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Richard Gere May 6, 2006 Humanitarian and actor, Richard Gere was born on August 31, 1949, in Philadelphia. The second of five children, his father, Homer, was an insurance salesman, and his mother was Doris. Richard started early as a musician, playing a number of instruments in high school and writing music for high school productions. He graduated from North Syracuse Central High School in 1967, and won a gymnastics scholarship to the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, where he majored in philosophy. He left col... View pics
Gian Maria Volonté May 6, 2006 Date of Death 6 December 1994, Florina, Greece. (heart attack) Born in Milan in 1933, he studies in Rome at the "National Dramatic Arts Academy" were reaches the degree in 1957. He starts working in teather and television, where he is soon noticed as one of the most promising actors of his generation. After a few short appearance in movies, he reaches notoriety with the character of Ramón Rojo in Sergio Leone's Per un pugno di dollari (1964). The success is doubled in the following Leone's m... View pics
Jason Statham May 6, 2006 Jason Statham is known for his roles in the Guy Ritchie crime films Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch. Statham also appeared in supporting roles in several American films, such as The One and The Italian Job, as well as playing the lead role in The Transporter, Transporter 2 and Crank. He was a member of Britain's National Diving Squad for ten years, although he never competed in the Olympic Games. Statham is currently working on The Brazilian Job, a sequel to The Italian Job. View pics
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
Jill Hennessy Dec 21, 2006 Hennessy graduated from Grand River Collegiate Institute in Kitchener, Ontario. Hennessy's father, John, was a meat salesman, which required considerable travel and resulted in frequent moves. Her mother, Maxine, left the family. She has a younger brother, John Hennessy Jr., and an identical twin sister, Jacqueline, who is a magazine writer and TV show host in Canada. Jill and Jacqueline played twin prostitutes in Dead Ringers. Hennessy married Paolo Mastropietro, a former bartender... View pics
Christian Bale May 6, 2006 Christian Charles Philip Bale (also known professionally as Christian Morgan Bale) is a Welsh-born British actor. He is best known for his roles in American Psycho (2000), Empire of the Sun (1987), and Batman Begins (2005). Bale is also known for his versatility as an actor, including mimicking accents, harsh regimens of shedding and gaining weight (particularly for The Machinist (2004), Batman Begins, and, most recently, Rescue Dawn (2006)), and general... 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 ...		 View pics
Christopher Nolan May 6, 2006 Born in London in 1970, Christopher Nolan began making films at the age of seven using his father's super 8mm camera and an assortment of male-action figures. He graduated to making films involving real people, and his super 8mm surreal short 'tarantella' was shown on PBS' 'image union' in 1989. Chris studied English Literature at University College London while starting to make 16mm films at the college film society. His short film 'larceny' was shown at the Cambridge Film Festival in 1996, and... View pics
Mickey Rourke May 6, 2006 Rourke's performance in the film The Pope of Greenwich Village alongside Darryl Hannah and Eric Roberts caught the attention of critics. While the film was a box office flop during its initial release, it has become somewhat of a minor cult hit. Actor Johnny Depp calls it "perfect cinema" and HBO's Entourage has praised it. Rourke has said the film is his favorite movie, and both Hannah and Roberts have cited it as a highlight of their careers.

In the mid-1980s, Rourke earned himself...		 View pics
Brian Cox May 6, 2006 Brian Cox is an Emmy Award-winning actor, first coming to attention in the early 1970s with performances in numerous television films. His first big break was as "Dr. Hannibal Lecter" in Manhunter (1986). The film was not overly successful at the box office, although Cox's career prospects and popularity continued to develop. Throughout the 1990s, he appeared in nearly 20 films and television shows, as well as making numerous TV guest appearances.

