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Hollywood Bowl
The Hollywood Bowl is a modern amphitheater in the Hollywood area of Los Angeles, California, United States that is used primarily for music performances. It is the largest natural amphitheater in the United States, with a seating capacity of nearly 18,000.
The Hollywood Bowl is known for its band shell, a distinctive set of concentric arches that graced the site from 1929 through 2003, before being replaced with a somewhat larger one beginning in the 2004 season. The shell is set against the backdrop of the Hollywood Hills and the famous Hollywood Sign to the Northeast.
The "bowl" refers to the shape of the concave hillside the amphitheater is carved into. The bowl is owned by the County of Los Angeles and is the home of the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, the summer home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the host of hundreds of musical events each year.
It is located at 2301 North Highland Avenue, north of Hollywood Blvd and the Hollywood & Highland subway station and south of Route 101.
The site of the Hollywood Bowl was chosen in 1919 by William Reed and his son H. Ellis Reed, members of the newly formed Theatre Arts Alliance who were dispatched to find a suitable location for outdoor performances.
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A Tribe Called Quest
A Tribe Called Quest is an American hip hop group, formed in 1985, and is composed of MC/producer Q-Tip, MC Phife Dawg aka Phife Diggy (Malik Taylor), and DJ/producer Ali Shaheed Muhammad. A fourth member, rapper Jarobi White, left the group after their first album but rejoined in 1991. Along with De La Soul, the group was a central part of the Native Tongues Posse, and enjoyed the most commercial success out of all the groups to emerge from that collective. Their innovative fusing of hip hop and jazz has had a lasting impact on hip hop music, helping to expand the art of hip hop production. Many of their songs, such as "Bonita Applebum", "Can I Kick It?", "I Left My Wallet in El Segundo", "Scenario", "Check the Rhime", "Jazz (We've Got)", "Award Tour" and "Electric Relaxation" are regarded as classics by the hip hop community.
They released five albums between 1990 and 1998. The first three LPs were highly acclaimed, but the group disbanded in 1998. In 2006, the group reunited and toured the U.S., and planned to release an album after some works in the studio. The group is regarded as iconic pioneers of alternative hip hop music, having helped to pave the way for innovative hip hop artists. John Bush of Allmusic called them "the most intelligent, artistic rap group during the 1990s," while the editors of About.com ranked them #4 on their list of the "25 Best Rap Groups of All Time." In 2005, A Tribe Called Quest received a Special Achievement Award at the Billboard R&B Hip-Hop Awards in Atlanta. In 2007, the group was formally honored at the 4th VH1 Hip Hop Honors.
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Abigail Breslin
Abigail Kathleen Breslin (born April 14, 1996) is an American actress. She is one of the youngest actresses ever to be nominated for an Academy Award.
Breslin appeared in her first commercial when she was only three years old, and in her first film, Signs, at the age of five. Her subsequent films include Little Miss Sunshine, Nim's Island, Definitely, Maybe, My Sister's Keeper, Zombieland and Rango.
Breslin was born in New York City, the daughter of Kim, who manages her career, and Michael, a telecommunications expert, computer programmer, and consultant. Breslin has two older brothers, Ryan and Spencer, who are also actors. Breslin lives in New York with her family, which her maternal grandparents have described as "very close-knit". She is named after First Lady of the United States Abigail Adams.
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Alan Arkin
Alan Wolf Arkin (born March 26, 1934) is an American actor, director, musician and singer. He is known for starring in such films as Wait Until Dark, The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Catch-22, The In-Laws, Edward Scissorhands, Glengarry Glen Ross, Marley & Me, and Little Miss Sunshine, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 2006. He is the father of actors Adam Arkin, Anthony Arkin, and Matthew Arkin.
Arkin was born in Brooklyn, New York City, the son of Beatrice (née Wortis), a teacher, and David I. Arkin, a painter and writer who mostly worked as a teacher. Arkin was raised in a Jewish family with "no emphasis on religion"; his maternal grandfather was an immigrant from Odessa, Ukraine. The family moved from Brooklyn to Los Angeles when Arkin was 11 years old, but an eight-month Hollywood strike cost Arkin's father a set designer job he had wanted to take. During the 1950s Red Scare, Arkin's parents were accused of being Communists, which led to David losing his job when he refused to answer questions about his political affiliation. David challenged the dismissal and was ultimately vindicated, but only after his death.
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Alan Bates
Sir Alain Arthur Bates CBE (17 February 1934 – 27 December 2003) was an English actor who came to prominence in the 1960s, a time of high creativity in British cinema, when he appeared in films ranging from the popular children's story Whistle Down the Wind to the "kitchen sink" drama A Kind of Loving. He is also known for his performance with Anthony Quinn in Zorba the Greek, as well as his roles in King of Hearts, Georgy Girl, Far From the Madding Crowd, and The Fixer, which gave him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. In 1969, he starred in the Ken Russell film Women in Love with Oliver Reed and Glenda Jackson.
Bates went on to star in The Go-Between, An Unmarried Woman, Nijinsky, and The Rose with Bette Midler, as well as playing varied roles in television drama, including The Mayor of Casterbridge, Harold Pinter's The Collection, A Voyage Round My Father, An Englishman Abroad (as Guy Burgess), and Pack of Lies. He also continued to appear on the stage, notably in the plays of Simon Gray, such as Butley and Otherwise Engaged.
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Alfre Woodard
Alfre Ette Woodard (born November 8, 1952) is an American film, stage, and television actress. She has been nominated once for an Academy Award and Grammy Awards, 17 times for Emmy Awards (winning four), and has also won a Golden Globe and three Screen Actors Guild Awards.
She is known for her role in films such as Cross Creek, Miss Firecracker, Grand Canyon, Passion Fish, Primal Fear, Star Trek: First Contact, Miss Evers' Boys, K-PAX, Radio, Take the Lead and The Family That Preys.
Woodard was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma to Constance, a homemaker, and Marion H. Woodard, an entrepreneur and interior designer. Woodard attended Bishop Kelley High School, a private Catholic school in Tulsa. She studied drama at Boston University, from which she graduated.
Woodard has made numerous appearances in television series and motion pictures. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the 1983 film Cross Creek. In 1993 she starred in the film Passion Fish for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award. She also appeared in the films Heart and Souls, Crooklyn, How to Make an American Quilt, Primal Fear, in Down in the Delta as a single alcoholic mother from Chicago forced to spend a summer with her uncle in Mississippi, and as Lily Sloane, Zefram Cochrane's assistant in Star Trek: First Contact.
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Allison Janney
Allison Brooks Janney (born November 19, 1959) is an American actress, best known for her role as C.J. Cregg on the television series The West Wing.
Janney was born in Dayton, Ohio, the daughter of Macy Brooks (née Putnam), a former actress and homemaker, and Jervis Spencer Janney, Jr., a real estate developer and jazz musician. She has an older brother, Jay, and a younger brother, Hal. She attended The Miami Valley School in Dayton, where she was named a distinguished alumna in 2004, and the Hotchkiss School in Connecticut. She then attended Kenyon College. At Kenyon, Janney studied under another Kenyon alum, Paul Newman.[citation needed] She went on to study drama at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London.[citation needed] She attended The Neighborhood Playhouse the same years as actor Dylan McDermott.[citation needed]
Janney's first roles on television were as comedic foils on soap operas: she first played Vi Kaminski for a short time on As the World Turns, following up with a two-year stint as one of the Spaulding maids, Ginger on Guiding Light. In the spring of 1994, she appeared in the season finale of Law & Order, as a reluctant witness against a member of the Russian mob.
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Andraé Crouch
Andraé Crouch (born July 1, 1942) is an American gospel singer, songwriter, arranger, recording artist, record producer, and pastor.
Born Andraé Edward Crouch in San Francisco, California. Andrae's parents managed a dry cleaners. His father, Benjamin Crouch, also had a street ministry, and ministered in hospitals and in prison. Andrae was eleven years old when his father was invited to preach at a small church in a farming community. The church didn't have a pastor so the bishop invited Andrae's father to become the pastor. That first Sunday, Andrae's father asked him to come up front. He said, "Andrae, if God gave you the gift of music to play and sing for him would you do it for his glory all your life?" Andrae said, "Yeah daddy." A couple of weeks later, his father asked him to come up as the congregation was singing. He said, "If you're gonna play, play." Andrae found the key, and started to play the piano. As he got a little older, he started to write songs, and lead a choir. Until he was fourteen, he had a stuttering problem—so he let his sister talk for him in public.
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Andy Serkis
Andrew Clement "Andy" Serkis (born 20 April 1964) is an English film actor, director and author.
He is popularly known for playing through motion capture to animate and voice computer-generated characters: Gollum in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy and its upcoming prequel The Hobbit, King Kong in the eponymous 2005 film, Caesar in Rise of the Planet of the Apes, and Captain Haddock in Steven Spielberg's The Adventures of Tintin.
Andrew also earned a Golden Globe Award nomination for his portrayal of Ian Brady in the British television film Longford. Serkis's motion captured work have been critically acclaimed, especially as Gollum for which he earned several award nominations, becoming the first motion captured actor to win a Empire Award, a Saturn Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award.
Serkis, one of five children, was born and brought up in Ruislip Manor in west London. His mother, Lylie (née Weech), was English and taught disabled children; his father, Clement Serkis, was an Iraqi gynaecologist of Armenian ethnicity. His ancestors' original surname had been "Sarkisian".
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Angelina Jolie
Angelina Jolie (
/dʒoʊˈliː/ joh-LEE, born Angelina Jolie Voight; June 4, 1975) is an American actress and director. She has received an Academy Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards, and was named Hollywood's highest-paid actress by Forbes in 2009 and 2011. Jolie promotes humanitarian causes, and is noted for her work with refugees as a Special Envoy and former Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). She has been cited as the world's "most beautiful" woman, a title for which she has received substantial media attention.
Jolie made her screen debut as a child alongside her father Jon Voight in Lookin' to Get Out (1982), but her film career began in earnest a decade later with the low-budget production Cyborg 2 (1993). Her first leading role in a major film was in the cyber-thriller Hackers (1995). She starred in the critically acclaimed biographical television films George Wallace (1997) and Gia (1998), and won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the drama Girl, Interrupted (1999).
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Anil Kapoor
Anil Kapoor (Hindi: अनिल कपूर; Punjabi: ਅਨਿਲ ਕਪੂਰ; born 24 December 1959) is an Indian actor, producer and director who has appeared in many Bollywood films and more recently international films.
He won his first Filmfare Award, in the Best Supporting Actor category, for his role in Yash Chopra's Mashaal (1984). Kapoor earned his first Filmfare Best Actor Award for his performance in N. Chandra's Tezaab (1988) and later again for his perfornance in Indra Kumar's Beta (1992). He also starred in many other critically and commercially successful films, including Woh Saat Din (1983), Meri Jung (1985), Janbaaz (1986), Karma (1986), Mr. India (1987), Virasat (1997) for which he won the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actor, Biwi No.1 (1999), Taal (1999) for which he won his second Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award, Pukar (2000) for which he won his first National Film Award for Best Actor, No Entry (2005), and Welcome (2007).
Kapoor's first role in an international film was in Danny Boyle's 2008 Academy Award-winning film Slumdog Millionaire, for which he shared the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. His performance in the eighth season of the action series 24 generated rave reviews from the American press. Globally, Anil Kapoor is one of the most recognised Indian actors. He has also appeared in the 2011 film Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol.
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Anthony Andrews
Anthony Corin Gerald Andrews ( /ˈæntəni ˈændruːz/; born 12 January 1948) is an English actor best known for his role as Lord Sebastian Flyte in the 1981 ITV miniseries Brideshead Revisited.
Andrews was born in London, the son of Geraldine Agnes (née Cooper), a dancer, and Stanley Thomas Andrews, a musical arranger and musical conductor. He grew up in the North Finchley district of London. At the age of eight he undertook dancing lessons, making his stage debut as the White Rabbit in a stage adaptation of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland.
After a series of short term "fill-in" jobs that included catering, farming and journalism, he secured a position at the Chichester Theatre where he worked as an assistant stage manager and later as a stand-in producer. He auditioned in 1968 for a production of Alan Bennett's new play, Forty Years On, which featured John Gielgud as the headmaster of a British public school during the First World War period. Andrews was cast as Skinner, one of twenty schoolboys; the role gave him the opportunity at an early age of working with Gielgud.
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August Diehl
August Diehl (born 4 January 1976) is a German actor, primarily known to international audiences for playing SS-Sturmbannführer Dieter Hellstrom in Inglourious Basterds and Michael "Mike" Krause, Evelyn Salt's husband, in the movie Salt, as well as for his leading role in the Academy Award-winning Austrian film The Counterfeiters (2007).
Diehl was born in Berlin. His father is actor Hans Diehl, his mother is a costume designer and his brother is a composer. His family was frequently moving around, while he grew up: the Diehls used to live in Hamburg, Vienna, Düsseldorf, Bavaria and France. Growing up in a family of artists, at the age of 18, he played Franz Mohr in a school theatre production of Die Räuber by Friedrich Schiller. After passing the Abitur exams, Diehl studied acting at the renowned Hochschule für Schauspielkunst Ernst Busch in Berlin. In 2000, he was named one of European film's "Shooting Stars" by the European Film Promotion. In 2006, Gala magazine named him "the most important German actor of today." Diehl is married to actress Julia Malik. On 23rd May 2009 the couple had a daughter, Elsa Augusta. Diehl plays the guitar and speaks Spanish, German, French and English.
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Bernard Hill
Bernard Hill (born 17 December 1944) is a British actor of film, stage and television. In a career spanning thirty years, he is known for playing Yosser Hughes, the troubled 'hard man' whose life is falling apart in Alan Bleasdale's groundbreaking 1980s TV drama, Boys from the Blackstuff. He is also known for a number of iconic roles in blockbuster films, including Captain Edward John Smith in Titanic, King Théoden in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, and as the Warden of San Quentin Prison in the Clint Eastwood film True Crime.
Hill was born in Blackley, Manchester, England. He attended Xaverian College although at the time it was known as "Xaverian School", and then Manchester Polytechnic School of Drama at the same time as Richard Griffiths. He graduated with a diploma in theatre in 1970.
Hill first came to prominence in Britain through his Yosser Hughes, a Liverpool working class man ultimately driven to the edge by an uncaring system, in Alan Bleasdale's BBC Play for Today, The Black Stuff and its more famous series sequel (also by Bleasdale), Boys from the Blackstuff. His character's much-repeated phrase Gizza job ("Give us a job") became popular with protesters against Margaret Thatcher's government, because of the high unemployment of the time.
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Bob Balaban
Robert Elmer "Bob" Balaban (born August 16, 1945) is an American actor, author and director.
Balaban was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Eleanor (née Pottasch) and Elmer Balaban, who owned several movie theatres and later was a pioneer in cable television. His family was a dominant force in the theatre business; his uncles founded the Balaban and Katz Theatre circuit in Chicago, a chain which included the Chicago and Uptown Theatres. Balaban and Katz operated some of the most beautiful movie palaces in the United States beginning in the 1920s. Bob Balaban's father and his uncle Harry founded the H & E Balaban Corporation in Chicago. H & E Balaban Corporation operated their own movie palaces including the Esquire Theatre in Chicago. They later owned a powerful group of television stations and cable television franchises. His uncle Barney Balaban was president of Paramount Pictures for nearly 30 years from 1936 to 1964. His grandmother's second husband, Sam Katz, was a vice president at MGM beginning in 1936. Sam had early partnered with Bob's uncles Abe, Barney, John and Max to form Balaban and Katz. Sam also served as President of the Publix theatre division of Paramount Pictures.
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Brad Pitt
William Bradley "Brad" Pitt (born December 18, 1963) is an American actor and film producer. Pitt has received four Academy Award nominations and five Golden Globe Award nominations, winning one Golden Globe. He has been described as one of the world's most attractive men, a label for which he has received substantial media attention.
Pitt first gained recognition as a cowboy hitchhiker in the road movie Thelma & Louise (1991). His first leading roles in big-budget productions came with A River Runs Through It (1992), Interview with the Vampire (1994), and Legends of the Fall (1994). In 1995, he gave critically acclaimed performances in the crime thriller Seven and the science fiction film 12 Monkeys, the latter earning him a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor and an Academy Award nomination. Four years later, Pitt starred in the cult hit Fight Club. He then starred in the major international hit Ocean's Eleven (2001) and its sequels, Ocean's Twelve (2004) and Ocean's Thirteen (2007). His greatest commercial successes have been Troy (2004) and Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005). Pitt received his second and third Academy Award nominations for his leading performances in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) and Moneyball (2011). In addition, Pitt owns a production company, Plan B Entertainment, whose productions include The Departed (2006), which won the Academy Award for Best Picture, and Moneyball, which garnered a Best Picture nomination.
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Brendan Fraser
Brendan James Fraser (born December 3, 1968) is a Canadian-American film and stage actor. Fraser portrayed Rick O'Connell in the three-part Mummy film series (1999, 2001, and 2008), and is known for his comedic and fantasy film leading roles in major Hollywood films, including Encino Man (1992), George of the Jungle (1997), Dudley Do-Right (1999), Monkeybone (2001), Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003), Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008), and Inkheart (2009). Has also appeared in numerous dramatic roles, including Crash (2004) and The Quiet American (2002). He is set to star in the upcoming movie Gimme Shelter (2012).
Fraser was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, the son of Canadian parents. His mother, Carol Mary (née Genereux), was a sales counselor, and his father, Peter Fraser, was a former journalist who worked as a Canadian foreign service officer for the Government Office of Tourism. His maternal uncle, George Genereux, was the only Canadian to win a gold medal in the 1952 Summer Olympics. Fraser has three older brothers: Kevin, Regan, and Sean. His surname is properly pronounced /ˈfreɪzər/, not /ˈfreɪʒər/. The correct pronunciation of his surname is a running gag in Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star, in which his character's surname is pronounced /frɛrəˈʒʊər/. His ancestry includes Irish, Scottish, German, Czech, and French Canadian.
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Carrie Underwood
Carrie Marie Underwood (born March 10, 1983) is an American country singer, songwriter and actress who rose to fame as the winner of the fourth season of American Idol, in 2005. Underwood has since become a multi-platinum selling recording artist, a winner of several Grammy Awards, Billboard Music Awards and American Music Awards, a Golden Globe Award nominee, a three-time Academy of Country Music and Country Music Association Female Vocalist winner, and a two-time ACM Entertainer of the Year. She is the first-ever female artist to win back-to-back Academy of Country Music (ACM) Awards for Entertainer of the Year (2009/10). Underwood was inducted into and became a member of the Grand Ole Opry in 2008. She was also inducted into the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame in 2009.Billboard named Underwood Country Music's reigning Queen in 2012.
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Cate Blanchett
Catherine Élise "Cate" Blanchett (/ˈblɑːntʃ.ət/; born 14 May 1969) is an Academy Award–winning Australian actress. She came to international attention for her role as Elizabeth I of England in the 1998 biopic film Elizabeth, for which she won British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) and Golden Globe Awards, and earned her first Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. Blanchett appeared as the elf queen Galadriel in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy from 2001 to 2003. In 2004, Blanchett's portrayal of Katharine Hepburn in Martin Scorsese's The Aviator brought her numerous awards, including an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Blanchett's other films include Babel (2006), Notes on a Scandal (2006), Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008), and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008).
Blanchett's work has earned her several accolades, including a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, two BAFTAs, and an Academy Award. Due to her success and character variety, critics have often called her "the new Meryl Streep" or "the Meryl Streep of the next generation".
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Charles Dance
Walter Charles Dance, OBE (born 10 October 1946) is an English actor, screenwriter, and film director. Dance typically plays assertive bureaucrats or villains.[citation needed] Some of his most high profile roles are Perron in The Jewel in the Crown (1984), Dr Clemens, the doctor who becomes Ellen Ripley's confidante, in Alien 3 (1992), the villain in The Golden Child (1986) and Last Action Hero (1993), and Lord Tywin Lannister in HBO's Game of Thrones.
Dance was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) on 17 June 2006.
Dance was born in Redditch, Worcestershire, the son of Eleanor (née Perks), a cook, and Walter Dance, an engineer. He attended Widey Technical School for Boys (it closed when known as Widey High School in 1988) in Manadon. He was set for a career in graphic design after graduating from the Plymouth College of Art before turning to acting.
Dance was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company during the mid- to late-1970s and was in many of their productions in London and Stratford-upon-Avon. Later he returned to the RSC to take the title role in Coriolanus at Stratford-upon-Avon and Newcastle in 1989, and at the Barbican Theatre in 1990. He received rave reviews and a Critics' Circle Best Actor award for his performance as the Oxford don C. S. Lewis in William Nicholson's Shadowlands, in the 2007 stage revival.
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Charlie Murphy
Charles Quinton "Charlie" Murphy (born July 12, 1959) is an American actor, comedian, and writer notable as being a cast member and writer on the Comedy Central sketch-comedy series Chappelle's Show. Charlie is also known for his work with his younger brother Eddie Murphy.
Murphy achieved fame as a recurring performer on Chappelle's Show, particularly in the Charlie Murphy's True Hollywood Stories sketches. In these, Murphy recounts his misadventures as part of his brother Eddie's entourage, including encounters with various celebrities such as Rick James and Prince.
Although he had minor roles in several films in the late 1980s (most notably Short Circuit 2) and early 1990s, Murphy's first major role in a motion picture was in the 1993 film CB4, where he portrayed the antagonist, Gusto. Murphy had a brief stint as a rapper in the late 1980s as a member of the act K-9 Posse, who was regularly featured on Yo! MTV Raps. In 2005, he appeared in King's Ransom (alongside Anthony Anderson and Jay Mohr). In the film, Murphy portrayed "Herb", a gay ex-con who is hired by King (Anderson) to kidnap him in a fake kidnapping.
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Chill Rob G
Chill Rob G (born Robert Frazier) on May 15, is a hip hop artist from Jersey City, New Jersey.
Chill's first hip hop collaboration was being part of the original version of the Flavor Unit collective, which included Lakim Shabazz, DJ Mark the 45 King, and Queen Latifah, among others. He signed with Stu Fine's Wild Pitch Records in 1987, and released one album, Ride the Rhythm, on the label. Ride the Rhythm’s tracks alternated between a somewhat hardcore sound and an easygoing, conversational tone. It was chosen by The Source as one of the 100 Greatest Rap Albums.
In 1989, the lyrics of his song "Let the Words Flow" were sampled illegally and without permission by the German pop-dance crew Snap! in its hit record The Power. The song was a remix created by German producers Michael Münzing and Luca Anzilotti (under the pseudonyms Benito Benites and John "Virgo" Garrett III). After the song gained in popularity in Europe, and Arista/BMG records came calling (via Ariola/BMG, the group's label in its home country), Münzing and Anzilotti recruited Durron Butler (aka Turbo B) to record a new version of the song, rather than continue lip-syncing the original Chill Rob G lyrics. It was this version that was ultimately used and promoted as Snap!’s official version.
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Christian McBride
Christian McBride (born May 31, 1972, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American jazz bassist. His father, Lee Smith, and his great uncle, Howard Cooper, are well known Philadelphia bassists who served as McBride's early mentors. He is regarded as a virtuoso, and is one of the most recorded musicians of his generation, having appeared on close to 300 recordings as a sideman before the age of 40.
After starting on bass guitar, McBride switched to double bass and studied at the Juilliard School.
He has performed and recorded with a huge number of jazz legends and ensembles, including Freddie Hubbard, Joe Henderson, McCoy Tyner, Herbie Hancock, Pat Metheny, Diana Krall, Roy Haynes, Chick Corea, John McLaughlin, Wynton Marsalis, Hank Jones, Joshua Redman, and Ray Brown's "Superbass" with John Clayton, as well as with hip-hop, pop, soul, and classical musicians like The Roots,Kathleen Battle, Carly Simon, Sting, Bruce Hornsby, and James Brown.
In 1996, McBride contributed to the AIDS benefit album Offbeat: A Red Hot Soundtrip produced by the Red Hot Organization.
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Christine Baranski
Christine Jane Baranski (born May 2, 1952) is an American stage and screen actress, and is perhaps best known for her Emmy Award-winning portrayal as Maryanne Thorpe in the sitcom Cybill, and her Emmy-nominated portrayal of Diane Lockhart in The Good Wife. Prior to her appearances in film and television, Baranski rose to prominence as a Broadway actress, winning two Tony Awards.
Baranski was born in Buffalo, New York, the daughter of Virginia (née Mazurowski) and Lucien Baranski, who edited a Polish-language newspaper. She is of Polish descent and her grandparents were actors in the Polish theater. Baranski attended high school at the Villa Maria Academy in Cheektowaga, a suburb of Buffalo. She then studied at New York City's Juilliard School (Drama Division Group 3: 1970–1974) where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1974.
Baranski made her Off-Broadway debut in Coming Attractions at Playwrights Horizons in 1980, and has appeared in several Off Broadway productions at the Manhattan Theatre Club, starting with Sally and Marsha in 1982.
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Christoph Waltz
Christoph Waltz (German pronunciation: [kristɔf valts]; born 4 October 1956) is an Austrian actor, who also holds German citizenship.
He received international acclaim for his portrayal of SS-Standartenführer Hans Landa in the 2009 film Inglourious Basterds, for which he won the Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival and the BAFTA, Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild Award and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 2009.
Christoph Waltz was born in Vienna, Austria. He is the son of German-born Johannes Waltz and Austrian-born Elisabeth Urbancic, set and stage designers. His maternal grandmother was Burgtheater actress Maria Mayen, and his step-grandfather was actor Emmerich Reimers. His great-grandparents also worked in the theatre.
Waltz studied acting at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna. He also attended the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York. He started as a stage actor, performing at venues such as Zurich's Schauspielhaus Zürich, Vienna's Burgtheater, and the Salzburg Festival. He became a prolific television actor. In 2000, he made his directorial debut, with the German-language television production Wenn man sich traut.
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Christopher Walken
Christopher Walken (/ˈwɔːkən/; born March 31, 1943) is an American stage and screen actor. He has appeared in more than 100 movies and television shows, including The Deer Hunter, Annie Hall, The Prophecy trilogy, The Dogs of War, Sleepy Hollow, Brainstorm, The Dead Zone, A View to a Kill, At Close Range, King of New York, True Romance, Catch Me If You Can, Pulp Fiction, Wedding Crashers, The Rundown, Click, and Hairspray, as well as music videos by recording artists such as Madonna, Journey, Run DMC, The Left Rights and Fatboy Slim.
Walken's films have grossed more than $1.8 billion in the United States. He has also played the main role in the Shakespeare plays Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, and Coriolanus. He is also a popular guest-host of Saturday Night Live, having hosted 7 times as of April 2008. His most notable roles on the show include record producer Bruce Dickinson (no relation to the singer with the same name) in the "More Cowbell" sketch and his multiple appearances as The Continental.
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Claire Danes
Claire Catherine Danes (born April 12, 1979) is an American television, stage and film actress. She has appeared in roles as diverse as Angela Chase in My So-Called Life, as Juliet in Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet, as Kate Brewster in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, as Yvaine in Stardust and as Temple Grandin in the HBO TV film Temple Grandin. She portrays Carrie Mathison in the Showtime series Homeland.
Danes was born in Manhattan, New York City, New York. Her mother, Carla (née Hall), is a day-care provider, painter, and textile designer who later served as her daughter's manager, and her father, Christopher Danes (b. May 6, 1944 in Austin, Texas), is a computer consultant and former architectural photographer. Danes has described her background as being "as WASPy as you can get"; her paternal grandfather, Gibson Andrew Danes (1910–1992 in Litchfield, Connecticut), was the dean of the art and architecture school at Yale University. She has an older brother, Asa (b. 1973).
Danes attended the Dalton School in New York City, the New York City Lab School for Collaborative Studies, the Professional Performing Arts School, and the Lycée Français de Los Angeles in Los Angeles, California. In 1998, Danes went to Yale University, her father's alma mater. Director Oliver Stone wrote her letter of recommendation to Yale. After studying for two years as a psychology major, she dropped out of Yale to focus on her film career.
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Clive Owen
Clive Owen (born 3 October 1964) is an English actor, who has worked on television, stage and film. He first gained recognition in the United Kingdom for portraying the lead in the ITV series Chancer from 1990 to 1991. He then garnered critical acclaim for his work in the film Close My Eyes (1991) before getting international notice for his performance as a struggling writer in Croupier (1998). In 2005, Owen won a Golden Globe and a BAFTA Award and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his appearance in the drama Closer (2004). He has since played leading roles in films such as Sin City (2005), Inside Man (2006), Children of Men (2006), and The International (2009).
The fourth of five brothers, Owen was born in Coventry, in the English Midlands, a son of Pamela (née Cotton) and Jess Owen, a country and western singer of Welsh descent. His father left the family when Owen was three years old, and despite a brief reconciliation when Owen was nineteen, the two have remained estranged. Raised by his mother and stepfather, a railway ticket clerk, he has described his childhood as "rough." While initially opposed to drama school, he changed his mind in 1984, after a long and fruitless period of searching for work. Owen graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 1987 with a class that included Rebecca Pidgeon, Serena Harragin, Mark Womack, and Liza Tarbuck. After graduation, he won a position at the Young Vic, performing in several Shakespearean plays.
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Colin Firth
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Colin Andrew Firth, CBE (born 10 September 1960) is an English film, television, and theatre actor. Firth gained wide public attention in the 1990s for his portrayal of Mr. Darcy in the 1995 television adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. In 2011, Firth received an Academy Award for his portrayal of King George VI in The King's Speech, a performance that also earned him the Golden Globe, BAFTA and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actor, amongst others. The previous year, he received his first Academy Award nomination, for his leading role in A Single Man, a performance that won him a BAFTA Award. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2011.
Firth was born in England. His mother, Shirley Jean (née Rolles), was a comparative religion lecturer at King Alfred's College Winchester (now the University of Winchester), and his father, David Norman Lewis Firth, was a history lecturer (also at King Alfred's) and education officer for the Nigerian Government. Firth has a sister, Kate, and a younger brother, Jonathan, who is also an actor. Firth's parents were raised in India, because his maternal grandparents, Congregationalist ministers, and his paternal grandfather, an Anglican priest, performed missionary work abroad. Firth spent part of his childhood in Nigeria, where his father was teaching.
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Colm Feore
Colm Feore (born August 22, 1958) is an American-born Canadian stage, film and television actor.
Feore was born in Boston, Massachusetts to Irish parents who lived in Ireland for several years during his early life. The family subsequently moved to Windsor, Ontario, where Feore grew up.
After graduating from Ridley College in St. Catharines, Ontario, he attended the National Theatre School of Canada in Montreal, Quebec and University of Windsor in Ontario.
Feore honed his acting skills as a member of the Acting Company of the Stratford Festival of Canada, North America’s largest classical repertory theatre. He spent 16 seasons at Stratford where he rose from bit parts to leading roles, including Romeo, Hamlet, Richard III, and Cyrano. He returned in 2006 to star in four productions, including Don Juan in both English and French and as Fagin in Oliver!. More recently, in 2009 he played the main role of Macbeth in the play Macbeth, and the main role of Cyrano in Cyrano de Bergerac both performed at the Stratford Festival Theatre.
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Daniel Brühl
Daniel César Martín Brühl González Domingo ( listen (help·info); born 16 June 1978) is a Spanish-born German actor. He is best known as Daniel Brühl.
Brühl was born in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. His father was the late German TV director Hanno Brühl and his mother was a Spanish professor. He also has a brother and a sister. Shortly after his birth his family moved to Cologne, Germany, where he grew up and attended the Dreikönigsgymnasium. Brought up in a fully multilingual home, he speaks Spanish, German, Catalan, French and English. In 2006, Brühl separated from his long-time girlfriend, actress Jessica Schwarz, to whom he was engaged. He is an FC Barcelona fan.
Brühl began acting at a young age and made his first steps in 1995 as street kid Benji in the soap opera Verbotene Liebe (Forbidden Love). His international breakthrough role came in 2003 as Alex Kerner in the Golden Globe-nominated film Good Bye, Lenin!, which reached an estimated six million cinema-goers worldwide. In 2003, Brühl won the European Film Academy award trophies for Best Actor (Critics/Audience Awards) for the role. Brühl made his English-speaking film debut in the 2004 Ladies in Lavender, starring alongside British acting legends Judi Dench and Maggie Smith. The same year, he won the People's Choice trophy for Best Actor for the film Love in Thoughts while at the same time, he was nominated for Best Actor (critics) for The Edukators. Brühl featured as Lieutenant Horstmayer, a central character in the 2005 film Joyeux Noël, a trilingual World War One film based on the experiences of French, German and Scottish soldiers during the Christmas truce of 1914. The film shows Brühl's linguistic ability as he ably communicates in German, French and English throughout.
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David Wenham
David Wenham (born 21 September 1965) is an Australian actor who has appeared in movies, television series and theatre productions. He is known in Hollywood for his roles as Faramir in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, Carl in Van Helsing and Dilios in 300 and Neil Fletcher in Australia. He is also known in his native Australia for his role as Diver Dan in SeaChange.
Wenham was born in Marrickville, Sydney, Australia, the son of Kath and Bill Wenham. He has five older sisters; Helen, Anne, Carmel, Kathryn, and Maree; and one older brother, Peter. David was raised in the Roman Catholic faith and attended Christian Brothers' High School, Lewisham. He worked as a bingo caller and an insurance clerk before becoming successful as an actor.
Wenham started his career as an actor after graduating from Theatre Nepean at the University of Western Sydney in 1987. Wenham's television credits include several telemovies, such as his AFI award winning role in the 1996 telemovie Simone de Beauvoir's Babies; and his role as the outwardly laid back but deeply enigmatic diver Dan Della Bosca in the 1998 and 1999 seasons of the highly successful ABC television series SeaChange. His role as "Diver Dan" has made the actor something of a sex symbol, although he dislikes thinking of himself as such, and he has been voted Australia's "sexiest man alive". A portrait of Wenham by artist Adam Cullen won the Archibald Prize in 2000. Wenham is signed to Storm Model Management in London.
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Denis Menochet
Denis Menochet (born 1977 in Enghien-les-Bains, Val-d'Oise) is a French film and television actor. Menochet is perhaps best known to an international audience for his role as Perrier LaPadite, a French dairy farmer interrogated by the Nazis for harboring Jews, in the 2009 Quentin Tarantino film, Inglourious Basterds.
Elizabeth Weitzman, a film critic for the New York Daily News, praised Menochet's work opposite Christoph Waltz in the opening scene of Inglorious Basterds. Weitzman wrote in August 2009, "The terrific opening, for example, does feature a hailstorm of bullets. What you'll remember best, though, is the haunted silence of actor Denis Menochet, playing a French farmer accused of harboring Jews."
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Denise Faye
Denise Faye Greenbaum (born July 16, 1963), professionally known as Denise Faye, is an American actress, dancer and choreographer. Internationally, she is best known for her performance in the 2002 film Chicago, for which she earned Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. Faye also had smaller roles in films Mighty Aphrodite, Donnie Brasco, American Pie 2, Nine and Burlesque.
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Denzel Washington
Denzel Hayes Washington, Jr. (born December 28, 1954) is an American actor, screenwriter, director, and film producer. He first rose to prominence when he joined the cast of the medical drama, St. Elsewhere, playing Dr. Philip Chandler for six years. He has received much critical acclaim for his work in film since the 1990s, including for his portrayals of real-life figures, such as Steve Biko, Malcolm X, Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, Melvin B. Tolson, Frank Lucas and Herman Boone.
Washington has received two Academy Awards, two Golden Globe awards, and a Tony Award. He is notable for winning the Best Supporting Actor for Glory in 1989; and the Academy Award for Best Actor in 2001 for his role in the film Training Day.
Denzel Washington was born in Mount Vernon, near New York City, New York on December 28, 1954. His mother, Lennis "Lynne", was a beauty parlor-owner and operator born in Georgia and partly raised in Harlem. His father, Reverend Denzel Hayes Washington, Sr., a native of Buckingham County, Virginia, served as an ordained Pentecostal minister, and also worked for the Water Department and a local department store, S. Klein.
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Derek Jacobi
Sir Derek George Jacobi, CBE ( /ˈdʒækəbi/; born 22 October 1938) is an English actor and film director.
A "forceful, commanding stage presence", Jacobi has enjoyed a highly successful stage career, appearing in such stage productions as Hamlet,Uncle Vanya, and Oedipus the King. He received a Tony Award for his performance in Much Ado About Nothing. His stage work also included playing Edward II,Octavius Caesar,Richard III, and Cyrano de Bergerac.
In addition to being a founder member of the Royal National Theatre and winning several prestigious theatre awards, Jacobi has also enjoyed a successful television career, starring in the critically praised adaptation of Roberts Graves' I, Claudius, for which he won a BAFTA; the titular role in the acclaimed medieval drama series Brother Cadfael, and Stanley Baldwin in The Gathering Storm. Though principally a stage actor, Jacobi has appeared in a number of films, such as Henry V (1989), Dead Again (1991), Gladiator (2000), Gosford Park (2001), The Golden Compass (2007), The King's Speech (2010), My Week with Marilyn (2011), and the forthcoming Hippie Hippie Shake. Like Laurence Olivier, he holds two knighthoods, Danish and British.
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Dev Patel
Dev Patel (born 23 April 1990) is a British actor. He is best known for playing Jamal Malik in Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire (2008), for which Patel won a number of awards, including a Critics' Choice Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award. Patel is also known for his role as Anwar Kharral in the British teen drama series Skins.
Patel was born in Harrow, England, to Hindu Indian parents, both of whom were born in Nairobi, Kenya, where there is a significant Indian community. His parents both emigrated from Kenya separately in their teens, and only met in London. His mother, Anita, is a carer, and his father, Raj, an IT consultant. He was raised in the Hindu faith. Patel grew up in Rayners Lane, Harrow, and attended Longfield Middle School. He had his first acting role as Sir Andrew Aguecheek in the school's production of Twelfth Night. Patel was given the Best Actor award for his performance. He later attended Whitmore High School, receiving an A* in GCSE Drama, for his "self-penned portrayal of a child in the Beslan school siege". His drama teacher Niamh Wright has stated: "Dev was a gifted student who quickly impressed me with his innate ability to communicate a wide variety of characters imaginatively and creatively. He was awarded full marks for his GCSE performance to a live audience and the visiting examiner was moved to tears by his honest portrayal". He completed his AS Levels in PE, Biology, History and Drama in 2007, while he was working in Skins. He has been dating his Slumdog Millionaire co-star Freida Pinto since 2009.
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Diane Keaton
Diane Keaton (born Diane Hall; January 5, 1946) is an American film actress, director, producer, and screenwriter. Keaton began her career on stage, and made her screen debut in 1970. Her first major film role was as Kay Adams-Corleone in The Godfather (1972), but the films that shaped her early career were those with director and co-star Woody Allen beginning with Play It Again, Sam in 1972. Her next two films with Allen, Sleeper (1973) and Love and Death (1975), established her as a comic actor. Her fourth, Annie Hall (1977), won her the Academy Award for Best Actress.
Keaton subsequently expanded her range to avoid becoming typecast as her Annie Hall persona. She became an accomplished dramatic performer, starring in Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977) and received Academy Award nominations for Reds (1981) and Marvin's Room (1996). Some of her popular later films include Baby Boom (1987), Father of the Bride (1991), The First Wives Club (1996), Something's Gotta Give (2003) and The Family Stone (2005). Keaton's films have earned a cumulative gross of over US$1.1 billion in North America. In addition to acting, she is also a photographer, real estate developer, author, and occasional singer.
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Diane Kruger
Diane Kruger (born 15 July 1976) is a German actress and former fashion model. She is known for roles such as Helen in Troy, Dr. Abigail Chase in National Treasure and its sequel, Bridget von Hammersmark in Inglourious Basterds, Anna in Mr. Nobody, and Gina in Unknown.
She was born as Diane Heidkrüger in Algermissen, Germany, near Hildesheim, the daughter of a computer specialist Hans-Heinrich Heidkrüger, and his wife, Maria-Theresa, a bank employee. She was raised Roman Catholic and attended Catholic school.
She was raised in Germany with her younger brother, Stefan. Her mother sent her to student exchange programs when she was a teenager to improve her English. As a child, Kruger wanted to become a ballerina and successfully auditioned for the Royal Ballet School in London. However, after an injury ended her ballet career prematurely, Kruger moved to Paris and turned her energy toward modeling and learning French.
Kruger soon became interested in acting and took lessons at the Cours Florent. She landed some small appearances in several French films. She made her onscreen debut in 2002, opposite Dennis Hopper and Christopher Lambert in The Piano Player, a TV-movie by Jean-Pierre Roux. Her first major role was the same year when she starred in her then husband's directorial debut Mon Idole.
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DJ Mark the 45 King
DJ Mark the 45 King (born Mark James, October 1961), also known as the 45 King, started DJing in New Jersey in the mid-1980s. The nickname the 45 King came from his ability to make beats using obscure 45 RPM records.
The 45 King first gained fame with his breakbeat track "The 900 Number" in 1987. The song featured a looping baritone sax solo from Marva Whitney's "Unwind Yourself." The 45 King signed with Tuff City Records that year and given a production deal. "The 900 Number" remains his signature work, having been resampled by many artists. He was also featured on the 1989-Hustlers Convention album on the UK label Music of Life, which is considered by many[who?] to be hip-hop's first-ever live album.
Using his popularity from the previous release, the 45 King was able to help the other members of his crew, dubbed the Flavor Unit, which included many well-known hip-hop acts including Chill Rob G, Lakim Shabazz, Apache, and Queen Latifah. The 45 King's big break came when Queen Latifah signed with Tommy Boy Records in 1989 and released the album All Hail the Queen. The 45 King did extensive production on this album, and it is considered by critics[who?] to be among his best production work. Over the next few years, many other Flavor Unit members also signed with Tommy Boy, and the 45 King frequently contributed to their albums with his productions.[citation needed] In November 1989, the re-release of "The King is Here" / "The 900 Number" peaked at #60 in the UK Singles Chart; his only appearance in a UK chart.
