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...
Quentin Jerome Tarantino is an American film director, actor, and Oscar-winning screenwriter. His family moved to Los Angeles where he later got a job at a video rental store. He rapidly rose to fame ...
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Heidi Klum was born in Bergisch Gladbach, a small city near Cologne, Germany, in 1973. Her career as a top fashion model and swimsuit star began almost by accident when, on a lark, she submitted photo...
James Cameron was born in Kapuskasing, Ontario, Canada, on August 16, 1954. He moved to the USA in 1971. The son of an engineer, he majored in physics at California State University but, after graduat...
Highly inventive US film director/producer/writer/actor Sam Raimi first came to the attention of film fans with the savage, yet darkly humorous, low-budget horror film The Evil Dead (1981). From his c...
Nicolas Cage is an award-winning American actor. Cage has also worked as a director and producer through his production company Saturn Films. As of 2006, he has been nominated twice for an Academy Awa...
Ryan is the youngest of four children. His father, Jim, was a Vancouver food wholesaler. His mother, Tammy, was a retail-store saleswoman. Between 1991-93, Ryan taped "Hillside" (1990) (aka "Fifteen")...
Listed as a "Promising New Actor of 1977" in vol. 29 of John Willis' Screen World. He has two children with first wife, Barbara Wilson: Allison (b.1977) and Patrick (b.1979). He has 3 daughters...
Jaden Christopher Syre Smith is the son of actress/singer Jada Pinkett Smith and actor/rapper Will Smith. He made his motion picture debut in the movie The Pursuit of Happyness as the son of his fathe...
Taylor Michel Momsen was born on July 26th, 1993 in St Louis, Missouri to parents Michael and Colette Momsen. She began her acting career at age 3 with a national commercial for Shake-N-Bake. She firs...
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Jacob Benjamin "Jake" Gyllenhaal (last name pronounced Jill-en-hall) is an American actor. His father is director Stephen Gyllenhaal, mother is screenwriter Naomi Foner, and sister is actress Maggie G...
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 ...
Aamir was first introduced as a child artiste in the 1970's hit Yaadon Ki Baaraat (1973) -- he was the youngest child in the trio. He 'quit' movies and went on to become the state tennis champion for ...
Kareena Kapoor comes from an old and influential film family. Her grandfather was the Raj Kapoor; her great grandfather was Prithviraj Kapoor. She is the daughter of Randhir Kapoor and Babita, who...
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Natalie Hershlag better known by her stage name, Natalie Portman is an Israeli-American actress. Beginning her film career in The Professional at age 12, Portman went on to roles in films suc...
Maguire was born in Santa Monica, California. His father, Vincent Maguire, was a construction worker and a cook. His mother, Wendy Brown, is a secretary turned screenwriter and producer who in 2006 be...
Jacob Benjamin "Jake" Gyllenhaal (last name pronounced Jill-en-hall) is an American actor. His father is director Stephen Gyllenhaal, mother is screenwriter Naomi Foner, and sister is actress Maggie G...
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Brendan Sexton III is an American actor whose work has included primarily smaller, independent films. He made his debut in Todd Solondz's Welcome to the Dollhouse playing the troubled bully Brandon...
Drew Blyth Barrymore (born February 22, 1975) is an Emmy Award and Golden Globe nominated American actress and film producer, the youngest member of the Barrymore family of American actors. She has he...
Originally a teen star (generally in "troubled youth" roles), who has since matured into one of Hollywood's most enjoyable actors to watch on screen with a wonderful versatility in his acting range, t...
Born in Casablanca, Morocco, to Spanish parents (from Andalusia) who moved to North Africa to escape the fascist regime of Francisco Franco ("El Caudillo"), Jean Reno settled in France at 17. He began...
Critically hailed for his forceful, militant, authoritarian roles, Laurence Fishburne, came out of the black theater in New York. At the age of 10, he appeared in his first play, "In My Many Names a...
An Academy Award-winning American actor, director, producer and screenwriter, Clooney is known for his role in the first five seasons of the long-running television drama ER (1994–1999) and his rise a...