More recently Cox has had roles in so...		 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 ...		 View pics
Eric Bana May 6, 2006 Eric Bana was born Eric Banadinovich on August 9, 1968, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. He is the younger of two brothers. His father, named Ivan Banadinovic, came from Zagreb, Croatia, and worked as a manager for Caterpiller Inc. His mother, named Eleanor Banadinovich, came from a German family and was a hairdresser.

Young Bana grew up in suburban Melbourne. He was popular among his schoolmates for his talent of making comic impressions of his teachers. At that time he was fond of...		 View pics
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
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...		 View pics
Hugh Jackman May 6, 2006 Hugh Jackman was born in Sydney, Australia, the youngest of five children. Both a stage and film actor, Jackman is best known for playing Wolverine in X-Men and its sequels, and his Tony Award-winning performance in The Boy from Oz. His other works within the United States include Swordfish (2001), Van Helsing (2004) and Kate & Leopold (2001), for which he was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. In 2005 he won an Emmy for hosting the Tony aw... View pics
Ray Stevenson Dec 12, 2006 Ray Stevenson is a British film and television actor. He is perhaps best known for playing the character Titus Pullo in the BBC/HBO television series Rome. He shares the lead starring role in the series with Kevin McKidd. Stevenson has also starred in many films, primarily in supporting roles, including King Arthur in 2004, Murphy's Law: Kiss and Tell in 2003, and Some Kind of Life in 1995, in which he co-starred with Jane Horrocks Born in Northern Ireland, he moved with his family to N... View pics
Ray Romano May 6, 2006 After nearly a decade as a journeyman stand-up comic, Ray Romano came to television audience's attention with a 1991 appearance on "The Tonight Show With Johnny Carson.” Shortly after, his career began to ascend. With his dark looks, nasal New York accent and deadpan delivery, Romano offered commentary mixing familial humor with off-beat observations, focusing away from political and topical humor. He impressed late night host David Letterman enough for Letterman to develop a sitcom to showcase ... View pics
Ben Stiller May 6, 2006 An Emmy-winning American comedian, actor, and film director, the son of Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara, both of whom are veteran comedians and actors themselves. Stiller is best known for his roles in the films There's Something About Mary, Zoolander, Dodgeball, Along Came Polly, Meet the Parents, and its sequel, Meet the Fockers. View pics
Josh Brolin May 6, 2006 Josh Brolin is an American actor. He is the son of the actor James Brolin and has been married to the actress Diane Lane since August 14, 2004. He was once engaged to actress Minnie Driver. Brolin has two children, Trevor Mansur (born 1988) and Eden (born 1994) from a previous marriage to actress Alice Adair, who is sometimes credited as Deborah Adair. Trevor is currently a student at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio.

One of Brolin's earliest known roles was Brand Walsh in the Richar...		 View pics
Matthew McConaughey May 6, 2006 The youngest son of a gas station owner, who ran an oil pipe supply business and mother - substitute school teacher, Matthew McConaughey was born in Uvalde, Texas, but grew up in Longview, Texas where he graduated from the local High School (1988). Showing little interest in his father's oil business, which his two brothers later joined, Matthew was longing for a change of scenery, and spent a year in Australia, washing dishes and shoveling chicken manure.