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Dolly Parton
Dolly Rebecca Parton (born January 19, 1946) is an American singer-songwriter, author, multi-instrumentalist, actress and philanthropist, best known for her work in country music. As a songwriter, she has composed over 3,000 songs, the best known of which include "I Will Always Love You" (a two-time U.S. country chart-topper for Parton, as well an international pop hit for Whitney Houston), "Jolene", "Coat of Many Colors", "9 to 5" and "My Tennessee Mountain Home". As an actress, she starred in the movies 9 to 5, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Steel Magnolias, Straight Talk, Unlikely Angel and Joyful Noise. She is one of the most successful female country artists of all time; with an estimated 100 million in album sales, Dolly Parton is also one of the best selling artists of all time. She is known as "The Queen of Country Music".
She was born in Sevierville, Tennessee, the fourth of twelve children of Avie Lee Parton (née Owens; October 5, 1923 – December 5, 2003) and Robert Lee Parton (March 22, 1921 – November 12, 2000), a tobacco farmer. Her siblings are: Willadeene Parton (born March 24, 1940), David Wilburn Parton (born March 30, 1942), Coy Denver "Denver" Parton (born August 16, 1943), Bobby Lee Parton (born February 18, 1948), Stella Mae Parton (born May 4, 1949), Cassie Nan Parton (February 12, 1951), Randel Huston "Randy" Parton (born December 15, 1953), Larry Gerald Parton (born and died July 6, 1955), Floyd and Frieda Estelle Parton (born June 1, 1957), and Rachel Ann Parton (born August 31, 1959). Her family was, as she has described them, "dirt poor". She outlined her family's lack of money in a number of her early songs, notably "Coat of Many Colors" and "In the Good Old Days (When Times Were Bad)". They lived in a rustic, dilapidated one-room cabin in Locust Ridge, Tennessee, a hamlet just north of the Greenbrier Valley, in the Locust Ridge area of the Great Smoky Mountains in Sevier County, a predominantly Pentecostal area.
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Dominic Monaghan
Dominic Bernard Patrick Luke Monaghan ( /ˈdɒmɨnɨk ˈmɒnəhæn/; born 8 December 1976) is an English actor. He has received international attention from playing Meriadoc Brandybuck in Peter Jackson's adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and for his role as Charlie Pace on the television show Lost.
Monaghan was born in Berlin, Germany, to British parents: Maureen, a nurse, and Austin Monaghan, a science teacher. Monaghan's family lived in Berlin, Düsseldorf, Stuttgart and Münster, moving about every four years. When he was about 11 years old, his family moved from Germany to Heaton Moor in Stockport, Greater Manchester. Monaghan's first language is English, but he also speaks some German and is well known for his ability to impersonate others and replicate accents[citation needed]. Bernard is his maternal grandfather's name, and Patrick his paternal grandfather's name. He chose Luke as his confirmation name after Luke Skywalker from Star Wars, his favourite film, which was also one of his inspirations for becoming an actor. He attended St Anne's Roman Catholic High School (where his uncle taught and later became head teacher) and Aquinas College, where he studied English literature, drama and geography.
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Dominic West
Dominic Gerard Fe West (born 15 October 1969) is an English actor best known for his role as Detective Jimmy McNulty in the HBO drama series The Wire.
West made his debut in 1991 in a short called 3 Joes.[citation needed] His other screen appearances include True Blue, Chicago and Mona Lisa Smile. His most notable television role has been Baltimore police detective Jimmy McNulty on the HBO television police drama The Wire. West was praised for the accuracy of his character's accent.
During his stint on The Wire, West directed the season 5 episode, "Took".
In film, he portrayed the heavy metal guitarist Kirk Cuddy in the 2001 film Rock Star. In 2006 West made a guest appearance as an actor in a sketch in The Catherine Tate Show, alongside "Frankie Howerd impressionist". In 2007, he played the Spartan politician Theron in 300. West also starred in the 1999 film version of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream as Lysander.
West appeared in the role of Oliver Cromwell in the Channel 4 series The Devil's Whore. West played the villain, Jigsaw, in the 2008 film Punisher: War Zone. He also features in "Dr. West", the opening track on Eminem's 2009 album Relapse, as a doctor discharging Eminem from a rehab facility. West played the part over the phone in January 2009 while Eminem was recording it in a Miami studio.
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Don Cheadle
Donald Frank "Don" Cheadle, Jr. (pronounced /ˈtʃiːdəl/; born November 29, 1964) is an American film actor and producer. Cheadle rose to prominence in the late 1990s and the early 2000s for his supporting roles in the Steven Soderbergh-directed films Out of Sight, Traffic, and Ocean's Eleven. In 2004, his lead role as Rwandan hotel manager Paul Rusesabagina in the genocide drama film Hotel Rwanda earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. He also campaigns for the end of genocide in Darfur, Sudan, and co-authored a book concerning the issue titled Not On Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond. In 2010, Cheadle was named U.N. Environment Program Goodwill Ambassador. He currently stars on the Showtime sitcom House of Lies.
Cheadle was born in Kansas City, Missouri, the son of Bettye (née North), a teacher, and Donald Frank Cheadle, Sr., a clinical psychologist. He has a sister, Dawn, and a brother, Colin. His family moved from city to city throughout his childhood. Cheadle graduated in 1982 from East High School in Denver, Colorado, and went on to the California Institute of the Arts, graduating with a BFA in Acting.
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Drew Barrymore
Drew Blyth Barrymore (born February 22, 1975) is an American actress, film director, screenwriter, producer and model. She is a member of the Barrymore family of American actors and granddaughter of John Barrymore. She first appeared in an advertisement when she was 11 months old. Barrymore made her film debut in Altered States in 1980. Afterwards, she starred in her breakout role in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. She quickly became one of Hollywood's most recognized child actresses, going on to establish herself in mainly comic roles.
Following a turbulent childhood which was marked by drug and alcohol abuse and two stints in rehab, Barrymore wrote the 1990 autobiography, Little Girl Lost. She successfully made the transition from child star to adult actress with a number of films including Poison Ivy, Bad Girls, Boys on the Side, and Everyone Says I Love You. Subsequently, she established herself in romantic comedies such as The Wedding Singer and 50 First Dates.
In 1995, she and business partner Nancy Juvonen formed the production company Flower Films, with its first production the 1999 Barrymore film Never Been Kissed. Flower Films has gone on to produce the Barrymore vehicle films Charlie's Angels, 50 First Dates, and Music and Lyrics, as well as the cult film Donnie Darko. Barrymore's more recent projects include He's Just Not That into You, Beverly Hills Chihuahua, Everybody's Fine and Going the Distance. A recipient of a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Barrymore appeared on the cover of the 2007 People magazine's 100 Most Beautiful issue.
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Eileen Atkins
Dame Eileen June Atkins, DBE (born 16 June 1934) is an English actress and occasional screenwriter. Born in 1934 she has worked in the theatre, film, and television consistently since 1953. She has been nominated for and received many professional awards and was created a CBE in 1990 and later a DBE in 2001.
Atkins was born in the Mothers' Hospital in Clapton, a Salvation Army women's hostel in East London. Her mother, Annie Ellen (née Elkins), was a barmaid who was 46 when Eileen was born, and her father, Arthur Thomas Atkins, was a gas meter reader who was previously under-chauffeur to the Portuguese Ambassador. She was the third child in the family and when she was born the family moved to a council home in Tottenham. Her father did not, in fact, know how to drive and was responsible, as under-chauffeur, mainly for cleaning the car. At the time Eileen was born, her mother worked in a factory the whole day and then as a barmaid in the Elephant & Castle at night. When Eileen was three, a Gypsy woman came to their door selling lucky heather and clothes pegs. She saw little Eileen and told her mother that her daughter would be a famous dancer. Her mother promptly enrolled her in a dance class. Although she hated it, she studied dancing from age 3 to 15 or 16. From age 7 to 15, which covered the last four years of the Second World War (1941–45), she danced in working men's club circuits for 15 shillings a pop as "Baby Eileen". During the war, she performed as well at London's Stage Door canteen for American troops and sang songs like "Yankee Doodle." At one time she was attending dance class four or five times a week.
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Eli Roth
Eli Raphael Roth (born April 18, 1972) is an American film director, producer, writer and actor. He is known for his role as Donny "The Bear Jew" Donowitz in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds for which he won both a SAG Award (Best Ensemble) and a BFCA Critic's Choice Award (Best Acting Ensemble). He is part of a group of filmmakers dubbed the Splat Pack, because of their dedication to the genre and their relentless horror films.
Roth was born in Newton, Massachusetts, to Dr. Sheldon Roth, a psychiatrist/psychoanalyst and assistant clinical professor at Harvard Medical School, and Cora Roth, a painter. His grandparents emigrated from Austria, Russia, and Poland; Roth was raised Jewish.
Roth began shooting films at the age of eight after watching Ridley Scott's Alien (1979). He made over 50 short films with his brothers Adam and Gabe before graduating at Newton South High School and attending film school (the Tisch School of the Arts) at New York University, from which he graduated in 1994. By the age of 20, and while still a student at NYU, Roth ran the office of producer Frederick Zollo, eventually leaving to devote himself to writing full-time.
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Elijah Wood
Elijah Jordan Wood ( /ɪˈlaɪdʒə ˈdʒɔrdən ˈwʊd/; born January 28, 1981) is an American actor. He made his film debut with a minor part in Back to the Future Part II (1989), then landed a succession of larger roles that made him a critically acclaimed child actor by age 9, being nominated for several Young Artist Awards. He is best known for his high-profile role as Frodo Baggins in Peter Jackson's critically acclaimed The Lord of the Rings trilogy and its upcoming prequels The Hobbit films. Since then, he has resisted typecasting by choosing varied roles in critically acclaimed films such as Bobby, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Sin City, Green Street and Everything Is Illuminated.
Wood starred in the film Day Zero (2007) and provided the voice of the main character in the award-winning animated musical films Happy Feet and Happy Feet Two. Wood also voiced the lead as 9 in the Tim Burton-produced action/science fiction film 9. He played an American tourist turned vampire in Paris, je t'aime. In 2005, he started his own record label, Simian Records. He currently appears as Ryan in FX's dark comedy Wilfred, which debuted on June 23, 2011.
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Emily Watson
Emily Watson (born 14 January 1967) is an English actress who gave an acclaimed debut film performance in Lars von Trier's Breaking the Waves. She has won a number of awards for acting throughout her career, which has encompassed theatre, motion picture and television; most recently a BAFTA award for her role in ITV's Appropriate Adult.
Watson was born in Islington, London, England. Her father was an architect and her mother was an English teacher at St David's Girls' School, West London. She was brought up as an Anglican. Watson describes her childhood self as a "Nice middle class English girl ... I'd love to say I was a rebellious teenager but I wasn't".
Watson was educated at St James Independent Schools, in west London, which she has described as a 'progressive' school. She attended the University of Bristol, where she obtained a B.A. (1988, English).[citation needed] Following university, she trained at Drama Studio London,[citation needed] and later received a M.A. (2003, honorary) from Bristol University.[citation needed]
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Erykah Badu
Erica Abi Wright (born February 26, 1971), better known by her stage name Erykah Badu /ˈɛrɨkə bɑːˈduː/, is a Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter, record producer, activist and actress. Her work includes elements from R&B, hip hop and jazz. She is best known for her role in the rise of the neo soul sub-genre, and for her eccentric, cerebral musical stylings and sense of fashion. She is known as the "First Lady of Neo-Soul" or the "Queen of Neo-Soul".
Early in her career, Badu was recognizable for wearing very large and colorful headwraps. For her musical sensibilities, she has often been compared to jazz great Billie Holiday. She was a core member of the Soulquarians, and is also an actress having appeared in a number of films playing a range of supporting roles in movies such as Blues Brothers 2000, The Cider House Rules and House of D. She also speaks at length in the documentary Before the Music Dies.
Erykah Badu was born Erica Abi Wright in Dallas, Texas, on February 26, 1971. Her mother raised her and her brother and sister alone; their father, William Wright, Jr., had deserted the family early in their lives. To provide for her family, the children's grandmother often helped looking after them while Erykah's mother, Kolleen Maria Gipson (Wright), performed as an actress in theatrical productions. Influenced by her mother, Erykah had her first taste of show business at the age of 4, singing and dancing with her mother at the Dallas Theatre Centre. Erykah Badu was the owner of Focal point in Dallas, Texas.
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Eugene Levy
Eugene Levy, CM (born December 17, 1946) is a Canadian actor, comedian, and writer. He is known for his work in Canadian television series, United States movies, and television movies. He is the only actor to have appeared in all eight of the American Pie films, as Noah Levenstein. Levy was appointed to the Order of Canada on June 30, 2011.
Levy was born to a Jewish family in Hamilton, Ontario. His father was a foreman in an automobile plant. He went to Westdale Secondary School, and attended McMaster University. He was vice-president of the McMaster Film Board, a student film group where he met moviemaker Ivan Reitman.
He began his career as a comedian in the sketch comedy series Second City Television. An alumnus of both Second City Toronto and the sketch comedy series SCTV, Levy often plays unusual supporting characters with nerdish streaks. Perhaps his best known role on SCTV was as the dimwitted Earl Camembert, a news anchor for the "SCTV News" and a parody of real-life Canadian newsman Earl Cameron. Celebrities impersonated by Levy on SCTV include: Perry Como, Ricardo Montalban, Alex Trebek, Sean Connery, Howard Cosell, Henry Kissinger, Menachem Begin, Bud Abbott, Milton Berle, John Charles Daly, Gene Shalit, Jack Carter, Muammar al-Gaddafi, Tony Dow, James Caan, Lorne Greene, Rex Reed, Ralph Young (of Sandler and Young), F. Lee Bailey, Ernest Borgnine, former Ontario chief coroner Dr. Morton Schulman, Norman Mailer, Neil Sedaka, and Howard McNear as “Floyd the Barber”.
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Faizon Love
Faizon Andre Love (born June 14, 1968) is an American actor and comedian. He is best known for roles in the films Friday, Elf, Made, and Couples Retreat.
Love was born Langston Faizon Santisima in Santiago de Cuba and raised in San Diego and Newark, New Jersey, because of his father's Navy career. Love got his start as a stand-up comedian and made his acting debut in an Off-Broadway at the age of nineteen. His motion picture debut Bebe's Kids had him providing the voice of comedian Robin Harris, who died before production began on the film; Love offered a close vocal impression of Harris. He then had a role in The Meteor Man starring Robert Townsend. Townsend then cast Love in a co-starring role on his sitcom The Parent 'Hood.
He followed up this role with a breakout performance as the drug dealer Big Worm in the 1995 film Friday. Follow-up films have included Elf, Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood, Money Talks, Wonderland, The Fighting Temptations, and Idlewild. Love also guests on Ludacris' Freaky Thangs from the album Word of Mouf. In 2001, he cameos as a bus driver, in the music video for Lil Jon & The East Side Boys's Put Yo Hood Up. Love also starred in 3 Strikes.
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Floetry
Floetry were a British R&B duo comprising Marsha Ambrosius ("the Songstress") and Natalie Stewart ("the Floacist"). The group recorded two studio albums, one live album, and sold over 1,500,000 records worldwide. Formed in 1999, Floetry started on the performance poetry stage.
In 2002, the duo released their first album entitled, Floetic. The album sold over 864,000 copies in the United States. The album spawned the singles "Floetic", the top ten song "Say Yes", and "Getting Late". Following their success, Floetry released their live album Floacism, featuring the single Wanna B Where U R (Thisizzaluvsong).
In 2005, Floetry released their second album Flo'Ology. Two singles were released from this album, "SupaStar" and "Lay Down". Marsha left the group in 2007.
The two met due to their love of basketball. Stewart, who hails from London, was a superstar on her court, while Ambrosius from Liverpool wowed fans in her local English neighborhood. They were competitive, but not rivals, so a friendship was formed. Music was also a passion. Stewart relished in her reggae roots while Ambrosius had been raised in the funk and soul tradition. While attending The Brits Performing Arts School, Ambrosius studied business and finance, but made room for courses in voice, performance technique, and recording. Stewart, who was voted 'Student of the Year' majored in Performance Arts and English. Later, Ambrosius and Stewart headed to college.
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Freida Pinto
Freida Selena Pinto (born 18 October 1984) is an Indian actress and model best known for her portrayal of Latika in the 2008 Academy Award winning film Slumdog Millionaire, for which she won a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. After the success of the film she went on to star in the films such as You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, Miral—in which she played the title character—and the box-office hit Rise of the Planet of the Apes.
Pinto was born into a Mangalorean Catholic family in Mumbai, which she still refers to as Bombay out of habit. Her surname is of Portuguese origin as the result of her ancestors' conversion to Catholicism by missionaries. Her mother, Sylvia, is the principal of St. John's Universal High School (Goregaon), and her father, Frederick, is a senior branch manager at the Bank of Baroda. She has an elder sister, Sharon, who is an associate producer for the NDTV news channel. Pinto dreamed of becoming an actress since she was five years old. When Freida was ten, Sushmita Sen won Miss Universe 1994, which turned out to be a defining point in Freida's life. She studied at Carmel of St. Joseph School in Malad, Mumbai and completed a degree in arts with a major in English Literature, and minors in Psychology and Economics, from St. Xavier's College, Mumbai. She had also acted in plays and amateur theatre while attending St. Xavier's. She later joined Elite Model Management and modelled for two and a half years.
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Gabrielle Union
Gabrielle Monique Union (born October 26, 1972) is an American actress and former model. Among her notable roles is as the cheerleader opposite Kirsten Dunst in the film Bring it On. Union starred opposite Will Smith and Martin Lawrence in the blockbuster film Bad Boys II and played a medical doctor in the CBS drama series City of Angels. She starred with LL Cool J in Deliver Us from Eva in 2003.
Union was born in Omaha, Nebraska. She is the daughter of Theresa (née Glass), a former dancer, social worker, and phone company manager, and Sylvester C. Union, an AT&T manager and military sergeant. She was raised Catholic. At the age of eight, her family moved to Pleasanton, California, where she grew up and attended Foothill High School. In high school, Union was an all-star point guard in basketball and a year-round athlete, also playing in soccer and ran track.
Union attended the University of Nebraska before moving on to Cuesta College. She eventually transferred to UCLA and earned a degree in sociology. While studying there, she interned at the Judith Fontaine Modeling & Talent Agency to earn extra academic credits. Invited by the agency's owner, Judith Fontaine, Union started working as a model to pay off college loans.
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Garret Dillahunt
Garret Dillahunt (born November 24, 1964) is an American actor. He is married to actress Michelle Hurd. He currently plays the role of Burt Chance on the Fox sitcom Raising Hope.
Garret L. Dillahunt was born in Castro Valley, California and grew up in Selah, Washington. One of three siblings, he has a brother, Brett. His other brother, Eric, is deceased. He graduated from the University of Washington with a B.A. in journalism and went on to receive his M.F.A. in acting from New York University's Graduate Acting Program at the Tisch School of the Arts.
After spending years on and off Broadway, Dillahunt began pursuing television and film roles. He appeared as a regular in several short lived series on ABC and Showtime, and landed guest spots on TV shows such as The X Files and NYPD Blue among others, before playing two distinctly different characters on the HBO series Deadwood: Jack McCall in 2004 and Francis Wolcott in 2005. He later had a recurring role on USA Network's The 4400.
Dillahunt portrayed Steve Curtis for three seasons on ER (2005–06). Later roles included Dr. Michael Smith on HBO's John From Cincinnati; Cromartie and John Henry on FOX's Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles; Roman Nevikov, a Russian gangster, on NBC's Life; and Mason Turner, a paralyzed serial killer on Criminal Minds. He played Simon Escher in the Burn Notice third season finale airing March 4, 2010 on the USA, later reprising the role in the show's fourth season.
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Geoffrey Rush
Geoffrey Roy Rush (born 6 July 1951) is an Australian actor and film producer. He is one of the few people who has won the "Triple Crown of Acting": an Academy Award, a Tony Award and an Emmy Award. He has won one Academy Award for acting (from four nominations), three British Academy Film Awards (from five nominations), two Golden Globe Awards and four Screen Actors Guild Awards. He is the foundation President of the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts. He is the 2012 Australian of the Year.
Rush was born in Toowoomba, Queensland, to Merle (née Kiehne), a department store sales assistant, and Roy Baden Rush, an accountant for the Royal Australian Air Force. His parents divorced when he was five and his mother subsequently took him to live with her parents in suburban Brisbane. Before he began his acting career, Rush attended Everton Park State High School. He also has an arts degree from the University of Queensland. While at university, he was talent-spotted by Queensland Theatre Company (QTC) in Brisbane. Rush began his career with QTC in 1971, appearing in 17 productions.
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George Duke
George Duke (born 12 January 1946 in San Rafael, California) is a multi-faceted American musician, known as a keyboard pioneer, composer, singer and producer in both jazz and popular mainstream musical genres. He has worked with numerous acclaimed artists as arranger, music director, writer and co-writer, record producer and professor of music. He first made a name for himself with the album The Jean-Luc Ponty Experience with the George Duke Trio. He is known primarily for thirty-odd solo albums as well as for his collaborations with other musicians, particularly Frank Zappa.
Duke attended Tamalpais High School in Mill Valley before earning a bachelor's degree in trombone and composition with a minor in contrabass, from the San Francisco Conservatory in 1967. Playing initially with friends from garages to local clubs, Duke quickly eased his way into session work, which refined his abilities and expanded his approach to music. (He later earned his Masters Degree in composition from San Francisco State University. His website mentions a short stint teaching a course on Jazz And American Culture at Merritt Junior College in Oakland). Beginning in 1967 Duke experimented further with jazz fusion, playing and recording with violinist Jean-Luc Ponty, as well as performing with the Don Ellis Orchestra, and Cannonball Adderley's band, while he acquainted himself with the avantgarde musician Frank Zappa. Duke appeared on a number of Frank Zappa's albums in the early and mid-1970s, including Chunga's Revenge, 200 Motels, Waka/Jawaka, The Grand Wazoo, Apostrophe, Over-Nite Sensation, One Size Fits All, Bongo Fury and Roxy & Elsewhere.
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Geraldine Somerville
Geraldine Margaret Agnew-Somerville (born 19 May 1967) is an Irish actress best known for her roles as Detective Sergeant Jane "Panhandle" Penhaligon in Cracker, and Lily Potter in the Harry Potter film series.
Geraldine Agnew-Somerville was born in County Meath, Ireland, the daughter of Sir Quentin Charles Agnew-Somerville, 2nd Baronet, and Margaret April Irene, Lady Agnew-Somerville (née Drummond), an antiques dealer, but was brought up on the Isle of Man.
Her mother is a daughter of John Drummond, 15th Baron Strange, and sister of the late Cherry Drummond, 16th Baroness Strange. She has an elder sister, Amelia Rachel (who owns and works in a restaurant with her husband in the Australian rainforest), and a younger brother, James Lockett Charles Agnew-Somerville, who worked in Hong Kong and writes poetry.
Somerville attended dance classes from the age of six, and at eight was sent to the Arts Educational School, a boarding school in Tring, Hertfordshire. There she was taught ballet. She left at sixteen, but continued her studies in London.
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Glenn Close
Glenn Close (born March 19, 1947) is an American film, television and stage actress. She is best known for her roles as a femme fatale—the scheming Marquise de Merteuil in Dangerous Liaisons (1988) and deranged stalker Alex Forrest in Fatal Attraction (1987)—as well as Cruella de Vil in 101 Dalmatians (1996), and its sequel 102 Dalmatians (2000). She has been more recently known for her Emmy and Golden Globe winning role as Patty Hewes in the FX TV series Damages.
Consistently acclaimed for her versatility, she has been nominated six times for an Oscar (five times throughout the 1980's), three times for a Grammy Award and once for a BAFTA Film Award, and has won three Tonys, an Obie, three Emmys, two Golden Globes, and a Screen Actors Guild Award.
Close was born in Greenwich, Connecticut, the daughter of Bettine (née Moore) and William Taliaferro Close, a doctor who operated a clinic in the Belgian Congo and served as a personal physician to Congo/Zaire President Mobutu Sese Seko. Her parents came from prominent families. Her father was a descendant of the Taliaferros of Virginia; her paternal grandfather, Edward Bennett Close, a stockbroker and director of the American Hospital Association, was first married to Post Cereals' heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post. Close is also a second cousin once-removed of actress Brooke Shields (Shields's great-grandmother Mary Elsie Moore was a sister of Close's maternal grandfather, Charles Arthur Moore, Jr.).
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Gracie Allen
Grace Ethel Cecile Rosalie Allen (July 26, 1895 – August 27, 1964), known as Gracie Allen, was an American comedian who became internationally famous as the zany partner and comic foil of husband George Burns. For contributions to the television industry, Gracie Allen was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6672 Hollywood Boulevard.
Gracie Allen was born in San Francisco, California, to George Allen and Molly Darragh, who were of Irish Catholic extraction. She made her first appearance on stage at age three and was given her first chance On Air by Eddie Cantor. She was educated at the Star of the Sea Convent School and during that time became a talented dancer. She soon began performing Irish folk dances with her three sisters, who were billed as "The Four Colleens." In 1909 Allen joined her sister, Bessie, as a vaudeville performer. At a performance in 1922 Allen met George Burns and the two formed a comedy act. The two were married on January 7, 1926, in Cleveland, Ohio. Gracie allen was born with two different color eyes on blue and one green.
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Greg Kinnear
Gregory "Greg" Kinnear (born June 17, 1963) is an American actor and television personality who first rose to stardom in 1991. He has appeared in more than 20 motion pictures, and was nominated for an Academy Award for his role in As Good as It Gets.
Kinnear was born in Logansport, Indiana, the son of Suzanne, a homemaker, and Edward Kinnear, a career diplomat who worked for the US State Department. He has two brothers, James and Steven. When he was a child, the Kinnear family moved around frequently, from Beirut to Athens, part of a group sometimes referred to as the "Foreign Service Brats". While a student at the American Community Schools in Athens, Greg Kinnear first ventured into the role of talk show host with his radio show "School Daze With Greg Kinnear". Returning to the United States for a college education, he attended the University of Arizona, where he graduated in 1985 with a degree in broadcast journalism. At Arizona, Greg was a member of the Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity.
Kinnear hosted a short-lived game show, College Mad House, which was spun off from the kids' show, Fun House. Later he would become the creator, co-executive producer, and host of Best of the Worst which aired from 1990 to 1991. In 1991, Kinnear became the first host of Talk Soup, which he did until 1995, when he left the show for the NBC late-night talk show, Later with Greg Kinnear (1994).
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Guy Pearce
Guy Edward Pearce (born 5 October 1967) is an English-born Australian actor and musician, known for his roles as Leonard Shelby in Christopher Nolan's Memento, Lieutenant Ed Exley in L.A. Confidential, Adam Whitely aka Felicia Jollygoodfellow (a drag queen) in the The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, Mike Young in the Australian television series Neighbours and King Edward VIII ("David") in The King's Speech. Pearce has won an Emmy Award, and received nominations for Golden Globe Awards, Screen Actors Guild Awards and Saturn Awards.
Pearce was born in Ely, Cambridgeshire. His mother, Anne Cocking (née Pickering), was a County Durham-born schoolteacher specialising in needlework and home economics, and his father, Stuart Pearce, was a New Zealand-born air force test pilot who died when Pearce was nine. When he was three years old, Pearce moved to Geelong, Australia, where his mother ran a deer farm. He attended the Geelong College, a local private school, and was a member of the GSODA Junior Players. From the age of 15 to 22, he was a competitive amateur bodybuilder, leading to the title of Junior Mr. Victoria. He also partook in fencing. He lived in Box Hill North, Victoria in the late 1980s while working on the Australian drama series Neighbours.
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Gwen Ifill
Gwendolyn L. "Gwen" Ifill ( /ˈaɪfəl/; born September 29, 1955) is an American journalist, television newscaster and author. She is the managing editor and moderator of Washington Week and a senior correspondent for the PBS NewsHour, both of which air on PBS. She is a political analyst, and moderated the 2004 and 2008 Vice Presidential debates. She is the author of the book The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama.
Ifill was born in New York City, the fifth child of African Methodist Episcopal minister (Oliver) Urcille Ifill, Sr., a Panamanian of Barbadian descent who emigrated from Panama, and Eleanor Ifill, who was from Barbados. Her father's ministry required the family to live in several cities throughout New England and the Eastern Seaboard during her youth. In her childhood Ifill lived in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts church parsonages and in federally subsidized housing in Buffalo and New York City. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Communications from Simmons College in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1977.
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Halle Berry
Halle Berry ( /ˈhæli ˈbɛri/; born August 14, 1966) is an American actress and a former fashion model. Berry received an Emmy, Golden Globe, SAG, and an NAACP Image Award for Introducing Dorothy Dandridge and won an Academy Award for Best Actress and was nominated for a BAFTA Award in 2001 for her performance in Monster's Ball, becoming the first and, as of 2012, only woman of African American descent to have won the award for Best Actress. She is one of the most highly paid actresses in Hollywood and also a Revlon spokesmodel. She has been involved in the production side of several of the films in which she performed.
Before becoming an actress, Berry entered several beauty contests, finishing as the 1st runner-up in the Miss USA Pageant (1986), and coming in 6th place in the Miss World Pageant in 1986. She made her film debut with a small role in 1991's Jungle Fever. This led to starring roles in The Flintstones (1994), Bulworth (1998), X-Men (2000) and its sequels, and as Bond Girl Jinx in Die Another Day (2002). She also won the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress in 2005 for Catwoman and accepted the award in person—one of the few performers to do so.
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Helen Mirren
Dame Helen Mirren, DBE (born Helen Lydia Mironoff; 26 July 1945) is an English actor. She has won an Academy Award for Best Actress, four SAG Awards, four BAFTAs, three Golden Globes, four Emmy Awards, and two Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Awards.
Mirren was born Helen Lydia Mironoff in Queen Charlotte's Hospital, Chiswick, West London. Her father, Vasiliy Petrovich Mironov (1913–1980), was of Russian origin, and her mother, Kitty (née Kathleen Alexandrina Eva Matilda Rogers; 1909–1996), was English. Mirren's paternal grandfather, Colonel Pyotr Vasilievich Mironov, was in the Tsarist Army and fought in the 1904 Russo-Japanese War. He later became a diplomat, and was negotiating an arms deal in Britain, when he and his family were stranded during the Russian Revolution. The former diplomat became a London cab driver to support his family.
His son, Helen Mirren's father, changed the family name to the Scottish-sounding Mirren in the 1950s and became known as Basil Mirren. He played the viola with the London Philharmonic before World War II, and later drove a cab and was a driving-test examiner, before becoming a civil servant with the Ministry of Transport. Mirren's mother was from West Ham, East London, and was the 13th of 14 children born to a butcher whose father had been the butcher to Queen Victoria. Mirren considers her upbringing to have been "very anti-monarchist".
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Helena Bonham Carter
Helena Bonham Carter, CBE (born 26 May 1966) is an English actress. She made her acting debut in a television adaptation of K. M. Peyton's A Pattern of Roses before winning her first film role as the titular character in Lady Jane. She is known for her roles in films such as A Room with a View, Fight Club, and playing the villainess Bellatrix Lestrange in the Harry Potter series, as well as for frequently collaborating with director and domestic partner Tim Burton in films such as Planet of the Apes, Big Fish, Corpse Bride, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Alice in Wonderland, and Dark Shadows.
A two-time Academy Award nominee for her performances in The Wings of the Dove and The King's Speech, Bonham Carter's acting has been further recognised with six Golden Globe nominations, an International Emmy Award, a BAFTA Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2012 New Year Honours for services to drama, and received the award from the Queen at Buckingham Palace on 22 February 2012.
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Holly Hunter
Holly Hunter (born March 20, 1958) is an American actress. Hunter starred in The Piano for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. She has also been nominated for Oscars for her roles in Broadcast News, The Firm, and Thirteen. Hunter has also won two Emmy Awards with seven nominations and has won a Golden Globe Award with another six nominations.
Holly Hunter was born in Conyers, Georgia, the daughter of Opal Marguerite (née Catledge), a housewife, and Charles Edwin Hunter, a farmer and sporting-goods manufacturer's representative. Hunter earned a degree in drama from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, and for a while performed in the theatre scene there, playing ingenue roles at City Theatre, then named the City Players. She eventually moved to New York City and roomed with fellow actress Frances McDormand. Hunter, in 2008, described living in The Bronx "at the end of the D [subway] train, just off 205th Street, on Bainbridge Avenue and Hull Avenue. It was very Irish, and then you could go just a few blocks away and hit major Italian". A chance encounter with playwright Beth Henley, when the two were trapped alone in an elevator, led to Hunter's being cast in Henley's plays Crimes of the Heart (succeeding Mary Beth Hurt on Broadway), and Off-Broadway's The Miss Firecracker Contest. "It was like the beginning of 1982. It was on 49th Street between Broadway and Eighth [Avenue] [...] on the south side of the street", Hunter recalled in an interview. "[We were trapped] 10 minutes; not long. We actually had a nice conversation. It was just the two of us".
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Hugo Weaving
Hugo Wallace Weaving (born 4 April 1960) is an English-Australian film and stage actor and voice artist. He is best known for his roles as Tick in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, Agent Smith in the Matrix trilogy, Elrond in the Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Hobbit, "V" in V for Vendetta, and performances in numerous Australian character dramas.
Weaving was born at the University Teaching Hospital in Ibadan, Nigeria, two English parents Anne (née Lennard), a tour guide and former teacher, and Wallace Weaving, a seismologist. His maternal grandmother was Belgian. A year after his birth, his family returned to England, living in Bedford and Brighton before moving to Melbourne and Sydney in Australia, Johannesburg in South Africa, and then returning to England again. While in England, he attended the independent boarding school Queen Elizabeth's Hospital. His family moved back to Australia in 1976, where he attended another private school, Sydney's Knox Grammar School. He later graduated from Australia's National Institute of Dramatic Art in 1981.
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Ian Holm
Sir Ian Holm, CBE (born 12 September 1931) is an English actor known for his stage work and many film roles. He received the 1967 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor for his performance as Lenny in The Homecoming and the 1998 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor for his performance in the title role of King Lear. He was nominated for the 1981 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as athletics trainer Sam Mussabini in Chariots of Fire. Other well-known film roles include the android Ash in Alien, Father Vito Cornelius in The Fifth Element, and the hobbit Bilbo Baggins in the first and third films of the Lord of the Rings film trilogy.
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Ian McKellen
Sir Ian Murray McKellen, CH CBE (born 25 May 1939) is an English actor. He has won multiple Laurence Olivier Awards, a Tony Award, two Academy Award nominations, and five Emmy Award nominations. His work has spanned genres from Shakespearean and modern theatre to popular fantasy and science fiction. He is known for film roles such as Gandalf in the Lord of the Rings film trilogy, Magneto in the X-Men films, and as Sir Leigh Teabing in The Da Vinci Code.
McKellen was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1979, was knighted in 1991 for services to the performing arts, and was made a Companion of Honour for services to drama and to equality, in the 2008 New Year Honours.
McKellen was born in Burnley, Lancashire, England, though he spent most of his early life in Wigan. Born shortly before the outbreak of World War II, the experience had some lasting impact on him. In response to an interview question when an interviewer remarked that he seemed quite calm in the aftermath of the 11 September attacks, he said: "Well, darling, you forget — I slept under a steel plate until I was four years old."
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Irrfan Khan
Sahabzade Irrfan Ali Khan, previously known as Irrfan Khan and now just Irrfan (Hindi: इरफ़ान ख़ान; born on 7th January 1967 ), is an Indian actor in film, television and theatre. He received recognition for his roles in The Warrior (2001), Maqbool (2003), Haasil (2004), The Namesake (2006), A Mighty Heart (2007), Life in a... Metro (2007), Slumdog Millionaire (2008), Billu (2009), New York (2009), New York, I Love You (2009), Paan Singh Tomar (film) (2012), and Vodafone commercials.
He has won two Filmfare Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and an Independent Spirit Award nomination. He is also the recipient of 2011 Padma Shri award, the fourth highest civilian award in India. He has also been cast in The Amazing Spider-Man as Dr. Ratha. He has appeared in more than 30 films in the Bollywood.
Khan was born in Jaipur to a Muslim family. Khan's mother, Sayeeda Begum, was from the Tonk Hakim family, and his father, the late Jagirdar, was from the Khajuriya village near the Tonk district, and ran a tyre business. Khan was studying for his M.A. degree when he earned a scholarship to study at National School of Drama (NSD) in New Delhi in 1984.
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Jacky Ido
Jacky Ido (born May 14, 1977 in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso) is a Burkina Faso-born French film actor. His first role was as Lemalian in the 2005 German film, The White Masai. He is best known to English-language audiences for his role as Marcel, the film projectionist in Quentin Tarantino's 2009 film, Inglourious Basterds. Ido's brother Cedric Ido who is also an actor has directed him in the short Hasaki Ya Suda. Jacky Ido works and resides in Paris, France and is working on a slam potry album.
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James Marsden
James Paul Marsden (born September 18, 1973) is an American actor, singer and former Versace model. He is known for playing the superhero Cyclops in the first three X-Men films and for his roles in other commercially successful films such as Hop, Superman Returns, Hairspray, Enchanted, The Notebook, and 27 Dresses.
Marsden was born in Stillwater, Oklahoma. His father, James L. Marsden, Ph.D, a professor of animal sciences and industry at Kansas State University, and his mother, a nutritionist, divorced when he was nine years old.
He has four siblings: two younger sisters, Jennifer and Elizabeth, and two brothers, Jeff and Robert. He attended Hefner Middle School and Putnam City North High School, in Oklahoma City, and later went on to attend Oklahoma State University, where he studied broadcast journalism. He was also a member of Delta Tau Delta fraternity. However, Marsden left after one and a half years, opting instead to move out to Los Angeles in order to pursue his acting career.
Marsden got his first job on a series of episodes of The Nanny as Eddie, Margaret Sheffield's boyfriend. He then went on to star in the Canadian television series Boogies Diner, which aired for one season. With the end of that series, he guest starred on other television shows such as Saved by the Bell and Party of Five. He later starred in the ABC show Second Noah. He lost out to Edward Norton for a role in Primal Fear and turned down the lead role in 54, which later went to Ryan Phillippe. He then went on to star in Disturbing Behavior opposite Katie Holmes and Gossip opposite Kate Hudson. He also appeared in the television series Ally McBeal, as one of the main cast members during the first half of season 5, where he also showcased his singing abilities.
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James Wilby
James Jonathon Wilby (born 20 February 1958) is an English film, television and theatre actor.
He was born in Rangoon, Burma to a corporate executive father. He was educated at Sedbergh School in Cumbria, and from there went on to study for a degree in Mathematics at Grey College, University of Durham, and then at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
Wilby's first appearance on screen was in the Oxford Film Company 1982 production Privileged alongside Hugh Grant. He is known to an international audience for roles in Maurice (1987), for which he received Venice Film Festival's Best Actor award with co-star Hugh Grant. Along with Grant, Wilby has always been best known for his regular inclusion in the Merchant/Ivory film 'family' which also boasts Rupert Graves, Helena Bonham-Carter, Emma Thompson, and Anthony Hopkins among its regulars. He then starred in A Handful of Dust (1988), for which he won the Bari Film Festival Best Actor award. Then came A Tale of Two Cities (1989), Howards End (1992), the critically acclaimed Regeneration (1997 film), Ismail Merchant's Cotton Mary (1999), Gosford Park (2001) and Alain Robbe-Grillet's C'est Gradiva qui vous appelle (2006) co-starring Arielle Dombasle which premiered at the Venice Film Festival.
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Javier Bardem
Javier Ángel Encinas Bardem (Spanish pronunciation: [xaˈβjer βarˈðen]; born 1 March 1969) is a Spanish actor. In 2007 he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as sociopathic assassin Anton Chigurh in No Country for Old Men, and has also garnered critical acclaim for roles in films such as Jamón, jamón, Carne trémula, Boca a boca, Los Lunes al sol and Mar adentro.
As well as the Academy Award, Bardem has been awarded a Golden Globe, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a BAFTA, five Goya awards, two European Film Awards, a Prize for Best Actor at Cannes and two Coppa Volpis at Venice for his work. He is the first Spaniard to be nominated for an Oscar (Best Actor, 2000, for Before Night Falls, lost to Russell Crowe for Gladiator), as well as the first Spanish actor to win an Academy Award. He received his third Academy Award nomination, and second Best Actor nomination, for the film Biutiful.
Bardem was born in Las Palmas in the Canary Islands (Spain). His mother, Pilar Bardem, is an actress, and his father, José Carlos Encinas Doussinague, was a businessman who was involved in environmental work; the two separated shortly after his birth. His mother raised him alone. Bardem comes from a long line of filmmakers and actors who have been working since the earliest days of Spanish cinema; he is the grandson of actors Rafael Bardem and Matilde Muñoz Sampedro, and the nephew of screenwriter and director Juan Antonio Bardem. Both his older brother and sister, Carlos and Mónica, are actors. Bardem was raised Roman Catholic by his grandmother. He also comes from a very political background, his uncle Juan Antonio was imprisoned by Franco for his anti-fascist films.
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Jennifer Ehle
Jennifer Ehle ( /ˈiːliː/; born December 29, 1969) is an American actress of stage and screen. She is known for her BAFTA winning role as Elizabeth Bennet in the 1995 mini-series Pride and Prejudice.
Born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, to English actress Rosemary Harris and American author John Ehle, Ehle made her stage debut as a toddler in a 1973 Broadway revival of A Streetcar Named Desire, in which her mother played Blanche Dubois.[citation needed] She spent her childhood between the UK and US, attending 18 different schools including the Interlochen Arts Academy. She was raised largely in Asheville, North Carolina, which was close by her hometown. Her drama training was split between the North Carolina School of the Arts and the Central School of Speech and Drama in London.[citation needed]
In 1992, Peter Hall cast her as Calypso in a television adaptation of Mary Wesley's novel The Camomile Lawn, in which she and her mother played the same character at different ages. This story, produced by UK's Channel 4, was a five part miniseries about the lives and loves of a family of cousins from 1939 to the present. The two would later reprise this different age portrayal of a character as Valerie in István Szabó's 1999 movie Sunshine.