Farmiga, the second oldest of seven children, was born in Passaic County, New Jersey to Michael and Luba Farmiga, Ukrainian immigrants. She was raised in an insular Ukrainian American community, not s...
Anna Kendrick is the second youngest kid ever to receive a tony award. She has also won a Drama Desk Award and Fany Award for best actress in a musical for her performance where she originated the r...
Plummer was born in Toronto, Ontario, the great-grandson of former Canadian Prime Minister Sir John Abbott. Following his parents' divorce he moved with his mother to live in Senneville, Quebec, near ...
At age 18 Mirren auditioned for the National Youth Theatre and was accepted. By age 20 she was a star at the Old Vic. Mirren has made numerous appearances in film, including 2010: The Year We Make Co...
Paul Edward Valentine Giamatti was born June 6, 1967. He graduated from Choate Rosemary Hall prep school, majored in English at Yale, and obtained his Master's Degree in Fine Arts, with his major in d...
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A likable, boyish-looking actor with thick eyebrows and a friendly smile, Justin Long is a native of Connecticut. He grew up in Fairfield, the second of three sons. His father, R. James Long, is a Pro...
Mark Robert Michael Wahlberg is an American entertainer. Formerly known as a rapper and model, he is now an actor and television producer. His major film credits include Boogie Nights (1997), The Ita...
Her breakthrough role was that of Gilda in Welsh director Sean Mathias's 1995 West End revival of Noël Coward's 1933 play Design for Living at the Gielgud Theatre. Having already worked for television...
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Damon was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the son of Kent Telfer Damon and Nancy Carlsson-Paige. He commenced studies at Harvard University as an English major in the fall of 1988, but, with only 12...
Firth starred in the award-winning 1981 London stage production of Another Country. He reprised this role for his first film appearance in 1984. In 1987, he appeared alongside Kenneth Branagh in the f...
Hailing from Memphis, Tennessee, Ginnifer Goodwin has quickly found a home in Hollywood. With effusive talent, she shined in the Oscar-nominated biopic Walk the Line, as Johnny Cash’s first wife, opp...
The daughter of a military judge and a Scottish social worker, Julianne Moore was born in Fayetteville, North Carolina on December 3, 1960. She spent the early years of her life in over two dozen loca...
Johnny Depp is an Academy Award-nominated American actor, known for his affinity for strange character roles. At the age of 15 he dropped out of school to become a rock musician. Depp got into acting...
Willard Christopher "Will" Smith, Jr. (born September 25, 1968) is a Golden Globe and a two time Academy Award-nominated American actor, and a multiple Grammy Award-winning hip hop artist. He is one o...
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 famou...
Angelina Jolie is an American film actress, a former fashion model and a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency. She has received three Golden Globe Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards and a...
Orlando Jonathan Blanchard Bloom is an English actor. He had his break-through role in the early 2000s as the elf-prince Legolas Greenleaf in The Lord of the Rings films, and subsequently established ...
Adam Richard Sandler is an American actor, comedian, producer, and musician (he sings, and plays the guitar). After becoming a successful stand-up comedian and Saturday Night Live cast member, ...
Julia Roberts is an Academy Award-winning actress and former fashion model, who shot to fame during the early 1990s after starring in the romantic comedy, Pretty Woman, opposite Richard Gere. Since th...
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 on...
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...
Bruce Willis is one of Hollywood's most beloved and iconic leading men. The actor sports an ever-present smirk, projects a constant stream of quips, and has virtually mastered the slow burn, but unlik...
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 succe...
Zachary David Alexander Efron is an American actor most likely known for his appearance in the Disney Channel Original Movie High School Musical and Summerland. He will also be starring in the film ve...
Nicolas Cage is an award-winning American actor. Cage has also worked as a director and producer through his production company Saturn Films. As of 2006, he has been nominated twice for an Academy Awa...
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 ...
Denzel's big break came when he starred in the popular television hospital drama, St. Elsewhere. In 1987, he starred as South African anti-apartheid campaigner Steve Biko in Richard Attenborough's Cry...