Back to the States, he attended the...		 View pics
Amber Tamblyn Oct 4, 2006 Amber Rose Tamblyn is an Emmy-nominated American actress and poet. She came to fame after a starring role on the television series, Joan of Arcadia, and has since branched out into film roles, appearing in The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and The Grudge 2. View pics
Peter Wingfield Feb 7, 2007 Peter Michael Wingfield grew up in the Grangetown community and was a good student who enjoyed athletics, music, outdoor activities, and drama. At age fifteen he was the Welsh National Trampoline champion. In 1980 he spent his summer break at the National Youth Theatre of Wales where he discovered the sense of camaraderie and belonging that characterize truly outstanding acting troupes. His four-week stint with this youth theatre changed him in ways he didn't fully appreciate at the time; ... View pics
Jim Carrey May 6, 2006 Jim Carrey is a comedian and film actor. He is best-known for his manic, slapstick performances in comedy films such as Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls, Dumb & Dumber, The Mask, Liar Liar, and Bruce Almighty. Carrey has also achieved critical success in dramatic roles in films such as The Truman Show, The Majestic, Man on the Moon, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. He is the youngest of four children. He moved to Los Angeles in 1979, and finessed his way... View pics
Aaron Himelstein Sep 14, 2006 Not available View pics
Andy Serkis Jul 24, 2006 Although Mr. Serkis did not attend drama school, he is not lacking in talent and skill. He studied visual art and has a fascination with the mechanics behind theater- especially set and prop design. It's perfect then that he may be best known for playing the role of Gollum in "Lord of the Rings"- a character created out of collaboration and wearing a motion capture outfit with Serkis acting as a virtual puppeteer. View pics
Montgomery Clift Oct 17, 2006 Monty was born just after his twin sister Roberta and eighteen months after his brother Brooks Clift. Their father William made a lot of money in banking but was quite poor during the depression. Their mother Ethel "Sunny" was born out of wedlock and spent much of her life and the family fortune finding her illustrious southern lineage and raising her children as aristocrats. At 13, Monty appeared on Broadway ("Fly Away Home"), and chose to remain in the New York theater for over ten years befor... View pics
Daniel Craig May 6, 2006 Daniel Wroughton Craig is the sixth and current actor to portray James Bond in the official film series. He moved to London when he was 16 to join the National Youth Theatre, later securing a place at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Craig's film career began with The Power of One in 1992. Other leading film roles have included Sylvia (2003) with Gwyneth Paltrow and consecutive films for Roger Michell, The Mother (2003) with Anne Reid, and Enduring Love (2004) with Rhys Ifans. In 2005,... View pics
Rob Schneider May 6, 2006 Schneider started his stand-up comedy career shortly after high school. The Pacifica, California native played Bay Area nightclubs such as the Holy City Zoo and the Other Cafe, and was a regular guest on local radio programs. After opening a show by comedian Dennis Miller in 1987, Schneider won a slot on HBO's 13th Annual Young Comedians special, which was hosted by Miller. Schneider's appearance on the HBO special led to a position as a writer for NBC's long-running sketch-comedy series Saturda... View pics
Rufus Sewell May 6, 2006 In film, he has had lead roles in The Woodlanders, The Honest Courtesan, Dark City, A Knight's Tale, and Martha, Meet Frank, Daniel and Laurence. On television, he became well known for his role as the hero, Will Ladislaw, in the BBC adaptation of George Eliot's Middlemarch. In 2003, he appeared in the lead role in a miniseries about the life of King Charles II of England. On stage, he originated the role of Septimus Hodge in Tom Stoppard's Arcadia, and was nominated for an Olivier Award. View pics
Ben Browder Nov 25, 2006 Robert Benedic Browder was born in Memphis, Tennessee. He attended Myers Park High School in Charlotte, North Carolina, earned a BaS in psychology at Furman University, and then went on to study drama at Central School of Speech and Drama in London, England, where he met his wife, Francesca Buller. They married in 1989. He and Buller have two children. As of 2002, he resides in Australia, where the SciFi television series "Farscape" was filmed, which he starred in for four years. After seve... View pics
Robert De Niro May 6, 2006 Robert De Niro Jr.is a two-time Academy Award-winning, iconic American film actor, director, producer and founder of the Tribeca Film Festival. He is critically acclaimed as one of the finest motion picture actors and among the most famous actors of all time having starred in many movies. He is particularly noted for his portrayal of mobsters in the gangster underworld, and conflicted, troubled characters, and for his enduring collaboration with director Martin Scorsese, and early work with dire... View pics
The Game Sep 18, 2006 Jayceon Taylor was born on November 29, 1979 in Compton, California. He was born into a life of gang-banging and hustling. When later interviewed, Taylor, aka The Game says at a young age, he recalls seeing both of his parents preparing to do drive-bys. His father was a Nutty Block Crip and his mother a Hoover Crippelette. Drugs and guns were all around Taylor growing up. At around the age of 6, Jayceon says that a friend of his was murdered in the neighborhood by a teenager, for his clothes and... View pics
Geoffrey Rush May 6, 2006 Geoffrey Rush was raised in Brisbane, Australia. His stage debut was "Wrong Side of the Moon" with the Queensland theatre company. From Theater to the big screen Geoffrey's first movie was Hoodwink where he played a Detective. From there he started starring in higher roles in Films and started winning awards for his performances. His First movie with him as the main character was Shine. He is now starring in the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy and The Life And Death Of Peter Cellars... View pics
Kevin Zegers May 6, 2006 Kevin started acting at the tender age of 6. He has been in over 30 commercials, and also did some modeling in London. He has blond/dark blond hair (natural color is brown) and currently lives in Toronto, Canada.