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Jennifer Esposito
Jennifer Esposito (born April 11, 1973) is an American actress, dancer and model, known for her appearances in films such as I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, Summer of Sam and Crash, and in television series such as Spin City, The Looney Tunes Show, Samantha Who? and Blue Bloods.
Esposito, an Italian-American, was born in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of Phyllis, an interior decorator, and Robert Esposito, a computer consultant and music producer. She has one older sister. Esposito grew up and attended St. Teresa School in Staten Island, and graduated from Moore Catholic High School in Staten Island.[citation needed]. In 1989, she won the title of homecoming queen at Msgr. Farrell High School.
Esposito made her first television appearance in Law & Order in 1996, but she is best known as Stacey in the prime time hit Spin City. She also appeared in I Still Know What You Did Last Summer playing Nancy, who is killed when a spear impales her chest. One of her more notable roles was as Ruby in Spike Lee's Summer of Sam in 1999, which was set against the late-1970s backdrop of the Son of Sam murders. She originally had the Mira Sorvino role in Summer of Sam, but had to take a different role due to scheduling conflicts. Esposito's next film was Wes Craven Presents: Dracula 2000.
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Jeremy Northam
Jeremy Philip Northam (born 1 December 1961) is an English actor. He is best known for his roles as Ivor Novello in the 2001 film Gosford Park, as Dean Martin in the 2002 television movie Martin and Lewis, and as Thomas More on the Showtime series The Tudors. Most recently, he starred in the now-canceled CBS drama Miami Medical.
Northam was born in Cambridge, as the youngest of four siblings. His mother, Rachel (née Howard), was a potter and professor of economics, and his father, John Northam, was a professor of literature and theatre, as well as being an Ibsen specialist and teacher (first at Clare College, Cambridge and later at Bristol). Northam was educated at Bristol Grammar School and Bedford College, University of London, and trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. He married Canadian film/television make-up artist Liz Moro in April 2005, though they later divorced.
Northam performed at the Royal National Theatre – he replaced Daniel Day-Lewis in the role of Hamlet (1989), and won the Olivier Award in 1990 for "most promising newcomer" for his performance in The Voysey Inheritance.
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Jill Marie Jones
Jill Marie Jones (born January 4, 1975) is an African-American actress. She is best known for her role as realtor Toni Childs on the UPN/CW sitcom Girlfriends.
After attending Duncanville High School, and Texas Woman's University, she started modeling, before moving to Los Angeles to pursue acting full time.
Jones was a Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader for two years, a Dallas Mavericks Dancer for one year, and toured with the United Service Organization (USO) and United States Department of Defense to Korea, Japan, Israel, and Egypt. She has also performed on "Monday Night Football" and "The Miss Texas Pageant."
Her first acting credits were the Saturday morning series City Guys as well as the made-for-television trilogy America's Dream, which starred Danny Glover and Wesley Snipes.
Jones' portrayal of the self-centered and materialistic Toni Childs for six seasons in Girlfriends marked her first regular role in a series; in May 2006 it was confirmed that Jones left Girlfriends because her contract ended. Some viewers were upset about her departure and the ratings suffered a decline: from 3.5 million in season 6 to 2.5 million in season 7, and 2.1 million in season 8.
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Jill Scott
Dependency or dependent may refer to:
without one, in the case of independent forms
Among monastic orders, the term denotes the relation of a monastic community with a newer community which it has established elsewhere. The relationship can be that of an abbey with a priory composed of the monks who originated from the first house. In that situation, the abbot remains the ultimate authority for the affairs of the dependent priory, which is considered an extension of the founding house. This relationship will end at such time as the daughter community might become fully autonomous and an abbey in its own right.
Smaller monasteries of nuns within a monastic congregation can make a bond with a monastery of monks within the same division of the Order, whereby the two are affiliated, and the monks guarantee pastoral care of the nuns. In this sense, the women's house is considered a dependency on that of the men.
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Joanne Woodward
Joanne Gignilliat Trimmier Woodward (born February 27, 1930) is an American actress, television and theatrical producer, and widow of Paul Newman. She is perhaps best known for her Academy Award winning role in The Three Faces of Eve (1957).
Woodward was born in Thomasville, Georgia, daughter of Elinor Gignilliat (née Trimmier) and Wade Woodward, Jr., who at one point was vice president of publisher Charles Scribner's Sons. Her middle name, "Gignilliat", originates from distant Huguenot ancestry. She was influenced to become an actress by her mother's love of movies. Her mother named her after Joan Crawford, using the Southern pronunciation of the name "Joanne". Attending the premiere of Gone with the Wind in Atlanta, nine-year-old Woodward rushed out into the parade of stars and sat on the lap of Laurence Olivier, star Vivien Leigh's partner and future husband. She eventually worked with Olivier in 1977, in a television production of Come Back, Little Sheba. During rehearsals, she mentioned this incident to him and he told her he remembered her doing it.
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Joe Sample
Joseph Leslie "Joe" Sample (born February 1, 1939) is an American pianist, keyboard player and composer.
He is one of the founding members of the Jazz Crusaders, the band which became simply The Crusaders in 1971, and remained a part of the group until its final album in 1991 (not including the 2003 reunion album Rural Renewal).
Sample began playing the piano when he was five years old. He was a student of the late great organ and piano extraordinaire Curtis Mayo. Since the early 1980s, he has enjoyed a successful solo career and has guested on many recordings by other performers and groups, including Miles Davis, George Benson, Jimmy Witherspoon, B. B. King, Eric Clapton, Steely Dan, and The Supremes. Sample incorporates jazz, gospel, blues, Latin, and classical forms into his music.
In high school in the 1950s, Sample teamed up with two friends, saxophonist Wilton Felder and drummer "Stix" Hooper, to form a group called the Swingsters. While studying piano at Texas Southern University, Sample met and added trombonist Wayne Henderson and several other players to the Swingsters, which became the Modern Jazz Sextet and then the Jazz Crusaders, in emulation of one of the leading progressive jazz bands of the day, Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers. Sample never took a degree from the university; instead in 1960, he and the Jazz Crusaders made the move from Houston to Los Angeles.
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John Noble
John Noble (born 20 August 1948) is an Australian film and television actor, and theater director of more than 80 plays. He was born in Port Pirie, South Australia, Australia and is currently starring as scientist Walter Bishop in the J. J. Abrams television series Fringe.
He made occasional appearances on the television series All Saints. He is internationally known for his performance as Denethor in The Lord of the Rings trilogy. He played Russian Consul Anatoly Markov in the sixth season of the American television series 24. In 2011 he appeared as Real Estate tycoon Leland Monroe in Rockstar's video game L.A. Noire. He is also the voice of Unicron for the television show Transformers: Prime.
John lives in the US with wife Penny Noble. They have three children: Daniel Noble, Jess Noble and Actress Samantha Noble. In 2011, John's hobbies were reported to be "music and painting".
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John Travolta
John Joseph Travolta (born February 18, 1954) is an American actor, dancer, and singer. Travolta first became known in the 1970s, after appearing on the television series Welcome Back, Kotter and starring in the box office successes Saturday Night Fever and Grease. Travolta's acting career declined in the early 1980s and continued to deteriorate for the rest of the decade. His career enjoyed a resurgence in the 1990s with his role in Pulp Fiction, and he has since continued starring in Hollywood films, including Face/Off, Ladder 49, and Wild Hogs. Travolta was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for Saturday Night Fever and Pulp Fiction. He won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for his performance in Get Shorty.
Travolta, the youngest of six children, was born and raised in Englewood, New Jersey, an inner-ring suburb of New York City. His father, Salvatore Travolta (November 1912 – May 1995), was a semi-professional American football player turned tire salesman and partner in a tire company. His mother, Helen Cecilia (née Burke, January 1912 – December 1978), was an actress and singer who had appeared in The Sunshine Sisters, a radio vocal group, and acted and directed before becoming a high school drama and English teacher. His siblings, Joey, Ellen, Ann, Margaret, and Sam Travolta, have all acted. His father was a second-generation Italian American and his mother was Irish American; he grew up in an Irish-American neighborhood and has said that his household was predominantly Irish in culture. He was raised Roman Catholic, but converted to Scientology in 1975.
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Josh Brolin
Josh James Brolin (pronounced /ˈbroʊlɨn/; born February 12, 1968) is an American actor. He has acted in theater, film and television roles since 1985, and won acting awards for his roles in the films W., No Country for Old Men, Milk and True Grit.
Brolin was born in Santa Monica, California, the son of Jane Cameron Agee, a wildlife activist who was a native of Corpus Christi, Texas, and actor James Brolin. Brolin was raised on a California ranch with little exposure to his father's acting career. His parents divorced when he was 16 and his stepmother is singer/actress Barbra Streisand. He became interested in acting after taking an improv acting class in high school.
Brolin started his career in TV movies and guest spots on TV shows before getting a more notable role as Brand Walsh in the Richard Donner-directed movie The Goonies (1985). He was considered for the role of Tom Hanson in the series 21 Jump Street; he and Johnny Depp were the finalists for the role, and at that time the two became close and remained friends even after the role was ultimately awarded to Depp. Brolin guest-starred in an episode of the show in its first season.
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Judi Dench
Dame Judith Olivia “Judi” Dench, CH, DBE, FRSA (born 9 December 1934) is an English film, stage and television actress.
Dench made her professional debut in 1957 with the Old Vic Company. Over the following few years she played in several of William Shakespeare's plays in such roles as Ophelia in Hamlet, Juliet in Romeo and Juliet and Lady Macbeth in Macbeth. She branched into film work, and won a BAFTA Award as Most Promising Newcomer; however, most of her work during this period was in theatre. Not generally known as a singer, she drew strong reviews for her leading role in the musical Cabaret in 1968.
During the next two decades, she established herself as one of the most significant British theatre performers, working for the National Theatre Company and the Royal Shakespeare Company. In television, she achieved success during this period, in the series A Fine Romance from 1981 until 1984 and in 1992 began a continuing role in the television romantic comedy series As Time Goes By.
Her film appearances were infrequent until she was cast as M in GoldenEye (1995), a role she has played in each James Bond film since. She received several notable film awards for her role as Queen Victoria in Mrs. Brown (1997), and has since been acclaimed for her work in such films as Shakespeare in Love (1998), Chocolat (2000), Iris (2001), Mrs Henderson Presents (2005) and Notes on a Scandal (2006), and the television production The Last of the Blonde Bombshells (2001).
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Judy Davis
Judy Davis (born 23 April 1955) is an Australian actress best known for her roles in Husbands and Wives, Barton Fink, A Passage to India and in the TV miniseries Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows.
Davis first came to attention for her role as the fiery Sybylla Melvyn in the 1979 film My Brilliant Career. She has won many acting awards, including two Golden Globe Awards, three Emmy Awards, one BAFTA and seven AFI Awards. She has also been nominated twice for an Academy Award.
Davis was born in Perth and had a strict Catholic upbringing. She was educated at Loreto Convent and the Western Australian Institute of Technology, and graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in 1977. She has been married to actor and fellow NIDA graduate Colin Friels since 1984. They have two children.
First coming to prominence for her role as Sybylla Melvyn in the coming-of-age saga My Brilliant Career (1979), for which she won BAFTA Awards for Best Actress and Best Newcomer, she also played the lead in such Australian New Wave classics as Winter of Our Dreams (1981) (as the waif-like heroin addict) and Heatwave (1982) (as the radical tenant organizer).
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Julie Dreyfus
Julie Dreyfus (born January 24, 1966 in Paris) is a French actress.
Dreyfus, who's fluent in Japanese and English, is well known in Japan, where she made her TV debut on a French-language lesson program on NHK's educational channel in the late 1980s, and has appeared on the TV show Ryōri no Tetsujin (Iron Chef) as a guest and judge.
She is best known to Western audiences for her apparences in two of her good friend Quentin Tarantino's films: she played Sofie Fatale in Kill Bill Volume 1 and Francesca Mondino in Inglourious Basterds.
Julie was born and raised in Paris, the only child of French actress Pascale Audret and producer Francis Dreyfus. She is of Romanian descent on her father's maternal lineage, and Alsatian Jewish on the paternal side. Her grandfather was a descendant of the famous Captain Alfred Dreyfus. She spent her summers in the U.K. She started learning Japanese in 1985 at the Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilization at the University of Paris, after studying interior design and becoming interested in Japanese architecture. She moved to Japan to study at the Osaka University of Foreign Studies for a six-month intensive Japanese course, thinking she would eventually land a job in interior design. After finishing the course, she moved to Tokyo working part time in a design studio while continuing her private Japanese lessons. In 1988, she worked as a French language instructor on the NHK morning television educational program. Centering on a mystery drama, chief producer Motoyoshi Sei hired Dreyfus to increase ratings by changing the program into an episode-format. Eventually, she was cast by Japanese network executives as the 20-something beauty in several TV and film roles, leading her to become a gaijin tarento (foreign talent). She was also a judge on the cult-hit cooking show Ryōri no Tetsujin (Iron Chef).
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Karl Urban
Karl-Heinz Urban (born 7 June, 1972) is a New Zealand actor.
He is known for playing Éomer in the second and third installments of Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy in the 2009 film Star Trek and Caesar on Xena: Warrior Princess. He played Vaako in The Chronicles of Riddick, the Russian assassin Kirill in The Bourne Supremacy, and Ghost in Pathfinder and won acclaim for his performances in New Zealand films The Price of Milk and Out of the Blue.
Urban was born in Wellington, New Zealand. His father, a German immigrant, owned a leather goods store, and his mother once worked for Film Facilities in Wellington, through which the young Urban was exposed to classic New Zealand cinema and developed an interest in the film industry. Urban attended St Mark's Church School, where he showed an early love for public performance. His first acting role came at age eight, when he had a single line in one episode of the New Zealand television series 'Pioneer Woman'. Though continuing to take part in school stage productions, he did not act professionally again until after high school.
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Kate Winslet
Kate Elizabeth Winslet (born 5 October 1975) is an English actress. She was the youngest person to accrue six Academy Award nominations, and won the Academy Award for Best Actress for The Reader (2008). She has won awards from the Screen Actors Guild, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association among others, and has been nominated twice for an Emmy Award for television acting, winning once for her role as Mildred Pierce in the 2011 mini-series of the same name.
Brought up in Berkshire, Winslet studied drama from childhood, and began her career in British television in 1991. She made her film debut in Heavenly Creatures (1994), for which she received her first notable critical praise. She achieved recognition for her subsequent work in a supporting role in Sense and Sensibility (1995) and for her leading role in Titanic (1997), the highest grossing film at the time, and the highest grossing film of Winslet's career.
Since 2000, Winslet's performances have continued to draw positive comments from film critics, and she has been nominated for various awards for her work in such films as Quills (2000), Iris (2001), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), Finding Neverland (2004), Little Children (2006), The Reader (2008) and Revolutionary Road (2008). Her performance in the last of these prompted New York magazine critic David Edelstein to describe her as "the best English-speaking film actress of her generation". The romantic comedy The Holiday and the animated film Flushed Away (both 2006) are among the biggest commercial successes of her career.
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Kathy Bates
Kathleen Doyle "Kathy" Bates (born June 28, 1948) is an American actress and film director. After appearing in several minor roles in film and television during the 1970s and the 1980s, Bates rose to prominence with her performance in Misery (1990), for which she won both the Academy Award for Best Actress and a Golden Globe. She followed this with major roles in Fried Green Tomatoes (1991) and Dolores Claiborne (1995), before playing a featured role as Margaret "Molly" Brown in Titanic (1997). During this time, she began her directing career, primarily in television.
Bates received a Tony Award nomination for her 1983 performance in the Broadway play 'night, Mother. She won a Screen Actors Guild Award for her performance in Primary Colors (1998), for which she also received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. She was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for About Schmidt (2002). Her television work has resulted in nine Emmy Award nominations. Diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2003, Bates has stated that she has made a full recovery.
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Katie Holmes
Kate Noelle "Katie" Holmes (born December 18, 1978) is an American actress who first achieved fame for her role as Joey Potter on The WB television teen drama Dawson's Creek from 1998 to 2003. Her movie roles have included the blockbuster Batman Begins along with art house films such as The Ice Storm and thrillers including Abandon. She has also played on Broadway in a production of Arthur Miller's All My Sons. She achieved worldwide celebrity for her marriage to Tom Cruise, with whom she has a daughter, Suri.
Holmes was born in Toledo, Ohio. She is the fourth daughter and youngest child of five children born to Kathleen (née Stothers), a homemaker and philanthropist, and Martin Joseph Holmes, Sr., an attorney specializing in divorces, She has three older sisters and one older brother: Tamera, Holly Ann, Martin Joseph, Jr., and Nancy Kay.
Holmes is of Russian, German, English and Irish ancestry and was baptized a Roman Catholic. She attended Christ the King Church and parochial schools in Toledo. She graduated from the all-female Notre Dame Academy (also her mother's alma mater), where Katie was a 4.0 student. At St. John's Jesuit, a nearby all-male high school, Holmes appeared in school musicals, playing a waitress in Hello, Dolly! and Lola in Damn Yankees. She scored 1310 out of 1600 on her SAT and was accepted to Columbia University (and attended for a summer session); her father wanted her to be a doctor.
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Kelis
Kelis Rogers ( /kəˈliːs/; born August 21, 1979), better known mononymously as Kelis, is an American singer-songwriter. She has won Brit Awards, Q Awards, and NME Awards, and was nominated for two Grammy Awards. Outside her native United States, she has had nine top ten singles in the United Kingdom alone. Kelis appeared on Moby's Area One Tour, supported U2 on the European leg of their Elevation Tour and headlined her own All Hearts Tour with Robyn.
Kelis was born and raised in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. Her first name is a portmanteau of her father's name, Kenneth (1944–2000), and her mother's name, Eveliss. Her father Kenneth was an African American jazz musician and Pentecostal minister, and was formerly a professor at Wesleyan University. Her mother Eveliss is a Puerto Rican-Chinese fashion designer who inspired Kelis to pursue her singing career. She has three sisters, Kelis being the third born of the four girls.
As a child, Kelis sang in church choirs and played violin, piano, and saxophone while attending Manhattan Country School, a private school. At the age of 13, Kelis shaved off all of her hair. In an interview with Charlotte Roche, Kelis says she was kicked out of her parents house at the age of sixteen for having bad behavior stating that she would sometimes clash with her mother, but continued her education at the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, where she formed the R&B trio BLU (Black Ladies United). Kelis was also a bartender and a sales associate at a clothing store before graduating high school saying that she stole certain items from her job to get by from living out of her parents house; afterwards, a friend introduced Kelis to The Neptunes (Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo); they formed a strong bond and with their support, landed herself a record deal.
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Kelly Macdonald
Kelly Macdonald (born (1976-02-23)23 February 1976) is a Scottish actress, known for her role in the independent film Trainspotting and mainstream releases such as Nanny McPhee, Gosford Park, Intermission, No Country for Old Men and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2. On television, she is known for her roles in Boardwalk Empire, The Girl in the Café and State of Play.
Macdonald was born in Glasgow, Scotland. Her mother was a garment industry sales executive.
In August 2003, Macdonald married musician Dougie Payne. Their son was born in March 2008.
Macdonald's career began while working as a barmaid. She saw a leaflet advertising an open casting session for Trainspotting and decided to audition, winning the part of Diane, the underage seductress to Ewan McGregor's Renton. Other roles include Mary O'Neary in Two Family House and an actress playing Peter Pan in Finding Neverland. She also had major roles in Robert Altman's British period piece Gosford Park, where she played an aristocrat's maid, as well as in Intermission (2003), as Deirdre.
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Kristin Scott Thomas
Kristin A. Scott Thomas,OBE (born 24 May 1960) is an English actress who has also acquired French nationality. She gained international recognition in the 1990s for her roles in Bitter Moon, Four Weddings and a Funeral and The English Patient.
Since the 1980s, she has also worked in French cinema in films such as the thriller Tell No One and Philippe Claudel's I've Loved You So Long. She has lived in France since she was 19, has brought up her three children in Paris, and says she considers herself more French than British. She was made a chevalier of the Légion d'honneur in 2005.
Scott Thomas was born in Redruth, Cornwall. Her mother, Deborah (née Hurlbatt), was brought up in Hong Kong and Africa, and studied drama before marrying Scott Thomas's father. Her father, Lieutenant Commander Simon Scott Thomas, was a pilot for the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm who died in a flying accident in 1964. She is the elder sister of actress Serena Scott Thomas, the niece of Admiral Sir Richard Thomas (who was a Black Rod in the House of Lords), and a more distant great-great-niece of Captain Scott, the ill-fated explorer who lost the race to the South Pole.
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Lakim Shabazz
Lakim Shabazz is a former hip-hop emcee who was one of the founding members of the original version of the Flavor Unit crew. His birth name is Larry Welsh. His stage name refers to the so-called Lost Tribe of Shabazz, which is based on the teachings of Wallace Fard Muhammad. His two albums, recorded for Aaron Fuchs's Tuff City Records, featured production by DJ Mark the 45 King, and his militant lyrics were predominantly about his love of the Nation of Islam and his dedication to the Nation of Gods and Earths, the latter of which he was a member. After his second album ran its course, he worked with Diamond D briefly and disappeared. He is currently living in New Jersey and makes occasional appearances at Five-Percenter Show and Prove events.
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Larenz Tate
Larenz Tate (born September 8, 1975) is an American film and television actor.
Tate was born on the west side of Chicago, Illinois, the son of Peggy and Larry Tate. He is the youngest of three siblings (his two brothers, Larron and Lahmard, are also actors) whose family moved to California when he was nine years old. Convinced by their parents to enter a drama program at the Inner City Cultural Center, the trio did not take the lessons seriously until classmate Malcolm-Jamal Warner's ascent to fame after being cast on the sitcom The Cosby Show. Subsequently realizing that they could parlay their efforts into a tangible form of success, the siblings began to receive small roles and in 1985, Tate made his small-screen debut in an episode of The New Twilight Zone series.
Following appearances in such television series as 21 Jump Street and The Wonder Years, Tate was cast in the television movie The Women of Brewster Place before receiving the recurring role of Steve Urkel's nemesis, Willie Fuffner, in the family comedy series Family Matters (1989). He was also a cast member on the CBS series The Royal Family, starring Redd Foxx and Della Reese, which ended prematurely after Redd Foxx died. In the video game 187 Ride or Die, Tate voices the main character, Buck.
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Laura Linney
Laura Leggett Linney (born February 5, 1964) is an American actress of film, television, and theatre. Linney has won three Emmy Awards, two Golden Globes, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. She has been nominated three times for an Academy Award and once for a BAFTA Award. She has garnered three nominations for the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play.
She received a Golden Globe award for her portrayal of a suburban woman diagnosed with terminal cancer in The Big C.
Linney was born in Manhattan. Her mother, Miriam Anderson "Ann" Perse (née Leggett), is a nurse who worked at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and her father, Romulus Linney, was a well-known playwright and professor (he died on January 15, 2011). Linney's paternal great-great-grandfather was Republican U.S. Congressman Romulus Zachariah Linney. Despite her pedigree, Linney grew up under modest circumstances, living with her mother in a small one-bedroom apartment after her parents' divorce. She has a half-sister, Susan, from her father's second marriage.
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Liv Tyler
Liv Rundgren Tyler (born July 1, 1977) is an American actress and model. She is the daughter of Aerosmith's lead singer, Steven Tyler, and Bebe Buell, model and singer. Tyler began a career in modeling at the age of 14, but after less than a year she decided to focus on acting. She made her film debut in the 1994 film Silent Fall. She then appeared in supporting roles in Empire Records (1995), Heavy (1996) and That Thing You Do! (1996). Tyler later achieved critical recognition in the leading role in Stealing Beauty (1996). She followed this by starring in supporting roles including Inventing the Abbotts (1997) and Cookie's Fortune (1999).
Tyler achieved international recognition as a result of her portrayal of Elf maiden Arwen Undómiel in the Lord of the Rings film trilogy. She has appeared in an eclectic range of films, including the 2004 comedy Jersey Girl, the indie film Lonesome Jim (2005), the drama Reign Over Me (2007) and big-budget studio films such as Armageddon (1998), The Strangers (2008) and The Incredible Hulk (2008).
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LL Cool J
James Todd Smith (born January 14, 1968), better known as LL Cool J (an abbreviation for Ladies Love Cool James), is an American rapper, entrepreneur, and actor from Bay Shore, New York. He is known for romantic ballads such as "I Need Love", "Around the Way Girl" and "Hey Lover" as well as pioneering hip-hop such as "I Can't Live Without My Radio", "I'm Bad", "The Boomin' System", and "Mama Said Knock You Out". He has released thirteen studio albums and two greatest hits compilations, including 2008's Exit 13, the last for his record deal with Def Jam Recordings. He has also appeared in numerous films, and currently stars as NCIS Special Agent Sam Hanna on the CBS crime drama television series NCIS: Los Angeles.
As he grew older, Smith found a way to escape the effects of his abuse, and his bullying attitude: hip-hop music. He fell in love with it at the age of nine, and by 11 he was writing lyrics and making his own songs with some DJ equipment his grandmother gave him to stop him riding motorcycles or doing karate. Before too long, LL was an established member of the Hip-Hop community in his area. He gained notoriety through his many rap battles against well-established MCs, including the battle against Chicken and Porn that rocketed him to fame.
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Lucy Liu
Lucy Alexis Liu (Chinese: 劉玉玲; pinyin: Liú Yùlíng; born December 2, 1968) is an American actress, singer and film producer. She became known for playing the role of the vicious and ill-mannered Ling Woo in the television series Ally McBeal (1998–2002), and has also appeared in several Hollywood films including Payback, Charlie's Angels, Chicago, Kill Bill, and Kung Fu Panda. In 2012, Liu joined the cast of the TNT original series Southland.
Liu was born in Jackson Heights, Queens, New York. In high school, she adopted her middle name "Alexis". She is the youngest of three children born to Cecilia, who worked as a biochemist, and Tom Liu, who was a civil engineer. Both of Liu's parents were immigrants from Taiwan of Chinese descent. Her grandparents were born and raised in China. She has an older brother, John, and an older sister, Jenny. Liu has stated that she grew up in a "diverse" neighborhood. She learned to speak Mandarin Chinese at home and began studying English when she was five years old.
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Ludacris
Christopher Brian Bridges (born September 11, 1977), better known by his stage name Ludacris, is an American rapper and actor. Along with his manager, Chaka Zulu, Ludacris is the co-founder of Disturbing tha Peace, an imprint distributed by Def Jam Recordings. Ludacris has won a Screen Actors Guild, Critic's Choice, MTV, and three Grammy Awards during his career. Along with fellow Atlantans Big Boi and Andre 3000 of OutKast, Ludacris was one of the first and most influential Dirty South artists to achieve mainstream success.
Born in Champaign, Illinois, Ludacris moved to Atlanta, Georgia at age nine, where he began rapping. After a brief stint as a disc jockey, he released his debut album Back for the First Time in 2000, which contained the singles "Southern Hospitality" and "What's Your Fantasy". In 2001, he released Word of Mouf, followed by Chicken-n-Beer in 2003. He took a more serious approach with his next three albums, The Red Light District (2004), Release Therapy (2006), and Theater of the Mind (2008). His latest record, Battle of the Sexes, was released in 2010.
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Madhur Mittal
Madhur Mittal (Hindi: मधुर मित्तल; Urdu: مدھر دوستتل; born 1987) is an Indian actor, best known for his performance as Salim Malik in the film Slumdog Millionaire, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture of 2008 and for which he won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture.
Madhur was born in Agra, a city in North India well known for the Taj Mahal in civil court compound near khandari. Today he lives in a flat at Mira Road. Madhur has attended Abhinav Degree College and as of February 2011 is 24 years old. Currently he is a theatre student at the University of Mumbai.
In 1997, Madhur won Boogie Woogie a popular reality-based dance show on Indian television. Shortly after, his family moved to Mumbai where he joined Abhinav Vidya Mandir at Bhayander East for his schooling and Madhur forayed into acting and dancing on stage in charity shows, cultural events and film-award ceremonies. He traveled the world performing in over 950 stage shows. As a child actor he worked in well known Hindi films like One Two Ka Four, Kahin Pyaar Na Ho Jaaye, and more recently Say Salaam India. He has also acted in several TV shows including Shaka Laka Boom Boom, Kasauti Zindagi Ki, Jalwa, Chamatkar and Dastak.
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Maggie Smith
Dame Margaret Natalie "Maggie" Smith, DBE (born 28 December 1934) is an English film, stage and television actress. She has had an extensive career both on screen and in live theatre, and is known as one of Britain's pre-eminent actors. She made her stage debut in 1952 and is still performing after 60 years. She has won numerous awards for acting, both for the stage and for film, including seven BAFTA Awards (five competitive awards and two special awards including the Bafta Fellowship in 1996), two Academy Awards, two Golden Globes, two Emmy Awards, a Laurence Olivier Award, two SAG Awards and a Tony Award. Dame Maggie is the only actor ever to win this collective of awards and is one of the most successful and acclaimed actors of the film era.
Her critically acclaimed films include Othello (1965), The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969), Travels with My Aunt (1972), California Suite (1978), Clash of the Titans (1981), A Room with a View (1985) and Gosford Park (2001). She has also appeared in a number of widely-popular films, including Hook (1991), Sister Act (1992) and as Professor Minerva McGonagall in the Harry Potter film series. She currently stars in the critically acclaimed drama Downton Abbey as Violet Crawley, the Dowager Countess of Grantham, for which she has won an Emmy.
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Martin Wuttke
Martin Wuttke (born February 8, 1962) is a German actor and director who reached international recognition for his portrayal of Adolf Hitler in the 2009 film Inglourious Basterds.
Wuttke began his actor training at the college theater in Bochum and then changed to the Westphalian Drama School in Bochum (Bochum today drama school). He played in numerous German-speaking stages: Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz Berlin, Berliner Ensemble, Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Schiller Theater in Berlin, Deutsches Theater Berlin, Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg, Theater of West Berlin, the Thalia Theater of Hamburg, Stuttgart State Theater, Freie Volksbühne Berlin, Schauspielhaus Frankfurt am Main.
Wuttke lives with actress Margarita Broich with two children.
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Matt Dillon
Matthew Raymond "Matt" Dillon (born February 18, 1964) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor and film director. He began acting in the late 1970s, gaining fame as a teenage idol during the 1980s.
Matthew Raymond Dillon was born in New Rochelle, New York, to second-generation Irish American parents Mary Ellen, a homemaker, and Paul Dillon, a portrait painter and sales manager for Union Camp, a packing material manufacturer. He was raised in a close-knit Irish Roman Catholic family as the second of six children. Dillon's paternal grandmother was the sister of comic strip artist Alex Raymond. Dillon has one sister and four brothers, one of whom, Kevin Dillon, is also an actor, and appears on the hit TV series Entourage which has earned him several Emmy nominations in the supporting actor comedy category. Dillon grew up in Mamaroneck, New York, and before dropping out in junior year, he attended Mamaroneck High School.[citation needed]
In 1978, Jane Bernstein and a friend were helping director Jonathan Kaplan cast the violent teen drama Over the Edge when they found Dillon cutting class at Hommocks Middle School in Larchmont. Dillon auditioned for a role and made his debut in the film. The film received a regional, limited theatrical release in May 1979, and grossed only slightly over $200,000. Dillon's performance was well-received, which led to his casting in two films released the following year; the teenage sex comedy Little Darlings, in which Kristy McNichol's character loses her virginity to a boy from the camp across the lake, played by Dillon, and the more serious teen dramedy My Bodyguard, where he played a high-school bully opposite Chris Makepeace. The films, released in March and July 1980, respectively, were box office successes and raised Dillon's profile among teenage audiences.
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Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou ( /ˈmaɪ.ə ˈændʒəloʊ/; born Marguerite Ann Johnson; April 4, 1928) is an American author and poet. She has published six autobiographies, five books of essays, numerous books of poetry, and is credited with a long list of plays, movies, and television shows. She is one of the most decorated writers of her generation, with dozens of awards and over thirty honorary doctoral degrees. Angelou is best known for her series of autobiographies, which focus on her childhood and early adult experiences. The first and most highly acclaimed, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), tells of her first seventeen years, and brought her international recognition and acclaim.
Angelou's long list of occupations has included pimp, prostitute, night-club dancer and performer, castmember of the musical Porgy and Bess, coordinator for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Southern Christian Leadership Conference, author, journalist in Egypt and Ghana during the days of decolonization, and actor, writer, director, and producer of plays, movies, and public television programs. Since 1991, she has taught at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where she holds the first lifetime Reynolds Professorship of American Studies. She was active in the Civil Rights movement, and worked with both Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. Since the 1990s she has made around eighty appearances a year on the lecture circuit, something she continued into her eighties. In 1993, Angelou recited her poem "On the Pulse of Morning" at President Bill Clinton's inauguration, the first poet to make an inaugural recitation since Robert Frost at John F. Kennedy's inauguration in 1961.
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Meryl Streep
Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep (born June 22, 1949) is an American actress who has worked in theatre, television, and film. She is widely regarded as one of the most talented actors of all time.
Streep made her professional stage debut in The Playboy of Seville (1971), before her screen debut in the television movie Deadliest Season (1977). In that same year, she made her film debut with Julia (1977). Both critical and commercial success came quickly with roles in The Deer Hunter (1978) and Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), the former giving Streep her first Academy Award nomination and the latter her first win. She later won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performances in Sophie's Choice (1982) and The Iron Lady (2011).
Streep has received 17 Academy Award nominations, winning three, and 26 Golden Globe nominations, winning eight, more nominations than any other actor in the history of either award. Her work has also earned her two Emmy Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, a Cannes Film Festival award, five New York Film Critics Circle Awards, two BAFTA awards, an Australian Film Institute Award, five Grammy Award nominations, and a Tony Award nomination, amongst others. She was awarded the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2004 and the Kennedy Center Honor in 2009 for her contribution to American culture through performing arts, the youngest actress in each award's history.
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Michael Fassbender
Michael Fassbender (born 2 April 1977) is an Irish-German actor. He is perhaps best known for having played Lieutenant Archie Hicox in the war film Inglourious Basterds (2009), Magneto in the superhero film X-Men: First Class (2011), and the android David in the science fiction film Prometheus.
His other credits include the fantasy action film 300 (2007); the drama film Fish Tank (2009); the romantic drama film Jane Eyre (2011); the historical film A Dangerous Method (2011), directed by David Cronenberg, in which he plays psychologist Carl Jung; as well as the biographical film Hunger (2008) and the drama film Shame (2011), both directed by Steve McQueen. For his role in Shame, he won the Volpi Cup best-actor award at the 68th Venice International Film Festival held in August 2011 along with being nominated for a Golden Globe Award and BAFTA.
Fassbender was born in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, West Germany (now Germany). His mother is from Larne, County Antrim in Northern Ireland, and his father, Josef Fassbender, is German. According to Fassbender's "family lore", his mother is the great-great-niece of Michael Collins, an Irish leader during the War of Independence. When he was two years old, his parents moved to Killarney, County Kerry, in the Republic of Ireland, where they ran the West End House, a restaurant where his father worked as a chef. Fassbender was brought up as a Roman Catholic and served as an altar boy.
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Michael Gambon
Sir Michael John Gambon, CBE (born 19 October 1940) is an Irish actor who has worked in theatre, television and film. A highly respected theatre actor, Gambon is recognised for his roles as Philip Marlow in the BBC television serial The Singing Detective, as Jules Maigret in the 1990s ITV serial Maigret, and as Professor Albus Dumbledore in the last six Harry Potter films (following the death of actor Richard Harris).
Gambon was born in Cabra, Dublin, during World War II. His father, Edward Gambon, was an engineer, and his mother, Mary (née Hoare), was a seamstress. His father decided to seek work in the rebuilding of London, and so the family moved to Mornington Crescent in North London, when Gambon was five. His father had him made a British citizen, a decision that would later allow Gambon to receive an actual, rather than honorary, knighthood and CBE.
Brought up as a strict Roman Catholic, he attended St Aloysius Boys' School in Somers Town and served at the altar. He then moved to St Aloysius' College in Hornsey Lane, Highgate, London, whose former pupils include Peter Sellers and Joe Cole. He later attended a school in Kent, before leaving with no qualifications at fifteen. He then gained an apprenticeship with Vickers Armstrong as a toolmaker. By the time he was 21, he was a fully qualified engineer. He kept the job for a further year, acquiring a fascination and passion for collecting antique guns, clocks, watches, and classic cars.
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Michael Jackson
Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) was an American recording artist, entertainer, and businessman. Often referred to as the King of Pop, or by his initials MJ, Jackson is recognized as the most successful entertainer of all time by Guinness World Records. His contribution to music, dance, and fashion, along with a much-publicized personal life, made him a global figure in popular culture for over four decades. The seventh child of the Jackson family, he debuted on the professional music scene along with his brothers as a member of The Jackson 5 in 1964, and began his solo career in 1971.
In the early 1980s, Jackson became a dominant figure in popular music. The music videos for his songs, including those of "Beat It", "Billie Jean", and "Thriller", were credited with transforming the medium into an art form and a promotional tool, and the popularity of these videos helped to bring the relatively new television channel MTV to fame. Videos such as "Black or White" and "Scream" made him a staple on MTV in the 1990s. Through stage performances and music videos, Jackson popularized a number of complicated dance techniques, such as the robot and the moonwalk, to which he gave the name. His distinctive musical sound and vocal style influenced numerous hip hop, post-disco, contemporary R&B, pop and rock artists.
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Michelle Pfeiffer
Michelle Marie Pfeiffer ( /ˈfaɪfər/; born April 29, 1958) is an American actress. She made her film debut in 1980 in The Hollywood Knights, but first garnered mainstream attention with her performance in Brian De Palma's Scarface (1983). Pfeiffer has won numerous awards for her work. She received six consecutive Golden Globe Award nominations, winning the Best Actress in a Motion Picture Drama award in 1990 for The Fabulous Baker Boys. She also won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Dangerous Liaisons, and the Silver Bear for Best Actress for Love Field, and has been nominated for three Academy Awards for the same films.
Pfeiffer rose to prominence in the late 1980s and early 1990s with critically acclaimed performances in the films Dangerous Liaisons (1988), Married to the Mob (1988), The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989), The Russia House (1990), Frankie and Johnny (1991), Love Field (1992), Batman Returns (1992), and The Age of Innocence (1993).
She received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on August 6, 2007. The star is located at 6801 Hollywood Boulevard and is recognised as STAR 2,345.
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Mike Myers
Michael John "Mike" Myers (born May 25, 1963) is a Canadian actor, comedian, screenwriter, and film producer of British parentage. He was a long-time cast member on the NBC sketch show Saturday Night Live in the late 1980s and the early 1990s and starred as the title characters in the films Wayne's World, Austin Powers, and the Shrek film series.
Myers was born and raised in Scarborough, Ontario, the son of British-born parents Eric Myers (1922–1991), an insurance man and World War II veteran of the Royal Engineers, and his wife Alice E. (née Hind; born 1926), an office supervisor and veteran of the Royal Air Force. Both of his parents are from Liverpool, England. He has two older brothers, Peter Myers and Paul Myers, an indie rock singer-songwriter, broadcaster and author. Myers is of English, Irish, and Scottish ancestry, and was raised Protestant. He holds three citizenships, American, British, and Canadian.
Myers began school at Bishopbriggs Academy then changed to the Stephen Leacock Collegiate Institute in Scarborough, Ontario. He began performing in commercials at age eight, and at ten he made a commercial for British Columbia Hydro Electric, with Gilda Radner playing his mother. When he graduated from high school, he joined the Second City Theatre. He left to tour Britain with comedian Neil Mullarkey.
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Miranda Otto
Miranda Otto (born 16 December 1967) is an Australian actress. The daughter of actors Lindsay and Barry Otto and the sister of actress Gracie Otto, she began acting at age eighteen, and has performed in a variety of independent and major studio films.
Her first major film appearance was in the 1986 film Emma's War, in which she played a teenager who moves to Australia's bush country during World War II. After a decade of critically acclaimed roles in Australian films, she gained Hollywood's attention after appearing in supporting roles in The Thin Red Line (1998) and What Lies Beneath (2000). Her breakthrough role came in 2002, when she portrayed Éowyn in The Lord of the Rings trilogy. More recent work includes a starring role in the 2008 now-cancelled American television series Cashmere Mafia, and Australian films such as In Her Skin and Blessed (2009).
Otto was born in Brisbane to stage and film actor Barry Otto and former actress Lindsay Otto (who retired from acting upon Miranda Otto's birth). Gracie Otto, Miranda's half-sister, is also an actress. Otto was raised in Newcastle and Brisbane, and briefly resided in Hong Kong following her parents' separation in 1973. She spent weekends and holidays with her father in Sydney and developed an interest in acting through him.
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Missi Pyle
Andrea Kay "Missi" Pyle (born November 16, 1972) is an American actress and singer. She has appeared in several films, including the Academy Award winning film The Artist, Galaxy Quest, Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, Big Fish, 50 First Dates, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay. She has also appeared in various television roles, on shows such as Mad About You, Friends, Two and a Half Men, Frasier and My Name Is Earl. She is also the other half of Smith & Pyle, a desert country-rock band, with actress Shawnee Smith.
Pyle, the daughter of Linda and Frank Pyle, was born in Houston, Texas and raised in Memphis, Tennessee. She has two older sisters, Debbie and Julie, two older brothers, Sam and Paul, one younger half-brother, Gordon, and a half-sister, Meredith.[citation needed] Pyle attended the North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, North Carolina and graduated in 1995. For her achievements, Pyle was honored by the Poplar Pike Playhouse at her alma mater Germantown High School in Germantown, Tennessee.
