbott
Bud Abbott (1895 - 1974)
Bud Abbott was Born on October 2, 1895 in Asbury Park, New Jersey. Bud Abbott passed away on April 24, 1974 in Woodland Hills, California from cancer.
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello are the only two non-sportsmen honored in the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY, for their "Who's On First" routine....
Victoria's Secrets Lingerie
Victoria's Secrets was established in San Francisco in 1970 by Roy Raymond. The idea of the concept was to create an atmoshere similar to that of a victorian boudouir. Today the Vicroria’s Secrets lingerie ...
The alchemists concert in Hard Rock Cafe
Halle Noel
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Richard Hettie, Romanian - French sculpturer
image : Turkish Man by Richard Hettie - Richard Hettie (sculpturer 1892-1981) was born in Piatra Neamt, Romania and showed talent for drawing and sculpture early on chilhood. His father was of French origin and was for a time in Urban Credit ...
Pavel Alaszu, Romanian painter and illustrator
Foto: Wikimedia.org Paul Alaszu, Romanian painter and illustrator, was born on 11 november 1942, in Timisoara. He studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Timisoara, the 1968 promotion. He had professors as Peter Jecsa and Romul Nutiu, ...
Gheorghe Adoc, Romanian sculpturer
Foto:Wikimedia.org From all of his works, the most representative is The Independence Statue from Iasi, located in the market with the same name. It was unveiled in 1980, and was a project that belonged also to Gheorghe Adoc's wife, Gabriela ...
Nutzi Acontz, Romanian paintress
Nutzi Acontz was a Romanian paintress born on 16th November 1894, in Focsani, Vrancea county. She died in Bucharest on 19th December 1957, after a life dedicated to art. She studied at the Fine Arts School in Iasi, this county being also the place of ...
MARCEL GUGUIANU
The artist's works have been unanimously noted with eulogies; Thus underscoring the state-ment of a connoisseur: Here is Marcel Guguianu - another originalsculptor from the Romanian Carpathians who knows authoritatively onAmerica's door.” MOLLIE ...