He has two sisters: Krista and Katie Zegers. Katie has three children: twins Chloe and Mallory, and Brady James Pepper (2006).
Has an unusual distinction: Has played a young boy who bleeds from the hands (a "Stigmata") on two occasions (Shadow Builder (1998) and "The X Fil...		 View pics
Ewan McGregor May 6, 2006 McGregor was born in Crieff, Scotland, and attended Kirkcaldy College in 1988 to study drama, appearing in the Tron Theatre in Glasgow in the end of term show. McGregor's first leading role came in Shallow Grave, and his major international breakthrough soon followed with the role of heroin addict Mark Renton in Trainspotting. McGregor has been featured as the male romantic lead in Hollywood films such as Moulin Rouge and Down With Love, and in the British film Little Voice. He took on the ro... View pics
Bruce Payne May 6, 2006 Bruce Payne has worked extensively in film, theatre and television in both the UK and the US, and on location in many parts of the world. Most recently he starred in the fascinating psychological drama _One Point O (2003)_, which was well received at Cannes. He also starred in the live action feature film Riders (2002), with Natasha Henstridge and Stephen Dorff and has also appeared in Doug Aarniokski's Highlander, Endgame, Dungeons & Dragons (2000) alongside Jeremy Irons, Thora Birch and Marlon... View pics
William Holden May 6, 2006 William Holden came from a wealthy family (the Beedles) that moved to Pasadena, California, when he was three. His father William Franklin Beedle was an industrial chemist and his mother Mary Blanche Ball a teacher. In 1937, while studying chemistry at Pasadena Junior College, he was signed to a film contract by Paramount. His first starring role was as a young man torn between the violin and boxing in Golden Boy (1939). From then on he was typecast as the boy-next-door. After returning from ... View pics
Chris Evans May 6, 2006 After filming a couple of television pilots he was confident would be successful - Just Married (2003) and Eastwick (2002) (TV) - he appeared in another listless teen comedy, The Perfect Score (2004), playing an average, ho-hum student who takes part in a plot to steal the SAT test. Hijinks naturally ensue. Then, Evans broke through to the Big Time, grabbing the lead in the kidnapping thriller, Cellular (2004), a suspenseful B movie with a cheesy gimmick - a random wrong number on his cell phone... View pics
Gigi Edgley Sep 14, 2006 Not available View pics
Leonardo DiCaprio May 6, 2006 His name allegedly derives from his German mother Irmalin's having experienced a sudden kick from her unborn boy while enjoying a DaVinci painting at the Uffizi. In the year following his birth, she and his Italian father, George, were divorced.
He grew up in Echo Park, then a particularly seedy, drug-dominated area of Los Angeles. At five he appeared on his favorite TV show "Romper Room" (1953) and was nearly thrown off for misbehaving.