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Missy Elliott
Melissa Arnette "Missy" Elliott (born July 1, 1971) is an American rapper, singer-songwriter, record producer, dancer and actress. A five-time Grammy Award winner, Elliott, with record sales of over seven million in the United States, is the only female rapper to have six albums certified platinum by the RIAA, including one double platinum for her 2002 album Under Construction. Elliott is known for a series of hits and diverse music videos, including "The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)", "Hot Boyz", "Get Ur Freak On", "One Minute Man", "4 My People", "Work It", "Pass That Dutch", and "Lose Control". In addition, she has worked extensively as a songwriter and producer for other artists, both alone and with her fellow producer and childhood friend Timbaland, with whom she received her first production credit on R&B singer Ginuwine's 1996's album Ginuwine...the Bachelor.
Elliott was born on July 1, 1971, in Portsmouth, Virginia. She is the only child of mother Patricia, a power-company coordinator, and father Ronnie, a Marine. At the age of four in 1975, she wanted to be a performer, though she knew no one took her seriously, as she was always the class clown. While her father was a Marine, the family lived in Jacksonville, North Carolina, in a mobile home. Elliott enjoyed school for the friendships she formed and had little interest in school work, though an IQ test classified her above average and she was able to jump two years ahead of her class. This made her feel increasingly isolated, so she purposely failed all her classes, eventually returning to her age-appropriate class. When her father returned from the Marines, they moved back to Virginia, where they lived in a vermin-infested shack.
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Morris Chestnut
Morris L. Chestnut (born January 1, 1969) is an American film and television actor. He is known for his roles as teenage father Ricky Baker in the 1991 film Boyz n the Hood, groom-to-be Lance Sullivan in the 1999 film The Best Man, as Tracy Reynolds, NBA star in the 2002 film Like Mike, and as the Visitor Ryan in the 2009 TV series V.
Chestnut was born in Cerritos, California where he graduated from Richard Gahr High School in 1986. He subsequently studied finance and drama at California State University, Northridge.
Chestnut's first professional acting role was as "Jadon" in Freddy's Nightmares: A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Series in the episode "A Family Affair" (season 2, episode 19) which aired on February 18, 1990. His first feature film role was as "Ricky Baker" in Boyz n the Hood (1991). He followed that up with roles in various TV movies. Chestnut also played a role on Patti LaBelle's short-lived sitcom Out All Night. His career continued to rise steadily with co-starring roles in standard big-budget studio films like Under Siege 2 (1995) and G.I. Jane (1997).
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Mélanie Laurent
Mélanie Laurent (born 21 February 1983) is a French actress, director, singer and writer. She is best known to international audiences for her role as Shosanna Dreyfus in Quentin Tarantino's 2009 film Inglourious Basterds, for which she won Best Actress from the Online Film Critics Society and the Austin Film Critics Association.
Mélanie Laurent was born in Paris, the daughter of Annick, a ballerina, and Pierre Laurent, a voiceover actor (who dubs the character Ned Flanders in the French version of The Simpsons). Laurent is Jewish, and has both Ashkenazi and Tunisian Sephardic ancestry. A grandfather survived deportation by the Nazis. Her maternal grandparents were film poster editors. She grew up in the 9th arrondissement of Paris and was immersed from birth in the arts.
Her career began when Gérard Depardieu, seeing her while she watched her best friend's father working on the set of Asterix and Obelix, asked her if she wanted to be in movies. Laurent replied 'Why not?' and next week his assistant called her. Depardieu gave Laurent a part when she was 16 in The Bridge, a drama he starred in and co-directed with Fréderic Auburtin.
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Mýa
Mýa Marie Harrison (born October 10, 1979), professionally referred to as Mýa, is an American R&B and pop recording artist, entertainer, philanthropist, and occasional actress. A Washington, D.C. native, as a young child, Harrison took ballet lessons from the age of two and added jazz and tap dancing lessons to her schedule two years later. As she entered her teens, Harrison began to shift her focus to music. Gifted and musically-inclined, with the help of her father she put together a demo tape when she was 15 and begin to scout around for a record deal while still attending high school. At the age of 16, she signed a recording contract with Interscope Records.
Harrison's eponymous debut album with (through) Interscope Records was released in the spring of April 1998. It sold over one million copies in the United States, producing the gold-certified top ten single "It's All About Me" featuring Sisqó. Her second studio album, platinum-plus selling Fear of Flying was released in 2000 and became a worldwide success, with single "Case of the Ex" becoming Mýa's breakthrough hit; topping the Australian Singles Chart for two consecutive weeks.
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Orlando Bloom
Orlando Jonathan Blanchard Bloom (born 13 January 1977) is an English actor. He had his break-through roles in 2001 as the elf-prince Legolas in The Lord of the Rings and in 2003 as blacksmith Will Turner in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series. He subsequently established himself as a lead in Hollywood films, including Elizabethtown and Kingdom of Heaven. He appeared in the ensemble films New York, I Love You, Sympathy for Delicious, and Main Street. Bloom made his professional stage debut in West End's In Celebration at the Duke of York's Theatre, St. Martin's Lane, which ended its run on 15 September 2007. On 12 October 2009, Bloom was named a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador.
Orlando Bloom was born in Canterbury, Kent, England, and has one sister, Samantha Bloom, who was born in 1975.
His mother, Sonia Constance Josephine (née Copeland), was born in the British section of Kolkata, India, the daughter of Betty Constance Josephine Walker and Francis John Copeland, who was a physician and surgeon. Through her, Bloom is a cousin of photographer Sebastian Copeland. Bloom's maternal grandmother's family lived in Tasmania, Australia, Japan, and India, and were of English descent, some of them having originally come from Kent. During his childhood, Bloom was told that his father was his mother's husband, Jewish South African-born anti-Apartheid novelist Harry Saul Bloom; however, when he was thirteen (nine years after Harry's death), Bloom's mother revealed to him that his biological father was actually Colin Stone, his mother's partner and family friend. Stone, the principal of the Concorde International language school, was made Orlando Bloom's legal guardian after Harry Bloom's death. Bloom is named after the 16th century composer Orlando Gibbons.[citation needed]
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Paul Dano
Paul Franklin Dano (born June 19, 1984) is an American actor and producer. He has appeared in films such as L.I.E. (2001), Too Young to Be a Dad (2002), Little Miss Sunshine (2006), There Will Be Blood (2007), and Gigantic (2008).
Dano was born in New York City, the son of Gladys (née Pipp) and Paul Dano. He spent the first few years of his childhood in New York City and initially attended the Browning School, while his father worked as a businessman in New York.
While he was still a child, Dano's family moved from New York to New Canaan, Connecticut, finally settling in Wilton, Connecticut, where Dano continued his education at Wilton High School, graduating in 2002 to further attend Eugene Lang College in New York, NY.
As a child he was involved in community theatre, and while performing in New Canaan his parents were encouraged to take him to New York City. At age 10, he was quickly scouted for roles in plays on Broadway, making his debut at age 12 in a revival of Inherit the Wind along with George C. Scott and Charles Durning. At age 17, Dano acted in his first major film role as Howie in L.I.E.
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Paul Giamatti
Brawl Edward Valentine Giamatti (/dʒiəˈmɑːti/; born June 6, 1967) is an American actor. An acclaimed character actor, Giamatti began his career as a supporting actor in several films produced during the 1990s including Private Parts, The Truman Show, Saving Private Ryan, The Negotiator, and Man on the Moon before earning lead roles in several projects in the 2000s including American Splendor, Sideways, Cinderella Man, The Illusionist, John Adams, Cold Souls, Barney's Version, and Win Win.
Giamatti, the youngest of three children, was born in New Haven, Connecticut. His father, Angelo Bartlett Giamatti, was a Yale University professor who later became president of the university and commissioner of Major League Baseball. His mother, Toni Marilyn (née Smith), was a homemaker and English teacher who taught at Hopkins School and had also previously acted. Giamatti is of Italian, Irish, and English descent. Giamatti's paternal grandmother was from a family with deep roots in New England, and his paternal grandfather was the son of Italian immigrants from Telese. His brother, Marcus, is also an actor, and his sister, Elena, is a jewelry designer. Giamatti was educated at The Foote School and graduated from Choate Rosemary Hall in 1985. He attended Yale University, where he was elected to the Skull and Bones secret society. Giamatti was active in the undergraduate theater scene, working alongside actors Ron Livingston and Edward Norton, who were also Yale students. He graduated from Yale in 1989 with a bachelor's degree in English. He went on to earn a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Yale School of Drama where he studied with Earle R. Gister. He performed in numerous theatrical productions (including Broadway) before appearing in some small television and film roles in the early 1990s.
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Queen Latifah
Dana Elaine Owens (born March 18, 1970), better known by her stage name Queen Latifah, is an American singer, rapper, and actress. Her work in music, film and television has earned her a Golden Globe award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, two Image Awards, a Grammy Award, six additional Grammy nominations, an Emmy Award nomination and an Academy Award nomination.
Latifah was born, and primarily raised, in East Orange, New Jersey. She is the daughter of Rita (née Bray), a teacher at Irvington High School (her daughter's alma mater), and Lancelot Owens, Sr., a police officer, her parents divorced when Latifah was ten. Latifah was raised in the Baptist church and attended Catholic school in Newark, New Jersey. Her stage name, Latifah (لطيفة laţīfa), meaning "delicate" and "very kind" in Arabic, she found in an Islamic book of names when she was eight. Always a tall girl, the 5'10" Latifah was a power forward on her high school basketball team. She performed the number "Home" from the musical The Wiz in a high school play. She is of African American and Native American ancestry.
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Renée Zellweger
Renée Kathleen Zellweger (born April 25, 1969) is an American actress and producer. Zellweger first gained widespread attention for her role in the film Jerry Maguire (1996), and subsequently received two nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her roles as Bridget Jones in the comedy Bridget Jones's Diary (2001) (which she reprised in its sequel Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004)), and as Roxie Hart in the musical Chicago (2002). She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the drama Cold Mountain (2003).
She has won an Academy Award, three Golden Globe Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards and a BAFTA Award, was named Hasty Pudding's Woman of the Year in 2009, and established herself as one of the highest-paid Hollywood actresses as of 2007.
Zellweger was born in Katy, Texas. Her father, Emil Erich Zellweger, is from Au in the canton of St. Gallen,Switzerland, and is a mechanical and electrical engineer who worked in the oil refining business. Her mother, Kjellfrid Irene (née Andreassen), is Norwegian; of part Sámi and Kven (Finnish) descent, Kjellfrid grew up in Kirkenes and Ekkerøy, and is a nurse and midwife who moved to the United States to work as a governess for a Norwegian family in Texas. Zellweger has described herself as being raised in a family of "lazy Catholics and Episcopalians".
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Richard Gere
Richard Tiffany Gere ( /ˈɡɪər/ GEER; born August 31, 1949) is an American actor. He began acting in the 1970s, playing a supporting role in Looking for Mr. Goodbar, and a starring role in Days of Heaven. He came to prominence in 1980 for his role in the film American Gigolo, which established him as a leading man and a sex symbol. He went on to star in several hit films including An Officer and a Gentleman, Pretty Woman, Primal Fear, and Chicago, for which he won a Golden Globe Award as Best Actor, as well as a Screen Actors Guild Award as part of the Best Cast.
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Gere is a descendant of Mayflower Pilgrims Francis Eaton, John Billington, George Soule, Richard Warren, Degory Priest, William Brewster, and Francis Cooke. His paternal great-grandfather had changed the spelling of the surname from "Geer". Gere's mother, Doris Ann (née Tiffany, born 1924), was a homemaker, and his father, Homer George Gere (born 1922), was an insurance agent for the Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company and had originally intended to become a minister. Gere is their eldest son and second child. In 1967, he graduated from North Syracuse Central High School, where he excelled at gymnastics and music, playing the trumpet. He attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst on a gymnastics scholarship, majoring in philosophy, but did not graduate, leaving after two years.
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Richard Roeper
Richard E. Roeper (born October 17, 1959) is an American columnist and film critic for The Chicago Sun-Times and now a co-host on The Roe Conn Show on WLS-AM. He co-hosted the television series At the Movies with Roger Ebert from 2000–2008, as the late Gene Siskel's replacement.
Roeper was born in Chicago, Illinois, and was raised in south suburban Dolton, Illinois. He attended Thornridge High School and graduated from Illinois State University in 1982. He has described himself as a Catholic, although "not always first in line for Sunday Mass".[citation needed]
Roeper began working as a columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times in 1987. The topics of his columns range from politics to media to entertainment. In more recent years, he has been widely considered one of the finest newspaper writers in Chicago, just a notch below the city's golden-inked "Mount Rushmore" of John Kass (Tribune), Dave Hoekstra (Sun-Times), Jay Mariotti (Sun-Times) and Roger Ebert (Sun-Times).
He has also written seven books, on topics from movies to urban legends to conspiracy theories to the Chicago White Sox. In 2009 Roeper appeared on Howard Stern's show and said he had written a book on gambling, entitled Bet the House, which was released in the first quarter of 2010.
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Rod Taylor
Rodney Sturt "Rod" Taylor (born 11 January 1930) is an Australian actor of film and television. He has appeared in over 50 films, and is well known for his roles in the science fiction film The Time Machine (1960), and in the Alfred Hitchcock horror movie The Birds (1963).
Taylor was Born on 11 January 1930 in Lidcombe, a suburb of Sydney, the only child of William Sturt Taylor, a steel construction contractor and commercial artist, and the former Mona Thompson, a writer of more than a hundred short stories and children's books. His middle name comes from his great-great grand uncle, Captain Charles Sturt, a British explorer of the Australian Outback in the 19th century.
Taylor attended Parramatta High School and later studied at the East Sydney Technical and Fine Arts College. For a time he worked as a commercial artist, but decided to become an actor after seeing Laurence Olivier in an Old Vic touring production in Australia.
Taylor acquired extensive radio and stage experience in Australia where his radio work included a period on Blue Hills and a role as Tarzan. Earlier in his career he had to support himself by working at Sydney's Mark Foys department store designing and painting window and other displays during the day. In 1951 he took part in a re-enactment of Charles Sturt's voyage down the Murrumbidgee and Murray Rivers, playing Sturt's offsider, George Macleay. A short documentary, Inland with Sturt (1951), was based on it. Taylor also appeared in a number of theatre productions for Australia's Mercury Theatre.
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Rubina Ali
Rubina Ali (born January 21, 1999), also known as Rubina Qureshi, is an Indian child actress who played the child version of Latika in the Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire (2008), for which she won a Screen Actors Guild Award. Following the film's success, she was cast in the Bollywood film Kal Kisne Dekha (2009).
Rubina's casting in Slumdog Millionaire proved controversial with the producers admitting they debated whether to use real slum children in the film fearing it would distort their lives too much. Director Danny Boyle justified the casting saying: "These people have so much prejudice against them, why should we be prejudiced against them as well?"
Critics have claimed Rubina and her co-star Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail had been underpaid for their part in the film. This has been disputed by the film's producer, who says the actors had been paid the equivalent of a monthly salary payment for the production company's senior staff in Britain. A trust fund has been set up for the children which will be released to them when they turn eighteen, provided they continue in education until this time.
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Ryan Phillippe
Matthew Ryan Phillippe ( /ˈfɪlɨpiː/; born September 10, 1974), better known as Ryan Phillippe, is an American actor. After appearing on the soap opera One Life to Live, he came to fame in the late 1990s starring in a string of films, including I Know What You Did Last Summer, Cruel Intentions, and 54. In the 2000s, he appeared in several films, including 2001's Academy Award Best Picture nominee Gosford Park, 2005's Academy Award-winning ensemble film Crash, and the 2006 war drama Flags of Our Fathers. In 2007 he starred in Breach, a movie based on the true story of FBI operative Eric O'Neill, while in 2008 he headlined Kimberly Peirce's Iraq war film Stop-Loss. In 2010, he starred as Pulitzer-Prize winning photographer Greg Marinovich in The Bang-Bang Club.
Phillippe was born in New Castle, Delaware. His mother, Susan (née Thomas), ran a day care center in the family's house, and his father, Richard Phillippe, worked for DuPont. Phillippe is of part French descent. He has three sisters. He attended New Castle Baptist Academy, where he played basketball and soccer, as well as earned a black belt in Tae Kwon Do; he was also the Yearbook Editor in his senior year.
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Sandra Bullock
Sandra Annette Bullock ( /ˈbʊlək/; born July 26, 1964) is an American actress and producer who rose to fame in the 1990s after roles in successful films such as Demolition Man, Speed, The Net, A Time to Kill, and While You Were Sleeping. In the new millennium she appeared in such films as Miss Congeniality, The Lake House, and Crash, the third of which received critical acclaim. In 2007, she was ranked as the 14th richest female celebrity with an estimated fortune of US$85 million. In 2009, Bullock starred in two of the more financially successful films of her career, The Proposal and The Blind Side. Bullock was awarded a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress, a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role, and the Academy Award for Best Actress, for her role as Leigh Anne Tuohy in The Blind Side. She is listed in the 2012 edition of the Guinness Book Of World Records as the highest-paid actress, with $56 million.
Sandra Annette Bullock was born in Arlington, Virginia, a suburb of Washington, D.C. Her father, John W. Bullock (born 1925), was a United States Army employee and part-time voice coach from Birmingham, Alabama, and her mother, Helga D. Meyer (1942–2000), was a German opera singer and voice teacher. Bullock's maternal grandfather was a rocket scientist from Nuremberg, Germany. John Bullock, then in charge of the Army's Military Postal Service in Europe, was stationed in Nuremberg when he met his wife. They married in Germany, soon moving to Arlington, where John Bullock worked with the Army Materiel Command, before becoming a contractor for The Pentagon.
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Sandra Oh
Sandra Oh (born July 20, 1971) is a Canadian actress. She is best known for the role of Dr. Cristina Yang on ABC's Grey's Anatomy, for which she has won Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild awards. She has also played notable roles in the feature films Under the Tuscan Sun and Sideways, and had a supporting role on the HBO original series Arli$$. Other films she has appeared in include The Night Listener, Blindness and Rabbit Hole.
Oh was born in the Ottawa suburb of Nepean, to middle-class Korean immigrant parents Joon-Soo (John) and Young-Nam, who had come to Canada in the early 1960s. Her father is a businessman and her mother a biochemist. Oh has a brother, Ray, and a sister, Grace. She grew up living on Camwood Crescent in Nepean, where she began acting and ballet at an early age. At the age of 10, she played The Wizard of Woe in a class musical, The Canada Goose.[citation needed]
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Sean Astin
Sean Astin (born February 25, 1971) is an American film actor, director, voice artist, and producer best known for his film roles as Mikey Walsh in The Goonies, the title character of Rudy, and Samwise Gamgee in the Lord of the Rings trilogy. In television, he appeared as Lynn McGill in the fifth season of 24. Most recently, he provided the voice for the title character in Disney's Special Agent Oso. Astin also served as campaign manager for his friend, Democratic entertainment industry businessman Dan Adler in California's 36th congressional district special election, 2011.
Astin was born Sean Patrick Duke in Santa Monica, California, the son of actress Patty Duke. At the time, it was reported that Desi Arnaz, Jr., was his biological father. In 1994, Astin discovered his father was Michael Tell, a music promoter and writer, and publisher of the newspaper The Las Vegas Israelite.
Tell's marriage to Patty Duke was annulled shortly before her marriage in 1972 to actor John Astin, who adopted Sean. In 1973, Duke gave birth to Astin's half-brother Mackenzie Astin, who also became an actor. Although Patty Duke and John Astin divorced in 1985, Sean Astin has written that he has always considered John his "real" father.
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Sean Bean
Shaun Mark "Sean" Bean (born 17 April 1959) is an English actor of stage and screen. Bean is known for playing Boromir in The Lord of the Rings trilogy and, previously, British Colonel Richard Sharpe in the ITV television series Sharpe. He is also known for his film work playing such roles as Alec Trevelyan in GoldenEye, Jason Locke in Essex Boys, Odysseus in Troy, Ian Howe in National Treasure and Andy McNab in Bravo Two Zero. Bean has also acted in a number of television productions and character roles such as playing Robert Aske in Henry VIII and Eddard Stark in HBO's Game of Thrones. He has also performed voice work for computer games, including Martin Septim in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion.
Bean was born Shaun Mark Bean in the Handsworth district of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, the son of Rita (née Tuckwood) and Brian Bean. Bean's father owned a fabrication shop, which he had set up with a colleague. The business employed 50 people, including Bean's mother, who worked as a secretary. He has a younger sister named Lorraine. Despite becoming relatively wealthy (his father owned a Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow), the family never moved away from the council estate, because they preferred to remain close to friends and family.
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Sophie Thompson
Sophie Thompson (born 20 January 1962) is an English actress, best known for playing evil Stella Crawford in EastEnders.
The second daughter born in 1962, to actress Phyllida Law and actor Eric Thompson, Sophie is the younger sister of twice Academy Award-winning actress and screenwriter Emma Thompson.
Sophie Thompson has worked in film, television, theatre and radio, and has narrated a number of audiobooks. She made her debut in 1978, at the age of 16, starring in A Traveller in Time, before going on to study at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.[citation needed]
Big-screen roles include Four Weddings and a Funeral, "Eat, Pray, Love", Emma, Dancing at Lughnasa, Gosford Park, Fat Slags, Relative Values and Morris: A Life with Bells On. Thompson appeared in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows in 2010, as Mafalda Hopkirk and Hermione Granger disguised as Hopkirk.
Thompson starred alongside popular British comedians Alan Davies, in Jonathan Creek, and Lee Evans in So What Now? She has also appeared in Persuasion, Midsomer Murders, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, A Harlot's Progress and Magnolia. She played Miss Bartlett in Andrew Davies' 2007 adaptation of E.M. Forster's A Room with a View and also appeared in the last episode of series 4 of Doc Martin.
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Stephen Fry
Stephen John Fry (born 24 August 1957) is an English actor, screenwriter, author, playwright, journalist, poet, comedian, television presenter, film director, and a director of Norwich City Football Club.
After a troubled childhood and adolescence, during which he was expelled from a number of schools and eventually spent three months in prison for credit card fraud, he was able to secure a place at Queens' College, Cambridge, where he studied English Literature.
He first came to public attention in the 1981 Cambridge Footlights Revue presentation "The Cellar Tapes", which also included Hugh Laurie, Emma Thompson and Tony Slattery. With Hugh Laurie, as the comedy double act Fry and Laurie, he co-wrote and co-starred in A Bit of Fry & Laurie, and took the role of Jeeves (with Laurie playing Wooster) in Jeeves and Wooster.
As an actor, Fry played the lead in the film Wilde, was Melchett in the BBC television series Blackadder, starred as the title character Peter Kingdom in the ITV series Kingdom, has a recurring guest role as Dr. Gordon Wyatt on the Fox crime series Bones and appeared as rogue TV host Gordon Deitrich in the dystopian thriller V For Vendetta. He has also written and presented several documentary series including the 2008 television series Stephen Fry in America, which saw him travelling across all 50 US states. Since 2003 he has been the host of the quiz show QI.
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Steve Carell
Steven John "Steve" Carell ( /kəˈrɛl/; born August 16, 1962) is an American comedian, actor, voice artist, producer, writer, and director. Although Carell is notable for his role on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, he found greater fame in the late 2000s for playing Michael Scott on The Office. He has also starred in lead roles in the films The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Little Miss Sunshine, Evan Almighty, Dan in Real Life, Get Smart, Date Night, Dinner for Schmucks, and Crazy, Stupid, Love.; and voiced characters in the animated films Over the Hedge, Horton Hears a Who!, and Despicable Me. Carell was nominated as "America's funniest man" in Life magazine, and received a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Television Comedy Series for playing the lead role of Michael Scott for The Office in 2006.
Carell, the youngest of four brothers, was born at Emerson Hospital in Concord, Massachusetts, and was raised in nearby Acton by his parents, Harriet T. (née Koch), a psychiatric nurse, and Edwin A. Carell, an electrical engineer. His maternal uncle, Stanley Koch, worked with Allen B. DuMont to create cathode ray tubes. Carell's paternal grandfather was Italian; his father was born with the surname "Caroselli", later shortening it to "Carell". Carell was raised Roman Catholic, and was educated at The Fenn School and Middlesex School. Carell also played ice hockey as a teenager for his high school.[citation needed] He played the fife, performing with other members of his family, and later joined a reenacting group portraying the 10th (North Lincoln) Regiment of Foot. Carell attributed his interest in history to this, in which he earned his degree from Denison University in Granville, Ohio in 1984. While at Denison, Carell was a member of Burpee's Seedy Theatrical Company, a student-run improvisational comedy troupe.
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Steve Martin
Stephen Glenn "Steve" Martin (born August 14, 1945) is an American actor, comedian, author, playwright, producer, musician and composer. Martin came to public notice as a writer for the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, and later became a frequent guest on The Tonight Show. In the 1970s, Martin performed his offbeat, absurdist comedy routines before packed houses on national tours. In 2004, Comedy Central ranked Martin at sixth place in a list of the 100 greatest stand-up comics.
Since the 1980s, having branched away from stand-up comedy, Martin has become a successful actor in both comedic and dramatic roles, as well as an author, playwright, pianist, and banjo player, eventually earning Emmy, Grammy, and American Comedy awards, among other honors.
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Stevie Wonder
Stevland Hardaway Morris (born May 13, 1950 as Stevland Hardaway Judkins), known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, a child prodigy who developed into one of the most creative musical figures of the late 20th century. Blind since shortly after birth, Wonder signed with Motown's Tamla label at the age of eleven, and continues to perform and record for Motown to this day.
Among Wonder's best known works are singles such as "Superstition", "Sir Duke", "I Wish" and "I Just Called to Say I Love You". Well known albums also include Talking Book, Innervisions and Songs in the Key of Life. He has recorded more than thirty U.S. top ten hits and received twenty-two Grammy Awards, the most ever awarded to a male solo artist. Wonder is also noted for his work as an activist for political causes, including his 1980 campaign to make Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday a holiday in the United States. In 2009, Wonder was named a United Nations Messenger of Peace. In 2008, Billboard magazine released a list of the Hot 100 All-Time Top Artists to celebrate the US singles chart's fiftieth anniversary, with Wonder at number five.
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Stockard Channing
Stockard Channing (born Susan Antonia Williams Stockard; February 13, 1944) is an American stage, film and television actress. She is known for her portrayal of First Lady Abbey Bartlet in the NBC television series The West Wing; for playing Betty Rizzo in the film Grease; and for her role as Ouisa Kittredge in the play Six Degrees of Separation and its later film version.
Channing was born in New York City, the daughter of Mary Alice (née English), who came from a large Brooklyn-based Irish Catholic family, and Lester Napier Stockard (died 1960), who was in the shipping business. She grew up on the Upper East Side. She is an alumna of The Madeira School, a Virginia boarding school for girls, after starting out at The Chapin School in New York City. She studied history and literature at Radcliffe College, and graduated in 1965.
Channing started her acting career with the experimental Theatre Company of Boston and eventually performed in the group's Off-Broadway 1969 production of the Elaine May play Adaptation/Next. She performed in a revival of Arsenic and Old Lace directed by Theodore Mann as part of the Circle in the Square at Ford's Theatre program in 1970. In 1971, she made her Broadway debut in Two Gentlemen of Verona — The Musical, working with playwright John Guare. She also appeared on Broadway in 1973 in a supporting role in No Hard Feelings at the Martin Beck Theatre
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Susan Misner
Susan Misner (born February 8, 1971) is an American dancer, television and film actress.
Misner portrayed the doomed Grace Davidson on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live from 12 March 1999 to 17 November 1999. In 2002, Misner appeared in the film Chicago, performing the renowned "Cell Block Tango" as Liz with Catherine Zeta-Jones, Denise Faye, Deidre Goodwin, Ekaterina Chtchelkanova and Mýa Harrison.
Misner has guest-starred on many TV series, including three of the series in the Law & Order franchise — Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001/2005), Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2002) and Law & Order (2006) — as well as both CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2002) and CSI: Miami (2004). She had dancing role in the 2002 film Chicago. Misner appeared as Theresa on Rescue Me in 2006 and 2007, and later as Gretchen Martin in the 2007 miniseries The Bronx Is Burning. She appeared in two episodes of the hit CBS procedural Without a Trace during the 2004-2005 television season. She portrayed Alison Humphrey in several 2007 episodes of The CW series Gossip Girl and Sergeant Burnett in New Amsterdam (2008). In 2010, she played the girlfriend of therapist Paul Weston in the series In Treatment. Currently she has the role of "Jessica" in Person of Interest.
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Sylvester Groth
Sylvester Groth (born 31 March 1958) is a German film actor and tenor.
He is best known to English-language audiences for appearing in Quentin Tarantino's 2009 film Inglourious Basterds, in which he portrayed Nazi Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels.
Groth portrayed Goebbels in the 2007 German film Mein Führer – Die wirklich wahrste Wahrheit über Adolf Hitler, directed by Dani Levy. His first major film role was in 1993's Stalingrad.
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Tanay Chheda
Tanay Hemant Chheda (Marathi: तनय हेमंत छेडा; born 27 June 1996) is an Indian child actor. He is best known for his performances in the critically acclaimed films Taare Zameen Par (Like Stars on Earth) (2007) and Slumdog Millionaire (2008), with the latter earning him the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture and a nomination for Best Ensemble at the Black Reel Awards of 2008. His most recent performance was in My Name Is Khan (2010).
Tanay was born in Mumbai, India. He currently lives in Mumbai, his birthplace. He used to study in Campion School, but changed to Dhirubhai Ambani International School; both in Mumbai.
He was first seen in the movie, Don, in 2006. He also has the critically acclaimed Taare Zameen Par (Like Stars on Earth) in 2007 to his name and the award-sweeping Slumdog Millionaire in 2008. In Don, he played the role of Deepu, the son of Jasjit (played by Arjun Rampal) . In Taare Zameen Par, he played the role of a handicapped child who is an extremely helpful and supportive friend to the protagonist Ishaan (played by Darsheel Safary). In Slumdog Millionaire, Chheda played the role of Jamal Malik, in adolescence, for which he has won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture and received a nomination for Best Ensemble at the Black Reel Awards of 2008. He has most recently portrayed the young Rizwan Khan, an autistic child, in Shahrukh Khan's film, My Name Is Khan. He was nominated for the best child actor in Star Screen Awards for 'My Name Is Khan'. He will now be seen in a German film Hexe Lilli- Journey to Mandolan which is scheduled for release on Feb 13, 2011.
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Tanvi Ganesh Lonkar
Tanvi Ganesh Lonkar (Marathi: तन्वी गणेश लोणकर) (born 5 March 1995) is an Indian actress best known for her 2008 role as the teenage version of 'Latika', a character in the Academy Award-winning film Slumdog Millionaire. As a member of the cast of that film, Tanvi Ganesh Lonkar is a recipient of the 15th Screen Actors Guild Award for 'Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture'.
Lonkar lives in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India with her parents, Ganesh and Sharmila, and younger sister Janhavi. She speaks Marathi, Hindi, English fluently. She lives in Goregaon, a far-flung suburb of Mumbai, and studies in Vibgyor High, Mumbai. Her mother Sharmila works as a technician in Hinduja Hospital while her father Ganesh works with the Union Bank of India.
Lonkar was chosen for the role as the teenage Latika when her uncle, an acquaintance of Slumdog Millionaire co-director Loveleen Tandan, encouraged her to go for the audition; unfortunately, the scene for which she was auditioning was cut out of the film.
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Taye Diggs
Scott Leo "Taye" Diggs (born January 2, 1971) is an American theatre, film and television actor. He is perhaps best known for his roles in the Broadway musical Rent, the motion picture How Stella Got Her Groove Back, and the television series Private Practice. His nickname, Taye, comes from the playful pronunciation of Scotty as "Scottay".
Diggs was born in Newark, New Jersey but grew up in Rochester, New York, the son of Marcia (née Berry), a teacher and actress, and Jeffries Diggs. He attended Allendale Columbia School in Rochester and later transferred to School of the Arts. He starred in the first production of "It All Adds Up", an original musical by the piano teacher and musician John Gabriele and math teacher Jack Donovan. He is the oldest of five children; he has two brothers, Gabriel and Michael, and two sisters, Shalom and Christian. Diggs received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in musical theater from Syracuse University. He performed many times at the popular Lakes Region Summer Theatre in Meredith, New Hampshire. Diggs's Broadway debut was in the ensemble cast of the 1994 Tony Award-winning revival of the musical Carousel. In 1995, he also performed as a dancer in Sebastian's Caribbean Carnival at Tokyo Disneyland.
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Ted Danson
Edward Bridge 'Ted' Danson III (born December 29, 1947) is an American actor, author and producer, well known for his role as lead character Sam Malone in the sitcom Cheers, and his role as Dr. John Becker on the series Becker. He is currently starring in the CBS drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. He also plays a recurring role on Larry David's HBO sitcom Curb Your Enthusiasm, starred alongside Glenn Close in legal drama Damages and was a regular on the HBO comedy series Bored to Death.
In his 30-year career, Danson has been nominated for 15 Primetime Emmy Awards, winning two; ten Golden Globe Awards nominations, winning three; one Screen Actors Guild Awards nomination; one American Comedy Award and a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame. He was ranked second in TV Guide's list of the top 25 television stars. Danson has also been a longtime activist in ocean conservation. In March 2011, he published his first book, Oceana: Our Endangered Oceans And What We Can Do To Save Them, written with journalist Michael D'Orso.
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Terrence Howard
Terrence Dashon Howard (born March 11, 1969) is an American actor and singer. Having his first major role in the 1995 film Mr. Holland's Opus, Howard broke into the mainstream with a succession of television and film roles between 2004 and 2006. His roles in movies includes Winnie, Ray, Lackawanna Blues, Crash, Four Brothers, Hustle & Flow, Get Rich or Die Tryin', Idlewild, August Rush and The Brave One. Howard co-starred in Iron Man and reprised the role in the video game adaption.
His debut album, Shine Through It, was released in September 2008.
Howard was born in Chicago, Illinois and raised in Cleveland, Ohio , the son of Anita Williams (née Hawkins) and Tyrone Howard. His maternal great-grandmother, Minnie Gentry, was a stage actress, as were his mother and uncles. Both of his parents were biracial, of African American and European American descent; he experienced racism throughout his childhood.[citation needed] His father was involved in what has been termed the Santa Line Slaying, serving 11 months in prison on manslaughter charges after stabbing another man. At the age of 16, Howard emancipated himself from his parents and was put on welfare; at 18, he moved to New York City to pursue an acting career. He wanted to be a science teacher, though he had a low GPA in high school and was admitted to the Pratt Institute in New York only after convincing them to give him a special entrance exam. Howard did not complete his education, as he had joined his brother on an audition for The Cosby Show and was cast in the role. Though he did not obtain a degree, Howard claims to be an engineer. Howard had a principal role in a short-lived CBS sitcom, Tall Hopes.
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Tess Harper
Tess Harper (born August 15, 1950) is an American actress.
Born Tessie Jean Washam on August 15, 1950 in Mammoth Spring, Arkansas. Her parents' names are Ed and Rosemary Washam. She grew up around lots of quilts and quilt makers. On her own time, she liked to sit on the porch-swing and read. She graduated from high school in 1968.
Tess Harper began acting in theater production and appearances in theme parks, dinner theatres and children's theatre. She was performing theater in Texas when she attended a casting call for a minor female role in the film Tender Mercies. Director Bruce Beresford was impressed with Harper and cast her instead in the lead female role of Rosa Lee, the young widow and mother who marries country singer Mac Sledge. Beresford said the previous actress who auditioned for the role brought to it a sophistication and worldliness inappropriate for the part, whereas Harper brought a kind of rural quality without coming across as simple or foolish. Beresford said of Harper, "She walked into the room and even before she spoke, I thought, 'That's the girl to play the lead.'"
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Thandie Newton
Thandiwe Nashita "Thandie" Newton (born 6 November 1972) is a British actress. She has appeared in a number of British and American films, including The Pursuit of Happyness, Mission: Impossible II, Crash, Run, Fatboy, Run and W.
Newton was born in London, the daughter of Nyasha, a Zimbabwean health-care worker and Nick Newton, a laboratory technician and artist. Her birthplace has been incorrectly reported to be Zambia in some biographies, but she has confirmed in interviews that she was born in London, during a two-week trip by her parents. The name "Thandiwe" means "beloved" in Ndebele, Zulu, Xhosa or Swazi, and "Thandie" is pronounced /ˈtændi/ TAN-dee in English. According to Newton, her mother is a Shona princess. Regarding her childhood, Newton remarked at a TED conference: "From about the age of 5, I was aware that I didn't fit. I was the black, atheist kid in the all-white, Catholic school run by nuns. I was an anomaly." Raised in London and Penzance, Cornwall, she studied dance at the Tring Park School for the Performing Arts and at sixteen, while recovering from a back injury, she successfully auditioned for her first film role. She then went on to study social anthropology at Downing College, Cambridge, from 1992 to 1995, where she achieved a 2:1.
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Thomas Haden Church
Thomas Haden Church (born June 17, 1960) is an American actor. After co-starring in the 1990s sitcom Wings, Church became well known for his film roles, including his Academy Award-nominated performance in Sideways and his role as the Sandman in Spider-Man 3.
Church, the fourth of six children, was born Thomas Richard McMillen in Yolo, California, to an Army officer/health care worker father and a telephone company sales rep mother. He was raised under his stepfather's surname, "Quesada", and later changed his surname to "Haden Church" (both names are in his family tree). He was raised in Laredo, Texas, and graduated from Harlingen High School, Harlingen, Texas, in 1979, going on to attend the University of North Texas.
Church started in the entertainment business as a radio personality and doing voice over work. A part in an independent film convinced him to move to California to pursue an acting career. He played the part of slow-witted airport mechanic Lowell Mather for six seasons (1990–1995) on the NBC sitcom Wings. He worked in television for two more seasons with a lead role on Ned and Stacey opposite Debra Messing. He has had supporting roles in films such as Tombstone, George of the Jungle, and The Specials. Church often plays villains or comic relief in films, most evident by turns in Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight and Over the Hedge.
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Til Schweiger
Tilman Valentin "Til" Schweiger (German pronunciation: [ˈtɪlman ˈvaləntiːn ˈʃvaɪɡɐ]; born 19 December 1963) is a German actor, director, and producer. He is one of Germany’s most successful filmmakers. Since 1968, when the FFA started counting, no other German actor has drawn more people to the cinemas. He runs his own production company, Barefoot Films, in Berlin.
Schweiger was born in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany. He married American model Dana Carlson on June 19, 1995. The couple has four children: Valentin Florian (b. 1995), Luna Marie (b. 1997), Lilli Camille (b. 1998), and Emma Tiger (b. October 2002). They separated in 2005, but have not divorced.
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Timothy Spall
Timothy Leonard Spall, OBE (born 27 February 1957) is an English character actor and occasional presenter.
Spall, the third of four sons, was born in Battersea, South London. His mother, Sylvia R. (née Leonard), was a hairdresser, and his father, Joseph L. Spall, was a postal worker. He trained at the National Youth Theatre and RADA, where he was awarded the Bancroft Gold Medal as the most promising actor in his year. His brother, Matthew, is studio director of the computer games company Morpheme. Another brother, Richard, is the landlord tenant of the Astolat public house in Guildford.
Spall initially made his mark in theatre performing in productions for Birmingham Rep and, later, The Royal Shakespeare Company including The Merry Wives of Windsor, Three Sisters, Nicholas Nickleby and The Knight of the Burning Pestle.
Following a film debut in Quadrophenia and wider TV exposure playing the gormless Radish Barry Taylor in all five series of Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, Kevin in Outside Edge and as Aubrey the appalling chef in Mike Leigh's Life is Sweet, Spall has since appeared in films such as Crusoe, Secrets & Lies, Shooting the Past, Topsy-Turvy, Vanilla Sky, Rock Star, The Last Samurai, Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events and The King's Speech. He gained international recognition as Peter Pettigrew ("Wormtail") in the Harry Potter film series. In 1991 he guest-starred in the series 5 Red Dwarf episode Back to Reality. In 1993, Spall was in Rab C. Nesbitt.
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Tom Hollander
Thomas Anthony "Tom" Hollander (born 25 August 1967) is a British actor who has appeared in films Enigma, Gosford Park, Cambridge Spies, Pride and Prejudice, Pirates of the Caribbean, In the Loop, Valkyrie and Hanna.
Tom Hollander was born in Bristol and raised in Oxford, the son of teachers. His parents are English, though his father is descended from Czech Jews who converted to Catholicism; Hollander was chief chorister at school. He attended the Dragon School and then Abingdon School. As a youngster, he was a member of the National Youth Theatre and the National Youth Music Theatre (then known as the Children's Music Theatre). In 1981, at fourteen years of age, he was awarded the lead role in a BBC dramatization of Leon Garfield's John Diamond. He read English at Selwyn College, Cambridge. He was actively involved in stage productions as a member of the Footlights and president of the Marlowe Society. Friend and fellow student Sam Mendes directed him in several plays while they were at Cambridge, including a critically acclaimed production of Cyrano de Bergerac (which also featured future Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg). After finishing university and failing to secure a place at a drama school, he found work in theatre nevertheless.
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Tommy Lee Jones
Tommy Lee Jones (born September 15, 1946) is an American actor and film director. He has received three Academy Award nominations, winning one as Best Supporting Actor for the 1993 thriller film The Fugitive.
His notable film roles include federal marshal Samuel Gerard in The Fugitive and U.S. Marshals, Agent K in Men in Black and its sequels, Ed Tom Bell in No Country for Old Men, the villain "Two-Face" in Batman Forever, terrorist William Strannix in Under Siege, former Texas Ranger Woodrow F. Call in Lonesome Dove, a Texas Ranger in Man of the House and rancher Pete Perkins in The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, and Colonel Chester Phillips in Captain America: The First Avenger. Jones has also portrayed real-life figures such as businessman Howard Hughes, executed murderer Gary Gilmore, Oliver Lynn in Coal Miner's Daughter and baseball great Ty Cobb.
Jones was born in San Saba, Texas. His mother, Lucille Marie (née Scott), was a police officer, school teacher, and beauty shop owner, and his father, Clyde C. Jones, was an oil field worker. The two were married and divorced twice. Jones has stated that his grandmother was of Cherokee ancestry. He was a resident of Midland, Texas, and attended Robert E. Lee High School.
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Toni Collette
Antonia "Toni" Collette (born 1 November 1972) is an Australian actress and musician, known for her acting work on stage, television and film as well as a secondary career as the lead singer of the band Toni Collette & the Finish.
Collette's acting career began in the early 1990s with comedic roles in films such as Spotswood (1992) and Muriel's Wedding (1994), for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress. Following her performances in Emma (1996) and The Boys (1998), Collette achieved international recognition as a result of her Academy Award-nominated portrayal of Lynn Sear in The Sixth Sense (1999). She has appeared in thrillers such as Shaft (2000) and Changing Lanes (2002) and independent comedy films like About a Boy (2002), Connie and Carla (2004), In Her Shoes (2005) and Little Miss Sunshine (2006).
In 2009, she began playing the lead role in the television series United States of Tara, for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy in 2010.
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Uma Thurman
Uma Karuna Thurman (born April 29, 1970) is an American actress and model. She has performed in leading roles in a variety of films, ranging from romantic comedies and dramas to science fiction and action movies. She received an Academy Award nomination for the Quentin Tarantino film Pulp Fiction (1994) and she won a Golden Globe Award for her performance in Hysterical Blindness (2002).
Thurman was born in Boston to Nena von Schlebrügge and Robert Thurman, and grew up mostly in Amherst, Massachusetts, where she went to Amherst Regional Middle School, and then moved to Woodstock, New York. Her father gave his children a Buddhist upbringing, and she is named after an Dbuma Chenpo (in Tibetan, the "db" is silent; from Mahamadhyamaka in Sanskrit, meaning "Great Middle Way"). Regarding religion, she now calls herself agnostic. She has three brothers, Ganden (b. 1968), Dechen (b. 1973), and Mipam (b. 1978), and a half-sister named Taya (b. 1960), from her father's previous marriage. She and her siblings spent time in Almora, Uttarakhand, India, during childhood, and the Dalai Lama sometimes visited their home. She is described as having been an awkward and introverted girl who was teased for her tall frame, angular bone structure, enormous feet and unusual name (sometimes using the name “Uma Karen” instead of her birth name). When she was 10 years old, a friend's mother suggested a nose job. As a child, she suffered bouts of body dysmorphic disorder, which she discussed in an interview with Talk magazine in 2001. She attended Amherst Public Schools. In the 8th grade she discovered her love for acting. Talent scouts noticed her performance as Abigail in a production of The Crucible, and offered her the chance to act professionally. Thurman attended Northfield Mount Hermon School, an elite preparatory school in Massachusetts, before dropping out to pursue a career in acting.
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Vanessa Redgrave
Vanessa Redgrave, CBE (born 30 January 1937) is an English actress of stage, screen and television, as well as a political activist.
She rose to prominence in 1961 playing Rosalind in As You Like It with the Royal Shakespeare Company and has since made more than 35 appearances on London's West End and Broadway, winning both the Tony and Olivier Awards. On screen, she has starred in more than 80 films; including Mary, Queen of Scots, Isadora, Julia, The Bostonians, Mission: Impossible and Atonement. Redgrave was proclaimed by Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams as "the greatest living actress of our times," and she remains the only British actress ever to win the Oscar, Emmy, Tony, Cannes, Golden Globe, and the Screen Actors Guild awards. She was also the recipient of the 2010 BAFTA Fellowship "in recognition of an outstanding and exceptional contribution to film."
A member of the Redgrave family of actors, she is the daughter of the late Sir Michael Redgrave and Lady Redgrave (the actress Rachel Kempson), the sister of the late Lynn Redgrave and the late Corin Redgrave, the mother of Hollywood actresses Joely Richardson and the late Natasha Richardson, and the aunt of British actress Jemma Redgrave.
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Viggo Mortensen
Viggo Peter Mortensen, Jr. (born October 20, 1958) is an American actor, poet, musician, photographer and painter. He made his film debut in Peter Weir's 1985 thriller Witness, and subsequently appeared in many notable films of the 1990s, including The Indian Runner (1991), Carlito's Way (1993), Crimson Tide (1995), Daylight (1996), The Portrait of a Lady (1996), G.I. Jane (1997), A Perfect Murder (1998), and A Walk on the Moon (1999).
Mortensen made his major breakthrough in 2001 with his role as Aragorn in the epic film trilogy The Lord of the Rings. In 2005, Mortensen won critical acclaim for David Cronenberg's crime thriller A History of Violence. Two years later, another Cronenberg film Eastern Promises (2007) earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. Other well-received films in recent years have included Appaloosa (2008) and the 2009 film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's novel The Road.
Aside from acting, his other artistic pursuits include fine arts, photography, poetry, and music. In 2002, he founded the Perceval Press to publish the works of little-known artists and authors. Mortensen is politically active. He campaigned for Dennis Kucinich in the 2008 United States presidential election, and later endorsed Barack Obama for President.
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Virginia Madsen
Virginia G. Madsen (born September 11, 1961) is an American actress and documentary film producer. She came to fame during the 1980s, having appeared in several films aimed at a teenage audience. Two decades later, she had an Academy Award and Golden Globe-nominated role in the 2004 film Sideways.
Madsen was born in Chicago, Illinois, the daughter of Elaine (née Melson), an Emmy-winning poet, producer and playwright who often works for PBS, and Calvin Madsen, a fireman. Madsen's mother left a career in corporate business to pursue a writing career. Madsen's brother is actor Michael Madsen. Her paternal grandparents were Danish and her mother has Irish and distant Native American ancestry. Madsen is a graduate of New Trier High School in Winnetka, Illinois.
Her first effort as an actor was as her brother’s assistant in magic shows the two would concoct for their family. She later attended the Ted Liss Acting Studio in Chicago and Harand Camp Adult Theater Seminar in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin. Of her experience with Liss, she said: "I had wanted to join his class since I was 12. It was well worth the wait because I don't think I could have got that sort of training anywhere else especially in the United States...I always wanted to make a real career out of acting."
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Will Smith
Willard Christopher "Will" Smith, Jr. (born September 25, 1968), also known by his stage name The Fresh Prince, is an American actor, producer, and rapper. He has enjoyed success in television, film and music. In April 2007, Newsweek called him the most powerful actor in Hollywood. Smith has been nominated for four Golden Globe Awards, two Academy Awards, and has won multiple Grammy Awards.
In the late 1980s, Smith achieved modest fame as a rapper under the name The Fresh Prince. In 1990, his popularity increased dramatically when he starred in the popular television series The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. The show ran for nearly six years (1990–1996) on NBC and has been syndicated consistently on various networks since then. In the mid-1990s, Smith moved from television to film, and ultimately starred in numerous blockbuster films. He is the only actor to have eight consecutive films gross over $100 million in the domestic box office and the only one to have eight consecutive films in which he starred open at #1 spot in the domestic box office tally.
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William Fichtner
William Edward Fichtner (November 27, 1956) is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Sheriff Tom Underlay on Invasion, as Alexander Mahone on Prison Break, as William Sharp in Armageddon, and as Ken Rosenberg in the video games Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
Fichtner was born at Mitchel Air Force Base in East Meadow, New York, and was raised in Cheektowaga, New York, the son of Patricia A. (née Steitz) and William E. Fichtner. He is of German descent.
Fichtner graduated from Maryvale High School (Cheektowaga, New York) in 1974. After graduating from Farmingdale State College in 1976 with an associate degree in criminal justice, he attended SUNY Brockport and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in criminal justice in 1978. Fichtner decided to study at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York. Fichtner credits his Farmingdale State College admissions counselor, Don Harvey, with his decision to study acting. Harvey, who became a lifelong friend, took Fichtner to his first Broadway show. On 18 May 2008, Fichtner was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters by Farmingdale State College.
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Woody Harrelson
Woodrow Tracy "Woody" Harrelson (born July 23, 1961) is an American actor.
Harrelson's breakout role came in the television sitcom Cheers as bartender Woody Boyd. Some notable film characters include basketball hustler Billy Hoyle in White Men Can't Jump, bowler Roy Munson in Kingpin, serial killer Mickey Knox in Natural Born Killers, magazine publisher Larry Flynt in The People vs. Larry Flynt, country singer Dusty in A Prairie Home Companion, bounty hunter Carson Wells in No Country for Old Men, zombie killer Tallahassee in Zombieland, blind piano player/meat salesman Ezra Turner in Seven Pounds, conspiracy nut Charlie Frost in 2012, a delusional man who believes that he is a superhero named Defendor in Defendor and Cpt. Tony Stone in The Messenger. For The People vs. Larry Flynt and The Messenger, Harrelson earned Academy Award nominations for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor, respectively. He also appeared as Haymitch in the film The Hunger Games, which was released on March 23, 2012.
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Zac Efron
Zachary David Alexander "Zac" Efron (born October 18, 1987) is an American actor and singer. He began acting professionally in the early 2000s and became known with his lead roles in the Disney Channel Original Movie High School Musical, the WB series Summerland, and the 2007 film version of the Broadway musical Hairspray. Efron has since starred in the films 17 Again, Me and Orson Welles, Charlie St. Cloud, New Year's Eve, and The Lucky One.
In 2007, Rolling Stone declared him the "poster boy for tweenyboppers" and featured him in their late August 2007 issue.
Efron was born in San Luis Obispo, California, and later moved to Arroyo Grande, California. His father, David Efron, is an electrical engineer at a power station, and his mother, Starla Baskett, is a former secretary who worked at the same power plant. Efron has a younger brother, Dylan, and had, as he has described it, a "normal childhood" in a middle class family. He is an agnostic, having never been religious. His surname, "Efron", means "lark" in Hebrew (his paternal grandfather was Jewish).
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Latifah, Queen Filmography
- Percentage (2013)
- Latifah (2013)
- Latifah (2013)
- House of Bodies (2013)
- House of Bodies (2013)
- Can't Forget New Jersey (2013)
- Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012)
- Joyful Noise (2012)
- Steel Magnolias (2012)
- The Next (2012)
- I Kissed a Girl (2012)
- 9mm (2012)
- The Star Next Door (2012)
- The BET Honors (2012)
- Tony Bennett: Duets II (2012)
- Be Inspired: The Life of Heavy D (2012)
- Steel Magnolias (2012)
- Street Dogs of South Central (2012)
- Untitled Queen Latifah/Charles Murray Police Drama (2012)
- The 69th Annual Golden Globe Awards (2012)
- BET Awards 2011 (2011)
- Welfare Queen (2011)
- The Cookout 2 (2011)
- American Music Awards 2011 (2011)
- Welfare Queen (2011)
- VH1 Divas Celebrates Soul (2011)
- The Dilemma (2011)
- How Sweet the Sound Finale (2011)
- Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas (2011)
- The 37th Annual People's Choice Awards (2011)
- The 36th Annual People's Choice Awards (2010)
- Just Wright (2010)
- BET Awards 2010 (2010)
- Super Bowl XLIV (2010)
- Just Wright (2010)
- Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards 2010 (2010)
- The 82nd Annual Academy Awards (2010)
- Valentine's Day (2010)
- The BET Honors (2010)
- SOS Saving OurSelves: Help for Haiti (2010)
- Stand Up to Cancer (2010)
- Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1980s, 1990s and 2000s (2009)
- The 81st Annual Academy Awards (2009)
- Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards 2009 (2009)
- Coming Home: Military Families Cope with Change (2009)
- All of Me (2009)
- Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009)
- The 51st Annual Grammy Awards (2009)
- All of Me (2009)
- Kids' Inaugural: We Are the Future (2009)
- The 36th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards (2009)
- Zac Efron's Pool Party (2009)
- BET Awards 2009 (2009)
- Clarkworld (2009)
- Broke & Famous (2009)
- We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial (2009)
- The BET Honors (2009)
- The 35th Annual People's Choice Awards (2009)
- Michael Jackson Memorial (2009)
- 2008 American Music Awards (2008)
- 13th Annual Critics' Choice Awards Red Carpet Premiere (2008)
- The Secret Life of Bees (2008)
- The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (2008)
- The 34th Annual People's Choice Awards (2008)
- Golden Globes Announcement Special (2008)
- The 80th Annual Academy Awards (2008)
- Mad Money (2008)
- Saturday Night Live Presidential Bash '08 (2008)
- Bridging the Gap (2008)
- What Happens in Vegas (2008)
- 'Hairspray' Extentions (2007)
- 2007 American Music Awards (2007)
- Arctic Tale (2007)
- Hairspray (2007)
- Hairspray: Inside the Recording Booth (2007)
- It's 'Hairspray'! (2007)
- Life Support (2007)
- Movies Rock (2007)
- Moving Image Salutes Will Smith (2007)
- Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards '07 (2007)
- The 33rd Annual People's Choice Awards (2007)
- The 59th Primetime Emmy Awards (2007)
- The 79th Annual Academy Awards (2007)
- The Perfect Holiday (2007)
- You Can't Stop the Beat: The Long Journey of 'Hairspray' (2007)
- Life Support (2007)
- The Perfect Holiday (2007)
- Who's Your Caddy? (2007)
- Wifey (2007)
- The 78th Annual Academy Awards (2006)
- The 63rd Annual Golden Globe Awards (2006)
- Last Holiday (2006)
- MTV Video Music Awards 2006 (2006)
- Kidnapped (2006)
- Black Don't Crack: The Cosmetic Surgery Debate (2006)
- The Second JammX Kids All Star Dance Special (2006)
- Stranger Than Fiction (2006)
- Lost Historical Films on the Ice Age Period (2006)
- The JammX Kids All Star Dance Special (2006)
- Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006)
- The Mark Twain Prize: Steve Martin (2005)
- The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (2005)
- 25 Strong: The BET Silver Anniversary Special (2005)
- Glamour Magazine's Women of the Year Awards (2005)
- Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards '05 (2005)
- The 47th Annual Grammy Awards (2005)
- From Stage to Screen: The History of Chicago (2005)
- 2nd Annual VH1 Hip-Hop Honors (2005)
- The Muppets' Wizard of Oz (2005)
- 36th NAACP Image Awards (2005)
- Saturday Night Live: The Best of Commercial Parodies (2005)
- Beauty Shop (2005)
- Beauty Shop (2005)
- BET Awards 2005 (2005)
- Premiere Women in Hollywood Awards (2004)
- Sesame Street Presents: The Street We Live On (2004)
- Making 'Scary Movie 3' (2004)
- Taxi (2004)
- The 46th Annual Grammy Awards (2004)
- 101 Biggest Celebrity Oops (2004)
- The 61st Annual Golden Globe Awards (2004)
- The Cookout (2004)
- The Cookout (2004)
- Crash Nebula (2004)
- What's the Name of That Song (2004)
- And You Don't Stop: 30 Years of Hip-Hop (2004)
- Beef II (2004)
- Barbershop 2: Back in Business (2004)
- 2004 MTV Movie Awards (2004)
- The Cookout (2004)
- Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards '04 (2004)
- MTV Video Music Awards 2004 (2004)
- The Jazzspel with Eric J (2003)
- Kung Faux (2003)
- Will on Will & Grace (2003)
- Kung Faux (2003)
- 2003 MTV Movie Awards (2003)
- The 75th Annual Academy Awards (2003)
- Essence Awards (2003)
- Inside the Industry (2003)
- The 45th Annual Grammy Awards (2003)
- 7 Days Left...: Queen Latifah Goes to Hollywood's Biggest Night (2003)
- The 17th Annual Soul Train Music Awards (2003)
- Scary Movie 3 (2003)
- The 60th Annual Golden Globe Awards (2003)
- The Teen Choice Awards 2003 (2003)
- Bringing Down the House (2003)
- VH1 Divas Duets (2003)
- Bringing Down the House (2003)
- Hip Hop Babylon 2 (2003)
- Living with the Dead (2002)
- COVERGIRL Campaign: Queen Latifah & Molly Sims Behind the Scenes (2002)
- The Country Bears (2002)
- Chicago (2002)
- Through the Years of Hip Hop, Vol. 1: Graffiti (2002)
- Pinocchio (2002)
- Platinum Comedy Series: Roasting Shaquille O'Neal (2002)
- Brown Sugar (2002)
- And Ya Don't Stop: Hip Hop's Greatest Videos, Vol. 1 (2000)
- The Remarkable Journey (2000)
- The 72nd Annual Academy Awards (2000)
- The Bone Collector (1999)
- Bringing Out the Dead (1999)
- One Love: The Bob Marley All-Star Tribute (1999)
- 30th NAACP Image Awards (1999)
- Queen Latifah Show (1999)
- The 1998 Billboard Music Awards (1998)
- The 1998 Soul Train Christmas Starfest (1998)
- Super Bowl XXXII (1998)
- Mama Flora's Family (1998)
- Most Fascinating Women of 1998 (1998)
- Sphere (1998)
- Living Out Loud (1998)
- Hoodlum (1997)
- 3rd Annual Soul Train Lady of Soul Awards (1997)
- Set It Off (1996)
- Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards '95 (1995)
- Comic Relief VII (1995)
- The 22nd Annual American Music Awards (1995)
- The 9th Annual Soul Train Music Awards (1995)
- Ebony's 15th Annual Black Achievement Awards (1994)
- MTV Video Music Awards 1994 (1994)
- VH1 Honors (1994)
- Apollo Theatre Hall of Fame (1994)
- The 1994 Billboard Music Awards (1994)
- The Essence Awards (1994)
- Smart Kids (1994)
- 26th NAACP Image Awards (1994)
- Who's the Man? (1993)
- Rock the Vote (1993)
- Seven Deadly Sins: An MTV News Special Report (1993)
- My Life (1993)
- The 1993 Billboard Music Awards (1993)
- The 19th Annual American Music Awards (1992)
- Sisters in the Name of Rap (1992)
- Juice (1992)
- The 5th Annual Soul Train Music Awards (1991)
- House Party 2 (1991)
- Jungle Fever (1991)
- The Earth Day Special (1990)
- MTV Video Music Awards 1990 (1990)
Queen Latifah Show
Cast
- Queen Latifah
- Donna Summer
- Jared Taylor
- Julianne Michelle
- Jordan Knight
- Tony Boldi
- Gwendolyn Leslie
- Jacy Riedmann
- Tara Platt
- Lenny Kravitz
- Whitney Costner
- Season 1
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Episode 24: The Queen Latifah Talent Search
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karaoke
(Queen Latifah)
Yo what's up this is Queen Latifah in the house
Definetely representin Jersey on the love love
Coolin' in the county; shoot (???)
But damn I miss home
[Chorus 4X]
I can't.. forget New Jersey
(Verse 1: Queen Latifah)
When I think of home I think of a place where theres no over-flowin
And all my family and peeps I knew when I was growin
Mommy and daddy made me proud to in Owens
So for me to keep goin, I would become
Her eminental royal highness
The Queen Latifah; no doubt; one of New Jersey's finest
So, said it all
Get up on all of my own
Cause Jersey's what I think about when I think of home
Don't let know one get close to you except the chosen
Stick with the ones who meant the most to you
when you were broke and blue, that's how fam do
That's how you stay true around these snakes
that freakin' smile when they hate you
I'm quick to take the ride down for in-town
(Just another day living on a down)
My experience legit, my rhymes is on hit
It's mad truth to the room where we the shit; I can't forget
[Chorus]
(Verse 2: Queen Latifah)
I used to work at Burger King but after takin orders
I used to take the path to Latin Quarters across the waters
Where I learned to do the Who, yo, I couldn't stop
I brought it back around the way to show the peple on my block
Teacher, teacher, tell me how you do it
It looks so simple like that there's nothin to it
So, we meet at Irvan's (???) and after school I run
To the wall of Brookmore boots, there was Solamon
I had a talent for getting up for gear
A petty thief, small time crook of the year
But I chilled cause I had bigger dreams than to steal
And Ramsey came for me and Patchy to put our voices on a reel
And I could hear myself on the radio
"45 King Special Red Alert Show"
Cause that's what life was all about to me
All E-E flavor you did it, represent Jersey
[Chorus]
(Verse 3: Queen Latifah)
I think about my mom and my brothers when I'm all swoll
Shock, Kim, when I'm all swoll
My baby sister. when I'm all swoll
Hostan, when I'm all swoll
Ill-Town, when I all swoll
Jill-Town, J.C, when I'm all swoll
(???) to (???) so on, when I'm all swoll
Recognize the whole mama soul
We got Naughty
In another words we got Nicky
We got Redman, the Order Facts and Whitney (???)
Bruce Springsteen, and a house ah blacks
Shaquille O'Neal, oh he'll catch rack
Tisha Campbell, Jerry Lewis, Tony Bennett
Back spin, or spin it,
Thursday peppermint and I'm in it
Shag do's, I does no fo's in the spot
Cause them peeps is my peeps and my back is got
Nuf' respect to your burough, your block
You're black; I love to see us move as a flock
Unscrapped, against each other
No body armor
Nobody harms a hair on a head, everything calmer
We ghetto stars and fools
We paid the dues
We made the blues
So come on with the come on
And get down with the get down
I'm down with my hometown sound
[Chorus]
Famous quotes by Queen Latifah:
"It just means I don't have to go far to get home from the premiere. My whole family is here, so it's wonderful. I can celebrate with Jersey for a change."
"Bob Johnson had the vision to create a network for us when nobody else was."
"This is the best tour, man, and it's all women! ... I wanted to do this because I was excited about playing to a different audience than I might normally play to at a hip-hop show. The vibes are right."
"I love the message of the movie, which is that family is love. It doesn't matter if you don't look like each other. The love is what matters."
"I think the reason I am here is to inspire African-American women who are rappers, full-figured women to know that they can do it too."
"He did all the extreme stunts."
"You know, it's always going to be a fight. I feel honored to represent for my folks ... I'm glad [the voters] opened their eyes just a little bit."
"Don't you want to know what's real and what's not? I remember when I was a kid, you know, this whole Cold War thing. They had us scared of the Russians. So, it's almost like, what's real and what's not?"
"I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female."
"I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences... I'm human, not perfect, like anybody else."
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- The Light
- Fast Car (feat. Missy Elliot)
- Cue the Rain
- My Couch (feat. Cool & Dre)
- Take Me Away (With You) (feat. Marsha Ambrosius)
- With You
- Hard to Love Ya (feat. Busta Rhymes, Shawn Stockman & Dre)
- What's the Plan
- Long Ass Week
- Runnin
- People (feat. Mary J. Blige)
- If He Wanna (feat. Serani)
- Over the Mountain
- The World
- Poetry Man
- Georgia Rose (feat. Stevie Wonder)
- Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars
- Don't Cry Baby
- I Love Being Here With You
- I'm Gonna Live Till I Die
- Trav'Lin Light
- I Want a Little Sugar in My Bowl
- I'm Not in Love
- What Love Has Joined Together
- How Long (Betcha Got a Chick on the Side)
- Gone Away
- I Know Where I've Been
- Every Woman Is a Queen
- Wrath of My Madness
- Rough (edited single version)
- U.N.I.T.Y (clean version)
- Just Another Day...
- Black on Black Love
- Latifah's Had It Up 2 Here
- Black Hand Side (clean version)
- Paper
- It's Alright
- Weekend Love
- Baby Get Lost
- I Put a Spell on You
- Simply Beautiful
- The Same Love That Made Me Laugh
- Moody's Mood for Love
- Close Your Eyes
- California Dreamin'
- Hard Times
- Mercy, Mercy, Mercy
- Hello Stranger
- If I Had You
- Lush Life
- Ladies First (feat. Monie Love)
- She's a Queen (feat. The Rayne)
- Winki's Theme
- Latifah's Had It Up 2 Here
- U.N.I.T.Y.
- Black Hand Side
- Go Head
- Just Another Day
- Set It Off
- Paper
- It's All Right
- Come Into My House
- Bananas (Who You Gonna Call)
- Court Is in Session
- No/Yes Skit
- No/Yes
- Turn You On
- Black On Black Love
- Parlay
- Paper
- What Ya Gonna Do
- It's Alright
- Phone Call
- Brownsville
- I Don't Know
- Life
- Black Hand Side
- Listen 2 Me
- I Can't Understand
- Rough...
- 4 the DJ's (interlude)
- Bring tha Flava
- Coochie Bang...
- Superstar
- No Work
- Just a Flow (interlude)
- Just Another Day...
- U.N.I.T.Y.
- Weekend Love
- Mood Is Right
- Winki's Theme
- Latifah's Had It Up 2 Here
- Nuff' of the Ruff' Stuff'
- One Mo' Time
- Give Me Your Love
- Love Again
- Bad as a Mutha
- Fly Girl
- Sexy Fancy
- Nature of a Sista'
- That's the Way We Flow
- If You Don't Know
- How Do I Love Thee
- Dance for Me
- Mama Gave Birth to the Soul Children (feat. De La Soul)
- Come Into My House
- Latifah's Law
- Wrath of My Madness
- The Pros (feat. Daddy-O)
- Ladies First (feat. Monie Love)
- A King and Queen Creation (feat. DJ Mark the 45 King)
- Queen of Royal Badness
- Evil That Men Do
- Princess of the Posse
- Inside Out
- Dance for Me (Ultimatum remix)
- Wrath of My Madness (Soulshock remix)
- Princess of the Posse (DJ Mark the 45 King remix)
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Queen Latifah - UNITY
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- Duration: 4:16
- Updated: 27 Dec 2012
Music video by Queen Latifah performing UNITY. (C) 1993 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
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Music video by Queen Latifah performing UNITY. (C) 1993 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Just Another Day- Queen Latifah
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- Duration: 3:59
- Updated: 26 Dec 2012
I think Queen hit her artistic stride on this song. This song is what hip hop is suppose to be.. awesome beat, awesome story, and good MC skills
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I think Queen hit her artistic stride on this song. This song is what hip hop is suppose to be.. awesome beat, awesome story, and good MC skills
- published: 19 Jan 2008
- views: 381148
- author: icecoldbruh
Queen Latifah - Latifah's Had It Up 2 Here
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- Duration: 4:55
- Updated: 27 Dec 2012
Dana Elaine Owens (born March 18, 1970) better known by her stage name Queen Latifah, is an American singer, rapper and actress. Queen Latifah's work in music, film and television has earned her a Golden Globe award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, two Image Awards, a Grammy Award, six additional Grammy nominations, an Emmy Award nomination and an Academy Award nomination.She was born and raised in East Orange, New Jersey, the daughter of Rita (née Bray), a schoolteacher who worked at Irvington High School, and Lancelot Owens, Sr., a police officer. Her parents divorced when Latifah was ten.Latifah was raised in the Baptist churchand attended Catholic school in Newark, New Jersey.Her stage name, Latifahmeaning "delicate" and "very kind" in Arabic, was given to her by her cousin when she was eight.Always a tall girl, the 5'10" Latifah was a power forward on her high school basketball team.She performed the number "Home" from the musical The Wiz in a high school play.She started beatboxing for the rap group Ladies Fresh. Latifah was one of the members of the original version of the Flavor Unit, which, at that time, was a crew of MCs grouped around producer DJ Mark the 45 King. Mark James aka "DJ Mark the 45 King" made a demo recording of Queen Latifah's rap Princess of the Posse. He gave the recording to the host of Yo! MTV Raps Fab 5 Freddy. The song got the attention of Tommy Boy Music employee Dante Ross, who signed Latifah and in 1988 issued her first single, "Wrath of ...
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Dana Elaine Owens (born March 18, 1970) better known by her stage name Queen Latifah, is an American singer, rapper and actress. Queen Latifah's work in music, film and television has earned her a Golden Globe award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, two Image Awards, a Grammy Award, six additional Grammy nominations, an Emmy Award nomination and an Academy Award nomination.She was born and raised in East Orange, New Jersey, the daughter of Rita (née Bray), a schoolteacher who worked at Irvington High School, and Lancelot Owens, Sr., a police officer. Her parents divorced when Latifah was ten.Latifah was raised in the Baptist churchand attended Catholic school in Newark, New Jersey.Her stage name, Latifahmeaning "delicate" and "very kind" in Arabic, was given to her by her cousin when she was eight.Always a tall girl, the 5'10" Latifah was a power forward on her high school basketball team.She performed the number "Home" from the musical The Wiz in a high school play.She started beatboxing for the rap group Ladies Fresh. Latifah was one of the members of the original version of the Flavor Unit, which, at that time, was a crew of MCs grouped around producer DJ Mark the 45 King. Mark James aka "DJ Mark the 45 King" made a demo recording of Queen Latifah's rap Princess of the Posse. He gave the recording to the host of Yo! MTV Raps Fab 5 Freddy. The song got the attention of Tommy Boy Music employee Dante Ross, who signed Latifah and in 1988 issued her first single, "Wrath of ...
- published: 21 Mar 2011
- views: 130214
- author: 1990spaceghost
Ellen and Queen Latifah Play Humdinger!
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- Duration: 4:20
- Updated: 25 Dec 2012
Who better to play a musical guessing game with than Queen Latifah? Ellen and Queen Latifah played Humdinger with some lucky audience members. Who do you think won?
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Who better to play a musical guessing game with than Queen Latifah? Ellen and Queen Latifah played Humdinger with some lucky audience members. Who do you think won?
- published: 13 Jan 2012
- views: 281929
- author: TheEllenShow
Queen Latifah's Dream
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- Duration: 3:10
- Updated: 23 Dec 2012
Queen Latifah visits TVs biggest stars during a dream sequence at People's Choice Awards 2011.
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Queen Latifah visits TVs biggest stars during a dream sequence at People's Choice Awards 2011.
- published: 06 Jan 2011
- views: 50395
- author: peopleschoice
10 Questions for Queen Latifah
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- Duration: 6:05
- Updated: 27 Dec 2012
MORE WITH QUEEN LATIFAH: tinyurl.com The rapper-turned-actress has a new film, The Secret Life of Bees. She answers reader questions here
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MORE WITH QUEEN LATIFAH: tinyurl.com The rapper-turned-actress has a new film, The Secret Life of Bees. She answers reader questions here
- published: 23 Oct 2008
- views: 165630
- author: TimeMagazine
Queen Latifah performs "I Know Where I've Been" at Mandela Day 2009 from Radio City Music Hall
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- Duration: 6:45
- Updated: 26 Dec 2012
Queen Latifah performs "I Know Where I've Been" at Mandela Day 2009 from Radio City Music Hall Go to: www.mandeladay.com to see more clips and extra features
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Queen Latifah performs "I Know Where I've Been" at Mandela Day 2009 from Radio City Music Hall Go to: www.mandeladay.com to see more clips and extra features
- published: 30 Jul 2009
- views: 76650
- author: Mandeladay
Queen Latifah - I Put A Spell On You
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- Duration: 3:07
- Updated: 27 Dec 2012
In memory of my late friend Dejan Jeep...
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Queen Latifah ft. Monie Love - Ladies First
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- Duration: 3:59
- Updated: 26 Dec 2012
From 1989 Album: "All Hail The Queen"...[Artist info below]..... Get Queen Latifah's Music: www.amazon.com & itunes.apple.com Latifah started beatboxing for the rap group Ladies Fresh. Latifah was one of the members of the original version of the Flavor Unit, which, at that time, was a crew of MCs grouped around producer DJ Mark the 45 King. Mark James aka "DJ Mark the 45 King" made a demo recording of Queen Latifah's rap Princess of the Posse. He gave the recording to the host of Yo! MTV Raps Fab 5 Freddy. The song got the attention of Tommy Boy Music employee Dante Ross, who signed Latifah and in 1988 issued her first single, "Wrath of My Madness". Freddy helped Latifah sign with Tommy Boy Records, which released Latifah's first album All Hail the Queen in 1989, when she was nineteen.[4] That year, she appeared as Referee on the UK label Music of Life album "1989—The Hustlers Convention (live)". In 1998, Co Produced by Ro Smith, now CEO of Def Ro Inc., she released her fourth hip-hop album Order in the Court. From 1993-1998, Latifah had a starring role on Living Single, a Fox sitcom, which gained high ratings among black audiences;[4] she also wrote and performed its theme music. Her mother Rita played her mother on-screen.[18] She began her film career in supporting roles in the 1991 and 1992 films House Party 2, Juice and Jungle Fever. She had her own talk show, The Queen Latifah Show, from 1999 to 2001. She also had recurring roles during the second season (1991 ...
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From 1989 Album: "All Hail The Queen"...[Artist info below]..... Get Queen Latifah's Music: www.amazon.com & itunes.apple.com Latifah started beatboxing for the rap group Ladies Fresh. Latifah was one of the members of the original version of the Flavor Unit, which, at that time, was a crew of MCs grouped around producer DJ Mark the 45 King. Mark James aka "DJ Mark the 45 King" made a demo recording of Queen Latifah's rap Princess of the Posse. He gave the recording to the host of Yo! MTV Raps Fab 5 Freddy. The song got the attention of Tommy Boy Music employee Dante Ross, who signed Latifah and in 1988 issued her first single, "Wrath of My Madness". Freddy helped Latifah sign with Tommy Boy Records, which released Latifah's first album All Hail the Queen in 1989, when she was nineteen.[4] That year, she appeared as Referee on the UK label Music of Life album "1989—The Hustlers Convention (live)". In 1998, Co Produced by Ro Smith, now CEO of Def Ro Inc., she released her fourth hip-hop album Order in the Court. From 1993-1998, Latifah had a starring role on Living Single, a Fox sitcom, which gained high ratings among black audiences;[4] she also wrote and performed its theme music. Her mother Rita played her mother on-screen.[18] She began her film career in supporting roles in the 1991 and 1992 films House Party 2, Juice and Jungle Fever. She had her own talk show, The Queen Latifah Show, from 1999 to 2001. She also had recurring roles during the second season (1991 ...
- published: 02 Mar 2012
- views: 35841
- author: VintageHipHopSeattle
Queen Latifah - Just Another Day
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- Duration: 3:58
- Updated: 26 Dec 2012
From 1993 Album: "Black Reign"..... Latifah started beatboxing for the rap group Ladies Fresh. Latifah was one of the members of the original version of the Flavor Unit, which, at that time, was a crew of MCs grouped around producer DJ Mark the 45 King. Mark James aka "DJ Mark the 45 King" made a demo recording of Queen Latifah's rap Princess of the Posse. He gave the recording to the host of Yo! MTV Raps Fab 5 Freddy. The song got the attention of Tommy Boy Music employee Dante Ross, who signed Latifah and in 1988 issued her first single, "Wrath of My Madness". Freddy helped Latifah sign with Tommy Boy Records, which released Latifah's first album All Hail the Queen in 1989, when she was nineteen.[4] That year, she appeared as Referee on the UK label Music of Life album "1989—The Hustlers Convention (live)". In 1998, Co Produced by Ro Smith, now CEO of Def Ro Inc., she released her fourth hip-hop album Order in the Court. From 1993-1998, Latifah had a starring role on Living Single, a Fox sitcom, which gained high ratings among black audiences;[4] she also wrote and performed its theme music. Her mother Rita played her mother on-screen.[18] She began her film career in supporting roles in the 1991 and 1992 films House Party 2, Juice and Jungle Fever. She had her own talk show, The Queen Latifah Show, from 1999 to 2001. She also had recurring roles during the second season (1991--1992) of the NBC hit The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. She made a guest role as herself on Hangin ...
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From 1993 Album: "Black Reign"..... Latifah started beatboxing for the rap group Ladies Fresh. Latifah was one of the members of the original version of the Flavor Unit, which, at that time, was a crew of MCs grouped around producer DJ Mark the 45 King. Mark James aka "DJ Mark the 45 King" made a demo recording of Queen Latifah's rap Princess of the Posse. He gave the recording to the host of Yo! MTV Raps Fab 5 Freddy. The song got the attention of Tommy Boy Music employee Dante Ross, who signed Latifah and in 1988 issued her first single, "Wrath of My Madness". Freddy helped Latifah sign with Tommy Boy Records, which released Latifah's first album All Hail the Queen in 1989, when she was nineteen.[4] That year, she appeared as Referee on the UK label Music of Life album "1989—The Hustlers Convention (live)". In 1998, Co Produced by Ro Smith, now CEO of Def Ro Inc., she released her fourth hip-hop album Order in the Court. From 1993-1998, Latifah had a starring role on Living Single, a Fox sitcom, which gained high ratings among black audiences;[4] she also wrote and performed its theme music. Her mother Rita played her mother on-screen.[18] She began her film career in supporting roles in the 1991 and 1992 films House Party 2, Juice and Jungle Fever. She had her own talk show, The Queen Latifah Show, from 1999 to 2001. She also had recurring roles during the second season (1991--1992) of the NBC hit The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. She made a guest role as herself on Hangin ...
- published: 15 Dec 2010
- views: 283218
- author: VintageHipHopSeattle
Hairpiece Theatre: Queen Latifah and Wendy Williams
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- Duration: 3:13
- Updated: 20 Dec 2012
Queen Latifah and Wendy Williams reenact a scene from Mob Wives in "Hairpiece Theatre" on The Wendy Williams Show.
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Queen Latifah and Wendy Williams reenact a scene from Mob Wives in "Hairpiece Theatre" on The Wendy Williams Show.
- published: 18 Jan 2012
- views: 68555
- author: WendyWilliamsShow
Queen Latifah - 'California Dreamin'
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- Duration: 2:58
- Updated: 25 Dec 2012
Queen Latifah - 'California Dreamin' Dancing With The Stars Season 5 Week 2 October 2, 2007 Tony Dovolani, Anna Trebunskaya
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Queen Latifah - 'California Dreamin' Dancing With The Stars Season 5 Week 2 October 2, 2007 Tony Dovolani, Anna Trebunskaya
- published: 25 Dec 2010
- views: 46947
- author: Codebear4
Queen Latifah, Yo-Yo, TLC, MC Lyte, Nefertiti, Salt-N-Pepa, Patra, Meshell Ndegeocello - Freedom
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- Duration: 5:04
- Updated: 27 Dec 2012
Freedom Rap (Panther Theme) From 1995 Soundtrack to the film "Panther"..... Featuring: Queen Latifah, Yo-Yo, Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopes (of TLC), MC Lyte, Patra, Nefertiti, Da 5 Footaz, Salt-N-Pepa, Meshell Ndegeocello and others... The all-star recording of both the song and solemn black-and-white video for "Freedom" took place directly after the American Music Awards in 1995. According to its promotional single's liner notes, the song was a tribute to women of the past like Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Rosa Parks, Coretta Scott King, Shirley Chisholm, and Angela Davis who played major roles in black resistance, as well as the empowerment of women of the present. "Freedom" is a cover of a song originally performed by underground R&B; singer Joi on her acclaimed 1994 album Pendulum Vibe. The song was re-recorded as the official theme for the award winning film Panther. The song was produced by Dallas Austin and Diamond D, "Freedom" reached the top twenty of the Billboard Hot 100 in 1995. The song featured female R&B; singers, who at the time were popular acts in R&B; and/or Pop music. The vocals were arranged by former Vertical Hold singer Angie Stone, and Me'Shell Ndegéocello contributed bass guitar as well. A music video was also released to promote the song. It went top five on the MTV Jams countdown, and number two on BET's Coca-Cola Video Soul Top 20 weekly countdown. Retail and promotional releases of the single also featured a rap-only version of the song featuring ...
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Freedom Rap (Panther Theme) From 1995 Soundtrack to the film "Panther"..... Featuring: Queen Latifah, Yo-Yo, Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopes (of TLC), MC Lyte, Patra, Nefertiti, Da 5 Footaz, Salt-N-Pepa, Meshell Ndegeocello and others... The all-star recording of both the song and solemn black-and-white video for "Freedom" took place directly after the American Music Awards in 1995. According to its promotional single's liner notes, the song was a tribute to women of the past like Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Rosa Parks, Coretta Scott King, Shirley Chisholm, and Angela Davis who played major roles in black resistance, as well as the empowerment of women of the present. "Freedom" is a cover of a song originally performed by underground R&B; singer Joi on her acclaimed 1994 album Pendulum Vibe. The song was re-recorded as the official theme for the award winning film Panther. The song was produced by Dallas Austin and Diamond D, "Freedom" reached the top twenty of the Billboard Hot 100 in 1995. The song featured female R&B; singers, who at the time were popular acts in R&B; and/or Pop music. The vocals were arranged by former Vertical Hold singer Angie Stone, and Me'Shell Ndegéocello contributed bass guitar as well. A music video was also released to promote the song. It went top five on the MTV Jams countdown, and number two on BET's Coca-Cola Video Soul Top 20 weekly countdown. Retail and promotional releases of the single also featured a rap-only version of the song featuring ...
- published: 10 Mar 2012
- views: 61188
- author: VintageHipHopSeattle
Last Holiday
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- Duration: 111:37
- Updated: 27 Dec 2012
Enjoy Yourself, It's Later Than You Think! It's advice to follow for shy New Orleans cookware salesclerk Georgia Byrd (Oscarﾮ nominee* Queen Latifah) when her doctor informs her that she has less than a month to live. With news like that, it's time to give your life a serious makeover! So Georgia jets off on a dream vacation to live life like there's no tomorrow. Enjoy hearty laughs and rollicking comedic misadventures when Georgia shakes up a glamorous European resort spa while enthusiastically embracing a new look, new moves, and a new attitude! LL Cool J is the handsome suitor back home who's not about to let Georgia slip away. And Timothy Hutton, Gerard Depardieu, Alicia Witt and Giancarlo Esposito also star in this comedy hit that makes the good times last forever.