After a string of commercials, educational...		 View pics
Tom Cruise May 6, 2006 Tom Cruise (born Thomas Cruise Mapother IV) is an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe Award-winning American actor and film producer. He has starred in a number of top-grossing movies and remains one of the most successful movie stars in Hollywood. His first leading role in a blockbuster movie was in 1983's Risky Business. Subsequent films include Top Gun (1986), Rain Man (1988), A Few Good Men (1992), and Jerry Maguire (1996). 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, ...		 View pics
Brad Pitt May 6, 2006 William Bradley "Brad" Pitt is an Academy Award-nominated American actor. He is one of the most famous movie actors in the world and is a popular icon in the media worldwide. Some of Pitt's most famous films include Thelma & Louise (1991), Interview with a Vampire (2004), and Fight Club (1999). View pics
Anton Yelchin May 6, 2006 His father, Viktor Yelchin, and his mother, Irina, were a successful pair of professional figure-skaters in Leningrad, and his grandfather was also a professional sportsman, a soccer player. Yelchin was only a 6-month-old baby when he emigrated to the United States, were his parents eventually developed coaching careers. Young Anton Yelchin demonstrated his strong personality from the early age of 4, he declined his parent's tutelage in figure skating, because he was fond of acting, and he kn... View pics
Bruce Greenwood May 6, 2006 Stuart Bruce Greenwood (born August 12, 1956) is a Canadian actor.

Greenwood was born in Noranda, Quebec, the son of Mary Sylvia (née Ledingham), a nurse who worked in an extended care unit, and Hugh John Greenwood, a Vancouver-born geophysicist and teacher who taught at Princeton University. He has two sisters, Kelly Louis and Barbara Lynn. Greenwood studied philosophy and economics at the University of British Columbia.

Greenwood met his wife Susan in Canada when they wer...		 View pics
Simon Pegg May 6, 2006 Simon John Pegg is an English stand-up comedian, writer and film and television actor. He is best-known for his title role in Shaun of the Dead and for the British sitcom Spaced. Much of his major work has been in collaboration with some combination of Jessica Stevenson, Edgar Wright and Nick Frost.

Pegg studied drama at the University of Bristol. In 1993 he moved to London and gigged on the stand-up comedy circuit before breaking into television comedy in Asylum, Six Pairs of Pants...		 View pics
Jonah Hill Sep 18, 2006 Jonah Hill is an American actor probably best known for playing Sherman in Accepted. He has also appeared in the films I ♥ Huckabees, The 40 Year Old Virgin, Grandma's Boy, and Click. He appears as Guy Ferguson on the Oxygen TV series, Campus Ladies. View pics
Ricky Gervais Oct 29, 2006 Ricky Gervais is an English comic writer and performer from Reading, Berkshire, England. He grew up in the town's southern suburb of Whitley, on a council estate. Gervais found mainstream fame with his BBC Two television programme The Office, which he co-wrote and co-directed with his friend and collaborator Stephen Merchant. Besides writing and directing the show, Gervais played the lead role of David Brent. In 2005, Gervais returned to BBC Television with his new sitcom, Extras. In 2006, Gerva... View pics
Robin Williams May 6, 2006 Robin McLaurin Williams is an Academy Award-winning American actor and comedian. As an actor he has had starring roles on television, stage, and film. Notable film credits include Good Morning Vietnam (1987), Dead Poet's Society (1989), The Fisher King (1991), Aladdin and the King of Thieves (1995), and Good Will Hunting (1997). View pics
Christopher Guest May 6, 2006 US-born actor, director, writer, musician, and composer best known for his hilarious mockumentaries, poking fun at heavy metal music, small town theater, dog shows and folk music. Christopher Haden-Guest was born February 5th, 1948, in New York City to an American mother and a British father, Peter Haden-Guest, the fourth Baron of Saling in the County of Essex.

He received his dramatic arts training at New York City's High School of Arts and Music and at Bard College, and Guest first ...		 View pics