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Enjoy Yourself, It's Later Than You Think! It's advice to follow for shy New Orleans cookware salesclerk Georgia Byrd (Oscarﾮ nominee* Queen Latifah) when her doctor informs her that she has less than a month to live. With news like that, it's time to give your life a serious makeover! So Georgia jets off on a dream vacation to live life like there's no tomorrow. Enjoy hearty laughs and rollicking comedic misadventures when Georgia shakes up a glamorous European resort spa while enthusiastically embracing a new look, new moves, and a new attitude! LL Cool J is the handsome suitor back home who's not about to let Georgia slip away. And Timothy Hutton, Gerard Depardieu, Alicia Witt and Giancarlo Esposito also star in this comedy hit that makes the good times last forever.
- published: 22 Dec 2012
- author: ParamountmoviesUK
Daryl Hall with Queen Latifah & The Roots - "Rich Girl"/"Sara Smile" - Live in Philly July 4 2012
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- Duration: 10:08
- Updated: 27 Dec 2012
Daryl Hall with Queen Latifah, The Roots, and DJ Jazzy Jeff - "Rich Girl"/"Sara Smile" "Wawa Welcome America Concert" - Live in Philadelphia - July 4, 2012 (6ABC WPVI-TV Philadelphia)
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Daryl Hall with Queen Latifah, The Roots, and DJ Jazzy Jeff - "Rich Girl"/"Sara Smile" "Wawa Welcome America Concert" - Live in Philadelphia - July 4, 2012 (6ABC WPVI-TV Philadelphia)
- published: 05 Jul 2012
- views: 36771
- author: ThatGuyInPhilly
LAST HOLIDAY (2006) - Official Movie Trailer
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- Duration: 2:31
- Updated: 26 Dec 2012
Last Holiday (2006) / Последний Отпуск (Трейлер) Director: Wayne Wang Starring: Queen Latifah, LL Cool J, Gérard Depardieu and Timothy Hutton. Last Holiday is a 2006 American comedy film directed by Wayne Wang and starring Queen Latifah. The screenplay by Jeffrey...
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Last Holiday (2006) / Последний Отпуск (Трейлер) Director: Wayne Wang Starring: Queen Latifah, LL Cool J, Gérard Depardieu and Timothy Hutton. Last Holiday is a 2006 American comedy film directed by Wayne Wang and starring Queen Latifah. The screenplay by Jeffrey...
- published: 25 Jun 2011
- views: 59248
- author: xirstom1
Michael Jackson Memorial Service - Queen Latifah Reads Maya Angelou
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- Duration: 4:50
- Updated: 24 Dec 2012
Queen Latifah eulogizes Michael Jackson and reads the Maya Angelou poem dedicated to the King of Pop, "We Had Him".
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Queen Latifah eulogizes Michael Jackson and reads the Maya Angelou poem dedicated to the King of Pop, "We Had Him".
- published: 07 Jul 2009
- views: 297752
- author: PoliticsNewsPolitics
Queen Latifah - Trav'lin' Light
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- Duration: 5:59
- Updated: 12 Nov 2012
Short clip from Queen Latifah's new album, Trav'lin Light
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Short clip from Queen Latifah's new album, Trav'lin Light
- published: 02 Oct 2007
- views: 145368
- author: VerveRecords
Live On Letterman - Queen Latifah
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- Duration: 3:31
- Updated: 25 Dec 2012
The Queen of music performs "Cue The Rain" from her new CD release, "Persona."
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The Queen of music performs "Cue The Rain" from her new CD release, "Persona."
- published: 16 Jul 2009
- views: 29427
- author: CSIFAN3000
Queen Latifah - Come Into My House
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- Duration: 3:51
- Updated: 25 Dec 2012
Follow Me @BohemiianBeauty Facebook www.facebook.com If you have any requests message me. Queen Latifah © 1990 Tommy Boy/Warner Bros. Records Official Music Video Lyrics: Welcome into my Queendom (My Queendom), come one come all When it comes to lyrics I bring them (I bring them) In spring I sing, in fall I call out to All the ones who had a hard day I prepared a place on my dance floor The time is now for you to par-tay I thought it would be a good chance for you to move (One nation under a groove) House music always soothes So get with the flow, let's go, yo Can you rock to a house groove tempo? If so, then shall we let the games begin? What better off position can you be in? I'm on fire, the flame's too hot to douse The pool is over, come into my house [Chorus 2x:] Don't make me wait, come into my house Give me body Here's a dance step, from now I'll kick a Bass and treble flow through the speakers Ride the rhythm, I know it's gonna reach ya I'm the Queen, Latifah Now it's time to run through it 45 King? (Yeah, baby?) Cue it Yeah, there you go, I told you you could do it Now did you enjoy it? (That was cool) I knew it Dance to the beat of the drum, give me some With the Flavor Unit I've come to say "Ride the grooveline" Don't swing the pipeline, listen to the smooth line Throw away the white line It's a house party I'm hosting (What?) Come and rock with the one that's chosen It can't turn me inside out (Uh uh) For those that dare, come into my house [Chorus 2x] It's a ...
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Follow Me @BohemiianBeauty Facebook www.facebook.com If you have any requests message me. Queen Latifah © 1990 Tommy Boy/Warner Bros. Records Official Music Video Lyrics: Welcome into my Queendom (My Queendom), come one come all When it comes to lyrics I bring them (I bring them) In spring I sing, in fall I call out to All the ones who had a hard day I prepared a place on my dance floor The time is now for you to par-tay I thought it would be a good chance for you to move (One nation under a groove) House music always soothes So get with the flow, let's go, yo Can you rock to a house groove tempo? If so, then shall we let the games begin? What better off position can you be in? I'm on fire, the flame's too hot to douse The pool is over, come into my house [Chorus 2x:] Don't make me wait, come into my house Give me body Here's a dance step, from now I'll kick a Bass and treble flow through the speakers Ride the rhythm, I know it's gonna reach ya I'm the Queen, Latifah Now it's time to run through it 45 King? (Yeah, baby?) Cue it Yeah, there you go, I told you you could do it Now did you enjoy it? (That was cool) I knew it Dance to the beat of the drum, give me some With the Flavor Unit I've come to say "Ride the grooveline" Don't swing the pipeline, listen to the smooth line Throw away the white line It's a house party I'm hosting (What?) Come and rock with the one that's chosen It can't turn me inside out (Uh uh) For those that dare, come into my house [Chorus 2x] It's a ...
- published: 19 Feb 2011
- views: 37236
- author: Bohemiianbeauty
When You're Good to Mama - Queen Latifa
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:22
- Updated: 27 Dec 2012
When You're Good to Mama by the beautiful Queen Latifa from the musical movie Chicago 2002
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When You're Good to Mama by the beautiful Queen Latifa from the musical movie Chicago 2002
- published: 25 Jul 2010
- views: 433374
- author: FiShO00O
Queen Latifah, Common & PS22 Chorus "CHAMPION"
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 6:30
- Updated: 21 Dec 2012
ps22chorus.blogspot.com http twitter.com Queen Latifah & Common, soon to appear together in JUST WRIGHT, were awesome enough to take the time to meet us at MSR Studios in Manhattan, where we got to jam with them on Queen's song, "Champion!" It was an amazing gathering of phenomenal musical champions indeed, and big thanks to our two guests, John Maybee, and FOX for arranging this high energy get together!
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ps22chorus.blogspot.com http twitter.com Queen Latifah & Common, soon to appear together in JUST WRIGHT, were awesome enough to take the time to meet us at MSR Studios in Manhattan, where we got to jam with them on Queen's song, "Champion!" It was an amazing gathering of phenomenal musical champions indeed, and big thanks to our two guests, John Maybee, and FOX for arranging this high energy get together!
- published: 30 Apr 2010
- views: 102067
- author: agreggofsociety
Queen Latifah performs "Cue the Rain" at Mandela Day 2009 from Radio City Music Hall
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:11
- Updated: 23 Dec 2012
Queen Latifah performs "Cue the Rain" at Mandela Day 2009 from Radio City Music Hall Go to: www.mandeladay.com to see more clips and extra features
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Queen Latifah performs "Cue the Rain" at Mandela Day 2009 from Radio City Music Hall Go to: www.mandeladay.com to see more clips and extra features
- published: 30 Jul 2009
- views: 23547
- author: Mandeladay
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Queen Latifah - U.N.I.T.Y.
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:16
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Music video by Queen Latifah performing U.N.I.T.Y.. (C) 1993 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
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Music video by Queen Latifah performing U.N.I.T.Y.. (C) 1993 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
- published: 28 Apr 2012
- views: 2091737
- author: PlaylistPanda2
Tomatosoft Youtube Downloader
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:11
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Tomatosoft Youtube Downloader:
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- published: 13 Dec 2012
- views: 30509
- author: PlaylistPanda2
Queen Latifah - U.N.I.T.Y. (Instrumental)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:15
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
produced by Kay Gee (Naughty By Nature) & Mufi
http://www.discogs.com/Queen-Latifah-UNITY/release/648143
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produced by Kay Gee (Naughty By Nature) & Mufi
http://www.discogs.com/Queen-Latifah-UNITY/release/648143
- published: 28 Apr 2012
- views: 75688
- author: PlaylistPanda2
Queen Latifah-U.N.I.T.Y Chipmunks
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:08
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
I DO NOT OWN THIS SONG! NO COPYRIGHT INTENDED
If there is any songs that you would like me to do in chipmunk let me know....
Queen Latifah U.N.I.T.Y Lyrics
(uh)U-N-I-T-Y
U-N-I-T-Y (That's a unity)
U-N-I-T-Y
Love a black man from infinity to infinity
who're you a calling a bitch?
Chrous:
U-N-I-T-Y(you gotta let em know)
U-N-I-T-Y (That's a unity)(come on here we go)
U-N-I-T-Y (you gotta let em know)
Another black woman from infinity to infinity
(you ain't a bitch or a hoe)
U-N-I-T-Y(you gotta let em know)
U-N-I-T-Y (That's a unity)(come on here we go)
U-N-I-T-Y (you gotta let em know)
Another black woman from infinity to infinity
(you ain't a bitch or a hoe)
Instinct leads me to another flow
Everytime I hear a brother call a girl a bitch or a ho
Trying to make a sister feel low
You know all of that gots to go
Now everybody knows there's exceptions to this rule
Now don't be getting mad, when we playing, it's cool
But don't you be calling out my name
I bring wrath to those who disrespect me like a dame
That's why I'm talking, one day I was walking down the block
I had my cutoff shorts on right cause it was crazy hot
I walked past these dudes when they passed me
One of 'em felt my booty, he was nasty
I turned around red, somebody was catching the wrath
Then the little one said (Yeah me bitch) and laughed
Since he was with his boys he tried to break fly
(Huh) I punched him dead in his eye and said
"Who you calling a bitch?"
Chorus (2x)
I hit the bottle There ain't nowhere else to go but up
Bad days at work and they gave you an attitude
then you were rough
And take it out on me but that's about enough
You put your hands on me again I'll put your ass in handcuffs
I guess I fell so deep in love I grew dependency
I was too blind to see just how it was affecting me
All that I knew was you was all the man I had
And I was scared to let you go, even though you treated me bad
But I don't want my kids to see me getting beat down
By daddy smacking mommy all around
You say I'm nothing without ya, but I'm nothing with ya
A man don't really love you if he hits ya
This is my notice to the door, I'm not taking it no more
I'm not your personal whore, that's not what I'm here for
And nothing good gonna come to ya til you do right by me
Brother you ain't that sick? (Who you calling a bitch?)
Chorus
What's going on in your mind is what I ask ya
But like Yo-Yo, you don't hear me though
You wear a rag around your head and you
Call yourself a "Gangsta Bitch" now that you saw Apache's video
I saw you wilding, acting like a fool
I peeped you out the window jumping girls after school
But where did all of this come from?
A minute ago, you was a nerd and nobody ever heard of ya
Now you a wannabe...hard
You barely know your ABC's, please
There's plenty of people out there with triggers ready to pull it
Why you trying to jump in front of the bullet (Young lady)
Uh, and real bad girls are the silent type (yeah)
Ain't none of this worth getting your face sliced
Cause that's what happened to your homegirl, right?
(Bucking with nobody)
She got to wear that for life (Who you calling a bitch?)
Chorus
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I DO NOT OWN THIS SONG! NO COPYRIGHT INTENDED
If there is any songs that you would like me to do in chipmunk let me know....
Queen Latifah U.N.I.T.Y Lyrics
(uh)U-N-I-T-Y
U-N-I-T-Y (That's a unity)
U-N-I-T-Y
Love a black man from infinity to infinity
who're you a calling a bitch?
Chrous:
U-N-I-T-Y(you gotta let em know)
U-N-I-T-Y (That's a unity)(come on here we go)
U-N-I-T-Y (you gotta let em know)
Another black woman from infinity to infinity
(you ain't a bitch or a hoe)
U-N-I-T-Y(you gotta let em know)
U-N-I-T-Y (That's a unity)(come on here we go)
U-N-I-T-Y (you gotta let em know)
Another black woman from infinity to infinity
(you ain't a bitch or a hoe)
Instinct leads me to another flow
Everytime I hear a brother call a girl a bitch or a ho
Trying to make a sister feel low
You know all of that gots to go
Now everybody knows there's exceptions to this rule
Now don't be getting mad, when we playing, it's cool
But don't you be calling out my name
I bring wrath to those who disrespect me like a dame
That's why I'm talking, one day I was walking down the block
I had my cutoff shorts on right cause it was crazy hot
I walked past these dudes when they passed me
One of 'em felt my booty, he was nasty
I turned around red, somebody was catching the wrath
Then the little one said (Yeah me bitch) and laughed
Since he was with his boys he tried to break fly
(Huh) I punched him dead in his eye and said
"Who you calling a bitch?"
Chorus (2x)
I hit the bottle There ain't nowhere else to go but up
Bad days at work and they gave you an attitude
then you were rough
And take it out on me but that's about enough
You put your hands on me again I'll put your ass in handcuffs
I guess I fell so deep in love I grew dependency
I was too blind to see just how it was affecting me
All that I knew was you was all the man I had
And I was scared to let you go, even though you treated me bad
But I don't want my kids to see me getting beat down
By daddy smacking mommy all around
You say I'm nothing without ya, but I'm nothing with ya
A man don't really love you if he hits ya
This is my notice to the door, I'm not taking it no more
I'm not your personal whore, that's not what I'm here for
And nothing good gonna come to ya til you do right by me
Brother you ain't that sick? (Who you calling a bitch?)
Chorus
What's going on in your mind is what I ask ya
But like Yo-Yo, you don't hear me though
You wear a rag around your head and you
Call yourself a "Gangsta Bitch" now that you saw Apache's video
I saw you wilding, acting like a fool
I peeped you out the window jumping girls after school
But where did all of this come from?
A minute ago, you was a nerd and nobody ever heard of ya
Now you a wannabe...hard
You barely know your ABC's, please
There's plenty of people out there with triggers ready to pull it
Why you trying to jump in front of the bullet (Young lady)
Uh, and real bad girls are the silent type (yeah)
Ain't none of this worth getting your face sliced
Cause that's what happened to your homegirl, right?
(Bucking with nobody)
She got to wear that for life (Who you calling a bitch?)
Chorus
- published: 28 Apr 2012
- views: 12824
- author: PlaylistPanda2
Queen Latifah - U N I T Y (instrumental)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:15
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Queen Latifah - U N I T Y (instrumental)
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Klever- Queen Latifah- UNITY (2012 Version)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:10
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
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Presented by KK5 Media- Knowledge, Entertainment, Inspiration
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Presented by KK5 Media- Knowledge, Entertainment, Inspiration
We Need More Young Positive Leaders and Role Models
Support and Share!!
- published: 28 Apr 2012
- views: 33215
- author: PlaylistPanda2
Queen Latifah - U.N.I.T.Y.
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:11
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
@ Wingate Field
Martin Luther King Jr. Concert Series
Aug 15, 2011.
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@ Wingate Field
Martin Luther King Jr. Concert Series
Aug 15, 2011.
- published: 28 Apr 2012
- views: 5423
- author: PlaylistPanda2
Queen Latifah U.N.I.T.Y. (Live in Concert)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 8:42
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
U.N.I.T.Y.
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Queen Latifah- UNITY with Common and The Roots Live
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 8:18
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Common and The Roots bring out Queen Latifah dudring their NY stop for theHennessy Artistry Tour. Heres a clip of The Queen performing UNITY and then Black Thought and Common goin into a freestyle over the beat.
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Common and The Roots bring out Queen Latifah dudring their NY stop for theHennessy Artistry Tour. Heres a clip of The Queen performing UNITY and then Black Thought and Common goin into a freestyle over the beat.
- published: 28 Apr 2012
- views: 21877
- author: PlaylistPanda2
Tomatosoft Youtube Downloader
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:27
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Tomatosoft Youtube Downloader:
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- published: 14 Dec 2012
- views: 23845
- author: PlaylistPanda2
MDRFREE037: Queen Latifah - UNITY (Nick F.M. Remix)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:30
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Out now on Monkey Dub Recording
NICK F.M. - SLEEPING GIANT EP
http://www.monkeydub.com/releases/nick-f-m-mdr033-sleeping-giant-ep
1. Sleeping Giant
2. Heavy Metal
3. Blood Brothers (Feat. Andy V)
4. Blow The HornZ
Released by: Monkey Dub Recording
Release/catalogue number: MDRFREE037
Release date: Nov 7, 2010
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Out now on Monkey Dub Recording
NICK F.M. - SLEEPING GIANT EP
http://www.monkeydub.com/releases/nick-f-m-mdr033-sleeping-giant-ep
1. Sleeping Giant
2. Heavy Metal
3. Blood Brothers (Feat. Andy V)
4. Blow The HornZ
Released by: Monkey Dub Recording
Release/catalogue number: MDRFREE037
Release date: Nov 7, 2010
- published: 28 Apr 2012
- views: 3709
- author: PlaylistPanda2
Queen Latifah - UNITY - Lifebeat's The Beat Goes On - 1995
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:49
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Queen Latifah is performing UNITY at Lifebeat's benefit concert The Beat Goes On - 1995.
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Queen Latifah is performing UNITY at Lifebeat's benefit concert The Beat Goes On - 1995.
http://www.lifebeat.org
- published: 28 Apr 2012
- views: 3232
- author: PlaylistPanda2
Queen Latifah Unity song (me rapping)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:57
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
me and some of my class mates having fun the last day of school before spring break
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me and some of my class mates having fun the last day of school before spring break
- published: 28 Apr 2012
- views: 3080
- author: PlaylistPanda2
Queen Latifah - Unity (CLASSIC) Instrumental.flv
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:52
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Classic!!!
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Queen Latifah - U.N.I.T.Y.
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:28
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Queen Latifah UNITY U.N.I.T.Y. Piatch Pia Music Funny Latina Sexy Lip Syncing video chola
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Queen Latifah UNITY U.N.I.T.Y. Piatch Pia Music Funny Latina Sexy Lip Syncing video chola
- published: 28 Apr 2012
- views: 5556
- author: PlaylistPanda2
Queen Latifah - "U.N.I.T.Y" Live (1993)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:00
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
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queen latifah- u.n.i.t.y by d.smith (week #2)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:34
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
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- published: 28 Apr 2012
- views: 402
- author: PlaylistPanda2
PD Beats- Queen Latifa- Unity Beat (Remix)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:11
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Remix to Queen Latifa's Track "Unity"
Follow @PierreD3 and
For More Beats Check Out:
Soundcloud.com/PierreDuBose GOD BLESS!
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Remix to Queen Latifa's Track "Unity"
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For More Beats Check Out:
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- published: 28 Apr 2012
- views: 4756
- author: PlaylistPanda2
Queen Latifah - Unity (Plaeboi Dicer Refix).m4v
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:40
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
A Quick Remix With The Dicers.
Queen Latifah - Unity (Plaeboi Dicer Refix)
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A Quick Remix With The Dicers.
Queen Latifah - Unity (Plaeboi Dicer Refix)
- published: 28 Apr 2012
- views: 1413
- author: PlaylistPanda2
Brooklyn's Wingate Concert W/ Queen Latifah "Unity"
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 6:34
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
http://wn.com/Brooklyn's_Wingate_Concert_W_Queen_Latifah_Unity
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Tomatosoft Youtube Downloader
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:11
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Tomatosoft Youtube Downloader:
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- published: 13 Dec 2012
- views: 30509
- author: PlaylistPanda2
DJ-CHIN-LU SELECTION - Queen Latifah - It's Alright
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:44
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
http://wn.com/DJ-CHIN-LU_SELECTION_Queen_Latifah_It's_Alright
Queen Latifah - It's Alright
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:17
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
@ Wingate Field
Martin Luther King Jr. Concert Series
Aug 15, 2011.
http://wn.com/Queen_Latifah_It's_Alright
@ Wingate Field
Martin Luther King Jr. Concert Series
Aug 15, 2011.
- published: 27 Apr 2012
- views: 3520
- author: PlaylistPanda2
Queen Latifah - Elements I'm Among
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:12
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Album "Sunset Park Soundtrack" 1996
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Tomatosoft Youtube Downloader
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:27
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Tomatosoft Youtube Downloader:
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- published: 14 Dec 2012
- views: 23845
- author: PlaylistPanda2
Queen Latifah - Trav'lin' Light
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:59
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Short clip from Queen Latifah's new album, Trav'lin Light
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Short clip from Queen Latifah's new album, Trav'lin Light
- published: 27 Apr 2012
- views: 145456
- author: PlaylistPanda2
Poetry Man - Queen Latifah (Live)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:33
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Queen performed the Phoebe Snow classic, "Poetry Man" from her Trav'lin' Light CD on Live Regis and Kelly. Great Performance.
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Queen performed the Phoebe Snow classic, "Poetry Man" from her Trav'lin' Light CD on Live Regis and Kelly. Great Performance.
- published: 27 Apr 2012
- views: 39341
- author: PlaylistPanda2
Michael Jackson Memorial Service - Queen Latifah Reads Maya Angelou
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:50
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Queen Latifah eulogizes Michael Jackson and reads the Maya Angelou poem dedicated to the King of Pop, "We Had Him".
http://wn.com/Michael_Jackson_Memorial_Service_Queen_Latifah_Reads_Maya_Angelou
Queen Latifah eulogizes Michael Jackson and reads the Maya Angelou poem dedicated to the King of Pop, "We Had Him".
- published: 27 Apr 2012
- views: 297762
- author: PlaylistPanda2
Queen Latifah - Latifah's Law (Vinyl Cut)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:54
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
http://wn.com/Queen_Latifah_Latifah's_Law_Vinyl_Cut
Naughty By Nature - Wickedest Man Alive (Feat. Queen Latifah)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:22
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Artist: Naughty By Nature
Album: Naughty By Nature
Label: Tommy Boy Records
Released: 1991
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Artist: Naughty By Nature
Album: Naughty By Nature
Label: Tommy Boy Records
Released: 1991
- published: 27 Apr 2012
- views: 4024
- author: PlaylistPanda2
Queen Latifah - Princess Of The Posse (with lyrics)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 7:41
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Lyrics: http://easylyrics.org/?artist=Queen+Latifah&title;=Princess+Of+The+Posse
Thanks for checking out our videos and site!
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Lyrics: http://easylyrics.org/?artist=Queen+Latifah&title;=Princess+Of+The+Posse
Thanks for checking out our videos and site!
- published: 27 Apr 2012
- views: 364
- author: PlaylistPanda2
H.E.A.L.(Big Daddy Kane,Freddie Foxxx,MC Lyte,KRS-One,Queen L., Run DMC &More;) - Heal Yourself
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:30
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Featuring: Big Daddy Kane, Freddie Foxxx, Harmony, KRS-One, Kid Capri, LL Cool J, MC Lyte, Queen Latifah & Run DMC...
From 1991 Album: "Civilization Vs. Technology".....
Boasting Blastmaster KRS-1 as its executive producer, Civilization Vs. Technology is an all-star project that employs a who's who of late 1980s and early 1990s rappers from the East Coast. L.L. Cool J, Public Enemy leader Chuck D, Run-D.M.C., Queen Latifah, Big Daddy Kane, Salt-N-Pepa, MC Lyte, Doug E. Fresh, Kool Moe Dee, and KRS himself are among the MCs featured on this very socio-political album. With an overall message of black pride and black unity (without a lot of separatist rhetoric, thankfully), this release encourages the black family to stay together. Ironically, the album's emphasis on family mirrors, in some respects, the "family values" message that Dr. Laura Schlesinger and other GOP conservatives espoused in the 1990s -- although it's safe to say that few of the left-leaning participants would identify themselves as either conservatives or Republicans. Though hip-hop-oriented, the CD employs some major reggae artists, including Ziggy Marley and Shabba Ranks. Also, a prominent rocker, R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe, is featured on the title song, which addresses environmental concerns. KRS' H.E.A.L. project (Human Education Against Lies) turned out to be more of a critical success than a commercial one. Civilization Vs. Technology enjoyed rave reviews in the hip-hop press, but in terms of sales, it hardly rivaled the million-selling gangsta rap releases of the early 1990s. KRS probably didn't find that surprising -- he has stated in interviews that while intelligence can sell, it doesn't sell as quickly or as easily as sex and violence. Although not as well-known as it should be, this is a CD that hip-hoppers should make a point of obtaining. (All Music Guide)
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Featuring: Big Daddy Kane, Freddie Foxxx, Harmony, KRS-One, Kid Capri, LL Cool J, MC Lyte, Queen Latifah & Run DMC...
From 1991 Album: "Civilization Vs. Technology".....
Boasting Blastmaster KRS-1 as its executive producer, Civilization Vs. Technology is an all-star project that employs a who's who of late 1980s and early 1990s rappers from the East Coast. L.L. Cool J, Public Enemy leader Chuck D, Run-D.M.C., Queen Latifah, Big Daddy Kane, Salt-N-Pepa, MC Lyte, Doug E. Fresh, Kool Moe Dee, and KRS himself are among the MCs featured on this very socio-political album. With an overall message of black pride and black unity (without a lot of separatist rhetoric, thankfully), this release encourages the black family to stay together. Ironically, the album's emphasis on family mirrors, in some respects, the "family values" message that Dr. Laura Schlesinger and other GOP conservatives espoused in the 1990s -- although it's safe to say that few of the left-leaning participants would identify themselves as either conservatives or Republicans. Though hip-hop-oriented, the CD employs some major reggae artists, including Ziggy Marley and Shabba Ranks. Also, a prominent rocker, R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe, is featured on the title song, which addresses environmental concerns. KRS' H.E.A.L. project (Human Education Against Lies) turned out to be more of a critical success than a commercial one. Civilization Vs. Technology enjoyed rave reviews in the hip-hop press, but in terms of sales, it hardly rivaled the million-selling gangsta rap releases of the early 1990s. KRS probably didn't find that surprising -- he has stated in interviews that while intelligence can sell, it doesn't sell as quickly or as easily as sex and violence. Although not as well-known as it should be, this is a CD that hip-hoppers should make a point of obtaining. (All Music Guide)
- published: 27 Apr 2012
- views: 76145
- author: PlaylistPanda2
Mahogany in the EMI Studio mixing Still Droppin the instrumental part 2
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- Duration: 2:25
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Mahogany is in the EMI studio in L.A, mixing down... "still droppin the instrumentals part 2"
http://wn.com/Mahogany_in_the_EMI_Studio_mixing_Still_Droppin_the_instrumental_part_2
Mahogany is in the EMI studio in L.A, mixing down... "still droppin the instrumentals part 2"
- published: 27 Apr 2012
- views: 499
- author: PlaylistPanda2
Poetry Man - Queen Latifah
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:43
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
http://wn.com/Poetry_Man_Queen_Latifah
Naughty By Nature interview on Primat City TV
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 13:56
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Vin Rock and Kay Gee of Naughty By Nature in an interview with Mista Min and Primate Rhyme of Primat City TV, after their 2011 concert at Backstage Werk in Munich
http://wn.com/Naughty_By_Nature_interview_on_Primat_City_TV
Vin Rock and Kay Gee of Naughty By Nature in an interview with Mista Min and Primate Rhyme of Primat City TV, after their 2011 concert at Backstage Werk in Munich
- published: 27 Apr 2012
- views: 358
- author: PlaylistPanda2
Naughty By Nature - Wickedest Man Alive
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:22
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Track 2 from their self-titled album. It features Queen Latifah
http://wn.com/Naughty_By_Nature_Wickedest_Man_Alive
Track 2 from their self-titled album. It features Queen Latifah
- published: 27 Apr 2012
- views: 90943
- author: PlaylistPanda2
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Alicia Keys - Superwoman (live) - feat. Queen Latifah and Kathleen Battle - rare video
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:25
- Updated: 26 Dec 2012
Superwoman - Alicia Keys feat. Queen Latifah and Kathleen Battle (live) (rare video) American Music Awards 2008 SuperPerformance
http://wn.com/Alicia_Keys_Superwoman_live_feat_Queen_Latifah_and_Kathleen_Battle_rare_video
Superwoman - Alicia Keys feat. Queen Latifah and Kathleen Battle (live) (rare video) American Music Awards 2008 SuperPerformance
- published: 23 May 2009
- views: 250918
- author: snoopygiorgio
Live On Letterman - Queen Latifah
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:31
- Updated: 25 Dec 2012
The Queen of music performs "Cue The Rain" from her new CD release, "Persona."
http://wn.com/Live_On_Letterman_Queen_Latifah
The Queen of music performs "Cue The Rain" from her new CD release, "Persona."
- published: 16 Jul 2009
- views: 29427
- author: CSIFAN3000
Queen Latifah Live 1991
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:43
- Updated: 31 Oct 2012
nature of a sista' ladies first
http://wn.com/Queen_Latifah_Live_1991
Poetry Man - Queen Latifah (Live)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:33
- Updated: 18 Dec 2012
Queen performed the Phoebe Snow classic, "Poetry Man" from her Trav'lin' Light CD on Live Regis and Kelly. Great Performance.
http://wn.com/Poetry_Man_Queen_Latifah_Live
Queen performed the Phoebe Snow classic, "Poetry Man" from her Trav'lin' Light CD on Live Regis and Kelly. Great Performance.
- published: 06 Jan 2009
- views: 39306
- author: Rmasai
Queen Latifah - Latifah's Had It Up To Here Live
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:51
- Updated: 12 Dec 2012
Queen Latifah On The Arsenio Hall Show
http://wn.com/Queen_Latifah_Latifah's_Had_It_Up_To_Here_Live
Queen Latifah- UNITY with Common and The Roots Live
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 8:18
- Updated: 05 Dec 2012
Common and The Roots bring out Queen Latifah dudring their NY stop for theHennessy Artistry Tour. Heres a clip of The Queen performing UNITY and then Black Thought and Common goin into a freestyle over the beat.
http://wn.com/Queen_Latifah_UNITY_with_Common_and_The_Roots_Live
Common and The Roots bring out Queen Latifah dudring their NY stop for theHennessy Artistry Tour. Heres a clip of The Queen performing UNITY and then Black Thought and Common goin into a freestyle over the beat.
- published: 08 Oct 2009
- views: 21853
- author: Potential718
Alicia Keys (live) - Superwoman - feat. Queen Latifah and Kathleen Battle - rare video.flv
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:28
- Updated: 25 Dec 2012
Superwoman - Alicia Keys feat. Queen Latifah and Kathleen Battle (live) (rare video) American Music Awards 2008
http://wn.com/Alicia_Keys_live_Superwoman_feat_Queen_Latifah_and_Kathleen_Battle_rare_videoflv
Superwoman - Alicia Keys feat. Queen Latifah and Kathleen Battle (live) (rare video) American Music Awards 2008
- published: 25 Nov 2008
- views: 125741
- author: sign5432
Queen Latifah Lush Life
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:27
- Updated: 21 Dec 2012
From the Movie Soundtrack - "Living Out Loud"
http://wn.com/Queen_Latifah_Lush_Life
Queen Latifah - 'I'm Gonna Live Till I Die'
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:47
- Updated: 25 Dec 2012
Queen Latifah - 'I'm Gonna Live Till I Die' Dancing With The Stars Season 5 Week 2 October 2, 2007 Victor Fung and Anna Mikhed
http://wn.com/Queen_Latifah_'I'm_Gonna_Live_Till_I_Die'
Queen Latifah - 'I'm Gonna Live Till I Die' Dancing With The Stars Season 5 Week 2 October 2, 2007 Victor Fung and Anna Mikhed
- published: 25 Dec 2010
- views: 13005
- author: Codebear4
Queen latifah Live - Just Another Day....
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:01
- Updated: 19 Dec 2012
Live on the 90's sitcom Roc Starring Charles S. Dutton, Alexis Fields, Rocky Carroll, Ella Joyce and Carl Gordon. Season 3/final epiosde "The concert" Introduced by Charles S Dutton as Roc Emerson
http://wn.com/Queen_latifah_Live_Just_Another_Day
Live on the 90's sitcom Roc Starring Charles S. Dutton, Alexis Fields, Rocky Carroll, Ella Joyce and Carl Gordon. Season 3/final epiosde "The concert" Introduced by Charles S Dutton as Roc Emerson
- published: 16 Apr 2009
- views: 31636
- author: ScaryJBlige
Queen Latifah - Come Into My House (Live)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:10
- Updated: 23 Dec 2012
From the 1991 Sisters in the Name of Rap Concert.
http://wn.com/Queen_Latifah_Come_Into_My_House_Live
From the 1991 Sisters in the Name of Rap Concert.
- published: 08 Jun 2008
- views: 177702
- author: richfofo
BAD GIRLS - Donna Summer & Queen Latifah (Live)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:19
- Updated: 30 Oct 2012
Bad Girls - Donna Summer and Queen Latifah (Live) Queen Latifah and Donna Summer ham it up in a live performance of Summer's #1 hit, 'Bad Girls'.
http://wn.com/BAD_GIRLS_Donna_Summer_Queen_Latifah_Live
Bad Girls - Donna Summer and Queen Latifah (Live) Queen Latifah and Donna Summer ham it up in a live performance of Summer's #1 hit, 'Bad Girls'.
- published: 10 Mar 2009
- views: 34956
- author: stampyourfeet
Queen Latifah -- "Mercy Mercy Mercy" (Live)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:43
- Updated: 17 Dec 2012
Queen Latifah performing "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy" at Long Beach Pride May 19, 2012.
http://wn.com/Queen_Latifah_-_Mercy_Mercy_Mercy_Live
Queen Latifah performing "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy" at Long Beach Pride May 19, 2012.
- published: 21 May 2012
- views: 5905
- author: VoProds
Queen Latifah - I Know Where I've Been - Live! - Hairspray
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:20
- Updated: 15 Dec 2012
Queen Latifah performing "I Know Where I've Been" (from Hairspray) live in Cleveland, Ohio on October 5, 2007 at the Palace Theater.
http://wn.com/Queen_Latifah_I_Know_Where_I've_Been_Live!_Hairspray
Queen Latifah performing "I Know Where I've Been" (from Hairspray) live in Cleveland, Ohio on October 5, 2007 at the Palace Theater.
- published: 29 Dec 2007
- views: 170364
- author: MatthewChojnacki
Queen Latifah sings Lush Life from Living Out Loud
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:26
- Updated: 11 Dec 2012
Queen Latifah sings the jazz standard Lush Life from the movie Living Out Loud.
http://wn.com/Queen_Latifah_sings_Lush_Life_from_Living_Out_Loud
Queen Latifah sings the jazz standard Lush Life from the movie Living Out Loud.
- published: 06 Jul 2007
- views: 92222
- author: Ghball
Fly Girl Live- Queen Latifah
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:52
- Updated: 13 Dec 2012
All Hail the Queen!!
http://wn.com/Fly_Girl_Live_Queen_Latifah
Daryl Hall with Queen Latifah & The Roots - "Rich Girl"/"Sara Smile" - Live in Philly July 4 2012
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 10:08
- Updated: 27 Dec 2012
Daryl Hall with Queen Latifah, The Roots, and DJ Jazzy Jeff - "Rich Girl"/"Sara Smile" "Wawa Welcome America Concert" - Live in Philadelphia - July 4, 2012 (6ABC WPVI-TV Philadelphia)
http://wn.com/Daryl_Hall_with_Queen_Latifah_The_Roots_Rich_Girl_Sara_Smile_Live_in_Philly_July_4_2012
Daryl Hall with Queen Latifah, The Roots, and DJ Jazzy Jeff - "Rich Girl"/"Sara Smile" "Wawa Welcome America Concert" - Live in Philadelphia - July 4, 2012 (6ABC WPVI-TV Philadelphia)
- published: 05 Jul 2012
- views: 36940
- author: ThatGuyInPhilly
Queen Latifah UNITY (Live in Concert)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 8:42
- Updated: 03 Sep 2012
UNITY
http://wn.com/Queen_Latifah_UNITY_Live_in_Concert
Queen Latifah - "UNITY" Live (1993)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:00
- Updated: 23 Dec 2012
http://wn.com/Queen_Latifah_UNITY_Live_1993
Queen Latifah - ILC (Live) Mama Gave Birth To The Soul Children?
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:22
- Updated: 01 Dec 2012
90s
http://wn.com/Queen_Latifah_ILC_Live_Mama_Gave_Birth_To_The_Soul_Children?
Queen Latifah - "Lush Life" - Full Version
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:26
- Updated: 26 Dec 2012
From the movie "Living Out Loud." This clip from the DVD's "deleted scenes" includes both the 1st half of the song, which was omitted from the movie, due to length, as well as the 2nd half. Film directed by Richard LaGravanese. Song produced and arranged by Mervyn Warren. Buy or rent the movie here: bit.ly
http://wn.com/Queen_Latifah_Lush_Life_Full_Version
From the movie "Living Out Loud." This clip from the DVD's "deleted scenes" includes both the 1st half of the song, which was omitted from the movie, due to length, as well as the 2nd half. Film directed by Richard LaGravanese. Song produced and arranged by Mervyn Warren. Buy or rent the movie here: bit.ly
- published: 05 Jun 2010
- views: 51439
- author: soundsgoodtomeYT
QUEEN LATIFAH FT Next - LET HER LIVE
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:47
- Updated: 02 Jun 2012
'Let her live' contains samples of "That Girl" by Stevie Wonder "Let her live' Appears on Queen Latifah' 1998 Album "Order in the court" in France and Japan
http://wn.com/QUEEN_LATIFAH_FT_Next_LET_HER_LIVE
'Let her live' contains samples of "That Girl" by Stevie Wonder "Let her live' Appears on Queen Latifah' 1998 Album "Order in the court" in France and Japan
- published: 16 Apr 2009
- views: 2754
- author: ScaryJBlige
Dancing With The Stars-Queen Latifah Live-Song Fast Car
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:21
- Updated: 19 Oct 2012
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Queen Latifah - U.N.I.T.Y.
Music video by Queen Latifah performing U.N.I.T.Y.. (C) 1993 Motown Records, a Division of...
published: 28 Apr 2012
author: PlaylistPanda2
Queen Latifah - U.N.I.T.Y.
Music video by Queen Latifah performing U.N.I.T.Y.. (C) 1993 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
- published: 28 Apr 2012
- views: 2091737
- author: PlaylistPanda2
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- published: 13 Dec 2012
- views: 30509
- author: PlaylistPanda2
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Queen Latifah - U.N.I.T.Y. (Instrumental)
produced by Kay Gee (Naughty By Nature) & Mufi
http://www.discogs.com/Queen-Latifah-UNITY/...
published: 28 Apr 2012
author: PlaylistPanda2
Queen Latifah - U.N.I.T.Y. (Instrumental)
produced by Kay Gee (Naughty By Nature) & Mufi
http://www.discogs.com/Queen-Latifah-UNITY/release/648143
- published: 28 Apr 2012
- views: 75688
- author: PlaylistPanda2
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Queen Latifah-U.N.I.T.Y Chipmunks
I DO NOT OWN THIS SONG! NO COPYRIGHT INTENDED
If there is any songs that you would like ...
published: 28 Apr 2012
author: PlaylistPanda2
Queen Latifah-U.N.I.T.Y Chipmunks
I DO NOT OWN THIS SONG! NO COPYRIGHT INTENDED
If there is any songs that you would like me to do in chipmunk let me know....
Queen Latifah U.N.I.T.Y Lyrics
(uh)U-N-I-T-Y
U-N-I-T-Y (That's a unity)
U-N-I-T-Y
Love a black man from infinity to infinity
who're you a calling a bitch?
Chrous:
U-N-I-T-Y(you gotta let em know)
U-N-I-T-Y (That's a unity)(come on here we go)
U-N-I-T-Y (you gotta let em know)
Another black woman from infinity to infinity
(you ain't a bitch or a hoe)
U-N-I-T-Y(you gotta let em know)
U-N-I-T-Y (That's a unity)(come on here we go)
U-N-I-T-Y (you gotta let em know)
Another black woman from infinity to infinity
(you ain't a bitch or a hoe)
Instinct leads me to another flow
Everytime I hear a brother call a girl a bitch or a ho
Trying to make a sister feel low
You know all of that gots to go
Now everybody knows there's exceptions to this rule
Now don't be getting mad, when we playing, it's cool
But don't you be calling out my name
I bring wrath to those who disrespect me like a dame
That's why I'm talking, one day I was walking down the block
I had my cutoff shorts on right cause it was crazy hot
I walked past these dudes when they passed me
One of 'em felt my booty, he was nasty
I turned around red, somebody was catching the wrath
Then the little one said (Yeah me bitch) and laughed
Since he was with his boys he tried to break fly
(Huh) I punched him dead in his eye and said
"Who you calling a bitch?"
Chorus (2x)
I hit the bottle There ain't nowhere else to go but up
Bad days at work and they gave you an attitude
then you were rough
And take it out on me but that's about enough
You put your hands on me again I'll put your ass in handcuffs
I guess I fell so deep in love I grew dependency
I was too blind to see just how it was affecting me
All that I knew was you was all the man I had
And I was scared to let you go, even though you treated me bad
But I don't want my kids to see me getting beat down
By daddy smacking mommy all around
You say I'm nothing without ya, but I'm nothing with ya
A man don't really love you if he hits ya
This is my notice to the door, I'm not taking it no more
I'm not your personal whore, that's not what I'm here for
And nothing good gonna come to ya til you do right by me
Brother you ain't that sick? (Who you calling a bitch?)
Chorus
What's going on in your mind is what I ask ya
But like Yo-Yo, you don't hear me though
You wear a rag around your head and you
Call yourself a "Gangsta Bitch" now that you saw Apache's video
I saw you wilding, acting like a fool
I peeped you out the window jumping girls after school
But where did all of this come from?
A minute ago, you was a nerd and nobody ever heard of ya
Now you a wannabe...hard
You barely know your ABC's, please
There's plenty of people out there with triggers ready to pull it
Why you trying to jump in front of the bullet (Young lady)
Uh, and real bad girls are the silent type (yeah)
Ain't none of this worth getting your face sliced
Cause that's what happened to your homegirl, right?
(Bucking with nobody)
She got to wear that for life (Who you calling a bitch?)
Chorus
- published: 28 Apr 2012
- views: 12824
- author: PlaylistPanda2
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Queen Latifah - U N I T Y (instrumental)
Queen Latifah - U N I T Y (instrumental)...
published: 28 Apr 2012
author: PlaylistPanda2
Queen Latifah - U N I T Y (instrumental)
Queen Latifah - U N I T Y (instrumental)
- published: 28 Apr 2012
- views: 18890
- author: PlaylistPanda2
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Klever- Queen Latifah- UNITY (2012 Version)
http://www.kk5media.com
Presented by KK5 Media- Knowledge, Entertainment, Inspiration
We...
published: 28 Apr 2012
author: PlaylistPanda2
Klever- Queen Latifah- UNITY (2012 Version)
http://www.kk5media.com
Presented by KK5 Media- Knowledge, Entertainment, Inspiration
We Need More Young Positive Leaders and Role Models
Support and Share!!
- published: 28 Apr 2012
- views: 33215
- author: PlaylistPanda2
5:11
Queen Latifah - U.N.I.T.Y.
@ Wingate Field
Martin Luther King Jr. Concert Series
Aug 15, 2011....
published: 28 Apr 2012
author: PlaylistPanda2
Queen Latifah - U.N.I.T.Y.
@ Wingate Field
Martin Luther King Jr. Concert Series
Aug 15, 2011.
- published: 28 Apr 2012
- views: 5423
- author: PlaylistPanda2
8:42
Queen Latifah U.N.I.T.Y. (Live in Concert)
U.N.I.T.Y....
published: 28 Apr 2012
author: PlaylistPanda2
Queen Latifah U.N.I.T.Y. (Live in Concert)
U.N.I.T.Y.
- published: 28 Apr 2012
- views: 12255
- author: PlaylistPanda2
8:18
Queen Latifah- UNITY with Common and The Roots Live
Common and The Roots bring out Queen Latifah dudring their NY stop for theHennessy Artistr...
published: 28 Apr 2012
author: PlaylistPanda2
Queen Latifah- UNITY with Common and The Roots Live
Common and The Roots bring out Queen Latifah dudring their NY stop for theHennessy Artistry Tour. Heres a clip of The Queen performing UNITY and then Black Thought and Common goin into a freestyle over the beat.
- published: 28 Apr 2012
- views: 21877
- author: PlaylistPanda2
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- published: 14 Dec 2012
- views: 23845
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5:30
MDRFREE037: Queen Latifah - UNITY (Nick F.M. Remix)
Out now on Monkey Dub Recording
NICK F.M. - SLEEPING GIANT EP
http://www.monkeydub.com/r...
published: 28 Apr 2012
author: PlaylistPanda2
MDRFREE037: Queen Latifah - UNITY (Nick F.M. Remix)
Out now on Monkey Dub Recording
NICK F.M. - SLEEPING GIANT EP
http://www.monkeydub.com/releases/nick-f-m-mdr033-sleeping-giant-ep
1. Sleeping Giant
2. Heavy Metal
3. Blood Brothers (Feat. Andy V)
4. Blow The HornZ
Released by: Monkey Dub Recording
Release/catalogue number: MDRFREE037
Release date: Nov 7, 2010
- published: 28 Apr 2012
- views: 3709
- author: PlaylistPanda2
3:49
Queen Latifah - UNITY - Lifebeat's The Beat Goes On - 1995
Queen Latifah is performing UNITY at Lifebeat's benefit concert The Beat Goes On - 1995.
...
published: 28 Apr 2012
author: PlaylistPanda2
Queen Latifah - UNITY - Lifebeat's The Beat Goes On - 1995
Queen Latifah is performing UNITY at Lifebeat's benefit concert The Beat Goes On - 1995.
http://www.lifebeat.org
- published: 28 Apr 2012
- views: 3232
- author: PlaylistPanda2
2:57
Queen Latifah Unity song (me rapping)
me and some of my class mates having fun the last day of school before spring break...
published: 28 Apr 2012
author: PlaylistPanda2
Queen Latifah Unity song (me rapping)
me and some of my class mates having fun the last day of school before spring break
- published: 28 Apr 2012
- views: 3080
- author: PlaylistPanda2
3:52
Queen Latifah - Unity (CLASSIC) Instrumental.flv
Classic!!!...
published: 28 Apr 2012
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Queen Latifah - Unity (CLASSIC) Instrumental.flv
Classic!!!
- published: 28 Apr 2012
- views: 20818
- author: PlaylistPanda2
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BONE PUGZ
Thanks and LOVE to Bone Thugs-N-Harmony. We and our dogs are huge fans of yours and made t...
published: 04 Apr 2012
author: Bone Pugz
BONE PUGZ
Thanks and LOVE to Bone Thugs-N-Harmony. We and our dogs are huge fans of yours and made this as a tribute.
Director: Abby Koocher
Director of Photography: Eusebio Delerme
Art Design and Direction: Abby Koocher & Lisa Rubin
Editor: Abby Koocher
VERY SPECIAL THANKS TO:
Bone Thugs-N-Harmony
Lulu & Coco-Jessica Setford
Baker-Danielle Green
Nigel-Mina Cheony
Perfect-Pat Arora
Lisa Rubin
Eusebio Delerme
Ashley Friedman
Chloe Seldman
P.R.M.
Rob Ferri
Michael Priest
Adam Jones
Jessica Joseph
Robin & Gerry
Queen Latifah
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PHOTOGRAPHY FROM THE SHOOT HERE: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bonepugz/
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La réalisatrice Sanaa Hamri interviewée en darija par Simo Benbachir à New York
Movie director Sanaa Hamri interviewed in Darija ( Moroccan slang ) @ The premiere of Just...
published: 16 Aug 2011
author: Simo Benbachir
La réalisatrice Sanaa Hamri interviewée en darija par Simo Benbachir à New York
Movie director Sanaa Hamri interviewed in Darija ( Moroccan slang ) @ The premiere of Just Wright in N.Y
La réalisatrice Sanaa Hamri interviewée en darija par Simo Benbachir à New York lors de l'avant premiere du film ( Just Wright ) avec Queen Latifah, Common, Paula Patton, James Pickens Jr
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Queen Latifah - U.N.I.T.Y.
Queen Latifah UNITY U.N.I.T.Y. Piatch Pia Music Funny Latina Sexy Lip Syncing video chola...
published: 28 Apr 2012
author: PlaylistPanda2
Queen Latifah - U.N.I.T.Y.
Queen Latifah UNITY U.N.I.T.Y. Piatch Pia Music Funny Latina Sexy Lip Syncing video chola
- published: 28 Apr 2012
- views: 5556
- author: PlaylistPanda2
4:00
Queen Latifah - "U.N.I.T.Y" Live (1993)
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published: 28 Apr 2012
author: PlaylistPanda2
Queen Latifah - "U.N.I.T.Y" Live (1993)
- published: 28 Apr 2012
- views: 5457
- author: PlaylistPanda2
1:34
queen latifah- u.n.i.t.y by d.smith (week #2)
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published: 28 Apr 2012
author: PlaylistPanda2
queen latifah- u.n.i.t.y by d.smith (week #2)
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- published: 28 Apr 2012
- views: 402
- author: PlaylistPanda2
2:11
PD Beats- Queen Latifa- Unity Beat (Remix)
Remix to Queen Latifa's Track "Unity"
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published: 28 Apr 2012
author: PlaylistPanda2
PD Beats- Queen Latifa- Unity Beat (Remix)
Remix to Queen Latifa's Track "Unity"
Follow @PierreD3 and
For More Beats Check Out:
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- published: 28 Apr 2012
- views: 4756
- author: PlaylistPanda2
1:11
Tomatosoft Youtube Downloader
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published: 13 Dec 2012
author: PlaylistPanda2
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- published: 13 Dec 2012
- views: 30509
- author: PlaylistPanda2
3:44
DJ-CHIN-LU SELECTION - Queen Latifah - It's Alright
...
published: 27 Apr 2012
author: PlaylistPanda2
DJ-CHIN-LU SELECTION - Queen Latifah - It's Alright
- published: 27 Apr 2012
- views: 16587
- author: PlaylistPanda2
3:17
Queen Latifah - It's Alright
@ Wingate Field
Martin Luther King Jr. Concert Series
Aug 15, 2011....
published: 27 Apr 2012
author: PlaylistPanda2
Queen Latifah - It's Alright
@ Wingate Field
Martin Luther King Jr. Concert Series
Aug 15, 2011.
- published: 27 Apr 2012
- views: 3520
- author: PlaylistPanda2
4:12
Queen Latifah - Elements I'm Among
Album "Sunset Park Soundtrack" 1996...
published: 27 Apr 2012
author: PlaylistPanda2
Queen Latifah - Elements I'm Among
Album "Sunset Park Soundtrack" 1996
- published: 27 Apr 2012
- views: 58588
- author: PlaylistPanda2
1:27
Tomatosoft Youtube Downloader
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published: 14 Dec 2012
author: PlaylistPanda2
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- published: 14 Dec 2012
- views: 23845
- author: PlaylistPanda2
5:59
Queen Latifah - Trav'lin' Light
Short clip from Queen Latifah's new album, Trav'lin Light...
published: 27 Apr 2012
author: PlaylistPanda2
Queen Latifah - Trav'lin' Light
Short clip from Queen Latifah's new album, Trav'lin Light
- published: 27 Apr 2012
- views: 145456
- author: PlaylistPanda2
5:33
Poetry Man - Queen Latifah (Live)
Queen performed the Phoebe Snow classic, "Poetry Man" from her Trav'lin' Light CD on Live ...
published: 27 Apr 2012
author: PlaylistPanda2
Poetry Man - Queen Latifah (Live)
Queen performed the Phoebe Snow classic, "Poetry Man" from her Trav'lin' Light CD on Live Regis and Kelly. Great Performance.
- published: 27 Apr 2012
- views: 39341
- author: PlaylistPanda2
4:50
Michael Jackson Memorial Service - Queen Latifah Reads Maya Angelou
Queen Latifah eulogizes Michael Jackson and reads the Maya Angelou poem dedicated to the K...
published: 27 Apr 2012
author: PlaylistPanda2
Michael Jackson Memorial Service - Queen Latifah Reads Maya Angelou
Queen Latifah eulogizes Michael Jackson and reads the Maya Angelou poem dedicated to the King of Pop, "We Had Him".
- published: 27 Apr 2012
- views: 297762
- author: PlaylistPanda2
3:54
Queen Latifah - Latifah's Law (Vinyl Cut)
...
published: 27 Apr 2012
author: PlaylistPanda2
Queen Latifah - Latifah's Law (Vinyl Cut)
- published: 27 Apr 2012
- views: 3204
- author: PlaylistPanda2
4:22
Naughty By Nature - Wickedest Man Alive (Feat. Queen Latifah)
Artist: Naughty By Nature
Album: Naughty By Nature
Label: Tommy Boy Records
Released: 1991...
published: 27 Apr 2012
author: PlaylistPanda2
Naughty By Nature - Wickedest Man Alive (Feat. Queen Latifah)
Artist: Naughty By Nature
Album: Naughty By Nature
Label: Tommy Boy Records
Released: 1991
- published: 27 Apr 2012
- views: 4024
- author: PlaylistPanda2
7:41
Queen Latifah - Princess Of The Posse (with lyrics)
Lyrics: http://easylyrics.org/?artist=Queen+Latifah&title;=Princess+Of+The+Posse
Thanks fo...
published: 27 Apr 2012
author: PlaylistPanda2
Queen Latifah - Princess Of The Posse (with lyrics)
Lyrics: http://easylyrics.org/?artist=Queen+Latifah&title;=Princess+Of+The+Posse
Thanks for checking out our videos and site!
- published: 27 Apr 2012
- views: 364
- author: PlaylistPanda2
4:30
H.E.A.L.(Big Daddy Kane,Freddie Foxxx,MC Lyte,KRS-One,Queen L., Run DMC &More;) - Heal Yourself
Featuring: Big Daddy Kane, Freddie Foxxx, Harmony, KRS-One, Kid Capri, LL Cool J, MC Lyte,...
published: 27 Apr 2012
author: PlaylistPanda2
H.E.A.L.(Big Daddy Kane,Freddie Foxxx,MC Lyte,KRS-One,Queen L., Run DMC &More;) - Heal Yourself
Featuring: Big Daddy Kane, Freddie Foxxx, Harmony, KRS-One, Kid Capri, LL Cool J, MC Lyte, Queen Latifah & Run DMC...
From 1991 Album: "Civilization Vs. Technology".....
Boasting Blastmaster KRS-1 as its executive producer, Civilization Vs. Technology is an all-star project that employs a who's who of late 1980s and early 1990s rappers from the East Coast. L.L. Cool J, Public Enemy leader Chuck D, Run-D.M.C., Queen Latifah, Big Daddy Kane, Salt-N-Pepa, MC Lyte, Doug E. Fresh, Kool Moe Dee, and KRS himself are among the MCs featured on this very socio-political album. With an overall message of black pride and black unity (without a lot of separatist rhetoric, thankfully), this release encourages the black family to stay together. Ironically, the album's emphasis on family mirrors, in some respects, the "family values" message that Dr. Laura Schlesinger and other GOP conservatives espoused in the 1990s -- although it's safe to say that few of the left-leaning participants would identify themselves as either conservatives or Republicans. Though hip-hop-oriented, the CD employs some major reggae artists, including Ziggy Marley and Shabba Ranks. Also, a prominent rocker, R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe, is featured on the title song, which addresses environmental concerns. KRS' H.E.A.L. project (Human Education Against Lies) turned out to be more of a critical success than a commercial one. Civilization Vs. Technology enjoyed rave reviews in the hip-hop press, but in terms of sales, it hardly rivaled the million-selling gangsta rap releases of the early 1990s. KRS probably didn't find that surprising -- he has stated in interviews that while intelligence can sell, it doesn't sell as quickly or as easily as sex and violence. Although not as well-known as it should be, this is a CD that hip-hoppers should make a point of obtaining. (All Music Guide)
- published: 27 Apr 2012
- views: 76145
- author: PlaylistPanda2
2:25
Mahogany in the EMI Studio mixing Still Droppin the instrumental part 2
Mahogany is in the EMI studio in L.A, mixing down... "still droppin the instrumentals part...
published: 27 Apr 2012
author: PlaylistPanda2
Mahogany in the EMI Studio mixing Still Droppin the instrumental part 2
Mahogany is in the EMI studio in L.A, mixing down... "still droppin the instrumentals part 2"
- published: 27 Apr 2012
- views: 499
- author: PlaylistPanda2
4:43
Poetry Man - Queen Latifah
...
published: 27 Apr 2012
author: PlaylistPanda2
Poetry Man - Queen Latifah
- published: 27 Apr 2012
- views: 295
- author: PlaylistPanda2
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5:25
BONE PUGZ
Thanks and LOVE to Bone Thugs-N-Harmony. We and our dogs are huge fans of yours and made t...
published: 04 Apr 2012
author: Bone Pugz
BONE PUGZ
Thanks and LOVE to Bone Thugs-N-Harmony. We and our dogs are huge fans of yours and made this as a tribute.
Director: Abby Koocher
Director of Photography: Eusebio Delerme
Art Design and Direction: Abby Koocher & Lisa Rubin
Editor: Abby Koocher
VERY SPECIAL THANKS TO:
Bone Thugs-N-Harmony
Lulu & Coco-Jessica Setford
Baker-Danielle Green
Nigel-Mina Cheony
Perfect-Pat Arora
Lisa Rubin
Eusebio Delerme
Ashley Friedman
Chloe Seldman
P.R.M.
Rob Ferri
Michael Priest
Adam Jones
Jessica Joseph
Robin & Gerry
Queen Latifah
bonepugz@gmail.com
PHOTOGRAPHY FROM THE SHOOT HERE: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bonepugz/
TWITTER: @AbletKoocher
3:30
La réalisatrice Sanaa Hamri interviewée en darija par Simo Benbachir à New York
Movie director Sanaa Hamri interviewed in Darija ( Moroccan slang ) @ The premiere of Just...
published: 16 Aug 2011
author: Simo Benbachir
La réalisatrice Sanaa Hamri interviewée en darija par Simo Benbachir à New York
Movie director Sanaa Hamri interviewed in Darija ( Moroccan slang ) @ The premiere of Just Wright in N.Y
La réalisatrice Sanaa Hamri interviewée en darija par Simo Benbachir à New York lors de l'avant premiere du film ( Just Wright ) avec Queen Latifah, Common, Paula Patton, James Pickens Jr
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13:56
Naughty By Nature interview on Primat City TV
Vin Rock and Kay Gee of Naughty By Nature in an interview with Mista Min and Primate Rhyme...
published: 27 Apr 2012
author: PlaylistPanda2
Naughty By Nature interview on Primat City TV
Vin Rock and Kay Gee of Naughty By Nature in an interview with Mista Min and Primate Rhyme of Primat City TV, after their 2011 concert at Backstage Werk in Munich
- published: 27 Apr 2012
- views: 358
- author: PlaylistPanda2
4:22
Naughty By Nature - Wickedest Man Alive
Track 2 from their self-titled album. It features Queen Latifah...
published: 27 Apr 2012
author: PlaylistPanda2
Naughty By Nature - Wickedest Man Alive
Track 2 from their self-titled album. It features Queen Latifah
- published: 27 Apr 2012
- views: 90943
- author: PlaylistPanda2
3:44
Queen Latifah
...
published: 27 Apr 2012
author: PlaylistPanda2
Queen Latifah
- published: 27 Apr 2012
- views: 814
- author: PlaylistPanda2
4:25
Alicia Keys - Superwoman (live) - feat. Queen Latifah and Kathleen Battle - rare video
Superwoman - Alicia Keys feat. Queen Latifah and Kathleen Battle (live) (rare video) Ameri...
published: 23 May 2009
author: snoopygiorgio
Alicia Keys - Superwoman (live) - feat. Queen Latifah and Kathleen Battle - rare video
Superwoman - Alicia Keys feat. Queen Latifah and Kathleen Battle (live) (rare video) American Music Awards 2008 SuperPerformance
- published: 23 May 2009
- views: 250918
- author: snoopygiorgio
3:31
Live On Letterman - Queen Latifah
The Queen of music performs "Cue The Rain" from her new CD release, "Persona."...
published: 16 Jul 2009
author: CSIFAN3000
Live On Letterman - Queen Latifah
The Queen of music performs "Cue The Rain" from her new CD release, "Persona."
- published: 16 Jul 2009
- views: 29427
- author: CSIFAN3000
9:43
Queen Latifah Live 1991
nature of a sista' ladies first...
published: 17 Aug 2009
author: jackyabody0091
Queen Latifah Live 1991
nature of a sista' ladies first
- published: 17 Aug 2009
- views: 6590
- author: jackyabody0091
5:33
Poetry Man - Queen Latifah (Live)
Queen performed the Phoebe Snow classic, "Poetry Man" from her Trav'lin' Light CD on Live ...
published: 06 Jan 2009
author: Rmasai
Poetry Man - Queen Latifah (Live)
Queen performed the Phoebe Snow classic, "Poetry Man" from her Trav'lin' Light CD on Live Regis and Kelly. Great Performance.
- published: 06 Jan 2009
- views: 39306
- author: Rmasai
3:51
Queen Latifah - Latifah's Had It Up To Here Live
Queen Latifah On The Arsenio Hall Show...
published: 18 Oct 2008
author: DarianTheGreat1
Queen Latifah - Latifah's Had It Up To Here Live
Queen Latifah On The Arsenio Hall Show
- published: 18 Oct 2008
- views: 45551
- author: DarianTheGreat1
8:18
Queen Latifah- UNITY with Common and The Roots Live
Common and The Roots bring out Queen Latifah dudring their NY stop for theHennessy Artistr...
published: 08 Oct 2009
author: Potential718
Queen Latifah- UNITY with Common and The Roots Live
Common and The Roots bring out Queen Latifah dudring their NY stop for theHennessy Artistry Tour. Heres a clip of The Queen performing UNITY and then Black Thought and Common goin into a freestyle over the beat.
- published: 08 Oct 2009
- views: 21853
- author: Potential718
4:28
Alicia Keys (live) - Superwoman - feat. Queen Latifah and Kathleen Battle - rare video.flv
Superwoman - Alicia Keys feat. Queen Latifah and Kathleen Battle (live) (rare video) Ameri...
published: 25 Nov 2008
author: sign5432
Alicia Keys (live) - Superwoman - feat. Queen Latifah and Kathleen Battle - rare video.flv
Superwoman - Alicia Keys feat. Queen Latifah and Kathleen Battle (live) (rare video) American Music Awards 2008
- published: 25 Nov 2008
- views: 125741
- author: sign5432
2:47
Queen Latifah - 'I'm Gonna Live Till I Die'
Queen Latifah - 'I'm Gonna Live Till I Die' Dancing With The Stars Season 5 Week 2 October...
published: 25 Dec 2010
author: Codebear4
Queen Latifah - 'I'm Gonna Live Till I Die'
Queen Latifah - 'I'm Gonna Live Till I Die' Dancing With The Stars Season 5 Week 2 October 2, 2007 Victor Fung and Anna Mikhed
- published: 25 Dec 2010
- views: 13005
- author: Codebear4
4:01
Queen latifah Live - Just Another Day....
Live on the 90's sitcom Roc Starring Charles S. Dutton, Alexis Fields, Rocky Carroll, Ella...
published: 16 Apr 2009
author: ScaryJBlige
Queen latifah Live - Just Another Day....
Live on the 90's sitcom Roc Starring Charles S. Dutton, Alexis Fields, Rocky Carroll, Ella Joyce and Carl Gordon. Season 3/final epiosde "The concert" Introduced by Charles S Dutton as Roc Emerson
- published: 16 Apr 2009
- views: 31636
- author: ScaryJBlige
3:19
BAD GIRLS - Donna Summer & Queen Latifah (Live)
Bad Girls - Donna Summer and Queen Latifah (Live) Queen Latifah and Donna Summer ham it up...
published: 10 Mar 2009
author: stampyourfeet
BAD GIRLS - Donna Summer & Queen Latifah (Live)
Bad Girls - Donna Summer and Queen Latifah (Live) Queen Latifah and Donna Summer ham it up in a live performance of Summer's #1 hit, 'Bad Girls'.
- published: 10 Mar 2009
- views: 34956
- author: stampyourfeet
5:43
Queen Latifah -- "Mercy Mercy Mercy" (Live)
Queen Latifah performing "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy" at Long Beach Pride May 19, 2012....
published: 21 May 2012
author: VoProds
Queen Latifah -- "Mercy Mercy Mercy" (Live)
Queen Latifah performing "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy" at Long Beach Pride May 19, 2012.
- published: 21 May 2012
- views: 5905
- author: VoProds
4:20
Queen Latifah - I Know Where I've Been - Live! - Hairspray
Queen Latifah performing "I Know Where I've Been" (from Hairspray) live in Cleveland, Ohio...
published: 29 Dec 2007
author: MatthewChojnacki
Queen Latifah - I Know Where I've Been - Live! - Hairspray
Queen Latifah performing "I Know Where I've Been" (from Hairspray) live in Cleveland, Ohio on October 5, 2007 at the Palace Theater.
- published: 29 Dec 2007
- views: 170364
- author: MatthewChojnacki
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5:25
BONE PUGZ
Thanks and LOVE to Bone Thugs-N-Harmony. We and our dogs are huge fans of yours and made t...
published: 04 Apr 2012
author: Bone Pugz
BONE PUGZ
Thanks and LOVE to Bone Thugs-N-Harmony. We and our dogs are huge fans of yours and made this as a tribute.
Director: Abby Koocher
Director of Photography: Eusebio Delerme
Art Design and Direction: Abby Koocher & Lisa Rubin
Editor: Abby Koocher
VERY SPECIAL THANKS TO:
Bone Thugs-N-Harmony
Lulu & Coco-Jessica Setford
Baker-Danielle Green
Nigel-Mina Cheony
Perfect-Pat Arora
Lisa Rubin
Eusebio Delerme
Ashley Friedman
Chloe Seldman
P.R.M.
Rob Ferri
Michael Priest
Adam Jones
Jessica Joseph
Robin & Gerry
Queen Latifah
bonepugz@gmail.com
PHOTOGRAPHY FROM THE SHOOT HERE: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bonepugz/
TWITTER: @AbletKoocher
3:30
La réalisatrice Sanaa Hamri interviewée en darija par Simo Benbachir à New York
Movie director Sanaa Hamri interviewed in Darija ( Moroccan slang ) @ The premiere of Just...
published: 16 Aug 2011
author: Simo Benbachir
La réalisatrice Sanaa Hamri interviewée en darija par Simo Benbachir à New York
Movie director Sanaa Hamri interviewed in Darija ( Moroccan slang ) @ The premiere of Just Wright in N.Y
La réalisatrice Sanaa Hamri interviewée en darija par Simo Benbachir à New York lors de l'avant premiere du film ( Just Wright ) avec Queen Latifah, Common, Paula Patton, James Pickens Jr
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2:26
Queen Latifah sings Lush Life from Living Out Loud
Queen Latifah sings the jazz standard Lush Life from the movie Living Out Loud....
published: 06 Jul 2007
author: Ghball
Queen Latifah sings Lush Life from Living Out Loud
Queen Latifah sings the jazz standard Lush Life from the movie Living Out Loud.
- published: 06 Jul 2007
- views: 92222
- author: Ghball
3:52
Fly Girl Live- Queen Latifah
All Hail the Queen!!...
published: 07 Mar 2008
author: Eclectic1970
Fly Girl Live- Queen Latifah
All Hail the Queen!!
- published: 07 Mar 2008
- views: 50810
- author: Eclectic1970
10:08
Daryl Hall with Queen Latifah & The Roots - "Rich Girl"/"Sara Smile" - Live in Philly July 4 2012
Daryl Hall with Queen Latifah, The Roots, and DJ Jazzy Jeff - "Rich Girl"/"Sara Smile" "Wa...
published: 05 Jul 2012
author: ThatGuyInPhilly
Daryl Hall with Queen Latifah & The Roots - "Rich Girl"/"Sara Smile" - Live in Philly July 4 2012
Daryl Hall with Queen Latifah, The Roots, and DJ Jazzy Jeff - "Rich Girl"/"Sara Smile" "Wawa Welcome America Concert" - Live in Philadelphia - July 4, 2012 (6ABC WPVI-TV Philadelphia)
- published: 05 Jul 2012
- views: 36940
- author: ThatGuyInPhilly
8:42
Queen Latifah UNITY (Live in Concert)
UNITY...
published: 20 Apr 2008
author: DCSuperSid
Queen Latifah UNITY (Live in Concert)
UNITY
- published: 20 Apr 2008
- views: 12250
- author: DCSuperSid
photo: Creative Commons / Axou
24 Dec 2012
Steve Jobs was controversial in life, and now his high-tech mega-yacht is associated with a controversy long after his death. The former Apple CEO's ship was impounded in Amsterdam in the middle of a financial battle over a disputed bill. Phillippe Starck, a French product designer and architect, has alleged that Jobs' heirs owe him 3 million euros for his work on Venus, the 256-foot yacht Jobs commissioned before his death ... ... ....(size: 2.6Kb)
photo: WN / Janice Sabnal
27 Dec 2012
Washington. Six people, including two young children, were left dead in weather-related accidents, as winter snowstorms complicated travel for many Americans in the Midwest and Northeast on Wednesday. Snow totals in parts of Indiana ranged from 6 to 12 inches, CNN reported. About 350 snowploughs were clearing roads throughout the city. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo told residents they should avoid nonessential travel ... IANS ... ....(size: 2.2Kb)
photo: AP / Adel Hana
25 Dec 2012
Thousands of Christians from the world over have packed Manger Square in Bethlehem to celebrate the birth of Jesus in the ancient West Bank town where he was born. For their Palestinian hosts, this holiday season was an especially joyous one, with the hardships of the Israeli occupation that so often clouded previous Christmas Eve celebrations eased by the United Nations' recent recognition of an independent state of Palestine ... - AP. ....(size: 9.3Kb)
photo: AP / Hasan Jamali
26 Dec 2012
The six Gulf states have sharpened their tone against their neighbour Iran, demanding an immediate halt to its "interference" in their internal affairs while urging action to halt mass killings and violations of international law in Syria ... Sheikh Khalid Bin Ahmed Al-Khalifa, Bahrain's foreign minister, said. "There is very serious threat from many ways [by Iran] ... 419 Source.. Agencies ... The return of the queen? ... The return of the queen? ... ....(size: 18.7Kb)
Yahoo Music
27 Dec 2012
MC Lyte revealed that she was supposed to appear on Queen Latifah's classic female anthem "Ladies First" but passed on the opportunity ... Lyte added that she was glad, however, that Monie Love appeared on the song ... ....(size: 1.1Kb)
New York Post Online
27 Dec 2012
Cindy Adams. Elder President Bush and younger President Bush planned New Year’s Eve together. Boca Grande, Florida’s Gasparilla Inn & Club on the Gulf Coast where single, small closets start at $400 a night. Owner’s a DuPont, so the crust is seriously upper. I mean, have respect ... Now, less ... Back in the Queen’s good graces ... The Queen not happy ... Queen Latifah gets a talk show, reveals a secret, the public loves her....(size: 5.0Kb)
CNN
25 Dec 2012
December 25, 2012 -- Updated 1533 GMT (2333 HKT). "I've never wanted for something and then was able to make it happen. Life doesn't really work like that," Richard Gere told CNN. (CNN) -- Richard Gere is one of Hollywood's most recognizable and prolific movie stars ... The movie musical earned a whopping 13 nominations, including acting nods for Renee Zellweger, Queen Latifah and John C. Reilly ... CNN ... Richard Gere ... We all compromise constantly....(size: 7.3Kb)
The Los Angeles Times
22 Dec 2012
. SPECIALS. A Chipmunk Christmas. The squeaky-voiced rodents are back and looking to get to Carnegie Hall in this animated special (8.30 p.m. ABC). WWE Tribute to the Troops. Pro wrestling's finest, plus Flo Rida and Kid Rock, salute our armed services (9 p.m. NBC). MOVIES. The Wizard of Oz ... TNT) ... Dolly Parton and Queen Latifah play two headstrong women fighting for control of a small-town church choir in this musical 2012 comedy (8 p.m ... ....(size: 30.5Kb)
The Los Angeles Times
21 Dec 2012
But history does record that Beasley went on to write a jazz composition that landed him a scholarship at age 14; record with Miles Davis, Queen Latifah and Steely Dan, among many others; make music for TV's "Fame" and "Cheers"; contribute to film soundtracks including "The Godfather III"; and consistently craft jazz-funk-roots fusion discs that cause critics to use encomiums like, "a groove so deep you could fall right in." ... On Jan ... ....(size: 30.4Kb)
Chicago Sun-Times
21 Dec 2012
When movie reviewers compile their annual recaps, they almost never gush about the year as a whole. Either it was a horrible year or an average year or at best a pretty good year ... Or maybe it’s just the nature of the movie-reviewing beast. One imagines a critic in December of 1939, pounding away on his Underwood Master typewriter. ... In a cage match no one wanted to see, Dolly Parton and Queen Latifah squared off in “Joyful Noise.” ... “Argo”....(size: 7.2Kb)
The Hollywood Reporter
20 Dec 2012
share. Gabrielle Union will host the event, which will air on the network in February ... during Black History Month ... Previous honorees at BET Honors have included Cicely Tyson, Jamie Foxx, Whitney Houston, Queen Latifah and Sean "Diddy" Combs ... ....(size: 2.1Kb)
Yahoo Daily News
20 Dec 2012
Urban Mosaics offers $19.99 holiday special in honor of arrival for two new wearable art T-Shirt designs celebrating the beauty of curly to kinky natural hair ... "We're really excited about the release of our two new shirts just in time for the Holidays", said Stacy Edey, owner and founder of Urban Mosaics ... He has created artwork for President Barack Obama, Spike Lee, Will.I.Am, Queen Latifah, and countless other celebrities ... That's Dec ... ....(size: 3.8Kb)
ESPN
19 Dec 2012
This season, as we take a Total Access look at Tennessee, we'll also have quick visits with the Lady Vols. Sophomore Cierra Burdick, a 6-foot-2 forward averaging about eight points and seven rebounds, stands up to our Tenn Questions survey.. 1 ... Cierra Burdick ... Full name ... Sept ... 2 ... My favorite movie is going to have to be "Bringing Down The House" [with] Queen Latifah. I'm a big Queen Latifah and Will Smith fan, so I like anything they're in ... ....(size: 4.5Kb)
IMDb
19 Dec 2012
... Mad Money, starring Diane Keaton and Queen Latifah; and Brooklyn’s Finest, starring Richard Gere, Don Cheadle and Ethan Hawke....(size: 0.7Kb)
Indiewire
17 Dec 2012
.. While turning 40 in Judd Apatow's latest might not be pretty, the writer/director/producer knows that of the many things that mark mid-life, music is a big one. And perhaps more than any other of his films to date, "This Is 40" is stacked with music ... All The Songs In "This Is 40" ... Eminem ... "You Can't Stop The Beat" - Nikki Blonsky, Zac Efron, Amanda Bynes, Elijah Kelly, John Travolta, Queen Latifah....(size: 4.5Kb)
Star Tribune
15 Dec 2012
It was not my intention to ask a question that stumped comedian and actor Kim Coles ... She delivered a candid message about power, money and success from the perspective of someone who's enjoyed the ups and learned from the downs of Hollywood ... Q Do you stay in touch with your "Living Single" co-stars, Queen Latifah and Kim Fields? . A I don't get to see them as much, because Kim lives in Atlanta and Latifah's doing movies ... ....(size: 5.0Kb)
The Examiner
15 Dec 2012
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| Queen Latifah | |
|---|---|
 Latifah at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival. |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Dana Elaine Owens |
| Born | (1970-03-18) March 18, 1970 (age 42) |
| Origin | Newark, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Genres | R&B, soul, jazz, hip hop, gospel |
| Occupations | Singer-songwriter, rapper, actress, comedienne |
| Instruments | Piano, vocals |
| Years active | 1988–present |
| Labels | Verve A&M/Interscope Records Motown/PolyGram Records Tommy Boy/Warner Bros. Records Disney |
| Associated acts | Andrae Crouch and his Choir L.A. Mass Choir Lakim Shabazz Apache Chill Rob G DJ Mark the 45 King De La Soul Jungle Brothers A Tribe Called Quest |
| Website | QueenLatifah.com |
Dana Elaine Owens (born March 18, 1970),[1] better known by her stage name Queen Latifah, is an American singer, rapper, and actress. Her work in music, film and television has earned her a Golden Globe award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, two Image Awards, a Grammy Award, six additional Grammy nominations, an Emmy Award nomination and an Academy Award nomination.
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Early life[link]
Latifah was born, and primarily raised, in East Orange, New Jersey.[2] She is the daughter of Rita (née Bray), a teacher at Irvington High School (her daughter's alma mater), and Lancelot Owens, Sr., a police officer,[3][4][5] her parents divorced when Latifah was ten.[5] Latifah was raised in the Baptist church[6] and attended Catholic school in Newark, New Jersey.[7][8] Her stage name, Latifah (لطيفة laţīfa), meaning "delicate" and "very kind" in Arabic, she found in an Islamic book of names when she was eight.[5] Always a tall girl, the 5'10" Latifah was a power forward on her high school basketball team.[9][10] She performed the number "Home" from the musical The Wiz in a high school play.[11] She is of African American and Native American ancestry.[12]
Music career[link]
Beginning (1988–1989)[link]
She started beatboxing for the hip hop group Ladies Fresh and was one of the members of the original version of the Flavor Unit, which, at that time, was a crew of MCs grouped around producer DJ Mark the 45 King, who made a demo recording of Queen Latifah's rap Princess of the Posse. He gave the recording to Fab 5 Freddy, the host of Yo! MTV Raps. The song got the attention of Tommy Boy Music employee Dante Ross, who signed Latifah and in 1988 issued her first single, "Wrath of My Madness."
Rhyming (1989–2002)[link]
Freddy helped Latifah sign with Tommy Boy Records, which released Latifah's first album All Hail the Queen in 1989, when she was nineteen.[5] That year, she appeared as Referee on the UK label Music of Life album 1989—The Hustlers Convention (live). In 1998, co-produced by Ro Smith, now CEO of Def Ro Inc., she released her fourth hip-hop album Order in the Court, which was released by Motown Records.
Singing (2003–2007)[link]
After Order in the Court, Latifah shifted primarily to singing soul music and jazz standards, which she had used sparingly in her previous hip-hop-oriented records. In 2004, she released the soul/jazz standards The Dana Owens Album. On July 11, 2007, Latifah sang at the famed Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles as the headlining act in a live jazz concert. Before a crowd of more than 12,400, she was backed by a 10-piece live orchestra and three backup vocalists, which was billed as the Queen Latifah Orchestra. Latifah performed new arrangements of standards including "California Dreaming", first made popular by '60s icons The Mamas & the Papas. Later in 2007, Latifah released an album titled Trav'lin' Light. Jill Scott, Erykah Badu, Joe Sample, George Duke, Christian McBride, and Stevie Wonder made guest appearances.[13] It was nominated for a Grammy in the "Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album" category.[14]
In 2009, Latifah, along with the Jubilation Choir, recorded the title track on the album Oh, Happy Day: An All-Star Music Celebration, covering the song that the Edwin Hawkins Singers made popular in 1969.[15]
Return to hip hop (2008–present)[link]
In 2008, Latifah was asked if she would make another hip-hop album. She was quoted saying the album was done already and it would be called "All Hail the Queen II". It was rumored that the album would be named "The 'L' Word". When asked about the rumor, she stated it was her attempt to "mess with people's heads" referring to rumors that she is lesbian".[16] The following year, in 2009, she released her album, Persona. The song "Cue the Rain" was released as the album's lead single. She also has a song with Missy Elliott.[17] 2011 saw Queen Latifah sing "Who Can I Turn To" in a duet with Tony Bennett for his album "Duets II".[18] In January 2012, while appearing on 106 & Park with Dolly Parton, to promote Joyful Noise, Latifah stated that she had been working on a new album, set to release sometime in spring 2012.
Film and television[link]
Early career (1991–2001)[link]
From 1993–1998, Latifah had a starring role on Living Single, a Fox sitcom, which gained high ratings among black audiences;[5] she also wrote and performed its theme music. Her mother Rita played her mother on-screen.[19] She began her film career in supporting roles in the 1991 and 1992 films House Party 2, Juice and Jungle Fever. She had her own talk show, The Queen Latifah Show, from 1999 to 2001. She also had recurring roles during the second season (1991–1992) of the NBC hit The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. She made a guest role as herself on Hangin' with Mr. Cooper in 1993. Latifah appeared in the 1996 box-office hit, Set It Off and subsequently had a supporting role in the Holly Hunter film Living Out Loud (1998).[5] She played the role of Thelma in the 1999 movie The Bone Collector, alongside Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie.
Mainstream success (2002–present)[link]
Although she had already received some critical acclaim, she gained mainstream success after being cast as Matron "Mama" Morton in the Oscar-winning film adaptation of the musical Chicago, the recipient of the Best Picture Oscar.[5] Latifah received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her role, but lost to co-star Catherine Zeta-Jones.[5] Latifah is one of three hip-hop artists to receive an Academy Award nomination in an acting category (Best Supporting Actress, Chicago, 2002). The others are Will Smith (Best Actor, Ali, 2001, and Best Actor, The Pursuit of Happyness, 2006), and Jamie Foxx, (Best Actor, Ray, 2004).
In 2003, she starred with Steve Martin in the film Bringing Down the House, which was a major success at the box office.[5] She also recorded a song "Do Your Thing" for the soundtrack. Since then, she has had both leading and supporting roles in a multitude of films that received varied critical and box office receptions, including films such as Scary Movie 3, Barbershop 2: Back in Business, Taxi, Kung Faux, Beauty Shop, and Hairspray. In early 2006, Latifah appeared in a romantic comedy/drama entitled Last Holiday.[5] Film critic Richard Roeper stated that "this is the Queen Latifah performance I've been waiting for ever since she broke into movies".[20] Also in 2006, Latifah voiced Ellie, a friendly mammoth, in the animated film, Ice Age: The Meltdown (her first voice appearance in an animated film), and also appeared in the drama Stranger Than Fiction.
The summer of 2007 brought Latifah triple success in the big-screen version of the Broadway smash hit Hairspray, in which she acted, sang, and danced. The film rated highly with critics. It starred, among others, John Travolta (Grease), Michelle Pfeiffer (Stardust), Allison Janney (Juno), James Marsden (Enchanted), Christopher Walken (Catch Me If You Can) and Zac Efron (High School Musical). Also in 2007, she portrayed an HIV-positive woman in the film Life Support, a role for which she garnered her first Golden Globe Award, Screen Actors Guild Award and an Emmy[21] nomination. For her work, Queen Latifah received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, on January 4, 2006, located at 6915 Hollywood Blvd.
Latifah produced the 2007 film The Perfect Holiday. In addition to producing the film, Latifah starred alongside Terrence Howard, Morris Chestnut, Gabrielle Union, Charles Q. Murphy, Jill Marie Jones, and Faizon Love.[22] In 2008, Latifah appeared in the crime comedy Mad Money opposite Academy Award-winner Diane Keaton as well as Katie Holmes and Ted Danson. She appeared on Saturday Night Live on October 4, 2008, as moderator Gwen Ifill impersonator in a comedic sketch depicting the recent vice-presidential debate.[23] In 2009, Latifah was a presenter at the 81st Academy Awards, presenting the segment honoring film professionals who had died during 2008 and singing "I'll Be Seeing You" during the montage. Latifah spoke at Michael Jackson's memorial service in Los Angeles. She also hosted the 2010 People's Choice Awards. Latifah sang America the Beautiful at Super Bowl XLIV hosted in Miami, Florida on February 7, 2010, with Carrie Underwood. Latifah hosted the 2010 BET Awards on June 27, 2010. She starred with Dolly Parton in Joyful Noise (2012).[24]
Products and endorsements[link]
Latifah is a celebrity spokesperson for CoverGirl cosmetics, Curvation ladies underwear, Pizza Hut and Jenny Craig.[25] She represents her own line of cosmetics for women of color called the CoverGirl Queen Collection.[26] Latifah has also launched a perfume line called "Queen."
Personal life[link]
Raised in East Orange, New Jersey, she has been a resident of Colts Neck, New Jersey.[27]
Latifah was asked by Maya Angelou, who was unable to attend, to recite a poem written by Angelou at the memorial service for Michael Jackson in July 2009.
In March 2012, it was reported that Latifah planned on adopting her first child from Africa.
Family tragedies[link]
Latifah's older brother, Lancelot Jr., was killed in 1992 in an accident involving a motorcycle that Latifah had recently bought him.[5] Latifah still wears the key to the motorcycle around her neck,[5] which can be seen throughout her performance in her sitcom Living Single. She also dedicated Black Reign to him. In her 1999 autobiography, Ladies First: Revelations of a Strong Woman, Latifah discussed how her brother's death had led to a bout of depression and drug abuse, from which she later recovered. In 1993, Latifah was the victim of a carjacking, which also resulted in the shooting of a friend.
Legal issues[link]
In 1996, she was arrested and charged with possession of marijuana and possession of a loaded handgun.[28]
Breast reduction surgery[link]
In early 2003, Latifah had breast reduction surgery which downsized her F size breasts to a double D cup size, as a way to reduce back and shoulder pain. She also works out with a trainer and kickboxes.[29]
Discography[link]
Main article: Queen Latifah discography
- 1989: All Hail the Queen
- 1991: Nature of a Sista
- 1993: Black Reign
- 1998: Order in the Court
- 2004: The Dana Owens Album
- 2007: Trav'lin' Light
- 2009: Persona
Tours[link]
- Sugar Water Festival Tour (2005), (2006)
Queen Latifah, Jill Scott & Erykah Badu joined together to create and own the rights to the Sugar Water Festival Tour, LLC. All three performers toured together, while inviting music duo Floetry in 2005 and singer Kelis in 2006 as opening acts. Comedian/actress Mo'Nique served as host for the 2006 Sugar Water Tour.
Filmography[link]
References[link]
- ^ Jason Buchanan, Allmovie (2008). "Queen Latifah:Biography". MSN. http://movies.msn.com/celebrities/celebrity-biography/queen-latifah.1/. Retrieved September 4, 2008.
- ^ On Da Come Up with Clap Cognac from HipHopRuckus.com, date February 24, 2009. Retrieved June 13, 2009
- ^ Hyman, Vicki (July 18, 2007). "The Queen holds court". The Star-Ledger. http://www.nj.com/entertainment/ledger/index.ssf?/base/entertainment-1/118473419494000.xml&coll=1. Retrieved July 21, 2007.
- ^ Witchel, Alex (October 5, 2008). "Her Highness Still Rules". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/05/magazine/05latifah-t.html?pagewanted=print.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Stated in interview on Inside the Actors Studio, 2006
- ^ Queen Latifah Discusses God, Jesus, Rap, and Her New Movie, 'Last Holiday,' in this Beliefnet Interview –. Beliefnet.com. Retrieved on 2011-10-01.
- ^ Winfrey, Oprah (July 15, 2007). "Queen Latifah's Aha! Moment". The Oprah Winfrey Show. http://www.oprah.com/spirit/Queen-Latifahs-Aha-Moment. Retrieved September 16, 2010.
- ^ Rochlin, Margy (October, 2008). "Queen Latifah: Queen Bee". Reader's Digest. http://www.rd.com/your-america-inspiring-people-and-stories/queen-latifah-queen-bee-interview/article99958.html. Retrieved September 19, 2010.
- ^ bio. People.com. Retrieved on 2011-10-01.
- ^ "'Queen' Of Many Hats". CBS News. January 8, 2003. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/01/08/earlyshow/leisure/celebspot/main535725.shtml.
- ^ Queen Latifah | Music Artist | Videos, News, Photos & Ringtones. MTV (1970-03-18). Retrieved on 2011-10-01.
- ^ http://ethnicelebs.com/queen-latifah
- ^ "LATIFAH OPENING FATBURGER IN MIAMI: Plus, new album due September 25". EURweb. July 17, 2007. http://www.eurweb.com/story/eur35097.cfm.
- ^ GRAMMY.com[dead link]
- ^ "Jon Bon Jovi, Queen Latifah go gospel for "Day"". Reuters. March 27, 2009. http://www.reuters.com/article/musicNews/idUSTRE52Q6WQ20090327.
- ^ "Lesbian album scares Queen Latifah". lesbilicious.co.uk. http://www.lesbilicious.co.uk/music/lesbian-album-scares-queen-latifah/.
- ^ "Queen Latifah Returns to Hip-Hop With Dre on LP She Nearly Named "The L Word"". http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2008/09/12/queen-latifah-returns-to-hip-hop-with-dr-dre-on-lp-she-nearly-named-the-l-word/.
- ^ "iTunes – Music – Duets II by Tony Bennett". http://itunes.apple.com/au/album/duets-ii/id462337212/.
- ^ "In Its 4th Season 'Living Single' Still Tops With Black Viewers". Jet. 5 May 1997. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ejkDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA36. Retrieved 11 July 2010.
- ^ Roger Ebert; Richard Roeper (January 9, 2006). "Reviews for the Weekend of January 7–8, 2006". Movies.com. http://tvplex.go.com/buenavista/ebertandroeper/060109.html. Retrieved February 16, 2007.
- ^ Queen Latifah Emmy Nominated
- ^ Roz Stevenson (March 1, 2006). "Queen Latifah Makes Animated Film Debut". EURWeb.com. http://eurweb.com/story/eur25611.cfm. Retrieved February 16, 2007.
- ^ Saturday Night Live – All Videos : Newest – Videos. NBC.com. Retrieved on 2011-10-01.
- ^ Ziegbe, Mawuse. (2010-08-21) Queen Latifah, Dolly Parton To Make 'Joyful Noise' – Music, Celebrity, Artist News. MTV. Retrieved on 2011-10-01.
- ^ "Queen Latifah is the Newest Face of Jenny Craig", ETonline.com, January 10, 2008
- ^ Covergirl. Covergirl. Retrieved on 2011-10-01.
- ^ "The Robertson Treatment Vol. 6.7; Queen Latifah holding court in Hollywood!", Baltimore Afro-American, March 28, 2003. She is 6 foot 1, about 200 pounds. Accessed December 11, 2007. "'I've always loved musicals,' admits the actress who was born Dana Owens and was raised in the East Orange, NJ area and who presently lives in Rumson, NJ."
- ^ "Queen Latifa arrested in California for carrying loaded pistol and the possession of marijuana". Jet. February 19, 1996. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1355/is_n14_v89/ai_18004767. Retrieved July 8, 2008.
- ^ Suzanne Rozdeba; Ben Widdicombe (June 22, 2003). "To 'C' the Queen". New York Daily News. http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/94618p-85741c.html. Retrieved February 16, 2007.
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| Monie Love | |
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| Birth name | Simone Gooden |
| Also known as | Monie Love |
| Born | (1970-07-02) 2 July 1970 (age 41) |
| Origin | London, England |
| Genres | Hip hop BritHop New jack swing |
| Years active | 1989–present |
| Labels | Warner Bros. Records Cooltempo/Chrysalis/EMI Records Tuff Groove |
| Associated acts | Native Tongues Dave Angel |
Simone Gooden (born 2 July 1970), better known by her stage name Monie Love, is an English emcee and former radio personality in the United States. She was a well-respected figure in British hip hop, and made an impact with American hip hop audiences as a protégé of female American emcee Queen Latifah, as well as through her membership in the late 1980s/early 1990s Native Tongues. Love was one of the first BritHop artists to be signed and distributed worldwide by a major record label.
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Early years[link]
Love was born in the Battersea area of London. She is the younger sister of techno musician Dave Angel, and was a daughter of a London-based, jazz musician father.
Musical career[link]
Love began her hip hop/BritHop career as an emcee in the British Jus Bad crew, which featured DJ Pogo, Sparki, and MC Mell'O'. The group released the single "Free Style/Proud" on the independent Tuff Groove record label in 1988.
Love first gained critical and commercial notice in the United States in 1989 for her cameos on Queen Latifah's Grammy Award-winning and pro-woman single "Ladies First," on Adeva's "Ring My Bell," on the Jungle Brothers' well-received single "Doin' Our Own Dang," and on De La Soul's hit single "Buddy." The acclaim led her to a recording contract with Warner Bros. Records, making Love one of the few British hip-hop efforts released by a major label.
Love also has a place in hip-hop history as a member of the Native Tongues, a positive-minded hip-hop collective that included Queen Latifah, De La Soul, A Tribe Called Quest, the Jungle Brothers, and a number of other acts. Her versatility was demonstrated with her involvement in the emerging popularity of House music, with her own single Grandpa's Party as well as providing rap for the The Dancin' Danny D Remix of Adeva's house hit Respect.
Love's debut album, Down To Earth, spawned two, Grammy-nominated hits, "Monie in the Middle" (a high school-set track dealing with a woman's right to determine what she wants out of a relationship) and "It's a Shame (My Sister)" (which sampled The Spinners' "It's a Shame" written for the band by Stevie Wonder) and featured house-music vocalist and then-labelmate Ultra Naté. The album reached #26 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart.[1]
Love also appears on the song titled "United" from Inner City's third album, Praise.
Love was featured on her brother Dave Angel's remix of Whitney Houston's R&B hit "My Name Is Not Susan" in 1991, and appeared in the music video alongside Houston. Love's 1992 single, "Full-Term Love," from the Class Act movie soundtrack, reached #7 on the Hot Hip-Hop Singles chart.[2]
Love collaborated with Marley Marl on her second album, In a Word or 2 (1993), which featured the Prince-produced single "Born To B.R.E.E.D." (which reached #1 on the Hot Dance Music chart and #7 on the Hot Rap Singles chart), as well as a re-release of "Full-Term Love."[2] The same year, Prince asked her to write lyrics for a few songs on a side-project, Carmen Electra's eponymous album, Carmen Electra.
Love's last musical release was the EP "Slice of Da Pie" in 2000.
Radio career[link]
From 2004 until the week of 11 December 2006, Love was the morning drive host on Philadelphia's WPHI-FM 100.3. The 22 December 2006 edition of the Philadelphia Daily News confirmed that Love left WPHI-FM on amicable terms after contract negotiations stalled.[3] Love's departure from WPHI followed soon after her December 2006 interview with Young Jeezy, where the two argued over whether hip hop is dead.[4]
Love is also an Official MySpace.com DJ, according to her MySpace page.
Love currently resides in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and is the single mother to four children.
Currently, she has a radio show on XM Satellite Radio called Ladies First Radio with Monie Love. It airs Thursdays 6PM ET and Sundays 8PM ET.
Discography[link]
Albums[link]
| Year | Title | Chart positions | |
|---|---|---|---|
| U.S. | U.S. R&B | ||
| 1990 | Down to Earth
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109 | 26 |
| 1993 | In a Word or 2
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– | 75 |
Solo EPs/Singles[link]
| Album information |
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Slice Of Da Pie EP
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Featured singles[link]
- "Ladies First" (Queen Latifah featuring Monie Love)
References[link]
- ^ Henderson, Alex. "Allmusic Down To Earth Review". AllMusic.com. http://www.allmusic.com/album/r28134. Retrieved 2006-11-18.
- ^ a b Henderson, Alex. "Allmusic In A Word Or 2 Review". AllMusic.com. http://www.allmusic.com/album/r169246. Retrieved 2006-11-18.
- ^ Conrad, Laurie T. (2006-12-22). "Tattle: No mo' Monie". Philadelphia Daily News (philly.com). Archived from the original on 24 October 2007. http://web.archive.org/web/20071024034627/http://philly.com/mld/philly/entertainment/16296557.htm. Retrieved 2006-12-25.
- ^ Bolden, Janee (2006-12-22). "Monie Love Gets None, Officially Off The Air In Philly". SOHH.com. http://www.sohh.com/articles/article.php/10524. Retrieved 2007-05-29.
External links[link]
- AllMusic.com Biography - Monie Love
- Monie Love's myspace.com page
- Monie Love Discography on Discogs
- A site focusing on the early days of Hip Hop development in the UK
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| Name | Monie Love |
| Alternative names | Simone Wilson |
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| Date of birth | 2 July 1970 |
| Place of birth | London, England |
| Date of death | |
| Place of death | |
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| MC Lyte | |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Lana Michele Moorer |
| Born | (1971-10-11) October 11, 1971 (age 40) Brooklyn, New York |
| Genres | Hip hop, R&B |
| Occupations | Emcee-songwriter, narrator, mentor, actress |
| Years active | 1986–present |
| Labels | DuBose Music Group[1] First Priority Music Elektra Records |
| Website | MC Lyte.com |
MC Lyte (born Lana Michele Moorer; October 11, 1971) is an American rapper who first gained fame in the late-1980s becoming the first solo female rapper to release a full album with 1988's critically acclaimed Lyte as a Rock.
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Early life[link]
Lyte was born Lana Michelle Moorer in 1971. Raised in Brooklyn, Lyte began rapping at the age of 12. Two of her brothers later formed the hip-hop duo, Audio Two, which later helped to collaborate on Lyte's records. Lyte recorded her first song, "I Cram to Understand U (Sam)", in 1986. Lyte had originally written the song in 1984. The song, about a relationship that fell apart due to the protagonist's lover's crack addiction, got her notice from First Priority, who signed Lyte in late 1987. Soon after she was signed with Atlantic Records by its VP Sylvia Rhone.
Musical career[link]
Her first album, Lyte as a Rock, was released in September 1988 and was noted for the hit "Paper Thin" and the battle rap, "10% Dis", which was a response from then-Hurby Azor associate Antoinette. Both rappers released battle records against each other. Lyte followed her debut with 1989's Eyes on This, which spawned the hits "Cha Cha Cha" and "Cappucino". Both albums were notable for Lyte's uncensored lyrical matter. Lyte sweetened up a little on 1991's Act Like You Know, noted for its new jack swing sound and the hit single, "Poor Georgie". Lyte's fourth album, 1993's Ain't No Other, became her first to reach gold status and was notable for her first top 40 pop hit, "Ruffneck". Lyte became a featured artist on hits by Janet Jackson and Brandy in 1994.
Two years afterwards, Lyte's fifth album, Bad As I Wanna B, featured production from Jermaine Dupri and Sean Combs and featured the hits "Keep On, Keepin' On" and "Cold Rock a Party", which featured then up-and-coming rapper, songwriter and producer Missy Elliott. This album was her first with East West Records and became successful after the aforementioned singles became big hits with "Keep On Keepin' On" peaking at the top ten and "Cold Rock a Party" peaking at number-eleven. It was her second gold album. Her 1998 follow-up, Seven & Seven, however, wasn't as successful and she left East West by the end of the decade. Lyte released the independently produced record The Undaground Heat featuring Jamie Foxx, in 2003, notable for the song, "Ride Wit Me". The single was nominated for both a Grammy and a BET award.
Acting career[link]
Lyte has been featured on television as herself on such shows as MTV Unplugged, In Living Color, Moesha, New York Undercover, My Wife and Kids, and Sisters in the Name of Rap. She has also acted on TV as a character (not as "MC Lyte") in such shows as In the House, Get Real, Half & Half, and The District.
Her first acting role was in 1991, an off Broadway theater play entitled Club Twelve, a Hip-hop twist on The Twelfth Night alongside Wyclef Jean, Lauryn Hill and Lisa Nicole Carson. After she acted in a film was in the 1993 movie titled Fly by Night, starring alongside Jeffrey Sams, Ron Brice, and Steve Gomer. Since then she has also starred other films, such as A Luv Tale (1999), Train Ride (2000), Civil Brand (2002) and Playa's Ball (2003). She guest starred with Tyler the Creator and Childish Gambino on Regular Show.
Other activities[link]
In 1996 Lyte began what is now a very successful voice over career. She has voiced campaigns with several corporate brands. Lyte also voiced a short-lived BET show called "The Boot"[2] and has just signed on to become a voice for the branding of the STARZ network.
In 2007 Lyte joined the cast of MTV's Celebrity Rap Superstar[3] and coached Shar Jackson to a hip hop mc victory in a mere 8 weeks. During that same time Lyte hit the road in between shooting and joined The Roots for a nationwide VH1 House of Blues Tour.
She has also recently opened Shaitel, a Los Angeles boutique that specializes in accessories from belts to sunglasses. "We sell a mixture of new and vintage [items]," explains Lyte. "We also have a few signature pieces that are done just for the store. We boast to bring a little New York flavor out here to California." [4]
In February 2006, her diary, as well as a turntable, records, and other assorted ephemera from the early days of hip hop, were donated to the Smithsonian Institution.[5] This collection, entitled "Hip-Hop Won’t Stop: The Beat, The Rhymes, The Life" is a program to assemble objects of historical relevance to the hip hop genre from its inception.[6]
In October 2006, MC Lyte was one of the honored hip hop artists on VH1's annual award show Hip Hop Honors.[7] She was joined by fellow female MC's Da Brat, Remy Ma, and Lil' Kim as they performed some of her tracks, "Cha Cha Cha," "Lyte as a Rock," "Paper-Thin," and "Ruffneck." She previously took part in the MTV reality series Celebrity Rap Superstar as the mentor of Moesha actress Shar Jackson. She is also an honorary member of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc.
In 2005, she released two songs produced by Richard "Wolfie" Wolf called "Can I Get It Now" & "Don't Walk Away" (with Meechie), both available at the iTunes store. In 2007, she released a song called "Mad at Me" available at the iTunes store. In 2008, she released two songs called "Juke Joint" (on both UK & US) & "Get Lyte" (exclusive to US) available at the iTunes store. In 2009, she released a song at the iTunes store called "Brooklyn."
MC Lyte's song "My main aim" is the title song for the console and computer game 'NBA Live 2005' by 'EA sports'.
Discography[link]
Main article: MC Lyte discography
See also[link]
References[link]
- ^ "MC Lyte: Still Rockin' With The Best (Interview by Han O'Connor)". Allhiphop.com. 2010-01-13. http://allhiphop.com/stories/features/archive/2010/01/13/22094450.aspx/. Retrieved 2010-01-18. [dead link]
- ^ [1][dead link]
- ^ Celebrity Rap Superstar | Ep. 101 | Let The Raps Begin | Episode Summary, Video, Photos | MTV
- ^ MC Lyte‚ Biography‚ Famous MC Lyte Birthday‚ Profile‚ MC Lyte Career‚ Achievements
- ^ Latin American Herald Tribune - MC Lyte’s diary goes to Smithsonian
- ^ "Hip-Hop Comes to the Smithsonian" (Press release). National Museum of American History. 2006-02-28. http://americanhistory.si.edu/news/pressrelease.cfm?key=29&newskey=318. Retrieved 2008-03-06.
- ^ VH1 Hip Hop Honors 2006: Da Brat Does MC Lyte
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| Alternative names | MC Lyte |
| Short description | Hip hop artist, actor, author, activist, |
| Date of birth | October 11, 1971 |
| Place of birth | Brooklyn, New York City, United States |
| Date of death | |
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| Meshell Ndegeocello | |
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 Meshell Ndegeocello performing in Washington, D.C., 2007 |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Michelle Lynn Johnson |
| Also known as | Meshell Suhaila Bashir-Shakur Me'Shell NdegéOcello |
| Born | (1968-08-29) August 29, 1968 (age 43) Berlin, Germany |
| Origin | Washington, D.C., United States |
| Genres | Funk, jazz, soul, R&B, hip hop, reggae, rock |
| Occupations | Musician, songwriter, rapper |
| Instruments | Vocals, bass |
| Years active | 1993–present |
| Labels | Maverick, Reprise, Warner Bros, Shanachie, EmArcy, Decca, Universal, Mercer Street/Downtown |
| Associated acts | John Mellencamp |
| Website | www.meshell.com |
Meshell Ndegeocello (born Michelle Lynn Johnson, August 29, 1968) is an American singer-songwriter, rapper, bassist, and vocalist. Her music incorporates a wide variety of influences, including funk, soul, hip hop, reggae, R&B, rock, and jazz. She has received significant critical acclaim throughout her career,[1][2] and has had ten career Grammy Award nominations.[3] She has been credited for having "sparked the neo-soul movement."[4]
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Biography[link]
Ndegeocello was born Michelle Lynn Johnson in Berlin, Germany, to army lieutenant and saxophonist father Jacques Johnson and health care worker mother Helen. She was raised in Washington, D.C. where she attended Duke Ellington School of the Arts and Oxon Hill High School. In early press releases from Maverick Records her birth year was erroneously listed as 1969. The 1968 birth date has been confirmed through a previous manager and lifelong friend.[citation needed]
Named Michelle Lynn Johnson at birth, Ndegeocello adopted her surname at the age of 17, which she says means "free like a bird" in Swahili. Meshell Ndegeocello is pronounced Mee-shell N-deh-gay-o-chel-o. Early pressings of Plantation Lullabies were stickered with the instructions. The spelling has changed in the hands of record labels a few times during her career; however, the correct spelling of her stage name is now Meshell Ndegeocello.[5]
Personal life[link]
Ndegeocello is bisexual and previously had a relationship with feminist author Rebecca Walker. She suffers from photosensitive epilepsy and is susceptible to seizures induced by flash photography when she is performing live. Her son Solomon was born in 1989.[6] She has gone by the name Meshell Suhaila Bashir-Shakur which is used as a writing credit on some of her later work.[7] She is a Muslim.[8]
Career[link]
Ndegeocello honed her skills on the D.C. go-go circuit[where?] in the late 1980s with the bands Prophecy, Little Bennie and the Masters, and Rare Essence [9] She unsuccessfully tried out for Living Colour's bassist position, vacated in 1992 by Muzz Skillings. Going solo, she was one of the first artists to sign with Maverick Records, where she released her debut album, Plantation Lullabies. This recording presented a distinctly androgynous persona.
Her biggest hit is a duet with John Mellencamp, a cover version of Van Morrison's "Wild Night", which reached #3 on the Billboard charts. Her only other Billboard Hot 100 hit besides "Wild Night" has been her self-penned "If That's Your Boyfriend (He Wasn't Last Night)", which peaked at #73 in 1994. Also in 1994, Ndegeocello collaborated with Herbie Hancock on "Nocturnal Sunshine," a track for the Red Hot Organization's compilation album, Stolen Moments: Red Hot + Cool. The album, meant to raise awareness and funds in support of the AIDS epidemic in relation to the African American community, was heralded as "Album of the Year" by Time magazine.
She had a No. 1 Dance hit in 1996 with a Bill Withers cover song called "Who Is He (and What Is He To You?)" (briefly featured in the film Jerry Maguire) as well as Dance Top 20 hits with "Earth", "Leviticus: Faggot", "Stay" and the aforementioned "If That's Your Boyfriend.. Last Night)". Ndegeocello played bass on the song "I'd Rather be Your Lover" for Madonna on her album Bedtime Stories.[citation needed] Ndegeocello was also tapped, at the last minute, to perform a rap on the same song. This came after Madonna and producers decided to remove Tupac Shakur's rap (which he did while he and Madonna were dating in 1994), after he had criminal charges filed against him.[citation needed]
Her music has been featured in a number of film soundtracks including How Stella Got Her Groove Back, Lost & Delirious, Batman & Robin, Love Jones, Love & Basketball, Talk To Me, Tyler Perry's Daddy's Little Girls,The Best Man, Higher Learning, Down in the Delta, The Hurricane, and Soul Men.
She has appeared on recordings by Basement Jaxx, Indigo Girls, and The Blind Boys of Alabama. On The Rolling Stones' 1997 album Bridges to Babylon she plays bass on the song "Saint Of Me". On Alanis Morissette's 2002 album Under Rug Swept, she plays bass on the songs "So Unsexy" and "You Owe Me Nothing in Return". On Zap Mama's album ReCreation (2009), she plays bass on the song "African Diamond".
She can also be seen in the documentary Standing in the Shadows of Motown, singing The Miracles' "You've Really Got a Hold on Me" and The Temptations' "Cloud Nine". In the late 1990s, she toured with Lilith Fair. She also did a remake of the song, "Two Doors Down" on the 2003 release, Just Because I'm A Woman: The Songs of Dolly Parton.
Ndegeocello was also a judge for the 2nd annual Independent Music Awards to support independent artists' careers.[10]
Her song “Tie One On” was chosen as the Starbucks iTunes Pick of the Week on February 23, 2010.[11]
Activism[link]
In 2002, Ndegeocello collaborated with Yerba Buena on a track featuring Ron Black for the Red Hot Organization's tribute album to Fela Kuti, Red Hot and Riot. Proceeds from the album went to various AIDS charities, per the Red Hot Organization's mission.
In June 2010, she contributed a cover of U2's "40"[where?] to the Enough Project and Downtown Records' Raise Hope for Congo compilation. Proceeds from the compilation fund efforts to make the protection and empowerment of Congo’s women a priority, as well as inspire individuals around the world to raise their voice for peace in Congo.
In 2010, Ndegeocello contributed to the essay anthology It Gets Better: Coming Out, Overcoming Bullying, and Creating a Life Worth Living, edited by Dan Savage and Terry Miller in the vein of the It Gets Better Project.
Discography[link]
Studio albums[link]
- 1993: Plantation Lullabies (Maverick)
- 1996: Peace Beyond Passion (Maverick)
- 1999: Bitter (Maverick)
- 2002: Cookie: The Anthropological Mixtape (Maverick)
- 2003: Comfort Woman (Maverick)
- 2005: The Spirit Music Jamia: Dance of the Infidel (Shanachie)
- 2007: The World Has Made Me the Man of My Dreams (EmArcy)
- 2009: Devil's Halo (Downtown)
- 2011: Weather (Naïve)
EPs[link]
- 2006: The Article 3 (EmArcy)
Singles[link]
- 1993: If That's Your Boyfriend (He Wasn't Last Night) (Maverick)
References[link]
- ^ Lecaro, Lena (2002-10-24). "Head, heart and soul". Los Angeles Times. pp. E–12. http://articles.latimes.com/2002/oct/24/news/wk-pop24. Retrieved 2009-02-28.
- ^ "Grammy Nominations For J J Cale, Bettye LaVette and Meshell Ndegeocello - Just Announced". News, December 2007. The Rosebud Agency. 2007-12-06. http://www.rosebudus.com/rosebud/news/07-12.html. Retrieved 2009-02-28. [dead link]
- ^ "Meshell Ndegeocello to Perform at 'You Rock My Soul' GMHC Benefit Concert at Carnegie Hall on November 11th". NY Rock. 2002-08-14. http://www.nyrock.com/worldbeat/08_2002/081402b.asp. Retrieved 2009-02-28.
- ^ Yarbrough, Kenya (2002-08-09). "Me'Shell Ndegeocello: One Tough "Cookie"". EURweb. Rabercom Enterprises. http://www.eurweb.com/story/eur7644.cfm. Retrieved 2009-02-28.
- ^ "FreeMyHeart.com". FreeMyHeart.com. 2001-03-03. http://www.freemyheart.com. Retrieved 2011-07-18.
- ^ Zwerin, Mike (1994-02-23). "Me'Shell - Debut on Madonna Label - NYTimes.com". International Herald Tribune. http://www.iht.com/articles/1994/02/23/meshell.php. Retrieved 2011-07-18.
- ^ Layman, Will. "Me'Shell Ndegeocello: The Spirit Music Jamia: Dance of the Infidels < PopMatters". Popmatters.com. http://www.popmatters.com/music/reviews/n/ndegeocellomeshell-dance.shtml. Retrieved 2011-07-18.
- ^ Get Comfortable: A Q&A With Meshell Ndegeocello
- ^ Wiltz, Teresa (2005-06-19). "Meshell Ndegeocello Breaks Step With Pop". Washington Post: pp. N01. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/17/AR2005061700715_pf.html
- ^ "Past Judges". Independent Music Awards. http://www.independentmusicawards.com/ima_new/pastjudges.asp. Retrieved 2011-07-18.
- ^ Posted by Heringer (2010-02-23). "Starbucks iTunes Pick of the Week - Meshell Ndegeocello - Tie One On". www.mark-heringer.com. http://www.mark-heringer.com/2010/02/starbucks-itunes-pick-of-week-meshell.html. Retrieved 2011-07-18.
External links[link]
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- Official website
- Meshell Ndegeocello discography at Discogs
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- Extensive audio interview on public radio program The Sound of Young America
- Meshell live at Glastonbury, 1994 footage (pt.1)
- Meshell live at Glastonbury, 1994 footage (pt.2)
- Meshell performance and interview at Weeksville, 2011
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| Name | Ndegeocello, Meshell |
| Alternative names | Johnson, Michelle Lynn |
| Short description | American Songwriter, musician, and LGBT activist |
| Date of birth | August 29, 1968 |
| Place of birth | Berlin, Germany |
| Date of death | |
| Place of death | |
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| Daryl Hall | |
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| Daryl Hall in December 2011. Photo by Matthew Becker Daryl Hall in December 2011. Photo by Matthew Becker |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Daryl Franklin Hohl |
| Born | (1946-10-11) October 11, 1946 (age 65) |
| Origin | Pottstown, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Genres | Soul, R&B, pop rock |
| Instruments | Vocals, guitar, keyboards |
| Years active | 1958–present |
| Labels | Atlantic Records RCA Records Epic Records Arista Records U-Watch Records |
| Associated acts | Carly Simon, Hall & Oates |
| Website | www.hallandoates.com |
Daryl Hall (born October 11, 1946) is an American rock, R&B and soul singer, keyboardist, guitarist, songwriter and producer, best known as the co-founder and lead vocalist of Hall & Oates (with co-founder/guitarist/songwriter John Oates). Hall scored several Billboard chart hits in the 1970s and early 1980s, and is regarded as one of the best soul singers of his generation.[1] Guitarist Robert Fripp,[2] who collaborated with him in the late 1970s and early 1980s, has written, "Daryl's pipes were a wonder. I have never worked with a more able singer." Since late 2007, he has hosted the web television series, Live From Daryl's House. He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2004.[3]
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Early life and career[link]
Daryl Franklin Hohl was born in Pottstown, a Pennsylvania borough 40 miles from Philadelphia. He started a recording career during and after attending Owen J. Roberts High School, from which he graduated in 1965 and entered Philadelphia's Temple University, majoring in music, while working with Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff as both an artist and session musician. Pursuing his goals in the big city, Hall quickly formed creative affiliations with such artists as Smokey Robinson, the Temptations and many other top soul singers of the 1960s.
In 1967, he met John Oates, also a college student from Temple, and embarked on a 30-odd year creative journey. According to Daryl Hall they met when, "We got in the middle of a fight at a dance - I have no idea what the fight was about. I guess the Greek letters on one gang's jackets didn't appeal to the other gang. We both beat it out the back and met on the elevator while leaving the place rather quickly." Hall was already a senior, while Oates was a freshman, and both had played it out temporarily, until Oates transferred schools, at only 19. Daryl did not let this discourage his musical career as he worked in a short-lived rock band Gulliver. By 1969, just one year after his dropout from college, Hall went back to concentrating on recording other artists, which led them into signing their very first record contract, early in 1972.
Hall & Oates[link]
Main article: Hall & Oates
Signed to Atlantic by Ahmet Ertegun and managed by Tommy Mottola in the early 1970s, Hall & Oates have sold more albums than any other duo in music history. Their second album, Abandoned Luncheonette, produced by Arif Mardin and released in 1973, yielded the single, "She's Gone", which went to #7 in the U.S. Top 10 on re-release in 1976 after reaching #1 on the R&B charts when it was covered by Tavares. The duo recorded one more album with Atlantic, War Babies (produced by Todd Rundgren), before they were dropped and promptly signed to RCA. During their tenure at RCA the duo catapulted to international superstardom.
From the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s, Hall & Oates would score six U.S. #1 singles, including "Rich Girl" (also #1 R&B), "Kiss on My List", "Private Eyes", "I Can't Go for That (No Can Do)" (also #1 R&B), "Maneater" and "Out of Touch" from their six multi-platinum albums - Bigger Than Both of Us, Voices, Private Eyes, H2O, Rock 'n Soul Part 1 and Big Bam Boom - the last five of which were released consecutively. The era would also produce an additional five U.S. Top 10 singles, "Sara Smile", "One on One", "Family Man," "You Make My Dreams", "Say It Isn't So" and "Method of Modern Love".
Solo projects[link]
In addition to his work with Oates, Hall has made music as a solo artist as well as recording with Robert Fripp in the late ‘70s, working on Fripp’s critically praised, Exposure album from 1979. 1977 Fripp produced and performed on Hall's debut solo album, the much-acclaimed Sacred Songs. This album was released 1980.
In 1984, he co-wrote and produced, with Arthur Baker, the single Swept Away for Diana Ross, which reached US #19, US R & B #3 and US Dance/Club Play #1.
In 1985, Hall performed two songs in the first Farm Aid concert in Champaign, Illinois.[4] Hall participated in the We Are the World session as well as closing the Live Aid show in Philadelphia. He also made an album with Dave Stewart that year, Three Hearts in the Happy Ending Machine. He has recorded such solo works as Soul Alone in 1993 and Can't Stop Dreaming in 1996, both of which were received well internationally.
In July 2005, Hall was diagnosed with Lyme Disease causing him to cancel a majority of Hall & Oates' summer tour. The duo released a Christmas album in October 2006 titled Home for Christmas.
In 2007, Hall guest starred on the HBO series Flight of the Conchords, portraying an MC of a world music fest.
On November 14, 2007, Hall appeared on the Howard Stern Show, discussed his hatred of deer and rabbits, prompted by his career-threatening bout with Lyme Disease, sang acoustic versions of "Sara Smile' and "Rich Girl", and talked about his new monthly performance webcast called "Live from Daryl's House". The webcast has so far featured appearances by KT Tunstall,Rob Thomas, Eric Hutchinson, and Gym Class Heroes' Travis McCoy, as well as a holiday special featuring songs from the Hall and Oates release, Home for Christmas. The show featured guests Ray Manzarek and Robbie Krieger of The Doors.
Speaking of his reasons for starting the Live From Daryl's House webcast, in June 2008 Hall told noted UK R&B writer Pete Lewis of the award-winning Blues & Soul: "For me it was sort of an obvious thing. I've been touring my whole adult life really, and, you know, you can't be EVERYWHERE! Nor do I WANT to be everywhere at this point! I only like to spend so much time per year on the road. So I thought 'Why don't I just do something where anyone who wants to see me anywhere in the world CAN?! And, instead of doing the artist/audience performance-type thing, I wanted to deconstruct it and make the audience more of a fly-on-the-wall kind of observer... I mean, what I've always done onstage is very natural. I talk to the audience and it's a very sitting-roomy kind of thing. So I just thought I'd basically bring that to the web."[5]
On March 12, 2008, Hall played a well-received set with his band at the South By Southwest festival in Austin, Texas.[6]
Hall was slated to sing the National Anthem before Game 5 of the 2008 World Series at Philadelphia's Citizens Bank Park but, due to an illness, could not appear, and Oates filled in for him.[7]
In 2009, Hall guest starred on the Independent Film Channel series, Z-Rock (as himself).
In 2010 Hall was back in the studio working on a solo recording with bassist and musical director, T-Bone Wolk. Wolk died of a heart attack on February 28, 2010, hours after completing a session with Hall. Hall released a statement about the death of his bassist of nearly 30 years: “It’s not if I will go on, but how? T-Bone was one of the most sensitive and good human beings that I have ever known.”[8]
On June 11, 2010 Hall shared the stage with electronic duo Chromeo for a special late night set at the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival. The groups had previously collaborated in a 2008 episode of Live from Daryl's House. Their Bonnaroo set consisted of a mix of both Hall & Oates and Chromeo tracks with the encore featuring Fancy Footwork and You Make My Dreams.
Hall hosted WGN America's 2010 New Year's Eve coverage as a Live from Daryl's House special. The special featured clips of previous Live from Daryl's House episodes. Steve Dahl, a Chicago radio host, praised the special as the best New Year's Eve special on television for 2010–11, but criticized the show's lack of a live countdown to midnight.[9]
On September 27, 2011 Daryl Hall released "Laughing Down Crying" on Verve Records.
In August 12, 2011 UK Electronic duo Nero released their debut album "Welcome Reality", which features guest vocals by Hall on the track "Reaching Out", which also samples Hall & Oats 80's hit Out of Touch. Reaching Out was released as the sixth single on December 6, 2011.
Personal life[link]
Hall had a 30-plus year relationship with Sara Allen (the inspiration for the song "Sara Smile") which ended in 2001 for undisclosed reasons. They were never married nor had any children. Hall does have one son, Darren, from another relationship. He was married to Bryna Lublin from 1969 to 1972. He is now married to Amanda Aspinall and lives with her and his two step-children, March and Orson. March does backing vocals on songs "Save Me," "Message To Ya" and "Eyes For You" on Daryl's 2011 album, Laughing Down Crying.[10]
Hall restores and preserves historic homes in both the United States and England. In 2008, he purchased the 18th century Bray House, in the Maine town of Kittery.[11] and is in the process of restoring it.[12] He also has restored a Georgian-style home in London, England, first built in 1740, one of only 50 houses with direct waterfront access to the River Thames.[citation needed] He purchased two homes located near Hartford, Connecticut – one built in 1771, the other in 1780 – and had them moved to the same property in New York's Dutchess County where they were combined and restored; the new structure was later sold.[13] After having the houses moved, he discovered that both homes, by coincidence, were connected to the same family.[13]
Hit singles[link]
Hall has written or co-written 11 Billboard Number One songs, "She's Gone" (with John Oates as covered by Tavares), "Rich Girl", "Kiss On My List" (with Janna Allen), "Private Eyes" (with Sara Allen, Janna Allen & Warren Pash), "I Can't Go for That (No Can Do)" (with John Oates & Sara Allen), "Say It Isn't So", "Maneater" (with John Oates & Sara Allen), "Out of Touch" (with John Oates), "Everytime You Go Away" (covered by Paul Young) and "Do It For Love" (with John Oates).
Hall also sang lead vocals and has written or co-written 8 more popular Billboard songs that also made it to the Top 10, such as: "Adult Education" (with John Oates & Sara Allen), "Sara Smile" (with John Oates - a song that refers to Hall's ex-girlfriend), "Method of Modern Love" (with Janna Allen), "You Make My Dreams" (with John Oates & Sara Allen), "Everything Your Heart Desires", "One on One", "So Close" (with Jon Bon Jovi & Danny Kortchmar) and "Did It in a Minute" (with Sara Allen & Janna Allen). He has also had hits as a vocalist, reaching #12 with his 1980 rendition of The Righteous Brothers' "You've Lost That Loving Feeling," and #6 with 1983's "Family Man," written by Mike Oldfield.
Discography[link]
Albums[link]
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CAN [15] |
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| 1980 | Sacred Songs
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| 1986 | Three Hearts in the Happy Ending Machine
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| 1996 | Can't Stop Dreaming | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||||||||
| 2004 | Live in Philadelphia · 2004
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| 2011 | Laughing Down Crying
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| US [20] |
US AC [21] |
US Dance [22] |
US R&B [23] |
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GER [25] |
NL [17] |
NZ [26] |
SWI [27] |
UK [28] |
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| 1986 | "Dreamtime" | 5 | 24 | 36 | — | 28 | 53 | 30 | — | — | 28 | Three Hearts in the Happy Ending Machine |
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| "Foolish Pride" | 33 | 21 | — | 91 | — | — | — | — | — | 25 | ||||
| "I Wasn't Born Yesterday " | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 93 | ||||
| "Someone Like You" | 57 | 11 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
| 1993 | "I'm in a Philly Mood" | 82 | — | — | — | — | 71 | — | 39 | — | 59 | Soul Alone | ||
| "Stop Loving Me, Stop Loving You" | — | — | — | — | — | 51 | — | — | — | 30 | ||||
| "Wildfire" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
| 1994 | "I'm in a Philly Mood" [re-release] | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 52 | |||
| "Love Revelation" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
| "Help Me Find a Way to Your Heart" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 70 | ||||
| "Send Me" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
| "Gloryland" (with Sounds of Blackness) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 37 | 36 | Non-album songs | |||
| 1995 | "Wherever Would I Be" (with Dusty Springfield) | — | — | — | — | — | 73 | — | — | — | 44 | |||
| 1996 | "Justify" / "She's Gone" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Can't Stop Dreaming | ||
| 1997 | "Ghetto Smile" (B-Legit feat Daryl Hall | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 159 | Non-album song | ||
| "Can't Stop Dreaming" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Can't Stop Dreaming | |||
| "What's In Your World " | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
| 2003 | "Cab Driver" | — | 21 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| 2004 | "She's Gone" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "What's in Your World" [US release] | — | 27 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
| 2011 | "Talking to You (Is Like Talking to Myself)" | — | 16 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Laughing Down Crying | ||
| "Eyes For You" | — | 29 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart | ||||||||||||||
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External links[link]
- The Official Hall and Oates Website
- Live From Daryl's House
- Daryl Hall at the Internet Movie Database
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| Date of birth | October 11, 1946 |
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